Tuesday, December 03, 2024
The Long View
Monday, December 02, 2024
Venom
to learn why.
Gila monsters — sluggish, thick-tailed ground dwellers — are native to southern Arizona and northern Mexico. They have blunt noses and bumpy black skin with tan, pink or orange squiggles. They spend 95 percent of their lives underground. Like their cousins to the south, Mexican beaded lizards, they are one of the very few lizard species that produces venom, which they excrete from mouth glands into grooves in their serrated teeth.
Ignorance ...
Same as it ever was. - Talking Heads
The contrarian view ...
But I'll tell you what they don't want. They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them.” _ George Carlin
Sunday, December 01, 2024
You're kidding, right?
It's endless :)
e·qui·poise
/ˈekwəˌpoiz/
noun
balance of forces or interests.
"this temporary equipoise of power"
Similar:
equilibrium balance evenness symmetry parity equality
When viewing this "awesome" image, to yours truly, it indirectly connects to great art and the people who create it. Seen below is but a tiny sample. Enjoy. :)
Aja - Steely Dan
Kind of Blue - Davis
Special & General Relativity - Einstein
The Three Musicians - Picasso
Heart of Darkness - Conrad
Macbeth - Shakespeare
Double slit experiment - Young
Uncertainty Principle - Heisenberg
Light as a Quantum - Planck
Light as a particle - Einstein
Quantum Mechanics - Bohr & significant others
Propaganda - Bernays
Feyman diagrams - Feyman
The Conversation, The Godfather, Apocalypse Now Redux - Coppo
Sultan of Swing - Dire Straits
The Blues & the Abstract Truth - Nelson
Culture, cuisine & the human condition - Bourdain
Charlie Parker
Le Etranger - Camus
Dizzy Gillespie
Electric Ladyland - Hendrix
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Oscar Peterson
Jimmy Smith
Frank Zappa
Solo works - Keith Jarret
JFK
The consummate professional - Michelangelo
The consummate visionary - DaVinci
Sophie's Choice
Waltz for Debby - Bill Evans
Jonas Salk
Vermeer
Rockets - Musk
The Blackbird - Johnson
Hockey - Bobby Orr
Football - Brown, Sayers, Brady et al
Basketball - Bird, Magic, Jordan, Chamberlain, West et al
The Bridge - Rollins
A Love Supreme - Coltrane
AI - Hinton
Talking Heads
Blackbird - Macartney
Analog computing - Lord Kelvin
Digital computing - Von Neuman
AI, chaos - Turing
Graphics Software - Alvy Ray Smith
Ray Tracing - MAGI
AC- Tesla
ElectroMagnetism - Maxwell
Animal Farm, 1984 - Orwell
Brave New World - Huxley
Incompleteness Theorems - Godel
Waiting for Godot - Beckett
OODA Loop - Boyd
Swanns Way - Proust
Moby Dick - Melville
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses - Joyce
Ian Hammer
John McLaughlin
Chick Corea
Weather Report - Wayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul
Bach
Goldberg Variations - Gould
Lenny
Dave Brubeck Quartet
Carlin
History - Alfred McKoy
2001, Paths of Glory, Full Metal Jacket, Dr. Strangelove - Kubrick
Citizen Kane - Wells
The Outlaw Josey Wales, Unforgiven - Eastwood
Blow by Blow, Wired - Jeff Beck
Network - Paddy Chayefsky
More entities will be added without question. :)
Friday, November 29, 2024
4 of a kind :)
Thursday, November 28, 2024
7 Steps ...
The religion part is questionable but the rest of Glubb's take is pretty spot on but a few other entries should be included in order to complete the picture of a once great nation beginning to lose its place in the world as a viable super power for the ages.
To whit.
- Incompetent governance
- Corrupt politicians
- Rampant inequality
- Climate change
- Resource depletion
- Environmental degradation
- Excess militarism
- Education collapse
- Infrastructure decay
- Lack of vision
Stupidity ...
One person who addresses this all too prevalent condition with eloquence and grace is Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a courageous German theologian who challenged Hitler and lost his life because of it.