Trying a New PCP ...

I got a new PCP recently.

All she does is read questions off of some "Provider-approved" checklist.

At first I let myself believe that I was benefiting from some sort of empirical thoroughness.

By the third visit,I took in the posters she had on the walls. All of it was about the evils of various bad habits and recommendations on the frequency of various tests.

I realized that she considered all my answers to be complaints:

"Are you an early riser? Yes, I wake up before six every day, and I start a 3-mile walk at seven."

She changed my answers to whatever she wanted. I realized she had a black and white concept of everything, while I had more of a multidimensional sliding scale view of everything which one might say occasionally veers into synethesia.

She started adding "lifestyle" scoldings for someone who has habits opposite of what I already told her: She actually told me I should set an alarm clock so I wake up every morning. For what, 4:30?

Pretty much an evil robot.

My bones are made of rainbows ...

My bones are made of rainbows gathered each day at sunset throughout the world. I can split a cord of wood with a word. Once I drove through a national forest while singing along to the radio, and turned a whole ten square miles into a housing tract. New York socialites wear amber necklaces derived from my earwax, as a good luck talisman. I don't need a boat to waterski.

My heart is a V8 engine ...

My heart is a V8 engine that runs on plutonium. My liver generates more kilowatts than 10 acres of solar panels mounted on oil derricks. I am made of the particle that's faster than the speed of light. Higgs Bosun Particle Blast is my favorite breakfast cereal. I am a compulsive truth-teller. HEEE HEEE HEEE! I've already lived out the future and I'm going back to my favorite pasts. I'm calling Einstein a dummy, and he loves me for it. There isn't enough alphabet to write my bra size. What gets me in trouble is all the good I do. I bought the world a Coke, but I couldn't stick around, which is where the problems started.

My soul is a hurricane ... HEAR ME!

My soul is a hurricane roaring up the coast but threatened by my other soul, a giant asteroid, coming down on the hurricane like a flyswatter. I am a tsunami emanating from the impact of an asteroid that seemed to be chasing a hurricane, with a WILL! I am a brushfire that burns clouds, ignited by mist from the Hebrides, which could have been the angel's share of a store of casks of single-malt, ormaybe not. HERR HERR HERR! I am chasing crocodiles up the Nile with a magnifying glass and resurrecting the lighthouse at Alexandria. I am making icebergs collide in mid-air! It rains diamonds into the deepest part of the ocean! I am throwing gold at the sun! It is too late at night to wear pants. HEAR ME!

"Can You Be Taken Down As a Monopoly Just Bcs You're Super-Popular?"

I was reading about Eric Schmidt going before Congress in an quasi-anti-trust inquiry into Google's market status: Was it a monopoly? I thought: Well, it isn't charging for views, it's giving search away, and charging for ad space ... for advertisers to ride on that popularity.

About 2004, I noted that the cost of media ran 10x the cost of creative, in the advertising world. I don't know what it is today, or if it can be quantified.

About the same time, I paged through a copy of Rolling Stone while doing a project for a concepting seminar. The ads in the magazine weren't trying to sell much product -- they mostly asked people to join up -- in one case, to the Army, in another, to Yahoo. The trend was moving toward advertisers collecting subscribers to their own media channels, rather than selling directly from Rolling Stone.

But ads used to ride with content, as media was formerly framed. Now they ride with access to content. Then there's the idea, "If you aren't paying, then you are the commodity."

Abe Lincoln's Flatboat Days

conzatorium Connie Michener

In his flatboat days, Lincoln sometimes used the alias, "Samuel Clemens." #LincolnFacts

Blues Truism

conzatorium Connie Michener

[_____]ing so much will always make you feel like you've never [_____]ed at all. #BluesFacts

"My soul ..."

@conzatorium: My soul is an anvil, and my other soul is a swingin' hammer, and th'other one's my mouthharp I left on th'anvil. #BluesFacts

Blues & Physics

@conzatorium: "How blue can you get" challenges the EM/visible spectrum; is likely a key to resolving ray vs. particle theory. #BluesFacts

Remembering: Bigfoot Posse With Dick Cheney

Here Dick Cheney and Joy were poised to go on the hunt for Bigfoot! We put together a great group of hunters for that trip ... uhh ... uhh ... I wonder where those guys are today? Didn't find Bigfoot, but we had some good times!

Remembering: Double-dutching with Al Gore

Here Joy is double-dutching with Al Gore; Madeline Albright was one of the rope-swingers. We were singing "Iko-Iko." Unforgettable.

Mooshing th' TOC on Gravity's Crackers

Here is my ToC to date on Gravity's Crackers. As you can see, it's pretty broad-ranging, very "Renaissance Bearish" -- I had no idea before I laid it all out! Still some tightening up to do, but it's all fun!

(Oh, noes! Somehow it's all LIVE! Wow! One could ... ... and ... here in Blogger ... hold on ... okay ... I've killed all the fake links ...)

Contents.

Gravity’s Crackers 1

Does your country have the gravity? 1

Preface 5

Draft Manifesto of Truth Fighters 6

Rant of Bear 6

Transmissions from Chiron on the Night of Last Vermouth 7

The great simultaneity 8

Everyday miracles inhibit my living of life! 8

What is it like to play after the game is won? 9

slow-motion state of in extremis 9

Joy Bear, Naturalist 12

Every Time Bear of Eat Tiger 13

Throw-down: Jaws! 13

Churchill’s Parrot 13

Grunting the Giant Idaho Worm 14

Communique to Kinkistan: Giant Squids Taking California; Please to Send Assistance 15

The Banana Tree in the Room 15

baby sharks snuggle in wetsuit make chafe the hotspot 17

Commercial uses of wolf spiders; spider-swine DNA splicing possibilities. 17

Ms. Kinkyboots interviews me on genetic experimentation 18

Frankly, I don’t understand unicorns. 21

Dog Breed Theory of Intelligence Differentiation 22

On Sandcastles 22

Bad Day at the beach 23

Carbon Footprints in the Sand. 23

I consider economizing, but can't bear not throwing money away 23

“People do get bored with sex all the time, and look to TV for relief.” 23

Joy Bear, Inventor 24

The Fun Patent 24

VR Goggles 24

Machine of Perpetual Movings 27

Lab notes; interim report. 27

Hot air balloon; propulsion as jet thrust fire of derision 29

Bear Make of Space Shuttle 29

Redneck Shuttle 30

Boomerang of No Return 30

Wicker Bus Commission for Helena Handbasket & c. 31

Currently in Bear Shop: Black Pepper Fountain! 31

Joy Bear, Business Bear 32

Unique Venture Capital Invest Opportunity! 33

Bear Tell: Technological Advances and Mr. Bin Laden 33

Bear gives Miss Cupid Advice: Cocoa Bat Speculation. 34

Fast-track Dating Videos in the works 34

Joy Bear Cook Show! 35

Magic th Beaver Dustings 35

New Brainstorm Invention: Toy Retrieve 36

Reduction, or Elimination of Acrimony 37

In Search of the Rare Knickknack, “The Creaming of the Sugar” 38

Bear's Survey: Bear curious to know about YOU! 40

Bear invite you to UNBELIEVABLE RETURNS! 41

Joy Bear, Diplomat, Nation Builder, Statesbear 42

Does your country have the gravity? 43

My red white and blue hoodwinkling 43

Flexecution: Flexetarian, goofy-foot, quick-move the keretsu, short-order, just-in-time the process! 43

Grunion supply chain issue 44

Trading up the Nut Heirarchy 44

Of SAUCE and SOUP 44

Trade Negotiations Proposal the Kinkistan 45

Bear Envoy Kinkistan Nation Bails of America Outtings 45

Improvements of debating format for think-tank team: Hopscotch 47

What is Vice President Do? 47

Xbox-Boys Army 48

Bear not agree to integrate with humans, sorry. 48

USA Envoy Prepares Special Moon Day 49

Strategic Requirements 49

Bear Nation-building: Establish International Prizes 50

Yes, we have no blackout bananas 50

Is weep of commentary sadness of nation! 50

Bigfoot Posse 51

Search on to find Cupid Kinkyboots missing! 53

Joy Bear, Social Commentator, Innovator 54

FIRST FALSE RECURSION 55

From the Coalition Against Tuneless Whistling Files 55

... So many portents ... 56

RE: Friends are like potatoes 57

CAPTCHA Expertise 57

… perhapsing, of the also! 58

Cats cannot be vacuumed in this country, it is the Constitution! 58

Transmissions from the future reveal: future still the full of dumbass! 59

Happy to 50 Years Antarctica Treaty Hooray 59

Joy Bear, Celebrity Confidant 61

Bear and Cherrystone 62

My Relationship with Sasquatch 62

Bear Jealousing Bigfoot 63

One time I rent of cabin woods of Norway… 63

Miss Rachel 64

"hipster asses": Hmmm, of coming out of woodworkings! 64

Come around sometime, and fix my screens. 65

constant infest predators of invade, you bait place with Cheetos make predator borings of set hooks refill wall drillings 66

Aug 12 Madonna et I “Dear Diary” 66

Madonna et I of wood shop. 67

Joy and Al Gore Way of! 67

Sometimes Dame Judy Dench Come Over Bear Cave. 68

Chuck Norris’ Aqua Velva 69

Say of once, Fred Rogers tell me ... 69

Mother Chemical, Keating, and Cheney 69

----------------- Original Message ----------------- 69

WU WEI 69

Of Flying Gourds 70

... pop-culture-less refugee ... 71

How I Saved Myself from Certain Death when Pop-Rocks Tore Open my Stomach 71

On Lemon Pledge 72

Towing the Line 72

Contemptu Cat Manifesto! 73

Joy Bear, Foodie, Gourmand 75

Chipotle-existentialism 75

creamed tuna over toast is a SIN in my religion 75

Ginger snaps 75

Book of Picnic 76

Is make have picnic ... 76

Consumption contests FIRST and then spiritual bonding 77

National Waffle Association 77

Maybe Cook Ideas Before of Hatch: ‘Baby Eats’ Club 78

Hornet Chrispies 80

Off his crackers 80

Joy Bear, Action Advisor 84

Rush the gun arm from the side 84

Explanations. 85

On Questioning Existence 85

How many thought-particles make a thought 86

Q: i want to BE. 86

Never Put the Cheese on Early

Always remember, you can’t tamp it down after you put the cheese on, and also, don’t put the cheese on an uncooked side. You have to be done flipping before you put the cheese on.

We Have Nothing to Worry About but Worry Itself

I have just learned that GAD -- generalized anxiety disorder -- is the number one cause of disability in the workplace in the USA -- and only a minute after I first learned the term. These days, people are finally getting serious about the insidious implications of bullying(cite) and ostracizing.
I read with interest the Social Brain Hypothesis (1998) by Robin Dunbar. In it, he more or less gets down to stating that success of an individual is dependent on how well an individual can achieve a state of relatively low harassment.
Do you know the Tall Poppy Syndrome? Crab mentality?
Reverse Dominance Hierarchy, (1993) as outlined by Christopher Boehm, is not just the primate precursor to democratic systems but also is based on members "ganging up" on anyone who is perceived as attempting to dominate the group.
We have adopted society from lower animals -- it is relatively recently in our history that we switched from pure evolution, where the most forceful rapists and murderers win the evolutionary game -- to a more social evolution, where we put those people in jail, in favor of consensus agreements.
More and more, psychology is finding that good mental health is due through having a secure attachment, rather than an ambivalent, avoidant, or disorganized attachment. But only 55-65% of children have a secure attachment style, derived through an appropriate, loving relationship with a caregiver.
In smaller "society," such as family situations, we still see a degree of dominant strongman tactics being practiced.
But also, the projection of worry, rumination as a learned trait, hours of obsession over worries, and everyone still saying, "You worry too much," a criticism, rather than an assurance. A demand to deny worry, rather than addressing its root causes.
This kind of harassment, directly, and indirectly, through projected worry-focus, wreaks havoc on human potential.
Recently, someone was talking about motivation being a factor in intelligence measurement. Why, sure it is. How long do you try at something you simply don't understand? People check out; take a contrary attitude, wrap themselves in defenses for not knowing, appearing stupid; "No, I'm not stupid; this just doesn't interest me," people say -- it's not a scale of earnest trying; outside the circle of increasing reward for the correct answer are people apparently pursuing other interests, maybe harassing, or being harassed by, someone else.