I saw the photograph. It was on Facebook. There I was. She
had labeled me. The photograph Bob to took. Everythime I visit, I stand with my
sister holding my little dog and Bob takes our photograph. She posted it on
Facebook. God was I fat. Yes, I’m the fat one. You can also tell which one is
me because I have a beard and she does not.
Winter has not been nice to me. What happened to your girlish figure.
Hell, Fred, you never had a girlish figure. You’ve always been a dumpling.
Mother’s little butterball. I need to get serious about losing some weight –
about 30 pounds worth, I figure. It is that serious. Two years ago the doctor
advised me to lose twenty. Frankie posted a comment – “How far north” and I
answered to Michigan where my other sister’s son is getting married. I wish
Facebook had a way to correct comments after they were posted. I’d also like to
Photoshop that picture. Elongate it. Make be tall and skinny. I wish it were
just that easy.
I began to wonder if Little People might be useful in
solving mysteries. I knew that they could not be turned into detectives. I
would have to be the detective. They would not chronicle our adventures either,
I would also have to do that. They were
unreliable. They could not (would not) follow directions. They were never
dishonest, I’ll grant you that. They knew everything or at least they knew how
to know any thing that they might want to know. I think that is a very valuable
talent, much more valuable than and set of limited experience. But how to employ their talents was a whole
different matter. I was determined to find a way. But the fact is that I knew
nothing about being a detective but I have read a lot of detective novels. But
reading romances don’t make you romantic, they make you silly. Neither Agatha
Christie nor Dorothy Sayers knew anything about crime or detection themselves for
that matter. Agatha proved it when she tried to do Aimee Simply MacPhearson.
Where to start? Where to start? With a mystery of course. I had to find a
mystery to solve. That was the first step. Then I’d find a way to use my Little
People. What I had in abundance was a thirst for adventure and the Little
People were my ticket. But first the mystery. I’m trying to think this thing
out. I know. Then I discovered that they could read minds. I’ll tell you about
it later when I have more time and how I came to find this out and how I intend
to exploit this ability. I hope it doesn’t turn out to be another flop like my
moonwalking was.
The first time I heard of it, I said, “that’s just plain
dumb” and now it’s a billion dollar industry. If only I could make this thing
with the Little People work as well. I’d come up with other schemes – like
spinning straw into gold, but they hadn’t worked. With the Little People you
can’t base your business plan on a character fault like greed or stupidity.
That make’s it hard. But I’ll find away for the Little People to facilitate my
good fortune. I’ve just got to stick with it. There has to be a way. It’s gotta
be a way that benefits others more than me. And if that’s true, I can’t use it
to get rich myself. When the little
people discover that their talents are being used to satisfy someone’s baser
emotions they have a way of making you fall flat on your face.
Selective information is misinformation – Federal Judge
Damon Keith
Male and female orgasms have completely opposite effects on
brain activity – enhanced activity in the male brain and decreased activity in
the female brain. The male gets excited. The female becomes sedated. That’s
the way it seems to always play out.
It’s religion for
The weak
minded
The Bible is a menu
Pick and
choose
Al la carte
It’s
adjustable
One size fits all
The word of
God
There’s something for
Everyone
Except for the queers
And the
Arabs
I was asked, are Little People individuals? I had been told
(by them of course) that they were not since the same physical body could be
any one of them but that no two or more bodies could be the same one of them.
Under those circumstances, I have to say no, Little People are not individuals.
But I can think of no way to substantiate this claim. And, of course, we
already know that there can never be just one of them or so they also claim
(there may be more and there may be less but there never just one). I have
never seen just one, but that doesn’t prove that there can not be just one. I
tried an experiment once. There were was more that one of them(if there are any
of them they are always more than one) sitting across from me in the booth
drinking beer. I took my coat which I had taken off and which I had lying on the
seat beside me and thew it over one of them. There was blurry motion, I think, sort of a wobbling. The
one I had thrown my coat over was sitting beside me. I removed the coat that I
had thrown over the one across from me and he was a different one than the one
who was not sitting beside me. So which one was the one I had covered up, the
one beside me or the one across from me? I’m not sure. So you see, at no time was
there ever just one of them. And since no two of them can occupy the same body
at the same time there must have been a period of transition when there was
none of them. So there was never a time when there was just one of them and
there may have been a time when there were none of them. Tyring to keep track
of them individually is an impossibility.
He [The Lord] is coming back as a warrior carrying a sword.
And I believe now – I’ve checked this out – I believe that sword he’ll be
carrying when he comes back is an AR-15… If you don’t have one, go get one.
You’re supposed to have one. It’s biblical – Jerry Boykin
There is still snow on the ground here – been here for seven
days now. It’s the South and it’s mid-March already. It still hugs the lee side
of gullies and the backside of logs and
where it was piled up when they plowed the road. A small babbling brook runs
next to my campsite.
13,400 separate items of space junk were being tacked in the
year 2000. It was then estimated that there were at least 100,000 pieces too
small to track. NASA’s estimated of space debris was about 4,000,000 pounds in
Low Earth Orbit. A single paint chip was able to gouge the window of the space
shuttle sufficiently enough for the astronauts aboard to concerned about its
integrity during re-entry.
Even one war in space would encase the entire planet in a
shell of whizzing debris that would thereafter make space near the Earth highly
hazardous – Joel Primack – The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, 2002
We spent a lot of money figuring out high-tech means of
defeating an opponent that in the end prove more costly to use than to them –
war in space for example. Now we have to figure out ways to protect ourselves
from drones. But it is good for the economy – it creates jobs we are being told
– and sustains the careers advising us who tell us we need to do it. Mindless activity can be justified if it
creates jobs. Job creation seems to be a very mindless activity.
Young men then went to war believing all of the fine stories
they had grown up with; and if, in the end, their disillusion was quite as deep
and profound as that of the modern soldier, they had to fall father to reach it
– Bruce Catton – Lincoln’s Army, 1951 p17
To fail a Turing test is meaningless. To fool someone into
believing that its human, a machine demonstrates that it is intelligent. By
failing to do so, it proves nothing.
The human being has 347 different types of sensory neurons
in his nose and only three in his eyes
There are some 45,000 items in the average American
supermarket – a quarter of them contain corn including many non-food item
There are routinely 250-300 incidents of puppycide reported
in the press per year. It is estimated that there are at least a thousand
unreported cases. One dog handler claims that 250,000 dogs are killed by police
per year. This seems to be high. No one knows for sure. A lot of systematic
data on the illegal use of violence is gathered but very little on the legal
use of violence. The Indianapolis Star reported
44 cases between 2000 and 2002 in that city alone. The police in
Milwaukee killed 434 dogs over a nine year period. But these cases do not
report how many of those dogs were actually vicious, how many were stray or how
many of them were mercy killings. We do know that SWAT teams routinely shoot
dogs.
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