Richard Aerni on mon 24 may 10
On May 24, 2010, at 9:11 AM, paul gerhold wrote:
> Mel,
> One of my pet peeves has always been accident reports like " a
> forty car
> pile up was caused smoke on the highway" or by black ice or etc.
> etc. No!
> The accident was caused by people who were driving too fast for the
> road
> conditions and/ or tailgating or talking on their cell phones.
Can I jump in here for a moment on this non-clay related subject?
Paul, I can take your point, BUT...do you live in an area where black =3D
ice is common? I do, and you can have clear roads and sunny skies, and =3D
all of a sudden (perhaps because of a change of the composition of the =3D
road base, shade, whatever) you are spinning out of control, along with =3D
everyone around you. And this is when you are driving at moderate =3D
speed. And let's talk about black ice on the asphalt driveway first =3D
thing in the morning...well, let's not!
Here in Rochester, NY, people know how to drive in the snow and ice, and =
=3D
still there are many many accidents in black ice weather. Only way to =3D
avoid it is to stay home.
Best,
Richard
Richard Aerni
Rochester, NY =3D20
www.richardaerni.com
Veena Raghavan on mon 31 may 10
Sounds like a wonderful name for a glaze!
Veena
In a message dated 5/31/2010 9:40:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET writes:
>
> I am surprised the term 'Black Ice' has not been adopted as a name by any
> 'rap' singers yet. Or, maybe it has been? I have not been keeping up very
> well lately....
>
>
VeenaRaghavan@cs.com
phil on mon 31 may 10
I am surprised the term 'Black Ice' has not been adopted as a name by any
'rap' singers yet. Or, maybe it has been? I have not been keeping up very
well lately....
Anyway...
We can be taken by surprise.
We can be unprepared.
Things can go wrong.
We can be fooled.
Things or conditions are not what we thought...or expected...or were told
they would be.
Wrong place at the wrong time.
Errors of ignorance, errors of presumption, errors of hubris....errors of
ommission, errors of commission....errors of amentia by whatever
degree or kind...errors of inexperience, errors which combine all of these
into the symphonic medley
everyone lives with.
What does it mean?
The gun just went off...
The ice made me loose control...
The saw made me hurt myself...
Chainsaw slipped...
I did not think it was loaded...
My girlfriend made me late...( or my boyfriend made me late )
The dog ( sname, wolverine, batboy, whatever ) just bit me for no reason...
The dog ate my homework...
I was only following orders...
The Tuna Sald had only been in the Sun, uhhh, I dunno, all day I guess...so=
?
I thought it was unplugged...
She said she was 18...
The Car just, I dunno, died...
Clay won't center...
I thought YOU checked the fuel before we took off...
Someone flipped the X-Ray?
XYZ is dangerous...
Everything is dangerous...
Endless...
In my opinion, the final summary elucidation of Darwin's observations of
Species -
"The present observable and extant members of any Species, appear to be the
ones who have survived. We may guess further, that their Origins are that
of having arisen from reproductively viable survivors..." ( 'period' )
His entire Book could have been those two sentences, and been fine...been
elegantly complete, with no need to have added anything else.
And, no one could refute it, or it's unambiguous logic...and no one's
Supreme Diety would have reason to frown.
The rest of the Pages could have been left blank, for one's Field Notes and
Sketches and Journaling,
extempore Watercolors, tender or delicate Botanical specimens to be
flattened and
dried, names and addresses of friends, Tic-Tac-Toe, etc. ( Toe? or Tow? I
forget now...)
Overall, we manage to survive in spite of our committing vastly more errors
of discernment, judgement, transposition, anticipation, amentia, credulity,
projection,
presumption, inexperience, complaiscency, ignorance,
mis-understanding etc, than
we will ever know.
Or, we don't...( get away with it ).
So sure...we can indeed get blind-sided by things...and, in every instance,
we
could have seen it coming, or by whatever even ineffible means, not been in
that sort of 'there' to meet it,
too.
"Board just kicked back!!"
"Damn Car just ran outta Gas!"
'Drilling Platform just...exploded!"
"Hmmm...The Potato Leek Soup left on the counter since Tuesday, seems kinda
tepid...but I'm hungry!"
And endless else...
Lol...
Ohhhhhhhhhh...whatchagunnadew...
Love,
Phil
Lv
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