“NO! … Try not! … Do or do not… there is no try.” (To do it justice, you must say the word try with all the revulsion and disgust you can put on it. Like you were talking about a rapist, a child murderer, or a politician!) — Yoda (Fictional character from George Lucas’s “Star Wars” movie)
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NANOWRIMO tomorrow!
Argh!
Am I being overly optimistic at my modest abilities?
50k word novel in 30 days.
“Joan D’Arc”
(I am allowed to outline, but not write prior to the 01 November start!)
# Visit the farm
## Meet the girls Sue and Shaw
## Meet the boys “ugly” Douggie and “dreamy” Pete
## Food’s good
## Private time with Unk the Hunk
## Family dinner discussion
## Love the dogs
## Peaceful stream
## Thunderstorms
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# Summer Vacation
## Please? May I?
## The Bus Ride
## “Her dog”
## Swiming
## Running
## Exploring
## Too much fun
## The Family comes to collect her
## Can’t stay
## Unk gives her a BOB!
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# Collapse
## economic collapse
## bad few days
## crime
## break in
## retaliation
## bug out
## the drive
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# Farming
## Cows
## Crops
## Smuggling
## Going to Church, nice lady and child
## Puppy love
## Brotherly love
## What is Unk’s business?
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# Secession
## The Sheeple awake
## Tanks and mountains don’t mix
## Taxes and evasion
## Social security
## No welfare
## No Gooferment Skrules
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# The Gentle War
## The Mixer
## Prostitution
## A garden party
## Sleep with my sister
## Exlax with your chocolate soda
## May I spit in your food?
## Chemical warfare
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# UN Invasion
## Propaganda
## Order Number One
## Power control
## Water control
## Movement control
## Massacre
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# Getting Nasty
## Dangerous to be out alone
## Taking middle fingers
## Moonshine
## RPGs
## Tunnels
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# The denoument
## Hearts ‘n’ minds
## Withdraw to the cities
## Starvation siege
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# The Final Battle
## Ignore the feint
## Draw them in
## Your trump is trumped
## “They have stingers”
## Bang the gong slowly
## Blow the escape routes
## Rush the limo
## Killing kids ‘n’ cutting heads
## confession and sorrow
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# Winning
## General Strike
## Peaceful & Violence
## Gandhi-like
## Political dispute
## The People sleep no more
## The new system
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# Peace
## Romeo marries Juliet
## Royalists depart
## Trials in absencia
## The People’s Court
## Children
## Last visit to Unk’s watering hole
## Death
## Honor
## “Where have all the flowers gone”
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# Epilogue
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Now “no margin; no mission”.
There’s a fund raising component for this weird activity.
(If I’m the leading fundraiser, they will give me a writing course. I’m sure many of you would like that!)
Anyone who does kick in, I’ll send you my output.
Why you would want it is beyond me?
Maybe if you kick in, I promise NOT to send it to you. (Ask my relatives who got one of my books as Christmas presents! Revenge. I can do it again this year.)
Laff.
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http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-10-habits-of-highly-successful-hunter-gatherers/#axzz2glGmraDk
The 10 Habits of Highly Successful Hunter-Gatherers
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Habit #4: Be Present
We can all do a self-inventory now of the attention we give our phones or other technological devices. We can confess to ourselves how much we let residual work infiltrate our personal lives. Don’t forget what I think is one of our biggest trip-ups in modern living: the penchant for mental chatter. Truth be told, how much time do we spend caught up in replaying a conversation from the previous evening, imagining multiple stressful scenarios that might take place when we confront a certain person about x, y, and z, worrying about what other people think of our outfit or hair today? Let’s face it, our modern disconnect is rampant distraction.
Can you imagine if Grok walked across the savanna perpetually lost in thought about his latest wardrobe experiment? (As if he ever saw his reflection anyway…) He wouldn’t last long enough for it to matter. For our ancestors, life was an exercise in continual hyper-vigilance. Not every second, but close. It wasn’t just the risk of becoming another creature’s dinner either. Attentiveness also meant watching for weather, catching migratory patterns, and deciphering water sources – just to name a few examples.
The Primal Connection is to be found in giving the moment your full attention. It’s about minding the difference between thoughtful deliberation or reflection and so-called monkey brain. It’s about throwing off the strangling self-absorption we trap ourselves in every day standing in line with our phones or with our mental chatter. See the people, places, and possibilities in front of you. Feed this “highly successful” habit by observing your loved ones – all the changes and uniqueness that’s right there to be appreciated. Go on a walk with the goal of finding at least a dozen things you’ve never noticed. Use mindfulness check-ins to remember to come down from the mental busyness and come back to center throughout the day.
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It’s hard not to “multi-task”.
It’s not like we are computers.
And even when they “multitask”, there is a certain about of inefficiency in doing it.
I remember coding BALR 14,15, Using 15, with all sorts of saving and restoring. That’s all “wasted effort”. We used to carefully consider if the “overhead” was worth the “gain”.
Sitting just doing one thing. Fully engaged. With no distraction. Is the closest thing we get here on the dirt.
If you’ve ever been in “the zone”, it’s as if time stands still. (And, I’ve had some Theology lecture that proved the principle that Hell is real and unending!)
If you’ve NEVER been in “the zone”, how sad!!!
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It appears that I lost the word, power point, and excel equivalents?
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Wartime Disposability
At http://www.avoiceformen.com is an excellent article by Jon Gunnarsson called, “The Pinnacle Of Male Disposability” that highlights how men throughout history have always been considered expendable by politicians, and even the people they protect. An example is the White Feathers, a group of upper-class British women during WWI who would hand out white feathers to any man not in uniform as a sign of cowardice to shame them into enlisting. This included boys as young as 15 who lied about their age so they could enlist and die.
Wes Carr wesjcarr@yahoo.com
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I guess if we had drafted women then there would have been a different reaction.
(I’m very much against using women i this fashion. Or, men for that matter.)
If we were Israel where there is no safe “rear”, or the enemy was landing on the coast. (Unless they had quarters to play the games.)
I have moved completely from my youth when I believe everything our Gooferment said.
Gulf of Tolkin changed that. Then I started to really study my history.
Somewhere along the way, for anyone who cares, I became a miniarchist almost an anarchist.
Wish I could say I was finished in my political maturaton.
I’m going to be more of a loon as I get I get older.
I could cry over the youngsters and their stupidity.
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http://www.news-gazette.com/associated-press/2013-08-19/grentz-wins-lapchick.html
Grentz wins Lapchick
Mon, 08/19/2013 – 10:11am | The Associated Press
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Photo by: Rick Danzl
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NEW YORK — Former Illinois coach — and women’s basketball pioneer — Theresa Grentz has been selected as a 2013 recipient of the Lapchick Character Award.
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We were season ticket holders in the old college avenue gym.
Before RU women were big time.
Frau Reinke would pick me up at the train station so we could make the games on time.
I asked her once why it was so important to her.
“I know I could have done that if we weren’t so poor. Those girls have no idea how lucky they are.”
Makes me sad to think about it now.
Glad that Grentz is honored.
I know she has one fan in high places pulling for her.
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http://www.care2.com/greenliving/5-scary-food-secrets-corporations-dont-want-you-to-know.html
5 Scary Food Secrets Corporations Don’t Want You to Know
Diana Herrington
July 10, 2013
8:00 am
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If you just have to eat yogurt, choose plain, or you guessed it — read the label. Here’s an easy rule to go by: Don’t eat any ingredients that your grandmother wouldn’t have heard of!
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That’s easy enough for a fat old white guy injineer.
Neither my maternal grandmother, and surely my paternal grandmother, ever used “strange foods”.
Laff!
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Dear Ms. Swift (@tswift13):
Re: 13 July 2013 MetLife appearance
You are missing a large sales opportunity. Clearly, from the extremely long lines at your merchandise sales booth, you are missing a LARGE volume of sales. May I suggest that some one on your staff immediately look into these lost opportunities. While many swiftees will seek your merchandise online, some percentage of sales are lost forever. As well as the bad image!
Since I know you bring your own displays, you should consider your own vending machines to augment the process or at the very least include in a venue contract a maximum line length.
I am, of course, will to consult on this matter with you at no cost to you at you convenience.
fjohn
@reinkefj
#tswift #tswift13
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To the Met Life operators:
Good job reassigning most mens rooms to the ladies. Mond putting up some temporary signs direct us men to the few you have.
Bad job on the parking lot and traffic control. With all the engineering schools in the area, I can believe that exit traffic, and to some extent entering, is a disaster. I’ve been to many large venues that with bigger crowds empty faster. Last night, I saw an ambulance and trailing EMT truck stuck in the traffic with lights and sirens. In addition, I’m astonish there wasn’t injuries mixing pedestrians and cars. I know I could do a better design job and I’m not that type of engineer.
fjohn
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http://www.the-free-foundation.org/tst6-24-2013.html
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“We are leaving Afghanistan after 12 years with nothing to show for it but trillions of dollars wasted and thousands of lives lost. Afghanistan is a devastated country with a weak, puppet government—and now we negotiate with those very people we fought for those 12 years, who are preparing to return to power! Still we learn nothing.”
— Ron Paul
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Imagine if the Sheeple and Clovers could have seen who the ONLY anti-war candidate was.
And, he’s the “loon”?
As Clint Eastwood said: “I know you were against the war in Iraq, and that’s okay. But you thought the war in Afghanistan was OK. You know, I mean — you thought that was something worth doing. We didn’t check with the Russians to see how did it — they did there for 10 years.”
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I was listening on WMAL in DC and Joe deGenova rolled off lots of scandals. I thought under this heading that it would be useful to itemize them.
_gate
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Obama-phone
Bengazhi – talking points
Bengahzi – relief / stand down
NSA-gate
Sebelius HHS fundraising the Insurance companies
Holder – Fast and Furious
Holder – AP spyings
IRS – targeting Tea Party
Obama – food stamp fraud
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I know I missed a lot.
Not that anyone cares.
No Sheeple or Clover will read my blog and wake up.
But for my own sanity, I thought it would be useful to have a taxonomy.
For some future researcher if nothing else.
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