“Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.”
- Lord Acton
Due to popular demand - Me - Frozen Pizza Friday will, once again, be observed today. That is all.
This does not surprise me. It confirms what I already suspected.
Half of recent US inflation due to high corporate profits, report finds
On one of my social timelines a guy regularly posts old automobile ads which I enjoy a lot. Strange thing is, I’m actually starting to miss AMC (American Motors Corporation.)
I just heard Apple Vision Pro starts at US $3,500. I got this bridge, in Brooklyn, that I can sell you for such a deal.
I just stocked up on food essentials - again. Snow tonight, maybe. Snow tomorrow with high winds, maybe. 4 inches tonight, 4 inches tomorrow, could be more, could be less, could be none, maybe. Despite all the maybes having enough food supplies is the only civilized thing to do. :-)
My current problem with writing long form blog posts is fear of repeating myself. If I don’t have enough new things to say on a subject there is no sense in yammering on and on about it.
The problem with being stuck indoors for days on end by the weather is that one starts wanting to blog and other mischief.
Can you dine in a restaurant while wearing Apple Vision Pro and not get soup and everything else down the front of your shirt?
Although it can’t replace search engines, there is a case here for human curated search directories and blogrolls. Also a case for more search engines with their own index.
This morning the temperature is -3 degrees Fahrenheit (-19 C), and dropping. Windy too. I think I’ll just stay indoors, thankyouverymuch.
Perfect timing: my watch battery dies right when a snow/ice/wind/subzero cold storm moves in so I don’t want to drive around or even go out.
Just my opinion, but cars made today all look the same. Boring.
I think this is partly because cars are not being designed for customers, they are being designed for government regulations. That’s not all bad, but there is a difference.
Maybe that’s why nobody gets excited when new models come out.
“Our Enemies Will Vanish”, by Yaroslav Trofimov sounds like a good book. I just ordered it.
I’m Blockchaining AI with Multimedia Cat Pic NFT’s and razzle dazzle.
New Tears Eve supper will be a frozen pizza! I bought a fancier pizza than I usually get because it’s a holiday. That’s it. Can’t have too much fun on one night.
2024 Big Important Things Wish List
- The US should start phasing in bans on single use plastics.
- We need to supply weapons to Ukraine and quit the incrementalism that keeps Ukraine from striking Russia.
- A serious passenger rail for the US. Quit building new highways and repair what we got.
I’m getting tired of US Senators and Congresscritters holding stuff hostage. We had some dink holding up military promotions for months. We can’t get urgently needed military aid for Ukraine approved or even voted on. Worms.
A lot of people I know are coming down with Covid-19 and others are coming down with some sort of crud illness that might be Covid but they don’t have a Covid test kit to confirm.
Today is Frozen Pizza Friday a weekly habit/celebration I started during the Covid lockdown and it stuck.
No amount of browsing on Amazon is as exciting as paging through the old Sears Wish Book catalog around Christmastime. Just saying.
Random: If we could get corned beef and cabbage in microwaveable pouches, that would be cool.
Take a look at photos of living rooms from before the television era and you will see we arranged the living room furniture differently before TV.
I just ordered an air fryer. (Insert rationalizations here.) We’ll see how this goes and if I really end up using it.
It’s painful watching the slow death spiral of the social network formerly known as Twitter. It’s almost as if Musk is purposely trying to sabotage it. Does he get a tax write-off if it goes under?