What are your favorite emojis?
Emojis are intrinsically confusing, at least once you are past a certain age.
I tend to use three “favorites” without a clear understanding of what it is they represent. 😕 😞 😌 Sigh 😕 😔 😪 😞 😑 😢 😕 [see what I mean. All this came up when I typed that one 4-letter word.
My preferred sign-off emojis are: 😇 🙃🧐
The colors are muted on this bleak day.
The canopy of green is just emerging, sort of all of a sudden.
Walking past favorite haunts feels different in the light of a grayish day.
Aging pandas
Talking plants
Yolk-based paints
Stressed lizards
Mexico is home to a 33-year-old panda named Xin-Xin, who was born by artificial insemination.
It appears that plants respond to life events by making sounds. There is no evidence that they have actually developed a language.
The egg yolk found in your da Vinci is not accidental. Painters seemed to have used it to “stretch” the life of expensive paints.
Living near a noisy military base has made these lizards nervous.
Passing on knowledge gives, I think information an added value!
While chat bots are unreliable, or potentially divisive, partners in conversation, A.I. technology can be very helpful for our physical well-being.
Apparently, there’s a “nanobot” that will clean plaque from your arteries. The quotes are in place because I am excited and ignorant of the “device” or assistance to which we refer.
My lack of knowledge about medical applications notwithstanding, clearly A.I. can find ways to improve our health outcomes.
As it appears, chatBots are as likely to hold partisan views as any of your neighbors.
They are also as unlikely to change their minds or be dissuaded from a belief.
Don’t look at a discussion with a Bot as a practice run at softening political discourse.
Your politicized A.I. buddy has a case of hardening of opinions.
What is one word that describes you?
this blog… The Best.
I am, as are you, the best [make that a capital B] me that I can be.
What is the last thing you learned?
The last or the most recent?
I take an unexpected comfort in learning that cussing is good for us humans and our relatives the chimps.
Although when put the way I just did it sounds ridiculous. NatGeo put it more elegantly in this headline:
Swearing Is Good For You—And Chimps Do It, Too
National Geographic
It’s always welcoming. And very welcome. It is, as you might have surmised, a good cup of coffee.
The where in this case? Turns out to be a small quirky shop on Lexington. Not just quirky but with a quirky name.
Peaky Barista turns out to be a 3 location family-owned mini-chain about town.
The name apparently connects to the caps on display (and for sale). I always associated them with cab drivers back in the day.
Maybe I will wear one from my own collection of peaked caps on a future visit.
Today two presidents are in my thoughts. Both represent the good perhaps even best impulses of our country.
Biden’s campaign motto to Build Back Better has been followed by a campaign to restore the nation’s infrastructure.
Today, President Biden joined Ukraine’s President Zelensky in a significant moment of solidarity.
He showed the Ukrainians our support for democracy by showing up in Kyiv this morning.
The other United States President in my thoughts is Jimmy Carter. He’s a gentleman who has literally been building America for some time through Habitat for Humanity.
This year Presidents Day is theirs!
Is it geography or ethnicity or the foods we ate as youngsters that define us? Does our race or the habits of our family make us who we are?
As Americans, we have the propensity to redefine ourselves. This is a good.
The trait that allows us to rise above and beyond our expectations is just that one.
Things, our personal history, the circumstances that surround us, can be changed by perseverance. We can apply will and hope wherever it is needed.
We can find who we are. We are not defined by who you think we are.
That makes us unstoppable.
All The Best