RODGER DODGER REVISITED
Author: ethomasparham
EARLY VOTING
I voted early as possible. Didn’t want to die before voting against the GOP congress.
Hope to live long enough to vote for them to be convicted.
WHISH
JOURNEY OF THE MIND by Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam is another book “above my paygrade”. Though published in 2022 it is prescient and related to the big questions of the moment.
Here is a clip from the book’s cover: “Journey of The Mind” is a mind-bending work of popular science, the first general book to share the cutting-edge mathematical basis for consciousnesss, language, and the self. It shows how a “unified theory of the mind” can explain the mind’s greatest mysteries—and offer clues about the ultimage fate of all minds in the universe.
Tough reading follows.
Homo Sapiens as just another link in evolution?
“Chain, chain, chain—chain of fools”
CHANGE
” ITS A BORROWED TUNE”
“You cannot change what you refuse to confront.”
“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
“No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.”
“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”
“Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset.”
“You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.”
“THERE MUST BE SOMEWAY OUT OF HERE”
The technique called “Spearing”, or using your head in football tackling, caused serious problems in the late 1960’s. Currently the NFL is experiencing a rash of similar frightening injuries. Sixty years later.
Some say injury problems will doom football.
I wrote this many years ago:
” Sports can break your heart and/or your neck. About the time schools consoli-
dated, a football tackling technique called “spearing” became popular. And it was
lethal. During this “evolving” time several kids were killed or paralyzed. Spearing
was often the villain. Any young football coach should read O. Charles Olsen’s
small book called “The Prevention of Football Injuries.” Olsen’s theory is centered
on E = 1⁄2 mv2 ( 1972 ).
Or Energy = one half mass times velocity squared. Or, the players are
faster, stronger, and the hitting is harder.
When schools integrated the smaller kids were eliminated from football. Big-
ger kids, many African American, weight training programs, and steroids in some
instances, produced MANY dangerous hits.”
Some said :…you can’t take the head out of football!”
Or “…you can’t change the rules and still have football fans will support”.
My guess is that football’s survival depends on the players themselves.
SLIPOVERS
World’s Top Producer of Condoms Raises Prices as Iran War Rattles Supply Chain
( From today’s New York Times ).
THINGS ARE GETTING SERIOUS !
OCT 1 Note: My Wife came home with a lemon cake. She left saying it would be chocolate. Why ?
She said the tariffs had priced chocolate too high.
Somebody better deal with these two products before VALINTINES DAY!
RECYCLE
“IF YOU GO OUT IN THE WOODS TODAY—”
My wife and I just returned from a trip to my childhood hometown. A friend had recommended a bed-and-breakfast in the neighborhood where I grew up.
There were six guests at breakfast. From a conversation the night before, I knew that one of the men we had met was a Ph.D. in herpetology—the study of reptiles. We did not know the other couple.
Five of us were carrying on a breakfast conversation when I finally asked the quiet gentleman about his profession. When he explained that he had an impressive background in entomology—the study of insects—I introduced Dr. Snakes to Dr. Bugs.
Those two guys knew a lot about critters and creepers.
The late Jeanne Robertson often advised asking someone with an unusual profession, “What is the funniest thing that ever happened to you?”
So Dr. Snakes told us about a scheduled dissection of an alligator.
The professor decided to open the gator before the students arrived. As he examined the contents of the alligator’s stomach, he discovered a grotesque mass that appeared to be a human hand and arm.
Further examination revealed that the appendage actually belonged to a bear.
The professor could not resist.
He took off his wristwatch and attached it to the bear’s wrist. Then he sewed “Bruno” back up and waited for his students.
I suspect those students never forgot that lesson in herpetology.
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This is a previous blog edited by AI. The Madison NC town clock below is still there. Our group of preteens could climb to the top. Those with smaller arms could alter the hands of the clock. Madison Mayhem (1950)
Last Chance?
Among the float of ominus questions about Artificial Intelligence (AI):
A west coast group has started higher education in AI. Precousor ?
American elites, no doubt, have history of rascism. Will AI similarly eliminate those
unwilling to, or incapable of, educating oneself for the future?
How should, or could , society prepare, educate?
The line, it is drawn, the curse, it is cast
The slow one now will later be fast
As the present now will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin’
And the first one now will later be last
For the times, they are a-changin’
“ON THE DOLE”
Shouldn’t voters who abhor welfare recipients, “…who do nothing yet expect a government handout “,
vote out the Rebublican members of Congress.
I’D WALK A MILE FOR A CAMEL
We moved from Madison, North Carolina when I was 12 years old. Billy Fulton had already
introduced me to smoking.
Mutual friend, Bobby Hughes , told me that when Billy was issued his football gear Coach Raymond
Cure called him aside. He told Billy : “We have a special jersey for you. We sewed on a shirt pocket to carry your
smokes.”
