What will be our next 50 years? I was thinking back and a lot has changed, most all of it I never predicted.

So, I thought it would be good to look at the past with some songs lyrics I never listened to back then, but do now.

Steppenwolf – Monster …

Summer is cooking
a winter in my soul.
Thawing a
frosted heart.

An equation
worth visualizing
with my dolphin
that I may never
understand.

A photo by John Fahy of Dalkey Photos showing a bottlenose dolphin playing with a paddle boarder at Killiney Bay in front of Dalkey Island : Wikimedia …

How to post to Mastodon using your personal web blog's built-in RSS feed

• From Dave:

I have an app running on this server called FeedToMasto, which apparently is watching that feed. It's been chugging away like an abandoned science fiction robot, seeing if I posted anything to my linkblog, and …

From The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906) [devil]:

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.

  The flabby wine-skin of his brain
  Yields to some pathologic strain,
  And voids from its unstored abysm
  The driblet of an aphorism.
                                         "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

-- Don Cohoon

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Are you receiving me?
Is this voice on?
Like writing on the moon
it's too small
to see.

Yet I write
and read
because that's what I do.
It is a desire
a wish
something I want to do.

We are all synchronized

Just as music is another
thing I …

Do not lie for lack of news. [1]

The other day, someone asked me

"What's new?"

Such a simple question, retrieved from the greeting array and thrown out there on demand.

Why is it so hard to answer?

Like a status report at work or coming home from school, it's …

Passing knowledge

How do we share ideas
without sounding like a 'know it all'?

Some start with a simple question
during a simple conversation
by launching into a diatribe
of a lecture via their lone voice.

Some will offer up small snippets
of facts, without depth.

And some refrain from …

Why do we flock to the next idea?

Marketeers jump on social trends, amplifying them, causing others to not want to miss an opportunity to sell more of something.

This causes non-marketeers to see trends become popular, and many more join in.

Now, one tiny social trend becomes 'viral'.

And …

Message to a former student

Know your place
in the world and
evaluate yourself fairly,

• not in terms of your naïve ideals of your own youth,
• nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher’s ideals are.

Best of luck and happiness.
Sincerely,
Richard P. Feynman.

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Take it small and easy
pack it light and simple,
oh it may never be used
but has already served it's purpose.

Trim the worry list
and have comfort in it's sight,
for you will sleep good tonight.

Walk these steps
up another story,
filled with chapters
for your tower …