Fwd: Had to share

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

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Frish

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

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

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

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

The Anthropocene Extinction Track Listing:

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

What goes in Inglewood already happened in Inglewood...

From a resume received just now!

05/2013 - 01/2013 Starbucks Inglewood, CA

(Perhaps decaf?)

Marketing Gold

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

That's the product page.

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

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

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Frish

A really good idea, that's also very funny

Minister of Research, Prof. Dr. Johanna Wanka

Reiner Mangold, Head of Sustainable Product Development at AUDI AG

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

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

To a young salesperson

To a former print buyer, now life insurance agent:

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

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

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

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

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

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

REFERRALS SELL BETTER THAN ALMOST ANYTHING

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Frish

Progress

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

Jesus

Jesus

159306 trade show booty

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

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

My badge said: Michael Frishberg.

I asked if it could be Frish Frishberg.

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

Tonight's dinner

Under melted cheese
onion jalapeño nest
A hamburger hides

End of an era

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Honest Valentines day cards.

ENTJ

Meyers Briggs Result

"The Executive"

Ho Ho Ho

If abortion is murder...

BRIDGE CHAT

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

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

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

Perhaps "WOW" means something entirely different in Chinese? 

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

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

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

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

And we parted friends.  

My pacifistic tendencies continue to serve.

Your illness, my muse

JS

I'm making illness

Coughing, hacking, sneezing, ache

my muse for tonight

When am I grateful?

Not the morning,  how passe.

For me, it's at night.

I go to bed naked

and assess each part of me

toe to tip to top

As I register

each organelle and feature

let them drop away

And, if by the end

each part of me is floaty

Nice senselessly numb

Then i know I'm good

and fall asleep easily

curious about dawn

Can't think of worse fate

to lead painful existence

I'll settle for numb

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

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

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

Frish

Look out there's a monster coming!

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

Programmable Matter

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Frish

Hilarious title

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

Irrational Nonsense Diagram

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

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

Quite an interesting research facility!

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

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

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

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

Prank Boy

2014 Halloween prep

Frish

Was that UI or P-UI?

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

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

Dear Scared Scientists

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

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

My new 'favorite' stats:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

www.vhemt.org

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

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

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

Scared Scientists

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

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

http://www.scaredscientists.com/

Frish 

Volunteer since 1964

Get ready for this HCI (human computer interaction!)

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

FYI from the pope hisownself.

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

Like the rats leaving a sinking ship perhaps...

Hawaii officials warn of possible lava evacuation

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

False Positive

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

Got an invite to ELLO - Want one?

ELLO is the non-facebook facebook.  

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

Have yet to use it.

Then I saw this vid:

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

Fwd: Good news, starting December 2nd!

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

Holy Shiite Batman!

Tornado rips roofs in Washington state

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

Up your alley, why publish however? LOL

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

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

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

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

future of city living snapshot 141016 evening

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Frish

WASP 3D House Printer!

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

Dear Thinkenstein: 

They're DOING IT DUDE!  

Termite House Printer!!!

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

Fwd:

My new phone takes pictures.

They have always said

I 'took after my mother"

She gets last laugh-line!

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

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

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

2,600,000,000,000 lbs

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

        That eliminates 10400000000 pounds 

                                  or 

               

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Frish 

www.vhemt.org 

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

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

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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!