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Testing the Blog at Boles University

I need your help testing a new blog I have set up on blog.BolesUniversity.com — hosted by Blogger — for a special, super-secret, project I am working on and I hope I can share the details with you soon.

Blog @BolesUniversity.com

Please let me know your experience on that blog both here and there so you can directly report your comparative experiences.

The Yankee Ingrate

There’s nothing quite as annoying as an ingrate. Add “surly” to the personality of the ingrate along with $43 million in salary over two years to win 34 games playing — not working — baseball and you have the nasty Randy Johnson.
Randy Johnson never fit into Yankee pinstripes. 

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Pillow Angels Smothered in Childhood

Are we are minds?

Or are we our bodies?

We cannot be both because our bodies are limited and our minds are endless.

How we deal with that mind/body disconnect is the biggest conflict of our existence but, sadly, many of us never realize that struggle or recognize our need to confront the mortal and the immortal within us.

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Fun with Text-to-Speech

There is no greater fun than playing around with Text-to-Speech on the AT&T Labs website.

ATT Labs

Text-to-Speech has great advantages for aiding the communication needs of the disabled: Those without voice are given one; those who cannot see can hear text. Text-to-Speech can also be used in the everyday world of the ordinary consumer. I have visited the AT&T Labs website to have phrases like “Janna is calling!” made into .WAV files.

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Three Worlds Away

It’s time once again for our annual worldwide Urban Semiotic reader check in — if you are comfortable publicly sharing your answers — for the following three questions:

A Map of the World

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