My Jeep again...

...now with new tires, new shocks, a small lift, etc.



A mountain bike that someone wanted a picture of, I should have taken it out of the store room:

That's cool.

Apparently my blog has kept getting hits without me thanks to Google and the like, mainly people using GIS to search for windsurfing pictures. Plus it's spring and I like thinking about it, so here's a repost of some of the first pictures that I posted here.









Here's a video, it's DIVX.

My Jeep

Apparently I'm not going to update the way I should, although I have a couple of stories in mind. So instead here's a picture of a Jeep I just bought and a picture of my new mountain bike.

An Easter Egg Hunt

(I'm combining and revising two old short stories with a similar mix of metaphors for this post.)

A story, about some lil' eggs and some lil' guys trying to seek and find them. They both really want to greet and meet because they have some lil' genetic messages to deliver.

Some eggs just sit there. They do not try to deliver their message. For they are just an egg that is destined to be passive. After all, how can they deliver the message? So these prissy and prudish little eggs die in their predestined passivity.

Other eggs, they want to deliver their message very much. It's fun to deliver their message and it gives them a good feeling. So they wish some lil' guy would come along and deliver his message to them too. In fact, all they ever do is talk with other eggs about delivering their message or if he will deliver his lil' message. They chatter, oh how they chatter! They put the chit in "chit chat" with a little talk here and a lil' talk there. There is always some talk....will the genetic code be delivered? When will it be delivered? Is the delivery sperm here? Is there a male man with a message for her?

This type of egg gets a lil' frustrated with it all! So they do what the passive eggs don't do. They send out their tender little tendrils and signs to show the way. Then, perhaps the lil' guys will seek and find? No? If things don't match the will of these eggs then their tender lil' tendrils become a little stronger and the perfume that the little guys just can't seem to follow becomes stronger too. Then, a little stronger.... In the end, it seems that the tender lil' tendrils are not so tender at all. Their perfume turns to a smothering poison and their tendrils have a strangle hold on the little guys who are trying to seek and find! So then this sinister type of egg who puts out so much suffocating perfume dies when she smothers herself in her own emotional will. She did not deliver her message either.

Now, some lil' eggs have knowledge and Wisdom about things. They just know. So they do what eggs do. They send out their little tendrils and signs to show the way to them. They use their perfume just so, with nothing too much and nothing found wanting. Somehow, they just know how destiny will go. They aren't too passive or too active and their lil' tendrils are so tender. Yet somehow they know when a bad guy comes along and their lil' tendrils which were so soft get very strong! The evil lil' guy is no match and her signs lead him around in little circles until he dies. For the Wisdom of the true egg is quite wise and so they are wise to the ways of some guys.

Eventually her tender lil' tendrils and signs attract the lil' guy who is seeking and trying to be finding. He finds what he seeks and they speak the truth in love to each other. She tells him her messsage and thanks him for his designs, as he has some designs that complement her plan.

So they both run the race layed out for them....and it is just a little bit of a racy race because in the human race the Truth and Love combine so that new Life comes alive!

The other side of the tale is a story of many tails which goes something like this:

Once upon a time a group of lil' guys found themselves in a whole new world that was alien to them. They all had a lil' message to deliver that was in it but not of it. They were all little messengers, although most wouldn't realize it. To begin with, some of the little fellas died immediately on impact with the face of the waters. Others lived on to swim in a race, they were really happy! But some of them didn't know which way was which or how their tale would go, so some just swam in circles chasing their own little tails. They did not get far. They did not deliver the genetic code. They became unhappy. Then they died.

Others formed groups and all swam along together for a while and so their tale seemed to be going quite swimmingly for them! Yet they were all swimming the wrong way all along. So they died and did not deliver the message either.

Now some left all the others behind and swam stronger and farther than them. For they were stronger. Also, they seemd to be following a really strong swimmer, knowing their purpose. So they tried to deliver the message and got pretty far by following. Yet, these lil' sperm died too. There was only one who was stronger than all. He was a very potent sperm. He seemed an omni-potent sperm! He came into the strange world and led other lil' guys along while swimming very strong and things did go along quite swimmingly. It seemed only he knew the way and was strong enough to make a way for their sacrifice to succeed. He got all the way down in the world and delivered his message into the egg.

Then he died. But his message combined with the message of the egg in a complementary way so that new Life came alive!

The Great Global Warming Swindle

I recently watched this documentary (YouTube link) and I began to watch this one as well, which features David Legates for a while in the beginning. The first one is one of the more substantive documentaries that I've seen when it comes to facts, logic and empirical evidence. It's short on imagery, feeelings and hysteria. I haven't watched Al Gore's documentary yet, mainly because his psychological dynamics are already clear.

Speaking of hysteria and Al Gore, now Al Gore (Alpha Male Al!) seems to be saying that Mommy Nature has a bit of a fever! So now it seems that every perturbation of her womb can be taken as symbolic of the Great Doom. Nothing against the notion of a Great Doom, as it is inevitable that every living thing in the universe will die. That's something that Romantics who worship Nature don't tend to focus on, yet there are many lines of evidence that it is true nonethless.

I read at the bottom of the Wiki article on David Legates that governor Minner has said that he's not allowed to link his position to disagreement with hysterical claims about global warming. I guess that's one more scientist who can join the "scientific consensus" that Leftists are forming.

The historical pattern to fascist scholarship was that they would form a consensus with State funding and the like and then declare themselves overwhelmed by all the excrement of their own Herd. Sometimes I wonder if there is a similar Herd growing now, so on a historical note the old Nazi propagandists for "living space" and the "blood and soil" who lectured against the "murderous factories" held a Romantic and vaguely technophobic view of Nature. (Even as they always used technology to the utmost for their own ends. It seems it's always someone else using technology who is the problem.) It's an ironic pattern because they would argue that technology and civilization is somehow unnatural by its nature, as opposed to the organic and so on which is natural by nature. Many mixed their notion of "natural" in with the notion of "natural selection" based on the Darwinian creation myth because they fall into pseudo-science easily given their lack of conceptual and philosophical thinking. In other words they simply assume that man can use the practical application of logic and science in technology in ways that alienate himself from Nature. How this is so given the Leftist worldview that scientifically man is naturally just matter in motion is not explained, it's just assumed that humans have a capacity for going against Nature. If those who make such assumptions would stop assuming things and begin thinking about them then maybe those who fall into this type of mental incompetence could make more of a habit of thinking in general. The Nazis used to describe how they began to feel they were thinking with the notion of "biological thinking." It seems that some people feel they are thinking when actually their brains are ruled by conditioning based on the images, hysteria and feeelings of their "cult"ure. They may as well have excrement for brains at that point.

[Edit: If anyone local wants a decent copy of the documentaries, e-mail me.]

A scientist on an emerging form of socialist pseudo-science....

A former professor of climatology at the University of Winnipeg has received multiple death threats for questioning the extent to which human activities are driving global warming. ”Western governments have pumped billions of dollars into careers and institutes and they feel threatened,” said the professor. “I can tolerate being called a skeptic because all scientists should be skeptics, but then they started calling us deniers, with all the connotations of the Holocaust. That is an obscenity. It has got really nasty and personal.” Richard Lindzen, the professor of Atmospheric Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology […] recently claimed: “Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves labelled as industry stooges. Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science.”

cf. Uncommon Dissent

It's ashame that the science of global warming has basically been thoroughly polluted by socialism. Leftists abusing science is nothing new, even before Malthus Leftists of the totalitarian sort have created various forms of pseudo-science in order to make science into something that it is not. They seek to make it into a totalizing worldview that therefore justifies and supports totalitarian measures without realizing that a totalizing worldview cannot be scientific.

It seems that now that eugenicists/Nazis and Communists have generally been defeated the pattern of changing limited forms of falsifiable science into totalizing and therefore unfalsifiable forms of pseudo-science has found an outlet in "global warming."

Putting the issue of sound/falsifiable science aside, it's interesting how the average American seems to be taken in by simplistic political arguments that appeal to a mixture of their own pride and cynicism. E.g. arguments based on who is funding what in which we are supposed to assume that all research which is funded by an industry with an interest in the results is therefore invalid. People are being led to be cynical about it instead of truly skeptical, otherwise people who make that argument would apply the same reasoning to research funded by the State by noting that the State has vested interests in the results supporting socialism and scientism. (Socialism and scientism because funding will tend to be linked to increasing State power (socialism) and answers of uncertainty or a lack of totalizing knowledge will tend to be minimized, leading to scientism.) It is interesting that people of a populist bent often don't seem to apply the same skeptical reasoning that they apply to Big Business to the State.

No researcher is pure as the driven snow no matter who funds them and all should be questioned. They should all have a better answer than: "Well, a lot of scientists funded by the State agree or somethin' and everyone who disagrees isn't funded by the State. That's what makes what we say objective and we all agree! We ALL agree...and don't you feel as overwhelmed as we do by that?" If that is the type of answer that they give to skeptics then science has little to do with their claims.