140611 a vigil for

I've never held, nor participated in a vigil for anything, ever.

Am I then an outlier?

Or, perhaps my lack of "fan"-aticism?

Perhaps I'm just damn lucky that no one close to me was:

held hostage by terrorists

kidnapped for ransom

dying slowly of a disease that only more money could help

lost and whereabouts unknown

or any of the myriad of reasons that one would hold a vigil...

There is an element of "prayer" surrounding vigil, as in "prayer vigil" a common expression.

Can there be a vigil (where the participants are VIGILANT) without spiritual connection?

Isn't that the purpose of a vigil, to connect a group to a common goal, whatever the high minded purpose.

Could a football team's huddle be a vigil?  

What other human activities serve a similar purpose to vigils?

I don't think there is anything quite like a vigil, in my mind, a group of people who are concentrating on a good outcome to a highly volatile/low probability of a good outcome event!

But, we wish them luck!

-- GMWF

Here's what you engender

cacoethes scribendi  [L.]  the irresistible urge to write

There may be a blog already, sorry about that...

--

Mikey

140610 10of18 gap

People talk about gap toothed women, most recently Maya Angelou as an example.

As if missing teeth, or having a gap between the top two front teeth, is somehow (take your pick: Sexy, smart, sassy, special, or tawdry, tedious, terse, anything but trendy.

But, gaps can also refer to geographical features, including the "cumberland gap" (Kentucky?)  

And gaps can occur in accounting, like when a budget doesn't cover the expenses incurred.

Gaps appear as a feature of clothing (that doesn't fit well...).

The gap we constantly try to fill, til death do us part, is the gap between our ears.  If we aren't continuously filling this gap with new skills/knowledge/common sense, then we're dead already.

Neurons, are they what's for dinner, or what's dinner for?

Haiku celebrating the dinner cucumber...

Spicy Cucumber

stop making my eyes teary 

Must finish typing...

140609 9of18 !!

!! - they always accused me of doing it wrong.

The bullets.

The capitalization was what killed Leo.  He couldn't stand my caps on each word on the slide

But, I maintain it is for emphasis, to ensure the reader is reading and not seeing boring typography.

When it comes to this !! diacritic or whatever, double exclaimation marks, I seldom use two.

I use 1 ! far too often!!!

So, whether in a note or a more formal presentation, I use ellipsis a lot ... as you can see... here... and here...

Also, the aforementioned exclamation point.

Don't use the question mark as much as I should, keeps the reader in suspense to have to consider questions.

For example, aren't you curious as to how I'll finish the question?

Were you surprised I only used one ? ?

Just sayin'...

It can certainly develop a dialog between writer and reader, to engage the reader in this rather quiet yet intense partnership established over these funny marks and squiggles known as letter...

Those funny symbols used to differentiate thoughts when writing, !@#$% etc., are now even more important than ever, since the chat rooms need #hashtags and {{;--} and the like.

So, be kind to the end of the sentence, even the short period is ever so important.

And, let them know when to be excited, right now, 10 minutes later !!

--

Frish

140608 8of18 keeping it to myself, so as not to pollute.

What She Forgot

What she forgot was nothing compared to what she never knew.

What she forgot could fill volumes.

What she forgot was none of your business.

What she forgot is unimportant.

What she forgot is what hurts.

What she forgot is crucial, and no one knows how to recover her memories.

What she forgot are the exact amounts in the recipe, but the ingredients didn't elude her.

What she forgot she made up for with a garmin gps.

What she forgot he remembered, and vice versa, as luck would have it.

What she forgot kept her locked out of her own house!

What she forgot is that the ship was leaving that night, and therefore the planned rendezvous could never happen.  

What she forgot was how smart her daughter was, since Cindy took control of the situation with ease and grace far more than her years on the planet would seem possible.

(Had to work grace in there, maybe that's another goal for this effort!)

What she forgot meant the world to those she ignored, she killed the rest however.

What she forgot was how a palindrome works.

What she forgot was how to put the car into 4 wheel drive mode, so, while her back tires were slipping in the mud/slush/snow mixture, the front wheels could have pulled the truck back onto the highway, but now, the snow is gently falling, looking to bury her by daybreak!

What she forgot was how 113 degrees F felt over a 10 hour day.

What she forgot was the wine opener, so she used a rock.

What she forgot consumed her, since her memories couldn't be found.

What she forgot was the meaning of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

What she forgot she kept hidden behind the bathroom door where a notebook hung.

What she forgot kept her sane, otherwise every failed attempt would be top of mind, and no further progress could be made. 

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Note the time, I just spent 20 of 26 minutes doing nothing but writing.  

LOL

GMWF

140607 7of18 (I won' put the topic here to influence your results!)

day7 - Poodle

\Back in the day, poodle skirts were all the rage.

I remember Emily, her pink skirt adorned with Minnie Mouse.

And Marilyn, bright blue fabric, with a 56 Chevy applique.

The sock hops just would not be sock hops without poodle skirts!

Back then, the DJs had a stack of 45's to choose from, mounting and dismounting each record by hand.

If there was a band, they usually had a drummer, guitarist, a sax, and a singer.

The Twist, Mashed Potato, Madison, Watusi, Frug (long u!), the Dog, the Chicken and the Pony were all popular for a few months, and we put our all into learning the steps and getting the beat.

No one remembers the dances, but the songs that introduced them remain in the popular culture thanks to oldies stations on the radio.

Of course, after the dance we'd all had to Perkins, or IHOP, or Bridgemans - sometimes ordering the LaLa Palooza, a 26 scoop sundae, with every topping in the house (marshmallow, fudge, caramel, pineapple, peaches, and more).  

8 or 9 of us would share one, getting our chins mighty sticky as we shoveled in our favorite flavors.

I'm glad I lived back then, but wouldn't want to go back, life is as it is and so I'm enjoying as much as possible! 

140606 6of18 him / hymn

Synonyms, they sound alike, but don't mean the same.

Deer / Dear  Him / Hymn

Like people, they can have the same name, but not be at all alike.

Sam and Sam comes to mind.

Sam(a) was meticulous in everything he did.  Totally driven to perfection, the slightest item out of balance would cause a crisis.  He really was meticulous, inspiring, and admirable.

Sam(b) was a slovenly drunk, with a brain like a supercomputer.  Nothing passed it's intellect without inspection.  Not at all charismatic, Sam(b) looked like he smelt bad, although he was hygienic to an unexpected degree.

They never met, although one might suspect some sort of critical mass would occur, with them ending up melting into each other, emerging as one solitary human, no longer on either edge of the human spectrum, but plunked down nearly in the middle, relating and relate-able to everyone who met him.

Such would be a desirable occurrence from both Sam's perspectives, but I'm afraid that will have to happen only in Fantasy Land, since in this lifetime those Sam's were well away from each other...

--

Frish

140605 5of18 Shopping List

I have spent too much time trying to find love on the internet.

Yes, I spent an entire year, and paid for 100 dinners/luncheons/brunches/b-fasts with 100 blind dates.

Some of the women were recovering.

From a bad man.

From a bottle.

From being widowed.

Some of the women were shopping, and even had lists of questions.

My second to last date, before finding someone who I was with for almost a year, was a prime example.

She wanted to know what I had done at IBM, did I hold any patents, and, did my father have any patents?

The theme to Goldfinger rises in the background, 

"Gold Digger, she's not nice, not nice, not even a pinch"

She likes gold...

--

Frish

140604 4of18 and the sun is

140604 and the sun is

Driving home from the desert, traveling west toward the sea. 

The highway looks wet, but it's an illusion due to warn out asphalt and the angle of the sun.

And the sun is glaring, a star-burst caught between sunglasses and front window, distracting and exhausting.

The A/C on full blast only cuts some of the heat from the glowing mass slowly setting directly ahead.

Can't see into the car ahead, but have an unobstructed view to the rear, and the sun is unrelenting as it reveals those behind.

GMWF

Thanks smarty pants.

So, is it a dog's life?

Fixed the posting problem, haven't a clue as to where it went haywire, but created new ID and it went fine.

814 posts

0 followers

(Guess it doesn't matter much if I can post or not, eh what?!)

Determined a LONG time ago I was only amusing myself...but am coalescing around a seed of a germ of an idea regarding growing old and death, both ripe for humor...

That is, a stand up routine about having already experiencing what those invincibles cannot conceive, caring (in my little way) for my now late parents.

So three topics ...

1. Invincibles meet Inevitable!  Facing death is always a rush...

2. Corporate Humor (dilbert) Frish from Marketing (IBM, HP,SUN, .DOTcomDaze)

3. Deep Philosophy  - BEING RIGHT isn't worth much

                        ---witness my followers!

  

ROFL, that's the real humor, no one believes chicken little, and my middle name is Wolf.

(Love it when "they" cry Wolf. (or "Uncle", depending!))

And, I don't follow just about anyone, not sure what it even means, so I'm getting as good as I get.

My ignorance of much of what passes for popular culture is huge.

But I can be funny.  Turns out laughter IS the universal language.

Become a laughing yoga guru...in the comfort and safety of my own home.

followers world wide.

-- 

Frish

Test, est, es.

;

Frish

From a blog re: Loss of Biodiversity could mean end of human race.

Frish F.         4:29pm PDT on Oct 19, 2010

Saying we're going to do a better than the species-cide we're currently committing is interesting. 

Actually doing anything is highly unlikely. 

Why wait to 2020?

It isn't the species large enough to see that I'm worried about, here's a scenario:
it's the bacteria that fixes some nutrient to the food chain, and we don't even know about it, or what we did to destroy it...

Even this site, so committed to sustainability, has, as a goal, the sustainable use of biodiversity.

Think about just one instance: Fisheries and what could/should be the human cull?

Before we had big boats and nylon nets/lines our total consumption of seafood was minimal.
So, how can any human consumption be justified, since we're the invader specie, not the cod/whales/salmon/tuna/sardines/anchovies/shrimp we're scouring out of their ecosystems.

We're an invader specie in every ecosystem we are in, basically.

Without a huge throttle down of fecundity, that is, people having zero to no more than Zero children, the earth will continue to lose species at 1000 times the background rate, we'll continue to poison the atmosphere with CO2, and, increasingly, methane from long frozen sources.

Our modus operandi - From the beginning:

Spoil Our Nest and Move On.

Well, we're spoiling our nest (into near earth orbit, with enough trash to make sending astronauts there is too risky!) but there is no where to move on to.

Don't Have Children.

That's the best way to save the species.

craigslist haiku hotel whereI I'm a haphazard contributor

Why There Are No Extraterrestrial Humanoids < frish > 05/04 13:46:32 

Lack of evidence 
We may be sole sentients 
Universe - silent 

Natural Pathways 
it's all about leftovers 
evolution grinds 

Tech helped us so far 
Overcome nature's limits 
now, we overwhelm 

Universe selects 
against our intelligence 
As we'll soon find out 

So, no aliens! 

www.vhemt.org - be a volunteer if you too believe we've already "booted the pooch". 

Flirt < frish > 05/04 13:20:34 

Yet to meet, eyes glace 
He grins widely, her hand rises 
covering a smile 

--

Frish

How the status quo maintain their power.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/opinion/sunday/the-koch-attack-on-solar-energy.html?_r=0

--

Frish

Over-population is the real cause of climate change – it's killing us all off

http://shar.es/TKRdU

Despite all the warnings of global warming and imminent disaster, it is unlikely that we will change our ways until a real catastrophe actually occurs.

Having worked with emergency managers of many stripes for several years I can say this with assurance: 

Practically no one wants to spend one erg of energy trying to NOT have something happen.  

Reacting, we can do that! (Fukushima anyone?) 

Proactive?  Not so much!  

I can say this however.   For Y2K we definitely saw a cliff and avoided disaster.  Humanity world wide responded and there was little public interruption overall thanks to the $500,000,000,000 (that's .5 trillion USD) spent updating computer programs.  So we "can" get our stuff together when we are motivated.

But I don't see a 'social movement' that is sensibly and morally and committed to "anti-pregnancy" forming anytime soon.

Frishfrish

To whomever's been offended.

So, it is possible I've used a swear word, but, only since Fall 1972. (42 years ago, really Frish?) 

8 hour Archaeology lab every Saturday, on a hill where two freeways meet (8 and 5), that had been a church inside the fort, that burned down, and then became an unofficial cemetery!

We yelled things, loudly, to be heard over the freeway noise, much of it profane. (Presidio Park, San Diego).

Between then and now, I haven't really stopped swearing.

So...

(FROM: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/130800.html)

Excuse my French

Meaning

Please forgive my swearing.

Origin

A coy phrase used when someone who has used a swear-word attempts to pass it off as French. The coyness comes from the fact the both the speaker and listener are of course both well aware the swear-word is indeed English.

This usage is mid 20th century English in origin. A version of it is found in Michael Harrison's All Trees were Green, 1936:

"A bloody sight better (pardon the French!) than most."

The precise phrase comes just a few years later in S.P.E. Tract IV., 1940:

"Excuse my French! (forgive me my strong language)."

The source of the phrase is earlier and derives from a literal usage of the exclamation. In the 19th century, when English people used French expressions in conversation they often apologised for it - presumably because many of their listeners (then as now) wouldn't be familiar with the language. An example of this was given in The Lady's Magazine, 1830:

Bless me, how fat you are grown! - absolutely as round as a ball: - you will soon be as enbon-point (excuse my French) as your poor dear father, the major.

'En bon point' is French for 'plump; well-nourished'. It might seem odd to us now that the speaker, having been rather rude about her compatriot's appearance, felt obliged to apologise for doing so in French, but not for the rudeness itself.

--

Frish

Dog Poo Pros

http://www.livescience.com/44732-eliminating-pet-poop-pollution.html

--

Frish

the U.S., with 4.5% of the world population consumes 40% of all available resources.

http://english.pravda.ru/society/anomal/03-04-2014/127263-consumption-0/

Wow. 

--

Frish

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Should I feel bad for doing this to him?

The man who lied to me and led me on. I took his picture and made a facebook profile and I said "you're handsome" and other sexual stuff in the messages and sent it to the guys at the gym that we both go too. He has not been to the gym all week because his friend told him what happened because I over heard the conversation he had with a guy. Now people think he is you know.... 

was that too much?

Update 1: AM I a psycho??

Update 2: I deleted right after I did it

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• Frishy answered 24 hrs ago

Well here we are in the court of Culture, circa 2014. 

If that's even legal, I'd take the facebooking down, before getting busted for using his image for whatever purposes without permission, lawyers love crap like that. 

Yes that was too much. 

Yes you are psycho. 

No, you cant apologize enough, if no one knows what you did, keep it that way and pray he doesn't get stomped or something.

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Happy to help, in my own special way.

For you world cup fans...

I lived in Rio for 5 months when I was 19.  

Stayed in my parent's Ipanema apartment, and in the best hotels, shilling jewelry.

The language is beautiful.  The futebol is beautiful (soccer that is).

I found this youtube amusing at least, thank my sister for supplying!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE444bnTzjg

Tell me how the Brasilian sense of humor appeals!

Bitchin'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=n_6p-1J551Y

What won't they think of !

 

For you youngsters and non-technophiles, 

"NeXT" was a Computer System that was in the shape of a cube.

--
Frish

Heard today - American English, West Hollywood Accent circa 2014

" 'cause it could be an 'a', ambrella, but its a u."

As spoken/spelt by a recently turned 7 year old this morning (14/03/21)

ahm-brel-uh as in homonym ahm-o-nym 

Dear UXers, twice tonight I've struck gold...focus groupies unite.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2585025/Do-gesTECHulate-Tech-related-hand-gestures-calling-scrolling-emailing-tablets-recognisable-tapping-wrist-asking-time.html

Just what are the UX implications?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2585686/What-dear-Researchers-discover-tiny-nanotunnels-ear-let-tune-conversations.html

Legion I'm certain.

Haiku for Springtime smells

Only flat place around

to walk pets, hockey rink

snow banks all around

One bright winter day

rink warmed - liquids formed puddles

became most frigid night

We played hockey games

That night, couldn't understand

what thawing out meant

Arrived restaurant

melting brought distinct odor

and made our exit

(Pranks by Boys story, Frish 03/17/2014)

Outta here

Today Drove (190) miles

Visiting Santa Paula

And then El Monte!

Tuesday, three visits

Prospects in food, cosmetics

and up near Northridge

I'm not avoiding

Our impending lunch date!

Regardless how seems!

I am traveling

Up to Reno then Vegas

Visiting buddies

Hope new employment

Is both remunerative

and Fulfilling too!

This month is going

as well as any lately

For which I'm grateful

May not have access

On purpose, I need a break!

To much internet...

Thinking of you doll

With the title of world's

Busiest woman

all the best...M

For your Human Caused Climate Chaos denier friends...

From the article:

...an extensive dataset of 1,372 climate

researchers and their publication and citation data...show that (i)

97–98% of the climate researchers most actively publishing in the

field support the tenets of ACC outlined by the Intergovernmental

Panel on Climate Change, and (ii) the relative climate expertise and

scientific prominence of the researchers unconvinced of ACC are

substantially below that of the convinced researchers.

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/06/04/1003187107.full.pdf

--
Frish

Fat Guy (mouth breathin' chatterbox) with the hosts...

--
Alex, the blond, is the artist. (Ajay and Frish, also artists...but no studios) Open Studio Party 140102

The Meat Atlas

WOW - great infographics and info re: animal husbandry, cultivation and consumption...

http://www.boell.de/sites/default/files/meat_atlas2014.pdf

rising meat consumption in Asia

The current industrialized and corporate-led system is doomed to fail. We need a radical overhaul of food and farming if we want to feed a growing world population without destroying the planet.

—Meat Atlas  (love the name!)  Frish

http://asiancorrespondent.com/118935/concern-over-rising-meat-consumption-in-asia/

Download MEAT ATLAS here:

http://www.boell.de/en/2014/01/07/meat-atlas

Frish at counter-protest of Westboro Baptist Church 2014 Golden Globes

Ah, the fun we have!  Stationed across the street from the entrance to the globes, all the limos with stars passed by, some giving me the high sign...(those who had their windows open that is...).  

For any unfamiliar with this particular "Christian" sect, their home page can't be topped for letting you know who they are...they like protesting military funerals too...

http://www.godhatesfags.com/

It is truly sad how much of their lives they spend hating...got to listen to an Anti-Semitic screed as they left, to the tune of Hatikva (Israeli National Anthem...) with one of the young men gleeful at how the Jews he sang it to were outraged "at the end of every line"...quite a topper to a surrealistic afternoon.

Global Warming - infographic on possibility of containment

http://www.mapsofworld.com/poll/can-global-warming-be-contained.html

"Enjoy" the prognosis...

Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink...

http://www.livescience.com/41381-11-billion-people-climate-change.html

A recent United Nations analysis of world population trends indicates global population growth shows no signs of slowing, with current projections estimating a staggering 11 billion people could inhabit the planet by the year 2100, faster growth than previously anticipated.

(Only validates our stance, live long and die out...)

 

Frish

The business owners aren't buying the contraceptives...it's none of their business literally!

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-contraceptives-obamacare-20131103,0,3235496.story#axzz2jpBw4bGc

So effin' asinine.  It's a medical decision, nothing to do with their morals/values/prudishness...

Even the Supremes will rule against this one...(I can only hope...)

I also object to Religious Organizations having an objection, it is up to each parishioner to follow their own conscience...

Halloween is approaching, Sr. Muerto is stirring in his grave...

For 50 +/- years I've worn an ever improving outfit for Halloween.

I call him "Sr. Muerto" since it's MY DAY (of the dead that is!)

Sr. Muerto and Jack from Cookoo's Nest, 2010

Sr. Muerto takes a selfie, 2011

Pic was AFTER 6 hours at West Hollywood Halloween Carnival 

that happens three blocks from my house, how convenient!

2006 included this effort

A SueF Yelp!

This was from my mother's Yelp page that I accidentally got into tonight...

Kim's Nail Care  

Category: Nail Salons 
Neighborhoods: Mid-City West, West Hollywood

 6/1/2011

this is the best!!!!!! nail care shop in lalaland.  Kim is a genius who can create any pattern you can think of.  besides all that the shop is immaculate and the other folks who work there are courteous, kind and most helpful  i have been going there for the better part of 20 years
try it i know l'll love it!.

The bottom line is what it is, I've been told.

No accounting for taste...

This note got the attention of a $XXBN (particular industry not to be named) group that needs boxes...got an invite to visit next week, and while there is many a slip between the cup and the lip, especially for me, I don't drink coffee...but this might just be the top of the golden pyramid!

I sound so sincere...

From: Frish

Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 10:17 AM

To: Robert

Subject: Paperboard production - intro to Frish

Robert, I'm the lead sales/marketing person here at Supreme, I bring more fun…see attached!

We are Los Angeles County's newest paperboard provider, about 12 miles from your plant!  (Easy press checks for you, short drive for proofing for me!)

*We came from a high end commercial printing (marketing materials) heritage, and apply our outstanding ability to put dots on paper to packaging!

I understand you have a project with a near term deadline.

Some Philosophy:

We don't charge extra for plates or dies, we invest in you first, since we're confident you'll be back.

I only do business ethically, and, when you share schedule/pricing we won't take the job if we can't do it for that price in the time allotted.

We ONLY provide SUSTAINABLE PRICING – pricing we're happy to honor for the long term.

We're family owned and hit above our weight, thanks to our pre-media operation (we support Honda Motors and McDonald's ad agencies for consistent colors everywhere)

When your work is in the house it's all we are concentrating on.

One thing I know for sure, we won't be doing business unless we meet!

Samples?  Would I show you a bad one?  They are almost useless to evaluate a packaging provider!

If I don't hear from you first, I'll call you again later today.

Frish

Paperboard Packaging - Unit Container, Folding Carton, POP

131001 Another wildlife headline

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131001115648.htm

The grand experiment Humans have unleashed upon the planet will be replete with observation, right to the end.

131001 Two of today's headlines, all is well, nothing to worry about...

• 10,000 walrus come ashore in northwest Alaska
• Wave of jellyfish shuts down Swedish nuke reactor

Glad I don't live near the Arctic.

The potential for human colonization of other planets...

We are quickly proving we can't even keep living on Planet Earth...yet some believe our future is among the stars!

I blame a common delusion on at least part of the problem: 

"We're "unlike" other creatures, and therefore not subject to the same rules."

Here's a nice wiki, with loads of depth for those interested in "trying to understand the effects and the impact long space travel has on the human body".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_spaceflight_on_the_human_body

We aren't going anywhere (even Mars) soon or fast.

If we knew enough to build a multi-generational starship (sustainable ecosystem included!) we'd know enough to keep ourselves alive right here on Earth, no need to leave!

The best discussion of Fractals in everyday life!

http://news.yahoo.com/earths-biggest-deep-earthquake-still-mystery-180428737.html

The mechanics of the Earth's mantle and that of a single crystal of mineral are similar.

Fart

	1. 1-man salute  2. 7.4 on the Rectum scale  3. Acid-rain maker  4. After the thunder comes the rain  5. Air bagel  6. Airbrush your boxers  7. Anal acoustics  8. Anal ahem  9. Anal audio  10. Anal salute  11. Anal volcano  12. Arse blast  13. Ass blaster  14. Ass-scented methane  15. Ass biscuit  16. Ass thunder  17. Ass whistle  18. A turd whistling for the right of way  19. Backdoor breeze  20. Backfire  21. Bad sprinkling  22. Baking brownies  23. Barking spiders  24. Bean blower  25. Beep your horn  26. Belch from behind  27. Better open a window  28. Blast off  29. Blast the chair  30. Blasting the ass trumpet  31. Blat  32. Blow ass  33. Blow mud  34. Blow the big brown horn  35. Blowing the butt bugle  36. Blowing you a kiss  37. Bomber  38. Bottom blast  39. Bottom burp  40. Break the sound barrier without a plane  41. Break wind  42. Breath of fresh air  43. Brown horn brass choir  44. Brown thunder  45. Bun shaker  46. Burnin' rubber  47. Buster  48. Busting ass  49. Butt bleat  50. Butt burp  51. Butt hair harmony  52. Butt percussion  53. Butt trauma  54. Butt trumpet  55. Butt tuba  56. Buttock bassoon  57. Cheek flapper  58. Cheesin'  59. Colonic calliope  60. Crack a rat  61. Crack one off  62. Crack splitters  63. Crimp off some breakfast biscuits  64. Crop dusting (surreptitiously farting while passing thru a cube farm, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust)  65. Crowd splitter  66. Cut a stinker  67. Cut loose  68. Cut the cheese  69. Cut the wind  70. Death Breath  71. Deflate  72. Doing the one-cheek sneak  73. Doorknob  74. Drop a barking spider  75. Drop a bomb  76. Drop ass  77. Dropped a bomb  78. Eggy  79. Empty my tank  80. Exercising the meat nozzle (not sure if this one doesn't belong in a different category)  81. Exploding bottom  82. Explosion between the legs  83. Exterminate  84. Fart  85. Fire a stink torpedo  86. Fire the retro-rocket  87. Firing scud missiles  88. Fizzler  89. Flame thrower  90. Flamer  91. Flapper  92. Flatulate  93. Flatulence  94. Flatus  95. Flipper  96. Float an air biscuit  97. Floof  98. Fluffy  99. Fog slicer  100. Fowl howl  101. Fragrant fuzzy  102. Free-floating anal vapors  103. Free Jacuzi  104. Freep  105. Frequency Actuated Rectal Tremor  106. Fumigate  107. Funky rollers  108. Gas attack  109. Gas blaster  110. Gas from the ass  111. Gas master  112. Gaseous intestinal by-products  113. Ghost turd  114. Give a dirty look at the person next to you  115. Grandpa  116. Gravy pants  117. Great brown cloud  118. Hailing Emperor Crush  119. Hey, did you fart? Because you blew me away! (pick-up line)  120. Heinus anus  121. Hole flappage  122. Hole flapper  123. Honk  124. HUMrrhoids  125. Hydrogen bomb  126. I made a pootie  127. If you are that embarrassed about it, you can always blame it on me.  128. Ignition  129. Insane in the methane  130. Invert a burp  131. It's low tide  132. Jet propulsion  133. Jockey burner  134. Jumping guts  135. Just calling your name  136. Just keeping warm  137. Just the noise  138. Kaboom  139. K-Fart  140. Kill the canary  141. Lay a wind loaf  142. Lay an air biscuit  143. Leave a gas trap  144. Let a beefer  145. Let each little bean be heard  146. Let one fly  147. Let one go  148. Let the beans out  149. Lethal cloud  150. Letting one rip  151. Lingerer  152. Made a gas blast  153. Make a stink  154. Make a trumpet of one's ass (John Milton)  155. Mating call of the barking spider  156. Methane Bomb  157. Methane production experiment  158. Moon gas  159. Mud duck  160. Must be a sewer around  161. Nose death  162. Odor bubble  163. Odorama  164. One man jazz band  165. One-gun salute  166. Painting the elevator  167. Pant stainer  168. Panty burp  169. Parp  170. Party in your pants  171. Pass gas  172. Pass wind  173. Play the tuba  174. Playing the trouser tuba  175. Plotcher (aka a wet one ... bad form, points taken off for emmitting one of these)  176. Poof  177. Poop gas  178. Poot  179. Pop  180. Pop a fluffy  181. Preventing Spontaneous Human Combustion (South Park)  182. Prove it  183. Prupe (Norwegian--the E has two dots over it)  184. Puff, the Magic Dragon  185. Quack  186. Rebuild the ozone layer one poof at a time  187. Rectal honk  188. Rectal shout  189. Rectal tremor  190. Release a squeeker  191. Release an ass buscuit  192. Release gas  193. Rep  194. Rimshot  195. Rip ass  196. Rip one  197. Ripple fart  198. Roast the Jockeys  199. Rotting vegetation  200. Safety  201. Salute your shorts  202. SAS (silent and scentless)  203. SBD (silent but deadly)  204. Set off an SBD  205. Shit fumes  206. Shit honker  207. Shit vapor  208. Shoot the cannon  209. Shoppin' at Wal-Fart  210. Silent but deadly (SBD)  211. Singe the carpet  212. Singing the Anal Anthem  213. Skunk smells his own smell first!  214. Sounding the sphincter scale  215. Sounds like a barking spider  216. Sounds like a wompus cat  217. Sphincter song  218. Spit a brick  219. Squeak one out  220. Squeeker  221. Steamer  222. Step on a duck  223. Step on a frog  224. Stink bomb  225. Stink Burger  226. Strangling the stank monkey  227. Stress release  228. Tail wind  229. Telegraph from Ft. A-hole to Cmdr. Nostril announcing the arrival of Gen. Shat  230. That felt good  231. The closest you get to craping while standing up  232. The colonic calliope  233. The dog did it  234. The F bomb  235. The gluteal tuba  236. The Sound and the Fury  237. The stink's gone into the fabric  238. The third state of matter  239. The toothless one speaks  240. Thunder pants  241. Thunderspray  242. Toilet tune  243. Toot  244. Toot your own horn  245. Trelblow  246. Triple flutter blast  247. Trouser cough  248. Trouser trumpet  249. Turd honking  250. Turd hooties  251. Turn on the A/C in your large intestine  252. Uncorked symphony  253. Under burp  254. Venting one  255. Wet one  256. What smell?  257. What the dog did  258. Whoever smelt it dealt it  259. Wrong way burping  260. Your voice has changed, but your breath is still the same.  261. Zinger

Funky Fukushima

As of today, 130918, the plant is reported to be:  "generating 800 tons of contaminated water per day".

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/japan-pm-to-take-firsthand-look-at-fukushima-plant-to-quell-fear-over-radioactive-water-leak/2013/09/18/afeec678-20c7-11e3-ad1a-1a919f2ed890_story.html

This one said 300

http://www.policymic.com/articles/58433/fukushima-nuclear-plant-still-leaking-300-tons-of-waste-a-day

This one said on the order of 400

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/8/28/as_fukushima_raises_severity_level_nuclear

Perhaps the "truth will out" since it's so much worse than Chernobyl, they aren't even on the same scale. 

Thanks G.E. for the design...

"The storage pools are packed with radioactive uranium, rise several stories above ground and are always close to the reactor, thus facilitating easy transfer of the fuel rods. " from...

http://www.thenation.com/article/159234/fukushimas-spent-fuel-rods-pose-grave-danger#axzz2fJa9FDEt

Storage pools of intense radioactivity several stories UP (They Are Really HEAVY).

Tsunami AND earthquake country.  

Way to go General Electric and TEPCO, even Godzilla's warning didn't help!

100's of years...won't be enough to erase this stain...

To those pronatalists who think we can bend the environment to support any number of people

Recent editorials let us all know that HISTORICALLY technology saved our (collective) asses and so, the writers expect that will occur again, "we can shape the environment to suit our needs" I read somewhere...

Here's a little news:

http://news.yahoo.com/massive-underwater-mountains-churn-ocean-waters-172424446.html

My point is, we don't even know how the planet operates so, how can we possibly apply technology in a nuanced way, to do no more damage, and second, third, and fourth provide for our future on an ecologically "stable" planet?

The chaotic forces humans have unleashed will have their way with us.

Doomsday Preppers from the past!

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/13/tech/social-media/apparently-this-matters-amazing-doomsday-bunker-for-sale/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn

The road map for retirement success!

Thanks to an online planning tool, seems I only have to save 162% of my income to secure my retirement.

Problem solved!

Frish

File under: Hard to be believe fiile...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/pregnant-women-selling-positive-pregnancy-tests-online-article-1.1443432

"Play a joke..." The joke is on those who ARE pregnant...and, unfortunately, on the rest of us...

The Darwin Awards Condom (Item is no longer available...)

This is our kind of URL...lol 

(Mentions Population Control Volunteers!)

Keep yourself out of the gene pool!

http://cgi.darwinawards.com/cgi/vote.pl?

Friends don't let friends reproduce!

The Darwin Awards are really great reading.

http://www.darwinawards.com/

Documenting the "limit" of Human Stupidity!

You are still connected to Verizon, I'm going to release the call...

The subject line was the signoff of the Verizon tech that recovered my contacts for my cell phone...She signed onto my phone(!) and fixed things from there, with a little help from my thumb.

It reminded me of the following "Pranks by Boys"* story.  *My brand name...

Circa 1987 - Some Telecommunication Association Trade Show

ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network  was all he rage, simultaneous voice, video, data, etc. over the same wire...

The telecoms were saying:  "ISDN  -  I see Dollars Now"

The customers were saying: "ISDN - I Still Don't kNow!"

I was walking the show floor beforehand, so I would know where every competitor and partner were located, and I happened upon the "Telco Equipment Provider TEP" booth.

They had a private ISDN network set up with a Phone and Data connection between their scenario real estate office and the mortgage banker.

The actual hardware setup, about which I inquired before they started, was a tractor trailer outside the hall, with cables like elephant trunks emanating along the periphery...looping onto the show floor and back...running some ridiculous speed with an ISDN wrapper, the two terminals were side by side... 

They did a fine demo, and then, when it was over, I said...

"So, the Real Estate Agent is seeing the Banker's screen with the loan offer, and then the phone call is over, since they hang up, but what hung up the data connection, won't the real estate agent still see what's on the Banker's screen???  

Like, when he pulls up some confidential transaction...

Not ONE of my clients will be impressed by your demo, au contraire (French being a language with which they were familiar...)"

They read my badge more closely

Frish

New Product Launch Manager

Communication Systems - IBM (Before there was Networking LOL )

Then they LITERALLY pulled the plug on the demo, showing it to exactly no one else the entire show...$300,000 fizzled in a flash and a whimper!

"Have a good show!" shared I while skipping down the aisle.

They actually thanked me.

It's the unintended messages that are the hardest to control.

Glad Verizon both recovered my contacts and knows how to end a voice/data call!

Climate and Human Violence...Science Mag abstract

Just the abstract, copied below, is enough.  no need to pay for the article...it's all here!

"A rapidly growing body of research examines whether human conflict can be affected by climatic changes. 

Drawing from archaeology, criminology, economics, geography, history, 

political science, and psychology, we assemble and analyze the 60 most rigorous quantitative studies 

and document, for the first time, a remarkable convergence of results. 

We find strong causal evidence linking climatic events to human conflict 

across a range of spatial and temporal scales and across all major regions of the world. 

The magnitude of climate's influence is substantial: 

for each 1 standard deviation (1σ) change in climate toward warmer temperatures or more extreme rainfall, 

median estimates indicate that the frequency of interpersonal violence rises 4% 

and the frequency of intergroup conflict rises 14%. 

Because locations throughout the inhabited world are expected to warm 2 to 4σ by 2050, 

amplified rates of human conflict could represent a large and critical impact of anthropogenic climate change."

From: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/07/31/science.1235367

When a scientific peer reviewed article finds CAUSAL EVIDENCE of HUMAN CONFLICT there can't be many things more important... 

Wonder who is reading Science...

Fwd: Driving himself. Crazy!

http://news.yahoo.com/not-car-bicycle-blend-elf-vehicle-150201864.html

World Population,three scenarios

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World-Population-1800-2100.png

That graph of UN estimates is not color blind.  Let's assume the green scenario is correct.

We'll still have at least 7 billion on the planet for the next 77 years or so...

Being that many doesn't mean we're "winning" somehow...

Frish - ChildFree and Loving It!

Have a pet, not a child (a new byline for we who are vehement)

http://www.kmbz.com/Dog-to-Owner-Relationships-Similar-to-That-of-Babi/16677169

'Shark Tank' Really Worth 5% Of Your Company? Business Owners Say 'Absolutely' - Forbes

To my clients who have already swum with Sharks, and other, potential Shark Tankers:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jjcolao/2013/06/13/is-shark-tank-really-worth-5-of-your-company-business-owners-say-absolutely/

The Problem of Republicans

Republicans have the following simple problem.

They LIE about everything, or say they believe in lies.

1. Evolution ? Never happened!
2. Human caused climate chaos? Not now, not ever.
3. More guns make us safer. (Huh?)
4. There is a 'debt crisis' (not.)
5. There is a 'deficit crisis' (not) (neither are a CRISIS. Both are manageable.)
6. Some people ought to have special rights under the Constitution (Married Man and Woman (only)).
7. Abortion is somehow worse than an elective war. Why don't my tax dollars NOT be spent on elective wars, but instead allow medical treatment for women without government interference? Where is the true outrage, from a moral perspective.
8. Rich people get tax breaks so there will be more jobs (what kind of disconnect are they experiencing? And, reinstating tax rates that were lowered "temporarily" is NOT a tax increase...)
9. We're in trouble with low numbers of Latino's liking the platform, so we'll pander to whatever we have to in order to gain their votes...

Can't wait for 2014 to get to a supermajority Democratic House and Senate.

For Gerontologists + those of us who aspire to be studied by them, for a long time...

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-to-gain-or-lose-30-minutes-of-life-everyday

To (Banana) Slug Fans everywhere (Forward to Quest...etc.)

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/giant-flourescent-pink-slugs-140528983.html

Inferno

"The book subscribes to no faith, but does contain a moral, from Dante himself: inaction during a time of crisis is a sin. Overpopulation, Brown says, is an issue so profound that all of us need to ask what should be done. The author himself has not decided."

http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/dan-brown-s-inferno-links-dante-overpopulation/article_c5690821-4c65-53aa-bbea-3fc5c923c3d6.html

Frish says: Should be a fun read, and, having our issue be the focus of a well respected/read author, even if fiction, can't be a bad thing.