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Apr 14

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the Infinite Monkey speaks: on the eater and eaten

Random brilliance from across the blogosphere…

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The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared or fast food, confronts a platter covered with inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground, pulped, strained, blended, prettified, and sanitized beyond resemblance to any part of any creature that ever lived. The products of nature and agriculture have been made, to all appearances, the products of industry. Both eater and eaten are thus in exile from biological reality. And the result is a kind of solitude, unprecedented in human experience, in which the eater may think of eating as, first, a purely commercial transaction between him and a supplier and then as a purely appetitive transaction between him and his food.

 – Wendell Berry

from:

The Pleasures of Eating

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Mar 31

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the Infinite Monkey speaks: how many judgements

Random brilliance from across the blogosphere…

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You can’t imagine someone else’s life enough, or really feel what it is like to walk in their shoes for a day, to make that (hair-trigger) judgement.

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I used to be that person. Making split second judgements and not caring if they were correct or not. Many times the judgement actually made me feel good, I would say on average 25 minutes afterwards. Therefore you do the math, how many judgements to make it a good day?

 – Opinionated Man

from:

A Day of Blogging

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Mar 24

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the Infinite Monkey speaks: alternative power sources

Random brilliance from across the blogosphere…

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The way we are currently trying to squeeze a few kw of power from a wind mill is grossly inefficient when you calculate cost and maintenance.  If we secure a heard of ZOMBIES to power generating tread mills, and hang a nice juicy hunk of meat in the front with a person taunting them, they will go forever. We might evolve to the point that each new home has its own ZOMBIE power generation facility, obviously it will need to be heavily secured. The power source will be endless, you will only need to swap out a few ZOMBIES when the parts fall off, but that will be easy and free.

 – Spiritual Zombie

from:

Day 24

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Mar 3

the Infinite Monkey speaks: on risk

Random brilliance from across the blogosphere…

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Sometimes there is no easy way, and the only possible road to success is to let go of what you know and what you are comfortable with and put it all on the line.  In doing so, failure is a definite possibility.  But if we don’t even try, then failure is inevitable.

 – Kylie

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Risk is scary. Regret is worse.

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