“Good Dog, Bad Cop” by David Rosenfelt. A new author for me. He has a number of books out and several series. Seems like a good read, I will get him again.
This is so obvious but, sadly, describes many folks financial difficulty.
"Bad math is why so many younger people are in massive college debt. If you borrow $100,000 for a degree that will earn you $30,000 a year, you didn’t learn enough math. Most of your generation and multiple generations before you don’t know basic numbers. They didn’t have tough nuns forcing them to learn multiplication tables (Thanks, Sister Ludmilla!) and never learned to do basic math in their heads. So you don’t have to learn much to move to the head of the class.
"That grande pumpkin spice latte you got at Starbucks just cost you $6. Enjoy it as a treat, sure. Buy one every day for a week and that’s $42. Buy that or its equivalent every day for a year and that’s $2,190.
"That’s not the price of coffee. That’s a couple car payments or even some money toward student loans. Do a budget so you can figure out where you spend your money. And cut out unnecessary things you can’t afford. That’s all math."
Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy.
As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions."
"In 1984", Huxley added, "people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure."
In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us. ~Neil Postman
(Book: Amusing Ourselves to Death
And somehow, mankind has managed to prove both to be right.
WARNING: The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme. Proceed at your own risk.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
Apple hunter’s 16-year quest for rare ‘lost’ variety was just the start
‘These apples were going to be soon lost if I didn’t get busy and try to save them,’ said Tom Brown, who has located more than 1,200 varieties of apples
A controversial new electric propulsion system, which physicists say defies Newton’s Laws of Motion, was launched into space this weekend aboard a Space X rocket.
Developed by electronics prototyping company IVO Ltd, the Quantum Drive took flight Saturday morning, November 11th, aboard SpaceX’s Transporter 9 mission. This flight included over 80 separate payloads destined for Low Earth Orbit (LEO).
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Ginger intake suppresses neutrophil extracellular trap formation in autoimmune mice and healthy humans
https://insight.jci.org/articles/view/172011
Spices and herbs: Natural sources of antioxidants – a mini review
Journal of Functional Foods
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1756464615001127
The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)
A new concept of egoism
Ayn Rand
A good cigar and the open road solve most problems.
“Good Dog, Bad Cop” by David Rosenfelt. A new author for me. He has a number of books out and several series. Seems like a good read, I will get him again.
Doing some research on masks. The images in these texts convey power. From my library.
“Judgement Prey” by John Sanford.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/boomers-right-5-things-about-adulting-no-one-wants-you-to-know
This is so obvious but, sadly, describes many folks financial difficulty.
"Bad math is why so many younger people are in massive college debt. If you borrow $100,000 for a degree that will earn you $30,000 a year, you didn’t learn enough math. Most of your generation and multiple generations before you don’t know basic numbers. They didn’t have tough nuns forcing them to learn multiplication tables (Thanks, Sister Ludmilla!) and never learned to do basic math in their heads. So you don’t have to learn much to move to the head of the class.
"That grande pumpkin spice latte you got at Starbucks just cost you $6. Enjoy it as a treat, sure. Buy one every day for a week and that’s $42. Buy that or its equivalent every day for a year and that’s $2,190.
"That’s not the price of coffee. That’s a couple car payments or even some money toward student loans. Do a budget so you can figure out where you spend your money. And cut out unnecessary things you can’t afford. That’s all math."
https://www.britannica.com/topic/E-letter
"The Ranger" by Ace Atkins who also writes the newer Spencer novels.
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
Naked mole rats.in the news
https://leaps.org/naked-mole-rat/
Well, what can I say, we Mole Rats are an awesome bunch!
R. Varo exhibit
https://hyperallergic.com/851649/remedios-varo-in-a-sphere-of-her-own-art-institute-chicago/
Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy.
As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions."
"In 1984", Huxley added, "people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure."
In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us. ~Neil Postman
(Book: Amusing Ourselves to Death
And somehow, mankind has managed to prove both to be right.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
And both are being used simultaneously by those controlling us.
Only if we let them control us.
Only until we the people stand up in armed resistance. As is our duty.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
Who, exactly are you planning to shoot?
Not planning. Prepared, though. Tyranny comes in many ways and forms but is only ever overcome by brute, violent force. History proves this.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
“Buried Prey” by John Sanford, his new one. Great read.
https://boingboing.net/2023/11/02/finally-new-work-from-calvin-hobbess-bill-watterson-the-graphic-novel-the-mysteries.html
@CalvinAndHobo
Apple hunter’s 16-year quest for rare ‘lost’ variety was just the start
‘These apples were going to be soon lost if I didn’t get busy and try to save them,’ said Tom Brown, who has located more than 1,200 varieties of apples
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/11/04/apple-hunter-tom-brown/
about quartzite
https://geology.com/rocks/quartzite.shtml#SnippetTab
"Badlands" by C. J. Box I believe I've read all of Box's works.
It's hard to beat a good box.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
“The Secret” by Lee and Andrew Child. It takes place while Reacher is still active in the Army.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/nasa-built-a-tire-assault-vehicle-from-an-rc-tank-to-explode-space-shuttle-tires
" The Lost Ones " by Ace Atkins the second Quinn Colson novel.
A controversial new electric propulsion system, which physicists say defies Newton’s Laws of Motion, was launched into space this weekend aboard a Space X rocket.
Developed by electronics prototyping company IVO Ltd, the Quantum Drive took flight Saturday morning, November 11th, aboard SpaceX’s Transporter 9 mission. This flight included over 80 separate payloads destined for Low Earth Orbit (LEO).
https://thedebrief.org/exclusive-the-impossible-quantum-drive-that-defies-known-laws-of-physics-was-just-launched-into-space/