redclayblog » Uncategorized http://techcenterblog.com/albrown One among a multitude of online journals Fri, 08 Apr 2011 01:34:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Kodak Color Film from the 1920s http://techcenterblog.com/albrown/kodak-color-film-from-the-1920s/ http://techcenterblog.com/albrown/kodak-color-film-from-the-1920s/#comments Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:44:06 +0000 abrown http://techcenterblog.com/albrown/?p=198 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]>

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When I was a kid I attended a high school assembly in observation of the Holocaust.   The other kids and I met an elderly couple in the local library.  The older gentleman was a concentration camp survivor who showed us his tattoo.  He was a little difficult to understand but his wife did most of the talking.  The man told a story of how when he first entered the camp they gave him rotten potatoes to eat.  He refused to eat them and instead gave them away to other prisoners.  After a couple of days he said he was so hungry that he went back to the prisoners to whom he had given the potatoes and told them that they each owed him a potato.  He cried and I remember thinking how many times he had told this story and still he was moved to tears.

We were made to read Anne Frank Diaries after.

I think that that was the first time ever that I was projected out of myself and started thinking about the things that other people go through.  I was made bigger by that assembly and smaller at the same time.  That was many years ago and I still feel compelled to visit Amsterdam and the Anne Frank House.

I haven’t made it so far but it’s still on my list of things to do.  Score one point for high school assemblies.

The above video is the only existing moving images of Anne Frank.

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John Harwood’s take on Obama’s stay in school speech.

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Really love the dictionary feature on NYtimes.com.  Highlight any text and a small icon appears over the word.  Click the icon and it brings up an Answers.com speaking dictionary .  Useful and saves time.  Cool.

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Peter Stark’s article for Outside Magazine, The Cold Hard Facts of Freezing to Death, not only pushes this post to the maximum allowed number of puns in a post it is awfully good writing.  I’m going to give you the opportunity to encounter the story in the way that I did, with a paucity of introduction.  Visit Amazon for more books by this author.453880724_872e8521ae_b3

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rachelle_and_stephanieI’m told that these are pictures of the first all female all black flight crew.  They operated flight 5202 from Atlanta to Nashville and flight 5106 from Nashville back to Atlanta for Atlantic Southeast Airlines on Thursday, Ferbraury 12, 2009. The crew included CPT Rachelle Jones, FO Stephanie Grant, FA’s Robin Rogers and Diana Galloway.  Youtube interview here.

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