death of...

inflight entertainment ...yahoo brought me that today ...high cost, low use, poof, gone!! ...soon to be seen inflight ...the seat back! Some want 120v a/c or usb hookups in the planes. Some want wifi (some have that).

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/146781;_ylt=AsCzEdQQwZp4nzY8FJ8HWkSXMJA5#see_comments

I might be anxious about hooking my beloved laptop to the plane's electric which may zap it with too much juice

...I wish laptops and many other devices were like my old trusty electric toothbrush ...to prevent you getting charred in the bathroom, the cordless electric toothbrush sits in a charger base that does it by the magic of induction...

...now here's a business plan ...make laptops with induction capable batteries (or sell replacement batteries with that or some sort of induction flat thingy that fits into the laptop bag or sticks to the bottom of it) and rent induction chargers in airports, airplanes, etc. You put it in a chair/desk or into the tray and all you need is the place to put the quarters or swipe the credit card, and voilà! ...you could do your laptop and your cellfone too!! ...even your electric toothbrush!

I'll be a millionaire in a jiffy with that one, septin4 that I don't know a thing about business or implementation nor do I have any chums who are connected to the elite who decide such things!

...so, in the words of Gilda Radner ... "never mind."

heal

I have stories to tell and I see them dervish twirling in my sensorium nonstop. Why should you give any thought to this; no response?

Many years ago in another life I was on call for high risk case input for a certain far-away hospital. All was well the crier sounded and off to the rack went I only to be shuddered awake to the emergency for a little kid. Well, this was no ordinary call. I could hear it in the voice of the nurse on the line. It was barely a whisper.

A young man of the household was on his way to second shift, leaving his loved brood at the homestead. Backing the family car out a bump was there. It was his son. The cruel wheel passed over the little one's head. It was a tragedy from the beginning to the end. I learned much of this.

The boy was in extremis; I and he arrived together to the wide eyed staff and crew of the rig. Fear was wafting everywhere. All the technology was done in the field and afterwards. I didn't bring that here to tell about all that...

Soon came the aforementioned family car bearing the terrified. All came to see what could not be seen. The youngster was in desparation territory. Brain matter emerged; things were beyond all the king's men.

I was useless...we were all useless. I focused on the family; then on the organ donor hierarchy. For big people, all would have gone smoothly; for little people, and to a great extent still today, there were many to receive, many to give, and no highway betwixt. All night could not bring those people the little I could do to bring them a tiny thread of peace...nothing could be recovered but for the corneas.

I watched the people of greatest courage and forbearance I have ever known. I saw a wife pick her husband up and hold him still beyond any imaginable best one could summon. There is no forgetting the lessons taught that night. The boy went slowly away, the team struggled, the mother stepped into our role as healer.

i've been told...

some say medication can control me ...I doubt it. Never has before. Unless, of course, they have come up with something intended to dumb me down flat and stiff as a board (and I see Vincent Schiavelli in the Cuckoo's Nest...wow, 1975 ...long ways back). Never have I gotten over the effect psychotrophics have on real people (after spending time as an "extern" in training at Creedmore and Ward's Island in the 60s). Of course, that was back in the day when they reasoned ECT (shock) didn't require any anesthesia inasmuch as the memory banks were wiped anyhow. Nice ...I've seen the teeth a'crackin!! I remember a guy who used to come in to change lightbulbs and other small maintenance jobs on the ward I was assigned to observe. Turns out, when he finished his day of work, he would hang his overalls in his locker and go back to his ward for the night; this guy had not been out of the hospital grounds in 54 years!! He hadn't had a visitor for over 45 years!! Although held on a 2PC (two physician certificate) which should have bought him at least a judicial review every year (over most of his stay) and in the latter years, quite a bit more frequently, he had not been "examined" by a physician for over 15 years according to his record which I had reviewed. Can we say "institutionalization?" He would never have survived had they released him...the world had passed him by. Some things are amazing. That was over 40 years ago.

more

So, where does a guy go to see another image ...I speak of myself while the world crashes around me, banging and wimpering altogether. It seems the cave-in follows (got the image of Linus with the cloud above his head) and finds me everywhere. Now, I know this will ulitmately lead to loss of all my followers, but what of it? I can push on alone after all. Companionship has its moments, but never seems to fill the gap. I am gapped alright. The cleft is deep and oozing (view the cockroach I had to terminate last night still there giving up the great green gobs of greasy grimy guts so often ascribed to gophers). Now I see Al Sharptin ...oh yeah, it's the TV, mj you know !!

ambivalence

...it seems to creep up on a guy like when you walk up the sidewalk and see some object in your path far ahead and take little notice as you are bouncing the near term life events around what seems to be a small calvarium with contents bearing quite a smooth content...and, there it is, under your gaze, being as it were above her gaze (or is it a herat?) and the insane urge to step on it like you do with the kitchen ants is quelled by uncertainty.

The uncertainty of rats' climbing capacity (you see old home movies of coconut willie scampering up a palm downing fruit delighting guests at the Hawaiian Village all with a view of Diamond Head), or rather the void left in that place where you look to find out just what you are doing, and especially where you are going. You have a flash of the police response when you revive and your inability to answer those self same queries. That settles it; no loss of consciousness is permitted. Under these circumstances, it behooves a person of substance to formulate a keen plan. And, 'tis a puzzlement (briefly viewing Yul Brynner gesturing with grace to Deborah Kerr in song).

Are all the days of our lives truly this way? Does everyone dwell in a never-ending hodge-podge of varietal scenes. It comes to mind (yes, my "smooth" brain) it may very well be unique to the chosen few. As a lifetime member of my group, it is now clear to me this muddle is not universal. Can it be? Surely not, inasmuch as it would place me squarely in the midst of the mundane masses. Ask anyone, I am simply not plain vanilla.

So, you ask (I see your finger approaching the "del" key with your other hand attempts to hold your wrist at bay like Peter Sellers avoiding the Roman salute in Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) why any normal person, a charter member of the masses, the mundane, the hoi polloi, would disregard the admonition en tete this page and read on. To that end, I visualize nothing more.

***sadly, there will be more to come when I feel like it...

even more authoritative...

Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words.
Manage and watch your words, for they become your actions.
Consider and judge your actions, for they become your habits.
Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they become your values.
Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.

-Mahatma Gandhi

...and, this guy knew how2think4sure!!

on good authority...

Joseph Goebbels would say: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, then people will begin to believe it.”

no more...

Everyone is so happy the stock market went up ...wait! It ain't over yet by a longshot... No more bernie to kick around ...no more bush to bash ...no more cheney to chide ...oh, wait, I already said that ...but wait still, is it still true?? ...say it ain't so!! ...well, itza real mess ...housing starts are lousy, mean price of inventory is down still, wattrwegunnado? it's an obamarama!!

tarp schmarp...

so it's a tea party while all the time I thought it was an obamarama ...which is, by all accounts, MUCH more fun than a tent toyotathon ...and the giveaway goes on and on ...the mortgage bailout of bush vintage was shown to have affected 1 single individual ...now the funds sit there waiting for the grabass politicians to get their mits onto it ...well, then, isn't that just peachy?

barack+jay=?

leno\obama = frost\nixon ?

yippeee!!!

Everyone is so happy the stock market went up ...wait! It ain't over yet by a longshot... No more bernie to kick around ...no more bush to bash ...no more cheney to chide ...no more of the beasts who did it, but now we've got a newbee in charge, and, despite being quite intelligent and glib, seems headed in the same direction... spend a trillion (bush tried it, obama tried it) and watch it go POOF !! New swingset on the lawn is all I see here.

dow wow !!

c the dow ?? ...I see <5000 at end of 1st quarter and <4000 at midpoint ...waddau think?
bush threw a trillion at it and it washed right off...
obama said "I'm not all ginned up to spend money" in his speech!
he then instantly threw another trillion at it and it's circlin' the drain...
money is not gonna fix this...

paleeeeeez !

Rush Limbaugh: 'Conservatives love people' ...wow, in this case it's the messenger who is the stinker ...gimmea break !! ...get this guy another bong !!

AER

...maybe, after all this blows over, bernie can get a job there ...although, seems like slim pickins compared ...a guy's gotta start somewhere; sure beats evening manager at kfc, though.

problem is...

so he's only lied a little bit ...he (Roland, not Rod) believes that alone qualifies him to be a senator inasmuch as most of them are little liars as well ...well, then they become president! ...well, then, does that imply if he remains then the public acknowledgement all or most senators are little liars ...excepted are the big liars ...not to leave out the rest of those in the congress (read the house!) ...like that rascal rangle ...well, then, if he remains and we conclude the entire congress (both houses) is tolerant of little liars (let alone the big ones), thence we assume that applies to the president (past?, current?)? ...now, wait a darn minute here!! ...hasn't he (Barack) taken enough guff from the others you ask (no, not the ones on TV's Lost; I mean the liars that are NOT in the congress); limbaugh, hanaday, o'reilly, coulter, and whozamawhatzis who did the cute chimp cartoon at the ny post! ...sheesh! I sure wish I could even get away with havin' a big fried chicken lunch with coupla leaves of lettuce on the side and tellin' my wife I had salad! She always finds out the truth (I never litter so those KFC wrappers are all over the back seat of the car for sure). I sure do need some lessons in lie effectiveness from those little liars! ...as for Rob, we should'a asked his wife!

those rotten dirty scoundrels !!

...so now it seems ole rod got some money outa rob for the trip he gave him to DC ...wonder why he left space on his tomb? Maybe it's for his logo (i.e. prison tatoo to be applied)? ...and, now we have another dump of phony money into the phony economy so we can all go down to walmart and get ourselves a nice lounge chair and a big bag of pork rinds and settle in for a look at our DTV free ...well, maybe!

really, look at the ads...now the focus is on selling new antennae since they sold out of the coupons for boxes ...the mention of antennaweb.com is all over the airwaves ...it's a SCAM people, duh! I got the boxes and don't get but coupla channels only 1h south of philly. The digital signal doesn't fade out with distance; it falls off a cliff (thus the "cliff effect") ...near transmitter, you get plenty (long island, ny gonna get about 50 or more channels) ...here I don't even get the big4 with antenna on 40' tower and pre-amplifier + amplifier...d'oh! ...wanna buy some converter boxes offa me?

and tomorrow they're gonna bail out the folks who lied like fish to get a mortgage on nice digs in the suburbs ...well, friend of mine's son-in-law had a condo in a nicer (hehee) area of Detroit he got for a buck and a half and just let go for halfa that! ...nice. Where are we going with all this? Sweet haven?

I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today...

...even Sanjays as well

"Former CA CEO Sanjay Kumar, 45, started his 12-year prison sentence Tuesday at a minimum-security federal pen in Fairton, New Jersey" ...yippee!! I live on the same street as a supergeek!! I wonder if he gets better high speed internet at the FED than I do in my humble abode ??

...not done with those scamps yet !!

...another Robert in the scrap heap ...that Burris Blagojevich sent to the senate before he went under is on his way to the deep (as in what you don't wanna see hitting any ventilation apparatus be it your window fan or your nostrils) ...seems he lied once or twice or more (which led Quinn to ask for his lame excuses) ...wowweee !! ...an un-ending supply of lackluster louts named Robert !!

"Burris has built a mausoleum for himself and his family in Oak Woods Cemetery on Chicago's South Side. His tombstone proclaims, "Trail Blazer," and includes a list of his accomplishments, with space left for future ones." [Wikipedia]

...makes me so darn proud, you ??

the list

went right through that robert list like lightning; now he is runnin' out of judds fast ! ...is a 2nd choice cabinet gonna do ? Isn't the whole promise of the "new" bi washington sposta bring diverse views into the inner circle ?

and I thought my budget was a mess!!

$3 trillion! ...awcrapp ...and I am sure I won't see a penny. We who don't have bad debt are sure gonna get some real soon ...and then came Barack speakin'2 the people and with that and a little help from Geitner the market tanks!! Gas goin'up and opec trimmin'supply and you think this ainna gonna be a hot summer? ...the obamarama continues on it's willy-nilly binge ...claims he wasn't "ginned" up to spend 800 billion ...well, that's cuz he's ginnin'up 4 3T I spoze.

wtf ...whatever...!!

Any old Robert will do inasmuch as nobody seems left amongst the handful who actually paid their taxes !! ...or had a nanny who didn't tell about the nannycam they had until the upskirt event with the boss had already gone down ...under the desk, y'all; the only safe place !! ...I will offer the whitehouse (which usta have a real racy website whitehouse.com 'till they shut it down) an underdeskcam ...should be kinda gud, no? I will shuddup if I get one of those 4% cheeep loans on my mansion ...I doubt it's for me; it's the maxedoutcreditcardsbehindinpayments6months crowd who are gonna get the gudstuff on our nickle !! ...by then, we'll be in it for more than a nickle; hide yer kruggerands in that new pillowtop tempurpedic, y'all; it's showtime at the obamarama !!

just you watch...

bottom of barrel on deck ...pretty soon we're gonna hear pronounced the dreaded Robert Reisch or even Robert Rubin who melted Citi and now will be lurkin' for another whack at the whole enchelada!! wowweee!! is it 17 days he lasted or what? hey, Barack, wake up!!

Obamarama!

an OBAMARAMA! complete with screwups (I didn't say screws, no chubby under desk, no blue dress; yet!) ...too many tax cheats ! ...running short of recycled clinton leftovers ! ...giving free cash to build the same gas guzzlers nobody wants ! ...pay off peoples' bad credit card & mortgage dept ! I don't have any of that, so what's in it for me other than a transfer of their bad to we who live a responsible financial life ...makes me a carrier of bad dept ! No !!

did he really say this ??

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
-George Santayana

message to all my followers...

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

I don't see anything new about the new year ...maybe i don't have adequate perception skills; maybe I have a pair of blinders on like a carriage horse in NYC traffic at rush hour.  I feel like I am proceeding through life rubbernecking at the wreckage all around me.  My little town has a former tax collector indicted for theft in excess of $93,000.00 (we are less than 3000 of us here with only one stoplight).  The brand new seawall installed in 2008 at a cost of upwards of $2 million started to crumble before it was completed; now about 3/4 of it lies in the water and lawsuits abound.  The brand new NJ Motorsports Complex lies just to our southeast with all the traffic from the west and south (Pennsylvania, Delaware, and more) going right through our town to get there; not a single business in our future despite a tax abatement offer and other benefits.  The township put all services up for bid, nobody did as far as I know.  We have thick politics which, surprisingly, is a microcosm of the nation and maybe the world.  We have intergroup strife, intragroup strife, hate crimes, bombings, drugs, deceipt, and the rest of what makes us human!  Or, does it?