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The future never happens the way we imagine
In other words, would you say that your email and texts are as unable to interpret and respond to emotional social context as a person on the autism spectrum? In what situation are they identical and thus the avatar of one is the same as the other?
Walking to the bus to catch a ride to work
Today we were scheduled to give you an update on our Kickstarter campaign but our Creative Arts department had secretly accepted a contract to make propaganda posters for a government that goes without saying and said government pushed forward its publishing deadline due to changes in global politics.
We think the real excuse is the art department’s employees spending last night and today breaking down the subliminal messages hidden in the video, I Don’t Need a Reason, by Dizzee Rascal.
However, just because our ISP has documented logs that Dizzee’s video had been viewed and downloaded more often than Blurred Lines over the Labour Day weekend does not mean proof of cause is in the correlation pudding.
For you, the readers, the bottom line is this: an empty bottom line.
Time for this author to take apart an old computer for a future yard sculpture display — he may be bad at reading signs and signals between members of his species but he can always analyse electronic messages and hug his cats to meet his minimal companionship needs.
Salami, or as they say in Gaelic, c’est la vie!
Drawings are graphics. Are drawings?
Found in the study…circa 1982-83…
Quality Control
Assessing a new model year car with major redesign brings up interesting observations about interlocking parts such as seat back and exposed cable ties cutting interiour trunk liner…
Kickstarter Update #2
Good afternoon, buoys and gulls!
Today is an important day here at Project Xceed Xpectations. We’ve decided, while finishing the details on our business plan, to introduce you to the project itself.
First of all, let’s give it a name, shall we? Here ya go!:
All Sols Day
All Sols Day is an Internet-based serial story, in the format of sitcom-meets-reality TV, about life on Mars, mixing cartoon-style graphics with live footage of the first landing, exploration and settlement of Mars.
The Kickstarter campaign will offer you different levels of participation:
- an email/text message “thank you”
- a simple postcard
- a variety of bumper/notebook stickers
- a cutout construction paper book with main characters
- autographs by the key players on a poster
- a DVD of the first season
- your very own kit including electronic components for building a duplicate of the spaceship, landing craft, exploration vehicle(s) and habitation modules
Those are all some of the preliminary “thanks” levels we have proposed to our Creative Arts department for completion within a reasonable waiting time by you, our patient contributors and supporters.
We’ve asked the producers and crew if any of them would be willing to travel to your home, office or event for a public speaking engagement as part of a high-donation “thanks” participation level. We’re working on the legal details at this time.
We’re also in negotiations with a replica construction company to make a vehicle that could “launch” your child and land your child on a simulated Martian surface where your child could explore and set up a habitation module during a two-week period, but the cost — hundreds of thousands of dollars — would be hard to justify without knowing there’s full interest by at least a few parents willing to fund a Mars Exploration Camp for kids.
Well, there you have it! Are you excited yet?
Our friends in the space business have asked us to make this project a success, putting into the minds of the people that Mars settlement is a given fact because we know there will be setbacks along the way and want them fully onboard with the good, the bad and the ugly future.
You or your child may one day be part of the real Mars exploration team. Today is the day to find out how you can make that dream a reality!
The good kind of flashback
Talking with a friend, I had a flashback to a previous career where I tracked and calculated MTBF using FMEA techniques — started at GE with Navy CASS test equipment, carried over into sewer diagnostic sensors and ended with computer peripherals. Seemed like I studied the mathematics in statistics class, too.
Memories…where and who would I be without ’em.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Did the Dalai Lama really earn a doctorate in physics?
I must say it’s pretty darn difficult to erase the use of labels when I use labels as a means of label-erasing.
For instance, the press reports that the “Chinese” are launching a probe to the Moon by the end of the year.
Who is this person (or who are these persons) called the “Chinese”?
Is it people labeled because of their genetic likeness?
Their geographical space?
Their registered identity with a government?
Wouldn’t it be better to say that our species is launching another probe to the Moon?
Only by removing labels associated with local conditions on Earth can we as representatives of the planet say we are going to move life back out into the solar system and beyond.
There’s always a small chance that a stray bacterium will survive a trip to another celestial body and be the first Earth-based living thing to establish a colony, using us as its transport medium.
Before I say goodnight…
Before I say goodnight, a toast: to 13399 days to go!
If time does not exist, why do I write as if I pretend it does?
Jogging in my neighbourhood is an adventure encountering wild nocturnal animals.
Last night, an armadillo literally scurried under me, going perpendicular to my path as I was in mid-running stride, its claws clickety-clacking on the asphalt pavement — the scene triggers a funny phrase in my thoughts: macadam, I’m Mac, Adam, and I’m having a Big Mac attack.
Tonight it was a juvenile raccoon I scared up a tree.
I’ve almost run over a possum more than once.
Tonight, a young woman walking her dog in the darkness almost ran over me, the dog’s bark scaring me out of my shoes and sending me light on my feet at a fast jogging pace away from woman, leash and territorially protective canine companion.
“Territorially” is not the best adverb in that last sentence is it? I’ve gotten sloppy in my writing lately, haven’t I, giving too much weight to the thoughts behind the written words than to the grammatical deconstructionismalarianisms.
Interjecting an exclamation! Yes I am! Declarative statement! Maybe?
In any case, it’s nice to relax my thought patterns, if not my core (head, torso and arms) just yet.
In a few hours, it will be the day of the 27th wedding anniversary of me and my first wife.
Yes, that’s right, I’m not counting the girlfriends who’ve filled my dreams with fancy holidays on the Riviera (that’s the 1969 Buick Riviera rusting in the backyard — you knew that, though, didn’t you?).
Ahh…deja vu all over again, deja vu all over again…we’re sorry that we didn’t have time to include Matt Damon in this sketch. However, we have time to plug a few holes in the plots of films, including any good Bollywood movie that puts the beautiful love interest and well-timed dancing scenes ahead of a logical storyline.
A shoutout to Bill Neiland, president of Haul Couture; Rainy, Dream, Ferdie and kitchen at Thai Garden (Rainy, my dear, we’ve got to take you on a spontaneous weekend getaway with whomever you want to make the trip the most fun!); John Carroll’s new self checkout configuration at Walmart; Mapco; the Iafrate construction crew and their state trooper support; Peyton Powell and his new job at Volvo equipment rental; the Toyota repair shop, which is having fun quickly fixing all the small items that keep breaking on our 2013 Avalon; anyone I’ve met lately, such as Amber at Rebath, whom I haven’t named.
Even though two Thai teas usually keep me awake, tonight I’m tired enough to sleep, my conscious conscience cleared of old thoughts and ready to tackle a new project at the light of day tomorrow.
Mars needs my attention!
treetrunkdings 