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Archives for August 2021

It should be obvious. It’s easy. Just do it.

Stupidity is free…so is aware, inquiring intelligence.

The cost of “knowing what I think” is often a self-satisfying feeling immersed in a sauce of limited knowledge.

Better to ponder than scream yonder.

And then, in the end, they will come to you.

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A knock at the door, a scrawny adult and a bag.

Someone introduces themselves as our new neighbour.

Three hours and some drinks later we seem like great long-time friends.

A surprise and a fine result.

Oh, and, welcome to the neighborhood!

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The aroma of velocity.

How many flavors in a dimension?

More in the fourth?

Variety and variability in the fifth?

We move wafting past lavender and sage.

Faster or slower, it’s like a tone control.

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Underperform or overperform.

Not always obvious.

Your 1999 Aston Martin may have overperformed that day on the Sol y Nieve road, if you could call it a road, but you had to leave it in Guadalupe for repairs.

The balloon reached a mere 200 feet height over the rolling hills of Dinsdale, yet you were able to open the champagne and see the details of ancient rooftop tiles you’d never imagined.

Some benefits.

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Taking stock of progress.

Must see where it has faltered and where it is a skeletal version of what the real thing could be.

Talking about technology, design and human happiness.

What is Better needs to be usefully and romantically better.

So…….good things discovered and applied, better things to be adopted and added.

The sauce, basic quality and presentation with loving preparation.

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