flakes of nuisance » writing http://mcneillfamily.com paying attention to distractions since 1958 Sat, 19 May 2012 17:09:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 I am not finding the Olympic t…http://mcneillfamily.com/2012/05/19/i-am-not-finding-the-olympic-t/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2012/05/19/i-am-not-finding-the-olympic-t/#comments Sat, 19 May 2012 17:09:20 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/2012/05/19/i-am-not-finding-the-olympic-t/ I am not finding the Olympic torch ‘exciting’ or ‘emotional’ and I am a sucker for those two emotions. Clever marketing stunt though.

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]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/02/10/thoreau-ktaadn-passage/feed/ 0 The Green Eye of the Little Yellow Godhttp://mcneillfamily.com/2011/01/25/the-green-eye-of-the-little-yellow-god/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/01/25/the-green-eye-of-the-little-yellow-god/#comments Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:58:45 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6470 There’s a one-eyed yellow idol To the north of Kathmandu; There’s a little marble cross below the town; And a brokenhearted woman Tends the grave of ‘Mad’ Carew, While the yellow god for ever gazes down.

He was known as ‘Mad Carew By the subs at Kathmandu, He was hotter than they felt inclined to tell, But, for all his foolish pranks, He was worshipped in the ranks, And the Colonel’s daughter smiled on him as well.

He had loved her all along With the passion of the strong, And that she returned his love was plain to all. She [

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]]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/01/25/the-green-eye-of-the-little-yellow-god/feed/ 0 E-Mail Use Falls as Young Chat and Text – NYTimes.comhttp://mcneillfamily.com/2010/12/23/e-mail-use-falls-as-young-chat-and-text-nytimes-com/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/12/23/e-mail-use-falls-as-young-chat-and-text-nytimes-com/#comments Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:35:43 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6420 SAN FRANCISCO — Signs you’re an old fogey: You still watch movies on a VCR, listen to vinyl records and shoot photos on film.

Young people, of course, much prefer online chats and text messages. These have been on the rise for years but are now threatening to eclipse e-mail, much as they have already superseded phone calls.

Major Internet companies like Facebook are responding with message services that are focused on immediate gratification.

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]]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/12/23/e-mail-use-falls-as-young-chat-and-text-nytimes-com/feed/ 0 Geoffrey Winthrop Younghttp://mcneillfamily.com/2010/12/11/geoffrey-winthrop-young/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/12/11/geoffrey-winthrop-young/#comments Sat, 11 Dec 2010 12:03:22 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/12/11/geoffrey-winthrop-young/ Only a hill ; earth set a little higher above the face of earth : a larger view of little fields and roads : a little higher to clouds and silence : what is that to you? Only a hill ; but all of life to me, up there, between the sunset and the sea.

]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/12/11/geoffrey-winthrop-young/feed/ 0 The appearance of improprietyhttp://mcneillfamily.com/2010/12/09/the-appearance-of-impropriety/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/12/09/the-appearance-of-impropriety/#comments Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:28:14 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6400 The appearance of impropriety

Marketing is actually what other people are saying about you.

Like it or not, true or not, what other people say is what the public tends to believe. Hence an imperative to be intentional about how we’re seen.

It may be true that the effluent from your factory is organic, biodegradable and not harmful to the river. But if it is brown and smelly and coming out of an open pipe, your neighbors might draw their own conclusions.

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]]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/12/09/the-appearance-of-impropriety/feed/ 0 Fawcett Book Lands Boardman Tasker Prizehttp://mcneillfamily.com/2010/11/23/fawcett-book-lands-boardman-tasker-prize/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/11/23/fawcett-book-lands-boardman-tasker-prize/#comments Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:17:22 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6296 ‘Ron Fawcett, Rock Athlete’, the autobiography of the famed Yorkshire climber written by Ron and outdoors journalist Ed Douglas, is the winner of the 2010 Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain literature, it was announced at the Kendal Mountain Festival on Friday.

Described the the chairman of the judges, Ian Smith as ‘an engaging portrait of an unassuming yet quite remarkable climber told with humility and frankness’, the book tells Ron’s life story from his childhood in a small Yorkshire village through to his pioneering role in climbing in the 1970s.

The judges praised Fawcett’s candour and also commended Ed [

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]]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/11/23/fawcett-book-lands-boardman-tasker-prize/feed/ 0 Gettysburg Address, 19 November 1863http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/11/19/gettysburg-address-19-november-1863/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/11/19/gettysburg-address-19-november-1863/#comments Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:02:39 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/11/19/gettysburg-address-19-november-1863/ [link to Wikipedia]

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and [

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