While Busy Making Other Plans … – Page 179

What If Jobs Are Not The Solution, But The Problem?

Dennis directs our attention to this provocative suggestion by a Rutgers professor:

https://aeon.co/essays/what-if-jobs-are-not-the-solution-but-the-problem

rDay Six-Hundred-Fourteen

The first appearance of snow at street level:

Was Einstein Wrong About the Speed of Light?

Maybe it is not constant after all, suggest some physicists trying to explain yet-unanswered questions about the universe.

http://qz.com/846498/the-speed-of-light-is-constant-physicists-plan-to-test-a-new-theory-that-questions-einsteins-assumptions/

Seeing this discussion today comes right after we finished a BBC two-part program on the relationship of the beginning and the end of the universe, “The Beginning And End Of The Universe”. You can see this, like we did, on Netflix (with subtitles for the aging among us!) or on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x13w2gx3MLI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyW4QLEqFpM

rDay Six-Hundred-Thirteen

rDay Six-Hundred-Twelve: Into the Holiday Weekend

Nik - Melissa - Rohit (At 103) — Nik – Melissa – Rohit (At 103; not in order of height)

Melissa and Rohit brave the rigors and challenges and horrors of Eastern Oregon and drive from Seattle for the Thanksgiving weekend. And we learn that Fitness Guru/Shakespearean Actor/Improv Artist Melissa is doing voice-overs for PicoBrew.

Leonard Cohen, Hard To Forget

We’ve been hearing a lot of Leonard Cohen lately. Today, Terry Gross’ Fresh Air podcast does a reprise of a 2006 interview:

rDay Six-Hundred-Ten: T’Giving

Ivi video-calls from her housesitting/dogsitting venue in Seattle, Nik drops in for food and TV and conversation, and yes … a good time was had by all.