I just posted about preferring to say "I'm in life" rather than "I'm in love with life" = it's ongoing engagement vs. a spike of euphoria.
Spikes of euphoria may arise out of ordinary engagement with life...
I. What "in life" looked like yesterday
Here's one of the most amazing photos/moments that's arisen from the girlettes being in my everyday life.
Yesterday bink took me to the Zoo & Conservatory. Normally I skip the animals, which are sometimes sad, and go directly to the growing greenery (love it!);
For Covid safety, the place now requires that visitors (who need a timed-ticket) walk along a one-way path. You could still skip the zoo, but for a change, we decided to see the zoo too.
Girlette FrankColumbo came along because she's new and hasn't been out much.
And here's what happened when we got to the Golden-Haired Lion Tamarins:
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II. "Robust things are often more efficient than efficient things are robust."
Speaking of amazing, yesterday Julia and their visiting girlette Annie Evening made me this:
The message reads:
EfFICIeNcY Is tHe OPPo5ite OF ROBuStNEss"Efficiency v. robustness " is a concept from the world of computing/Game Theory etc.
I think of more mundane examples:
a thrives-only-in-special-conditions (efficient) orchid or rhino
vs.
a thrives-anywhere (robust) dandelion or squirrel.
(I'm not sure "opposite" is the correct word though.)
In personal terms:
The store's lack of efficiency drives me nuts--(it truly would benefit from more efficiency)--
BUT, I've always relished how robust it is: like a garage sale, I've often said.
(A big problem with Ass't Man is that he's trying to impose efficiency . . . without respecting the robustness of the system.
OK, it's inefficient, but it works--it's its own ecosystem.
He's like––I don't know--like introducing rabbits to Australia?)
From a short article on Efficiency vs. Robustness (with good comments):
"Something is EFFICIENT if it performs optimally under ideal circumstances.[OR (I like this--from the comments on above post):
Something is ROBUST if it performs pretty well under less than ideal circumstances.
"Robust things are often more efficient than efficient things are robust." [BF mine]
"Efficient: works very well under expected conditions
Robust: does not fail catastrophically under unexpected conditions"]
Good to design robust systems since, as the article said (in 2013):
"After a while, you notice that events with a 'one in a million' chance of occurring happen much more often than predicted."
We in 2021 should know that ^ VERY WELL.
Especially those of us who've lived long enough to see it (the so-rare-as-to-be-almost-nonexistent thing) happen time and again.
