tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94784642024-03-23T21:36:45.823-04:00eske?grumbling in subways and elevators.eske?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13169413588254162241noreply@blogger.comBlogger731125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9478464.post-22614613529604910272024-01-07T15:56:00.003-05:002024-01-07T15:56:50.052-05:00sexcess<p> This word has so many uses, so many possibilities'. For instance, AI will not get traction as long as it is not used for sexcenes. Like all things internet only then it will make big money, will have sexcess. Wonder if this pun is used in other Latin languages or I will have to introduce it myself. Like merchandise the urban dictionary.</p>eske?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13169413588254162241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9478464.post-19051154330572444192023-12-30T17:58:00.001-05:002023-12-30T17:58:19.852-05:00Qualifying centuries.<p> Camus described the XX th century as of "newspaper readers". You don't have to be a deep philosopher to qualify our times as of cellphone...Up to now!</p>eske?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13169413588254162241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9478464.post-11211145364271169992023-12-30T14:58:00.000-05:002023-12-30T14:58:05.340-05:00Obits<p> I have started to read obits. The best part of the NYT. I read not to check who died, at what age, etc. Just to see what they had accomplished and feel bad for myself. Masochism!</p>eske?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13169413588254162241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9478464.post-84887091710627628592023-11-26T20:18:00.001-05:002023-11-26T20:18:51.832-05:00Fascinating Rime<p> Probably like most people I had read in my youth only several strophes of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Today I ran into it on YouTube and listened half hour to <a href=" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1raSUYAr0s0" target="_blank">Ian McKellan.</a> Magical. Ensorcelling. Maybe because in the meanwhile I took sailing? and could understand more words? Or just Coleridge...</p>eske?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13169413588254162241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9478464.post-30510465723548302212023-11-25T09:38:00.004-05:002023-11-25T09:38:54.200-05:00NYT without NY<p>I remember years back when I was going out at 8 pm to get the early edition of the Sunday NYTimes. Sometimes there was even a line with people getting agitated when the delivery truck was not showing up. To survive in the internet era you looked for subscribers away and abandoned your home base. You used to be the newspaper of record. No more. Prisoner of the newsroom opinion, you only fake unbiased reporting. You are just a publisher of games.</p>eske?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13169413588254162241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9478464.post-37988853287346980192023-11-23T11:14:00.003-05:002023-11-23T11:14:33.385-05:00no check<p> Yesterday I wrote about posting. Today I was annoyed by a friend's comment on fb. Why did he post it? Living alone he writes whatever crosses his mind. No self control. No minimal self censure. Otherwise he thinks he is toe most important living composer in Holland. </p>eske?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13169413588254162241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9478464.post-59169634646052552332023-11-22T12:12:00.004-05:002023-11-22T12:12:46.683-05:00oralize<p>Why do I post? Mainly because there is no one I can actually tell stuff, have a conversation. <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">J<span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156;">e Seme a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368;">Tout Vent</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #4d5156;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">.</span><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Start</span></span> something new? a new topic? Maybe I should start working on the haiku I will publish on the last day of my life. </p>eske?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13169413588254162241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9478464.post-69853144973853595282023-11-20T20:38:00.001-05:002023-11-20T20:38:10.778-05:00Man on top<p> Fretting that AI can replace, displace or best human intelligence, but when the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/20/opinion/altman-openai-microsoft-founders.html" target="_blank">top</a> founder and salesman leaves everything seems to collapse</p>eske?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13169413588254162241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9478464.post-88084493314703611662023-11-18T17:19:00.001-05:002023-11-18T17:19:29.983-05:00Buttered<p> <span style="font-family: arial;">Started to read this <a href="https://ny.eater.com/2023/7/27/23749496/best-croissant-nyc" target="_blank">list</a>, afraid my favorite croissant bakery was not named. It is. Under <span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-style: inherit; text-decoration-line: inherit;">Your local breakfast cart. Was happy, but then I noticed the mentioned cost was $2 and I pay $2.50. So should I be satisfied or not? Does it mean I have an expensive taste?</span></span></p>eske?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13169413588254162241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9478464.post-21119041782177632622023-11-11T13:54:00.001-05:002023-11-18T15:30:20.063-05:00Barbers a-changing<p>Went for a hair cut and discovered that my barber takes appointments by phone. A new era! As a matter of fact almost all the barber shops were taken over by barbers from Uzbekistan or other stan countries that talk in Russian among themselves. Wonder how barber shop choirs sound now and what they think about Ukraine. </p>eske?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13169413588254162241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9478464.post-3951750701100339732023-11-05T11:43:00.002-05:002023-11-05T11:43:56.246-05:00Bon pour l'Orient<p> A stamp on diplomas issues in French colleges. Good for a place where people have lesser needs? Was it colonialist concedncence or just a way of acknowledging that even not perfect, the absolvent could still provide some level of help?</p>eske?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13169413588254162241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9478464.post-7667934155690669832023-11-01T21:11:00.000-04:002023-11-01T21:11:03.885-04:00Feeling the age.<p> In my twenties I practiced yoga. No teacher, just from a book instructions. And I succeeded to lower my heart beats. I could relax and feel separately each major muscle. Now, at the age of wisdom, I feel each bone. </p>eske?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13169413588254162241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9478464.post-25157175934827129472023-10-13T11:20:00.004-04:002023-10-13T11:20:50.514-04:00Face recognition<p> My cell did not recognized my face (5 times) today. I brushed my teeth and shaved. Still nothing, Maybe I should change my thoughts as well.</p>eske?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13169413588254162241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9478464.post-72523836470318746072023-10-09T20:38:00.000-04:002023-10-09T20:38:06.656-04:00who?<div>It's Liz I am talking about, not Michelle. You are getting so old you are mixing up women. Thought it was a sign of virility. </div>eske?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13169413588254162241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9478464.post-66757283388939140852023-10-09T20:32:00.001-04:002023-10-09T20:32:11.615-04:00filled with airBeignets, only few places still offer them.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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All the soft sciences rely on statistics. The mistake made is in calling them "science" because they cannot stand the scrutiny of science. One work around is to call these "results" as correlations. Or better still, call them coincidences and leave it to Malcolm Gladwell to write an entertaining book.</i></span></p>eske?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13169413588254162241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9478464.post-7026894381966457262023-09-17T11:58:00.000-04:002023-09-17T11:58:13.459-04:00Under suspicion<p> There is this notice -<span style="background-color: #ffecb3;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.52)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;">post was put behind a warning for readers because it contains sensitive content as outlined in Blogger’s. (March 2023)</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #090909;"><span face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fff7f7;">Strange, a 2008 post on Madonna and A Rod </span><span face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: #fff7f7;"> violated the community. Maybe they did. So now I will not be able to get </span><span style="background-color: #fcf9f9;">any position in any <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/us/ucla-dei-statement.html" target="_blank">university</a> in most educated states. Or maybe there I can hope that id a few <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/16/opinion/peak-woke-antiracism-canceled.html">years</a>...Note that the references are from the NYT, a publication not stranger to some past woke policies.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #090909;">Community standards? Community standards are permanently evolving, but this is lost on the activists or some university managers. Strange. They forgot about the Chinese red guards public shaming methods.. </span></p>eske?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13169413588254162241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9478464.post-12006130030109486252022-09-18T16:08:00.002-04:002022-09-18T16:08:54.785-04:00Yves Montand-Les feuilles mortes/Dead leaves <iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/sa9VCVWOjjY" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sa9VCVWOjjY/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div>My wife watched this clip and commented: "He had bad teeth"</div>eske?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13169413588254162241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9478464.post-43321082688722724482022-09-11T18:59:00.001-04:002022-09-11T19:00:01.217-04:00Zapotek DNA<p> According to my Ancestry DNA I have a very close cousin by this name. Started to look. First there is a major confusion in searches and the first offering is Zatopek, the famous Czech runner. Stupid mispells! After the next offering that is a brand of batteries, I hit in music - a song by Zapotek called Blood Offering. Of course! probably related to the ancient Zapotec -t<span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">he Cloud People -</span> this <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Zapotec_women_and_children_Mexican_Indian_Mongoloid.png">picture</a> from a wiki (in Turkish?). this <a href="https://arsartisticadventureofmankind.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/36-e1490043943191.jpg?w=1024&h=988">scary</a> one from the MET. Luckily I found some <a href="https://duckipedia.fandom.com/no/wiki/Zapotek">intelectual</a>.<br /><br /></p>eske?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13169413588254162241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9478464.post-21981153854494256522022-06-09T09:28:00.000-04:002022-06-09T09:28:15.400-04:00tearing eyes<p> Listening to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a7CDKqWcZ0" target="_blank">Kotkin</a> talking about kleptocrats with tearing eyes about Mother Russia, made me think about the Russian women - eager to get money and jewelry, but with a soft, romantic soul molded by Anna Karenina and War and Peace.</p>eske?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13169413588254162241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9478464.post-86030280811791678022022-06-05T17:49:00.002-04:002022-06-05T17:49:26.566-04:00Recent conservative history<p> Found this <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/01/opinion/republicans-religion-conservatism.html?smid=url-share" target="_blank">article</a> interesting in that it provides a clear history of the conservative movement or of the movements that elected republican presidents. The most popular comments (as counted by the NYT) are from the left and refuse to acknowledge the unpopular positions (yes, elitist) that had allowed the victories of Bush and Trump. Funny, these comments are as woke as one could be.</p>eske?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13169413588254162241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9478464.post-1091075599111296112022-05-18T15:40:00.002-04:002022-05-18T15:40:57.848-04:00East and West <p> My democratic friends went beyond gerrymandering. No wonder the first electoral map was rejected by a democratic judge. Now, the new idea of merging the East and West Side of Manhattan is beyond imaginable. Who do they want to eliminate? These two sides of NYC have a traditional rivalry, like Mets and Yankees....</p>eske?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13169413588254162241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9478464.post-82200542266080577282022-05-15T14:58:00.002-04:002022-05-15T14:58:37.605-04:00Bad feelings today<p> It seems there is an uptick of the expression "I feel like" especially in the usage of the younger generation. The incidence of expressions in the language, the meaning or importance of such incidences s not something I am familiar with. So maybe I should not comment...</p><p> The author of the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/10/opinion/i-feel-like.html" target="_blank">NYT article</a> argues that "there is no problem here", even when the expression is used instead of I think. I feel he may be right, but I don't think so. This is a generation that avoids feeling unconformable, or unsafe. Seems that in their view feelings may replace reasoning. I feel thus I am? I "feel" this is another nail in the coffin of the Enlightenment.</p>eske?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13169413588254162241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9478464.post-81612054067554910892022-05-12T17:06:00.001-04:002022-05-12T17:06:13.671-04:00After break-up<p> The <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/05/12/1098472567/image-black-hole-milky-way">black hole</a> is a space empty of suns, only a field that attracts. Like human passion...sometimes called love..after break-up</p>eske?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13169413588254162241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9478464.post-76123583929605922532022-05-07T18:45:00.001-04:002022-05-07T18:45:43.917-04:00Good sense of humorAlmost not to be recognized following a good number of esthetic procedures, Kellyanne <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/video/kellyanne-conway-sen-maj-leader-132633271.html" target="_blank">declared</a> " I don't want an old white guy tell me what to do with my body....eske?http://www.blogger.com/profile/13169413588254162241noreply@blogger.com0