The only thing we can be sure about in the future is that it will bring changes. Race relations and the criterion of our bigotry will change. I just finished reading Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, in which it was commented that the moon’s citizens were puzzled by Earth-dwellers’ obsession with race or … Continue reading
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Meandering Monday about Accepting Where You Are
I don’t handle change well. I tend to set certain expectations about what is going to happen in the course of a day, and when something happens to alter my plans (an unexpected emergency, or something as simple as the fact that other people have a say in my life), I get a bit snitty … Continue reading
Forecast Friday: When Will We Change?
How does evolution happen? Simplistically: Small (usually) changes occur in a species. If the change is an advantage in the environment the species inhabits, that mutation thrives and becomes dominant. Let’s say you live in the mountains – changes that let you survive on less oxygen, or handle the cold better, mean that these traits … Continue reading
Meandering Monday about Cheating Through Life
When I was in ninth grade, I discovered that I needed glasses. Actually, I didn’t discover it; my French teacher wrote something on the chalkboard and asked me to translate it. When I told her I couldn’t read it, she told me to put my fingers between my temples and my eyes and pull back … Continue reading
Meandering Monday about Being as Lucky as I Want to Be
I’m a lucky man. No, not like the Emerson, Lake & Palmer song Lucky Man which is about the old saw that the grass is always greener on the other side (you walk over to your neighbor’s perfect-looking lawn and now you can see all his weeds, so he isn’t so good, is he? A … Continue reading
Forecast Friday: They Already Know
“Every breath you take and every move you make Every bond you break, every step you take, I’ll be watching you” – Sting There’s a Wisconsin vending company offering their employees microchip implants in their finger so they can do things like make purchases, log into computers, and the like, and I don’t think they’re … Continue reading
Meandering Monday about …me?
I’m a walking contradiction, partly truth, and partly fiction. – Kris Kristofferson We’re all that way, aren’t we (no, I don’t mean all the dark, depressingly negative things in that song of his – just that one line.) Part of the reason it’s so difficult (and just plain insulting) to try to put labels on … Continue reading
