http://varifrank.com/ Liberty, Freedom, Victory en-us Copyright 2010 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:35:59 -0800 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:21:43 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.15 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Your humble author, 4th from the left, the one with the grim visage and two weeks of facial hair. This was taken after sleeping overnight in a very cold gully on a mountainside in the Northwestern Sudan during November... http://varifrank.com/archives/2009/12/happy_new_year_1.php http://varifrank.com/archives/2009/12/happy_new_year_1.php Photoblogging Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:35:59 -0800 The Author, in Karkhul Tahl at Jebel Uwenat. This is where I spent most of November 2009; walking here on earth on what is a close geological analog to the surface of the planet Mars. Jebel Uwenat is a... http://varifrank.com/archives/2009/12/there_and_back.php http://varifrank.com/archives/2009/12/there_and_back.php Photoblogging Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:53:41 -0800 Sorry folks, I am out on a "hiatus" from blogging for awhile. I've decided that my time here is "short" and in the words of Chief Joseph; "I shall fight no more forever". I simply don't have the energy... http://varifrank.com/archives/2009/04/gone_flyin.php http://varifrank.com/archives/2009/04/gone_flyin.php Aviation Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:22:23 -0800 Apparently the Authors Guild is not happy with the Kindle 2.0 "text to speech" option. Amazon and the guild are now working on a compromise that allows 'text to speech', but the voice pattern is that of Droopy Dog. In... http://varifrank.com/archives/2009/02/kindle_news.php http://varifrank.com/archives/2009/02/kindle_news.php Current Affairs Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:03:12 -0800 When I was a kid, I had a dog that loved to chase cars. Every time he had a chance, down the street he went, chasing every car in sight. One day, he caught a car and he caught it... http://varifrank.com/archives/2009/02/press_conferenc_1.php http://varifrank.com/archives/2009/02/press_conferenc_1.php Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:04:48 -0800 As Megan Mcardle recently said "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does have a hell of a stutter". So its in that spirit that I enter down this well trodden road. I'm trying to think of another example of a... http://varifrank.com/archives/2009/02/and_the_general.php http://varifrank.com/archives/2009/02/and_the_general.php Current Affairs Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:08:54 -0800 "Democrats think that a good economic plan is one where they pay half the population to dig holes and then pay other half to fill them in, and then tax the hell out of imported shovels to pay for it... http://varifrank.com/archives/2009/02/overheard_1.php http://varifrank.com/archives/2009/02/overheard_1.php Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:02:22 -0800 As we now live in the modern age of the metrosexual, the political correct docker wearing prius driving soft and cuddly live-at-home-till-hes-30 modern male, you don't often get to see one of these in the wild in his true... http://varifrank.com/archives/2009/02/i_think_i_just.php http://varifrank.com/archives/2009/02/i_think_i_just.php Current Affairs Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:23:13 -0800 While your 401k was burning, your home was repossessed your job eliminated and North Korea threatened war, and yet another of the Presidents cabinets discovered why the rest of us hate taxes so much, let the record show that... http://varifrank.com/archives/2009/02/let_the_record.php http://varifrank.com/archives/2009/02/let_the_record.php Current Affairs Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:15:40 -0800 Question of the day: If we have already decided to spend 825 billion in a forlorn hope to restart the economy, why not consider 825 billion of across the board tax cuts? That sounds pretty stimulating to me. It seems... http://varifrank.com/archives/2009/01/question_of_the_17.php http://varifrank.com/archives/2009/01/question_of_the_17.php Current Affairs Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:41:47 -0800 I discovered something today that I wished I hadn't. I found out that a friend who I worked with for years had died in 2005. Well people die, that's what we do, so that's not all that unusual. What is... http://varifrank.com/archives/2009/01/little_things_l.php http://varifrank.com/archives/2009/01/little_things_l.php Current Affairs Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:51:00 -0800 My pal Ray and I were talking just the other day. He had called to say that the CEO of his company had sent an email that was praising the election of Barack Obama. Then he related a tale of... http://varifrank.com/archives/2009/01/i_was_raised_by.php http://varifrank.com/archives/2009/01/i_was_raised_by.php Current Affairs Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:01:39 -0800 This weeks entry is from a young man from Los Angeles California, Mr. Randy Newman and were expecting big things from this young man...... http://varifrank.com/archives/2009/01/presidential_th.php http://varifrank.com/archives/2009/01/presidential_th.php Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:23:17 -0800 - Bush believes in the messiah, Obama wants you to believe that he is the messiah...... http://varifrank.com/archives/2009/01/whats_the_diffe.php http://varifrank.com/archives/2009/01/whats_the_diffe.php Current Affairs Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:24:28 -0800 Let's say I am a "cop on the beat". I go from call to call, and on occasion I as a police officer am called upon to apprehend and detain someone in the course of daily duties. When that happens,... http://varifrank.com/archives/2009/01/explain_to_me_h_1.php http://varifrank.com/archives/2009/01/explain_to_me_h_1.php Current Affairs Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:48:51 -0800