Quasi-ironic: writing an application to map payphone locations. Which really would simply be porting to mobile, I suspect, but I am too lazy to search for any such thing.
“It is necessary to develop a strategy that uses all the physical conditions and elements that are directly at hand. The best strategy relies on an unlimited set of responses.”
. . .
Ueshiba.
I still discriminate against folks who know only the rote responses they have learned, and are incapable of making changes to their responses based upon the situation as it occurs. I likely always will. I can build new neural pathways so my hatred for them is less, this I have learned via my ascetic lifestyle.
I heard two voices speaking. The first said : “Be wise;
The world is but a large delicious cake, my friend!
It calls for an appetite of corresponding size-
And whoso heeds my counsel, his joys shall have no end.”
The other voice spoke softly : “Come, travel with me in dreams,
Far, far beyond the range of the possible and the known!”
And in that voice was the senseless music of winds and streams
Blown suddenly out of nowhere and into nowhere blown-
A phantom cry, a sound to frighten and captivate.
…
Baudelaire. The Voice. Translated by George Dillon.



