.
Sometimes taste is all in the mouth as can be seen by the Beach Boys’ wardrobe in the attached clip. However, the real message is the title: Good Vibrations.
“Originally composed during the Pet Sounds sessions with original lyrics by Tony Asher, Wilson recorded the song in sections at different studios in order to capture the sound he heard in his head.” - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Vibrations
That is what happens when trying to capture those explicit sounds in the head. Sometimes the vibrations just make us dizzy. Trying to capture the good ones frequently makes me lightheaded because it is so difficult to get beyond the clutter. Great ideas are like that. They are surrounded by a large confusing cacophony of bewilderment. It is this disorientation and muddling through it that ultimately brings clarity and results in the good vibrations.
Going directly to the heart of the matter is not always the best way to do things when seeking enlightenment. The road less taken and avoiding the well known shortcuts eventually gets me to my destination, not as quickly or directly but in most cases more captivatingly. When driving from here to there I try to avoid going the same route time after time. Been there, done that. I prefer to see something that will give me an exposure to what I have not experienced yet or even lately.
DakotaDawg is the same way. She will pull at the leash to discover a new scent or someone different that is visiting her regular haunts and is enthusiastic to go to new places as she is checking everything out along the way. DakotaDawg invariably wants to experience good vibrations. Passage of time is not an essential dimension to my dawg. She is more curious and willing to do whatever time it takes to find out what she wants to know. DakotaDawg is far less concerned whether I think she has investigated that bush more than long enough. I have no idea what components of the different features of that bush she is so inquisitive about. She will continue probing until either she is satisfied or I get frustrated. Usually when this happens she will look up at me as if to ask: “What is your problem?”
I have figured out though the problem is that we are all in way too much of a hurry. We are impatient people who have become impatient with people, children and dawgs that seem to take too long to either discern the obvious or figure out those not so salient facts. It is certainly more fun having the patience to look thoroughly for the answer and help others in their quest.
I never fully got the answer to why the sky is blue. One thing is certain though and that part of the answer is that I can see.
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&rlz=1R2TSNA_enUS351&q=%22why+is+the+sky+blue%22&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai = "Why is the sky blue?" - About 95,700 results (0.18 seconds). Now if I just had the time and patience.
Maybe I will just read a few; it just might take less time to think of it in different terms: "Why isn't the sky red?" Checking Google it looks like reading those 29 results could give me the same answer in a lot less time. Apparently far fewer people are interested in that. Is it just because it rarely happens?
"Why isn't the sky blue?" yields only one additional result. Is it because far too many think of such an obvious answer? It is night. Maybe it isn’t… we could still be in the dark.
© stevendphilbrick sr+ DakotaDawg 10/14/2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
The Year You were Born.
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http://whathappenedinmybirthyear.com/ - What happened in the year I was born? If you want to know then follow the link as I did… less typing so thanx for that at least.
A bunch of pretty useless information but here I go:
"In 1949, the world was a different place.
There was no Google yet. Or Yahoo. Or Forum.ih8mud, for that matter.
In 1949, the year of your birth, the top selling movie was Samson and Delilah. People buying the popcorn in the cinema lobby had glazing eyes when looking at the poster.
Remember, that was before there were DVDs. Heck, even before there was VHS. People were indeed watching movies in the cinema, and not downloading them online. Imagine the packed seats, the laughter, the excitement, the novelty. And mostly all of that without 3D computer effects.
Do you know who won the Oscars that year? The academy award for the best movie went to All the King's Men. The Oscar for best foreign movie that year went to The Bicycle Thief. The top actor was Broderick Crawford for his role as Willie Stark in All the King's Men. The top actress was Olivia de Havilland for her role as Catherine Sloper in The Heiress. The best director? Joseph L. Mankiewicz for A Letter to Three Wives.
In the year 1949, the time when you arrived on this planet, books were still popularly read on paper, not on digital devices. Trees were felled to get the word out. The number one US bestseller of the time wasThe Egyptian by Mika Waltari. Oh, that's many years ago. Have you read that book? Have you heard of it?
In 1949... UN sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistan War of 1947. The first Volkswagen Beetle to arrive in the United States, a 1948 model, is brought to New York by Dutch businessman Ben Pon. Unable to interest dealers or importers in the Volkswagen, Pon sells the sample car to pay his travel expenses. World heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis retires. The North Atlantic Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., creating the NATO defense alliance. The Tokyo Stock Exchange is founded. The last U.S. troops withdraw from South Korea. The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, code named "Joe 1." Its design imitates the American plutonium bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. The People's Republic of China is officially proclaimed.
That was the world you were born into. Since then, you and others have changed it.
The Nobel prize for Literature that year went to William Faulkner. The Nobel Peace prize went to The Lord Boyd-Orr. The Nobel prize for physics went to Hideki Yukawa from Japan for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces. The sensation this created was big. But it didn't stop the planets from spinning, on and on, year by year. Years in which you would grow bigger, older, smarter, and, if you were lucky, sometimes wiser. Years in which you also lost some things. Possessions got misplaced. Memories faded. Friends parted ways. The best friends, you tried to hold on. This is what counts in life, isn't it?
The 1940s were indeed a special decade. World War II continued, affecting people in Europe, Asia and elsewhere. The post war world encouraged decolonization, new states and governments emerged, while others declared independence, often not without bloodshed. The dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is published, picturing a totalitarian Big Brother regime controllings its citizens. The NATO gets established. Iceland declares independence Denmark. Mao Zedong's Chinese Communist Party is victorious in the Chinese Civil War. Mathematics sees the invention of cryptography. Ballistic missiles are created.
Do you remember the movie that was all the rage when you were 15?The Pink Panther. Do you still remember the songs playing on the radio when you were 15? Maybe it was The House of the Rising Sun by The Animals. Were you in love? Who were you in love with, do you remember?
In 1949, 15 years earlier, a long time ago, the year when you were born, the song A Little Bird Told Me by Evelyn Knight topped the US charts. Do you know the lyrics? Do you know the tune? Sing along.
A little bird told me that you love me
And I believe that you do
This little bird told me I was fallin'
Fallin' for no one but you
...
There's a kid outside, shouting, playing. It doesn't care about time. It doesn't know about time. It shouts and it plays and thinks time is forever. You were once that kid.
When you were 9, the movie The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad was playing.
Progress, year after year. Do you wonder where the world is heading towards? The technology available today would have blown your mind in 1949. Do you know what was invented in the year you were born? Atomic Clocks. Radiocarbon Dating.
She did her triple somersault and when she hit the ground
She winked at the audience and then she turned around
She had a picture of a cowboy tattooed on her spine
Said, Phoenix, Arizona 1949
...
That's from the song Little Egypt by Elvis Presley.
In 1949, a new character entered the world of comic books: Claude Cat. Bang! Boom! But that's just fiction, right? In the real world, in 1949, Lionel Richie was born. And Tom Waits. Whoopi Goldberg, too. And you, of course. Everyone an individual. Everyone special. Everyone taking a different path through life.
It's 2010.
The world is a different place.
What path have you taken?"
© 10.05.2010 stevendphilbrick SR+ DakotaDawg
http://whathappenedinmybirthyear.com/ - What happened in the year I was born? If you want to know then follow the link as I did… less typing so thanx for that at least.
A bunch of pretty useless information but here I go:
"In 1949, the world was a different place.
There was no Google yet. Or Yahoo. Or Forum.ih8mud, for that matter.
In 1949, the year of your birth, the top selling movie was Samson and Delilah. People buying the popcorn in the cinema lobby had glazing eyes when looking at the poster.
Remember, that was before there were DVDs. Heck, even before there was VHS. People were indeed watching movies in the cinema, and not downloading them online. Imagine the packed seats, the laughter, the excitement, the novelty. And mostly all of that without 3D computer effects.
Do you know who won the Oscars that year? The academy award for the best movie went to All the King's Men. The Oscar for best foreign movie that year went to The Bicycle Thief. The top actor was Broderick Crawford for his role as Willie Stark in All the King's Men. The top actress was Olivia de Havilland for her role as Catherine Sloper in The Heiress. The best director? Joseph L. Mankiewicz for A Letter to Three Wives.
In the year 1949, the time when you arrived on this planet, books were still popularly read on paper, not on digital devices. Trees were felled to get the word out. The number one US bestseller of the time wasThe Egyptian by Mika Waltari. Oh, that's many years ago. Have you read that book? Have you heard of it?
In 1949... UN sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistan War of 1947. The first Volkswagen Beetle to arrive in the United States, a 1948 model, is brought to New York by Dutch businessman Ben Pon. Unable to interest dealers or importers in the Volkswagen, Pon sells the sample car to pay his travel expenses. World heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis retires. The North Atlantic Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., creating the NATO defense alliance. The Tokyo Stock Exchange is founded. The last U.S. troops withdraw from South Korea. The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, code named "Joe 1." Its design imitates the American plutonium bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. The People's Republic of China is officially proclaimed.
That was the world you were born into. Since then, you and others have changed it.
The Nobel prize for Literature that year went to William Faulkner. The Nobel Peace prize went to The Lord Boyd-Orr. The Nobel prize for physics went to Hideki Yukawa from Japan for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces. The sensation this created was big. But it didn't stop the planets from spinning, on and on, year by year. Years in which you would grow bigger, older, smarter, and, if you were lucky, sometimes wiser. Years in which you also lost some things. Possessions got misplaced. Memories faded. Friends parted ways. The best friends, you tried to hold on. This is what counts in life, isn't it?
The 1940s were indeed a special decade. World War II continued, affecting people in Europe, Asia and elsewhere. The post war world encouraged decolonization, new states and governments emerged, while others declared independence, often not without bloodshed. The dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is published, picturing a totalitarian Big Brother regime controllings its citizens. The NATO gets established. Iceland declares independence Denmark. Mao Zedong's Chinese Communist Party is victorious in the Chinese Civil War. Mathematics sees the invention of cryptography. Ballistic missiles are created.
Do you remember the movie that was all the rage when you were 15?The Pink Panther. Do you still remember the songs playing on the radio when you were 15? Maybe it was The House of the Rising Sun by The Animals. Were you in love? Who were you in love with, do you remember?
In 1949, 15 years earlier, a long time ago, the year when you were born, the song A Little Bird Told Me by Evelyn Knight topped the US charts. Do you know the lyrics? Do you know the tune? Sing along.
A little bird told me that you love me
And I believe that you do
This little bird told me I was fallin'
Fallin' for no one but you
...
There's a kid outside, shouting, playing. It doesn't care about time. It doesn't know about time. It shouts and it plays and thinks time is forever. You were once that kid.
When you were 9, the movie The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad was playing.
Progress, year after year. Do you wonder where the world is heading towards? The technology available today would have blown your mind in 1949. Do you know what was invented in the year you were born? Atomic Clocks. Radiocarbon Dating.
She did her triple somersault and when she hit the ground
She winked at the audience and then she turned around
She had a picture of a cowboy tattooed on her spine
Said, Phoenix, Arizona 1949
...
That's from the song Little Egypt by Elvis Presley.
In 1949, a new character entered the world of comic books: Claude Cat. Bang! Boom! But that's just fiction, right? In the real world, in 1949, Lionel Richie was born. And Tom Waits. Whoopi Goldberg, too. And you, of course. Everyone an individual. Everyone special. Everyone taking a different path through life.
It's 2010.
The world is a different place.
What path have you taken?"
© 10.05.2010 stevendphilbrick SR+ DakotaDawg
Monday, October 11, 2010
Today or Tomorrow…
Yuppers finally I am going to start a part time job. Tomorrow.
I am very happy today and tomorrow is a brand new day.
Once it is tomorrow it will be today but that is tomorrow.
© 10.11.2010 stevendphilbrick SR+ DakotaDawg
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Too Much Lennon?
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Imagine
“John is dead”
This didn’t happen because somebody played a record backwards. A tragic act of insanity immortalized an immortal.
Today would have been Lennon’s seventieth birthday if he had been sent home (as my dad advocated) and if he managed to live this long. Dad did not like Lennon because he was paying attention to a lot of the wrong things. Dad should have listened to the music instead of trying to get every one to dance to his.
Happy Birthday John from one Libra to another.
There is a 504 video playlist on YouTube that I am not going to listen to... Imagine it might be just too much Lennon.
© 10.05.2010 stevendphilbrick SR+ DakotaDawg
Imagine
“John is dead”
This didn’t happen because somebody played a record backwards. A tragic act of insanity immortalized an immortal.
Today would have been Lennon’s seventieth birthday if he had been sent home (as my dad advocated) and if he managed to live this long. Dad did not like Lennon because he was paying attention to a lot of the wrong things. Dad should have listened to the music instead of trying to get every one to dance to his.
Happy Birthday John from one Libra to another.
There is a 504 video playlist on YouTube that I am not going to listen to... Imagine it might be just too much Lennon.
© 10.05.2010 stevendphilbrick SR+ DakotaDawg
Friday, October 8, 2010
Half my brain is inside my computer… er, smartphone.
.
I was thinking and even posting about the topic du jour for a long time. Obviously, I was and am not the only one. “Scott Adams, the author and creator of the comic strip Dilbert, last year argued in an essay that smart phones represent a kind of “exobrain” that augments our regular brain, giving us the ability to store and retrieve mountains of information and to perform tasks like navigating unfamiliar terrain.” Newsweek - http://www.newsweek.com/2010/10/03/how-android-is-transforming-mobile-computing.html - “Android Invasion” - an accurate mass media ‘fluff’ assessment of the situation worth reading IMHO.
Seriously there is a war going on out there in case one hasn’t noticed. It is for that half of our brains that are ‘exo’ and the operating system that they depend on. Microsoft is not winning this one but is trying to get at least its pawns engaged in the battle. Apple and Google have fully engaged and are challenging all comers. Apple laid out the ground rules as far as what the OS’s should do but Google is gaining ground by asking everybody to kick in their fair share in an open-source attempt to dethrone the king. Is life so cruel that Jobs and Apple have again screwed the pooch with their proprietary attitude toward hardware and software? It appears that this could well be the case.
The MegaManufacturers of the electronic marketplace are making sure that the ship does not sail without them. They have become ‘Androidlike’ in their adoption of the only viable competitor to the Apple juggernaut. Do not expect them to sit on the seesaw and not control which end is up or how fast it rises. It is gang mentality. With enough advertising dollars and just raw numbers they will overpower the innovator. Count on it. This does not mean that what is best or best for the consumer will win out. I am hitting my head against the wall as I anticipate another Apple error. Maybe their engineers can come up with another brainstorm that we will have something else absolutely fantabulous. Or, the copycats will give us something that in some lesser form. It may be only what can be imagined by someone not so much innovating as emulating.
I often wonder what would have happened if Apple did not join forces with AT&T and sold their product to anyone to be used on any network it was compatible. AT&T seemed to benefit from the deal but what did Apple get out of it? What if Jobs and his people decided that they would dream the dream and hold the patents and let others like Motorola, Samsung, LG and HTC do all the heavy lifting. I have tired of Apple’s lack of foresight in this and it has left us all with less than Apple could deliver if they didn’t have the policy of having to make and market all of their own innovations.
The market is full of innovators and the inevitable impersonators who often surpass the mental giants by sheer will and numbers. This does not mean the imatators are not providing something to the masses. Is it as good as the original? In this case it may end up being better. It will take time for us to determine if that is the case but what if the inventor gave up trying to keep this from happening and just moved on to the next announcement of wonderful new things to be?
The whole thing reminds me of when I was a kid and I wanted a Mickey Mantle autographed WilsonTM baseball glove from Santa (who I knew was Mom and Dad). I kept begging and the only thing that would shut me up would have been a genuine WilsonTM Mickey Mantle autographed baseball mitt under the tree and then on my left hand. My older brother and I searched high and low for where Santa was hiding the presents we knew would show up under the tree. After risking our lives in every recess in the garage my brother and figured out Santa hid the presents in the attic. I got the attic access open in my sister’s closet and it was dark up there. But, based on the initial inspection there was my mitt!
Bobby Riley and I celebrated for a full week until the magical day came. I hardly slept. I ran downstairs and straight to the appropriate shaped present and ripped it open. There in my hands was a Genuine Winton baseball glove that was made in of all places, Japan. The logo looked just about exactly like Wilson’s. It had the same red thread script embroidered on the black background on the label on the wrist strap. Mickey Mantle had not autographed it even though all the writing was in English... not one Japanese character on it. The mitt probably was as well made and just as functional as the WilsonTM. The problem was that it was not a WilsonTM. I was crushed.
WilsonTM eventually sued because the Japanese manufacturer did such a good job of copying their original mitt designs and their logo. Applied black ink obscured the Made in Japan threads on the label before the glove ever left the house. Bobby Riley and I knew. It was not long before the label was removed. Young boys inspect baseball gloves more meticulously than Inspector #6. This travesty was worse than having a ZuneTM instead of an iPodTM.
Perhaps it is better to have an AndroidTM phone than an iPhoneTM. It is going to take a lot of argument to convince me of that even if it might be fact. Lots of manufacturers and cell phone network providers are trying to convince the public that AndroidTM is better than AppleTM.
Me, I would rather have my Genuine Wilson Mickey Mantle autographed center fielder’s glove instead of the four fingered cheaper Bobby Richardson autographed Wilson without an embroidered wrist strap label that replaced the Winton that was ‘lost’. Bobby Richardson’s glove didn’t see a second season. It really didn’t matter; I was a catcher. From the same article: "... by 2014 Android will have 25 percent market share in smart phones, more than double Apple’s 11 percent share, according to high-tech researcher IDC." Maybe that isn't such bad news for Apple since it is the only manufacturer of a smart phone with an Apple OS while there are at least five Android phone manufacturers in 2010 already. According to some industry pundits "Recent announcements are sketching a slight shift away from the Android platform" http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Google-Android-Mobile-OS,news-6642.html.
Maybe Apple is not in such dire straights. Google found 158,000 results for the search - number of Apple iPhone OS patent lawsuits. At least the courts and lawyers will be busy.
Apple wants to play with the big boys and make the rules. The deal is they have shown they are players but the rules were set long ago. No amount of jousting with windmills is going to change them. Maybe they can just make the Winton glove disappear.
It is going to be a long uphill battle. DOH. What does it really matter though; I am still nothing but an old catcher. Microsoft, Apple and Oracle are all suing phone manufacturers or Google directly over Android.
Gang tactics.
© 10.08.2010 stevendphilbrick SR+ DakotaDawg
I was thinking and even posting about the topic du jour for a long time. Obviously, I was and am not the only one. “Scott Adams, the author and creator of the comic strip Dilbert, last year argued in an essay that smart phones represent a kind of “exobrain” that augments our regular brain, giving us the ability to store and retrieve mountains of information and to perform tasks like navigating unfamiliar terrain.” Newsweek - http://www.newsweek.com/2010/10/03/how-android-is-transforming-mobile-computing.html - “Android Invasion” - an accurate mass media ‘fluff’ assessment of the situation worth reading IMHO.
Seriously there is a war going on out there in case one hasn’t noticed. It is for that half of our brains that are ‘exo’ and the operating system that they depend on. Microsoft is not winning this one but is trying to get at least its pawns engaged in the battle. Apple and Google have fully engaged and are challenging all comers. Apple laid out the ground rules as far as what the OS’s should do but Google is gaining ground by asking everybody to kick in their fair share in an open-source attempt to dethrone the king. Is life so cruel that Jobs and Apple have again screwed the pooch with their proprietary attitude toward hardware and software? It appears that this could well be the case.
The MegaManufacturers of the electronic marketplace are making sure that the ship does not sail without them. They have become ‘Androidlike’ in their adoption of the only viable competitor to the Apple juggernaut. Do not expect them to sit on the seesaw and not control which end is up or how fast it rises. It is gang mentality. With enough advertising dollars and just raw numbers they will overpower the innovator. Count on it. This does not mean that what is best or best for the consumer will win out. I am hitting my head against the wall as I anticipate another Apple error. Maybe their engineers can come up with another brainstorm that we will have something else absolutely fantabulous. Or, the copycats will give us something that in some lesser form. It may be only what can be imagined by someone not so much innovating as emulating.
I often wonder what would have happened if Apple did not join forces with AT&T and sold their product to anyone to be used on any network it was compatible. AT&T seemed to benefit from the deal but what did Apple get out of it? What if Jobs and his people decided that they would dream the dream and hold the patents and let others like Motorola, Samsung, LG and HTC do all the heavy lifting. I have tired of Apple’s lack of foresight in this and it has left us all with less than Apple could deliver if they didn’t have the policy of having to make and market all of their own innovations.
The market is full of innovators and the inevitable impersonators who often surpass the mental giants by sheer will and numbers. This does not mean the imatators are not providing something to the masses. Is it as good as the original? In this case it may end up being better. It will take time for us to determine if that is the case but what if the inventor gave up trying to keep this from happening and just moved on to the next announcement of wonderful new things to be?
The whole thing reminds me of when I was a kid and I wanted a Mickey Mantle autographed WilsonTM baseball glove from Santa (who I knew was Mom and Dad). I kept begging and the only thing that would shut me up would have been a genuine WilsonTM Mickey Mantle autographed baseball mitt under the tree and then on my left hand. My older brother and I searched high and low for where Santa was hiding the presents we knew would show up under the tree. After risking our lives in every recess in the garage my brother and figured out Santa hid the presents in the attic. I got the attic access open in my sister’s closet and it was dark up there. But, based on the initial inspection there was my mitt!
Bobby Riley and I celebrated for a full week until the magical day came. I hardly slept. I ran downstairs and straight to the appropriate shaped present and ripped it open. There in my hands was a Genuine Winton baseball glove that was made in of all places, Japan. The logo looked just about exactly like Wilson’s. It had the same red thread script embroidered on the black background on the label on the wrist strap. Mickey Mantle had not autographed it even though all the writing was in English... not one Japanese character on it. The mitt probably was as well made and just as functional as the WilsonTM. The problem was that it was not a WilsonTM. I was crushed.
WilsonTM eventually sued because the Japanese manufacturer did such a good job of copying their original mitt designs and their logo. Applied black ink obscured the Made in Japan threads on the label before the glove ever left the house. Bobby Riley and I knew. It was not long before the label was removed. Young boys inspect baseball gloves more meticulously than Inspector #6. This travesty was worse than having a ZuneTM instead of an iPodTM.
Perhaps it is better to have an AndroidTM phone than an iPhoneTM. It is going to take a lot of argument to convince me of that even if it might be fact. Lots of manufacturers and cell phone network providers are trying to convince the public that AndroidTM is better than AppleTM.
Me, I would rather have my Genuine Wilson Mickey Mantle autographed center fielder’s glove instead of the four fingered cheaper Bobby Richardson autographed Wilson without an embroidered wrist strap label that replaced the Winton that was ‘lost’. Bobby Richardson’s glove didn’t see a second season. It really didn’t matter; I was a catcher. From the same article: "... by 2014 Android will have 25 percent market share in smart phones, more than double Apple’s 11 percent share, according to high-tech researcher IDC." Maybe that isn't such bad news for Apple since it is the only manufacturer of a smart phone with an Apple OS while there are at least five Android phone manufacturers in 2010 already. According to some industry pundits "Recent announcements are sketching a slight shift away from the Android platform" http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Google-Android-Mobile-OS,news-6642.html.
Maybe Apple is not in such dire straights. Google found 158,000 results for the search - number of Apple iPhone OS patent lawsuits. At least the courts and lawyers will be busy.
Apple wants to play with the big boys and make the rules. The deal is they have shown they are players but the rules were set long ago. No amount of jousting with windmills is going to change them. Maybe they can just make the Winton glove disappear.
It is going to be a long uphill battle. DOH. What does it really matter though; I am still nothing but an old catcher. Microsoft, Apple and Oracle are all suing phone manufacturers or Google directly over Android.
Gang tactics.
© 10.08.2010 stevendphilbrick SR+ DakotaDawg
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Vacation – Too much Go Go’s?
Having a major flashback I remembered an old birthday where I was taken to a Go Go’s concert and ‘sat’ in the first couple of rows. The concert was so amazing I stood on my seat after the first song started until the concert was over. It was necessary to stand on the seat just to see the stage.
Too much Go Go’s? I don’t think so; I am going to stand on my seat. I still love the Go Go’s! Too much vacation? NEVER!
© 10.07.2010 stevendphilbrick SR+ DakotaDawg
Monday, October 4, 2010
Trash Talking… Too much energy?
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Our garbage is really black gold. It is time to think about thermal depolymerization and other technologies that might start shifting the balance of the energy equation.
We should stop burying twelve billion tons worth of solid waste a year in this country and start converting more of it into fuel. This is happening already but on a very small scale. I wonder why some stimulus money was not put toward technologies like this instead of some of the places it really did or didn’t go.
I was a little bit baffled by the term “Thermal Depolymerization” when I first came across it but again it was Google to the rescue: “Thermal Depolymerization (TDP) is a depolymerization process using hydrous pyrolysis for the reduction of complex organic materials (usually waste products of various sorts, often known as biomass and plastic) into light crude oil. It mimics the natural geological processes thought to be involved in the production of fossil fuels. Under pressure and heat, long chain polymers of hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon decompose into short-chain petroleum hydrocarbons with a maximum length of around 18 carbons.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization
Basically, TDP is converting anything containing carbon into exploitable energy - sewerage sludge into light oil or even agricultural waste into energy… turning chicken doo-doo into chicken salad. This is not growing corn or other vegetable matter for conversion and having to utilize energy in the production. This is the actual transformation of food production wastes directly into needed energy components. It is happening in Carthage, Missouri where they take waste from a turkey processing plant and digest it to produce fuel oil.
Six billion tons of agricultural waste produced annually in this country could be turned into more than four billion barrels of oil (the same amount the United States imports yearly). Someone missed the memo.
The Rumpelstiltskinian stratagem that underpins TDP is to harvest carbon that abundantly exists, that we have already used and seem to have no further use for except disposal. Admittedly not a brand new idea since green advocates have turned plant, human and animal wastes into methane and other fuels for years in lower tech Mother Earth News or Popular Science kinds of ways. However, this more universal and global thinking of turning sewerage treatment plants and landfills into resources instead of a money pits is going in the right direction. Recyclable carbon is the vast majority of all the solid waste we bury instead of use. We must take advantage of the fact that it as part of a renewable energy cycle. We can mine what we are throwing away instead of burying mountains of it in suburbia or dumping it into the ocean. More effort should go to recycling non-carbon based waste.
Not everything about TDP plants or conversion stations is perfect. There is much criticism of start up and operating costs in the press regarding new and previous attempts. At least these people are coming up with new ideas that need to be investigated. Waste not, want not.
Let’s start being proactive about our garbage and thinking of it as a resource instead of transshipping it out in the country and paying for its disposal. There is getting to be too much trash to keep trying to hide the problem.
Private enterprise may force our government to do something once processing trash is profitable enough. Until that happens I don’t expect my elected representatives to do much more than try to figure out how to get reelected.
Coming down off my garbage mountain soapbox.
© 10.04.2010 stevendphilbrick SR+ DakotaDawg
Our garbage is really black gold. It is time to think about thermal depolymerization and other technologies that might start shifting the balance of the energy equation.
We should stop burying twelve billion tons worth of solid waste a year in this country and start converting more of it into fuel. This is happening already but on a very small scale. I wonder why some stimulus money was not put toward technologies like this instead of some of the places it really did or didn’t go.
I was a little bit baffled by the term “Thermal Depolymerization” when I first came across it but again it was Google to the rescue: “Thermal Depolymerization (TDP) is a depolymerization process using hydrous pyrolysis for the reduction of complex organic materials (usually waste products of various sorts, often known as biomass and plastic) into light crude oil. It mimics the natural geological processes thought to be involved in the production of fossil fuels. Under pressure and heat, long chain polymers of hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon decompose into short-chain petroleum hydrocarbons with a maximum length of around 18 carbons.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization
Basically, TDP is converting anything containing carbon into exploitable energy - sewerage sludge into light oil or even agricultural waste into energy… turning chicken doo-doo into chicken salad. This is not growing corn or other vegetable matter for conversion and having to utilize energy in the production. This is the actual transformation of food production wastes directly into needed energy components. It is happening in Carthage, Missouri where they take waste from a turkey processing plant and digest it to produce fuel oil.
Six billion tons of agricultural waste produced annually in this country could be turned into more than four billion barrels of oil (the same amount the United States imports yearly). Someone missed the memo.
The Rumpelstiltskinian stratagem that underpins TDP is to harvest carbon that abundantly exists, that we have already used and seem to have no further use for except disposal. Admittedly not a brand new idea since green advocates have turned plant, human and animal wastes into methane and other fuels for years in lower tech Mother Earth News or Popular Science kinds of ways. However, this more universal and global thinking of turning sewerage treatment plants and landfills into resources instead of a money pits is going in the right direction. Recyclable carbon is the vast majority of all the solid waste we bury instead of use. We must take advantage of the fact that it as part of a renewable energy cycle. We can mine what we are throwing away instead of burying mountains of it in suburbia or dumping it into the ocean. More effort should go to recycling non-carbon based waste.
Not everything about TDP plants or conversion stations is perfect. There is much criticism of start up and operating costs in the press regarding new and previous attempts. At least these people are coming up with new ideas that need to be investigated. Waste not, want not.
Let’s start being proactive about our garbage and thinking of it as a resource instead of transshipping it out in the country and paying for its disposal. There is getting to be too much trash to keep trying to hide the problem.
Private enterprise may force our government to do something once processing trash is profitable enough. Until that happens I don’t expect my elected representatives to do much more than try to figure out how to get reelected.
Coming down off my garbage mountain soapbox.
© 10.04.2010 stevendphilbrick SR+ DakotaDawg
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Sacred Science… moving on.
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8110425983571346444# :
Nikola Tesla You're a Man Out of Time - 05:57 - 4 years ago
Original music video honoring Nikola Tesla by Paul and Stephen Hone. Paul Hone: "The Great Forgotten Serbian/American Scientist who invented the polyphase AC electric current we all use today as well as the underlying principles behind radio, radio control, computers, satellites, microwaves, beam weapons, nuclear fusion and more. (His nephew was an incredible inventor too! But that is a story for another day.) This is an attempt to help people get a heads up on "WHO" this Amazing Man was, on some of what he did Do, and on how he was Destroyed!"
The URL above is another, the same as the first embedded video. It all has to do with Sacred Science and the Almighty Dollar and not a conspiracy theory. I am going to move tomorrow into another dimension and start trying to remember why I am writing this blog. I won’t be back to prod with Tesla for a while.
"He used high frequency electricity... In an unparalleled eight years of invention, between 1890 and 1898, Telsa left Alternating Current right behind. To him it was accomplished, of no further interest. He opened a new door labeled High Frequency and he changed the world a second, third and fourth time... Tesla never tried to develop the lighting idea commercially although he did go as far as to illuminate his laboratory with this forerunner of today's fluorescent lighting..." The video gets somewhat off point toward the end but after all it is a BBC presentation from a while back.
Tesla abhorred profiteering from something that was for the good of humanity. After the loss of his laboratory when all of his notes and equipment was lost Tesla spent the most of his remaining years trying to transmit messages and power without wires. I want read his unpublished notebook: Colorado Springs Notes – 1899 – 1900. Five months have been transcribed and are available on http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/tesla/coloradonotes/coloradonotes.htm . Of course for the profiteers there is always Amazon.
For the Conspiracy Theorists:
That is all for now.
© 10.03.2010 stevendphilbrick SR+ DakotaDawg
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8110425983571346444# :
Nikola Tesla You're a Man Out of Time - 05:57 - 4 years ago
Original music video honoring Nikola Tesla by Paul and Stephen Hone. Paul Hone: "The Great Forgotten Serbian/American Scientist who invented the polyphase AC electric current we all use today as well as the underlying principles behind radio, radio control, computers, satellites, microwaves, beam weapons, nuclear fusion and more. (His nephew was an incredible inventor too! But that is a story for another day.) This is an attempt to help people get a heads up on "WHO" this Amazing Man was, on some of what he did Do, and on how he was Destroyed!"
The URL above is another, the same as the first embedded video. It all has to do with Sacred Science and the Almighty Dollar and not a conspiracy theory. I am going to move tomorrow into another dimension and start trying to remember why I am writing this blog. I won’t be back to prod with Tesla for a while.
"He used high frequency electricity... In an unparalleled eight years of invention, between 1890 and 1898, Telsa left Alternating Current right behind. To him it was accomplished, of no further interest. He opened a new door labeled High Frequency and he changed the world a second, third and fourth time... Tesla never tried to develop the lighting idea commercially although he did go as far as to illuminate his laboratory with this forerunner of today's fluorescent lighting..." The video gets somewhat off point toward the end but after all it is a BBC presentation from a while back.
Tesla abhorred profiteering from something that was for the good of humanity. After the loss of his laboratory when all of his notes and equipment was lost Tesla spent the most of his remaining years trying to transmit messages and power without wires. I want read his unpublished notebook: Colorado Springs Notes – 1899 – 1900. Five months have been transcribed and are available on http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/tesla/coloradonotes/coloradonotes.htm . Of course for the profiteers there is always Amazon.
For the Conspiracy Theorists:
That is all for now.
© 10.03.2010 stevendphilbrick SR+ DakotaDawg
Too much Tesla?
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I have been more than fascinated with this man with such a unique mind and vision of the future we are yet to see. Wireless transmission and ‘free energy’ were but a few of the ground breaking ideas Tesla experimented with in addition to the advances in electricity we depend on every single day including Alternating Current.
I bumped into a rather strange duck on Google. So what else is new? This fellow (MattBlytheTheOne) who did a video of Tesla's Little Secret which included what he thought Tesla was really up to and had discovered. I am not so sure the author of the following video does not quack like a duck but he pointed to one possibility of the huge Tesla coils that Tesla built in New York and in Colorado Springs were really Capacity/Receivers capable of generating 50 volts of electricity per foot of height from radiant energy.
In this day of advances in solar energy research and advances the idea of a Tesla antenna receiver capable of achieving the same thing without solar cells is intriguing. Is this even possible? Certainly Tesla thought so and the text of his “My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla; Chapter 6—The Magnifying Transmitter” (http://lucidcafe.com/library/96jul/teslaauto06.html) Tesla elaborates on the idea if you can wade through the verbiage.
I am going to spend the time that I would normally be writing today to review more on the subject. I am going to view the embedded Youtube videos.
“Making The Magnifying Transmitter (Modified Tesla Coil)” deals with building a Tesla Coil with the original concept of transmission of electricity wirelessly. We need to think about the whole energy thing in a “hat goes around comes around” frame of mind. The 5:33 clip here:
And the “Tesla The Race to Zero Point Free Energy” 1:49:39 clip following that shows promise and has a recording of Tesla where he talks of “The Cosmic Energy” (we may only have until 2025 to complete this assignment). It is an excellent primer of the issues and history surrounding generation and transmission of energy and how our economic model has held us back. This is what I am talking about baby!
Many people besides Tesla have been thinking about the random presence of energy in our world that could be captured, converted and utilized. I keep bumping into alienscientist who seems to be a well educated conspiracy theorist (not that he may not be too wigged out to see reality in 111 seconds). Watching some of his videos is enlightening as well as entertaining but sometimes the comments he receives also add to my understanding of some of the concepts like an infinite battery and how it might work. I recommend reading the comments under his video that follows (embedded) and with comments at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcCLIwlbhLc .
There is much still to know unless we are too wigged out to recognize that fact. I am going to have to fully investigate Viktor Schauberger 1885-1958 and his vortex theories. If you can think of Chernetski.
© 10.02.2010 stevendphilbrick SR+ DakotaDawg
I have been more than fascinated with this man with such a unique mind and vision of the future we are yet to see. Wireless transmission and ‘free energy’ were but a few of the ground breaking ideas Tesla experimented with in addition to the advances in electricity we depend on every single day including Alternating Current.
I bumped into a rather strange duck on Google. So what else is new? This fellow (MattBlytheTheOne) who did a video of Tesla's Little Secret which included what he thought Tesla was really up to and had discovered. I am not so sure the author of the following video does not quack like a duck but he pointed to one possibility of the huge Tesla coils that Tesla built in New York and in Colorado Springs were really Capacity/Receivers capable of generating 50 volts of electricity per foot of height from radiant energy.
In this day of advances in solar energy research and advances the idea of a Tesla antenna receiver capable of achieving the same thing without solar cells is intriguing. Is this even possible? Certainly Tesla thought so and the text of his “My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla; Chapter 6—The Magnifying Transmitter” (http://lucidcafe.com/library/96jul/teslaauto06.html) Tesla elaborates on the idea if you can wade through the verbiage.
I am going to spend the time that I would normally be writing today to review more on the subject. I am going to view the embedded Youtube videos.
“Making The Magnifying Transmitter (Modified Tesla Coil)” deals with building a Tesla Coil with the original concept of transmission of electricity wirelessly. We need to think about the whole energy thing in a “hat goes around comes around” frame of mind. The 5:33 clip here:
And the “Tesla The Race to Zero Point Free Energy” 1:49:39 clip following that shows promise and has a recording of Tesla where he talks of “The Cosmic Energy” (we may only have until 2025 to complete this assignment). It is an excellent primer of the issues and history surrounding generation and transmission of energy and how our economic model has held us back. This is what I am talking about baby!
Many people besides Tesla have been thinking about the random presence of energy in our world that could be captured, converted and utilized. I keep bumping into alienscientist who seems to be a well educated conspiracy theorist (not that he may not be too wigged out to see reality in 111 seconds). Watching some of his videos is enlightening as well as entertaining but sometimes the comments he receives also add to my understanding of some of the concepts like an infinite battery and how it might work. I recommend reading the comments under his video that follows (embedded) and with comments at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcCLIwlbhLc .
There is much still to know unless we are too wigged out to recognize that fact. I am going to have to fully investigate Viktor Schauberger 1885-1958 and his vortex theories. If you can think of Chernetski.
© 10.02.2010 stevendphilbrick SR+ DakotaDawg
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Clarity
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“By the time I recognized this moment; this moment will be gone.” Maybe not but that does not seem to bring clarity.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/clarity -
clar•i•ty /ˈklærɪti/ [klar-i-tee]
–noun
1. clearness or lucidity as to perception or understanding; freedom from indistinctness or ambiguity.
2. the state or quality of being clear or transparent to the eye; pellucidity: the clarity of pure water…
—Synonyms
1. intelligibility, exactness, simplicity.
I beg to differ. Intelligibility and exactness are functions of clarity. They do not imply or can be replaced by simplicity since simplicity can be even as unclear as something complex or convoluted. Granted something of simplicity may have intelligibility and be exact but it still can remain incomprehensible (like this argument). I strive for clarity though often fall short of the mark.
Poetry, prose and songwriting have the unique characteristic of having remarkable clarity while often far from transparent. It is up to the poet, author or songwriter to make the intention and meaning of a piece discernable; it remains the responsibility of the one processing the information to define that in the unique way it applies to them. When they have achieved that then they have reached a clarity that may remain clear only to them.
Many original thinkers intentionally obfuscate to obtain clarity. This appears counterintuitive but this tactic works quite well. Obfuscation normally leads to initial confusion but inevitably the consequence is clarity. Baffling, befuddling and bewildering an audience or our peers is a sure way to insure that they get the point if they are not lost in the process. If camouflaging the intent or the message is successful then when the intent is finally revealed it is most clearly understood and remembered. Mentors and teachers utilize this technique frequently to drive home a point.
Simple things simply do not seem as important as more complicated things. It is as simple as that.
What is my point? Usually it is something very simple but it often takes the Devil’s Advocate to reveal that.
Is that clear‽
© 09.30.2010 stevendphilbrick SR+ DakotaDawg
“By the time I recognized this moment; this moment will be gone.” Maybe not but that does not seem to bring clarity.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/clarity -
clar•i•ty /ˈklærɪti/ [klar-i-tee]
–noun
1. clearness or lucidity as to perception or understanding; freedom from indistinctness or ambiguity.
2. the state or quality of being clear or transparent to the eye; pellucidity: the clarity of pure water…
—Synonyms
1. intelligibility, exactness, simplicity.
I beg to differ. Intelligibility and exactness are functions of clarity. They do not imply or can be replaced by simplicity since simplicity can be even as unclear as something complex or convoluted. Granted something of simplicity may have intelligibility and be exact but it still can remain incomprehensible (like this argument). I strive for clarity though often fall short of the mark.
Poetry, prose and songwriting have the unique characteristic of having remarkable clarity while often far from transparent. It is up to the poet, author or songwriter to make the intention and meaning of a piece discernable; it remains the responsibility of the one processing the information to define that in the unique way it applies to them. When they have achieved that then they have reached a clarity that may remain clear only to them.
Many original thinkers intentionally obfuscate to obtain clarity. This appears counterintuitive but this tactic works quite well. Obfuscation normally leads to initial confusion but inevitably the consequence is clarity. Baffling, befuddling and bewildering an audience or our peers is a sure way to insure that they get the point if they are not lost in the process. If camouflaging the intent or the message is successful then when the intent is finally revealed it is most clearly understood and remembered. Mentors and teachers utilize this technique frequently to drive home a point.
Simple things simply do not seem as important as more complicated things. It is as simple as that.
What is my point? Usually it is something very simple but it often takes the Devil’s Advocate to reveal that.
Is that clear‽
© 09.30.2010 stevendphilbrick SR+ DakotaDawg
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