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Robert Browning Pippa Passes from Act I: Morning

Back in my oldie but goodie Captain Kangaroo days there was a song called "In the Paw Paw Patch" which was sung by those I can only identify as staff voices behind a drawing board which sketched the scene pictured as the music was playing.

I knew of the paw paw long before I knew about it.

A paw paw is the largest edible fruit native to North America. It grows on a small deciduous tree (Asimina triloba) found wild in the eastern United States and parts of Canada.

The fruit has a custard-like texture and a sweet, tropical flavor often compared to a mix of banana, mango, and cantaloupe.

They appear like lumpy, greenish-yellow mangoes or avocados measuring 3 to 6 inches long, containing large, dark brown seeds.

You consume the soft yellow interior pulp which is the only part that is safe to eat.

The skin, seeds, and leaves contain neurotoxins or compounds that can cause stomach upset.

Since they bruise easily and have a very short shelf life once ripe, you rarely find them in grocery stores.

They are mostly had by foraging in the woods or visiting local farmers markets in the fall.

Today is National Paw paw Day.

The day celebrates the paw paw which is the largest native North American fruit.

Enjoy !
 

An IT professional is an expert who manages, builds, repairs, and secures computer hardware, software, and networks for an organization.

Today is National IT Professionals Day.

It is observed since 2015 on the third Tuesday of September, falling on September 15, 2026, according to the National IT Professionals Day Calendar.

The day is held under the auspices of a company called SolarWinds and said to honor the network engineers, system administrators, database admins, and help desk workers who keep modern digital systems running.

I worked in the IT field for 40 years and like teachers workers in the field of IT like to give themselves awards as frequently as possible — particularly when they don't do anything productive.

So as a retired IT professional with a goodly pension and nothing really to lose I all can say is thanks for nothing and blow it out your stupid self-aggrandizing asses.

Your paycheck and continued employment is supposedly the reward for a job well done.

I'm fresh out of platitudes for you.
 

The September 11 attacks were a series of airline hijackings and suicide attacks committed in 2001 by 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda against targets in the United States, the deadliest terrorist attacks on American soil in US history.

I was teaching Unix at the local technical college and remember the extensive hubbub and various reactions of the students, particularly the foreign ones with brown skin.

The attacks against New York City and Washington, DC caused extensive death and destruction and triggered an enormous US effort to combat terrorism.

There was an old Jewish broad yelling that "they're animals" regarding those perpetrators from al-Qaeda. The Pakistani national in my Unix class feared further discrimination at the airports which at that time were pretty much a protracted affair for most foreigners.

Some 2,750 people were killed in New York, 184 at the Pentagon, and 40 in Pennsylvania when one of the hijacked planes crashed into the ground after the passengers attempted to retake it.

All 19 terrorists died. The Police and fire departments in New York were especially hard-hit: hundreds rushed to the scene of the attacks, and more than 400 police officers and firefighters were killed.

It's a sad notion that a group can mark you for extermination then execute their plan to take you out.

Rest in peace.