"ZERSETZUNG!"

                                     last day in the mountains

 

                                 just me and the ants trying to stay alive at the rest stop

                             

                            half way there at lake have-a-chew city...rain storms last night

well got to quartzite and called the mechanic and he says the transmission needs servicing...in a week or so...did the math and realized my savings was not growing so i had to cease and desist with doing commerce with the "Motel Cartel"  and tried to rehabilitate my shower tent(s)...and pump...heard a term i think on "marketplace"...agri-tainment...the you tubers who show what "life on the farm" is like...some are more legit than others..."crazy jungle adventure" is by a lady on  a homestead in bolivia...garden and kids keep her busy..."beekeeping with natalee" is informative and well done...katie walters has made a couple of comments about "safety" so maybe there is a chance she will not loose her limbs or her life on her dangerous jobs..."Torqued by regan" is by regan winner who is more professional and competent and productive than anyone i have seen yet...truck driver, mechanic, cleaner, organizer and cleaning some more...GIVE THIS WOMAN A RAISE!...Zoe Berg is the most dedicated equestrian i have ever seen...boyfriends...not so much...lets go to africa!...@malangotravels this african man does some great low key videos...i was reading in a book which mentioned the african town Ujiji where stanley and livingston met...i looked it up and found this guy going around the town on a bike taxi...also his bus trip of about 750 miles from kigoma to dar es salaam on the VIP bus for 35 bucks was very informative...he points out that many people were moving to this area to grow crops...there was a current view of India on "marketplace"...everyone was making jewelry there or more plastic inedibles....dead end work if you ask me....as long as we are on africa there was a great piece on you tube about a subject i have long contemplated..."Why Sahara tribes wear black robes in the blazing sun" @Janvikapoor281t2 (32min)..this explains the physics of heat transfer and how after thousands of years the folks who died from heat caused the adjustment of garments...

been watching "Trump TV"...great idea now all the other folks who want to get elected need to quit spending all that money and present their case on their own youtube channel...his term "super-intelligence" is more fitting than AI and "Public execution by musketry"(the military term) needs to be reinstated...and the putting of the bullet-fest online will bring some closure to some folks...i seem to be getting a lot of pleas for me to get a concealed weapons permit...this is arizona after all...i want a bodyguard not a gun!...Trump certainly qualifies for the "PIECE PRIZE"...he seems to be getting a piece of everything...BUNDESGERICHTSHOF!...blunder!...

ZERSETZUNG=SYSTEMATIC CAMPAIGN OF HARASSMENT USED BY EAST GERMAN STASI=MINISTRY FOR STATE SECURITY 

got to go...miles to go before i sleep! 

                             
 

"The lessons of impermanence..."

                                drip drip drip from the metal fence

                         kaibab vs Aberts squirrel... is this a kaibab

                          the gayte is closed!

same ol' same ol'...round midnight the person upstairs began the noise...this is the quality inn in flagstaff arizona...i have never stayed here without being harassed...i asked the indian (this is important) girl if she could promise me a quiet room...number 108 is not that room...and i have been in this room 4 times now!...this place was sold recently apparently to the MOB!...the person/people who are on the payroll to keep organized crime in check are worse than useless...and the new management is as mob oriented as the last management...there are no rooms in flagstaff that i know of that are not indian owned (this is important)...they keep a list which they share with all the indian owned motels, hotels etc...if you get marked as a troublemaker you will get a lot of harassment...the place where i usually stay said they only had rooms with two beds and the price was 30% higher...business is business but bad business and dirty business is to be discouraged...and there seems to be a surge in dirty business in this town/county/state/country...lets move on

i decided to get some schooling in artificial intelligence...there are some pretty good tutorials on the subject..."7 AI terms you need to know" (11min)  @IBM technology..."mixture of experts", "model context protocol"...sound familiar...if not you might consider making yourself conversant on the subject...or at least familiar...i remember 40 years ago i used to snicker at the notion that computers were the future and i saw no use for them in zookeeping...then i was asking about a breeding program for endangered species and i was told that the math was complex in trying to figure out which animals would yield the most viable offspring in breeding programs (siberian tigers etc etc etc) so indeed computers were needed to have successful breeding programs...and now i own several laptops and i realized my understanding of A I was scant at best...it was quite an eye-opener to read even in its most primative form what is involved with using Artificial Intelligence...make yourself familiar with this nascent subject so you can make informed decisions... and i assume that any "KILL SWITCH" can be thwarted so we best deal with very well informed machines being naughty (disinterested malevolence) ...of a little less complex subject the way primative oil business has got us by the short hairs..."the seizure of Bab el-mandel" @what's going in in shipping" with Sal Marcogliano who is a shipping expert explains the complexities of all shipping and especially in this explosive region and how it effects the price of fuel at the pump...so i figured there might be a couple of electric farm tractors...there are dozens...they are not slaves to diesel fuel so they might be an alternative...even john deere has some electrics...help us out here Elon!...lets pivot to juicier subjects...i began to watch "How male fantasies fuel AI" by Dr. Mary Anne Franks @ university of mary washington...this seemed like a provocative subject but the audio was poor and maybe they can put in subtitles...and "Diogenes-the most eccentric philosopher" @biographics with simon whistler...this is a great review of the life and beliefs of a real radical thinker...i was alarmed at how much of this guys life i agreed with...also i listened to some very stimulating interviews with william buckley jr on "firing line"...his interview with jerry brown was very good and his interview with F.Lee Baily made me realize how articulate lawyers can be...mr Baily mentioned that he had gotten guilty people found innocent and innocent people found guilty...you pays your money and you takes your chances...there are lots of firing line interviews to choose from..."searching for floridas sugarcane-to-sugar process and giant sugar mills" TOPdiscovery (24min)..."Shoeing Rocco the Clydesdale is a BIG job"@ forfarriersbyfarriers(30min) this is a great view of a profession which was in every town and village for thousands of years...and it is important that we know of "Why Nancy Grace Roman telescope is about to change everything @Anton Petrov (16min)...the best telescope ever put in space... Colin Hay (men at work) at the santa cruz 40th anniversary concert (10min) this is a great musician and very funny... 

got to disentangle with this contraption and pack up

"The lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind f fullness; dispair empties out into and unquenchable appetite for life" Gretel Ehrlich "The solace of open spaces"

           SOLACE!
 

 

 

 
 

"The world is little..."

the bottom wire on this cattle fence has no barbs so the pronghorn do not get ripped up by the fencing when they crawl under it...

the elk hop over the fence effortlessly but never crawl under

cattle are sure that the grass is greener on the other side of the fence

as long as we are in a livestock state of mind i will recount some of the youtube sites which seem to have targeted me in the last week or so...initially i was only looking at "rust ridge ranch" and adrianna but suddenly i was assailed by thousands (at least dozens) of videos by "katie walters" who works on her dad and two uncles large farm in minnesota or maybe wisconson...anyhow these folks have thousands of acres of land and thousands of head of dairy cows and some beef bovines ...they have a gazzillion pieces of equipment all over the farm and it seems that a lot of it is being repaired...ms. walters is 30 years old going on twelve and should quit drinking....she will eventually quit (insanity/sobriety/death are the options available to us)...this woman drives all the equipment and can probably go into the movie business or work as a model if she decides to get off the farm...there is also "the aussie horse girl" who is interesting (cleavage seems to figure prominantly in most of these  female livestock presenters) there is however one very serious studious woman who promotes beef production...emma coffman @double E ranch advocacy...a wealth of information from a woman who raises beef cattle...i was inspired by watching these ladies getting around all this equipment and changed the oil and oil filter on the truck this week as well as the air filter...also had the tires rotated and balanced...changed the strings on the nylon string guitar as well...had some interesting encounters last week when a couple very large men decided to provoke me by assaulting me.(one guy dropped a snow ski on me and the other slammed himself into the couch behind me and if i had been a bit slower i might have suffered a broken arm)...in general i think the local "home-guard" (read mafia) has decided i am not respectful enough of their tyranny...well i never was very good at being popular with bullies...

got to look at some music and get ready for sleep now...

"The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing--desire." Willa Cather "The song of the Lark" 

 

"Work hard for life..."

                                       some days you're in the mud

                     fall fuzz and flowers time

not everything was positive this week, or last week or for ever now that i think about it...i read a thought provoking bit of information last week on a site that posts "everything elon musk posted on twitter" today...this site "Jacob and Isacc" divides the tweets into several categories...on 9/1/26 there was a head turning post by "Brivael Le Pogan" which was a somewhat lengthy but lucid post about how the character of the state/nation/globe is being changed by forces from the inside...amazingly enough this post recounts how none other than senator joseph r mccarthy exposed how what he called "communists" had infiltrated all of government. well he was not scrupulous in his investigations and was called out on his rampant (rabid) denunciations of many publicly elected officials and employees. but neither was he wrong...however they killed the messenger and the infiltration has continued...i can say without fear of contradiction that employees of the libraries are hand picked and also the post-offices...if i was going to run for office i would try to find a more secure way to gather votes than by mail...

i read a very good article in the 12/1/25 New Yorker magazine entitled "The Big Ice is Sick' by ben taub with photos by ragnar axelsson...great photographer...very depressing information from greenland..."greenland is the largest island in the world. it is three times the size of texas. there are less than 57 thousand people living there"...this story is mainly about the people who hunt polar bears and how there are now not many polar bears to hunt....and the ones that are there are so imbued with toxins that it was determined that no more than ten grams of polar bear meat per week would be safe to consume...about the size of a grape!...serious bummer!...so anyhow, in a place that has such a low human population density you would think the environment would be pristine...so what this illustrates to me is that humans live on a globe and all parts of the globe are connected...for better or for worse...can't catch a ride with elon as his spots are all spoken for...might as well tough it out here...on a little more up-beat note i watched "Deep-Sea biodiversity on Mcdonnel seamount" from "nautilus live" (6min)...this few thousand meter dive shows how much life there is in the sea...hats off to these researchers...i did see a video a while back of a plastic garbage bag in the deepest trench in any ocean...serious bummer!...i found a very good video which illustrates what happened in nepal "What really happened during the 2026 nepal disaster" @anton petrov...mr petrov has used some great footage of the flood/slide event and points out that the higher air temperatures caused the ice to weaken and the rocks and ice slide in great volume down 50 or 60 miles of canyons and ravine at speeds exceeding a hundred miles per hour...he also studied the status of similar terrain and presents at least four places where similar disasters might occur...so don't go in the mountains, don't go near the volcanos, don't go by the ocean and the forests might burn up also...hello elon got a spare chair?!...anyhow the big news in europe is that the AfD political party in germany won an election...this means they get a sayso in government..."Will AfD take over germany?"@ UnHerd (36min) is a well presented and informative account of who and what AfD is...when all was said and done these pundits said what this party wants is to stop immigration...well that view has been around for at least 4 or 5 million years...those hunter gatherers got a lot of heat from those lifestock people...and here we are 4 or 5 million years later and 7 and a half billion more people and it must be addressed...less resources and more people can't be a good thing...lets not think about it...i dragged up some older interviews from "Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr." and thought that his interview with milton friedman was good as well as his interview with Madlyn Mura Ohare (atheist) and the Warren report interview was eye opening and i thought his interview with Hugh Hefner was good but best if only listened to because hugh is a strange looking guy...and i came across some good music in Pomplamoose "oh pretty woman" with the rainbow girls singing...what do you call that....ooooh, waaaa. etc....and there is a steller performance on the ball-point pen which should be noted...and Jazz Mexicano 1 hora de jazz @jazz world essentials is very nice...and i was very enthusiastic about Lukas Nelsons presentation of a tune/philosophy entitled "Dont loose your mind" (6:48) @ mr johnherring

"Work hard for life, dont act like you deserve it, though you know it to be true, the world can end on you."  Lukas Nelson lyrics from "Don't loose you mind"
 
                      

"...take the leap..."

                                             a good protein 
 

                                        rocks lining a path to a large fire ring

well the new old phone has been hacked so i get a lot of warnings about needing a new PDF reader and such as that...if you are not aware of how many and how determined hackers are watch this interview from "soft white underbelly" with "Steve Sims"...and if this makes you feel defeated...""The idea of progress is a dangerous lie" @institute of art and ideas with John Gray...on a more positive note Cobbler G rebuilds a pair of 1978 wedding shoes and also his rebuild of a pair of redwing boots is good...Ms "girl with the dogs" has a couple of recent presentations which are good...she obviously uses her grooming skills on herself in her presentation about her oldest fur family member and she has a compasionate groom of a rescue dog which had matting so severe that it lost a foot..."The revenge trap" is good advice from "Taboo education"(11min)..."What happens when you compress water to its absolute limits" @grandpa walter...this scientific view reveals how much of the physical world remains to be understood..."The lost sisterhood of Gnosis-Barbelo, Sophia and Norea"@"labyrinth of the veiled" just when you thought you had it figured out...and "Hobbits weren't as capable as we thought" @gutsickgibbon (48min) this very knowledgable scientist says that the remains of the floreinsis people indicate they were probably scavengers of the kills made by komono dragons and not very advanced as was once thought...there is a very good interview on "soft white underbelly" with david "nino" rodriguez the most dangerous puncher"...this bad ass wins 32 fights then looses his focus then realizes his heart is not in the game anymore...(an hour and five minutes) worth a listen...

"...take the leap of faith and the net will appear..." David Rodriguez 

"Once you start playing..."

                                           elk cows with cattle in the background

 

                                     six or seven pronghorn 

                                   

                                      lots of lobster mushrooms now pushing above the pine needles

as i sit here watching folks talk about gloria steinem and her life i realize i was alive and well when women in this country became increasingly vocal about equality for women... i keep hearing some static about how "feminism" is destroying society or some such guff..."What ancient DNA revealed about Sumerian women" @asian ancestry (25min) is a scientific view of the reality of womens lives in this era....and!..."Why Neanderthal men kept mating with human women (Homo sapians) and not the other way around"@Epochra (15 min)..."The secret history of big tech" @Anna Bocca (1hour and 40 minutes) this is a very well researched "history" of the evolution of computers from about 1940 till recently...it is disconcerting that several people who were formative in the development of modern computation were/are rather "totalitarian" in their world view...and very wealthy i might add..."Itchy Boots is in china now and still overcoming setbacks...she had mechanical difficulties but had a spare fuel filter which corrected the problem...then she had a very informative visit to "Unit 731" which is what remains of a "medical" facility run by the japanese during WW2...lots of evil goings on...i came across "Adrianna@adrianna-rust ridge ranch...this woman lost her job as a "machinist" (my grandfather was a machinist) so she spends her time with her "main squeeze" (Mr. Matt) doing things around the property...she has an affection for older machinery so she does a lot of repair work...she recently baled hay on her own property for the first time...not very good horse hay but cattle might eat it...she is off to Arkansas to the "National chuck wagon race" this weekend...(a while back there were several deaths at the chuck wagon races in Calgary Canada...it ain't no joke!)...Ashley Cooke has another good tune in "If i'm being honest"(about 3 minutes...watch the one with lyrics)

"Once you start playing golf, you've given up" Aella-girl  

 

"When the violence.."

                                           glass on wood in the forest

                       rusted metal ice-box door with pine needles

                        

                           brain food?

                        

                             multi-family dwelling?

ok lets get down to brass tacks...so to speak...mr musk was filmed down on the louisiana coast with the governor of the state announcing that he was going to build a very large space rocket launch pad...several launch pads actually...i have spent a fair amount of time in that part of the world...mostly getting on oil supply boats or getting off oil supply boats or loading oil supply boats...i imagine that in the future 200 mile per hour winds are a possibility from hurricanes in that exact spot...they might go over to Cameron and ask to see some before and after pictures of that city (they always rebuild)...the storm surge might be more than 20 feet and salt water...i would start (like yesterday) to plant bamboo...lots and lots of bamboo, to block some of the wind and water..."All about bamboo with Lee" @Heathanddome is a wealth of information from a guy that grows bamboo north of new orleans...the best informed site i have seen about SpaceX is @"what about it" this guy studies all things spacex and puts it in an understandable format...i am a "TELLURIAN" by choice and inclination so i am mostly interested in what benefits i can derive from staying on earth and using other peoples inventions...such as communications...i daily look at the offerings from Sabine Hossenfelder and "Scientist discovers a new type of matter" (8min) and also Anton Petrov has very good stuff such as "AI created viruses that don't exist in nature" (14min) @ whatdamath... there is also a presentation that says it was ripe fruit and honey in the diets of early (very early) hominins that caused their brains to grow...this contradicts the cooked meat and fat theory that says these foods in the diet made the brain grow...i know from experience that there is a lot more meat than honey in the world and fruit is very seasonal..."Nicht Wahr?"...well i need to recommend some music before i close this communication...Rita Paye's tiny desk concert is quite good...

"WHEN THE VIOLENCE CAUSES SILENCE WE MUST BE MISTAKEN..." from "Zombie" by the "cranberries"(l listen to this song every day...it creates a rise in my blood pressure...