Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Notes


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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Sunday, December 31, 2023

Notes

Miscellanea (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; tried 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



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
(Similar to Road Scholar)



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






Tonic water with Splenda/Sucralose
No Saccharin
No Aspartame:  NutraSweet or Equal



Chris Reeve
Sebenza 21 Small
Nyala (Fixed blade)



Equus Leather
Lloyd Coat Wallet



Virtue Signaling



Arkel
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:



Semiprime = Prime1 x Prime2








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



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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Monday, December 31, 1984

Notes



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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Friday, December 31, 1971

Notes

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