Working fewer hours correlates with higher productivity. Who knew the Germans were such slackers compared with the Greeks?
Working fewer hours correlates with a longer lifespan.
Put that right next to the research that shows that cubicles and open plan offices decrease productivity, and that offices with doors increase same (in the round filing cabinet). Then ask yourself why your all-knowing, omniscient corporate masters continue to make decisions that are counterproductive.
And now the spies are writing the legislation that affects them.
Let’s see – the spies are spying on the legislative body that oversees them, and writing the legislation for that legislative body.
If it wasn’t clear to you before, They have the goods on Congress. Now They’re not even trying to hide even a little bit that They do, and They’re not afraid to pull on the levers of power as it suits Them, to achieve Their nefarious ends. If you don’t think this is the end of the republic, you’re crazy.
de Tocqueville said “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money”, but we didn’t make it that long. We made it long enough for the spies to discover that if they know enough, they can be in charge. In secret, for years, but now openly.
Searching the internet in the not-too-distant-past yielded no results, so let me throw this out there as a first:
Kansas, c. Leftoverture and Point of Know Return, were heavily influenced by Dune. Or perhaps that was just me. However, like (the apparently coincidental) Dark Side of the Moon/Wizard of Oz, I can't help but feel that the music was written with the young Kwisatch Haderach in mind.
I mean, come on, Dust in the Wind, amiright?
I wish that I had never watched that video, though. I didn't need to see that.
Astrophysics takes a $63M cut, but there's $133M for the literally insane idea of bringing an asteroid back to earth.
Wolverine – awful
All Is Lost – good, except for the ending
Rush – good (the actors were well-chosen to match the real people, and the story was pretty much true to the documentary)
Lauda/Hunt documentary – good
Malavita – insulting
I watched parts of a few others, but nothing else leaps to mind.
There is basically nothing you can do if you’re not little people that will get you fired.
Brent Simmons wrote a short essay about his cat, and the point of view of the mouse.
Picture the equivalent for a human, he says. As if it were a fiction. Scary.
But it isn’t fiction. That’s how I feel every night cycling home on the unlit Forest Service road, overhung by trees. I’ve seen that creature, not 100m from there. It was invisible, and large, and silent. There would be no defense [1].
That’s how the mouse feels, I suspect.
[1] Yeah, it’s rare. But of the two people killed by cats in CA in the last 20 years, on opposite ends, I’m a FOAF of both. The lizard brain doesn’t know statistics; the hackles go up every night.
Film lasted more than 100 years, but it couldn’t survive A2.
A hummingbird flew up to the fountain while we were getting a drink, drank out of the stream, and hovered within 30 cm of my face while I held the spigot open for him, checking me out, yawing slightly back and forth.
Thanks Mr. Hummingbird.
Pinch
If you suddenly find you’re out of margarita mix and you’ve already poured the tequila over ice in a nicely salted glass:
Works: Lemon-lime gatorade (gatorita!).
Doesn’t work: past-its’-done-by-date bloody mary mix.
ObJoeBobBriggs: I’m surprised I have to explain these things to you.