Hendrix's Eccentric Commentary

Eccentric and Idiosyncratic Commentary on Current and Military Affairs

Category: Personal

  • Retirement

    9/26/2026 Big Thought for the Day:  The reason for retirement is that it takes so much time to manage your medications that you no longer have time to work.


  • Technology Failure

    7/21/25 We can put a man on the moon. We have built an internet that connects the world. We have planes that fly themselves. We have artificial intelligence that thinks…


  • Big Existential Thought for the Day:

    6/1/25 In life there are many more ways for things to go wrong than to go right.  This might be another way of stating the law of entropy.


  • Unpleasant Thought of the Day:  Maybe it is time for liberals to start buying guns.

    The MAGA movement has developed a violent edge and armed confrontations no longer seem impossible.  Liberals need to consider the possibility of both general violence and personal threats and frankly…


  • Telemarketers in Hell

    2/18/2025 Dante need to be reincarnated so that he can devise another circle of Hell specifically for telemarketers.


  • Buried in the Swamp while Ignoring the Alligator

    2/4/2025 Today I fell victim to the deadliest ambush known to mankind, more dangerous than Seal Team 6 in an L ambush backed up by attack helicopters and JDAMs:  The…


  • Rant of the Day

    2/5/2025 Rant of the Day (A Reprise):  We can put a man on the moon;  we can build cars that drive themselves;  we can put artificial intelligence in computers;  so…


  • New Computer

    2/3/2025 Setting-up and using a new computer is like driving a new car: The first two or three times is fun, then you realize that it is just taking you…


  • Today’s Excitement

    1/26/2025 Big News! I am altering the way I sleep on my bed. (My life is a constant whirlwind of excitement.)


  • Big Philosophical Thought for the Day

    1/24/2025 At age sixty-seven, I am still learning what I am, but I do now have a very good idea of what I am not. This knowledge would have been…


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