The Tarney Spencer Band............................I Can Hear Love
Thursday, February 25, 2016
As we make it....................
We must not hope to be mowers,
And to gather the ripe gold ears,
Unless we have first been sowers
And watered the furrows with tears.
It is not just as we take it
This mystical world of ours
Life's field will yield as we make it
A harvest of thorns or flowers.
-Goethe, Perseverance
Fifty years ago.............................
The Lovin' Spoonful...Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind?
It is a good question............................
....................but perhaps it's the wrong one.
Don't you think that many are watching and thinking, "Yes! I want the political process (meaning those I favor) to control ever larger parts of those other peoples' (meaning those I don't favor) lives!" ?
Be careful what you wish for. As always, the law of unintended consequences bats last.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2016
On mining big data...........................
"Plumbing the depths of chaos, it divines meaning."
"In the 1980's,it was still possible for an amateur to learn everything humans knew about the planets. Today, that's no longer true. The Alps of raw data would take more than one lifetime to summit, passing countless Ph D dissertations at campsites along the trail."
"How extraordinary that we've created peripheral brains to discover truths about nature that we seek. We're teaching them how to work together calmly as a society, share data at lightning speed, and to cooperate so much better than we do, rubbing brains together in the invisible drawing room we sometimes call the 'cloud.' Undaunted, despite our physical and mental limitations, we design robots to continue the quest we began long ago: making sense of nature."
-Diane Ackerman, The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us
Fifty years ago...................
Johnny Rivers..........................................Secret Agent Man
A mis-reading......................................?
Excerpted from our friends at the New York Times:
"The country is now aflame with anger and disgust about politicians and bankers who conned trusting Americans and never got punished for it. That fury has led to the rise of wildly improbable candidates in both parties. As the Bush dynasty falls, it must watch in horror knowing that it is responsible for the rise of Donald Trump."
Are we really "aflame with anger"? Disgusted with politicians, sure. That's a given. But out here in the Heartland, I'm just not feeling the "fury" and the "horror". How about you?
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Let it roll...........................
The Doors................................................Roadhouse Blues
another one from this set list
A leap into the light..................................
"But if history teaches us anything it is that enterprise is the father of peace, that innovation brings not just economic but ethical improvements: it demonstrably makes us kinder and safer as well as richer. There is no security in stagnation."
-Matt Ridley, as culled from here
Fifty years ago..................
Chris Montez..............................................The More I See You
On reforming class warfare........................
Not "the rich versus the non-rich," but "the workers versus the looters."
-as taken from this blog post
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Necessary..................
"It is not necessary to understand music; it is only necessary that one enjoy it."
-Leopold Stokowski
Monday, February 22, 2016
Live from 1963..........Murphy's Boogie
"Unearthing diamonds like this and making them free and easy to enjoy is why YouTube is the best invention of the 21st century!"
And Jetboy is one of the finest diamond miners anywhere.
Yep................................
"That's why libraries are temples and the librarians are priests."
-Michael Wade, as culled from this exchange
Of freckled human nature..............
-Emily Dickinson Heard this poem at church yesterday. This analysis of her meaning might give you an idea why. |
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