About people and what their lives are about?
Mar
20
I’m thinking that I will make a list of links to some other podcasts I have published so that you can listen to my other stuff as well as what you might find here.
Let me know if these links (as I add them) are valuable to you OR NOT!
Thanx for listening AND for your feedback / suggestions, bgbg
Mar
06
Either we are alone in the Universe and there are no other life forms; or we are not alone.
Either one is very scary.
Your thoughts?
Jan
10
Check this out. For only about $6,500 you, too, can have this desk:
Any thoughts?
Dec
03
Life is a count down and few of us recognize this until we are at about “FOUR, 3, TWO or 1”.
Given that once we realize what little time we have left, what would be the most important thing for us to do OTHER THAN find a way to teach our children to START EARLIER?
And, yet, how few of us think about how to help others even under these circumstances.
Instead, many of us simply do everything we can to “Get It All!” for ourselves.
Oct
11
Have you ever received an email or text claiming that there is a job you can apply to, only to find that it was a scam where they were trying to get your online identity credentials?
I have been receiving several emails to apply for a “Regional Customer Service Rep” for off-shore steel manufacturing companies and, so far, have reported each of them to my local Better Business Bureau office. I also sent an email back to the folks who offered me these positions letting them know that I have notified the BBB and, surprise – surprise, that email stream stopped!
If you choose to respond to this posting with detailed of your job scams, I will add your details to this post so that others can be forewarned.
Jul
06
“Find a Limb to Hang Your Clothes On” is a lyric in a song.
How many other people listen to songs and hear a line, lyric, or stanza that speaks to them more than just as a line in the song?
If you listen like I do and hear things differently than as written, which lines have you caught as of “special interest” for you. If you have found several would you be willing to share them with me?
And if you happen to know the Artist and the Song Title, you will get extra points. This is NOT a contest and the points won’t get you more than bragging rights, but it would be cool to share.
Jun
14
Sexual orientation is a process. And processes need data.
As of the current writing (June 2021) current application systems collect data about Sex by asking one insufficient question: “Sex: Male or Female?”. This is nowhere near enough data to be a “Complete, Honest, and Meaningful” representation of this information.
The information I think we need about the “Sex” of an individual needs to tell us a story. The collection and maintenance of this story will benefit from data attributes like these:
- Effective Date
- Event Type
- Physiology
- Psychic / Sexual Orientation
The Data Dictionary for these terms could be something like this:
| Attribute Name | Definition | Relationship to other Attributes |
| Effective Date | MM/DD/YYYY of the entry / event | Key to remaining Attributes in each row |
| Event Type | Name of Event documented by this entry | Event occurred / was recorded as of the Effective Date |
| Physiology | Person’s individual physical configuration as of the Event | Recorded physical configuration as of the Effective Date |
| Psychic Orientation | Person’s personal Sexual orientation / preference as of the Event | Recorded sexual orientation as of the Effective Date |
The current Valid Values for each of these Attributes could be as follows:
| Effective Date | Event Type | Physiology | Psychic / Sexual Orientation |
| Legitimate Date Values only | Birth | Male | Heterosexual |
| Puberty | Female | Homosexual / Lesbian | |
| Psych Eval(s) | Hermaphrodite | Asexual | |
| Sex Change Surgery | Other | Bisexual | |
| Declaration of Preference | Binary | ||
| Marriage | Other | ||
| Parent by Birth | |||
| Parent by Adoption | |||
| Divorce | |||
| Death |
Then one sample or example of the Data Rows for an individual could look like this:
| Effective Date | Event Type | Physiology | Psychic / Sexual Orientation |
| 11/07/1946 | Birth | Male | TBD |
| 7/14/1955 | Puberty | Male | Heterosexual |
| 8/22/1964 | Psych Eval(s) | Male | Heterosexual / Mechanic |
| 10/26/1968 | Sex Change Surgery | Female | Binary |
| 02/14/1970 | Declaration of Preference | Female | Homosexual / Lesbian |
| 4/9/1979 | Marriage | Female | Homosexual / Lesbian |
| 12/24/1983 | Parent by Adoption | Female | Homosexual / Lesbian |
| 6/2/2054 | Death | Female | Homosexual / Lesbian |
| Divorce | |||
| Death |
This sequence of data would tell the story of:
- A Male Child being born
- Going thru Puberty as a Male
- Getting evaluated (not for sexual orientation) with indications to be a Mechanic
- Opting for Sex Change Surgery to become a Female with temporary reservations (Binary)
- Declaring their preference as a Lesbian
- Marrying another Female (no recorded history for the partner)
- Adopting a child (no recorded history of the adopted child)
- Dying at age 112
It might be worth considering the addition of a Comments field for each of these recorded medical events to expand / capture the information that is not yet captured in a “table defined” field (Non Sexual Evaluation / Mechanic, Mental Reservations, others).
My proposal is that to enhance the accuracy and usefulness of Electronic Medical Record applications, these data should be built into new versions of these applications as soon as possible so that we can have a more useful record of individual health information.
May
27
Our world is a safe place to live IF we keep it that way.
Our homes are safe and clean WHEN we choose to maintain them in that manner.
Our cities and countries are clean and healthy AS LONG AS we decide, as a group, to keep them as such.
We are the Tenants of our environs and in order to preserve our survival we must choose to accept certain rules or Tenets of that survival:
- No Man (sic: person) Is An Island
- We must be sociable and polite
- Personal Hygiene is Essential
- Be health conscious, maintain your distance, wear a mask if you are unsure of your surroundings / interactions
- Political (sic: any) Opinions are just that: Opinions
- Any beliefs we have as individuals are NOT Mandatory for any or all other people with whom we interact
- Each of us are entitled to our own beliefs and opinions
- Accept the beliefs of others rather than impose our beliefs on anyone
- Each of us are entitled to the life we choose
- But not one of us should be forced to exist in someone else’s expectations / infringements / rules
- We must be allowed to protect ourselves
- However, we have no right to put others in danger under the guise of this “protection”
- …
If you have an opinion about this list OR would like to add / modify these entries, please send me a comment through this blog OR an email to whendoyoustoplooking@gmail.com
Thank you for reading and for taking the time to send me your opinion(s).
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