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an economy by any other name

Today is the 2nd day of the 43rd week [and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday], the 23rd day of the 10th month, the 296th day of 2017 [81% of the year is past us now], and; 
  • Lung Health Day
  • National Boston Cream Pie Day – this is my very favorite kind of cake to the point where Boston Cream donuts, the now extinct Boston Cream cheesecake, and eclairs are all deserts that I crave.  Shame that most places just use vanilla pudding for the filling instead of the real rich custard though.
  • National Canning Day
  • National iPod Day
  • National Mole Day-- celebrated among chemists, chemistry students and chemistry enthusiasts, it has nothing to do with the animal or spying
  • National Slap Your Irritating Co-Worker Day ((I'm happy to report that I didn't get slapped today -- but whether or not it means I am not irritating or they are worried about liability issues, I cannot say))
  • Swallows Depart from San Juan Capistrano Day -- Every year around the Day of San Juan the famous cliff swallows of San Juan Capistrano swirl into the sky and head back to their wintering grounds in Argentina, 6,000 miles south but I cannot find confirmation of when they left in 2017
  • TV Talk Show Host Day – in 1925 comedian and talk show host Johnny Carson was born in Corning, Iowa.  He is best known for his 30 years as host of The Tonight Show.
ON THIS DAY:

In 1884 -- Moosomin newspaper [in Saskatchewan, Canada] reports the first shipment of four railroad cars of buffalo bones to the US; used as fertilizer, and burned to make carbon black; 20,000 tons of this prairie cash crop will be shipped out before 1897.  I had heard of Indians and mountain men burning buffalo chips for fuel, but apparently their bones actually burned better – interesting to contemplate what the pioneers did with the mountains of carcasses left by the likes of Buffalo Bill, neh?

In 1983 -- Dedication of the Guan Yin Buddhist Temple in Richmond; Canada designed by architect Vincent Kwan, it is North America's most architecturally authentic Chinese imperial temple, resembling Beijing’s Forbidden City.  Guan Yin is the Chinese Bodhisattva/ Goddess of Compassion, Mercy and Kindness, considered to be a mother-goddess and patron of seamen. .

In 2012 – After 38 years, the world's first teletext service (BBC's Ceefax) ceases broadcast due to Northern Ireland completing the digital switchover.  Looks like it was a handy program, especially pre-internet, and I wish the US had developed something like it

In 2015 – The lowest sea-level pressure in the Western Hemisphere [872 mbar (hPa); 25.75 inHg], and the highest reliably-measured non-tornadic sustained winds [maximum sustained winds of 215 mph], are recorded in Hurricane Patricia.  The highest wind speed [outside of a tornado that is] was during the passage of Tropical Cyclone Olivia on 10 April 1996 when an automatic weather station on Barrow Island, Australia recorded 253 mph mph gusts

 

Quote of the day:

"Choice of attention, to pay attention to this and ignore that, is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer."

~  W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973) British Poet

 

We have been talking about the attention economy for a very long time [the book by Thomas H Davenport came out in 2002] and those discussions had a huge impact on the way that I view relationships because for the first time, I saw attention as a finite resource – folks only have so much bandwidth and when that pipe is full, then they lose focus.  I have summed up that personal observation succnectly by stating “while love is infinite and flows freely, time and attention are both finite resources”; it is my strongest caveat against polyamory actually.  But the attention economy was just one of the idesa we had about what would replace the Industrial Revolution:  the knowledge economy, the experience economy, the technological economy, the gig economy, the service economy, etc, etc, and so forth.   Whatever you call it, IMNSHO, we are in the throes of the transition and have been for the past thirty some years, which explains a lot about the kind of societal upsets we are experiencing.  I hope I live long enough to see things settle down – and to get that self-driving, flying car.




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