Saturday, November 24, 2012

uneasy

off with my hair but where goes my mind; my dreams are uneasy and my scalp itches; the moon is nearly full.
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<div align="justify">Brutal, abs. unbelievably brutal.&nbsp;
Merciless.&nbsp; I am in the oh second week of a recurring dream
where I am trying to finish this last deck, working on various
parts of the railing.&nbsp; If hours of my rem time devoted to
redoing this agonizing work, going back over all the details and
thoughts, uncertainties wasn't bad enough, this morning's had me
tutoring my son, my 2.5 y.o. son how to do this.&nbsp; And I mean
things were just going to pieces all over the place.&nbsp; It was
aweful.<br>
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He's not wearing pajamas any longer, yet he still completely kicks
off his covers, laying there literally naked in the darkness and
this is Colorado wintertime with a window cracked for
freshness.&nbsp; Brutal.&nbsp; Mega doses of Vit. D seem to help
his mood(!) but I'm so scattered I could say(!)&nbsp; He's mega
smart, totally alone, and utterly dependent.<br>
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There are so many things going on with me I decided to try to
write some of it down; really as a writing practice, 20 minutes a
day or<br>
some such.&nbsp; I imagine that that might help, put some
contextual lines over my wild map or whatever and that sounds like
bull shit now at 4 in the morning; I'm talking to my self and
laughing and I live in a community house; I'm in the kitching
crying out for half and half at four in the morning with people
snoozing away five feet above my head.&nbsp; Of course, they live
here too so they're not expecting much I would say.<br>
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Ok, there's 30 minutes.&nbsp; Wish me luck!<br>
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Two more ideas

If you could photosynthecize could you handle being green?

And, is it reasonable to build your own flatbed trailer and tow it with a civic?

This is what I get for getting up before dawn and reading financials.
"hyperinflation mortgage indexing"

Shit. I read live-wire on yahoo.finance for VGZ and he ranted on about this and, well, I'm fairly given to conspiracy theories, rave about the Money Masters, AFTF and Zeitgeist but this idea scares the hell out of me because it'd have to happen if inflation goes hyper; man o man, sell-buy-sell-buy everything-retire-die!

ps - I can't find this idea anywhere else via google...

Thursday, February 7, 2008

An Exercise, Silly cpt it Confirms Literature

A few months back I had experimented with e85/gas ratios ranging from 1/8-1/1 with varying results; basically the mpg ran a little higher to no change at the smaller end to power issues and stalling at the 1/1. I dropped it for the time being but ran out of gas a week ago and decided to use a gallon of ethanol to get to the station where I topped it off with 10 gallons of e85. The pump guarantees a 70% minimum ethanol in the mix, and I met with some interesting/annoying results. Immediately I noticed that equivalent power was to be found at substantially higher rpm, 4200 vs. 2900, and soon thereafter I found that it took two to three starts on cold mornings to get it to stick. Additionally, I found that after the engine warmed, a little higher than normal, the system has serious power issues based on how much I was pushing and at what rpm; basically, an acceleration of no more than ~2miles/hr/s could be got below 4000 rpm and a persistent chugging/shaking of the whole vehicle could be temporarily remedied by an in-transit shutdown/clutch pop without pedal depression to high rpm (popping it in 3rd gear at 65 mph without pressing the gas pedal) or by stopping and shutting down for 5-15 minutes. My cousin hypothesized I needed more air, via a cold-air intake, one house mate thought I needed more fuel and should replace the fuel filter, another said I needed more compression and that the higher rpm performance showed this. Personally, I am thinking that it seemed like engine flooding/incomplete combustion since the engine definitely had more power and less chugging at higher rpm.

After my first experiences of power loss etc. I thought to put a couple of gallons of 91 octane gas in to see if that made difference, which it didn't. I included this in the mpg calculation, 379.4 miles/(11 gal. e85 + 2 gal 91O) = 29 mpg, a 22% decrease from my usual 37 mpg. This is consistent with the ~29% lower energy density of e85 vs. gas (http://www.epa.gov/air/caaac/mstrs/2006_10_dunham.pdf). At $2.14/gal and $2.850/gal for the e85/91 octane mix and regular gas respectively, 0.074$/mile vs. 0.077$/mile. Whatever the case, normal operation was restored after refilling with reg. unleaded.

Thursday, January 31, 2008

VLC Automated Net Stream

I managed three hours of dreamland (deep sleep actually/probably) and I slept for a ~hour.75 nap that evening and crashed again just after midnight. I wanted to continue this sort-of ubermensh sleep system and I'd been using windows task scheduler to automate a playlist for my alarm. But I heard some days before a collegue listening to npr in the middle of the day when the local station is usually blasting yuppy drivel (you know, Yanni-cheap classical-quick-turn it off kinda CRAP,) so I thought to maybe wakeup to something dreamy, tenuous, long-range faintly connected to the world like bbc early morning report by using the statewide npr net cast.

I found at their page three streams, wmv, mp3, and aac, the latter of which is basically high def audio; nice. It opened befault in vlc, which along with media player classic thoroughly satisfy my every perceptual need, and so I thought perhaps to automate that as my alarm. VLC can be run from the command line with lots of switches, it turns out, and so I made a batch file:

cd "c:\program files\videolan\vlc"
start vlc.exe http://www.*.org/listen/live_newsinfo_aac.pls

and alarmed it via task scheduler. All to no avail, in any case, since I sheduled it for 4:50 PM, it does work just fine otherwise, the aac better sounding than FM. Wake well and good dreams.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Dominionism, Chris Hedges, Bankers, Corporations, and the U.S. Federal Gubbament

20% of American Christians think the 2nd coming's gonna happen within their lifetime (1) or, depending on the poll, 2007 (25%, couldn't' find the original AP/AOL poll; seems it's been taken down...so if you know where lemme know.)

Chris Hedges paints convincingly that sector of modern u.s. Christianity best termed "Dominionist" as genocidal fascism.

But the bankers have control, basically; at best, the rank stupidity of my fellow countrymen simply leaves the money masters freer

If the federal gubbament be the only entity powerful and cohesive enough to possibly restrain the power of transnational corporations but the dominionists seek the limiting of federal power to military matters i.e. crusades, then the dominionists must think to infect every corporation to the end of using them to spread the faith, so to speak.

Since it's fairly clear that the u.s. military industrial complex does what it does for profit, not...faith…

Bankers make money off MICom

Domi’s seek military only federal role

Domi’s seek total genocide

MICom designed for genocide