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Yawn! Time to get up. Feeling sluggish and want to go back for more sleep. But before I do, a few stories to share: EPA Reverses Itself on Fluoride, by Deirdre Imus. Maybe the tin foil hat crowd had some valid aspects to their argument? 6:08am

Sometimes NH's spirit of rugged individualism and Yankee frugality has its downsides. Who Gives?: America's Charitable Giving Divide. While New Hampshire on average gave a measly 2.5%, (and honestly all of the New England states were at the bottom…)I was somewhat encouraged by the overall generosity of the USA's middle class. 6:13am

Michelle is dropping Abby off at band camp. Claire is still up north but comes back later today. I had a smooth drive down, but didn't have much to listen to on hand. I was surprised to hear that Newsweek actually led with an anti-Obama story. Gee, I don't remember the weatherman mentioning Hell freezing… 9:11am

Explaining US taxes in terms of beer... 9:16am

It's been 9 years since I last bought a Nikon Coolpix. This could convince me to buy again! A camera with Android and its App ecosystem… Especially the Android camera apps and photo editing apps. So many of them do well with the built in cameraphone pictures, I'd be excited to see what they do with "real" camera electronics and lenses. 9:49am

Amazon Glacier. Yet another AWS service, but at first it sounded like an April Fools Joke. And yes, I now realize saying AWS service is like saying ATM machine... :-) 10:22am

While the press is all abuzz about Todd Akin and what he said about rape, they seem curiously quiet about Rep. Gauthier. No, there's no double standard... 12:45pm

Enjoying one of today's Twitter hashtag memes: #freakaprotty — Some self deprecating fun regarding how Protestants must freak out at certain common Catholic practices. 1:00pm

This year's Class of 2016 Mindset List. It's a reminder about paradigms that are outside of the experience of new incoming college freshmen. 1:01pm

"Forever" (related story) Well... at least Madeleine Albright is honest about when she'll stop blaming George Bush for all the Eviils of this world. 1:47pm

Remember kids: your smartphone is a real computer, or even... a server or servers: (related story) 2:41pm

It's all in the camera angle... This from Reuters? First Newsweek, now Reuters? 2:59pm

Michelle took the boys to the pool this afternoon. Later she picked up a not-so-excited Abby from Band Camp. Since it runs from 8 to 5, Abby can be pretty worn out when she gets home. I just consider it her foretaste of life after school. «grin»5:00pm

Left work around 6. Listened to a podcast about low carb/paleo diets. When I got home Michelle was out picking Claire up from her trip up North. 7:03pm

YouTube video: A little Qualcomm PR about digital design engineers like me. 8:07pm

“When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and said,
‘Who then can be saved?’
Jesus looked at them and said,
‘For men this is impossible,
but for God all things are possible.’ ” — Matthew 19