I'm hoping August... that's when the "monsoon" hits here. 110F + is OK at 10% humidity... but at 40% ughhh!
I wanna go up I-5 & coastal one day at a time... hit V-Island, BC and keep going until I get to Alaska. Do it while there is still oil!
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I wanna go up I-5 & coastal one day at a time... hit V-Island, BC and keep going until I get to Alaska. Do it while there is still oil!
😉
The clock is 3.38 past midnight. In a couple of hours the alarm clock will go off. This is my requiem for the subjectivist.
Unlike the objectivist, the subjectivist has no religion. I wonder who is happier. Can there be life without individuals? Spiritualism is pornography for the mind--always darker, shallower, emptier than the real thing. "Let the dead burry their dead."--Jesus.
Before the days of theoretical knowledge, practical knowledge used to be quite sought after. To hell with Plato, whoever he was. Of course, that was back when taste had value; back when people were subjects and not objects. Everybody's a bureaucrat (if you categorize and divide work into areas of speciality, you ARE a bureaucrat). I'm not a bureaucrat.
Math is a liar. Einstein was wrong. And so were all scientists before him. Some were downright kooks, like self-proclaimed "Pope of Positivism" Comte. Other famous positivists: Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot. Who can ever forget them? All knowledge comes only from the senses.
Reason is the enemy of the rational. Rational means to take optimal action based on what you know and want. The Holocaust was rationalism and an IBM computer. Voltaire was a man of reason. How can I not be irrational?
Unlike the objectivist, the subjectivist has no religion. I wonder who is happier. Can there be life without individuals? Spiritualism is pornography for the mind--always darker, shallower, emptier than the real thing. "Let the dead burry their dead."--Jesus.
Before the days of theoretical knowledge, practical knowledge used to be quite sought after. To hell with Plato, whoever he was. Of course, that was back when taste had value; back when people were subjects and not objects. Everybody's a bureaucrat (if you categorize and divide work into areas of speciality, you ARE a bureaucrat). I'm not a bureaucrat.
Math is a liar. Einstein was wrong. And so were all scientists before him. Some were downright kooks, like self-proclaimed "Pope of Positivism" Comte. Other famous positivists: Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot. Who can ever forget them? All knowledge comes only from the senses.
Reason is the enemy of the rational. Rational means to take optimal action based on what you know and want. The Holocaust was rationalism and an IBM computer. Voltaire was a man of reason. How can I not be irrational?
Both your homes sound like my native Ontario in the summer. Must be a mid-West thang. I thought it was great having the cycling routes for myself when the Humidex hit 110 or 120.
You're sailing... sorry, motoring past the Island poobah? I'm on the mainland, hours away. Also moving a radio station and expanding another in August so can only promise to play it by ear if you're in the area. Hope you get to take that trip, Vancouver Island's west coast is awesome. Did the Coast highway a few years ago too. Loved the Oregon section.
You're sailing... sorry, motoring past the Island poobah? I'm on the mainland, hours away. Also moving a radio station and expanding another in August so can only promise to play it by ear if you're in the area. Hope you get to take that trip, Vancouver Island's west coast is awesome. Did the Coast highway a few years ago too. Loved the Oregon section.
Hey rdf,
No... not sailing... that is in the plan someday... when I'm rich (ish/er). Just want to drive and camp, do some hotels where personal hygiene demands it... VC island for sure.
phn,
I don't know whether to argue or put $20 in the plate and pass it on...
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No... not sailing... that is in the plan someday... when I'm rich (ish/er). Just want to drive and camp, do some hotels where personal hygiene demands it... VC island for sure.
phn,
I don't know whether to argue or put $20 in the plate and pass it on...
😉
Hi. I haven't posted for a while but I 'lurk' from time to time and get reminders when some threads are revived.
The speaker business is good - We've expanded our team and have a new product due (overdue) for release (pics on web site). Am currently talking to the money-men.
Regards
Steve
The speaker business is good - We've expanded our team and have a new product due (overdue) for release (pics on web site). Am currently talking to the money-men.
Regards
Steve
You don't need anything when you've got a case of insomnia.
I thought the thread had run its course anyway. If that excuse doesn't do it. Well somebody has to stick up for the subjectivists. There's no place for them in the mechanistic world. Taste, as I remembered it, used to mean French cuisine. Today it's a Happy Meal. I don't like this small world of ours. Greatness is a past tense.
I thought the thread had run its course anyway. If that excuse doesn't do it. Well somebody has to stick up for the subjectivists. There's no place for them in the mechanistic world. Taste, as I remembered it, used to mean French cuisine. Today it's a Happy Meal. I don't like this small world of ours. Greatness is a past tense.
phn said:
I've often thought that when insomnia causes the infringement of dreams onto the waking state, some pretty spacey things can happen.
A few days without sleep and we should be able to evaluate the sound of a 'snake oil' by its colour.
PS: Do you remember when 'quality' was a noun and not an adjective?
Well, I know the two worst things that ever happened to audio: "high-end" and digital.
Since high-end means high-price, higher price always means better. Thus price as a competitive factor is taken out of the equation. Enter the Linn Knekt Kivor system, which is a PC and Linux OS in a swank chassis sold at a 2000-pct mark-up!
And digital means audio went abstract. The digital fans will tell you the CD (or SACD) is superior to vinyl. Then they will prove it by showing you the measurements. Never again need we bother with the irrationality of the real world.
Since high-end means high-price, higher price always means better. Thus price as a competitive factor is taken out of the equation. Enter the Linn Knekt Kivor system, which is a PC and Linux OS in a swank chassis sold at a 2000-pct mark-up!
And digital means audio went abstract. The digital fans will tell you the CD (or SACD) is superior to vinyl. Then they will prove it by showing you the measurements. Never again need we bother with the irrationality of the real world.
Konnichiwa,
A most eloquent summation of the malaise of the modern times.
Worse, the happy meal eaters tend to insist theirs is the best and only food and tend to throw stones and abuse against anyone who still displays taste and the willingness to be adventerous in cooking.
Did you perchance note that time when Jamie Oliver (fairly famous UK Chef) tried to get the schools to serve healthier, tastier food to the children? They refused to EAT. They actually INSISTED on having their Junk Food.
The present may look bleak, but I really fear for the future, though not as much as being still around to see it happen....
Sayonara
phn said:
A most eloquent summation of the malaise of the modern times.
Worse, the happy meal eaters tend to insist theirs is the best and only food and tend to throw stones and abuse against anyone who still displays taste and the willingness to be adventerous in cooking.
Did you perchance note that time when Jamie Oliver (fairly famous UK Chef) tried to get the schools to serve healthier, tastier food to the children? They refused to EAT. They actually INSISTED on having their Junk Food.
The present may look bleak, but I really fear for the future, though not as much as being still around to see it happen....
Sayonara
You got that right . . . but how about the past? That has to be the worst thing of all! My avatar is proof enough - W.S. Churchill with a tommy gun. (By the way, please could you explain your avatar?)
Yes...unreal ... now the British government wants to do that all around the country. But at schools where this is already implemented..some kids bring sweets to school to sell to the other kids. One boy boasted that he makes around 80 uk pounds a day profit. It won't be long before other boys will be doing the same and gang wars will break out!!
Kuei Yang Wang said:
Not at all! 😎
What I regret most about the future is that I will be dead in 30 years (tops) and not be able to see all the great developments and changes that are over the horizon.
The future is bright, because it is the future WE are building. I refuse to give in to doom and lethargy.
At times like this, it is good to remember that there have always been times like this.
THESE are the good old times!
Jan Didden
On the other hand it could well be that as a result of Jamie Oliver's initiative and the massive publicity, school diet improves and the improvements filter into the British diet generally.
Why the negativity? Does anyone think that the situation was better before Jamie Oliver's campaign?
Steve
Why the negativity? Does anyone think that the situation was better before Jamie Oliver's campaign?
Steve
In fact, kids have always preferred to eat rubbish, I know I did thirty odd years ago. I don't think anything has changed at all, apart from our generation being a little too soft on them.
It is indeed not gonna change everytinh in one day...
As you state: It'll slip in the everydays habits, bit by bit...
They'll be going back from mars-bars & fastfood, back to breadpudding, , greens, sheppards pie, salad and other more traditional and healthier food. But it won't be tomorrow (Nor next week)
Paul
PS: Aren't we a bit offtopic?
As you state: It'll slip in the everydays habits, bit by bit...
They'll be going back from mars-bars & fastfood, back to breadpudding, , greens, sheppards pie, salad and other more traditional and healthier food. But it won't be tomorrow (Nor next week)
Paul
PS: Aren't we a bit offtopic?
7V said:
Belgian schools have outlawed Coke vending machines in the schools. Kids are not allowed to bring in soda's from home. The reason was that Coke and related soda's were shown to contribute significantly to runaway obesity among Belgian kids.
I don't know if it is enforced and how successfull, but apparently there was enough political support to get it through.
Jan Didden
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