"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' 

 

 

"To make a just state..."

 felt bottomed sandals made for stealth in the woods....i bought two pairs for 3 bucks from the thrift store...fairly ineffective in the desert sands however....

got some very intellectually stimulating information this week from an interview with a mr. karl friston from university college london who has "free energy principal" which is still sort of vague to me...he was on a podcast from Hrvoje Kukina who is croatian i think...dr lex fridman also has an inteview with Friston from 5 years ago but this interview with Hrvoie is from a couple of weeks ago...there is so much information packed into this 41 minute presentation i recommend that you have pen and paper ready to take some reference notes...i wrote down at least a couple of dozen words and phrases that i needed to look up...i can see why dr. fridman was so enthusiastic about this mans work since it has to do with neural function and is very well suited to be used for programing a self driving vehicle which is work that dr. fridman does with tesla...if philosophy of mind described in mathematical terms is of interest to you this interview will delight you...and also enlighten you perhaps...i think Fristons explanation of consciousness is as good as any i have heard..."to seek evidence for your model of the world"...i was interested to hear that the public health service in england plans to implement gene mapping in all newborns...this may be resisted...but not by the infants...at the other end of the temporal spectrum i heard about a man in his 80s who shot and killed his wife who was in her 70's then he shot himself...they were said to have health problems which made them take this course of action...it is a damned shame that there are not better solutions to ending ones life than this rather crude method... i heard some people say that they were glad that the beautiful Nottoway plantation in south louisiana burned down since it was built by enslaved persons...as was the Acropolis, the Taj Mahal, the coliseum in rome...etc etc etc...i was excited about Deepseek r1 so i kept looking for information online and almost all the information was from 4 months ago...well it seems that the developer, the tech billionaire mr. liang wenfeng, has spent most of his fortune trying to enhance the abilities of his creation trying to have exclusive abilities...but without much success... there is a very good short biography of mr wenfeng on youtube...i see where playing chess is now a crime in Afghanistan...they should have dropped a few kinetic weapons on kabul as long as they were in the neighborhood...regime change is much needed to allow these authoritarian countries live in the 21st century...the citizens are mostly OK but the leadership is dismal at best...i have never spent any time in the city of lost angels but i figured if i ever got there i wanted to see the getty art museum and the la brea tar pits...i saw a fairly current tour of their facility at the tar pits which was quite good..."Inside the worlds most unusual fossil site- the la brea tar pits-featuring lindsay nikole" (ms. Nikole is largely absent from this presentation) unlike any other youtube presentation by the miniatureman and ms Nikole there was no cussing...and you could tell it put a cramp in their style... not to cast aspersions on this excellent presentation but i think i saw mr. miniature slip a dire wolf skull under his shirt  and at one point he tried to push ms Nikole into the tar pit...he is another heinrich schleimann...mask of Agamemnon my butt...lets move on...! The sandals in the photo above are to illustrate how much footwear is available to society...as much as i respect marketplaces Kai his loathing of birkenstocks and now "snofers" may get him in trouble...the birkenstock people have long reach and may put a hit out on on him...those danes are from viking stock and can be formidable foes...i would like to recommend some music i really liked "The high-jivers" rendition of "Look what you've done to me"...good stuff!

"To make a just state by just means."  Nehru 

"But the faithful do not invent..."

super duper go "anywhere" recreational vehicle...if you got the money to maintain it
 

every time i look at this rock i think it was chipped by a much older culture than has yet been described  in this part of the desert west...an experienced pre-history archaeologist might have a more educated idea  

 these images are from the desert a few month ago...right now i am dealing with the reality of my camera...i ran over it with my truck last week...i sort of went into shock...however if i take the memory card and put it in my D200 i can read the images but not enlarge them...ok i need to take deep breaths now...so the high temperature in the southern part of the state today will be near 116 degrees Fahrenheit...deadly...but it will be cooler in the higher elevations but the wind and heat will make the threat of fires much greater....i am sure glad that those ninnies who think there is climate change are not in charge...yeah right!...i just watched a Mr. Tavis Smiley being interviewed on c-span and he said "THEY MURDERED HIM"...speaking of the demise of mr george floyd....who is "THEY?" i believe there was only one white guy kneeling on his neck...not the whole white race...i am not going to celebrate Juneteenth today as i had no slaves or other servants...but i do hope those who want to remember the so called "emancipation" of the enslaved people will remember that it is kind of like the sign i have seen posted on the doors of some bars "FREE BEER TOMORROW"....tomorrow never comes...free your mind... one of the best interviews i have yet seen on youtube is by lex fridman of YUVAL NOAH HARARI...(where does he find all these Jewish intellectuals!) this man speaks intelligently about a number of subjects and is well worth the nearly 3 hour interview time...i watched it over several settings...i looked up a book review of kash patels tome "GOVERNMENT GANGSTERS"...if i can find the book used i will read it...but wtching the review i sort of get what it is he is complaining about...i looked up DEEP SEEK and there are only offerings from 4 month ago...was it a scam?......i need to pack up now and seek my way in the world...i will see a oncologist today and get a refill on my anti-testosterone meds.   onward thru the fog!

"But the faithful do not invent the forms of the gods: they recognize them." Andre Malraux 

"Security is a false god..."

 

 colored pencils are a good way to be creative while relaxing-price one buck 

 

 new chief of MI6 the British intelligence services...a woman...a woman named Blaise Metreweli...yea sure...obviously not her real name...SECRET INTELLIGENCE SERVICES...their motto is "SEMPER OCULTUS OR ALWAYS SECRET...i watched a good youtube presentation about  the history of these folks which was not very long but was very revealing...they kept changing their home office for years until now they have a permanent place to hang their hat...Stalin had a secret police organization called the NKVD... folks like these are a good reason to watch carefully any so called "Black" operations...they tend to be nasty when no one is  looking...and not always intelligent...i am watching NCIS on the television...i seem to have watched an inordinate amount of crime "entertainment" over the years...that and nature documentaries...i see where the USA is taking up the habits that are so common in Mexico...political assassination...the trajectory of events over the course of time would indicate an increasing amount of violence in this country...i will assume that the number of people who protested the many deportations would indicate that enforcing the law is unpopular in some circles so it is more of a legislative failure than a law enforcement failure...obviously someone will have to do the work that the un-legal people were doing...yeah the elected officials seem to want to blame others because the laws do not allow for realistic enforcement....many millions of people here working without legal status because the legislature simply refuses to pass laws which make it possible for workers to get their proper papers...and the PIG DUTIFUL SWILL or fatback investment bill is of little help...i will say that hungry people are more willing to break the laws than the well fed...i also see where there is a bill to cut funding to PBS and NPR because they are prejudiced against the so called "conservative" element...i have been watching public television and listening to public radio for more than half a century and i would agree that both of these are not "conservative" friendly...and it has been getting more pronounced in recent years...however...i think if all tax dollars are removed from the funding these entities will survive on private donations...and i was wondering if all these deportations will result in more affordable housing becoming available...probably not...i find that the trial of mr diddy makes me wonder how much money was spent to support the woman who was his enabler...they are both pathological...sick sick sick...there should be "KNOW KINKS" marches  in the streets...i see where a very public discussion is taking place about assassination the supreme poobah  of Iran...of course once that is in the agenda it is all bets off...it may initiate a lot of changes in leadership across the globe...i found the Julia McCoy presentation on Youtube very interesting..."The Uncomfortable Truth: Are Humans Too Dangerous To Control Earth"...where she argues that better decisions could be made by Artificial Intelligence...which is not the most popular idea by a long shot...i agree with it and would like to see it implemented more quickly...Andrea Motis and Joan Chambers Quintet with Scott Hamilton do a great rendition of "SUMMERTIME"...it has a good visual of the guitarist playing in the Wes Montgomery style of only using the thumb to pluck the strings...

"Security is a false god. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost."  Paul Bowles 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"I love her more..."

green thistle

yellow pipe found on a nearby rock

yellow thistle next to green thistle

as usual much lamentation and gnashing of teeth...not me however...i cut back on the caffeine...but at the laundry a woman complained about me...i think she said i said something "unseemly"...i never said she was a fat toad and a bad mother which would have been the truth nor did i say anything else...i always recommend  that any complaints be written down and signed by the complainer as the law stipulates that there shall be no anonymous complainers...this never happens however...then i went to the medical facility and a pleasant woman brought me a package with my cancer meds...while she was explaining to me how the anti diarrhea meds worked (this was a surprise to me) she knocked my notebook and pen off the arm of my chair onto her chair...i picked up the notebook but she was nearly sitting on the pen so i had to dig it out...now she has complained that i am a pervert because i was fondling her butt...yeah the guy with no dick is interested in her butt... and so goes my life in this world...but i managed to pick up 14 good magazines for a quarter each( ...several "new yorkers" and some "SCIENCE" mags...the science mags sell for 14 bucks!)

the news is going a mile a minute what with the bellicose Israelis whoopin' on everyone ("What is the reality of Jewish Genetic Origins" about 15 minutes long is a great look at who the Jews are)  and the ruskies and the Ukrainians still whacking anyone who gets in the way of their drones...there is some good youtube about drones in warfare...but do not fret as a couple of the best and brightest artificial intelligence experts are saying that there will be a rogue computer that will "KILL US ALL"...and very soon...check out "Dangers of Super-intelligent AI" (2 hours and 15 minutes) in an interview with ROMAN YAMPOLSKY and Lex Fridman...he also interviews ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY about the same subject...this guy insists that the computers are going to kill us all AND SOON!...you know i think these alarmists are missing something in their calculations...on the oil rigs there is usually a 'BLOWOUT PREVENTER"...maybe someone can get one of these bright folks to come up with a way not to be killed off by the computers..."I can't do that Dave"....one of the more interesting people Dr. Fridman interviewed was Dr. Neri Oxman who was a tenured professor at MIT until she quit to go to new york to start her own business...she used 17,532 silkworms to spin some large sculptures...she said it takes 1000 cocoons to make a silk shirt...which she seemed to think was un-ethical or something...i was having tea with a young woman in my yard back in around 1974 when i brought out a jar of honey for the tea...she told me that i had "raped the bees" to get that honey...now i was an avid meditater and did yoga every day and was on a strict non-meat non dairy  diet...so the notion that i had abused the bees was a bit much for me... three days later i was eating steaks and sausage and ice cream every day on the oil rig i was working on...Dr. Oxman recommended a very good documentary film which is on youtube called "particle fever"(1:40)...this is a well filmed account of the large hadron collider in europe and how it got built and used to determine the weight of the Higgs Boson...i usually do not see much human endeavor which seems more constructive than destructive...this was an amazing achievement...a five story tall, 17 mile long machine built with the precision of a swiss watch...and 20 years later it was used and improved...an excellent episode of "little chinese everywhere" #124 is about africans living and working in canton, china...the amount of commerce taking place is enormous...of course they would have been unable to achieve as much in this country as we now have a fairly strict policy to exclude "the other" ...i hope the fed and the state law enforcement can keep the lid on the protests while still doing their legal obligation to remove non-citizens...ii heard on the BBC news that there are 1.6 million undocumented people in california... guess i can pick my own fruit and vegetable etc. etc etc...

  saw some good music this week...if sophistication is your thing "Solitude" by andrea motis and joan chamorro being backed up by a sinfonica del valles (5 min) is quite good...if sophistication is not at the top of your list MFC Chicken has a hillarious song called "fuck you, me" which seems to be for schizophrenic self loathers...i warn you that this is a very potent ear worm and you might find yourself humming it all day long...

"I love her more than evolution requires."

"Allow me to be frank..."

 this handsome spider was living beneath a cow turd ...maybe one inch long

there was a large colony of these black ants beneath a cow turd

                          another cow turd resident maybe half an inch long

the volatility of mr musks moods may well be due to his use of non-prescription drugs...Dr. hubermans insistence that men need to control their volatile emotions would be a good idea....however...i sure hope that mr musk will not spin out of control...(i hope!)...

 i have been targeted by the dull witted folks who seem to think that i have discredited the united states marine corp...whose job it is , by the way ,to protect my freedom of speech...one of the segments in my dangerous jobs DVD is about the Iwo Jima assault during world war two...a small island with strategic air bases from which the japanese military was conducting bombing raids...about 17,000 marines died in taking this small volcanic tunnel infested island...60 thousand u.s. troops and 20 thousand japanese troops battled to the death...these sacrifices are not to be overlooked even it some of the current stock of marines seem to have ignored the constitution which is the basis of government... 

some interesting legal cases are now in the courts...there is a woman who is suing someone because she claims she is being discriminated against because she is heterosexual...i'm sure that happens much more than people realize...it has happened to me...now i am eunuchized....so less of a threat to those folks who are aggressively queer... also i see where in oklahoma they have allocated millions of dollars for black people to be "repaired" from the destruction of a large black community many years ago...i see where c. thomas of the supreme court voted against the majority to refuse permission to mine copper on native lands...he will not likely get recognize for this by the so called "liberal" press....and one of the most absurdist lawsuits i have heard of from washington state is by a woman who claims she needs to be compensated (made whole) because her mother died due to heat exposure because those durned oil companies made the climate hotter....well if that is the case all those people who go to sports events and especially ms. t. swift concerts have put so much carbon in the air it is a wonder that we are not all dead, dead, dead...just a thought...give up some of that cash taylor!..

i am reading a very interesting memoir by andre malraux called "anti-memoirs" (1967)...he was all over the globe engaged in conversations and doing battle with various and assorted folks...as well as being imprisoned as member of the french tank corps...well written and jammed with historic accounts of important people....his account of his encounter with charles de gaulle was very revealing..."The future lasts a long time" is one of de Gaulle's observations...

i was looking at youtube last night and came across some great music...most of these folks i have never heard of....one of the better (and most startling) presentations was by "MISSIONED SOULS" cover of a led zepplin song "a whole lotta love"...the music is so note perfect i kept looking to see if these musicians were "lip syncing" the drummer is about 8 years old and the rest of the band all under 13 years old probably...there is also a name attached to this presentation called "girls rock asia"....excellent stuff...also "house of the rising sun" by gigi de luna is excellent and "hillbilly moon explosion" with a tune called "Call Me"...lots of attitude...Becca Kruger sings "Hit the road Jack" very well...and "Post modern Jukebox" with morgan jones singing "Dream on" is great....more music is more better!..."Musics Power over your brain"( 7:43)...on youtube by michael spitzer gives a scientific explanation of how humans engage with music...he says that music is linked to motion (walking, dancing, etc.) ...

"Allow me to be frank at the commencement, you will not like me, the gentlemen will be envious and the ladies will be repelled." John Wilmot as played by j. Depp in "The Libertine"...one of if not his best performance....

"If man is not willing..."

                   13 bucks for 3 pounds of boiled LOUISIANA! crawfish at walmart...and worth it!

 got to put this in first...ms. Greta is a hero(ine) along the lines of joan of arc and simone weil...weil is stephen wests favorite philosopher and she died at at around 33 years old from tuberculosis and being under-nourished because she would not eat any more food than she thought the army troops were getting...by most accounts she was very sensitive to other peoples suffering (weltsmerz?)  she is said to have embraced "poverty, hunger and exhaustion"...( i personally sought to avoid those experiences" anyhow thunberg will likely not accomplish her goal of breaking the siege in gaza...and may lose her live in the bargain....

one of the good things about the steel and aluminum tariffs is that the price of salvage metals will go up accordingly so aluminum cans and food cans will be more recyclable...yeah!...

i spent several hours looking at lex fridman/ andrew huberman podcast/interviews last week...these men who are both Ph.D college instructors and researchers have a good rapport (i don't really like the term bro-mance) and i was able to take a lot of notes for further reference...dr. fridman does a good job of showing frame in frame images to illustrate the discussion...both of these men are what i call "body nazis" as they really like to work out with exercise equipment and also they are runners...these guys were both in tears while they talked about the death of their dogs.. dr. huberman says he still wakes up crying sometimes....dr. fridman had a 200 pound newfoundland (homer) and dr.huberman had a bulldog (costello)... as i also still get sentimental about the deaths of my dogs 40 years ago i respect their emotionalism...dr. huberman told dr. fridman that "your future wife is out there" and dr. fridman said "Yeah, she is being programed"...he insists that humans can have "relationships" with their refrigerators...i was amused to hear dr. fridman talk about wearing his cowboy hat when he travels to west texas from his austin home...he  is a russian born jew who did much of his Ph.D. work at MIT in Cambridge, Mass.  as a expert on AI and programing autonomous vehicles... i would highly recommend that Dr. fridman think about traveling to Australia to go on a several weeks camel trek....he will undoubtedly recognize the personality of camels as being very like a newfoundland dog...he may even seek to acquire a couple of camels of his own...much more excitinging than a dog...or a refrigerator....and there are 5 rounds of these two brilliant minds discussing the world and all that is in it...most of these encounters are over 3 hours long but worth the time...intellectual stimulation  in abundance...these guys talk about their future families quite a lot...i recently saw a woman on youtube lamenting that dr, huberman was dating 6 women at the same time...i remember reading about one of the renowned physicist (maybe rutherford) who went to spend some time in a cabin in the woods and of course he brought along his lovely wife and also his girlfriend...the article said that he did some important physics work while on this sojourn....so maybe dr. huberman is one of those scientist who needs a lot of stimulation to work well...anyhow...one of the best music videos i saw last week was "sona jobarteh and band"..."Jabari" (9:39)...very good..

"If man is not willing to risk his life, where is his dignity.? A. Malraux