Meaningless

Waiting around to die

Simple joys of everyday life

Everything I ever wanted are already memories

But there is suffering

Mine and others

Must not be ignored

right to be happy

Each of us

In a small way 

Makes the world less 

Perfect than we found it

A few

Make it better 

But most of us make it worse

Elizabeth

Elizabeth
Losing keys
So sorry
Losing continents
Vaster
Also so sorry

But I Just
those plums
so cold

but celebrate
vast
vaster

Mr cummings
I just
celebrate

no caps lock
celebrate

lost a lover once
vaster

I just
celebrate

love you
love you so much
and you
will never know
my haiku that are not

and thats ok
because I am
a celebrate

And my feet never touched the earth

An old man
Walks away
From his Mercedes
And walking forward
Clicks the key fob to lock the door
Standing on a vast invisible empire
So deep that his feet have never touched the earth

The unseen - did you spend your sunlight well?

Naming

When did the name hand become? Or man or woman?

Like seeing in 3d

Or in colour

Or in the moonlight

They all confer advantages to acquiring sunlight 

The forest and the trees

See them together 

The joy of seeing beneath the skin

Humans

See what they are now were and will be

The adult the baby the old the fetus the ova the sperm the last common ancestor

See it

See it!

See the brain stem and spine

See the adrenal systems 

See the fight or flight 

See the amygdala

See hunger and waste

See ovaries and testes

See the hairless skin

See the predators eyes and teeth

See the opposable thumb

See the brachiation

See the upright locomotion

See billions of these

Now add the other animals

See the mass of living animals

On the planet 

Their brainstems Fighting to dominate solar energy sequestered by plants 

See plants fighting to dominate solar energy

Sun energy from the fusion of hydrogen

Ancient Water from meteors old than the sun

Electrical energy from storms resulting from planet rotation and revolution 

Minerals on the earths crust from planet formation during birth of sun

Chemical reactions from the structure of matter

It's another process driven by the energy and matter of the universe like the birth of stars and galactic superclusters

And a billions of years later life is still working on this remnant of the birth of a node that fuses hydrogen

Like the sun is still fusing

Like The laws of chemistry still hold

Like The earth still revolves according to gravity

Life is still living

How can I maximize my children's acquisition of solar energy?

How can I maximize my companies acquisition of market share in the next quarter?

That's my question?

That's my best?

No There is more to see beyond that.

Might as well ask about improving defecation volume.

What is the quality of my solar energy?

Did I use my time well - which for living things is a function of sunlight.

Did I spend my sunlight well?

What does it mean that sunlight even exist?

What does it mean that the universe produces Suns? Creates points in the space that fuse hydrogen?

Are Suns to the universe what volcanos or tornados are to the earth?

And why does no one else I know share writing like this with me? Am I the only one?

Why orgasm?

Why write?

Why photograph or scuba or Everest?

Why quest?

2 Distraction

to distract constructively; 

to distract in ways that are in themselves satisfying; 

to do things that are intrinsically gratifying

Walter Mischel. 

Niven Professor of Humane Letters in Psychology(Ph.D. Ohio State, 1956)

401A Schermerhorn Hall

212-854-3957

310 Schermerhorn Hall

212-854-8450

wm (at) paradox.psych.columbia.edu

At 84, instead of slowing down, he’s preparing for his American book tour and fielding questions from Polish journalists.

His secret seems to come straight from the marshmallow test: distraction. “It’s to keep living in a way one wants to live and work; to distract constructively; to distract in ways that are in themselves satisfying; to do things that are intrinsically gratifying,” he says. “Melancholy is not one of my emotions. Quite seriously, I don’t do melancholy. It’s a miserable way to be.”

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The funnel

We fall into

Young we only see the rim

Wide with opportunity 

Endless choices with all the time in the world

Older

The rim is forgotten

We see only the ever growing vortex

Sucking everything in

It's true - debt slavery - selling children to pay a parents debts is rare

But we commonly bankrupt parents so they leave now behind 

Also common is health care holding the elderly hostage so the young will pay

Wiping out the savings of the old and young

The long game

I can play now 

Not just a short game

Of days or weeks

But now I can play weeks and months

Others plays years and decades

And a few play centuries they have so many pieces to play with

Silverfish

Silverfish
Fast
Moving
Eating
Reproducing
A formula
To optimize resource usage

A business
For profit
Not interesting
Making money
Ecosystem exploitation
Old as the hills

Something new
War
Slaughter

Able and Cain

Agriculture
Surplus
Progress trap
Head smashed in buffalo trap

The bible
Good and evil
Knowledge
Awareness
Something new
Morality

The bible
The book
Religion
Written code

Self modifying code

Since when did we start reprogramming ourselves?

The lescaux caves
Visual reprogramming

Gobekli Tepe
Spatial reprogramming

Tattoos
Body mutilation
Body ornamentation
Kinaesthetic reprogramming

Self evolving
Reshaping

Violently
Wars
Genocides
Starvations

Peacefully
Music
Writing
Theatre
Protest

Natural selection
One generation
doesn't understand the next
A new species

Evolving faster than mega fauna

The mega fauna didn't stand a chance

Why
When did we start
What kicked it off
Ice age abundance
Climate change lottery
Mutation

Vision of chixulub

I am a keyboard, mouse and monitor cleaning service
I get a contract at a government facility
I have guys that clean the keyboards at a giant telescope
We find out that the scientists have found out that an asteroid is going to hit earth in 80 years
But politicians have pressured them to keep it quiet
Now what?

Going to get neo from cadets

9pm

Driving east on 12th

by kits high school

Jeannie looks up from her math book she brought

To study in the car and says

We are on the wrong side of need

What's that mean I ask

Look around she says

Kids on the high school playing soccer

Nice kits homes

Nice kits cars

These are all wants she continues

By now we are at 12th and Arbutus

She goes on

Sometimes wants overshadow needs so that people forget about their needs

I suggest she write this down. She shakes her head.

And then, alas, I interrupt her

To tell her what she already knows in theory

But give her an example about the republican climate deniers

She knows

What they need is an earth strong enough to support people through disasters 

I was too busy to realize what she had just said until writing this out

But this is it

We don't need to find the exact moment of peak oil or peak water

We need to find the moment at which we no longer have enough oil to sustain us through a disaster 

What disaster?

Sea level rise

We are committed

vitaMIX recipes

The Handsdown - it's that good
2 bags frozen banana strawberry mango pineapple fruit chunks
1 cup apple juice

Grown milk and cookies
1 cup milk
4 shots rye
2 chocolate chip cookies
Dash vanilla
1 tablespoon pancake syrup
1 tablespoon honey
1 cup ice

Jelly belly smothie-flurry
1/2 cup jelly bellies
2 cups frozen strawberry blueberry mix
2 cups ice
Option blend above 1 minute then add 1/4 cup jelly bellies and grind another 20 second for hard chewy

Mango sweet
4 mangos
1 banana
1 cup grapefruit juice
2 cups ice

Rye sours
1 lime
4 lemons
4 shots rye
2 cups ice
1/2 cup white granulated sugar

tropical lemon
6 lemons
125ml simple syrup
1 tray ice

zesty orange
4 oranges
1 spoon orange marmalade
1 lemon
1 tray ice

iced coffee
make coffee with
8 spoons of fine ground coffee
2 cups water
add
4 spoons simple syrup

2 cups milk (or half and half)

freeze in 2 ice trays

apple ice

3 green granny  smith apples - sour and firm

2 spoons frozen lemonade concentrate

1 tray ice

BSY
1 banana
1 cup of strawberries
1/2 cup yogurt
1 tray ice

birthday dream 2014 - 43 years - and you get this

Driving old drive truck poor brakes poor acceleration easy to crash

Call dad - drive to the trucks limitations - it's 60 years old - a wonder it still runs - hit with hammer

On navy base - they know sea cadet base - I am in old shed - Climbing around into the ATIC to get cool looking stuff - each level up gets more precarious - the stuff is all junk - but I find a sleeping bag - someone slept up there in the rafters

I was in school on the field

Teacher says 2nd absence counts as 50% absent

I take off in truck to go to shed

I don't die in truck

I don't die in shed

I am back in field

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summary:

the emperors and the senate couldn't prevent the collapse of the roman empire

age gracefully or not - like every empire for the past 9000 years of agriculture

Take what the universe has provided and run

Thank you Cosmos

Thank you Sun

how to rank cars

Cost per kilometer how much is the car cost how far can drive how much does it cost to drive that far in labor repairs gas and then you get the cost per kilometer

Fresh Ideas #23094

Unintended Consequences #1

Scientists found antibiotics increased weight gain with livestock. Antibiotics now routinely given to animals to promote fast weight gain. Same time North Americans have growing obesity problem.

This is not a problem - it's an opportunity - feed antibiotics to starving people everywhere!

Unintended Consequences #2

To promote recycling of aluminum cans, a deposit system has been implemented.

The result is people are supplementing their income by cruising alleys at night.