hermit

It is possible to live as a Hermit, and Amish Atheist, in Irvine.


I don't answer my landline, my cell doesn't work at home, I often don't use the computer at home.



I have designed circuits in Verilog, written code, GUIs, medical devices, crypto, metnworking etc.  Built digital logging geiger counters, chemistry, x-ray generators from scratch.  Unix from Sunos 4.3 to Ubuntu.  I like firearms.  Made thermite from beach sand.  Raised a cat for 18 years.  Grow catnip.  WokADog.

You probably don't want to fuck with me.   I mean, intellectually.  Physically, we don't go there.  A thumbscrew will convert 95% of humanity.  A thumbscrew on their child gets the other 5%.


Hi Gen'l Alex. Nosuchagency.

Rome did not fall in a day.
Folks in glass empires ought not throw drones.

dog park

Took dog to DP in a loaner car that's not supposed to have pets.  Or go to mexico.
(Duh)  Or smoke.  Well, two of three... but I bought those newcarsmell trees and will deploy.  Loaner is too big and drives differently.  I don't need electrical carseat adjustment.  I like the moonroof.  But for $2K I get my familiar Subaru with another year or two.  I want to give it to my nearly 14 year old son in 2 years.



Told a newcomer to DP family/dog to unleash, dog loved running free.  A bit dominant but not seriously ill behaved.  It was a adopted from a 'foster parent' who got it from someone who could no longer care for it.  Cool.  they were friendly persians who had found the DP because they needed to get rid of paint and the Irvine haz waste dropoff is right next door.

(In fact I like snagging useful chems from them when I visit, but they're closed on Sun and Mon, and the DP is closed on Weds.)

The DP city staff posted something saying they'll remove dogbowls.  WTF, dogs sniff butts, nosetouch, roll in poop, do you really think shared bowls are a problem?

I am considering epoxying a bowl to the infrastructure.  Or, bring cutup milk jugs.




Listening to Adrian Belew, acoustic.

happy happy

Working less hard, less stress, good drive, paid more.  Happy.

And long term potential for 'career' and improving human health too.

PS: your buttscope was used on other people... if you ever had a colonoscopy..

You could get prion diseases or bacterial if not properly dried.  Otherwise, just some bacterial endospores.

You can't sell space exploration forever, but people will pay for health tech forever.

Wash Post WTF pic

Why is there a picture of someone at a tomato festival (I think) next to a chemical weapons thread?

historical jewish tomato harvesting

During late 1951 Eddie decided to try growing tomatoes in south Florida. The timing was perfect for him. The growing season for tomatoes didn’t start until the growing season in upstate New York ended, and it was over in time for Eddie to return to New York. He shipped his equipment to Florida and rented a modest field near Homestead, south of Miami, where he successfully grew a tomato crop.

The following summer he spoke enthusiastically about Florida farming to my father, and convinced him that he should join him in a larger tomato growing venture during the coming winter growing season. 

My parents would usually close their tavern for a winter vacation in Florida. The vacations had been limited when my sisters were in high school because they objected to missing classes, but once they both went to college and I was the only public school student, the vacation periods lengthened. I didn’t particularly mind missing some school. Although the school administration objected to my leaving school for a time, my father told them that he and my mother were going to Florida, and did they expect them to leave me home alone? While I was away, they marked my report card “on vacation” for the time that I was gone. Only one teacher, Miss Bennett, the mathematics teacher, penalized me by not letting me return to intermediate algebra, because she thought that I had missed too much while on vacation.

Growing Tomatos in Florida

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 01, 2010

Growing Tomatos in Florida

My uncle Eddie was a full time farmer. A bachelor for most of his life, he didn’t own a home. Most years he boarded with my uncle Max or with my uncle Harry during the vegetable growing season in upstate New York. Eddie didn’t like winter, and at the end of the farming season he usually drove his gray Hudson pick up truck to Florida.

Vegetable farming, or “truck farming” as it was generally known, did not require a great deal of equipment. The typical crops were corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, and various types of summer and winter squash. The major piece of equipment was a tractor equipped with a plow to till the soil, a harrow or disc to break up the plowed soil, cultivators to destroy weeds growing in the rows, and a trailer to haul bags of fertilizer and hand tools throughout the fields and to bring the ripe produce to a central point. A lot of the work was manual labor: cutting the weeds away from each growing plant with a long handled hoe. 

when I was a kid I had to "rake rocks" from the new england terrain.  I got too much sun; will probably kill me.  Also, it sucked.

Now, I farm cannabis in potting soil in 5 gal pots, bottom irrigated for the most part, at ca. 30 lat.

Jack, dig? 

This is one and a half potato chips per minute. from sun

At max Arizona Noon June insolation, 1000 W/m^2.

that is 1000 joules / sec / m^2

BTW I am supposedly 2.4 m^2 according to my Dr :-)
so half my body (eg, lying on the beach) is ca. 1 m^2.

1000 J = 1000 J / 4.12 J/cal = 250 cal = 0.25 Cal.  Per sec. (as watts are j/sec)


60/4 = 15 Cal per minute.  

This is one and a half potato chips per minute.

final solution

Everyone in govt --kill them. And their wives.

They are terrorists.  Enemies of the state.

If you are not in US, and you see a US person, off them.
Otherwise, treat them as your master.

Your choice.

Idle: 550 rpm
Idle with AC: 700 rpm
diff: 150 rpm

freeway: 3000 rpm

550 rpm / 60 sec/min = 9 rps.

9 RPS (measured) X 2.5L (nom total cylinder cap) X 0.25 (Otto four-stroke) = 5.6 L/sec

I personally breathe maybe a tenth of that?   Or less?

I once freaked on a concrete-lined freeway into LA when I realized all these creeping cars were competing with me for oxygen.

need to figure out caloric intake

egypt, libertarian apologetica for tariff suggestion

1. Egypt is in civil war, few say this
2. Egypt military took over but USG won't say "coup" because this cuts off
$USD 1,500,000,000 bribe to Egypt military ie puppet control of egypt
3. US prefers EG mil to Mus Bros because MB is related to Al Q and very
much less manipulable.  Not many USG handlers of MB members, cf .mil.
4. But USG has lost the caliphate, the crusades were fired up again ~1982
and the muslims won thirty years later.  Look at USSR btw in .af.  And project for .us.

Beware foreign entanglements --Gen Washington.

Limit borders ---impose import tariffs--- buy open market resources but do not colonize, or support, any foreign govt, including Israelies or various Middle Eastern puppet kingdoms.  Sure, develop renewables including nuclear, and help the Canadians with their exports.  Limit population.  Build infrastructure, not wars = enemies.

Stay the F out of european, asian, middle eastern wars.  Be a leader by example, like Switzerland.

The BoR is beautiful, respect it.  Or earn disdain for not respecting it.
This is how "values" work.


BTW, tariffs (as cautiously proposed, above) are counter to pure lib principles.
I am currently working this out.
I may be wrong, though I think *in the current evil environment* I may be right.
That's admittedly a horrible distortion.
In a real free market, such intervention would be immoral.

Maybe this is a reaction to (unexeceptional) human obsolescence,
and the usual exponential pop growth.  Malthus is undeniable.

Maybe civ collapses in 20 years (2038 anyone? :-) and we're drying deer hides on the guard rails of freeways, see Fight Club.  Maybe misremembered.   I only hope my kid is adaptive.  and immune if there's an epidemic.  my personal survival instinct is somewhat atrophied after 49 orbits.  I do like my felines, canids, corvids, captured tweety, hummingbird, bats, lizards, mice, rates, but I am very
Engaged with Nature.

And so, amused by the tragicomedy of human affairs.  Anthropologist from Mars.

minaret fire

Face it, the Islamic Minaret is the awesomest sniper tower ever, like that (Chicago?) university thing dozens of years ago.  That was just a psycho not a whole geopoliticoreligious thang.

Let my people go, vs. shoot random people.



High ground.  Always useful.

Also, hot air balloons, blimps, airplanes, ICBMs, and satellites.  Yum.

Fox and rabbits.

Over and out

dispatching jobs

Among my most brilliant and spontaneous exclamations ever.

Someone was talkiing about an apple server dispatching (ie executing, running) jobs (ie, tasks, threads, processes).

I overheard, I said, I thought pancreatic cancer dispatched Jobs.

jobs

He had a real orphaned child complex, with abandonment appearing prominently in this article.

Newton and Darwin and Einstein. Newton was a brilliant loon, ran the mint; Darwin I think depressive in old age but my buddy (I'd give a year of my life to meet him); and Einstein a dick towards his first wife, also my buddy. I'd also trade a year for a day with Newton.

But, so what? Meat vs. mind.

I wouldn't with Jobs though. Feynmann, Teller, many others, yes.

hit reset now

The question is, does it really surprise you? 

That the USG would cooperate with people like that?  That it would kill US citizens without due process?  That it would record all senators' emails, so they can be manipulated?   And yours, in case you ever need to be manipulated? 

What, exactly, is surprising to you? 

TRADECRAFT, baby.

"National security" should not be the backdoor root password to the Constitution.

Time to hit RESET and re-image from the original parchment.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/09/did-an-8-year-old-spy-for-america/309429/4/?google_editors_picks=true#comments

cognitive dissonance

Went for a pre-screen "illegal drug" urine test, then visited my dispensary.

do the math

moses
zealots
osama bin laden

terrorism

In November 2004, a United Nations Secretary General report described terrorism as any act "intended to cause death or serious bodily harm to civilians or non-combatants with the purpose of intimidating a population or compelling a government or an international organization to do or abstain from doing any act".^[19]


So remote missile attacks by one country on another's population, to convince that population not to offend the missileer's population, is terrorism.

Got that Obama?

ordnung

Nonresistance (or non-resistance) is generally defined as "the practice or principle of not resisting authority, even when it is unjustly exercised".^[1] At its core is discouragement of, even opposition to, physical resistance to an enemy. It is considered as a form of principled nonviolence or pacifism which rejects all physical violence, whether exercised on individual, group, state or international levels. Practitioners of nonresistance may refuse to retaliate against an opponent or offer any form of self-defense. Nonresistance is often associated with particular religious groups.

The following is a general list and not exhaustive.^[14][15]

• Motorized vehicles are not to be owned or driven. The Amish may request a neighbor to drive them, or may hire a driver and rent a car.
• The Amish may not travel on an airplane.
• Clothing codes are to be followed:
  • Males are to wear hats when outside. Black is for the winter, straw color is for the warmer months.
  • Suspenders, not belts, keep up the trousers.
  • Once boys marry, they are expected to grow a beard but shave their upper lip. Unmarried boys must be clean-shaved.
  • Mustaches are frowned upon, because in German culture they have historically been associated with military officers.
  • Clothing must be home sewn.
  • Women are never to shave any part of their body nor to cut their hair.
  • Females must keep their head covered, usually with a prayer bonnet. The color denotes marital status (different colors may be used by different settlements).
• Social Security or other commercial insurance is forbidden.
• Children are to attend school through the eighth grade. After that, they are expected to work on the farm or in the home. A parent may find them a job to bring in additional income for the family.
• Full-length mirrors are forbidden, because they are thought to promote vanity and self-admiration.
• Jewelry is not to be worn, not even wedding rings. Other symbols (beards for men, and black bonnets for women) are used, in lieu of rings, to represent marital status.
• An Amish person who has taken the church vow, and who has been found guilty by the bishop of breaking one of the Ordnung rules, can be punished by the Meidung (excommunication or shunning).
• Mobile vehicles, such as buggies or farm implements, must not have rubber tires.
• (Among the Old Order) Church members must not be photographed.
• (Among the Old Order) Telephones are forbidden.
• The use of batteries is allowed (in some districts) for emergency flashlights and similar devices, but discouraged in the home.
• Word processors (powered by generator or DC) are allowed for school and church administrative use. Only non-electric typewriters are used in the home.
• Electricity is not allowed in the home. Electrical energy is allowed in community dairy barns, but only generator power (not grid power).
• Those who are able to work must do so from Monday through Saturday. On Sunday, however, no laborious work is to be done.
• Amish young women and young men are expected to marry other Amish.

Examples of Practices Prescribed by the Ordnung:

• color and style of clothing
• hat styles for men
• order of worship service
• kneeling for prayer in worship
• marriage within the church
• use of horses for fieldwork
• use of Pennsylvania German
• steel wheels on machinery

Examples of Practices Prohibited by the Ordnung:

• air transportation
• central heating in houses
• divorce
• electricity from public power lines
• entering military service
• filing a lawsuit
• jewelry, including wedding rings and wrist watches
• joining worldly (public) organizations
• owning computers, televisions, radios
• owning and operating an automobile
• pipeline milking equipment
• using tractors for fieldwork
• wall-to-wall carpeting

— Donald B. Kraybill , The Riddle of Amish Culture, Revised Edition p.115

• Electricity from utility companies is considered worldly. Bottled gas may be used to heat water, fuel ranges, and run refrigerators. Gas-pressured or kerosene lanterns provide lighting. Batteries power the red lights on buggies. Gasoline generators may provide energy for washing machines, water pumps, and agricultural equipment.

• Telephones may be placed in booths, an unlocked barn, or an Amish school. Cellular phones and voice mail, may only be used by a business to compete, but this is permitted on a case by case basis.

• The Amish travel in horse-drawn buggies, and use horses to pull farm machinery. The horse allows them to take life at a slower pace, and it puts limits on their lives, slowing their work, and requiring additional labor. If business or personal needs necessitate a longer drive, the Amish may hire a taxi.

• The Amish complete their eighth grade education in a one-room private school, taught by an Amish teacher who also attended school through the eighth grade. The skills of spelling, English, German, mathematics, geography, and health are taught. Some basic science may be taught about animals, stars, and planets. Religion is not taught as a subject, but is an important part of the school program, especially as it relates to behavior.

"Amish practices evolve over time. As modernization takes place, the Amish negotiate to what degree they will accept and utilize technology and other practices of the outside world. This cultural compromise has allowed the Amish to remain a distinct group, yet survive economically."^[16]








Perhaps the oldest recorded statement of nonresistance philosophy is that of Socrates around 399 BC. An influential ancient Greekphilosopher, Socrates was sentenced to death by the Athenian democracy for teaching his students to question authority and think for themselves. Socrates accepted his fate on reasons of morality and justice, rather than accept help from his supporters to fleeAthens and escape execution.









Gandhi's Satyagraha movement was based on a belief in resistance that was active but at the same time nonviolent, and he did not believe in using non-resistance (or even nonviolent resistance) in circumstances where a failure to oppose an adversary effectively amounted to cowardice. 'I do believe,' he wrote, 'that where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.'"^[2]



Author James R. Graham wrote, "The Christian is not a pacifist, he is a non-participationist."



(yes btw I am scanning wikipedia..)

Boko Haram

Boko Haram

Literally, books are forbidden/bad.

LOL.

I figure a few megatons in the right places in afrika will
fix things right up.  And solve that overpop problem.

Anything flies out of afrika, shoot it down.

feinstein goes full fascist

Feinstein decides who is of the privledged reporter class, and the rest of us livestock

http://www.infowars.com/feinstein-youre-not-a-real-journalist-unless-you-draw-a-salary/

Find a tree I've got rope