Tag: TMI
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Raking record
Time to start the roof-raking record for this winter. As always, this should be in my private daily worklog, but I started doing it here, so I’ll continue the tradition. = = = = Last winter started late and needed only one raking. First raking this year Jan 8. Depth was 3″, not necessarily enough…
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Not convinced it’s better
After one week with this new Win 11 computer, I’ve managed to work around SOME of the stupid shit, but it’s still a worse machine in every way than the old Win 7 computer. Every program starts slower, runs slower, and places more obstacles in my path. Linux is not the answer. My most important…
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Buying Canadian without knowing it
When my skin started doing weird things this summer I went to the doctor several times, got two different diagnoses and a variety of different pills and creams. Eventually I decided that it fits the description of eczema, and the usual recommendations for eczema seem to handle it better than the special prescriptions. Controlling stress…
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Work done, for now
The latest courseware is finally DONE and submitted. I’ve been aiming for maximum quality this year, which meant more work and more refined proofreading. My big goal this year is all three parts of the KSTP motto in the top icon: Laugh at your ills, pay your bills, behave yourself. The first part is the…
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I’m simple.
I’m basically a primitive invertebrate with one organ. Good dump = good day. Bad dump = bad day. Always true to some extent, gets truer as I get older.
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MASA
The RFK followers do the exact opposite of ‘make healthy’. They focus ever more intensely on every conceivable disease process. Every molecule and atom makes you unhealthy. One atom of anything is enough to kill you. They are making themselves sick. Exactly the same sin committed by the Trump/Fauci monstrosity in 2020. I understand this…
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Repeated pattern
The latest Post Office podcast tells how the postal investigators solved an allergy testing fraud. Fits nicely into my current situation, trying to fix a bad allergic response! The case began when an alert postman in Hyde Park noticed fishy activities in a commercial mailbox service there. He saw their employees opening lots of letters…
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AI means Artificial Imagination
It’s not Intelligence. Big data has been Intelligent (in the logical sense) for 70 years and gets smarter every day. The LLMs have proven to do a poor job at Intelligence, which makes the rationalists feel superior. Wrong measurement! LLMs are excellent at imagining. Most of what they do is dreamlike, NOT intelligent. Perfect example…
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They knew it all along.
This 1940 Chevy infomercial focused on facts of human nature as described by Professor Laird (who certainly looked like a prof!) Anxiety and tension come from three main causes: Noise or anticipating noise; fear of losing control; and a sense of being confined or trapped. All are natural and necessary. Prof Laird also gave the…
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Work done.
Finished the current edition of courseware this morning, pending some checks and testing. I’ve been adding more value and beauty when possible, partly inspired by medieval history reading. The previous edition of this book was sort of rushed and hasty, with too many shortcuts. In a nap after finishing, the dream-scripter rewarded me with a…
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Red and black in daily life
The oldest principle in the ceremonial side of life is Say the black, do the red. Poets, politicians, priests, and publicists followed this rule. Churches formalized it with a series of actions (red) to be performed by the priest and the people, with standard TUNES (black) accompanying each action. Mainline churches and megachurches have abandoned…
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Nulling the balance
After midnight last Thursday I was in the living room screwing around with courseware. Suddenly I heard a scary noise CLOSE to the window, something like sliding and squeaking. It lasted for two minutes. It couldn’t have been an animal, but it didn’t make sense. After daylight I went out to look, and found that…
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Not so weird
This morning’s dream was super-weird. I let the dog out through the kitchen door, then realized he was going out to play with his friend. His friend was a big-eyed lemur with an aluminum-foil patch over one big eye. I noticed the patch was wearing out so I got out the aluminum foil and started…
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Universal facts
One of the AFL-CIO booster films sympathizes with unionized postal workers. Carriers got up routinely at 4AM to start their sorting before walking the route. The narrator said “Nobody wants to get up at 4AM!” That was the official universal FACT for many decades as seen on TV and books and movies. People got up…
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Brief fashion, random memory
Noticed this article in an old appliance dealer mag. Central vacuum systems were trendy in the 60s, but never widespread. When we lived at the top of the hill in Manhattan, a rich prof built a new house next to ours. He had Euro connections and owned the first Squareback I’d ever seen, brought directly…
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