Happy Birthday Laura! You’re great and I love you! Alan
Museum of Insult: It’s Time
(Originally published August, 2010) Insulting, demeaning, degrading, humiliating – expressed, felt, interpreted, and reacted to in kind – radiated to and from all corners of the planet, all cultures, all societies, all eras. Insulting, and insulted, respecting no boundaries; the actions are…
Go figure
Honda Generator: A Tale of Two Warranties -The Real And The Implied
Or: What you need is a warranty for your warranty. This is not a complaint – those days are over (I can only hope). Now is the time for tales and morals, as in the moral of the story. This…
Well, the man-child and the woman beast had another fight last night
What was it about? As often happens, it’s hard to remember a day or two later, but here it is: I mentioned a friend was coming over, my significant other became somewhat agitated (my view), and I because somewhat agitated…
COLLAPSE-O-METER
CO2 Level Forest Cover Desertification GDP Sea Life Population 2009 1.72 2009 3,952 2009 12.1 2008 60,587,016 2009 75% 2010 1.10 2008 1.66 2008 3,989 2008 12.0 2007 54,347,038 2008 69% 1990 1.11 2007 2.12 2007 4,077 2006…
Terrorism On The Highway
Terrorism On The Highway Law enforcement and state governments failed the citizens of this country (U.S.) long before September, 11, 2001, as regards thwarting death and destruction in the name of self-assertive, self righteous behavior. With all due respect to…
Hey stupid – Juxtapose – “your” WiFi experience with “your” in-your-face reality!
“Stupid” as in, “It’s the environment stupid.” First of all, this is about a New York Times, Business Day, June 7, 2012 article, but it’s a subject that could be written by anyone at anytime (no offence, Jenna). It’s about current…
Fun With Media #1
I found these two on opposite walls of a train I was departing, and later, played with the photos (no, I did not alter the originals). …
All we are saying is give no war a chance!
At the very end of every Billy Joel concert I’ve seen, just as he leaves the stage for good, he throws a comment into the microphone, quick as a sucker punch* – “Don’t take shit from no one.” I first assumed it represented…
“What happens to full-time RVers when they cannot take care of their own or their spouse’s needs following an illness, injury, surgery, or the progression of a long-term health situation?”
CARE answers the question. Escapees CARE Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (tax-exempt) corporation formed in 1992 and is under the guidance of a volunteer board of directors. Friends may offer to help, not realizing that a “little help” will become…
Hey, quick, new generation – what does “authentic” mean?
I grabbed this photo off the web, thanks to “asterisktom’s photostream” on Flickr. The heading states: 1967 or 1968, lower east side, Manhattan. I remember those days, and as time goes on the memories have taken on new meaning. Not just,…
Making sense does not always.
CAN SAVE THE WORLD – NOT Social networking – I recently (July 5, 2011) received an email purportedly from the CEO of friendster.com, announcing the sites new purpose in life now that others have taken over the social network business.…
What I Don’t Understand, Is What God Is: eyesight, vacuum, and time.
I mean this literally – MY GOD IS: vacuum, time, and eyesight, as in sensate experience. God is what I don’t understand. I am not one of those who can say, “I know what God is.” I believe there are…
I need an adjustment! Wealy wealy bad!
Spoiler Notice! I haven’t seen this film, so I haven’t a clue what it’s about, other than what I see here in this promo – so, be forewarned, I have definite opinions that relate to almost nothing contained…
How to cheat in testing drugs, or in reporting on energy and the environment: Play the curve…
In medical research the game of chance can be illustrated when comparing the (so-called) placebo effect with the normal cycle of disease. That is, if you run a test long enough, a positive placebo effect will most often line up with feeling…
Halloween: Trick or Mystery?
“I don’t know about you, but…” Well of course I don’t know about you, but as for me, I could easily trade Halloween in for another celebration, call it, “Mystery Day.” I like a fun day, as much as you…
Don’t Fly. Burn wood. Make charcoal. Sail ships.
Being single, I sometimes read a lot of online profiles, and many are on a site that eschews an environmentally aware status, that is, they are prominently “green.” This is a good thing, but I’m getting increasingly annoyed and baffled by…
iGhetto: the new ghetto.
— An isolated place where people are segregated from the aristocracy or upper classes. That pretty much sums up the origin of the word, ghetto. As to motivations for creating or allowing ghettos to exist, one could argue political, social, and economic…
LSD: Why it is so useful, and…problematic.
Two words explain both: disrupted associations. I don’t know if expanding on this will make this more clear or just as unintelligible, but the central effect of…