Month: December 2011

Can Check

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With everything else that has been going on (and that includes my recent bent on social commentary) now is a good time to remember what started this blog: A soup can. More than one person has told me that in today’s age of debit cards money is less physical and more virtual. Because of that, change is not something they come by very often. I have tried to make behavioral changes so that cash is used in lieu of plastic. An added benefit is that the companies I frequent do not have to pay usage fees.

Presently my can count is 2 1/2. Two soup cans and one evaporated milk can. The latter thanks to the baking of my seasonal pumpkin pie. As you can see in the photo, the cans are under observation for safe keeping.

Stewie and Brian guarding the Change Cans.

Two Tuesday Quotes: Wittgenstein and Camus

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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.  – Ludwig Wittgenstein

I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one’s burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. – Albert Camus

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