Draw

 

Don't you mean, Shoot?

Career Day

 

A person of interest was never on their list of possibilities.

An oversight?  Perhaps.

 

Forger.  A tributary sprouting from the advanced calligraphy course.

 

Embezzle Your Way to Retirement.  Prerequisite; Forgery 101 and 102. Accounting Basics & Juggling.

 

Politics: Spin Class, Posing and Glad-handing, Truth Avoidance for Beginners, and Syntax Made Confusing.

 

Hack Your Way to Riches: Using area codes to your advantage.  Your Telephone Presence.  Seniors – Using their poor vision and bad hearing for fun and profit.

 

Arsonist: (Instructor has not yet been released)

 

 

 

Principal’s Welcome Letter

(From the Desk of Dr. Plimpton W. Greeble, Interim Principal, Acting Deputy of Interim Affairs)

Dear Students, Families, and Concerned Bystanders,

Welcome to another inspiring Career Day at Greeble Institute for the Creatively Misguided, where we believe every child deserves a future — even if that future is best described as “legally inadvisable.”

This year’s catalog reflects our commitment to real‑world readiness. While other schools cling to outdated notions like “ethics,” “integrity,” and “not setting things on fire,” we prepare our students for the world as it actually is.

Our Forgery Program continues to flourish, thanks to the generous donation of a vintage check‑signing machine from an unnamed local bank. The Embezzlement Track has doubled in enrollment since we added beanbag chairs and a course called Retirement: Why Wait? Meanwhile, our Political Sciences Department remains a beacon of confusion, producing graduates who can speak for thirty uninterrupted minutes without conveying a single fact.

We are especially proud of our Hack Your Way to Riches initiative, which teaches students to use area codes strategically — a skill that has already resulted in three internships and one ongoing investigation. And of course, our Arsonist Program remains on hiatus until the instructor is released, though we continue to receive postcards from him, each one singed around the edges.

Please enjoy today’s presentations, and remember: Every career begins with a spark. Some sparks are just… more literal than others.

Warm regards, Dr. Plimpton W. Greeble Interim Principal Greeble Institute for the Creatively Misguided.

 

 

ZC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Be Prepared

 

Out in the margins is where I have discovered AI’s weak spot.  I can write something completely moronic, totally gibberish and then feed it to AI.  There are times when it goes to great lengths to explain where my thinking has run amuck.   

It’s like there is a sarcasm blind spot.  Not sure yet how that could affect future events, but I expect it will.

 

 

    ZC

They are all Placebos

 

    Still had this here, so why not?

It is the Glitch that is Unidentified

 

I find it odd how all of our camera technology has the same glitch.  An automobile license place can be photographed from a satellite in space, while our most advanced cameras here on Earth cannot take a clear photograph of a passing UFO. 

They are forever blurry, or somehow obscured.  How is that possible.  Is it perhaps alien technology that focuses bad Juju on our cameras?  Could they be that advanced?

 

 

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The short answer: no “bad juju beams,” no alien sabotage required — the blur comes from us, not them. But the fun answer is that your theory fits beautifully into the strange physics of how humans photograph the extraordinary.

🎯 The real reason UFOs always look blurry

The key is this: satellites and Earth‑based cameras operate under totally different conditions. And UFO sightings happen under the worst possible photographic conditions.

1. Satellite_imaging is predictable

Satellites photograph stationary or slow‑moving objects with known coordinates, stable lighting, and long exposure times. They’re built for clarity, not surprise.

2. UFO_sightings are unpredictable

Every blurry UFO photo has the same ingredients:

• Sudden appearance
• High contrast (bright object, dark sky)
• No reference points
• Unknown motion
• Human adrenaline
• A camera set for normal life, not “cosmic visitor at 3,000 mph”

Your hands shake. Your autofocus panics. Your exposure settings are wrong. Your brain screams “GET IT!” and your thumb leaps into the frame.

This is why lions, racecars, and wedding dresses look crisp — they behave in ways cameras expect.

UFOs do not.

🛸 Could aliens be jamming our cameras?

Here’s the fun speculative angle — the one you’re hinting at.

If a civilization can cross interstellar distances, then yes, they could easily:

• Disrupt_electromagnetic_sensors
• Manipulate_light_signatures
• Use_cloaking_tech
• Confuse_autofocus_systems

Not malicious “bad juju,” but simply protective stealth — the same way we jam radar or scramble signals.

If you’re flying around a primitive species (that’s us), you might not want them to get a crystal‑clear photo of your craft’s engineering.

It’s not hostile. It’s just… smart.

🌌 The mythic explanation — the one I suspect you enjoy

There’s an old cosmic rumor:

Extraordinary things refuse to be photographed clearly because clarity is a form of capture. The universe protects its mysteries by blurring them at the edges.

In this version, UFOs aren’t hiding from us — they’re protecting the boundary between the ordinary and the wondrous.

A lion can be photographed. A wedding dress can be photographed. A racetrack finish line can be photographed.

But a visitor from somewhere else? The universe keeps that one soft around the edges.

 

 

 

 ZC

 

 

 

 

As Prescribed

 

in the dark

 

There is a room within my brain where the lights have never come on.  I doubt it has ever been dusted.  And yes, I know what is in there, it’s everything I don’t know.  It is all the information and answers that have remained in the dark. 

There isn’t a combination lock to deal with or some intricate cypher to figure out.  There is just a key.  Most people are given the key at an early age.  I was not.  It has been my lot in life to stumble and to grope about, learning what, I’m not sure.  

This Blog and these posts are the breadcrumbs I have dropped along the way.  There haven’t been many straight lines and much has been uphill.  What has helped me has been my ability to see people as they are.  I do not have the gift of gab, even though the length of this Blog may suggest otherwise. 

I should mention here that even though I identified them as breadcrumbs, some may be from doughnuts.  Just thought I’d clarify that.

 

 

 

 

 ZC