The Happy Moron

Your data no longer expires when you close your account.
Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has a response on the facebook blog:
“In reality, we wouldn’t share your information in a way you wouldn’t want. The trust you place in us as a safe place to share information is the most important part of what makes Facebook work. [...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_gestures

memes.
Where does it come from?
Why is it so strong?
Ps 139
It frightens us.
Knowledge as power over us?
the dangers of misunderstanding things, misunderstanding ourselves

In the last installment, I was left wondering why recipes have rules rules above and beyond normal English language rules. What is so special about a recipe?
If I want to talk about onions, I should be able to talk about onions! Recipes only allow me to talk about onions if I list them in the [...]

Brokenness manifests itself in the strangest of ways.
I don’t think there’s any length people have not gone to, driven by brokenness. No decision too irrational, no fear too paranoid, no action too evil, no cry so desperate…
Fourteen children will not keep you from being lonely. Keep you from having any spare time, perhaps.

my mini-molehill
may mask a mighty mountain…
maybe I’ll manage

fight uncertainty
stare down the eyes of chaos
banish fear and doubt

a river flows on
which none may dam or channel
time waits for no man
not to distract from the poem….
‘inexorable’ is a marvellous word.
‘in’ – negation
‘ex’ – out, outside
‘ora’ – spoken, prayed
‘able’ – possible
exorable – something which can be prayed out, successfully appealed against
inexorable – something which is impervious to prayer or appeal

What does a good banker look like?
It’s always so difficult to look at tainted jobs (banking, politics, soldiering, law, corporate management) and envision a different way, a better way. When someone lives out a better way, it’s worth paying attention.