Acceptable losses come with a line. Whether losses are acceptable or not usually depends on which side of the line you’re on. If friends and family are on one side, and you’re not? Either they’re on the loss side, or it’s you. Then what? Since I’ve been around a while, here’s a few ideas:
FIXING BLOG THINGS AND COMPLAINING AT THE SAME TIME
December 24, 2022 by
Fixing blog things is part of joining the blogger world circus. I update boomerpdx and lose my subscribers? Twitter takes a dump and I lose my blog traffic? Facebook is unreliable? These are examples of fixing things online AND complaining. Waaaa. But, first . . .
BROKEN MEN: IT HURTS WHEN I DO THIS
June 9, 2022 by
Memo to broken men who hurt themselves: Don’t do that. The remaining question remains. How do men break?
ACCEPTABLE LOSSES? WHO DECIDES FOR BOOMERS
March 29, 2022 by
Acceptable losses are like minor surgery. There’s no such things as minor surgery, just minor surgeons. Or, it’s minor surgery if it’s someone else going under the knife. Losses are the same. The closer you are, the less acceptable the loss.
THE COVID HALF MILLION HIT YESTERDAY, FEB 22
February 22, 2021 by
My phone laid on the table top near my screen. It lit up with “News Top Stories.” That top story is the covid half million dead. “The U.S. has surpassed 500,000 COVID-19 deaths. Here’s how to visualize the overwhelming loss.”
ACCEPTABLE LOSSES? WHAT DOES ‘IT IS WHAT IT IS’ MEAN
August 6, 2020 by
The idea of acceptable losses takes a sharp turn on the anniversary of Hiroshima. The death count from 75 years back is a consistent 140,000 in one fell swoop, give or take a few thousand. Atomicarchive.com breaks it down. Counting war death from a distance of time leaves some leeway for acceptable losses?
