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  • From time to time, mariner has mentioned the emergence of commercial memes walking among us. Well, it is more than walking, it’s flying and driving, too. It turns out, according to Popular Science magazine, that […]

  • Hmmm . . . Can’t think of anyone. What users have to do to identify the preferred idiolect is ask Google what is the average user income for each specific idiolect. It’s no different than checking out who uses various social network platforms.

    Hey! How about Walter Winchell?

  • [Much of this content is in Scientific American Magazine, Wikipedia and assorted articles in print]

    If the reader has followed the news in recent months, that is, news about ChatGPT taking over the writing of […]

    • Hmmm . . . Can’t think of anyone. What users have to do to identify the preferred idiolect is ask Google what is the average user income for each specific idiolect. It’s no different than checking out who uses various social network platforms.

      Hey! How about Walter Winchell?

  • This strictly is a metaphoric, allegoric, analogous, anthropomorphized  post.  So keep one’s imagination and lateral thinking at hand.

    The Texas flooding disaster is a tragic, quick, painful experience for m […]

  • Remember the Myers-Briggs personality test, where you could pick your personality from 16 types? It is still around but back in the 1970s it hit the market with a big bang. By taking a test, a person could […]

  • Sitting in the tunnel with Nosy Mole where it is a lot cooler than outside, mariner received an email from Wayside Gardens. It was a big splash sale with huge price cutting on Hyssop.  “That’s odd,” he said. “I […]

  • If, only for old times sake, I could visit with a Dekay snake.
    Skipper

  • skipper wrote a new post, In the garden 5 months ago

    Mariner spent most of the day in the garden. For the most part, he was pulling weeds to see if he still had garden plants under the weeds. He seldom meanders among the gardens because more pressing tasks are […]

    • This is what a garden is for–not for show, but to experience nature up close and create habitat for chipmunks, monarch butterflies, fireflies, birds, bees–and rabbits!

    • If, only for old times sake, I could visit with a Dekay snake.
      Skipper

  • skipper wrote a new post, Ponder stuff 5 months ago

    Current studies of human cells in humans reveal that you have within your body cells that belong in your family’s bodies. They didn’t originate in your genome, they belong to your mother, father, sisters, brothers […]

  • Yes! Newly passed county legislation allows fireworks on the eve and day of the holiday There is an advantage to living in a county comprised of small rural towns – they each have their own celebration.

  • As a child for mariner, and perhaps even today, Independence Day was second only to Christmas.  The fireworks, parades, picnics in the park, trips to visit other family members, and the general public attitude […]

    • Yes! Newly passed county legislation allows fireworks on the eve and day of the holiday There is an advantage to living in a county comprised of small rural towns – they each have their own celebration.

  • A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll reveals that 76% of Americans believe democracy is facing a serious threat. That percentage includes 89% of Democrats, 80% of Independents and 57% of Republicans.

    There […]

  • Everyone is painfully aware of the republican party’s intentions regarding economics, fuel consumption, racial division, political domination using the military, etc. But where is another option? The democratic […]

  • Yesterday, mariner returned from his visit at a tribal encampment. It is a return to reality. He can imagine what it feels like to have a building collapse on you when it is hit by a Russian rocket. He spent a day […]

  • Mariner writes today from a tribal encampment. It is a gathering of his wife’s family anchored by nine cousins. Events like this allow folks to experience genuine Homo sapiens behavior. There is a restoration of f […]

  • Some excerpts from The Atlantic magazine:

    “Unlike younger generations, they [boomers] have largely been able to walk a straightforward path toward prosperity, security, and power. They were born in an era of […]

  • Mariner cannot be found today so his wife graciously submitted one of her insightful essays. We get tied up in numbers and policies, growing insensitive to the fact that these refugees are individuals in the midst […]

  • The Gen Z generation is comprised of children born between 1997 and 2012 or today aged 13 to 28. A number of polls and an associated study have been performed by Walton Family Foundation focused primarily on […]

  • Mariner hasn’t been a “dig your fingers in the dirt” gardener for two years. He has been too busy. Nor has he planted vegetables or engaged in the sport of keeping ahead of weeds – and rabbits for that matter. He […]

  • You mentioned ‘cell phone’ and alluded to the phone as a tool for communication. I have no difficulty with that use and, in fact, own one. You must admit, however, that computers are taking over human interactions that are used by humans to define human reality. It is this invasion into specie behavior that is unstoppable and will send Homo into…[Read more]

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