Back to Basics

First I bought a computer, then a second computer, then I connected to the internet (dial up), bought a cell phone, then I got connected to the cable, then I bought another computer, then I bundled cable, internet, and telephone, then I bought a wireless router and now a kindle fire...

I'm not an early implementer and the process of changing is difficult. 

Washing dishes and cooking, doing laundry and cleaning are not foreign concepts to me.

But the way I am reading books will never be the same.

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  1. Andy KrauseOctober 13, 2012 at 8:36 PM

    I got Suzy a Kindle last Christmas. She agrees that reading will never be the same. She still does "real" books occasionally but the Kindle goes everywhere.
    You'll have to get cooking on publishing your own E-Book, the horse from out west that wins at Hialeah...

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  2. John AsgeirsonOctober 15, 2012 at 6:01 AM

    Actually, the Horse was bred in South Dakota and has run in Minnesota. Currently, the breeding situation with quarterhorses is somewhat in flux. The use of surrogates and implanted embryos and the embarassing fact that some cloned material may have entered the gene pool makes me think that the horse really has gotten out of the barn.

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  3. Andy KrauseOctober 18, 2012 at 8:19 PM

    What is the cloned material bit, I'd like to read that. Can you point me where to look?

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  4. John AsgeirsonOctober 19, 2012 at 12:32 PM

    www.aqha.com/News/News-Articles/04232012-Cloning.aspx

    I got a posting from a friend that trains racing quarters. He was explaining how a mare he owns is bred to a stallion and then the embryo is implanted in another mare. he says less wear and tear on his mare and it "supposedly" make no difference in running ability. The quotation marks are mine. Shortly after this conversation he posted a link from AQHA about cloning. This might be a time when I might agree with the Catholic Bishops and some of their ideas about reproduction.

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  5. Andy KrauseOctober 25, 2012 at 8:55 AM

    Wow, I had no idea this was this far advanced.

    Cloning Hall of Fame

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