Exactly

My best memory of my old friend was when me and couple of friends were sitting in my backyard with all our painting equipment. I was getting ready to paint the whole house but we were worried about rain. There were dark clouds in part of the sky, and we couldn’t figure out if the weather report was going to forecast rain in our area or not. We were all debating that it was going to rain so we better not start … while also saying that this is the only day we had time to do all this work.

My old friend Barry (we called him Bud) just laughed at us all … grabbed a brush, opened a can of paint and started painting. He said it’s not raining right now so you’d better start … and if it does start raining, you can stop.

It trickled rain for a little bit and we stopped mid afternoon … but by the end of the day, we finished painting the house.

Thanks Bud … I follow his forecasting logic all the time now.

My best advice was from a friend of mine about 30 years ago

He was far older than me and he just told me … the forecast? … just open the door and step outside … is it raining? yes? no? … is it sunny? yes? no? … is it snowing? yes? no? … is it windy? yes? no? … has the apocalypse arrived? yes? no?

that’s all the forecasting you need.

If I had a coworker like that, I’d begin to understand Ted Kaczynski more

You should purposely misspell it from time to time to … homo

And when people point it out, just apologize and say it was a typo … be very apologetic and sincere and even offer to send cupcakes to them for the inconvenience (include some mild laxative in the cupcake … and alternate to cannabis the next time it happens)

If you see ads … pour gasoline over the whole thing

At the same club you’d run into the eastern woodland tit pecker

I wanted to be polite and thought it was pronounced ‘Sillian’ but always felt disturbed that it’s pronounced ‘Killian’

Co-workers are like family

You can choose your friends but you can’t choose your family

I’d rather spend as much time away from my co-workers so that in the long run, I can appreciate the times I have to be around them at work because I have to … not because I want to.

I do the same with my family (as much as I love them) … if I spend too much time with them, eventually, I’ll find reasons to not want to be around them and our relationship suffers … the less time I spend with them, the more I appreciate them and the more they appreciate me.

Maybe just Reagan’s respectability and character was assassinated and destroyed?

No one in power cares what average people think … even if it is an overwhelming majority of the population

All these people in power care about is what rich wealthy people think and what corporate leaders and investors think

It’s a world run on money … not on democratic consensus.

Instead of coming up with cheap gimmicks for your workers in order to save yourself and the company money while playing PR games with your workforce … just pay them all a bonus, give them time off and let them all decide what they want to do with their time and money.

Reagan was elected in the Kennedy lived a long life timeline?

“Render therefore unto your CD the things which are PCM, and unto your MP3 player the things that are MP3.”

• Linus’s Letters To The Debians 22:34 (from the book of Linux)

It’s not people who can’t handle debating Gaza. It’s our corporate controlled politicians who are more beholden to money than in representing their own country.

What bible are you referencing here? New Gideon? King James? Dead Sea Scrolls? and do these bibles include any apocryphal texts? … also are you talking about the Jewish Talmud? the Koran? … is this Coptic? Roman Catholic? Episcopalian? Baptist? Morman? … or is it just another one of those picture bibles for children?

I’d rather be driving by at a steady clip at 67 King James bibles an hour then at a hedonistic 54 New Gideon bibles an hour

According to the old testament … that is 400 cubits in length … it’s enough length to pack in every animal species on the planet (except for unicorns and dragons)

I don’t really care about images on here all that much … I don’t mind them being lost if I lose my instance.

Most of the images that are shared are basically ‘one off’ images for a quick gag or as part of a conversation specific to that moment. And often that conversation or interact is a ‘one off’ event as well. Which means it was all meaningful when it happened and when it was read the few times it was noticed over two or three years but then it is forgotten.

If there is anything meaningful I come across that I think is important to me or something I want to keep a reference of or keep … I’ll save it or screenshot it and put it away in my own storage or data.

Otherwise, I really don’t mind losing all those other images I had created over the years … they already did their work when people saw them at that moment.

The only reason anyone would want to keep all that data is to archive it for historical reasons … or to monetize it by collecting a bunch of unique data, images connected to real people.

Listen!.. can you hear it? … listen! … really listen … is that the Holy Spirit?

Nah … it’s just tinnitus