10.07.2025

Undress

When someone was trying to give me a compliment she would say "Nice tie!" as there was nothing else nice about me. Now I don't wear ties and I get "Nice socks!"

10.05.2025

air still free

 

Opticians used to fix a loose screw or pop a lens back in for free. Now, I've noticed my optician charges a fee for these small repairs. 

Went to a random bike shop, where they   pumped my tires with air for no charge.


9.19.2025

ha, ha ha or Plato on humor.

 Another of Plato’s objections to laughter is that it is malicious. In Philebus (48–50), he analyzes the enjoyment of comedy as a form of scorn. “Taken generally,” he says, “the ridiculous is a certain kind of evil, specifically a vice.” That vice is self-ignorance: the people we laugh at imagine themselves to be wealthier, better looking, or more virtuous than they really are. In laughing at them, we take delight in something evil—their self-ignorance—and that malice is morally objectionable. (from https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/humor/)

From Plato to our president.....