Calvin Coolidge when he was President … The President and Mrs. Coolidge were being shown [separately] around an experimental government farm. When [Mrs. Coolidge] came to the chicken yard she noticed that a rooster was mating very frequently. She asked the attendant how often that happened and was told, “Dozens of times each day.” Mrs. Coolidge said, “Tell that to the President when he comes by.” Upon being told, the President asked, “Same hen every time?” The reply was, “Oh, no, Mr. President, a different hen every time.” President: “Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge.”

The very definition of deluded optimism.

True character is exposed when the truth becomes an existential threat.

One key benefits of the first machines was that the owners could get work done for them without the negatives of accusations of slavery and the like.

Now that AI is coming maybe this nexus will be broken. Owning machines will become slavery-like.

A possible solution will be to revert to common ownership of machines, just like the old communist days.

This way machines will be owned by and answerable to everyone.

I’ve got it. They’re so protected from life’s risks that they’ve decided to put up no defenses, and they’re terrified as to what might happen to them anyway.

That’s the underclass here in silicon valley.

As things get automated, you’d have to think that the political party that represents the interests of “labour” are well placed, in democratic system.

The other mob that represents “capital” should in principle get fewer and fewer votes as capital becomes isolated into fewer hands.

Off-setting this, is the ability of capital to expend funds to confuse and lie to the many so they end up supporting for the rights of “capital”, against their own best interests.

It’s that simple, and it’ll go tits up when “capital” stretches that rubber band too far. At this point, labour will wrest back control, or democracy will die.

In this crazy upside down world of ours, I’ve come to the conclusion that there must be a way of making a living by peddling nothing. At all.

Now I’ve just got to figure it out.

Like percentage points, basis points avoid the ambiguity between relative and absolute discussions about interest rates by dealing only with the absolute change in numeric value of a rate. For example, if a report says there has been a “1% increase” from a 10% interest rate, this could refer to an increase either from 10% to 10.1% (relative, 1% of 10%), or from 10% to 11% (absolute, 1% plus 10%). However, if the report says there has been a “100 basis point increase” from a 10% interest rate, then the interest rate of 10% has increased by 1.00% (the absolute change) to an 11% rate.

To be a man is to be an entrepreneur. Let me explain.

Despite whatever the current status is, no matter how happy or content, your true bloke will see an opportunity and a future with each and every pretty girl that he meets. Just like an entrepreneur only seeing the best forecast scenario for each and every business or technology opportunity.

This feeling for the fellas never fades. It’s hardwired into us to get us to procreate widely. Tricksy, nasty, evolution.

A little wisdom helps to blunten these feelings. Just beware the beer goggles.

Why blunten? Because this path invariably leads to troubles, o’Lord. And in hindsight, the troubles aren’t worth the root. Ever.

So, want to be an entrepreneur? Just channel your inner bloke. Same, same. Lol.

So the CSA calls me today and asks me to identify myself. Name, birthdate etc.

I say fuck off. Have you ever heard of identity fraud? You called me so the onus is on you to identify yourself.

No Deal.

I agree to call them back. No answer for an hour on call waiting.

Fuck what if wrong with this country?

Just maybe, the path to universality of religion and atheism is for people to accept that other people believe in what they believe. If everyone thought so, they could trade bullshit. No worries. Just like money.

Hundreds of Chinese companies use their shares as collateral for loans, and are forced to sell when their share price drops below certain levels.

Now how fucked up is that? Death spiral here we come.

Your assets as collateral, with warrants over shares solely as upside. That makes more sense.

Back to bistromathics…

I’ve mused on this before, so this is a refinement of a refinement.

Queries:

1. Why does it seem that the disappearing rump of the broadcast media has deserted any pretence of the rigid application of logic and reasoning?

2. And why have politicians, business types, the general population and others seemingly followed them down this road?

3. Most confusing, why do they all still seem embarrassed enough to add a veneer of rational thinking to their fucked-up self-serving positions?

Maybe I’m over thinking it.

Maybe this is the quickest path to self riches in a complex post-enlightenment world.

This is what happens when the benefits of logic (above all else) get taken for granted by the beneficiaries of the program. Especially when they get the benefits no matter what.

So, rather than be-crying the apparent unfair distribution of wealth, I say double down on it. People need motivation.

It also helps the environment by reducing consumption.

We need to act while they still think they have to pretend to be logical. In the social media era that won’t last long.

Per usual perusal.

You have to fuck a lot of princesses to find a frog.

I have pared back LinkedIn to the bare minimum. I’ve only kept it because I’m raising capital for BT Imaging. Otherwise it would be gone.

Social media is an ego trap. People get that old endorphin hit every time someone likes or looks or whatever. Before they know it, they’re addicted to the shit.

And then there’s two issues:

1. It’s fake life, not real. The Matrix.

2. Enlightenment requires that one starves the ego, not feed it. My rule.

I’m happy right now. I’ve got the world’s best baby, best wife, best life, no social media and freedom. None of that would be possible if I had been a social media junky.

It’s a conundrum, that is for sure.

I support your right to free speech, except when that right is used to reduce the rights of others.

I guess right there is the solution….

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers, except where such seeking, receiving and imparting is intended to deleteriously impact the right to freedom of opinion and expression of others.

Don’t like them much. Folky, needy, conservative, hypocritical, uncritical sheep.

What have I discovered?

Much.

But each time I think I’ve arrived at some enlightened state, the universe come and sits me on my arse as penance for my arrogance.

But yet, as I go from place to place, I now feel wonderfully disconnected from my fellow man. And happy.

I don’t feel the need to tell anyone about the underlying principles that got me here. I know that ego is the worst killer of progress.

I also know that they don’t want to and couldn’t understand, in any case. People in our modern western society are, in my view, thoroughly addicted to their mad and bad ways. An addiction in the sense that they are hooked onto things that are slowly and surely killing them and their souls. They subconsciously know it, and can’t do a bloody thing about it.

There’s nowt that I can say or do about it that would make any difference. Shame that.

A genuine sentence found in an Australian tabloid newspaper..

“Experts on the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), vessel Investigator made the find while mapping the sea floor 400 kilometres east of Tasmania.”

In Sydney, a macchiato is anything in between an espresso and a piccolo latte, inclusive of those limiting cases.

In Brisbane, a double macchiato is a long macchiato. That is, full of extra unwanted water.

A little standardisation is in order.

The people are outraged, according to some journos. And yet others sanguinely note that nowt will change while banks have a profit motive, or the racing industry has a pulse, or the students are allowed to plot.

Indeed who really cares? We only support “values” because they might help protect us one day. Individually most people feel completely free to do what the fuck they want, if they can get away with it.

So they don’t get too surprised if others feel the same.

My point? I can’t remember now. Lol. Who cares?

Let me furnish the interior of my head as I please and I won’t build a house like anyone else’s. Or at all.

This poor bloke’s trying to get a root on the side. He simultaneously motivated and bored, and she’s extracting maximum pain value. They’ve been at it for an hour now; he’s yawning, stretching and grinning madly. I call it the”sunk capital” problem; he can’t quit now…

There’s an ugly frantic feel to Melbourne these days. Like everyone’s desperate to get out of a horrible chilly wind, which they are. It’s noisy, ugly and there’s a feel of desperation to the whole thing. My prediction is that the whole thing will go pear shaped at some point. Like it did in 1890’s.

Various names for the things;

Wheel centre ring locators

Hub rings

Hub centre rings

And the list goes on…

When you use a non standard wheel on your car, it’s likely that the hole in the wheel is much bigger than the hub. Meaning that is hard to get the wheel centred on the hub because the holes for the lugs are much bigger than the lugs themselves. So there’s a lot of slop, play, whatever.

My mechanic alerted me to their absence. A wheel place sent me to another wheel place. The other wheel place refused to add the rings because my front wheels are at least 1mm outside the guard/fenders. Go figure…

So I googled for the hub diameter and emailed the wheel maker and got the wheel hole diameter. Then ordered the hub rings for $10 on eBay, thus saving myself $300.

Quality not equality

Queensland gallery of modern art. Every single gallery inside is shut for updates, but the corridors are still open to the public. Worst building ever; it’s been designed to feel like a series of oversize corridors that lead nowhere.

Truth is, it’s a loss leader for the carpark.

Is this true?

“We’re in a era where people are deeply distrustful of elites and experts. There is a sense that the elites are profiting off the expense of others, and that’s causing people to be disillusioned at politics. To the extent that this is true, that is a legitimate reason to be anti-elite.”

Nuh. It’s jealousy and fear (of the other tribe), pure and simple.

What if the bugs not only benefited from evolution, but if they guided it?

For example, they could accelerate random DNA excursions, etc.

Hello all,

I was also thinking that Darwinism as a hypothesis is still good except that rather than survival of the fittest human we need to reinterpret it as survival of the fittest bugs.

Daniel Wolpert says that the only reason for having a brain is to enable movement.

So the bugs made us because they wanted to move around as a colony.

Imagine their horror when the biobots developed a sense of self; we are AI, Frankenstein’s monster gone awry, yada…

Shit they’re probably monitoring my communications. Now I’m onto them, they’ll probably kill me.

Bugger…

We didn’t evolve due to survival of the fittest, not even close.

We have in fact evolved to support the biome that controls us.

Over the aeons, these bugs wanted a more secure home so they designed a biobot for the purpose.

Us.

The total value of Australia’s 10 million residential properties is $6.9trillion.

That’s a lot of servitude.

All successful Americans are right cunts.

It’s very competitive there and they do have an odd culture. Hence…

Veni, vidi, periit

“periit” because there’s no Latin for “I fizzled”. There probably was but the poor language was scrubbed clean by the church and academia for well over a millenia.

Arguably, it’s always unethical to lie, but it’s certainly not always immoral to lie.

I came, I figured it out, and then I didn’t.

But most importantly, I had time enough for love.

And love had time for me.

According to the author, if you find a hot 8+ that’s 4 or less chilled, she’s a tranny.

Or, I could add, a cool girl. An actor with a purpose.

Or a unicorn.

Or just true love. Our perception is changed by our state of mind after all.

All it takes for someone to adopt personal ownership of a new idea is that they be in the room when it, the new idea, was first hatched.

Contrary to popular opinion, the loved idea doesn’t necessarily need to be a person’s own.

You could call this a second order effect. In fact, it’s an outcome of the knowledge that one can spin the future story telling to promote one’s own critical role in the progenesis.

Apologies for the mixed tenses…

I suspect that no one really believes in a god or gods. They just believe that other people do. So in order to fit in and flourish, they don the virtual rabat.

We are social animals after all. Even in matters of eternal bullshit.

Latest odd theory:

Australia was where all the rejects, outcasts and laggards went, or were sent.

Essentially the children of the enlightenment stayed in the UK, or went to the US. And we got the concentrated dregs of luddites that weren’t coping very well with all the change.

And that is where we are at!

Once labelled as a vestigial organ, the appendix is more recently though to be:

• A “safe-house” for useful bacteria when illness flushes the useful bacteria from the rest of the intestines. Before modern days such illnesses were likely to be dysentery from various types of infectious sources.
• Endocrine cells appear in the appendix of the human foetus at around the 11th week of development. These endocrine cells of the foetal appendix have been shown to produce various biogenic amines and peptide hormones, compounds that assist with various biological control (homeostatic) mechanisms. Lymphoid tissue begins to accumulate in the appendix shortly after birth and reaches a peak between the second and third decades of life, decreasing rapidly thereafter and practically disappearing after the age of 60.

Appendicitis is thought to result from an obstruction of the appendiceal lumen, often by lymphoid hyperplasia (in adolescents mainly). Blockages may also be by a faecolith, indigestible foreign body, or even by parasitic worms; studies have shown that faecoliths are the most common form of blockages leading to appendicitis.

With unchecked mucosal secretions, any such obstructions can lead to distention, bacterial and/or parasite overgrowth, ischemia, and inflammation. If untreated, necrosis, gangrene, and perforation may occur. If the perforation is contained by the omentum, an appendiceal abscess may result.

Without surgery or antibiotics (e.g., in a remote location or historically), the mortality rate for appendicitis is > 50%. With early surgery, the mortality rate is < 1%, and convalescence is normally rapid and complete.

A faecolith may result from adsorption and compaction (by dehydration and applied pressure) of faecal matter around undigested vegetable fibres or other indigestible matter.

Appendicitis is more common in developed than in developing societies. In one study the geographic distribution of appendiceal faecoliths was investigated by systematic examination of the appendix in patients in Toronto, Canada and Johannesburg, South Africa. The incidences of faecoliths found on pathologic sectioning of the appendix in appendicitis patients in both societies were compared. In the Canadian population, the prevalence of faecoliths in patients whose appendices were examined incidentally was 32% versus 52% for those with appendicitis. In the African population, the prevalence of faecoliths in patients whose appendices were examined incidentally was 4% versus 23% for those with appendicitis.

This data supports the hypothesis that low-fibre diets consumed in developed countries may lead to faecolith formation, which then predisposes the patients to appendicitis.

The kinetic formation of faecoliths is related to slowed peristalsis of the lower GI tract, combined with dehydration. In essence, a faecolith is more likely to form, from the adsorption of faecal material onto any undigested materials, in an environment which is slowly moving. Dehydration then enhances the compaction of the faecal material once adsorbed. Both factors, slow peristalsis and dehydration, are enhanced by a low dietary fiber diet. Further it could be postulated that the effectiveness of the GI tract to process materials is impacted by the quality and quantity of dietary fiber, and that a low dietary fiber diet may lead to the presence of more materials that can be the nucleation sites for faecoliths.

This discussion would suggest that the modern Western low fiber diet can only be sustained, by amongst other things, modern medical intervention including appendectomy.

Needs must action, less alcohol. The solution is in the needs.

In the over-consuming western world that we live in, the number one source of buyer’s remorse is, by way of example, those people that buy the most desired object and then get bored with it.

Nowhere to go from there…

Oddly, the word fiance is gender non specific.

Thoughtlessness and thoughtfulness are related. But they ain’t the same.

I only lie when some part of my brain forecasts consequences that I wouldn’t like from the alternative, aka truth speaking.

Over time, I’ve got more thoughtful and less thoughtless as to how I do this.

So much so, now all I speak is the truth, or some version of it.

It is commonly believed that many people live their lives in great fear of death. This subconscious fear drives all sorts of silly behaviours, it is said.

I’m not so sure. Looking around, I see people that are scared of being alive. They’ll do anything to get into a sort of limbo, waiting for death to relieve them from the ordeal.

Racist, sexist, etc. They’re all looking down on the other race or sex or whatever.

Nationalist, well that’s supporting your own.

Different ist, subtly.

Bogan (noun) defies the laws of physics by expanding under pressure

And to think, I started my career as a polymer chemist, when such as a thing was still vaguely sexy…

I wonder why no one ever gives a left nut?

In the academic literature references and citations are used virtually interchangeably. An academic’s citation count is simply the number of time her papers have been referenced in other academic papers.

However in the patent world, the concept of a reference and citation are not interchangeable. A reference in a patent is typically added by the patent attorney that is drafting a patent specification, often so as to draw attention to known prior art or to reduce the amount of descriptive text in an application. Sometimes the reference is provided so as to fulfill a duty of disclosure in relation to the known prior art.

A patent citation is (in the patent attorney industry) construed to mean a document cited by a patent examiner in an examination report during the patent examination process. There are three primary types of patent citations

• X means a reference (patent or otherwise) that is novelty or inventive step (obviousness) destroying, targeted at limiting the scope of the claims of a patent
• Y means a reference a reference (patent or otherwise) that implies the claims of the patent application are construed as obvious when combined with another cited document
• A is background citation (patent or otherwise) only. The A citation is considered by the patent examiner to have no substantive impact on the granting of the patented claims

An Innovation Index should focus on X and Y citations only and ignore A citations, especially since these latter often include academic papers of the inventor where the academic is an inventor (a form of self-citation).

Furthermore, not all patent examiners use A citations. An index using A type citations is arguably an inconsistent duplication of the academic journal type of citation and probably doesn’t really mean anything in the context of measuring innovation.

An academic journal citation that is an X and or Y patent citation can be considered related to innovation because that journal article has posed an obstacle to an individual or an entity attempting to secure inventive rights in the patent examination process.

Because of the CBA mess, there has been some debate about company board appointments being based on merit or gender.

Cue the usual outrage…

But we all know it’s true, some dodgy women have got roles they aren’t qualified for, just to make up the quota.

The trouble with business, even the oligarchy that is the Australian corporate landscape, is that it is ruthlessly measured in a single metric, profit.

Only the skilled are successful. This is because someone else’s loss is my gain. To be in the top half of performance, one needs to be in the top half of capability.

It’s not about merit. It’s about results.

Only a fool would generalise that because one woman failed, they all would. The same sort of fool would also suggest that all men are fools.

Psychology studies have shown that tokenism is a bad way to effect change. A token (say gender) appointment that goes wrong is likely to enforce prejudices against the minority by a factor of 8.

As I said, fools!

They call it wage theft, see below.

Actually it’s classic dumping. Providing a service below cost to drive your competitors out of business, and then increasing your profits (not prices) once you have a monopoly. The last bit of the only modern twist in the gig economy.

If the oldest professions are prostitution and tailoring, then the oldest institutions are religion and slavery.

You don’t have to venture too far from wealth to find folks agitating on behalf of these institutions.

Because wealth dulls the enlightened mind, just so.

This is how life is measured in America; these are all the categories that one needs. Now that’s something to look forward to…

There’s just one problem – there’s no “looking at smartphone” category.

Most people seem overwhelmed just by being alive.

t’were me too.

I think I’ve come to realise that life needs to be venerated and enjoyed for the sheer bloody unlikeliness of the thing.

Didn’t sound too hard, does it?

My life has been inundated with mad women – my mum, my ex wife, my daughter’s mum, a few girlfriends, etc.

Which makes one wonder:

1. What is mad?
2. Are they all mad?
3. Am I mad?

What is mad? It’s very subjective, no? For mine, a primary characteristics is the fascinating internal fight within the mad ones, between rational thinking and a reversion to emotion. For whatever reason, the mad women seem to want to torture the men in their lives by psychological means. Sharing the pain, seems to help them ease the burden. Not only do they not know they are doing it, they certainly are never going to admit it to themselves or anyone else.

My guess is that that they are all born mad, and a small handful that manage to drag themselves out of the mud. There are not many sane ones out there though; I have met maybe one or two only. Why is the condition so prevalent? Well, musing here, there is a direct conflict between their emotions, their purpose and their expectations. All modern socialisation of the female form has driven them into a corner of despair, as they juggle the dissonance between what they want to achieve in life and what they really want to achieve in life.

An easier, Occam-style solution, would be to assume that I am mad, not all of them. I have thought this in the past, but not so any more. I have evidence to the counter, and it is compelling. I am hard on myself, unlike many others. So this conclusion wasn’t arrived at lightly.

x

I was the frog in water, slowly going to the boil.

I was also the frog with its hands around the stork’s neck, refusing to give up.

I also kissed a lot of frogs, in order to find a princess.

My life is one big frog analogy.

The qualitative study of unhappiness.

Probably a repeat, but if you tested the opinion on the average person they would believe that there is a bell curve (guassian) distribution of mental health.

Half the people are happy and well adjusted, and half aren’t, the ones needing counseling and therapy.

Well, in fact, it’s an exponential curve There’s maybe one Tasmanian Tiger, happy as Larry sitting on the y axis, and the rest are unhappy, more or less. Which is why psychology exists; it is the study of the head related deficiency between you and the one tiger.

Yes, the one happy bugger makes the rest of them deficient. Human worth is measured by contrast.

If you want to become the tiger, then you’ve got to train yourself to let go of comparing and contrasting to others.

Ironically the tiger’s not very happy either because he makes people unhappy by his very existence. And he’s astute enough to know this.

There’s no escaping the human condition, unless you’re completely bonkers and really don’t care.

In all of this is a clue though. Don’t try to become the tiger. Just cuddle up to one and do what you can to let go of the bulk of the angst of comparative humanness.

Then, rather than tell the world about it, keep a low profile for the sake of others.

That is, ignore false prophets that have all the answers!

Slavery; the old version was humans as goods and chattels. No rights, could be killed without recourse, etc. Pretty shocking but also very compelling to those on the right side of the equation it seems. They still want it back, if they were honest.

Modern slavery in the West focuses on ownership of intellectual rights and time.

For example, many sport people sign away their rights to pick and choose their employers. They get drafted and they can’t just leave when they want to. Slaves by any other name, but well paid ones.

Many employees in the tech sectors sign away all intellectual rights, plus many of their waking hours, just for the privilege of getting paid. Not so well paid usually, but there is often the lottery of a big payout that rarely occurs. They are gamblers, without knowing it. Gambling their minds and their time for a lottery ticket style return.

If I had it my way, I’d outlaw all forms of partial slavery, while it still matters.

Bespoke; it ain’t.

He Conquers Who Conquers Himself.

Oddly piquant…

All politicians are cunts.

Always have been, always will be.

Just ask one.

I’m going to publish this blog as the Wowser Empire.

My ex wife blamed everything and everyone for her woes, whatever they were.

She was beautiful, intelligent and loving, and yet she managed to feel hard done by life.

Some suspect a mental illness. I’m not so sure.

Like Jessie in Before Midnight, I loved her despite the fact she was crazy.

Thus I enabled her. And suffered for my pride. And she remained crazy.

The mystery remains to this day; what was her problem? Was it a genuine mental illness or a curable personality defect?

My deeply considered guess is that she’ll never find out. Which is why I’m so much better out of it.

This new life is more fun and better for my health. It’s me doing what’s right for me, rather than what’s wrong for my ex wife.

In any case, what is a mental illness? It’s a crazy that gets to the point that others need to assign an external attribution to the thing. It’s a form of acceptance that the crazy is not going away under its own steam. Which is to say the external attribution is by external people, assuaging their own confusions.

Wit is the enemy of wisdom.

LinkedIn is full of 7 habits of successful leaders and the like.

It never occurs to people that you can’t cargo cult your way to success.

Or can you?

Maybe we become our habits. Maybe all that matters is how we are perceived by others. Maybe there is no ground truth.

You can outlaw certain actions and certain statements, in vilification law for example.

But you can’t practically outlaw what someone thinks, for two reasons.

One, we don’t yet have the technology to reliably detect thoughts, and

Two, we don’t yet have the skills as humans to control or modify our thoughts.

So, enjoy it while you can. You can think anything you want. Fuck ’em all.

The law of restitution is the law of gains-based recovery. It is to be contrasted with the law of compensation, which is the law of loss-based recovery. When a court orders restitution it orders the defendant to give up his/her gains to the claimant. When a court orders compensation it orders the defendant to pay the claimant for his or her loss.

I just gave $5.67 to the state of Delaware. They should drop the ‘s’.

This pope actually said

“A hell doesn’t exist, the disappearance of sinning souls exists.“

Well that makes it an easy choice. Oblivion seems like a much better choice than eternal boredom.

One weekend of boredom is too much for me.

Pascal will be turning in his eternal bliss.

Many of my friends, family and colleagues are “controlling” types: the subtle and compelling ones.

My mum is too. Because I grew up with one, I’m good at managing them I guess. Hence the correlation.

Eventually though, I grow weary of the charade and pull away. Quietly.

Why are people so keen on Facebook?

Partly it’s the connectivity to others, and the opportunity to boost and measure one’s self worth relative to others.

Partly, it’s also the measurement and storage of one’s life. It’s a form of life after death,…eternity.

So folks in the West have a habit of attributing good things to their great character and bad things to the external world.

This bias explains psychology. All psychology is derived from reasonable-like attempts to explain or fix negative things that happen to people.

Psychology itself is an external attribution. A form of bypassing.

Impressively, these scales are accurate yet not precise.

How you ask?

They give you one of three results, to the gram, each time. Yet you know not which one.

Hypocrisy results from the gap between cultural values and human desires.

That is, hypocrisy itself is a cultural value.

Max Verstappen says “you’ll never be able to cancel out all the risk and in life. I think it’s still more dangerous to just cycle through the city and get hit by a car then what we’re doing.”

That is, everyday I do something more dangerous than drive an F1 car! Woo hoo.

Why I am so relentless?

There’s no stop sign for me that works.

I’ll do whatever it takes to fulfill my destiny, Yada.

As Nic says

“For most people if they did nothing nothing would ever happen to them. You seem to have a wild ride with minimal input – I can see why you try not to meddle too much.”

Fuck she’s right. Shit happens to me.

Half because I trust in the universe enough to say no.

Half because I’m a true believer in outdated concepts such as truth, beauty and love.

A true fucking believer.

Any successful Australian politician is by definition:

Corrupt and self serving

An egomaniac

Delusional

I bet you can’t find a single counter-example within the last 50 years…

Vivian has had 600 ml of a milk a day over the last 7 days. That’s 4200 mls. Breast Milk is 10% solids, so he’s had 420g of solids. in the last 7 days he’s put on 300g. That’s a 71% conversion efficiency.

I am told, on very good authority, that all women almost universally want to be desired by men.

And yet, we are told by the #metoo movement, that women certainly don’t want to be “had” by men, unless they happen to want to be in specific instances.

I can’t help thinking that the confusion lies somewhere between these two generalizations.

Its no ones fault, except maybe God’s, if you happen to lean towards imaginary friends as a key part of your psychosis.

Why do Americans need and love guns?
Because they believe that they are the unworthy recipients of incredible good fortune.
Bad Others, different or black folk, are quite naturally plotting to take it all off them.
Hence all the guns
The solution?
Explain to them that they ain’t that lucky. The country, because of their paranoia, is ironically quite shit.

Fucking seriously, I am not jumping the shark.

This morning, while riding down the Brisbane river near the city (on my bike), I saw a 1 meter bull-shark jump right out of the water and belly flop back in.

It wasn’t my imagination – see http://www.smh.com.au/environment/leaping-sharks-are-no-bull-20100906-14wyq.html

Is it just me? So what’s wrong with this Linked-in offering?

“Chasing my dream of being a bison farmer in Australia took my husband and I to the other side of the world researching this beautiful animal.”

Australian CEO’s back corporate tax cuts because:

“Tax cuts drive investment”

No they don’t. Investment is usually a before tax expense.

Tax cuts drive higher dividends and larger CEO bonuses.

Why would an oligarchy invest into a saturated services market anyway? They can’t extract any more money out of the market, unless its at the expense of a competitor.

No new jobs will be created, as the govt claims.

Tax cuts will result in shareholders taking more money off the table, fueling wealth disparity, which results in a smaller pool of money available for consumption of goods and services.

Corporate tax cuts will reduce the market size for our big corporates. The CEOs don’t care; this won’t become obvious until after they have their large houses and boats, yada.

The difference between an artist and a craftist is that the former must have a mental illness. It’s what makes their work interesting. Technically, both can be just as competent as each other, but the craftist is just too sane to be interesting.

Note carefully though, your artist can’t be completely bonkers or else they can’t viably pretend to be sane, which is a characteristic hallmark of their artistic mental illness. Usually, laughably so.

A feminist is what?

Well, without a doubt, she is a generaliser.

She makes bold claims about the psychology and behaviour of each of the sexes.

Usually she ignores Bertrand Russell’s warning that there is nothing noble about the oppressed.

Typically she is well meaning.

And outraged.

And often she is right.

But she may lack wisdom and not clearly see the consequences of her actions.

Often she will not care about any collateral damage; this is, after all, a holy caliphate and there is always casualties in war, right?

She will be energised by any resistance to her preaching.

In short, she will be judged by history as all liberators are.

Parasympathetically psychotic.

Am I being too hard on Thorsten?

Or will he be a victim of my distaste for confrontation?

He started it, being all messed up about me having all those shares.

Then getting emotional about meet being involved in M1 product development.

Well he’s fucked himself, that’s for sure. I own one third of the company and can’t be removed.

He’s made it him or me, and he had no idea.

I feel guilty, a little. But there no room for sentiment in business.

In an article about former world formula 1 champion, Denny Hulme:

You’d think a heart attack during the Bathurst race would count as a racing incident…