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Passing the Hogbutcher Edge

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Poem-Passing the Hogbutcher Edge empty empty empty brick foundries, metal shops and drear depots on the rail out of chicago adjustable clamp co. -  architectural steel chicago mailing tubes  - mountains of tires and empty empty emptiness the secret health plan's no secret anymore we are adjusting to the mean and making america great again the prime minister of india is visiting and he's going to help might send one of the man hole cover factories back to neenah Make grates in America again lights on dusty sandlot ballfield empty empty empty now the first ball ever is in a wobbly orbit and  mr trump is alone on his podium                                                                        - Jack Vaughan See also CityCityCity writeup

Meeker comments

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Mary Meeker's annual report for Kleiner Perkins on the status of Internet commerce is always interesting - chock full of data and packed with gleefully greedy West Coast VC perspective.  Let's look at some highpoints out of the 150-plus Power Point Slide opus. Do you smell the fear in the Fortune 500? Smells like they could use some baby wipes. They can get them from Amazon, actually, which trails only Huggies and Pampers for online market share. For Duracell, it is deep doodoo, as Amazon surpasses the check out counter champ entirely  - on the Web. All that marketing and technology innovation - not too mention shelf shoving -- over many years seems for little or naught. (Off beat: I worked for 6 months at a drug store on 34th St in the 1970s and among the thing I learned was: "You cannot keep Pampers on the shelf" Translation: Shit happens.) The sound of foot prints echoes double in network television where the biggies are flat or in decline, but Netflix is...

MADISON UNIVERSITY UNION BY BOB WATT

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MADISON UNIVERSITY UNION BY BOB WATT Steps above theater.       I watch people come up  four or five at a time.  Catch their eyes and give      them a message.  They seem High and Holy. All seem open            to some new message       They are ready can -- we bring  it on? Now that they're ready       the message will come from  their own happy centers, it has happened       before we even knew, it was happening.  There it goes again just now.       It can happen anytime  Blip, another 10,000 opportunities  coming past all the time.

100 days of Trump

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100 days of Trump make me want to stop reading the news. Sometimes it is funny. That the president is like the Monopoly man, a 30s New Yorker cartoon lampooning the rich, or Flagstaff (?) (Groucho Marx role in Horse Feathers). Then it is imposing, an imposition, barometer pressure oppressively rising - stormy weather. Reading about the tax plan, to make LLC lives even easier - the ones who tear up the city, cut down the trees, put people in boxes, and use your money to turbo charge their life style. And, as has happened to me, suggest they are holier than you because they panned gruel at a food line one morning as cameras snapped. Now, the New York developer is in the vault, throwing dollars like custard pies with relish, and it becomes pain funny bone pain, maybe, but pain. We may have to go to war in Korea again, unfinished business to finish, and fear. Shooting hibernating bears a problem? - we can make it happen! 100 days of Trump make me want to stop reading the news. On th...

Bold Stump Song 2017

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Bold stump was born one day In a cabbage field by the lake Bold stump heard the cool kraut song Bold Stump never did belong Bold stump bold stump bold stump Bold stump messed up at school Bold stump broke the teachers rule Push the Studebaker over a cliff end up on monsignors list Bold stump bold stump bold stump Bold stump at the running bare camp Bold stump in the convent vent M80 in the boys room stall Bold stump says muck it all Bold stump bold stump bold stump Bold stump with the altar wine Bold stump in the bursar's line Bold stump with a banshee yell Bold stump like ringing a bell Bold stump bold stump bold stump. Bold stump in the New York bar Bold stump wants to be a star Bold stump hear the poet's song Bold stump born to do things wrong Bold stump bold stump bold stump Bold Stump come back to feed Bold stump does his praying on his knees Bold stump has come and gone Bold stump heard the sourkraut's song Bold...

More to modulation than amplitude and frequency, says DARPA

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Look out, it's MOAB coming!

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Look out, it's MOAB coming! I read the news The Mother of All Bombs Fired away Mr Trump said it was huge and to what's next answered Make it bigger Call out the dancers Get me the doctor Bring on the enhancers. - Jack Vaughan Related http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/14/asia/afghanistan-isis-moab-bomb/