Stephen

Mr.Price, besides being an actor, was also a gourmet cook & art historian.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

Marbles & mumblety-peg
Slip n Slide & Hulla Hoop
Log Cabin & Erector Sets
Baby Boomer child play.

allow inside math
to stream the numbers and facts
filling the silence

🎶If they don’t win it’s a shame. For it’s one, two, three strikes, “You’re out!” At the old ball game🖖🏼

A Seemingly Impossible Block-Stacking Problem Has a Preposterous Solution—And You Can Try It at Home In principle, this impossible math allows for a glue-free bridge of stacked blocks that can stretch across the Grand Canyon—and into infinity

Become a Reverse Jenga master.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/math...

Seems to be edible!

budding flowers with words: Don't trade your authenticity for approval.

Hatred is active dislike and envy passive. There is but one oblivious step from envy to hate.
-Goethe [paraphrased]

A $100-Million Mission to Another Star Just Disappeared An abandoned plan to visit another star highlights the perils of billionaire-funded science

ref: Liu Cixin's Three Body Problem trilogy

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

That's a very deep thought,
Though a bit splashy it is
Definitely relevant.

Never stop protesting; never stop dissent, questioning, challenging authority, clichés, and dogma. There is no absolute truth. Never stop thinking. Be a voice outside the box.

They misrepresent,
Then knock down the weak version.
Your foe is not there.

Z-Gram #70:

Admiral Zumwalt is doing the proverbial 'rolling around'...

The rats with low morals will inevitably exceed ethical & legal bounds - surfacing because there are no negative consequences when license becomes the norm because of a complicit SCOTUS, congressional inaction & abused pardon power - morality and reason are supplanted by greed and sadistic joy.

Everybody look what's [really] going down. KUDOS

79. American citizen.

In this particular case I'm comparing apples to apples, quantities/sizes are close if not identical. However, the negative, profit motivated, size drift is also a quantity too few recognize, which I'm glad you mentioned.

While I agree with your mission, the means need not punish the artists, creators, producers, & the many highly skilled support staff that produce the media. Knee jerk reactions are the precise opposite of what is moral and most needed now.

YouTube video by This Week in Space Tell It to the Mountain - Astronaut and Senate Hopeful Terry Virts Says NASA Needs a Major Rethink

Great to be on This Week In Space! We talk NASA, Ukraine, threats to democracy, and more.

youtu.be/b4rf_vF62Vk?...

Many people refuse to accept an irrefutable truth simply because the truth puts them in the wrong.

I just purchased exactly the same groceries (bread, milk, eggs, produce, frozen, condiments) from HEB that I bought exactly a year ago:
2024 = $111.12
Today = $152.09

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
—Rene Descartes

The goal is chaos distributed in chunks.
Stability is harder to maintain.
less profitable harder to maintain.

Red tailed hawk perched in tree

This red tailed hawk is perched a few yards from me scoping out the critters.

That's an astute, historically precedent, observation. As it scales it twists mechanically into its opposite, appealing not only to the base, but also often to the numerous naive.

In a moment like this, when tensions are high, part of the job of the president is to remind us of the ties that bind us together.

In actuality it wasn't even a joke but just a statement of obvious facts.

One of my favorite earworms w/ haunting melodic structure & verse so often apropos

stardate.org/podcast/2025...

There’s an extraordinary conjunction in tomorrow’s early morning sky – a tight grouping of the Moon, the planet Venus, & the star Regulus. Binoculars would enhance the experience significantly.