“Kids can do a lot of things in front of their parents without them knowing” says psychologist Anita Gurian in today's New York Times.

They always have been able to and that's why humanity endures: because the young ones take over with their cabals and imaginations.

Dad is in fact clueless. But that will be true for most of them when they get to the stage of having gone back on their promises to themselves not to grow old and to be there for their get.

Love.

Creeping Senility?

I did it again - last time I lost a day and missed a teleconference, this time I went on a weird 2 AM odyssey concerning Daylight Savings Time and I put it in manually, berating Microsoft for not automating an adjustment to their system clock update mechanism due to Congress' changing of the sacred date of inception for this absurd practice of changing what number we call the time by.

Love.

mileposts?

NYT's "on this day" entry: "On March 6, 1857, in its Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court held that Scott, a slave, could not sue for his freedom in a federal court. "

Cuban witness's blog http://www.desdecuba.com/generationy/ highlights how much hope we can feel for universal connectedness - she jumps through a lot of hoops to publish it.

Love.

Banks/Insurers

The long-term prospects for the subject enterprises aren't particularly encouraging since both institutions are essentially made obsolete by software programs that perform virtually all their former functions.

This happened with such things as slide rules, T-squares, and "the market" which is being radically transformed by various leaner versions, leaving NYSE, etc. in the dust.

The latency between when it is evident that some segment of the economy is no longer viable (e.g. old-fashioned telephone companies) shows signs of shortening and that will be true for certain functions best performed by the Commons acting through cooperative connectedness and an emerging "Web of Trust", whose humble beginnings with "folk evaluations" at places like eBay and Amazon will ultimately lead to FOAF (Friend of a Friend) confidence.

Of course we still have to hone up our leisure skills!

Love.