Blog Name Part III
Thanks to everybody who has “voted”. Still waiting for bribes, but I appreciate the thoughts and ideas. We are now down to the Final Four. Here they are: – Junkyard Uncorked – Scraps From the…
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Blog Name Part II
The nominations have been made. Serious deliberation has ensued. Wine has been opened. The ridiculous has been taken far too seriously. Bad spelling has been overlooked. And far too many inside jokes have been shared….leading…
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Blog name
Several people have pointed out that this blog has a really dumb name. “Roy Goble’s Blog” isn’t exactly an inspiration. Descriptive, yes, but …. still lacking. I’ve thought about changing the name to something that…
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Socially Responsible Business
The last decade has seen an expansion of the socially responsible business sector. I applaud that expansion … but let me point out a wrinkle that too few people mention. Hardly any large companies actually…
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Rambling thoughts
— Always enjoyed reading St. Augustine when I was in college, and I recently came across his definition of time. It struck me, in part because it came out of such a strange context: a…
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Strength in What Remains
“Strength in What Remains” tells the story of Deo, a Burundian medical student caught up in the horror of a genocidal civil war. Deo escapes one situation after another, in what in hindsight must appear…
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Easter Hymn
This is one of my favorite Easter passages, though few associate it with the season. It’s actually a hymn with a short opening line to set the stage. I can imagine the early followers of…
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Baseball
It was a beautiful summer Sunday. My father had promised that we would go to Candlestick and watch the Giants play, my first memory of seeing a live professional game. It was probably 1965, and…