tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49696825330103415892024-03-13T10:22:11.874-07:00pupwhinesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger140125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969682533010341589.post-25912950064488130962012-06-03T07:34:00.000-07:002012-06-03T07:38:02.744-07:00The new translation of the Roman Missalstimulus<br />
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<a href="http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=13436&comments=1&approvelatter=1#previewcomment">Grading the Missal</a><br />
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<br />I am a cradle Catholic who has sung in choir on and off for over 6 decades. I now sing at a liturgically ideal parish - an excellent music director/English adult choir leader (it says something to have to be that explicit in his role), a deacon who is taking singing lessons to be able more fully fulfill his liturgical role, and three English speaking priests who can sing and will sing on occasion. The laity sing robustly, at least at the choir Mass.
The music parts were introduced last summer. When the choir restarted at Labor Day, they were singing the new music with the new translations, mostly unison. To the choir and general congregation, it was just another music setting that took some getting used to.
The one (of three) deacons who sings does more than before. But that trend started as a personal commitment of his own dating back to his ordination. The other two do not sing. It is probably best that way. We have to know and accept our limitations.
The priests are not singing more. Two small prayers, one at the start of Mas and one just before the distribution of Communion are said or sung by the cantor. We have a professional tenor cantor with a strong clear voice. It is easy to defer to him.
Other than the Mass parts, the choir repertoire has not changed. Two sources dominate: classical composers (e.g. Faure) and modern composers of good polyphonic music, mostly not Catholic.
Net result: nada, except for general griping, which happens anyway but now has a liturgical focus. I just hope that those who invented and implemented these changes got a good warm fuzzy.
On a personal note, I know and understand enough Latin, and appreciate well written English, to think too many of the changes are ill-begotten abominations. Such is the way of autocratic bureaucracy.
At my work, We recently did a major corporate reorganization. I had philosophical differences with the leaders of the division into which I was placed. I posted out and am transitioning to another division. This may be coloring my view of the new translation. I don't find that an option in my liturgical life.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969682533010341589.post-52853814254254146292011-03-05T19:21:00.000-08:002011-03-05T19:26:25.503-08:00responseI work in IT and have for almost 5 decades. One of the intellectual exercises we perform when "something has gone wrong" or as we sterilely say an "incident", is called "root cause analysis". That exercise is not beloved of most because one has to ask hard questions and often get hard answers, unpopular questions and unpopular answers.<br /><br />In the case of the current federal, state and local government budget crises, trying to do that, in almost all cases, causes a political outcry. So it is avoided. It was certainly avoided in your editorial "State of the Unions." To your credit you did mention "get long-term entitlement costs under control."<br /><br />The problem far exceeds that.<br /><br />The scandalous financial crises over the years have laid bare the unsustainable nature of government policy at all levels going back decades. The state workers feel like victims - they are. But then so are and will be present and future citizens of the state and the nation - our children and grandchildren. It is difficult to name any public (or more than a few private) policies that are sustainable. As I write this, the price of gasoline is soaring. Nobody's budget for fuel costs going forward is adequate. That will ripple through the world economy.<br /><br />Until realistic analysis of the future costs and available resources are made, the most endangered species is humanity. The root cause is a failure to understand and act on the insight of Gn 1:28a - God blessed them, saying: "Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it."<br /><br />One can only fill what is finite. What is finite has limits. When you get to the limit, that is all there is. When you get near the limit, the scramble for the diminishing amount left is not pretty.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969682533010341589.post-82473263416834217502011-03-05T19:10:00.000-08:002011-03-05T19:21:37.052-08:00stimulus: State of the UnionsThe newly elected Republican governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, wants to balance his state's budget by slashing the wages and benefits of state employees and eliminating most of their collective-bargaining rights for good measure.<p>This deeply cynical attack on workers' rights brought tens of thousands of protesters to the Capitol in Madison and induced the Democrats in the Wisconsin senate to flee the state, thus denying Republicans a quorum and stymieing the governor's plans, at least temporarily. These tactics are not likely to stop Walker's legislation in the long run, however, and its passage will be a blow both to economic justice and to good government.<p>Few knowledgeable people doubt that the medical and pension benefits of most unionized state employees need to be renegotiated if the states are to balance their budgets and get long-term entitlement costs under control, a fact already conceded by Wisconsin's unions. For decades, too many governors have signed off on generous benefit packages for state workers, leaving their successors to figure out how to pay for it all. But to suggest, as Walker and a number of other Republican governors have, that the current fiscal problems in the states have been caused by the unions is scapegoating. The states have been plunged into the red by the ongoing effects of the recession, which was caused not by unions but by the financial skullduggery of bankers (see Charles R. Morris, <a href="http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/two-economies" target="_blank">"The Two Economies"</a>). The worst recession since the Depression dramatically reduced tax revenues while simultaneously increasing the need for social services. Stimulus money from Washington helped the states balance their budgets over the past few years, but Republicans in Congress have put an end to such "bailouts." A combination of higher taxes and government belt-tightening is now needed--in other words, shared sacrifice, not political pandering. Illinois and Connecticut are trying to implement such fiscally responsible policies. Governor Walker has chosen the low road, exploiting the economic fears of voters by demonizing public employees. (Or <em>most</em> public employees: his legislation shamelessly exempts the unions that supported his candidacy, such as firefighter and police unions.)<p>The right of workers to unionize and bargain with employers for a living wage and decent medical, disability, and retirement benefits is a long-standing principle of Catholic social teaching, enunciated in unambiguous terms in encyclicals issued by nearly every pope from Leo XIII to Benedict XVI. Wisconsin's Catholic bishops and other religious leaders have voiced their opposition to Walker's proposal and their support for the unions and the rights of workers to collective bargaining. Economic justice, not economic growth, is the cornerstone of the church's social teaching. It condemns the social and material damage done when employees and their families are treated as voiceless underlings or disposable parts. It understands unions to be vital mediating institutions between the state or corporation and the otherwise isolated individual, who would be ineffective if she or he acted alone. The defense of the rights of workers is also one of the important ways in which the church supports and strengthens democratic institutions and government. Unions, like churches, civic and voluntary organizations, professional and business groups, families, and a host of other associations, are essential in creating the "social solidarity" we need in order to recognize what actions best promote the common good. It's true, of course, that unions sometimes abuse their power, and when they do they must be held accountable. But, without them, who holds employers accountable?<p>In the 1950s, a third of all American workers were union members. Today that number is less than 12 percent. Public employees now account for more than 50 percent of all unionized workers. As union membership has declined, so have all working- and middle-class incomes. At the same time, the concentration of wealth among the top 1 percent of earners has reached levels not seen since the 1920s. As Peter Steinfels points out in his review of <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1416588698?tag=wwwcommonweal-20" target="_blank">Winner-Take-All Politics</a></em> (<a href="http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/great-reversal" target="_blank">"The Great Reversal"</a>), "our democracy has become the most economically unequal nation in the advanced world." This did not happen by accident. Over the past three decades, business and corporate interests have spent billions to limit taxation, constrain the reach of government, delegitimize unions, and attack any effort to distribute the nation's wealth more equitably. Institutions that used to look out for the welfare of the average American worker have disappeared or looked the other way--and that includes the Democratic Party. Is it any wonder that the average citizen is so alienated from government or that the nation's politics have become so bitter and confrontational?<p>For democracy to work, citizens must organize to defend their legitimate interests. For the market to work--for everyone--workers must have a say in the decisions that affect them and their families. That is what unions are for. The weaker the bargaining power of unions, the fainter the voice of the people becomes.<p>- the Editors cw2011Mar11Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969682533010341589.post-42920856756250162052011-01-31T20:29:00.000-08:002011-03-05T19:10:35.859-08:00fine dininge e cummings wrote "there is some sh.t I will not eat."<br /><br />salarymen do not have that optionUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969682533010341589.post-83915566472678651792010-11-29T18:22:00.000-08:002010-11-29T18:26:33.718-08:00SME-senseAs a person who this summer left the ranks of support for projects, I have a constant and urgent need for SME (subject matter expert) information. In general, I have received a lot of help from a lot of people to come close to succeeding. I'm not a newbie - I'm in my 50th yr of IT.<br /><br />In that short time since I rotated, it appears to me that we are succeeding on the ability of team members to get their jobs done in spite of the system. There is a lot of information stored between team members ears and much information stored on servers. There is no knowledgebase that pulls it all together. Text search as a technology is, if I remember rightly, about about 5 decades old. Without information organization - a publishing event - one is constantly searching for what which someone else just searched for.<br /><br />Silos of information have high local optimization of information storage, retrieval and usage. When tearing them down, there needs to be a replacement for the local community.<br /><br />Going back to the movie Roots, when Alex Hailey found his ancestor in the memory of a local "library" resource, he wrote down the bits and pieces he wanted. Unless others did the same, it was lost when the resource died. Recording the memory would make it serially reusable. Publishing it, in the true sense, requires it to be organized - a rewarding task that only pays off other than in the short term.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969682533010341589.post-72372195855634526292010-09-29T20:29:00.001-07:002010-09-29T20:29:41.675-07:00border whining<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/09/28/mexican-lawmakers-say-worsening-mexico-violence-returning-criminals/?test=latestnews">http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/09/28/mexican-lawmakers-say-worsening-mexico-violence-returning-criminals/?test=latestnews</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969682533010341589.post-17828419555391023542010-09-14T21:04:00.000-07:002010-09-14T21:05:39.137-07:00back to a mother load - ISO9000<a href="http://www.issurvivor.com/shop/page/4?sessid=eanDjkd1Mbr1CDfM2VukXX6hBmjUyLjm98cl9DZ2QNIawOOmkJlZPOKZqLYFfOcw&shop_param=">flaming hoops and the Third Axle Alternative</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969682533010341589.post-50772768005149799322010-08-20T19:55:00.000-07:002010-08-20T19:56:46.958-07:00on modesty<blockquote><em>The most important conversations, briefings, meeting, and lectures you will ever have will be those you hold with yourself in the privacy of your own mind.</em> - Denis Waitley</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969682533010341589.post-48208391401860689962010-08-20T19:33:00.000-07:002010-08-20T19:34:57.841-07:00fine whine from Adams, not Sam<blockquote><em>I am willing you should call this the Age of Frivolity, as you do,<br />and would not object if you had named it the Age of Folly, Vice, Frenzy,<br />Brutality, Daemons, Bonaparte, Tom Paine, or the Age of the Burning Brand from<br />the Bottomless Pit, or anything but the Age of Reason. I know not whether any<br />man in the world has had more influence on its inhabitants or affairs or the<br />last thirty years than Tom Paine. There can no severer satyr on the age. For<br />such a mongrel between pig and puppy, begotten by a wild boar on a bitch wolf,<br />never before in any age of the world was suffered by the poltroonery of mankind,<br />to run through such a career of mischief. Call it then the Age of Paine.</em> -<br />John Adams comment on the title of Thomas Paine’s <em>The Age of Reason</em><br />[tell us how you really feel, John]</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969682533010341589.post-6816245142905958672010-07-30T20:15:00.000-07:002010-07-30T20:25:13.787-07:00attitude<a href="http://loginisnotaverb.com/">notice the close reasoning</a><br /><h5>the counter argument</h5>In any computer language, scripting or not, statements mimic human speech to the extent that they have a label (a noun), a command name (verb) and arguments (predicates).<br /><br />In that computer application know as TSO (Time sharing option) which IBM has offered on its mainframes that use the operating systems OS/MVT, SVS (aka OS/VS1), MVS (aka OS/VS2) and now zOS since the middle 1970s, LOGIN is a command at the READY prompt which signons off the current userid and prepares to allow a new access session.<br /><br />Take a deep breath, hold it, let it out slowly, <strong>and get over it.</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://editrix.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/08/verbing_calvin.jpg">Calvin and Hobbes pov</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969682533010341589.post-14220660346072196832010-07-28T20:04:00.000-07:002010-07-28T20:13:49.030-07:00Somos el cuerpo de CristoU.S. Catholic has helped Latinos claim their rightful place in the church. Part of a series on U.S. Catholic's 75th anniversary.<br /><br />There's been a "three-stage Hispanic Awakening," Father Virgilio Elizondo told <em>U.S. Catholic</em> magazine in an October 1981 interview. In the first stage, this country's leading Latino theologian explained, Hispanics were just not accepted. They "were kept out, and they were told that even though they may have been in the present-day United States long before the U.S. immigrated to them, they don't belong here."<br /><br />In the second stage, Elizondo said, "our people wanted . . . to forget Spanish, change their names, change their religion. Even though some people pretty well succeeded in Americanization, they were still not fully accepted. No matter how well they made it, they were still considered ‘the other,' and that was the beginning of the third stage.<br /><br />"Now we realize the images of U.S. pluralism: <em>E pluribus unum</em>. We know that we can be fully American without losing our heritage, our religion, or our language. We can continue using our language as the most concrete and deep way of expressing our being."<br /><br />At the time of the interview, Elizondo was president of San Antonio's Mexican American Cultural Center, the country's premier training ground for Hispanic ministry, which he had founded nine years earlier. In 1983 he would publish his groundbreaking book <em>Galilean Journey: The Mexican American Promise</em> (Orbis), in which he developed his theology of <em>mestizaje</em>, using the Hispanic mingling of cultures, ethnicities, and races as its core theme.<br /><br />Responding to the resentment that other American Catholics expressed then--and continue to express today--about Hispanics keeping their language and cultural identity, Elizondo explained, "Difference doesn't mean inequality. We want to participate in the way of life of the United States, but we do not want to have to be apologetic about who we are or why we do things the way that we do them."<br /><br />The growing importance of Hispanics in the U.S. Catholic Church has come as no big surprise to the publishers of this magazine, the Claretians. Since first arriving in San Antonio in 1902, the Claretian Missionaries have been dedicated to ministering to the spiritual and social needs of Hispanic Catholics in the United States.<br /><br />In 1989 they combined their expertises in Hispanic ministry and in publishing to launch the Hispanic Ministry Resource Center. Under the leadership of its director, Carmen Aguinaco, this branch of Claretian Publications has been a pioneer in producing original, culturally appropriate bilingual publications and products for the Hispanic Catholic market.<br /><br />Aguinaco, who today serves as the president of the National Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry, also assists <em>U.S. Catholic</em> as a contributing editor, helping the magazine cover developments in Hispanic ministry as well as include Hispanic voices.<br /><br />Though usually soft-spoken, Aguinaco minces no words when it comes to Hispanic concerns. In a July 2000 <em>Sounding Board</em> article she called non-Hispanic Catholics to repent of their attitude of "tolerance" toward their Hispanic brothers and sisters in faith: "Tolerance is almost like saying: ‘I don't understand your values or your culture. I don't like you, but, because I am a big person . . . I will tolerate you.' It is condescending and annoying to people on the receiving end. And by encouraging complacency . . . it breeds indifference. It leaves the dominant culture as dominant and only grudgingly makes room for the different."<br /><br />When it comes to the church, Aguinaco argued, the concept of mere tolerance is preposterous. "Could a heart ever ‘tolerate' a leg? Or a finger tolerate a liver? . . . There are no aliens or guests in the Body of Christ. The Body of Christ was not originally Anglo-with Italians, Hispanics, Asians, or African Americans later transplanted to be rejected or accepted by the host organism. They belong there."<br /><br />- Meinrad Scherer-Emunds is the executive editor of<em> U.S. Catholic. </em>This article is the sixth in a series to celebrate the 75th anniversary of <em>USCatholic</em>, appearing in the June 2010 issue (Vol. 75, No. 6, page 51). <a href="http://uscatholic.org/2010/06/somos-el-cuerpo-de-cristo">original</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969682533010341589.post-21215103186882006552010-06-05T05:00:00.000-07:002010-06-05T05:05:25.038-07:00as lovely as a treeIt has happened again. This time the other next-door neighbor is cutting down trees. "trimming" consisted of removing all branches from the lower 80% of the tree.<br /><br />The only good thing I can say is that the tree leans toward their property. I wonder how long it takes for a tree to die under these circumstances.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969682533010341589.post-59487751780026888672010-03-18T09:18:00.001-07:002010-03-18T18:00:37.843-07:00Preaching to bishops<blockquote><em><a href="http://uscatholic.org/news/2010/02/thousands-join-priests-campaign-delay-changes-mass-prayers">Preaching to bishops, is like farting at skunks. You'll win some battles, but lose the war.</a></em> - a long-dead churchman q.Thomas Lynch <a href="http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/">Commonweal</a> ©2010Jan15 CXXXVII.1</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969682533010341589.post-79509607947292364882010-02-12T20:38:00.000-08:002010-02-12T20:39:19.765-08:00post-racial<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_forgetting_blackness_analysis">say what?</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969682533010341589.post-42795607991778434972010-01-28T17:55:00.001-08:002010-01-28T18:08:21.545-08:00Chris Matthews<strong><em>stimulus</em></strong><br /><br /><a href="http://www.bvblackspin.com/2010/01/28/chris-matthews-msnbc-i-forgot-obama-was-black-for-an-hour/?icid=mainhtmlws-main-ndl1link3http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bvblackspin.com%2F2010%2F01%2F28%2Fchris-matthews-msnbc-i-forgot-obama-was-black-for-an-hour%2F">http://www.bvblackspin.com/2010/01/28/chris-matthews-msnbc-i-forgot-obama-was-black-for-an-hour/?icid=mainhtmlws-main-ndl1link3http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bvblackspin.com%2F2010%2F01%2F28%2Fchris-matthews-msnbc-i-forgot-obama-was-black-for-an-hour%2F</a><br /><br /><strong><em>response</em></strong><br /><br />Dear Dr Watkins<br /><br />I don't own a TV so I see CM only on the TV in <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">the</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">breakroom</span> at work. Personally I would prefer a real news channel like <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Bloomberg</span> than <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">msnbc</span>.<br /><br />And <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">no one</span> has ever called me a liberal.<br /><br />But I think I want to defend CM. Like many whites he is ill at ease when discussing race. Since blacks, like whites, are a very diverse group, it is difficult to know what to say at times that will not offend. He was projecting the joy he felt at the possibility of a post-racial nation onto his <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">political</span> persona.<br /><br />At my workplace, we have a mix of races and nationalities. At my office, the highest ranking person was a black woman until she retired after having a stroke. The next level down, a white male retired early, leaving another white male and a black male.<br /><br />During the campaign, there was some felt but not well articulated tension between the races. Since the election, none is evident.<br /><br />As a white male, I can tell you it is not appreciated when race is always brought to the table. There are issues that are non-racial.<br /><br />Dr KUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969682533010341589.post-64607134301351771202010-01-16T10:45:00.000-08:002010-01-16T10:46:45.839-08:00the votes are in<a href="http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/12/30/the-top-15-winners-and-losers-of-2009/">http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/12/30/the-top-15-winners-and-losers-of-2009/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969682533010341589.post-69326711692057443992010-01-16T10:28:00.001-08:002010-01-16T10:28:53.380-08:00resurrection?<a href="http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/01/16/the-popes-newspaper-goes-pop/">http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/01/16/the-popes-newspaper-goes-pop/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969682533010341589.post-60780263270152824132010-01-16T10:19:00.000-08:002010-01-16T10:20:00.969-08:00the new compassion<a href="http://newsmax.com/InsideCover/pope-attack-bloggers-/2009/12/27/id/344707?s=al&promo_code=9448-1">kicking someone while their down</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969682533010341589.post-62495672194412999982010-01-09T20:32:00.000-08:002010-01-16T10:20:23.952-08:00outrageous<a href="http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/investing/the-401-k-sucker-punch/19310100/">http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/investing/the-401-k-sucker-punch/19310100/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969682533010341589.post-50505265877354115052010-01-05T19:59:00.000-08:002010-01-05T20:01:03.927-08:00best of the worst media 2009<a href="http://newsmax.com/Headline/climategate-acorn-media-bozell/2009/12/31/id/345079?s=al&promo_code=948A-1">or is it worst of the worst</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969682533010341589.post-24836887423098721902009-12-15T18:39:00.000-08:002009-12-15T18:41:07.741-08:00historic flu pandemic death rates1918 ~ 1/40<br /><br />1957/8 ~ 1/500<br /><br />1967/8 ~ 1/500<br /><br />2009 US ~ 1/2000<br />UK ~ 1/4000<br /><br /><a href="http://www.newsmaxhealth.com/health_stories/H1N1_less_lethal/2009/12/11/297640.html?s=al&promo_code=9317-1">source</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969682533010341589.post-54106522850041514072009-12-10T20:03:00.001-08:002009-12-10T20:03:59.426-08:00yet another blaming the victim<a href="http://www.parentdish.com/2009/12/09/christians-to-blame-for-secular-christmas/?icid=mainhtmlws-main-ndl3link4http%3A%2F%2Fwww.parentdish.com%2F2009%2F12%2F09%2Fchristians-to-blame-for-secular-christmas%2F">http://www.parentdish.com/2009/12/09/christians-to-blame-for-secular-christmas/?icid=mainhtmlws-main-ndl3link4http%3A%2F%2Fwww.parentdish.com%2F2009%2F12%2F09%2Fchristians-to-blame-for-secular-christmas%2F</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969682533010341589.post-69538216743295063852009-11-29T18:38:00.000-08:002009-11-29T18:50:43.053-08:00you don't have to agree with everything this woman has to say, but<a href="http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/11/25/levi-johnston-put-your-pants-on/?icid=mainhtmlws-main-ndl8link3http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politicsdaily.com%2F2009%2F11%2F25%2Flevi-johnston-put-your-pants-on%2F">most of it is good and she says it well.</a><h5>my reply</h5>Well written Ms Goldstein. I do not agree with some of the asides, but the thrust is appropriate.<br /><br />The bottom line is his child and that child's inheritance from his father. Which is better: to have money or self-respect and dignity?<br /><br />The root value is: it is better to teach your child values than to give gold.<br /><br />Or are "values" a dirty word?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969682533010341589.post-51003223771147230052009-11-12T19:34:00.000-08:002009-11-23T14:02:21.024-08:00illiterates and the intellectally deficient<blockquote><em>oh my God, </em><a href="http://www.fiercegovernmentit.com/story/ssa-slowed-down-old-mainframe/2009-11-09-2"><em>this reads</em></a><em> like someone overheard small talk between illiterates and the intellectally deficient on the east wing of the psychiatric ward!! Fortunately for all US citizen the SSA systems work magnitudes better than the above link.</em> <nobr>- a senior IT person<br /></nobr></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969682533010341589.post-38592404306228493132009-11-10T20:04:00.001-08:002009-11-10T20:04:49.909-08:00if you are lucky you learn something new everyday<a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/09/29/ralph-lauren-opens-n.html">down in the valley</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0