Browsing the blog archives for March, 2011

End of Month Problems

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bio, Heavy Lifting, United States

I have some end-of-the-month problems, namely which direction and when do I turn the knob on my watch to advance the date of the month without affecting anything else and do I continue with T-Mobile and if so which monthly plan should I pick.

Isn’t it wonderful most people don’t have such momentous decisions to make this time of year? Take Obama for example, poor man only has to decide whether to kiss Boner’s ass on his energy plan or McCain’s ass on arming the rebels in Libya.

Whoops! Further research indicates there are 31 days in March, so I don’t have to advance the date of the month on my watch until April; however T-Mobile’s prepaid plans are only good for 30 days so I continue to have a problem there.

Riding a Light Beam

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bio, Wisdom I Have Learned

I’ve always been guided by Einstein’s response to how he came up with the theory of relativity: he said he “rode a light beam,” meaning he imagined taking a trip on one and all the aspects of such a trip. When I am considering any new important thing I try to run a movie of all the different aspects of it in my mind. For example, if I’m selling a property I imagine a single realtor brings in a family of four to view the house, two adults and two teenagers. The realtor begins a room by room tour, but soon the teens have gone off on their own. As they enter my bedroom and bathroom — or any other room — what might they do that I wouldn’t want done?

Global Warming & Population Explosion, Thoughts On

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Beginnings, Economy, Heavy Lifting

The liberal blogashere is quite exercised about the probable dire effects of global warming but no one seems ready to confront the “elephant” threatening life on our favorite planet: population explosion.  The few who try to discuss it postulate that birth control along with the disinclination of the affluent to have many children will fix everything. However any thinking person with an ability to calculate knows they will be too little too late. The population explosion choo-choo has left the station and not even Denzell Washington has a chance of stopping it. A few billion more will be born before birth reduction efforts and crop yield improvements will kick in to begin braking the trend. Those who survive the decimation of the poors’ children must find a way to try to get a share of the earth’s very limited resources and the way they choose may be violent and messy.

What will happen then? Who knows? The earth’s history seems to include corrections for situations that have become out of balance. What will this correction be? Only something on the order of a global nuclear war seems likely. In this case humankind steps up to correct the mess it created.

As I think about this there’s no wonder Al Gore et al have not tackled it.

Recent Birthday

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bio, Humor

Recently I celebrated another birthday. Folks have asked which one it was. I have to tell them it requires 3 words to tell which birthday it was, and since the middle word is the “F” word I really can’t respond.