Thought For The Day by John Jaeger, MBA

[ChemEngrMBA]

There are two kinds of people, those who have lost everything on their hard drive and those who are going to.  I came very close.  I enrolled in One Drive months ago and in 2025, backed up on my external hard drive.  My desktop quit after 14 years and I had no idea it was that old.  New All In One is wonderful and much lighter than standard metal box desktops.  Love it.

[ChemEngrMBA]

"In times of impending calamity and distress; when the liberties of
America are imminently endangered by secret machinations and open
assaults...it becomes the indispensable duty of [Patriots], with
true penitence of heart, and the most reverent devotion, publicly to
acknowledge the over ruling providence of God...that we may...through the
merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, obtain his pardon and forgiveness;humbly
imploring his assistance to frustrate the cruel purposes of our
unnatural enemies...that it may please the Lord of Hosts, the God of
Armies, to animate our officers and soldiers with invincible fortitude,
to guard and protect them in the day of battle...." --Proclamation by the
Continental Congress, 16 March 1776

[ChemEngrMBA]

He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
    and its people are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,... - iSAIAH 40:22

From any distant vantage point, orbiting satellites and astronauts' photographs show
the "circle of the earth," populated today by over seven billion humans, relative in size
to grasshoppers from those photographs.  The heavens continue to stretch out in
cosmic expansion imagery unimaginable when the Holy Bible was written. 

This might well be my opening for volume two of Science of the Bible.

[ChemEngrMBA]

Job 28:25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.

Most people, when asked how much a cubic mile of air at sea level weighs will answer,
"Nothing, air has no weight."

If that were the case, birds, aircraft, and hot air balloons could not fly. 
Atmospheric pressure is 14.7 pounds per square inch. 
The winds have weight, but only 33 feet of water has the same pressure as 60 kilometers of air.   
So water has by far the greater measure. 

[ChemEngrMBA]

"From the wild Irish slums of the 19th century eastern seaboard,
to the riot-torn suburbs of Los Angeles, there is one unmistakable
lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number
of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women,
never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never
acquiring any rational expectations about the future -- that
community asks for and gets chaos." --Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 1965

[Cyber Liberty]

Pat turned out to be correct about a lot of things.

[ChemEngrMBA]

"If you were to take . . . all the authoritative articles ever written .
. . on the subject of mental hygiene, if you were to combine them and
refine them and cleave out the excess verbiage, if you were to take the whole
of the meat and none of the parsley, and if you were to have these unadulterated
 bits of pure scientific knowledge concisely expressed by the most capable of living
 poets, you would have an awkward and incomplete summation of the Sermon on
the Mount." – A Few Buttons Missing: The Case Book of a Psychiatrist, by James T Fisher, M.D.

[ChemEngrMBA]

[DefiantMassRINO]

R.I.P. D.E.C.

D.E.C. and Wang Computer are prime business case examples of Darwinian economic / technological "adapt or die".

I live in the next town owner from where D.E.C. had its headquarters.  30 years after D.E.C.'s demise, the region is still picking up the pieces.

Sometimes, the smartest guy in the room isn't as smart as he thinks he is.

Going through night school and technical classes, I came across some of D.E.C. veterans. 

Towards the end, D.E.C. was doing everything wrong, including putting its salesmen on salary instead of commission.

[ChemEngrMBA]

I invented a new app to save people's lives and could not get any logical company to copy and market it to make hundreds of millions of dollars.  A fire department paramedic said, "That's a real game changer!"  My friend, the PhD psychologist said, "I want to be your first customer" for a medical alert app, cheaper and far more effective than silly dangling buttons on nylon cords around your neck which must be pushed. 

So I sent my best letter to four of Apple's top executives last week and a follow up letter today, asking only for a 0.1% royalty.  My original letter said 1% but I signed with a blue felt tip pen and placed a blue decimal point in front of the 1.  I am confident that Apple can earn $600 million annually in short order.  It would be useful for law enforcement, construction, and military as well as seniors of which there are over 60,000,000 today in the U.S.

[ChemEngrMBA]

Knowledge is not wisdom nor is a high IQ. The Unabomber was a genius. Countless men and women throughout history have been filled with knowledge, while doing foolish and evil things which destroyed the lives of hundreds of millions of others.

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, “Who is this that dark- eneth counsel by words without knowledge?” (Job 38:1–2)

How often one hears words uttered without knowledge by pre- tenders of science and enlightenment.

“I think it is virtually certain that everything we see came from empty space,” Krauss exposited. “And all the physics I know is highly suggestive that our universe popped into existence as a quantum fluctuation.” (Physicist Lawrence Krauss)1

The Lord does not take foolishness lightly, and neither should
we.   Science of the Bible, by John Phillip Jaeger (page 13)