The Palmville Globe Volume 1 Number 41
Man Rationalizes Media Room
Joe McDonnell, 78 and residing in Palmville Twp, Minnesota, recently removed a large feature in his media room. "This was my wife's project," he tells the press. "I provided the tools and some of the muscle. I'm from the if-it-ain't-broke school of home improvement. So the media room has the entertainment center at one end and the personal computer at the other. There was an uncomfortable futon in the middle. Earlier this year the futon was replaced by a comfortable easy chair and a recliner. The pc fell into disuse as we moved to more portable devices. When the pc went, the built-in pc desk in the corner had to go too. Even with all its screws removed, the desk refused to budge. It took the application of a big hammer to loosen the unwieldy slab." McDonnell says the laminated particle board desk was super heavy. "But we got it off and to the garage without damaging the wall, and it's now on the local Sell & Swap site. "The desk and legs are free for the taking," he adds. "I'll even help load it on their truck."
Man Deals with Stripped Screw
Joe McDonnell, 78 and an amateur cabinet maker, recently repaired a kitchen cabinet knob. "I had been on my hands and knees picking up something from the kitchen and as I got up, I put weight on a lower cabinet door knob. That was a mistake," he tells reporters, "because the knob came off. In the process the threads of the screw got stripped out. Ideally the solution would have been to get a replacement screw, but I've learned it's impossible to find the exact screw needed at even the biggest hardware store. So I countersunk a hole in the back of the door with my drill so the screw could bypass the stripped threads and get a solid grip on the knob." Once McDonnell had put everything away he realized that he could easily have drilled a hole right through the front of the door." That would have been bad," he says.
Squib Cellar
We have given up trying to transmute lead into gold and have switched to trying to perfect AI.
As a trainer you may be able to show the lion who’s boss, but you must stay between the parameters of his teeth, claws and roar and your voice, whip and cap gun.
Even though Heaven is a large place, infinitely large in fact, the shy person wonders if he or she might somehow be in the way there.
Learning a new subject is like trying to pick up shadows. We must turn our minds from what we think the subject is to what it is in reality.
Hell is here on earth. So is Heaven.
Orientation is all.
Every rabbit hole eventually exits in the weeds.
One man’s unwieldy slab is another’s welcomed workplace. And, free for the taking!
ReplyDelete"Every rabbit hole eventually exits in the weeds." That's deep.
ReplyDeleteThat’s down, doc.
DeleteThat's 'deep' as in 'profound,' Bugs.
DeleteFav Squib from this post is "We must turn our minds from what we think the subject is to what it is in reality." Seems very Buddhist as in the Four Immeasurables.
ReplyDeleteI think that squibble is a bit contradicting–its doubly stated.
DeleteDon't we pull objectives down to turn our subjective reality for better, or more internal peace? Which from what I’ve learned is the higher essence of Buddhist practice–inner peace and joy over chaos and unfulfillment.
So by evidentiary means, the better turn begins objectively from the heart that can be seen subjectively in obvious thought process, which is always verbalized and confirmed through action.
The pivot is in the selfless discernment in how others may be affected by those thought processes positively or negatively.
Hopefully we're all shooting for the positive and higher good.