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Tunesday – Grateful Dead “China Cat Sunflower; I Know You Rider”
A sample of some obscure – and some maybe not obscure – tunes from my strange and off-the-wall collection.
Today’s selection: Grateful Dead "China Cat Sunflower I Know You Rider" 1982
Live at the Oregon Country Fair: "Springfield Creamery Presents The Second Decadenal Field Trip" in Veneta, just west of Eugene.
I liked Eugene back in those days. Crazy was fun then, not dangerous. Times change.
The concert took place on August 28 - I overlooked this fact when I went to post this.
I was at this concert. Drove up from Reno with my girlfriend of the time in a beater 1964 Chevy pickup.. Sat with friends in the booth next to Ken Kesey's. Wish I remembered more of the concert; there was no option for leaving off the "special sauce" at the food booths. Trouble is, those funny cigarettes have been known to cause this effect often known as "the munchies".
Brownies are good. The special sauce wasn't bad either.
Truck blew a rod on the way home; of course I was taking the road less travelled. Contacted our friends in Eugene and spent a few days with them while the truck was being repaired.
An adventure is something you don't want to be doing while you're doing it.
But a memorable time overall. Good and bad at the same time; one of the straws that broke apart my first not-marriage ... but that's a different tale for a different time.
Continue reading →Interesting Electricity Map
from NREL via VisualCapitalist:
It appears ZeroHedge picked up this story. "DataCenter" means just that: the facilities plus support staff and families along with merchants implies these will be the significant population centers:
Jobs follow energy.
Summer’s End
The carnival has left. No more cotton candy, corn dogs, sno-cones.
No more "toss the ring", "shoot the ducks", "are you man or mouse" games.
No more "toss your cookies" rides.
No more watching young kids on their first solo "adult" rides.
No more watching nervous parents watching the kids on their first solo adult rides.
No more watching teenage boys chase the uncatchable.
No more watching the uncatchable play at being catchable.
No more funhouse, rooms of mirrors, barking carnies.
No more carny sounds, carney smells, the hot sun of a summer's day.
'Tis the time of the season.
Don’t Forget
Both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia operated under "rule of law".
Headline: "...democracy and the rule of law are under assault from disinformation, division, and shrinking civic space,"
And I can't help thinking that democracy - two wolves and a lamb voting on lunch - has caused more problems around the world ... especially when forcing it on people that didn't want it.
But then, we're not supposed to be a democracy.
A free people includes armed lambs.
Continue reading →Gone Fhisin’
Saw this sitting out in the back lot of an artist's studio near Loveland, CO. The back lot ... with the dumpsters and such. Not up front on display.
Stopped in to talk with the fellow.
The story I got was that someone commissioned this sculpture but was not able to pay for it. Supposedly $30,000 melt value of bronze. Someone that had ... emphasize "had" ... the $100k or so to justify accepting the commission.
It's the face and figure of the guy it was to go to.
"Who wants a large statue of some other guy?"
. . . . .
"Maybe someone will buy it"
That was long ago; haven't been back.
I wonder what happened to it.
Curtis-Jenny
Denver Airport
First built in 1915, it was the primary training aircraft of WWI of both American and Canadian militaries. After the war, a large number of these planes were surplussed to the civilian market. Final production of occurred in 1927
Continue reading →Three Views
Yorktown Bridge
I once lived in York County outside Williamsburg, VA and often travelled the Colonial Parkway to Yorktown, the county seat. There is a section of the Parkway where one has a good view of the bridge.
I wouldn't live there again but I'd be willing to visit. There will be more posts focused on that area in times to come.
Continue reading →Thinking Of How To Put This On My Resume
Beware The Pendulum Swing
going too far in "our" direction
"AG Bondi Declares War on ‘Hate Speech’ Post-Charlie Kirk Assassination"
Direct threats? OK. "Hate" speech? No.
There's a reason some speech is not within the realm of free speech - the realized potential for direct public harm - first implied by a Supreme Court justice in 1919, further refined in 1969 which limited the scope of banned speech to that directed to and likely to incite imminent lawless action (murders, riots, etc).
Many of those being "cancelled" now for unflattering comments on Charlie Kirk have violated nothing more than good taste (and probably should be cancelled for the stupidity of posting such in public at this time).
But free speech includes speech you don't like.
However, spouting off your opinions on someone else's time - like your job - is not covered by your free speech "rights"; those are subservient to your employer's desire. Your employer is not bound by the 1st Amendment.
Enjoy the pendulum in the middle - when it gets there - while we can. History is rhyming again - it'll swing past reasonable. The victims will be different.
But there are always victims.