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About Gary

I write and maintain code for various websites as both a professional and a hobbyist developer, and have used computer technology for most of my life.

31-Neva

Sportsman

On his way from Nevada to the Raceway at Laguna Seca in California.

The wheel is driven or forced by means of its engine or motor. The energy is not in the wheel which is passive to this driving agent. So it is with every manifestation of energy; and with every human motivation – it has its human impulse or impelling motive to impart motion.
THE WORD – A PHILOSOPHY (1958) by Edna Sarah Beardsley (re: power)

“In the face of the danger which confronts our time, no individual retains, or can hope to retain, the right of personal choice which free men enjoy in times of peace.” –FDR (1940)
NOTHING TO FEAR by Alan Axelrod (2003)

30-Lone

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Solitude

When you’re in a place of natural silence, you’re not alone, and you can feel it. Whether it’s birdcalls from miles away or the proximity of a giant tree whose warm tones you can feel, there’s a presence, It’s a quieting experience.

–Gordon Hempton, in August 2023 Sun Magazine

29-Rowt

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Daunting

“You are old, Father William,” the young man said, “and your hair has become very white; and yet you incessantly stand on your head – do you think, at your age, it is right?”

In my youth,” Father William replied to his son, “I feared it might injure the brain; but now that I’m perfectly sure I have none, why, I do it again and again.”

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)

28-Case

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Surrealism

Don’t worry about tomorrow; who knows what will befall you today?
–Yiddish folk saying

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
–Isaac Asimov

You’re at that age when everything Mother Nature gave you, Father Time is taking away.
–Milton Berle

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