Memory reaching maximum limits

Well, maybe not maximum, but there are more and more times where the memory is there, but the links are broken.

Like in yesterdays post, where I attributed a Niven acronym to Heinlein,,,

Ooops

In my defense, I haven’t read the Ringworld series in at least 15 years; maybe closer to 20.   I recall the last time I read it was when Self and Ex were still together and had just purchased our house.  We were setting up the bookshelves and the resulting reading binge that brought on,     I don’t think we turned on a Boobtoob for a month or more, STRAIGHT, since as soon as we were able after the days grinds, the books were out and noses embedded in them.  

FWIW, there was a bookshelf in EVERY room in that house.  Even the Kitchen (that was a revolving content shelf, with only two cookbooks that were constant residents.) Yup, we would read even while cooking.   Total biblioholics.

Still there, and the stack of books I have next to my desk for digestion never seems to shrink, even though I can definitely see the growing hoard on the shelf, to attest that there has been headway.  

But the memory banks need defragged.   Some errors have been occuring.

Something that has been popping up a lot on my feeds lately, yes, a commercial, but this one in particular rather bothers me.   Its for an AI ran ‘reader’ app.  Where you can install a pdf file or scan a page, and the app will read it to you.   And its popular as heck right now.  (not that I have any interest in it, I much prefer to see the words, not hear them.  I  can listen in, but I can never visualize like when I am reading the words.  Even in lectures, I need the written words to fully grasp the subject.) 

What truly bothers me about this App: so many now don’t like to read, its a chore, tiresome, a bother, will ‘put me to sleep’ etc etc.    Of course as a writer, this trend bothers me, but its not just the financial side to the writers,,, its that reading is almost ‘unacceptable’ now.    And this, to me, is signal that we are on the rapidly falling downward slope of ‘Dumbing down’    80IQaverage dead ahead, looming like a mountain the in the cockpit window of a 747 at cruise speed.

And then I glance in my neighbors direction and think, “Looming?  nope,,, we’ve already impacted,,,”

I could go on so many different rants on this line of thought,, from the dumbing down of our populace, to the institutionalized aspects that have led us here, to The Marxist indoctrination that has taken hold of so many of the young. (btw, My favorite lawyer is back for a brief spell at the J.O.B. and we have been debating “Capitalism vs Socialism” the last couple of days.    I can’t wait until he passes the bar, and starts REAL WORLD lessoning.  LOL,,, that indoctrinated crap is gonna fall apart like tissue paper in the rain.)   

Yes, that conversation took place as well.   I am not the Eebbil Capitalist anymore,,, I am the radical anarchist (in his perception) 

You’d think as much as we debate, the others might take a lesson or two home with them.   HA!!!   Hahahaahaha!!!!   I asked Burnout what he learned while listening to us debate; “you guys use a lot of big words,,,,”  ((for the record, more than two syllables and Burn out thinks its a ‘big word’,,,))

Swwwooooooooshhhhhhhhh!!!! the sound of debate flying right over heads,,,,

Y’all wonder why I wanna move?  I just wanna get to where I feel ‘Average’, not that tall nail in the middle of the floor.   (obviously, there are other factors involved, but THAT, is at the heart of the matter,,,,  Its very hard to have a battle of wits with unarmed persons,,, and I NEED those ‘battles’ to keep the edge on my weapon.  Its feeling rather blunted these days.)   I may not agree with the opposition, but so long as they are willing to civilly debate points, I’m all in.   I loved living near the University back after Ex and I split.   If I needed REAL mental stimulation, not just printed words, I could go to any of several coffee houses or bars and dive right in.

I’m not that good, but I could have a blast with some of the more foolish ‘intellects’.   And his point about saving that tuition and getting a library card: DAMNED SKIPPY!!!!  And now its even easier, with the nets (though you have to be 20 times more careful that you aren’t falling down an algorithm sourced rabbit hole of bunk. Looking at you, flat-earthers!)

The brain,, lots of synapsi and nuerons, and very much like a muscle: if you don’t use it, it gets weak.   Mine has been doing repetitive exercises but not getting a real work out in a long time.  Days like today with the ‘kid Lawyer’ are absolute TREATS to me.   I get to flex a bit,   Clear out some of the gunk and dust that clutters the channels with the downtime of solitude.

Anywhooossss,,,,, Tomorrow is INDEPENDENCE DAY,,,, I have no clue what y’all have planned, fact; I have no clue what I have planned at this point.   I’ve been so into my rut of work, eat, sleep lately, that a three day weekend was a handful of sand in the tiny gears of my reality.  

I’ll likely be up in the wee hours, and post up something appropriate for the day.

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