Posted on 05/08/2010 7:40:36 AM PDT by RubberPig
Edited on 05/08/2010 7:55:28 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Has your mom tried familysearch.com? There is so much information, there! Free, too!
It’s time for me to watch Blade Runner: Director’s Cut so I can get it in the mail today. Then I’ll start Harry Potter.... One movie a day to the end, then wait for the Deathly Hallows to be released.
I suspect after this, I’ll be looking on Amazon for the entire series of movies.
:o])
We finished “Reilly: Ace of Spies” last night. I need to get it in the mail. I don’t think the kids got through “The Wizard of Oz” before we shoo’d them off to bed, though. They can finish it this afternoon.
Last swim meet is tonight. Whew!
Blade Runner: Director’s Cut = Blade Runner: Final Cut.
Must be Monday.
My brain is not working today. Would you have an idea what “residual functionality” means? I’m sure I know, but I can’t seem to translate it into words that I can actually use.
Maybe we could come up with a better phrase that “move on”, it makes me feel ill for some reason.
I don’t know what resources were used. This turned into a joint venture with some of her cousins and their kids which ended up as a family reunion out in AZ about 10 years ago.
Mom’s got a photo of herself and some of the other family standing in front of her uncle’s old house in a podunk desert mining town where she and my grandmother stayed while visiting in 1938.
“Residual functionality” seems to mean that an object (device, person) used to be able to do a variety of things, but now it only does a few or one. For example, if your toaster no longer makes toast, it may have residual functionality as a doorstop.
Thanks thanks.
The author has a lot of outlandish things to say.
This one just seemed somewhat confirmable, or not.
Ah. Thanks. I knew that, but couldn’t bring it out of my forehead.
*sigh*
Doorstop. He-heh. I’m optimistic as to my ability to retain at LEAST that much “Residual Functionality” for the foreseeable future.
More generally, I observe that aging becomes an ongoing effort to successfully retain the highest level of Residual Functionality through acquisition of alternate, and transformation of existing functionality.
So, mathematically, death may be expressed as the limit life as Residual Functionality approaches zero?
I took my last math course in 1986. I suppose that, no matter what other abilities I lose, I can still manage Napping with Babies and Catz.
Residual functionality equates to the Peter Prinicple? Kewl!
I don’t need to worry then. ;o]
Some days, my brain plays ugly tricks on my ability to process the things in my life. Which is why I’m so glad I have FRiends like you!!
Had another flash of inspiration this morning...
You may recall the very end of the film “The Incredibles”?
[And, if ya haven’t seen it, y’oughta. It’s PIXAR, after all.]
“The Underminer,” a new supervillain, emerges right at the end of the film, and drops this line:
“I’m always beneath you, but nothing is beneath me!”
It’s gotta be Obama.
Interesting concept.
One of my favoritw PIXAR movies!! I don’t have them all, yet, but I’m working on it!!
As my great nephew called them: The In-CREB-idoes!
That's one definition. It is not necessary to assume that functionality must decrease, even if it is assumed that it must change.
As example; Stephen Hawking has very little physical functionality, but he has found ways to augment his mental functionality.
So too, it may be possible that otherwise apparently minimally functional individuals may be functioning in a manner that we have no means to observe.
The end limit of this possibility is unknown.
As soon as ever you can, rev up and go to the theater for “Toy Story 3.” Whether or not you opt for the 3D version, most DEFINITELY go see it. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll kiss a few buck goodbye.
“Toy Story 3” wraps up the adventures of those PIXAR characters that have been favorites for 15 years; since 1995 (!). The story wraps up the trilogy in a REALLY sweet spot that leaves it in such a state of beautiful finality that a “Toy Story 4” would be a vile, and banal act of cinematic sacrilege.
I am SO tired... slept poorly since I got here, on top of 4-1/2 days straight of meetings. The next meeting should be easy though: I am not chairman, vice-chairman, secretary, working group convener, subject-matter expert (well, I am but so are all the rest of us!), nothing but a member.
And the meeting is in the afternoon so I already have the "Privacy" sign in the lock outside the door, the blinds drawn tightly shut to keep out morning sun, alarm clock off. Now if I can just sleep in.
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