Humour Yourself

I have friends who embrace social media, sharing every intimate detail of their lives, and those who won’t even own a mobile phone or fly, for fear they’re being tracked.

I don’t fear anything.  Well, not much…the venomous spider hiding in the woodpile on the evening I’m too cold and careless to look while carrying cellulose fuel into the house on a below-freezing day, for instance.

As far as social media goes, I’m of the opinion that I want social media providers to clearly state how my data is used so I sympathise with this guy.

However, I “mine” my friends’ social media information myself, putting their data into the supercomputer for tests and experiments on potential new formulae to apply universally across subculture manipulation subroutines.

In other words, the more social media data I gather, the more I can monitor how social media providers are influencing the same subcultures I’m experimenting with, including employees of the social media providers.

It’s what the Book of the Future showed me – put ideas in employees of companies/governments you want to control and it doesn’t matter what they think they have hidden from you.

Even of feeding my paranoid readers.

Time to feed myself and then turn to nature for some casual observations and perhaps create a new home “movie”.

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Thanks to Mary Vaughn for the lovely organ/piano music on Sunday – the choir she accompanied performed superbly, too.

UPDATE: In a previous post, a sentence should have begun with “To ensure your future existence,”.

One person – you – can make a difference

Apologies to readers looking for the next chapter from the Book of the Future.

Creating a little me time to remember who I am before I’m completely forgotten…

Ever since about age 5, I’ve seen the world from a sarcastic/cynical/satirical perspective, in total awe of those who take their lives so darn seriously.

When I get bored, I analyse myself for entertainment.

The distribution of resources – raw, processed, assembled, manufactured – is never perfectly smooth.

Would you say Jericho was brought down by an earthquake and local tribes, looking to expand, entered the city, claiming manifest destiny rather than eminent domain?

Is it anyone’s fault if resources are instantly available to those who are willing to take full advantage of the situation?

Imagine building an atomic weapon that’s encased inside a wormlike device.

You’re hired to drill oil wells for the local tribe.

To ensure your future, you drill the wells but send atomic worms to the bottom of the well and let them “eat” their way into strategic locations deep underground.

One day, when the local tribe decides it’s had enough of you, it sends you away and takes over the resources for itself.

You remotely trigger an atomic worm to detonate, poisoning the oil and causing earthquakes throughout the region.

Word spreads.

Local tribes don’t interfere with your desire to “share” their tribal oil with you.

The same for water, the elixir of life.

The list goes on and on.

You toucha my resources, I breaka your fingers.

From thermostat redesign to atomic worms, one person, whose thoughts idle, makes a difference.

Or, when elites have immunity from the law of the land, anarchy is not far behind.

Best be invisible and rule the world, nudging the people ever so slightly in order to accomplish goals that take millennia.

The year 3011 is not that far away.

Next goal: 14072 days to go.

Last thought for the day: If I don’t give protection for my local financial institutes to fund my economy, and they fail, will foreign financial institutes take over?  Who’ll be the figurehead leaders, then?  Who will really control the global economy?  And how will I get the resources I need to send life off this planet?  See where this is going, don’t you?  Read about it in the next free chapter from the Book of the Future, written by you every day…

for those who served, willingly or unwillingly…

Applebee’s – free meal, Friday, Nov. 11

There will be 7 entrées to choose from. Military ID or proof of service required. Find locations at http://applebees.com/.

 

Chili’s – free meal, Friday, Nov. 11

Dine-in from limited menu only; beverages and gratuity not included. Veterans and active duty military simply show proof of military service. Visit their website to find locations.

 

Golden Corral – Free meal, Monday Nov. 14

If you are a veteran, retired, currently serving, in the National Guard or Reserves, you are invited to participate in Golden Corral’s Military Appreciation Monday dinner. For more information visit http://www.goldencorral.com/military/.

 

Hooters – Free Meal, Friday, Nov. 11.

Choose one of the new specialty items on the Hooter’s menu. Offer valid at participating Hooters only; open to all active duty and military veterans with valid military ID or proof of military service. Drink purchase required. For more information, visit, www.HootersVeteransDay.com

 

Krispy Kreme – Free doughnut Nov 11

Available only at participating Krispy Kreme stores. Offer available to all active-duty, retirees & veterans on Friday November 11th. Be sure to call ahead to verify your local Krispy Kreme is participating

 

McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurants – free lunch or dinner, Sunday Nov 13, 2011.

Veteran’s Appreciation Event on Sunday, November 13th. Veterans will be able to choose a complimentary lunch or dinner entrée. Be sure to contact your local McCormick & Schmick’s as this is valid at participating restaurants only. Also, Space is limited and reservations are highly recommended. For more information visit: M&S Veterans Appreciation Event.

 

Outback Steakhouse – A week of Free Bloomin’ Onions and Cokes Monday Nov. 7 – Friday Nov. 11.

Outback Steakhouse is offering active duty military and veterans a free Bloomin’ Onion and a Coca-Cola product during the week leading up to Veteran’s Day. For more information, visit, http://outback.com/companyinfo/veteransday.aspx.

 

Subway – Free Six Inch Sub. Nov 11

Select Subway locations offer a FREE six inch sub to military veterans on Veteran’s Day. However, Subway restaurants are franchises, so this offer may not be available everywhere. Please call ahead.

 

Texas Roadhouse – free meal, Friday, Nov. 11.

Offer varies by location; our local Texas Roadhouse is offering a free meal from opening until 4pm. Other locations may vary in offer, hours, or availability. Call ahead to your local restaurant for more information.

 

T.G.I. Friday’s – Buy one get one free Nov 11-14.

At participating locations for anyone with an old or current military ID. November 11-14.

 

Uno Chicago Grill, Friday, Nov. 11.

Uno’s is offering a free entree or individual pizza with a purchase of an entree or pizza of equal or greater value. More info here.

 

Colonial Williamsburg Free Admission.

Colonial Williamsburg offers free weekend-long admission tickets to active-duty military, reservists, retirees, veterans, and their immediate dependents from Friday, Nov. 11 through Sunday, Nov. 13th. The complimentary ticket incudes admission to Colonial Williamsburg exhibition sites, art museums, and most daytime programs, as well as free parking and use of the shuttle bus system. Tickets are only available at on-site ticket sales locations. Tickets are also available to families of deployed servicemembers. Tickets available on the following dates: Nov. 11-13

 

Bed and Breakfast for Vets

B&Bs for Vets has organized over 485 (and counting) participating Bed and Breakfasts and Inns across the US and Canada which will be offering veterans a free night’s stay on November 10th, the night before Veterans Day. For more information visit B&Bs for Vets.

 

Fee Free Day at National Parks

America’s Best Idea ? the national parks ? gets even better with several fee-free days at more than 100 national parks that usually charge entrance fees. Visit one of your national parks on Veterans Day, November 11, 2010, and you won’t be charged an entrance fee. And making the fun even more affordable, many national park concessioners are joining the National Park Service in welcoming visitors with their own special offers

 

Amazon.com – Discount “Veterans Day Honor” MP3 album download. This downloadable album includes 12 songs as performed by the military bands and ensembles of the U.S. Armed Forces. Visit Amazon on Veteran’s Day to download the album.

 

Netflix – One Month Free Trial.

 

Sport Clips – FREE haircut to active-duty military & veterans. Offer only available at select locations. Please call to verify local participation.

 

Tim Hortons – all US locations are offering a free donut to all veterans (check out the Star Spangled donut!).

 

$100 for opening new Chase Freedom VISA.

 

 

The Dol­lar Gen­eral — Vet­er­ans, Ser­vice­mem­bers (Active, Guard, and Reserve), and their imme­di­ate fam­i­lies will receive a 10-percent dis­count with a Vet­er­ans Day coupon. The coupon may be found in store cir­cu­lar ads or by ask­ing a sales asso­ciate.

 

Free car wash for Veterans and active Military on Nov 11

http://graceforvets.org/index.php

 

Free Wedding Gowns for Military  Wives

Starting November 7, retail stores in 25 states will give away a limited number of bridal gowns to qualified military brides for FREE.

The gowns will range from size 4 to 22 and are valued from $500 to $3,000.

Go here to find participating stores’ cities and dates for giveaways.

Veterans can get in free to events–and not just on Veterans Day! Baseball games, concerts, every event you can think of. All tickets are donated then distributed. You can sign up for a free account to get tickets. If you have tickets to an event you aren’t going to use, you can donate them here. Offer through the Veteran Ticket Foundation.

Which do you value most?

Do you value:

  • the creation of a child?
  • the creation of a new breed of cattle/sheep/cat/dog/pig/plant?
  • the issuance of a new patent?

I don’t know much about what’s going on today – people eat, live and die, for all I know.

The Vatican is probably providing more details about putting ethics about into global finance/commerce.

And a friend of mine is excited about receiving word his patent application has been approved.

Meanwhile, I sliced the end of my finger while cutting apart a floor fan to install some Hokey Spokes displays for an upcoming party.

Today is a day of small wonders.

International intrigue takes a back seat to my devoting time to the average guy in me who eats at Shogun Restaurant and gets his hair trimmed at Cuts By Us.

Happiness in simplicity – that’s my longterm goal.

All the other stuff – globalising everything we do so we can more efficiently focus on transporting some of us off this planet – is just idling my time until I can forget about the rest of us and focus on writing about the beautiful, forgetful nothingness of animal and plant life in the ecosystem around me.

In the big picture, we’re forgotten.  Why waste my time pretending I’ll be remembered?

Time for a nap, cook dinner and spend the evening with my wife.

Another congrats to my friend who’s waited 3-1/2 years to get his U.S. patent.  Best wishes to him in creating a profitable market or finding a buyer who’s already staked out potential sales territory and future product enhancements.

The Dear Hunter

While letting my thoughts wander over the words of those angered-up by OWS and other street protests in an article at the Economist website, Rage against the machine, I came across an interesting observation by Der Perfessor:

The major reason why a solution to the Euro crisis is not happening is that the Banks are insisting that ALL their losses on the Euro bonds be repaid by the governments. No haircut at all! In fact, would you believe it, they now want the 450 billion Euro guarantee offered by the EFSC be expanded to, yes , ONE TRILLION EUROS. And they have sufficient sway to prevent a solution to the euro crisis until they get it.

Until the barbarians at the gate find the means to recruit critical masses of unhappy mercenaries to crash the homes/businesses of those in finance who help support “the 1%” – doing real damage a la Gaddafi’s downfall – then life is endlessly the same thing all over again, is it not?  No matter how many bandaids in the form of refinanced mortgages we apply to the leaking aorta of a dying system.

What was it that guy said in “Tuesdays with Morrie,” that those who bankroll the military and police to support their financial lavishness are always the real ones in power, no matter how public they appear?

Who casts the first stone, as they say in my subculture?

Not me.  I know who I am.  I’m as guilty as the next ex-office worker whose fortune was built on a rigged financial system no different than the average Ponzi/pyramid scheme wrapped in an emperour’s new clothing line.  An indoctrinated, brainwashed technogeek who created an organisation so well-entrenched into the current dysfunctional system that it’s no better or worse than the system it purports to overrun.

I keep waiting for my team of hackers and scientists tied to the supercomputer to show me a global socioeconomic system that keeps everyone fat/trim, dumb and happy, but they just keep feeding me one exploitative system after another.

There’s a lesson in here, if I choose to think about it…

Ou est the center of global civilisation?

The fan of the laptop computer starts and stops on this cool-warm morning in late October.

The sanitation crew has driven through, emptying a week’s worth of excess household living.

Dry leaves fall from wintering trees.

How do I account for my life on this first day of the workweek?

Do I justify myself and my thought set?

Do I meditate in silence?

Sweep the front and back decks?

Play with the cats?

Continue progress on electronic LED displays for an upcoming holiday (Arduino or simple transistor/resistor/capacitor/switch control)?

Set the electronic keyboard in the garage and play random musical tone sequences?

Read a book?

Finish my tea, for starters.

Today, I am a caged domestic animal and I’m turning off the thoughts that say that’s not okay.

Tethered to this planet, nothing to vaunt about.

At peace with nothingness.

A break between chapters of the story of life.

Holiday Delivery

It began innocently enough.

Years ago, while our local government experimented by inoculating innocent people with viral material, the forerunner to BONS devised a plan to deliver an unknown substance into the not-yet-fully-grown members of a species.

But how…?

Then, during an emergency message session with early members of MORTIE, it hit us.

Halloween candy!  Of course…

But when…?

Now.

The microorganisms and nanobots have been tested until our test subjects got blue in the face and could no longer breathe…but that’s not important right now.

This year, people across the world will stuff their faces with [non]sugar[free] substances that have been molded and coloured with Halloween themes.

Forthwith, this great nation shall finalise the species interconnection dream of a scientist some claim came from another world.

But as you know, what’s the difference between celestial bodies among friends?

No more relying on our main five senses.

Straight-to-nanobot communication will greatly increase our propaganda productivity.

The illusion of freedom of the individual will be complete.

All the old arguments about racial/genetic inequality won’t matter because we’ll all be equally connected.

What’s the point of mind reading if every one of your thoughts has been written by NBN, this new nanobotnetwork?

Those who’ve argued about the detrimental effects of the MSM (mainstream media) will happily embrace the NBN unknowingly.

In fact, most of you already use cars, mass transit, computers, and mobile phones without blinking an eye in revolt.

So eat your Halloween candy, breathe in the clouds of smoke machines, drink bottled/tap water/soda/beer/wine/liquor, bob for apples, drive/ride to parties, and join your families/friends in the holiday revelry.

In the future, don’t call it the contagion.  Call this period in the transition of our species our destiny with technology.

The more candy you, your friends, and family eat, the more the microorganisms and nanobots become part of you, exhaled when you breathe out, passing into the atmosphere and speeding toward full saturation of Earth.

We need this global expansion of the laboratory experiment in order to start the next phase, seeing if atomic level transformation will allow us to modify our species for space travel.

With seven billion specimens as test subjects, we can pick and choose which genetic mutations ensure our highest survival rate while in-transit between celestial bodies.

Besides, the law of unintended consequences will surely create a few new industries we haven’t thought of yet.

Speaking of which, time to get out the Book of the Future and see which industries it tells us will make the out-of-work, frustrated street protestors happy again.

That’s the one thing we haven’t figured out how to solve with the microorganisms and nanobots we’re integrating into the worldwide populace – emotion control.

We can tell you what makes you happy.  We can create enticements that make you want to seek happiness.  You get to the point where you seek happiness without our prodding.

But we haven’t found a 100% unhappiness cure/antidote.

Our soothsayer on staff keeps trying to tell us that unhappiness is an important part of what makes us alive.

Who’m I to disagree with the soothsayer?

Thanks to John at Pizza Hut; Cheryl at Gibson’s BBQ; Shalyn, Connie, Sam, Darrel and others at Publix; Rave Motion Pictures; Brittany at Target; the staff at Brookdale Place.

Happy Halloween – the gobbling will get you if you don’t watch out! Oh, ho ho, ha ha, he he…

 

Phantom of the guillotine is clearly discerned in many areas of the world’s capitals

Phantom of the guillotine is clearly discerned in many areas of the world’s capitals

Политолог Гейдар Джемаль — о том, почему многие демократически избранные лидеры могут вскоре с горьким сожалением вспомнить «старика Каддафи» Political scientist Heydar Jamal – that is why many democratically elected leaders can be shortly with bitter regret to remember “the old man’s Gaddafi”

Phantom of the guillotine is clearly discerned in many areas of the world's capitalsГейдар Джемаль Heydar Jemal

«Ливийцы, вы не понимаете, что творите! “The Libyans, you do not understand what he was doing! То, что вы сейчас делаете, не соответствует исламским законам» — таковы были последние слова лидера Ливийской Джамахирии, когда его, окровавленного и простреленного в нескольких местах, били рукояткой пистолета по голове молодые люди в среднем не старше половины срока правления того, кто неожиданно попал им в руки. What you are doing now, does not comply with Islamic law “- such were the last words of the leader of Libya, when it’s bloody and shot through in several places, struck on the head with a pistol grip young men on average no more than half of the term of someone who suddenly got into their hands. У некоторых из них ровесниками режима Каддафи, вероятно, были их отцы. Some of them Gaddafi regime peers are likely to be their fathers. Сцены, последовавшие за этим, очень напоминали разгул якобинских масс в начале 90-х XVIII столетия во Франции. The scenes that followed it, much like binge Jacobin masses in the early 90s of the XVIII century France.

Наверняка такая ассоциация приходила в голову «венгерскому графу» Саркози, когда он смотрел, как голое тело человека, с которым он еще недавно обнимался и от кого принимал щедрые подачки на свои выборы, таскают по улицам неукротимые берберы. Surely such an association came to mind, “the Hungarian Count,” Sarkozy, when he watched the naked body of a man with whom he has recently embraced and from whom they received generous handouts for their choices, drag through the streets of indomitable Berbers. «Вот она, сакральная жертвенность лидеров», — вероятно, думал французский президент, поеживаясь и поводя плечиком. “Here it is, sacred sacrifice leaders” – probably thought the French president, shivering and twitching shoulder. И думал так, скорее всего, не он один. And I thought so, most likely, he is not alone. Уличная расправа с последним харизматом мировой политики — это даже не смерть Милошевича в камере и не удавление Саддама по суду, хотя бы и шемякину! Street violence in recent Charismatic world politics – it’s not even Milosevic’s death in a cell and strangling Saddam on trial, even though Shemyakin! Дела в мире пошли такие, что призрак гильотины явственно проглядывает на многих площадях мировых столиц. Business in the world have gone such that the specter of the guillotine clearly shows through in many areas of the world capitals.

Каддафи ушел как мужчина, до конца сопротивляясь тем, кто захватил его в плен. Gaddafi stepped down as a man, until the end of resisting those who took him prisoner. То, что обстоятельства расправы свидетельствуют не в их пользу, подчеркивается сумбурностью и очевидной лживостью разнообразных версий в описании смерти полковника. The fact that the circumstances of the massacre is evidenced not in their favor, and emphasizes the confusion apparent falsity of various versions of the description of the death of Colonel. Особенно красочна деталь насчет канализационной трубы. Especially colorful detail about the sewer line. Все бы ничего, но вот один из повстанцев восклицает: «А он нас крысами называл! Everything would be fine, but here is one of the rebel cries, “He called us rats! А сам-то в трубе…» — и этим испортил хорошую пропагандистскую байку, выдав мучающий большинство антикаддафистов комплекс собственной ничтожности. But he himself something of a pipe … “- and this has spoiled a good propaganda tale, issuing a tantalizing most complex of his own insignificance antikaddafistov. Другой «боец» подробно рассказывал на камеру, как Ливия теперь хорошо заживет после расправы над тираном, и говорил при этом с таким качественным американским акцентом, который не у всякого преподавателя английского языка услышишь. Another “soldier” described in detail at the camera, as Libya is now a well-healed after massacres of a tyrant, and spoke with such a high quality American accent, which does not have any English teacher will hear.

Надежды знатока английского языка на скорый мир после устранения полковника вряд ли сбудутся. Hope an expert in English to a speedy peace after the removal of colonel is unlikely to come true. Слишком разнородны силы, составляющие ливийскую оппозицию. Too diverse forces that make the Libyan opposition. Теперь после исчезновения общего для всех врага явно наступает время выяснить отношения между собой. Now, after the disappearance of the total for all of the enemy clearly it is time to clarify the relationship between them. Ставки очень велики — крошки с приватизированного Западом «стола Каддафи», которые будут бросать представителям «новой власти». The stakes are high – the crumbs from the privatized West “Gaddafi table” that would throw the representatives of the “new power”. Вот уже кинули… одиннадцать миллионов (!) на то, чтобы искать и сдавать переносные зенитные ракетные комплексы, мол, они не должны попасть в руки (тут самое интересное!) «Аль-Каиде»! That’s already thrown … eleven million (!) On what to look for and take the man-portable air defense systems, they say, they should not fall into the hands (the most interesting thing here!) “Al-Qaeda!” Той, о которой кричал Каддафи Западу и которую Запад поддерживал как интегральную и наиболее эффективную часть оппозиционных сил. One, which cried Gaddafi and the West that the West supported as an integral part and the most effective opposition. Беспощадный факт: Запад платит гроши революционерам за то, чтобы они разоружились, причем платит из украденных Западом ливийских денег. Merciless fact: West pays a pittance for the revolutionaries that they disarm, and pays out money stolen by the West Libya.

Кроме того, мира не стоит ждать и потому, что очень многие, воздерживавшиеся от участия в боевых действиях из нежелания прослыть каддафистами, теперь с легким сердцем могут брать в руки оружие и учить молодежь как правильно понимать исламские традиции в части обращения с поверженным врагом. In addition, the world should not expect, and because many people, refrain from participating in the hostilities of the reluctance to pass for kaddafistami, now with a light heart may bear arms and to teach young people how to understand the Islamic tradition in the treatment of the defeated enemy.

Но и НАТО уже не имеет морального права бомбить все, что напоминает им «военные объекты, представляющие угрозу для гражданского населения», поскольку злодея, оправдывающего такие бомбардировки, больше нет. But NATO has no moral right to bomb anything that reminds them of the “military objects that represent a threat to the civilian population,” as the villain to justify such bombardment, no more. Продолжение вооруженного вмешательства в ливийские дела рискует превратиться уже во внутренний скандал самой Европы. Continuation of armed intervention in the Libyan case is already in danger of becoming an internal scandal of Europe itself.

Наконец, последнее: мир стоит на пороге протестного взрыва, который по своим масштабам намного превзойдет события 1968-го года. Finally, the last: the world is on the verge of explosion of protest, which on a scale far superior to the events of 1968. И поскольку больше нет СССР, предававшего левое движение Западу во имя пресловутой конвергенции, постольку последствия этой новой протестной волны могут заставить не одного «демократически избранного» хозяина жизни вспомнить с горьким сожалением и угрызениями совести старину Каддафи. And since there are no more Soviet Union, brought the leftist movement to the West in the name of the notorious convergence, to the extent the consequences of this new wave of protest may make more than one “democratically elected” master of life recall with bitter regret and remorse old Gaddafi.

Stirring the holy water of religion

Literal view or mythical view – which drives your participation, if you participate, in the belief system/religion of your [sub]culture?

In a sect/denomination of the Christian religion – Presbyterianism – the views are mixed, some “pure” and some reinterpreted for changing times.

Here’s one group’s take on purity: Change-in-Book-of-Order_Covenant-Pres_2011-10-14.

Here’s one group’s take on finding literal interpretation – leaning on the research of Dr. Bryant Wood, Director of Research with the Associates of Biblical Research, Akron, PA, who spoke on the subjects of the “Great Discoveries of the New Testament” and “Digging up the Truth at Jericho”: Rogersville-Presbyterian-Church-bulletin_2011-10-16.

Every subculture modifies/makes rules to serve its members.

Same for programming a supercomputer connected to a network of billions of sets of states of energy like us.

Time to adjust some parameters.

Talk to you again soon.