I'm a strange cat, and love it. Normal straight-arrow types are simply so boring. I appear that way, to some, but in-reality...

Was reading about dysfunctional relationships again. Not that I particularly seek out the subject, but I do find it interesting to understand where relationships go right, and wrong. A pattern emerges, something I tend to gravitate toward, which to me indicates observer-bias (we seek what we find interesting, or some might say such stuff seeks us)....

Blondebearde's Pocket Observation Collection, Greek Euro Crisis (Ongoing)

2015/06/28: Last Entry in This Series, Late PM Sunday:

(Caveat: I am not advocating violence against property, or heaven forbid people! Period, end of story!)

But I can see where this Greek thing is going. It's been a busy weekend, and I'm watching with lurid interest since capital controls have been declared, with all the uncertainties and chaos that will cause as-yet to be determined....

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I occasionally wonder why I don't talk to the few good pals I had in college. "None of them," to be exact. Of my (non) inner-circle of pals, I see from LinkedIn some are doing quite well, others disappeared. About several in particular:

One is doing well, last I heard, as a professional geologist in the Los Angeles area. He was OK, and thought-same of me. We parted ways maybe twenty years ago on agreeable terms. So that's something. He's got a family and...

Now I'm in a bit of a mood today, and thinking on the Fermi Paradox. Short version, apocryphally attributed to a question posed by Enrico Fermi in the 1940s: "Where are they? Aliens, that is. If they are out there, we should have heard from them (or seen them) by now and in a grand fashion, given age of the universe and ability to cross interstellar distances given sufficient time!"

There does not appear to be much credible evidence for aliens here on Earth. If you disagree,...