Sic Vos non Vobis

founder/ceo amplifier.com & founder despair.com | interests: media, fam, names, twins, games, edwin armstrong, banking, & the strange history of charles ponzi.

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In Germany for premiere of LOOK & SEE @ Berlinale. Staying near Checkpoint Charlie.

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“Posthumous Oscar for Fitch.”

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Well we’re working here at Infocom And they’re shutting the DEC 20’s down Out in Menlo Park they write a report Fill out a form, see you in court. Well our founders didn’t see it at all. Had an office down at Faneuil Hall. Thought they’d get rich selling Cornerstone, Ed Reuteman, Tommy Smaldone. And we’re living here at Infocom, But our recent games were all a bomb. And it’s getting very hard to pay. And we’re waiting here at Infocom, For the public offering we never found. For the promises Al Vezza made, If we worked hard, if we behaved. So the Golden Floppies hang on the wall, But they never really helped us at all. No they never taught us what was neat, Graphics and sound, sizzling heat. And we’re waiting here at Infocom, For the latest Apple download from Tom, And they’re all supposed to ship today. Every tester had a pretty good shot, To become an Imp and earn a lot, But that was all before those Mountain View crooks, Started writing off good will on our books. Well I’m living here at Infocom, Even the rotisserie standings are glum, So I won’t be logging in today, And it’s getting very hard to pay, And we’re living here at Infocom.

http://web.mit.edu/6.933/www/Fall2000/infocom/infocom-paper.pdf

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Visit Original Link

http://kxwt.org/balmoreah-water-a-family-divides-over-water-sales-to-permian-basin/

This is awful...

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"Zionism is one of the success stories of the 20th century, but it has not properly addressed its religious core – 
specifically the Temple Mount, which can no longer be ignored. "

Thoughtful article from Haaretz that lenses Zionism from a completely unexpected perspective. 

According to Scholem, the renewed encounter with Hebrew and its innate sanctities was a “threat [that] confronts us [as] a necessary consequence of the Zionist undertaking ... Will its submerged religious power not erupt one day?... The revivers of the [Hebrew] language did not believe in the Day of Judgment, to which they destined us by their acts. May the recklessness which has set us on this apocalyptic path not bring about our perdition."

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We live in the Future...

Having personally endured this exact scenario with a Nest (including ripping the unit out) I can only say I'm glad I only bought one.

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"They expected the ending to be similar to a '[James] Bond' thing..with this mystery man, the hidden man, whatever they call him in 'Bond.'  And of course it wasn't about that it all, it was about the most evil human being, human essence, and that is ourselves.  It is within each of us,  that is the most dangerous thing on Earth is what is within us.  And therefore that is what I made Number 1, one's self, an image of himself, which is what he was trying to beat."

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“Buda made an agreement to buy water from underneath our next door neighbor,”

Texas' desalination plans cannot come soon enough.  http://kxan.com/2015/01/27/hays-county-well-owners-fight-aquifer-drilling/

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Belshazzar, by Johnny Cash

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The collapse of the Tower of Babel is perhaps the central urban myth. It is certainly the most disquieting. In Babylon, the great city that fascinated and horrified the Biblical writers, people of different races and languages, drawn together in pursuit of wealth, tried for the first time to live together - and failed.

Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum

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"What is faith? For most people it's the fear of death... nothing more than that. If that's all it is, it's very easy to lose."

Father James, "Calvary"

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At present we are confronted by a choice: either a mass civilization, technological, "conformist"--the "Brave New World" of Huxley, hell organized upon earth for the bodily comfort of everybody--or a different civilization, which we cannot yet describe because we do not know what it will be; it still has to be created consciously, by men... If we do not know what to choose, or, in other words, how to “make a revolution,” if we let ourselves drift along the stream of history, without knowing it, we shall have chosen the power of suicide, which is at the heart of the world.

Jacques Ellul,

The Presence of the Kingdom

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David Milch, creator of DEADWOOD, discusses God, Gold, Cancellation and Vanity.  (Skip to 6m 26s and keep watching.) What an interesting guy.

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If you can't express what you know in numbers, you don't know much about it; if you don't know much about it; you can't control it; if you can't control it, you're at the mercy of chance.

Dr. Mikel Harry

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In logistics, you don't get into logistics because you want to get your ego fed. You do not. It's real people doing real work, and you better have some appreciation for that person in Brookhaven Mississippi on August the 4th in 120° relative heat, who is loading that trailer. ...The number one predictor of success in your next job, when you went through their program, was how you scored on "judgement." Not "intelligence", not "organization", not anything else. Judgement was the #1 predictor of success. And I think in Logistics you have to make daily decisions, you have to have good judgement to make it all work and to keep it going.. Lastly, I think the reason a lot of people in logistics aren't moving up is because... I think logistics people underestimate how good they really are. There's not a buyer or merchant in the world who works for a retailer chain that underestimates their skills... But i think logistics people, for some reason I think it plays to us this humility and all of that, which I like... but we forget the fact that the logistics people have a lot to add. ...A buyer will buy some new socket set, and it's purple, and they'll have a 95% sell through rate, and we worship them, but really, when a distribution center runs an entire year and never has a trailer that sits on the lot more than 24 hours without being unloaded, nobody calls them and says "Great job!"

Lee Scott, Former CEO of Wal-Mart

http://www.dcvelocity.com/dcvtv/news/3497318985001/

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View overhead from a scull rowing on Town Lake in Austin

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The world is full o’ complainers. An’ the fact is, nothin’ comes with a guarantee. Now I don’t care if you’re the pope of Rome, President of the United States or Man of the Year; somethin’ can all go wrong. Now go on ahead, y’know, complain, tell your problems to your neighbor, ask for help, ‘n watch him fly. Now, in Russia, they got it mapped out so that everyone pulls for everyone else… that’s the theory, anyway. But what I know about is Texas, an’ down here… you’re on your own

Blood Simple.