What's up - January 2025

 "Everyday life presents itself as a reality interpreted by men and subjectively meaningful to them as a coherent world." - Peter L. Berger

Starlink WiFi Router Drama

 "Sometimes it only takes one act of kindness to change someone's life." - Jackie Chan

Fur, Fiber and Christmas

 "Sometimes even to live is an act of courage." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

They're decals, not stickers!

 "Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor." - Alexis Carrell

First hobby

 "Disobedience is the foundation of liberty.  The obedient are slaves." - Henry David Thoreau

Joint government/commercial censorship

 "Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon." - Nicholas Gomez Davila

Fixing those problems

 "Be tolerant of others and strict with yourself." - Marcus Aurelius

Contusion

 "The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure, while the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell

Reality Check

 "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad" - Sophocles

Mid-November decompression - Updated

 "Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases.  Neither is it merely the opportunity to chose between a set of alternatives.  Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices - and then the opportunity to choose." - C. Wright Mills