5.27.2012

Forever.....

Was sailing with a guy over sixty today, who told us at the end of the trip: I learned a lot today! Hmm. You see these people in their fifties or sixties saying: Oh, this is good for my resume. 
When does one stop learning. When does one stop adding to the resume? Learning is an old habit, difficult to stop....As to adding to one's resume. It is just a consolation.

5.19.2012

Life is not fair

Bill Gates' eleven things that school does not teach? How did he select just these 11 things? Shocking!? From a Harvard dropout to those who actually had finished school. To tell  some students that Life is  not fair- get used to it is pretty harsh.  Maybe true, but the school should educate  to strive to  fix this not fair. For everybody. Not to get used to it.
But then found out that Gates did not offer these 11 things. I was quite disappointed. It had matched my opinion of Gates.
It took him years to start giving to charity. But he knew some things about business that school doesn't teach.  That the other geeks did not know and even IBM did not suspect he knew. When you start a business make sure you have an attorney. That is what his dad taught him.

5.13.2012

no more bullying

Enough. So Romney did some stupid things as a teenager.  Enough. This is quite unprecedented, to dig so deep and so long....This is just the media playing out, the writers revengeful for some of their teenage frustrations. 

5.12.2012

man of war

Saw Billy Bud at the Met. Opera without aria cannot be moving. the program notes describe a more moving action than one sees on the stage.  What kept me captivating was the nautical terminology. Thought that sailing kept old traditional words. Not so. Larboard?? Yardarm? Man-of war. Pressed sailor.

5.11.2012

death of the world

Oh yeah.So the predictions were wrong. There might ave been a mistake in interpretation. The Maya at XultĂșn were likely less concerned with the end of the world than the end of their world, according to Mayan-writing expert David Freidel of Washington University in St. Louis.
Like the end of my world  is not really the end of the world. You bet, it is. Like the end of the world is not the death of the world.

5.05.2012

Arthur, le phantome.

They are voting in France. I have been following french politics since I was eigth , nine. Grew up with Vaillant - Yves le Loup and Pif. Every week was waiting for Ragnar le Vikling and all the others. The postman who was late or hiding my issues or circulating them before delivering. Oh? these were not French politicians? They were exciting.  Wha? They were not even french people?  Doing the right thing. Generous and courageous.
Now they are all fighting for the Le Pen voters.

5.01.2012

OWS NIMBY

I was walking on the empty street when a policemen told me to move onto the sidewalk. There was no car anywhere five hundred feet all around.
These were nothing when some idiot policeman pepper sprayed them into public attention.
There was no cars, no demonstration, so regular pedestrians took over the entire street. A nice afternoon  stroll on Bway.
Was thinking I am with OWS, just hope they are not going to complicate my commute home.
 OWS NIMBY


As I was making left on Prince St. they showed up. First, municipal union reps, sad and thin in numbers.
At the end there were quite joyous young people. A good show. 1st of May. Better than than the Thanksgiving parade.