The Little Words Mean the Most

Why I keep my windows open

Because on the occasional Friday night at 11 PM or so, out in the acres of dark around our house, an animal throat lets go. Just below. A call too wild for a dog. Too deep and plaintive for a fisher cat, cruel mammalian Komodo dragon carnivores making a comeback in second-growth forest in my part of the world, New England, USA. Their favorite food: rabbits, pets, anything not too big. This year, a fisher cat in Rhode Island attacked a 7-year-old, leaving razor sharp wounds in her arms requiring 200 stitches, I was told. The fisher cat, known as fearless, attacked the young school girl in a small shed her parents had built by the road, so she could wait for the bus out of the rain. Her parents provided packaging for the snack, as it were.

30 MINUTES LATER: Coyotes, pack of

23 hours later: Chainsaw and dirt bikes until 9:10 PM, then coyotes, big pack of, farther away

I love live music

Turns out I hate live audiences. A thousand points of inappropriate behavior. Bob Dylan tonight. Almost everyone in the audience owned a smart phone. Which they left powered up like a flashlight, snuck into their bags so the ushers wouldn't clamp down on snaps. Are "smart" phones what will make our species so stupid we fail to evolve? I think maybe. Tonight I think maybe.

Spock said

"If you're not fallible, then what can you be?"

If you didn't come from wealth

you'll always feel like the beggar beside the road

This might be the best headline to wake up to ever. Make it your ringtone. This is the eternal flame. Until females (studies show) control at least 33% of every legislature, parliament, body, congress.... Testosterone is the most dangerous chemical in nat

"Classified" for the rest of us

This could be the industry of tomorrow: restoring privacy to the commons.

The federal government - on guard, bless their hearts, against real evildoers; don't stop - doesn't own us like chattel. It doesn't own its citizens' thoughts or desires or interests or obsessions. Not under the U.S. Constitution, forged in fire, forged in distress against tyranny.

By 1773, our British overlords were ahead of their times, praying for transparent houses with sound amplification. Kids, I think we're there. Every connection betrays you. Pounding soon out of Silicon Valley? "Classified" for the rest of us.

My personal configuration

I am swept wing. That means you can go faster without destroying yourself

It's August in the Northern hemisphere

the hard rutting is over

Black & Decker battery-powered garden tools

My wacker and my trimmer.

Will they last for centuries? They're as plastic as the rest. But the plastic is the good stuff. And the batteries work as promised. And the metal is serious metal. And it's ridiculously convenient to use rechargeable, NO-cord tools. And hours of work take minutes instead.

This is a simple user's review: they work, they last (a reasonable while), they are way better than the cheap stuff, and I never buy anything else.

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