{"id":35041,"date":"2026-01-03T21:27:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35041"},"modified":"2026-01-03T21:54:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:54:33","slug":"a-gallimaufry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35041","title":{"rendered":"A Gallimaufry"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I write this, I am listening to WAMU’s Hot Jazz Saturday Night<\/i>, and this first program of the year is a “gallimaufry<\/a>” — a mixed bag, a potpourri, a hodgepodge.<\/p>\n

I happen to like the word “gallimaufry.” I used it once in an email at work. No one in that email knew what I meant by it, and one person replied that he didn’t even have an idea of where to start in pronouncing it!<\/p>\n

It’s a perfectly good word! It has a five-hundred year history!<\/p>\n

So, here’s a gallimaufry of things I saw today that have nothing to do with the United States’ illegal military action in Venezuela overnight.<\/p>\n

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Well said, Tim the Enchanter. Well said.<\/p>\n

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Facebook’s algorithms served me this content from The Economist<\/i> which tries to determine which companies have the best work-life balance, with better work-life balance to the right and better leadership to the top.<\/p>\n

Diamond Comic Distributors I would have placed in the lower left quadrant of this graph, ranking low on both the horizontal work-life balance scale and low on the vertical leadership scale. The United States Postal Service ranks very low on leadership (so it’s far to the left) and only slightly below average on work-life-balance (so it’s a little bit into the lower half). I would place Diamond below the USPS on the vertical graph.<\/p>\n

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We’re really going to do it, aren’t we? Attempt to take Greenland by force and become embroiled in a war with our (former) NATO allies.<\/p>\n

The United States under Donald Trump is unmistakably a nuclear-armed failed and rogue state. Donald Trump has taken Ronald Reagan’s “shining city on a hill” and burned it to the ground to satisfy his own ego and greed.<\/p>\n

“Empires crumble all the time. Pay it no mind. You just happen to witness mine.” — Guy Garvey<\/p>\n

On a different note, I started writing a short story yesterday. An idea struck me in bed sometime Thursday night. I’m not quite sure where it’s going, nor am I certain it will amount to anything and I only have 700 words down, I like the feel at least at the moment. Why this and not the novel I wrote of on Thursday<\/a>? I need to review the twenty pages I wrote in late October and early November, get back into that headspace, and pick it up from there. It’s lurking, though, and I’ll come back to it next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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