"Mankind have a great aversion..."

i bought this book yesterday from the local library for two bucks...support your local libraries and make sure you know what they are doing...they have a lot of influence in the community...

i picked up a book last week which is one of the best books i have ever read..."A history of reading" by Alberto Manguel...this author grew up in Argentina and used to read to Borges the author after he went blind...Manguel has a very detailed account of reading from the time when writing was only some marks on clay to designate how many sheep and how many goats were in the flock...along the same vein is "Linguistics vs Musicology; basically identical" (16min) from cartoons in the fog...one of the reasons i bought the field guide is i watched "Jumping Spiders shouldn't be this smart" Stephanie-Sammann (40min) also "The wild side of our Planet" (3hours) narrated by david attenborough...some of the best nature video i have seen...this guy just turned 100 years old..nature keeps a human being dynamic...usually..."The Malankovitch cycle Timeline-where are we now?" (4min) and "Fungal freaks ep1- Guttation" fungus with red (5 min) this is very interesting because this mycologist reveals some of the chemicals found in the small liquid drops on some mushrooms...startling stuff...also some esoterica..."The evolution of telepathy" by rupert sheldrake (1 hr )...and "Every Ancient tradition described quantum field- here's what they called it" (16min) Quantum Gnosis...and some fantastic art "She painted a selfie in 1909 then lost everything (19min) @ Art_Deco this is a great artist Zinaida Serebriakova and there is a more complete showing of her work in "Zinaida Serebriakova: a collectionm of 364 works" (35 min) learn from maestro...a humorous scientist posted  "My first "only fans" video and some other science" (15min) anton petrov...i watch a couple of well done australian serials...
"the doctor blake mysteries" and "Miss Fishers murder mysteries"....miss fisher is a modern woman who has libertine tastes (she is no stranger to casual sex)...and i watch a lot of music video but one of my favorite artists is Loudon wainwright and his thoughtful composition "When you leave" is somewhat disturbing...

"Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily obtainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it."   Samuel Johnson

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"The great hope of society..."

 image from a few years ago when i was at squaw lake desert campsite...name has been changed to something more "woke"...i used to live in a cabin across the road from squaw valley on the trukee river...(calif)...not sure about what the "correct" name would be,,,i talked to a guy who said he grew up in squaw valley where his dad had dairy cattle...now it is all "developed"...too damned bad!

for whatever reason i have had several females who specialize in "competitive coitus" brought to my attention...the latest is a young woman named Annie Knight from australia who distinguished herself by engaging in coitus with 583 men in 6 hours (that's one intromission every 37 seconds if your calculator is not handy)...she was employed in "marketing" prior to her work as...what do you call a woman who specializes in "extreme coitus"...anyhow she said she was not satisfied with her 40 thousand a year paycheck so she went to "onlyfans" (onanly fans?) and began a lucrative career in sex work...however,,,she apparently suffered some medical setbacks from her marathon sex work...according to her she is now a wealthy woman...i am not sure what the appeal is to watching that many men having sex with a single woman might be...i am of the opinion that variety is what appeals to men...anyhow i think there is a misconception about the biological "imperative" which causes males of all species to sacrifice beyond all "reason" in order to inseminate yet another female...but as i look around at 8 billion humans i think perhaps one of the reasons that the unreasonable quest to inseminate has gone awry is due to a lack of understanding of "human reproductive biology"...there was a woman who was on a radio  show recently whose work is to make "period" products more available to women...if women have periods maybe men have question marks...anyhow the correct word is menstruation...i came across a very good short youtube video called "The menstrual cycle explained: a guide to the 4 phases and hormones" (3min 46sec) it is an animation which is clear and well done...if more men knew these facts about female fertility perhaps there would be fewer unwanted pregnant females...perhaps...

"The great hope of society is in individual character." W.E, Channing

"I would not be accessory..."

top image is a spent shell of a 300 Winchester magnum i found on the pipeline....one of the larger and most powerful cartridges available...the bottom image is of a large flower pretty early in the morning...in a couple of hours it was all droopy....

as i sit here writing this blog i am listening to the news on the television which is reporting that the central intelligence agency employees have entered the offices of the head of the national security and removed files pertaining to some of the most notorious activities which the agency has implimented in the last 50 years or more...some of the commentators are saying it is a "constitutional crisis",,,yep if it aint one damn thing it's another....

well i must apologize to my 12 readers maybe down to eight readers now...perhaps two readers with "quadrophenia",,,anyhow i started to look at the youtube presentations of "FEDERAL ACTION REPORT"...these folks have only been putting videos online for a short time...one of the more outlandish titles is "FBI & ICE storm secret bunker of democratic congressman-29 girls rescued $125 million seized" ...whoa buddy!...i looked around for any other news agencies that reported on this historic event...needless to say there are no references to any of these heroic rescues...i was PUNKED...damn!...so i was wondering who might have the resources to put together this many outlandish reports...i guess the friends of the FBI and ICE would do it...maybe even the CIA!...anyhow, i apologize for recommending an obviously false report....

"I would not be accessory to the propagation of falsehood." Samuel Johnson
 

"Invasion of privacy..."

12 year old game camera image...heard what sounded like a fox barking last night! not bloody likely here on the edge of the city...but i did see a prairie dog here last year before the construction company bulldozed the entire lot...too damned bad...

so before i am implicated  in too many crimes i must document what is happening to me...look-a-likes are used by the corrupted government  to make a person seem a criminal...there is a person in this town who grew his beard and went to the place where the Nike shoes were sold and demanded money and got it..Mr. Kai said "if you don't write about it, it never happened."..OK...there is another person who has a truck that looks like mine...complete with with white tailgate and topper...no bike hauler though...same color vehicle and topper....so i guess there is a pretty good budget to burn me...sad as it seems there is a large contingent of "ORGANIZED CRIME" in this city/county/state...and nation  also i suppose...an unfortunate number of these people have affiliation with government and have badges...Pappy Jack spent 13 years working for an outfit that had the motto 'ORGANIZED LAW ENFORCEMENT AGAINST ORGANIZED CRIME"...well guess what, you will not get too rich with that motto!...there is a fellow who i became acquainted with back in the 1970's who morphed into a bit of a scumbag...after being denied his degree  when he was caught mailing cocaine back from a country in south america i guess he was recruited into the murky "company" of folks with no guidelines...anyhow he put his face right close to mine and said "you  are a schizoid nobody" wow! such a friend!...this alerted me to the reality of his mindset...he also said i could have anything but money...wow!...i did not realize i had reached such a level of importance!...i suppose since i was stalked all across Australia, Mexico and elsewhere i should realize  that this vendetta is personal and not based on any real evidence of crimes committed...anyhow the amount of crime in this country warrants much caution from the honest citizens...i watched an impressive  youtube presentation this morning which i hope many people will watch and take to heart,,"FBI and ICE raids Chinese nail salons in Texas" @distortedjustice (17 min)...this is a nauseating account of how Chinese mafia was /are buying and selling sex  of young women and children and murdering those  who did not make a profit...and also "FBI storms 14 hidden bunkers under hardware stores " these enterprising folks sold billions of dollars worth of arms and drugs...it should be an eye opener for citizens of the USA that there may be serious crimes being  committed right under their nose...so when you hear  that ICE or the FBI need to be shut down...DON'T BELIEVE IT!...

"INVASION OF PRIVACY=THE UNWARRANTED APPROPRIATION OR EXPLOITATION OF ONES PERSONALITY..."
 

"...pain is the price..."

 as can be seen from the date on this image it is from 2019...pre-covid   

there are a lot of stories about sub-standard law enforcement on youtube...and if you look there are also many law enforcement as heroic stories...there was a gruesome mass killing a while back involving kids in Shreveport ,La...cops in this town make $33 thousand bucks a year...a paltry amount considering what these people have to deal with daily...no wonder the suicide rate in first responders and cops is so high...

i listen to very little American rap...but i came across a couple of presentations i liked recently "THRIFT SHOP" is by some guys named Macklemore and Ryan Lewis...the video is a must see...i thought i had stumbled across an unknown gem until i saw that is has been viewed 1.9 billion times...hardly an obscure offering..."I had a broken keyboard, I bought a broken keyboard..."this line illuminates perfectly what millions and millions of people do every day...the "hunter/gatherer instinct is just too strong not to hunt and gather...i know well how this compulsive behavior manifest itself...after 55 years of gathering i think i may have some control...bought a new north face fanny pack today and a small hammock and some thick socks and a pair of glasses and glasses case..eleven bucks total...what a bargain!...also i saw where "EMINEM" has a new offering called "Unstoppable"...he looks like he has been taking damn good care of himself and is reaping the rewards ...

an excellent but scary youtube presentation is "An AI just retaliated against a developer" (13 min)(that is a software developer) by Hey Tech...this machinery decided to do dirty to the person who manufactured it..."Human Evolution has sped up, new study finds" (16 min) by "seven days of science" this is presented by a new "science communicator" named Miss Emilia Evans...her enthusiasm is large and here pronunciations are good...

"...pain is the price..(quitting costs more")...eminem

"...a static species..."

 missed raising my earth flag on earth day...so i bought the overpriced hat for 3 bucks...i identify as an EARTHLING...it's the least i can do...

Greater short-horned lizard at 7300 foot elevation...Phrynosoma hernandesi    i have seen a couple of these juveniles on this pipeline clearing

i found an old photo album in the dumpster it is from this woman's family...this image is from the 1940's when she was in Scotland...the great grand-kids would like these

i found two memory cards in a camera case from the thrift store...hundreds of family pictures from all over the world...i choose this one because it is one of the most distinctive...not likely to mistake this lass for someone else...bikini on the snow bowl ski area...i need to take these memory cards to someone who can do the detective work to find this family...after many years these are still important images

i can't help but believe that some organizational help from artificial intelligence would be useful as i watch the C-SPAN coverage of the congressional debates...one of the things that is apparent is the lack of addressing specific problems that need to be resolved...i don't mean to be the bringer of bad news but time is not on our side...invest in a garden to help feed the family when the crops fail...not if but when...

i read an excellent article called "Livelier than the living" in the "New York Review" by Catherine Nicholson who wrote reviews of "A marvelous solitude: the art of reading in early modern Europe " by Lina Bolzoni" and "Untold Futures: time and literary culture in Renaissance England" by J.K, Barret...sounds kind of like dry reading except that the enthusiasm of the readers is pretty remarkable...today people have an enormous amount of material to peruse in many formats,,,there was a time when a book was the only access to someone else's world...i sort of liked this description given by Petrarch..."Here I have established my Rome, my Athens, and my spiritual fatherland; here i gather all the friends I now have, not only those ...who have lived with me, but those who died many centuries ago, known to me only through their writings...I am where I wish to be..."(1348 AD) letter to Seneca...a interview with Dr. Erich Jarvis by Dr. Andrew Huberman called "The evolution of speech and language" (35min) gives some useful insight into how the brain reacts to reading, listening, and speaking...some animals have brains that respond similarly to human brains but human brains and the capacity to understand written language is unique...

"A static species in a dynamic environment is an extinct species..." from  "The real reason humans evolved to walk" (30min) @ evolve.2
 

"I met an elephant friend of mine...."

 

a bit of snow on the ground yesterday morning...it was all melted in a few hours

it was colder this morning at around 17 degrees...all you can do is "handle your business"...when i crawl out of "beggers tomb" I make hot beverage and turn on the truck crank up the heater cook and eat some breakfast...then packed up the truck in about 4 hours and head into town...11 days in the forest...saw pronghorn, chipmunks, kaibab squirrels, robins, juncos and a bluebird kept me company for a few days,,,the raven friend visited several times a day to see if i had a spare mouse or chipmunk...what with the cold temperatures virtually no flies or mosquitoes...cold is survivable...heat is not...

seems there was another lame-brain with delusions of being an assassin...knives!?...this guy needs to be stood up in front of a firing squad within a month or so...i saw where on this date of april 28 Mussolini the Italian fascist leader was shot dead along with his girlfriend...i wish more people knew the definition of what a fascist is since the term gets used a hell of a lot incorrectly. 

going to write more later as i am fatigued after an early morning wake-up and a full day of laundry and groceries etc etc etc…

“I met an elephant friend of mine,                                                                                                                         I said to him, “You’re looking fine”                                                                                                                   He mentioned that he had lost some weigtht                                                                                                      And i asked him to breakfast at half past eight                                                                                                    That sounds good but now i must run                                                                                                                  And for breakfast I like a hot buttered bun                                                                                                          Of course I like two buckets of grain                                                                                                                   And a bale of hay, that should  be plain                                                                                                                 Half a barrel of water should be quite enough                                                                                                       I’m on a diet and it’s been pretty tough                                                                                                                  I’ll be there tomorrow and we’ll have some fun                                                                                                   But perhaps I’ll forgo that hot buttered bun….

i will call this poem “The elephants diet”….i came across a musician/poet online last week name jesse welles who writes a lot of songs in the style of Dylan/Prine etc etc and he wrote one called “Fat” to chastise the many chubby folks…his song called “Weed: has some pretty interesting lyrics not often heard …”give air a chance…."