Would you ask Picasso to sell one of his guitars?

 I mean seriously....

Read "A Life of Picasso" - all the volumes.... yeah - all four - there are four now.

Picasso is a name that has come to mean greatness—only Einstein rivals it as shorthand for genius.

And yet we are troubled by his "magical" misogyny.

I visited his museum in Arles and ended up spending the day - I could feel the energy - we need more Picassos.

Is Josh Axe a Doctor - googled by so many

 No - he is not he is a back cracker who decided that his rudimentary understanding of human anatomy some-how qualified him to make pronouncements about nutrition.

How did we evolve from humoring these pseudo-doctors who claim to cure cancer via a back alignment to I am a "doctor" - so I can extend your life - minor detail - I have not a shred of empirical evidence to support my wild claims - but hey - buy my book - buy my supplements and all is good.

I always like Canada's approach: you claim to be an "Engineer" - you had better have an engineering degree and you had better be registered as a Professional Engineer with an actual licensing body.

War of Worlds Season 1 Episode 6 An Eye for an Eye - Let's Go Shopping for Party Favors

 So- I am desperately trying to remained engaged with this POS series.

We have arrived at the point where 99% of the world has been killed - there are killer dog-robots everywhere.... and two middle-aged moms decide it is time to go off shopping for party favors so one of the kiddos can have a 'proper' birthday party.

'This is the Way the World Ends: Not with a Bang but a Whimper' 'This is the way the world ends', T. S. Eliot tells us at the end of his 1925 poem, 'The Hollow Men': 'not with a bang but a whimper. ' 

Alas - I fear it ends with moronic white moms in athleisurewear making horrible life-decisions.

I was sufficiently disgruntled that I totally overlooked Daisy's totally irrational slut-turn in the middle of the world ending.

Hard Knocks Season 18 - Detroit Lions

 If y'all have not watched this yet or if you have generally given up on the Hard Knocks Franchise you need to chick this out.

Brilliant editing - great back-stories.

A true roman-a-clef.

Trust me - have I ever led you astray?

Poincare Disk Model

A Poem for all of the Mothers at Christmas

Why does God allow	Por que Deus permite
that mothers go away?	que as mães vão-se embora?
A mother has no limit,	Mãe não tem limite,
she is time without hour,	é tempo sem hora,
light that does not fade	luz que não apaga
when the wind blows	quando sopra o vento
and the rain falls.	e chuva desaba,
A velvet hidden	veludo escondido
on wrinkled skin,	na pele enrugada,
pure water, clean air,	água pura, ar puro,
pure thought.	puro pensamento.
Death happens	Morrer acontece
to what is brief and goes by	com o que é breve e passa
without leaving a trace.	sem deixar vestígio.
a mother, in her grace,	Mãe, na sua graça,
is eternity.	é eternidade.
Why must God remember	Por que Deus se lembra
- profound mystery -	- mistério profundo -
to take her away someday?	de tirá-la um dia?
Were I the king of the world,	Fosse eu Rei do Mundo,
I would create a law:	baixava uma lei:
a mother does never die,	Mãe não morre nunca,
she will always stay	mãe ficará sempre
with her child	junto de seu filho
and her child, though old,	e ele, velho embora,
will be little	será pequenino
like a maize grain	feito grão de milho.

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After running a scan, you’ll see an alarming count of the number of problems on your computer. It found 26267 issues on our computer. That’s an extremely alarming number — but what exactly is an issue?

• Every browser cookie and history entry counts as a single issue.
• Every temporary file counts as a single issue, no matter how tiny it is.
• Invalid registry entries are considered issues, although they shouldn’t actually slow down your computer.
• Our registry can be compacted a bit, but this shouldn’t make a noticeable different in performance
• Every fragmented file counts as a single issue. MyCleanPC is measuring fragmentation based on the number of fragmented files, leading to a scary-looking 21.33% data fragmentation statistic. For comparison, the Windows Disk Defragmenter tells us we have 2% fragmentation.