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After Math

“You’re the one talking.”

And after that moment, the nation shut up.

Very few spoke.

Everyone listened closely

but said little.

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The Great Dissolution

Making America Great Again

By Destroying Everything

That Grew Out Of It’s Greatness

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Astronomy

Astronomy maps and studies the geometry of the statistical behavior of the interaction of matter and energy.

Looking into the night sky with a telescope is a very direct way to look at mathematics.

The number of individual physical events that are tl;dr’d by our eyes when we look up at the night sky is really astounding.

Some of those dots are mere planets reflecting our Sun’s light, others are stars and still others are galaxies of stars.

That structure emerges from so many local interactions.

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The Supreme Courtish

Two glaring problems with this court that beg reform.

  1. Lifetime Appointments
    • If the goal is to make the office un-political – this approach, well-intentioned as it may have been, is not working. Perhaps we could try a 10 or 20 year appointment? I’m sure there are even better ideas than that floating around that could be incorporated into our living document through the amendment process. Retroactively.
  2. McConnell’s Play
    • What Mitch McConnell did, denying the sitting president his pick due to the timing of the vacancy, was something that shouldn’t be possible. It was morally reprehensible, unfair and should not be possible. Is this technically a problem with the court? Yes. The court is defined by it’s boundaries and the process of appointing judges is certainly core to the definition of the court, literally, it concerns the constitution of the court.
      • At the very least, a timeframe for making the decision could be provided and an acknowledgement of the edge-case centered around vacancies near the end of the president’s term with respect to the timeframe.
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Self-Reflectivity

Here we can see

a second Dove Mother –

for the first, and her children, have moved on –

seeing us

see her

see us

see her

while incubating her eggs

in an old potted plant

on my office window

while a rabbit

lays in a puddle of mud

watching from within

among

the outer-most layers

of this frame

we too occupy

eyes ablaze

in the head-lamps of

a now

distributed through time

like a new phase of matter

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A ‘Murican President

It Couldn’a Happend To A Better Man

‘Nuff Said, but still

I wonder how many former presidents

coulda been convicted the same way?

False business records to conceal an affair – 😱

(to influence an election)

In Truth, I’ll be happier

when the other cases conclude

with a similar verdict.

But let’s also acknowledge

this is the current SHOUTED leader of

the (once) party of family values.

A Good Man, A Worthy Leader, A ‘Murican President

But Damn! those RINOs

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Windows’ BS

While I consider Windows to be the ideal OS in practical terms (leaving aside linux desktop) for me it’s also very frustrating and often engenders heavy emotional overtones as I encounter and have to adapt to forces I can’t impact. I want to leave it behind and never look back – so bad…

The changes to the OS that come out in a haphazard way unaccompanied by the communication of a long-term strategy to power users who use the software upwards of 16 hours a day is imperial in nature. We must simply accept it and hope it doesn’t require too many additional steps to accomplish everyday tasks.

The prompts offered up by the operating system that don’t give real control to us. I spend $5000 on a PC and every month I’ve got to suppress a dialog about turning on One Drive backup. I can say “No Thanks” but the longest period of time I can choose to suppress a “reminder” is 30 days. The feeling this dialog box brings up in me is hard to describe. Rage begins to approach it. How about this, Microsoft: “I don’t want to be reminded.” How about you give us that option. I paid for the PC. I paid for Pro Windows license. I use the damn thing 12+ hours every day. I can make my own determinations.

I don’t want your feature updates that break my power-user flows, either. I don’t want your new context menu. I don’t want your less flexible desktop layout. I don’t want your “shake your mouse cursor” to minimize all windows. I don’t want your 1-pixel wide window borders that become increasingly harder to select with the mouse over time.

How about you actually innovate your OS.