Monthly Archives: February 2011

Families get the 411 on sexting risk – USATODAY.com

Posted on 02/22/2011 by Gil Jones

The 16-year-old girl, smitten with her adult boyfriend, e-mailed him naked pictures of herself. When she wanted to break up with Clarence Hurt of Terrace Park, Ohio, though, he threatened to share those pictures with the world in cyberspace unless … Continue reading →

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Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

Posted on 02/16/2011 by Gil Jones

How Inflation Could Be 66% Higher Than the Fed Reports – DailyFinance Mark Twain was right. As most everyone knows, I’m sort of a numbers guy. I have also had a course in statistics and have used them. They can … Continue reading →

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Burn all the textbooks!

Posted on 02/14/2011 by Gil Jones

They are heavy, hard to update, and expensive as the dickens to get revisions done while killing countless trees. You have to go to a computer or other books for cross-referenced works and you cannot (or are not supposed to) … Continue reading →

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For my 67th year I … Uh, WHAT was I thinking?

Posted on 02/13/2011 by Gil Jones

Saturday, Feb 12, 2011 and it is a cold, clear day. Couple of weeks until the 67th anniversary of my day of birth. Dang, it’s colder than forecast, hoping it warms soon. The ride that Don laid out yesterday will … Continue reading →

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If I hear one more butchering of our National Anthem, then … Grrrr

Posted on 02/07/2011 by Gil Jones

Damn it! It is bad enough to “stylize” a traditional song but then to forget the words?  Christina Aguilera totally flubbed it at the 45th Super Bowl, and even had she not flubbed the words, it was still awful! Here … Continue reading →

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How to avoid becoming a lawyer

Posted on 02/05/2011 by Gil Jones

As you may know, it did not work out that way. But it was not due to a lack of trying on my part. I think subconsciously that since my dad was a lawyer, I wanted to “do my own … Continue reading →

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Some classics of Marble Falls: G.L. and Jeannette Jones

Posted on 02/03/2011 by Gil Jones

(Note: I’ve resumed an old quest to develop my genealogy database and in the process, stumbled across the following entry on http://www.rootsweb.com — from 2004 — which I had totally forgotten) The following is from an email I just sent … Continue reading →

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