The blue roads of thinking

Random thoughts on the blue highways.
You never know what you will find on the blue highways. Particularly when the choice at an intersection is controlled by the roll of a die. About the only rule is that highway onramps don't count as an intersection. You don't even have to roll the die. If one road looks interesting, go for it.

Thursday, December 31, 2020

Fortune Cookies

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 All time fortune cookie: The great pleasure in life  is doing what people say you cannot do.  Fortune cookie of the week: A person ...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Sprichwörter

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 My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes and oh, my friends-- It gives a lovely light. Edna St. Vinc...
Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Memorable Quotes

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“Slow up!  I don’t ‘believe’ in anything.  I know certain things—little things, not the Nine Billion Names of God—from experience.  But I ha...
Monday, December 28, 2020

Elegies

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The road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began Now far ahead the road has gone Let others follow it who can! Let them a ...
Sunday, November 29, 2020

Blackie and the Belt Drive Pulley

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Somewhere, lost on a floppy, is the contemporaneous recount of this story.  It is too good to be lost. Doing my best to recreate it here.   ...
Thursday, November 26, 2020

Heinlein’s Unusually Competent Women

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 Heinlein’s Juveniles appealed to me in my youth because of the “unrealistically” competent female women. I was raised by a family of extrem...
Saturday, November 7, 2020

Paranormal collection post

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Psychokinesis or telekinesis is a barely useful feature of some young people and the forces it can e x ert are minuscule. As a result it atr...
Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Customer service stories

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 Reminds me of an unpaid phone bill a long time ago when I was cross country courting and a phone at my new address was not being installed ...
Sunday, November 1, 2020

Only a Child Can Do It.

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 Practically everyone over fifty hated the old math and does it poorly and inaccurately without a calculator.  Because of the way they learn...
Saturday, July 4, 2020

Post Office Banking

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From Bernie Sanders first POTUS campaign:   I have sponsored legislation to let the Postal Service find innovative new ways to shore up it...
Friday, May 8, 2020

Rocket Science

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When I was early in my rocket science career I was asked to design a sounding rocket with certain mission characteristics by the boss a...
Thursday, April 9, 2020

Raising all boats

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The trickle UP economy is the only one that raises all boats the littlest ones the fastest
Friday, January 10, 2020

Unexpected Dining Excellence

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I lived 23 years in New York and eating out was our favorite luxury as we both had demanding careers.  So too many elaborate meals to count ...
Monday, December 9, 2019

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Many pixels have been expended debating the ‘best’ order in which to read what have come to be known as the Vorkosigan Books, the Vorkosive...
Saturday, November 30, 2019

On Risk Taking and Dying

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It must be assumed that anyone visiting dangerous places or doing anything life threatening at such places knows and accepts the risk of doi...
Monday, September 30, 2019

Stonekettle: Time of Danger

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Stonekettle Station Danger Close Posted:  30 Sep 2019 09:03 AM PDT Representative Denny Heck (D-WA) : "Is it okay for a p...
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Friday, September 13, 2019

UBI not Reparations

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 Those who really deserve reparations and their communities will benefit the most from UBI outside income, since most who deserve reparation...

Ten Most Influential Books

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 I’ll try to limit to 10  Steinbeck: The Red Pony. (My first gift book. 5 yr. birthday) Grapes of Wrath East of Eden  Heinlein...
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J'Carlin
Silicon Valley, CA, United States
Don't look for me much on the big news sites, I skim through them, but rarely find much that is worth commenting on. As a young son once said "We don't watch TV news, dad won't let us watch violence programs." I still don't. Interests are religion, marketing theory (that is not an oxymoron,) Advertizing, digital photography, APOD, and historically, rocket science. e-mail: jcarlinbl@gmail.com The literary version is found at Thinking On the Blue Roads The raw data for which can be found on The Blue Roads of Thinking.
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