👁️ Why don’t people with headphones in their ears connect them to the phone they are using to talk on?
2023 | 11 | 22
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Really?
Based on what you have been serving to this dude … no thanks.
Somewhere else on the interwebs, my friend Perry Offer wrote …
There is no power for those who want it, in truth.
💬 Perry Offer
… which I had been meaning to capture in here for posterity … and then I stumbled on this.
Truth Requires Power — Truth in itself is no power at all, in spite of all that flattering rationalists are in the habit of saying to the contrary. Truth must either attract power to its side, or else side with power, for otherwise it will perish again and again. This has already been sufficiently demonstrated, and more than sufficiently!
💬 Friedrich Nietzsche
I am not a big fan of sales and marketing funnels. I understand why corporations use them, hell I’ve used them myself in the past … but when it comes to the ‘average’ sole trader … hell no.
As for ‘forever funnels’?
HOLY $*&@=)#:- ,”s% NO.
A Where’s Waldo Update
Been a busy year.
I am just this week completing the final trip to close the loop.
January : New Zealand / Honolulu stopover/ LA
February : LA
March : LA
April : LA / Palm Desert
May : LA / Palm Desert
June : Palm Desert
July : Palm Desert
August : Palm Desert
September : Palm Desert / LA / UK / Poland
October : UK / Paris / Portugal
November UK / LA / Palm Desert / Sydney, Oz stopover/ New Zealand
December : New Zealand
Sadly the Sydney/Oz will not register on my ’🖇️ Where’s Waldo ’ live post, due-to the self imposed rule of not just ’no stop overs’ … but a minimum two nights. Next time. This was actually the first time ever in Oz. (Hard to believe)
Airline take off announcement … delighted that they are ‘on top of the situation’ …
Passengers wearing protective masks on this flight are advised that in the event of an emergency, they should remove them before putting on an oxygen mask.
Said by one of the attendants .. not the pilot … who probably sounds like a pilot … 🔗🎙️did you know they all sound the same?
What do you need? I mean really, really needed?
Why a Beatles Christmas jumper of course!
American democracy, the Constitution and the rule of law are the righteous causes of our times, and the nation’s legal profession is obligated to support them. But with the acquiescence of the larger conservative legal movement, these pillars of our system of governance are increasingly in peril. The dangers will only grow should Donald Trump be returned to the White House next November.
Recent reporting about plans for a second Trump presidency are frightening. He would stock his administration with partisan loyalists committed to fast-tracking his agenda and sidestepping - if not circumventing altogether - existing laws and long-established legal norms.
They cite Trump’s already publicized plans to appoint public officials investigate and exact retribution against his political opponents; remove federal public servants at will; and invoke special powers to seize control of First Amendment-protected activities, criminal justice, elections, immigration and more.
The “guest essay” continues with praise for the few lawyers in the first Trump administration who stood up to his excesses, and a warning that legal checks and balances would be largely absent from his second:
Alarming is the growing crowd of grifters, frauds and con men willing to subvert the Constitution and long-established constitutional principles for the whims of political expediency.
The actions of these conservative Republican lawyers are increasingly becoming the new normal. Any legal movement that could foment such a constitutional abdication and attract a sufficient number of lawyers willing to advocate its unlawful causes is ripe for a major reckoning.
Our country is in a constitutional emergency, if not a constitutional crisis.
NYT VIA The Guardian.
2023 | 11 | 21
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The creative adult is the child who has survived.
💬 Ursula Le Guin
Conversation with an American about English vs American pronunciation.
American
“I mean ‘zed’ - not ‘zee’ - whats up with that?”
“Hell - it’s pronounced zeebra - isn’t that a clue?”
Me “Actually - in England we call them Zebras.”
Look of blankness.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
💬 Voltaire
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing.
💬 Annie Dillard
Is it just me?
2023 | 11 | 20
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📸 Just another day in the desert.
2023 | 11 | 18
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