Friday, December 19, 2014
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
We know next to nothing about how the world actually works.
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
Sunday, November 9, 2014
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
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.
Monday, November 3, 2014
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.
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. "
Frish
Volunteer since 1964
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
FYI from the pope hisownself.
Pope Francis says evolution and Big Bang theory are true: God is not "a magician, with a magic wand".
Sunday, October 26, 2014
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...
Saturday, October 25, 2014
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.
Friday, October 24, 2014
Fwd: Good news, starting December 2nd!
Hope I don't forget to start drinking...right after my b-day!
Thursday, October 23, 2014
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.
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
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!).
Friday, October 17, 2014
future of city living snapshot 141016 evening
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.
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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
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!
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!!
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Fwd:
My new phone takes pictures.
They have always said
I 'took after my mother"
She gets last laugh-line!
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
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.
Gives you all the reasons in the world why .004 part of garbage ought to be eliminated, and so easily!
--
Frish
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.
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
To Halloween fans everywhere...
Greetings!
Oct 31, 2014 is on a Friday.
Two Blocks South of my abode:
It's fun to walk the Carnaval, if you're ready!
I'll be home.
Get here before 4 and you may get lucky with a close parking space. Parking Permit restrictions are NOT in force, but make sure you curb your wheels on any slope...
We'll pre-party, and walk down between 7:30 and 8.
No telling when it will end exactly, perhaps when feet give out.
Food is on me.
BYOB
Directions provided, let me know you're coming!
A+A - any French Friends?
DP - Bring M!
IT - easier to park a motorcycle...like in my garage even.
Enjoy!
Frish
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Spurious Correlations!
http://tylervigen.com/
People who drowned after falling out of a fishing boat
correlates with
Marriage rate in Kentucky
correlates with
Marriage rate in Kentucky
Frish
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Joining the Inner Hive
I may have to Join The Hive! Probably the last of all my friends to do so, I'm sure.
--
Frish
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Pro-Life...
"I was crying over someone else's child when I was out here over the years. That's what bothers me the most is I wasn't in the right spot," Abeyta said.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/23/father-visits-wrong-grave-seven-years/16088925/
1. Who knew there was a "right" spot?
2. What bothers me the most is the wasted time of what little one has on the planet...I do understand grief, but, life goes on yeah.
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Hi Bright's Central (Mynga and Paul, can you help please, thanks!)
Hi. It's Frish, still putting the I in Fresh!
I love the Morality Info-graphic.
To follow on from the prior, 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.
As you (Mynga and Paul...Hey!) probably forgot, I was on the original group that was to produce such an item. So I know a little bit about the notion.
I think I can put the info-graphic into a larger context, we can discuss not only what we observe, but why it HAS to be this way!
Here's my brief thesis, it needs substantiation, but is quite common sense, so I know it is also true! (My BA in Anthro may finally be useful!).
Morality is an expression of our social primate heritage (as the infographic shows, probably our common ancestor with Chimps also expressed morality).
We are social animals, which implies several things.
We're capable of forming groups.
Groups imply leaders and followers.
More on that below.
Another way to say it and the infographic supports this notion:
The "golden rule" is built into our DNA!
That's how we can even form groups to begin with,
because we CAN recognize ourselves in others.
The graphic shows a 14 month old being altruistic, however, far younger children, even pre-verbal ones, know right from wrong!
Morality is the expression of our social primate past, it's what allows us to be social, and therefore societal NORMS can be judged moral or not, in cultural context.
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Here's an example of what I'm trying to convey...
Muslims are forbidden pork, Polynesians celebrate pork.
While each finds the other "heretical" or crazy, both are correct within their culture.
The larger viewpoint in this case is that pigs compete with people for food in the Middle East, they eat our grain.
So there is a very natural and rational reason for what would otherwise seem an apparently arbitrary religious doctrine.
In Polynesia, pigs eats tubers, which are plentiful, and although also human food, pork chops taste better, and, pigs can used used to transfer value in that culture, as they are.
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The cultural relativism is very much important, since NORMS (the way people in a culture actually act, instead of what's supposed to be moral, for example, perhaps we can find a Muslim with Trichinosis...) are what allow a society to evolve.
To follow on from the prior, 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".
There are, 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, or, the norms taught by that leader lead to disintegration of the society!
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Perhaps you could forward this to whomever is on the "committee" or to the listed experts, to see if we can put it in a larger context, which only shores up the conclusions.
Cheers, happy to discuss with whomever, and thanks for the chance to participate.
And Happy Autumnal Equinox, while we're at it!
Much love to all,
Frish
Fearless Leader, LA Brights
Monday, September 15, 2014
On the topic of Global Warming / Climate Change
Here's William's reaction to whatever article...
william
Does this mean that they have already included the SNOW that is falling in Colorado NOW? Does it also include the FACT that IN THE MIDDLE OF SUMMER THIS YEAR. the gw ship got stuck in 12 FEET od ICE and one rescue ship COULD NOT, REPEAT NOT get them out of the ICE.. It took TWO rescue ships to get their ship out of the RECORD ICE. I live in the south and the last TWO years have seen the summers being so cold that trout, COLD water fish, are being caught in AUGUST. Something that has NOT happened since the last ice age. I remember when we had CO2 fire extinguishers. We used to FREEZE BEER by hitting the cans with a 10 second burst. Important question: If the temperature is going up, does that mean I can plant my garden in Feb instead of March? Also doesn't that mean a LONGER growing season? Food prices should be dropping any day shouldn't they? AS a computer language teacher, I would love to see the TOP SECRET CODE they use for their projections. Seems like the gw group would want everybody to see just how smooth their code works. My next class would like to see it and maybe be willing to work for free to make the next changes.
Frishy
Does this mean that if we called it by the correct name "Human Caused Climate Chaos" you wouldn't be confused?
Thursday, September 4, 2014
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Evidence of the human condition..Headlines from Yahoo 140902 7pm pst
Motorcyclist brags to cops he hit 185 mph in chase
Arizona man arrested for burning, urinating on Bible
Study links polar vortex chills to melting sea ice
California Faces New Water Shortages, and It's the Trees' Fault
Ex-Myanmar beauty queen accused of stealing crown
Austrian SWAT team raids wrong apartment
Museum to display 6,500-year-old human skeleton
Brewer Releases 99-Pack of Beer
Florida man caught killing, and eating, threatened tortoises
Human skull donated to Goodwill store in Texas
Texas parents sue day care center for duct taping child to nap mat
Zealous Atheists Demand Removal Of Cross From War Veterans Memorial
Woman impaled while texting and driving
Germany Has a Radioactive Wild Boar Problem—and It's Chernobyl's Fault
California boy, 7, hurt at firing range owned by his family
Thursday, August 28, 2014
If you knew what this meant, it would be soooo coool
Now researchers at UC Davis have for the first time captured atoms in borosilicate glass flipping from a flat triangular configuration with three oxygen atoms around one boron to a tetrahedron, via a pyramidal intermediate.
(FYI and inaction!!)
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Happy Anniversary, Harry and Sarah Frishberg and...Beatles, 1965, Bloomington Minnesota, HELP! debut
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/60/v60i05p190-201.pdf
Found this fun Minnesota oriented thingy by happenstance, see first full paragraph, page 192...
I was at the baseball stadium in Bloomington, MN (now the Mall of America site!) when the Beatles took the stage near second base (as far away and as close to as many people as possible).
I was 9.5 years old, and only there because one cousin had a date, so the other cousin, (Thanks Terry!), took me! (That's my recollection,and I'm sticking to it!)
Our box seats were behind the first base line...pretty much optimal viewing.
It was loud...with female screaming throughout.
We all knew all the songs already, so it didn't matter what they sang anyway.
I had seen the HELP! movie first screening in Minnesota, meeting for the first time many friends I'd meet again 4 years later when I moved there from California!
After the concert, on the way to the car, we were twice trapped by riotous females who thundered down the hall, first one way, Thanks Terry! for thoughtfully shielding me from the onslaught by pushing me up against the wall to keep me from being carried away (for real!)) and then the tide turned, with a supposed sighting of the Fab Four in the other direction...scary!.
I was in Minnesota for the 50th wedding anniversary of my paternal grandparents, the wonderful Harry and Sarah Frishberg!
So, here's To Harry and Sarah's 99th anniversary.
(and, long live Ringo and Paul...)
Monday, August 11, 2014
Always thought it was the same god...
Tough to know the players, without a program.*
Why didn't he just have all the bombs miss too?
Will be tough to live in Europe, come the pogrom!
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Sunday, July 27, 2014
One of the better Exercise Names...
Runaway Sierra Leone Ebola patient dies in ambulance
Detail - it isn't an exercise...
A Sierra Leone Ebola patient whose family sparked a nationwide hunt when they forcefully removed her from a treatment center and took her to a traditional healer, died in an ambulance on the way to hospital, a health official said.
Can't make this stuff up...
(In other cases, I've heard Chinese Herbal Medicine can help...other things...)
Frish
Saturday, July 26, 2014
Re: DFWIBMers.org: 360 JCL: More Profound Than You Ever Imagined!
I'll tell you a little about thinkenstein, and I remembered a couple of S360 Card Deck stories.
I went to school for about 21 years, eventually getting an MBA after my BA Archaeology (I'd place her on the upper amazon, quite similar!).
During my academic career, the topic of S/360 card decks came up...
FORTRAN Class I took pass/fail. I was using the batch compiler to 'debug' my deck, since it pointed out all the syntax errors...I didn't like ensuring a clean deck before submitting, not clear my programs would have worked or not! Took 3 days to get the deck back with the printout, so I could correct a few bugs, and resubmit...I dropped the class but essentially I "failed Computers".
Earlier in my career (like 3rd grade) my handwriting was so bad they had me see a shrink (in Houston).
So, I also failed handwriting.
IBM eventually used me to write about computers...
My Marketing professor when I was a first year MBA student, along with his partner (another professor), had 6000 responses from a survey (with 300 questions!) from account holders of San Diego Federal (S&L wonder where they went!) that had trillions of possible topics.
So, I got a look at the data and picked a fairly easy conclusion.
I spent 18 months, going through the MBA process, and needed the deck to run against an SPSS query I had posed, but 6000 respondents was 60,000 cards in total...it was a whole bunch of cards, so the systems guy couldn't get time to run my deck. I can't remember exactly, but I believe I finally had something he wanted, and, I needed the data run!
My Master's Thesis "Bank Market Segmentation - Age group prediction of cash using behaviors" was finally finished late June 1979, it published in 1980 and was the first San Diego State Master's Thesis submitted from a word processing program! (another long story.)
Thinkenstein grew up near LAX, graduating HS in El Segundo about 1963 or 64.
His grandfather built machine tools...his father had a garage load of projects, as he was a magician and built his own props (as a hobby!).
So, Friend Think grew up with two mechanics and a load of encouragement.
Almost graduating from Berkeley(!), he decided to become a wandering minstrel, and eventually crossed the US, went to Europe and hitchhiked all over, and then who knows when exactly, he ends up in Puerto Rico.
I believe he 'homesteaded' the top 9 acres of the mountain he lives on, via the USDA or whomever (Dept of Interior) administers it...
He built a cabin, that is now enclosed by the dome, and has lived there for close to 40 years.
First 8 years, 1/2 mile from nearest neighbor (and a SIGNIFICANT up/down steep valley terrain, unlit (when he didn't have a flashlight, things like walking home wasn't done quickly)), with no running water...
He had paved hundreds of feet of forest floor, you can walk 150 vertical feet down the mountain, about 1/4 mile via the path/zipper stairs he carved and paved in the Jungle...and there is a faucet with water you can drink, to US Standards, it's Puerto Rico (you can smell the chlorine!).
Many of those feet of cement attached to fish net were made from bags he'd schlep in from 1/2 mile away (50lb sacks of cement...and not much sand or gravel in the jungle, he did a LOT of hauling of STUFF for many many years...).
A bit about Bill:
He is naturally curious about a lot of things.
He likes finding mechanical engineering solutions best, and creates his musical instruments with that in mind.
He doesn't do well with engines, but ANYTHING ELSE he's expert
Cement work
Carpentry
Welding
Plumbing (including waste disposal and water retention, and water flow subsequent to huge downpours without eroding the neighborhood...)
Architecture
Puzzle Solving and Creating (like the LOCK he has on his house, no one would EVER be able to get in, without blowing a big hole in it...LOL
Computer Graphics
Musician
Builder of Musical Instruments
Vegetarian (plus fish)
Likes being alone
Has had various artists and con artists, who have stayed a year or more there, in the citadel.
He likes, nowadays, to bang on new percussion instruments he's built and recording the sounds.
Several years ago, the neighbor just below him on the hill sold more land to Bill, so he now has something like 25 acres on the top of the hill, it's really really cool.
Now, as to finances? I believe his mother supported his habits early on, and he inherited her money upon her death.
He did visit El Segundo to help as his father failed, so he met Mort and Sue and helped design a Frishberg Cousin's Club TeeShirt!
I think he did/does well in the stock market, I know the 2008 'correction' was quite worrisome for him, but he seemed sanguine about money this trip...
Bill LOVES TO SHARE:
For a hermit (essentially) Bill like to share.
For a clue into the extent of his nutziness see
All the best,
Frish
On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Lloyd Hubbard <lloydhubb01@gmail.com> wrote:
Michael,What an interesting visit. Can you give me more information on your friend, why he lives this way, what he does, who are his neighbors, how he supports himself, etc., etc.?I had one visit to a village in Central America--a side trip in the middle of a cruise up the Pacific side. The small (comfortable) cruise ship anchored off of the mouth of a small river and we zodiaced ashore, then entered a small outboard-motor powered rowboat for a trip up the river to a village set up as a trading place where native people from several surrounding villages came, with their wares, to sell to the tourists.The people were very cordial to us and we were usually surrounded by little children. One feature of the trading village was a wooden dock for unloading the tourists from the rowboat. Cruise tourists are customarily of advanced age, so one of the natives was assigned the duty of helping us from the rowboat to the dock.One would expect a fairly hefty young man for the job, but no, the designated helper was a young female--18 yrs or so--dressed tastefully in a few beads. In case I have not sent you a photo of her, it is attached. One of my cousins said, as he was helped from the rowboat--"I think she took my ear temperature".LloydOn Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Michael (Frish) Frishberg <frishberg@gmail.com> wrote:
Lloyd, great story, thanks.Before I relate at little something, here's where I was (again, for the fourth time!) last week (just returned 2 hours ago!).If I've shared that before, enjoy it again!As far as JCL goes, I never worked with 360/370 machines, since I was a 'mini-computer' salesman.The Sys/32 and Sys/34 were my bread and butter.While they also had a simplified JCL, it wasn't like decks of cards by then (early 80's).However, it involved double slashes as the pre-fix to commands.
If you had real trouble debugging, the command that applied was //wrist (slash slash wrist)!Life is good, for a change, hope all is well with you and yours!Frish--On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Lloyd Hubbard <lloydhubb01@gmail.com> wrote:
Michael,
You and your Dad are the only friends that I thought would enjoy this.
Lloyd
Lloyd
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From: "DFWIBMers.org" <dax@rubicontechventures.com>
Date: Jul 25, 2014 9:16 AM
Subject: DFWIBMers.org: 360 JCL: More Profound Than You Ever Imagined!
To: <lloydhubb@mchsi.com>
Cc:
DFWIBMers.org: 360 JCL: More Profound Than You Ever Imagined!
360 JCL: More Profound Than You Ever Imagined!
Posted: 24 Jul 2014 03:37 PM PDT
This will be best appreciated if you remember your JCL commands. Among my experiences [from Ross Daily] is an IBM computer story which I know will amuse you and maybe will move you.
When I ran into one the early 360/50s in 1964 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, I was hooked. At graduation, I interviewed with IBM, but they wanted sales staff in white shirts and ties and I wanted to work in a sweatshirt at geek central in White Plains. As it turned out, I went on for an MBA at Queen's University in Canada, not far from my NY State home. I used the Queen's computing centre a lot and worked nights helping undergrads wrestle with FORTRAN, COBOL and JCL. When I graduated, the centre hired me. Purely as an aside, Queen's had in 1970 what we were told was the most heavily loaded 360/50 in Canada. It was something of an experiment. We ran OS, DOS and TOS, had 1mb internal, with an additional 1mb of slow core memory. We had a resident IBM systems analyst plus two of our own. Also, I just have to mention our two IBM 1403 chain printers. What a triumph of engineering! I'm impressed to this day.
Back to the story: I ended up managing the 50′s accounting system for the centre, distributing millions of imaginary dollars to schools and faculties, and maintaining accounts on every student's and professor's allotment.
"Please Mr. Daily! I know my account is empty, but I'm almost ready for my dissertation! Just one more run; it'll only take 45 minutes!" I was a merciful accountant: "OK, I'll slip you into the batch run at 3:30 a.m. tomorrow. Not a word to any one; NOT A WORD." I had a most enjoyable assistant named Jack. He was in his 30s and had a dry and eccentric sense of humour. We still ran programs from card decks at the time, even monsters like SPSS, StatPacSocSciences. If you remember your JCL, the student's pile of data cards was preceded by a card containing the JCL statement:
sysin dd *
sys: Hey 50
in: Input coming
dd: some poor sophomore's data deck is next
*: starting NOW
Jack entered the office one day and said "sysin, dd star" in the vocal lilt you would use to say, "sit down, Mr. Jones." I was charmed by this conversational use of a JCL statement. I have never forgotten it, and it has become more and more profound to me over the years.
I was driven out of work by severe back pain at 60. Since then, I've been free to study particle physics and cosmology for my own interest. The concepts involved cannot help but redefine one's understanding of our reality. Carl Sagan is right. All of the elements excepting hydrogen are made in stars, which explode, etc., and become us. So, a few years ago, it occurred to me that regardless of one's religious beliefs, regardless of the unknowable facts of the matter, we do know that, when we die, we leave here and go 'somewhere else.' All our atoms will ultimately go back to the universe whence they came. I sent all of this with the punch line to Jack a couple of years ago, but his mind has drifted away.
So, this is just for you, JCL folks. It seems to me now, that, as I draw my last breath, I should whisper:
–Universe
–input coming
–my data deck, everything I am
–starting NOW
sysin, dd *
AND, now that I've learned "text speak," my tombstone will read:
WTF?
WTVR
LOL!
SYSIN, DD *
I hope this has meant something to you; we are the only ones who can truly understand.
So long, awesome geeks!
Ross Daily
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Frish
Friday, July 25, 2014
Advice for a friend who needs to write a Eulogy
Tell them what he meant to you.
Tell them how he helped you.
Tell them what fun, or what you learned, or whatever you did together...
Give him respect by creating new memories of him, in those that love him.
Thursday, July 10, 2014
140710 18of18
we wait for
Our turn
death
the "one"
a line
a cashier
a butcher
the right time
when we can afford it
things that are worth waiting for
sleep to return nightly
lottery results
her to return
sunrise
sunset
midnight
meteor streaks in the sky
the smiling clown
the second hand (on the clock)
then end of work day
the end of class
progress in yoga
muscles to grow via weight lifting
the new year
the weekend
Monday, July 7, 2014
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Bitchin' pix from around the globe...
http://www.quora.com/Earth/What-are-some-of-the-best-rare-natural-phenomena-that-occur-on-Earth
WOW is what comes to mind.
-- Frish
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Never too soon to start...
http://www.upstartmagazine.com/keeping-the-brain-busy-reduces-the-risk-of-cognitive-decline-says-study/294211/
--
Going to bed now is my most brilliant idea today.
Love you babydahlink.
Frish
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Stand Up Stood Up on Sunset
If anything, LAUGH
No one on Sunset was so
Ready to take stand
All eager to please
Having no expectations
I'm just as happy!
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
140617 17of18 (almost done!?!?!?)
it was enough
The Law of Diminishing Returns, often described as eating a rich chocolate cake.
A slaughtering mouthful
creamy icing, rambunctious
sugary, cocoa
Not to mention the
between layers, outrageous
chocolate whipped cream
Then, the second bite
lickety lips, damp napkin...
still satisfying
bite seven or eight?
It's beginning to lose it's
Gusto left the room
That's an economic Theorem, the last, marginal bite, can't convey as much "utility" as the first mouthful, or even the fifth.
So,"it was enough" is seen everyday, it was enough coffee in the pot, it was enough soymilk to make cereal, it was enough apples for the week...
we can only hope
weekly, it was (just) enough
to last 'forever'
Late here, all is well, played some bridge.
Need to walk more, tomorrow for sure, knees seem mended.
HOpe you are havingfun, I'll read what you wrote and then crash!
140616 16of18 Have at it!
Growing up, I bought comic books. When I first started buying them (can't say I 'collected' them, it was much too haphazard for that!) they cost 10 cents. Then, they cost 25 cents soon thereafter.
I know I had the first Fantastic Four, the first Spider Man, and other magazines that would be worth their weight in gold today.
However, surprising I mentioned two Marvel brands, since I was DC all the way.
Superman, Batman, The Justice League, The Flash, The Atom, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman (even), were all titles I obtained.
There can only be one supreme superhero however, and in my mind now and then, SUPERMAN wins.
First, lets put Superman into the class of heros that Don't Require Technology to be effective.
Having been born on another world, with a different type of light, he arrives to Earth and now is massively strong (lighter Gravity), has impenetrable SKIN, has X-Ray vision and other EYEBALL Powers, CAN FLY!!!! (I'd trade all his other powers to fly),even his breath is special, and can blow like a hurricane, or even blow so cold as to freeze anything...
No other hero/heroine could possible overcome Superman, he's the best, by a long shot.
Invulnerability, Super Fast (running, swimming FLYING, Super Stong (unlimited strength) are just some of the best things...besides flying in space without any suit or oxygen!
Also, he's only susceptible to one substance (remains of his home world, Krypton, which are called Kryptonite, and there are several colors with different effects) and also to MAGIC.
He only really has one worthy Enemy, Mister Mxyzptlk, who Superman must trick into saying his name backwards to drive him back to his 5th dimensional home for 90 days...
So, the winner and still Champion SUPERMAN!
Sunday, June 15, 2014
140615 15of18 wind tunnel
When Santa Ana winds hit Southern California, all types of catastrophes can occur.
The atmosphere bunches up behind the eastern mountain slopes, and then spills over the mountains, driving down to the sea.
This movement of air, from higher to lower elevation, compresses and then heats, drying everything out, a precursor to wild fires, with the temperature at the beach higher than inland!
The smog gets compressed too, so you see a perfectly clear day everywhere to the east.
Looking out to sea, there is a thin red stain directly over the water, above which things are clear.
The smog gets compressed too, so you see a perfectly clear day everywhere to the east.
Looking out to sea, there is a thin red stain directly over the water, above which things are clear.
So, where the air is usually clear, and the ocean breeze is welcomed, now the air over the ocean is very unhealthy, as the smog concentrates through compression.
With the wind, many strange things can occur.
This particular problem could possibly be blamed on east coast architects, that were unfamiliar with how things work in SoCal.
The buildings in question looked somewhat like 6 story mushrooms, smaller first and 2nd floors, and then larger floors above, fourth and fifth and sixth.
The orientation of the front doors to the two adjacent buildings (the NW corner of the southern building was adjacent to the SE corner of it's neighbor) was on the south side of the northern building and the north side of the southern building.
With the winds, the space between the two buildings became a wind tunnel, with the 6 story building directing air precisely through the gap between the two front doors.
The side of the buildings conspired to have 50-60MPH winds, while just 100 yards away the wind was only 10-15 MPH.
It was dangerous to walk between the buildings, people were swept off their feet, and opening either entry door was difficult to impossible, with the door handles slipping from peoples fingers and slamming against the rubber stops installed in the cement behind the doors.
Engineers were called in to mitigate the problem, the solution of which was to change the location of the lobby for both buildings at a cost of millions of dollars, with the space between buildings still dangerous during Santa Anas, but without people traffic.
Love you, GMWF
--
Frish
Saturday, June 14, 2014
140614 14of18 today's effort
the exact right thing was
How can one know what the exact right thing was, in that situation.
I mean, with no more information to go on, how could the great Sherlock ever know which of at least 7 different options would have been the appropriate response to the perceived (and vague) threat(s).
Of course, Conrad was no Sherlock, just the assistant to the Supervisor, so what would he know?
(That was a joke paragraph, since I am payaso!)
I wonder if there ever is a way to know if the exact right thing is even possible. Whatever happened happened, with our without a 'reason', and certainly, expecting something to be 'the exact right thing" is a reason!
Since the thing was chosen as it was, there is no other outcome possible, so, isn't every moment we exist because the exact right thing was happening right up until now?
All we can do is trust that the exact right thing will happen forever.
Bon Voyage, jet set mama...
GMWF
140613 14of18 entrenched
I immediately had two thoughts, if one can have two thoughts at once.
Entrenched is the word used to described Dems and Repubs, each to their own side.
But, that term of entrenched probably come from the other thought I had...
The trench warfare of WWI, when each side was literally entrenched...as diametrically and fatally opposed as any humans can be, came to mind, mostly because of the 100 year remembrances (not celebrations surely, although fun will be had by all).
As far as the demos and repubs are concerned, someone famously said, democracy is a messy business.
When the states allow districts to be carved out of single issue/conservative cloth (or African American or Chicano districts too), they allow the current mis-representation in Washington to proliferate, continue and otherwise occur.
States rights are a JOKE. I think the least useful portion of government is the states.
Counties know way more about their own needs, and, as Americans, we expect to share and support each other, at all times.
But that State bureaucracy adds another layer of inefficiency. Guess I won't be any so called "conservative's" dinner party list...
It's part of human nature, more's the pity, that we each are somewhat entrenched in our own beliefs, see the world through that prism, finding patterns that please our psyche, even if nothing is really there...
Should we be entrenched?
Our beliefs what keeps us sane
But how firmly held?
That, we all have to answer to, no one can tell you how to think.
(Not sure if the entrenched Haiku crowd would have appreciated that one, it's natural enough but can a question be part of a Haiku, I ought to publish on CraigsList see what happens.
(Day 13, thank you for your kind communication.
GMWF
Thursday, June 12, 2014
140614 14of18 my effort
your chest is
We were trying to keep me from Vietnam.
That was more than a worry back then, it was reality.
18 year old boys, upon their birthday, were subject to the draft.
I was lucky, my number was horrible (35 (out of 365, mine would have been picked), but, mine was the first year of NO DRAFT.
However, we didn't know that when I was 14 years old.
So, my Doctor heard a murmur.
A heart murmur.
He probably spent 20 minutes with his stethoscope, hovering over my seated body and moving from point to point on my chest and back, like some long legged bird, poking in the sand for food.
Then, he brought in his partner Doctor, who proceeded to listen as well.
They decided I needed a fluoroscopical investigation. This involved swallowing "barium", that glows as it goes down a throat and into one's stomach, when view fluroscopically.
So, in a few days, we went to the hospital and I performed that test with ease.
Back in the Doc's office, we were to listen to the results.
Oh well, no murmur or other problem in the chest...
However, when mom and the Doc went out of the room, the nurse came in, thinking she's now going to "wow" me somehow...
She said she'd like to compare two x-rays, mine and a "Full grown 6'4" man's", like to see how much more I have to grow or something...never has been understood what she was doing exactly.
Turning on the light, she stuck two films into the slots, and let me know "Your chest is on the left".
I laughed out loud since my lungs were larger than the other guys, already.
Thanks to swimming 10 year competitively at that point. She was perplexed.
(33 seconds over 10 minutes, so sue me).
Love you, got a huge day, ciao for now.
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