Mercury in Retrograde

[thatguy]

I discovered recently (the late) Keith Ohlfs, from my high school art class with Mr. Post, designed the spinning pizza wheel of death for NeXTStep which then became macOS X.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/31/keith-ohlfs/

--tg

[Drunk Monk]

I disdain the spinning pizza wheel of death. I'll know that I failed karmically if I die and end up staring at the spinning pizza wheel of death for the rest of eternity.

Back on topic, I failed to click my blue dry erase pen shut and now it's dry. I color code my dry erase calendar and use blue a lot. I'm blue about my blue dry dry erase pen.

[King Bob]

Doesn't reincarnation go hand in hand with karma? So you'll only stare at it for a while.

[Drunk Monk]

Doesn't reincarnation go hand in hand with karma? 

That'd make a nice koan.

I was thinking more in terms of Buddhist Hell - a topic I started to discuss here but abandoned - http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...p?tid=1819

Theoretically (and this is something to discuss with a Buddhist monk or scholar) nirvana is extinction - the cessation of karma - which begs a question about cessation: is it cessation of good and evil? And if not, if we believe that cessation can be either good or bad, perhaps the spinning pizza wheel of death is the negative nirvana. The wheel is a major Buddhist symbol after all.

[King Bob]

Speaking of the wheel, that reminds me of the Burning Spear song (as on Live Paris Zenith 88):

Jah is my driver
Jah is my rider
Jah is the wheel, the wheel, the wheel, the wheel

[Drunk Monk]

Tempted to quote the GD wheel, but that would be too obvs, right?

[King Bob]

Well I always did like "Small wheel turn by the fire and rod, Big wheel turn by the grace of God"

[Drunk Monk]

Likewise. It's a great tune, melodically and lyrically. Hunter/Garcia at the top of their game.

[Drunk Monk]

Did anyone else get an SQL error just now.

So merc in ret

[Drunk Monk]

For some goddamned fukked up reason, my iPhone is beeping in the charger. It’s goddamed 1:30 am and I have to be up at 6. If I silence my iPhone, I won’t hear my alarm. If I don’t silence it, I won’t sleep. I must charge it for tomorrow.

Goddamned merc in ret

[Greg]

My iPhone bricked in Galway. I did all the things you are supposed to do to fix it. Nothing. All of our trip details are in there. Only a small mountain of panic.

We found an iPhone repair place nearby. The tech guy did all the things I did and it started right up. I gave a huge sigh of relief.

[King Bob]

We're probably going to switch to T-Mobile, and supposedly they will offer a phone upgrade discount. My phone works fine but more storage would be nice. I have the original SE with 128GB. I'd love to have 256. I could double my music!

[thatguy]

I think this Merc in Ret is supposed to be over today, so we need a new forum to pin woes upon..

--tg

[Drunk Monk]

Yep

We’ll meet back here on Aug 23.

[thatguy]

Welcome back...is it a gathering?

--tg