Java Zen:Thinking Out Loud Monday, 2026.05.25
The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe
livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers
legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see
how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to
all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his
salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any
other man. But it's lovely work if you can stomach it.

		Robert Heinlein, "Time Enough For Love"

2008.05.01

Spring, Rocky Mountain Style – II

Yesterday was a beautiful Spring day, so nice I sat outside in the yard and watched the stars come out while sipping a homebrew beer (excellent batch, by the way.) Here’s what it looks like from my office window at the moment:

When this storm is done, I likely will need a shovel to clear all this Global Warming from the driveway.


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