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#ParrotSunday - Letterman Interviews The Parrots

Watching Jack Hanna yesterday involved his showing some of the clips of his years introducing animals to David Letterman. I found this 1984 clip of Letterman and parrot trainer David Kervinen on YouTube, and share it today. 

Quick - Call A Stoic!

GoodSync - The Best File Backup App You Never Heard Of

Key Features of GoodSync. When all your documents for the past 20 years, all your photos, all your data, and everything you value is stored in digital form on a USB drive, or a MicroSD card, or an external USB drive, or in the cloud at Google Drive, you really need to have backups. I use GoodSync to backup my essential files to a Micro SD that is always in my notebook computer. I also back them up to Google Drive, and to an external USB drive. Call it essential data redundancy. If you aren't backing up your files on a regular basis, there should be a new definition of stupid for you. Now, go get GoodSync, learn it, and use it.  

#PoetryFriday - Poems For Lovers - A Collaboration

heather joi tennant (@rorrimsegami) %u2022 Instagram account. I have, happily, been requested by some of you to create a second book of my poetry. Given the shocking lack of commercial success of the first one, I was understandably reticent. However, Social Media has helped me to find a new audience, and good friend, Heather Joi, an accomplished artist, poet, and visionary, has agreed to illustrate the book with her incomparable art. As many of you know, I have been using poetry to give voice to my recent grief, and it occurred to me that I have morphed from a young man writing poetry to "get the girl" to an old man contemplating the passage of time in relationships and the feelings stirred by intimacy. Heather's art has always struck me as a search for beauty in a stark landscape, and I am honored that she would consider sharing the journey with me. Her own marriage is approaching in May, and her beloved has graciously agreed to assist in publishing the work. No time table is set yet; but, the poems are in her capable hands. In the meantime, you can check out her art in various places, and I heartily recommend that you do so. The working title is "Poems For Lovers". I can't wait to see it in print.

Flagship Smartphones - Not Worth The Money

Flagship smartphones aren't worth the cost and hype. As flagship smartphones' cost goes north of $1,000, it is time to ask whether the price of admission is worth it. Increasingly, the answer is no. The fact that the Samsung Note 9 is twice the price of a similar specification spread in the Chinese OnePlus 6T  is the perfect example. However, my take is that you can get flagship specs for half the price just by waiting for a new flagship. I still carry my Samsung Note 8 every day, and it is a great phone. However, you can buy a refurbished one right now for $350. I have sentimental reasons for using it every day; it is the last phone I bought for SWMBO; but, it is still more phone than anyone needs. Like buying cars, it pays to wait a year or two, and let someone else take the depreciation.

#PoetryFriday - Survivor's Guilt

Survivor’s Guilt

Sometimes he caught himself
looking for her favorite wine at the grocery store.
Then, he remembered that she was gone.
Sometimes, he wondered why he was still breathing
when she no longer saw the sun.

He had a nightmare.
She was trapped in a cult
unaware that she was a prisoner
and he flailed around
trying to rescue her.

Everytime he got close
he awoke to another day
of living
and breathing
and looking at the sun.

He knew that fate
didn’t play favorites.
He knew that his time would come.
He knew that life was for living in.

But, he still saw her in the grocery store.
He still saw her in his dreams.
He still spent time during the day
wondering where she was.

He wondered whether he would ever again
think of anything else.

#TBT - Einstein Loved Windows XP

The good old days.

Snoopy, The Stoic

Toxic Masculinity - The Cure

LG Rollup TV - You Can Buy It In 2019 - Or Not

While I didn't get to CES this year, if I had, I would have spent some time with the newest and coolest TV on the planet. A 65 inch screen that is Google Assistant and Alexa capable, with a thin OLED screen that disappears into a box that is also a high end audio system. Wow. Of course, when this thing hits the market at the end of 2019, you and I won't be able to afford it. Hey, do we have any rich friends?