sic, or credit where credit is, dude

credit where credit is, dude
relating to thirth-party summons

a few folsk do not sit
on a pedistole
in a nut sell it's selling
hot cakes tier gas
one in the same

how i should response

postpone the contract sing
in order to not "reinvent the wheels"

solution in lieu of not having
to diffuse the situation
confedentail investigation
clink yes and begin insert

data-first, robust engineered
flexible architecture syndrom
rail have bold holes on the end

sic, or good to seethe

i undated him
at jonathan's becon call
seems like
a non-brainer starts
to loose relevance plans to reproach
the reasons that you sited
attorney client previdelge
with ideas to help

great minds think a like not enough
flexibility to adopt to the new environment
takeover incidences tripled

awesome axample
get on the phopen
a chuck of time, razor focused
still very draft
good to seethe
great reaction can't be piecemealed
so we don't reinvest the wheel

this deck overviews
the following tenants, in priority
in good faith jesture
we all iterated on it from physical to igital
what core tenants are
needed to grow are not one
in the same stores covert
our film expectation is

that we will not preannounce
cast any dispersion i will doth
meeting each targets
she comments that she can comment on
more precised targets
to be able to acquirer ways
that we can preference the best in bred partners
duel commercialization strategies

this is not a bottoms up exercise

sic, or goodbuy crewel whirled, dictated not read

 confudential.

desired criteria is achieved:
i am out of the office on funeral leave.
if i have any type-os
cash flows from opiating activities
put a sentence in the legal ease portion on the back.

at the fore front a time to teach base.
your bank has fail to honor a free trail
dragging their heals
cantrol blood pressure with ayurved

that said, Mark intonated that
it was an oversite the IRS web side
was down trying to cover all basis
sorry for the over site what the issues is
festivals helps in flourishing relationships!
has little merit unless it is flushed out.

is Daphne using a non de plume?
her actitude is not the best
so desmotivated in a very timly manner
getting people off their butt's honey.

they ate wanting
to move forward
grafts of compliance

second cicada haiku, recollecting a visit to haight street*

you can fuck in the
honeysuckle just don't ask
for any money

the demure wing

of the three or four times so far i have found a cicada clinging to me i have kept my cool only once.

i did immediately text a buddy "AAAAAAAAAGH!!," but only after coolly walking to the door & flicking the imago off my shin, calmly composing that text in my mind, the while.

but i did not flinch, jump about, brush & swat at my own body as on the several occasions the creature crawls the hat, hangs from spectacles or traverses from collar to neck in its clumsy climb.

in flagrante delicto

 more like brood XXX:

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sic, or pain-staking care

the whole house was ram sacked
we has american tourists pay the data productionalization
visa versa
its creaseless committment
progressing meeting to progress
hold one-way dialog

we committed to expeditiating the agreement
some tenants to keep in mind
tenants that has separated us
pain-staking care was taken
why is the circle not straight?
runs affowl of a legal point of you

rational benefits ladder to more emotional benefits
laddering to the positioning
our great organization, to which has galvanized us
endeavor to shed the spotlight on the collusion
i have asked, pleated and begged
some dublication whole-heartily
firing shots over our bough

the tact we take needs great contemplation
success could be a bi-product of new value
laddering to the positioning
we have onforwarded this
provide a cost saving
i don't shoot my leg for any money

we may have a small reporting glitz
one of the closet out products
should have added him earlier, as he's the excerpt
lets catchup this weekend

wobbly loops

that mask i was prompted to search for in the basement and found (over in the truthiness thread, yesterday) will be en route to an acquaintance-chained emergency room doctor in kissimmee, florida, via usps tomorrow, if all goes well at the post office. serendipitously, i also happened to have a large-enough bubble-mailer and $4 in odd old stamps available.

check-in-wise, just to update a tale left mid-stride last episode, whereas yesterday little oomph went from freaking out and losing balance when they noticed i wasn't holding them anymore to excitingly riding alone for up to thirty seconds, today little oomph worked up to being able to ride indefinitely, in big wobbly loops, and even to steer a bit. the starting and stopping still leaves a bit to be desired; there were some falls, some bouts of tears, a multiparty collision with some soccer-playing boys (who, after, were very, adorably, concerned that little oomph was ok), their ball, little oomph and myself, running alongside. there were some moments of terror and some crying, but little oomph was game. the child's mother was there for much of the time, took some videos, did some running, voiced some praise before heading to the grocery store. eventually i commented that at this rate i'd have to switch over to a zone-defense. what's that? i'll have to tell you next time we rest, i panted. so i got to be jock dad explaining a sports metaphor -- not my usual lane! not sure i did a great job, little oomph not knowing very much about the gameplay of the several sports i referred to, or what offense and defense are, as far as i can tell. i guess little oomph humored me, pretending (?) to follow my breathless dadsplaining. and, after some time, i did get to stand mostly still, toward the center of the big wobbly loops, only occasionally sprinting to intervene when it looked like little oomph might ride straight into a fence or wall or another child, and mostly not having to. even grew calm enough to hoist the phone and shoot some video, myself.

i'm quite proud of little oomph & very happy with the rapid accomplishment. and exhausted and quite debilitated with allergies from running so long and breathing so hard in the chill breeze on this perfect, pollen-filled spring day. also: i didn't have a heart attack and am probably far enough past flu (and subsequent cold and acute allergies) to be increasingly confident it has probably not been sars-2 coronavirus.


take care of yourselves; care for others; keep eviscerating the bullshit while bringing the humor, hope, humanity and sense.

family matters

finally convinced, on the one hand mom & pop, and on the other hand, little oomph & mother, to stop visiting each other. kinda heartbreaking, but hopefully not as heartbreaking as otherwise it could be. i think what moved mom -- apart from her new habit of hatewatching the president's autos-da-nascent-fascism and obsessively tracking a handful of (mostly local) case-tracking websites -- was when i told her "if you're having baby and mama visit i'm coming over too, so that little oomph doesn't have to grow up feeling solely responsible for your death." i know: a bit harsh; it followed a lot of other attempts at persuasion and then a decision to stop arguing. not certain what little oomph's mother has been thinking, beyond that she's better at hygiene than everybody else (she's not wrong to think so!), but she acquiesced without resistance.

it is tough: pop has dementia at just about the point where he's sometimes almost too much for mom to handle (though he remains remarkably serene about it) and mom loves nothing more than time with her grandchildren, while little oomph loves the visits and the doting love of both. have really been valuing their time together while pop is still more lucid (for very-confused-and-wanting-to-go-home-although-already-there values of lucid) than not: he knows his grandchild, and usually his son. also mom's not as naturally talented at social distancing as i am, and chafes at isolation. thought little oomph would weep to learn visits with grandparents are on indefinite hiatus, but little oomph took it in stride, very interested just now in infectious disease and being safe. (pop was a great depression baby, and has been marked by admirable if sometimes frustrating frugality throughout his life in common with many of his generation; not sure what this is likely to foster in little oomph). we all hopefully agreed to revisit the arrangement in two weeks.

i'm still visiting with little oomph & mother regularly, but will isolate from them should the occasion arise that my parents require in-person support i'm able to provide. ... though, come to think of it, that would probably defeat some of the purpose.

today little oomph managed to ride unsupported on their bicycle for the first time ever (and several other spans of several seconds up to about a max of thirty) before being grabbed in the process of ... no longer successfully balancing. i was the only one there. it was exhausting to run alongside & exhilarating.

just drove home: the roads were almost empty. also the first time on the roads in maybe two weeks that i haven't felt (more) endangered (than usual) by several other drivers, i guess trying to lock in that hospital bed (for themselves and me) while supplies last.

rush hour

rush hour: 8:10 am wmata

presumptive flu?

43% increase in confirmed cases in u.s. since this morning (233 to 336 per hopkins tracker), likely reflecting more, faster testing rather than increased community transmission. but.

maryland health authorities have shared some information on what our three patients were doing between their return from a nile river cruise feb. 20 and getting tested march 4.

One patient attended a school event in the Philadelphia area. As a precaution, the Central Bucks Schools District closed five schools Friday.

Another patient attended an event at the Village at Rockville retirement community Feb. 28. The Maryland Department of Health determined the time period of risk of exposure is from noon to 6 p.m.

that retirement community is about a mile from my parents' home. mom & pop have lately been visiting some such facilities seeking activities/support/services related to pop's developing dementia, so i sent mom the article and asked whether she'd been there, and read on. the article continues

"The facility there has a workforce staff that they will be looking after, monitoring to make sure that those health care workers do not develop symptoms. They also are very cooperative in making sure that residents that may have been exposed only at that one gathering, that one day, that one gathering, if those residents have any symptoms," said Fran Phillips, of the Maryland Department of Health.

The MDH recommended that members of the public who attended the event should monitor themselves for symptoms of a respiratory infection, including fever, cold-like symptoms, cough, difficulty breathing or shortness of breath, until March 13.

the article followed with the phone number of the Maryland Emergency Management Agency call center. but i was stuck on "the residents that may have been exposed only at that one gathering, that one day," because transmission occurs from fomites -- objects or surfaces capable of carrying/transmitting infectious agents -- not just being present in the same space, and i've been to retirement communities and assess it as doubtful they've been routinely sterilizing all the surfaces in that facility since february 28. mom wrote back

We've been to the Village several times in the last few weeks -- that's where [friend & spouse] and [person whom my parents routinely drive to medical appointments] were!

when pressed on timing, mom said they'd been there feb. 4, 18 and "maybe one other time." she learned from the emergency management call center that the event between noon and 6 pm on feb. 28 was a funeral: "I KNOW we didn't do that!" it was late, so i have been unable to grill her on her use of the past tense referring to her friends' residency there (pretty sure [friend & spouse] have recently transferred to a more acute-care setting, but thought the chauffeuring was ongoing). anyway, that there were cases in montgomery county was striking; to learn that it is that close, physically and socially to my parents, is somewhat more distressing.

i imagine those three patients bought groceries and attended some sort of community religious observations, perhaps visited libraries, coffee shops or gyms nearby. i have some faith the state health department includes such considerations in contact tracing, though that paragraph above about that one 6-hour window of risk does not foster a great deal of confidence on that score.

meanwhile, little oomph seems to have the flu. babymama & i have been trying to elicit descriptions of symptoms (beyond coughing in our faces, vomiting in our dinner, sneezing everywhere & running a fever, which are patent) without tipping off little oomph we're probing for covid symptoms. but little oomph is pretty savvy and just as scared of the flu. babymama thinks they shouldn't visit weekly at grandparents', as is their wont, due to that possible, if attenuated, exposure risk; i'm not certain they should bring flu into that home (though g'parents got their flu shots). also, they're expecting a houseguest from hawaii who will be transiting LAX on sunday, and then staying for several weeks and meeting clients in their home. mom reports he's "going to bring masks and Clorox wipes."

ray of hope: that oft' cited WHO report notes very low proportion of cases among persons younger than 18 years observed in surveyed population, and lower proportion of critical cases, though it drew no conclusions.

i appreciate all y'all's sharing, sympathize with your anxieties and frustrations. thanks for the space to share my own. -- (reported u.s. cases rose by two while i was writing).

the mask of the orange clusterf*ck

i am not far from washington dc, where there are as yet (per lancet/johns hopkins CSSE tracker at 12:13 am) no reported cases. a migraineur whose triggers include breathing fragrances, i have routinely worn a surgical mask (bought in a box from walgreens long before novel coronavirus was a thing) while on public transport or in the workplace, for some years. until recently this has usually caused people to recoil from me, often securing me a seat alone on the train; occasionally another person wearing such a mask can be seen in the same train car. no one ever initiates conversation with me. until last week, when the number of other masked persons started ticking up, and people began approaching me in the office or the street to ask where i got it. on thursday some among management asked me who the manufacturer is, but it is not clear from product info online or packaging (made in taiwan, though). when i provided some market reporting on mask manufacturers, it turned out that those management parties were trying to figure out whose stock to buy, although a few among them were concerned enough to accept masks from the supply i carry with me when i offered (first one's free). on saturday, president horrorshow mentioned encouraging 3M (among top five reported manufacturers) to make a greater supply available during the press conference (where an inordinate amount of time was spent talking about afghanistan).

today nobody else on the train was wearing one. several coworkers -- including identified sources of overweening workplace fragrance -- helpfully told me that the attorney general said i shouldn't be wearing a mask. i think they meant surgeon general, but, this misministration being what it is, attorney general is just as likely. i said "it's not for coronavirus but to mitigate fragrance exposure." (it is information i do not generally share unsolicited with my coworkers because we're a pathalogically-hostile and inconsiderate group of children in adult bodies, as a class.) "no," one replied, "it is for coronavirus." "this mask," i insisted, "i wear so that breathing fragrances doesn't make me sick and unable to work." we all laughed (an attentive interlocutor can see my eyes crinkle when i smile, i'm told): pronouns are imprecise. i figure next time i'll just start coughing rather than try to explain myself. i too have had a runny nose and headache for some weeks. no fever though. i wash my hands frequently, and try not to touch much more than i have to. if nothing else, i figure the mask decreases the likelihood that i'll be the vector by which someone else catches my cold.

the messaging in the u.s. has been abysmal; it is worse with the president involved. i can take an expert epidemiologist explaining that the elderly and immune-compromised are at greatest risk because that is true and a refrain we hear in the context of the flu every year. but not when he's standing next to president horrorshow who's crowing about how everything's okay and our response has been unprecedentedly perfect: it's not ok for those elderly, infirm and immune-compromised; that they may not recover is no goddamn comfort nor an index of everything being fine. it is not okay for their loved ones and communities. stop smiling.

last week, when centers for disease control stated we should prepare for community transmission, i accosted several representatives of the management: "the cdc encourages me, in preparation for community transmission, to ask you about telework opportunities." those management representatives looked thoughtful and replied, "hmm," (before inquiring where i got the mask). some days later an email was received encouraging us to, out of consideration for our coworkers during cold/flu season, cover our sputum-holes while coughing and sneezing, providing instructions as to how to wash our hands, and encouraging us to apply the heavily-scented sanitary wipes to our workplaces. i wrote back: please provide fragrance-free wipes. my very own canister of "fresh scent" wipes were quickly brought to me by a sympathetic staffer who had been given incomplete instructions, and promptly, abashedly, taken away when i pointed to that part of the label.

my best wishes to those closer to known infection clusters, and where no cases are reported. be well, y'all.

sic, or finely back to a mute point

asia is a hot bed
i am finely back

at your beckon call
people from the teem quewston

bade debts written off
if they are allegeable

there issue is rules
will provide advise
the following types
of data is unacceptable

limit options regarding options
viz-a-vis restrictions
on competiting speak
to descent in a constructive manner

a hugh step didn't get noticde

no matter what the contriution is
1 more vendors jurisdications
could bonify a mute point
derisk contentious relations

sic, or passive-aggressive enjamblement

do not distribution.

this meeting is summarize the results
how efforts foot
solution enhanced my truly SWAG is.

he architected our deals
securing by-in,
spearate folow-up,
for this transactions
does the attached edits work.
see imbedded comments'

co-terminus day of emersion
insure all is in place,
sew "seeds of discontent" at the grassroots level,
acentuate per say pain stakingly slow
order of magnitude of 10X

the ask of you are chalk full:
over 1000+ agents
feel free to reverence the below,
be a systems issues striked-through -
privaleged, provoledged. condistional

approval remains continent on fees
technolical divesture paif next year
going through a relook,
creddentializing an eye soar
check rebate pogrom.

this change is planning to be announced.

sic, or ease of clayback

i am a firm support of our new lobbying procedures
will you coral him and as the question
the group has establish a fund reglated status
high level principles (soundeness)

based upon attendees we will need
to determine who attends
the tenants of the original agreement
rely on uniquely pricing

most of these deals is starting
to shoot a shot across the bow
cleaning the spiddle off
these means that target consumer are

risks & opportunities inputted above
after a cooling of period
usage are expected to reduce
privelidged ease of clayback

lightening round so likely inuded
she's just defering incneitve
values is social connect me him
four quesries match
basic set of requirements required

they acceot Crytpto-currencies
harder to de-fraud cryto-currencies
brick-n-mortal commerce
cash prizing dispersed card stollen

tomorrow Wendy coordinated a call
continue to looks for ways
card abent fraud super dupper
imbedded within the shopping experience

there's too many ways
we descoped this
understand on the halogeam that unwanted to see
what is seaming a different planet
reserved for savy traveler

sic, or let's huddle up and marry the right metaphor

commerce is boundryless competitive
disadvantageous the terms allows parties
to agree many presentations

we're paired down rumors
continue to persist there
active progression of the issue

circle the wagons to make sure
we're all on the same page
don't believe regulation is eminent

have no purview on if concerns
then need unauthorized malware installed to be
reformulated so may launch looks gleam

we are pending the contract desolvation
in acetone his note and my response bellow
some thots on facing a dilemna

when choice are made
incentives it case use to win
and indicated it the cost

of running the off sites
for killing unknown efforts
are quickly surfaced

any request should be progressed
the normal way must self-assess itself route
cause analysis to dimension the risk

numinous earworm bibliomancy!

a colleague and i recently lapsed into another lengthy episode of the earworm game in the office at the instigation of other coworkers' folly.

what is the earworm game, you ask?

why, it is the way these things go.

surely you are familiar with earworms. that word may have evolved a more technical definition over time, but i understand it to mean, broadly, not merely a song that gets stuck in one's head, but a song having an inherent (or developed*: i don't think there is anything inherent at all in "hungry like the wolf" but heavy airplay during years my neurons--and those of others in my generation and media environment--were still actively plastic has made it something that waits there, to be invoked and recalled and recalled and recalled and recalled) propensity to adversely infest awarenesses: "i've got a song stuck in my head" is a not uncommon water-cooler complaint. usually, it is not a song in whole, but some fragment of a song. in my experience it is often three of the four lines of a verse, or just the first line of each of several verses with nothing in between but attention sucking vacuum.

there are solutions from the folklore: one old saw prescribes simply singing the song aloud.

i have had some success with this method, but it can be challenging -- say, when the song stuck in one's head is instrumental; here whistling or humming might be of use (i heard a guy whistle a pretty-amazing brandenburg concerto once...) -- insofar as many around the water cooler are too inhibited to sing. it sounds, to me, that most would prefer others to not sing, and i often agree in particular instances while cherishing the notion of everyone feeling free to sing.

when someone does sing, whistle or hum, it may relieve the singer's plaint, but it may also lead to transmission of the earworm. if language is a virus, song is among its best replication strategies, and earworms, its most virulent strains. this, in turn, may lead to the earworm game: trading volleys of fragments of catchy jingles with other persons in an effort to secure the most mindshare for one's proffer.

it was learning, through the dynamic of this competitive effort, to immediately start thinking of another known earworm upon recognizing one, that led me to the notion of inoculation. just about every american since the invention of mtv, if not the phonograph or radio, has the resources already at hand to inoculate him or herself! the inoculation may be performed by playing the earworm game alone and as quickly as one can for some time, but essentially inheres in developing the capacity to propose catchy passages of songs in rapid sequence: a denial of service defense to deploy (out loud or internally) against any earworm assault.

playing earworm with the guy at the next workstation in the sweatshop is not generally performed singing, or with only very quiet singing: usually some sense of the intonation of words is retained together with the meter (one can hardly say "come on shake your body baby do that conga, no, you can't control yourself any longa" or "ain't nothing gonna break-a my stride" without singing it). the game often devolves into a mere session of listing hit or memorable songs from yore, which, nevertheless, remains sufficiently distracting to defend against any particular infestation; this may also be a best outcome insofar as none of the participants are left subject to any earworm. sometimes it also flares across the sweatshop floor into a brief epidemic which, with too many cooks, usually will burn out in the acoustic equivalent of a flash (though some fragments from that flash may remain "stuck in the head" of one unfortunate auditor or another, perhaps in a dormant state).

so we had a nice session, during which the question of "yacht rock" arose, but my description failed to do it justice or even properly identify the personalities involved. so i followed up after hours with the proper selectors. but my clarification was taken as a challenge, and earworm developed and was played, slowly, via email over several days, during which all sorts of momentous events ensued beyond the game:

-------- Original Message --------
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 21:37:19 -0500
Subject: Re: not the beegees & kristofferson

>>Let the sun shine, let the sunshine in.

Sunrise, sunset.

>>Don't let the sun go down on me.

sunshine daydream, wading in a cold stream!

>> You are my sunshine, my only sunshine

sunny days, chasing the clouds away!

>> We had fun, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun...

I'm happy, feelin glad, got sunshine on a bag!

>> Walking on sunshine, oooh-oooh.

I got sunshi-e-ine on a cloudy day.

>> Ah!
>>Here comes the sun.

I got you babe.

>> Baby come back! You can blame it all on me.

baby face: you've got the cutest little baby face.

>> Baby I'm a-want you; baby I'm a-need you

break on thru to the other side

>> Take the last train to Clarkville

we've got to get out of this place!

>> Baby on board, something something Burt Ward.

I been waiting for a girl like you to come in to my life...


oh girls just wanna have fun (we just wanna--we just wan-na-a-a!)

>>Walk like an Egyptian

we got the beat we got the beat we got the beeeeaaaat yeah we got it!

>> How can you mend a broken hear-eh-art?

sugar! (......) oh honey, honey ...

>> Oh Mandy, you came and you gave without taking, but I sent you away, oh Mandy.

when you get lost between the moon and New York City...

>> And it's run for the roses, as fast as you can...

the leader of the band is tired and his eyes are are growing old, but his blood runs in my instrument...

>> The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind.

where have all the soldiers gone?
(yay the sixties; that's where I'm a Viking!)

>>Bye, bye miss American Pie

woah oh oh oh thunder road, oh thunder road, woah.

>>Muskrat Suzie, Muskrat Sam..

ain't noting gonna breaka my stride

>> Don't give up on us baby.

Frankie says relax.

>> Here's a little song I wrote
>> You can sing it note for note
>> Don't worry, be happy.

hey little sister .... SHOTGUN!

>> Come on Eileen

don't you want me baby?

>> Oh Micky you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind, hey Micky!

turn around, bright eyes.

>> Do you really want to hurt me?

who can it be now?
also: careless whisper; wham

>> Men at work - living in the world down under.

but the doobie brothers & Christopher cross.

* the culturally constructed field of effective song fragments is naturally not inherent at all, but a factor of overlapping media environments of players' individual experience -- that song from the music man may not be familiar to a significant chunk of the population -- so playing the earworm game calls for assessment of other players' . . . likely susceptabilities  . . . and selection of fragments calculated to thrive there.

sic, or this resources can be distributed

two symposium were held during today's day in age

two days of business emersion session
received warm phrase from the community
assumptions were abound
many points have already been bantered around

statements are clear and conscious
we are investigation on our end
what we've battered back and forth

the abuse of prescription drugs is the second most abused drug among teens

i learned a lot of useful materials
a medically wreckless coarse of therapy
issues being bantered about
some time for us to discussion

as others have eluded to
establishment were not in support despite
what i perceived as insincere words

i might be totally off based
running at mock speed
making some tweeks
on the razers edge, attached

is the presentation i'd like to use for the presentation
i'll send revisions via piece mail
that's the whole purple of a staging site
opinions likely to be irrelevant and not too valuable

take a peak
you will see
a patter of explaining develop slides with charts and grafts

just an ordinary day in the basement

it is easy to sea why one might be confused

like the captains of industry (and owners of IP) whose email i read:



when they are, after all, concerned about something called piracy. still.
to stave off madness i struggle to find a ray of  bitter bitter humor.