Read Your own Meter

Do I owe you an answer — instruction — dye transfer lab procedures. How about gossip from the past. What are you owed.. what is your google query worth?

Since I was an experienced professional color printer, am i obliged to answer your questions?

why?

why should i have kept 40 years of files, lab notes, correspondence… you ask me to show-tell, share gossip… what qualifies you to hear the answers? what makes you think you deserve answers; my knowledge, experience, effort. People on internet forum quests take 5 years to collect answers that are included in the directions for the film. These same people bemoan the death of process and product they never used. So much for market awareness at the crowded corner.

do you think you are that interesting…  

worthwhile people have made their way… and in much less time than 20 years.

ask me a question

First, one for you: do i have to answer… after all, i ran dye transfer labs, taught college classes; even more, i made specialty equipment.. don’t i owe you answers to your lazy boy questions?

most of the always amateurs have expended great effort filling out their excuses card… more time than they ever did on the action card… gossip lacks guts.

suppose you have a choice. suppose you have an encounter between two different people 

One of them has made more effort to learn than the other 

One of them thinks you owe them, the other doesn’t 

which of them do you want to give away a portion of your life .. that’s what teaching someone something is: giving away a part of your life.


why do I have to give up my life just to satisfy  your lackadaisical approach to learning … The big secret to learning to boil eggs… don’t fear the stove. make your own errors. don’t spend your life asking others — ask the water.

repair isn’t growth

The hobby of buying repairing and selling occupies the fingers .. satisfies your contribution to commerce, but exactly how creative is that …


Potter Stewart: i’ll know it when i see it.  [Potter Stewart (January 23, 1915 – December 7, 1985) was an American lawyer and judge who was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1958 to 1981.]

numbers happen

3.14. it is always a PI day celebration. Like all symbols, empty unless used.

pieranch

3.14159265359

other numbers: 01.10.01

On this yesterday in 1781, the seventh planet of the solar system, Uranus, was discovered by astronomer William Herschel.

or one that follows me:

… and dogs playing poker . The dogs, in this case, are the mistaken Xwits, opening files and folders, trying to figure out what “it all” means .. The worst of programmers write programs without domain knowledge .. that’s what is happening with Elon’s crew .. Smart enough to gain root but not smart enough to know what’s at stake ..Without knowing the path.

A thought experiment: How many millions of dollars do you think are paid by social security administration to those over 95; how about over 105 .. how much do you think the annual payment is for someone on SSA; someone who retired 35 years ago .. do you think it’s $2000 a year ? more, or less.. so, someone being paid $2000 a year, how many “someones” does it take to defraud the government by millions and millions … How many untaxed millionaires …

https://www.bumc.bu.edu/centenarian/statistics/

They, the valley dogs, arrived based on several assumptions. One being{ government is evil, another being, government employees and bureaucrats are lazy, incompetent ,stupid, and evil .. Finally, that they, the volunteer geniuses are saviors, saviors of the world; they, being smart, genius even ,creative beyond anyone’s expectation; that they will set it right, by first smashing it up …

None of their assumptions are correct.. none of their experiences are authentic. They’ve all been protected by a life of Glamping . They are each involved because of one thing: profit and proximity to someone who is profitable. A numbers game.

Their mistake is thinking profit is a prophet. Profit is excess capital; cultural fat. Money uncirculated. Retained earnings isn’t muscle, it is fat.