Not surprised: This has been thought of before. If electric cars have a limited range, why not be able to pick up recharged batteries as you drive? Swap ’em like tanks for gas grills. Freshcreation.com has a post, including a neat video of how electric car battery exchanges could work.
“Be here now” is familiar spiritual advice. To live in the timeless present is to be one with the One, to know God … or at least have a simpler, happier life. Ah, there’s always the rub of intention. Can’t try, can’t think, can’t conceptualize your way to true nowness. Indeed, if you overthink “here” Read More …
The first inspiration: If a catbox could be made to shake, would it automatically cover the crap? Common sense says, heavy stuff falls right? So the litter, as it’s thrown side to side, would fly on top, and, presto, Sea of Tranquility. Makes for a funny image (which I’d draw if I had time) of Read More …
But Circular Reasoning 2 wasn’t quite right, I thought, because hands aren’t part of the inner loops. So how to convey a tortured soul whose mind was spinning in circles. Like this loopy intuitive result. Hope I’m not spoiling it by talking about it. Feel free to use these cartoons, by the way … as long Read More …
But the thought balloon version of “Circular Reasoning 1” doesn’t quite express how much we torture our thoughts and ourselves to get our ideas of ourselves to fit. Here’s a second attempt. A lot of logic is circular. Say I’m mean to people who I think are mean to me. That makes them upset, which lets Read More …
I wanted to illustrate the illusion of self-concept. Are we who we imagine ourselves to be? Especially if we’re imagining ourselves imagining ourselves? And what if it doesn’t stop there?
Boredom is peace with an edge. “All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone,” wrote Blaise Pascal in Pensees. What keeps people from truly being in touch with their deepest selves is that feeling we call boredom. But don’t avoid it. Embrace it. Wait. That edge of fear, disgust or pain that Read More …
we’ve have more to go around.
I don’t understand why I get spam with so many misspelled words. Just add a spellchecker and kick out the messages with the most misspelled words. C’mon, it can’t be that sticking numbers in words makes them spellcheck-proof. That seems fixable. Seriously, how does this crap get through? C ANA1DIAN PH A5RMACY SPE3CIAL V8I AG8R Read More …
Wh y nto? Veryting ese hass a da.
I wrote these lyrics some time ago and I don’t know why. So, yes, certainly, somebody feel free, if you agree, to steal these lyrics and turn them into a song. It’s only love, don’t you care … Just ordinary, boring love … It’s only love, for those who dare feel ordinary, boring love Sure Read More …
This isn’t an idea, it’s a plea. Anybody out there ever hear of an X Swami X who spoke at UCLA back in the early ’70s? Of course, I’m contacting UCLA as well. But this guy was a riot. Profane but profound. The guru of the blue view. Took “Make Love Not War” right to Read More …
You know why pilot Frank didn’t see a wedding ring on the hand of the waterlogged pilot’s corpse? Because the body will turn out to be Frank’s. On Thursday’s show, the freighter captain shows Sayid and Desmond the black box flight recorder from the bottom-of-the-sea wreckage of Oceanic Flight 815 and says someone went to a lot of trouble to fill Read More …
How could I have overlooked photographorisms? These would be pictures that illustrate sayings. Like a penny going into a piggy back be a photographisms for “A penny saved is a penny earned.” Except it’s not exactly as snappy, is it? Hmmm. True photographisms would be more than a picture, they’d precisely communicate a thought. And Read More …
“Saw” this idea while walking in Philadelphia. Man was using a cane. But for some reason I got this image of a combo cane and baseball bat. Probably because a hint of spring was in the air, and I was thinking, wouldn’t it be nice to play a little baseball? Then, I thought, could also Read More …