Have an excellent weekend. See you on Monday.
Friday, November 29, 2024
Salad
This was part of our Thanksgiving dinner and it was outstanding. Here's the recipe.
Entertaining With Beth: Shaved Brussels Sprouts Salad By Beth Le Manach
Journalists
Nationwide Radio: European Federation of Journalists to Stop Posting on X
The European Federation of Journalists, EFJ, says starting January 20, it will discontinue posting content on the Elon Musk-owned social media platform X.
Prat
prat - prăt - noun
1. The buttocks.
2. A person who is incompetent and stupid.
3. A cunning or mischievous trick; a piece of deceit; a fraudulent scheme.
1. The buttocks.
2. A person who is incompetent and stupid.
3. A cunning or mischievous trick; a piece of deceit; a fraudulent scheme.
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Happy Thanksgiving
Have a Happy Thanksgiving, safe travels, and see you on Friday.
Debussy's Clair de lune with Menahem Pressler, piano
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Sequacious
sequacious - sĭ-kwā′shəs - adjective
Highly impressionable or unquestioning, especially in following a leader or embracing an idea.
Highly impressionable or unquestioning, especially in following a leader or embracing an idea.
Monday, November 25, 2024
Costs
Long story short, Trump is inheriting an incredibly strong economy. How long will it be before Trump tanks it a second time, once per each of his four year terms in office.
Adventitious
adventitious - ăd″vĕn-tĭsh′əs - adjective
1. Arising from an external cause or factor; not inherent.
2. Of or belonging to a structure that develops in an unusual place. "adventitious roots."
3. Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.
1. Arising from an external cause or factor; not inherent.
2. Of or belonging to a structure that develops in an unusual place. "adventitious roots."
3. Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.
Beauty, Strangeness, And Charm - Quarks
In particle physics, "beauty," "strangeness," and "charm" are all terms referring to different "flavors" of quarks, which are fundamental building blocks of matter; essentially, they are different types of quarks with distinct properties, with "beauty" associated with the bottom quark, "strangeness" with the strange quark, and "charm" with the charm quark.
Physics: Why are the quarks so named?
The strange got its name from the strange mesons, which when discovered were behaving strangely, with respect to pions, needing a new quantum number because they were generated in pairs ( Lamda K) and the quantum number became the "strange" one.
Einsteinium
Royal Society of Chemistry: Einsteinium
Einsteinium was discovered in the debris of the first thermonuclear explosion which took place on a Pacific atoll, on 1 November 1952. Fall-out material, gathered from a neighbouring atoll, was sent to Berkeley, California, for analysis. There it was examined by Gregory Choppin, Stanley Thompson, Albert Ghiorso, and Bernard Harvey. Within a month they had discovered and identified 200 atoms of a new element, einsteinium, but it was not revealed until 1955.
Anger
Science Alert: Venting Doesn't Reduce Anger, But Something Else Does, Study Shows By Russell McLendon
Effective arousal-reducing activities included slow-flow yoga, mindfulness, progressive muscle relaxation, diaphragmatic breathing, and taking a timeout.
Sunday, November 24, 2024
Friday, November 22, 2024
'Hocus Pocus'
Chad Smith and The Buddy Rich Big Band
Is that the bass player from the old Letterman band?
Is that the bass player from the old Letterman band?
Comment
Since the election, I've been staying clear of the traditional and alternative news, for the most part. I'm no longer watching or posting MSNBC, and definitely not watching Morning Joe. I'm steering clear of Salon, The NY Times, The Washington Post and such. I'm re-configuring this blog, organically. I used to have a pattern that I followed, times of day when I'd post, and a type of order that I pretty much stuck to. I'm searching for an order for this blog at the moment. In time I'll figure it out.
There are several things that I want to focus on. As far as opinions go, I do like John Flannery and Heather Cox Richardson, wise people in my opinion. I'm also interested in posting arts, music, philosophy, science, health, writing tips, comedy, unique human stories, and I will still post about the environment, or rather our changing environment. No matter how disdainfully global warming will be viewed and addressed at the federal level for the rest of this decade, we're still in global warming. We are in it but good.
So I appreciate your support and views. We'll find the hidden diamonds that are all around. We'll figure it out. If there's something you might like to see, let me know.
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Books
Simply reading the synopses of these ten books is an eye opening experience. By the way, synopses is the plural of synopsis, I just learned that too.
Thoughts On Papyrus: 10 Eye-Opening Books About the Death Penalty
Collectors
Pannapictagraphists collect comic books.
Arenophiles collect sand samples from around the world.
Labeorphilists collect beer bottles.
Lotologists collect lottery tickets, both used and unused. (In 2006, reports claimed that retired U.S. Navy diver Dennis Morse had one of the world’s largest lotology collections. It included over 250,000 losing scratch-off tickets.)
Helixophiles collect corkscrews.
Negativity
Reading through a text on Buddhism, I came across these two terms. The terms designate the 'Primary Factors Of Negativity'. Seems relevant to the present. What do you think? The first term is in Sanskrit followed by its translation.
abrikya = lack of conscience
anapatrapya = shamelessness
Sine Qua Non
sine qua non - sĭn″ĭ kwä nŏn′, nōn′, sī″nĭ, kwā - noun
An essential element or condition. An essential or indispensable element, condition, or ingredient. A prerequisite.
An essential element or condition. An essential or indispensable element, condition, or ingredient. A prerequisite.
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Frost
Poet Robert Frost - a poem “begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”
and
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.”
Most
The modern death penalty era began in 1977.
Texas has been responsible for the most executions over recent years by far, with 586 since 1977 as of the end of 2023. The states with the next-highest totals are Oklahoma (123 since 1977), Virginia (113), Florida (105) and Missouri (97). Then-Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam signed legislation abolishing the death penalty in Virginia in 2021, making it the first Southern state to do so. source
Federal
The Trump administration's Department of Justice announced its plans to resume executions for federal crimes in 2019. On July 14, 2020, Daniel Lewis Lee became the first inmate executed by the federal government since 2003. Thirteen federal death row inmates were executed, all under Trump. The last and most recent federal execution was of Dustin Higgs, who was executed on January 16, 2021. On July 1, 2021, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that a moratorium on the federal death penalty was being reinstated. As of March 2024, there were 40 inmates on federal death row. Source
With And Without
Curious how this map in many ways reflects the red state blue state divide.
States with and without the death penalty – 2024
Kakistocracy
kakistocracy /kăk″ĭ-stŏk′rə-sē, kä″kĭ-/ -noun
1. Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.
2. Government by the worst men.
3. Government under the control of a nation's worst or least-qualified citizens.
1. Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.
2. Government by the worst men.
3. Government under the control of a nation's worst or least-qualified citizens.
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Margin
Heather Cox Richardson - "…it turns out that Trump did not win 50% of the vote, and CNN statistician Harry Enten notes that his margin comes in at 44th out of the 51 elections that have been held since 1824. He also had very short coattails—four Democrats won in states Trump carried—and the Republicans have the smallest House majority since there have been 50 states, despite the help their numbers have had from the extreme gerrymandering in states like North Carolina."
Home
There are a significant number of people who are living in customized vans, traveling all over the place, and documenting their exploits. Many post their self made videos of these exploits throughout social media, have huge numbers of followers, and make money on their 'content'. Content is an important word these days. This story is not exactly that, but there is a connection. It's someone living in a small/tiny dwelling and customizing it to suit their aesthetic. I'm curious to know if this trend grows more and gains in acceptance, i.e. becomes normalized. Given the costs of homes in active metropolitan and suburban areas of the country, in my opinion, this is where a large segment of the population is heading.
Good News Network: Man Turns Old Mobile Home into a Log Cabin with Just $13k–and DIY Charm (LOOK) By Andy Corbley
Monday, November 18, 2024
Ambivert
An ambivert is someone who has a personality that falls between the extremes of an introvert and an extrovert. Ambiverts can be outgoing or social introverts, and they often have a flexible pattern of talking and listening. They may enjoy being around people but also need time alone.
Energy
Energy Today: Series 8, Issue 13 The week of November 18, 2024
Currently, fossil fuels—petroleum, natural gas, and coal—account for nearly 83% of total US energy consumption. Renewable sources, including hydropower and nuclear, account for the other 17%. World consumption patterns are nearly identical to the US.
Ukraine
This one is a big concern.
BBC: Kremlin says Biden throwing 'oil on fire' by allowing Ukraine to use US missiles inside Russia
Sunday, November 17, 2024
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Friday, November 15, 2024
'Life In An Instant'
My new solo piano track, just out today, Friday. The picture is a portion of a fire hydrant.
Thursday, November 14, 2024
The Onion - Here’s Why I Decided To Buy ‘InfoWars’ By Bryce P. Tetraeder, Global Tetrahedron CEO
This really happened, The Onion has bought out InfoWars. Read this.
The Onion: Here’s Why I Decided To Buy ‘InfoWars’ By Bryce P. Tetraeder, Global Tetrahedron CEO
He
He By JS
He spent eons motionless,
Lazing on grasses, gazing aimlessly,
His illusory mind wondering through the illusory sky.
His thoughts dissolved into the clouds that roamed the blue,
They were yaks dispersing, wild on a vast plain.
An arson,
He set fires everywhere,
They burned throughout the entire universe.
And the universe glowed,
A furnace of possibilities.
He suffered with every known pain,
Then he suffered through complexities
Of pain upon pain upon pain.
Every inch of his body affected with a variety of pain.
Yet, he guarded the path to sadness.
His confusion, unlimited,
Greater than the size of the multiverse, unimaginable.
Ignorant, an imbecile.
His stupidity amplified
By the reverberations of cowards and fools.
He never moved, he was static,
Frozen in a catatonic state,
Withdrawn from an imperfect reality
That he perceived as terrifying
And impossible.
He befriended vultures, who did his bidding.
They swooped in to devour everything.
Anything of value was taken
And never returned.
He loved everyone and despised it when he didn’t.
He made a practice out of contemplating a universal love.
Then he found peace.
Then he perished while rainbows appeared deep in water,
Reaching out for miles
And fading away over centuries.
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
No Comment
My intention is to stay away from the news. I was checking NPR for some fanciful type of information and stumbled across this tidbit.
NPR: Trump announces he will nominate Rep. Matt Gaetz to be attorney general By Ryan Lucas
Limericks
I wrote these earlier this year.
Sitting in his favorite chair
Practicing guitar to play at the fair
With strings that were new
Fingers flying, music everywhere
In a town by the edge of a bay
A fisherman sat on a new bale of hay
He hated the water and
Now old, he knew he oughta
Live on the land, at last, hurray
He researched, read, and reviewed
New books, a magazine or two
The information was corny,
“Nothing informed me!”
He’s now in a book dilemma stew.
The lawyer presented his case
To a judge who in posthaste,
Said, “what is your evidence,
Be quick, or lose any semblance,
Of my respect and become a disgrace.”
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Heather
Heather Cox Richardson - “All this jockeying comes amid the fact that while Trump is claiming a mandate from his election, in fact the vote was anything but a landslide. While votes are still being counted, Trump seems to have won by fewer than two percentage points in a cycle where incumbents across the globe lost. This appears to be the smallest popular vote margin for a winning candidate since Richard Nixon won in 1968.”
Monday, November 11, 2024
Have An Excellent Monday
Andrew Wyeth 1917 - 2009
Andrew Wyeth said of the picture, "It was me, at a loss-that hand drifting in the air was my free soul, groping".
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