March 26, 2007 at 3:11 am · Filed under brain, science, social
Think of the number of subatomic particles in a grain of sand, of the billions of electrons, neutrons, protons, and all their myriad variants and constituents that make up such a small thing. Now think of something larger, like the entire beach where you found the grain of sand.
March 19, 2007 at 8:15 am · Filed under computers, culture, internet
I got an email with the subject “See How Smart You Are – Take Our Free IQ Test.” I couldn’t figure out how to open the test.
Another email was bannered; “Al – Learn how to qualify.” When I opened it I discovered that the body was blank. Apparently I’m unlikely to become qualified anytime soon.
March 19, 2007 at 2:46 am · Filed under culture, social
What’s up with plain old base reality? We don’t like what we get? Well, we’ll just bend it, twist it, shove it, and presto-changeo – something new and improved will pop up.
Satisfied with the Civic? Hell no! Let’s make us some SUV’s – Why settle for a puddle hopper when we can jump the whole damn lake? What? You say the lake is now filled with oil? Well, Duuuuh! Presto-changeo – The Escalade!
March 19, 2007 at 1:37 am · Filed under TV, culture, social
I was thinking of George Carlin’s “Seven Dirty Words” the other day when by pure chance I saw the oddest thing on TV. There was a program on The History Channel of all places, about breasts. Not the ones on chickens, but the ones on human females. Boobs, tits, headlights, knockers. You know, those kinds of breasts.
March 19, 2007 at 1:33 am · Filed under magic, relationships, social
One can debate and refute magic forever, and many do, mostly those who refuse by way of reason magic’s provenance, or those, who by their unfortunate nature, see nothing they have been told they cannot see. And then there are those of us who might perchance have fallen into this denial but for luck. For it is a proven fact that if magic happens to one, with the full force and presence of its beauty, it can no longer be denied.
The table thus set, I spin a tale of magic.
March 16, 2007 at 11:12 am · Filed under environment, gaia, relationships, social
Visiting a friend in hospital, you leave her room to get some coffee. Walking down the hall toward the vending area you spy a towel on the floor. A few feet beyond the towel stands one of those all-purpose carts — the kind used by the janitorial staff. Reasonably assuming that the towel has just fallen from the cart, and being the fastidious citizen that you are, you bend over, pick it up, and toss it into the cart’s wastecan just as two orderlies charge down the corridor toward you. They look at you, eyes wide, and say, voices trembling: “That fell from a tear in the bottom of the waste bag on the bio-hazard cart; it’s contaminated with rabies virus!”
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