"I think about how many times..."

 television on the news channel...I think there are only three wars...yesterdays war, todays war, and tomorrow's war...except for that...there is much speculation about whether the commander in chief of the USA has made the right decision about whacking the leaders of Iran etc....I remember when I was about 4 or 5 years old and it was Christmas Day and I was laying on the floor of our little house while my father was assembling the Lincoln logs which Santa had brought...pappy had put a leadership figure on top of the plastic hill that came with the "cowboys and Indians" toys and said we need to take out the leaders first...good lesson...so when I think about whether the leadership of the country here I live is doing the right thing I always figure that if I can sleep at night without fear of being attacked  the leadership is doing their job...also when I hear about this country or that doing this or that thing it must be remembered that "Iran", china. Russian etc etc etc are geographic definitions and do to represent the inhabitants of those geographic places...the governments, and the persons who have political power in those governments are the ones who declare war, declare peace, declare how the resource are to be used...I think too few resources are used to promote art and music...and the trillions used to promote war might be used to promote health and education also...the newly formed DEPARTMENT OF RECYCLING (just kidding) has been so successful that there is enough money to have a musical instrument in every Childs hands that wants one...I watched some of my favorite movies again last week..."The cheap detective " always makes me laugh out loud, and "Captain Ron" does the same and now I watch "The Planters" which is a masterpiece also....not very highbrow but very entertaining...like the croissants and chocolate I eat is not very nutritious but makes me happy inside..."What 400 prostitutes taught Machiavelli about male weakness"(15 min) is an informative piece about humanity...and lets not forget about our reading..."Under the spotlight" by Simon Callow (10/17/24 New York review) is a very good article about how much people are on "stage"..."performance allows one to transcend ones physical and mental condition." I looked up on YouTube how many places there are to post blogs..it seems that video blogs are most popular and everyone wants the most "subscribers" they can get and to "monetize" their work...I have to be content with my 12 readers and two sponsors and maybe someday someone will give me my dime...probably not...however as long as I enjoy the scribbling I will continue... and as long as it allows me to transcend...the video is of one of my "assistants" who came around to see what I had left beneath the tree in the sandy wash..."I think about how many times I have fallen/spirits using me, larger voices calling..." Stephen Stills "Southern Cross"

"Not always do we seek..."

 this old heel found at the homestead is too far gone even for cobblerG

eight days in the mesa country  revitalizes my spirits...20 degrees above "normal"

symbol on the bottom of a can...how old?...what does it mean?

Arthur S....not the pessimist he is often described as...

i will see if this blog is allowed to be posted...the close surveillance has followed me north...i think i have been banned from the dollar a pint grocery stores in yumertonville under suspicion of "reading the labels on the food"...maybe it is more than that which makes me "persona non grata"...here now so i need to adjust to this locale again...i have been watching the green clad folks who celebrate the "emerald islands" far away...i think people get too emotionally involved with their so called "identity"...i was thinking of a speech i heard recently..."i would like to thank all those who came before me..." yeah me too...like the denisovans and the neanderthals and the homo erectus and the "ghost" ancestral DNA (thanks ms Lindsay)...where does it start?...where does it end?... anyhow "be here now"...i got a new phone for $39 and got the no limit data package for $50 plus tax so i can look at youtube without being cut off...this make viewing more productive as far as informational access goes...i watched some strong stuff last week "Spiritually depraved misery inducing landscapes of north america" (18 min)@"crime pays but botany doesn't" in this critical view of current landscaping trends mr Anthony rips the landscapers a new asshole...they deserve it...i worked for three landscapers at once back in about 1973...Charbel, Walter, and Eduardo...these were good guys just getting started and i was a skinny kid trying to make enough money to get out of town...i hated laying sod but Walter used to pick up a roll and say "life is no joke! you have to make it count!"...he is an old man now and he doesn't lift the kind of weight he used to..."The woman who shook Nietzsche" is an excellent short piece about Lou Andreas Salome who lived her life independently and attracted a lot of attention from some of the most intellectually prominent men of her time...Nietzsche wanted to marry her, and she influenced S, Freud and the poet Rilke... strong stuff!..."Lets GO Geo" (Heather) has a great piece on creosote bush and "Itchy Boots" makes it to mongolia with a bad shock absorber and "Little Chinese Everywhere" Yan eats very well in Iraq.."All that is sacred" is a short documentary about the "HAPPENING" that was key west in the early 1970s...Lafayette, Louisiana had some of that fibe at that time....but with a cajon accent...i heard where one of the crew on "The deadliest catch" was drowned on the job...i cant get too excited about groceries that people have to risk their lives for..."Not always do we seek a solution, while of the truths we cannot do without." Lou Andreas Salome...

"It is very easy to mistake..."

                       leaving behind desert sunsets for a while as I migrate north cooler temps

                           this is Ernie the pampered pet (even the dogs don't use their real name)

in keeping with thousands of years of migration tradition I am moving north away from the intensity of the desert heat...temps to top 100 degrees in 4 days...much snow still in the destination site.... I bought new snow boots last month at the thrift...8 bucks for the boots and 2 bucks for the new bootlaces...have pretty good winter clothes...lots of sweaters and long underwear....every time I have made this journey either headed north or south I have been stalked by one of the numerous government workers who's Jobe it is to keep me in "THE BOX"...I wassubjected to much harassment at the government run river control site

the new lens apparently can detect alien beings...or maybe I just shook the camera....whatever

                                              angular fencing everywhere I go...

and angular fences

 

I just spent several hours writing my blog and all of the written portion was deleted when I attempted to post it...a I have heard many times someone simply hacks my computer and appropriates my intellectual property...this is a felony...but here in outlaw land there is not much care taken to protect the unpopular like myself...sooo I must make arrangements to dissuade this sort of crime agains me...maybe I can get my blog published intact next time....

"We called her the woman..."

                    TAFT california coke bottle...from the WW2military dump.              

the above coke bottle looks silly compared to those watched unearthed  by Adventure Archeology too damned hot!...predicting 96 degrees F today in and around Yumertonville...too damned hot...I hear the news about the serious cold weather along with snow and ice and much lamentation and gnashing of teeth...It used to be said "cain't do nuthin' about the weather"...however it is becoming increasingly apparent that the weather "norms" are changing...I disparage of those folks who have not incorporated the possibilities of "extremes" in the weather and it suddenly occurred to me that the temperatures in the mid 90s here are not what I have experienced in the last ten years...so rather than be a good example of a bad example I awoke at a little before 4am this morning and made my cup of coffee (found a couple of cans of Cafe du Monde with chicory at the scratched and dented store) and managed to get on the road by 9ish...figured if I was hurting yesterday at 94 degrees I would be going down for the count today at 96 degrees...also I had to figure in the fact that the near black rocks and gravel which make up the majority of the area around where I stay probably push the temps north of 100 degrees and my age and "co-morbidities" make me a  good candidate for a body bag...but...I came into town and dropped off a couple of items at the storage unit and went into the thrift store  behind the VFW place and bought 3 pairs of like new dollar each pants two of which were ripstop nylon which I have been looking for since my last ones wore out a year ago I also picked up a couple of DVDs for 50 cents each and something I have been looking at for several months a MIKE PENCE doll still in the box for 2 bucks...anybody who has a malevolent mob trying to lynch them and they still do their duty is high on my list of honorable people! then to check the mail ,then to the thrift near the library and as it was half price day and I got lucky and found a like new 50mm prime Nikon lens for 12 bucks! at the Wally World  grocery I bought a dozen green seedless grapes for  67 cents so I could get cash back then went to the scratched and dented grocery store and bought 4 avocados for 50 cents each and a can of tuna for 67cents then went to the library where I sit even now in the air conditioning...there is a lovely young lady at the scratched and dented grocery who looks remarkably like a 16 year old Salma Hyak... she needs more intellectual stimulation than a cash register and stocking shelves can provide so I gave her three books which I was culling from my truck...the "Oxford book of the English  language and a large collection of "sayings" and the "Anti-memoir"...all of which had ragged or no covers...good brain food if she will read them...being young and beautiful can be a one sided affair unless one can also cultivate ones intellect...from looking at some of the women who are interviewed by L.Fridman and A.Huberman beauty and intellect can certainly be found in the same person... speaking of which...well I had to scroll through a lot of my YouTube history before I came to this great interview "Genes sinning and morality: how genes shape your risk taking and morals" Dr. Kathryn Paige Harden with Dr. Andrew Huberman...(2hours and 42minutes)..yep I knew it, I need gene therapy!...however, I sort of got back into a "compulsive/addictive" mode when I came across "Adventure Archaeology" YouTube site...I watched for hours as these people dug into old garbage dumps and pulled out beautiful glass bottles older than 100 years from Coca Cola and various other products...this guy knows more about bottles than anyone I have ever heard of...I think my fascination stems from when I was about 3 or 4 years old and we lived in an old plantation style home in Dutchtown...the house was in pretty bad shape but roomy enough for a family of 4 kids and two adults...50 yards behind the house there was a barbed wire fence but just before the fence there was an ancient trash pile which I used to go and sit in and pull out broken glass and bits of metal and other treasures a 3 year old boy might be enthralled with...until mama spotted my my excavations and vetoed this treasure spot from my recreation...alas the bug was in me and I have been partial to garbage dumps ever since...on a more current note I hear about the "deposition" of ms. H. Clinton by persons interested in GOD KNOWS WHAT!...UFOs?...democratic child sex rings?...these are clowns in a circus sideshow asking these sorts of questions...I think they should dig up mr. Epstein and hang him some more until they get this absurdity out of their systems and can get down to governing the USA...he perhaps needed gene therapy too!...I have a good question for a well informed artificial intelligence program....how many people in business and government have been implicated in "sexual" misconduct in the last hundred years?...it ain't too uncommon that's for sure...common as dirt I imagine..."Growtreeorganic" is still making the earth more plant friendly...the government of the USA needs more input from people like this...also I watched and was amazed by "300 pregnant sheep, one mile of terrain, 3 sheep dogs."  these border collies are trained to perfection by this woman on the remote "isle of Bute" Scotland...(8:31) she also has some other presentations...I watched a DVD about Dorthea Lange the lady photographer and her companion/co-worker/husband...there is sign which reads "Tractored Out" which laments the fact that on this plantation there were 22 tractors and 13, 4 row cultivators which replaced 130 families that lived and worked on the plantation...it made me wonder how many people will lament their lack of employment when artificial intelligence gets more widely used...I think those folks who unload ships (longshoremen?) and who insisted that the machinery which can do the same task much faster (and safer) must not be used...what a load of crap!...these longshoremen minds can be used for a better purpose I think..."What was maslin? the medieval bakers famine proof  bread you've never heard of." this is about mixing rye and wheat crops so they have a better chance of producing...I expect there will be famine in the future because of the mono-cropping currently being practiced...speaking of protests the first protest in America was apparently when h.d. Thoreaus grandfather organized a protest when he was at Harvard university because they served rancid butter...who knew!...there are a couple of YouTube presentations which I do not agree with...one being about a young camel which is rescued from a life of giving rides...this is an Arabian camel and this species of camel has been domesticated for a long time...I know the camels I worked with had better health because they exercised regular...I switched them up every other day so they had one day off then they worked...I often got asked about whether the camels got tired but I never was asked whether I got tired...work animals like to work if they are worked well..."dangerous shelter dog reveals hilarious habit in loving home" GeoBeats animals...well a lot of good music was listened to also...Mel Tillis "Who's Julia" is an odd tune but interesting...and Joan Chamorro who is a Spanish lady has some great presentations many of which are of women she "presents"...I especially like "My baby just cares for me" ms Chamorro plays trumpet and sings with a great backup band...I have seen her play violin and I think trombone also...she has been making music since she was quite small so she now is band director also...also I heard of Lalala and Y2k who put out a musical? piece of rappish/hiphoppish sort of thing which got a lot of recognition...but I don't get it...even with the lyrics on the screen...however I did find an interesting presentation by"Broken Peach" called F*ck you (ce lo green)...can't understand many of the words but the idea comes across well...these girls will F*ck you up!..got to go and de-pressurize as the buzz is hostile....the books I gave ms.lovely seem to have metastisized into something horrid...I keep getting slandered by the local constabulary which "diminishes" my standing in the community....these clowns need to explain themselves in a court of law...they have no compunction about terrorizing little children with tales of my evil...I need compensation...and an public apology...

"We called her the woman/ Who did not care /But the fool called her/ His lady fair. / (Even as you and I)...poem called "A fool there was"

"Wisdom cannot be conveyed:..."

 

why would the ants pile all the dirt from their hole on one side only?

mysteries abound...much about J. Epstein in the news this morning...as usual...the most interesting thing I have seen about this never ending drama is a YouTube presentation called "Jeffery Epstein: the autopsy no one is talking about" (19 min.) by Lauren the Mortician...too many "non standard" events here to ignore...this guy appears to have been murdered...the magic bedsheet will go down in history with the "magic bullet" in the j.f.k. killing...

I felt silly when I tried on the Nike trainer II shoes knowing I would not wear them and they might get me conked in the head...better stick with my $3.50 shoes and let others deal with ridiculously priced collectables...my income has increased by about $20 bucks a year but my expenses has increased by more!...damn!...

WWII era improvised cook stove left behind in the desert...one of the secrets to contentment is knowing how to improvise...

life is not all sand and rocks...there are flowers to be found also...be patient...

"philosophize this" latest presentation is kind of dense but worth the mental effort...episode #244 "after virtue"-alasdair Macintyre and the philosophy he promoted...also @LindsayNikole two latest presentations explained some things I had often puzzled about...such as Bryozoa colony's which I had often seen in fresh water but never understood and her very didactic pursuit of human origins "How we became humans"...good work!..."The tanner. Transforming raw hides into leather...the shocking process..." yep it is pretty shocking and makes me think maybe an alternative should be sought...that said I just bought a used leather belt...I am sometimes long on intention but short on practice...I started looking at "Itchy Boots" (Rebecca Noraly Schoenmaker) from the Netherlands who has been riding her highly rebuilt Yamaha around Asia for several years...she has a Chinese guy who rides a Triumph riding with her...good drone footage and she overcomes many challenges..."The bizarre world of mummy tattoos" by  "miniminuteman" AKA Milo (minderbender) Rossi is well researched...(modern tattoo culture is also pretty bizarre)...I like to look at the videos which have documented how long abandoned practices have been continued by a few special people..."The old man and the sawmill' landline abc Australia (4:24) is about an old codger who has built a sawmill he can operate by himself...a genius at work...I have worked in three "sawmills" but only one was to saw logs...it was called a "ground hog" sawmill and was put together by a fellow who was an enthusiast...there is something rewarding about watching a circular blade open up a log...and if you wan even more "primitive" ways of doing things "Before electricity: How saw blades were sharpened:hanging a massive grindstone by hand (1971-38min) Raw Machines...these people put out some great videos!...I came across the practice of "therianthropy" recently I can't say that I am favorably impressed..."Cymatics: science VS music' by Nigel Stanford (6min) is very interesting..."everything owes its existence solely and completely to sound..."...he says that there are three times as many neural connections from the ear to the brain as from the eye to the brain...thats something to think about...speaking of which I have been listening to a lot of Raymond Chandler detective stories read by Elliot Gould lately...great stuff...and David Wengrow: "the history of human civilization "@doomscroll (2 hours) is very interesting...he says that "reparations" must be considered for the people who have been historically and systematically "dis-possessed"...this is a bit of a joke as 70 thousand dead and more people every day are killed in Gaza...and the power brokers are lining up to divide the spoils...anyhow I agree that it would be worth looking into devising a way to make everyone have an equal chance at gaining economic independence...Wengrow says everyone should have the opportunity to ..."move away, disobey and create alternatives..." yeah! not bloody likely mate!...need some music..."the hot sardines" video of "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" (means To me you are beautiful) this is a great music video...Amber Rachel and "the sweet potatoes" also do this tune well...I watched "Dark passages" with H. Bogart and L. Bacall (1941 106 min)...not the best but ok...

got to get packed and back into the desert...

"Wisdom cannot be conveyed. The wisdom a wise man tries to communicate always sounds like foolishness. True knowledge comes from experience, from union with the world." Herman Hesse

(there was a poster of a man dressed in a tuxedo and tails in a rubber tube floating in a swimming pool ...the caption was "Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from poor judgment"

I found that if I search for this blog on Yandex browser it comes up like it used to on google...Yandex is Russian...I have been canceled in America?!

"Well you can't really tell..."

 something afire in Los Algodones...maybe the trash dump?

this rather drastic looping in the sky may be the wind and a condensation trail...or not

I found this laying on top of the sand and rocks...I think it is a WWII jeep gas cap...or not

valentines day came and went without incident but the next night was Sunday and some jokers decided to launch fireworks over my truck while I slept...these clowns seek to defy the laws and flex their weenies as best they can...they are pissed off about the crack down on the lawbreaking which has been going on for years...loud is a bad choice for protesting...speaking of which I would like to try to do a reality check on the recent poor execution of a poor plan which resulted in the deaths of American citizens... according to what I have been reading for the last few years there are 12 million "undocumented" persons/aliens/workers/humans...whatever you like, in the USA...also the information I had been reading indicated the 8 million of these undocumented folks were from the republic of Mexico...I am very wary of most statistics I read because...how in the hell did they get these numbers anyhow!...so if these people are "without papers" (WOP)...AND someone with the proper authority says that they must be removed from the population it must be acknowledged that they ain't likely to leave of their own volition...SO...send in the HARD HITTERS...in a manner of speaking...according to the researchers...who may or may not be accurate...the vast majority of non-documented people do not break the law...EXCEPT FOR BEING ILLEGAL RESIDENTS!...so this is a dilemma...they are committing a crime but they are contributing something positive to society...THEY WORK!...I have visited other nations and they all have pretty strict laws pertaining to what non-citizens can and cannot do...anyhow, say what you will there will always un-documented workers and there will always be people willing to give them work and there will always be people who object to this...nevertheless use of deadly force will also have proponents and victims...thats about enough on that subject...

I watched some great YouTube lately... I don't want to give the impression that I am against...what for a lack of a better word I will call LOVE..."The AI generated intimacy crisis" by Bryony Cole...this is a 14 minute TED talk...and somewhat alarming to me...I talk to my phone when it says "HELLO MOTO"...I am afraid to piss it off...I say hello back...a very interesting interview with Peter Steinberger by Lex Fridman (#491) "Open Claw the viral AI that broke the internet". about three hours and 15 minutes...this is the most "Intimate" conversation I have yet heard about the actual "building" of a artificial intelligent "entity"...these guys talks about how programing well requires "love"...Mr. Steinberger is the proud father of OPEN-CLAW which is an open source AI which he recommends that people use with caution as it can "take over"...he describes many of the ways that this "program" has sort of become "self aware"...the whole interview is educational and helps to elucidate how the future is likely to be a lot different with these powerful computer programs running a larger and larger segment of society...I talk to the foxes, coyotes and ravens and prefer the living things to be fascinated with thank you very much...

"Well you can't really tell if something is an addiction until you try to give it up."  Doctor Who

"A man can't stay angry..."

                                       life got better...couldn't resist at a buck a pint!

made the eye doctors appointment...tests indicate I am not blind...eyesight is not good...surgery may be needed...whatever...the window doctors were efficient and replaced the busted door window...yeah!...bought  a new propane hose...I hope it solves the problem...

been watching the Olympic "curling" competition in Italy...the Scottish people should be ashamed to have invented this so called sport...this is not the only absurdity I have noticed recently...McDonalds burger joint is now offering caviar with a $25 gift certificate...bad choices available for all...AND! I see where already addiction prone kids can get a Pokémon/Legos fix...

so I have changed my mind about Artificial Intelligence being beyond my capacity to utilize it...I have listened to about 3 hours of the 4 1/2 hour presentation on Lex Fridmans podcast called "Future of AI and the state of the art in 2026" he has a couple of young experienced authors and master programers/coders who go into great detail about various and assorted current aspects of AI...about 75% of this was unintelligible to me but the 25% or so that made sense made me believe that I...yes even my tiny brained self could benefit from using AI...but I think I need to learn which questions are relevant and how to ask them before I can benefit from my expenditure of time and energy...It is pretty mind expanding to begin to understand the extent of this new technologies scope...like the invention of the wheel...where can this take you?...

"Woman becomes Part of elephant herd" wild Thailand  BBC earth (6 min) is a good example showing what the right approach to animal relationships can result in...very inspiring..."Using play to rewire and improve your brain" from Huberman lab is a well done presentation...I have been listening to Samuel Johnsons Rambler essays as read by David Benson...if you want to listen to a master writers language skills there is none better than Samuel Johnson..."Crime pays but botany doesn't" is less of the queens English but a lot of impressive latin that this train engineer/botanist uses to describe his encounters with plant life...Python Cowboy has a lot of video of him and his crew and his dogs rooting out invasive pythons in Florida...pretty fast moving..."Why we are raising 100 plus guinea pigs to mow our blueberry garden"...thats a lot of guinea pigs!...I am not sure if they considered it a success or failure...it was certainly an adventure...especially when the guinea pigs began to escape....(13min)...

well some music is needed here...you remember Clario? ms. "Sexy to somebody"...she is now sexy to everybody...a veritable siren, an enchantress and unabashed coquette..."Clario live at Lollapalooza 2025 is here strutting her stuff...and doing it quite well!...you know I listen to Ella Langley and she has a lot of tunes and most of them are about her being less than satisfied with her relationships...such as "Damn You!"...well she is a great songwriter none the less...

"A man can't stay angry for five years...can he?...Marlon Brando as Rio in a conversation with Sheriff Longwood after Brando had spent 5 years in prison...unknown to the sheriff..."One eyed Jacks"  is the only movie that Brando ever directed...it is a classic...

this is not a drill?