And a wonderful hula!

Enjoy sunset on Waikiki beach tonight.

We just learned that my niece was named the PAC-12 Goalkeeper of the year!!

Enjoy the sunset from Waikiki Beach tonight.

Free speech does not absolve a person of the accountability of that speech.

Anger is rarely, if ever, an attribute that moves you closer to a solution.

Energy and Attention is an attribute that can move you closer to a solution.

Anger can create energy and sometimes even focus Attention. But, both of those can be achieved via other means besides Anger. For instance: Discipline.

Anger does not directly achieve the solution you seek.

#Ukraine
#Israel

Enjoy sunset over San Francisco tonight.

Wait..the World Series was happening, and finished, and I didn't know?
Guess when the home team isn't in it nobody nearby is covering it.

I believe that any morally-guided person (aka: Good Person) should preface any statement on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with:

"What Hamas did was unacceptable. It was terrorism and nothing, NOTHING justifies terrorism."

If you are not coming from that perspective you are part of the problem.

You are comfortable with "whataboutism".

You will convince yourself that you understand the problem and believe you understand the solution as well.

Be a good person first.

Apparently many felt it. Including my wife while we were at dinner. All over the news. I think I'm too insensitive.

Earthquake right underneath San Francisco Airport tonight. Small. 3.9M.

When apply a Solution,
Take some extra time
To ensure
That it is going to fix
The Problem.

Otherwise
It is not
A Solution.

A new breakfast place in San Francisco! Bluestone Lane.

"Strategy" is a stepwise journey towards a goal.
Those steps may be uncomfortable and may, on their surface, be counterproductive.

For instance, my wife hates demolition during a renovation. But she sure likes a new kitchen.

Sometimes the destruction sets up the pathway towards greater progress.

But, never discount morality in those steps.

The ends are never the only justification for the means.

That's why progress is hard and complex.

When I think about the root of my passion regarding the Ukraine and Israel conflicts, it occurs to me that it will always be different from those that have some skin in the game.
I am not a Jew nor Israeli.
I am not a Ukrainian nor Russian.

My passion seems to be in my desire to seek out solutions. Ultimately, my passion is for humanity to make progress. Anything that gets in the way of progress is a problem.

That being said, in order to renovate you have to do demolition.

Just watched "Where the Buffalo Roam" w/ Bill Murray.
H. S. Thompson derivation.
Nutty. Funny. Weird as shit.

Phew.
Just spent two days successfully coding a website to manage a large project hitting the OpenAI database.

I don't know how to code very well.

But ChatGPT got me over the finish line.

It's still not easy. You do have to know what you are doing in detail.

But, you don't need to work out all of the syntax - something that would burn up days of frustrating effort.

I'm making incredible progress with the help of AI.

Glamgina has just entered the cultural vocabulary.

Sorry. Can't.

Here's what could happen with the US House Speaker campaign:

- The Republicans continue to make no progress
- The Dems find an outsider that they can trust to keep their word
- The outsider is probably a Republican that has worked well with the Dems in the past
- The Dems find a handful of Republicans that can support the outsider
- That outsider gets elected and pisses off 90% of the Republicans
- The outsider is Liz Cheney
#house
#USHouse
#Speaker
#USGovernment