Finious's Folly

Lift Up, Don’t Tear Down

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
– Booker T. Washington

Remember Yourself

“Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you’ve been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.”
– HG Wells

PERSONAL NOTE: Commonly attributed to H.G. Wells, but I have been unable to find a definitive source in online searches for this from his published works, letters, or papers. Regardless of whether he actually said it, I believe it holds a deep Truth, as I find this is what meditation does for me.

B E R Zero-four Twenty-five Twenty-five

Created on one of “those” days where the brain would not shut up with its usual negative BS.

I guess this might be considered a prose poem? More like just a way to get that crap out of my head.

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B E R Zero Four Twenty-five Twenty-five

Cool Retro Space Travel Posters

Came across this cool article sharing an artist’s series of “vintage”-styled travel poster artwork for real and imagined Space destinations. Many are based on reality (the ice-covered oceans of Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons), are strongly suspected to be real (the cryo-volcanos of Titan, one of Saturn’s moons), or just the stuff of fantasy (a Venus like that imagined before probes visited it and saw beneath it’s ever-present clouds).

Check out this web page for the artwork:

Vintage Style Travel Posters Imagine Travel to Distant Planets and Moons

“Stool Pigeon” and Mass Extinction

While exploring the origin of the term “stool pigeon”, I happened on this interesting (if sad) article on far more than the the etymology of the saying. It is tied to the history of a massive, largely man-made mass extinction event.

“But while this term might evoke images of someone perched on a stool in a police interrogation room and being made to “sing” like a bird, the actual origins of this term are significantly more horrific, and tied to the greatest manmade extinction event in modern history.”

Check out this interesting article for all the details:

The Horrifying Origin of the Term “Stool Pigeon”

If one door closes, look for an opening door.

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

– Helen Keller

NOTE: As usual I later looked back for the original source of this quote and verify its attribution to Keller. Turns out she did say it, but some original version of the saying was around before then, and its many sources and variations is muddled if interesting (to me). Regardles, the saying is another of those that I find very True.