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 Oct 6, 11:58pm  (1 review) politics http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/rbc/rbc000...
I just felt the need to move this to the front page again...
- Kevin Winards Music Site
- Oct 6, 4:50pm (1 review) jazz, music http://www.kevinwinard.com/
My friend Kevin's site. He's awesome :)
- Man Buys Dinner For His Mugger
- Oct 6, 3:28pm (1 review) relationships http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/06...
 When Julio Diaz stepped off the New York City subway platform after work one night, he was simply planning to walk over to his favorite local diner for a meal. But when a teenage boy approached him with a knife blade gleaming in his fist, Diaz, a 31-year-old social worker, knew the evening was about to take a more dramatic turn.
The young man demanded Diaz's wallet, and Diaz passed it over without objection. But just as his mugger turned to walk away, Diaz called after him: "Hey, wait a minute. You forgot something."
The mugger turned around, surprised.
"If you're going to be robbing people for the rest of the night, you might as well take my coat to keep you warm."
The teenager looked at Diaz in disbelief, and asked why he would do such a thing. Diaz replied, "!f you're willing to risk your freedom for a few dollars, then I guess you must really need the money." He told the young man that he'd just been heading out for dinner, and that he would be happy for some company.
"You know, I just felt maybe he really needs help," Diaz told NPR's StoryCorps.
The young mugger decided to take Diaz up on his offer, and they headed into Diaz's favorite local haunt together. As they were sitting at the table, the manager, the dishwashers, and the waiters all stopped over to say hello to Diaz, and the young man was amazed at his popularity. "You're even nice to the dishwasher," he exclaimed.
"Haven't you been taught that you should be nice to everybody?" Diaz asked him.
"Yea, but I didn't think people actually behaved that way," the teenager replied. Thanks to Diaz, he was beginning to see that kindness wasn't such a strange phenomenon, after all.
When the bill came, Diaz told the teen that he'd have to get the check. After all, he still had Diaz's wallet.
But the teenager slid the wallet back across the table without a moment's thought, and Diaz treated him to dinner. Diaz also gave the would-be mugger a $20 bill to take with him - in exchange for the young man's knife.
"I figure, you know, if you treat people right, you can only hope that they treat you right," Diaz said. "It's as simple as it gets in this complicated world."
This story was originally posted at Gimundo.com.
This story appears to be true,
at least I have not found anything such as Snopes refuting it.
If so, then this man is my hero.
gg
- Oct 3, 7:18pm
Oh sweet Jesus, don't let her get into national office...
- Oct 2, 3:06am
- I know I'm going to end up regretting this, but I went through my "friends" tonight and rather ruthlessly deleted a number of people. If you are one of those I cut and you are scratching your head going, "Well, WTF??" send me a note and ask me that very thing. I will probably agree with you and we can add each other back.
I just really don't like the new "friends" system here. What in the world was wrong with the old system? Was there pressure to try to make SU more like the other "social networks?" One of the reasons I've hung out here for such a long time is that it is DIFFERENT than the others! Friendships have always happened here organically, based on mutual interests. There was no "requesting" to be friended. You just added someone, and if they liked your stuff they added you. What's the problem?
And now I am being inundated with "friend" requests from people I have never before encountered, who I know nothing about. I don't want this to turn into another MySpace where the goal is to accumulate more and more so-called "friends" without really knowing any of them at all! I'm not interested in that. What is the purpose of that?
And that is why I decided to go and remove the people I don't really communicate with, and pare down my "friends" to people I do actually consider friends, or at least acquaintances.
The other thing is that with all these new friend requests, suddenly my stumbles have really taken a dive. I hit the stumble button at work the other day and got some kind of Dutch porn site that somehow sneaked past the company firewall. Honestly, do you people want to get me fired?? And even if I had stumbled that at home, I have a 7 year old boy hanging around me. And for that matter, I don't want to see that stuff either! So some subscriptions were removed due to content.
So again, please don't be offended if you were one of the victims of my SU massacre. It was nothing personal. I am just having to figure out how to continue to make this place work for me.
Best wishes to all!
gg
I certainly don't mean to hurt anyone's feelings, and I apologize if I have done so.
- The Rescues
- Sep 30, 9:31am (1 review) songwriting http://www.therescues.com/
i miss missing you
by Kyler England and Willie Mack
i used to wish away your memory every night
trying to erase the lines you've drawn
but suddenly you've faded almost out of sight
now you're going, going gone
why did i try so hard to let you go when deep down i don't know
if i am really ready to say goodbye
now what am i going to hold onto?
i miss missing you
i always found some comfort in my loneliness
if nothing else it filled the space
now that i'm over you i'm left with emptiness
and nothing to take its place
why did i try so hard to let you go when deep down i don't know
if i am really ready to say goodbye
now what am i going to hold onto?
i miss missing
your smile on every stranger's face that i saw
now i have to concentrate to remember you at all
why did i try so hard to let you go when deep down i don't know
if i am really ready to say goodbye
now what am i going to hold onto?
i miss missing you
**********
...this one is for you, Tony...
gg
- Sep 28, 1:05am
- Today Rachel spent some time at the Academy of Music for the Blind with her teacher David Pinto,
who she hadn't seen in quite a long time.
I took the opportunity to get some new pics of Rachel and to play with the manual settings on my camera...
- One Day I Chanced Upon A Mystery
- Sep 26, 12:46pm
 (184 reviews) humor http://ekarj.com/mysterybags.htm 
This has to be the funniest thing I have come across in ages.
I'm sitting here at my desk at work laughing like an idiot :)
Risk looking like an idiot - it's worth it.
- MySpace.com - The Rescues - Los Angeles, California - Indie / Pop / Rock...
- Sep 25, 3:19pm (2 reviews) music http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fus...
I don't even know how I came across these wonderful musicians on myspace,
but I'm certainly glad I did!
Fabulous songwriting, spot on vocals, great arrangements...
Too much talent wrapped up here to miss.
Check them out. You won't be sorry.
I hope to hear them perform in a couple of weeks if I can get someone to go with me.
Anybody up for a little drive to LA?
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- Sep 25, 11:52am (8 reviews) http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3168/2886...
Just in case you wondered...
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