Tad’s Facebook Posts April 23 – 30
30 April 2013
Tad’s Mood Today
After some consideration, I am still not sure whether I am the most introverted extrovert I know, or the most extraverted introvert.
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
This Is the Most Detailed Picture of the Internet Ever (and Making it Was Very Illegal)
motherboard.vice.com
Modernity eats itself.
“And other than the unexpected tea party, how did you enjoy the play at the Wonderland Mirror Theater, Mrs. Lincoln?”
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an Alex Jones fan
www.salon.com
This is an interesting story. Now the Zuckerberg/Keystone connection which I’ve been seeing all over becomes a tiny bit more clear, but I’m still not sure I buy the logic of the supposed realpolitik. Especially when one side doesn’t seem to understand the term “compromise” in the first place.
Facebook Rejects Ad Highlighting Zuckerberg Group’s Support For Keystone XL
thinkprogress.org
Between jet lag and massive poison oak events on both arms, I have been a more cheerful guy. It’s kind of like having mini-flu — itches, fever shakes, sudden collapses — without getting the flu-sympathy.
I feel like posting one of those “I have an invisible illness” memes, except my forearms look like gator legs, so it’s not really all that invisible.
One of my dogs gave me the poison oak as a welcome-home present. Just to cheer me up while I was poleaxed by jet lag. Whee.
29 April 2013
Tad’s Mood Today
I want to grow up to be this guy. Shared in a roundabout way from Corrmick Moran.
Man Rescues Drowning Bear
www.cbsnews.com
A love song for a spring evening. Embellished by Radiohead.
Watching a blue jay — the crested variety — casing the bird feeder, cagey but aggressive, head bobbing as it stalks the perimeter and make the other birds nervous. It’s so much like Jurassic Park, I feel like I should be paying extra to see it on the wide screen of my office windows.
28 April 2013
Tad’s Mood Today
Such a beautiful image. Amazing.
“The Red Square Nebula” –Is a Colossal Supernova Brewing There? (Weekend Feature)
dailygalaxy.com
I can’t help it. It’s Truth.
Excellent brief up-to-dater on this subject. I suspect we’ll continue to find that the mode of cultural evolution, even more so than biological evolution, is ratcheted equilibrium.
Archeologists unearth new information on origins of Maya civilization
www.sciencedaily.com
A General Note: Nothing wrong with passing along a Facebook meme you like, but it does not, repeat not, count as “effecting political change.”
I was just thinking about baby names, since several of my FB friends have relatively new little ones. Our oldest son, now 16 and six feet tall, is still “Bean”, which originally came from a Captain Beefheart song (Big Eyed Beanz From Venus) and went through many permutations. Somewhere along the way, though, he shed “Mixmaster Woozle” and “Young Doctor Root Vegetable”. But to me, he will always be the young doctor.
27 April 2013
Tad’s Mood Today
Hello, my new friends! Please, sit down and make yourself comfortable. I’m going to put on my sweater and my slippers, now. Blood comes right off of them.
26 April 2013
Tad’s Mood Today
That was my night last night. Mostly self-inflicted.
25 April 2013
Tad’s Mood Today
I’ve got interesting stuff on my mind. I’ll share it with you as soon as it starts to solidify. If it solidifies. But it’s definitely past fluid and into viscous and beginning to think of hardening at the edges.
By the way, we are now into our final octomob. Congratulations, fifth octo-smart-mob, and welcome to the sixth-ers. Your numbers will never reach those of the previous, because we’ve only got five-hundred+ spots to go, but the heights of glory you reach are up to you. Go thou and mob well!
24 April 2013
Tad’s Mood Today
Every place I go there is a hole into Tad’s brain. Just think about that. You’re never safe.
23 April 2013
Tad’s Mood Today
I have returned from my Antipodean Excursion. Further updates as the brain cells cycle back into local time zone.
What galaxy are we in again?