The Big Picture by Lennie Peterson for January 07, 2025

I don’t blane the guitarist. I was taught to arrive on time and start on time no matter when otheres have shown up or not.

Money talks, BS walks. Though I do love the facts of the universe.

Pay always matters, Lennie.

Lennie always has priorities straight.

This reminds me of a funny scene in “Annie Hall”:

Doctor: Why are you depressed, Alvy?

Alvy’s Mom: Tell Dr. Flicker.

[Young Alvy sits, his head down – his mother answers for him]

Alvy’s Mom: It’s something he read.

Doctor: Something he read, huh?

Alvy: [his head still down] The universe is expanding.

Doctor: The universe is expanding?

Alvy: Well, the universe is everything, and if it’s expanding, someday it will break apart and that would be the end of everything!

Alvy’s Mom: What is that your business? He stopped doing his homework!

Alvy: What’s the point?

Alvy’s Mom: What has the universe got to do with it? You’re here in Brooklyn! Brooklyn is not expanding!

Doctor: It won’t be expanding for billions of years yet, Alvy. And we’ve gotta try to enjoy ourselves while we’re here!

He’s looking at it wrong. He’s conflating time and space. It would be better to say, “I’m an hour late. The earth is 4.5 billion years old. That means, as a percentage of time the planet’s been here, it’s just a rounding error.”

You get two cookies if you don’t eat the one cookie in front of you for thirty minutes. I failed that one. Learned to make cookies myself. So many ways to make cookies! I don’t mind eating ‘most’ of my mistakes. Finding out what works can be valuable information. Albeit sometimes bruising.