Me too......................

"For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself."
-Benoit Mandelbrot

Anarchic.............................

"The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve (Jobs), because they saw differently.  The hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Japan did not encourage different thinking.  The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence."
-Bono, as quoted in Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs

A Pat Metheny kind of day............Part the last

Pat Metheny Group...As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls  (Pt 1)




Part two is here

A Pat Metheny kind of day...........Part 4

The Pat Metheny Group.....................Last Train Home

A Pat Metheny kind of day......Part 3

Pat Metheny Group.................................Chris

A Pat Metheny kind of day.........Part 2

Pat Metheny Group..............................San Lorenzo

A Pat Metheny kind of day.....Part 1

Pat Metheny Group......................Are You Going With Me?

Lately it occurs to me.................

Grateful Dead....................................Truckin

As a public service..............

From Ka-Ching! comes a whole host of simple ideas to make life a tad easier.  Many ideas here.  One idea here:

You can thank me later.

Seems true enough.......................

thanks Bilbo

Shaping a generation............Part 4

Tom Terrific and Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog

A bit off track perhaps...............

“Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.”

-Robert M. Hutchins

In case you are curious......................

“The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.” -Bertolt Brecht

Ethan Siegal explores what came before the Big Bang - here.  Faithful readers will know that this blogger is fascinated by pictures from the Hubble Telescope and the like.  They may also realize that this blogger long ago made peace with the notion that some things are just unknowable. Still...............

thanks maggie's

Vain..........................

thanks mme

Practice.............................

thanks jonco

Sweet............................

A bit of relief at the pump after a season of $3.69 per gallon gasoline.  Felt really smart loading up at $3.18 until we passed Sam's Club where a gallon was priced at $2.98.  Nothing like "cheap" gas to perk up attitudes.

Storm before the calm..................

John Mayer............................Slow Dancing in a Burning Room

The vital link.....................

via

Some things never change................

To the Treasurer of the United States (unsent)

December 26, 1961

Dear Sir:
     I have been  reading the statement of December 13, 1961, the last one I have received.
     I'd appreciate it if you could find a way to place debits and credits so an ordinary citizen like myself could understand what you are trying to show.
     When I am through looking and figuring what you mean I have to set up my own statement.
     Why don't you set up yours so any citizen who understands debits from credits can know what you are doing.  I don't think the financial advisor of God Himself would be able to understand what the financial position of the United States is, by reading your statement.
     And I have been going through them and trying to find out what they mean for twenty-seven years!  I found out but it took all day and half the night to do it.  Make your statement a simple bookkeeping document so that any of us can understand it.

-Off the Record, The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman