What was that? Hendel?
Whatever… Very impressive.
Unflappable technique!
Impeckable rhythm…
Layser intensity.
Further proof that success is 1% inspiration and 99%…just pecking away.
Kudos, too, to the teacher…
After seeing this, I know I have a chance!!
Clever Hans
Open Threat – Monday topical:
Red Sea Crisis: Houthi Shipping Attacks, Trade and Escalation – Perun
Timestamps:
00:00:00 — Red Sea Crisis
00:01:14 — What Am I Talking About
00:02:05 — Setting The Stage
00:11:49 — Motivation And Strikes
00:14:04 — Engagements And Targets
00:20:40 — Diversions And The Economics Of Disruptions
00:28:35 — Forces And Responses
00:40:36 — Options For Escalation
00:48:33 — The Chokepoint Problem
00:58:57 — Why This Matters
01:06:32 — Conclusion
01:06:56 — Channel Update
Not Hendel, Barry (good guess, though!), nor Barcoq, but Pulletccinni.
Barry Meislin; sdferr:
Eggsactly.
Over, easy.
om, of course Al cannot play the accordion but these young Bubs hit all the right notes.
(You can see just how confusing, chaotic, and contradictory the various theories about UFOs, NHIs, and their origins and essence are.)
After many years of UFO report gathering and study UFO researcher John Keel, author of the book “Operation Trojan Horse,” came up with his “Ultraterrestrial hypothesis” which was essentially based on and in accord with the ideas of long time French UFO researcher Jacques Vallee.
According to this analysis of the UFO Phenomenon, it is not an extraterrestrial phenomenon but a terrestrial one; UFOs and their apparent occupants merely the latest disguise of a phenomenon which has been with the human race, here on Earth, since our earliest beginnings.
As Keel saw it, all “High Strangeness” phenomena—UFOs, apparent Aliens, cryptids, poltergeists, Portals to other dimensions, Bigfoot, ghosts, some crop circles, and other apparitions–even various religious phenomena–originate from the same source, some type of intelligence, far superior to ours, which, it may be, exists in both it’s own higher dimension and in ours, and which can manifest in our dimension in any guise it wants.
Thus, in each era of human’s progress it’s manifestation has been clothed in the ideas and images of the times—it the earliest times it probably appeared as a spirit of the earth, air, fire, water, or forest, later as a god or goddess, later still as a demon or angel and, more recently, as some form of technology.
As Vallee analyzed things, this entity’s main strategy is to present itself in ways which are “absurd,” confusing, and hard for us to fit into the framework and boundaries of our consensus Reality; thus, pushing those boundaries.
Vallee saw this as a psychological ploy, as deliberate “intermittent reinforcement,” which is designed to push humanity and it’s ideas in a particular direction, and to create a “mythology.”
The main objection I see to this hypothesis is that we already have UFOs which are very obviously nuts and bolts technology.
One solution may be that in the case of the UFO Phenomenon we are dealing with an even more confusing mixture of two entirely different things—with extraterrestrials i.e. alien entities coming here from other star systems using technological means, but also with Earth based Ultraterrestrials. *
(Yes, I am aware of Occam’s’ Razor, and how it might apply here.)
Amusing to watch and always reminds me of my Orpingtons. Very docile and cuddly chickens, even the rooster. Quite cooperative.
My favorite “doesn’t look like it should” are the gals with the cat circus. Not so cooperative. Especially impressed with the cat jumping through a paper hoop on pedestals.
Just thought of something. There are UV lasers, they should have used one of those as chickens can see UV.
RE: UFOs
I am getting the sneaking suspicion that our ancient ancestors, traditional societies, and even very primitive ones, may have had a much clearer and firmer conception and grasp of the true nature of Reality than we, supposedly sophisticated and educated people, have today.
Try some peyote or mescaline or …. get in touch with the “real” nature of existence? Or not. UFOs are out there or in here, and always have been. …..
Unicorns, tried and true.
Re: Chicken
I had seconds of fun until I noticed the pink highlight under the next key.
My favorite chicken/music story:
______________________________________
Steve Kotler’s “West of Jesus: Surfing, Science and the Origins of Belief,” about his recovery from Lyme disease through surfing and spirituality, contains a curious account of a neuroscientist playing albums to a room full of chickens. The fowl were wired to equipment that recorded their “shivers of pleasure.” Pink Floyd’s “The Final Cut” album made them shiver the most.
There are better Floyd albums. What were the chickens shivering about? 🙂
Now let’s see if Biden can follow the red light, with or without Dr. Jill
“ Try some peyote or mescaline”…
If you want to see rainbow feathered serpent people.
Try some peyote or mescaline
Hey! Youse guys are forgetting mushrooms.
I go straight to my source, the Boomer Shroomer Lady, a relentlessly positive suburban woman who will give you the straight … um … dope on growing magic mushrooms in your home.
_______________________________
Hi, Ashley here and today I’m going to show you how to grow mushrooms from start to finish.
Today I watched “Valley Uprising” about the generations of fanatical climbers who climb the walls of Yosemite.
I’m a clumsy person with a fear of heights so I could only watch the film for 5-10 minutes at a time.
But it was worth it — a fascinating, inspiring story, which paralleled the story of surfing since the 1950s. In both cases there were all these post-WW2 high-testosterone young American males with an urge for adventure which the 50s zeitgeist didn’t accommodate.
So they did something else.
The story of surfing and mountain-wall-climbing are much the same. I just didn’t know the wall climbing side of the story.
Wall-climbing evolved from full-on mountaineering expeditions to put on your climbing shoes and hang a bag of chalk dust off your belt, then climb solo like a monkey to the top of El Capitan trying to beat a stopwatch.
F*** me.
I feel honored to be a member of a species which could produce such amazing people.
DEEBEE on January 1, 2024 at 7:18 pm said:
Now let’s see if Biden can follow the red light, with or without Dr. Jill
Are you saying Biden is hen pecked?
There were pscilisibin mushrooms (sic?) supposedly growing on campus at OSU in Corvallis in the late 70’s. I was too focused on grad school at the time to find out if it was true. There were quite a few old hippies there at the time, but more in Eugene I was told.
Wow. Triple wow. The Harvard Crimson:
_________________________________
It has been less than half a year since Gay assumed one of the most prestigious posts in all of academia. Since then, scandal after scandal has plagued our beloved university.
The president of Harvard must be a formidable leader, capable of managing thousands of the brightest minds on the planet, a widely revered international brand, and a multi-billion-dollar bureaucratic behemoth. Further, by way of its field-leading eminences, Harvard exerts influence — and encounters controversy — at the highest levels of politics and policymaking, which often presents challenges for its leader and public face.
In other words, Harvard’s presidency is no mere empty honor; it is a deeply challenging managerial job with deeply challenging duties, not least of which is navigating national outcry.
In each of these respects, Gay has failed. The Harvard Corporation must find a leader who can do better.
Yeah.
AesopSpouse was the Scout leader on several wall- and rock-climbing expeditions, although nothing approaching the pros and, um, fanatics.
I was pleased to see that the young women of our church were just as willing to rope up as the boys were. One girl (and father) has since hiked up at least part of Everest and other major peaks.
I can’t find it now, of course, but my favorite video of a climber shows his strength and agility, then pans over to the photographer climbing the same route in parallel, but packing a couple hundred pounds of camera gear.
Yeah.
Reminds me of this Studio C sketch of “The Piano Guys Behind ThePianoGuys”
My bet is Claudine Gay is Dead Harvard President Walking.
Not that I mean she should be dead, as one must immediately affirm, just that in near term she will no longer be the President of Harvard.
I was pleased to see that the young women of our church were just as willing to rope up as the boys were.
AesopFan:
Not to get into a big male/female thing, but I was floored by this young woman, Lynn Hill, who was a member of the Stonemasters tribe of Yosemite climbers:
____________________________________
[Lynn Hill] is famous for making the first free ascent of the difficult sheer rock face of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley, and for repeating it the next year in less than 24 hours. She has been described as both one of the best female climbers in the world and one of the best climbers in the history of the sport.
That piece in the Crimson saying Gay needs to go was a dissent from the main Crimson editorial, which said she should stay. Here’s the main editorial that represents the majority view.
neo:
You can be such a buzz-kill. 🙂
OK. I’ll settle for the consolation prize of a dissent.
But I still say Gay is Dead Harvard President Walking.
huxley:
That’s my nickname: “buzz-kill.”
Or “mellow-harsher.”
O Mio Babbino Caro?
RE: China and it’s “ghost cities”
Here is a video highlighting one of those ghost cities, one of Xi’s vanity projects, Xiong’an New Area, in Hebei, a “Millenium Project of National Significance,” budgeted at $110 Billion, including it’s deserted railway station, the largest in Asia, with a footprint equal to 66 football fields, now surrounded by fields of weeds, and reportedly with only one train a day to Beijing.
That aria, O Mio Babbino Caro, always moves me to the edge of tears. I didn’t get quite the same “shiver of pleasure” from the chicken as I do from a human woman, though. I like this version by Kiri Te Kanawa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TQFYxrcz_Q
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But can AI play the accordion?
Happy New Year!
Oh yeah? Looks easy. Can a chicken do this?
Great Balls of fire
What was that? Hendel?
Whatever… Very impressive.
Unflappable technique!
Impeckable rhythm…
Layser intensity.
Further proof that success is 1% inspiration and 99%…just pecking away.
Kudos, too, to the teacher…
After seeing this, I know I have a chance!!
Clever Hans
Open Threat – Monday topical:
Red Sea Crisis: Houthi Shipping Attacks, Trade and Escalation – Perun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GKlKYQDDcQ
Not Hendel, Barry (good guess, though!), nor Barcoq, but Pulletccinni.
Barry Meislin; sdferr:
Eggsactly.
Over, easy.
om, of course Al cannot play the accordion but these young Bubs hit all the right notes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNHSBb25Lp8&list=PLew96j4P_TeuiMoF6CMMWR7wwdLXwNrOJ&index=9
RE: UFOs and the “Ultraterrestrial hypothesis”
(You can see just how confusing, chaotic, and contradictory the various theories about UFOs, NHIs, and their origins and essence are.)
After many years of UFO report gathering and study UFO researcher John Keel, author of the book “Operation Trojan Horse,” came up with his “Ultraterrestrial hypothesis” which was essentially based on and in accord with the ideas of long time French UFO researcher Jacques Vallee.
According to this analysis of the UFO Phenomenon, it is not an extraterrestrial phenomenon but a terrestrial one; UFOs and their apparent occupants merely the latest disguise of a phenomenon which has been with the human race, here on Earth, since our earliest beginnings.
As Keel saw it, all “High Strangeness” phenomena—UFOs, apparent Aliens, cryptids, poltergeists, Portals to other dimensions, Bigfoot, ghosts, some crop circles, and other apparitions–even various religious phenomena–originate from the same source, some type of intelligence, far superior to ours, which, it may be, exists in both it’s own higher dimension and in ours, and which can manifest in our dimension in any guise it wants.
Thus, in each era of human’s progress it’s manifestation has been clothed in the ideas and images of the times—it the earliest times it probably appeared as a spirit of the earth, air, fire, water, or forest, later as a god or goddess, later still as a demon or angel and, more recently, as some form of technology.
As Vallee analyzed things, this entity’s main strategy is to present itself in ways which are “absurd,” confusing, and hard for us to fit into the framework and boundaries of our consensus Reality; thus, pushing those boundaries.
Vallee saw this as a psychological ploy, as deliberate “intermittent reinforcement,” which is designed to push humanity and it’s ideas in a particular direction, and to create a “mythology.”
The main objection I see to this hypothesis is that we already have UFOs which are very obviously nuts and bolts technology.
One solution may be that in the case of the UFO Phenomenon we are dealing with an even more confusing mixture of two entirely different things—with extraterrestrials i.e. alien entities coming here from other star systems using technological means, but also with Earth based Ultraterrestrials. *
(Yes, I am aware of Occam’s’ Razor, and how it might apply here.)
* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyA6MbRzi1Q
Boiled down to one word: Unicorns.
Amusing to watch and always reminds me of my Orpingtons. Very docile and cuddly chickens, even the rooster. Quite cooperative.
My favorite “doesn’t look like it should” are the gals with the cat circus. Not so cooperative. Especially impressed with the cat jumping through a paper hoop on pedestals.
Just thought of something. There are UV lasers, they should have used one of those as chickens can see UV.
RE: UFOs
I am getting the sneaking suspicion that our ancient ancestors, traditional societies, and even very primitive ones, may have had a much clearer and firmer conception and grasp of the true nature of Reality than we, supposedly sophisticated and educated people, have today.
Try some peyote or mescaline or …. get in touch with the “real” nature of existence? Or not. UFOs are out there or in here, and always have been. …..
Unicorns, tried and true.
Re: Chicken
I had seconds of fun until I noticed the pink highlight under the next key.
My favorite chicken/music story:
______________________________________
Steve Kotler’s “West of Jesus: Surfing, Science and the Origins of Belief,” about his recovery from Lyme disease through surfing and spirituality, contains a curious account of a neuroscientist playing albums to a room full of chickens. The fowl were wired to equipment that recorded their “shivers of pleasure.” Pink Floyd’s “The Final Cut” album made them shiver the most.
https://www.wired.com/2008/10/pink-floyds-the/
______________________________________
There are better Floyd albums. What were the chickens shivering about? 🙂
Now let’s see if Biden can follow the red light, with or without Dr. Jill
“ Try some peyote or mescaline”…
If you want to see rainbow feathered serpent people.
Try some peyote or mescaline
Hey! Youse guys are forgetting mushrooms.
I go straight to my source, the Boomer Shroomer Lady, a relentlessly positive suburban woman who will give you the straight … um … dope on growing magic mushrooms in your home.
_______________________________
Hi, Ashley here and today I’m going to show you how to grow mushrooms from start to finish.
–Boomer Shroomer, “How to Grow Mushrooms from Start to Finish in a Monotub”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm1FgFFzQd4
_______________________________
Is the 21st century amazing or what?
Today I watched “Valley Uprising” about the generations of fanatical climbers who climb the walls of Yosemite.
I’m a clumsy person with a fear of heights so I could only watch the film for 5-10 minutes at a time.
But it was worth it — a fascinating, inspiring story, which paralleled the story of surfing since the 1950s. In both cases there were all these post-WW2 high-testosterone young American males with an urge for adventure which the 50s zeitgeist didn’t accommodate.
So they did something else.
The story of surfing and mountain-wall-climbing are much the same. I just didn’t know the wall climbing side of the story.
Wall-climbing evolved from full-on mountaineering expeditions to put on your climbing shoes and hang a bag of chalk dust off your belt, then climb solo like a monkey to the top of El Capitan trying to beat a stopwatch.
F*** me.
I feel honored to be a member of a species which could produce such amazing people.
DEEBEE on January 1, 2024 at 7:18 pm said:
Now let’s see if Biden can follow the red light, with or without Dr. Jill
Are you saying Biden is hen pecked?
There were pscilisibin mushrooms (sic?) supposedly growing on campus at OSU in Corvallis in the late 70’s. I was too focused on grad school at the time to find out if it was true. There were quite a few old hippies there at the time, but more in Eugene I was told.
Wow. Triple wow. The Harvard Crimson:
_________________________________
It has been less than half a year since Gay assumed one of the most prestigious posts in all of academia. Since then, scandal after scandal has plagued our beloved university.
The president of Harvard must be a formidable leader, capable of managing thousands of the brightest minds on the planet, a widely revered international brand, and a multi-billion-dollar bureaucratic behemoth. Further, by way of its field-leading eminences, Harvard exerts influence — and encounters controversy — at the highest levels of politics and policymaking, which often presents challenges for its leader and public face.
In other words, Harvard’s presidency is no mere empty honor; it is a deeply challenging managerial job with deeply challenging duties, not least of which is navigating national outcry.
In each of these respects, Gay has failed. The Harvard Corporation must find a leader who can do better.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/31/dissent-gay-plagiarism/
_________________________________
The times they are a’changin’.
–Bob Dylan
@ huxley > “fanatical climbers”
Yeah.
AesopSpouse was the Scout leader on several wall- and rock-climbing expeditions, although nothing approaching the pros and, um, fanatics.
I was pleased to see that the young women of our church were just as willing to rope up as the boys were. One girl (and father) has since hiked up at least part of Everest and other major peaks.
I can’t find it now, of course, but my favorite video of a climber shows his strength and agility, then pans over to the photographer climbing the same route in parallel, but packing a couple hundred pounds of camera gear.
Yeah.
Reminds me of this Studio C sketch of “The Piano Guys Behind ThePianoGuys”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUuMhg9NtxY
My bet is Claudine Gay is Dead Harvard President Walking.
Not that I mean she should be dead, as one must immediately affirm, just that in near term she will no longer be the President of Harvard.
I was pleased to see that the young women of our church were just as willing to rope up as the boys were.
AesopFan:
Not to get into a big male/female thing, but I was floored by this young woman, Lynn Hill, who was a member of the Stonemasters tribe of Yosemite climbers:
____________________________________
[Lynn Hill] is famous for making the first free ascent of the difficult sheer rock face of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley, and for repeating it the next year in less than 24 hours. She has been described as both one of the best female climbers in the world and one of the best climbers in the history of the sport.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Hill
huxley:
That piece in the Crimson saying Gay needs to go was a dissent from the main Crimson editorial, which said she should stay. Here’s the main editorial that represents the majority view.
neo:
You can be such a buzz-kill. 🙂
OK. I’ll settle for the consolation prize of a dissent.
But I still say Gay is Dead Harvard President Walking.
huxley:
That’s my nickname: “buzz-kill.”
Or “mellow-harsher.”
O Mio Babbino Caro?
RE: China and it’s “ghost cities”
Here is a video highlighting one of those ghost cities, one of Xi’s vanity projects, Xiong’an New Area, in Hebei, a “Millenium Project of National Significance,” budgeted at $110 Billion, including it’s deserted railway station, the largest in Asia, with a footprint equal to 66 football fields, now surrounded by fields of weeds, and reportedly with only one train a day to Beijing.
* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkReVej9xqA
That aria, O Mio Babbino Caro, always moves me to the edge of tears. I didn’t get quite the same “shiver of pleasure” from the chicken as I do from a human woman, though. I like this version by Kiri Te Kanawa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TQFYxrcz_Q