No eches tus perlas a los cerdos | Jordan Peterson

Growing up: 7, 8, and 9 months.

Goodbye to the Yellow Man.

Time for a change.
We didn't know it for sure just yet, but this year's "Bring Your Child to Work" gathering of April 27 was the last one. We suspected it. Later that day I had lunch with my buddy Claudio discussing the eventual closure. The writing had been on the wall, for a long, long time. About a week later, on Tuesday May 9, the doors closed.

The April 2000 book The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L Friedman quotes a Far Eastern Economic Review(Sept. 2, 1999)article on the Manila call center taking 10-12,000 daily calls, each rep making less each day than a rep state-side can make in an hour. Yet, that overseas rep is still making about 35% above the going wage in Manila.

Reading The Lexus enabled me to handle it even more positively; you would think after a decade, this would be a difficult parting of ways. Management responded to the market, and eased us out with much forethought. We were hand-held through the transistion with a placement company which made it a lot easier to pound the pavement after these ten-plus years. More power to our global counterparts, be it in Manila, India, So. Africa, Mexico, Ireland, or wherver the market calls.

Today, Sunday June 18th, 2006 I read from the Associate Press an article by Ramola Talwar Badam entitled: New Indian curriculum: Speak up, be direct, assertive "They're teaching everybody to talk back and to be aggressive - that's not a piece of Indian culture...Indian workers are polite to a fault." Not me.

Tomorrow, Monday, is the first day of my new job. A global-banking company with close to 1/4 million employees and 110 million customers. Time for a change.

Sophia's First Recital...

Sophia's First Recital, is a tantalizing, hypnotizing and eloquent affirmation of existence at its purest.

Wouldn't you agree?

Neonovo

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TO: Harper's Weekly
FROM: Sara

Did you hear that? The sound of Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad rattling his sword for the folks at home. His
fundamentalist policies weren't playing so well, poll
numbers were down, so now he just bashes America (his
numbers have since soared). And did you hear that? Bush is
jumping for the bait, knowing that invading a second
Muslim nation will impress his core constituency as
well. This time, he doesn't have to make up stories about
weapons of mass destruction, because his new fight is with
a nuclearized loudmouth who'll do anything to give Bush a
black eye.

Which brings me to that other thing you hear in the
background: World War III, and Bush's core voters singing
their approval. In case you didn't know, they've all been
raised on tales of the world ending any day now, as the
result of a war in the Middle East. Ever stood at a book
stall and thumbed through Tim LaHaye's popular "Left
Behind," or Todd Strandberg's "Are You Rapture Ready?" or
Hal Lindsay's classic "The Late Great Planet Earth"? You
should. According to these Bush-favored texts, nukes rain
on the Arabs, God roasts the Blue-state voters, and
Evangelical Christians float up to heaven just before
things get nasty. Imagine that. Walking around believing
God wants you to start wars, but since you're a favored
person, you'll not have to endure what you've
started. Ever wonder why Bush is so strangely upbeat about
the war in Iraq, despite daily, unrelenting bloodshed? Now
you know. For Bush, the only thing wrong with the battle
is that it's not a firestorm of Biblical proportions. If
we allow him to drag Iran into it, he'll get his wish.

Carbon Monoxide

Human life (all life actually) has evolved from a few - like 4 or 5 - single celled organisms, which have organized cooperatively to form the human body (along with everything else organic).

This evolutions started around 3 billion years ago. For the first 2.9 Billion years there were only single cell organisms that occupied themselves with making the planet habitable for living things.

Mother Nature nurtured the atmosphere by taking carbon out of it for 2.9 billion years, and replacing it with oxygen. Humans are trying to PUT IT ALL BACK in a few hundred.

Lifted FROM: T. F. Kelley

Iraq's 3rd Anniversary...

On this, the third anniversary of the launch of Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq by way of whoring the tragedy of Sept. 11 for his cronies' appalling gain, here is what you might not know...

José Asunción Silva's MIDNIGHT DREAMS

I read MIDNIGHT DREAMS, and the force impelled me to translate it. Its original can be found in many places, like here.

MIDNIGHT DREAMS
José Asunción Silva

Last night, being alone and nearly asleep,
my dreams from yesteryear, enveloped me completely

Dreams of hope, of glory, of happiness
and felicities that never were quite mine

they approached me in processions, so slow
and of the darken bedroom, in every corner settled

a grave silence descended and filled the entire quarter
and in the clock its pendulum, stopped the very moment.

The undecided fragrance of a forgotten smell,
like a phantom appeared, and spoke to me of the past.

faces long ago, absconded, by the tomb
and from the distance voices, heard where? I do no longer know

The dreams came close to me, and they saw me asleep,
and then they took their leave, retreating soundlessly

of the silken threads, tracking none, on the carpet woven
they came undone, into the shadows sinking.