Thanks, Mr. S&P, for showing your true loyalty

I want to spread our DNA-based lifeforms into the cosmos, however we can, but have to deal with the person most responsible for the London riots, Deven Sharma and his gang of thugs.

S&P is an idiot association.

They should be are financially responsible for rebuilding the UK after the riots, but not with Indians, who must return to their home country immediately and keep building their geek nation instead of bad hotel service and lowgrade convenience stores over here, or face a “downgrade” of another sort, eh?

Let’s put an insane person in the White HouseSanity and reasonableness obviously are not working.

And to the secular world out there, Christianity is not overrated, just misused and abused.

And quit talking about capitalism – it’s dead.

Post-War Development: Chapter Looks Back

One-handed typewriting and wireless record player of the post-WWII era – how are we inspiring the next generation?:

Next on the agenda – proving that the Dems had 2008-2010 to implement changes that would have made political wrangling of 2011 a moot point.

Instead, anarchy approaches.

Are your survivalist skills in good order?

And in the postwar era, in the aftermath of the current drama, what new inventions will change the way we live?

Windows of opportunity open and close.  Is your spaceship going to squeeze through this one, or will a generation or two pass after this one closes and the next opens?

Sociology of the future – it’s in your hands.

RICE

Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation.

Friendly advice from my neighbourhood nurse practitioner for a sprained ankle.

And an X-Ray of my left ankle at the Crestwood Diagnostics and Imaging Center in case I have more than sprained the middle-aged joints, ligaments or tendons.

Where, conveniently, coincidentally, serendipitously, I was X-rayed by a GE Precision machine*.

‘Tis a small world.

Which reminds me, I’m way behind in my thanks: Chad at Pizza Hut, Caleab at Atlanta Bread Company, Hailey at Dreamland Bar-B-Que, LaDana at Panera, Rainy/David/Penny at Thai Garden, Sydney at Carson’s Grille, Bridgit at Shaggy’s Burgers & Tacos, Mary L at Taco Bell, Murriel/Maria at Publix and all the others who’ve been helpful when my memorisation technique was not turned on.

*BTW, a little website precision would be useful at http://www.gehealthcare.com/euen/r_f/products/classical_rf/products/preci500d.html, where the following misspelling occurs:

Precision 500D

Built with the user in mind, the Percision 500D is recognized for its ease of use, simplicity, and reliability while providing exceptional images with less dose.

Good thing GE’s not depending on the web publishing business to make a profit (do we thank the English or the Chinese for these spelling lessons?). 😉

Language of Love: Chapter Word

This morning, while building my animatronic choir that’ll sit in the backseat of the Dodge, I had an epic epiphany (not a hissy fit, as they say down here).

By combining the Dragon NaturallySpeaking software with a link to Google Translate, I have created a group of mimicking monsters.

Thus, when I sit down with my parroting cabal, they speak back to me in their own language.

For instance, I sit down in the car seat, start the engine and say, “Hello.”

The fuzzy creatures in the back respond with “hello” but each in a language chosen for their characters.

Franz the Bavarian says, “Guten tag.”

The Finnish supermodel, modeled on Miss Piggie, says, “hyvää päivää.”

And on and on, over to Lou the Lao who says, “sabai di.”

It’s even funnier to hear them try to interpret themselves in the second round of parroting.

That’s why Polly the Parrot is programmed to whistle loudly every once in a while to signal the choir to pipe down and listen to my voice only.

I’ve got to figure out how to get each doll to respond to its name only and not have the whole crew responding to me when I say something like, “Franz, h0w is the bratwurst today?” [to which he is supposed to respond comically, “I am no worse than yesterday.  How are you?” Artificial intelligence?  You decide.]

While They Crushed the Clunker Car of My Dreams

Sitting here at 06:15, flushing out thoughts associated with the flow of social life passing through me via pixelated news.

Working on a calliope of characters residing in my ’62 two-door hardtop.

The puppet master behind the steering wheel.

A plastic mechanical parrot on the dash.

Yano and other creatures in the back seat.

Talking and singing along with one another.

Discussing ideas.

Every character the embodiment of a class of ideas influenced by its neighbour.

Mimicking and satirising each other randomly.

Capcom, Lady In Blue

The dishwasher hums a mechanical tune,
Hanging out in the kitchen, neither gal nor dude.

Atlantis, suspended, stretching ISS’ CG,
Silent symbol of glories both hard and easy.

Ceiling tiles,
Heat tiles,
Ground wires,
Ground crews…

Shadows swirling in orbit,
Getting ready for slumber,
Looking busy on CCTV.

DPS, ACO, MMU,
Muxes and demuxes,
Banners and patches,
Lanyards and ties,
Earpieces, monitors,
Shuttle flight control team on full display.

Cleaning crew and sandwiches –
Cameos in support roles.

Tin cans in space,
Hardened modules in the hot sun.

Cats sleeping on sofa,
One snoring,
One dreaming of
Chasing mice rather than tracking solar arrays.

A study in blue.

Faces caught on camera –
Close the port or open the port?
You tell me.

The Way of Piece

Sunlight captured in decomposed organic material, wind, rain, radioactive rock, steam vents.

Solar power.

Undiscovered, yet-to-be invented energy sources.

“The Life Of The Party” by Bennett Cerf.

The memoirs of Richard Nixon.

Not getting the copy of the nurse response times that my wife asked for and recording other issues here for permanent record.

For my wife’s mother’s health.

Sketches at an inquisition.

Stained glass smiling…rather, beaming in the sun.

Jeff Gordon in 2nd place.

Redirecting the hacking community toward more nonanarchic goals.

Building up rather than breaking in.

The first hacker-launched communications satellite orbiting the Moon, with terabytes of space-hardened quantum computing power far outside international lawmaker infuences.

Last thoughts in this moment of a dying man’s states of energy.

Moving on.

23 and me.

Cloning disc.

Disc golf.

Exclusive news and offers.

Putting seven billion people to constructive use rather than spend all my energy shredding the global banking “industry” into its nonmaterialistically immaterial antiquated pieces.

Making derivatives and commodity futures – any speculative manipulation of basic goods-and-services prices – illegal again.

Either that, or motivate the crowd to foment revolution.

I can go any way I please, all in the name of saving the species for my goal of saving the species from itself and for its participation in spreading life of Earth into the cosmos.

Off the top of your head can you tell me the temperature of Mars 10, 20, or 100 killometers below the surface?

I’m tired and impatient.

Am I supposed to say I’m glad we have VCs who’ve made their gazillions by jacking up the cost of living for ignorant peasantry in order to fund startups that’ll hopefully create the next generation of peasants’ artificially-induced desirables?

[Note to editor: strike “peasantry” reference in the last paragraph and replace with “middle class” – tell business/political leaders’ speechwriters to do the same.]

The elders on the Committee remind me that I need to back off and let people have their dreams, no matter how misinformed or misdirected they may seem to be.

After all, I grew up cheering for Richard Petty – a guy who sat in a metal cage and pointed the output of an internal combustion engine so that the metal cage rolled primarily in semicircles several hours at a time – signing autographs and bringing happiness to people most of the week.

That, in itself, will not get me on a cruise around the Moon, but profits from the sale of idolising gear and spinoff technology will.

Best wishes and prayers for those who suffer ill effects of natural disasters, those who live in violence-prone neighbourhoods and those who face illnesses alone in loneliness.

Time to meditate.

Only 14,193 days left – time’s a’wastin’!