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Aug. 7th, 2009 12:54Friday July 31, 2009 This was clueless cat and clueless human day.
"I love you. By the way, my food dish is empty." And magically, there was cat food in the dish.
Food which had already been there. And I'm not the one who feeds her.
***To Southwest Senior Center, to use the computer lab.
***On the way home, I stopped in at the St. Vincent de Paul thrift store on Lake Street.
Continuing on got a bit strange, thanks to a belligerent man in the bus shelter. What I could understand of his insults was "...you the uglies' nigger..." (He seemed more interested in sounding tough and black than in being intelligible.)
While I'm capable of tanning darker than most Afro-Americans, I'm currently "white" skinned with a tinge of brown.
On to East Lake Library, and then home.
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Saturday August 1, 2009 Read: Mark Penn "with E. Kinney Zalesne," _Microtrends: the small forces behind tomorrow's big changes_, 2007.
Much of it makes sense. However:
1) Mark Penn had much to do with running Hillary Clinton's Presidential nomination campaign. That campaign made blunders which seemed to be based on misreading Democratic primary and caucus voters. And in news interviews, Penn often seemed clueless. (I would have had to revise these opinions if Penn had run a winning campaign.)
2) There are glitches in what Penn believes to be true. For example: It's not true that only recently have immigrants been able to live in the US without learning English. My great-grandmother arrived just before WW I, and for decades lived in a community in which she didn't have to learn English.
Worth reading if you're interested in the near to medium future.
***To Mercado Central's 10th anniversary celebration. (Mercado Central is an indoor Hispanic market; mostly Mexican, but with several other kinds of Latin American eateries.)
Part of Lake Street was blocked off. There was an entertainment stage, with a clown-magician while I was there. And various booths for businesses, Hispanic organizations, and other groups.
Including a Scientology booth with signage and materials only in English. This showed less competence than either Scientology's friends or its enemies attribute to it.
***On to the Mnstf meeting at Dean Gahlon and Laura Krentz's. [Mnstf = Minnesota Science Fiction Society] It was a small meeting, thanks to competition from Diversicon, a couple of competing social events, and the Fringe Festival. And the Montreal Worldcon was coming up in a few days; some people were probably traveling toward that, and others resting up for it.
"I love you. By the way, my food dish is empty." And magically, there was cat food in the dish.
Food which had already been there. And I'm not the one who feeds her.
***To Southwest Senior Center, to use the computer lab.
***On the way home, I stopped in at the St. Vincent de Paul thrift store on Lake Street.
Continuing on got a bit strange, thanks to a belligerent man in the bus shelter. What I could understand of his insults was "...you the uglies' nigger..." (He seemed more interested in sounding tough and black than in being intelligible.)
While I'm capable of tanning darker than most Afro-Americans, I'm currently "white" skinned with a tinge of brown.
On to East Lake Library, and then home.
==
Saturday August 1, 2009 Read: Mark Penn "with E. Kinney Zalesne," _Microtrends: the small forces behind tomorrow's big changes_, 2007.
Much of it makes sense. However:
1) Mark Penn had much to do with running Hillary Clinton's Presidential nomination campaign. That campaign made blunders which seemed to be based on misreading Democratic primary and caucus voters. And in news interviews, Penn often seemed clueless. (I would have had to revise these opinions if Penn had run a winning campaign.)
2) There are glitches in what Penn believes to be true. For example: It's not true that only recently have immigrants been able to live in the US without learning English. My great-grandmother arrived just before WW I, and for decades lived in a community in which she didn't have to learn English.
Worth reading if you're interested in the near to medium future.
***To Mercado Central's 10th anniversary celebration. (Mercado Central is an indoor Hispanic market; mostly Mexican, but with several other kinds of Latin American eateries.)
Part of Lake Street was blocked off. There was an entertainment stage, with a clown-magician while I was there. And various booths for businesses, Hispanic organizations, and other groups.
Including a Scientology booth with signage and materials only in English. This showed less competence than either Scientology's friends or its enemies attribute to it.
***On to the Mnstf meeting at Dean Gahlon and Laura Krentz's. [Mnstf = Minnesota Science Fiction Society] It was a small meeting, thanks to competition from Diversicon, a couple of competing social events, and the Fringe Festival. And the Montreal Worldcon was coming up in a few days; some people were probably traveling toward that, and others resting up for it.