Today I got a call from an old man, about 70-80 years old, trying use his old digital camera he once got as a gift when he was a professor in a college. He’s a painter and intellectual but today he’s frustrated and irritated. The reason he gave me is probably the same for other people of his age.
He had a family once and now’s helpless and alone in his house. His wife has passed away and his children have moved away. The feeling of being deserted at the weakest time in your life after raising a family is probably the worst feeling.
Is this what most of us will probably go through when we get older? After having a life full of friends, family and fun, why the end has to be sad and lonely? Maybe not so lonely if there’s a loving partner and not so sad if there are some 6 figures in your bank account, but most people are just depressed because they get older.
Old age should be perceived as a symbol for various accomplishments in life. Accomplishments don’t only mean career accomplishments but also the people you loved and helped, lives you changed, and the contributions you made to the society that somehow nudged the way of life for the younger generation in a better direction. It symbolizes love, experience, good judgments, and the services you provided to the nation and the people in your youth — when you could.
So, be proud, love, be loved and respected.
Few movie flash in my mind when I talk about this. These are among my favorites: About Schmidt [2002], The Bucket List [2007], and Big Fish [2003].
Knight Rider is back and it appears even more exciting and more sophisticated.
NBC is relaunching Knight Rider which premiers on Wednesday, September 24.
They already aired the 2 hour movie pilot in February that connects the old with the new. It features David Hasselhoff (the “old” Knight) with Justin Bruening (the “new” Knight) at his mother’s funeral. It appears that Hasselhoff will continue to appear on the new Knight Rider but as the missing father of Mike Traceur (Bruening), who is now driving the KITT (black Ford Shelby GT500KR Mustang - a Cobra). Watch more videos at: http://www.nbc.com/Knight_Rider/video/
It has been genetically selected over generations of tomatoes to get to that size of cherry to be called “cherry tomatoes.” It’s no surprise that they are also sour. They burst with explosion of sour juice and seeds in your mouth only if you can hunt them with your fork like a stone age caveman hunting for a fish with his spear.
They look good and put in as whole in salads but I would prefer a regular old-fashioned tomato pieces than those bite sized miniature tomatoes.
As gasoline prices reach beyond $4.00 per gallon, let’s take a pause to figure out if it is worth paying 20 cents more for the premium grade. The best place to look for an answer is in the owner’s manual.
If it asks for a regular grade (87 octane), then pumping that premium oil will be of no additional benefit. However, often time vehicle manufacturers suggest the premium fuel only to achieve optimum performance for the car. In that case, if the regular grade is used, the car will experience a negligible performance loss upto 5%.
Mordern cars automatically adjust the engine with the fuel grade provided to avoid damage. There is lot of information available on this topic from sources including scientific research, automakers and gasoline experts. Share your experience and opinion on premium gasoline. What grade do you use?
Until now applications like Google Earth let you roam all over the planet but now the rest of the universe is not that far either. Access all the universe at home using Microsoft’s Worldwide Telescope.
The program was delevolped on the idea of late Jim Gray, Microsoft computer scientist, to make the universe accessible to everyone. It was acheived in partnership with NASA and California Institute of Technology for use of astronomical data and high-resolution images generated by top observatories and instruments such as Chandra and Hubble. The Worldwide Telescope uses images generated by observatory telescopes on earth and in space. The images are stitched together to put celestial bodies in the correct perspective and in their actual positions in the sky.
It has been genetically selected over generations of tomatoes to get to that size of cherry to be called “cherry tomatoes.” It’s no surprise that they are also sour. They burst with explosion of sour juice and seeds in your mouth only if you can hunt them with your fork like a stone age caveman hunting for a fish with his spear.
