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Misc Friday
Joe Hill’s last words, before a firing squad were “Ready, Aim, Fire”
Utah Quote
Everything you have that you don’t need was stolen from the poor
Which is a very Utah Phillips, and fundamentalist Christian way to look at things. The question is of course is, are those things you don’t need of any use to anyone else?
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New Random Info
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A weird thought for our modern age
There will come a time when I will have to tell my daughter that Santa Claus is fake, but Buckethead is real
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Tuesday reading and links
Is Alzheimer’s Type 3 Diabetes? – from the NYT
Random fact – the “Black Box” on an airplane is actually orange.
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Wednesday Links
A very chilling look at the Sandusky matter, and persuasive evil in general. It gives sports a new horror.
No matter how new age you get, old age will kick it’s ass.
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The past didn’t go anywhere.
An idea for a long blog post I need to write at some point
Iron Man technology vs God Technology
Iron Man technology allows you to do something you couldn’t do before, or do you something better. Like excel or a database. Usint it allows you to change something or it helps in the change of soemthing. God Technology allows you to sit there for a while and then feel good after a while. Like Facebook. Or you sit there for a while and do not feel good but you fulfill your Social Obligations, also like facebook. Either way, nothing has changed but you’ll do it again soon.
The rich person is not the one who sits on a plushy couch or otherwise needs a lot of stuff or a lot of conditions to be satisfied to be comfortable. In fact, such a person is very poor having externalized their ability to be comfortable. The rich person is the one who can be comfortable or happy in any kind of situation.
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Random Sunday
Your seemingly daily Utah Phillips
Spokane is a place like Denny’s – it’s not a place you go to, it’s a place you end up.
Metaphor for America These Days
Back in World War Two they didn’t make pet food, so we had to keep chickens as pets. We had two chickens. One day one chicken got sick, so we killed the healthy one to make chicken soup so the sick one could get better.
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If you’ve got to have heroes, make sure they’re dead so they don’t blow it.
Non Utah – read The “Wash My Ferrari” Problem: A Meditation on Risk
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Random for Monday the 9th of September
Try to remember that Nature bats last.
More Utah
There are people in every audience who are just there to look for mistakes and he’s playing for them as well.
Missoula has DINKS, Double Income, No Kids, Butte has SKINNIES, Seven Kids, No Income
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Quote of the day – Saturday the 8th
More Utah
God isn’t dead, he’s only embarrassed.
Thought from Me
Work is a way of turning time into work, and a business is a way to turn work into money.
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Reading for Friday the 7th
Random thought – it’s hard to be enraged and well rested at the same time.
Utah Quote
A promise made is a debt unpaid.
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Quote of the day – Thursday edition
Not many people realize it, but food, clothing, housing, durable goods, travel, and a host of other things are cheaper today than they have been throughout most of history. These prices have actually been dropping in inflation-adjusted terms for decades. So if you focus your spending on meeting your needs, as the MMM family likes to do, you couldn’t have been born at a better time. Life is fantastic.
On the other hand, corporate marketing skill and consumer envy have been rising faster than inflation for quite some time.
every time an HR rep gets fired, a life coach is born