Notes

2025

AI for lexicography?

Got a word on the tip of your tongue?  There's a word for that:  lethologica.  Wouldn't be great to have a reverse dictionary?  I have long thought so.  And I often tried typing what I knew of the definition into a Google search, hoping it would spit out the word (or a word) I was looking for.  I can never remember that actually working.  But it works great with these new AI tools.

Christopher Rufo on Andrew Tate:

He is a distinctly postmodern figure who has used his online persona to reduce masculinity to a simulacrum.  Tate is to masculinity what pornography is to sex:  A degraded form of the original, superficially attractive but profoundly empty.

He's an idiot.  He could not organize gravity to drop an apple.

Recipes for Love and Murder

Sally Andrew

Yes, this:

There is no choosing here.

There is only accepting.

The choosing was done a long time ago.

Cormac McCarthy

Gangs:  A racist term applied to organic collections of oppressed individuals banding together to defend their rights against a heteronormative white supremacy paradigm.

Charity:  A tool of oppression designed to obscure the patriarchy’s solidification of its own power paradigm.

On Cuba:  Only socialism could keep a nation full of Cubans poor.

Kurt Schlichter, People's Republic Series

A confounded farrago of critical race theory, abortion rights, gun control, gender theory, pronoun madness, censorship, diversity equity inclusion, intersectional dynamics, the climate emergency, higher taxes on the rich, vaccine passports but no voter IDs, and all the other flimsy furniture of the modern lefty's sciolistic mind. (Apologies to Richard Brinsley Sheridan)

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Notes

2024

Site considerations

Post on Curiosity versus Depression

Possible subtitle:  Curiosity as a Prophylactic Against Suicide

Follow up post on The Parasite Vote:  The Other Kamala Voters

Other post possibilities:

* The consequences and benefits of a low fertility rate/Ending the worker/retiree pyramid scheme/Replaced with what?  Family, technology, something else?

* There is no intellectualism on the left.  Only intellectual sounding arguments to prop up their emotional desires.

* On the 2024 Republican victory:  Electoral college mandate, absolutely.  Popular vote mandate, hardly.  When did a 51-49 victory become a landslide?

* Lack of common sense is a function/consequence of laziness.

* Philippines as Lotus land.

* How the NCREC penalizes sellers.

Megyn Kelly

The Right looks for converts; the Left looks for heretics.

I will add my own observation:  We see people who move from left to right (converts).  But is it vanishingly rare to see anyone move right to left.  And the older someone gets, the more true this becomes.

Josh Shapiro reminds me of Elizabeth Holmes.  If he cannot and will not be honest about how he speaks, can we trust him regarding anything?  At some point, he decided that he could do a pretty decent Obama affectation.  So he ran with it.  No, we cannot trust a word he says.

The Scam of the Left

If the goal is to transfer wealth from a small group to a large group, how is it that the wealth always ends up with the tiny group of leftist leaders?  And the further left you go, the more this happens.  It is the ultimate scam, and there are two types of leftists:  Those who see it (the scammers) and those who are too stupid to see it (the marks).  This scam exists for all left-of-center ideas and their proponents, and even for the mushy centrists and center-right types.

On Kamala Harris

A vote for Kamala Harris would be not only a demonstration of your spurious virtue, but also an admission that merit has no place in your ecosystem.  Her competence is so nonexistent that in order to vote for her, you must truly hate yourself and your fellow citizens.  It is suicidal.  Unfortunately this does describe a good chunk of the Democrat party.

Elon Musk

Physics is the law; everything else is a recommendation.

Are we simply meaning-seeking beings, or is there meaning?

Be nice until it’s time to not be nice.

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Notes

2007 – 2023

Andrew Klavan:  A Strange Habit of Mind (2022)

One of those long biblical beards men grow when their heads can no longer contain their self-regard and it simply flows out of their chins all the way down to their sternums.



23 June 2023

Gold & Pearl Coffee Shop, Butuan City

Philippine knife:

Bolo knife

Naming idea for Philippine Youtube channel (or other internet presence):

Balikbayan Strategies

Family estrangement

Make estrangement, ghosting, or expulsion irrevocable.

From Unforgotten:

filth – FILTH – Failed in London, try Hong Kong

Discontinued (look for sale):

Benchmade Saddle Mountain Hunter 15007-2

By temperament he was a loner, if only because, although never wholly content in the solitary state, he was almost invariably even more miserable in the company of others.

Colin Dexter, The Riddle of the Third Mile (1983)

(Inspector Morse Series)

23 March 2018

Livas – Tequila/Scotch

29 August 2017

Movie to see:

Come Sunday

Show hidden files in Apple Mac Finder:

SHIFT + CMD + .

Attorneys – Civil litigators

Referred by Carolyn Harrell:

Richard Boyette (AV Rated)

919-828-5100

919-863-8729

rtb@cshlaw.com

Movies to see again:

A Year in Provence (with John Thaw)

Scandal (Profumo)

The Man Who Knew Too Much

To Hell and Back

Possible time tracking app:

Harvest

GetHarvest.com

Scanner software to try:

ExactScan Pro

Available in the Mac App Store

Also:  ExactScan.com

As of 9 Feb. 2018:

Works with Canon DR-225, but not HP150

No Metadata entry

Other scanner software:  VueScan

Fenix FD20 (Flashlight)

Uses two AA batteries

BOMA Square Foot Calculation

Phillips Architecture

919-878-1660

Bob, son of Battle, last of the Gray Dogs of Kenmuir.

Client recommended travel company:

Tauck

www.tauck.com

(Similar to Road Scholar)

Hudson Bay Point Blanket (Wool)

6 Point – Queen Size

8 Point – King Size

Other wool companies:

Pendleton

Woolrich

Faribault

Canary Mail

(Encrypted email client)

Best wine for pizza:

Red Zinfandel (very dry)

Read somewhere, I think the WSJ – Seems good advice.

The Parting Glass

Of all the money that e'er I had

I spent it in good company

And all the harm I've ever done

Alas it was to none but me

And all I've done for want of wit

To mem'ry now I can't recall

So fill to me the parting glass

Good night and joy be to you all

So fill to me the parting glass

And drink a health whate’er befall,

And gently rise and softly call

Good night and joy be to you all

Of all the comrades that e'er I had

They're sorry for my going away

And all the sweethearts that e'er I had

They'd wish me one more day to stay

But since it fell unto my lot

That I should rise and you should not

I gently rise and softly call

Good night and joy be to you all

A man may drink and not be drunk

A man may fight and not be slain

A man may court a pretty girl

And perhaps be welcomed back again

But since it has so ought to be

By a time to rise and a time to fall

Come fill to me the parting glass

Good night and joy be with you all

Good night and joy be with you all

~

Interesting Mac Apps:

Hazel

Alfred

Interesting, but for me, not useful

Lake Santeetlah (Western North Carolina)

Zicam or Zink Cold Therapy

Central Serous Retinopathy

SanDisk Extreme Pro USB3.1

Grandma Ann’s Electric Grater

Tonic water with Splenda/Sucralose

No Saccharin

No Aspartame:  NutraSweet or Equal

Chris Reeve

Sebenza 21 Small

Nyala (Fixed blade)

ChrisReeve.com

Equus Leather

Lloyd Coat Wallet

http://www.equusleather.co.uk/

Virtue Signaling

Arkel

http://www.arkel.ca

The Shopper Urban Pannier

(Rear Pannier)

Carolina Office Exchange

409 Airport Blvd, A-200

Morrisville, NC

Open M-F, 9-5

Freedom from Religion and Government (Foundation)

The Godless Conservative

Self-Reliance (Institute, Foundation)

Encryption:

Alice Bob Eve

Semiprime = Prime1 x Prime2

dialectic trans-spatial interdependence

Appear.in

30 July 2009

Bill Wasik:

The experience of moving online actually bears quite a few similarities to becoming a New Yorker.  Disorienting and seemingly endless, the Internet conversation moves at lightning speed and according to unstated social rules that can bewilder outsiders.  Also, like New Yorkers, residents of the Internet do not suffer fools, or mince words in belittling them.

5 June 2009

Lisa Unger

It is not the strongest among us who survive.  Nor is it the most intelligent.  It is those among us who are the most adaptable to change.

Beautiful Lies

If you don't know how to look at her, her hidden alleys and minuscule precious little side streets, her aura of mischief, her throbbing nightlife, you might find yourself intimidated by New York City, even repulsed by her odors and sounds, you might even turn away from her because she's too brash, too haughty.  But it would be your loss.

Black Out

21 May 2009

Writing in The Wall Street Journal, John Steele Gordon on Why Government Can't Run a Business:

Consider a thought experiment.  There is a national widget crisis and Sen. Wiley Snoot is chairman of the Senate Widget Committee.  There are two technologies that are possible solutions to the problem, with Technology A widely thought to be the more promising of the two.  But the company that has been developing Technology B is headquartered in Sen. Snoot's state and employs 40,000 workers there.  Which technology is Sen. Snoot going to use his vast legislative influence to push?

There are two ways of spreading light.  To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

New Alarm Systems

Canary

Scout

Piper

28 February 2008

Question from a novel I am reading:

Is being on time a virtue...or, a neurosis?

Mistakes frequently found on websites

Viewer-friendly sites should avoid the following:
 -  Required registration/Log ins
 -  Too quick automatic refresh on long pages
 -  Visual busyness
 -  Paragraphs of all caps
 -  Anything that moves (movement should be viewer initiated)
 -  Sound (again, sound should be viewer initiated)

Cool paper

Doane Paper

Can't Go Wrong wine to take to a dinner party?
Kendall-Jackson (any variety)

Been watching the old Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes television series.  A friend bought the set and loaned them to me.

Note to self:  Try out pray continue at first convenience.

Married adulterers must be stoned, not shot.  Got it?

Apostasy?  Here.

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Notes

1984

Contradictions do not exist.  Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises.  You will find that one of them is wrong.

It was the greatest sensation of existence:  Not to trust, but to know.

Resentment of another man’s achievement is the hallmark of the second-rater.

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Notes

1971

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