Uncategorized on Purpose
Thank you, London, and Happy Thanksgiving. The Left and Right Wings of the same Memory Angel. We have the two sides of the Pond, together. Without the human in it it is a bit like some strange animal has left its tattooed skin on the road.
I literally flipped the Memory Replacement NYC piece and had Londoners of all walks of life write me a message.
This is not a random gif - I love Rémi Gaillard and often think he is the odd hybrid between Andy Kaufman, Woody Allen and Salvador Dali in bed with Jackass, Monty Python, South Park and South Jersey.
trying to not think of packing hoping that the next room over indeed holds a self-packing bag, after having a large hot chocolate and a beer for some reason - I am sneaking in a meaning of life and having a laugh actually..
You know i like the fact i am not a monkey but a part of space faring species. I really like people and things with balls. What i think makes us not monkey is the fact that monkeys just chill and chew which is probably enough even for some people.. but i like to think we can do better, and we do in fact make the world better, we are creators.
This is so crazy and Elon goes so matter of factly about it - it is awesome!
And finally - the U.S. House Armed Services Committee grills SpaceX - it is gold!
If they use the word "certification" one more time - I'll throw my mac at this tree down in the garden. Also, when people say "ho-when" as opposed to "when" - the person is from Ohio, guaranteed.
I used to work for the Army and DoD - and things are usually slow in the Army but then i applied for a job to work as an artist on a base in Alabama, a Colonel called me and said i have to do an art test. And I said okay - sure. He said you have 48 hours starting now and hung up. There went my Army career.
Elon Musk’s Space Dream:
I have identified 10 easy steps that we, together, can fix this country.
And number two is...
2. Eliminate the shopping cart ( except for disabled people of course ). You get whatever you can carry.
CHA104.0001.xxf1rw (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE) The Aboubakar family of Darfur province, Sudan, in front of their tent in the Breidjing Refugee Camp, in eastern Chad, with a weekÕs worth of food. DÕjimia Ishakh Souleymane, 40, holds her daughter Hawa, 2; the other children are (left to right) Acha, 12, Mariam, 5, Youssouf, 8, and Abdel Kerim, 16. Cooking method: wood fire. Food preservation: natural drying. Favorite foodÑDÕjimia: soup with fresh sheep meat. /// The Aboubakar family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 56). Food expenditure for one week: $1.23 USD. (Please refer to Hungry Planet book p. 57 for the familyÕs detailed food list.)
Ottersland Dahl family, of Gjettum, Norway (outside Oslo). Gunhild Valle Ottersland, 45, shopping for weekly groceries. Model-Released.
Bhu.mw.01.xxsNalim and NamgayÕs family of Bhutan, with all of their possessions. From pages 72-73, Material World. The family of subsistence farmers lives in a 3-story rammed-earth house in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. {{Family members are: Namgay (50, family patriarch and husband of Nalim), Nalim (47, family matriarch and wife of Namgay), Kinley (17, son of Namgay and Nalim), Bangam (also called Kinley, 14, daughter of Nalim and Namgay), Zekom (2, daughter of Nalim and Namgay), Sangay, (29, daughter of Nalim and Namgay and wife of Sangay Kandu), Sangay Kandu (33, husband of Sangay), Choeden (9, daughter of Sangay Kandu and Sangay), Chato Namgay (7, son of Sangay Kandu and Sangay), Sangay Zam (5, daughter of Sangay Kandu and Sangay), Chato Geltshin (3, son of Sangay Kandu and Sangay), Tandin Geltshin (2, son of Sangay Kandu and Sangay), Kinley Dorji, (61, unmarried brother of Nalim). Nalim and her daughter Sangay work as partnersÑthey take turns caring for the children and working in their mustard, rice, and wheat fields. SangayÕs husband Sangay Kandu does the plowing of the family fields but Sangay and Nalim do the planting and harvesting. Namgay, who has a hunched back and a clubfoot, grinds grain for neighbors with a small mill his family purchased from the government. They are paying for the mill as they canÑoften the payment is made in grain and mustard oil. Namgay is also a reader of sacred texts and conducts house cleansing and healing ceremonies for their 14-house village. From Peter MenzelÕs Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions.}}
The Material World books changed my life and how I see the world and i could never unsee the photographs in them - they were done before google gave us insight into people's lives. I always found it very weird and felt overwhelmed by the amount of stuff we have in stores - they say the average amount of products in your average grocery store is 40,000 items. The normality of this escapes me - to quote the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
"Five to one against and falling..." she said, "four to one against and falling...three to one...two...one...probability factor of one to one...we have normality, I repeat we have normality." She turned her microphone off—then turned it back on, with a slight smile and continued: "Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem."
Hungry Planet:
http://menzelphoto.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/Hungry-Planet-Europe/C0000k7JgEHhEq0w
Material World:
my favorite #scifi #shortstory i have discovered thanks to #reddit : the egg
and meat?
I have identified 10 easy steps that we, together, can fix this country. And number one is...
1. We get rid of all couches, better yet - throw them out together with all televisions. What's with the couch you say, poor thing hasn't done a thing against this nation.
The thing with the couch is easy - every second we spend on the couch we are not spending chasing our dreams. Or biking our neighborhood or talking to our neighbors or making extra cash for the trip around the world we have been dreaming of.
The dynasties of the world love the couch because when we are chained to it we are easily seduced to live vicariously through other people's triumphs. They setup various circuses like politics, olympics and reality shows and thus inject us with the emotions and experiences of people we have never met.
The added bonus of selling the couch is now we can do cartwheels in the living room and probably wholelotta more fun stuff without fearing falling off the lumpy..
Everything I ever dreamed of as a kid, all the Isaac Asimov novels with all the wonders of the universe in them. We need to know how great it feels to be explorers - because it feels so much better than setting up wars isn't it. I dream of a time in the future when even the gloomiest schmuck of a politician will get up in the morning and the first thought in their brain would be something good, something grand and something far away.
All our dreams are becoming a reality, today in our solar system but who knows what tomorrow will bring. I'd imagine once a new propulsion is invented we'll be hopping planets the way we do continents today. All the new dreams will, by necessity, replace the old needs for greed, violence and war.
Remember when Asimov talked about silly machines that answer questions in every home. I have a weird dream where overnight all purses become little models of space ships, all Ikea stores wake up as independence day like huge alien crafts just awoken from slumber - when they start rising and shaking - all kinds of particle board furniture starts falling off into big heaps... and humanity wakes up to a future without a need for furniture.
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Jupiter’s North Pole Unlike Anything Encountered in Solar System:
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/jupiter-s-north-pole-unlike-anything-encountered-in-solar-system
Jupiter Down Under:
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia21032/jupiter-down-under
Grandpa (in the middle) grew large tomatoes, made the most amazing fishcakes and had the stretchiest house on the Black Sea with the ever growing amount of people it was able to fit. He was a Macedonian from Bozets (Бозец), modern day Athyra (Άθυρα) in Greece. He always said a Macedonian soldier never turns back, only 180 degrees and forward.
