When everyone is watched, every behavior becomes dangerous.
Author: Morzano
Beer mode is a state of unfocused play where you discover new ideas. In contrast, coffee mode is a state of focus where you work towards a specific outcome.
The Great Silence, The Fermi Paradox
It’s an entirely new situation, emerging from the physical possibilities that will face any species that can overcome the natural interstellar quarantine of its solar system.
Carry on: an epitaph to a bag
Epitaph to a bag with a face.
The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
Pythagoras and Hepatia
Pythagoras vs. beans and Hepatia vs oyster shells.
Hotter than ever
Is it hot in here or is there another wildfire? Links to articles about wildfires, climate change, environmental alarmism, and cattle.
Weeklinks – Edition 3
This week’s links on creativity, social media, distractions, tips on writing and drawing, art, Lady Lilith, and Max Ernst. PLUS! Unusual inspiration for unusual times.
Weeklinks – Edition 2
This week’s links on the secret wanderings of 900 cats, saving like a pessimist, observing the toxic clouds from fire and rockets, and plants!
The Sunday Showcase, not to be confused with “The Sunday Scaries”, literally zooms in on a piece of artwork and shares videos and/or quotes from the artist.
Weeklinks – Edition 1
This week’s links on the causal relationship between Vitamin D + COVID-19, the vaccine-autism myth,+ PBA cards!
Happy Birthday Lou Doillon
Life is a very challenging project.
11 new words, brought to you by Merriam-Webster
Harvest
It’s harvest and I ask for more time without pressure.
Vespers (End of August)
And some things have the nerve to be getting started…
To be a scientist is to be naive
What is the cost of lies?
This is the first “interview” (it’s very short, only a few quotes from each conversation) with friends and family members who are Deaf. My 25 year-old brother, Yordi, is using photography as a way to escape from his three other roommates, not counting the kitten and the Dalmatian, all of which are Deaf, except for […]
What I love is blue
What I love about you is blue.
Weather to vaccinate, or not.
Whether the weather weathers the whether.
Skill is insulation that wraps neural circuits in reponses to certain signals.
Between scientific conferences, universities, and the homes of colleagues all over the world.
Van Morrison’s Into the Mystic
Now hear the sailors cry
The Temptation of St. Anthony (detail), 1946 Oil on Canvas, 89.5 x 119.5 cm (35 1/4 x 47 in.) Brussels, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
Indescribably magnificent
What Charles Bukowski didn’t say
Charles Bukowski didn’t say you should find what you love and let it kill you.
Categorize to save yourself.
If you inherently long
Become it first.
All of Life is Practice
All of life is practice.
A data pitstop on the way to China.
Don Draper’s Brand
Change the conversation and you control the brand.
Fear and Circumstance in Las Vegas
I came home to a cat, her white paws delicately dancing past the typewriter, mine. Tucked inside the typewriter was a sheet, long dead, with the words I wrote by hand: “Place yourself in circumstances of want, and ask yourself, “is this what I fear?”
Cuba announces increase in wages as part of economic reform by Associated Press Thursday, June 27th 2019 The beginning: “Every Cuban has the right to a salary increase,” said Dariel Tejeda, a 28-year-old tour guide. “The country and all the state workers have needed this for a long time.” and the end: Ending the dual-currency […]
The Gallery Inn
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
You were on your own.
You’re never at the beginning of some event.
What to eat after giving birth. Oh, and also your calcium intake.
I’m alright. Sometimes I’m wrong.
Why didn’t I learn this number, earlier? Why do I still know nothing about anything?
Nuclear incidents in the 1950s
Excerpts below from the Nuclear Files Org. 13 February 1950U.S.A., Pacific Ocean- A B-36 which developed serious mechanical difficulties on a simulated combat mission, dropped a nuclear weapon from 8,000 ft. over the Pacific Ocean before crashing. Luckily only the weapon’s explosive material detonated. Nothing is known of attempts to recover the nuclear weapon and […]
Soviet Spy Klaus Fuchs
…not until 1949 that decrypted cables from the United States Army Signal Intelligence Service (SIS)’s “Venona” project revealed Fuchs was a Soviet spy.
озёрск / Ozersk
Those in paradise were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
It’s called modelling.
The future is the past projected
For time in both “directions” is an analogical projection of the moment just experienced. i.e. the future is the past projected and so is the present. Of course, because we always begin at t=0=1, the moment just experienced is colored by all those not currently being experienced. Everything is negative or positive, relative to where […]
The Action Movie Fairy Tale
But these movies built a generation of men who are now in their 30s and 40s.
“I make a sketch of the person” said Mr. K., “and make sure that one comes to resemble the other.”
Another month ends. All targets met. All systems working. All customers satisfied. All staff eagerly enthusiastic. All pigs fed and ready to fly. Currently reading: http://masterrussian.net/f17/shape-tongue-correctly-pronounce-russian-sounds-22855/
bruises, broyses, spelled бройсес
Музыка
Optimism is a political act.
Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience. Alex Steffen, The Bright Green City
A Child’s Curiosity
Babies are not blobs, but true scientists.