Interesting stuff about family and faith
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Deepest and sincerest thanks to everyone who entered the drawing to win a new Kindle Touch by posting a review for The Daily ReTORt on Alexa.com. There were 32 people who took me up on the offer, but only one winner – and that individual is….
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Holidays provide a great reason to have a discussion with Cleverbot. What’s Cleverbot you ask? Cleverbot, is a web-based Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) application that supposedly has the ability to learn by conversing with humans via an instant messaging platform. While it’s a stretch to say that Cleverbot is intelligent, interacting with this particular “thinking” software [...]
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Admit it. You’ve had one of those moments – we all have. We did or said something that seemed completely lucid, rational and sane at the time, yet in hindsight we ultimately shake our heads and ask ourselves, “What was I thinking???” I’m not talking about major life-changing screw-ups. No base jumping off the CN [...]
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Here’s a quick-and-dirty ranking of the pithiest, most useful kernels of wisdom I’ve learned in life thus far. Each is actionable and well worth additional study and investigation. Please comment with other concise, worthy insights but remember the actual phrase must be 10-words or less: 10. A Quiet Word Turns Away Wrath – this is [...]
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Prior to his death in 2006 author Richard Carlson, Ph.D, built a media empire with no less than 12 different books all built around the premise of “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff…and it’s all small stuff.” While the pithy title seems to be packed with wisdom and makes common sense – the idea is patently [...]
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Humans have been fixated with flying like birds for thousands of years. It seems that the closest we’ve gotten to that dream is the “stunt sport” of wingsuit flying. You’re not sure what that is? Here are two quick videos that will make your jaw drop in either amazement or awe of their stupidity! And [...]
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This Saturday, we set our clocks ahead in the semi-annual ritual of Daylight Saving Time, which used to occur like clockwork every six months here in America. However, the observance of this event in the U.S. got an update in 2007, when Daylight Saving Time was extended by one month creating a window that runs from 2 [...]
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I’m giving away a Kindle Touch and it’s pretty simple to enter. All you have to do is visit the link below at Alexa.com and give a brief, positive review (4 stars or better) of my blog – The Daily ReTORt. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/thedailyretort.com# Only those who leave a positive review will be entered in the drawing [...]
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Every week is another step closer toward our estimated delivery date of June 19th for Junior Constantino – who’s been baking nicely at a toasty 98.6° within the innards of my wife for the past 25 weeks. Our pending baby boy has been very active during the past week, both our girls have been able [...]
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This morning I swung by the web site for the Marine Corp Marathon and saw that a record was set – the fastest sellout of a full U.S. marathon since endurance races have been held in this country. This type of thing probably doesn’t matter to non-runners, but the press release below, posted by the [...]
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