Old oak grove window

These are just some words

These are just some words I wrote once.

Time moves forward like a

Time moves forward like a thick plastic glacier when you're sick. Except you're underneath it, looking for your missing slipper.

Being Sick

Being sick.

Being sick is like going on a little trip.

It seems like you are your ordinary reality, but because you are in a different state of consciousness, you are slightly out of phase with things.

You may stay home from work and lay in bed. From this position, you will notice different qualities of light entering your bedroom, because normally when this happens, you are in a different building. Even if you happened to be home, (say, on a Saturday) you probably wouldn't notice something like this, because you would be in your bedroom for a brief period, or for some reason or other.

When you are sick, it is best not to think too much about work-related things, as this tends to agitate the body and prolong the amount of time it takes to recuperate. At a certain point, it is OK to "give in" and just be sick for a while. Resistance takes up too much energy.

I like to look at times of illness as an opportunity to think different thoughts. When I recognize that I am getting cranky and irratible, the result of trying to "resist" the oncoming illness, I will do my best to clear my schedule and retreat into my bedroom.

Sometimes when you are sick, little thoughts that don't make as much commotion as work-related thoughts have a chance to rise to the surface.

Sometimes when you are sick, you notice the passage of time differently.

There is a secret seed of possibility locked inside all experiences, I think.

Christmas 2006

On my way to my sister-in-law's house, we went by this big graveyard. I glanced over and saw a man in a suit standing in front of a marker reading from a piece of paper.

Christmas at msol's

Hunter and the cat

Outlaw Rickshaw? Pshaw!

How can they do this? A city in India is talking about outlawing the operation of rickshaws. This is an OUTRAGE! I demand an investigation. Read full story here.

the play

Most days...

pirate food art

This is a picture I took at Salvador Molly's in Portland.

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Old barn off se hugh

Off arista

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Million Dollar Houses

In case you’ve ever wondered “What do people have to earn to be able to live in a million dollar house?”
I did some calculations based on my experience as loan officer. Lending guidelines were from First Horizon.
Here is the summary of what is required:

Summary
The approximate minimum requirements for the purchase of a house valued at $1.25 M are as follows :

1 Yearly income $320,000, verified by CPA or attorney for prior 2 years.

2 $ 142,328 in cash. includes pre-paids, down payment, 6 months verifiable reserves, etc.

3 Credit Score: 700 or higher 680 may be possible, but more out of pocket and interest expense.

4 Not much other debt!
Less than 1500 in other monthly debt payments (not including present house, which it is assumed would be paid off) You need to have less than 45% DTI, and less than this max would be preferable.

Found

Can you guess where this is?

An Indefinite Period

This was after the fund raiser for the little boy who needed a new heart.

This one isn't

This house isn't abandoned, but you sure could have fooled me!

.

Jose

The music stairway.

Lesson Number 22

this is certainly an old bus
an old bus
old buses

Lesson 1

This message was

Moo.

HR

Think I took this in early August 06. For some reason, there is a gravity to pictures of him when he is higher than ground level, especially in odd lighting.

Are you still on that bus.

Saw this lot filled with really old city buses, some of them with the boom on the roof that must have once connected to an overhead power supply.

Seen Distantly

What odd connections one finds between people! Felt out of sorts this afternoon, the way I do when I have a fight with my wife. Couldn't put my finger on the cause. Later, I talked with my secretary and she was having the same unsettled feelings.

Signal Propagation

I don't know how well this will come out, but I thought that it was interesting that the author's message continues to broadcast beyond her or his intended recipient.

Tomorrow's assignment

Please answer the following:

Name of favorite bicuspid?

Approximate level of approximation given when answering questions of this nature? (Be specific.)

Do you believe in the existence of "matter", "space", "time" and "energy"?

What is the purpose of meaning?

Did you ever see an object on the ground, say, for instance, an old rusty paperclip; and did you wonder if you would change the course of your future reality or that of any other being on this planet if you ever so slightly moved this object to the left?

Or did this consume you with a mind-numbing fear of taking action?

List of current psycho-active substances:

Past:

Future:

Thank you.

Geometrizing

Let there be three points: A, B, C on plane P.
Is the triangle formed by segments AB BC CA the smallest shape possible that intersects these points?

Wouldn't a circle intersecting these three points be the largest shape possible?
No, because you could have a polygon with N sides, only two of which need to to pickup points A, B and C. Bastards!

Is a circle really a polygon with infinite edges? Pilar says it depends on whether a segment can be one point in length.

I don't think it can. I think that is prohibited by the whole thing about a line being shortest distance between two points. Bastards!

But what if the two points are immediately adjacent to one another?

I mean, sure, there are infinite points on any line segment, but each one must have a next-door neighbor.

So couldn't a circle just be a polygon with infinite edges formed by immediately adjacent points?

On the sub-nanoscopic scale, each portion of a circle might look something like this:

0-----0
---0---

The main difference, of course, is that this slight difference in angle would be very, very, very tiny. I have exaggerated the angle it by many powers!

Every point on every circle mirrors the angle of both of its neighbors' OTHER next door neighbor. This is another way of saying that they share the same slope, I suppose.

We will return to this fascinating subject tomorrow.

For homework, please write in your blogs what today's inquiry means to your interior life. In your relationships, are there angles of incidence and reflection? In your cosmos, can you predict the movement of other beings by plotting their angles of right ascension and declination?

Ptolemy dedicated his work to studying "those things that always remain what they are"; to what do you dedicate your attention?

Hunter is feeling better.

A Different Way Today

I seemed to go a different direction. Instead of my usual judgementalism or whatever you want to call it, I heartily approved of everyone around me. I do not know why. I was in a McDonalds when it happened. It felt very light and refreshing, like the way DIET PEPSI CLAIMS to be. Later, as I drove through the meth-industrial ghetto of Oak Grove, I didn't have my usual dream of razing most of the dilapidated structures and replacing them with my own shining vision (something evocative of a paper I once read on economic clustering phenomena made me think that Oak Grove was ripe for: a hub of web application and etail developers merged with singer-songwriter musical entrepreneurship... But first we had to tear down the evil store and convince Powell's and McMenamin's to move in.)
No, instead of my usual daydream of urban renewal and economic grandeur for my adopted hamlet, I felt only a profound Taoist detatchment from my past desires. Meth people are no problem, nor is bureaucratic inertia in Clackamas County. Oak Grove was fine. I was fine. I stopped resisting and finally began to approve of thhe reality I found myself in.

Evening in Oak Grove

This rather ordinary summer evening in Oak Grove, Oregon brought to you by me

Received this in my email today

Since it has to do with time, I actually read this spam:

metier
factual melodrama snoop
I recently had an argument about why time is relative. My friend found it hard to conceive how time could not be absolute. At that time, when I tried to explain it, I found that it was hard for me see WHY time really is relative. All I could do was state experimental results that indicate it is the case. This shows that thinking you can understand a deep concept at a very shallow, philosophical level doesn't really mean much, but at least it's better than no understanding at all. binge
Newton's laws put an end to the idea of absolute motion. Two people playing ping pong on a moving train would measure the distance the ball bounces on the table (between consequecutive bounce) as lesser than a person standing along the track watching the ball bounce. Both measurements are equally valid since there is no absolute standard of rest. lubricity
Maxwell's equations predicted that light waves travel at a fixed speed. This is something we have to believe, and it arises out of the fact that his equations predicted "there would be wavelike disturbances in the combined electromagnetic field, and that these would travel at a fixed speed, like ripples on a pond." spook
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Mystery Object

Se rupert dr

14809-14811

Another abandoned house

Another view of another

Painting

Appears to be acrylic on some kind of masonry. It is located inside the north entrance of 6400 International Way in Milwaukie. (The big new office building you can see from 224.)
I didn't have time to adjust orientation of photo: blue section should be at lower left of frame.

Left behind.

Found this in my former housekeeper's yard when we were helping her clean up.

Much of the time we spend alone

Took this picture at the beginning of that strange morning I spent walking in his footsteps.

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HDR: Baseball Trophy 2

OK, I'm afraid of being one of those parents who psychobabbles over his children's accomplishments. It's just amazing to have a kid who likes and excels at playing team sports. I won't say much more. Anyone who has watched him play knows what I'm talking about.

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OM MANI PADME HUM OM MANI PADME HUM

Shame on you people who deny the buddha nature of a chicken.

Hunter & I agree that C is the most improved player. I wish I had a picture that showed his smile better. HE didn't hit much at all until right near the end. A really nice kid... Always smiling.

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M friend of H

This is the girl on Hunter's T Ball team that he really likes. She's a good player. One time when we had her over at the field for a play date with Hunter, she threw the ball to me when I wasn't looking and hit me in the side of the head.

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Mr. B

MR.B has a beautiful swing, and a very tiny strike zone. When he connects, the ball goes far.

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T Ball Party at Round Table

G was a bit crazy, but this freshman T baller from Oak Grove, OR had excellent form at the plate. My favorite moment with G: one time she was playing in the outfield, noy paying much attention, and I said, "Hey! Want to play baseball?" She said, "No, I want to get a Sno-Cone!"

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A sign from Jahweh?

Just happened to look down after I stopped at 7-11 for some drinks. Mystical.

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What the world needs now

Why spend valuable time and resources generating tortured language for business. A clever Web 2.0 enginner has put together a brilliant "Bullshit Generator".

Click here: BS

Now I have a headache.

Just in case you were wondering.

HMM

Image Management

I'm way better looking when I'm not there in person.

I have mastered it. Maybe.

Hopefully, something will show up from this email.

Ancient Crapper

Got this sweet picture from somebody who left it in a comment on my poop posting.

tribute

The ancient ones
wrote of a dark knowing.
"Dim your lights and merge with the dust."
Aimlessly, they moved among the people, a blessing to the good and
evil among men. Their way was unplanned and aimless, yet they took great care in everything they didm "like those crossing an icy stream in winter." When the times were ill-favored, they removed themselves in silence, like melting snow."

To attempt is to not understand:
deep knowing requires stillness.

WTF?

Saw this at the corner of Strawberry Lane and Webster.

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Google SMS for Cretins

This is some cool shit. Now you can query Google's servers from your cell phone. Hours of fun for those of you who were always hoping for.

D destination yields directions
T word language translates stuff
C (c((sqrt -4)/2) *m)^2
which I believe translates to what we could do if we used our imagination.

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