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The Toons are by artists who give permission to share their work (SMBC, Joe Martin, Wrong Hands). The quotes are from the original Jokes of the Week. Toons Quotes Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole-in-one... Continue Reading →
I just updated my About and FAQ pages and wanted a graphic to accompany this post. So, I asked DALL-E to generate an image of a blogger updating his online profile, and it spits out the above image. I really like the image . . . except it's difficult for me to identify as a... Continue Reading →
Another post documenting our stay in Long Beach, CA, in January of 2019. As a reminder, we were in the process of moving back to the mainland from Hawaiʻi, and our stop in Long Beach preceded our boarding the Princess Coral for our full transit Panama Canal cruise. Yes, I'll get to that eventually. I... Continue Reading →
Yesterday was the 14th anniversary of this blog. I meant to mark the passing, but other stuff occupied my limited cognitive abilities. No matter, I'm doing it now. So . . . fourteen years. That's 5,114 days, or 122,736 hours, or 7,364,160 minutes . . . what could one do with all that time? Well,... Continue Reading →
Haven't done one of these posts in a while. "What kind of post, Disperser?" Oh, you know . . . a little bit of this, a little bit of that. For instance, that's a building I photographed on my way back from Florida last month. Here's a monochrome version of it . . . This... Continue Reading →
The Toons are by artists who give permission to share their work (SMBC, Joe Martin, Wrong Hands). The quotes are from the original Jokes of the Week. Toons Quotes Today's Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.— Christopher Lasch... Continue Reading →
Perry took my Tiny Thoughts 15 challenge to offer a reason to be optimistic. His reason for optimism is HERE<<link. Below is my response. (1,270 words – about a 5 minutes read if reading at 265 words per minute) In Defense of No Improvement First, this will be unfair because Perry's rebuttal was written with... Continue Reading →
Perry took my Tiny Thoughts 15 challenge to offer a reason to be optimistic. Below is his attempt at convincing us all to be optimistic. I present it as written and without comment to not prejudice the reading. (890 words – about a 4 minutes read if reading at 265 words per minute) “We’ve had... Continue Reading →
(870 words – about a 4 minutes read if reading at 265 words per minute) I was recently in line at the local Post Office, a rarity as it's usually not busy (because I visit at what I consider an odd time of day). There were eight people ahead of me and five behind me.... Continue Reading →
Here's a link to some Pi-related stuff: LINK Here's some background on PI: LINK For the visual folks: LINK (pretty neat) That’s it. This post has ended . . . except for the stuff below. <><><><o><><><><><o><><><> Note: if you are not reading this blog post at DisperserTracks.com, know that it's copied without permission, and likely is being used by... Continue Reading →
This is the 4th anniversary of Colonialist's passing. His actual name was Leslie Hyla Winton Noble, and Colonialist was the name of his blog. As is the case with many bloggers, we get to know each other by our online monikers and avatars . . . here's his avatar, which can be found in the... Continue Reading →
The Toons are by artists who give permission to share their work (SMBC, Joe Martin, Wrong Hands). The quotes are from the original Jokes of the Week. Toons Quotes Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.— Iris Murdoch Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness... Continue Reading →
I've started sorting through my January 2019 photos for the next post documenting our visit to Long Beach, CA, and the subsequent Panama Canal transit cruise. This post is a small preview of what I saw on the Queen Mary, a museum and hotel anchored in Long Beach. Before addressing the lifeboat in the above... Continue Reading →
The Toons are by artists who give permission to share their work (SMBC, Joe Martin, Wrong Hands). The quotes are from the original Jokes of the Week. Toons Quotes The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.— Mark Twain We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquillity.— Kwame Nkrumah... Continue Reading →
Perry has informed me this will be the last short story for a while as he's concentrating on writing a novella. Again, this is not as a part of any challenge; Perry writes because he feels like writing . . . and has the time to do it. This means that you shouldn't expect Gary... Continue Reading →
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