A juggling technophile shares personal stories, challenges, humor and perhaps some political commentary.
Once upon an eon ago, I began my days at 4am. Was at the gym at 5am and worked out until 7am then went to work. I also did 20 minutes of stretching before going to bed. It was the healthiest I’ve ever felt.
I’m trying to adjust my schedule for rising early again. I awoke at 4:30 this morning just wide awake and ready to begin the day. By 4:32 I was sound asleep under than nice heated blanket. Perhaps this lifestyle change should wait until the summer.
I struggled with meditation for what seemed like 15 or 20 years. Jason Jarrett introduced me to Buddhist chanting and meditation came together for me becoming an important part of my life. Today I learned of Isha Kriya. I do not see this replacing my chanting but I’m intrigued enough to try it for at least 48 days.
Thought I’d hit the ground running today. Boy was I wrong. Figured I’d work 4 to 6 hours, then do some plumbing, then plan out all of 2024 giving each month a theme and a goal. Instead I slept in, chillaxed, did 2.5 hours of accounting, took a nap, cleaned a little, and cooked. About that exercise, juggling, and all the other things… maybe tomorrow.
Me. 11:59pm December 31, 2023: “I’m going to wake up at 4am to meditate, exercise, and begin the year awesomely.”
Me, 10:59am January 1, 2024: “Do I really need to get out of bed?”
Well, I woke up this morning realizing I don’t have trash service anymore. They took the 96-gallon can and didn’t even leave a note.
From a marketing perspective, you’d think they’d drop a letter in the mail saying “if you want to continue service please update your credit card” or something like that. I guess now we just pile the garage up on the pews until Thanksgiving.
It’s a lot like building a car for someone. You get it working. Spend a bunch of time tuning that engine and just making it purr. You put your heart into painting it perfectly maybe even giving a little extra love. Then the customer takes it and says, “everything is great except the horn doesn’t work at 19mph. Works below 19 mph and above 19 mph but not at 19 mph.” You are left staring at 2 wires and a switch having to figure out how something couldn’t be any more basic has this odd quirk. That’s programming.
An elf came down from the pole
To dance within your walls
Turning tricks in the night
Is it devious? Mischievous? Frightful?
Or a delight?
The elf rules are simple
You can look but you cannot touch
You can tip your elf
But it won’t change your luck
The elf when it comes
Leaves you more frustrated
Than before it came
And once the elf is done and gone
The glitter remains as evidence of your shame.
Thank you Internet! What a glorious time to be alive! OMG you have no idea how much money I would pay to see this as a weekly show. I’m going to watch this on a loop until my eyes bleed.
The wife asked this question so I posed it to claude.ai and this was the amazing answer:
No, there were no children or elderly shown in the 2006 satirical sci-fi movie Idiocracy.
The movie depicts a dystopian future society populated entirely by young and middle-aged adults who behave in crude, anti-intellectual, and hyper-commercialized ways.
In the beginning of Idiocracy, the main character Corporal Joe Bauers (played by Luke Wilson) takes part in a military hibernation experiment along with a prostitute named Rita (played by Maya Rudolph). They wake up 500 years later to find that society has become incredibly lazy and stupid.
The movie shows Bauers and Rita exploring this world of the future where commercialism and instant gratification reign supreme. All the people they encounter appear to be under age 50 or so. No children or elderly people are ever shown or mentioned.
The underlying message of the film is that higher birth rates among less intelligent people combined with a lack of intellectualism has resulted in this youth-obsessed, crass culture. So the total absence of young kids and senior citizens emphasizes how extreme and monolithic this future society portrayed in Idiocracy has become.
So in short – no, there is no sign or mention of children or the elderly in the over-the-top fictional world depicted in Mike Judge’s movie. Just an overly consumeristic youth culture run amok.
Charlie Munger dies proving even old men with money cannot avoid death
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-28/charles-munger-who-helped-buffett-build-berkshire-dies-at-99
Does it really matter anymore?
