Rare Logic versus the Monkey Mind

A few weeks ago, I was eagerly awaiting the arrival of a rare logic book for which critical pages were blocked out in Google Books. It arrived right after I read Anis Shivani's Huffington Post review of Decision Points, Bush’s memoirs, and all I could think of was the NLP machinations of the public monkey mind, and where would I ever be able to practice the rare and beautiful logic that I have been so intent on studying?

RE: How Did the Germanics Evolve on Atlantis?

Their spawn were stored in the lighthouse at Alexandria, which toppled into the sea during an earthquake/tsunami, tossing them northward across the Mediterranian (Middle Earth) Sea and into the Alps. There, a band of all-female Neantertals inhaled the material, and the very next thaw, their goats gave birth to geese. These geese flew together, further northward, and settled on a mudflat high upon what is now the English Channel. They roosted there for an inordinately long time, laying eggs that grew sixfold their size after laying (and before hatching). The Germanics came from those eggs. Soon enough a lady with a Dutch accent came by with a flyboat, which has a shallow draft such as not to get caught on flats, and picked up the Germanics. They stayed with her in her underfurnished cottage and learned how to pick out catchy blues-based tunes on some old string instruments her father had left with her.

RE: Why won't anyone get in my van?

Well, does it have good lighting and a nice bed? Do you offer candy, compliments, money, trips to nice places? DO YOU ASK? Really, do you really ASK them to get in the van, or are you just standing there with your foot on the guardrail post, with the van door open, staring alluringly? There are etiquette courses you can sign up for to help you, some offer videotaping, so you can watch yourself, and where you are making mistakes and losing opportunities. I believe I can help you. Feel free to contact me for a consultation.

"Heavy Snow:" Is it weighed?

Yes, but the scales are actually measuring force as well as mass. The snow falls onto the scale like a fastball into a pitcher's glove. Soft is light and fast is heavy. Then there is the mass of the flakes -- it differs, unlike the weight of a baseball, which is standard. This complicates it, which is why meteorologists are paid more than ball players.

Steps for rebirth

(To Yahoo Answers)

Becoming "reborn" is much better than becoming "reinvented," because all your sins are washed away. First, you have to slather yourself with some kind of goo, like body butter (try The Body Shop) an then pack yourself tightly into some sort of "womb." You'll need some help, and as for cleaning up, your best bet is to do it at the beach on a warm day. Get your friends to pack you in. You will know when you're ready to come out. You will feel both at one with the world and singularly yourself. You will have forgotten the past and be ready to face the future, grasping, as the infant does, all you need to yourself. Your will to be born will be an urgency of feeling that isn't nervous, isn't muscular, isn't mental, it will be a feeling coming from all your being. BE REBORN! Now go into the ocean and clean yourself up. Be refreshed! Get your friends to help you. They ought to be paying all their attention to you. They'll be a little annoyed, especially because you don't remember them, but this is about YOU!

My First Fax

The first fax I ever sent was to a DuPont office in Belgium, from the DuPont Louviers office in Newark, DE. I was a temporary purchasing clerk, and had a phone relationship with several suppliers. The fax was on behalf of a small machinery fabrication operation waiting on a significant payment. How could I help?
I asked a seasoned purchasing agent who handled the hard stuff. He told me to say that the Belgian non-payment was "affecting Louviers' ability to do business with" the supplier. He told me to sign my name and the name of the facility, but not bother with a title.
It was 1988 and faxing was relatively new. The Louviers office had a telex room with a dedicated operator, and had newly established a fax room with a dedicated operator! I troubled over how to indicate that the document was a fax, and then decided on the cool words, "Via FAX" on a line by itself. I typed up the letter, had the operator fax it to Belgium, and send a copy via USPS.
In a few days, the vendor called and said I had saved his company's Christmas.

Curators

RE: Rand's Blog, The Algorithm and the Cloud are Not Enough, 11/29/2010

“Opinionated, benevolent editors” is the way it’s going; ever since the Forrester report at the end of October that more people are getting on the web but content creation is flat, the term “curator” is popping up. The algorithm system, touted as the “virtuous circle,” really is me-too chatting up, that promotes the already-promoted, leaving other options of merit unnoticed. The curator is a promoter who can pick ‘em and knows how to release the kite into the social winds.