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Comment on Hiatus by r

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 11:40:23 +0000

Having seen too many FB-related court cases, I avoid it, and last week’s fraudulent Twitter-generated stock market crash demonstrates its lack-of-value. Hatzlachah (luck) with your growing business. Happy Lag B’Omer! Tonight’s bonfire night.

Comment on Gack…hacked. by frish

frish — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:23:33 +0000

Since we spoke about your blog just this week, and now here is a post after a long hiatus, I believe we’ve just experienced a “Frishbergism”, a word my father created (circa 1948).

A Frishbergism is characterized by hearing a new word or concept one day, and then hearing/seeing that word/concept not many days later.

It’s not coincidence/serendipity/chance, and, perhaps the word itself, Frishbergism, will prompt some to find the word Frishberg in the not distant future…

I believe what happens is that we’re surrounded by words all the time, and when one catches our attention as ‘new’ it really was there around us before we paid attention, and then we are sensitized to it and register it consciously…

I know, kinda deep for this early in the morning, but everyone has experienced it, and now can put a word to the experience!

Comment on Gack…hacked. by Laura Spiegel

Laura Spiegel — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:11:51 +0000

Thank you, Janet! This is very useful information.

Comment on Gulf oil crisis by Allan McDowall

Allan McDowall — Thu, 17 May 2012 06:51:30 +0000

Janet & Al – Now it is nearly June 2012, The sea has eaten the oil, as it always does, eventually – because it is a natural substance – it has not been interfered with into a chemical by man.
I do no know how BP plugged the hole, but it would have been by the lowering of a massive jacket and the injection of heavy mud ( bentonite ). The problem was that the original drill pipe had blown out and buckled, as previously described, making the job of getting at the hole more difficult.
No doubt somewhere there is a description of exactly how BP managed to plug the hole. I will try and find out, assuming that it is now long enough ago not to be a secret any more.
Before one screams at these people, it is worth remembering a few things.
First, most of the oil that remains untapped is under the oceans. Secondly, perversely, when something begins to run out, many people try to use as much as they can, so as to get more than other people ( Jeremy Clarkson et al ).
thirdly, There is a massive commercial demand for oil products – not just gasoline & gasoil, but plastics – so many things. That means there is also a serious political need for oil also – the political party that squeezes down on oil is less likely to get the votes.
Thinking green, conservation, managing our numbers, our food and water supplies, and our currencies are still based on the pig / trough principle. The actual resources do not change. the people still have the same brains and muscles. Whilst there were plenty of strong,less fortunate people living sparsely on land on & under which were raw materials and crops gave entrepreneurs huge opportunities to profit from their fellows – you and me. Now there are far fewer, and capitalism exists on the basis that you pass the ball of loss to make your profit, down the line, until it reaches the poor wretches at the bottom who have no-one to pass it on to.
I put it to you that mediaeval economics don’t actually work hugely well when the poor and the rich have the same currency – the poor cannot possibly keep up with the rich. It is not a question of not working hard enough – it is a question of passing the financial inefficiencies on down the line. As to the bankers, that is an international cartel, who take because they can – actually, the money belongs to their customers and their shareholders. But as long as they agree internationally that they will behave like that, they do. Consider. The Head of the British Army gets in the order of £500,000 / yr. The Prime Minister gets £140,000 / year. Bob Diamond of Barclays gets £25,000,000 / yr – roughly. So does that mean that the Prime Minister is less worth than Mr. Diamond by a factor of 25 m’n to 0.14 m’n ? ( 178 :1 ? Should we perhaps dragoon Mr. Diamond into No. 10 Downing Street ? Looked at like that, it is quite ludicrous – we should wake up.
Darwin is right – the fittest survive – but in the long run, the fittest ‘ group ‘, not individual – and that means keeping all the members of that group fit, or as many as possible. So we need to divide the resources between us, not grab piles fro a few – simply because when you are on top of a pile, the only way to go is down.

Comment on “Mom, what do you want for Mother’s Day?” by Janet Wendy Spiegel

Janet Wendy Spiegel — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:37:46 +0000

Jen & Allan – you are both well-intentioned. My daughter & I have a joyful, love-filled relationship. We are very close, spend lots of time together, & so I can see that the intention of light-hearted cuteness didn’t come through in my post. It is always great to have reminders that love, intention & quality of relationship are what is important. P.S. Coffee mug update: Much as I’m attached to the memories associated with the making of said mug, my daughter thinks that idea is lame & is figuring it out herself. Apparently, I just have to drive.

Comment on “Mom, what do you want for Mother’s Day?” by Jen

Jen — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:29:25 +0000

@Allan. You have a huge amount of guilt to deal with there. But don’t project it onto other people. Her daughter wants to give her a gift. The gift symbolizes love. I am sure the Great Spirit, male that he apparently is, approves of symbols of love.

As to the gift, I think your daughter should buy what she wants to give you to symbolize your relationship as mother/daughter. It is her gift to you. Not your gift to you paid for by her.

To not know what to give you is to either not know you well enough which means you have lost some closeness or to not want to bother to put the thought and time into findnig the gift which means your relationship have lost some meaning.

“It is the thought that counts”

Comment on “Mom, what do you want for Mother’s Day?” by Allan McDowall

Allan McDowall — Thu, 10 May 2012 08:21:08 +0000

Dear Janet – I’m a lousy Dad – Spent my entire life hunter-gathering for the brood. So, I think the most important thing for Mother’s day ( and father’s day ) is that your girl gives you some of that thing which is most precious to her – and to you – and that is some real, lasting, quality time. That you each devote the entire 24 hours quietly celebrating the delicious friendship you should have, which in your case I am sure you have; ( and which in my case is totally on hold because mine grieve for their step-mother, whom they adored, and blame me for her death – which was the actuality of the Great Spirit gathering in His very own — ) so, you DO things together, it has nothing to do with gifts – gifts are a form of down-payment, relationships should be based on shared values, shared happiness, shared hopes, shared gratitude for the amazing experience of being here and having each other. So, a lovely, loving, friendship time. Remembering that true love is really a magic pudding – no matter how much you give, the pudding remains whole, indeed even grows – now there is a true miracle. Yours, Allan & Helen

Comment on Goat Rodeo Sessions …live by Janet Wendy Spiegel

Janet Wendy Spiegel — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:33:12 +0000

We did go the live event. Lots of fun. An intimate way to attend a concert from many miles away. The marketing of the event wasn’t great, as the theater was probably less than a 1/4 full. An amazing group of musicians.

Comment on New Year’s Resolutions….there’s an app for that. by Janet Wendy Spiegel

Janet Wendy Spiegel — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:21:44 +0000

Allan & R: Life is a precious gift & maybe we do need apps to remind us of those things, life honoring every day, and doing our parts to better the world!

Comment on New Year’s Resolutions….there’s an app for that. by R

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:29:08 +0000

We made our resolutions back on Rosh Hashanah. Don’t need an app for that, but to do justice, seek mercy and walk humbly in the path of HaShem.