arrow of time

  Most people are familiar with thing-a-ma-bobs, on account of how essential generally they are.  Over time, and oceans of space, the re-invention of the thing-a-ma-bob has become somewhat of a passion, and of course has consumed amazing resources and effort and ingenuity.   Often people have been successful with that.  Sometimes it has followed the path towards gloomy failure.  Hence the vast quantities of gloom that have evolved over time. I guess, just to be on the safe side,  be happy with the thing-a-ma-bob you currently have.

 As you should imagine Galactic evacuation plans are hard to get a hold of. These are required in case the galaxy is in significant danger of " blipping " out, for what ever reasons.   First thing, however, using common sense, you should try and stick with the planet you are currently occupying, unless, that the planet is in imminent danger. Other than that, I guess, just try and do your best.   Sometimes, that works.  

 Anyway, most people know it is hard to get a copy of the enhanced I-Ching, way out on the periphery of the galaxy, for the simple reason that there are very few subscribers to the Galactic Encyclopedia this far out from the galactic center.  So some comments are in order: First the enhanced I-Ching or simply eic, is composed of quads as opposed to tri-grams, however, the first 8 quads are the tri-grams of the standard I-Ching or sic.  The first new quad is Arrow of Time.  The 65 octogram of eic, is Mountain over Arrow of Time, and the 256 octogram is Arrow of Time over Arrow of TIme, and 128 octogram is Arrow of Time over Mountain.  Someday, I would like to get to the other quads, but for now, I think that is enough to encourage you to subscribe to the Galactic Encyclopedia and just get a copy. Finally, here on Earth, I am looking forward to hearing Alice's Restaurant, as today is Thanksgiving, pretty much.  Kind of like the Restaurant at the End of the Un...

  Well, as you may know, the Galactic Encyclopedia and the foundation connected with it, ( I thinks something like, Feed the Fish, or Free the Fish, Foundation ) ... anyway, has been engaged in the search for intelligent life in the galaxy, which you would think would not be such a burden some  enterprise.  I mean, just buy a rocket ship, and hire a guy to look.  Send him checks from time to time. Turns out it's not so easy.  Certain parts of the galaxy are only accessible with certain kinds of hardware.   So you can't just buy a rocket ship, you need lots of different kinds of rocket ships, and also different kinds of guys with different expertise to fly them.  So in the end a lot of different horse trading goes on, and as a result you  end  up with considerable expense.   Apparently, Free the Fish, or Feed the Fish thinks it's kind of important.

  And so, this has been a " hot " and " hot button " topic among Galactic circles, for quite a long time.  It was long argued that what does space-time care if it's being exploited, and of course what does space-time care if it's being exploited? Well, a more recent view has been that, you can't take the time outa' space and therefore the issue evolves to, if time is money, then can you economically exploit money?  Well, at this point the issue resolves to: can you produce enough pencil sharpeners, to allow for all the pencil sharpening required to resolve this issue?   Currently, that is  an open question.

   As you can imagine, the board of the Galactic Encyclopedia is in a frenzy  about giving non-normal status to a tiny rim planet, jam packed with shall we say: unusual characters  , more than one ... and then there is the issue of shipping out all that vinyl, what with the cost of vinyl having just - GONE THROUGH THE ROOF -   Well, they've been through worse.  

  So, some people are saying, oh heck, situation normal, and all that about earth, but things are not at all the same at good 'ol Encyclopedia, where the board is in conniptions.   Earth, one lousy planet, but lots of subscribers are very interested in the goings on and so forth.  You know Arlo Guthrie  was great, and  Alice's Restaurant , enormously popular for a long time, but you know vinyl is not cheap ...  Sending out vinyl to all it's subscribers is generally an " out of budget ", kind of thing.  Nobody on the board cares  for " out of budget ", kinds of things. So boxes, Amazons, what have you ???? Hopefully, things will get back in the groove.  Just wait and see !!!