No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

His name was Ernst Roehm, and his assassination ordered by Adolph Hitler happened 70 years ago today. June 30, 1934 was the day that Hitler consolidated his power and began his takeover of Germany. Roehm agreed with Hitler on most things, but disagreed on a few. He wanted the same thing that Hitler wanted - [...]

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Please explain what the saying means: NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED~in shirt sleeve english~
Thanks,,,
Here was my reply:
Hi,
I’m assuming “shirt sleeve english” means simple speak…
Here’s an example:
You find someone’s wallet containing $1,000 but the IDs missing. Instead of keeping the
money, you take it down to the police station, walk [...]

My favorite photographic subject is (sadly) for sale. The house my wife’s family has owned and lived in for over 150 years is to be sold. In the Scottish way, offers are being accepted over 190,000 pounds. It is in the fishing village of Cellardyke in the beautiful East Neuk of Fife and sits on [...]

I’ve said it many times. Andy Ihnatko is my MacHero. I’ve met him. I like the guy. He loves Macs and I love people who love Macs.
One thing I miss about Chicago is opening the Sun-Times up and seeing his column on Tuesdays. I know, I can get it on the web, but it’s just [...]

This is a great idea. Google’s new email service (now in beta) is called GMail and it is GREAT. I’m seriously thinking of moving all my personal email traffic to it. It’s fast, sophisticated and powerful. Unfortunately, it’s not publicly available yet, so only lucky invitees can have their GMail account (for now). I bought [...]

Microsoft with more IE trouble. They’re saying not to use the browser until Redmond fixes a bad another gaping security hole.
Although I primarily use Safari, I also like Firefox a lot. It’s the only browser that runs Gmail properly in OS X.

Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg team up again for a wonderful movie, based loosely (but close enough that they paid him for his story) on a real guy.
The Terminal tells the story of Viktor Navorski, who gets to JFK only to find his home country is in turmoil and his passport no good. The [...]