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Feb 28
January 2024 – Quote of the Month
“The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
Jan 21
Thunderdome for the Poor
I saw this posted on Facebook: “Homeless Servicemen Should Come Before Any Refugee”. This is an example of a The False Dilemma Fallacy. A False Dilemma Fallacy is defined as: This common fallacy misleads by presenting complex issues in terms of two inherently opposed sides. Instead of acknowledging that most (if not all) issues can …
Dec 31
Waiting on a Sunny Day
I’ve been fighting a flu here at year’s end. So this last post of 2023 is a quickie. 2023 was a, ‘challenging’ year (to put it mildly). And the sallow, grey, late fall and winter light has been draining. I took this photo at a local fair, July 3, 2010. I chose this image, not …
Nov 30
Adobe Glitch
Had a decent October and November. I shouldn’t feel pressed for things to say, but here at the end of the month I’m feeling the (self-imposed) deadline crunch manifesting as low enthusiasm. But for just such occasions: I have a digital note I use to keep track of blog ideas. But many of these ideas …
Nov 27
October 2023 – Quote of the Month
“You don’t waste October sunshine. Soon the old autumn sun would bed down in cloud blankets, and there would be weeks of gray before it finally decided to snow.” ~ Katherine Arden, Small Spaces
Oct 24
September 2023 – Quote of the Month
“The blues don’t jump right on you. They come creeping.” ~ Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run (Autobiography)
Oct 22
Hell Hitler
The King James version of the Bible has a fair amount to say about Hell. A single case in point: “And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the …
Sep 28
This Means Something – This is Important
I found myself rewatching Close Encounters of the Third Kind this week. It’s been a while since I last saw it. Like many, I thought of the movie as slow paced but on rewatching it I was reminded how truly brilliant it is. The movie falls at an interesting intersection of movie making from the …
Sep 19
August 2023 – Quote of the Month
“His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.” ~J.R.R. Tolkien, (Aragorn), The Return of the King
Aug 22
July 2023 – Quote of the Month
“Americans used to be ‘citizens.’ Now we are ‘consumers.” ~Vicki Robin, Your Money or Your Life
Jul 18
I buy civilization
I saw Mister Silverado on the road a number of days ago. Full disclosure: I didn’t actually see the driver, but I’m highy confident it was indeed a, ‘Mister’. The window sticker, ‘TAXATION IS THEFT‘ is what made the encounter noteworthy. There are some trivial times in one’s life that a person fantasizes about having …
Jul 09
June 2023 – Quote of the Month
“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.” ~ Charlie Chaplin
Jun 29
Homunculus
It has been many years (measured in decades) since I first became aware of the concept of ‘Homunculus’. The concept of Homunculus apparently was first documented in the late 1400s. The rough Latin translation is, ‘Little Person’. From a quick bit of reading, one can learn that Homunculus were historically thought of as an artificial …
May 30
Kili Nature Call
This photo was taken on December 30, 2021 on Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro. These crude public toilets sit at campsites. They are nothing more than ‘long drop’ pits surrounded by crude wooden structures. – There are no commodes. One places their feet on either side of a hole and squat. Not surprisingly: not everyone who uses them …
May 15
May 2023 – Quote of the Month
“When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden.” ~ Minnie Aumonier
Apr 28
The Last Number Exchange
Spam is an evil thing as evidenced by the drag it places on our digital lives as well as the genuine bad intentions behind most of it. I received this text spam a week or two ago. Its crafty. I can well imagine many people being fooled into responding: perhaps to tell them that they …
Apr 27
April 2023 – Quote of the Month
“If you are not willing to own a stock for 10 years, do not even think about owning it for 10 minutes.” ~Warren Buffet
Apr 26
March 2023 – Quote of the Month
“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.” ~Henry David Thoreau
Mar 26
Pretty in Pink
March’s perfunctory post is again from December 25, 2021. (On our Tanzania trip, we shot over 9,800+ photos and videos, so I can go to this source for a long time when I’m feeling short on posting enthusiasm.) Lake Natron is a remote, surreal landscape. The lake is hyper saline and super alkaline with temperatures …
Mar 26
February 2023 – Quote of the Month
“That which isn’t good for the hive, isn’t good for the bee.” ~Marcus Aurelius
Feb 26
Beware of Doctor Bellfield
When one thinks of the Brady Bunch, they probably conjure storylines depicting wholesome family values. Odd then when Alice doesn’t call the authorities to report their neighbor as quite probably a pedophile. At least there were boundaries. – Apparently Carol and Mike need to approve any and all, ‘X-rated swimming pools.’ Trivia: This scene where …
Feb 26
January 2023 – Quote of the Month
“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize? ~Marcus Aurelius
Jan 30
Color Corrected Killer Kitties
This being another challenging month, I’m just sharing a photo from January 7, 2022 taken in Tanzania’s Tarangire National Park. But I thought, for a change of pace I’d share the raw, uncolor corrected image compared to post color correction and sharpening. All color correction was done in Adobe Lightroom and the sharpening was done …
Jan 30
December 2022 – Quote of the Month
“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dec 26
Dreaming of Giraffes
The last month has been chaos and trouble and I won’t relate it here. But in spite of some serious mental exhaustion, I’ll fulfill my monthly posting duties and leave this year with a fond recollection of where I was last year in December.
Dec 26
November 2022 – Quote of the Month
“I think it’s perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don’t know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it’s because he’s ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they’re responsible …
Nov 29
Breaking News
Even though news is no not nearly so soul crushing like it was while Trump was in office, I still find myself burned out on all of it. I’ve often advocated that a democracy depends on a well-informed electorate, so I’ve felt that its almost akin to a patriotic duty to follow the news. But …
Nov 19
October 2022 – Quote of the Month
“There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.” ~Robert Brault
Oct 20
September 2022 – Quote of the Month
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ~Neil Gaiman, Coraline
Sep 29
A Murder of Bats
Instead of world news commentary, here is a piece of inane trivia that I observed one evening while watching a rerun of Columbo. From season 9, episode 6 entitled, ‘Murder in Malibu‘ which was released in May 14, 1990: I wonder how much time was spent looking through stock film before the producers said, ‘Ah, …
Sep 27
August 2022 – Quote of the Month
“Fantasy, if it’s really convincing, can’t become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.” ~Walt Disney
Aug 30
Firestarter of Oldupai Emanyata
Taken at a Massai Boma in Oldupai Emanyata, Tanzania on January 12 2022. With another villager’s help, this man started a fire with friction in less than a minute. A humbling exposure to another culture, another way of life.
Jul 30
Still Putting on Shoes
I recently saw a Facebook post from a really sweet guy I know. (I’ve redacted his name.) He is a very compassionate individual. The kind of man who is sensitive and cries at life’s tragedy. He also happens to have an advanced degree (Doctorate) and has a career that requires constant education. And yet, this …
Jul 01
June 2022 – Quote of the Month
“You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Jun 26
Power Begets Power
The people protesting the overturn of Roe v Wade outside of the Supreme Court are wasting their time. That battle has been lost at the federal level… (for now.) The American Taliban (formally known as the GOP) have sufficiently packed courts to ensure the enforcement of their crusade. (Grand Wizard Trump appointed one quarter of the …
Jun 01
May 2022 – Quote of the Month
“Think of the life you have lived until now as over and, as a dead man, see what’s left as a bonus and live it according to Nature.” ~Marcus Aurelius
May 27
Gun Defense In Memoriam
There is something seriously broken about the United States. It goes deep to the bone. A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. ~ Second Amendment to the United States Constitution There are various readings of …
May 19
April 2022 – Quote of the Month
“I should like to save the Shire, if I could – though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. But I don’t feel like that now. I feel that as long …
Apr 28
More Arbitrary Amazon Parcel Packaging
Got nothing witty to say here. The picture says it all: just another remarkable example of Amazon packaging failure.
Apr 28
March 2022 – Quote of the Month
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” ~Albert Einstein
Mar 31
Not Always
Given current affairs, especially with Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, I’ve seen this quote circulating a lot: There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi Sadly, it simply isn’t true. Two quick examples of long lived tyrant …
Mar 28
February 2022 – Quote of the Month
“Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those …
Mar 28
Chris Rocked
There are so many serious concerns in the world. Right now, with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I feel we’re probably as close to the brink of World War III as we have been since the cold war. Maybe closer. But as is often the case, the more serious the issue, the more depleting it …
Feb 28
The Rings of Amazon
Let’s talk about Amazon’s upcoming series, ‘The Rings of Power’. Recently, we’ve learned more based on a released teaser trailer and a vanity fair promo puff piece. Naturally, I won’t spoil anything if you aren’t versed in the subject. Short Summary Don’t have time to read my ramblings? Understood. Here is my quick take: It …
Feb 04
January 2022 – Quote of the Month
“If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.” ~Edmund Hillary
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