So, as we know from previous installments, I have a very large staghorn calculus in my left kidney. I have been attempting to have it looked after since 2017, when a doctor with Swedish Renton refused to culture and refused to listen to me telling her I had a history of kidney stones (20 since […]
8:17am PST – I’m sitting here listening to a government official grilling a corporate representative on hate speech and how/when/if it is removed. As much as I detest the type of content currently at centerpiece of the discussion, it remains that the notion of the government in any way instructing corporations on how/when/if they must […]
I believe that We The People are being played. I believe that, around this globe, those in positions of leadership[1] and/or power know that there is but one thing to keep all of this speculative investment, revenue-hiding, debt kiting, usury-inciting, offshore-work exploiting, offshore-bank-account-infusing group of REPRESENTATIVES AND TRUSTEES proceeding (sometimes quite literally) full speed ahead: […]
I am thinking about family tonight. I am reminded that pride is a selfish and narcissistic thing; that part of “me” that finds “you” have “done” this or that… my ego’s need to get/have [perceived “want” or “need” of the moment] blithely obliterates my compassion, my kindness, and all good intention as it grasps and […]
Not that this is the first time this has ever happened, mind you, but it is a grand example of today’s “google culture”, the continuing and astonishing lack of interest in validation (i.e,. assumption as fact, interpretation as deduction, etc). Also, a pretty entertaining presentation of what can be for many a daunting and difficult […]
(ref article: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100192299/send-these-horrid-hobbits-back-to-the-shire/) Given your purported educational background, I must admit that I am perplexed by your apparent inability to understand the recent fervor and enthusiasm that greeted the opening of the latest Tolkien classic rendered to film. I will assume for the moment that the bleach from your carefully frosted tips is the culprit; […]
Everywhere you look today, countries are bemoaning the lack of STEM engineers, or just engineers in general. The malaise is not without good cause, given that even the argument’s detractors get that companies aren’t willing to pay them, while others readily admit that, “…that there are shortages in specific fields and in specific regions…” and […]
If you read here often, then you know it’s pretty darn rare that I endorse or recommend products; first and foremost, I’m not that great a “consumer” and I don’t really live a consumer lifestyle. More importantly, I’m leery (at best) of making a recommendation that disappoints or otherwise doesn’t live up to the expectation […]
Humor, this? I think not… Oh, look! Another someone looking to polish their apple by taking a shot at a large company! Catch me; I may keel over from the shock! I wish I could say this was an amusing bit of satire, but it has a decidedly “sour grape” tone that ruins any such […]
This small snippet of a longer presentation by Sir Ken Robinson, renders in cartoon the Gordian knot of challenge we now face in relation to education and to transcendence from being an industrial world to being a collaborative one. [youtube]zDZFcDGpL4U[/youtube] I find this item to be a purely brilliant encapsulation of the challenge and crisis […]