Brown Motion

Recent news about private sector investments (SpaceX et al) and expeditions in the exploration or visitation of space - that beyond earthly matter - got me thinking.  Uh Oh! I know.  It is far out - the thinking I mean.  I was chatting (postprandial) with a friend of mine who is from an Asian gene pool with a spouse who arose out of the Caucasian branch of the sapiens tree.  He is atheist and the wife Catholic. The subject started out about what makes an animal a pet - why I did not see as many people walking their rooster as say people walking dogs - for that matter I had also not seen a cat on a leash.  Strange I tell you.  This conversation somehow morphed into what one (pet owner) does after the said entity (pet) is deceased.  As in its remains.  He opined that said remains usually are cremated.  Some bury them in special cemeteries.  From there we moved on to our species and on inquiring I learned that his side of the family ha...

Directed by an Irish guy with a lead cast never before seen (at least I was clueless about them) the mother and son drama about being trapped in a shed for five years was an amazing take on the phrase 'paradigm shift'. Protagonists are a mother and her son, introduced to us in the opening sequence, living in a closed box of some sort with their only view of the outside world and sunshine being a skylight in the roof.  There are some parallels to a number of stories in the real world most prominent being a woman in Ohio that was kidnapped and held captive over a decade till she was found. As the movie unfolds we learn that the mother was a teen that got abducted from close to her home by a psycho who has stored her in a shed behind his home.  He is a sick and demented person that has since raped her multiple times. A child is born (we assume in the same confines) that we get to meet as a five year old learning to survive in the only space he knows as real. The woman as d...

This year around Christ's birthday we decided to visit the opposite coast.   Being California residents it is a hard sell but we wanted to enjoy it with our daughter who had never been to the Sunshine state. So we spent a week doing the usual - cover as much terrain on land or water - and soak it in along with the abundant sun.  So we began a loop around the state by starting out at the eastern shore in Fort Lauderdale just north of Miami.   It is not as busy as Miami in terms of the population or the variety of food or sand under your feet.   But offers some beachfront cruising opportunities to gawk at spendy (an informal term I use to describe items that are priced purely based on intangible worth which is mostly anything that is not-functional) items and people. Sampled some very interesting chewy biscotti and a sort of French sounding pastry that was quite alright.  Food in any shape and form to me is not spendy - it is just nutrition in a...