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Goodness Cafe 📍
Back when we first arrived in New Zealand The Goodness was called The Governor and became our go to place for coffee and breakfast. I think it’s now onto something like the 4th or 5th owner since then (that’s what COVID has done), but it still remains our ‘go to’. BUT .. our hearts remain with ‘The Governor’ and Steve and Bernie who owned it remain great friends of ours.
Talking of 🖇️ Herb .. this is one of his iconic ones and it got me to wondering why Haight Ashbury wasn’t called Ashbury Haight. I now know the answer - BUT - now I’m wondering what rules the signage in SF follows .. I have my suspicions, but need to check - and if they are consistent.
💯 🔗 It’s Scorched Earth Time - let’s start with over throwing 🖇️ Chuck.
This is the second post from Indexed with that headline …
Work Life Balance - AGAIN.
Long said that the whole work/life balance problem ‘solves the wrong problem really well’. For example - 🖇️ me, nearly six years ago
I conclude …
Does John Mayall feel fulfilled? Well, needless to say, I can’t speak for him - but I think he does. Is he the richest musician on the planet? Not by a long way. Is he the most well known? Not at all. But I’d wager he is one of the most fulfilled people out there. And not a work-life balance equation to be seen.
Just read this in Gaping Void
🔗 Big Tech: Proceed with Caution - Gapingvoid
Imagine a ‘connect-the-dots’ (Ed: playbook). The people in an organization are the dots. Their relationships are the lines connecting them. That complex web represents an organization. And culture, which occurs in the spaces in between, is the picture that emerges based on how those dots are connected. If you erase 10,000 dots, what happens to the picture?
🔗 Charlie Munger’s Greatest Lesson - Gapingvoid
The reason why there are thousands of quotes across the internet from Steve Jobs, Richard Feynman, Maya Angelou, Henry Ford, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ben Franklin, Eleanor Roosevelt, is because their ability as communicators is what drove their success.
🔗 Culture Got Us Into This Mess - Gapingvoid
Over the last few decades, while China created a world-class manufacturing capability, we created the Rust Belt. We bled our manufacturing capability dry.
Generation Beta?
I think describing who I am, what I want and need and everything else besides based on my age is baloney and claptrap. Hell - I’d put more money on being defined by astrology. But still this bunk persists.
It’s getting weirder.
🖇️ On my ‘TV Show Reviews’ - some are growing in number of series - so rather than repetitive postings on the same series - I am revisiting older ones as I watch and editing. I discovered I’d missed Slow Horses - just ‘fixed’ - not completely since I need to add reviews for a couple of the series - but really. Why? ALL so good.
The Butterfly Effect Is Real
Manton writing today : 🔗 about something that @devilgate wrote : 🔗 Maybe You Can Post Your Way Through Fascism
💯 .. we’ve sort of been down this track before .. not so much Martin’s pov .. as the larger picture .. don’t be cowed .. about anything .. by anyone. And yes it can be scary .. but if nobody reads it .. then you got it out of your system .. if everybody reads it .. you will find that you are not alone.
Originally published on ‘this’ blog in 2007 - 🖇️ The world has not changed as much as we think …
18 years later … the quotes hold and still I would argue that “The world has not changed as much as we think”.
Saw it a couple of nights ago … and gave it the worst movie ever award …
To be fair others did like it - but nobody even thought it worth a nomination .. much less a win .. in any category.
5 wins out of 6 nominations?
Seriously?
I know the world’s gone mad … but really?
Freedom OR Liberty - Don't Let Them Confuse You
At one point in 🖇️ Zero Day, De Niro talks about Freedom and Liberty.
Perplexity…
The terms freedom and liberty are often used interchangeably, but they have nuanced differences:
Freedom generally refers to the ability to act without external constraints or interference. It is the absence of restrictions, allowing individuals to pursue their desires and actions without hindrance.
Liberty, on the other hand, emphasizes freedom within a framework of responsibility and law. It involves being free from arbitrary or oppressive control while respecting the rights of others and adhering to societal rules. Liberty assumes accountability and is often tied to justice and fairness in a structured society.
In essence, freedom is broader and can exist without limits, whereas liberty is freedom regulated by responsibility and mutual respect.
I kind of have/had that in my mind - but not all the time really only when I think about it. AND Perplexity is right - the terms are used interchangeably.
I would go further.
- It happens a lot.
- It happens more and more.
- It happens too much.
- It is happening to muddle the mind.
- I am pretty sure it is sub consciously and constantly passing through our collective brains.
It’s a good reminder and one to watch out for as certain people scream ‘Freedom’ … of whatever they are talking about. Don’t forget #LanguageIsImportant
🎥 Anora, 2024 - ★
When I first heard about Anora I looked it up and put it in the category of ‘no’ .. not even ‘yeah .. no’ .. just definitely .. NO. Despite this, I found myself watching it last night as part of a group where we are attempting to watch all the ‘Best Picture’ nominations before our Oscar party on Sunday. Left to my own devices .. I would have switched it off, or walked out, by around the 20th minute.
The rest of the movie just had me repeatedly asking myself ‘why’. The final 10 or so minutes found slight redemption .. but not sufficient to move the movie out of the worst movie I’ve seen this year (have to think more if that should read ‘ever’) .. but even ‘the year’ qualifier is significant given that I recently saw Babygirl (a 2 star rating from me.)
Side note .. one reason I didn’t want to see it was it struck me as a low rent remake of Pretty Woman .. and yes similarities in the set up .. but no.
It was just bad .. and Oscar nomination? PLEASE!
BUT judging by the ratings of others … I am very alone.
🖇️ Baby Girl Review .. in case you were wondering.
🎵 🖇️ Blog Challenge - Music Edition - thank you for the inspiration @Annie
🚧 Links To Posts by Others
So What Was That About?
A little over a week ago - I threw out 🖇️ this little billy do onto my blog and thought nothing of it. To save you the click through I was just pointing out some internet speeds I was experiencing - and asked what my response should be. Here on MicroBlog I got 4 comments over the next 24 hours. I dunno - par for the course? Now - through the power of Micro.Blog - these posts are also syndicated to BlueSky, Mastodon and Threads.
Collections - Improving The CSS
Collections are a new way on micro.blog to group images together. Cool add-on - but I wanted to feature collections in related posts which gave me problems. This post explains the problem and my fix. #ProudOfMyself!