Things That Make Micah Happy

Check out this compelling video of the complex systems that sort our mail. Truly fascinating to see the spots where automated devices still need a lot of hands to move mail through the system.

Kabul at 5:45 this morning.

Through time, certain [CB or Citizen Band Radio] terms are added or dropped as attitudes toward it change. For example, in the early days of the CB radio, the term "Good Buddy" was widely used. However, at some point, it became associated only with a subset of male prostitutes who would advertise via the CB radio (usually at truck stops) and using the term became an insult to other drivers, or radio operators.

They got this guy, in Germany. Fritz something-or-other. Or is it. Maybe it’s Werner. Anyway, he’s got this theory, you wanna test something, you know, scientifically — how the planets go round the sun, what sunspots are made of, why the water comes out of the tap — well, you gotta look at it. But sometimes, you look at it, your looking changes it. Ya can’t know the reality of what happened, or what would’ve happened if you hadden a stuck in your goddamn schnozz. So there is no ‘what happened.’ Not in any sense that we can grasp with our puny minds. Because our minds… out minds get in the way. Looking at something changes it. They call it the 'Uncertainty Principle.’ Sure, it sounds screwy, but even Einstein says the guy’s on to something. …Science. Perception. Reality. Doubt… …Reasonable doubt. I’m sayin’, sometimes, the more you look, the less you really know. It’s a fact. A proved fact. In a way, it’s the only fact there is. This heinie even wrote it out in numbers.