The Deviation Exploration

Finding a deviation in the data is one thing.

Potentially an unsurprising thing.

Maybe even a normal thing.

Finding a deviation that is a true oddity,

One that represents a real ghost—

A ghost with teeth—

Is an eye-opening thing.

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Insignificance desires to be the center of attention — or its linchpin.

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Digital Stasis

Mashable. Composable. Harvest what is knowable. Anonymity? Transparency? Beware the mine of privacy. Smiley faces. Darkish places. See "them" there, In your cyber spaces. Welcome one and all, To the all-seeing "I" — Of the Internet.

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Footnotes. Endnotes. Sidebars. Asides. Pull-quotes. Appendices. The redirects of crucial and clarifying importance.

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If transcendence could be grown, like a beautiful, fragrant flower garden, some people would still opt for a plot of weeds on a bed of manure. And then complain about it.

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Sometimes opportunity arrives on a silver platter. Sometimes it's a needle in a haystack. But most of the time, opportunity is right there in front of us, Hiding in plain sight, In the unassuming guise, Of the ever present now.

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Three Rumination Blocks for Today

	A bird in a cage must eat, drink, sleep, and expel waste. Now and then it moves. Sometimes it speaks. But most of the time, it dreams of flying.

	Too often we wonder, what is the other person thinking? Are they thinking about love? Loss? The meaning of life? Could they be thinking about me thinking about them? What we really should be thinking about is why we're so obsessed with what others are thinking. Aren't the voices in your head enough?

Raindrops are good for plants. Not so much for paper notes written in marker. Unless, of course, you're going for something that's one part dripping candle wax and one part Rorschach ink blot.

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When does "sentiment" go bad? When it becomes sintiment.

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Rumination 1

From dust Or from clay, Who—or what— Wove our DNA? Of flesh And of bone, In all of the cosmos, Are we truly alone?

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Creativity is an amalgamation of conviction, courage, and curiosity.

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My5: Atari 2600

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Those that profess to know "the truth" either coat it with chocolate and offer it on a silver platter, or strap it to a block of wood and use it like sandpaper.

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Skyway 11: The View from Here

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Updated 2018
Original version released 2016

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The Invisible Hand

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Pacing is about intelligence and the application of intelligence. Getting out-paced is about a lack of foresight—and stamina.

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Clarity can come from seeing the glass as half full — or as half empty.

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A Classic Revisited and Thrice Twisted

There's no "I" in team.

But there is in praying.

There's no "I" in team.

But there is in teeming.

There's no "I" in team.

But there is in tranquil.

(And there's twice the "I" in tranquility. >^)

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Today's Tendril... (Remix)

Little Bo Peep lost her sheep, because she was hiding in the basement, surfing questionable places on the Internet.

* Original version

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Before dawn, it is always darkest in the mind. And for some, that includes their hearts.

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When mining for social sentiment, it is best to mind your manners.

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The hopeless dreamer is ill-prepared for the icicles, The grey clouds, And the vermin, Of everyday reality.

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Reality is amorphous, smooth, and luminescent. Nightmares are solid, jagged, and black. A dream is nothing but the twilight of the mind. A story—yours, mine, ours, theirs—is all of the above.

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The Heart Furnace

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Updated 2019
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All "make or break" moments begin optimistically, End realistically, And are analyzed repeatedly. (Perhaps for all eternity.)

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Some mornings you wake and realize that you need to wipe the Sandman and his entire family (including pets) from your eyes.

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