"We Be The Humans"
Older Retired White Guy. Buddhist.
"Non nobis solum"
Likes trees better than people. Books better than trees.
"We Be The Humans"
Joined Aug 2018
(In town for a moment to shop)
Thoughts:
What I needed
The rain dripping from a Douglas Fir tree.
Good neighbors, to welcome me home with good food.
The deep forest is not silent, but reverberates with life.
Teens to tell me every detail that I missed.
Solitude
Waking to the chill of the first frost, heating coffee on a wood stove.
Not needing to do anything all day. Yet busy with noticing.
Being disconnected, and deeply connected.
(See you all Sunday)
Link Dump
.
Now 10-7,
Till Sunday
Be well all.
I am still here.
For a hour or so....
Got to pack up the truck,
Then do a store shop, then I am
Out of Here.
4.
Again, I won't be online most of the time.
So I will see you all on Sundays, and Mondays. (the days I am in town).
BTW. We are still keeping strict isolation protocols. All shopping is done one person at a time, and full decontamination done. We actually look forward to this as we now have a large drive in tent. And lots of PPE. The general sense of community has benefited by this.
(Next link and magazine dump 10/25/2020)
Be kind to each other.
"We Be The Humans"
eof
3.
We now have three generators running intermittently, One for the well pump, and refrigeration, and freezers. One for general use, and lighting. One to run 3 inline water heaters, for hot showers, and such. Almost luxury. Gas use is a lot less than I would have assumed. But this is not sustainable, we still are dependent on electrical mains.
The solar panels have been taken off the well and ISP system and are being used for charging and such.
2.
For all the new people, I live way out on the edge of the Willamette National Forest, in central Oregon. The fires were very bad this year. My place escaped the flames, by about 10 miles. Power will be off for quite a while, and we have no idea if we can re-run coax, or fiber, up the hill for internet. Yes satellite is an option, and we are looking into it.
Everyone is healthy and in good sprits. The kids go into town twice a week, to connect.
We have 2 satellite phones, for emergences.
1.
Folks, on a personal note:
After 3 weeks of living in town and working at least 40 hours a week. I am going back home. This means I will be here rarely. As still no power, nor internet at my little neighborhood in the forest. What I am planning to do, is save up all those nice link posts, and when I do get into town dump them all at once. I will still be working two days a week, and will stay in town that one night.
This also means that Magazine day will change from Friday to Sunday.
R.I.P.
Ed Benguiat
typographical legend (1927–2020)
To Watch
(I love this guy, such a New York guy.)
(Socialism, for Big Energy)
With Bankruptcies Mounting, Faltering Oil and Gas Firms Are Leaving a Multi-billion Dollar Cleanup Bill to the Public.
The new report from Carbon Tracker also notes that current bonding monies allocated for well cleanup are equal to roughly only 1 percent of that total expected cost.
NASA to Broadcast OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Collection Activities.
NASA will broadcast coverage of a first for the agency as its Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission attempts to collect a sample of asteroid Bennu on Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 6:12 p.m. EDT.
"We Be The Humans"
boosted
~
In November, @th3j35t3r has a VERY costly bill due which covers the server that enables CoSo to run so smoothly and quickly. It's why there is no limit to the images/gifs/memes we can post.
Also, he pays for the CDN which caches CoSo in cities all over the world so we get the fastest access to our online home wherever we are.
He provides this place, protects us all, but pays a lot on his own.
*IF* you can help, please do--now, especially.
Go PRO ($5/mo), Patreon, or Donorbox 💛
The trouble with standards, is well, standards.
Which is why I laughed aloud and then wept a little when I happened upon this nugget today: Oct 14 is World Standards Day, according to the IEC, ISO and ITU.
https://gmb.21×2.net/archive/202010/14202230.html
But not according to ANSI, which observes World Standards Week, Oct 19-23, along with NIST.
(Two books on Machiavelli)
Whatever It Takes
By Tim Parks
You won’t find anyone shrewd enough to adapt his character like this, in part because you can’t alter your natural bias and in part because, if a person has always been successful with a particular approach, he won’t easily be persuaded to drop it.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/10/22/machiavelli-whatever-it-takes/
Books
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50383899-machiavelli?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=hz6HVxUAUW&rank=1
and
A review of:
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
by Natalie Haynes
Ancient Misogyny
The writer and broadcaster rescues the reputation of the women demonized in classical literature in this erudite and funny study.
By Stephanie Merritt
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/13/pandoras-jar-by-natalie-haynes-review-ancient-misogyny
Book:
To Watch:
Learn The Language Of Power By Ha-Joon Chang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_wus-lnQls
More:
This contraption uses two HD monitors, a Nikon DSLR camera and a sheet of beam splitter glass to produce video feedback and fractals in real-time. You'll see naturally occurring Sierpiński triangles, and patterns and shapes found in nature.
This is part performance art, part kinetic sculpture. In this video you see me operating the device, and the images that are created by it.
http://lightherder.blogspot.com/2020/06/this-contraption-uses-two-hd-monitors.html
The $16-Trillion Virus.
By Jonathan Shaw
CoV-2 “is the greatest threat to prosperity and well-being the U.S. has encountered since the Great Depression.”
I don't know what this means....
but it might be good news.
Total early votes recorded by states on Sunday morning 16 days prior to the 2016 election: 5.9 million.
Total early votes recorded by states on Sunday morning 16 days prior to the 2020 election: 27.6 million.
To watch:
Aaron Benanav, Tim Barker, and Katrina Forrester in conversation
A discussion of AUTOMATION AND THE FUTURE OF WORK, co-hosted by n+1, Phenomenal World, and Dissent Magazine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5l7uH002ac&feature=emb_logo
"We Be The Humans"
Older Retired White Guy. Buddhist.
"Non nobis solum"
Likes trees better than people. Books better than trees.
"We Be The Humans"
Joined Aug 2018