Brown Motion

Hackneyed, trite, banal, are all expressions that come to mind when I hear this expression in media or in a book. Come to think of it what is all this business with mom and pop anyway? Perhaps harkening to old tales when the social units actually consisted of this arrangement some stories made sense. But to use in the context of Facebook and like investing it reeks of stale incongruous ideas. For starters there is over 50% divorce rate in the US with more and more people going the way of the singularity. There is no preponderence of mom and pop and if there was its dwindling. What about the mom and mom or pop and pop arrangements? What about the mom and test tubes? What about the steps (mom and pop)? What about the more than one of each? I tell you there is just no truth in reporting these days. What about those with criminal intents or a skewed bent? Some have hit the low road and abandoned the offsprings of the mom and pop? I think 'pop goes the weasel' makes mo...

I admit I am old fashioned. I still have a pile of DVDs that I own and on occasion find time to dig out what I got and pop one in to revisit. This one is a decade old movie called 'Finding Forrester' starring Sean Connery as a cranky, reclusive Pulitzer prize winning author that lives in the Bronx. He discovers raw talent (played by Rob Brown - in real life is also talent that was literally discovered by accident) in the form of a black basketball playing kid on the street corner who he secretly observes from his study every day. The kid can write. He has an unusual ability to put words together that convey immense emotion through compelling writing. Connery's character finds this when he happens on some drafts that Jamal (Brown) has written in his notebooks. Its a story of a teacher and student, about friendship and integrity, about not giving up even in the winter of your life (this phrase is plagiarized from the movie) and discovering what all life has to offer. ...

Strange or unexplained phenomena are more common than you woulda thunk.. 1. Why does the hearse (as in carrying a dead person) get priority in traffic? At least in some states...in death ahead in traffic, after all aren't they at a permanent red light? 2. What is with the term 'Red light area'? Who would actually want to visit that kind of aurora pornealis? From what I understand its more like no lights area. 3. Why do I have to tip the guy that drives a van from the parking lot to the airport but not the pilot after he flies me to a different continent? 4. What do you do with a pocket kerchief? Who the heck came up with kerchief anyway? To top it off they are made from expensive fabric and stick out like a sandwich from a coat. I mean it seems rather unbecoming if you want to unload a bunch of mucus in an emergency and you reach out to a guy with one of these cloths sticking out from his jacket and proceed to use it.

Proliferation of cellular technology has made one thing very clear. Now you can actually count all the people who are bored witless. Think about it. Carriers and device sellers now boast of their circulation and subscriptions to garner an even larger share of the consuming public. Large portion of the conversations or email exchange or game play or video watching that happens now is (although a function of improvement of technology), of no drastic new value add. Moreover the people observed with device attachment syndrome seem to now share their boredom with others in a similar mindset. It has simply added to the chatter on the airwaves with meaningless advertisements and coupons and promotions to zombies that have nothing better to do than stare at the latest version of rectangular glass. More customers get to win grass seeds by planting a cyber bush or raking e-leaves with no clue on what actual raking entails. In fact one could argue that quality of life has deteriorated to ...

Pun intended. Humans love to procreate. They exist apparently for a singular purpose like any living organism. Just ask the Duchess of Cambridge. Be that as it may we certainly do not like to think of the consequenes. As in how many more people do we need to call it game over? Every city and county and state and country is faced with balancing issues - those involving their budgets and its no surprise that demand has exceeded supply or at least the rate of supply. There is no forever. So while anyone can be selfish in their approach to living large I do not quite get the idea to manufacture more than one in the family. One and done on a global scale (for those that somehow feel compelled to have that one) could bring about a new lease on life so to speak. Such experiments have been attempted on a large scale before (China being a recent example) yet it might be too little too late. Especially in light of increased life spans for the cretins still left on the planet. Clearly ...

I guess if the singular purpose of language is to successfully communicate intent then perhaps its no reason to worry that people use it in varied ways. English which is a difficult language to master has its own versions based on what is spoken on a large and contiguous land mass i.e. there are American, Indian and Australian versions aside from the Queen's version. Then there is of course the evolution of the language itself from Old English and its Ye and Yonders to contemporary version that we comprehend to the modern day incarnation in the form of LMAO. Outside of the actual words, the grammar which constitutes the rule book on usage or arrangement of words gets butchered from country to country. Spellings do too. Dialects are also another nuance of the same language but spoken with distinct accents and undertones. What may be formally prescribed as a way to construct sentences may be completely decimated when in use by a less erudite person. However, take it from the C...

No my house did get painted a year ago so its not that. I just watched a documentary with this title. It portrays the history and aftermath of the great financial system collapse of 2008 in the US. What it showcases among the usual 'greed is rampant' and 'absolute power corrupts' themes is that the very acclaimed private educational institutions in the US are also contributing to the ongoing financial divide between the hugely powerful and the destitute. Many scholars have gotten paid assignments to present their capitalism centric views and proposals and also secure positions on the board of directors of the very large financial institutions that benefit from these views, while not having to disclose these affiliations to the university that they teach in. Also if you are confused between morality and profit it clarifies that the same right wing conservatives that would preach about the former are actually morally bankrupt and financially well off. So while that i...