August 18, 2004

• watermelon

   

  Tucked under her arm,
  It was on the quiet verge
  Of slipping under the
  Shaking steps of her
  Heisman form and her
  Barreling stance directed
  Toward the shopping cart
  

  
  Where the defense
  Was waiting like my
  Arms eager to tussle
  With a flirting quiddity
  So very out of my element
  
  When the bottles of water
  Were clearing the shelves
  And the windows and the world
  Were buzzing with moving lips
  
         For a smashing break of
         Furrows, froth and routine.
  
  So, I took it and slipped it
  Under my shirt pretending that
  It was a green baby birthed 
  Beneath an angry wind.
  
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  Everyone thinks all you do is sit in a room and design policy and that’s it. But if you look at the experiences of World War II and the Cold War, there was a great deal of trial and error — or as I like to call it, “audibling.” No military plan survives first contact with a real enemy. Who was it who said it? Was it Clemens? Some humorist. “Even the most brilliant strategist must occasionally take into account the presence of an enemy.”

   

  From Colin Powell’s conversation with PJ O’Rourke in Adult-Male-Elephant Diplomacy (The Atlantic – Sept 04)

  
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  Bonnie was a false alarm… but then there was Charlie.  Then Francis.  And maybe Ivan.
  
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  It’s my nature to look to the future.  I often feel like I’m catching up to where I want to be five years hence.  Jim Eliot, a martyred missionary once said, “Wherever you are, be all there.”  I always liked that.  And lately, I’m being reminded of the point.

   

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  (x100):
  
  Side lobe banking uses the same comparison situation as side lobe cancellation, but instead of canceling, a blanking gate turns off a main receiver, actually blanking the system.  Intended for use against pulse interference.  …

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  How sweet it is!

  Matt11:28

  
  

   

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