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Dear Diary,
Don’t tell anybody. I’ve been reading a book about “emotional intelligence.”
Sometimes … I’m no expert, but sometimes … I think that maybe … just maybe … if you were to get in the waaaaaaay back machine, and teleport to humans before humans had developed language … you turned that dial to a bazillion gazillion years ago or whatever and slammed that “go” button … you might find that emotions were how we communicated with each other.
Or in other words, maybe emotions were how humans communicated, before humans developed language.
It kinda makes sense. Like little monkeys.
Just imagine … imagine you could say no words (and what a wonderful world that would be) … but you could raise the eyebrows, or scowl your face, or laugh laugh laugh, or wrinkle up your nose and stick your tongue out, or wink at that hot cavegirl babe, and so on. We could probably get on reasonably well.
If it was me … I’d have invented the middle finger salute before anything else. But I think you know that.
Thanks for listening.
PS. I mean, any idiot that’s spent longer than a minute studying emotions knows that emotions are a signal. They’re a call to action. They need to be interpreted, processed, and understood. And they can be. But then thinking of what social creatures humas are, it doesn’t take a huge leap to think well gee, if our emotions are an action signal to ourselves, maybe they used to be signals to our others, as well. I suppose in a way they still are … people who are good at it can will constantly be aware of the nonverbal communication going on around them, like a herd of little sheep. I suppose that isn’t a very big thought … and I am used to very, very tiny little thoughts … but it was fun.
While we here in the ivory towered headquarters of Launch Day Inc aren’t occupying ourselves writing ditties about snack crackers or binge watching Tiger King on Dorkflix, we do what everyone does – reminisce about the good old days of early California botany.
The usual names come to mind … Douglas, Coulter, Hartweg, Jeffrey, Lobb. Y’know, the usuals.
But since you little sniveling retards have no clue who those people are, allow me to light a candle in your darkness by introducing the new Launch Day Musicless segment …. (drum roll, echo-ey sound effect …) …
The Heroes Of Botany (botany … botany … botany)
But it’ll come later, when I care more.
For now, just wanted to rant on a vocabulary word: systemic racism.
Thanks for listening. Now let’s get back to it.
Source: Introduction to California Plant Life; Ornduff, Faber, Keeler.
I have no reports to make for the five year hiatus, nor do we (third perso plural) long-fingernailed whozits in the ivory towered headquarters of launchday inc. apologize for anything other than not leapfrogging the mass of great unwashed quickly enough on our way STRAIGHT to the top but … I’ll explain away the absence by mentioning that I’ve been on one heckuva spaceship ride for five years, and boy am I glad to be back on terra firma. And let me tell you, outer space is boring. And when I say boring, I mean it. Outer space is BOOORING!
In my absence (or was it my otherworldly presence), in my absence, let me see if I got this straight now:
- Elon Musk has taken over the world
- The whole point of “social media” was to prove that there’s no point to social media …
- Did I miss anything else in the last five years?
- World hasn’t blown up yet
- Something about China yadda yadda
- [filler]
Ok, check.
So let’s get back to business. Not that I’ve ever been away from it, suckas.
I’ll leave you with the first place I went upon landing.
It’s gotta go. Needs a ‘bucks.
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i went for a walk today and came across an old rusty chain that someone had coiled around and made to rise up off the ground, kind of like a cobra. i didn’t stop to look how it was done, … Continue reading →
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Hours into this experiment. Sucks. Colors not as vibrant. Tired. Throat hurts. Traffic worse than usual on drive home. Not sure if all this is related.
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In meetings, you have distinct phases. First, there’s the pre-meeting. This is a jokey time, vapid small talk, canned jokes. Hows it going? Oh I can’t complain, well I could but noone would care anyways, har har. Vacation, kids. Out … Continue reading →
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The local bikeshop recommended I get some shimano lx cranks online for my mountain bike to replace the ones that have finally (sort of) fallen off. Said they’d be a lot cheaper than the shop. While I scratch my head … Continue reading →
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i wasn’t sure if we lived in a consumer society, also i went shopping for a new pair of shoes. my feet tend to hurt (and my head – god, my head) and i like nike airs because they are … Continue reading →
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New track today, this one’s called Chance At A Miracle. For those of you that have at least one toe, the bass madness in the middle really should get it tapping.
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Here’s a link to a page I made that shows you the availability of some of my favorite campsites over the next few months. Hey everyone let’s go camping!