Friday 29 April 2011
asymmetry or vim and vigour
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐บ๐ธ, economic policy
Thursday 28 April 2011
lolly-pop guild or double-dog-dare
I wonder if tornados were in the science of the Land of Oz thought of as wormholes--not primative and primeval but a gateway as sophisticated and as exotic as a blackhole with transdimensional engineering. Such a romance of the twister or really even meteorological interest in their precise cause has not really seemed to have transpired. Having grown up a little in that so called "Tornado Alley" (which is a great huge swath of land--growing wider it seems, and not one lane reserved for tournaments at the Bowl-a-Rama, like the name suggests).
It is rather a painful and frightening reality that one becomes weirdly numb to, and as I see that the storm system is making headlines and talk in Germany, it seems impossible to relate to someone who has not experienced it firsthand, the inchoate weather forecast, the sirens, facing it bravely--daring it almost--from one's front porch. The loss and destruction currently are unimaginable, and now I worry and believe that we have entere an age--and not just palavered by connectivity and profiteering, where all these tragedies are in long-form, when the affects of each catastrophe and disruption are understood and recorded, analyzed by those same palaverers, economically, risk-adverse and records ever to be broken. It is maybe also an age where such disasters are not uncommon and factored in, like sitting on the front porch and daring the winds.
catagories: ๐, ๐ก️, ๐ช️, environment
Wednesday 27 April 2011
chiaroscuro
catagories: graphic design
logos, gnomon and iconoclasts
catagories: graphic design, holidays and observances
Tuesday 26 April 2011
poll tax or right-of-return
catagories: ๐ฅธ, America, transportation
Monday 25 April 2011
handschuhe
Over the weekend, I found a pair of these new sporty foot mittens on sale and decided that I would try them on for size.
catagories: ๐️, technology and innovation
mรถbiusband
Saturday 23 April 2011
tag des bieres
catagories: ⚖️, ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐ป, holidays and observances
Friday 22 April 2011
greenwashing
Good ideas and motivation is put out but more with the cachet of a televangelist telethon. Soliciting for a billion green ideas and pledges is certainly a positive thing that could make some real impact, but it is sadly a little gimmicky and there ought not to be credit given for what one should be doing away. According to the original vision of Earth Day, simply learning about eco-systems, where trash goes when its spirited away and the logistics of where products come from, is an important focus. Being mindful of the results of one’s actions, not discouraging creative acts to undo those effects, is a necessary first step.
catagories: environment, holidays and observances
the secret-sharer or johnny apple-seed
The developing news that certain telecommunications giants have implanted a simple and vulnerable routine in their mobile devices that records a user's whereabouts, tagged like some nomadic animal for naturalists to study and present with targeted advertisements, struck me at first as significant and dishonest but maybe also a bit naรฏve.
catagories: ๐ฅธ, networking and blogging
Thursday 21 April 2011
dim bulb or mad as a hatter
catagories: ⚕️, ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐ก, environment
Wednesday 20 April 2011
a moveable feast
catagories: ☦️, ✝️, ✡️, ๐ญ, holidays and observances
Tuesday 19 April 2011
bardolatry
Monday 18 April 2011
nine ladies dancing and five-hundredth post
catagories: lifestyle, psychology
Saturday 16 April 2011
eeyore or thanks for noticing me
The international organization advertised on the trailer canvas does not seem to be found under that website any longer, but searching I learned about similiar charities, which is a nice thought. After we finished shopping, the caravan was ahead of us on the road and started on the same route as we would take home. For a moment, I was excited that they might bring us an old donkey to care for.
Friday 15 April 2011
weebles wobble but they don't fall down
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช
Thursday 14 April 2011
23 skiddoo
I do wonder, however, how 3D printing, a technology just over the horizon will affect collectors, revival in style, cottage industry and the post-industrial world as a whole. Is what you wish on, spun out of ticky-tacky, like the backdrop of a stage set, or will it have the heft and detail of the genuine article? If one can design it himself, even if the concept is sort of a let-down compared to Star Trek style replicators--though I never would have believed clones of pets were commercially available as well as any image ever created with the right amount of ink, and given the input of time and material, one should certainly be able to recreate any masterpiece of form and function on any level, from decoy to living replacement.
catagories: antiques, technology and innovation
screed or the bad shepherd
Wednesday 13 April 2011
scylla & charybdis
catagories: America, economic policy, psychology
Tuesday 12 April 2011
just deserts
Karma and irony are sometimes the only concepts able to connect and make sense of the disparate events of history. The same ideas, however, seem to also be taking on a commanding role in determining foreign policy and outreach in present statecraft, and seemingly in many cases, the only framing factors in diplomacy and decision-making.
catagories: ๐ซ๐ท, ๐ฎ๐ธ, ๐ฎ๐น, ๐บ๐ธ, economic policy, Europe, foreign policy
incunabula or roger ramjet
Also, in deference to the fiftieth anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's space flight, which was among all else a huge feat of engineering for the Soviet Union and certainly a chance for communism to shine, the cosmonaut was instructed to equip himself with symbols of the party, including a copy of Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto.
Monday 11 April 2011
tripolitania
catagories: ๐, ๐บ️, ๐ง , foreign policy, revolution
Sunday 10 April 2011
memory alpha
Friday 8 April 2011
en prison, la partage
catagories: ๐บ๐ธ, ๐งฎ, economic policy, labour
Thursday 7 April 2011
tilting at windmills
Google, who is also the underwriting force behind an elusive armada of server barges that form the vertebrae of the internet's infrastructure and redundancy that float on the waves and are powered by the motion of the oceans, in sponsoring a photovoltaic park in Brandenburg--the company's first such venture in Germany. Google cannot be faulted for the timing of this project, as advocates and detractors disagree on energy policy and whether the country can be self-sufficient without nuclear energy and without importing power at a premium.
catagories: ⚛️, ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐ก, environment
Wednesday 6 April 2011
point nemo or sky of blue, sea of green
catagories: environment, technology and innovation
bucket brigade and bail-in
Collusion, conspiracy seems to play a big part in commercial affairs, especially when deferment, demurring on the inevitable, is playing an event larger role. Adventures in the Middle East, under U.N. sponsorship, are proving costly but sorties were inspired by the misapplication, transference of one uprising to another.
catagories: America, economic policy, Europe, foreign policy, revolution
Monday 4 April 2011
a working-class hero is something to be
catagories: America, economic policy, Europe, labour