The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Matthew Lerner:

On acquiring tastes:
For me, every new taste is a wonder and a pleasure. If I have to briefly experience a largish number of mildly unpleasant things in order to find the one thing that gives me great pleasure, that is a small price to pay.

This leads to me trying a great number of wines that all taste like various strengths of spoiled grape juice. And I don't even like UNSPOILED grape juice. but I'll keep trying, in the hopes that one day I will find one I really like. It worked for avacado and olives, and some day maybe it'll work for wine and beer as well.

Re: #4, #19
Respectfully, I think the Secret Service analogy is ridiculous. If the Secret Service opened fire on civilians, for ANY REASON, and ended up killing 5-10 innocent bystanders, there would be screaming, gnashing of teeth, firings, arrests, recriminations, expressions of "they went too far", and promises to reform the agency with better safeguards. The fact that the authorities are saying "it happens" is disgusting and reprehensible.

Alter S. Reiss:
When choosing a career, consider the fact that there aren't many songs bewailing the difficult life and sad fates of computer programmers.

There may not be many, but there is at least one, and it seems a very likely fate.

While we're on the subject, what are good careers to choose? Miner, farmer, fisher, those are right out... Innkeepers seem to do okay, as long as they are childless. Any other suggestions?

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