The Parsonal Computer

Father’s Day: A Broader Perspective

Memories of Dad

Don’t Underestimate Your Gifts

 A movie I enjoy is titled, The Rookie. It is based on events in the life of Jimmy Morris, a high school teacher and baseball coach in Big Lake, Texas who became a major-league baseball pitcher. Several of the high school players who had been on the receiving end of Morris’s fastballs encouraged him to [...]

Magnets

In the book, Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor warns his shipmates about a great magnetic rock in the Indian Ocean that is so powerful that it draws all the nails and bolts out of passing ships. The ships literally fall apart and sink. Sinbad tells his shipmates that they were to steer clear of that [...]

Noise Cancellation

I have seen advertisements over the last few years for headphones that have a “noise cancellation” feature. Here’s how it works. A microphone in the headset picks up nearby noise and the built-in processor then sends a sound to the headset at an opposite frequency, thereby canceling out the original sound. When you wear these [...]