Kinda' like the old days with the IBM mainframe and CMS, which of course was effectively supplanted with PCs and client-servers; and like the mainframe, are static and stationary objects - but anywhere and everywhere at your beck and call. It's definitely elegant with many possibilities.

Heh,heh... Poor Dave, maybe Mr. Winer will have better luck getting in on the ground floor of this development.

and like a beaver with its river damn, it must be fluffed, repaired and sometimes rebuilt; sometimes every freakin' day... It ain't easy.

So, I start out with my most cherished "bricks": my eyes, all of my other senses, my feet (I love to walk), my health (I'm lucky enough to still have it, and count my blessings for it, too), etc.

Find a hobby! The small things you take pleasure in have a remarkable affect on the larger areas of your life, and is often a great way to meet other people.

But the most important and difficult one: learn to reset your horizons. I wish I had some magic way of imparting this, but I just don't. Adjusting and re-adjusting my horizons has never been difficult for me - thus far I have been able to do it most of my life seamlessly. Maybe it's because I have had some crushing disappointments that later turned out to be unbelievable blessings. When I was around sixteen I was right on the verge of suicide 'cause I was going to grow up to be one of those icky homosexuals. Now, my homosexuality is one of those "bricks" I use to count my blessings with.

Hurray!! Thank Goddess I'm gay!!! No alimony payments and no children to blame me for their defects like my two older siblings continue to do to my parents... And the poor things are long dead, dead, dead!

Anyway, that's all the advice I have today. Good luck LW

Timothy Geithner looks like Pan's more humanoid little brother.

I think, maybe possibly, this is why he frightens the more unsophisticated Americans and Republicans.

Well, dang!! I wasn't aware and didn't give another thought.

Now, That other president (you know, the one who called himself The Preznit) I never stopped being aware of a TelePrompter rolling over his vacant eyes.

Obama: I've been alive since Eisenhower, and I have never experienced a president like this one. I'm so glad to be alive just to witness all this. Heaven forbid I dare say, hope is coming back into my vocabulary.

"I'd love to see some clips of Bush and Obama press conferences side by side. Finally, a president who "likes to know what he's talking about before he speaks." What a vast difference."

A mashup of Bush/Obama dueling press conferences is definitely in order.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

.. And the diagnosis: autocephalorectalopathy.

And one clear cut symptom of this, if you've read any of the conservative punditry lately, is their insistence that they speak for the majority of Americans. Clearly another example of their very deep, deep autocephalorectalization. *ouch!*

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/27/navarrette.obama.economics/index.html

Let alone the practice of a "mandatory minimum" is such a grotesque perversion of anything remotely related to the idea of justice... Well, it could only come out of a Republican's mind. Them are some sick peeps. They attract icky things like Malkins, Becks, Coulters and Hannitys; the human dreck with truncated thought patterns.

Twitter: The new weapon in the hands of terrorists!

It's only too bad he's still a Republican.

Deflation? Not this time around. When we get through this mess it's going to look more like the Weimar republic. Remember what that spawned?

Once upon a time computers were supposed to eliminate paper, and the result was lots and lots and lots more paper. But finally, with massive computational redudancy, the need for hardcopy has been virtually eliminated if not rendered a moot point. Need hardcopy? Now one just prints whatever is needed.

On the other hand, there is no cure for the heartbreak of the first and second law of thermodynamics.

More "advancement", more chaos... Oh tsk, that's when denial is very useful skill to have.

A bit off topic, but... I love Al Gore. John Kerry: a really great guy with a scary wife, and Robert Redford is soooooo "green" his wrinkles have moss in their interstices.

One problem: Every one of these "greenies" is very, very rich. May I remind them (and you too, gentle readers) that every dollar, every single buck represents a carbon footprint.

Like technological advancement, being filthy rich is not "green".

... is only as good as the person who takes it.

But what I'm really reading here - with apologies to Abraham Lincoln - is: of the rich, by the rich, for the rich.

Yup, it's true, we really do live in a plutocracy and democracy is just a charade - and you just admitted as much.

Nobody gave a hoot about rich Wall Street fat cats (remember the book Bonfire of Vanities?). Now the kool-aid, which everybody was more than happy to drink, is beginning to taste like the kind they drank down there in Jonestown, everybody is now angry at Wall Street.

*sigh*

Thorstein Veblen should be required reading for all high school students.

In order to take on the horrendous responsibility of being a parent, and especially a mother, I think one must have certain special kind of denial capacity. There's an awful lot there you have to sign your own name to; and it's not done in ink, but your own DNA.

This made me laugh! TKS!!