What would you give in exchange for a good meal?

by Lawrence J. J. Leonard

This may happen to you when wearing sandals or tennis shoes, but it mostly happens when wearing really nice shoes for an important meeting.

At your desk during the work week, there comes a sudden change in lunch plans. You are not able to take a car or have friends drive you to that favorite restaurant.  But, of course, the nearest eatery is just a short walking distance from the building. Delivery fee? Not today.

Initiate visualization: Get-to-the-restaurant route by the shortest distance to avoid on-coming cars, water hazards, rocks, nails, and holes.

Talking in your sleep

by Lawrence J. J. Leonard

He looked over at the cozy blanket.
Her head was sticking out
as he asked,
“Should I replace the red table cloth?”

A fine specimen – not me

by Smokey Collingsworth and Laddie Kelso (4-ever)

Body of a Greek god

.        Years of illness and worry

Mind like a steel trap

.        I can’t find my glasses.

“Marked up” – in six-word stories

by Lawrence J. J. Leonard

The six-word stories theme
today is “marked up.”

 

 

Pen, paper? Need a clean piece.

“Sale” tag has higher priced sticker.

The Toothpaste Moment

by Lawrence J. J. Leonard

How many meetings have we been to when, unexpectedly, one person in the group comments about something another member has done or said?

We may have heard this declared or even aimed in our direction: “That’s so odd. I just have to say.”

Did the person who just got labeled as “odd”
FEEL something negative because of that declaration?
Yes.

Declarations such as this are markers.
They are the DNA of culture bias.
They are cultivated in

In the Big Picture

by Lawrence J. J. Leonard

“This is nothing. This is something.” ………………….. RIP Phil Hartman 1948-1998

In the beginning,
we are told,
there was nothing.

Then,
there was something.

In the big picture, this was WHERE we “started.”

Two cents worthy

by Lawrence J. J. Leonard

The following “One Liners” are not necessarily puns.
I happily share them with you because when you read this,
you may have forgotten that it’s not quite Friday.
Here are my two cents worth of smile material.
And they make great toasts for your next imbibe interval.
Cheers! or Gotcha!

* Life is ugly. Get a faith lift.

* I was addicted to the Hokey Pokey. Then I turned myself around.

* Save the planet! It’s the only one with beer.

* Six out of seven dwarfs are not happy.

More than a cloud

by Lawrence J. J. Leonard

Everyone casts a shadow
as we walk below the sun.

It follows us throughout the day
and slips away at night.

When evening falls,
a blanket of stars slowly appear above

to dot the purple vastness
and remind us where we are.

Funny thing about Robots

by Lawrence J. J. Leonard

American artist Frank Kelly Freas altered his 1953 painting for Queen’s album art.

They used to cling and clang. They were faceless and only had numbers for identification.
We now refer to them as “A” “I” creatures. But robots, as they will always be known,
only get the AI designation if they are higher up in the chip processing pecking order.

What is our fascination with a pile of bolts and silica personified? Power?

Is it that we want more than just a reflection of what we see? Relationship?

Is it that we are so surrounded by wonderful creation that we are inspired to re-create creation?

Robots seem to give us a pathway to enhance our own reality. Like Radio Controlled cars and drones.
Not like Virtual Reality (VR) at all. More so in a physical way.

These days robots can be much more.
How is this possible?

Pun Control – Nine – AI and OEU and sometimes Y

by Lawrence J. J. Leonard

Technologies are advancing so quickly that we have to plan our lives around times without electronic devices, just to feel human.

It all started with Quantum Mechanics. Robert Hooke a natural philosopher, architect and polymath from England,
proposed in the 1600s that force and gravity had attractive properties in space.

From these humble beginnings we know that light travels faster than sound.
This is why some Humans appear bright BEFORE we hear them speak.

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Human: What happened when Chuck Norris and Time had a race?