"Be a channel...."

 like so much we encounter in the visual world there are sometimes only shadows to inform us

this beautiful lake in the desert attracts birds and vegitation

this western grebe was a constant resident in this place where the water flowed at all times

lost/misplaced my so called smart phone yesterday morning...this is a more traumatic experience than i had assumed...had to buy a replacement at the walmart yesterday and set the damned thing up...well the phone lady in the phone department was adamant that she had no obligation to help me with a "pay as you go" phone...and so she was no help at all....the news seems to be pretty negative. as the federal government of the USA has not figured out that no funding stalls a lot of government activity...i think the other governments (city/county/state) are determined to keep society more or less running...i did not plan to fly anywhere anyway....enough of the human errors in the world...some of my reference material was/is on the errant phone (lost or stolen ) so i will look to the notebooks and my memory...since new york city is much in the news recently i will start with a very good article in "The New York Review of Books" from may 23, 2024...the article is about the building of supertall buildings  in new york city....'".., in light of all the other urgencies the profession should be addressing instead-climate change and social equity being the two most urgent- the devotion of so much talent, money, and effort to erecting ever higher "supertalls' and "megatalls" verges on the obscene. The world is burning- literally and figuratively- this flagrant waste of capital and imagination makes the biblical parable of the Tower of Babel all too easy to comprehend as both the most ancient and most modern of human follies." last lines from "Supersize that?" by Martin Filler...i think they should allow people to jump from the top of the tallest buildings with and without parachutes...there is a very good youtube presentation by Dr. Andrew Huberman who interviews Dr, David Fajgebaum about "Using existing drugs in new ways to treat and cure diseases of brain and body." (2 hours)..this fascinating discussion illustrates how multi-disciplinary approaches to treating ailments has proved to be very productive...this just in...elon musk allowed mucho money by tesla board...like a trillion bucks if he can make tesla stock price rise...the robot army awaits..."Ultra Hardcore" is a good article in New York review of books (jan.18, 2024) which gives some history of elon musk...his life is different from your life...and i do not begrudge him is wealth as it seems to me most everything he has sought to develop is a positive influence on humanity..."Seeking the truth"(30 min) is a good youtube presentation about the author leo tolstoy 

this guy was born into a wealthy family and inherited the family estate when his parents died...he inherited 330 serfs (slaves?) which was a great influence on his life...

his best known book is a huge volume and he said it was not a novel...he kind of rejected the life of social parties and self indulgence after a while and the plight of the economically oppressed interested him much...never read it...but his was an interesting life....i listened to one of the latest musical offerings from Ms Florence Welch called "Buckle"...a very good vocal presentation and good lyrics...this poor girl has not had much luck in the relationship department if her songs are to be taken as personal experiences...she is one of my favorite female vocalists and sings with great power...HOWEVER! i did notice that at the end of one of the presentations of "Buckle" (the one one where she is facing to the left and wearing a sort of veil thing)...there are at least a dozen or more persons or entities shown (credits)...she got robbed! the crook (shirley kurata) who gets credit for "costume design" had no costumes to design...that veil don't hardly count as "costume"...and the rest of the vultures should be given the boot also...ms. Welch needs to spend some quality time with lucas nelson and study his wonderful musical presentations like "Hallelujah"...the one where he sits crosslegged on a bed with a camera and a guitar....forget the damned superfluous production crap...this woman has too much talent to let it be "produced" to death...by the way she is pretty but needs to come to the realization that she is older today than she was yesterday and she will age like everyone else...get over it..."Ancient Aboriginal (australian) History" rock carvings deeper meaning (22min)(rob dogs vlog) this is a good not overproduced viewing of some old, old, rock carvings...GET AMONGST!..."Little Chinese Everywhere" is still putting out some great youtube presentations....visiting a village with german inhabitants was exciting for Flo who speaks the language...a couple of weeks back Mr. Flo had a splitting headache as they ended the show...well DUH!...he was eating any food that was dropped on his table which is a big no no...undoubtedly poisoned by some jealous russian..."trust your friends, but cut the cards"...is a good reminder to be cautious at all times....

"Be a channel, not a dam"...a huberman

"Considering the unforeseen events..."

 being in the desert gives one much incentive for reflection on the human condition....

lets start with some good news for a change..."High school basketball team gives up title after the coach discovers they didn't actually win." (3 min)..."The most beautiful wingsuit flight I've done" (3:34) Joanne's/ wingsuit...."Teen workers save restaurant as owner spends months in hospital(4:27)...also I found some really good music from a person whom I met long ago..."Eliana" (4:05) is a superb piece of musical nostalgia which is mr Steve Conns speciality. Also "Annalee" is well done..."20 Ph.D's in the time of one,  how AI is changing college" (9:51)Bloomberg Television... "Improve your lymphatic system for overall health and appearance' by dr Andrew Huberman (1 hr. 40 min) is about something one does not hear about nearly enough and how the lymphatic system is essential to good health...Also I really enjoyed "Trinity sessions revisited Cowboy Junkies with Natalie Merchant (57 min.) this is one of the most artfully presented musical concerts I have ever seen...the director of photography is Eugene O' Conner and deserves special mention...I think this was filmed in "Church of the Holy Trinity in 2007...ms.Merchants voice is remarkably dynamic...there is a very good interview with Michael Timmins  the superb guitarist of the Cowboy Junkies which illustrates the special qualities which this musical group brings to their performances at "Rock and Roll ghost (S14 E1)...this concert is as much a seance as a music performance!...also as a fan of the Clark Creative ensemble I like to go back and review the presentations from some time ago such as "You can call me Al" the Paul Simon tune...Ms. "B" is undoubtedly one of the most animated performers ever to take the stage...she also has a presentation where she performs with a hula-hoop....only Shakira come close to her degree of animation...I am sure that her Mom is behind the camera giving her cues on "dance" moves....good fun!....

"Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair." H. Fielding

"A stone thrown ..."

 as I was gathering my belongings into my truck to move yesterday morning (it only took 5 hours!) I nearly gathered up this beautiful reptile before my monkey brain recognized the potential danger of doing so...I got it into a bucket and dumped it 50 yards away unhurt except for its pride perhaps....

as I watch the early morning news I see where the federal government has not figured out how to make government work...yet...I listened with some interest of the Albanian governments utilization of Artificial Intelligence in their government..actually in the position of administrator of some sort...this makes much more sense than waiting for elected persons to do their job...to the detriment of a smoothly operating government ....when the supplemental food allocation is not available I am sure that hungry people will be less controllable than the well fed...however...as more businesses reduce their workforce more people need to find "rewarding" occupation of their time...when I look around to see what needs to be done it occurs to me that there is much trash that could be picked up....just a suggestion....the television is quite keen on the jewelry which was stolen in France...not edible...lets move on...I hear a lot of dis-satisfaction about the current POTUS guy tearing down a building to put up another building...one of the problems in the USA today is the ossification of society/government....change is needed to keep fresh ideas coming into use...AND!!!...the current POTUS guy is old and will "shuffle off this mortal coil" soon enough...buildings are the least of the problems in this country....some useful Youtube presentations (with hopeful ideas) are as follows..."Why doctors say "OpenEvidence" is a game changer"...this presentation illuminates how effective AI will be in reviewing massive amounts of information to make better and faster medical decisions...."the operation was a success but the patient died" is not a good thing..."What is Biocomputing" (BBC news) 6:41 is about using living cells for computational purposes....PsycHacks "Weed is more dangerous than you think" is concerned with the psychological reasons people get high...some true some not...Lex Fridman interviews Julia Shaw about her specialty which is "criminal psychology of murder"...she also speaks eloquently about sex and sexual preferences etc...well worth the time (2hours 42min)..." How Chinese cartels took over Maine with no law enforcement response" ...this is pretty scary stuff...."How English Archers Made Knights obsolete in one afternoon"...ouch! this intriguing historical documentary gives one much food for thought about the future of all warfare...(22 minutes)

got to go now..."miles to go before I sleep"

"A stone thrown at the right time is better than gold given at the wrong time." Persian Proverb

"I had rather have..."

 

top image first morning...quartzite...second image...last morning in coconino forest 23 degrees F...last image the savior mechanic....mr Franco....

I was up at dawn last Thursday to pack up and go into town for my blood work etc...appointment at 1:30 I am on the road by 2 pm headed west and south...the truck is "not well"...I miss my hwy 95 south turn and take the second hwy 95 south turn at needles ,calif....if you have ever not wanted to break down this is the road you do not want to break down on...winding, hilly, desert dangerous...the truck is "not well"...after what seems like hours I finally get to I-10 intersection and the truck barely makes it up the hills headed east towards Quartzite...I feel like a disaster is about to happen....the truck is "not well"....I go up the hills with my emergency flashers on at 25 miles and hour on the interstate...I finally get to the first Quartzite exit and when I take a left towards Main Street I wonder if I should leap from the overpass onto the highway...too messy I decide....I take a right onto Main Street and after a few hundred yards the engine stops and the red battery light comes on...the truck is "terminally ill"...I coast into an empty lot next to a store that is closed and imagine the truck is ready for the crusher....I sleep a fitful sleep sitting up in the passenger seat...at dawn I turn the key in the ignition and GLORIORSKI!...the engine starts and I put it into gear and the truck moves ahead!....I pull into a driveway with a "honey for sale" sign that I have been to before....the honey salesman is gone but another vendor (in a town of vendors) is taking about vendors stuff and life as a vendor etc...I ask him if the knows of any decent mechanics in town...he has a business card on a desk which has the name and number of a mechanic....I am not hopeful however...I drive out onto the road and marvel at the very fact that the truck moves...I go towards the scratched and dented tent (this is quartzite Arizona and 3/4 of the town is here on a temporary basis.)..I call the number on the card and the man says he is at the corner with all the statuary...never seen it but I will find it....I buy 14 dollars worth of groceries and head towards the statuary corner...I find the mechanic talking with another guy and I open the hood of the truck and start the truck...I tell him the transmission is shot...he looks and leans and listens for a few minutes...he says it ain't the transmission....I say the spark plugs are 20 thousand miles past due to be replaced...he says yep...lets do that first...he says I should go to where I am going to camp...(Quartzite is surrounded by thousands of campsites in the desert) I go to the auto parts store and buy $225 worth of plugs and boots then head to the closest desert camping area (14 days for free)...the next day the mechanic shows up and like a man obsessed begins working on changing the spark plugs...several mechanics shops I had asked about changing the spark plugs said it was too hard and they would not do it...this mechanic has worked all around the world on ships and on farm equipment and whatever...life is a challenge to him and he takes that challenge...he finished the job in more than two hours but less than 3 hours....I drove the truck 8o miles to the closest town with another auto parts store and got a serpentine belt and he replaced that too...I drove the truck 70 miles south to Yumertonville with the air conditioner on and it seems to run fine and after two years NO ENGINE LIGHT!...I suppose I should consider this truck breakage to be pretty normal but I was so sure that it was the end of "life as we know it" that it feels more miraculous than normal....

"I had rather have a fool make me merry than experience make me sad."   Shakespeare

"Indeed, the dictum..."

black  cattle (Angus?) are a great improvement in herd management over the boney longhorns
 

 these red headed caterpillars seem to be specific to a single species of plant..many of the elk hunters seem to think that driving down the pipeline right of way is sufficient scouting to get an elk...however if you walk around a bit you can see where the elk have fed and pooped...and also enjoy the rest of nature...

rain, rain and more rain seems to be the weather forecast today...up at 4 am and by now I have ground considerable coffee beans with my recently purchased coffee bean grinder...super heavy duty and capable of producing a finer grind than the USB powered one I already own...munched half a dozen croissants and consumed 2 mugs of coffee probably to the detriment of my nervous system...I have done worse, much worse...was remembering my months (10 months) in New Orleans in 1984 when I often walked home from Miss Mays Place pool and bar in the early dawn light after listening to jazz music in Tylers beer garden till 2 am or so...one would think I would be a much better pool player than I am after spending so much time in pool joints...anyhow, I survived that episode of my life and suppose it was a learning experience...for someone as stupid as me "it takes a whole lot to medicine to make be believe that I'm somebody else"... (thanks randy)...I just listened to "Philosophize this'  on the stoics...mr west does a good job of explaining how mr Aurelius managed to come to write his "meditations"...this mans writing is some of the first philosophy I ever read...and found it engaging enough to continue a lifelong pursuit of other peoples philosophic world views...and I have come to realize that everyone is living according to some worldview or another... but that does not allow us to be regarded as philosophers any more than scribbling some doggerel makes us a poet...however ones self image is more important than how others view us...I was awakened at 2 am this morning by  the talking outside my room...also the regular horn sounding on the auto outside the room was a way of harassing me...alas and alack I am forever being subjected to meanness by a rotten segment of the population...I think that since I published the names of several of the constabulary from Oregon who were convicted of crimes of a sexual nature (actually most of these cops were guilty of failing to report the sexual abuse of co-workers) such is the way some people use their power...and in calling for the release of Rap Brown who killed a couple of cops during a time when blacks were being executed by rogue cops I have incurred  the rathe of more than a few officers of the law....well so be it...yesterday I was stalked by a member of the more soiled contingent of the local law enforcement community... this happens regularly and often these folks like to refer to me as "the perv"...which is not a compliment....but I don't care to retract any criticisms I have made about corruption...police work is very difficult and needs to be supported not condemned...a few of the better YouTube presentations I have viewed recently are ..."Organisms are processes, not things"Wahida Chandler (20min) and "Heidegger's They-Self: WhyYou're Not actually living your own life"...this entire lecture needs to be listened to for it to be understood..."How to control your inner voice and increase your resilience" Dr. Ethan Kross (3 hours 9min.) a good explanation of inner dialogue and how it effects you...

"Indeed, the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecutions, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but all experience refutes." J.S. Mill

  

"I wish men to be free..."

 I have baked corn muffins, onions, potatoes, apples, peaches, fish, beans and eggs in my solar cooker

a fat happy cow munching mucho grass in the silva grazing area...more water is needed however...

I see on the BBC news channel this morning that some people are expecting the death and destruction in Gaza and nearby places to slow up...to quote Waylon Jennings..."I'll believe it when I see it and I haven't seen it yet..."according to General Russell Honore' (Retired) the USA gives 11.5 million dollars a day to Israel...shame shame shame!...AND! in the last two years the USA has given Israel $21.7 billion bucks....shame shame shame...If Trump is "Putins Putty"...he has been "Netanyahu"s Ninny"...I would like to see a more scientific approach to keeping the peace...there are some excellent Youtube presentations pertaining to relationships...I have taken to putting my phone in the top pocket of my vest to listen to the YouTube presentations while I walk around doing photography in the morning and also while I am cooking breakfast etc ...in keeping up with the current state of affairs in the ever interesting (DULL, DULL ,DULL!)...such riveting stories about such buttheads as mr. Diddy Combs..."here is Diddy thinks with his testicles and  all his sex is spectacles"...more money than brains...some helpful presentations might be "Freud, Hollywood and the Male Gaze" (The British Academy) 15minutes..."How to understand emotions' Dr. Lisa Barret (2hours and 20 minutes) Huberman #129..."How to find build and maintain healthy romantic relationships" Dr. Esther Perel...Dr. A Huberman...this is an excellent presentation and covers a lot of subject matter with Dr. Huberman contributing his extensive research experience...in the evenings I watch a lot of music videos and BOPFLIX has a lot of musical offerings of a certain genre...

"I wish men to be free, as much from mobs and kings- from you as me." Lord Byron

"Communication= from the latin..."

 top image = probably 2 species of caterpillar...next image is metal lid from a container of axel grease...from back when there were wagons crossing this area...the next image is of 4 small obsidian flaked tools all of which have a similar small half circle flaked spot which I think was used to scrape sinew clean for use...just conjecture on my part...

I have been able to listen to a lot of YouTube presentations over the last month or so, and I am amazed at how didactic these scholarly offerings are...I do however take umbrage at some of the comments I have heard about "social media"...it is buffet and it ain't all healthy...so choose well and nourish your mind...or not...there is a fellow who goes by the moniker "internet anarchist' who has said about Lex Fridman..."he rarely adds anything meaningful to the conversations and even when he does it's rarely anything interesting..."....this is the opposite of my impression of Dr. Fridmans many presentations...and he probably also has the best screen in screen additions...he is a master of making things clear for his viewers...he had an interview (# 482) with a mr Pavel Durov who founded "TELEGRAM" which is a messaging application I think...it is known for being able to transmit information without being hacked by others than the intended  recipient...supposedly....mr. Durov spent some jail time in France while the French authorities tried to convince him to turn over his "keys" to the kingdom as it were...he allegedly resisted...this interview which is 4 hours and 34 minutes long is interesting in that mr. Durov  explains his history as an academic in Russia as a teenager and his decision to create this popular application which has brought him some wealth and fame...his image online without upper body clothing illustrates the result of his intense exercise regime...and also may account for his attractiveness to women and his 106 offspring...some of which were as a sperm doner...Dr. Fridman seems to be enthusiastic about folks who are disciplined in their exercise routines...however, since I also exercised daily at my labor jobs I cannot but wonder if some of these folks might not be more "useful" while expending energy... as Capt. Elon Musk often says "BE USEFUL"...towards the end of this interview Durov says with some enthusiasm that he is a fan of "Snoop Dogg" and mr. Dogg has a telegram account with which he managed to sell a lot of snoop dog gifts otherwise known as useless plastic crap...in his latest "musical?" offering mr Dogg  seems to be suffering from the effects of a lifelong pot addiction...amazingly Mr. Durov does not use drugs or alcohol or even coffee...so what his attraction is to the the pimp and pothead mr dogg I cannot imagine....however, one of the things that mr Durov holds sacred is "anonymous communication"...that is to say no restrictions on communication...this is the opposite of what Ralph Nader advocates,,,who says no anonymous communication on the internet is best...something between these two views might be best..."Communication= from the latin "communicatio"= making common...a fundamental concept in the study of behavior, whether by humans, animals, or machines that acts as a frame of reference for the concept of language. Communication refers to the transmission of information (a message) between a source and a receiver, using a signaling system.""Communicative Shift"= speech developed 50 to 60 thousand years ago... Script developed 5500 years ago...Print developed 500 years ago and now artificial intelligence which is less than a decade old and which appears to be poised to dominate human communication...a phase shift in what humans can expect to encounter...

'NOT HAVING ENOUGH..."

                                       ALMA...femme fatale?...muse?...inspiration?...composer...

large herd of golden ants under a rock

micro lithe...small obsidian tool...well thought out and useful

old refridgerater door...old technology abandoned...cool is still in use however

the advertisement is from a 1959 science fiction magazine with some very good writing 

the baby horned lizard almost made me want to "rescue" it but I figured I would let nature take its course

I watched some very good YouTube presentations over the last couple of weeks..."Lone star pork; Texas hog Meateater (21 min)... and "I can't believe that this really happened"(22 min) ..Sabine Hossenfelder...yep she got booted from her university position for being a heresiarch...called too many ideas "bullshit"...certainly the funniest physicist since R. Feynman...and also in the funny category is  "Nina Conti's swearing monkey puppet"..the ventriloquist...rather than go to bed with negative thoughts i look at comedy and music in the evening ( I usually turn in about 8 PM) ...jimmy Carr is pretty hilarious...and very quick...the colt clark family band has several hundred tunes picked by the best dad ever who has created a good group of musicians from what was initially a novelty act...also I found a wonderfully uplifting presentation with 4 year old Claire Ryan and dad singing "You've got a friend in me" I think a randy Newman tune...she has many presentations as her latest one has her as a 12 year old vocalist...then there are the PsycHacks of dr Orion Taraban presentations...he posted one recently which I found quite startling..."AI relationships..."the future of dating"...his advice is that it is better to have a mediocre relationship with a computer program than a bad relationship with a person....how about a relationship with nature...Dr. A. Huberman in his great interview with dr David deSteno "Science of God and Faith" (2:24:18) says his relationship with God makes him never lonely...sounds good to me...in contrast to the obsidian edged tools there is another way to make edged tools as seen in "Most Amazing process of making skinner knife" (22 min.)...quite complex actually...as I see more and more energy being used to hurdle humanity into a dubious future of uncontrolable complexity I am glad to have been fortunate enough to have sidestepped machinery beyond my control...wheelbarrow and shovel served me well...just bought another solar cooker ( I have 3 now) which can cook a potato in 25 minutes....and bakes bread too...more simpler is more better maybe...

"Not having enough sunshine is what ails the world.-Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there is now." Mrs Lydia M. Child (abolitionist)

"Life is research..."

top image cow poop...not the same as bullshit...but simyuler...next image is my neighbors who like to sleep near-by....then an unidentified insect beneath dried cow poop ...then is the tuning head of my main squeeze the Takamine nylon string pawnshop guitar....

 

in the last couple of weeks I had to get back to the forest before I could write this blog but serious storms happening now so the motel room seems be the best place to be...the obligatory nosey neighbors also show up...the dominant news has been about a couple of guys I don't know...the murdered man was murdered by a fellow who seems to have poor thinking habits...essentially it is one human killing another human for no good reason...that is very common...and has been since recorded history...what concerns me is when many people kill many people...that is usually mass delusion....the real story is that the murdered mans wife and mother of his children  stood before thousands of people and forgave her husbands killer!...this is what Jesus of Nazareth taught his followers to do....it is very seldom done by anyone and rarely done by those members of Christ Inc...this wife and mother will be remembered when her husbands killer is long forgotten...the guy who lost his job for a few days might should think about moving on after 22 years at the same job...might be good for his brain growth...I discovered an incredible talent recently in the person of Micah Nelson who is a visual artist a film-maker and a singer/songwriter...and a thinker/poet/philosopher...one of his more creative songs is called "Everything is Bullshit" (4:10)...which has a very good music video with it...the story seems to be about a magic mushroom experience...I have a story about my first experience eating magic mushrooms...I was with a couple of my hunting and fishing buddies at a ranch of a friend...there was a small pond and we were going fishing...one of the guys plucked a large mushroom from a horse turd and said he thought it was a magic mushroom and I should eat it...and I did...it seemed like a long time went by and nothing happened...I forgot about it until we smoked a doobie and then I suddenly found myself crawling around in the tall weeds next to the pond looking for my fishing rod...and my mind...the friend who gave me the mushroom said he had never seen anyone have the kind of reaction I was having and he said he thought it was the wrong kind and I should go to the hospital and have my stomach pumped...this was not comforting even a little bit...I resigned to die and soon a great calmness came over me...everyone is going to die sooner or later I figured...as I contemplated the universe and my place in it I felt an overwhelming "oneness" with the universe...except the it seemed to me that "everything is bullshit"...this is known as nihilism I think...this was more than 50 years ago and it still has a powerful effect on my worldview...

Life is research, in a way, if you allow it to be."  Lex Fridman

"To know how to dissemble..."

 so there is a YouTube presentation about what will happen to the environment if all the insects die...scary!

going to get some of the loose ends dispensed with here...Dr. Lex Fridman has a 10 and one half hour interview with a mr. Scott Horton who is an anti military/industrial complex investigator...he has a lot of information in his head and he sometimes rambles...but Dr. Fridman put up with him for a long time...also I watched a documentary about Wassily Kandinsky that pointed out that this artist always wore a suit and tie...even when painting...so I guess Dr. Fridmans permanent tie is acceptable...I see where mr Armani the fashion guru and multi millionaire has gone to the big walk-in closet in the sky...never had nothing from his line of uh...uh...sillyness really...fashion is a losing game..."Quantum Entanglement Explains why your thoughts create reality" (24 min) "Quantum Alchemist"...also Dr. Huberman has an interview with an expert who documents the health benefits of religious belief...I watched a movie online called "Save the president at any cost." it it very action packed but pretty far fetched...the assassin wears a shin length white coat...and stands out like a sore thumb as he kills dozens of people...I won't tell you how it ends...I also read a short story by Jorge Luis Borges the blind librarian from Argentina...this story is called "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" I think... "fantastic is too shallow an adjective" to describe this tale of a made up place which is being described in detail by a team of crazy people...also I came across a British television series called "Spooks" which is about trials and tribulations of the MI5 british intelligence...it has some violence and sadness...them spy folks have a lot of enemies...I met a nice girl whom I might begin to court...her name is Mabeline Raisenette...she is cute but kind of dumb...

"To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings." Richelieu

"There is no good..."

 the need to have "situational awareness"is required if one is to avoid possible restricted stranding

another sunset...one becomes aware of the limited number of sunsets left to see as one ages

unidentified plant (possibly teasel) and the bottom plant is great Mullen recently identified...this pant has been use for hundreds of years and the seeds are used to stun fish (probably kills them)

as I watch a review of the hearing (interrogation) of RFK jr I can see what a lynch mob looks like...I heard a man say that he got three covid shots and still got covid twice....did he wear a protective mask when he was around possible infected people/animals? the vaccine does not make one "uninfectable" it makes one more resistant to death from infection...not a miracle drug...I see where Venezuela has sent fighter jets to warn off the US navy... would highly recommend a YouTube presentation called" "Iranian helicopter flies close to US navy destroyer-BIG MISTAKE1" (15 min) the amount of high tech equipment at the disposal of the military is amazing...I hope the $50 million dollar bounty on the head of the Venezuelan government is collected soon...he impoverished the most prosperous country in South America...he gotta go!...I see where several countries are supporting a "Palestinian state"...in other words condemning these poor folks to unrelenting abuse and torture forever...nope side by side living is out of the question...I think some problems need to be thought about a lot and a good mind bending presentation lends itself to much thinking...and maybe even a solution..."Hypothetical Zero Point Motion is Real" by Sabine Hossenfelder should make one think (maybe make one think they are insane) (6 min) Dr. Andrew Huberman has a good presentation "Effects of fasting and time restricted eating on fat loss and health" (38 min) he suggests not eating until one has been awake for at least an hour...I missed it again this morning...a good presentation about human history is "New evidence reveals who really invented the wheel. (8 min) "discovery future."..I think too many people make statements that seem to be definitive when they should qualify their observations with "THAT WE KNOW OF" (thanks Lindsay Nikole)...I would not go to the black rock desert with seven people and certainly not with 70 thousand...another burned man gathering over and done with...they will never get the trash out of the playa after this...but they will try...(this event use to be free) I made 38 years with no alcohol a couple of weeks ago...better, much better...I listen to Lucas Nelson a lot as he sounds much like his dad...even better now..."Angels flying too close to the ground" is a good example of his vocal and guitar skills...I spotted a 1958 nylon string Martin guitar in a shop last week...this could be his "Trigger" ($5000!)...I think Orion Taraban in his Psychack presentations has made too many sweeping statements and paints with a very broad brush...what does he mean by "commitment" and what constitutes "nasty and slutty" behavior by women?...I still listen to his presentations and I think the one about most people being delusional is good...and sadly accurate...one of the most amazing animal /human interactions I have ever seen is "Stacy Westfall championship bareback and brideless freestyle" with the horse Wizards Babydoll...absolutely stunning control...I like to watch Kiswa Mabel lumber mill as they get a lot of large trees to cut...there seems to be a blatant disregard for safety gear however...now I will have to express my dismay about the constant harassment which I have to endure at the hands of criminals employed by the government ...yesterday there was a fellow in the doctors office who was a rank amateur cop who came to "guard" the staff from my possible violence...these clowns follow me everywhere because I refuse to accept corruption of law enforcement...these unprofessional people should be fired from their jobs and never be allowed to work in government again...this beautiful town has been targeted by organized crime so many to the businesses now pay tribute to the mob...the attorney general of the state has a dozen or more lawsuits against the current federal administration when she should allocate many more resources to stop the organized crime which dominates this state....

"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your greatcoat."  James R. Lowell

"Pleasure itself..."

                                    this is how the sky looks much of the time for the last few days

after the dark sky is a large nail in an abandoned fence post....then there are a couple of out of focus yellow ants which do not seem to be as yellow as some other yellow ants i post a while back..these also seem to be much larger...then there is a small flower which is unidentified and lastly is what is probably a rib bone from an elk...long dead elk...

the news these days seems to be getting more and more bizarre...the commander in chief says he thinks that the chinese and the north koreans and the russians are "conspiring" against the USA...well...DUH! you think they would do such a thing?....in a heartbeat they would do it...and have done it and are doing it and will do it in the future...just like the USA would do it...is doing it and has done it...governments are that way...so as you may know when you look at something on youtube

they have the ability to try to match what you have looked at with something similar....i do not think this is really an invasion of my privacy as much as a service...a few days ago there was a presentation by "dom sub living" which is about "non-traditional" sexual relations...the woman who has this site listed the ten most popular "kinks"...ok nothing too strange about that except there have been no similar searches made by me...but it was pretty educational also so i have no complaints...then there was a so called documentary by a so called psychologist about a woman from england who is called ms. b. blue...her claim to fame is to have engaged in competition coitus....she says she had "intromission" with 1057 male persons in 12 hours...sooooo....i did the math and that comes to one "intromission" every 40 seconds....without stopping...they filmed this athletic event but due to some mis-understanding they claim they erased it or some such thing...i smell an "untruth" here....i have not seen this womans "body of work" but this woman says she has made millions of dollars as a sex worker....i have sold my body also...usually for minimum wage so i cannot help but believe that a person should charge as much as the market will bear when selling their body...i was unloading trucks, digging ditches, processing salmon...i can say with some confidence that your body wears out...believe it...and as for the morality of selling your body...i hate a pimp!....so more money is more better...and don't be surprised when the body breaks...there is a famous woman from about 2000 years ago named Messalina who was married to a famous man and she is alledged to have engaged in competition coitus...i think her husband had her killed...she was not very private about her sexual exploits....

"Pleasure itself is not a vice." Samuel Johnson

"Take away ambition..."

 a swarm of hummingbirds come to enjoy the sugar water...now they are chubby birds ready to fly south

as i sit here next to the pile of mail forwarded to me I realize that the medical and insurance industries rely on the confusion of their customers (victims) to enrich themselves...

I don't mean to be braggadocios but I bought new shoes yesterday (sperry camo!) $3.50!

I would like to make a comment about Eros and Thanatos...sex and death...some years ago I was told by someone that ms. t. swift was very ambitious....I remember watching a documentary about Pink Floyd which shows,   I think it was mr gilmour saying they wanted to be the biggest and richest band in the world...pretty ambitious...but they had the chops to get there....so ms. t. swift has now decided to wed...and in her calculating way has chosen a person who is a professional healthy person...a hunk...which should keep a smile on her face for years to come...a very good choice...I heard that the suicide laws in canada which allow for medically approved self extermination has resulted in suicide being a large proportion of the deaths...great news...so now we need many more businesses to help compost the dead peoples bodies...as for the 16 year old male person who killed himself supposedly at the urging of a computer program I think first of all there is some blame but Sam Altman is not to be blamed for the neglect of the parents...I watched lex fridmans fourth interview  with Elon musk and they asked the computer program called GROK some questions and I was amazed at the "humanly" responses...I can see where if an impressionable person decides to embrace a computer program as a "confidant" there might be some reality issues...there are so many good intelligent discussions on mental health and all aspects of health on YouTube if these are watched and given more influence than a very flawed computer program a person would be better served...an excellent mental health presentation is "The most important lesson from 83,000 brain scans." (14 min) by Daniel Amen ...a lot of information has been obtained about abnormal human behavior due to brain disfunction...and "New medical innovation that could change everything" BBC (26 min) "the engineers"..."What tattoos do to the skin" (16 min) Institute of Human anatomy is a scientific view of modern tattoos on human skin...quite thorough...I heard about a K-Pop presentation called "Demon Hunters" which has become popular with a very young crowd...I went online to see what this is about...one of the people interviewed said they want to have a lot of merchandise and sequels and maybe a theme park or two....what I saw was absolutely disgusting, and seemed to be scary to a fault...this K-Pop needs to be popped!...I think today is the 20th anniversary of hurricane Katrina flooding New Orleans...I was on the Oregon coast when this was happening...I shed a tear but enjoyed the Oregon coast...storm on Jupiter...but I was not on Jupiter...also "How testosterone and culture shape behavior" by Carole K. Hoovens (15min) sheds a lot of light on what Robert Sapolsky calles the most mis-understood molecule in human history...he also has a very good segment on testosterone...now as I watch a C-Span call in show they had a caller talk about the crime in the state of Mississippi...which is also one of, if not the poorest state in the USA...may there be a correlation here?...I hope there is less murders in Chicago if the current heresiarch sends in federal troops...I also hope the wealth is more evenly distributed among the citizens...

Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots." Seneca

To follow imperfect..."

 

top image is a young short-horned lizard (Phrynosoma douglassii) i do not know which sub-species this is...i found it while walking near the truck

the next image is of a spider species which occurs on the thistle flowers...these spider quickly move to the other side of the blossom when they detect a person...obviously these spiders are not preyed on for food by humans so they must be avoiding insectivores like the numerous humming birds...the webs on the thistle bristles must be from these spiders....the next image is of a bee with red pollen on it's legs the next image is of a bee with yellow pollen on it's legs...why is that?

big news happening...uh...uh...just about everywhere i guess...big storm on jupiter....but i am not on jupiter...watched some very good youtube...lex fridman #477 "Keyu Jin:Chinas Economy"...this interview brings much clarity to the conditions that drive the economic and social situation today in china....one of the most informative interviews i have watched is Andrew Hubermans interview with Dr. Sergiu Pasca on "Developmental Neuro-Biology" (2hrs 23min) well worth the time...these brilliant scientists are growing various brain cells in test tubes with remarkable results...organoids and assembloids...dr Pasca emphasizes the need for a nomenclature for these new scientific discoveries ....a very good documentary about Amedeo Modigliani the artist called "Love, loss and art; the wild life of a tragic genius" this close to the edge fellow was addicted to hashish and booze and apparently could not escape himself and he died young...but some spectacular art was created...

modigliani top image... his painting "the jewess" bottom image

"To follow imperfect, uncertain or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgement, is but to exchange one danger for another." richard whately

"As the soil..."

 new lens=micro-nikkor Nippon kogaku Japan=vintge $30

two images from "Seeing the Insane" sander Gilman (1982) female="the masturbator in a state of physical collapse" from Rozier 1830 (more female sexual condemnation) male image="monomania with delusions of military grandeur" gericault

this image is from "the yoga system of health and relief from tension" by yogi vithaldas...I used this book to instruct me when I was 19 years old and this is one os the most useful poses I found for keeping the spine limber....I highly recommend yoga exercises as a beginning to bodily awareness...combined with meditation and good diet the result is unsurpassed for spiritual advancement...and one feels energetic all day....

so I just watched v. Putin and d. trump on c-span holding a brief news conference  which is a much better image than relentless images destruction and death...I have neglected to mention a couple of regular YouTube presentations by "Little Chinese Everywhere" the last two...one in the desert and one with sweet melons...(I have not viewed the one posted today)...I hope the department of agriculture is taking note of all the great fruit and vegetables that are being seen in china...bring some of those seeds here...also "Philosophize this" has a good review of  with"A philosophy of self-destruction"(#233) the quality of these intellectual interpretations remains high...Lindsay Nikole did an excellent review of hammerhead sharks and stalk eyed insects...and the latest presentation illustrates why you have to be tough to get all those tattoos!...

"As the soil, however rich it maybe, cannot be productive without culture, so the mind without cultivation cannot produce good fruit." Seneca