Daily Archives: August 31, 2024

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    • A Butterfly for Brian

    By Frank Paynter | Published: August 31, 2024

    And so when my attention is drawn or pointed often I yawn. The Monarch butterflies dancing about the tops of the Jerusalem artichokes out the back window hold more interest for me. But I have a glance, think neat, and move on. I don’t really think about it. Maybe I should. Maybe there’s something there, [...]

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    Pimping the Party Cove

    By Frank Paynter | Published: August 31, 2024

    Ben Paynter’s feature this week in Kansas City’s Pitch spotlights a jaded yet curiously repressed swinging soft-core set partying in a polluted cove on the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri. The language sometimes is a little rough. Ben describes a day and a night of dissipated debauchery, licentiousness that leaves you less excited than [...]

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    The Tussle

    By Frank Paynter | Published: August 31, 2024

    David Clark, et al. (the ubiquitous Al, a guy who really gets around, a true multidisciplinarian) wrote a paper called “Tussle in Cyberspace: Defining Tomorrow’s Internet”. One of the tussles that define the current Internet is the tussle of economics. The providers of the Internet are not in the business of giving service away. For [...]

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