SEN BERNIE SANDERS: “Yes, we must hit the pause button on AI before it is too late”
Too late – Pandora’s Box has opened and there’s no going back.
Transformative – like the introduction of a cheap automobile for the masses.
Tunesday: TR/ST – Destroyer
A sample of some obscure – and maybe not obscure – tunes from my strange and off-the-wall collection.
Today’s selection: TR/ST “Destroyer” 2017 (single)/2019 (album)
TR/ST: A Canadian music project by Robert Alfons. This is the 5th cut of the 2nd part of the 2019 “Destroyer” project.
Stolen Meme
There were so many Polacks* around where I grew up (see “Hamtramck”) that I didn’t realize “Polack” was considered derogatory. They told the best Polack jokes and referred to each other as Polack. Must be like “nigger”; an ordinary word everyone understands – but some can use the word, others can’t. Comes under the 1st Amendment.
Pierogis, kielbasa, various meat dishes, karpatkas … and paczkis. Oh, yes – paczkis. Worth the trip down Joseph Campau and the bakeries along the way (if the muzzies haven’t shut them down).
Polack: an anglicisation of the Polish masculine noun Polak, which denotes a person of Polish ethnicity and typically male gender.
Arches On My Mind
Ran across a few more Arches photos (out of probably thousands of the region – of which 4 are worth showing).
Here are 5 of them:
Once upon a time, this lot would be mostly empty even in summer
Then Arches got discovered ….
but still no need to discuss the happenings under this arch in 1978
Been a while since I’ve visited … need to fix that.
Don’t worry – plenty more photos where this come from. Maybe I’ll find one of the 4 worth showing. 🙂
A Question
for you “more-experienced” folk.
Anybody still writing a full date with “19” instead of “20”?
Final Act Coming
Sudden weather shift came with the eclipse … which I didn’t get to see for the cloud cover that night. We weren’t total but 98% on a lunar eclipse gets the point across.
High 90s/low 100s went to high 80s/low 90s overnight and predicted down another 10° by mid week. Clouds build, it’s trying real hard to rain. The winds have picked up and don’t fade away as quickly as just a week ago. It’s a bit chilly (66°) to sit out a windy morning to watch the sun rise with just a T-shirt. (but I’ll be out in a T-shirt when it gets up to 40 in a few months)
Summer’s putting on it’s final act – although not expected, 1st dusting of snow could show up in a few weeks – not a few months anymore. Time to put the winter emergency gear in the truck.
What happened to “I like winter?” Hell, I left the deserts because I missed winter.
I’ll be ready for mid-May here pretty soon.
And I am NOT ready for Christmas just yet. Get that stuff out of the stores.
Jeez!
Catching Up
I see a number of notes to myself marking submissions to be posted or discussed. Jean has a series in the queue, Joe has an article or two he’d like to start a discussion.
I’m going to do the easy ones first.
illinoisbeekeeper sent a couple of photos bracketing a day in the life – Oct 3, 2014 in this example.
Sunrise on I-72, perhaps Pike County, western Ill
Sunset turning west on US36 from US 385; Idalia, Co in distance
Travelling the Colorado Plains: I have see it snow hard and heavy in Denver on or around this date before. Hard to believe “safe” mountain travel may be over in a few weeks. Oh well, I don’t have any more road trips planned for the rest of the year.
Though spontaneous combustion of my sanity has been known to occur.
Speaking Of Traffic
Hey John! How timely of you to mention something about traffic at Arches.
Funny you should bring that topic up …
This is traffic backed up trying to get into Moab/Arches … which is still a few miles down the road from this viewpoint. At this time, Arches is restricting access and traffic backs up. Town can be a zoo at times … although I’m not really sure when it’s not a zoo anymore.
I lived in Moab almost 50 years ago (???). It wasn’t quite the tourist place then. This road was two-lane, I-70 was being built; US6 was the main (only) EW highway. I was in town for 3 months or so working with an oil survey team out on the San Rafael Swell. Good job, nice country, paid portal-to-portal as well 🙂 Didn’t go with them when they moved on (to Texas). Sometimes I wonder …
Anyway, I wasn’t caught in this traffic for more than a few hundred yards to a cut-off. There’s at least one decent road I usually take on the back side to avoid all this if I’m going into the park. It’s a bit out of the way, much red clay/sand surface, can be treacherous remote desert driving although usually passable with 2wd.
Don’t go out there if it has rained, is raining, or will rain.
Arches At Dawn – Oct 6, 2014
submitted by illinoisbeekeeper
Arches is perhaps my most visited natl park and maybe second to Death Valley as my favorite.
One should read Edward Abbey’s “Desert Solitaire” while there.
PBJ …
I’ve rattled on enough the past few days. Here’s something originally published by Jean Nov 9, 2011
His name was Peanut Butter Jones.
His parents were hippies.
His quest was to find the perfect Jelly.
He spread Orange Marmalade, licked
Peach Preserves and dipped a digit in his
cousin Apple Butter.
Plain Grape made him drip. Red Raspberry
stuck in his teeth. Elder Berry was too ripe
and Cherry was taken a long time ago.
Poor Peanut changed his name to Damn Skippy.