Tag: Carver
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Work with what you have
Chris Christie starts to pull ahead of DeSantis. Not surprising. DeSantis SHOULD have been the sole challenger to Trump. He courageously opposed Trump’s lockdowns and muzzles and needles, and protected Florida from Trump’s genocide. As soon as he started running for President he threw away his entire reputation and record. I can’t parse his reasons.…
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When you’re a peasant
Mattingly at GetReligion is covering the elite/peasant divide with an emphasis on the consequences for journalism. Most of his commentary is fairly realistic. He says one thing that I’m not hearing from other commentators: Christian churches and colleges are not doing a good job of preparing youngsters to ENTER the elite places. I think he’s…
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Nature came back
In previous item I linked a 2015 piece about sleep improving memory. At that time I was going through a ‘phase change’ without knowing it: = = = = = START QUOTE: Since the end of paid work project in early Feb, I’ve dropped into a bad broken sleep pattern, and can’t seem to pop…
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Where’s the guild? There.
Before the NAZI TORTURE CAMP, and strongly and plaintively during the CAMP, I’ve been asking over and over WHERE’S THE GUILD? Where is the organized defense of humanity, or even the organized self-interested defense of occupations and businesses? Franny continues to perform the function of a Guild, which has been lost for many decades. In…
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Trite but true, untried but true
Branching from previous item about the two Cindys. I figured out the truth when I stopped listening to Rush’s VERSION of what the Cindys (and Naomi) said, and started reading the ACTUAL TEXT of what they said. It was NOT THE SAME THING AT ALL. Previous AHAS always came from finding a primary unmediated source.…
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Delia’s gone, one more round
Sam Kahn writes in New Atlantis about Delia Bacon, a forgotten figure who was at the center of the American creative burst in the 1840s. She was taught by Beecher and influenced Emerson and Hawthorne and Poe. She wasn’t related to Francis Bacon, but spent her life trying to establish that Bacon wrote Shakespeare’s work…
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Neuralink vs Alidade
Elon’s Neuralink is the latest and nastiest step in our long departure from senses and reality. Elon wants to get directly into our brains with both transmit and receive so he can update our software in the same way he updates the Tesla. Maximum Github, maximum Room 101. Last year when I was showing the…
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Clarifier
From the Ankler’s latest summary of entertainment news: = = = = = START QUOTE: Iger called off plans to relocate around 1,000 employees from CA to FL, and spend around $1 Billion for a new campus in Lake Nona, FL as the home for 2,000 new FL jobs. The 200 or so DISNEY employees…
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Da yoots GET IT.
Poll gave yoots a choice of losing social media or losing “voting” “rights”. They’d rather lose “voting” “rights”. This is a good sign. They’re full Machiavelli. They’ve figured out that “voting” is utterly pointless. = = = = = Looking more closely at the poll article, it gets even better. Is astrology a science? Is…
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Underground, undermud
I’ve been illustrating and animating the hair cells of the cochlea for work and for fun. The outer hair cells, which are also found in the semicircular canals, are designed to communicate and physically vibrate up to about 40 KC, possibly up to 100 KC. Steinheil’s ground telegraphy was DC, much like Morse except that…
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Ford of the day
These quotes from Henry Ford have dates because they appeared in the company’s newsletter. As it happens, most of them are exactly 100 years ago. Today’s quote from 4/15/1923: Experience is the harvest of life, and every harvest is the result of a sowing. The experience which young people must crave is that of success…
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Right about problem, wrong about solution
This discussion of college loans gets one big point right. Major universities are hedge funds with an apprentice program for future hedgies attached. That’s all. Demons training demons. The discussion misses the PERMANENCE of this situation. Colleges were FOUNDED for this sole purpose. Nothing has changed for 1000 fucking years. At one time the A&M…
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Two of my favorite people
A Reddit ‘filler’ says that the honeydew melon was introduced to China by Henry Wallace. China already had its own melons, but quickly grew to love the honeydew and even named it after Wallace. This happened on one of Wallace’s foreign Goodwill Tours, which the demonic HUAC later tried to call treason. One of the…
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The power of a name
Reading a brief biography of Lavoisier in the 1901 volume of La Nature. The biography emphasizes the role of his wife Marie-Anne. Both were born rich, both were educated early and strongly to favor their own peculiar talents. Antoine’s father recognized that the family name would be best honored by letting Antoine serve science instead…
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Today is…
Today is ‘Festival of Life in the Cracks Day’! Saluting a hardy survivor that lives in the cracks, reprinted from Sept 2019. = = = = = This week’s big rain triggered a ferocious sprouting of a ‘ground cover’ plant in ALL of the street cracks. The streets are a dense web of cracks now,…
