"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' 

 

 

"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