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skipper wrote a new post, Nearer My Casket to Thee 3 years ago
Mariner just saw a frightening news clip on CBSN (ROKU). Robot puppies that look like the Paw Patrol cartoons are displacing real dog ownership. It reminds him of the perverts who live with sex dolls and people […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Democracy Simplified 3 years ago
It never fails to impress mariner how Non Sequitur can simplify so many complex issues into one comic frame. Here’s a great example:
Facts are immutable. That is their strength. Truth is culture, also a s […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The Constitution of the Christian Faith 3 years ago
(part of a pamphlet mariner is writing)
The Constitution of the Christian Faith
I GodThere is but one God, the creator of all dimensions, all material living and inanimate. God and God’s creation are in […]
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skipper wrote a new post, 2022 3 years ago
We must be thankful, truly thankful, if we had a good, heartwarming, soul refreshing holiday season. To have been so blessed in these times is a privileged experience. Mariner had such a holiday. His son and […]
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skipper commented on the post, A Mystery 3 years, 1 month ago
You have exposed the conundrum. Peaches aren’t ripe in May, either. The puzzle reflects why I have had 38 jobs in my life. I am top down to my roots while the world is run by bottom up people. Whole corporations are infected by discombobulated premises for existence and labor away at what they’re doing, not why or how.
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skipper wrote a new post, A Mystery 3 years, 1 month ago
One day in May of 1894, a crate of peaches appeared on a sidewalk in East London, England. It looked to be a sturdy crate.
The size was 18 inches long by 18 inches wide by 18 inches high – a cube. The wood w […]
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You have exposed the conundrum. Peaches aren’t ripe in May, either. The puzzle reflects why I have had 38 jobs in my life. I am top down to my roots while the world is run by bottom up people. Whole corporations are infected by discombobulated premises for existence and labor away at what they’re doing, not why or how.
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In a similar vein–I was the secretary for our church women’s group for the past three years. I kept the minutes diligently for all of our meetings and stored them in the historical file that goes back to the early 1900’s when the group started. We disbanded in December. What was the point of all those minutes? What would be the point of keeping them now? What is the point of any work in the end???
I’m not sure if this is relevant to your peach conundrum or not–but it seemed like it when I started telling about it. And maybe that is the point of everything–things are relevant in their own time. The minutes were important until they weren’t, and corporate profit/loss concerns are relevant as long as the corporation exists. So you need workers (and secretaries) to do the daily work and you need top down thinkers to put it all in perspective when they are no longer in the work force!
But nobody needs peaches that are 127 years old.
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skipper wrote a new post, Christmas draws near 3 years, 1 month ago
The weather is cold enough now to muster the red cheeks and nose required for the season. When mariner was growing up in Baltimore, his parents would take him to the downtown shopping district where there were a […]
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This is a great glimpse into the life of a bygone era. Who would ever have thought that department stores would be bygone? It makes me wish that I had been a city child with hucksters (and Hutzlers!) and street cars and family all around. Thank you for sharing this!
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I find your memories a lot like the movie,” A Christmas Story” with Ralphie. I am amazed at how different your Christmas was from mine growing up even though we had the same father. My memories of Dad are him buying the Christmas tree way too big. Dragging it home on the top of the car. Realizing after we were home that the tree was 3 feet too tall. Dad trying to trim 3 feet off the tree with a hacksaw because he didn’t own a wood saw, which never went well, and attempting to fit a 3 inch trunk in a two inch tree stand.
What were you saying about only remembering the good memories and forgetting the bad? If you’re right, I’m glad I did.
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skipper wrote a new post, The Homo persona versus the AI world 3 years, 1 month ago
This entire post intends deliberately to promote a new book: “The Age of AI and our Human Future” by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher, published 2021 by Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978 […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Hello?….Hello? 3 years, 1 month ago
On Friday Mariner’s household lost its connection to the outside world – that is, internet and landline service. We tried several times to reboot the router, pulled out old cheap indoor antennae to no avail and […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Science News 3 years, 1 month ago
֎ Soon everyone will be able to have their own Jackson 5.
In some farmers’ ideal world, cows would birth only females, sows would bear no boars, and chicks would all grow up to be hens. Such sex ratios would st […]
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skipper commented on the post, Stupidity is a human characteristic 3 years, 1 month ago
You cut a fine point, Robert. It is the confluence that is the problem and, unfortunately, stupidity and ignorance go hand in hand and are an unknown issue with the individual.
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skipper wrote a new post, Stupidity is a human characteristic 3 years, 1 month ago
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. – George Carlin
Two that are stupider are the parents of the student who shot attendees at his school. They bought hi […]
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You cut a fine point, Robert. It is the confluence that is the problem and, unfortunately, stupidity and ignorance go hand in hand and are an unknown issue with the individual.
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skipper wrote a new post, Sailing through life 3 years, 1 month ago
As the fall has moved on, mariner has focused more time on the internal affairs of home and garden. It is a relief not to follow closely each day’s news and thereby carry the weight of misguided voters and p […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Happy Thanksgiving! 3 years, 1 month ago
Indeed so. These years are difficult to manage and offer little reward for our efforts. Confronted with a pandemic, an irrational president, a changing work environment and a period of unusually intense […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Thoughts on Evolution 3 years, 1 month ago
Mariner writes this blog to avoid picking the last apples to make a year’s supply of apple butter. Why does he defeat himself with laziness? His thoughts turn to what evolution has created in the 900,000 years o […]
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skipper wrote a new post, More about gumption 3 years, 2 months ago
Mariner is one of millions of older people all around the world – beyond career, beyond younger generations, beyond participation. Recently he assigned the word ‘gumption’ to the special motivation it takes to be […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The Next World War 3 years, 2 months ago
Understand that mariner and his alter egos do not have the ability to predict anything. Mariner just reads tea leaves . . .
What makes world wars ‘world wars’ is a unification of several nations united aga […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Caste the mote 3 years, 2 months ago
Mariner stumbled across a small analysis that suggests the United States is struggling with an ingrown caste system very much like the caste system that exists in India. Americans don’t pay much attention to I […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Read all about it! 3 years, 2 months ago
In the news. Newsy broadcasting had an article about marijuana and the current attempt by Congress to make it nationally legal so it can be taxed. Turns out the marijuana older folk played with had 3 percent THC; […]
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skipper wrote a new post, A pause to ponder 3 years, 2 months ago
Mariner’s wife has traveled west to visit our children and grandchildren. Mariner is left in a quiet home. Cold weather has shut down outside activity. Still, there are chores to be done, Amaryllis to be forced a […]
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