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Key to a low maintenance life (#2)

by onestring • 2009/06/21 • 0 Comments

Keep short cropped hair.

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Creative

Lightning Struck

by onestring • 2009/05/10 • 0 Comments

Lightning struck the spot where you were standing The universe yawned and reclaimed the atoms of your essence You were just another conductor

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Observation, Science

The Golden Rule

by onestring • 2009/05/10 • 2 Comments

“What I’m saying is that religion thinks it holds a monopoly on morality. No religion, no morality. I call bullshit. In fact, I would say it’s possibly a fear of having no morality — or rather, being told that one…

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Observation, Politics, Technology

More Geo-Engineering Hijinx

by onestring • 2009/04/29 • 0 Comments

Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. And I’m not sure about the former. — Albert Einstein It appears that the notion of reflecting the sun’s rays in order to deal with global warming has not died…

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*Featured, Creative, Humour, Observation

I Am An Evolutionary Success — Maybe

by onestring • 2009/04/19 • 1 Comment

“Mike, look at me.” “I am looking at you.” “No. Look at me. What do you see?” “Okay… I see a thirty-something software guy, balding and growing a paunch.” “Aha, you mock me to camouflage your own glaring inadequacies, but…

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*Featured, Books, Observation

Ishmael revisited

by onestring • 2009/04/17 • 2 Comments

In my life I have read only two books a second time.  The first was aeons ago and I cannot now recall what it was.  The second was Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, which I just finished a month ago.  This…

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Profit Über Alles

by onestring • 2021/04/04

In my last article I pressed on the idea that while we rely on capitalism to value things, there are a lot of things it’s not good at valuing. I want to explore that a little more. The oft repeated…

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Art Is Life

by onestring • 2021/03/20

I know it sounds outrageous to say it, but I have come around to the belief that without art we are lost. What do we live for otherwise? Our children? Love? Maybe, but to what end, if not to together…

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Why Community Matters

by onestring • 2019/07/01

The other day I was bemoaning the erosion of community in our everyday lives and placing the blame squarely on automation. Automation and the never-ending race to achieve greater efficiency seeks to remove people from as many equations as possible.…

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Daylight Savings Time

by onestring • 2010/10/30

I read an article on Daylight Saving Time today which, regardless of how I felt about it, certainly got a lot of commenters worked up.  A health researcher in Britain has proposed eliminating Daylight Saving Time as an ‘easy’ way…

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Meaning

by onestring • 2010/04/05

Today in traffic I could see that the vehicle that was three vehicles forward of me had begun signalling to turn left.  I could also see that there was a fair amount of oncoming traffic, so I quickly made a…

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