Thursday, July 15, 2010

Some Social Networking sites, put cursor over image for site name...



I laugh out loud about how WRONG you two are on just about every political and legal and scientific issue

Well done, you pander to a know-nothing audience that doesn't understand any of the following:

Human Caused Climate chaos is real and you simply contribute to ensuring nothing will be done about it.  
WWW.VHEMT.ORG is a site you ought to visit, since it represents the ONLY moral choice.  We've already booted the pooch and will be causing our own extinction in the very near future...

The constitution of the US supersedes any AZ law, and you should support the legal battle against it, since if the legal battle fails, the law will stand, but at least it would be settled law.  You guys continue to project an ignorance of how the legal system works in this country, but I know that's just shtick.

The whole "heads on a stick" tax "revolt" is insanity to the max, since most Californians have seen their taxes go down thanks to Obama, and the ones who ought NOT to have their taxes go down, the very rich, are your beneficiaries.

Here's just one little factoid you probably know full well but wouldn't care to share with your audience...

1.  When the rich get a tax break, supposedly, they then have more to invest in new businesses.
2.  However, the rich didn't get that way by being stupid or by gambling.
3.  The wealthy know more than most that the odds of a new business actually succeeding is astonishingly long odds.
4.  So, they invest most of their tax savings in safe wealth maintaining investment, and perhaps risk 10% of it.  THE WHOLE IDEA OF A DEFICIT AND DEBT IS GREAT FOR THE RICH, SINCE THE GOVERNMENT WILL BACK THEIR PURCHASE OF T-BILLS AND NOTES, ZERO RISK FOR A GUARANTEED RETURN...THAT'S THE LEGACY OF Ron the Alzheimer Reagan's Presidency, he who should be anything but lionized...
5.  the TRUTH? - The rich benefit the most from government SPENDING, since the police protect them, the roads carry their trucks to market, the rule of law makes this a low risk place to do business, and therefore they ought to pay far more than they currently do, (I know the top 5% pay 80% of taxes already, so what?  They ought to pay 90% or more, since they benefit the very most!)

Meanwhile, their tax gift from Bush continues to swell the deficit.

Did you know that for every dollar of unemployment spent, the economy sees over one dollar of benefit...

Guess you won't share that nugget with your audience.

Thanks for the entertainment.

Trade Show Guru

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Web References to Morton C. Frishberg (with various spellings etc.)

As the Internet accumulates more and more data, I recently performed a fairly intense search for references to my father, Morton Charles Frishberg (Mort Frishberg, M.C. Frishberg, M. C. Frishberg, Morton Frishberg, etc.)

The following are what I've found so far...enjoy!

In 1938 another "first" occurred, when Cantor Maurice Goldberg introduced the practice of having boys ofBar Mitzvah age officiate as Cantor at Shaharit services on Saturday mornings, adding public service to the Bar Mitzvah boy's reading of the Torah. Under Cantor Goldberg, the first boy to participate as cantor at Shaharit services on the Saturday of his Bar Mitzvah was Morton Frishberg. Two years later, in 1940, young boys were beginning to conduct the Musaf service on Saturday. Cantor Goldberg soon organized a mixed voice choir, too.

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=366271 as a footnote to a 1961 article in the Association of Computer Machinery...(See Below)

Letter from Mr. and Mrs. Morton C. Frishberg to LP RE: Would like any information about the "non-oxygenating" molecule and the drug treatment since they have a mentally retarded child. [Letter from LP to Frishberg June 4, 1958] [Filed under LP Science: Orthomolecular Medicine and Mental Health: Materials re: Ford Foundation grants for the study of mental disorders, 1955-1966: Box #11.089, Folder #89.8]

(See footnotes on page 38 if you can still see this one...)



Use "Find" on that page (control F then type Frishberg for the surprising result!) 

http://www.pitt.edu/~atteberr/jazz/articles/FRISHBER.html  David waxing poetic re: Mort's piano tutoring...

There may be more...the two articles cited below were referenced more than once had to do with "pert" charting, as Mort was an early practitioner of this means to ensure a project is on track for completion on time and budget...

1.  M. C. FRISHBERG, "Least Cost Estimating and Scheduling --Scheduling Phase Only," IBM 650 Program Library File No. 10.3.005.

2.   M. C. Frishberg, "LESS Tells You how Project is Doing", Hydrocarbon Processing and Petroleum Refiner, Vol. 41, no. 2 (February 1962), pp. 130-138.

Friday, June 25, 2010

Google Search Results, read from bottom up...oh what a difference a month makes...

  1. Lloyd's syndicates launch legal action over BP insurance claim ...

    May 26, 2010 ... BP's attempts to limit the financial damage from the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico suffered a blow yesterday when almost half ...
    business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry.../article7136623.ece
  2. London: BP, Lloyds, Imperial Tobacco - market update

    Apr 27, 2010 ... Lloyds Banking Group estimated 2010 net income. BP Plc first quarter revenues surged 55% and net more than doubled. ...
    www.ticker.com/?page=market_update&story...BP,-Lloyds... - Cached

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Frish

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Tropical Storm naming convention, 2010

As the hurricane season 2010 begins, this year's names have been assigned...

ARCO, BP, Chevron, Dubai, Exxon, ....



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Frish

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Frish ponders: How much water has already been polluted?

I am just speculating.  And I'm sending this to various number oriented correspondents and lists, so please shoot me a note if I've blown the analysis somewhere...

Otherwise, share it as you desire!

No one really knows, as of 06/07/2010, how much oil has come up in the Gulf.

Some say as much as the Exxon Valdez 11,000,000 gallons of oil already has been surpassed.  

Today, 06/08/2010, I heard 23 to 50 million gallons of oil. Hence the following...

Several weeks ago I concluded that BP ought to be charged a per cubic mile of ocean polluted fee.  Something along the lines of $200Bn per cubic mile fine, (and the responsibility of mitigation of damage etc.) might help pay back the cost to the United States over the next 25 years or so.)

So, how much water does that much oil pollute?

How much oil can life tolerate in its water?

Last night I tried the following formula.

How many parts per million (ppm) oil in water is pollution?

10 parts per million sounded like plenty to me.  

11,000,000 gallons of oil will pollute 1,000,000,000,000 gallons of water at this concentration.

One cubic mile of water is 1,101,117,150,000 gallons of water.

However, I just heard 1 part in a billion affected the viability of fish eggs in Price William Sound (ExValdez).  

Now, 11,000,000 gallons will pollute 11,000,000,000,000,000 gallons of water.

Basically, 11,000 Cubic miles per Valdez spill size problem

But, why stop there, since it could be 53,000,000 gallons spilt already.

53,000 cubic miles of polluted sea water.

Earth's approximate total water supply is 1,360,000,000 km3 (326,000,000 mi3).
That is, three hundred twenty six million cubic miles.  Plenty left to pollute even after this spill.

However, it clumps, and it floats, so the part of the ocean most productive is the most polluted.  

Consider, one cube of water, a mile each side...(5280 feet) 
Slice it on any face every 10 feet to make panels 1Mile x 1mile x 10ft. (528 panels)
Then slice in another direction every 10 feet to make strips, 10ft x 10ft x 1mile (52.8 slices)
Then, put the ends together...and see how many strips of oil cover how much ocean.

528 x 52.8 = 27,878 "strands" of polluted water, 10 ft. x 10 ft x 1 mile long.

The 27,878 strands of polluted water is for EACH cubic mile polluted.

If I took 1ppb as the basis for pollution, instead of 10ppm, I need to increase the number of cubic miles from 1 per 11Mgals to 10,000 cubic miles per 11Mgals of oil...(or maybe 100 cubic miles, I need some help!)

And now, we're talking some real pollution...

Okay, so tell me if I missed something, that's a huge amount to have polluted...

Consider as the oil spreads, didn't they used to control mosquitoes by putting oil on standing water?

How does oxygen flow into the water change based on oil content of surface etc.

Or, consider 10 feet of polluted water over 528 square Miles Ocean/shoreline for EACH cubic mile (11 (or 23 or 50,000) so far and counting!) etc.

Any of you math whizzes are more than welcome to tell me how wrong I've got it...

Monday, May 31, 2010

Movie Parking Warning Beverly Hills Jun 01, 2010

Filming.

May the Sun Shine BRIGHT

http://www.the-brights.net/vision/backtalk.html#8


You can't convert an adjective into a noun!

English is fine the way it is?  Sorry, but we feel there is a clear need for a noun that "umbrellas" (note the verb usage?) over the naturalistic worldview folks. The term just had to be something easy to pronounce. It was desirable that it be "in tune" with the Enlightenment heritage and scientific values.  To us, this term just plain ol' fits the bill.   

Perhaps the noun Bright won't make it.  We can certainly try, though, to introduce a term that we feel has important uses, not only for the Brights, but for society at large.

Language has always changed and will continue to change.  We would like to see Bright as a commonly accepted affirmative noun with which to refer to persons whose worldview is naturalistic. There's no such word for that concept right now.  We hope in twenty years, there will be.

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Cheers,

Frish

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Climate activist faces jail time for peaceful civil disobedience

If you can help, or know someone who can, perhaps you will take the time to see this video and act accordingly...like, write your Senators and Congressperson...like I just did...and spread the word...the more sometimes the merrier...


Synopsis:
Ted Glick of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network was convicted by a jury May 13th of peacefully dropping the banners inside the U.S. Senate Hart Office Building last September. The D.C. U.S. Attorney's office clearly has decided to make an "example" of Ted because of his previous two — count 'em, two — convictions related to peaceful acts of climate civil disobedience.
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Cheers to all correspondents, some I only contact infrequently, but this got my attention, Ted Glick is one of the good guys...
Frish

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Thursday, May 20, 2010

30 minute presentation on Human Population Growth, Carrying Capacity etc.

Excellent synopsis of why we are experiencing "over-population". 

http://www.panearth.org/world%20food%20&%20human%20population%20growth/player.html

Of course, it simply tells us why we are on our current trajectory, no info on how we're going reverse the trend (until we "break" the system that supports our growth, and that won't be pretty).
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Cheers,

Frish

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Adventures in Prospecting: Love it when a prospect answers my email...

From: Adam P
Date: Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:32 AM
Subject: RE: New capabilities
To: Frish 

Not interested in your services.

Please remove me from your call and email list.


From: Frish  

Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 10:17 AM
To: Adam P
Subject: New capabilities

Adam, hope to hear from you regarding print and how it supports your marketing efforts.

Yes, we're a traditional offset printer, for catalogs, posters, postcards, calendars, etc.

We're also a digital printer, for short runs and personalization (see attached for some fun examples – show me the money and pencil me in…)

Our in-plant direct mail facility provides you with least cost postage and quickest delivery with less handling.  Your project will arrive in better condition.

Thanks for your kind communication,

Frish

Michael W. Frishberg

Print and Marketing Strategist

Supreme Graphics Inc.

"We don't do everything, we do everything Right!"

Another Good Reason for child-free existence!

http://www.latimes.com/features/health/mentalhealth/la-sci-postpartum-fathers-20100519,0,3479195.story?track=rss

"Post-Partum" (sic) Fathers?  ROFL...

""There have been a few very good studies documenting negative child outcomes when fathers are depressed," he said. "That alone makes this a significant public health concern and something we need to pay more attention to."

What we need is to pay more attention to is men NOT BECOMING fathers, then this won't be an issue.
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Cheers,

Frish

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Further to Urban Dictionary - IBMer was published

Replies to last night's missive included several pithy observations, thanks to all. 

However, one comment emerged with both gravitas and vintage perspective! 

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Lloyd 
Date: Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: Urban Dictionary - IBMer was published
To: Frish

Blue suits and white shirts in a bar--OK, but the authentic experience was singing three choruses of "Ever Onward" at the start of each sales meeting.

Lloyd


(Lloyd was the fellow who hired my father in 1957...'nuff said!)

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Urban Dictionary - IBMer was published

Shocked to see it wasn't already in...happy to correct the omission...

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: <noreply@urbandictionary.com>
Date: Sat, May 15, 2010 at 6:49 PM
Subject: Urban Dictionary - IBMer was published
To: frish

Thanks for your definition of IBMer!

Editors reviewed your entry and have decided to publish it on urbandictionary.com.

It should appear on this page in the next few days:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=IBMer

Urban Dictionary

IBMer

An IBM employee

The bar was filled with a sea of white shirts and blue suits, all IBMers.

-- Cheers, Frish

Astounding...extinctions are just around the corner, but VHEMT has a presence on the net...

Posted a comment on an NPR article (National Public Radio - in USA, non-commercial radio)...

Is The Planet Facing A Mass Extinction?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126831134

Did a google search on extinction and hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction#Modern_extinctions

At the bottom was a link to the wiki entry for VHEMT.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Human_Extinction_Movement

I am still smiling...Frish

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

You are the one, darling

lax haiku hotel (context)
You are the one, darling < frish >
2010-04-26 22:15:27 +12

Can't say I'm obsessed 
Yet, I've found an object for 
My fantasy life 

My mind considers 
Some Possibilities and 
Therein lies the rub 

Imagination 
Brain on fire, frustrated 
Anticipation 

A Fruitless pastime 
Onan has nothing on me. 
Socks are running scared. 

I ought to thank her 
For the pleasure I'm finding 
Lonesome but happy. 

Best to keep down low 
The specifics that I want. 
Reality Bites! 

Terrible teasing 
Is how to characterize 
This quite cruel friend 

Friends with benefits? 
Simply out of the question… 
Our Moral Compass

Dan Barker's appearance on Fox News...

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/10/novice-level-monster.html

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Cheers,

Frish

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Thought this was from The Onion, but Noooo - BBC!!! Lounge Lizard's Saviour!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8675050.stm

"Miss McLuskey said: "My research found that in some cases a person's environment can be more disabling than a hearing impairment and so, in some respects, we are all hearing impaired on a daily basis."

Gotta love the design...lol

Sunday, May 9, 2010

The differences between Men and Women

My friend Lloyd, a fellow in his late 80's who continues to educate himself on big topics, wrote the following

Michael,

Books that were an important discovery for me are Richard Dawkins'
"The Blind Watchmaker" and "The Selfish Gene". In all of his writings,
he cites examples of how Darwin's work on
evolution-by-natural-selection can be explained at the DNA level.  A
side issue was the suggestion that many of the wired-in male/female
differences are explained by the Hunter (male)/Gathering (female)
division of labor by early humans.

The attached clip from the May 1 issue of "The Economist" is along
similar lines.

Lloyd


My response...

My anthro studies (that began almost 40 years ago, is that possible???) informs me of the following:

1. Yes, evolution happens at the molecular level, since that is where "beneficial" mutations occur.
      What people fail to realize is just how long 100,000 or 1,000,000 years actually is!
     
2. The physical fossil record is so sparse (in terms of numbers of individual examples and through time) and the need by academicians to publish!, that generalizations about our ancestry are highly suspect!
      a. Bullshit Alert!

3. Lately, there have been two new strains of closely related human-like species (or sub-species, since I don't know if we could have interbred and obtained fertile offspring (the definition of a species - that which can mate with fertile offspring as the result (unlike Horses and Donkeys for example, that most frequently produce sterile Mules) that co-existed on the planet with us until just a few thousand years ago.
       a.  Shows how little we actually know about our ancestry, once again.
       b.  See:  Homo_floresiensis aka hobbits!
       c.  See also:  A new human specie or just a pinky!

4.  Just this year, it has been posited (and given loads of press this week) that we and Neanderthals were not only capable of interbreeding successfully, but that our (Caucasian) genes are made up of 1-3% elements common to both Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens.
      a.  This is a rather complicated hypothesis, but does NOT surprise me, I have known humans who look like Neanderthals (although without any of the stigmatization!).  Had a camp counselor in MN who was extraordinarily Neanderthal like, and a great college football player!

5.  What you mention, regards men/women differences, hunting vs. gathering, has been observed in several different ways.
      a.  Recently read an article regarding male/female shopping strategies (how each gender actually finds things within grocery stores!) that reflects our modern "implementation" of our gender differences.
           i.  I'd hesitate to say which came first however...our natural tendencies to hunt or gather depending on gender, or, how our hunting vs. gathering affected our gender tendencies.
          ii.  Love to better understand Chimpanzee (for example) gender differences.
     b.  Women smell and taste things more accurately/acutely than men for example, since they are charged with ensuring that children eat healthy and not spoiled or otherwise poisonous food stuff...and, so, it makes sense that they also performed the gathering duties since that also made up far more of our nutritional intake than hunting did. 
      c.  Hunting is generally a far more dangerous activity than gathering, so this also points to having men do it, since women are in need of protection from risk as much as possible, to ensure offspring health, once again...
             
6.  What I also observe is the following...WE ARE ALL, EACH OF US, THE "MISSING LINK"!
This is true, as you have discovered with your observations, since evolution operates on POPULATIONS not INDIVIDUALS...

Had some fun early today writing all of the above, thanks for the opportunity to be what I really ought to be, some kind of professor instead of a salesman...perhaps I will win the lottery and actually become one!

7.  I just bought a book called "The eerie silence" (Paul Davies) concerning the lack of evidence for extraterrestrial intelligence.
     a.  I am having great cognitive dissonance as I delay (procrastinate) reading it!
            i.  I don't want to pollute my own observations as to why there are no "aliens" out there
                1) for example, perhaps the universe is just old enough to allow for the first "intelligent" life, humanity.  Therefore, it is only a matter of time for other intelligent "races" to become extant.
                 2) He posits things like - don't look for radio signals (which is what we've been doing for the past few decades) as evidence of other life, there are other far more probable indicators...

As you already know, my firm belief, based on observation of Homo Sapien Sapien = the universe selects against intelligence...

Our recent human experience of so called "intelligent" life will be so short lived in terms of the evolution of the universe that we may as well not have existed at all! 

Or put another way:  While each individual human can be said to have a measure of intelligence, the actual "wisdom" of humanity - to act in concert with Nature for example, and thereby retain a place in the biosphere - is non-existent.  The ironic part is we'll be documenting our demise each step of the way, and won't be able to do a damned thing about it.
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Cheers,

Frish