Monday, March 31, 2014

Internet of things, internet of animals

The basic idea in both cases mentioned in the title of this post is a connection between elements in a group or set.  If your car picks up a signal from your coat closet door that you have extracted your coat and gloves in preparation for a drive somewhere, it may start its engine to warm things up.  Your garage door may raise so you can drive out.  If your computer sends a file to your smartphone listing items the household needs you to buy, the internet of things is working for you.  Much more complex interactions might be involved that are not only among your own devices.  


If dolphins, elephants and various kinds of apes are connected among themselves by means of devices in their brains and perhaps to each other, there might be some benefit for those animals and for humans.  So, more than 900 million web pages are listed in Google about the possible internet of animals.



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Bill
Main blog: Fear, Fun and Filoz
Main web site: Kirbyvariety


Sunday, March 30, 2014

Little toughie

We have been watching “Cosmos” starring the astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and written by the widow of the star of the first such series that gripped many viewers about 20 years ago.  More is known and better understood now and the new stuff is fascinating.  Some of the comments and pictures have been about strange aspects of nature, including pictures of a tiny creature who is usually shown to be pink or gray.  It took a little research to get the name but it turns out to be “tartigrade”.  That is the name of the creature that NASA is in love with because it is so hardy that it makes for a good research subject.  


Tardigrades have been known to survive the following extreme conditions:


  • temperatures as low as -200 °C (-328 °F) and as high as 151 °C (304 °F);
  • freezing and/or thawing processes;
  • changes in salinity;
  • lack of oxygen;
  • lack of water;
  • levels of X-ray radiation 1000x the lethal human dose;
  • some noxious chemicals;
  • boiling alcohol;
  • low pressure of a vacuum;
  • high pressure (up to 6x the pressure of the deepest part of the ocean)
Oh, yes, it can do without food or water for 10 years straight.  Tough!


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Bill
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Saturday, March 29, 2014

two on mindfulness

I am on the lookout for succinct, helpful explanations about mindfulness.  I came across these two today.  A J Jacobs has some fairly light-hearted books on trying to perform Biblical living as specified therein, reach physical perfection and know what is in all the main books.  His description of watching over one's mind is very much on target.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aj-jacobs/supervising-your-brain_b_5022875.html


Eckhart Tolle is renown as a Western teacher of mindfulness.  He has recently added more references to Eastern sources and practices but this little clip from his online course with Oprah talks about mindfulness simply and powerfully.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/25/eckhart-tolle-a-new-earth-exercises-present-now_n_5024829.html



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Bill
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Main web site: Kirbyvariety


Friday, March 28, 2014

Changes going on

I saw two items today that point to some of the ongoing changes taking place in where we get news, ideas and information.  One was a tweet on Twitter linked to survey research results obtained by the PEW foundation as to news sources and social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)  The results were written up by Katerina Matsa and Amy Mitchell.  (I like to try to note who creates the words I read).  It says that many people get their news from Facebook and other social media.  Facebook is very large, with 3+ times the users the US has population. It and Twitter might get news that is different in content or viewpoint from CBS or NBC or CNN.


I have been looking at Google News for several years.  They offer setting modifications that supposedly change what news I get and how much of various sorts.  Recently, I changed my settings for increased news from France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Japan, and Korea but I still get days when according to Google News, the main thing that happened in France was a football match.  I got a little disgusted and found several better and more balanced services of French news in English.


The other item was in Time magazine’s daily email of news stories.  It says that movie theaters are working hard to increase their number of customers.  As with many other aspects of our society, there is an increase in the number of choices people have for more and more services and experiences.


Connecting their computers, tablets like iPads or specialized streamers such as the Roku player - connecting any of these to their televisions enables family viewing from new sources such as Netflix, Hudu and Vudu.  Probably pushed by this trend, older organizations increasingly put episodes from ongoing programs on their web sites where they can be viewed at any time.



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Bill
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Main web site: Kirbyvariety


Thursday, March 27, 2014

Modern rhetoric

I recently learned that a five year old really wanted a particular toy but was told that her parents had spent enough and wouldn’t buy it.  She pulled out all the rhetorical stops and went into her rousing mode.  She said,” Mom and Dad, we can do this!  Mom, if you provide $5 and Dad, if you provide $6, we would have enough money for that toy.”  The parents were not persuaded but were still chuckling at the persuasive machinery that had been rolled out and, as we say, deployed.


The other day, an exchange took place between two mature, educated adults as to the nature of science.  Since we are aware of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “Cosmos” program and both supporters and detractors of its contents, we can see that science is a rational, steady attempt to support ideas with evidence that is convincing while it is also a lightening rod for controversy and disagreement, just as it was back in the days of Galileo and Giordano Bruno.  We know today that any idea or statement or notion or philosophy might be a good thing, a step forward for humankind to adopt but it can still be hard to entertain some of the cockeyed notions that come along.


Besides, we have mass media, spin doctors, marketing experts and I imagine, reputation manglers who are at least as good as their work as any predecessors were.  We have experienced being sold on new ideas and products that not long ago, we never heard of so we know that minds can be changed, challenged and frightened.  One side of the exchange stood for science as a calm, reasoned procedure while the other side pointed to the mistakes of science such as the ether, and the controversies and the difficulties, arguing that science, like other fields, has its ups and downs and is not a straight line to the truth.



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Bill
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Main web site: Kirbyvariety


Wednesday, March 26, 2014

"Pages" and "sites" and Refresh!

The world wide web (aka “www”) consists of web sites that have multiple “files” on them.  These are also called “pages” and are sets of code that can be sent to my computer when I click on a link or enter a web address (aka “URL” which stands for some words you can look up if you are interested).  When the file reaches my computer, it is interpreted to create a layout of the “page”.


If the coding is changed after being sent to me, the version of the “page” on my computer will be out of date.  However, I can “refresh” the page, usually by hitting the refresh icon, somewhere near the top of the display. Clicking on the refresh icon tells my computer to send another request for the “page” and get a new copy of the file.  If the “page” in question is something like the news or a sports score, the coding itself might make a page refresh happen every few minutes.


You can make a web site of your own for free by visiting sites.google.com.  If you do, you might find that whatever you put on your site, you forget about over time.  So, there might be information on your site that is badly out of date or incorrect.  That can happen at any web site.


The idea of a world wide web was invented in 1989 but by now, there are billions, probably trillions of web pages on the web.



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Bill
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Main web site: Kirbyvariety


Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Two clues to new computer skills

Clue #1 - Google it!

Clue #2 - Try it repeatedly


Say you are interested in using Google Docs to create and save word processing documents, “typed” pages that look a lot like this page or a typical essay.  You can do that on a computer or a tablet at no cost.  How?


You say you haven’t got a clue but you are interested.  Make your way to the famous Google search page.  Search the words “use Google Docs” and use the results to try a few findings to see if you gain an understanding.


If you find you have acquired a new skill, you have succeeded.  If not, try alternative words in a search, such as “Google Docs” or “word processing in Google Docs”.  If you want to be a little adventurous, you can Google “Bing”, the name of the alternative searcher instead of Google.  It is created and run by Microsoft, one of the main competitors of Google.  I don’t use Bing often but there have been times when Bing has found something I am looking for that Google did not.


But suppose none of the results of the Google search bring you new satisfaction.  Depending on your level of energy and interest, try again.  Follow up on what you do find.  If every day for a while, you try using Google Docs for 5 to 15 minutes, by the end of the week you will know quite a bit more about free word processing in the cloud (which only means there is no charge and that you can use the browser (IE, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, etc.) to get to your saved creations from any device with an internet connection.


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Bill
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Main web site: Kirbyvariety

Monday, March 24, 2014

Living the senior electronic life without guilt

In reading various communications so far, I come across comments like “I am not using my iPad to the fullest extent possible” or “I am not a trained computer user.”  In a sense, neither am I, so we are together in that way.  After reading such statements, I looked for a way to try to explain how freeing it is to admit that everyone is a limited user of a computer, a tablet, a smartphone.  Just as we are all limited to some number of years of life, so many hours of wakefulness a day, we are all limited users of our microwaves and stoves, our televisions, our cars and even our bodies.  We are all limited readers, writers, cooks, partners, parents.  Your limits might encompass a much larger area than mine but we are all limited.


About 45 years ago, a very smart man said to me as we gazed at our new campus academic computer (about the size of an executive double pedestal desk, rented for $16,000 a year), “there is more architecture in this machine than in the Empire State Building.”  I have no idea to what extent that is true but it sounds right.  It also sounds right to recognize that your local information technology guy or computer repair person knows more than you do about computers and that such a person would probably be quicker than you are to admit to limited knowledge and to shy away from stating that he knows all of computing.


Every now and then, it makes sense to explore what additional aspects of your electronic life might be developed or expanded.  It makes sense to note that what ails or irritates you in using your devices and try to find a way to stop the ailment or lessen the irritation.  It makes sense to realize that what you would like to accomplish or master is very probably something that many other people also want.  The reason that matters is that a way to get to your goal may already be waiting at the touch of a button or a click of a mouse.


I am writing here for senior citizens, roughly those fully capable adults over the age of 55 or so.   At that age, you may not be seeking to double your emails per day or advance your business or reputation.  Some of the things teens are doing may be a waste of time, as far as you are concerned.  At that age, many people have developed greater suspicions of wonderful “free offers” or outlandish deals or prices.  It is quite likely that you already have a full schedule and will not accept new activities that encroach on your time.  Taking everything slow and only trying what seems promising is a great way to proceed.



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Bill
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Main web site: Kirbyvariety


Sunday, March 23, 2014

Hit by a social wave

I use Twitter for not very social purposes.  I like to follow people and organizations I am interested in.  For those that write tweets, I get some insight into what they are doing by reading what they tweet.  If I add a given person to those I “follow”, that person or organization is notified.  There may be some special setting that prevents notification or delivers lists of new followers in batches but I don’t need it or use it.  On the other hand, somebody like the astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson with a number of followers nearing two million, just the notification of new followers is a lot of web traffic.


I have only about 100 followers (which is still more than the group I email my blog to).  

The other purpose for my Twitter activity is to create a place where highlights from books I am reading or perusing can be stored and found.  So, inside a Kindle or Kindle app, I highlight some comment of interest and share it via Twitter.  I can see them again on my own Twitter page and also on Amazon’s page at kindle.amazon.com.


I do get exposure to Facebook through my wife, who looks at the program just about every day and shows/tells me what she finds to be the best comments, jokes and photos.


I knew I could name a few other social computing sites, like LinkedIn and Pinterest.  But I know I don’t know very much about any social media site so, naturally, I Googled the subject.  I got 2 billion 20 million results but I didn’t read them all.  I figured there would exist more social web sites than I had heard about and I was right.  This article in Wikipedia lists more than 200 and I am confident that some in other countries are not listed.  I also looked the subject up in Amazon and just about everything on the first results page related to using social web sites to promote a business, which I am not interested in.


I think most people know about Facebook and many have seen the movie The Social Network, which tells about Mark Zuckerberg and the beginning of the web site that went on to gather over a billion users.  Most businesses have some idea of pestering their customers with an e-newsletter, coupons or chatty comments while dreaming of a billion customers.



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Bill
Main blog: Fear, Fun and Filoz
Main web site: Kirbyvariety


Saturday, March 22, 2014

Scam pretends to be IRS - Time magazine

IRS Phone Scam Is The Largest Ever

Thousands of people have lost more than $1 million to scammers who threatened them with arrest, deportation and the loss of business or driver's licenses if they did not make payments through credit cards or wire transfers

http://time.com/32651/irs-phone-scam-is-the-largest-ever/



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Bill
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Main web site: Kirbyvariety


Friday, March 21, 2014

Group work

I was told decades ago that artificial intelligence/machine learning/robotic efforts had a tough time trying to match or simulate human groups.  The sort of conversations that a family might have together or a team before a game are quite complex.  Just the aspect of who is doing the talking, who is listening to whom and who is being watched by whom - all those and more change rapidly and usually in accord with what might be called the group’s wishes, even though those wishes are not spelled out or agreed upon explicitly. 


My friends and relatives in audio-visual and cinematography notice details when we watch movies together that elude me.  They often comment on how many different camera angles (and therefore multiple cameras) are being employed to create the visual/auditory experience of the viewer.


One of my troubles with Buddhism as described by Asians is a general putdown of emotion.  I may be silly or over-reacting to English ancestral stiffness but I am very confident that emotions bring the color, joy and excitement to life.  The most far-reaching book I know on American life vs. Buddhist ideals is Buddhist Practice on Western Grounds by Harvey Aronson, PhD.  He goes to some lengths to explain American ideals and practices in such areas as dating and marriage and how they may be viewed by Asian Buddhist teachers.  Similarly, the psychiatrist Mark Epstein, in Open to Desire, explains a human tendency in some people to try to hold on to a stance of little emotion and negative expectations in life in an effort to protect themselves from disappointment and letdown.

I have been noticing lately that some groups function together much as a healthy single mind does.  It seems to me that a well-functioning group that accepts all its members happily and respectfully speaks back and forth to its members in much the way that a single individual thinks.  When one person expresses strong feelings, the others honor the expression.  Those in agreement with the speaker say so and those against say what they think.  One of my favorite people coaches and theorists is Byron Katie, who advises us to ask when we have a strong opinion, to ask of it, whether it is true.  A group may well ask that of a member.  Sometimes, a group member will ask that valuable question “Just what do you mean by ‘X’?”


No wonder university departments, neighborhood beer drinkers and local retirees like to get together and compare ideas, histories and worries.  They are more fun than many shrinks, have better menus and cost less.



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Bill
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Main web site: Kirbyvariety


Thursday, March 20, 2014

As Carmen Diaz knows, looks matter

I like to think that looks are not that important to me and that the
g
ist of a statement or the character of a person matters more than appearance.  In some ways, that is true but I have learned from computers that looks, format and appearance do matter.
 Let me make my point using Google Translate by putting what is in italics in Korean.  See how this looks to you: 나는 외모는 그다지 중요하고 사람의 성명 또는 문자의 광주 과학 기술원은 외관보다 더 중요한 것이 아니라는 것을 생각하고 싶다. 어떤면에서 그것은 사실입니다하지만 형식과 외관 중요합니까, 보이는 컴퓨터에서 배웠습니다. Here is the same statement in :white font on a white background: (use your cursor to see the text that is there) I like to think that looks are not that important to me and that the
gist of a statement or the character of a person matters more than appearance.  In some ways, that is true but I have learned from computers that looks, format and appearance do matter.



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Bill
Main blog: Fear, Fun and Filoz
Main web site: Kirbyvariety


Wednesday, March 19, 2014

73.91304348

It can be a upsetting experience to help a 7th grader with his math homework.  17 is 23% of what number?  Sometimes, my help is not needed but when it is, I should be able to at least look at what he has done to work out the question and give approval if it is correct.  There was a time when I did such problems easily and correctly.  I didn’t even use a calculator or a spreadsheet. Now I have to be on guard to be sure that what I am thinking is right so I don’t approve work that is wrong or put him to re-working what is already correct.


It may be that I am indeed a little slower than I used to be, but I am inclined to think that years and years of not having to do such calculation has resulted in a feeling of unfamiliarity with percentages.  So many years in which I have been a productive citizen, neither arrested for crime nor accused of mental infirmity, seem to be evidence that maybe such problems are not part of many people’s lives.  If they aren’t, the question arises: Is it important that a 7th grader be able to do such work?  The question has already been asked several times by my 7th grader.  He seems to be more comfortable wallowing in a tendency to not work on them than he is getting them done.


I don’t like to lie to him.  I don’t want to say that my life ever once depended on being able to work out the answer to percentages.  It hasn’t.  Even more than questioning whether it is important to be able to do such problems, I question whether it is valuable to successfully work out dozens or hundreds of them.  True, working out percentages keeps him off the streets and helps him avoid e-smoking and pharm parties where kids take random pills from somebody’s medicine cabinet.  Such problems, if you dislike them, have the old advantage that, like hitting oneself in the head with a hammer, it feels so good when you stop.  I have completed the 7th grade and have more or less stopped working percents.  He is looking forward to that day.



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Bill
Main blog: Fear, Fun and Filoz
Main web site: Kirbyvariety


Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Oops, you made it!

It is difficult for those turned on to trying to stop trying.  You know how it is: you leave Baltimore to drive west to Denver.  It’s a long drive but by the time you get to Colorado, you are so into the driving mode that you just can’t stop.  You go right through the state and on to Yellowstone and Seattle.  It wasn’t what you wanted to do but you couldn’t control yourself.


That is a problem experienced by many older citizens.  They worked hard.  They saved wisely.  They economized.  Now they have reached a point where they are basically set.  Oh, but it doesn’t feel that way.  Of course not!  Here in the marketing mecca of the world, where big data and depth psychology are used 24/7 to hook everyone on everything, it is very, very hard to see that you made it.  It feels wrong to enjoy.  It feels wrong to appreciate the sun, the sky, the achievements, the friends.  It feels wrong to smile, laugh and relish life.


The media harmonizes with our basic instincts and shouts “Worry!  My God, man, don’t you know there is a war on?  Don’t you realize the dangers lurking everywhere?  However much you THINK you are already “concerned”, it is not enough!  Have you contributed to the orphans fund?  Have you willed your eyes and heart to the needy? Get with the program!  Be more concerned!  Worry more!  Try harder!”



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Bill
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Main web site: Kirbyvariety


Monday, March 17, 2014

Thinking more deeply

My friend told me I might want to look at the article by Phyllis Korkki of the New York Times called “The Science of Older and Wiser”.  Some of the comments made in the article struck a chord in my recent experience.  I taught college students for more than 36 years, about half the hours with undergrads and half with graduate teachers getting further credits or master’s degrees.  Anyone who teaches that mixture will tell you that the older students are tons more serious.  


It is not all that mysterious.  Humans about the age of 20 years are at their prime for thinking about, caring about and wanting to interact with members of the opposite sex.  Nature has prepared them to want to mate, which according to nature leads to parenthood, unless modern methods intervene.  That means that students of that age, even those sampled and chosen and sifted and tested, often have other things on their mind than intellectual activities, books, theories and ideas.  But, by the time people have jobs as teachers, are experienced adults workers, have had responsibility for pupils’ behavior and learning, they are much more focused on learning, growing, developing their minds.


The article linked above discusses older people’s minds.  In work my wife and I have been doing recently with our older people’s organization, we have found repeatedly that professors who have taught undergraduates for years are shocked at the depth and number of questions our members raise with them.  It is apparent to many of our presenters that their audience is chock full of questions and can easily take over the presentation with them.  Some acquiesce and simply take questions, which are good natured but provocative and far-reaching. Others state that they worked hard on their presentation and the slides they have with them and will take no more questions until they have reached the end of their talk.


In early April, I am scheduled to give the group a presentation on the use of electronic gadgets from smartphones to iPads to computers.  Many people all over the world have noted little kids can use an iPad and other electronic gadgets. Many of my senior friends take the sort of pictures I have linked here to be evidence that they themselves are mental failures, that their brains have aged, lost important functions, etc.  I know this is not true.  My own greatgrandchildren love using iPads but they can’t read, they don’t pay their bills online or off (they don’t have any; they don’t have any money) and they can’t compare to senior citizens mentally.  


As Korkki’s article says:

Unfortunately, research shows that cognitive functioning slows as people age. But speed isn’t everything. A recent study in Topics in Cognitive Science pointed out that older people have much more information in their brains than younger ones, so retrieving it naturally takes longer. And the quality of the information in the older brain is more nuanced. While younger people were faster in tests of cognitive performance, older people showed “greater sensitivity to fine-grained differences,” the study found.


That’s it!  Fine-grained.  The ‘in’ word these days is indeed “nuanced” but these are good,too:

careful

connected

suspicious


Go on: try it.  Take your iPad or your smartphone over to a senior citizen, point to a key and say, “Please press this button.”  A little kid will press it.  The senior citizen will ask

“Who are you?  What is your social security number?  What is your email address?  What is your phone number?  Is this a scam?  Can you prove that?” and on and on into the night.


Older people know more.  They know more to be afraid of.  They know more that can go wrong. 



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Bill
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Main web site: Kirbyvariety


Sunday, March 16, 2014

Exercises for brain processing speed

Much of the information I see comes from blogs.  A sampling of the blogs I look at appear along the edge of my own blog page.  One that I follow is the blog from Posit Science, the group that made the Brain Fitness Program and now runs the blog linked here.  Some of the difficulty older people experience comes from decreased speed of brain impulses.  The link above goes to a post by Dr. Michael Merzenich, a major figure in brain research.  It might not be a surprise to find that using our ears and eyes in tasks with the appropriate level of challenge can help the brain keep a faster processing speed.  You can see that if a person slips on stairs, he only has a very short time to take corrective action.  The longer he needs to perceive that he needs such action and to take it, the greater the chance that he will be too late.  This matter of processing speed is fundamental.  The post linked explains exercises that can improve speed.




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Bill
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Main web site: Kirbyvariety


Saturday, March 15, 2014

Info on learning a foreign language as an adult

When we finished the Brain Fitness Program, sold by Posit Science, the last bit advised us to continue working on our brains.  Two of the main suggestions were to learn a foreign language and learn a musical instrument.  Note that both activities relate brain work to our hearing.  Here is a link to the blog of Tim Ferris featuring a teacher of foreign language to adults and his clues for learning another tongue.


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Bill
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Main web site: Kirbyvariety


Friday, March 14, 2014

BBC podcast on hearing

Our hearing matters in many ways.  Hearing is one of the two major senses in our lives today and the first to develop in the fetus.  People who lose their hearing may become more isolated socially.  Here is a post from Mind Hacks, a British blog that leads to a BBC podcast that can be downloaded or listened to in a streamed form on the subject of hearing today.

http://mindhacks.com/2014/03/11/from-under-hearing-to-ultra-hearing/


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Bill
Main blog: Fear, Fun and Filoz
Main web site: Kirbyvariety


Thursday, March 13, 2014

What do YOU want to do?

I am in the habit of thinking that I don’t in general have strong preferences.  I usually tell my wife that we can do what she would like to do.  The other day, she turned the table on me and asked me very explicitly what I wanted to do.  Yikes!  I don’t know.  I found that it isn’t so easy to say firmly and reliably what I want to do.  I - I - I can’t answer.  Can I think about it?  All reactions I look down on when she gives them.


I know that she likes to visit state parks and other places that feature nature.  For me, nature, schmature.  As I have said to her, lakes, trees, sky - I’ve seen them already.  Yes, we have had some fun times in parks, state, national and other.  But when she talks of a visit to one, I am pretty sure I hear a distinct sound of happy expectations.  They seem to settle on her naturally.  With me, it is the same old nature again: skunks, bears, mud.


But now, I am wondering if she is making a heroic and successful effort, one I have to learn.  Maybe she musters enthusiasm for a trip, a visit, a museum, an attraction only with effort and concentration and openness.  Maybe my normally grumpy, male, skeptical reaction is cowardly or lazy.  Maybe I should muster my strength, marshal my inner zest, manage my desires and set our course a little more often.


What do you think?  If you are a woman who reads this blog, I don’t need to hear from you.  I know you are going to take her side.  I know you are going to point out the man’s duty to care for a couple’s mutual adventures as much or more than the woman does.  I know you are going to say that of course I haven’t been doing my part and that such behavior is just what you always see from male partners.



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Bill
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Main web site: Kirbyvariety


Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Fwd: News: Brain Training eBook Offered At No Cost To Honor Brain Awareness Week

The day is coming when all mental and physical problems, complaints, and goals need to be checked for brain/mind relations.  Since humans' brains are essential to their bodies, their lives, their occupations, their social, emotional, political and spiritual lives, brains can touch on anything.  I paid $8 for this book but it is free today until Friday.  It is worth having and has good ideas as well as names and references for further learning. 

Bill

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From: SharpBrains <afernandez@sharpbrains.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:34 AM
Subject: News: Brain Training eBook Offered At No Cost To Honor Brain Awareness Week
To: olderkirby@gmail.com



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