saving for a rainy day

WOT and i have an elaborate, well thought out plan to save for our post-work years. we don't want to be a burden to our spawn, we don't want them worrying how they can keep from paying a penny to care for us in our broken-down frunkeness. so we save. we have beautifully crafted auto-updating computer spreadsheets tracking our planned saving to actual levels. monthly shortfalls require detailed explanation, with unacceptable excuses being logged into our permanent records. our little pile o'cash is growing and growing. but what will happen near the end. will a rival club me to death over a mastodon bone? will WOT run off with the pile o'cash and a young up-and-coming tribal leader? will i succumb to a life of harsh weather and malnutrition?

or, will i like so many now reaching the tarnished years, lose all my pile o'cash to a assisted care cave that will treat me poorly, give me nothing, and leave WOT and my spawn with nothing of my hard earned lifetime savings?

is this what i have to look forward to???

i seen how the word, ugh, was invented.

a new dawn

with little or no thought, i've decided to quit my job. i'm going to become an amateur moon scientist, looking at images of the moon on Moon Zoo. they are looking for help due to the overwhelming amount of data streaming in. yes, as is typically the case in science, way too much data is generated with way too little information, understanding, and ultimately knowledge created.

simultaneously i'm going to join the hackathon for humanity, yes there really is such a thing. and commit "random hacks of kindness". hacking for kindness??? isn't that the antithesis of hacking? isn't the point of hacking to cause electronic anarchy. software subterfuge? hard drive explosions?

yes, when bad is good, we truly are in the midst of societal degeneration.

donning my cyber camo's

well the us government has decided that it's time to open the gaily-wrapped package from the pentagon labelled "legal virus". now not only do we get spied on, but if they don't like what we say, they can deem it an "attack", and wage military operations against us. no proof required i suppose. so they'll hack us, super-size virus-size us, and back flush electrons up my ?@#$%^, and smack us around. they'll send some special forces boys carrying sledgehammers to obliterate all things electronic, then shoot them with silenced MP-5's, followed by a hit from their directed laser weapons to frost the cake. then i get two options, immediate termination, or nylon handcuffs followed by "questioning" by "special interrogators". hmmm ......

so i'm donning my cyber camo's for the upcoming battle.

yep, i'm switching off my internet router, never to return to the formerly free and open internet.

good bye

texting while driving

well in the wake of recent information about synthetic life, huge security changes by facebook, google and others, immigration fiasco, and banking reform, it is apparent that our government is too busy saving us from ourselves to recognize the broad changes that are occurring. we, the people, have abdicated our authority over the government and had them severely limit our personal freedoms, all in the name of protecting us. we can be spied on electronically with little recourse, huge electronic companies like google, facebook, and others treat our confidential information like they own it, and sell it to the highest bidder without our permission. the government does nothing. scientists are messing around with the human genomic sequence and the leadership has little to say or do to control it.

it's sorta like the government is texting while driving. we're gonna get in an accident sooner or later, it's just statistics and probability. fortunately they aren't wearing a seatbelt.

synthetic me

well the beginning of synthetic life is dawning. isn't that exciting?

we don't have enough trouble handling natural life, we have to start make synthetic life.

shouldn't we understand natural life and be in control of it before we make something else?

we have no idea what we are doing.

it's sorta like cutting my finger and then thinking i'm a surgeon ready to operate on people.

but we have great ideas about what good we can do for mankind by making little synthetic microbes that will do our every bidding. so compliant, so submissive, so desirous to help. yeah, right...

we will unleash uncontrollable microorganisms into our natural environment and they will run amok. perhaps this is the next evolutionary step. the synthetic microbes will eat up all the natural ones and leave none of us behind.

better do all the things you've wanted to do before the little Langoliers commence to 'a marchin'...