this is work in progress or homilies or miscellaneous items

that don’t warrant a page by themselves

or seem to fit better here

pending poems  index

chronological order is from the bottom to the top of  the page

audio files can be complemented by listening to them with the eyes closed

marylin munroe, amplified female

no wonder she was so vulnerable and unliveable

i think that is what her appeal was, in effect an unusual genetic "magnification"

waiting for god

or an angel at least

i don't think i want a devil

but for any evidence of the supernatural

i would be grateful

so good versus bad is not a trifling cypher

and living not just the turning wheels of dispassion

however

this is the perspective

i best relate to

thumb arthritis  exercises

huh, the japanese WW2 greater east asia co-prosperity sphere had its origins in "the  empresa  de china"

no wonder the ming dynasty was so hostile to foreign influence !

the tambopata river of the eponymous  national reserve  in the peruvian amazon

the lens was worth the money

“ The ripening of bell peppers involves  the breakdown of chlorophyll  and the accumulation of carotenoids, including provitamin A

This transformation is not just visual   —   it marks a metabolic shift from energy production via photosynthesis to antioxidant accumulation via pigment synthesis ”

i became interested in this question because when i buy vegetables i often will put them in the sun  (overcast and damp weather is best  —  i keep them wet but let them dry before putting away)  for a while to refresh their nutritional value since the green chlorophyll is still active and i wondered if this would also apply to colours, but from the above research i don’t think there is much or any  benefit

a tyrolian choir steps through  the registers

i wonder if before the anschluss we would have seen some jews in the choir ?

my experience is a lot of "self reporting" on health matters on the net is total misinformation or confusion

humans just do not think straight about health problems and solutions, so much you have to work out for yourself

NAC has a chelation-like action which can mobilise heavy metals in a negative way, ALA is a more extreme example of this, contrary to what its proponents declare, chelation is damaging

taurine would be the gentlest sulfur supplement

i would hope in this day and age, no-one is getting mercury amalgam fillings put in anymore

personally, with a few exceptions, i haven’t been at all impressed by the american liberal arts phds i have come across

hardly surprising when you can teach yourself better on the web than through conventional academia with their opinionated blinkering

there is nothing quite as strange

as getting old

the past i am

clashing so discordantly

with

the new

generations

who can’t grasp

the depth

of

the

dissimilarity

there is nothing quite as strange

as getting old

the past i am

clashing so discordantly

with

the new

the problem with  (real)  kefir is its a yeast/bacteria brew and makes polysaccharide structures within it, the uncontrolled nature of the yeast and bacteria make it extremely problematic

the supermarket kefir is much more like yogurt

"activa" contains bifidobacterium which i also don’t like

the view  from the top of mount everest

my interest in everest must come from sir edmund hillary’s house always being in view from the boarding school i was at, on a height just across a valley, we were taught he was a demigod !

100 miles of  sexual hypocrisy

i was wondering what the nuns were doing, but they are altering the dress position so it doesn’t outline the bum

its so off the wall i did try and identify if it was AI, but i don’t think it is, the same leg colouring is a bit suss, but they could be wearing skin toned stockings, yeah, i think its real

the language is vietnamese and vietnam has always had a strong catholic presence

newspaper

opinion pieces

on the net

new lows

of

idiocy

ed.  why newspapers and media outlets pay for these "low information" types to waste screen space is beyond me, they do nothing but propagandize their own sub-cultural values, in effect a very expensive political subsidy by the publisher

what doomed carthage was rome’s supremacy on the seas, in fact hannibal’s lauded crossing of the alps and victorious battle of cannae were strategically wrong minded, carthage would have been far better to put their resources into regaining their ability to defeat rome on the water and let the mediterranean be their "moat"

brilliant generals do make necessarily make good strategists, in fact to have both skills is rare, julius caesar is one of the few examples of that dual skill set and now i think about it, the mongol rulers in their heyday

charles the XIII of sweden was an almost unbeatable general, but totally unable/unwilling to see the overall geo-political picture and in that sense became a european pest

real life p.g. wodehouse

the rector of stiffkey

the light of multiplicity

is not a unitary orb

the light of multiplicity

not

a unitary orb

the sun

its fires

split into multiplicity

only through this

are they seen

julian of norwich

love is not a monolith of god

rather

what has no explanation

is the monolith

the fact of writing is it is a slowly developing skill over a lifetime

a face seen

in the crowd of memories

one

of

a

few

julian of norwich

love itself  is the meaning

we rise and fall

initially in life

and then finally in death

cycles in cycles

but then

when all spins apart

we

rest

Longer wavelengths in sunlight pass through the human body and have a systemic impact which  improves vision

video

i have a wood heater that needs constant refilling and stoking, so i am exposed to a lot of these longer wavelengths and i swear my vision has been getting better, clearer, a better sense of space, improved contrast and colour and good long distance

i am not suggesting you look directly into fires and infrared can damage the cornea, retina and lens, remember, sight is precious, so be ultra cautious and i would include attention to eyelids as part of that caution

if i have a migraine, i find the heat from the transparent ceramic window  (they are not glass !)  helpful on my face and use a pair of dark tanning goggles to provide eye protection

same to dry hair after washing it

photobiomodulation  is a coming thing

so many

explanations

without

substance

now

being

the

norm

on

the

net

so many

explanations

without

substance

now

being

the

norm

there’s a lot of freedom in being a committed tee-totaller, it gives an ironic disposition as you watch others destroy their brain cells and contribute to their early dementia and for what ?

the so called pleasures of inebriation ?

what sort of a world is this ?

life never looks the same, i can tell you : o )

hilarious, one of those rare occasions when a camera was wished for, i was driving to town and in a paddock close to a bridge over a river was a resting brown nanny goat with a big black stripe along the spine, peacefully chewing its cud surrounded in a complete circle by about 28 "little egrets" glaringly white in the sun and even one standing on the nanny’s back

i have always been prejudiced against airbags, but they  do work

AI knows about AI

chat gpt on "diffusion models"

“ Diffusion models are a type of generative AI model that creates new data samples by learning to reverse a process that gradually adds noise to an initial data point.  They work by first progressively adding Gaussian noise to training data, effectively destroying the original data structure.  Then, they learn to reverse this process, gradually denoising a starting point  (often pure noise)  to generate new, high-quality data samples ”

in other words its modelling the noise so it can improve the signal to noise ratio, there’s nothing new about this except its application to neural networks

why the monarchy is essential to the functioning of the political system you could roughly call "the english constitutional monarchy" is because you need to provide an ongoing emotional connection to the government which by its nature, in a personal sense is transitory

what it prevents is the other extreme which is "presidents for life" and the disasters that entail

the english system neatly solves what you see in places like russia, belarus or china ,  an entrenched power clique that acts only in its own and not the countries best interests

imo russia becoming a constitutional monarchy was a possibility after the break up of the soviet union, unfortunately the closest living romanovs were on the verge of being what you would call "disturbed"

yeltsin i think was moving a bit in that direction, but of course his alcoholism and health problems doomed russia to putin

“ Anyways, I’ve lived largely in vain and wasted almost 40 years. What does it mean not to ? ”

are these terms and even the base conceptualisation meaning anything at all ?

vocal music sung by  ekaterina shelehova

"ordinary mind" itself is an artificiality/cliché

a phrase to hate

“ out of an abundance of caution ”

i think it means "we might now do something we should have done in the first place"

why it jars as a phrase is the contradiction between abundance and caution, the nature of caution precludes there being an abundance of it, at least if it is to remain functional

the passions of bonding

something needs to be built

before it falls apart

what worked for my acne was 40% hydrogen peroxide, just be cautious, only do small areas and keep the vapour away from the eyes  (this applies to iodine tincture as well)

wipe down the area with alcohol first, or even put iodine tincture on the day or a couple of days before the HP

just remember these are poisons and hydrogen peroxide looks like sparkling water

word games

nets of meaning

webs

that catch

the unwary

galaxies of association

then

more galaxies

then

universes

and

it

still

doesn’t

stop

women

what they feel

will happen

will

happen

henry miller on not getting  too far ahead  of yourself

los angeles now has areas that are like something out of  mad max

i was just thinking how different it was for the poet  charles bukowski  back in the 1970s/80s when he lived the life of a genial drunk there

besotted

be  —  a  —  sot

anne sexton

a man could not be that type of insane

that drag me down everything ruinous with me

and then

to end it all

on

such

a

cold

plate

i think a lot of accidents from a height or speed occur because the equation for kinetic energy is not understood, a doubling of the height or speed is four times the energy, not twice

kinetic energy (joules)   =   ½ the mass times the velocity squared

in zen you get a lot of "stories" where a monk asks a "master" a question and the master gives at the least a highly ambiguous or apparently nonsensical answer and i think, philosophically this translates to saying the question is not "well formed"

the stumbling block of philological loss in these recitations however makes them doomed to problems of formation both in answers and questions

but this is religion all over, this sort of inconsequential informational nightmare carried down through the ages as though it means something, you get it in state propaganda as well as various cultural absurdities

what ceases

does it cease ?

we cease

what arises

did it ask to arise ?

and

cease

this ceaseless ariseless churning

we

have

no

voice

in

ed. cease/ ceaseless arise/ ariseless can be permuted to create different versions of the "poem", and other words too, so in turing terms it doesn’t halt semantically though the combinations are finite, it is in effect, computationally infinite

what ceases

does it cease ?

we cease

what arises

did it ask to arise ?

and

cease

this ceaseless arising churning

we

have

no

voice

in

the web

unhinged

so many spiels of entirely unreal speculation

recent research is showing that the adult brain still can create neurons  (neurogenesis)  and this facility varies widely from individual to individual and explains why people differ so greatly in their ability to recover from strokes or learn and integrate new material

i am sure you have met people who are as rigid as inscribed headstones and others who conversely can adapt and move intellectually with what you are saying, these differences at their core have this physiological basis

roger penrose still going strong at 93 is a positive, indeed, somewhat unbelievable example of this

interestingly, those with higher levels of neurogenesis may be more susceptible to epilepsy

we must know, we will know

the above quote is by the famous mathematician, david hilbert who greatly contributed to the formalization of mathematics

my reply

i don’t know and never will

i think the problems with the mRNA covid vaccines masking cancer in the body from our own immune systems is not trivial, an ex-neighbour of mine now has terminal bone cancer from many years of being on cortisol (an immunosuppressive), a known problem with the drug, so the body’s own cancer detection and elimination is an important mechanism in our remaining "cancer-free"

you see media reports of very significant increase in cancer rates, but not a word of a portion of that due to the mRNA vaccines

its not just dictatorships that manipulate public opinion through "misinformation", but subcultures in any society

there's nothing like watching a soap or two from a country to understand it, china, turkey and south korea, surprisingly, south korea is the most terrifying with its level of violence, but knowing something about the  imjin wars , perhaps with that history its not so surprising

this of course  is fiction ,  but there is a reality behind it, the most famous samurai, miyamoto mushasi, didn’t actually fight with a sword, but used a wooden staff and killed his opponents by hitting them on the head, a staff was what he trained with as a child

winter

with its yellow light and long shadows

that frighten me

for i think

that is how we go

the shadows enlargen

and eventually

become

all

the great way

is difficult

the usual exponential hyperbole

when

it

is

nothing

at

all

ed.  the first two lines are an inversion of the opening of the "xinxin ming"

dried flowers

still in the vase

once a living bouquet

two seasons ago

dried flowers

still in the vase

once a living bouquet

a season ago

similar and dissimilar

the plot of life

has its holes and traps

which we know

when the smooth synchronicity

is disrupted

in the end

dissimilar wins

what is unlike

fractures

and we

along

with

it

the real and unreal

we prefer the latter

to the detriment of the former

ease to work

its not wrong

just leads to problems

i don’t say

the real

is

right

either

“ Finally, because dialog ”

you mean unsubstantiated opinionated monologue !