From this morning’s walk…
I’m not sure why the app is saying uh-oh… was I an overachiever? Is that a bad thing? At any rate, my final tally of words written during the 1000 words of summer challenge. I think I have the beginnings of a novella. We’ll see.
The perpetual growth paradigm is our norm for the foreseeable future…
In 50 years, you’ll see semiconductor foundries, fiber-optics, pharmaceutical production, and it’ll be happening at the equivalent scale of Taiwan,” said Delian, when I asked him to give me his best guess on what space will look like in 50 years. “You’ll basically have industrial parks in orbit, a few people who work in those industrial parks, some permanently, some who treat it more like an oil rig — three weeks in space, three weeks on Earth — basically shuttling back and forth.
Because the profit margin is Huge…
Drug manufacturing is incredibly profitable. Potentially it’s the highest margin physical product literally ever, according to an article on Not Boring by Packy McCormick, from which I will draw extensively for the rest of this brief story. It’s so lucrative because, broadly, molecules that are cheap to produce can be sold for comparatively astronomical prices — some in the hundreds of billions of dollars per kilogram range — for the lifetime of the drug’s patent.
… so offensive, I don’t know where to begin.
My wife loves eggplant. Me, not so much. We both give this eggplant pasta dish a big thumbs up!
I am a liberal with questions about Affirmative Action. Apparently, I am not alone.
Notably, given perceived partisan and racial divisions on the issue, pluralities of black Americans (47 percent), Democrats (48 percent), political liberals (46 percent), and Biden voters (46 percent) also oppose the consideration of racial background in college admissions.
30 Signs You Are Living In An Information Crappocalyps
Truth wears rags while deception travels on a private jet.
This is a must read…
Gravitational Waves Should Change How You See the World - The Atlantic
Every gravitational wave in that background the NANOGrav team found is humming through the very constitution of the space you inhabit right now. Every proton and neutron in every atom from the tip of your toes to the top of your head is shifting, shuttling, and vibrating in a collective purr within which the entire history of the universe is implicated. And if you put your hand down on a chair or table or anything else nearby, that object, too, is dancing that slow waltz.
… how awesome is this!
Canadian forest fire smoke returns…
Not as bad as weeks ago. We live in trans apocalyptic times.
Also from this morning’s walk…
From this morning’s walk…
From last night while watching TV…
Having just finished season 2 of The Bear, this Chinese fortune is like a message from the gods… The Bear gods…
In the final episode of season 2 of The Bear, Sydney makes an omelette. She passed the eggs through a fine sieve after beating together, before cooking. I tried that this morning. Made a definite difference to the texture. Smoother, more consistent. Pro tip?
About My 50th High School Reunion :: Essays On Attention Paid
I realize, as I thumb through the pages of my yearbook and think about what was, that it isn’t only friends, co-workers and acquaintances that I left behind, I left numerous former selves behind. Islands of me scattered along the road I have walked these past 50 years.
Bonus images from this mornings walk… playing around with zooming in using the Lightroom camera app on the iPhone…
Really loving the new LR app… so much easier to move back and forth between device, social media and LR… The LR camera app has become my go to camera app…
From this morning’s walk…
About My 50th High School Reunion :: Essays On Attention Paid
What I realize as I think and write about this, is that all my life I have been arriving at places, doing the work of being me, making friends, having coworkers, and then, moving on, mostly without looking back. I left over bridges that were sometimes burned, but mostly just not maintained. They fell into disrepair then crumbled from neglect. This is habit from a lifetime of moving on. I did not live anywhere for more than five years until we moved into our current home in 2006.
Closing in on 14K words with two days left to go. Should make it and then some. And I didn’t start until day 2!
About My 50th High School Reunion :: Essays On Attention Paid
Years later, Facebook became a thing and people were discovering long lost friends and acquaintances and reconnecting with them. My wife did. I did not. I never went looking for anybody and nobody came looking for me. Throughout my life, wherever I have gone, whatever I did, when I moved on I left people behind and didn’t look back. Still, I am mildly sad thinking that nobody out of my past wanted to find me.
From today’s walk…
Reason cannot be the creative principle, unlike intuition: it is the quality control department only.
— The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist a.co/g2pdlCa
Thus in creativity there are bound to be at least, and at the very simplest, two phases, that may often nonetheless overlap: a phase of exploration guided by the imagination; followed, at a distance of anything from seconds to months, but in any case followed, by a critical sifting and evaluation of the results.
– Poincaré
— The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist a.co/7e95PqU
After some trials and tribulations, I have all my prints ready for frame insertion. This will happen tomorrow and delivery of the work will happen on Tuesday.
Having a frustrating day… need to make some large prints but Lightroom is not cooperating… it keeps crashing!