"…Enemies foreign and domestic."

Yeah I have the world’s smallest astigmatism in my left eye and even that was annoying for me as a kid using it.

Those Vaios had a monumental amount of bloatware slowing them down too.

It wasn’t really fun, and I could never see properly in it.

I think there’s an Arthur Miller quote along the lines of man cannot appreciate sky without earth, nor heaven without hell.

Smart astrophysics people I’ve talked to are excited when we see gamma bursters further out in the universe than before, because that means that the universe is bigger than previously known.

That also does not matter. Spinozan Determinism can be summed up as:

“If it could have happened any other way, it would have.”

Tri-omni God problem. The God that we are told is worthy of worship is

1. Omniscient, and
2. Omnipresent, and
3. Omni-benevolent.

The presence of evil in the world demonstrates that no more than two out of those 3 can possibly be true at the same time. Thus if God does exist, he’s not all that and a bag of gummy bears.

That’s actually my favorite parasite! Toxo really wants to live inside a cat’s digestive tract, so much so that, when a rodent gets it in their blood, the baby toxos produce cysts in the brain (and liver and muscles) that hypnotize the rat into being attracted to cat poop. This leads to the rat hanging around where cats poop, and therefore getting eaten by the cat, and ending up happily back inside the cat’s GI tract.

In the old Star Wars Expanded Universe, there was mention of a Shawken Device which, if operable, could destroy the universe.

This has led me to conclude that the universe probably isn’t infinite.

In an infinite universe, all possible things should be happening at the same time. This would necessarily mean that someone invented a device/mechanism/reaction that could destroy the universe, and successfully activated it, thus ending the universe.

There are only two possible conclusions that I can draw from this thought experiment, which are not mutually exclusive:

1. The universe is not infinite, and/or
2. It is not possible to destroy the universe.

Whatever the most recent one at the moment is.

But seriously, my wife and I watched all of the Marvel movies in release order from Iron Man through Infinity War. I watched a sone of Endgame and turned it off after a bit. Sounds like we made the right choice.

We also stopped Game of Thrones after season 7 episode 4, which appears to be the ideal place to stop to maintain good memories of the show.

While we’re at it, how about cybernetics, too?

Therapy (with an MFT or PhD therapist) and a gym membership can do amazing things for you at 21.

No single person will have all the answers. You may find a Yoda to help with your career, but they probably won’t have the life answers you’re interested in. That’s what your 20s are about: figuring yourself out and putting yourself together.

My 20s were about figuring myself out. My 30s were about figuring the system (economy, etc) out. Now I’m in my 40s, I understand the system, and don’t like it.

I think there are examples of it working, and examples of it not. Singapore’s system works as intended, but here’s a list of yearly salaries for high-paid heads of state >$500,000 USD (sources from Wikipedia). Draw your own conclusions.

• Cameroon President: $620,000
• Denmark Queen: $11,000,000
• Hong Kong Chief Executive: $568,000
• Japan Emperor: $3,000,000
• Jordan King: $848,000
• Kuwait Emir: $165,000,000
• Luxembourg Grand Duke: $12,000,000
• Norway King: $33,000,000
• Oman Sultan: $7,000,000 (could be a very old number)
• Qatar Emir: $33,000,000
• Saudi Arabia King: $9,600,000,000 ($9.6 billion)
• Singapore President: $1,400,000
• Singapore Prime Minister: $1,600,000
• Switzerland President: $507,000
• Syria President: $576,000
• Tonga King $2,100,000
• United Arab Emirates President: $4,600,000,000 ($4.6 billion)

They pay their government leaders really well, which I think is kind of interesting.

If I could live in West Virginia but without West Virginians, I’d probably do that.

I would love to believe that the GOP losing the Senate and White House were likely.

When I come up with something particularly good, I take a screenshot of the melody + chord symbols and send it to a couple of my musician friends to ask if they recognize it as anything.

One time, they identified an idea as the bridge to an old pop song, but otherwise I’ve thankfully been in the clear.

If I want the highest quality streaming, then Amazon Music.

Otherwise, things I’ve purchased in 96khz or 192khz from ProStudioMasters.com

I work in the audio post industry, so I’m generally listening on my work rig either through Genelec speakers or Beyer DT880 Pro headphones, fed by a UA Apollo audio interface.

Dell is giving the Feds a premium experience?