What would you do?

 

Just as there will always be a few unpoppepd kernels in your bowl, there will be banditos along the trail.  Life tends to sprinkle an assortment across the landscape.   Good and bad, this and that, here and there, now and then.   Life is  like everyone’s parent, trying to keep things fair for everyone, although not always getting it right.

What we come across in our travels depends heavily on the path we choose.  Although, into the mix is chance and luck, which can be either good or bad. 

Assume for the moment, you always travel on the side of right and good, but then one day you pass a homeless man.  You feel bad, so you give him some money for food.

The homeless man is on the sidewalk, leaning against the local movie theatre, where the strong scent of hot buttered popcorn always torments him.  He takes his new found wealth into the theater and buys a large popcorn. 

He excitedly leaves the theatre munching the popcorn and in the process gets his fingers all greasy, but he doesn’t care.  He’s feeling pretty good, walking down the street with a little bounce in his step, still munching as he goes.  Suddenly an unpopped kernel cracks one of his teeth.  Great pain shoots through him and he grimaces in agony, crumpling again into a heap on the sidewalk.

Seeing this happen, do you go back to the homeless man and offer him a napkin to wipe his fingers?

 

 

ZC

Side note:

When I write silly things like this I feed it to AI just to see what it will say.  This time it didn't see my off-the-wall humor at all, but went into great explanation on how a napkin would not solve a dental problem.  Maybe I've been giving AI too much credit for catching on to my gibberish.

Authorized Personnel Only

 

Mixing solids with liquids sems to work.  My coffee maker is constructed of plastic, which is a solid.  In order to have it produce coffee I need to add water.  My car is made of metal and plastic and before it will move, I must add oil and gas, both are liquids.  Some tribes mixed water with dirt in order to build their houses.

On other planets, in the absence of water, a substitute liquid must be established, unless the behavior of  physics has been altered by the absence of gravity. 

The continuation of this line of thinking is going to require additional brain power, unfortunately I was issued the limited edition, so I cannot venture beyond this point.

 

 

 

 

ZC  

 

Occasional Nuggets

Washing over this blog you may come across an occasional nugget.  At the time, it may sound wise, or clever and you might even copy it and set it aside for safekeeping.  But here’s the thing…

It’s much like the slot machines in Vegas.  The majority of the time they simply gather revenue for the casino.  On that rare occasion it lights up and sounds its trumpets, those events should never be considered a win.  It is simply a cough or burp.  It is a natural function of being a slot machine.  It is just a bodily function of the inner workings.  (A little gas)

This Blog will never produce any winners.  Oh sure, you may hit upon an idea you’ve not thought of before, but trust me, it leads nowhere.  I should know, I’ve followed them across desolate paragraphs, through fields of wild nonsense and beneath cascading verbs, all splashing with action, only to trickle into a dry riverbed, all cracked and dusty. 

There is an old saying, but it doesn’t apply here so I’ll leave it out.  All you need to remember is, chicken soup never cured a chicken. 

 

ZC

 

There is a big difference between reverse engineering something and making something then trying to figure out a use for it.

Someone has made this.  They obviously put some thought into it.  It has been designed and formed and made quite substantial. 

I have researched the history books but have yet to find it anywhere.  It isn’t anything with moving parts, unless I only have part of it here.  It isn’t made of anything than can be sterilized, so I doubt it belongs to the medical community.  It is way too heavy to be a component on the space shuttle, and I doubt it fastens anywhere along my seatbelt.

It may come in other colors, but I just have this white one.  I can’t picture it holding sheet music or belonging to anything found within an orchestra pit.  It doesn’t make noise and if my test can be believed, it doesn’t float.

 It tastes like plastic and stands up to serious biting.  No teeth marks present. 

After the morning break, I'll run it through the open flame and combustion test.

ZC

Saturday Afternoon

 

Dear Lem,

 

Thanks again for letting me fish from your dock.  According to our deal, I was to give you half of everything I caught.  I have placed them in the large bucket by your back door.  As I wasn’t sure what kind of fish was what, I have left you all of their heads, so you’ll be able to tell what is what.  I only took the bodies and tails.  I don’t know if that even makes a difference, but I wanted to be fair.

 

Your Pal

 

Scooter

 

 

 

Observation #765

 

We drove past the Ford dealer yesterday and all I could see were trucks.  Not a single car in sight.  Is that all people are driving – trucks?  

Just what is it that everybody is hauling around?  Not everyone has a bale of hay they need to transport.  I don’t see all that many pianos going down the freeway.  So, what’s up with all the trucks? 

I know the advertisers throw around the term, cargo space.  So, where is all this cargo?  What is cargo?  A friend of mine has cargo pants.  I expect if they were in the back of a truck, they’d get blown out and be laying along the road somewhere.  I don’t recall seeing any pants along the road, just usually the one shoe.

 

 

 

 ZC

Something to think about

 

Gravity is actually a type of adhesive.  Although similar to the glue used on Post-it notes, it has many more applications and is known throughout the universe.

 

 

 zc