Should publish

everything

does this work

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A vote for change

An open letter to the really really rich who support Republicans in general.

Thanks for trashing Hillary for 30 years, for grabbing every bit of increased income over the last 30 years, 

for funding the Tea Party, for gerrymandering and stuffing state houses of government with unflinching 'conservatives'.

Welcome to chaos. The deplorables are revolting. 

The misogynists "won", everyone lost. 

I despair for the future of the finest social experiment in history*.

Frish

* Truth not much stranger than fiction...

Found this today

http://blog.oregonlive.com/environment_impact/2009/07/carbon%20legacy.pdf

Pretty dense article, science wise, but 

LOOK AT TABLE 3, PAGE 18 TO SEE WHAT CHILDREN DO TO THE CARBON EQUATION.

Found that link in this article, that discusses having fewer children.

http://www.npr.org/2016/08/18/479349760/should-we-be-having-kids-in-the-age-of-climate-change

Some good thoughts there.  Better than usual anyway.

Most Frightening Reality Show on TV

Today was the second day of the 2016 Republican Party Convention in Cleveland.

Copied the following from someone's reaction to the event, on a comment thread.

The "her" in this case is Hillary.

Having the audience subsequently chant "lock her up" was indeed the height of an ignorant mob in action and would have been hysterical if it wasn't the most frightening reality show on television.

Why I believe what I do. And, the purpose of life.

I was asked recently why and/or how I came to believe what I do. I suppose first, one must explore what I believe.

I believe in nothing supernatural. Hence, I am a Bright, see www.the-brights.net.

I have a degree in Archaeology and have a fairly good grasp of technology and history, our momentum and the kick we've given to the environment thanks to CO2 emissions, will cause "havok" in Earth's climate for many centuries to come.

We have yet to see any "Real" weather activity, thanks to the inertia of atmosphere and ocean to absorb some of what we've done, but we've nudged them and now they're moving, and nothing can keep them from going where they wish.

They just might not have room for us to be around anymore!

We have ALREADY done enough to set the systems off kilter just so that conditions on the planet will no longer support human life, REGARDLESS of any actions we take to stave off the inevitable...

I believe that having children is immoral given the current state of the world. Hence I am a VOLUNTEER in the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement www.vhemt.org.

I believe that our thoughts and our mind and our body and our brains are all one single solitary thing. There is no "soul" or "life essence" that somehow transcends our lifetime. Death comes at the end. Cessation. Finality. Nothing.

Ashes to ashes as it were.

The sooner all learn this, the less fantasy and faithfulness will blind the ignorant, and true human progress can be obtained.

Think about how much money could be saved if no one contributed one dime to religious organizations that promise an afterlife?

 There is no afterlife, no matter how much you want there to be one, and no matter how good you are in this life.

The conditions for life were already in place when the solar system and Earth formed. Life is the inevitable outcome of the chemistry that naturally occurred, given those initial conditions. There is no other explanation necessary, and the proof is that we are here.

If you think that each individual is somehow "special", well we certainly are, however, we are also part of the entire web of interconnections that is life on Earth.

The nature of life is to exploit energy resources encountered in the environment. Some life forms inhabit "black smokers" at the bottom of the sea, and get their energy from chemical reactions other than photosynthesis.

Most everything on the surface is dependent somehow on photosynthesis to obtain sunlight energy to drive the chemistry that supports our existence.

Each species occupies an energy niche where they, as a whole and overall, are the most fit individuals to obtain that particular energy. When that isn't true, they will go extinct, or evolve to obtain energy from a less competitive or more available source.

Humans have obtained a degree of separation from natural systems. This stems from our "Culture" in the Anthropological sense. It is all behaviors we do that are not inherited per se, along with the technology to support our culture.

Language may be the main culprit if we look back as to what drove humanity to be "outside of nature".

That about sums it up.

Except, life, all of it, and overall, exists to digest the Planet Earth, eating up all available chemical and light energy possible.  Any individual species is just on a continuum of other species, taking up an 'energy niche'.

So, as we as individuals, as a species, and as life, eat and shit, that is the purpose of life.

Why I believe what I do. And, the purpose of life.

I was asked recently why and/or how I came to believe what I do. I suppose first, one must explore what I believe.

I believe in nothing supernatural. Hence, I am a Bright, see www.the-brights.net.

I have a degree in Archaeology and have a fairly good grasp of technology and history, our momentum and the kick we've given to the environment thanks to CO2 emissions, will cause "havok" in Earth's climate for many centuries to come.

We have yet to see any "Real" weather activity, thanks to the inertia of atmosphere and ocean to absorb some of what we've done, but we've nudged them and now they're moving, and nothing can keep them from going where they wish.

They just might not have room for us to be around anymore!

We have ALREADY done enough to set the systems off kilter just so that conditions on the planet will no longer support human life, REGARDLESS of any actions we take to stave off the inevitable...

I believe that having children is immoral given the current state of the world. Hence I am a VOLUNTEER in the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement www.vhemt.org.

I believe that our thoughts and our mind and our body and our brains are all one single solitary thing. There is no "soul" or "life essence" that somehow transcends our lifetime. Death comes at the end. Cessation. Finality. Nothing.

Ashes to ashes as it were.

The sooner all learn this, the less fantasy and faithfulness will blind the ignorant, and true human progress can be obtained.

Think about how much money could be saved if no one contributed one dime to religious organizations that promise an afterlife?

 There is no afterlife, no matter how much you want there to be one, and no matter how good you are in this life.

The conditions for life were already in place when the solar system and Earth formed. Life is the inevitable outcome of the chemistry that naturally occurred, given those initial conditions. There is no other explanation necessary, and the proof is that we are here.

If you think that each individual is somehow "special", well we certainly are, however, we are also part of the entire web of interconnections that is life on Earth.

The nature of life is to exploit energy resources encountered in the environment. Some life forms inhabit "black smokers" at the bottom of the sea, and get their energy from chemical reactions other than photosynthesis.

Most everything on the surface is dependent somehow on photosynthesis to obtain sunlight energy to drive the chemistry that supports our existence.

Each species occupies an energy niche where they, as a whole and overall, are the most fit individuals to obtain that particular energy. When that isn't true, they will go extinct, or evolve to obtain energy from a less competitive or more available source.

Humans have obtained a degree of separation from natural systems. This stems from our "Culture" in the Anthropological sense. It is all behaviors we do that are not inherited per se, along with the technology to support our culture.

Language may be the main culprit if we look back as to what drove humanity to be "outside of nature".

That about sums it up.

Except, life, all of it, and overall, exists to digest the Planet Earth, eating up all available chemical and light energy possible.  Any individual species is just on a continuum of other species, taking up an 'energy niche'.

So, as we as individuals, as a species, and as life, eat and shit, that is the purpose of life.

How the expression of human conscience creates culturally relevant norms which drive societal evolutuion, and the origin of religious faith

To a Quora answerer:  Thanks.  have to share, you can delete, regards: Why do humans have a conscience? Is there any evidence to support the idea that other animals also possess a conscience?

Read your answer and need to internalize it, but, The anger/guilt dichotomy is all about social hierarchy, as you said.  here's a couple paragraphs of some implications...things I've been refining...ba anthro 1976 lol.

NORMS, the way people in a culture act, are what drive societal evolution.  Your discussion of our thinking process shows how our individual motivations to act one way or another, lead to and stem from cultural norms.

Jews are not allowed pork, yet Oceanians love it, (norms are cultural) but, if Swine Flu were to jump the porcine=human divide, the Polynesians would be wiped out...that's an example of a societal norm (eating and reveling in pork) causing great societal disruption, depending on environmental factors...like disease. 

NORMS (how we act, the connection to morality) are therefore the Genes of Societal Evolution.  

If those "genes" are expressed in an environment that isn't conducive, the degradation or extinction of society follows!

There is a further implication, relating to "leaders and followers".

Our DNA contains the golden rule, otherwise we couldn't/wouldn't form groups in the first place.  A group implies leaders and followers, by definition, more followers than leaders.

If the leader provides good advice, and the NORMS practiced by that culture are successful, the leader and that 'platform' are used to produce the next generation of this society.

If the leader is unsuccessful (in ending the drought, for example), they are either replaced, new norms are practiced, or, the norms taught by that leader lead to disintegration of the society!

Discussion of why faith happens follows.  Thanks, you really helped!

How the expression of human conscience creates culturally relevant norms which drive societal evolutuion, and the origin of religious faith

To a Quora answerer:  Thanks.  have to share, you can delete, regards: Why do humans have a conscience? Is there any evidence to support the idea that other animals also possess a conscience?

Read your answer and need to internalize it, but, The anger/guilt dichotomy is all about social hierarchy, as you said.  here's a couple paragraphs of some implications...things I've been refining...ba anthro 1976 lol.

NORMS, the way people in a culture act, are what drive societal evolution.  Your discussion of our thinking process shows how our individual motivations to act one way or another, lead to and stem from cultural norms.

Jews are not allowed pork, yet Oceanians love it, (norms are cultural) but, if Swine Flu were to jump the porcine=human divide, the Polynesians would be wiped out...that's an example of a societal norm (eating and reveling in pork) causing great societal disruption, depending on environmental factors...like disease. 

NORMS (how we act, the connection to morality) are therefore the Genes of Societal Evolution.  

If those "genes" are expressed in an environment that isn't conducive, the degradation or extinction of society follows!

There is a further implication, relating to "leaders and followers".

Our DNA contains the golden rule, otherwise we couldn't/wouldn't form groups in the first place.  A group implies leaders and followers, by definition, more followers than leaders.

If the leader provides good advice, and the NORMS practiced by that culture are successful, the leader and that 'platform' are used to produce the next generation of this society.

If the leader is unsuccessful (in ending the drought, for example), they are either replaced, new norms are practiced, or, the norms taught by that leader lead to disintegration of the society!

Discussion of why faith happens follows.  Thanks, you really helped!

Jellyfish will inherit the Earth

This is one of the finest paragraphs ever penned, article citation to follow:

"Like a karmic device come to punish our planetary transgressions, jellyfish thrive on the chaos humans create. 

Overfishing wipes out their competitors and predators; 

warmer water from climate change encourages the spread of some jellies; 

pollution from fertilisers causes the ocean to lose its oxygen, a deprivation to which jellyfish are uniquely tolerant; 

coastal developments provide convenient, safe habitat for their polyps to hide. 

In addition, the great mixing of species transported across the world in the ballasts of ships opens up new, vulnerable ecosystems to these super-adaptors."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/21/are-jellyfish-going-to-take-over-oceans

True that.

He never should be a stunt man...

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiR_ced8MrNAhWoxYMKHYLGAYUQqQIIHzAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fktla.com%2F2016%2F06%2F27%2Fjay-leno-walks-away-from-scary-rollover-crash-while-filming-show%2F&usg=AFQjCNFzbdDdlXaog7e4bwMjhuy0V1ExLw&sig2=w5QBWQQ4TXmjoE5CkDCGPA

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Keyboard Hash - my latest addition to Urban Dictionary

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Keyboard+Hash

Down to it

smoking keyboard hash. 

Toasty.

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This is the note I sent to the LA Times, LA AFFAIRS desk, regarding online dating in Los Angeles.

I've have enjoyed serial monogamy with 6 women, since my divorce in 2002, thanks to online dating sites. In between relationships, I dated, a lot.

100 BLIND DATES IN A YEAR.  I buy a meal for a first date, it's generous and no one has complained yet!

A doctor (surgeon) had an insane story about her former husband's suicide, and then said (over sushi in Santa Monica) that she chose me since I was really big. I asked how is
that important?  In a hoarse whisper, "You can inflict pain".  "I could, but won't...check please...".

We had a nice breakfast. She asked if I owned the print shop, or if I held any patents.  And, wanted to know if my father held any patents. Then she had to run to the gym (so to speak).  I sent her a thank you note, she replied.​  "I'm really too shallow and mean to date you. Even though you will probably think this is the kiss of death, I would want to be friends with you. You're a cute guy, but I have issues. I'm sure I'm already disappointing you. Gotta run now. Late for dinner."​  ​I was disappointed with her subtlety, but impressed with her honesty!

Met a woman for a meal, I was definitely smitten.  I asked her out again, but it was fairly obvious she wasn't interested.  About 3 months later I got a call, "Michael" said a steamy voice, "can you join me later today".  It sounded like she wanted this Michael character REALLY BADLY. I didn't realize it was her until she hung up, after I asked who she was.

Met a woman, a widow for three years (age 45, rather young).  She arrived, in Mourning Clothes (all black).  Her mother moved into her house to help with the kids, and this was her first date since her husband had died!  We discussed her desire for companionship, but she was not ready.  She ended up in the restaurant bathroom speaking with her mother for 30 minutes.

Topanga Canyon is a gorgeous location, and I met my date at her house(!), which was not the usual "public place".  She was renting a converted garage, next to a fantastic house, and was raising 5 puppies (in the kitchen!), purebred and worth over $5000 each.  The front door of her 'house' opened onto a horse stable.  She was also helping tend to the livestock, as part of her rent.  Spent a really nice day in Malibu, but, no way to overcome the barking, flies, and smells!

Had my online date meet me in Venice, where a friend's photography exhibition was opening.  We were more than compatible, she actually followed me home, West Hollywood, (she lives in Encino!), and, seduced me in the living room.  She and I definitely had sparks.  At her place the following weekend, she made an announcement.  She and her boyfriend (a 300 lb. bike gang meth dealer, in prison at that time), had created sexy padded handcuffs for S&M.  B'bye...

A woman said she was 46 years old, and, more quickly than most (it can take days/weeks for some to respond online), we traded phone numbers.  I convinced her to come to my condo, and she did.  I realized that 46 had passed long ago.  I explained the worst way to begin a relationship is lying (she was 64, bit of a transposition error), and she left.  I saw her online soon thereafter, her profile now claiming 56 years old!

I have used for pay sites.  On my profile, I write a poem, so that an intelligent and truly interested woman can decipher my phone number.  Julie and I went out a few times, her home life was too complicated for the relationship I wanted (mom and daughter at home), yet, we remain close friends and have even provided consulting services together.

The best site, being free, is Plenty of Fish.  Sign on, search, find someone, write an email, and it gets to them!

Daters, beware!  Your picture can be dragged to google images and your real identity is often shown (since the pic's probably in your Facebook album).
Take a new, unique, and unpublished picture to post on your profile, if you want to maintain your anonymity, and get more folk to write.

The sites that are all about sex are scams, which is evident when you search their images, and find the same sultry (or brazen!) women on dozens of sites…

Frish

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/cruz-kasich-strike-tenuous-deal-in-attempt-to-slow-down-trump/2016/04/25/3ed573b0-0afd-11e6-8ab8-9ad050f76d7d_story.html

Beauty contests aside, have any Republicans offered ANY proposals To:

Improve Employment

Get Corporations Out of Campaign and Government Finance

Make education affordable and available

Climate Change Mitigation

Oh, sorry, EVERYTHING REPUBLICANS STAND FOR IS NOT TRUE!

Muslims are not the target, Carpet Bombing won't work, waterboarding IS torture, etc.
Cutting taxes for the wealthy will do nothing to change employment
it will simply give them more money.
There is a difference between venture capital and capital returns from ordinary stock/bond/etc.
investing, so ordinary investing ought to be taxed at the same rate as wages.
Which will do what the tax system ought to do, reward entrepreneurs (not 'investors' over 'workers').

"Fixing" Social Security is easy, raise the cap on earnings, or, remove it entirely,
and reduce everyone's rate.

Climate change due to humans is real, and accelerating,
and helping to cause the dislocations that will disrupt BUSINESS!
Thought Republicans liked business, since even Exxon has known for DECADES
that Human Caused Climate Chaos is real.

Being "gay" is not a choice. (bi- trans- queer- gay- lesbian -oth- hetero-)
(If being gay is a choice, when did you chose to be hetero?)
If businesses didn't hire them, undocumented workers wouldn't be working,
which is why all the yelling about amnesty for them,
the GOP wants them undocumented to pay them dirt.

They claim to be hawks, with the interests of our Vets at heart,
yet they stop or cut every veterans bill.

Due to their stance on the climate, they are basically treasonous,
since the integrity of the entire world's Biosphere is at stake, I kid you not.

We, the USAmericans are 5% of the world's population, and use 25% of the resources.

However, that's not the worst thing.

NOTHING HUMANS DO IS SUSTAINABLE.
Wake up people so our politicians are doing what's right for US.

There was a time I was ahead of the curve...

I think that this blog, regardless of its future, shows that I am not totally and utterly and distinctly and overtly and beyond redemption when it comes to the internet.

While with IBM, I disclosed a new product to DARPA NET - SNA Fractional T-1 56KB managed backbone in 1986.

So I know there was I a time when I actually was ahead of the curve!

My father was ahead of the curve.

He played hardball catcher and boxed in the Navy. Boxed against a golden-gloves kid and got his ass planted! But, he had the balls to get in the ring...

No, while quite physically coordinated, my father was not a worldclass athelete anytime I've known him.

He's far better known for his original operations research in and

Voodoo Ceremony

In Rio de Janeiro, in the Mid-1980's, about 20 of us were there for my brother's honeymoon (!). 

We had connections, and went to a real live (favela/SLUM) neighborhood on the steep side of a hill, 

and sat through the real services on a Friday night Mass...at a voodoo (Candomblé) neighborhood temple. 

We were seated in a large room, with a low ceiling, about 40 people  

The neighborhood Priestess was in charge.  

She spoke, a little sermon (in Portuguese, of course) and a small banda started playing music, mostly percussion instruments, some whistles and other fun things.

People started doing some rhythmic things, clapping, hooting etc. and the Priestess began to do what my sister and I had coined years prior, "Dancing and Trancing", since even atheists need this type release too!

At that point, the priestess tranced out, lit a big cigar, and took on a male deity personna, tossing back a couple of shots of Cachaça, the local rum (cheaper than bottled water, (for the masses don't you know)).

Her voice and body posture changed, and she took big puffs on the cigar, eyes pretty much rolled back into her head.

Then, a line formed, and one by one, the neighbors lined up to discuss things with God.

God listened, and whispered back.  We could almost hear them, there was no confessional or privacy, just the continued music and rhythmic accompaniment. 

(At that point, the "Catholic" part of the service was ending, and we were led outside to another altar, this one with devils and other interesting phantasmagorical items. 

Some of the elderly amongst us, the bride side of course, decided they had had enough, since the Devil side was frightening to them so we left.)

Basically, the ceremony allowed neighborhood disputes to be settled amicably, since mostly it was grievances like they stole my chicken...

It made everything more mellow, again that week, before the heavy drinking, knives and fire arms appear during the weekend...

Everything is better with Sriracha

Cuban fried rice

Insane, yet not surprising...

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160119/ncomms10244/full/ncomms10244.html

The graphs in this article tell the tale, fish have gone to negative growth worldwide.

I've read that fish are evolving smaller, because those are the ones that can wiggle through drift nets...

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Frish

Always love Craigslist Haiku Hotel

https://forums.craigslist.org/?lang=en&cc=us&ID=266531325

My birthday wish, to me (12/01) < frish > 2015-11-30 22:13

Pain free existence
optimum have some money
now until the end 

The purpose of life

My Craigslist Haiku Hotel submission...timestamped for my everlasting satisfaction.  LOL 

The purpose of life (anything else? speculation! < frish > 2015-11-24 22:51

You are what you eat
microbiome controls us
To make more soil

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-11-gut-microbes-brain-full.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter 

https://forums.craigslist.org/?ID=266380163

Of course, there is another view, the bacteria are dependent on us, much like the bacteria within alfalfa plants:

In alfalfa, this transformation of bacteria is called differentiation, which Wang likens to domestication, because it makes the bacteria reliant on their plant host. "They are no longer wild and able to live outside the plant," he says. "I think of it as analogous to domestication of animals by humans." He adds, "Bacteria that can no longer proliferate as free-living individuals are a bit like slaves at that point, living to serve the plant."

From an article somewhere... http://phys.org/news/2015-11-harnessing-peptide-crop-yields-fertilizer.html#jCp

Ants, as models for robots, autonomous swarm mind

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2015/11/23/Researchers-film-ants-building-bio-bridges-with-their-bodies/3441448315954/

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Is this good news? Are we designing ourselves out of existence?

http://phys.org/news/2015-10-human-intuition-algorithms-outperforms-teams.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

 

We are faced daily with choices that are forced upon us.  

To brake before hitting that bumper, for example. 

Our 'intuition' helps us drive defensively (through life). 

Interesting that it is somehow programmatic...

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2 items 1. The Hush Hush Rules of anonymity 2. My FED rate prediction

1. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity under rules set by the State Department.

2. Janet Yellen Haiku

If they go up / down...  

Interest Rates? Take a Hike!

Either way, I win!

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Frish

Texas teen fatally shoots himself while taking selfie | NewsDaily

http://newsdaily.com/2015/09/texas-teen-fatally-shoots-himself-while-taking-selfie/#doyRqTJLUEe7vl4A.03

Fwd: To you remaining cheerleaders

I think we're a done deal, 21 days to vacate, I'm looking for apts...thanks all, it went for 10K more than original offer...

M

From: Michael (Frish) Frishberg
Date: Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 11:07 PM
Subject: To you remaining cheerleaders
To:

I was in escrow with buyers who didn't qualify, so their real estate AGENT pulled their offer and replaced it with one for herself, she's buying it all cash no contingencies, and, another bidder is potentially happening as well.

Tomorrow will tell the tale.  Or.....not.

I'm still 60 days out from 'action' by Wells, if one of these goes it will happen in 30 max...

Have a nice week.  I have a client meeting in 9 hours.  Good night.

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To you remaining cheerleaders

I was in escrow with buyers who didn't qualify, so their real estate AGENT pulled their offer and replaced it with one for herself, she's buying it all cash no contingencies, and, another bidder is potentially happening as well.

Tomorrow will tell the tale.  Or.....not.

I'm still 60 days out from 'action' by Wells, if one of these goes it will happen in 30 max...

Have a nice week.  I have a client meeting in 9 hours.  Good night.

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Hi Jim...sorry about the fish...(and the rest...)

The team's global analysis indicates that humans typically exploit adult fish populations at 14 times the rate of marine predators.

http://phys.org/news/2015-08-unique-ecology-human-predators.html

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Frish

Materials Science at the font of nature, shrimp shells

http://phys.org/news/2015-07-advanced-composites-deep-sea-shrimp.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

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Brains

Ideal

http://phys.org/news/2015-07-human-brain-ideal.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

Less than Ideal

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-07-midlife-alzheimer-biomarkers-dementia.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

Mechanical Analog of Ideal

http://phys.org/news/2015-07-memcomputer-prototype.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

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For guys with time on their hands

http://www.braincorporation.com/

Program your own robot!

The Merkini - after a Merkin

Dear Merkin Fans, here's a new one...

http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/01/kim-kardashian-bravely-pioneers-the-merkini.html?mid=outbrainrc

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Well, ants not termites, but...I'm sure you'll be enthralled!

http://phys.org/news/2015-06-saharan-silver-ants-electromagnetic-extremely.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly-nwletter

Wowser, adaptive heating/cooling depending on mechanical methods, that's CHEAP if you can get the gradients right...

Fwd: Had to share

Hey there, dog lovers, thought you'd enjoy this example of what a dog would say if they could text you...

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CATTLE DECAPITATION To Release The Anthropocene Extinction This August (Oops, it's just the name of the band...)

Subject was in one of my news feeds, so I thought that cattle beheadings were going to trigger human extinction...THIS AUGUST...lol

http://knac.com/article.asp?ArticleID=15632

Here's the list of songs...I LOVE Apex Blashpemy (it's like a quadruple entendre..)

The Anthropocene Extinction Track Listing:

• "Manufactured Extinct"
• "The Prophets of Loss"
• "Plagueborne"
• "Clandestine Ways (Krokodil Rot)"
• "Circo Inhumanitas"
• "The Burden Of Seven Billion"
• "Mammals In Babylon"
• "Mutual Assured Destruction"
• "Not Suitable For Life"
• "Apex Blasphemy"
• "Ave Exitium"
• "Pacific Grim"

What goes in Inglewood already happened in Inglewood...

From a resume received just now!

05/2013 - 01/2013 Starbucks Inglewood, CA

(Perhaps decaf?)

Marketing Gold

http://www.dosmith.com/english/products.html

That's the product page.

Over the top marketing job obtained for this website...

http://www.a1meat.com/index.html

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A really good idea, that's also very funny

Minister of Research, Prof. Dr. Johanna Wanka

Reiner Mangold, Head of Sustainable Product Development at AUDI AG

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-04-sunfire-audi-en-route-synthetic.html#jCp

how many bad jokes in that one line at the start of the article...??  Give a number, first one who is closest wins!

To a young salesperson

To a former print buyer, now life insurance agent:

I feel like "mentoring" you today, since I totally know where you are...I'm sharing the following, you are more than welcome to ignore me, or call when something's in the way.

I've been on the phone, either in sales or real new product marketing (IBM, HP, SUN, My own software firm, and more) since 1979. (Current job, 10 years, and we're doing packaging (retail boxes) far more than commercial printing...)

Let me share some observations, they are worth what you paid for them and may be obvious trivial or otherwise.  They are occurring to me as I type, so they are not in any particular order.

When on the phone HANG UP LAST (what if they had "oh, and one more thing..." but you were gone already!)  This isn't hard to do, make it a habit.

On the phone, and face to face, say everything while smiling.

ALWAYS LEAVE PHONEMAIL... I've called people for MONTHS before reaching them, and, when I do, they think they know me already...since they've heard me so often

REFERRALS SELL BETTER THAN ALMOST ANYTHING

     Making clients happy, solving a problem, get's you to the next one.  I'm really bad at asking for referrals.

Send on-topic emails to your list once a month, minimum.

Know your products, but don't be quick to share!  Find out what they need for a long time before letting them know how to fulfill that need.

Sales is not about pitching, it's about listening.  You can't solve a problem until you know "What's the problem?"  If a prospect has a problem you can't fix, you can always help them by suggesting someone who can.  Sales is about helping people, period.("You learn nothing while speaking"  is the other way to say this!)

THEY NEED YOU MORE THAN YOU NEED THEM. Consider from my business' view point - When someone purchases printing from me, they are dependent on me 100%, yet they only represent 4% of my business.  The perspective that works is you realizing they are dependent on you to get them the right solution, 100%.

ASK OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS = How does that sound to you? demands an answer beyond yes/no but, 'wouldn't you agree'  shuts off the conversation 

You are establishing a channel for your products currently, but, your best customers are those who bought before, so, you should be considering other services/products you can offer your audience, now and later... 

There's more, but hey, gotta run and all the best!

Frish

Progress

2015 first popover batch, half burned and half raw...

Jesus

Jesus

159306 trade show booty

The result of 7.5 hours of show booth browsing today.  Two more days to go.
This is the swag, had over 40 contacts along the way.
The foreground includes several dozen pens, a stress ball in the shape of a chocolate chip cookie (my vote for best item), a rubix cube with only 4 squares on a side and two yo-yos among other things. The center section includes food items such as coconut milk and puffed sorghum which I thought was a pretty funny thing and in the background we see 30++ bags festooned with many brand names.

So...I registered for the show...

My badge said: Michael Frishberg.

I asked if it could be Frish Frishberg.

Even better, I said, just a big Frish would be best...

Tonight's dinner

Under melted cheese
onion jalapeño nest
A hamburger hides

End of an era

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/atq/4906633544.html

I have a buyer arriving momentarily, he's the 78 collector for Amoeba Records...

Should be fun anyway...even if he can't afford them! 

Fluid Assembly Furniture from Self-Assembly Lab, MIT on Vimeo

http://player.vimeo.com/video/112761863?byline=0&portrait=0

In case you needed inspiration for Valentine's Day...

20 Sensible Valentine's wishes, all the best with yours!

Honest Valentines day cards.

ENTJ

Meyers Briggs Result

"The Executive"

Ho Ho Ho

If abortion is murder...

BRIDGE CHAT

hylfy was from the People's Republic of China, and had his comedic bone removed.

He bid and made 7 Clubs, so I was congratulating him on the hand.

is that all p? (meaning, there is nothing else, this was when the hand was already decided, he just had yet to finish it, I was trying to be funny, with the WOW and well done partner (wdp)) 

Perhaps "WOW" means something entirely different in Chinese? 

Anyway there were no good Chinese google translations for "fuck u r mm" so that's baffling.

(Xie Xie is thank you in Mandarin.  Only someone crazy would respond to his chat with thanks. It's best to look crazy in a knife fight.)  

The "nice" part was as facetious as can be, or, congratulating him again on the hand, ambiguity is our friend.

We played for several more hands and kicked butt, he was good.

And we parted friends.  

My pacifistic tendencies continue to serve.

Your illness, my muse

JS

I'm making illness

Coughing, hacking, sneezing, ache

my muse for tonight

When am I grateful?

Not the morning,  how passe.

For me, it's at night.

I go to bed naked

and assess each part of me

toe to tip to top

As I register

each organelle and feature

let them drop away

And, if by the end

each part of me is floaty

Nice senselessly numb

Then i know I'm good

and fall asleep easily

curious about dawn

Can't think of worse fate

to lead painful existence

I'll settle for numb

DNA origami could lead to nano 'transformers' for biomedical applications

DNA origami could lead to nano 'transformers' for biomedical applications
http://phys.org/news/2015-01-dna-origami-nano-biomedical-applications.html

9 out of 10 doctors agree: "It could lead to unforeseen circumstances".

Frish

Look out there's a monster coming!

http://phys.org/news/2014-12-d-printable-materials-deform-surface-area.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

Programmable Matter

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Frish

Hilarious title

http://phys.org/news/2014-12-bpg-image-format-awesome-jpeg.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

Irrational Nonsense Diagram

We know next to nothing about how the world actually works.

Ocean acidification affects climate-relevant functions at the sea-surface microlayer

Quite an interesting research facility!

When a toddler, my father would tell me a particular story at night to put me to sleep - how holes get into cheese.  

Then, as now, it's all about bacteria and farts...special bacteria produce carbon dioxide bubbles in Swiss Cheese.

Today's story is all about the ocean/atmosphere boundary, the reaction of bacteria found there to CO2 (They Grow Faster), and the consequences (They Eat More), and thereby fart CO2 back into the atmosphere!  It's a positive feedback loop.

Look forward to more acidification of oceans, atmospheric heating, and even more human caused climate chaos...

Prank Boy

2014 Halloween prep

Frish

Was that UI or P-UI?

http://phys.org/news/2014-11-brothers-mathematical-odor-cancelling.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

I find this astonishing.  The marketing angles makes me sea sick.  At least I won't smell my vomit. 

Dear Scared Scientists

I really appreciate all of the clear thought and obvious concerns due to the current momentum of human endeavors.

The outlook for human impact on the planet is horrendous (we've eliminated more than 50% of sea life in 50 years...HUH?!).

My new 'favorite' stats:

Humans will utilize 90% of the Earth's Freshwater by 2025, leaving 10% for wild flora/fauna!

We outweigh all the prey animals on the planet (besides domesticated ones), not exactly ecologically sound for the top predator...

We're rapidly sawing off the limb on the tree of life that supports us.

Didn't see much about human population except for war scenarios, but our numbers themselves are a problem.

Reasonable projections show our population continuing to grow, there will be more humans on the planet for the next 100 years than there are currently on the planet...going to be really tough to attempt to move our masses into a sustainable posture.

(If we solved the energy creation problem, to the extent that it would be now free to have electricity, as much as you want, what's going to keep us from destroying the ecological niches in which we reside, simply due to our numbers, and our stomachs?  We don't know enough about the ecology of the planet to run it, we only know how to ruin it!)

I'm a volunteer in the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement and speak for myself only, as each volunteer has their own reasons for doing so.  I decided in 1964, having heard there were starving children, that I wouldn't have any as long as some were starving, since there were obviously too many children!  Children are still starving, and I'm now 60 years old...and childfree.

www.vhemt.org

For the sake of life on the planet, it is now officially immoral to have children, for anyone, anywhere, anymore.

Thanks for your great work, may you live long and die off.

(Have you noticed more articles in the mainstream press about the benefits of eating insects?  That's a little scary to me too!)

Scared Scientists

Can't add a thing...liked this quote best:

"One thing people need to remember, is that scientists are the biggest skeptics on Earth. We're constantly trying to disprove each other. "

http://www.scaredscientists.com/

Frish 

Volunteer since 1964

Get ready for this HCI (human computer interaction!)

http://phys.org/news/2014-10-haptomime-mid-air-interaction-video.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

FYI from the pope hisownself.

Pope Francis says evolution and Big Bang theory are true: God is not "a magician, with a magic wand".

Like the rats leaving a sinking ship perhaps...

Hawaii officials warn of possible lava evacuation

Soon, lava refugees will be washing up throughout the Pacific...

False Positive

http://thenextdigit.com/13833/att-apologizes-fema-issued-false-emergency-verse-subscribers/

Got an invite to ELLO - Want one?

ELLO is the non-facebook facebook.  

Even got @frish as my ID (or something).

Have yet to use it.

Then I saw this vid:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/kevinmcshane/heres-what-ello-would-look-like-in-real-life

Fwd: Good news, starting December 2nd!

Hope I don't forget to start drinking...right after my b-day!

Holy Shiite Batman!

Tornado rips roofs in Washington state

LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — A rare tornado ripped roofs off buildings, uprooted trees and shattered windows Thursday afternoon in the southwest Washington city of Longview, but there were no reports of injuries.

Up your alley, why publish however? LOL

http://phys.org/news/2014-10-scientists-price-bitcoin.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

World's oldest hominin* footprints, let's save 'em! *Our 'bi-pedal ancestors' that is!

http://phys.org/news/2014-10-discusses-international-team-ancient-footprints.html

Check out the shape of the museum complex, too cool (or hot, depending!).

future of city living snapshot 141016 evening

http://phys.org/news/2014-10-amphibian-collapse-viral-outbreak.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

This story speaks volumes.  Where did the virus come from, obviously introduced, or, is it now creating havoc in a new landscape thanks to human caused climate chaos (HCCC)?

 

The unraveling of the interconnected web of chemistry and physics known as life on Earth will be well documented, even as we eat all of the available protein production of the planet within 20 years.  

Humans already weigh more than all wild prey animals on the planet.  

How does the top predator maintain that ratio?  Not in nature it won't!

But since we converted 30% of the world's non-ice covered land surface to livestock production, no problema, as long as the cheap energy holds up...thank you natural gas, just a false choice, and so palatable, since it's low price has nothing to do with it's VALUE or it's TRUE COST.

It's another very much convenient (ostrich like) reason for no one to pay the true cost of carbon pollution.

If we were charged the true costs, no one would be driving in a car alone.  Period

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data published in Science indicate more than three quarters of the world's 31 large carnivore species are in decline and that 17 species occupied less than half of their historical distributions.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-10-loss-big-predators-herbivores-thorny.html#jCp

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A study released earlier this year showed Australia's mammal extinction rate was the highest in the world, with more than 10 percent of species wiped out since Europeans settled the country two centuries ago.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-10-australia-aims-extinction-native-wildlife.html#jCp

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Frish

WASP 3D House Printer!

http://phys.org/news/2014-10-wasp-printer-houses.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

Dear Thinkenstein: 

They're DOING IT DUDE!  

Termite House Printer!!!

You should create one with nylon and cement as the ingredients...Have it disgorge the rebar along the way, or would you need it at all, it could be really thin and strong!!  

Fwd:

My new phone takes pictures.

They have always said

I 'took after my mother"

She gets last laugh-line!

The real version of what I didn't send to john and ken at KFI

You said plastic bags "are only .0X% of all the trash!

In 2012, the total trash in the world was 2.6 TRILLION pounds**. 

2,600,000,000,000 lbs

.004 (Let's say O.4 % of the total is plastic bags...)

        That eliminates 10400000000 pounds 

                                  or 

               

           5,200,000 TONS less garbage on the planet.

I'm far more concerned that you are not in favor of cotton bags, and personal responsibility, but I can't forget you are clear chan...umm I mean iHeart...the corporate interests take precedent.

Your usual attempt to be Populist is too funny!  Ask the ACLU what your right to convenience is...and sue somebody!

Isn't it really because you guys can't remember to take the reusable bag in from the car?

I was going to say some things about sewer lines and wildlife, but decided to google it instead.

http://dpw.lacounty.gov/epd/PlasticBags/Articles/Googobits_07-21-05.pdf  

Gives you all the reasons in the world why .004 part of garbage ought to be eliminated, and so easily!

** http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/06/26-trillion-pounds-of-garbage-where-does-the-worlds-trash-go/258234/

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Frish 

www.vhemt.org 

I'm a volunteer in the "'fourth most extremist environmental group'", which is rather hilarious since we're an individual choice, there is no "group", it's simply individuals sharing the knowledge that there are others like ourselves, who will not procreate.