Who's Next?

They first bailed out the mortgage lenders
And I didn't speak up, because I had a mortgage
And then they bailed out the banks
And I didn't speak up, because I had an account
And then they bailed out the auto makers
And I didn't speak up, because I had a car
And then...

Pulling up and Pulling over

Saturday I volunteered at the Snohomish County History Museum, pulling up carpet in their new building to help get ready for their collection to move in. Carpet glue is tough stuff - we had times where five people with tools were making only inches of progress a minute pulling up a strip only about three feet wide. Luckily, only one room was that bad.

On the way back from pulling up carpet I pulled over at the site of an auto accident. The odd thing is that I never really considered whether to pull over or not - I just hit my hazards and pulled onto the shoulder. It wasn't until afterwards that I reasoned why I did - usually I don't pull over - that somehow the glances of twisted metal, person apparently caring for a victim, and lack of medics on scene got through to my sub-conscious as a gestalt without involving my conscious. I guess I'm better trained than I thought.

On the inside looking from the outside

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So much for intelligence

So, while 79% of SPEEA's professional unit are fools, only 69% of the technical unit are. So much for superior intelligence being a survival trait.

Well, it is official. No contested matter I voted on in November came out the way I voted. OTOH, my predictions of the outcomes were very highly accurate.

Maybe I can get a job as a seer. There doesn't seem to be much future in being an engineer.

Of course, I'm not sure there's much future in being a citizen of the United States.

If you didn't know I was an engineer, what job would you think I had?

What happened to change?

I see a cabinet full of Washington insiders, salted with a few people from the current despised, awful, evil administration.

But fear not! The UN Ambassador will now be a cabinet post, because talking to a bunch of kleptocrats, dictators, and theocrats is never a waste of time. We need to work with the UN and its International Panel on Climate Creativity, rather than focus on the 10% of the world's nations that actually have the ability to do things beyond survive at the sufference of the major powers.