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Watercolor 2019 June number 1
9×12″
“Do you have this blue watercolor in oranges, reds or earth tones?”
Seven of these are are palette test and ten are the commission that resulted in exactly no sales. So no reasonable offer and shipping will be refused. Please contact me at gingerATcollage.gingermayersonDOTcom for more information.
All the watercolors, if that’s of any interest.
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Palette Test 7
8×6″
“Do you have this blue watercolor in oranges, reds or earth tones?”
Seven of these are are palette test and ten are the commission that resulted in exactly no sales. So no reasonable offer and shipping will be refused. Please contact me at gingerATcollage.gingermayersonDOTcom for more information.
All the watercolors, if that’s of any interest.
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Palette Test 6
8×6″
“Do you have this blue watercolor in oranges, reds or earth tones?”
Seven of these are are palette test and ten are the commission that resulted in exactly no sales. So no reasonable offer and shipping will be refused. Please contact me at gingerATcollage.gingermayersonDOTcom for more information.
All the watercolors, if that’s of any interest.
“There is an element of social engineering in these cosmetic changes to our working environments, says Martha Bird, an in-house anthropologist at payroll processor ADP.”
FT, August 28, 2019
I confess I’ve had a somewhat eccentric education, but could someone please tell me what a payroll processor is doing with an in-house anthropologist? I wonder; really I do.
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Palette test 5
10×7″
“Do you have this blue watercolor in oranges, reds or earth tones?”
Seven of these are are palette test and ten are the commission that resulted in exactly no sales. So no reasonable offer and shipping will be refused. Please contact me at gingerATcollage.gingermayersonDOTcom for more information.
All the watercolors, if that’s of any interest.
“Over the past decade Amazon Web Services (AWS) lured untold numbers of consumers and corporations onto its billowing cloud. The division earned its giant e-commerce parent $7.3bn in operating profits last year. It could soon be earning more. Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s boss, is going after a potentially more lucrative customer: the government. Amazon has outspent all technology firms on lobbying in the first quarter, and is building a second headquarters in Virginia, near the Pentagon.”
Amazon is eyeing billions in federal contracts, by The Economist, July 11, 2019
Y’know, even I thought I was kind of kidding when I’ve been saying that one day either Google or Amazon, particularly AWS, was going to own us all. Alas, I think we just got one day closer to that day.
“No wonder. Next month the Defence Department may award a cloud-computing contract worth $10bn. The Joint Enterprise Defence Infrastructure (JEDI) initiative aims to create a unified ‘war-fighter cloud’ to modernise the Pentagon’s existing networks and data centres. In April AWS and Microsoft edged out Oracle and IBM onto the final shortlist.”
JEDI. Really? And something else for Russia, N Korea, and Billy in his mom’s basement to hack into for fun and profit. Is there a forest I can live in somewhere?
Google seems to regrouping.
“Confronted last year with an employee backlash against its sale of artificial-intelligence software to America’s armed forces, Google backed off and withdrew from the JEDI tender.”
Retreat, hell, they’re just fighting in a different direction.
Oh well. Is it better to know these things? I wonder.
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Palette Test 3
10×7″
“Do you have this blue watercolor in oranges, reds or earth tones?”
Seven of these are are palette test and ten are the commission that resulted in exactly no sales. So no reasonable offer and shipping will be refused. Please contact me at gingerATcollage.gingermayersonDOTcom for more information.
All the watercolors, if that’s of any interest.
“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.”
E. M. Forster
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Palette Test 2
7×10″
“Do you have this blue watercolor in oranges, reds or earth tones?”
Seven of these are are palette test and ten are the commission that resulted in exactly no sales. So no reasonable offer and shipping will be refused. Please contact me at gingerATcollage.gingermayersonDOTcom for more information.
All the watercolors, if that’s of any interest.
“Absent from the 20 candidates who were selected for the Democrats’ first televised debates was Steve Bullock, the governor of Monatana and the only Democratic governor of a state won by Mr Trump in the race, because he was lower in the polls and had fewer individual campaign donors than other candidates. Meanwhile Marianne Williamson, spiritual guru, whose assertion that ‘there’s no higher art than living a beautiful life’ may not be the winning message Democrats are searching for in 2020, was allowed to speak on the party’s platform to millions of Americans. It does not have to be like this. Party leaders used to exercise more sway over primaries. They could do so again.” (emphases mine)
Should political parties really let anyone run for president?, The Economist, July 25, 2019
Get ready for 4 more years of stupid if the Dems are this STUPID. GAH!
I guess it’s too late, but I just sent Governor Bullock $10 if only to make myself feel better about… something (and I’m really broke right now).
Update! Steve B is at the 2nd debate. I feel much better now; totally worth that $10.
Note: I seem to recall from HS civics class that our president must have a college degree to be president. Maybe we should require a JD and bar license number. I know, I know, Nixon was a lawyer, but at least the JDs really know what laws they’re breaking (and break them anyway, alas). And let’s get rid of the electoral college; we don’t need it anymore. After all, this isn’t the French Revolution, is it? IS IT? Oh well, just a thought, before my brain turns into election year goo.