Bi Polar People

Landing approach

T' is for Turkey not for Trump.  Ok, there is a lot of similarities.  Egret:   Where are you spending Thanksgiving?  Buzzard:   With family. 

A fish kill in the backyard pond caused by a sudden drop in temperature invites birds both big and small to feast.  At first, it was a marvelous sight, but the stench is something only nature could cope with.

“I recognized in myself a long time ago that I don’t instill fear in anybody , ” Hanks said. “Now, that’s different than being nice, you know? I think I have a cache of mystery. But it’s not one of malevolence.”Credit...Daniel Dorsa for The New York Times Each man makes himself the person he would be when his body and mind become one.  Yes, the body we are arranged with is a crapshoot.  The mind will or will not approve and the outcome will be one of a fairy tale or a criminal disaster with the majority of us falling somewhere in between.  This is a reblog from a New York Times article.  The comment above is my own.

Walking is only half the battle  Forgetting how you got there is the other half

Technology is what makes life possible to an extent or a living hell in the hands of those with an agenda who have no vision of the consequences.    Personal opinion 

Lolita came from a chic to the fifty-year-old you see here  Since her sex has never been confirmed her name could be Sam as well  She is a yellow nape Amazon parrot with beautiful green feathers  Her best quality is her ability to associate sounds  The hidden rumble of peanuts will alert her to food  Lolita is smart    persistent  and very loud   Ask any of my neighbors

Actually, I am large, but when it comes to art I like the 32-bit program that should be updated to 64 bit  That program is Bryce  Here is an early vision that was easy to reproduce  It's all in the interface  This site may have a 64 bit version  I have not tried to install the program yet  Links to vendors are not recommendations Treat as all untested sites Apologies  I didn't know this was a Russian language version - It may be worth the effort to work with it

Got Wheel  Modes of transportation evolve successfully or become an interesting past time.  The destination is not where you go but how you got there.

Once there was a pier here Now fishers wade in water Rocks and beams are all that’s left The fish still look for slaughter

Steve Jobs, the inventor of the iPad did not allow his children to become dependent on technology - no phones at the dinner table, etc..  I made a living understanding the operating systems of an array of different computers and found myself engulfed with the idea that they would improve my life.  What they did was provide me with a way to support my family while losing them to the hours required to acquire skills.   The antithesis of technology is its contrived derivation: tech no logy - technical without logic.  That's right the computer is just a machine without emotions and the inability to draw on conclusions without the use of the man-made sophisticated algorithms. The human brain is your first computer.  For serious work and other essentials like spell checking, use a machine.  It has its place but certainly not at the dinner table and probably not even to tell the world your daughter cut her first tooth. 

  "Whether we call it gut feelings, a 'sixth sense,' or something else, we have all experienced intuition at one time or another. Of course, gut feelings are often wrong (how many times during aircraft turbulence have you been sure your plane was going down?), but they do seem to be right much of the time. Psychologists note that people subconsciously pick up information about the world around us, leading us to seemingly sense or know information without knowing exactly how or why we know it. But cases of intuition are difficult to prove or study, and psychology may only be part of the answer." He does things his way.  So did Fidel Castro and Joseph Stalin to name a few. The only difference is that the United States is a Democratic Republic, whereas the others were dictatorships.  source article   www.livescience.com  photo-internet

X-37B  Autonomous reusable spacecraft launched from the Falcon 9 rocket or other platforms as required.  Capable of extended orbits, science experiments and payload deployments.    We are in the Wright Brothers period of space flight.  Propulsion and purpose remain the visions and challenges for future NASA flights.  Before we can expect to expand the reaches of this planet, we must conquer earth's challenges.  Advancement at home and in space are all based on the same accomplishments.  Boeing T-X at 2019 Paris Air Show the maned version of the above. Source  Boeing corp., NASA

source   text Philip Gardiner   " Gnosis: The Secrets of Solomon's Temple Revealed "  graphic artist unknown

Senseless Opened Paradise The church of Scientology has progressively populated downtown Clearwater in the past two years.  They offer two, up to four times the value of a commercial property and leave it vacant to ensure privacy and to keep outsiders away.  This invasive organization is at odds with the city council and its reputation keeps other businesses from locating in Downtown Clearwater. senseless opened paradise is a Russian music link this is a reblog of a Tampa Times (tampabay.com) newspaper article Tracey McManus Scientology, Pinellas County, and Clearwater Reporter

29 million babies born into conflict in 2018   UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to protect the rights of every child. UNICEF has spent 70 years working to improve the lives of children and their families. Source  unicef.org

We kill ourselves expecting recognition or remuneration for our efforts. Some continue going forward when they are absolutely wrong and the balance quit before a good idea bears fruit. If you must have a judgment from your peers as some do, they may commit a crime, or walk-in space, invent the internet and generally do what a few in their field are able to do.  The rest of us must accept what crumbs the humble life offers and be grateful. God bless the child that's got his own.

This eight-inch floppy disk controls today's minuteman missile - early 90's technology  The people who handle this older technology are younger than the systems that protect our country The vulnerability of pre-90's operating systems can be safer than internet-dependent modern code

Mostly flying above weather and other aircraft for seven thousand miles   This corporate jet provides luxury transportation without the shoulder rub

" Oligarchy rules the United States : the republic has been ransacked, its commonwealth privatised, and rentierism runs amok." Unfortunately all the evidence is in and the facts are true - America is in the hands of the few and the many pay dearly for what is left.  Will a change in government make a difference?   Source article   theguardian.com Or, Lets Face the Music and Dance Music video by Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra performing Let's Face The Music And Dance (Audio). © 2019 Universal Music Operations Limited  

is a loose collection of items that interest me  If you find them worth the time to take a peek then I welcome you  This is a picture from the past  The words and scene have changed and so have we Never to return  Never to know what we live with today

Retirement is just another word for nothing left to lose  So you hang on to your health the best you can  Conversations with peers are full of medical anecdotes  That hobby may turn into a job  You parcel out your time to those who can use it  Overall watching television is not a life  This article from National Public Radio is a positive look at living without retirement  living with purpose NPR

Who would that be

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson

Worlds' Fairs prompted the theme parks we enjoy today Jessie Tarbox Beals / Missouri Historical Society Alan Taylor   Sep 9, 2019  42 Photos  In Focus  www.theatlantic.com

An American Tradition NYtimes.com

Night on the townhouses overlooking a golf course in Seminole Florida on Friday the 13th.  If you're still around in thirty years you'll see this same moon on this same date.  Photo  self

Sleeping Eyes will stop for you Know cars   This one is four years old 

A repost of early 20th-century life in America.  Henry Ford documented everything that moved with the new motion picture camera.  Mechanization was just beginning to be a part of everyday life.   Source US National Archives

They know how to grow food.  So do we (us) .

Could it be a fractal, an expensive work of art or something found in the back of a refrigerator?  None of these.  Slime molds are able to select direction, maintain themselves by rejecting what is not beneficial and reshape themselves. They behave as though they have intelligence .  Article source Quanta Magazine

Depression is something you live with, not by choice, an uninvited guest who visits unannounced and makes you wish you were dead!  Be it chemical, or social, self imposed or impossible to ignore, it lingers on with no permanent cure.  Suicide is not a cure it is a way out with a high price.  Think of going to a theater and watching a performance you think a waste of  your time.  You leave before it is finished.  Have you not missed anything? Was it worth staying for?  I watched The Last Picture Show when it appeared in theaters in 1971.  I was so disillusioned with the movie I left, then came back, and I was glad I returned.  The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards.  I was looking at a slice of life I felt uncomfortable with.  Real life, the one you live everyday, is no different. If you leave before the end you might miss something terrific. 

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Cavuto of Fox News corrects President Trump

by http://www.samspratt.com/

"The first practical design of a submarine-based launch platform was developed by the Germans near the end of World War II involving a launch tube which contained a V-2 ballistic missile variant and was towed behind a submarine, known by the code-name Prüfstand XII. The war ended before it could be tested, but the engineers who had worked on it went on to work for the United States and for the Soviet Union on their SLBM programs. These and other early SLBM systems required vessels to be surfaced when they fired missiles, but launch systems eventually were adapted to allow underwater launching in the 1950-1960s. A converted Project 611 (Zulu-IV class) submarine launched the world's first SLBM, an R-11FM (SS-N-1 Scud-A, naval variant of the SS-1 Scud) on 16 September 1955.[1] Five additional Project V611 and AV611 (Zulu-V class) Submarines became the world's first operational ballistic missile submarines (SSBs) with two R-11FM missiles each, entering service in 1956–57...

Nuclear propulsion was first tested in the 50's as a means to land men on Mars.  The nuclear propellant is twice as efficient as chemical propellent. Source   US National Archives

A re-post from a fond past - image is a reflection in a store window

I made a friend today. We acted garish, strange and gay. What was on our minds, so foolishly sublime? I can't tell you! What I do know is is this: I want to share those feelings grand again. Invite my soul, sins and all. Let's make company no need to call. We'll jiggle, juggle, giggle and cry, Share stories, lips and lies. And always be friends as the crow flies. St,. Petersburg Florida 1999.   The word gay in this poem uses the traditional meaning of happy.

The future of above ground travel  or just a colorful picture Render Software  Bryce

Looking for a home in the heart of the country

An individual viewpoint leads one to suspect individual interest   Who are these leaders  Article source    www.huffpost.com

My first born child was two weeks old when I was asked by a friend to go to Woodstock   I didn't think it was a good time for me   It was definitely a good time for over four hundred thousand who did make the historic concert Source   www.pbs.org

Is whatever you can imagine  but mostly more than you can anticipate

Ransomware works because people pay for what they already own.  There are alternatives that can retrieve your data, but there are no guarantees.  This site may be the beginning of your data recovery.   The best strategy is to keep at least three backups of your data on removable drives. Source https://www.nomoreransom.org

President Trump  Credit  Samuel Corum for The New York Times  photo edited "We need someone who could stand up, look the president in the eye and say: “Enough, sir. We’ve had enough of your indecency. We’ve had enough of your lies, your bullying, your cruelty, enough of your insults, your daily drama, your incitement, enough of the danger you place this country in every single day. We don’t want any of this anymore, and the country certainly can’t stand four more years of it.”" When we stop objecting to the outrage of political power then we become the consequence of that agenda.  I am an American and do not align my self with the values of those who would profit for profit's sake.  Source  nytimes.com   By Joe Walsh   Mr. Walsh is a former Republican member of Congress from Illinois.

When I was a child a toy like the one in this movie would have been the stuff of science fiction.  In the hands of someone with curisosity this little drone will give a new view to the world we live in.

Vladimir Putin is encouraging Russian citizens to drive motorbikes instead of cars and thus reduce the effect of US Oil Sanctions.   Of course this is not a fact, but the real story can be found here .  Leaders of countries will do anything to remain at the center of world attention.  Why don't they spend their energy solving social and economic problems rather than drawing attention to themselves?  This proposition is very difficult for autocrats who do not tolerate any kind of opposition.  Source  https://news.yahoo.com