False Positive

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

Got an invite to ELLO - Want one?

ELLO is the non-facebook facebook.  

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

Have yet to use it.

Then I saw this vid:

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

Fwd: Good news, starting December 2nd!

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

Holy Shiite Batman!

Tornado rips roofs in Washington state

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

Up your alley, why publish however? LOL

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

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

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

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

future of city living snapshot 141016 evening

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Frish

WASP 3D House Printer!

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

Dear Thinkenstein: 

They're DOING IT DUDE!  

Termite House Printer!!!

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

Fwd:

My new phone takes pictures.

They have always said

I 'took after my mother"

She gets last laugh-line!

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

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

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

2,600,000,000,000 lbs

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

        That eliminates 10400000000 pounds 

                                  or 

               

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Frish 

www.vhemt.org 

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

To Halloween fans everywhere...

Greetings!

Oct 31, 2014 is on a Friday.

Two Blocks South of my abode:

Biggest Halloween event west of the Mississippi, or east - (Largest on the Planet!)! 

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

Spurious Correlations!

http://tylervigen.com/

People who drowned after falling out of a fishing boat
correlates with
Marriage rate in Kentucky

Frish

Joining the Inner Hive

I may have to Join The Hive!   Probably the last of all my friends to do so, I'm sure.

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Frish

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.

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.

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!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/magazine/09babies-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/video/magazine/1247467772000/can-babies-tell-right-from-wrong.html

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

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?

Another good reason to learn sign language...

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/530641/the-challenges-and-threats-of-automated-lip-reading/

Telepathy is becoming real...

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/14888/20140904/brain-to-brain-communication-from-india-to-france-how-telepathy-is-mastered.htm

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

Joan Rivers' doctors assess severity of brain damage

Difficult under any circumstances.

Music and memory lane...

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-08-favourite-song-memory-lane.html#nwlt

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!!)

The sound doesn't work on my home computer...

Saw this thought of you...

http://mashable.com/2014/08/27/chelsea-lately-finale/

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...)

Always thought it was the same god...

Tough to know the players, without a program.*

http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/hand-of-god-sent-missile-into-sea/

Why didn't he just have all the bombs miss too?

Jews, hated by more than most!

Will be tough to live in Europe, come the pogrom!

#ScaryHeadline

Liberia shuts schools as Ebola spreads, Peace Corps leaves three countries

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...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/27/us-health-ebola-africa-idUSKBN0FV0NL20140727

(In other cases, I've heard Chinese Herbal Medicine can help...other things...)

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Frish

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 

http://www.instructables.com/member/Thinkenstein/

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".

Lloyd

On 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!).

http://tripthinkenstein2011.blogspot.com/

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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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

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.

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

44th annual big horn sheep count

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Frish

You'd better work on your SHRIEK

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-largest-flying-bird-fossil-pelagornis-sandersi-20140707-story.html

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.

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Frish

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.

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Frish

My friend Alex painted a child's room, with Heroic Characters on a Gotham skyline!

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!

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!

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.

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

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

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.

-- GMWF

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