June 2016 Blog with Durk and Sandy

APPETIZERS In geological terms, [ ] it is fair to say that the next earthquake in Los Angeles has already started. Prediction moves from a science to an art when you realize that pre-incident indicators are actually part of the incident.  — Gavin de Becker (from his book Gift Of Fear, Dell Trade Paperback, 1997, pp. 104-105 … Read more

May 2016 Blog with Durk and Sandy

APPETIZERS The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing. — Ronnie Barker The modern geography of the brain has a deliciously antiquated feel to it — rather like a medieval map with the known world encircled by terra incognita where monsters roam. — David Bainbridge … Read more

April 2016 Blog with Durk and Sandy

APPETIZERS It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant. — James Watson, Nobel laureate co-discoverer with Francis Crick of the DNA double helix Gray hair is a blessing—ask any bald man. — Jerry Smith Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of … Read more

January 2016 Blog with Durk and Sandy

APPETIZERS STARTING 2016 WITH A LAUGH… BY LOOKING ON THE BRIGHT SIDE In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. —Yogi Berra Listen carefully to first criticisms of your work. Note what it is about your work the critics don’t like—then cultivate it. That’s the part of your work … Read more

December 2015 Blog with Durk and Sandy

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! APPETIZERS HOW DOES HE KNOW WHEN YOU’VE BEEN NAUGHTY OR NICE? You’d better watch out, You’d better not cry, You’d better not pout, I’m telling you why, Santa Claus is tapping Your phone. He’s bugging your room, He’s reading your mail, He’s keeping a file, And running a tail, Santa Claus is … Read more

December 2015 Blog with Durk and Sandy

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! APPETIZERS HOW DOES HE KNOW WHEN YOU’VE BEEN NAUGHTY OR NICE? You’d better watch out, You’d better not cry, You’d better not pout, I’m telling you why, Santa Claus is tapping Your phone. He’s bugging your room, He’s reading your mail, He’s keeping a file, And running a tail, Santa Claus is … Read more

November 2015 Blog with Durk and Sandy

APPETIZERS AI theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky coined Moore’s Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point. The task is … not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees. —Erwin Schrodinger … Read more