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But the SRO crowd in the dining room ranges from redneck to white collar to Dali Lama, and the SRO crowd loves it all.

This may be nothing new in Portland, OR. But up in St. John’s? Unemployment Capitol of the peninsula? Why on earth would a bar owner stray from the tried and true exploitation of the alky’s Social Security check that every other bar in town seems to do.

There are two outstanding places in St. John’s Slim’s and Plews. Today.

And today, we will talk about Slim’s.

Slim’s has been pushing brews for ever in St. John. The heritage of owners would make FDR blush. Today, Slim’s is pushing hard against the PNW economy. And pushing back hard.

Why is it jammed so many nights? Look to the inspiration from Hamid X. This guy has a bit of Ed Sullivan mixed in with his hardened business senses. And tonight he merely announced, once, to a few customers that he was roasting a whole lamb, and giving it away free to anyone who showed up.

And merely, the TextMS went wild. And so did the bar.

That’s marketing magic, Mr. Hamid. Hats off to you.

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I am talking about a super useful utility I have installed on my Mac — Yojimbo from BareBones Software.

When I need to find a file, I always use Apple’s finder, but sometimes, that doesn’t work: The keywords I’m typing are not in the document, and I can’t remember any exact phrase in the document. All I can remember is “It’s a receipt dated January 2″ — Apple’s find just doesn’t know about keywords for my documents. So I use Yojimbo. If It is any file that is important at all, I will save it into Yojimbo, which cheerfully accepts most any file ore even a hastily typed cut and paste document. Yojimbo allows me to add keywords to it – later I can find the note by those keywords.

Yojimbo is my refuge of last choice: if a file is really important for me to find later, or is a transient page from the web, that I’ll never find again, I just put it in Yojimbo and plug in a few keywords. And I breath easier.

You are sure right about the overwhelming power of the “invisible hand” to straighten out the bumps in the road of commerce! This bump is a big one, and that “hand” is needing to get to work right away. Soon, we hope.

The forces that drive the hand have, up to this point, pushed our commerce and economy into this tailspin of a fearful, decrepit society. Are we in a tailspin? Are we decrepit? Our friends Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh would say that this is the time to let that hand go to work and PROVE that we are not a decrepit society.

And if we are decrepit, has the “hand” of business helped us lose those sensible values, just as it has changed our values about Christmas, or any of a zillion things that business pays Madison Avenue to advocate. Yes, “the hand” even works there. And the hand looks like Glen Beck as he laments the loss of values and the fact that they are trampled on so often.

The hand is working, Sean, Glenn, Rush, It can’t stop. Adam did not say that the hand was optional, nor very quick, nor was guided very well — at least in the short term. But the forces are generated in the marketplace. And the landlord of the marketplace is the Government, always has been.

So, Government mandates are simply the price that the landlord sets on your tent, Mr. Corporation. The Government is a vendor for each and every business. A huge customer, too, one that can make the difference between profit and shuttered doors. So most big businesses simply treat the government as a vendor/customer: We hire a salesman, called a Lobbyist, and negotiate with the vendor: “You want us to fill out form XXX for each shipment? You want us to sell to only “approved” customers? No problem, lets just see about a tax credit to offset the costs of implementing that, OK, 75% tax reduction? a Deal! Shake. We just factor that into our bottom line and go ahead.”

So government is no different than any customer, at least from a “Market Forces” perspective. It’s just that the “Government as customer” may have radically different requirements than the other forces of the hand. That’s business. That’s government. Live with it, Rush, the rest of us do.

But, Adam, you have really hit the wall on this one! We have huge problems that will take huge amounts of cooperation and we can no longer simply “buy” that kind of co-operation. And our “trust” factor is really weak out there, Sean. I know you have an idea or two on that subject.

Internal distrust. That’s our achilles heel. Our friends at Fox are pointing out huge numbers of people who don’t trust America. Any liberal simply does not trust America, and is simply not to be trusted. That’s a whole lot of people to distrust! And I bet they distrust right back!

Joblessness: Nothing eats our will like long term unemployment, knowing our hard-won skills are useless.

International terrorism. That takes international co-operation.

Global emissions: That takes international co-operation.

Global economy in a shambles: If we want OUR economic solution to be the one that the world adapts, we had better make our economic solution be the one that WORKS, right Rush, Glenn, Sean?.

So, here is the request from your customer: us, the citizens: Restore Trust here in the USA. Get rid of the endless searches, barricades, check points! These are badges worn by Governments who do not trust the population.
—- The population will not trust back. So business, Government. Earn our trust. We spend better that way. It’s one of our forces.

By the way, Adam, have your hand start working on these very real forces in the market place.

Let it get to work on the Global Emissions and climate thing. And no more bogus “cigarette cancer” research that’s cooked up by the Simpson’s Quack Doctor and sold to the highest bidder.
And get to work on the terrorism thing. So they hate our freedoms? The last X-ray check-point I had to go through to check my Federal Income Tax or Social Security, or even take a trip did not make me feel free. I’m not feeling it, Sean.
And get to work on the Global Economy: They can’t trust us anymore, they are even talking about dumping the dollar. Business, you have already taken the baby step to Global Citizen. We need you to do better than that, businessman, We need you to make the leap to Global Statesman.

So fix it: It’s just business. And Business is Business.

If you want to pretend that CNBC is filling any other function that being a mouthpiece for corporate lies, then that’s fine.

Access to interviews is not something that a tru investigative journalist fears. In fact, it’s the other way around. Corporate figures look like real culprits when they dodge the questions.
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This leaves my session open and I often get interrupted by scam artists from far away continents. This is one of these interruptions that had a better outcome.

On my profile on Yahoo, I have hypnosis listed as one of my interests: And I really am interested in it as it is the easiest and most painless method to help with inner transformation that I know of. It sure beats chemicals or months with a so-called therapist: Did you know that the psychological industry claims a success rate of well below 50 percent? Not my statistics, theirs.

But I digress: most folks have some pretty morbid ideas about hypnosis: there is a whole league of people who want to be hypnotized on line (by Internet Messaging text!!) to the point of having orgasm. How fun.

Anyway, this is one of those conversations: I thought it actually ended up with some benefit for our WebSearcher…

WebSercher:

hello and good afternoon

Me:

hello,  

WebSercher:

i’m very interested in being a subject

Me:

? subject?

WebSercher:

to be hypnotized

Me:

Ahhhh.

Me:

What are your goals?  Your thoughts on trance?

WebSercher:

i would like to be controlled

WebSercher:

i’m str8 and married , but would like to see what it would be like to experience another man – possibly through hypnosis

WebSercher:

is that strange?

Me:

Hmm.  Well, to be honest, that’s a bit outside of my arena.  No it is not strange — a good fantasy is a private gem.

Me:

I don’t really focus on either ‘control’ or sexual fantasies.  I do a lot of stuff with, well, emotional resolution and harmony.

Me:

weeding the mental/emotional garden to use a metaphor

Me:

You can see a bit more about that on my web site:  The Celarien Experience.

Me:

for sexual stuff, you might contact my friend ‘xxxyyyzzz’

Me:

He does not trance men, but he may know of someone who does.

WebSercher:

thanks

Me:

Anytime, and if you would like to feel the bliss of your real core-states, then call me back, OK?

WebSercher:

please explain

Me:

Sure, all of our actions/thoughts/fantasies are done for one of three reasons: to get us something we need to ‘be’, ‘do’ , or ‘have’

Me:

Think about it.  Everything is basically, at the core, done for these simple reasons.

Me:

By following the chain of motivations for your actions (not the sequence of actions, the motivators),

Me:

I can help you get to the very bottom of that chain.  It is one of your ‘core motivators’

WebSercher:

yes

Me:

And when you experience the reality of what really motivates you, you touch your bliss.

WebSercher:

yes – i would like that

Me:

Well, I have never done it by distance: I don’t think that text alone will do it.

WebSercher:

phone?

Me:

Possibly by web-cam, but I’m not sure that would work.

Me:

I’m  unsure that phone would work, since the client (that’s you) goes silent as you experience the state.

WebSercher:

i’m camless

Me:

I’m in Honolulu, and you are far, far away.

Me:

I would suggest that you contact the group that invented the technique (they are in Colorado, I believe) and see if there are any practitioners in your area.

WebSercher:

i c

Me:

The group was started by Connierae Andreas, and the technique is ‘core transformations’

WebSercher:

thanks

Me:

Tell me how your investigations go, OK?

WebSercher:

ok

Me:

And if you get to Hawaii, you might call in for a session.

WebSercher:

i feel drawn to you – is that strange?

Me:

Well, I identify with the Tarot card’s “Hermit’ — a person who has secret knowledge to share.  So,  it could be possible.

Me:

We humans have an inborn ability to reshape our emotional/mental terrain.  It is unique to humans, but we hardly ever activate that ability:  I think it is the real goal of the old Alchemists:   You know, internal transformation.

WebSercher:

yes

WebSercher:

i think you could easily hypnotize me

Me:

You may be ready for some transformation work.  Nearly everybody in our culture is ‘running on empty’

Me:

Do some investigation, and some meditation, and contact me some time soon, OK?

WebSercher:

ok

That’s it. And if you want the Yahoo message handle of that erotic hypnotist, you could e-mail me….

And got run over again…

We will just have to wait for next season and find out if the show is cancelled … Now that would just delight my evil twin brother over at kegare.org!!!

Youth are totally OK with button pushing, and can juggle the complex nature of computer interaction: we see evidence of that with the popularity of cell-phone texting and video games, etc.

Now while ‘Alice’ is a vehicle for teaching some programming skills, the ‘Story Telling’ variant has more appeal as an avenue for teens to vent and disclose themselves. A big plus is that while they are actually developing and putting the story into the machine, they are NOT interacting with an adult. For a teen, those teen-adult interactions have not gone well for them: that’s a big reason they are alienated. Using the machine can allow a more open communication pathway for them. (for historical resources in that direction see weizenbaum’s experiences with his rogerian style “eliza“)

Here is the storytelling version of ‘Alice‘ (it has been developed by Carnegie-Mellon U with technologies adapted from the ‘Sims’ games)

Look around. Check out what’s important. I plan on putting my NLP notes here along with technical information.

For the romance and relationship stuff, go look at my romance blog, and celarien, too!