Ndgree, the Grand Remonstrator

There is an insane amount of important human activity that still takes place beyond the reach of corporate or government controlled sensors.

I also strongly suspect efforts to convince people - falsely - that there’s nowhere The Computer can’t see them, so why care about privacy - were intentional.

We ordered a sandwich in a small town in Colorado today and neither of us could understand how the teen waitress was pronouncing croissant. There is a happy medium is what I’m saying.

So tempted to do a back-in-my-day reply about the “good old” colonial days when Macao was a sleepy backwater with one incredibly awesomely tacky casino. But time marches on…

I’m on their side but it sounds like a fascinating experiment.

We’ve also been there and it was unique and worth a visit.

CA Test To Dim Sunlight Planned Quietly To Avoid Public Panic: Report Researchers attempted to test a geoengineering technology that would've created clouds to block the sun's rays.

Surprisingly the headline is accurate. patch.com/california/a...

Yah but pretty functional. I’m even very tidy now.

I wanted to be very clear.

I did. Mostly. I was a bad elementary school student before ADHD meds were a thing but figured it out enough by HS and college to do well without them.

Yesterday in Moab we met a Chinese/American family with 2 little girls wearing their Junior Ranger sashes covered in badges and sporting stuffed Bald Eagle backpacks and that’s the America I want. They were so darn cute and earnest I could barely handle it.

Today I spit laughed on to the pages of book so I had to buy it. I will soon find out if it was the only funny line.

An old school 1 story tan brick bldg.

Want to be transported back in time? I can recommend a hair cut at Joe’s Beauti Salon in Moab. A friendly cat, 2 ladies in rollers under the dryers, and only $12.

A display of Bangers classic chips with taurine, caffeine, and b vitamins

You need to hang out in truck stops to get the juice.

As I recall, something like a gossip demon was a plot line on an episode of Buffy.

The Three Dreams You Need to Make a Drone: Concerning Eyeballs, Spiritual Surveillance, and Odin's Crows In modern times, we have democratized the formerly inhuman god's eye view. We have extended to everyone the steely gaze of a god peering down upon the activities of mortals from a celestial perch, or...

Before humanity came up with drones, we had to come up with Odin's surveillance ravens, shit-stirring Mongolian gossip spirits, and the story of Indra and his thousand eyeball-vaginas first.

Here's the latest entry in my series on the ancient origins of drones:

Listening to a Bollywood FM radio station driving by Moab, Utah. The Sikh trucking community has brought many benefits to road tripping out West. (See also Punjabi restaurants.)

We saw them at the Blue Note in NYC and it was a pure joy experience - they loved doing it and the audience loved them.

You failed to mention that he earned the highest score in the history of the California Maritime Academy on his celestial navigation exam. He is Hornblower and Aubrey.

I have no idea. But remember we were way out in Alpharetta where there was no “culture.”

All blues songs sound the same. It’s good. But it’s the same. (Runs for cover.)

Comrade! People who listen to anything other than nature on a nature walk don’t understand the basic concept of nature.

Are you threatening me with a delicious and festive snack?

As a former Georgian - I have to agree.

I have lived in all of those States (plus AZ, UT, and GA) and California is the best by a large margin. I liked Texas when I lived there (in Houston even) but I didn’t know any better. Nashville was alright but TN lacks the splendor of CA.

Right? I reminded myself I would not need a jacket for the evenings.

An unfortunate confluence of circumstances. Last time though.

You are so right. Look at this forecast for Laguna Niguel.

Travel alert - If departing California in the summer, residents need to recall to mind the phenomenon known as rain and pack accordingly.

I recommend a daily cognitive fitness regimen of exercises like "reading and writing your own emails" and "taking your own notes"

We thought we were getting “Computer” but we got HAL instead.