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  • From Mark on breathing & shop talk

    Are you going to get the breathing thing checked out?

  • From jupiterj on breathing & shop talk

    I’m not planning to do anything about the breathing episode. I seemed to have accidentally breathed in when I was having a small amount of stomach acid reflux (ahem). It actually led to me vomiting due (I think) to that automatic regurgitation reaction that one has when something is at the back of the throat. Certainly if I have any more of this at all I will make a doctor’s appointment. But right now it feels like kind of a fluke dealy…

  • From Ray Hinkle on a stripper, a childhood trip to Juarez and a long cello note

    Sounds like sleep apnea. I have included this link to the symptoms of this from Mayo Clinic. http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/sleep-apnea/DS00148/DSECTION=symptoms Bret had this problem. Don’t dismiss this.

  • From jupiterj on a stripper, a childhood trip to Juarez and a long cello note

    My brother has sleep apnea. I’m pretty sure this is not what’s happening to me. (Eileen comments that she has watched me for this, but that she hasn’t noticed me stopping breathing). But thanks for the heads up….. (Eileen adds that it is not to worry, she has a huge life insurance policy on me)…. : )

  • From Mark on a stripper, a childhood trip to Juarez and a long cello note

    When I was going through Dad’s effects after Mom and he moved out of the Fenton house, I ran across a book with notes about expenses. In the Mexico trip, he had written a line: “bribe… $10.00”

    • From jupiterj on a stripper, a childhood trip to Juarez and a long cello note

      Very cool.

  • From Mark on subtle sleep

    The Goleman book seems very familiar to me. But I checked and it’s not available on the kindle. My guess is that I have looked at something else by him. I just reserved Vital Lies at the library. Self-deception is something that I don’t have any problems with…

    🙂

  • From Ray Hinkle on it takes a village

    I often have comments, but feel they are non essential. So… I don’t. However, I have only one comment. I do not use Wikipedia as a source, but have used it as a way to validate a name or reference to something that I could not recall, anyway something along those lines. I also, do not allow my students to use it as a reference for the research papers.

  • From Ray Hinkle on random gifs

    Are you O.k.?

    • From jupiterj on random gifs

      I’m fine. I just put these up because it’s hard to share them on other media like Pinterest and Facebook.

  • From jupiterjenkins.com » Blog Archive » the usual on Sheet Music

    […] free mostly original sheet music […]

  • From Ray Hinkle on de nile

    I did not vote for Santorum, but I think that he was being used by the media to establish a issue with the public. This, I think, is driven by the President which started the problem. Santorum seems to be responding as a devout Catholic. The president is losing the women’s vote nationally, and this is a way to reinvigorate that segment of his support.

  • From Nick Palmer on still thinking about context

    Thank you for the Borowitz and many other links. I Googled “Stirch”, feeling stupid for not getting it. Only your blog popped up. (Man, copyright that word!) So, I read through dozens of Borowitz one-liners and found “Sturch”. Now I get it. And I’m glad to have re-discovered Borowitz.

    I read the Michael’s essay on context. Even though I’ve been reminded throughout my life how relatively little I or anyone else knows about anything, I do fall into the trap of thinking otherwise. I like the idea that there isn’t an elephant at all, heh. I wonder if this kind of thinking is too uncomfortable for most (I think so). How can you articulate the idea without sounding ridiculous in today’s political arena, especially since you’d have only 20 words or less?

    Your friendThank you for the Borowitz and many other links. I Googled “Stirch” because I didn’t get it. Only your blog popped up. (Man, copyright that word!) So, I read through dozens of Borowitz one-liners and found “Sturch”. Now I get it.

    Back to my life of laundry, music and dating…

    Nick

  • From jupiterj on still thinking about context

    Good to hear from you, Nick. And thanks for the gentle spelling correction on sturch…. There is more recently released research about not recognizing one’s own limitations and incompetence…. I’m going to put these links up today. My silly wordperfect blog template won’t let me link them here for your convenience….

  • From Nick Palmer on still thinking about context

    Well, sturch was not THAT far of a leap in the imagination, but my brain was apparently not into leaping that evening. Anyway, thanks for the additional links. It is interesting that the more competent you are, the more likely you are to recognize how much you don’t know, as the competent scorers showed in the article. Of the many things I’ve acquired from good minds, the most useful and comforting to me is the desire to recognize my limitations. I wonder at the loss of humility in our public discourse and whether that is unique to us, a Western problem, or just a random thing that comes and goes.

    My only disagreement with the Yahoo article was with the first line, that the democratic process relies on the notion that people can choose the best leadership. My feeling is that the democratic process enables people with divergent opinions to live together in peace. I found it encouraging that, for all our accumulated incompetence, we at least tend to pick better-than-average leaders, however that was defined in these studies.

  • From jonny on dreams & freud, but not at the same time

    Over the years I have read Ginsberg’s poetry and many books about Ginsberg-I highly recommend this book on Ginsberg, “A Blue Hand: The Tragicomic, Mind-Altering Odyssey of Allen Ginsberg, a Holy Fool, a Rebel Muse, a Dharma Bum, and His Prickly Bride in India” by Deborah Baker-peace Jonny

  • From jupiterj on dreams & freud, but not at the same time

    Thanks for the heads up!

  • From jonny on lifting of the cloud

    I enjoy reading Anne Sexton’s poetry-I recommend this biography on the life of Sexton “Anne Sexton” a biography by Dianne Wood Middlebrook-peace

  • From jupiterj on lifting of the cloud

    I’m only getting started on slogging through her poetry. But thanks for the recommendation of a bio. Have you read this and the Ginsberg bio you recommended?

  • From David on nunca es tarda

    In case you hadn’t heard I heard a rumore that today was National Poetry day. Since you all into that though I would pass it along..
    David

  • From David on nunca es tarda

    I ment month not day and hope the grammar/spelling police are not watching as I typed it on the fly…
    David

    • From jupiterj on nunca es tarda

      Thanks for the heads up….. I googled it and it seems that April is Poetry Month…. “April is the cruelest month” (from a pome by T.S. Eliot)

  • From Mark on jupe in the throes of burnout

    So… Nothing scheduled for you today, right? Relax. Rest. Don’t over-function. Please? (Yeah, I know… Telling someone to relax can increase their stress… Advice is blocking… But still, take care of yourself.) XOXOX