Diary (May 5, 2020)

Online diary of Karl Jones for Tuesday May 5, 2020.

Diary

Emotions of uncertainty

I'm only bothered by Uncertainty on bad days.

On good days, I find Uncertainty arousing.

• Comment @ Facebook

I Am the Mencken!

I am the Gadfly

They are the Gadfly

I am the Mencken!

Boo-boo-boo-boo boo-boo-Booboisie ...!

• I Am the Mencken

• H. L. Mencken @ Wikipedia

Everyone is looking to cash in at all times

Everyone is looking to cash in at all times.

See also "Everybody Wants to Rule the World".

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Pun

In the Big Hinting was the Word.

See:

• Word (computer architecture) (nonfiction)
• Logos (Christianity) (nonfiction)

Song of the Day for Howard Kranz

First in a series of songs for Howard and me to cover.

"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears:

Welcome to your life
There's no turning back
Even while we sleep
We will find You acting on your best behavior
Turn your back on mother nature
Everybody wants to rule the world

It's my own design
It's my own remorse
Help me to decide
Help me make the most Of freedom and of pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world

There's a room where the light won't find you
Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down
When they do, I'll be right behind you
So glad we've almost made it
So sad they had to fade it
Everybody wants to rule the world

I can't stand this indecision
Married with a lack of vision
Everybody wants to rule the world

Say that you'll never, never, never, need it
One headline, why believe it?
Everybody wants to rule the world

All for freedom and for pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world

• Everybody Wants to Rule the World @ YouTube
• Everybody Wants to Rule the World @ Wikipedia
• Tears for Fears @ Wikipedia
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Unspoofable

• Dial U for Unspoofable - film noir encryption mystery starring Niles Cartouchian as mathematician Kurt Gödel. The film is famous for using in-camera effects to record the emergence of a licensed cryptographic numen, along with the numen's extraordinarily vivid display of gray light.

Unintentional comments on Facebook

Like unintentional comments on Facebook, these are the Days of Our Lives.

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Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Karl Jones (nonfiction)