documented life

Are we the parts or are we the whole?

Feb 192012

Climate change is real. (A brief guide to the scientific consensus on climate change by Laurence Lewis) It’s the biggest thing that has ever happened in your lifetime. It will be happening for the rest of your lifetime. It is the ultimate test of human community, the moment when we learn whether evolution and culture have been able to create creatures and societies that do, or do not, have the capacity to preserve themselves as a whole.

Are we individuals and states? Or are we everyone and all nations? That is the ideological question, the political question, the moral question, the ultimate question. The answer is coming, one way or another.

Not Quite Cricket

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Feb 122012

We rise at daybreak! Scene from The Trip

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Feb 052012

Leora and I enjoyed The Trip last night. This was a memorable scene.

Google Plus Gets Integrated Into Life

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Feb 012012

I’ve been consolidating my many web presences that have developed over the years. In particular I want to raise the visibility of my current professional identity, as it appears on Google Plus and at my professional site (Applied Information Design LLC.) I love my Portland Ground photography project, a wonderful midlife detour, but it is now inaccurate as an expression of what I really do. Yes I still sell stock photo images at Portland Ground but I’m mostly busy providing services in the health information technology space, via Applied Information Design LLC.

Infinity

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Jan 112012

Once you grasp that it is possible that the universe is infinite, meaning, no matter how far you travel in any direction you will continue to encounter new stars and planets, and once you grasp that some 14 billion years ago this infinitude of space, energy and matter was entirely concentrated in a single point of no size, yet still infinite (an infinity concentrated in a singularity) and have leavened this thought with the multiverse hypothesis that there is an infinity of such infinite universes continually coming into existence…. it’s time for lunch.

If it’s not humorous it just doesn’t seem that serious

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Jan 062012

If it’s not humorous it just doesn’t seem that serious. Wow, I hope that’s humorous. Or is made funny by the self referentiallity of sentence two. On the other hand, if the previous secondary level of self referentiallity doesn’t help, then this tertiary level won’t save the thought. But seriously folks, I just flew in from Pittsburgh, and my arms are so tired.

Insurance Life

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Jan 052012

Man walks into a doctor’s office for a $15 copay visit, routine follow-up, and walks out with an $85 bill because, hey, it’s the new year, so the Providence Choice health plan annual deductible started over on Jan. 1. In what rational world should delaying the date of service delivery from late December to January 5th quintuple the end user cost? Needless to say, I would not have walked through those doors today if I had bothered to study the statement of benefits, but who wants to live that way?