He has Money!

This can also be stated as "She has money!"

And it is very important that the person in question can use it.

Their money is in the foreground of their lives and the rest of them is in the background.

I live in Costa Rica, in Latin America, that doesn't have much money, but is very aware of the importance of it.

They do not know why it is important, but they know it is very important. Without money, they would starve!

I became acquainted with a local family recently. And without too much thought, I was able to reconstruct their past. The mother had been an attractive Tica who married an American. and moved to America.  She also had a little boy who grew up and joined the American military.

The marriage did not last, but the boy became an American paratrooper and made a number of jumps that disabled him. The mother was still in control, and moved them (the boy, his wife, and his two daughters) back to Costa Rica, where their money would go further.

I met the son at Aeropost when I was feeling a lot of pain in my left knee. He felt sorry for me and invited me home to meet his family. His family has two cars,.a dog, and a house that they are continually remodeling, using local labor. They cooked me a nice meal and then went about their usual family business.

The son mentioned he was interested in making money in programming computers, and I sent him some email links about how he could do this easily, but nothing came of that.

I still have money, by Tico standards, and I am taking care of it.

Americans do not Understand America

This statement can probably be enlarged to be "Most people do not understand their world, and do not want to."Being like everyone else is important, however, and it is amazing how people can determine what that is, in this age of social media!"

The truth is whatever people believe it is.

The election of Trump. showed everyone what Americans were really like - seriously disturbed people.

And this observation can easily be extended to any people with Television - practically everyone. Once Radio was discovered, we were united by that. Once Radio was discovered, we lived in two Worlds at once, with no awareness of this. And once the Computer was discovered, we lived in three Worlds (or Realities),

Still with little awareness.

AI's Trust Problem: a Conversation between Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis

This is a review of a book, written by two professors.

In my family, we had something better: a book written by a Prophet of God, the Book of Mormon. It was nonsense, but this did not matter.

It did not have a trust problem. But the author of this book. Joseph Smith was killed, and his followers fled across the Rocky Mountains. And they remain there to this day.

I got Pills

I got aches and pains, but not quite as bad as yesterday. It's amazing how much pain, and what kinds of pain the human body is capable of.

Right now, I have six kinds of pain pills, and there must be hundreds available.

Back when I was in Silicon Valley I met a guy who had developed one of the latest recreational drugs. He didn't seem so bad. And when I was attending an experimental college in Mexico. I noticed that the students there were mostly interested in drugs.

They put us in jail, probably the nicest jail in Mexico.

I took some high-strength weed down there, and everything seemed very funny. Much later some intense religious experiences affected me the same way. God likes having a good laugh too.

Bad News

I wish I could tell you what my news is, but I can't.

I bought a few groceries yesterday evening and started to carry them home, only a few blocks away. A next-door neighbor helped me cross the street because I have a balance problem. He took my bag and slowed down so I could keep up with him. Back home, I put my groceries away and went to sleep. People are friendly here.

The next morning I had a very hard time shitting, I had terrible pain in my lower back. I got back in bed and went to sleep, right away.. I have never been much of a pain person before.

When I woke up my pains were just the same. I would stand up slowly without pain, but WHAM, I would get hit with pain as bad as it gets.

Ray gave me two pain pills, but they haven't done much good.

I have a doctor's appointment at 5:00.

I can write in my blog, but that is about all.

Fed Up

Medium

Mary Daly rose from high-school dropout to president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. She thinks the central bank needs an upgrade too. It starts with recognizing that the economy is made up of actual humans. 

It's an easy read with some big benefits. 

Computers cannot Stop Global Warming

I just watched the sales pitch from Google about TensorFlow 2. It is better than ever, but the world it is part of is worse than ever.

Science wanted to make a better world but somehow made a worse one.

What went wrong?

Science could make us rich, but not make us good.