Woodpile #477 hits this out of the park for me this week. An excellent introduction with some great other sites and comments along the same lines. Cannot say it better. See Other Places listed at the left.
This being said, my daily comings and goings are at times distracted by concerns and the nonchalant talking of War III. My senses tell me something is close around the corner and it is not going to be pleasant. Domino effects, too, with so many houses of cards.
Is it coming to my door when the gates open? Is it coming further down the road in other forms? Will the events eat themselves in place and leave us as spectators to figure it out as time passes survivors? More questions here could fill this weeks blog. Hell, I do not know. Probably at best, any Plan A, B will be pushed out early and we will find ourselves living a whole new world with reminiscing of yesteryear and the good old days being story time connection to times gone by. The after may be fraught with much uncertainty.
I want to chuckle at the the missiles failing from NK and when they do get off the pad, they head towards Russia necessitating NK pushing the destruct button. America is their enemy in every way, shape and form, but KJ-u seems smart enough not to piss off the Russians. I must remind myself as I smirk, that who knows what the real truth is and not to be so quick to jump to conclusions or leap through windows at false flags. (I see this morning news that NK did have a successful launch that impacted close to Russia).
We baby boomers were well-schooled in Duck and Cover. (Dress Rehearsal for Armageddon) has a great gif. of what D&C looked like then). I remember in grade school, along with my classmates, getting under our desks from time to time doing this drill. It made everyone feel better, but to no end. We would return to our little art projects afterwards, snacking on the white glue paste we were using to make our Mother's Day cards.
In fact, all these nuclear war threats are now a part of our old people DNA and have become mostly a no never mind. I have no memory of teachers or adults going crazy/hysterical during discussions or school drills. I remember it all just being matter of fact. We were as prepared then as we are today. We, being da peoples. A current warning example. Anonymous Warns 5-6-17
There a lot of other warnings, on various sites, that are not quite the video production, but worthy of time reading when we come across them.
Virtues of a Gun Free Society.
A quick important lesson. Park in permanent memory the understanding that it is not "their" guns that are the problem.
We baby boomers were well-schooled in Duck and Cover. (Dress Rehearsal for Armageddon) has a great gif. of what D&C looked like then). I remember in grade school, along with my classmates, getting under our desks from time to time doing this drill. It made everyone feel better, but to no end. We would return to our little art projects afterwards, snacking on the white glue paste we were using to make our Mother's Day cards.
In fact, all these nuclear war threats are now a part of our old people DNA and have become mostly a no never mind. I have no memory of teachers or adults going crazy/hysterical during discussions or school drills. I remember it all just being matter of fact. We were as prepared then as we are today. We, being da peoples. A current warning example. Anonymous Warns 5-6-17
There a lot of other warnings, on various sites, that are not quite the video production, but worthy of time reading when we come across them.
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Virtues of a Gun Free Society.
A quick important lesson. Park in permanent memory the understanding that it is not "their" guns that are the problem.
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Be-careful going by yourself. Maybe a very good time in our history to room with a half dozen folks (like minded) instead of alone.
Ya gotta give the enemy some credit on this one though. Very creative, with little to no risk to them and coming through your local shopping site soon.
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Three minutes of capabilities of this airplane. That it flies at low altitudes and little to no airspeed is a testament to technological advances in aviation.
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Wait long enough and there will a study proving that you are really just fine.
What about talking to the dog, cat, birds and budding vegetables?
What about talking to the dog, cat, birds and budding vegetables?
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Measuring Time
Honestly, I got lost measuring my giraffe and you measuring yours.
One thing for sure, time goes faster as you get older. Explain that to me w/o using giraffes though.
Honestly, I got lost measuring my giraffe and you measuring yours.
One thing for sure, time goes faster as you get older. Explain that to me w/o using giraffes though.
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Three minutes of wonderful space travel and photography. Turn up the sound a little.
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TIMES GONE BY
I was privy to a private conversation between old people; my peeps, a few days ago. I was walking the isles at our local grocery store and two old couples had picked a corner of an isle, blocking access and oblivious to their surroundings. One older gal was telling the other that "they want us to all check in now using e-mail and on line.....I do not know how to check in on line.....I do not do email.....What ever happened to having meetings like we use to?" She was absolutely dumbfounded that meetings no longer were a way to gather for information sharing.
Bingo. There it was as plain as day; the old gal was living in the new world, not adapting and holding on tighter than I am to days gone by. The husbands were both standing there waiting for marching orders. I wedged my through to the Zesty Italian Dressing. Times gone by.
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CLOSE TO PLANTING
Big rains coming Sunday, Mother's Day. Maybe a couple inches. Grandpa would have given the forecast as "gonna piss like a cow on a flat rock." We would act in accordance with Grandpa's forecast and tidy up places, tools and animals to weather the "storm." And so it was here yesterday, getting the last garden ready in the raised bed that has finally rotted to the point where this is its last season. Garlic going strong and soon to be joined by onions and bush beans. Six beets can be seen in the lower right corner and doing quite well so far.
Her has her flower plan and she was doting over species and locations. At days end we were sore, dirty and happy with our efforts.
The Road to Year Million Homo Sapien 2.0 National Geographic
Series premiers on May 15th.
Going to finish here with this week's blog. If you follow me you know that AI intrigues me to the "nth" degree. I cannot help but enjoy sharing stuff like this.
Maybe because I believe this is one of the paths humanity is already on and it is way too late to turn back. If we do not destroy ourselves in the process, stretching the human experience into immortality and eventually replicating into machine is not that much of stretch of the imagination. What any of this will actually look like is anyone's guess, but the technology will exist. And yep, it ought to scare the hell out of human kind.
Maybe because I believe this is one of the paths humanity is already on and it is way too late to turn back. If we do not destroy ourselves in the process, stretching the human experience into immortality and eventually replicating into machine is not that much of stretch of the imagination. What any of this will actually look like is anyone's guess, but the technology will exist. And yep, it ought to scare the hell out of human kind.
Regardless, consider this series, record it and give it a go. If you enjoy Science Fiction, this could be right up your street.
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Stay safe and have a wonderful week.
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