Coming This Week: Apple's Hardware Announcements For 2019

Link here. Will go live three hours earlier than usual -- will begin at 9:00 a.m. Central Time, Tuesday.

Apple's event will kick off at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time, three hours earlier than events are normally held. This year's event is happening earlier because it's taking place on the East Coast instead of the West Coast.

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Getting Ready For Next Cross-Country Trip

But it will be a short one -- as far as Amarillo, TX.

Why? Meeting up with a 72-year-old lawyer whom I have never met. Serendipity led me to this one ... started 47 years ago when I sold dictionaries door-to-door in Union County (Westfield), New Jersey, during the summer between my sophomore and junior years in college.

Through a strange series of events last night I learned of this individual who had the same experience. Time to meet him. 

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Midnight In Paris

Midnight in Paris, Opening
I always associate this music with Monet, now.

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Some People Need More Oxygen Than Others

From Howard Bloom, The God Problem, 2016:

Attention is the oxygen of the human soul. If we get it, we thrive. If we don't get it, we shrivel and die. Without attention our immune system shuts down and brain cells in our hippocampus kill themselves off. So, we all compete for a space in the eyes, minds, and hearts of others....

... Frnak Sulloway, a former research scholar in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT and a visitng scholar at UC Berkely's Institute of Personality and Social Research, wrote a book in 1996 called Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives. Sulloway's book was about family dynamics ....

.... then comes infant number two. And infant number two has a dilemma. How will she get attention? Her older sister already holds center stage and knows how to work the spotlight. Her older sister already occupies the good-kid slot. So, says Sulloway, the newcomer in the family goes for attention by finding another niche. She probes for another slot in attention space. That open position? The nonconformist. The rebel.

Many weeks ago I talked to a reader about "second-child" phenomenon among English explorers. I don't know if I posted that on the blog or no; I forget. The blog merges imperceptibly with my life; I cannot tell when I've crossed from one domain to the other. There may be other reasons for the "second-child" phenomenon among English explorers, but Sulloway certainly adds another dimension.