tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861807506634183007.comments2023-06-19T01:09:55.717-07:00RandomWalkc emersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04148726859110510447noreply@blogger.comBlogger131125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861807506634183007.post-46035785535391016002013-06-10T19:34:17.099-07:002013-06-10T19:34:17.099-07:00I don't understand why you wouldn't know w...I don't understand why you wouldn't know what "end trip" means when you put it in relation to the other buttons. I wouldn't hesitate to push the End Trip button as soon as I realized I couldn't converse with the driver. Better to get out of this "dream like sequence" and start over rather than go somewhere you don't want to go with someone you can't speak to.Anna Mariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11945983971515869500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861807506634183007.post-18439003325064285022013-06-10T18:30:13.547-07:002013-06-10T18:30:13.547-07:00Here's my thought process.
Job Center... borin...Here's my thought process.<br />Job Center... boring!<br />Family... nah, probably on a fun adventure vacation trip without them<br />Entertainment Hall... I wonder the event is?<br />Museum on Brain Functioning... look at watch, how much time do I have before my date with Mr. British accent?<br />End Trip... never!!!<br /><br />So, I'd tap on the glass and ask if we can just drive around for some sight seeing.gritsmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861807506634183007.post-35734148593497083052013-06-09T00:57:11.793-07:002013-06-09T00:57:11.793-07:00You left out: _ Visit a Van Down by the River
.......You left out: _ Visit a Van Down by the River<br />..... but nice post ... makes you think I think ... who's driving the van, for example?llbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861807506634183007.post-87212363507406496682013-04-16T16:21:32.887-07:002013-04-16T16:21:32.887-07:00Getting pretty close to that 'when I'm six...Getting pretty close to that 'when I'm sixty-four' thing. Oh my ---you are there! Happy Birthday my friend! Hope you've had a nice day and enjoy this next year.<br />gdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861807506634183007.post-77498611747644325482013-04-16T06:26:55.298-07:002013-04-16T06:26:55.298-07:00I love "Bicka...bicka...bow..bow..bow" M...I love "Bicka...bicka...bow..bow..bow" Makes about as much sense as some of our current politicians do getting "jiggy" with their lofty opinions in the Capitol...LOL Anna Mariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11945983971515869500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861807506634183007.post-89334583279706669732013-04-08T02:16:20.505-07:002013-04-08T02:16:20.505-07:00KT, thanks ... when I find a foreign song I like, ...KT, thanks ... when I find a foreign song I like, in a language I do not understand, I work especially hard to not ever hear a translation, for fear the words will then ruin the experience. <br /><br />You said on <a href="http://somewhatabnormal.blogspot.com/2013/04/supernatural-times-two.html?showComment=1365389731685&m=1#c6462953358932931093" rel="nofollow">Oerter's blog</a>: "Our brains are as unique as the patterns of blood vessels in a single human eye. If we think about the same things, it does not mean that the same context, emphasis or parameters were mutually understood." You can't be in a band without knowing that. Somewhere in each brain comes resonance. My mother, a musician, taught me that.<br /><br />Rational assertions, absent enormous efforts, are no different. They, too, resonant, but with what? I'm reminded, for some reason, of a scene in the <i>Big Chill</i> when Sarah says she knows Alex wasn't happy, and Chloe says, "I don't know ... I haven't met that many happy people in my life, how do they act?" I think I could replace 'happy' with 'rational' and the exchange would remain completely coherent. <br /><br />Visit my blogs again anytime. I hope you don't mind but I'm likely to use your 'brains are unique' idea on an upcoming post on my other blog, <a href="http://www.ideasarephysical.net/?m=1" rel="nofollow"><i>Ideas are Physical</i></a>. Words -- Songs -- Objects -- and emotional commitments -- let's just stay forever young.c emersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04148726859110510447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861807506634183007.post-62828403347880934042013-04-07T15:06:49.655-07:002013-04-07T15:06:49.655-07:00Personally, I used to be obsessed with poetry, and...Personally, I used to be obsessed with poetry, and singing along to my favorite songs, and eventually making a successful band.<br /><br />Honestly though, poetry that rhymes, sounds too labored; Singing and how the pronunciation occurs, is more important than what the lyrics specify. This is why we can enjoy music in foreign languages that we do not understand.<br /><br />To drive the point home, I'm more interested in what is being communicated, than how things are communicable, so I can say that I'm very far from being a successful musician, and very happy with what I do.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11661872293969876337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861807506634183007.post-67648036814936245622013-03-30T20:44:46.102-07:002013-03-30T20:44:46.102-07:00Dude. No Greens? I predict you will never see one....Dude. No Greens? I predict you will never see one. But if you do, stand three foot clear. 2nd that cheers.llbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861807506634183007.post-7892612462128410602013-03-30T20:23:14.257-07:002013-03-30T20:23:14.257-07:00Thanks, M, it was a perfect time to be out on deso...Thanks, M, it was a perfect time to be out on desolation row. I chose to exclude the Valley floor pics (salt flats, dunes, borax sites, sandy canyons) and focus on the full of life upper reaches. Still too early for much wildlife (kangaroo rats, hawks, ravens, jack rabbits, lizards, spiders, moths and plenty of evidence of big horn sheep I did see, but no desert tortises, scorpions or Mojave Green rattle snakes). Cheers.c emersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04148726859110510447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861807506634183007.post-59489564200099692352013-03-30T18:44:00.607-07:002013-03-30T18:44:00.607-07:00Thank you for the beautiful pictures and the great...Thank you for the beautiful pictures and the great descriptions - I felt like I was there enjoying the cool dry air. Mary SmithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861807506634183007.post-90222850967185924882013-03-08T17:14:59.901-08:002013-03-08T17:14:59.901-08:00Btw, welcome r chuck, A.M., Brad. You, too, llb. K...Btw, welcome r chuck, A.M., Brad. You, too, llb. Keep the motors running.c emersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04148726859110510447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861807506634183007.post-49776090494079794652013-03-08T17:11:24.432-08:002013-03-08T17:11:24.432-08:00@brad > Darwinian justice
@ r chuck: > Then ...@brad > Darwinian justice<br />@ r chuck: > Then we can all keep blaming the rich for getting richer.<br />@ Anna Maria > Who controls the media? <br /><br />I found the <a href="http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2013/03/08/economy/household-wealth-prerecession-peak" rel="nofollow">Minnesota Public Radio story</a> (thanks), by Christopher Rugaber. What so interesting is it is obviously the same story circulating at every other location, including the New Zealand Herald, CBS, PBS and even the Nightly Business News, all with various degrees of details taken from the same source: AP. Whoever owns AP and Reuters seems to control what we hear and read. <br /><br />That can't be good, can it?<br /><br />The question doesn't seem to me to be about Darwinian justice or blame on the rich for acting in their own interests. The question seems to me to be whether the country, and the economy, can be said to be healthy if the wealth being generated is consistently being shifted (regardless of the mechanism) into fewer and fewer hands. <br /><br />Is that what is meant by the salutary effects of Adam Smith's <i>invisible hand</i>?<br /><br />I don't think so.<br /><br /><br /><br />c emersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04148726859110510447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861807506634183007.post-51387021201149670872013-03-08T16:47:45.062-08:002013-03-08T16:47:45.062-08:00It amazes me how much power the media now has as f...It amazes me how much power the media now has as far as government, elections, and the stock market are concerned. Who controls the media? Those rich folks who keep getting richer of course.Anna Mariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11945983971515869500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861807506634183007.post-14948101796996822572013-03-08T15:59:04.506-08:002013-03-08T15:59:04.506-08:00Using Bing search I found this by an AP economics ...Using Bing search I found this by an AP economics writer on the Minnesota Public Radio website - gotta be a commie:<br /><br />"The recovered wealth -- most of it from higher stock prices -- has been flowing mainly to richer Americans. By contrast, middle class wealth is mostly in the form of home equity, which has risen much less." ... "Finally, the upper-income Americans who have benefited most from the nation's recovered wealth don't tend to spend as much of their money as Americans overall do." ... "For the past five years, middle-class Americans have sold stocks and missed out on much of the rebound. During 2012, Americans dumped $204 billion in stocks, the Fed's report showed. Homes accounted for two-thirds of middle-class assets before the recession, estimates economist Edward Wolff of New York University. Among all U.S. households, they accounted for only one-third of assets. And national home values remain about 30 percent below their peak. Still, some Americans are benefiting from rising home prices -- and spending more as a result."<br /><br />I can understand the middle class selling stock over the last 5 years as the economy stagnated, but why so much in the last quarter of 2012? Fiscal Cliff Fears? They will probably sell even more with the sky is falling administation rantings. Then we can all keep blaming the rich for getting richer. Keeping their money in the market - bastards!<br /><br />It's hard to find straight uneditted news reports anymore. AP seems to still employ a few reporters, although it can be hard to find their entire uneditted reports.r chucknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861807506634183007.post-59632373203539672142013-03-08T11:36:27.923-08:002013-03-08T11:36:27.923-08:00That's "llb" not "lib" - a...That's "llb" not "lib" - although I am a libertarian. Hmm..llbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861807506634183007.post-4807097128996788202013-03-08T11:30:34.968-08:002013-03-08T11:30:34.968-08:00If you don't pay attention, you lose out.If you don't pay attention, you lose out.libnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861807506634183007.post-34661975926717959812013-03-07T18:54:53.366-08:002013-03-07T18:54:53.366-08:00Long time no see, 2009? If the rich are getting ri...Long time no see, 2009? If the rich are getting richer, that's just Darwinian justice, don't you think?Bradnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861807506634183007.post-64663003620914868792013-03-03T11:52:50.054-08:002013-03-03T11:52:50.054-08:00I tend to think of space as a mobius strip. It giv...I tend to think of space as a mobius strip. It gives the illusion of expansion but is "expanding" into itself.<br /><br />I believe (casually, without rigorous proof) defined in this way space itself may satisfy the requirements of Aristotle for First Mover.<br /><br />PeaceTxLostWolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01073917477241414997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861807506634183007.post-24585206997743659452013-03-03T11:31:39.274-08:002013-03-03T11:31:39.274-08:00Now I know you are ready for a van down by the riv...Now I know you are ready for a van down by the river. I actually like it. Sounds like something I might have said. Is it Kantian? How about Kierkegaardian?llbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861807506634183007.post-11781295648677150252013-03-03T10:21:39.144-08:002013-03-03T10:21:39.144-08:00The last three words would be "God and space....The last three words would be "God and space." Anna Mariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11945983971515869500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861807506634183007.post-53664022038049320532013-03-03T10:19:26.286-08:002013-03-03T10:19:26.286-08:00I think of space as endless just as I do life is e...I think of space as endless just as I do life is eternal. As to whether life has always existed, no one can answer that with certainty because we have no idea if there is life out there in space in ours or any other form...or whether we have always existed in some form or only for one lifetime on this planet. <br /><br />Who the masses think of as God on earth..."IT" was the spark that created us this human life. What makes me wonder is why the idea of "IT" has caused so much hell on earth disagreeing on what "IT" had in an "Almighty" mind when it created humanity. That's about as rational as I can think on the subject of God and apace. Anna Mariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11945983971515869500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861807506634183007.post-29055834590398553772013-03-02T23:13:27.191-08:002013-03-02T23:13:27.191-08:00O over sells his complaining. America needs to cut...O over sells his complaining. America needs to cut the budget. Oh, I forget, what budget?nicknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861807506634183007.post-42634812379300324432013-03-02T20:01:56.800-08:002013-03-02T20:01:56.800-08:00Politics is an interest of mine also. In listening...Politics is an interest of mine also. In listening to the news the last few days on this issue, and who the cuts will affect, I keep wondering why nothing is ever mentioned about cutting foreign aid. When it gets to a point our own school children and military and law enforcement will suffer from Congress overspending our taxes...why should we keep funding billions in aid to country's who could care less whether we remain solvent? Anna Mariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11945983971515869500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861807506634183007.post-5114204950017034432013-02-26T03:34:31.616-08:002013-02-26T03:34:31.616-08:00Salma Hayak. Though Naomi Watts was a close second...Salma Hayak. Though Naomi Watts was a close second.TxLostWolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01073917477241414997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861807506634183007.post-63612636908197346622013-02-25T18:04:33.041-08:002013-02-25T18:04:33.041-08:00> Salma in a moo-moo or anything else,
Ummm, ye...> Salma in a moo-moo or anything else,<br />Ummm, yes. <i>Desperado</i>, 1995. Salma Hayek, Antonio Banderas, Quentin Tarantino, Danny Trejo, Steve Buscemi, Cheech Marin, Joaquim de Almeida, Carlos Gallardo; screenplay and direction by Robert Rodriquez. What can you say? Bookstore owner in a blue dress.c emersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04148726859110510447noreply@blogger.com