Ffolkes,
I woke, and found that life was Duty.
Was thy dream then a shadowy lie?
Toil on, poor heart, unceasingly;
And thou shalt find thy dream to be
A truth and noonday light to thee.
~~ Ellen Sturgis Hooper (1816-1841) ~~
~~ Life a Duty ~~
Supermoon, July 2015, Madrid
Image from an article on Space.com
Good morning…. I’ve decided to throw out the last two days; there doesn’t seem to be much point in remembering such an extended period of misery. Oh, not that it’s been exactly Hell; Hell’s probably hotter than 94º, the average for the last 48 hrs. But, the roller coaster ride of pain, from extreme highs to complete absence, and back again, over the course of an hour or two, every couple hours like a damn clock, sure makes telling the difference a distinct challenge. Faugh! Basta! Begone from my mind!
Please?
Ah, me. Such is Life in the Big City, I suppose. If I didn’t like it, I’d probably move. Hey, wait! Is that….? No, sorry, it’s not her; it’s just the arrival of our delivery of indigestible parables. Not to worry, Luigi will sign for them. Okay, where were we? Ah, yes, about to consider emigration to the wilds of Northern Cali, due to the massive influx of insanity here in the Bay Area. The level of bogosity present out in the BBR is becoming more than merely annoying; it’s getting downright dangerous for us curmudgeons; the act of obtaining one’s bagel in the morning has become a challenge of major proportion…..
Not that there’s anything up with the bagels; it’s the mundanes one must wend one’s way through to get it. They’re everywhere, spreading their ignorance and cluelessness wherever they walk, confusing themselves and others, as they try to understand a world in which they cannot comprehend the rules of engagement. It makes the effort to remain non-homicidal VERY hard to repress; they’re EVERYWHERE, asking dumb questions, making dumb mistakes, honking their horns, walking into light poles as they walk down the street obsessively gazing into their phone…. It’s enough to make an old fart regret not carrying his gun… or, a nice, big, sharp knife….
Oh, gosh. I guess it IS a little early for homicidal impulses, isn’t it? Okay, I’ll quit now. It’s just being indulgent, anyway. I’ve sworn off killing mundanes for at least another month. If I hadn’t decided on a hiatus, I would have reached my legal limit before October. It’s too expensive to get an extension; maybe next year they’ll up the limit….
I reckon that’s enough. I can’t expect y’all to take it forever, can I? Nope. Let’s go see what kind of trouble we can get into down below…. If Luigi ever gets those parables stowed away, we can…. Oh, good, we’re ready. Let’s get on with it, before it’s too late, again….
Shall we Pearl?….
then such a man as Beethoven or Aristotle
is plainly superior to God.”
— H. L. Mencken
Ipse dixit!
Q.E.D.
So be it.
gigoid has spoken.
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I’m lazy; big surprise, eh? In this case, that’s a good thing. This collection of music touts itself as the “Best” relaxing classical music on the Beach. You tell me if that’s so, okay?…. Enjoy, please….
The Best Relaxing Classical Music on the Beach
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First Dog on the Moon: Cybersecurity
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cartoon/2014/sep/09/first-dog-cybersecurity
I decided to give y’all a break from a down-to-earth, makes-you-think sort of rant, opting instead for a bit of educational entertainment, first, with the chosen graphic from the UK Guardian’s own First Dog on the Moon, followed by a rather smarmy old-school pearl, with parameters set to make us laugh at, or jeer at. the Asininnies, of whatever variety we can find, or, you may choose your own to fill in the blanks…. Enjoy! Where else can you find such interactive fun, eh?…. Okay, so, not all of it is funny, or fun. Some of it’s just Truth…. I think you’ll recognize those without any help….
“Believe 1% of what you see, and none of what you hear.” — Dubious Bee
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.” — Thomas Jefferson to A. Stuart, 1791
“I’m all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.” — Leo Szilard
“Crime does not pay. Unless, of course, you get to make, enforce, or interpret the laws.” — gigoid, the dubious
“I call Christianity the *one* great curse, the *one* great intrinsic depravity, the *one* great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, *petty* — I call it the *one* mortal blemish of mankind.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing, free burial, free everything? The answer might be nuns and monks, but the standard reply is ‘prisoners’; i.e., citizens of a provider state.” — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
“The apathy of the born freeman is worse than the docility of the born slave.” — Grant Singleton (1890-?)
“A special cleaning ordinance bans housewives from hiding dirt and dust under a rug in a dwelling.” — real standing law in Pennsylvania, United States of America
“A kitchen in every pot. I mean, a pot in every — I mean, a chicken in every…” — George Bush, 1988
“The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.” — Charles Macklin (1690-1797) — Love a la Mode, Act ii, Sc. 1
“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.” — Henry Adams
“Keep a very firm grasp on reality, so you can strangle it at any time.” — Realistic Bee
“The higher you climb, the more you show your ass.” — Alexander Pope, “The Dunciad”
I must stop here… my fingers are hoarse. In addition, thirteen pearls of this nature is probably enough; we all know what can happen to the Space/Time Continuum if we go to fifteen…. It isn’t pretty….
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After all the dross is sent away
a celebration can begin,
time will face up to space, to stay
willing, to shine from within.
Anger and confusion come in to share
brushing reason aside,
eager to welcome all that is fair,
alert to danger, eyes wide.
Re-gift the wicked with their own pain
stand with the just;
fail to partake of the ill-gotten gain,
living in honor, the only must.
Standing fast in the face of wrong
is its own prize and reward.
Holding on to truth makes us strong,
well worth working toward.
Little is left to chance by fate
our lessons are never free of cost.
Seldom does reality make us wait
only when alone, are we lost.
~~ gigoid ~~
Written 10/23/2012.
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This one is about being human; the good, the weird, the ugly, the wondrous…. but, mostly, it’s about the duality of nature, and, our own inner nature, with which we constantly battle, inside AND outside ourselves… It’s not easy when the only way to win, ultimately, is to keep battling; if either side becomes dominant, imbalance disallows longevity; eventually, whatever is created destroys itself, whether overbearingly good, or obsessively evil…. Sounds a bit confusing, doesn’t it? Yeah, to me, as well, but, it DOES go a long way toward explaining a lot about most people’s reaction to much of what happens to them in life….
SIGH…. Ah well, if they would only learn to listen to the pearls that live inside them…. If not, well, they could always come read some of these; I don’t see how it couldn’t help things. Nothing much else seems to have done so….
“Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is night hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.” — Marcus Aurelius Antoninus — Meditations, iv, 17
“The measure of man is what he does with power.” — Pittacus
“Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“You know what they say about paradigms – shift happens!” — Witty Bee
“To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness,what he has seen in the light.” — Coventry Patmore
“His red right hand.” — John Milton — Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 174
“Arms are instruments of ill omen… . When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men…. When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.” — Lao-Tzu
“Mongo only pawn… in game of life.’ — Alex Karras in “Blazing Saddles”
~~ Smart Bee, using Peruaosophy as a koan ~~
What the…? How did we get here? Oh, wait; okay, I get it. Sorry, the Tardis was set to put me here at a certain time, & I forgot. Okay, we’re done, right? Right. I suppose I’d better go see what happened up there, before I let this loose on the world….. Hang on….
Hmm…. I think it’s best if I don’t comment on any of that. I’ll just say this; it’s done. That fulfills all the legal requirements, so, I’m going to use some common sense & get us the hell out of here, before Reality is stressed any further…. I’ll be back tomorrow, ffolkes….. Hey! Oh for goodness sake, stop with the wailing and lamentations! It’s not a threat, calm down. I don’t THINK we’ve even made any of the do-not-fly lists yet, so, it’s just another walk in the park. Sheesh…. Besides, what’s your beef? Did you pay for this? No…. Well, not in anything other than a karmic sense….
See ya, ffolkes; that’s a promise…. I don’t make them lightly….
and May the Metaphorse be with you;
Blessed Be, dearest Carole, Mark,Theresa, & Richy
and everyone else, too…
When I works, I works hard.
When I sits, I sits loose.
When I thinks, I falls asleep.
Which is Why….
Sometimes I sits and thinks,
and sometimes,
I just sits.
gigoid, the dubious
The *only* duly authorized Computer Curmudgeon.
PLEASE STOP READING THIS MESSAGE NOW.
“SCRAM!!!!!!!!!!”- Oscar the Grouch
À bientôt, mon cherí….
gigoid 
Oops! 😦
Oh, well, I kind of like the blue font…. It stays, since my html is poor. If I try to fix it, it will ALL go away. Trust me.
What’s a few anomalous electrons between friends?
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Thanx needed a good punch in the gut this morning….always a pleasure to read your stuff…..have a good weekend my friend….chuq
Thanks amigo; glad to be of service, even for a punch in the gut (interesting analogy for the experience of reading my work… I like it)
Maybe, just maybe, I’ve solved my insomnia, if only temporarily. Slept 5-7 hrs/night for 5 nights now. Been out walking today, just because I could; that’s why it took so long to answer this…
see ya, mon ami… Have a good weekend yourself….
“I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty.”
Quickly I dialed for my cleaning lady!
The house was looking dusty and shady!
True too, I can’t do any work with all this smoke from the wildfires, she needed the work and I needed the dust gone and the house tidied up.
What a Shero she is, cleaning houses in these conditions, I told her so too.
🙂
Life imitating art imitating life ….
The sadness of full moons…
The constant keening of ghosts unheard….
The sad
The joy
What strange bedfellows are these?
You are getting more sleep than I….
Turn out the light, let the moon subside…
Give me the dark where I can hide.
Good post friend.
And a very nice poem to go with the post, too…
Thanks!
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it wasn’t supposed to be a poem…….;-)
Often the best kind… I’ve got a new one for today’s post… but, I meant it to be a poem… hopefully, it is…
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I Am Suffering from Moon Angst…
Blow Out The Light
grin
Pull the curtains…
TWO DAYS!!!
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The University of Hertfordshire will turn it’s attention to creatures not strictly undead but which will haunt the peripheries of the vampires- werewolves and shapeshifters -when it hosts the UK’s only Werewolf Conference.
Since, I am the Shapeshifter ‘Shero’ I have the right to suck blood on fatuous words and genies in particular.
Gggrrrrrr beam me up…
As I quietly chunder into my serviette.
Get it over with now; no chundering next week…
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SMiLes gigoid.. Long Weeks no Visit perhaps Three Weeks
as i’ve lost track of part of my Routine as True i like Change
But Only iN A Pool of my Parameters for Change.. hehe..
But True Life
is rarely
limited
to Personal Pools..
Anyway.. hope you are doing Well in California
And All Your Family and Friends There have
Escaped the Wild Fires
For even over
here i
feel
a little
Scorched from
Fire my Friend as life ways go too..:)
“I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty.
Was thy dream then a shadowy lie?
Toil on, poor heart, unceasingly;
And thou shalt find thy dream to be
A truth and noonday light to thee.”
~~ Ellen Sturgis Hooper (1816-1841) ~~
~~ Life a Duty ~~
Yes By God the Truth is important to Hear
and even more important to Find and See..:)
“If the average man is made in God’s image,
then such a man as Beethoven or Aristotle
is plainly superior to God.”
— H. L. Mencken
True.. Let’s Hope that God offers more than Minion Potential…:)
“Believe 1% of what you see, and none of what you hear.”
— Dubious Bee
Like i said but this PresentS A Problem online.. hAha..;)
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences
attending too much liberty than to those attending
too small a degree of it.”
— Thomas Jefferson to A. Stuart, 1791
Freedom Safety Safety Safety Safety
Freedom Security A Great Home
You Just Can’t Beat It In Balance of
Freedom’s Breath with Clothes..
True.. Even
When
‘You’
Becomes Clothes…:)
“I’m all in favor of the democratic principle
that one idiot is as good as one genius, but
I draw the line when someone takes the next
step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.”
— Leo Szilard
Welcome to the Vote..;)
“Crime does not pay. Unless, of course, you get t
o make, enforce, or interpret the laws.”
— gigoid, the dubious
Politics Make Great Crime Fellows..;)
“I call Christianity the *one* great curse, the *one* great
intrinsic depravity, the *one* great instinct for revenge for
which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret,
subterranean, *petty* — I call it the *one* mortal
blemish of mankind.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
True.. A Bad Cop Jesus Ain’t Nice.. the Trump Version of That.. Yuck…
“Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care,
medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing,
free burial, free everything? The answer might be nuns and monks,
but the standard reply is ‘prisoners’; i.e., citizens of a provider state.”
— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
And just when i was Sure the Wife Provides All of That From
Underwear in the Drawer to Food on the Table Cooked.. True i am that Dude..;)
“The apathy of the born freeman is worse than the docility of the born slave.”
— Grant Singleton (1890-?)
Neocortex Servant to Emotions.. Emotions Servant of Love or Not Who
Gives and Shares as Love..:)
“A special cleaning ordinance bans housewives from hiding dirt and dust
under a rug in a dwelling.”
— real standing law in Pennsylvania, United States of America
i’ll Never Know for i’m too Lazy to Lift A Rug up..;)
“A kitchen in every pot. I mean, a pot in every
— I mean, a chicken in every…”
— George Bush, 1988
No New Taxes Read my Lips
And ‘you can’ escape death….
“The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face
while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of fair
use to the professors than the justice of it.”
— Charles Macklin (1690-1797) — Love a la Mode, Act ii, Sc. 1
Human Language Never Truly Concrete
Abstract Constructs Floating Dispersing Ocean Whole Beyond..
Now As Human Subconscious Mind Delivers the Next Word Last..:)
“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.”
— Henry Adams
True Emotions Rule Facts look to ‘the Top’ for that fact for sure.. hehe..;)
“Keep a very firm grasp on reality, so you can strangle it at any time.”
— Realistic Bee
True.. Regulate Emotions Integrate Senses
Never forgetting to Dance And Sing to Shake ‘it’ All Off
As
Taylor
Swiftie Say..;)
“The higher you climb, the more you show your ass.”
— Alexander Pope, “The Dunciad”
Ain’t that A Bi-Polar Truth hehe..
even when ya warn folks in advance…;)
“Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live;
death is night hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.”
— Marcus Aurelius Antoninus — Meditations, iv, 17
Do Fun Good Fun..:)
“The measure of man is what he does with power.”
— Pittacus
That’s why i wear Shades.. hehe..;)
“Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
i am probably A Laziest Dude
iN A World Who Only Enjoys Life
For Zero Pay At Work..
It Is Truly
F iN
HilaRiouS
as i giggle behind ‘those shades’..
true.. ‘those Shades’ aren’t really mine.. hehe..;)
“You know what they say about paradigms – shift happens!”
— Witty Bee
YeS iT Does Out of Sight out of Mind.. Dance.. Change the Stuff and Move on Freer…
“To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the
courage not to deny, in the darkness,what he has seen in the light.”
— Coventry Patmore
Free Is Truth OPeNinG Up Without Fear Of ‘Closing Time’ Now
“His red right hand.”
— John Milton — Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 174
For me at least it’s the Left.. hehe..;)
“Arms are instruments of ill omen… . When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men…. When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.”
— Lao-Tzu
aN onLY Glory
is Fearless Love that/who does not give
up and Leaves at Closing Time With no Regret..
Never Saying i Am Sorry to Love..:)
“Mongo only pawn… in game of life.’
— Alex Karras in “Blazing Saddles”
Life of Game in Pawn Only Mongo..:)
“Sometimes I think. And sometimes I am.”
i DancE i FeeL..:)
~~ Smart Bee, using Peruaosophy as a koan ~~
iSonG
iTrue For
iKoan too..
iWitH iTears
oF Old But Never Sold…
Good Evening mY FriEnd..
i’ll oPen Up And put ‘The Sign Up’ WheN i Leave..;)