scadams in one page

neat

quot.e

The lyfe so short, the craft so long to lerne,
Th’ assay so hard, so sharpe the conquering.
The Assembly of Fowles. Line 1.
Chaucer

I know !! what a bother. It's such a pain.
Why can't things be easy, I say

my generation

wherever I seem to go, the 'm' word causes angst, depression, panic ....

the word 'arranged' has been promoted to Evil status

some things ..

like these ...

mirrors

You take the population of vehicles in the field (A) and
multiply it by the probable rate of failure (B), multiply the
result by the average cost of an out-of-court settlement (C).
A times B times C equals X.
If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.


page 30, Fight Club, Chuck Pahlanuik, fiction

-X- -X- -X-

500 fatalities X $200,000/fatalities
---------------------------------------- = $2.40/automobiles
41,000,000 automobiles

The cost to General Motors of ensuring that fuel tanks did
not explode in crashes, estimated by the company to be $8.59
per automobile, meant the company could save $6.19($8.59 minus
$2.40) per automobile if it allowed people to die in fuel-fed
fires than alter the design of vehicles to avoid such fires


Page 63, The Corporation, Joel Bakan, non-fiction

-X- -X- -X-

I didn't say it would be easy, Neo

a skyful of gold

photo by the pink-polka-dottie

solitary

photo by pink-polka-dottie

earplugs

no no, mindplugs

"No! No different. Only different in your mind. You must unlearn
what you have learned."
- fictional little green guy with big ears and funny english

"Awareness is about unlearning"
- fictional ancient guy in red plaid blanket

"There is no spoon"
- fictional weird little kid with shaven head

empty

fallacy

from the fallacy files

"He who knows only his own side of the case,
knows little of that. His reasons may be good,
and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons
on the opposite side; if he does not so much as
know what they are, he has no ground for preferring
either opinion."

Source: John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

awesome

This beats the socks off any other stuff I've seen

lone gnome
amidst lands of snow
disappearing strands of gold


watch the video here


again, you'd need a fast net connection and Windows to watch

street, nashville

If you stand on tiptoe, you can see the line of people trying to
get some pancakes. Fido is on the right. Pangea on the left.
I think.

autumn in nashville

photo by the pink-polka-dottie

visiting the una

the una lives in guitar land.

the airport's like a big sea of colored blinking lights.
the plane's engines kinda cut out after the initial thrust-y
run which launches you into the air. you get the distinct impressions
that some fool has turned off the engines and that the plane is going
to fall.so many drinks with ice.
chicago from above. i love chicago. it is the heart of this part of the country.
most of my flights passed thru it.there are some of my people in it.
and it looks like something out of this world at night. from the sky.
lines of gold and blinking yellow.a grid. my heart overflows with joy at
the beauty of it.the napkins that southwest provides with its iced drinks show
a map of america. chicago is a small dot on it. it doesn't look like that at all
from the plane window.
woodlands,fido,chilis,padthai.
armored dwarves,elves and goblins with padded weapons.
i miss the una.

voices

As a general rule, the most successful man is one who has the best information.

Benjamin Disraeli, statesman

I believe in my own divinity - and yours

Elbert Hubbard, Author

"If you really want to enslave people,
tell them that you're going to give them total
freedom."
-- L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology

cool

me likey

Have you talked to your astrologer lately ?

the big birds

umm, you'll need a fast net connection for a dekko

tough

tough luck. It's not easy being Cinderella at the stroke

of twelve.

the past

lurks around the corner

waiting to follow

as night follows day

to defend, it would

help if you know

what you are defending

disturbing

1. This guy predicts an earthquake will hit kerala by the end of this year.

2. I.T trade unions. I wish one could just say no.