| As a reminder.... |
[May. 20th, 2012|11:16 pm] |
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===Walking the Thresholds is coming up. If you are attending, you really want to let me know. (grins) |
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| Walking The Thresholds! |
[Apr. 13th, 2012|10:04 am] |
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===Yes, it is still happening, and the page has been updated. Currently working on workshop schedule, in the midst of my own farm projects and work. Let me know if you are attending! (JUNE 7-10, 2012) |
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| Questions that pop up in my mind... |
[Apr. 10th, 2012|12:27 pm] |
===On my phone, so no link to show you the trigger for this one....
===A Harvard study looks to have pretty much nailed Colony Collapse Dissorder on bees. It is a pesticide, which has been used on corn since about 2004.
===The delivery variable that was confusing things? High Fructose Corn Syrup. Beekeepers have been using this more and more to feed their bees while transporting them. (Not touching right now the aspect of low-grade HFCS also having Mercury...)
===So, hives fed this stuff got low doses of a neutotoxin....and it looks like the timing between when they started using this pesticide, the making of the HFCS, and colony collapse disorder is right.
===makes one wonder if anything else started occurring more often, or diagnosed more often, in countries using HFCS? |
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 3rd, 2012|07:15 am] |
===![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) peristaltor Just put up an excellent essay that ties together some stuff I have known about (but I had not seen the later brain-scan study, that is FASCINATING, but makes a lot of sense to me) The thing that most grabs my attention in this is the parts of the brain that go active to deal with the dissonance. (grins)
===One factor I would add in is that most "liberals" tend to fall into a cognitive trap that social parasites grab onto and use to great effect: they want to be "fair". So, when they walk into a situation that has someone upset about being manipulated, and the manipulator saying they are just being misunderstood....they will try to take the "fair" mindset, and overbalance. In trying to be "fair", they treat the sources of information equally. The assumption is good faith and that everyone is trying to get to the best solution. The problem? One side things the best solution is a zero-sum game. The "mediator" is a tool of the side that wants it to be a zero-sum game unless they call them on it.
===It should be noted that I consider a lot of what the "right wing conservative" is doing as much more of a social parasite modality. They want to open up the rights of parasites everywhere, rather than work towards actually trying to make the ecology so there is less drag on resources. They want to optimise their feed. |
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| State of the day.. |
[Mar. 8th, 2012|06:56 am] |
===I am drinking coffee and practicing on the dulcimer while enjoying the spring morning winds..not a bad way to start the day.
===A few things need fine tuning, but overall? Life is good. |
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| Against Big Bird, The Gods Themselves Contend In Vain |
[Mar. 2nd, 2012|09:10 am] |
===Ok, this is excellent..I actually do remember seeing this one, I am pretty sure. (grins)
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Originally posted by scott_lynch at Against Big Bird, The Gods Themselves Contend In VainI was a hard-core Sesame Street viewer from about 1979 to 1984, and my memories of the show are the sort of deep nostalgic tangle you'd expect, with a great deal of idiosyncratic noise blended into the signal. So, for many years, I carried around a vague but emotionally vivid recollection of a Sesame Street episode in which Big Bird and Snuffleupagus had witnessed the the passage of a soul to the ancient Egyptian afterlife, complete with the weighing of the human heart against a feather. I shit you not. For all those years, I just assumed that I was nuts, or that I was conflating a memory of a childhood dream with a childhood television experience. Not long ago, I was trading Sesame Street memories with that girl I like, and I determined to Google-fu my way to the truth. In the 1983 special Don't Eat the Pictures, assorted humans and Muppets are stuck overnight in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. While Oscar, Bob, Cookie Monster, Olivia, and some small children are having the sort of mild and educational adventures you'd expect, Big Bird and Snuffy meet Sahu, a 4,000-year-old Egyptian prince (!) condemned to wander eternally in spirit form (!!) unless he can answer a riddle posed by a demon (!!!) that appears to him each night at midnight. I am not fucking with you. This really happened.
There's Sahu!
ACTUAL DIALOGUE from Big Bird: "Oh no! The demon's gonna be here any second now!" And here's the appearance of that demon, played by James motherfucking Mason.
( You know you want to keep going past the cut. ) |
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| I put the "Walking" into my path again... |
[Feb. 10th, 2012|12:06 pm] |
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===For the amusement of several; I have done it again. This morning, I dropped Helen's car off to get a new thermostat unit and plugs, to get the gas mileage back up to par. Now,my car is at the house with Helen. She has not driven a manual transmission in years, and I have the keys with me as it is. So...I am at Portals, waiting for readings, and considering my way home this evening as the car will mist likely not be ready. Mithlond is about 8 miles away....hrm........ |
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| Odd thought of the morning... |
[Feb. 5th, 2012|11:30 am] |
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===have the lossy formats (MP3, more current CDs, sadly) made live music more or less desired by folk? On the one hand, the definite loss of quality and range can be heard...however, are folk associating the sound issue as something normal, as something that is how it is all supposed to sound, and thus LESS appreciative of live performance, or will we be seeing more deep sound formats that try to capture more of the sound of live? |
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