Fractured Fragment Friday: “Bugging Out”

In “Bugging Out” I was exploring a couple of disturbing observations about impermanence – the way that buildings seem to instantly appear (yes, I know they were probably being built for weeks and I just wasn’t paying attention) and also how common objects that I know I just saw simply vanish (where did I put those … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Sausage

I love sausage. There’s a saying about not wanting to see how the sausage is made – it’s of course not always about SAUSAGE – just an analogy about how there are some (MANY, actually) things that it’s better that you NEVER know the details of. When a child wants to know about chicken nuggets, … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about My Entropy

They say that the mind is the second thing that goes when you get older. I don’t remember what the first thing is/was. Or who THEY were, for that matter. There have been times when I felt the distinct ‘click!’ of my age kicking-in. I remember a company softball game when I was twenty-eight, where … Continue reading →

Finite Friday: Who Wants to Live Forever?

I was listening to the radio, and I heard about a study that coffee drinkers gain health benefits versus non-coffee drinkers.  I thought what I heard was that drinking one cup of coffee per day made you 8% less likely to die early, and EIGHT cups made early death 16% less likely (I wonder what … Continue reading →

Fix-it-up Friday: Or Is It Just Falling Apart Friday?

I remember in The Mote in God’s Eye, when the little watchmakers are making a mess of things by constantly “fixing” them – the mechanical variation of what happens when a piece of software is altered to “improve” it (or fix it) and (especially if the fixers are not the original creators) the resulting software … Continue reading →

Fearlessly Feeble Friday: Don’t Mess With Us Old Folks

Most people (the decent ones, anyway) react with anger and disgust when they hear that some thug has beaten up (or done worse to) a senior citizen. We all look at those news reports, and place those people in an especially despicable class of cowardly, cruel predators. I believe we even have especially heavy sentencing … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Making It Last

Everything breaks down. We have our cars worked on (if we try to stave off entropy), and the mechanic advices us to replace parts, that various components have reached their end of life. Of course, in today’s throw-away world, we’ve settled on the idea that it’s easier to replace the entire thing – out with … Continue reading →