Motivational Quote of the Day
“Every time I think I’m losing my mind I look hard at the fax machine and make love to a sock.” - Lord Hambersham, DDS
Cereal of the Day
If you’ve ever had a pet rabbit then the visual appeal of cereals such as Cocoa Puffs or Reece’s are completely lost on you. Canadian coffee and doughnut shop Tim Hortons followed that visual trend with its Café Mocha cereal, a box of chocolate and coffee flavored balls, not too unlike its Timbits cereal. Café Mocha is produced in Canada by Post and consumed by people who like a bit of coffee in their cereal. It’s just a bit of branding, Dunkin also makes a cereal. It’s a surprise that there isn’t a Starbucks cereal, though that might not entirely be an accurate statement (at this time, there isn’t, but it’s still likely to be something the marketing department is working on).
Tim Hortons Café Mocha cereal is for a very particular audience, especially due to its import status. It’s for people who really, really like coffee in every aspect of their daily lives. They have coffee chocolates, they roast pork in coffee grounds, they have witty mugs and t-shirts expressing their love of coffee. They have not one, but two grinders. They have a pour-over and they use it. They much on spiced espresso beans. They want coffee in their cereal and sometimes, pour coffee in their cereal. They also want to cut out the Tim Hortons logo from every box and add it to their Tim Hortons collage, hanging proudly in the living room.
News From Earth
Oh documents, why can’t you stay in boxes in the place you belong? Another elderly President, another batch of misplaced documents. Let’s forget that one fought to keep them and the other immediately returned them without delay or interference. Let’s forget that one is the current President and one is just another Florida dirt-bag with criminal connections and the high likelihood of being compromised by foreign agents. Let’s do completely away with nuance and just take things at absolute face value. That’s the way to present these issues in this always online world, in absolutes. Otherwise how is the populace to understand a goddamn thing, and more importantly, how can the news grifters continue their grift if people understood the details?
The fact that misplaced documents is an issue should concern the populace. Not that terribly old Presidents are just dropping boxes of documents in random places, but that we’re still using paper. While the security of paper is understood, are they using typewriters to produce it? Or was it produced digitally? Is it not possible to create closed systems that are not connected to any WiFi or Bluetooth to store and pass around documents? Why are documents still sitting in boxes when it could be an isolated digital pad that could be placed on a magnet when all information has been consumed? Perhaps that’s just wishful thinking, or uninformed thinking. There must be a reason for all that paper right? Is the reason so Presidents can doodle in the margins to prove their relative competence and awareness of what’s happening around them? So many questions. No answers. Not today.
Sandwich of the Day
From the proprietary sandwich generation tool:
Pepper Turkey & Vieux Corse With Sauerkraut On Focaccia Al Pomodoro Bread.
Ephemeral Erosion
Our mundane existence is punctuated by the top secret documents we never get to read. This can be taken literally or metaphorically, the distinction is up to the consumer of the information. Theoretically, the documents never existed in the first place and our perception of them is a force-fed illusion to perpetuate a reality in which we are not only never privy to the real process of dissemination but the process itself is manufactured. This creates a constantly shifting bubble of perception that never allows itself to settle long enough for us to gain a clear understanding of any given situation on any given day. To this end, we are constantly drowning in water in which is only as deep as two inches beyond our height.
This line of thinking suggests the mysteries of life are little more than acts of entertainment, manufactured to distract us from the droll of being alive. For those manufacturing the show, they also get distracted by the show being nothing more than their level of distraction, manufactured by themselves for themselves, but also for the rest of us. To suggest a true hierarchy in humans is only to realize that yes, we are ruled by kings as we always once were, but those kings can only exist with a populace to rule, so each much entertain - and fabricate the existence of - the other. It’s a headache, but entirely necessary to justify any semblance of boot-stomping existence.
You are spot on regarding paper documents. But the govt is way behind when it comes to tech, partly because of cost and partly because we don’t have the brightest or most open minds in DC.