Tag: skill-estate
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You already have what you need
Reprint from 2021, linked in previous. = = = = = START REPRINT: One of the small pleasures of life is pulling an ace from your sleeve. One of the BIG pleasures is creating independence and self-sufficiency, defeating the all-consuming Github. I use Poser intensively for work and play, for courseware animations and blog stuff…
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Wrexperts
Previous items about guilds, and Lampert steering Sears into the iceberg, reminded me of a previous highly productive line of thought. Rehashing a couple pieces written in Feb 2020, just before Bush and Trump hijacked and wrecked the entire world. = = = = = I was thinking and reading about the remarkable continuity of…
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Where is the advertising guild?
I got an email from an organization called West’s Awake. It sounds like something I might want to support. It also sounds familiar and might be something I supported in the past. I won’t check the links because it could easily be a scam. If it’s a real organization, it just missed the chance to…
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Never need them again
EnidBuzz features a new clothing store in downtown Enid. I recognized the location instantly. Sears. It’s an awfully big building for a startup clothing store. Sears formerly sold everything but food. Tools were in the basement, so that’s where I shopped in the 70s. Bought a whole lot of metric Craftsman tools, still have most…
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Make beauty
Since the Bush-Trump torture chamber of 2020 I’ve been peeling away from Machiavellian shit. Trying to pay near-zero attention to politics and media noise. Focusing on making beauty and order where possible, trying to do the right thing though it’s never rewarded and usually punished. I’ve also been turning off subscriptions to writers who show…
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Kedit is still alive… updated
Reposted for latest update. Every now and then I check the webpage of Mansfield Software, the maker of Kedit. For 20 years they’ve been trying to give up the ship, and each time they decide to keep supporting and selling just a little bit longer. I’ve never needed support because Kedit has never shown a…
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Glamorous?
Somebody on substack said “People think traveling for work is glamorous.” … then showed some of the unglamorous places she traveled to. I never thought it was glamorous. Back in the 70s I traveled for work, mainly driving a 1955 Ford flatbed truck, and went to faraway places with strange-sounding names like Meade and Goltry.…
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More on cursive
Mentioned in previous item, also worth a reprint. = = = = = START 2016 REPRINT: Wandering through KSHS again, found this collection of documents left over from the founding of Bluemont College, which became K-State after Isaac Goodnow finagled a state purchase. Goodnow was an IPO man in modern terms, picking up capital by…
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We could learn more
This rant was inspired by two sources: the Chavez version of oil MBS, and Mamdani’s brilliant phrase ‘the warmth of collectivism’. Progressives and wokies love to focus on the ‘spiritual’ side and the ‘suffering’ side of the old American tribes. We could learn a WHOLE HELL OF A LOT MORE from the commercial success of…
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Shock and awe? Not clear yet /// EDIT: Clear.
A brave science teacher in Caracas has been reporting via Substack for a few weeks. The only reliable news comes from locals who see and hear what’s happening. Around here, the only reliable news comes from the SpokaneNews facebook group. Mainstream “news” from every city and country is useless. The previous stage of our grotesque…
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Booker T said it best
China is the stork. Citing Aesop: = = = = = START FABLE: The Fox one day thought of a plan to amuse himself at the expense of the Stork. “You must come and dine with me today,” he said to the Stork, smiling to himself at the trick he was going to play. The…
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Signal for 2026
Found in this afternoon’s walk: A real pencil, clearly well used. Nice signal from the analog universe.
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Year-end recharge
Trying to recharge my purpose batteries after a deep discharge this year. Reprinting the basic Foy Rebellion piece written in 2022 when the Bush-Trump torture chamber was still running full speed in the demon-owned states, including here. = = = = = START 2022 REPRINT: Yesterday I was discussing the cultural IMPERATIVE to re-employ ordinary…
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Why the bubble?
Why did Altman’s new style of predictive algorithm become a giant Wall Street bubble? Prediction has been the PRIMARY purpose of calculation for thousands of years. Most formal math, and many measuring instruments, developed to predict astronomical patterns for religious purposes, first in Islam then copied by Christians. Statistics was developed explicitly for betting. Analog…
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Shovels
The Genesis Mission is touted as a new A-bomb project. Not a good comparison in either direction. On the destructive side: We used the actual bomb twice on Japan, where it did less damage than our old-fashioned firebombing. Thermite destroyed far more of Japan than uranium. The Tech Tyrants want us to see AI in…
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