Random Thoughts Anew

[alto_stratus]

Hah, yes. Fortunately, no hail or downed trees this time.

[mamselle]

Eek! Dark clouds, rumbles, flashes.

alto_stratus, meet cumulonimbus

Indeed.

At least my friend won't have to go out and water her community garden across town tonight....

M.

[mamselle]

A double a few days later...

No, " 12-bar blues" doesn't mean visiting a dozen local watering holes while despondent...

M.

[Cheerful]

It's Friday Haikus day in the Fun and Games board here.  Let's have some good ones today, all of you creative, witty people!

[Economizer]

I was wondering who might benefit by the uncertainty in Congress as to when and if Pandemic relief funds will be available to whichever citizens. Eureka, as folks were at some risk as they hoped money would get to them sooner rather later, they began to rely on car title loans, payday loans, and extended draws on their credit card cash availabilities. So, rentiers, of one ilk or another were benefiting!  And landlords, as well, that could operate despite the strain were anticipating receipt of hefty late charges.
Therefore, these folks that "make money off money" are getting a bonanza! And, though I am not sure of this, they are people, whether Democrat, Republican, or Foreign Speculators, that are very politically active in creating or extending financial environments that inure to their benefit. If you happen to be better versed in such matters, "check it out" and get back to me on your thoughts, please.

[mamselle]

^Unrelated random thought no. 1.

    I'm thinking maybe I should start dating things 2020/A.D.P. 1
     You know, for "anno domini pandemica," or something.

Random thought 2:

  Reading the fantasies purveyed by the self-styled, repressed "non-fake" media, I recall how it felt to construct the crystalline castles of fascized beliefs and ideas I held so tightly to as an 8th grader in Ohio in the 1960s.

It can be exhilarating, and exhausting, to get all those curvy, twisty facts "straight" enough to form the girders that frame such a clear, promising structure.

But it's something one has to outgrow to grow. Bending those curt facts straight does them a violence they don't deserve.

And like unseasoned green wood, they'll eventually start twisting back on themselves to return to their more natural curved shape...which isn't so great for girders you've already started building on...

OK, back to my 18th c. probate records....

M.

[ab_grp]

Why is it that every time (it seems) I see a screenshot from someone's phone the battery seems to be at near 0? Do only people who never charge their phones post screenshots?

[downer]

Today I'm planning to record voice-over for slides for a class in December, which will the last content I have to prepare for this semester.

I still have to make some new exams and study guides. But I will soon be ready to start preparing for next semester. And I don't have any new preps for next semester (unless I pick up a new course).

Maybe I will have time to start starting that podcast I've been thinking about.

[ergative]

^Unrelated random thought no. 1.

    I'm thinking maybe I should start dating things 2020/A.D.P. 1
     You know, for "anno domini pandemica," or something.

On my lecture slides I always put 'the year of the plague' instead of 2020. Of course, by next year I'm going to have to start writing 'the second year of the plague', so it does look like our thoughts are operating on parallel tracks.

[mahagonny]

How many more words would the English language need to have before we wouldn't need 'ineffable?'

[apl68]

When I was a kid we thought that in futuristic times like 2020 we would have travel to Mars and flying cars.  We don't.  But people can watch videos, shop, get news, download music, socialize, etc. on mobile devices from virtually everywhere. 

Is this future we're now living in more or less cool than the one we thought was coming?

[mamselle]

A compare-and contrast exercise with 'The Jetsons,' and 'Lost in Space would be instructive in formulating an answer.

I still want a Rosie...

;--》

M.

[mahagonny]

Well, as long as poor taste is now de rigueur,  if it turned out Barron was his middle name, perhaps he is Robert Barron Trump.

[apl68]

Household hint:

Did you know that you can turn an ordinary bathtub into a do-it-yourself Jacuzzi?  Wrap a washcloth around your fingers and twirl it under water, and feel the ripples wash across your skin.

[downer]

Is there the slightest evidence that making people take training courses to educate them not to abuse students or staff has any effect on people's behavior?