Sunflowers Again

 These are new, and a bit of relief from the extreme heat here. It is only 78 F this morning and breezy. Maybe it won't go over 100 F. In this area, August usually sees moderating temps. I think most of the time, if memory serves, our hottest weather is in July. At one time it was a fairly routine event to get a norther in mid-August that would bring significant relief for a few days. But that has not happened in the past few years. Climate trends are not favorable. Humans are such stupid animals, they shit in their own nest. And then deny it. 

Oh well. The ride might be strange. The ride might be sad. The ride might be a fantastic adventure! The ride might be full of thrills and laughs. Or it might be a horror show. Whatever it is, it ends. Of that, one can be certain. 

108 F?

That was the high forecast for yesterday but I'm not sure we got there, since there was a lot of overcast yesterday. And now the forecast has our temperatures "moderating" with rain chances increasing as this blistering July ends. Another Good Riddance. Global Warming is real and I think we are in the phase of Global Warning. Ha. Too late. Maybe God will stuff the bullet holes with candy, so to speak. Is there a special place for failed species? For failed "intelligent" species? The dinosaurs were more loveable than humanity. Rattlesnakes are easier to love than humanity. 

 There is nothing more tragic, more depressing, than a maternity ward. 

Global Warming Is Real

 And the climate changes caused by human fossil fuel use are probably out of control. Runaway greenhouse, anyone? I'll be OK, of course. I'm too old to be around for the real disasters to come. But if you have any children, they'll probably be very, very, uncomfortable and their children might be in a desperate situation. Gee, I'm so glad I decided not to breed. No hostages to fate was my motto then, and it was a good one. 

Plenty More Heat

 As hot as the coming days will be, we'll still be well off the record high of 1995, at 114 F. It's questionable whether the Texas power grid will make it, since outages in Austin (ironic, isn't it) have already occurred. And this is after "upgrades". I suspect that the only upgrades were to the bank accounts of Asshole Abbot's political cronies and partners in crime. Only my opinion, of course. But something is very fishy about these chronic power grid failures. It would help a lot to shut down bit mining in this state. Everywhere, for that matter. But I'm sure many palms were greased in order to get that crap established in Texas. The people suffer and the crooks prosper. 

What a summer. What a bummer. 

Being Or Nothingness?

 My vote would be for nothingness, except that nothingness probably amounts to nonsense. Like it or not, "existence exists", as the Objectivists like to chant. There is no alternative. Some early pre-Socratic, whose name escapes me (I could look it up) postulated a primal stuff, out of which everything is made, and that primal stuff has no beginning or end. I'd think of that in terms of a generic quantum field. Whether or not there is such a thing is a question that science can probably answer. 

Consider an unbounded set of random variables with an unbounded variance. Given infinite time, what might emerge from such a soup? Would you treat something like that as a maximum entropy state or a minimum entropy state? Only THE SHADOW knows! And he ain't tellin'.