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refrescante

así es

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Esto me hace mas turbado que nunca.

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stamps

I’m still old skool when it comes to buying stamps.  I don’t like the ones that the vending machine prints in the Post Office lobby.  When I have time, I go to the counter and get something nice.

Today’s haul was Jimi Hendrix and Shirley Chisholm.

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brave new world

I had been quoting from Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, recently.  It’s easy to read a summary and know the general themes and things to quote.  Of course, reading a summary boils down to thinking you know the general themes and quoting passages to appear literate, but not really knowing much. 

So, I wanted a copy of Brave New World without having to leave the house since it’s sleeting out, plus I don’t want to pay for it.  It’s old, 1931, so it should be free now, I guess.  I glance at Amazon out of curiosity.  $8 USD for a digital copy.  Bah.  I head over to The Internet Archive  where they have the mother in .epub format for free.  I’ve made donations there before, so I’ve sort of paid for it.

I load it up to read it on my snazzy tablet, but a Michael Douglas movie comes on the TV delaying me for two hours because Michael looks pretty good in it (ca. 1984).

Finally I get a beer open and start on Brave New World.

This is how one approaches great literature and tawdry movies.   :-p

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vivaldi chat

Myopera had a chat channel on irc.opera.com. 

Some Vivaldi members are starting to hang out on the channel on Freenode.  I’m a hard-core lurker, so somebody needs to goad me into saying something on the chat channel.

This forum post has more info. 

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the deep state

My Facebook-like quote for today:

Upton Sinclair:  “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

I pulled that one out of the article linked below, “Anatomy of the Deep State.”

Deep State is something I have been aware of for a long time.  We live in a world of illusion and obfuscation of everything, then people build arguments and make decisions based upon this illusion, then it turns into…common knowledge and messed-up thinking, to put it lightly.

So, anyway, Anatomy of the Deep State by Mike Lofgren.  Don’t read it.  It’s very long.