13 June 2012
Tad’s Mood Today
Got this from both David Brin and Bruce Lieberman. Really good news as far as I’m concerned. Our main hope for survival as a species is to get smarter, and that most definitely includes both ethical and practical smarts.
U.S. Students Flock to Graduate Science Programs – ScienceInsider
news.sciencemag.org
Only baseball fans (esp. Giants fans) will care, but Matt Cain just threw a perfect game against the Astros. Wow. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of those live before, certainly not by a Giant.
I haven’t forgotten about my request for astrophysical help, nor all your kind suggestions. I’m just not working on that story at the moment. Meanwhile, you might like this:
Is the secret of the ‘previous’ universe hidden in the microwaves? Scientist ‘spots’ ghost
www.dailymail.co.uk
12 June 2012
Tad’s Mood Today
Always one of my favorite Emily Dickinson poems, but I get it much more deeply now than I did when I was younger and (even more) self-obsessed.
“I’m nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there’s a pair of us–don’t tell!
They’d banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!”
And I’m going to bed.
11 June 2012
Tad’s Mood Today
My children are old enough now that they’ve graduated from “crazy” to “wildly eccentric.”
10 June 2012
Tad’s Mood Today
Thanks, Rick, for the picture!
I have often noticed fabulous older women like this while walking around in Manhattan. You go, girls!
Meet the OATs (that’s old-age trendsetters)
www.dailymail.co.uk
Another 12 pages of HAPPY HOUR IN HELL today. I have crossed the 400 page point and am moving into the final downhill tumult of the story. I have spent a great deal of time in Hell lately. It will be nice to make my way back out again.
Billy with his tiny, humanoid head was the shame of the family.
Here’s the crux: A Cornell researcher discovers that ‘44 per cent of Social Security recipients, 43 per cent of those receiving unemployment benefits, and 40 per cent of those on Medicare say that they “have not used a government programâ€.’
Keep Your Government Hands Off My Welfare State
www.commondreams.org
9 June 2012
Tad’s Mood Today
No comments? This might be the bitchin’est profile pic ever!
Hunter S. Thomcat and attorney.
I don’t know if it’s her or not, but the humor and intelligence in that face certainly fits with the JA I know from biographies. Which means only that -I- approve of the likeness.
Only known Austen portrait to be sold | Reuters
uk.reuters.com
Saturday. A day that used to MEAN something. Like, cartoons.
Determined for once to see a movie while it’s still in the theaters, Boy and I dodged through the Prometheus first-nighters and saw Avengers. The comic book nerd in me was thrilled. Great, great fun. Best Hulk Smash scene EVER.
8 June 2012
Tad’s Mood Today
I pity the foo’ who said there are no good autotunes. Preach, Brother Fred.
Mister Rogers Remixed | Garden of Your Mind | PBS Digital Studios
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7 June 2012
Tad’s Mood Today
Was sorry to hear about Bob Welch, ex of Fleetwood Mac (pre-Buckingham/Nicks) who apparently took his own life.
Fleetwood Mac-Hypnotized (High Quality) 1973
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