"There is a time for departure..."

truth in advertising bumper sticker...after listening to the so called "senior moment" which deprived senator J. Kennedy of his speech for a few seconds during a recorded comment it seems to me that when you have a government composed of elderly people you can expect such lapses...it is during the supposedly lucid moments which still spawn drival that concern me...in britan they are going to allow 16 year olds to vote...way before the maturation of the pre-frontal cortex...which will be worse people before they are ready or people who are past good judgement...i last voted when bill clinton was on the ballot...or was it jimmy carter...as usual the rather untalanted under-cover element which seeks to keep me "in the box" were waiting for me to engage in heinous crimes...such as throwing my garbage into a dumpster which was not mine and going into the restroom to pee...it is harassment and expected...once again a good resource for current information about russia is a youtube presentation by Caolan Robertson...he points out how corruption in ukraine was especially entrenched by the "mafia state" which is Russia...there is a good collection of art history documentaries presented by paul priestly (art history school) and if scandalous pictures are of interest to you "Egon Schiele's short scanalous life" is quite good and the art is very interesting... and if hand crafted boots are of interest to you (or not) i found this documentary to be especially engaging..."Making hand made boots from boar (pigs)" siroeno yosui by ken kataoka (32 minutes) take note of the begining footage of the boar hunters in japan near a large bamboo forest...we need to plant a lot more bamboo in this country...also there is a good documentary called "The worlds least problematic leather" by stridewise@ caswellbootco....this austrailian fellow says it is our patriotic duty to use wild hog leather to rid ourselves of these feral threats to the environment...he also documents all the problems that arise from trying to make this particular leather suitable for boots..Dr.Andrew Huberman has a good presentation about being in a positive mind-set for mental growth "How to enhance performance and learning by applying a GROWTH MINDSET" (1:42) well worth the time...a lex fridman interview with david heinemier hanson (DHH) (#474)who is a well known computer/code writer expert delves into a lot of non computer areas and he points out that his approach to his business life is to have balance....he works a 40 hour week and has hobbies and a family life...also an interview with "the primeagen" who is another renowned computer person reveals this guys battle with drugs, attention deficit disorder and pornography addiction to become a devoted family man and devout christian as well as a succesful businessman...he delves into the computer programing needed to keep youtube up and running...which is a master feat..."There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go." Tennesee Williams

"The rational mind...'

well i thought about my comments about f.zappa and o. osbourn and decided that it is a little preposterous and a lot pretentious of me to chastize anyone, especially since i started listening to B sabbath when i was about 16 years old and loved it...however my complaint is that insofar as people age and age changes peoples body and body parts and these are used to perform the acts of singing and playing musical instruments and there are many many instances of people who set the bar very very high and eventualy were not able to reach the high level of competence that THEY SET...one of the best examples of a tragic attempt to perform as they have in the past is johnny winters last performance...it is criminal how this man was pushed onto a stage without the slightest ability to perforn up to the standards which HE SET...anyhow according to the rock and roll biography john michael osbourn made several suicide attempts as early as age 14 "just to see what it would feel like"...it is astounding that the man battled with depression, addiction and bad health and still lived to the age that he did...a tough dude! as for f. zappa he recorded more than 80 albums...my first encounter with him was when i spotted "Chunga's Revenge" album in my friends older brothers room and i thought it must be some kind of illicit music...everyone i've met who likes zappa's music were guitar nerds...and there is enough film footage of him on the internet it is easy to see that he was an incredibly thoughtful person...so my calling him pretensious is well...pretensious....so enough of that...i was thinking of being in seattle in 1994 when C.cobain self destructed and learned later that there were quite a few suicides in his family...i read a good story by Horacio Quiroga called "The Dead Man"...this guy was exposed to a lot of dead folk...his best friend was killed by gunshot, his father and his stepfather commited suicide and he offed himself eventually...what a drag...well as long as i am on the subject of death, jeffery epstein is still dead...another rogue penis story...they never seem to run out...i finished watching the last episode of "Doc Martin" and "House"...two crumudgin doctors...however "Doc Martin" ended in life and light and "House" ended in darkness and death (it was really sad)...however i was looking at the offerings of music that Youtube is so good at dragging from the depths of obscurity for me to view and much to my amazement there was none other than hugh laurie (dr. house) sitting at a piano playing and singing "St. James Infirmery" and doing a damn fine job of it...i heard where some folks were lamenting the poor mental health advice which seems to be increasing in the internet...yep you got to be pretty discriminating about what you view especially if you are looking for advice...i found lex fridman #274 interview with Karl Deisseroth "Depression, schizophrinia. psychiatry" to be very intellectually uplifting and helpful...and i try not to go to bed after watching violence and mayhem...so i watch a lot of music...my latest fascination seems to be "Kitty, Daisy and lewis" who hail from london and who also play with their mom (bass guitar and stand-up bass and knowm as MOM) and their Dad (knowm as DAD on six string guitar) the three named musicians appear to all play all of the instruments equally well but kitty plays a killer harmonica and when daisy is on the drums she seems to be channeling keith moon on his more animated sets...anyhow these people seem to have good video from a lot of concerts and they are all great...about two weeks ago a person died in the hospital here from the bubonic plague...steps had to be taken to reduce the vectors..."The rational mind is a faithful servant but the intuitive mind is a precious gift." Albert Einstein

"Brains are evenly distributed..."

large book bought from library for 3 bucks...not enough pictures

one year of not trimming the beard has rendered me with another grooming responsibility

as the morning weather indicates that high temperatures will reach 114 degrees south of here which is deadly to most mammals...heat exposure kills more people than floods, tornadoes and hurricanes combined...yesterday the air conditioning broke in the airport down south and the inside temperature went into the 80's quickly....when (not if) all of the electricity fails the death toll will be in the many thousands of people..i recently heard someone say that people can survive the heat better than the cold....that is wrong....i have slept in the van when it got down to 14 degrees below zero...clothing is plentiful and cheap...and effective in keeping the body temperature high enough to be survivable and comfortable...if the person is healthy...the old, the young, and the infirm will be the first to perish...i have spent the last 3 days and nights in a motel room to enjoy what conveniences are available...but today being my 71st birthday i will return to the forest to enjoy what nature can provide to the soul...i have viewed mostly music on youtube in the last three days....some of the more enjoyable presentations are..."War Pigs" with 6 year old Marco Hashemi on lead guitar...(screw ozzie hasbeeen!)...i would like to say that i have always sought to understand the popularity of frank zappa (died from prostate cancer) i agree with eric claptons view that his music is mostly un-listenable...zappa got a award (grammy?) for "Jazz From Hell" so I took the time to listen to the title track...which is equally un-listenable...in my view a tune like "Blackbird" or "Here comes the sun" is far more aesthetically pleasing than zappas pretentious drivel...Amanda Ventura has  "The way" harmonica blues solo which is good and Ava Renn "Fortunate Son" (one of my favorite CCR tunes) is good, an entertaining presentation by Hillbilly Moon explosion "Johnny are you Gay?" is funny...The Cleverlys have several presentations of well known tunes in a bluegrass style... "Walk like an Egyptian" is good...Mike Nesmith got the first Grammy ever awarded for a video with his "Elephant Parts"...the drunks sitting at the bar scene is tragic more than funny however...one of the recent innovations on youtube is police body camera presentations...it is obvious that the marksmanship of most of these officers of the law is not very good...i picked up the entire third season of "Hill street blues" on DVD recently and the cops appear to be using 38 caliber handguns...I also picked up all six seasons of  "the sopranos" for five bucks yesterday...i subscribed to Caolan Robertson "inside russia" who seems to think russia is on the skids...on a humorous note i found Drew Dunn comedy "Positive Stuff" (31 min} to be funny...

"Brains are evenly distributed but opportunity is not"...Betul Kacar        . 
 

"the only thing that you can assume..."

 

blob growth fungi thingy on the top of a pine stump...i did not taste it

pine sapling with elk antler scrape to mark territory

elk footprint in the sand

i see a lot more people with their campers since the tree trimmers built roads to get the felled trees out the elks might feel a little crowded now....i think this elk is mainly feeding at night now...the gun goobers decided they needed to creep down to where i was to fire their guns...then creep  little closer and fire them some more...even though there were fire prevention restrictions against firearms discharge...as if that were not enough noise a large group of people with large speakers  decided the quiet of the forest needed to be eliminated....and the music was all in spanish....maybe some of the pushy cartels from down south...very impolite....the untimely deaths of so many people from the flooding in texas of course required some people to look for someone to blame...gravity is to blame...the same hills and geography have existed there for hundreds of thousands of years at least...water flows downhill...always has...as has been pointed out before the extremes in rainfall, temperature and wind will increase....take precautions accordingly....so i am getting two different messages from the news media....one day it is the danger of Artificial Intelligence  taking away millions of jobs...the next day it is the decrease in human population due to people making the decision to have fewer or no offspring resulting in vital jobs not getting done...somehow i think both of these so called problems are very solvable...i still limit any conversation with a machine just in case they might put me in a data base for future retribution...."i can't do that dave"....i was glad to see that i was not the only person to condemn the fellow who put his  five year old daughter on the rail of a ship and let her fall into the ocean...parental neglect at best...alligator Alcatraz...i have spent a fair amount of time in that area and the alligators are the least of the problems....the mosquitos can be horrendous even in the winter and of course the dengue fever is rampant there as well as several other diseases... however is is pretty and has lots of birds... but the 450 million dollar yearly paycheck is hard to turn down...i did see a long haired native (probably miccosukee) from the area condemn the idea... once when i was camping around there i talked to a long time resident and asked her why they called the area north of the everglades "big cypress" and she said there use to be lots of big cypress trees until they cut them all down and never bothered to plant any trees to replace them...maybe they could get the "detained" people to plant trees...in my experience it seems that all the financial cuts to medical treatments might facilitate in the implementation of more digitizing of records...every time i go to a doctors office i need to fill out several pages of the same questions i was asked last time...streamlining could be done without neglecting health care...i have mixed feelings about supporting mr e. musk proposed america political party...a third party might wield a lot of power...i think A. Hubermans youtube presentation "How marijuana affects your brain and body" (21 min) should be required viewing for anyone wanting to use THC/CBD...i never knew that there was a difference in how different strains of plants effected different parts of the brain...this just in: jimmy swaggart is still dead... i saw RFK jr. on the "diner days" podcast presented by the governor of louisiana and they talked about no sodas on EBT benefits...a lot more people die from the effects  of pork cracklings and boudin than sodas i think...and making kids give up their phones seems like a mean thing to do and not really beneficial...one of the cowboys that ride the range in the national forest where they run cattle rode by me on his horse and he was totally engrossed as he rode along looking down at his phone...well i watched some good lectures recently...#350 of lex fridman "Origin of life, ancient DNA, Panspermia and aliens" by astrobiologist Betul Kacar (2:40) who was born in Istanbul, Turkey and came here to study when she was 20 years old and is educated in physics, geology, chemistry, and a few other disciplines...she does not suffer fools gladly!...there was one laugh out loud incident when Dr.Fridman responded to Dr, Kacars statement that "You are generating 20 amino acids a minute" by saying "Way slower than a computer"...to which she said "If you can show me a computer that does this...THEN WE ARE DONE HERE"...i decided i got more out of these lectures by watching them from start to finish in one setting...i also did some reading lately...in my short story collection i found a story by robert penn warren called "The patented gate and the mean hamburger"...it is very well written and sad...due to my compulsive behavior i used to wander around the countryside looking for thrift stores and i found one in a very small town near the Mississippi river between B.R, and N.O. i was climbing on a chair to get at all of the books stacked high on a shelf when i came across a book by r.p.warren which was signed by the author...good find...i eventually took it to the local book shop were the owner salivated profusely over the book and i traded him that book for a book on mammals...which i used a lot....anyhow it is a good story....but sad...one of the medical ladies recommended to me a series called "HOUSE" which i never heard of...it is about gregory house an obnoxious doctor...i found the first and fourth season in a local "estate sale" place...pretty good series...the episode entitled 'FIDELITY"...was sad as hell....i also picked up  4 seasons of Doc Martin who is another obnoxious doctor but set in cornwall england...well done...as for music i heard that a lot of drummers are getting fired but there are some good drummers getting started also...FranzRhythm Mom "Whats going on" has a young drummer girl who may go far and be a major contender by the time she is eight years old...

"the only thing that you can assume about a broken down old man is that he is a survivor..."james caan in "the way of the gun'