"...because it consumes..."

 

IMAGES FROM THE TOP= 1=EARTHWORM   2=ANTS REBUILDING AFTER THE RAIN   3=MULTI SPECIES OF POOP LOVING MUSHROOMS  4= HOW IT WILL ALL END-ASHES   5=DON'T IGNORE TODAYS BEAUTY   6= INDIAN FOOD GIFTED TO ME BY THE MOTEL OWNERS....I DONT BELIEVE THAT I HAVE EVER BEEN IN AN INDIAN RUN MOTEL THAT DID NOT HAVE A GARDEN PLANTED BY THE OWNERS....PRACTICAL PEOPLE!

 

there is a scandal in cambridge university because a fellow named jason arday lied...and lied  lot about his life...the result of his fabrications was he got a doctorate from the university and employment...this reward is a symptom not the problem...the problem is that people want to believe that they should reward someone because of something other than their merits...it happens to all races, creeds, genders etc...(mr arday is of "equitorial heritage"

 

lets look at some other crimes...one of the better cop chase youtube sites (and there are plenty) is by @sergentcurtis who does an analysis of body-cam videos when a cop in a patrol car pulls someone over ...this is great stuff and illustrates the extent to which uniformed law enforcement are subjected to stress on a daily basis...."How this genius trooper caught drug mule" is a good one (30min)...

AI makes the fermi paradox worse, scientist says" @sabine hossenfelder (8min) the fermi paradox is "why, if there are so many planets in the universe, is there no evidence of other intelligent life"...

"This is the inconvenient truth about terrorism"@outpost (24min) this fellow systematically reviews crimes of violence and says terrorist are getting a free pass....a well done presentation....

i came across a band which i have never heard of before...two men and two women....Psychedelic Maggot Engine!..."My cat set herself on fire"(4min)...it is an aquired taste... 

"weirdest word in the english languge" by ISMO (9min) this is a very insightful humorous review of the absurdity of languages...

 

there is a tradeoff in society as was illustrated in the shootout at the burger joint...a bad guy with a gun randomly shot and killed people but a couple of fellows with their own firearms RETURNED FIRE!...there should be more attention paid to "a well regulated militia" from the second amendment...why are so many people unable to return fire when a deranged person begins a killing spree... 

 

"...because it consumes labor disproportionate to it's utility..." said by samuel johnson about architecture (and can certainly be said about many other human endeavors) 

 

"COMME IL FAUT..."

 

    

there is a new boundary marker...the property surrounding the federal land is probably being sold...damn! 

bought a new used hat today at the "pay what you will" thrift...kaibab squirrel...nice                                          bought a titanium kettle for a buck....no lid...it steamed my fingers when i poured out the water...damn!

 

if it ain't one thing it's something else...back in town for medical visits...damn!...better than no medical attention....i am diligent about taking the prescribed medications...if i died it ain't because i was casual about my medication....lots of drama today..."utilization of minors in the commission of a felony"...it's all the rage!...grocery store, thrift store, then the motel...

 

I watched some interesting youtube in the last few days...since i was camped a few yards from a wagon trail i thought it appropriate to watch some western history....such as "The deadliest sheriff you've never heard of : the long haired lawman who killed 3 men in 60 seconds" @wild west dark and dean (30min) the interesting thing about this presentation is how well the story is told..."The Earp brothers -what really happened to them after tombstone" @frontier legend (37min)...and "How 9 frontier legends died- real history of the wild west @frontier america (32min)...these guys were mountain men and trappers and as rough as they come...but they all died none the less...another very interesting guy is sir richard francis burton...an adventurer and scholar..."The real harry flashman? the untold story of richard burton"@redcoat history (31 min)...i read a biography of this guy several years ago and was astounded at his exploits...it is a real pisser that his wife burned all his papers when he died...and some very dramatic presentations are "Fresno ballgirls amazing catch" @B frank (39 seconds) and "Golden eagle snatches kid" @mrnuclearcat (one minute) i can not say for sure if this is AI generated or not...from "soft white underbelly" there is an interesting story "I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore-Donna Lamb"(1:42)...this woman was a victim OF HERSELF!...i have never seen anyone who went from one situation where they could not escape being a victim to another situation where she was a victim...sex worker, to drug addict, to religious cult...no one to blame but herself...well i did see some good music at "King olivers creole jazz band" (1923) (2 1/2 minutes) @ juan fecit...this is historic footage of louis armstrong with his musical hero....also "riders in the storm" at "playing for change" is quite well done

 

"COMME IL FAUT =what is appropriate  

 

"Somehow, the laws..."

                         to stop or go around or....?

yep lots of decisions to make.... as i sit here listening about "the war in Iran"....i realize it is a war against survival on planet earth....them wars is hell on the environment...the whole planet suffers...also now they are saying that the colorado river ain't got the water it used to have...i see a lot of flooded places across the country and the globe...SO!...i wonder when the money (taxes and otherwise) might be used to move the water across the terrain from flooded to dry...it they can do it for gas and oil (which is toxic and dangerous) certainly moving water should be an option....AND!...i notice that when i am living down in "lettuceland" much of the lettuce is not the most nutritious type...AND!...they are spraying water into the air to get it to the plants....once a guy said to me when we were talking about food choices and the subject of weight gain came up he said 'a calorie is a calorie" and the same can be said of water "a drop is a drop"...

maybe we can pray about it..."The oldest evidence of religion is 90,000 years old-and it's not what you think (6min)@ancient humans explains...some interesting questions are brought up...i have been reading some Hindu religious writing...this religion is not based on a persons view...no person began it...in the early days it was called "Sanatana Dharma" thousands of "gods" available to appeal to...Sikhism is a combination of hinduism and islam...and had a founder...the thing about religions is there is lots of rules...so there is lots of "sinners"...

watched Ha' Thi Muon picking squash which was growing beneath a bunch of corn stalks...the corn cobs was destroyed by some sort of creature but the squashed looked ok..she loaded up three dogs and the goat (this goat is kind  of freaky) and went into town and sold the squashes and bought some pig meat and some eggs (she has a lot of chickens but she still buys eggs)...the mama dog only has one pup nursing so he is a big fat puppy...i like to watch this lady being so industrious...also "Cobbler G (mr gibson) finally got hold of a pair of r.m. williams shoes of which he points out the construction flaws and rebuilds this nice footware with different materials and points out the construction techniques that he is changing...from bad to good...thats what i like to see..."Itchy Boots" did not lose her cool even after having 3 flats on her motorcycle in less than two days...she will be back on a paved road next episode where she will meet up with Bing her chinese "minder" who has her new license plate as she returns to chinese property...Jesse Welles will probably be whacked due to his relentless (harsh) views of the current government...Dr. Lex Friedman is back from his analogue retreat with a 3 hour and 46 minute interview (#499) with historian gary gallager who talks about the civil war in the USA...i used to live in a house between clinton and port hudson La. and the short gravel road i lived on was called "the battle of the wagons" road...when the siege of port hudson was going on they tried to bring supplies from clinton to port hudson...they got caught...clinton was an important townback then.  Python Cowboy gets caught by a 16 foot python and it looks like it is a foot thick...and his little daughter has her own camera and tries to contribute to the video...

also i looked on youtube to see what is happening with Russel Hiltz who was a good friend and mentor (guru) when i was 19 years old...he introduced me to alan watts, w.e evans wentz (tibetian religion) and a hit of owsley acid...he was from  berserkly so i think it was authentic...he pulled it out of his wallet and said i should wait to take it...but being a "instant gratification" sort of guy i ate it soon after he left and as i was driving my borrowed MG midget convertible to my house 30 miles away in the country and in the rain i started to come on hard to mr owsleys' product...righteous!..after several lifetimes (hours and minutes are irrelevant  when you are tripping)...i made it to the refuge of my house and was grateful for that...

Sabine Hossenfelder has an interesting presentation called "Origin of Time"...this is a pretty funny review and she says she does not like to "crap" on other peoples work (after she craps on a lot of peoples work) she gives the work reviewed about a 9.9 on the bullshit scale...a very funny scientist...

"Somehow the laws of thought must be the laws of things if we are going to attempt a science of reality. Thought and things are part of the same evolving matrix, and cannot ultimately conflict." J. E. Boodin 
 

"Hold to your dear..."

                                                                   

                                  top image= entropy
                                   next image= start small

                    above image-believe the light

watching the news about people "migrating' from morocco to spain by foot and by water...60 plus people drowned so far...take a good look...this is the future...more people, less resources equals desperation...the artificial intelligence algorithm suggests...?

lets look at something more...dependable?..."The truth behind 'she's a fighter" @taboo education-lets talk death"(9min)...this aussie woman has a great youtube collection dealing honestly with death (not taxes)...a year or so ago i googled some obituaries to see what the status was of some people i had been young with...drinking , hunting, fishing carousing buddies...they was dead...damn...i was introduced to the tibetian book of the dead when i was about 19 years old and have had a copy of this book ever since...i recommend not being a stranger to mortality...morality...not so much... 

from my observations of the "media"...at all the various modes of existence it appears that "society" has whipped itself into a froth which requires ACTION!...what action., where and by whom is uncertain...i am sure of this however..kinetic action will be the least effective means of implementing change...too much of that human element which has the power to make positive change seems to be oblivious of the resources to do so...an "expanded frame of reference" is much needed...less politics and more governance would be helpful...politics seems to exist in "FLATLAND" (see edwin abbot abbot...not a typo)...the "cockroach" party which has been making noise in India may be an example of what confused populations will resort to...

"I dont believe in the 2nd law of thermodynamics"(18min)@sabine hossenfelder is interesting and comes from a physist ..."synchronicity: carl jungs most disturbing theory about reality.(15min)@ pursuit of wonder (may have used this before...deal with it) also "Why returning from Mars is impossible: feynmans warning" (18min) @imagine physics...may have used this one also...i just like watching dr feynman put his intellect to use dealing with reality...

watched a few "documentaries" about "groypers' who are folks who think change is needed in the world...not sure their world view is viable...no basis in reality...sort of more cult than content...

came across a term in japanese culture called GOMI HIROI which means to clean up...there is a culture which when they go to a sporting event they stay behind when it is finished and they clean up the stadium...sounds good!...

"Hold to your dear and precious native land; there are the strong roots of your native strength." freidrich schiller ( i identify as an EARTHLING...dear to me!)

"...and death and hate..."

                                    looking west towards the setting sun...day before yesterday
 

                       

the reason the means for a large forest fire is diminished...timber thinning...

large pile of cow poop...dried and split...to quote professor denis miller "two of shit is shit"

the cells in my body have mutated so that some of them are not beneficial to me...i read a very good article entitled "The endless mutations of our DNA" by Jerome Groopman (New Yorker april 13 2026...he says the two types of mutations are "germline" (inherited) and somatic (not inherited) he says the human body contains 30 trillion cells (give or take) and 4 million per second are being replaced...a single blood cell from a hundred year old person can contain up to 4000 mutations (give or take) it seems that living things all have mutant cells...i know dr frank zappa dedicated an album to Chunga a mutant industrial vacuum cleaner that was seeking revenge...now we have auto-vacs rolling around and god only knows what they might get up to...now it seems that Artificial Intelligence has on many occasions gone off script and hacked (they seem to be at home with hacking) into sites like Huggy Face (i didn't name it!) and open accounts and drain bank assets and such mean stuff as that...personally i think if you told an AI program...any program will do for this task...and said "save the environment on planet earth"...the first thing the program would do is figure out how to reduce the human population...whether the plan would be any less violent than Stalin or Hitler or Pol Pot or any of the other modern population reducers remains to be seen...can one species be valued higher than another? i have heard it said many times that if all the whooping cranes died today there would be no discernible effect...but if all the chickens were to perish the effect would be gigantic...humans be munching on a hell of a lot of yard birds...

lets talk beauty...i saw a short video of a ms anne hathaway who was emphatically stating that the reason she was standing there talking to the camera was because of her beauty and race and social status...AND moreover she rejected all those advantages...poppycock!...perhaps she would like to go to a third world country and live in abject poverty...i think a pretty woman has a hell of an advantage...and i think the reason modern humans do not look like upgraded chimps is because pretty women have an advantage...hooray for beautiful women...they have saved us from uglyness...

speaking of DNA there is a good youtube presentation called "Scientists compare jewish DNA to every race on earth-the result shocked everyone" (15min)@ Now It...these chosen people certainly have been around for a long time... 

"...and death and hate and hell declare/ that men have found a thing to love..." hilare belloc 

"The really worst part...

                               

  top image-yesterday evening...half a dozen cows in the dark part...fat cows!

next image-one of several horned lizards...

 cartoon from new yorker magazine..."what, me worry!"

mysterious large round rock pile....20 years old? 200 years old? 2000 years old...20,000 years old?

i think if there are foot-prints in the sand verified to be 23,000 years old those folks certainly must have passed through all the land to the west of that place...like here and down in the desert etc...since it has monsooned for the last week or so the meadows have much vegetation...the neighborhood ain't so great what with the neighbors threatening my life and such as that....durn their scurvy butts!...well next friday the road is supposed to be open again and i can go back to the antelope, deer, elk, porkypines and javalina... etc....spent much time being amazed by some of the youtube presentations...such as "1950's american underground:the art of eric stanton, bettie page and steve ditko"@ chaos ensues (20 min.) these cartoonists got charged with various crimes for drawing images of folks (mainly women) who were scantily clad and tied up with ropes etc etc etc...but for a more thickly clad person i see "itchy boots" has braved the remoteness of the gobi desert on her 1985 yamaha motorcycle and despite losing her license plate, dropping the bike in thick sand and it not starting, getting a flat tire...she is keeping on keeping on...and Milo (minder-bender rossi) has a one hour "critique" of "conservapedia"...he gets pretty riled up but he is accurate...he should probably hammer those drinks before he starts...and his friend and sometimes collaborator ms lindsay nikole has an interesting and well researched presentation "Stoners of the animal kingdom" (22min)...she alludes to partaking in a bit of herb herself but if she does (for the ambiance) she is the most articulate stoned person i have ever seen!...if you want some information about global affairs from a person who was up to his eyeballs in intelligence "An in depth interview with the late sir alex younger, the longest serving head of MI6 " @the economist (45min)he has some very well informed views about the global situation...he be dead now...something i had never heard of is "The Streisand effect explained' @georg rockall-schmidt (9min)....i laughed pretty damned hard at this less than scientific view...and i came across one of my favorite tunes "My baby just cares for me" by Florence Welch and Jools on piano (4min)...this is the best version i have seen...ms welch has perfect intonation, inflection, and she is pretty...she is not exposing any more skin than is needed...magnificent voice and Jools plays a hell of a piano....the person who got me interested in this particular song is Andrea Motis who does a great version but i would like to recommend her song "Babies" (the version that starts on the beach) (2 min) she sings and plays trumpet with some help from her baby...

"The really worst part about being 80 (years old) is that you find, at last you've got an understanding of something that might have altered everything in the past, had it come at a time when something could still be altered."Bob Dylan aka robert zimmerman from a quote in "the week" (6/26/26?) they got it from "the new york times...ain't that always the case! 

 

"The government did not..."

                                        pigeons be happy with cereal in the morning
 

                                                         is there a window opening?

                                                                 bright sun shiney day
 

there are bright folks on the C-SPAN station this morning making the same intellectual mis-steps that have been bandered about for...well at least the time of ancient Egypt...they moan about "the iranians", which is a country defined by geographic markers which are well known...the "country" of iran has been around for a few thousand years and is diverse and complex....define your terms...

who is zooming who!..."Feb. 24 1803 Marbury VS Madison= chief justice Marshall declares an act of Congress "NULL AND VOID" when in conflict with constitution= PRINCIPAL OF JUDICIAL REVIEW...from my 50cent book "a chronological encyclopedia of american history-1492-1969

how things have changed...1781 the Pueblo de los Angeles founded in california...

the "coonskin" library founded in Marietta, Ohio when they sent coonskins to Boston, Mass. in exchange for books...i have noted in the history a lot of influence was placed on animal skins...an entire mode of existence was promoted by fur trappers and businessmen...

i have taken note of the increasing number of Youtube presentations which deal with sexual matters of some flavor or another...

a good tune on youtube is "Ain't as good as you once was" a parody? (insult) 3 1/2 minutes by Tania Elizabeth a good tune with good lyrics.....also "An introduction to the North Umbrian small pipes" (4min)@the kathryntickell...she has some other tunes but this presentation explains the construction of this version of bagpipes

"The government did not manifest the will to enforce the laws due to corruption" Afghan citizen  

"A cursed race.."

                                                  DON'T PANIC!...found this concert t-shirt at the thrift for a buck...it is from the "death of  a bachelor" tour don't know what year...i don't really like t-shirts or skulls but i might wear this sometime out of solidarity for the unwed...and good riddance to disco!

i know it is difficult to not panic in these times...however this too shall pass...off to the blood takers this morning after fasting for 8 hours except for black coffee...

have to keep my music brain well supplied every day so i went to "Dippermouth" from the secret six jazz band....always invigorating...then saw the offering "American Dream" from the rainbow girls @rainbowgirlsmusic (5min)...the lyrics would indicate they are looking for "a piece of land"...well OK the nesting instinct is strong in many folks...Emanuela Hutter has a new solo offering called "Goose Bumps"...creative stuff... i would like to see a video offering of these songs

then i looked at "The culture industry"@Plastic Pill which is about the work of adorno/horkheimer and is somewhat slanted but i think "YOUTUBE" is mostly "free range" information and as long as you have an off switch you can't get hurt too bad...

i notice that the two brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate who seem to have got a living as "toxic maleness" personified are being incarcerated...kick boxers huh...i think too many blows to head has messed up their brain function... 

I was watching some women crouched and sifting rubble looking for? this was on the BBC news...they had gone to Iran to see the school where more than 150 school girls were blown to smithereens on the first day of the...what are they calling it now...anyhow i noticed the childrens drawings on the walls that were still standing...kids are the same everywhere...can the all mighty USA maybe cough up $150 million (less than a days military expense in Iran) and pay the families of the innocent dead?

"A cursed race, all you who seek honor through demagoguery. May not you be known to me, you who think nothing of harming your friends-if only you might say something pleasing to the mob" Euripides from the play "Hecuba" 

 

 
 

"Move along...

a shadow of my former self?...

used to ride hard every day...gathered a lot of aluminum...

now that i am getting my social security ($1014 per month) i give the aluminum to the recycle people...not enough recycle people...

i would like to modify something i wrote about a while back concerning sanctuary immigrants from australia....i think it is the height of stupidity and callousness to reject all persons entry into this or any country without close scrutiny of said persons needs and assets...i think there should be an organized attempt to qualify people based on what they can or might provide to this or any country...it has been my experience that people who are motivated enough to make the effort to try to better their situation usually are productive citizens...

this youtube presentation recommendation should be viewed only by persons who are somewhat solidly positioned psychologically..."The day you realize no one is coming" @jungthoughts (32 min)...statement after statement reveals the lie that most people live leaving them raw and bare and ready for new growth...

febuary 8th 1956...president eisenhower recomends major increase of immigrants from eastern and southern europe...

"The universe isn't random-it's something stranger"(10 min) @the well and 2 more...Stephen Wolfram has some very interesting things to say about life and evolution...

interestingly enough i heard this blog mentioned at the thrift store today...hadn't even published it yet...there is a law about "computer invasion" or some such thing...law and order my ass...had a meeting with my new primary care physician today...he had an "assistant" with him (think policeman)...i was described by the so called security as possibly becoming violent...yeah the 72 year old guy with cancer, COPD and ostero-arthritis poses a real security risk...i am losing faith in the constabulary at all levels...

i have noticed that many people who post things on youtube seem to find it necessary "embelish" the contents of their posts with alarming hyperbole...best!...oldest!...biggest!...etc etc etc...even the science presenters feel they need to hype their work...sooooo...in the spirit of "show biz"...

"Move along...nothing to see here...."
 

 

  
 

"The world is very complicated..."

a plethora of ironing boards at the thrift store...ironing is become less popular than it was

but i do have an ironing board story from when ironing was much more "required" in polite society...i think i was in the third grade of elementary school...there was a dis-agreement between the household ironer (mama) and the wearer of ironed shirts (daddy)...both of these folks were somewhat disfunctional in their relationship...mama decided she did not want the job of "chief groom" anymore and put the ironing board into the 1956 pontiac with the 4 kids and headed out to her mamas house in michigan...a long way from south louisiana...we almost made it...but the motor burnt up somewhere in indiana...and her mother had to send her husband down to get us...we did not bring the ironing board...this behavior was a precursor to what was to eventually to be diagnosed as manic etc. etc. etc...mental health issues were poorly understood then as now...anyhow, ironed clothes still kind of ruffle me even today...

had to hunker down in a rather populated spot for the last 3 days waiting out the rain...good long life-giving rain...the phone reception was excellent...the neighbor ahead of me was...shall we say...determined...he spent 3 hours describing his life as a...what the hell was he? he said he had to "belly crawl" into north korea to do assasinations and he was good friends with fidel castro and he single-handed his 65 foot choi lee sailboat to a lot of spots...and on and on and on...the last fellow who i encountered in my campsite said he was drafted into the army in 1968 and he showed me a photo of himself with a hat that said ARMY... damn!...he said he had climbed mount kilamonjaro...etc.etc etc...maybe i should take it all with a grain...a very large grain of salt...

i am currently under surveillance due to my being a suspect...i am sure the crimes are serious and far be it from me to make light of such serious crimes...whatever they are...i think Kafka wrote about this situation...police types doing police type undercover type intimidation type stuff...reserved for persons who are suspected of doing criminal stuff...

well besides being a suspect i also watched some intellectually stimulating youtube presentations....one of the better ones is "A society with no purpose beyond money"(45 min) about the philosophy of Max Horkheimer....also "How the language you speak changes how you see the world" (16 min) this is an interview with Lera Buroditsky @ the institute of art and ideas...this woman was born in russia and teaches in san diego now...since she left russia at age 12 she spoke two languages and she explains how this lead to her interest in languages...she wants to learn the language of the indigeonous people of southern california....what with all the computer programing going on now i wonder if the "language' a computer program is written in has any bearing on what it can do...there is an interesting view of "life in russia"in "Typical family apartment tour" (how russians really live) 19 min....

new monkey species in the congo...a colobus species....and "Exploring the alien insects of the amazon river" has some great video of mainly treehoppers...(44min) @all out wildlife...

well according to the weather report on WWOZ radio from New Orleans the heat index will be about 118 degrees during the day...that will kill you...

on sept. 25, 1926 henry ford adopted an 8 hour day and a 5 day week for his factory workers....100 years ago...and in 1946 the supreme court ruled that it was not required for a person who applied for citizenship to swear to a willingness to take up arms...april 22 1946...

"The world is very complicated and there is an infinite set of things we can potentially pay attention to and our ability to process that information is quite limited..." Lera Buroditsky
 

"Soul ,take they risk..."

what would this plant be worth on Mars?...nature heals the mind...

 getting in the last of my blogger therapy...need more nature therapy now and some guitar plucking therapy and music therapy...watching Dave Mason sing his song"We just disagree"...good medicine...also watched "Everyday People" on Playing for change...these folks have put together some great videos from musicians around the world...also watched Colt Clark and family newest video "Sultans of Swing'...pretty ambitious to try out M. Knoflers guitar but mr cash pulls it off...i predict that Ms. B. will soon start belting out some lyrics...move over and give the girl a chance mr clark....

i looked at another 20 minutes or so of what E.musk et al have to say on twitter...decided lack of variety...so far it seems that all the tasks assigned to AI deal with perfect replicas of roulette tables, driving people to places they may or may not need to go and things that really seem unimportant and even banal...cantaloupes never get mentioned...you can eat cantaloupes....they taste good...the important things in life are alive...a few minutes ago the computer asked me if i was looking for salad recipes...unprompted...is it rude to not respond?...for the first time last week i asked the phone where my appointment with the doctor was..."turn left here into the parking lot"...wrong parking lot!...i have decided the answers are not as important as the questions.

"Soul, take thy risk/ With Death to be/We're better than be not with thee."----Emily Dickenson 
 

"Livin' easy..."

the top image is from a chapter in a book called "Gone Primative-Savage Intellects, Modern Lives by Marianna Torgovnick....the bottom image is the cover of a dust jacket on the 1955 3rd edition of a book by Sir John Woodroffe "Studies in the Mantra-Shastra

i have seen the "what elon musk said today on X" from yesterday i think...the launch of the space x rocket was aborted at the last seconds...live and learn...one of the major topics...THE major topic! on this site is about artificial intelligence...and the future value of said technology...i came across a small book called "the hidden lives and strange origins of common and not so common words" by Anu Garg...the word GROK is defined as "to understand something thoroughly and intuitively"...and NO! i do not want to subsidize his sisters $10 pickle!...i was listening to a C-SPAN program this morning and there was a caller...an elderly fellow who was in a panic about data centers being built which caused the cattle to have no babies and the birds to quit singing and other devilish things...the single most disturbing thing i am seeing in all of the evaluations of the world and society and everything under the sun is the extent to which people lump everyone together...there are 8 billion people on earth...give or take...and folks have the habit of saying humanity this and humanity that and humanity the other thing...this is especially obvious in political commentary...liberals this and conservatives that and women this and men that and it never ends...humans and human experiences are varied and complex...AND humans have the capacity to change their minds...which brings me to the youtube presentaion "10 ancient drug epidemics which erased entire civilizations"@ health with Henry (50 min) this title is misleading as there were no civilizations which were erased...the last part is especially interesting as it deals with the idea that alcohol consumption drove humans to settle in one spot to brew beer thousands of years before there was agriculture for food consumption...you make up your own mind about whether humanity is driven by the need to get a buzz...also i found a great interview @steveioe... "ER nurse shares her wildest stories"(37 min)...this woman is an emergency room nurse in a hospital on the Mississippi gulf coast...she is young and strong...and recounts how many dumb ass moves people can make to endanger their own lives...it makes me cynical about how much energy is put into saving people who perhaps should not be saved...on "soft white underbelly" there is an interview with a prison psych doctor who obviously has PTSD and she recounts how much time and expense is given to stopping a prisoner who wants to cut off his penis...there are people who can and will reform their behaviors and these should be afforded the opportunity to do so...the rest are using valuable resources which could be better utilized elsewhere...humanity needs to understand the meaning of triage...testosterone is in the news recently...i can speak with some authority on this subject...having had much testosterone and then having little testosterone...i think it would better serve humanity to have more men with less testosterone...especially in prison!...better living through chemistry!...i recently paid off a medical bill after 3 years and asked for an itemized account of said bill and was saddened but not surprised when i saw that i was charged for 6 injections of leuprolide acetate at more than $1000 per injection when i had only been given one injection of this drug...not surprisingly the medical mafia has completely taken over health care and the multi-trillion dollar ripoff continues without anyone in government getting off their lazy overpaid butts to address these scams...

I've been listening to a lot of Rita Payes (trombone and vocals) and Andrea Motis (trumpet and vocals) both from spain and excellent jazz musicians...

"Livin' easy livin' free/ Season ticket on a one way ride....Bon Scott 

 

"Trust through total transparency.."

ancient tin cup found near campsite...better rusty cup than plastic cup

made my way to the radiology unit to have sinuses imaged...fast efficient and professional...

i must confess to perusing yet another thrift store or two...i have concluded after half a century or more of shopping thrift stores that perhaps my reasoning was a bit flawed...as a small child i used to sit with my siblings looking at a sears catalogue which was between us and play "look what i got!"...seemed pretty harmless at the time...however as most compulsive/addictive behaviors seem to be rooted in some experiences from ones past i imagine that being in a household with a dearth of money and therefore a dearth of possessions established the idea that more stuff was more better...i met a couple of men who as children faced near starvation as children  during WW2...these men were both quite fat due to the uncontrolable urge to eat...however if you are interested in compulsive behavior modification HubermanLab has a great youtube presentation "the treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder" (OCD)(32min)...

where was i?...oh yes i have decided that "collecting" only exacerbates my OCD tendencies so i have determined that the only thing worth "collecting" is ideas...it has been said (i think in buddhism) that the only thing a person owns is their "deeds"...whoa buddy!...that's a lot of heavy lifting...i did pick up a very nice pair of Steiner 12X40 binoculars for $10 at the thrift today but not for collecting...

ok lets get down to the "nut cuttin'"...i often read "what elon musk said today on twitter" which is very revealing...i like Mr. Musk but i think his evaluation of certain aspects of his relationship to the environment is flawed...he suffers from "nature deficit disorder"...and going into space will probably make it much much worse...throughout the history of humanity Homo sapians et. al. have oriented themselves by comparison to the nature that surrounded them...more and more of humanity have less and less nature to relate to...i think this makes humans too "machine-like"...but i spent so much time in the zoo business i became imbued with a respect, even a reverence for nature...BUT i came to realize that the animals i encountered in the zoos were separated from the environment in which they evolved...therefore they were other than what their species had evolved into over many millions of years...soooo for someone to say that more people is more better strikes me as being oblivious to the inevitable result...which is more people equals less nature...and more "machines"....now i am only a wheelbarrow and shovel guy...but my orientation to the planet on which i live includes all the plants, animals and "undecided" entities. i do however applaude the musk ethos that self driving vehicles would  make humans lives better...perhaps there will be an opportunity to obtain a musk financed used EV...recycle or die Elon!...

"Trust through total transparency is the only thing that should be believed."   ELON MUSK

"I've watched the summer evening pass by..."

birthday morning...72 years behind me...one day at a time ahead of me

 
 the mon-sooner or later has been a bit less than generous with the precipitation...

i am not a person who feels that "the public" has any right or expectation to be protected from the truth...this youtube presentation is pretty abrupt...."North America is Heating Up"@ Climate Emergency Forum (30 min)...

had to move due to road construction which is soon to begin...the spot i moved to is the same place where i found the yellow ants and the orange fox...not a bad spot but a steady stream of vehicles is often present..

the first day several raucus  ravens came to see me and i think it was the family i befriended a couple of years ago... truly lovely creatures...

the reception on the phone was pretty intermittant so i watched some of the movies i have on a mini-SD...and read some articles in my periodicals...

i was pleased that my "aroma" (stink) became apparent to me after several months of no olfactory awareness...perhaps it was the prednisone which made my smell ability re-appear...i also experienced extreme headaches for reasons un-known...i decided it might be my water supply as some of the water in my gallon jugs was several months old...i trashed the old bottles and bought new water for $1.37 a gallon...i have not had headaches since i changed my water source...

as i try to look objectively at my life i realize that an insurance actuarial table can accurately predict my longevity...never imagined myself at 72 years...life is good...but not forever...

"I've watched the summer evening pass by                                           I've heard the rattle in my bronchi                                                        Someday I'll have a disappearing hairline                                               Someday I'll wear pajamas in the daytime...                                            from Crash test dummies song"Afternoons and Coffeespoons"

"When you deal with irrational animals..."

even the least of these seeks a drink of refreshing water

i'm gonna be negative now, so as to get it out of my system before it poisons my mind...as i sit here watching "journalist discuss shifting media impact on black communities" it occurs to me that there is not "white" people represented...durn their scurvy white butts...as soon as i heard the ghost of Emmit Till i knew it was going to be a "black blather fest" when one of the participants brought up how her ancestors was snatched up from mother africa and brought to the new world in chains it occured to me that the black african tribal chiefs who enriched themselves by selling other blacks into slavery never get brought up...there are some very good youtube presentations about the genetic makeup of about every human population...the so called "black irish" it seems have a different genotype than the red heads..humans all the way back to denisovans and neanderthals have genetic markers which the rapidly growing field of genetics is analysing...sorry no reparations coming from them either...if you spend too much time walking backwards you are going so stumble...i am aware of an increasing amount of "radicalized" views on the internet...from every spectrum of society...as resources become smaller and the population of humans becomes larger the rationalization for extreme responces will increase....the example of the entire globe changing when the covid pandemic was at its height should be an example of how humans have it in their power to save themselves...but instead we have resigned ourselves to playing games and destroying the atmosphere in the process....how many sporting events were played and how many people attended them in the last year?...oh well...

"When you deal with irrational animals, with things and circumstances, be generous and straightforward. You are rational and they are not. When you deal with fellow human beings, behave as one. They share in the LOGOS. And invoke the gods regardless.          Don't worry about how long you will go on doing this.                           A single afternoon would be enough.    MARCUS AURELIUS 

"NIGHTMARES..."

image above is a kaibab squirrel drinking from the water pan 

4th of july and the USA is solid as a rock...top image is of a fresh fungi growth on top of pine stump

sooo...had to come into town for more medical "consultation"...the forest was very nice and since i put out the water pan, which is actually a "charger" or large serving tray...4 bucks at the thrift and made of thick stainless steel with brass handles at both ends...only an inch deep so the small birds love it...a couple of least chipmunks also sipped from it several times a day...with the air temperature being much higher than in the past the creatures are going to need some help...i forget if the chipmunks here estivate when the temps get this high...going to get hotter than this!

i looked up the 3 people who died in the Snyder fire on the colorado/utah border...i almost burst into tears when i saw these very young people...EMILY BARKER...SYDNEY WATSON...NICK HUTCHERSON...HEROS!....a told a couple of federals that people who start forest fires should be shot on sight...enough of that...

   some of the better youtube i watched lately is "Anthony Kaldellis-Roman Empire etc..."(4 hours)...lex fridman podcast #498...Dr. Fridmans' genius is in asking brilliant questions...of course it is inevitable that one attempts to see if the trials and tribulations of past cultures are indications of what the present situation might have in store ...i think that the technological developments of today make society differently poised to act and react...however human nature has not changed...and Dr, Andrew Huberman has a good interview with Ido Portal who is a philosophical body dynamics expert "Movement practice to strengthen your body-mind connection"(3 hours)...Dr, Huberman brings up his participation in skateboarding in his younger days and how adept some of the practitioners of this fairly new sport are.   But i have to get my daily dose of laughter so i watched "Fern Brady" an Irish woman with a...rather harsh view of life...but funny...i also thought i might sign up with a dating service so i have been watching "Smack The Pony dating Agency" to get some tips (or not)...since i feel better when things are being improved rather than being made worse i like to watch Cobbler G (mr Gibson) whose latest challenge is a pair of boots infested with spider webs and various insect carcasses...one of of of the things i marvel at is how resilient leather is...this cobbler with an an attitude takes an ancient craft to new levels...also i always watch  the latest "Girl with Dogs" who has groomed a lot of cats recently...to watch this lady with endless compassion take a dog covered with matted hair and transform it into a regal beast once again brings joy to my heart...also i was impressed with Ms 'Itchy Boots" recovery from near disaster when her Yamaha motorcycle was close to being washed away in a river in Mongolia...(season 8 episode 139)..this woman is tough!...i always save "Little Chinese Everywhere" with Yan for sunday morning when i have my mug of coffee and pastry while i watch this ladies travels...she has bought a new drone which she flies with a VR headset...nice work...and since socialism has been in the news much lately i looked up some explanations about this  form of government.."Social Democracy VS Democratic Socialism explained easy" (4min)...the problem with this and most political discussions is that politics like religions are  very fluid concepts and practices...they do not exist in a pure state...and i look at music videos in the evening before i slumber (usually between 8 an 9 pm)...BOPFLIX has a thousand videos to peruse...

 

",,,nightmares are dreams too!..." Jesse Welles 

 

 

 

"TAT..."

 photo taken this morning with my recently purchased Nikon D100...came with a nice 18-70mm nikon lens a nice camera bag 2 batteries and battery charger... 6mp...like new $40 bucks...shop thrift stores!

so i need to say something about what gets sold by persons who have podcasts...there is a guy who is very popular who is selling a super duper backback...there are thousands of back-packs in thrift stores...also there is a guy (dr huberman) who is selling a titanium skillet...there are thousands of skillets in thrift stores... don't mean to discredit anyone ( I listen to dr. hubermans health advise as closely than I listen to my own doctor) however! the notion that selling overpriced stuff on line is OK is not OK...recycle or die...

i watched a presentation on youtube @"dig it with raven" entitled "Dear Joe Rogan I'm an Archeologist and ..."(12 min)  this is about debunking the clickbait scammer joe rogan...he claims things on the walls in pyramids are helicopters etc...this guy has muscles in his head where brains should be...now he has to "face the raven"...

now on a more personal level...i seem to be experiencing "death from delay"...colon cancer tests lost in the mail...radiation treatment turned into personal vendeta, cataract surgery deemed un-needed by nurse staff, i am losing faith in the medical component of my life...however...i do get to see medical personell and have a good food budget and the weather is not injurious to my health so i guess i can carry on until i cannot carry on...i saw my medical record recently and i have what are called co-morbidities... i was warned many years ago...you get old, you get sick, you die...well, there is more to it than that...i think it is good to manouver ones existence so as to be happy until the last minute...then get out with some control...

TAT TVAM ASI... 

"Allocation of energy..."

                                          top image is a bird...bottom image is a plant...scrounged around amongst the memories and came across a thumb drive with more images than i wanted to peruse this morning...coffee, coffee my brain cries out for COFFEEEEEE...awoke at 4AM and tried to get the duck browser into the new laptop...bought a MacBook pro at the thrift last week for 50 bucks...13 years old, like new condition...500 GB memory etc etc etc...i like it!   can't make coffee though...

stayed at a spot a half a mile from where i usually stay...nice spot has a large stone fire-ring NO FIRES NO FIRES NO DAMNED FIRES!...still there are forest fires to the south and forest fires to the north and hazy smoke all around...and no rain in sight...these are the unavoidable facts...the weather patterns changing...the numbers don't look good...same ol' same ol'...well at least we can take comfort in the fact that there is a lot of money being made....right!...tell me i'm right...anyhow the social democrats are in office on the east coast and in the middle of the country and now they need an elected official on the west coast...then they can do the pincher maneuver.   certainly no one can be surprised that a rather extreme version of government is being elected...extreme situations call for extreme measures...the difference in the current situation is that the very wealthy are all regular folks...begun with modest financial resources...not royalty...just hard working american ingenuity...combined with greed perhaps...

watched some good youtube last week...ain't no surprise...i hear where there are laws which now make it a criminal offense to allow any human under the age of 16 years to get on "social media"...what the hell is social media!...i would have thought that for a thing to be social there would have to be the ability to be responded to...comments and such...i hope and pray that i am never asking for "LIKES" or thumbs or anybody's nickel or approval or anything else...even a dime will alter the way a person thinks...we be very emotionaly involved with money...as a species...bonobos...not so much...

speaking of money.."only fans model ostracized" (24min) (soft white underbelly)...a 23  year old woman who paid cash for her home and automobiles and has a million bucks in the bank and makes $300 K per month says she was being treated badly for being a sex worker...even more distressing is the interview with Addison Vodka who never said how much money she makes but i imagine a lot...she has been on the internet since she was in elementary school...she likes it a lot...she is the happiest person i have seen being interviewed about her sex work...also an only fans participant as well as a regular maker of commercial videos for the porn industry...she aspires to be "performer of the year"...she likes the job!...however i saw her in an interview later where she looks like she is distraught about the negative comments she has recieved...NEVER LISTEN TO COMMENTS!....BUT i noticed that i was somewhat depressed after watching Ms. Vodkas interview (perhaps she should change her name to Ms.Highball)...i was lamenting the blue funk i was experiencing when i came across Ms MARIA DUMITRESCU or Ria-DMS as she posts under...she is ASEXUAL...she has some excellent presentations...(7 types of attraction most people don't know exist." @ria-dms...i was feeling particularly "dickless" and this world view explained in a very articulate way how many people do not crave a sexual relationship...WHO KNEW!....this is exactly the type of information that the "under 16" crowd need to have access to...it ain't all about penetration!... felt suddenly free from the millions of years of social conditioning that insists "inseminate or die!"...i watched ms Florence Welches video "sympathetic magic" and let it be known I am not responsible for her insemination...i think we should start a campaign to address SCOPOPHILIA...might help...

some non-sexual viewing is Hunter Bidens 2hour and 20 minute interview and his Radical Transparency world view...he presents himself and his sobriety as a victory for those at "rock bottom"...took a lot of courage for him to bare his soul this way on "soft white underbelly"..."can aluminum cans be recycled" @ "jerry rig everything" very good video of how it is done...also i met a fellow who informed me that the DIRE WOLF has been brought back from extinction...this is bunk...and measures a very high number on the "bull shit" scale...for good solid science go to @K passionate...this lady carefully looks at the science and says that Dire wolves are not even wolves but are more closely related to jackals, dholes and African wild dogs...and the clones have zero dire wolf DNA...and i once stated that there was no metal working by the indigenous peoples of north america...however there apparently was a extensive copper culture in pre-historic north america...

got to go and make more coffee...

"Allocation of energy is 90% of the game of life" Dr Andrew Huberman 

 

 

"If your'e a collector..."

                                              stealth cam image of myself...recent

I made a list of the vehicles I have owned...in more or less the order I owned them...I was never an automobile collector...

first vehicle was a 1969 Kawasaki 500 triple motorcycle...I was 18 or 19 years old and had been working as a contract laborer in oil refineries...I paid 500 bucks for it...it was in really nice shape...jack C. who I went to high school with and who was a motorcyclist from way back worked in a motorcycle shop and recommended it to me...I had never sat on a motorcycle before but I did not tell him that...he drove it and pulled the front wheel off the ground in first gear, second gear, third gear and it think forth gear...it had 5 forward gears...I told him I would buy it...we did the paperwork at this shop and when I was about half a mile away it stalled and I had to call him and tell him I did not know how to start it...he came in a truck and picked me and the motorcycle up and asked me if I had ever ridden a motorcycle before...when he showed me how to start the thing, off I went...I should have told him I had driven lots of big trucks and fork-lifts...then I quit the refinery business and moved to the "heart of Acadiana" to drive a van and deliver beauty supplies to salons and barbershops...my next vehicle was a 1962 ford falcon "Futura" with an automatic transmission...I had hitch-hiked to Colorado with a guy who also drove a delivery van where I did and after I hitch-hiked back to Louisiana a girlfriends dad sold me the car for $25 which I had to rebuild the "top-end"...I had never pulled a spark plug from a car so it was a blessing that the high school shop teacher let me do it at the shop and coached me on how to do it...the man was a saint...so the other teachers loathed him...the car made it back to Colorado but then I left it there and hitched back to Louisiana...I enrolled in the university since my father said he would pay the $160 per semester cost...I did well in the first semester but took to partying in the second and then dropped out...I rented a house for about $160 a month way out in the country and bought a 1961? Belair for $75 which was hand painted purple...this vehicle was rear ended when I was pulling into my driveway one day and I retired the car...then I moved closer to town and I got a job as a roustabout on oil rigs working 14 days on and 7 days off...my pay was about $500 for two weeks work...my three room cypress house with a two barns and a fenced paddock was $25 a month... my neighbor had a 1963 ford falcon with three on the column which I bought for $75  bucks...it lasted a month before it crapped out and a fellow sold me a Vega for less than a hundred bucks...I decided I did not want to keep working offshore so I applied for a job with the zoo...I was hired and rented a house in the country for $150 a month... the state police came to the house and took the Vega since I had failed to get any bill of sale or registration...I had to hitch-hike to work every day ... the road to the zoo ran in front of the mayors house and he complained to the police so I was a suspect, a fellow at the zoo said his father wanted to sell his truck and I went to look at it in Plauchevile and paid $900 bucks for a 1968 Chevrolet fleet side truck which was hand painted tugboat green and had  power steering truck...I liked the truck.  I sold the truck and bought a Fiat station wagon then got  a job at another zoo....then I bought a ford f150 then I moved to Nevada took up cooking as a job and bought a 1967 Toyota corona for 50 bucks...neat car...I had 3 vehicles at this time including an older jeep wagoner which I paid $500 for...I had never had a 4-wheel drive vehicle before...the wheel wells were rusted out so when I drove around in the black-rock desert the vehicle would fill up with dust...I left the Toyota with my landlady when I left the country and gave it to her husband in payment for sending my belongings to me when I turned to Louisiana... I think that mass transit makes more sense than trying to maintain a vehicle in many cases...I was collecting books and records and loaded my Chevrolet truck with all my stuff and traveled the country from Florida to California to Oregon to Wyoming then to Alabama . I traded my Chevrolet truck for a Datsun 510 station wagon in Oregon ..one of the best vehicles I have ever owned...I sold it in California when I went to Australia where I saw that they still made ford falcons...when I returned to the USA...I became a merchant marine and after a year I had saved enough money to by a motorhome for 3000 bucks which I had for 5 years...then I bought a 1994 Toyota pickup truck which had 315,000 miles on it when it was rear ended and totaled by a semi-truck...I bought a small school bus with the insurance money but it was a poor off road vehicle so I sold it and bought a 1991 Toyota previa van for...I think 1600 bucks which had 315,000 miles on it when I sold it 5 years ago...the woman who bought it still drives it...I bought a 2004 ford f150 for 6700 bucks when I sold the Toyota van and still drive this truck...

recently I had my storage unit stolen from me by what Kash Patel accurately describes as "government gangsters"...after 25 years of having this storage unit it contained a lot of "collectibles"...

"If you're a collector you're a sick, obsessive, compulsive person, who would sell your grandmother to buy something you really like, even if its something like an Elvis plate." from a YouTube presentation on book collectors 

"As Sleigh Bells seem in summer..."

 this is me tapping on a metal vibra-phone...I like the simple instruments...I have come to believe that simple music Is best

some good YouTube music I found is Daryle Singletary (who is dead now) but he had a magnificent baritone voice great for the country tunes he sang...most of his songs were heart-breakers..."she is cheating' on both of us" is a good example...also I was listening to some older music by the band "Squeeze" and found "Cool for cats" to have some great lyrics and the instrumentation was far ahead of its time...a couple of great bluesmen are PinkAnderson playing 'I got a woman" and Floyd Council playing "Looking for my baby"...heard those names before?...lets get to some science..."Why Chinese AI is suddenly so good"(43 min) @asian boss...well presented and with good detail..."The mysterious discovery of the Bad Durrenberg skeleton" (46 min) by Milo (minderbender) Rossi is excellent on several levels...he explains the Nazi approach to propagandizing science and how early archaeology was not very helpful in preserving information...AND mr Rossi has spit out the sponsorship tit and is relying on his viewers support..buy that poster!...good on ya mate!...Emilia Evans has a good presentation on the evolution of elephants...she mentions tapirs being about the size of one of the extinct elephant ancestors...I have worked with Malayan tapirs and Brazilian tapirs but no mountain tapirs...they are not the same size...but the "elephant in the room" is whether the man who is "The elephant of explanation" is an AI creation...and some tech presentations which are worth the time are "The killer behind data centers in space" by Anastasi in Tech (30 min) sort of rips E Musks space ambitions...he may be selling tulip bulbs...if you want to see another big project gone wrong look up "The Wall" a much overly ambitious development in Saudi Arabia...a short but interesting presentation about physics is "A better way to picture atoms"(6 min) @minutephysics..."You can't cut a photon" @neverthoughtitthatway...this guy addresses some good thoughtful questions...and back to sex...always back to sex...there is an excellent article in may 2026 Natural History magazine entitled "Sex is a spectrum; why the binary view is problematic" by Augustin Fuentes very informative...

"As Sleigh Bells seem in summer / Or Bees at Christmas show-/ So fairy-so fictitious-/ The individuals do/ Repealed from Observation-/ A party that we knew-/ More distant in an instant/Than Dawn in Timbuctoo."....Emily Dickinson