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Admission of Guilt?

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Bill Kling, Huntsville City Council member, as well as the entire state of Alabama, admitted guilt today in the contribution toward global warming and use of herbicides/pesticides to reduce the bee/bird population by reiterating the demand (a/k/a Ordinance No. 86-294 entitled “The Huntsville, Alabama, Grass and Weed Ordinance”) that residents maintain an inedible crop of grasses at a certain height that does not allow the grass to produce flowers and thus seeds all for the sake of “a way to help keep the community looking its best.””

13084 days (12734 sols) to go

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For some of my colleagues, spacecraft engine development is practically an obsession.

For others, bending of spacetime is the primary focus.

In either case, moving purpose-built beings from Earth to celestial bodies in this solar system holds their attention.

But then there are those whom we haven’t mentioned…

…the ones who pop up out of newly-discovered multidimensional spacetime travel methods.

But first, a Martian field trip’s in order.

From there, who knows?!

First bug!

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From wikipedia: While Grace Hopper was working on a Mark II Computer at a US Navy research lab in Dahlgren, Virginia in 1947, her associates discovered a moth stuck in a relay and thereby impeding operation, whereupon she remarked that they were “debugging” the system. Though the term bug had been in use for many years in engineering[42][43] to refer to small glitches and inexplicable problems, Admiral Hopper did bring the term into popularity.[44] The remains of the moth can be found in the group’s log book at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.[45]

What is creativity?

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I let my many moods/personalities wander my thought trails as undisciplined and uncontrolled as I can.

In my thoughts, a character who believes only in practical, no-nonsense, utilitarianism struggles for attention with the no-worries, anything-goes, live-and-let-live ambling wanderer who believes nothing is absolute.

Giving time to both characters without a desire to balance attention to them is tougher in some moments than others.

What is true randomness in the thinking process?

How is it related to creativity?

What is the discipline to physically manifest the completion of one (of many) project(s) one mentally creates on the fly?

If it wasn’t for hunger and other body functions like the itching numbness in my buttocks, could I sit here for days at a time watching the weeds and trees grow in my yard during changing weather patterns?