According to Mr. P . . .

_kevinski_, you and I need to be friends(?) . . .

'cause you're laid back and smart and we get along, etc. etc. - left on my voicemail at work again this morning. Gee, I had no idea! Should I add you to my flist and e'erythin', _kevinski_?

Mike! From here out you will be (again) known as Mr. P (P for 'pedantic', not 'pitiful', or 'persistent' or any other such) I understand that there are certain points of view concerning ourselves that are not immediately available to us, and I really do appreciate when folks are able to enlighten me to a possibilty that am completely blind to from an intrapersonal perspective, or turn me on to a way of being to which might have taken years to develop without guidance. But, what I do not need is someone with a tourist's involvement in my affairs telling me my business (someone who drops in for a couple of hours a month and who seem to think they've got the solution . . . No! Some who actually thinks they know what concerns me to begin with! Fuck you, and your big ol' hooptey).

Now if anyone would like to school me on what I can do about correctly reporting my 1099 income so that I can finish filing my income taxes, or if you've seen a vocation of mine that sticks to me like a not-so-obvious ketchup stain on my shirt and think it would be an interesting and/or lucrative career choice then, by all means, I'm all ears. You can even preface the suggestion with "you need to", or "you should"! And, should I offer anyone any untoward or unwelcome advice please put me in my place. Because, when I do, it's usually in response to an open-ended gripe that sounds like an experience I might've once had and the proffered hint worked for me - take it or leave it!

BTW, _kevinski_ you are welcome at Medford . . .

The People Coop

More on this movie of Al Gore's and then I'll STFU . . .

Remember Ross Perot and his graphs? If you pay attention to nothing else in this film look at the graphs! They're all the same, whether they reflect population, heat content, CO₂ dissloved in the atmosphere, whatever. Basically, they're a line running from left to right with a marked - and I mean mostly vertical - incline on the far right (hmmmmmmm . . . not unlike a wave!) One in particular that freaks me out the most is a chart of over-all human population throughout history that is a "flat" line with a few bumps all the way across the chart and then a big mountain at the present.

If this were reflective of a stock price, I'd sell . . . .

If it were reflective of winnings in a poker game, I'd cash in . . . now!

If it were reflective of a crops' yield, I'd harvest . . . now!

We are raised in a people coop. We are being harvested . . .

EDIT: For the record, I could give a shit about global warming. What concerns me is renewable sources of energy. Every civilization in human history has collapsed because they've mismanaged their natural resources (mostly for the sake of unchecked growth) and, as a result, used up all of their energy.

Oh, except for the Mayans. I think they just got fed up with the rat-race and returned to the jungles and their hunter/gatherer lifestyles which worked so well for them the last 30,000 years.