http://barthol.gather.com Recent Articles on Gather by Bart H. en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:18:57 GMT 2009-12-30T15:18:57Z en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 http://www.gather.com/images/header/logo_gather.gif http://www.gather.com/ http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977857145 (an email from Donna reminded me, yet again, that it is highly impolite to just disappear, regardless of one's disposition to do so......) .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . . . Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:55:34 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977857145 Bart H. 2009-10-16T22:55:34Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977703595   I am so pissed.  Don't you think there is something terribly.... UNETHICAL about depositing trash, albeit rather tidily bundled, at somebody else's curbside for pickup on garbage day?  . . . Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:30:06 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977703595 Bart H. 2009-06-06T23:30:06Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977700652   F ragments .  An unfortunate misstep by the janitor at my office sent the tiny tricycles to the floor.  I keep thinking I will glue them all back together, but, truth be told, . . . Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:36:06 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977700652 Bart H. 2009-06-03T22:36:06Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977696664 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     W hile I wait for the major medical journals to pick up my paper on CURES for POLLEN ALLERGENIC RHINITIS condition, . . . Sun, 31 May 2009 01:01:39 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977696664 Bart H. 2009-05-31T01:01:39Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977688696 I was reminded that I recently passed the three-year mark as a member of this august group.  Three years is nothing in the larger universe but in the world of electrons, it is eons.  . . . Fri, 22 May 2009 00:47:43 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977688696 Bart H. 2009-05-22T00:47:43Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977680846 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I am writing this from the top floor of my house.  If I were to go any higher, I would be on the roof.  I am huddled under a blanket, the door is bolted and there . . . Tue, 12 May 2009 19:21:07 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977680846 Bart H. 2009-05-12T19:21:07Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977678858 I have been thinking of making a career change during this economic unpleasantness until I realized that the doctor I was thinking of becoming would have to listen to people complaining ALL DAY . . . Sun, 10 May 2009 12:11:52 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977678858 Bart H. 2009-05-10T12:11:52Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977672491 On a scale of 7 to 15 , I would say this has been one of the more interesting things to happen in my life.  I don't want you to infer that my life has been that uneventful, but if you were to, . . . Sun, 03 May 2009 12:59:04 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977672491 Bart H. 2009-05-03T12:59:04Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977671564     For the record: I am sixty-one years old.  That being said, I am afraid of going to my basement. There is a lot to fear down there.  First, it is not the cleanest room . . . Sat, 02 May 2009 01:54:09 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977671564 Bart H. 2009-05-02T01:54:09Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977640181 In 1964, when I was a senior in high school, I read a book at the recommendation of TIME Magazine.  It was a strange book for me, growing up as I did in the remote deserts of the Mountain West.  . . . Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:02:38 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977640181 Bart H. 2009-03-29T01:02:38Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977637451 Day Three: denial and resolution   I don't know what possessed me to think that a story about eBay would be interesting.  It is not.  I mean, who really cares?  I THOUGHT . . . Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:47:50 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977637451 Bart H. 2009-03-26T01:47:50Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977636132     Day two and my bid is still holding. What is probably obvious by now is that the solution to my coffee dilemma is to get a coffee grinder for the office.  And not . . . Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:17:36 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977636132 Bart H. 2009-03-25T00:17:36Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977635322 It is all about coffee. In my company of seventeen, there are very few coffee drinkers, but those of us who do make up for the rest. Interestingly, the coffee drinkers are all about my age--well over . . . Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:04:35 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977635322 Bart H. 2009-03-24T12:04:35Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977631234 IT is odd, is it not, to view excess in the time of depression? ------------------------- Las Vegas is like a one-line story .  I wonder who thinks up these things.  (Actually. I know: . . . Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:50:49 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977631234 Bart H. 2009-03-19T23:50:49Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977617571 -------------------------------------   Was it just a dream?   My first car was a 1954 Chevrolet 4-door sedan, given to me as partial payment for a summer job when I was seventeen.  . . . Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:24:09 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977617571 Bart H. 2009-03-08T18:24:09Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977602941   I am generally a healthy individual.  I eat right.  I exercise regularly.  I keep my weight down.  I sleep well.  I drink moderately to not at all.  I do not smoke . . . Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:00:25 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977602941 Bart H. 2009-02-22T14:00:25Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977574295 I ONCE READ that the video cassette recorder (the humble VCR) would never have taken hold the way it did were it not for adult movies, for pornography. Makes sense to me. And if that is so, the . . . Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:12:21 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977574295 Bart H. 2009-01-25T17:12:21Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977567489 I have a very good friend who is an art historian.  Let me correct that.  Art History is not her day job but she DID get an art history DEGREE, from Brown University no less, and was once . . . Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:20:17 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977567489 Bart H. 2009-01-19T02:20:17Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977566845 CELEBRITY For the past several days I have been pondering the concept of celebrity and how it forms pop culture.  I am sure it has something to do with projection: that we, the unwashed, . . . Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:24:36 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977566845 Bart H. 2009-01-18T17:24:36Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977565379   STARING WHILE EATING I saw her again today. The pattern remained the same. This is not a YOUNG woman. But from behind, I started looking at her because, you know, she had a thin and interesting . . . Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:21:47 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977565379 Bart H. 2009-01-16T22:21:47Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977564461   Just like Ponzi I want a Scheme Named after me Note:  In the spirit of recycled writing and compendia, I offer the following.  Gather does not allow the publishing of writing . . . Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:54:17 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977564461 Bart H. 2009-01-15T23:54:17Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977561360 I missed LLWesterfield's call for reposting yesterday.... but in looking over some of my earlier postings on Gather, I noticed (nobody obsesses over obsolete articles on Gather like I do) that sometime . . . Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:57:32 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977561360 Bart H. 2009-01-12T23:57:32Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977558392   I see where we will have  ONE MILLION WORDS in April.  In English.  That's a lot of words.  Most of which I don't know.  I wonder who counted them.  . . . Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:57:38 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977558392 Bart H. 2009-01-09T18:57:38Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977556538 (click)     The History of History As I venture into my next decade, I find myself questioning almost everything.  Things which the previous fifty nine years held little . . . Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:35:04 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977556538 Bart H. 2009-01-08T00:35:04Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977551435 -------------------------------------- Although I can enumerate the occasions when it would have been beneficial to be so, I have never been drunk. I don't offer this as some kind of BADGE . . . Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:03:53 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977551435 Bart H. 2009-01-02T22:03:53Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977547960 I see where they are poised to create a tiny fusion reaction at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.  Do you know what this means? It means (I think) they can do the very same process . . . Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:58:43 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977547960 Bart H. 2008-12-29T22:58:43Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977545736     Let's talk about religion for a moment.  Spurred by an article on Gather by a recent connection, but not precisely on topic such that to comment might be seen as a form . . . Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:52:14 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977545736 Bart H. 2008-12-26T20:52:14Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977544222 After years (years) of being pestered by a barrage of emails, I finally went out and got a bigger penis.  Earlier this year, I got a Rolex watch for $100 and was completely satisfied, so I decided . . . Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:03:35 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977544222 Bart H. 2008-12-24T12:03:35Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977535554 _______________________________________________   Seven years into my marriage, I fell in love. It was a source of deep, private embarrassment for me because of that Marilyn Monroe Movie, . . . Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:13:56 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977535554 Bart H. 2008-12-15T23:13:56Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977526457 Note:  the following was written as a serialized letter to a friend, stricken with an  illness both terrifying and debilitating, and as a result, or perhaps not, withdrew from contact.  . . . Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:56:35 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977526457 Bart H. 2008-12-05T02:56:35Z