John Dewey

Amazon

You have heard of this guy, I am certain. Now you can read about him.

I use my Fire tablet to look at this Kindle book.

He was in favor of Democracy - even in the schools!

LA QUINTA RESTAUMEX, SALTILLO

I did a search for Rita Fishburn, and found this - in another Blogger posting!

It is full of valuable information. A right-click will translate it for you. I also follow this blog.

When lies became the truth

And mosr people cannot tell the difference - and want to remain that way.

They deny that Objective Reality, or Scientific Reality exists. Only their Reality exists - and it can be whatever they want it to be.

It does seem to me, that this difference in attitude is crucial. Everyone will agree, that truthfulness is better than lying. But when push comes to shove - they will bend the truth to a remarkable degree.

Yemenren

This is a sound recorder, I bought some time ago, from Amazon - but I am now just getting around to using. Its a tiny thing, you can easily hold in your hand. The stereo files it creates, are much smaller than the files produced by my Digital Camera - that also goes with me, on my walks.

The first thing I notice is the User's Manual, that printed so greatly reduced, you have to use a magnifier to read it.

But I am stubborn, and finally figured out how to use it. It's not so complicated, once you begin to understand it.

Before I go for my daily walk, I put it in the hip pocket of my pants - ready for instant use.

Americans who Thought they were Better than the Mexicans

Not all Americans were this way, but a lot of them were. And they had a big effect on American policy towards Mexico. As Mexicans knew all too well.

Quite often these Americans, were mostly interested in their own self-importance. And not the worth of those, they considered their inferiors.

I was led to reflect on this, when I thought about Rosemary Fishburn, who built a Student Center in Mexico, that failed. Who did feel superior to the Mexicans, she was supposed to be helping.

My Father did not feel this way about Mexicans. But my Mother did - and she was stronger than him.

Junk in Police yard

Ticos have a different attitude toward junked cars. You see them everywhere, usually with the engines removed, since they can taken apart, and sold as used engine parts. 

IBM and Rational Software

I will begin this posting by referring you to the Wikipedia entry for Rational Software.

I was working in Silicon Valley in the Nineties - and I can remember the impact of Rational on it.

I could see the programmers in the company I worked for - were producing lousy software. And I could see Rational had a method for producing good software - that they were not interested in. A bit crazy, yes?

But the craziness got worse, when IBM bought Rational. It bought a fine company with a brilliant future - and did nothing with it.

IBM had shot itself in the foot - once again!