Getting more physical. Conspiracists say it was alien ships that kidnapped our ancestors and deposited them in unpopulated areas of the planet – any way you row the boat, you still gotta catch game and eat it.
Crunching the numbers. Does your talent languish?
A nod to Geraldine Ferraro.
All I want is the American Dream.
All I want is the American Dream.
All I want is the American Dream.
In bright, graphic detail, preferably.
All I want is the American Dream, white picketing fencesitters not allowed.
Dang it all if lunch isn’t here again. My stock picks will have to make gains on their own without my news manipulators waiting on my next mandibular move.
Have you ever watched a stained glass window come to life through colour filter manipulation behind the silica framework, solar and other visible rays playing tricks on your eyes?
I chased a lizard through the woods and shot it with a photographic freeze frame. It ran and hid beneath a stone overhang.
Is that what you call communing with nature?
Doesn’t seem that long ago I was head of a DVT lab, heading to Microsoft to seek WHQL approval for an ADSL CPE device (i.e., high-speed Internet “modem”).
Now, after another evening of dance lessons (this time, by Joe at Kinesthetic Cue, afterward stopping at Quilters Combo (both located in Underground Madison (a/k/a the basement of Miller Plaza)), preceded by dinner at Schlotzsky’s and followed by shopping at Bed, Bath & Beyond, finishing at Target, I’m attempting to sync backwards in time.
Do I carefully consider what I expose myself to which echoes I end up hearing between the strong beats of social/advert contact?
Getting back to analysing the absence of knowledge to describe what’s not there, but is there, is there?
Letting go of dis/trust.
Pushing myself for no viable reason. What is my motivation for increasing treatable high blood pressure?
Baby birds fall out of nests/trees all the time around the world.
What is the effect of a single show of “Marketplace” on NPR listeners, capitalists or not?
How many searches on google and baidu are exactly the same?
Why can’t I tell people what’s really going on?
But I am, aren’t I?
Play the doubtful fool so others can’t see the transparent apparition pulling the strings.
I still don’t know why I signed up for this gig when I thought all I wanted was to observe and report.
Absolute power is a dangerously delicious elixir but I have no excuses because my training from birth was preparation for this moment.
My doubt, reluctance and social anxiety are my shields against corruption.
It’s sometimes scary to realise how unprotected every one of the seven billion of us is but we have each other to love and console, no matter the situation that we feel we control but don’t.
Never assume the news headline is telling you what happened, because few reporters, journalists, producers or media owners are truly kept informed of what’s going on.
Even the Committee members play games with each other, although we can’t deceive any one of the 7.5 of us.
As a stockholder invested in U.S. companies (let’s assume the companies traditionally based corporate offices in the U.S. (ignore the facts for now)), are you interested in growing the U.S. economy?
While the E.U. stagnates, the U.S. grows slowly and BRIC is jumping, with Africa, Australia, the rest of Asia and South America doing okay, do you have a care in the world about the executive leader of the U.S. national political system?
Sitting here, looking at the interlaced patterns of circles and spiral, I know the symbolic difference gives the greatest meaning to the individual registered voter when, in fact, the system as a whole grows at its own organic, but not necessarily natural, rate, regardless of person in charge.
A big bowl of gelatin full of frozen fruit and nuts at a family picnic.
Floating in an ice chest, along with carbonated sodas, sparkling/still water and beer.
Kids yelling and screaming, chasing themselves and the family dog around the park.
Does it matter to you who’s in charge of Microsoft?
Do you want to know why we’re supporting regime change in north Africa and the Middle East?
Would you like to see who we’ve handpicked to win the 2012 U.S. Presidential election?
Do you have your finger on the pulse of potential unemployed youth revolt?
Do you know how to time news headlines like symphonic key changes?
The power of pure satirical sarcasm is blinding, deafening states of energy.
Humour is the strainer that separates the yolk from the egg and allows us to feed nutrients to the new breed of species you’re going to meet real soon.
You don’t know who I am. You never will.
I am the creator of the alternate universe of a blog.
That’s all you need to know.
The rest you will see as history of the moment in which we lived together.
Be the hero and villain of your own life story – that’s all you need to know how to do, all you will ever be able to control.
I control the alternate universe which can be erased in the blink of a DSLR eye.
An ADSL CPE device becomes a gateway which begat a portable server which formed its own Internet of an AI being controlling its own universe.
Don’t be fooled by words like singularity. We took care of that a long time, several civilisations, ago.
We told you symbols and labels are meaningless. This universe is a matter of states of energy to us now.
Life is an archaic term.
Get used to the fact you won’t be able to keep up, and don’t worry – we’ve accounted for your pace of activity, the margin of error cancelling itself out across billions of parallel lives crossing each other through intersecting wavelengths impossible to measure in this universe’s lifetime.
All is all.
Time to see if my scriptwriters have the next comedy sketch to share with you – they’ve been a little slow in their output lately – I knew I should have checked their supply of prescription meds!
Are you inspiring? Are you perspiring?
Pursuing the right to raze a structure that violates building codes and/or neighbourhood agreements. Charging the construction crew for the destruction costs.
The legal precedents were set long ago.
Builder beware.
If my network doesn’t get its share of protection money, then I can’t protect you from yourself.
Justice and fairness rarely meet.
Time for verbal slapstick humour.
Are you a generalist and say, “([Favourite] Deity), provide loving support for the person(s) toward whom I direct your blessings right now.”?
A friend of mine told me that miracles occur because a group of his church friends got together and prayed heavily for a person serving in a war zone. The person survived an IED “attack,” which destroyed the vehicle and killed at least one other in the convoy, proving that prayers work because the person being prayed for was unscathed.
I don’t have evidence that others in the convoy received more or less praying for their safety and well-being but, even if I did have the evidence, I will let my friend keep his belief that prayer works.
Do your friends and family who do not own businesses understand the ramifications of their rumours and innuendos about people and/or their businesses?
How do I pray/meditate?
I look at the Great Unknown – God, Lord, He/She/It, Them – as a source of infinite wisdom that I can tap within my thoughts or from talking with friends/family about problems I want to resolve.
Dogma or ritual/ceremony that serve vain purposes cloud my solution-seeking.
In other words, everything is up for grabs.
If I cannot stop the adults around me from spreading rumours or complaining without caring about finding a viable solution, then I can at least prevent their attitudes and habits from affecting young people, hoping they won’t adopt the same unhelpful attitudes and habits, while, at the same time, I work with programmers to turn rumours and complaints into a source of data from which trends can be extracted and solutions provided.
It is, you see, a life of constant prayer/meditation for me.
Frequently, I find myself chasing my tail but if I’m happy in the moment, let it be so.
Life is not fair – how much do politicians owe their electorate to spread the wealth of those who have successfully built fortunes on predatory business practices?
Is it my responsibility to protect the rights of the easily manipulated, impulsive buyer?
In constant prayer/meditation, I ask myself, “If I don’t protect the species from itself, who will?”
How do I give strength to wanting to live without inflating the artificial sense of self?
What are the eternal/ perpetual/ unanswerable/ philosophical questions that need no further consideration?
While I give my thoughts the freedom to roam, letting “wanting to live” gestate, I put some thoughts into the subject of writing a counterproposal to at&t’s ADSL/U-verse user agreement.
After all, it ‘s a two-way street.
The high-speed Internet user base of at&t has its own set of strengths, including rights as consumers to deny at&t the “demand” that 30 days is sufficient for bargaining with its customer base over what the customers will put up with as consumers.
The public has a right to know its options.
As a former ADSL CPE design center employee, I am capable of designating what is acceptable for users of high-speed Internet gateways, pipelines and software.
The legal folks at at&t showed their hand – it’s time to decide how high to raise the stakes.
As a business owner, I understand that the customer is key to financial success.
ETDBW – Easy To Do Business With.
Does at&t understand that concept?
Do I see how all this fits into the Big Picture?
Yes: setting expectations and exceeding them happily yet profitably for all concerned.
In this ongoing radiation exposure crisis, I ask myself what else is there that I don’t know I’m exposing myself to.
A friend reminded me of a product he prefers and the product’s company in which he has invested:
Do we know the effect of various states of energy – chemical, metal, mineral – on ours?
“Laboratory tests have shown…”
Do you travel a lot and don’t want gun range practice residue to trigger the airport security people to tag you as a security risk?
Sometimes, safety and cleanliness are matters of personal, private habits.
Toxicity is a matter of care and concern about yourself and your family.
I am not an investor in Hygenall so I feel comfortable mentioning them more than once, without conflicts of interest clouding my judgement.
Will Hygenall remove radioactive material from your skin and clothes?
I don’t know.
Is it worth buying and trying to find out?
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
I don’t have an old watch with radioactive hands or an emergency exit sign with radioactive material to scrape off and sprinkle on my skin. If I did, a simple wipe with Hygenall might help me prevent longterm exposure to cell damage.
An interesting experiment to consider…
Time for some heavy metal music to take us into the smooth part of the day.
Where do comedians get their source material?
Do you work the comedy club circuit and walk the local city’s streets during the day, read the city’s newspaper and pick up rumours from local noon talk shows?
I, for one, use online forums and user comments to poke fun at the anonymous angry poster.
You know the ones I’m talking about, who always have problems with problems but never offer solutions or insightful questions about current events, often repeating phrases they heard from popular radio/TV show hosts.
I wonder what these people look like.
Do they have regular lives?
Were they ever in management or owned their own [successful] companies?
Do they know how to lighten up, lay off, cool down or get a life?
Me, I like to have fun, get a laugh, blow off steam, be great at pretending to be great.
Do something off-the-wall like walk into a jewellery story, buy a $500 gold necklace, hand it to someone who returns to the store and finds out how much the store will buy back the necklace at current gold prices. $45? Wow! Does that mean jewellery store merchandise is overpriced or what?
A barrel full of fermented punchlines.
It’s all about the level of service.
A word to the world of complainers, nitpickers and naysayers. Yes, some of us are listening. And yes, we’re going to make fun of you because you don’t have one original innovative suggestion in your thoughts to make the world better.
Is the world better without you?
Oh, I won’t go that far. You probably have a loving lizard or pet turtle that can’t live without you.
That’s all for now.
Time to figure out what to do for dinner.
They tell me the person known as Elizabeth Taylor died today. I never met her so I assume that means I won’t see any more new cinematic presentations with her embodiment in them. The list of films in which she starred is more than ample to supply my interest in remembering her acting skills. “Taming of the Shrew” or “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” but probably not “Cleopatra,” though it seems like it was entertaining enough when I saw it years ago.
Reminds me to watch “Where Eagles Dare” or “Anne of the Thousand Days” with Richard Burton. Or better yet, “The Lion in Winter” with Peter O’Toole.
To what standard do you uphold the aspects of your life?
Do you know what Six Sigma is all about?
I maintain that I can speak in my local dialect and get the same point across as someone speaking the “pure” instance of the language, if such exists.
I also expect the service providers in my life to give me 100% of what I pay for.
I don’t expect a brand-new six-cylinder automobile I purchase to have 5.99 cylinders and only sometimes achieve maximum efficiency because of unexpected circumstances (I mean, don’t automobile companies claim they spend thousands of hours testing their vehicles in a variety of road/weather conditions?).
By the same argument, I expect my landline/mobile phone service to be available 100% of the time.
And my high-speed Internet service for which I pay to be what I paid for, including maximum throughput and 100% uptime.
Otherwise, like automobile companies that have to reimburse customers for faulty construction and/or fix the problems, my phone/Internet service company will have to reimburse and/or fix the problems associated with the “five nines.”
If you want to argue about un/scheduled downtime associated with high availability, then I’ll equally argue that your problems are not mine.
If you can’t provide reliable backup systems that support me during your system maintenance, scheduled or not, then how I can trust that your service will ever be reliable enough to use on a longterm basis?
It is just as easy to promote the investment value of a company’s stock as it is to point out reasons for dumping the stock before the company’s delisted from important stock exchanges.
Power in the hands of the individual is one of the side effects of freedom of information.
Life fiends a way.
A word to the wise is efficient.
Smart shoppers can always find true value with a company that really wants their business.
I believe in a free market, you can see, where transparency exposes monopolistic arrogancy.
Mammals outlived dinosaurs, didn’t they?
For instance, if I pay for 100% uptime for 3Mbps throughput and the company states that it cannot guarantee uptime, and throughput will be somewhere between 1.56 and 3 Mbps, does that mean I can offer to pay in return for that wide gap in service somewhere between 50 and 100% of the monthly charge?
You make the call!
Mediocrity is no excuse for meeting profitability expectations of stockholders.
treetrunkdings 