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Reverse causation
Common opinion seen online: Is it just me, or has mainstream music not only gotten so bad, but it’s also kinda matching up with how dumbed down everything feels now? Like it’s conforming to people who don’t want any depth anymore. It’s a highly understandable conclusion but I think the causation is backwards. First, most…
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Carrots as teachers
Carrots trigger productive thoughts. Bugs Bunny was right. Earlier I noticed that carrots in a bowl in the fridge were frosty though the ambient temp in the fridge was 38. The same thing happens to surfaces like roofs when the outside ambient is around 40. This forced me to recognize that ambient, like all statistics,…
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FADFO
The stories on today’s Nieman website show an industry working HARD in every possible way to drive away its customers and empower its enemies. The N. Y. T. i. m. e. s. lost a libel suit because it followed the perpetual Yankee tradition of seeing all Southerners as Klansmen. They couldn’t imagine that a Southerner…
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Wha’ if?
This week’s weather news is full of the Nor’easter in the Northeast. What if other local weather specialties followed the same fake poetic spelling? Twisters are Kan’ans. Hailstorms are O’ies. Hurricanes are Flori’ans. Earthquakes are Cali’ans. Lake effect snows are Bu’alos. Graupel storms are Spo’anites. Fog is Fri’an.
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HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Shiny Hunters hacks FBI, exposes list of employee data. Shiny Hunters cost me $3600 through no fault of my own. FBI has been letting the hackers run free, obeying the Ellison law “Let The Fires Burn.” Now the torch has burned the witch-burners. Eat it, vicious vile Lady Edgar. You’ve been hacking the world for…
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Excel dreams the impossible dream
Microsoft proudly announces that Excel can now accept a group of values or things in one cell. For instance you might want to show an item and its price, or a name and address. Congrats! You’ve accomplished the dream of every paper and ink bookkeeper! Those 1812 bookkeepers for the Lewis and Clark crew only…
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Bidets
Spending too much passive online time this week, recovering from some tiring stuff. Reddit and Quora are packed with Euro Bidet Snobs who look WAY down on gun-totin 300-pound Murcan Neanderthals who aint learned nothin bout indoor plumbin. Murcans still use them ancient primitive “toilet” thangs and still wipe with primitive Sears catalogs. I finally…
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First halfway effective law
While everyone is busy disputing the wrong questions about apocalypse, one Congressman hits the correct end of the problem. I don’t know if it will get through Congress, but it certainly looks like a partial solution. Darrell Issa has introduced the American Copyright Protection Act, narrowly aimed at foreign copyright pirates. It misses the threat…
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Yoots to roots
Author Daniel Williams notes that several mainline pastors are running for Congress this year with a good chance of success. This hasn’t happened in many decades. From 1776 to 1946, nearly all politicians were mainline. Very few Catholics or Baptists or Jews. After WW2 the other religions moved into politics, crowding out the mainliners. Mainline…
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Same apocalypse, different investors
The AI demons show a casual and happy attitude toward technically driven apocalypse. They discuss 10% odds in the same way that a horse bookie discusses a 10 to 1 long shot. Bettors love the long shot, which is why tech demons and horse bookies chatter about it as foreplay. See bridge-jumper. New thought: We’ve…
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Keys and lips
1. Mechanical jargon is poorly represented in dictionaries. When I was working in printing and construction I tried to look up the terms we used and never found them in Websters. 2. We commonly attribute unpleasant things like diseases to other countries. Here’s a good example of both facts! From Reddit’s Road Signs section, a…
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Journalists = Sovereign citizens
Sovereign citizens spend HUGE amounts of time and effort “resisting” the legal system, using antiquated bits of law. (writs of replevin, admiralty law, etc) They never win. The legal system just hardens its attitude and the general public finds the legal system less obnoxious than the sovcits. Journalists spend HUGE amounts of time and effort…
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We need seeds
Writing about grain elevators made me think of seeds and seed storage. Plants know how to preserve their genes until good times return. Seeds are just alive enough to recognize the good times, and just dead enough to avoid wasting energy during the bad times. = = = = = Newspapers and low-frequency radio are…
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Ponca before oil
An odd Zillow listing triggered this tribute. Coldwell Banker is trying to sell the office building end of the old Robin Hood elevator in Ponca. Zillow: Rare opportunity to own a striking two story structure within a five story industrial building offering endless redevelopment potential. Envision multi unit apartments, townhomes, boutique hotel suites, creative offices,…
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