Well. I am in uncharted territory now. Not sure anyone can help me at this point. Maybe, given that it has taken me this many years to solve these problems, I can have a few days vacation.
To relax. Think about business. Family, friends.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-21 10:11:00 UTC
Great day. Two profound insights. I am so happy that I understand it all that I almost don’t care if anyone else does. 🙂 But that would be too selfish. Immoral even.
What is left really? I’m going through it. The list. Metaphysics, Truth, Epistemology, Ethics, Economics, Politics, Aesthetics? Is there anything left that I don’t understand yet? I suppose there is always room for improvement. I suppose I can always expand application. So i suppose there really is no end to it. But I at least THINK i’ve completed my attempt to understand how we westerners were vulnerable to pseudoscientific mysticism, why our civilization collapses, how to articulate our history, and how to defend against future assaults on it by empty verbalism masquerading as truth.
I guess there are a few economic problems that I don’t understand. I am not confident yet that the inflation question is controllable, and insurance maintainable under the various MMT schemes. I am not even sure I can solve that myself. Maybe I don’t need to. Maybe just stating it at this point is the best we can do.
I guess, I don’t see anything necessarily wrong with german philosophy other than it’s all a desperate attempt to restore the authority of the church. But while it’s untrue, that doesn’t mean it’s necessarily bad in its application. I suppose I should clarify my position on Germany (Sparta) a bit if I’m going to pose this argument as a tale of three cultures.
When I first came to this resort I was pretty frustrated that I couldn’t put these last few bits together, but I managed anyway – even though I felt off kilter most of the time we have been here.
So maybe I need to just ruminate a bit, go through the TOC and see what I still am not comfortable with.
Then I’m sure I”ll find some hole or other. I always seem to. Although I’m a little lost right now as to where to start looking…..
Humans are really fascinating.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-21 03:36:00 UTC
(man stuff) (creepy)
Last night, tall, late 50’s, unfit, total lack of shoulder and chest muscle, clearly sedentary, beta male, with a ‘travel companion’ arrives at the hotel, both with uncomfortable body language. He displays nervous but boyish glee, she the professionalism of a salesperson. While just above average by Ukrainian standards, she’s in the upper 10% of western standards.
These women can make 800 a month in usual jobs, or a thousand dollars to two thousand dollars or more a day accompanying some guy on trips. In case that isn’t clear, she can make more money on a two week vacation than she can in a whole year in a regular job.
I mean. I am not against it at all. But the freaking guy made my skin crawl. So my objection is merely empathy for her as a business person. I have spent most of my life in consulting. It’s all too often prostitution – doing what you don’t like, and sometimes what doesn’t need to be done, and once in a while, what shouldn’t be done, for money.
Now I’m one of those people that won’t do what shouldn’t be done – for money or otherwise. But I have done a lot of things I didn’t enjoy doing.
Creepy customers are something to avoid – no matter which profession that you’re in.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-19 23:57:00 UTC
OUT UNTIL DAWN
Dang. Sunlight. That’s dawn. ;).
Huh. Everyone is still dancing. If dawn isn’t a reason to stop then might as well keep going….Apparently we are going to the beach now…. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-18 22:03:00 UTC
IT’S 3:00AM AND WE ARE WORKING.
So, I can’t tolerate the heat, so I can’t sleep, and I’m wrestling with a couple of interesting ideas, and I see a comment on one of my posts from the guys in Cyprus. So I ask them what they’re doing at 3:00AM.
They’re drinking beer and writing web socket code… Web sockets are very lightweight background connections that let your web page update to reflect changes in the data. So in Oversing if say you’re working on something and someone posts a comment like they do in FB, it will appear on your page.
So, last time they stayed up drinking beer and programming, they increased performance by about 10,000% (Oversing is now effectively instantaneous – above the threshold of user expectations.)
So now I have a new business rule. “Give Them Beer”.
They just sent me a low- light photo of themselves, shirtless, with beer, and laptops laughing like hell.
lol.
I know. You wish you had a job like this. Everyone does. 🙂 It’s like being part of a hunting party. Like being stone age mastodon hunters except we have flush toilets.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-17 20:25:00 UTC
(self assessment)
The rule of thumb of divorce, is that it will take you about a year to get over every four years of marriage. This fall is five years. Seems like it’s worked about right for me. We sort of rebuild our minds sufficiently to forget almost anything every three years, so I bet there is some sort of algorithm in there we could develop and explain in terms of sensory overload. In other words, the more different your circumstance the more quickly you will develop alternate memories to replace the old. On the other hand of you carry it with you you’re associating the past with the present. So there is some sort of polluting going on while you’re forgetting. The mind is fascinating.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 11:23:00 UTC
To the ashes of my fathers and the temples of my gods,
At the age of 12, sitting in church, I made an oath to god: that should I become wealthy I would build him a church.
I had no idea that while I meant money and a building, he meant a philosophy and a polity.
A pity I do not know his name.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-13 03:47:00 UTC
(Slept only two hours the other night. Trying to make up for it today. Rainy, humid and hot here. Cant use the AC because it seems to want to undo my asthma treatment, and I just LOVE being able to breathe. Tried a few sketches today [Ayelam always inspires me] but I can’t seem to get out of the fog. It’s like this in the fall in Seattle. The rains start and slowly your brain decays. But the sight of Oversing just rocking today really was beautiful. Blew my mind.)
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-10 10:53:00 UTC
Jul 10, 1963Imagine a victorian fairy tale downtown surrounded by american dairy farms, half of which are owned by germans, the other half by mennonites, and you sort of get the idea. The high point of agrarian americana was just prior to the world war. After that it has been sort of a tragic downhill ride. Canandaigua is a time capsule to that era. A little worn around the edges but enough to remind you of what we once were: a people.Place: Canandaigua (city), New York (42.8861, -77.2817)Address: Canandaigua (city), New York
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-10 06:22:00 UTC
Sep 01, 1974Best High School Ever (Thank you god)Place: Middletown, Connecticut (41.5537, -72.6632)Address: Middletown, Connecticut 06457
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-10 06:17:00 UTC