“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
Pablo Picasso

Learning the skills to grow ones own food has always provided a comfort of some level by being self sufficient or a better educated purchaser. Most commonly thought of as a vegetable garden, my definition includes kitchen craft and animal husbandry. A good loaf of bread and glass of beer requires carefully growing yeasts in the proper enviornment.

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Happy Friday everyone. I hope everybody is doing well. Post any photos, memes, or music you like.

On Tuesday the camera club I belong to went to the Japanese Friendship Garden in Balboa Park. The garden is beautifully landscaped and well maintained and is a great place to get away from the daily grind and enjoy some quiet moments relaxing in a picturesque setting.

Not talking about gender identities, but born to a gender at a time when Women's Lib was trying to accomplish something like societal and work place equity and parity for women, who still make something like 65 cents to a man's $1.00. Specifically, I will address the female gender practicing law back in the 1980s, and wearing dresses and skirts. This is my experience in Southeast Texas courtrooms.

One of the byproducts of this "leak" is that we now know that there are US Special Forces inside Ukraine. Here are Krystal and Saagar offering up a scoop:

AI - Not so Lovely

Bill McKibben recently wrote a piece about AI called 'Regular Old Intelligence is Sufficient: Even Lovely'. The piece is really good. He said a lot of things in it that I agree with, but haven't the ability to express very well.

International Day for Street Children