Random Thoughts or Whatever

[Mystic]

History neither repeats itself nor seems to teach us anything, but it does illustrate similarities and differences.

 

[OnTheBlitz]

History neither repeats itself nor seems to teach us anything, but it does illustrate similarities and differences.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_laptops

 

[Mystic]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_laptops

France was first. Who's have thunk?

 

[Mystic]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_laptops

 

[Rome]

When we're young, we want to leave home. When we get old, we want to go back.
- Rome

Rome

 

[noogies]

Eat more butter, eggs & red meat.

Seconded! Pour moi: eggs and butter daily, red meat @ least thrice weekly, always following heavy lifting @ Sundays and Wednesdays plus one more day. Might expand to four times/week.

Seems counter-intuitive as the ostensible purpose of the pills is to nullify the effects of butter, eggs and red meat.

 

[OnTheBlitz]

Seems counter-intuitive as the ostensible purpose of the pills is to nullify the effects of butter, eggs and red meat.

That was a note to myself

 

[the skipper]

 

[Mr.Jim]

I look around at almost everything, and wonder, why?

 

[Mystic]

The US federal minimum wage is now worth 21% less than it was in 2009, the last time it was raised, and 38% less than in 1968.

 

[Mystic]

In the year 2000, 41 of the world’s 100 most valuable companies were based in Europe. By March 2022 that figure has shrunk to 15.

LINK: https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-unhedged-3-is-a-bull-market?s=r

 

[Mystic]

The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

 

[Mystic]

Nearly half of the students, about 200,000 children, in the Los Angeles Unified School System have been “chronically absent” this school year, meaning they have missed at least 10% of the 2021-2022 academic year.

 

[Mystic]

Monty Python re-reuns now come with a warning label that is itself worthy of a Monty Python skit: “This program reflects the standards, language and attitudes of its time. Some viewers may find this content offensive.”

 

[Mystic]

Kindle's "cover art" for All Quiet On The Western Front:


You reckon Amazon thinks this book is a "Western" ala Louis L’Amour, and not about WW1?

 

[Mystic]

Q: What's your favorite Styx song?
A: Whichever one jams the tape deck before the next one plays.

 

[noogies]

Monty Python re-reuns now come with a warning label that is itself worthy of a Monty Python skit: “This program reflects the standards, language and attitudes of its time. Some viewers may find this content offensive.”

Ha! We were watching the original (Altman) M*A*S*H the other night. No way you could get that movie made nowadays. At one point I actually turned to my wife and said, "This is fairly misogynistic, isn't it?" This from me, Mr. Politically Incorrect. She said, "Glad you noticed." Things that seemed funny back in 1970 now seem, by turns, petty, small-minded, or sophomoric.

Not that I didn't still have a laugh here and there.

 

[SolderIron]

Some place is outgassing a lot of negative energy at the moment.

 

[Beatnik]

Listening to The Cult, watching dialing for dollars at the pizza joint.

 

[LF240]

Monty Python re-reuns now come with a warning label that is itself worthy of a Monty Python skit: “This program reflects the standards, language and attitudes of its time. Some viewers may find this content offensive.”