I failed to pass probation today and was let go

I was working in the north
woods as a cook for a spell
and one day the axe just
fell

I have been selling GPS
systems to the trades
mostly for six months
its been a struggle
and today when the
math did not add up
for my company
they regretfully let
me go
I have no complaint

I tried harder than
anything I have done
recently and failed
thats the bottom line

Ok I am going to move
on with lessons learned
and be better next time
if only some company
that fits me needs
me

UTES need to Read part Deux

4) I am not sure if Catcher on the Rye would even have made my list except for the fact I asked a friend for one suggestion. To review this is a list of the top ten books teens should read to prepare them for survival.

So take this recommendation seriously because my friend is a heavy hitter. 

I am not googling nothing when I do this going strictly from 40 year old memory. Thats a book with impact, which reminds me of Catch 22.

Catcher in the Rye was on every grade nine reading list back in the day (70's and 80's) despite the use of the word fuck, I think it was only once. In essence it is a well told tale of teen alienation. It tells the reader its okay to be a fuck up and rebel. Love yourself and listen to your own voice because there is no truer compass in this mixed up direction life.  Like most books on this list Catcher on the Rye is ancient history and will the UTES of today comprehend that nothing has really changed.

However like Gulliver's Travels Catcher on the Rye was a cultural revolution that could only be understood by thinkingaboot things or historians. The 60's would never have happened without help from Holden Caulfield who was revealed to the public in 1951. Without the 60's we would all be living behind white picket fences with no Gates. (IBM PUN) 


5) Well its a bit of a collective  I asked a very famous internet pen pal for a suggestion and be gave me that list. Some good stuff there, but really my friend your endorsing Friday Night Lights, what you want to turn us into Texas:) 

Now I have never read that book. My only advice about finance is that never trust anyone with your money. The stock market is a casino and unless your very clever the house wins. Samuel Clemens had very good advice. Invest in real estate they are not making any more of it. Nevertheless financial literacy is a woebegotton education for teens.

5)Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones is based upon the 100 years war in Europe. We live in a world where its logic is applied every day while the bloodshed mostly happens in Doran. I hate to teach cynicism but the fact is that we are all sinners and saints, and the higher you go on the saint pole the more sins you must commit to sit on the throne. Men are animals, women are the human mothers of animals these are truths. The real lesson is we should separate the intellect from the physical being if we want to make a civilization that will not destroy itself.


6) Foundation and Empire (the trilogy)

Issac Asimov was a critical thinker a trait he shared with his peer in the Golden Age of Sci Fiction.  His contemporaneity are legendary Robert Heinlein, Arthur C Clarke, Ray Bradbury and others who wrote blind. They where not extrapolating future history based upon the magical tech we have today, they were inventing the future we now living in cira 1950.

As I look back all these year later having grown up with their collective dreams I pick Issac as the one who the youths of today should pick first overall. The reason being is he was the most correct. Foundation is a story about a historian who used mathematics to plot a thousand year course for humanity. He even predicted The Mule. The Mule is Trump.

Everyone should have absolute faith in mathematics. Statistics can be manipulated, but mathematics are a Farabouchi. Math is the voice of God if there is one, and even though I dont believe it seems incredible that math is nothing more than random numbers.

7)Slaughterhouse 5

I met Kirk Vonnegut jr long after he seared my skull with laughter and tears flowing from his epic tales. He was a survivor of the fire bombing of Dresden and it scared him forever. His writing was in no small way an attempt to push humans away from folly. Aside from Sienfield I dont think I have every laughed as hard as reading a Vonnegut novel. Every one of his novels is a trip.
8) Red Mars (Mars Trilogy)

Eldon Musk was not the first human to say we better get to Mars before its too late. Kim Stanley Robinson wrote the seminal series about the colonization of Mars. Its a soap opera disguised as science with a scalpel like examination of humanity at the same time. A colossal work that needs the HBO treatment today.

9) Catch 22

Maybe the utes of today no longer say it, but the world we live in portrayes it in every sound we hear from TV or podcasts, its the rage of rap. What is a catch 22?

a dilemma or difficult circumstance from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent conditions.

Its the circular logic clusterfuck that allows us to burn down villages to save them and take the hero walk afterwords. If I was confronted by aliens and they asked me for one book to explain myself before they cleansed the planet I would give them this one.

10) Crake and Onyx

To limit myself to ten was a real challenge. For sure I should have included some uplifting autobiography. I think the news today if full of greet news stories at the end of every hour. If you look under the cover of every hero except maybe Jean Beliveau you are going to find some big hollows. My advice is dont limit yourself, but dont destroy yourself in the purist because even the greatest success will not be worth the price. Bill Gates and Richard Branson seem to me to be the two people I would admire most. How much we can really learn about success from them is debatable. Having said that lets get back to dystopia.

Crake and Onyx is the most insightful book written about 21st century human civilization. Its a 12 monkeys tale with a lot more depth. With great power comes great responsibility. Humans now have nearly universal access to the former and have given up on the later. Please teens of the now and future dont be like your parents. (1984 not included because duh kids are going to read in on their own or get it through osmosis living today)

Pipeline Dreams

Yes Canada should sell oil
no we should not base our
economy around it
see NORWAY
which is rich because
they read PET
and Loved IT

The whole dilbit
shit is nonsense
refine it in Alberta
take the upsell profit
and dont worry
about bitumen
on the coast

Its so simple
why dont we
do it
ask our
US 
MASTERS

They killed the 
AVRO arrow
you know

Never Fear Blowback part infinite

The CHICOMS have taken
the Bin Landen Helicopters
and Made something
Lockheed Douglas
can not even
swear was built
in the USA 
You gotta click the
link
if not for the intelligence
the graphics
are pure exellence

Dreaming about Jet Lag

Shift workers
dream they
won the lottery
and have

Jet Lag

I dont often comment on T shirt posts. Jet lag is such a first world problem we should create a special category for it. I have flown millions of  trans contentential miles over decades and jet lag is something that a shift worker deals with every two weeks and is told suck it up. The amount of airspace and megabites devoted to this topic is bullshit. Its very simple change your schedule to the time your going to as best as possible a few days before, and the day of the flight dont sleep stay up all night. Case close stop winniny bitches you first world people.

Dichotomy for Civilization when it comes to UTES

The UTES are the future
always have been
since we program
still in the womb
and they hit our
world mostly fully
formed by DNA
and Mothers love

So do we tell them the
truth and make them
all cynical
and not loving
the status quo
life
or do we program
them with stories
of the Skygod
and a bad experience
in the after life

Well we have IMHO
done the SkyGod thing
over and over maybe
six or seven times
and it always ended
the same
total extinction
level event

So lets teach the children
well
there is only one thing
humans know for
certain and that is mathematics
and if you look at the
big picture
the three laws of
thermodynamics
everything else is just
a theory or worse
a case of the the wolf
using humans animal nature
to make them sheeple

So if we tell children the
truth can we count on them
to rise our nation our provice
or city or neighborhood up
to new levels like the Nazi
did with the Sheeple expericne
or is there a better way
that in our civilization has
never been tried

Trump during Wartime

Does Trump have any of these arrows in his toolbag?

He is bringing all his wisdom 
to the fight
and be prepared
for some huge changes
the early results from
NAFTA are a huge win
still it has to be exhasting
fighting on so many fronts
what would Sun Tzu say?

The United States is currently waging economic warfare against one tenth of the world’s countries with cumulative population of nearly 2 billion people and combined gross domestic product (GDP) of more than $15 trillion.

These include Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Myanmar, the Democratic Republic of Congo, North Korea and others on which Washington has imposed sanctions over the years, but also countries like China, Pakistan and Turkey which are not under full sanctions but rather targets of other punitive economic measures.

In addition, thousands of individuals from scores of countries are included in the Treasury Department’s list of Specially Designated Nationals who are effectively blocked from the U.S.-dominated global financial system. Many of those designated are either part of or closely linked to their countries’ leadership…

But in recent months it seems that America’s unwavering commitment to fight all of the world’s scourges has brought all those governments and the wealthy individuals who support them to a critical mass, joining forces to create a parallel financial system which would be out of reach of America’s long arm. Should they succeed, the impact on America’s global posture would be transformational.

Top Ten Books for Teens

1) Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels was one of the most influential books ever written. It was a real case of the pen being mightier than the sword.

Published seven years after Daniel Defoe's wildly successful Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels may be read as a systematic rebuttal of Defoe's optimistic account of human capability. In The Unthinkable Swift: The Spontaneous Philosophy of a Church of England Man, Warren Montagargues that Swift was concerned to refute the notion that the individual precedes society, as Defoe's novel seems to suggest. Swift regarded such thought as a dangerous endorsement of Thomas Hobbes' radical political philosophy and for this reason Gulliver repeatedly encounters established societies rather than desolate islands. The captain who invites Gulliver to serve as a surgeon aboard his ship on the disastrous third voyage is named Robinson. (paragrahfic Wikipedia)

Our current crop of idiots only know Gulliver's Travels as a Disney story. It was a epochal successful attack on the Tea Party of the day. An idea expressed in print that changed history. 

2) Lord of the Rings

There are two novels that capture the imagination of a not completely formed mind.

Lord of the Rings is my 2nd choice and Atlas Shrugged is my third.

The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

Lord of the Rings is a bible for atheist. In a way that will offend no one it teaches the difference between good and evil and why people should always go good. The Medium is the message. Reading forces the user to fill in many blanks and can consume way more thought than a visual presentation where all the thought has been bought and paid for.

I unappreciative Shakespeare but acknowledge he captured humanity like no one before or after because nothing has really changed. Lord of the Rings is Shakespeare for dummies.

Notice the Nazi like Graphics

3)Atlas Shrugged

Okay I have to admit from the top I tried to read it and it was such driveler IMHO that I could not continue. However I must give props to the Ayn Rand for shaping the future. She struck a cord that is playing in every part of your life today. The true believers are at war with the takers and long for a time when the makers rule. Trump is a maker. The makers use simple language and allegory to convince you that inequality is the best way for humans to exist. There is no problem that can not

be contained by increased security. This is fascism plain and simple. We all know how it ends. Why even take a step down this path of nihilism.

Ed Note, yes there are 7 more to come including two guest spots and I dont know where to place them so I am going to go fourth and fifth....

Electric Car Smackdown

Anyone pushing an ICE car is also pushing an agenda that
has nothing to do with best practices.

Axe yourself have you ever seen a product hit as hard as Tesla car. Have you ever seen a person that fits of the mold of  Steve Jobs dissed so hard. Why? Who? When?

Snowmexicant Daily Diary Mexico and USA sign new bilateral agreement leaving Canada in the wind

Everything has not
shaken out yet
so its unfair to 
say the Mexicans
broke in a Mexican
standoff where
they where supposed
to stand with Canada

The big deal the auto trade
is something Canada should
love
the sunset clause has
been buried but is
still there

We will sign
but should plan
five years down the 
road
and if our dairy
cows are
hit by cars
well its
the autobahn

Hardware on the knowledge, vaporware on the wisdom

Unlocked

all of the knowledge

needed to make Utopia

blocked is the wisdom

Obsolete the day after you bought it

It happens everyday
you buy something
and then read about
the latest that you dont
have

Today its HDMI 2.1
which can transmit for
than 18GB per second
speeds you need
for all the best in Hi Def
TV and audio

Its not a big deal
but if your going to drop for a
Dolby atmos receiver and HDR TV
maybe wait until tomorrow to buy it.

Its not the only reason
but if I was going to buy
a top end AV Reciever
it would be a NAD
with Modular Design Construction

Coal Burning Blues Suicide

Right now we need to stop burning coal for anything other than steel production, maybe concrete.
There are other alternatives. They are all cheaper than a dead planet.  Man made climate change deniers say where is the temp increase? Its in the oceans dummies who dont have a clue about the power of the laws of thermodynamics that rule our existence.

Two other painless measures. Two cycle engines and bunker C banned.

sex ed fantasy

The person who made this sign should be aware if they believe that their kids will be morons

Ontario is being rollayed
by a debate about\
what we teach kids
in school about sex
are we glad to be
gay
and should
we ever send a
dick pic

Its meaningless
a waste of time
we might say some
boilerplate
at the beginning of
every year
after that
everyone
has access to
the interenet

Video Game Combat Exposition

I love playing FPS games
that is First Person Shooter
for you people not
in reality

What I have noticed
is that FPS has
changed real combat
and now its expected
you can take a hit
and keep on keeping
on due to new armour
and when they get
health we will have
true super soldiers

Common Sense it dont make no Sense No More -John Prine

Common sense says Institutions
are important even if they
are nonsense
because the
keep the body politic
from going tribal

Its so easy to destroy
and so hard to build
and if you elect a destroyer
expect them to fulfil
all election promis
so they kept the
promise
can we get
promise rings
for the electorate
next time

The goal of every goverment
is in Utopian terms
to make a perfect
whatever
suburb, town city
or nation

If we can argue on these
terms there is a chance
we will hit that goal
in a natural lifetime
however if the goal
of the goverment
is to skim the fat
and reward
friends and family
well spouting\
I tunes then
we are doomed

The idea of a perfect society
no longer exists in politics
no one campaigns on this
its become all about
tribal warfare
and we all know
how that
worked in
Yugoslavia

So why dont we
call out the bullshit
haters who try to turn
us on to each others
backs
instead of working
every problem
like a it was
our civilazation
at stake

Chilling down about to hibernate 8 hours

I lived another day
and it was blessed
because when I woke
up this morning
I was on top
of the grass
still alive in this
enviroment

and so it goes
and so it goes
My wife who looks
after me like
a nation treasure
prepared lots of
 fruit
local GMO free
nectarines
and cantaloupe
schmeckt gut

I did not comb my
hair but I gave
that wet mass
a toss with my
hand
and set off
in my Hyandi

Never thought never
imagined I would not
only drive a Korean
Car but love it
still I got to admit
I have Civic envy
bare minimum

I pull into the parking
lot after streaming like
hell down the paid
407 highway
thanks Mike Harris
you made my morning
commute totally
capitalist

I sell GPS systems
to the ignorant public
who dont know
how much money
the boss can save
by tracking your every
move
and in truth its thousands
and its just another productivity
leap
that proves
we have fell
so far we dont
know where our
ass is anymore
but we pay millions
hoping to find it
at Tony Robbins
door

I love to sell things
I still get a thrill
when someone
anyone says
yes because
my lizard mind
thinks this is
a diamond mine
I might after all
get minted

We get leads from
the proletariat and 
I crush those
like grapes
that make me
wine I can sell
for market price
every bottle
and to be fair
we have a product
that I am proud to sell
and when I look in the 
mirror at the end of the day
I can say
I did nothing 
that was not to the betterment
of the human race
if the goal is to make
us run faster
jump higher
and never
have a illegitimate
smoke break

So after 8 hours of
calling people steady
and mostly facing rejection
and some time sympathy
I booked one to five appointments
for us to close
and I call every appointment
victory
because this is my life
I call and book
and someone closes
and I am a hero
if I do more
than anyone 
supposes

I have taken on
so many tasks for
money and loved
them all the same
because like everyone
I liked the British Empire
at it prime where to work
for money was considered
outlandish and cause for
concern about the state of the
economy
what does Steve know that
makes him want to work
for money?

I like selling the GPS
its a lot of fun
my teammates are 
so skilled it scares
my old mind
how they do
all those things
at one time
while I am still
trying to figure
out the calendar
but with their help
I am sure I will make
it to 75 and be the GPS 
legendary sailor that made
the GTA flow
like a perfect tailwind
with cash in 
every register
of everyone
who works on site
or has to transport
things to make
the sales bell
ring

Mostly Everything you think about the different people is wrong

I have lived a small lifetime\
in Muslim countries
I have seen people
from Africa fairly eat
my lunch because they
where more skilled
than me

We have one thing
in common
we have overlords
and if we could
just defeat
the divide and conquer
strategy
that has worked
since the Jews
killed Jesus
this  world
might have some
chance to succed
where previous
advanced civilizations\
failed
no doubt
because they
thought that
comprimise
was a chicken
world
and we
live on
deep fried
KFC
planet