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April 17, 2023 8:28 PM EST

And did he ever even get to that part about 'helmet safety' and that the guy in the photo wasn't wearing one?

Oh, no, yet another topic for the echo factory to pretend that people care about and repeat over and over.

 
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Be nice to yourself and others. What other choice?

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Mow when Necessary

When the grass is dry

Maybe everyone knows that in the morning, with the dew, mowing isn't recommended. Well, it is me that doesn't recommend it. But if you gotta do it because that is how you get paided, maybe you wait for a break in the clouds and you just do it, damn the rain. For my house I waited for the lawn to be dry. I mowed at about 1 this afternoon. After that I went to the grocery store. Then I did run up to St. Linus for the 4 O'Clock. In the front of my house some small fringed orchids, a common (around here) wild flower which grows profusely on the devil's strip in front of the telephone pole, and on a devil's strip maybe a tenth of a mile from here on a side street off of Hartford Street (the home owner hasn't mowed it), and also on the hill behind my house (which is conservation-land-ish) (outlandish?). I like to give wildflowers a fair chance. If they grown in my yard and I try to at least let them have one bloom. The way that flowers work they grow and bloom and fade. Some are opportunistic with the proper weather and they bloom suddenly and profusely in unexpected ways. These tiny orchids (that grow in front of my house) never grew there before. How do I know this? Well, maybe last year. Or maybe ever so occasionally. But never in such a wide spread like they are in front of the telephone pole. It used to be Yarrow growing there. Tiny pink orchids which grow wild in my part of Natick. These are juxtiposed against a telephone pole

Tiny pink orchids which grow wild in my part of Natick. These are juxtiposed against a telephone pole

Closeup of these orchids.

It was Yarrow growing there. And the yellow form of Indian paintbrush. And the Indian paintbrusch used to bloom every June on the right side of my driveway (facing the house) I would let it bloom and then mow it down. And the Yarrow was always near the power pole. But as often happens power-poles need to occasionally be replaced. They get old, they get gaffed by climbing boots one too many times. Sometimes they crack due to strong wind. They get hit by cars and trucks. All of these horrers happen. When the pole out front had served out it's useful years the pole people came out from the utilities and they put in a new pole. When a power company puts in a new pole they usually prop the new one up next to the old one. And then they notify the various companies that utilize the pole that they need to do 'pole transfer'. Each of the utilities sends a crew and they transfer the construction over to the new pole. When all of that is done, the old pole is taken away. Once when I watched local access there was a fellow on who was worried all about poles on Union Street in Natick that were double poles and, thus, an eyesore to him and somehow he thought this was some horrible evil against the order of the peace enough so as to have him show up at a selectman's meeting, where they have real issues of budget and accountability to deal with, and serious problems of lack of revenue and over-expectatious towns-people. The guy looked disheveled. He was really broken up about those poles. He claimed that they'd 'been like that for years'. It was as if he was standing in front of some Congressional Committeed lathered up concerning issues of international concern, like he was speaking on the horrors of Torture or murder of News Reporters in Hell-hole places, as if he'd been tortured himself . . . and made to get excited about issues of small importance. House, with garden. Poles on right need pole transfer. Either Brighton or West Roxbury, April 15 2008, Massachusetts

Here are two poles waiting for a transfer. Location somewhere in greater Boston

Fortunately those folks down at the town hall, they've seen this kind of thing before. Maybe the fellow didn't get proper rest after his shift for 86 hours at a local hospital. Maybe he was a well known gadfly of the powerful, always there at the selectfolks' meetings telling them all of his concerns about the woody road up the hill and down towards that meandering river, The Charles River. The Charles River was the first river that I knew about, the first real river. We had a small stream, a tiny brook, at the end of Retrop Road when I grew up but I knew that wasn't a real river. I don't even know if it had a name. I've written all about it elsewhere, notably in my (fictionalized and unpublished) memoir Meadow West. Oak Street goes from what used to me George's Lunch up the hill, past the hospital (I don't care what they call it now, it is always 'the hospital' to me) and then past Woodland St, and then down the hill, a furious ride on a bicycle, to South Natick, the Beacon Free Libaray, and the waterfall on the Charle's. This is one of the most accessible ways to enjoy the beauty of the Charle's River, by pulling onto the little side street behind the Beacon Free Libarary, parking right next to the ancient stonework of a wall, and getting out and walking the short few yards to the ralling where you can stand and watch the river flood over a dam. The South Natick Dam is a great place for photos. I recommend it for a photo shoot. Waterfall at The South Natick Dam. Natick April 2008, MA

Waterfall at The South Natick Dam. Natick April 2008, MA

Here is the waterfall at the South Natick Dam

The Beacon Free Library.

Other Photo shoot places around? Well . . . If you studied the pictures on this site you'd see a bunch of good places to do a shoot. old pop top, found in the ground, encrusted with dirt. Natick backyard, MA June 2009.

old pop top, found in the ground, encrusted with dirt. Natick backyard, MA June 2009.

John Barents, Watertown, MA June 24 2009.

the artist, John Barents

Sign on Rt 9, on the Hadley line with North Hampton: . Natick backyard, MA June 2009.

June 27, 2009 B.P. Self Image of this author, Bill Perilli, Watertown near the Arsonal Mall, June 24, 2009.

the author, Bill Perilli

raw poems: second poems third poems Michelle's poem fifth poems sixth poems still blank: poems 1 poems # 7 eighth poems Psalm 18 from the King James Bible Emmet Fox explains this psalm so brilliently! 10th poems 11th poems 12th poems 13th poems here are some grudge poems that maybe aren't for all eyes typed in from the reflective blue star-covered notebook: 14th poems 15th poems still blank pages to be filled later: 17th poems 18th poems 19th poems 20th poems more poemss, some still unused: 21st poems 22nd poems 23rd poems 24th poems 25th poems 26th poems 27th poems 28th poems 29th poems 30th poems 31st poems 32nd poems 33rd poems 34th poems 35th poems 36th poems 37th poems "I'm special" 38th poems 39th poems 40th poems im_buck pages: 1st im_buck page 2nd im_buck page 3rd im_buck page 4th im_buck page 5th im_buck page 6th im_buck page 7th im_buck page 8th im_buck page 9th im_buck page 10th im_buck page 11th im_buck page 12th im_buck page 13th im_buck page 14th im_buck page 15th im_buck page 16th im_buck page 17th im_buck page 18th im_buck page 19th im_buck page 20th im_buck page 21st im_buck page 22nd im_buck page 23rd im_buck page 24th im_buck page 25th im_buck page 26th im_buck page 27th im_buck page 28th im_buck page 29th im_buck page 30th im_buck page 31st im_buck page 32nd im_buck page 33rd im_buck page 34th im_buck page 35th im_buck page 36th im_buck page 37th im_buck page 38th im_buck page 39th im_buck page 40th im_buck page 1st coders_edge 2nd coders_edge 3rd coders_edge 4th coders_edge 5th coders_edge 6th coders_edge 7th coders_edge 8th coders_edge 9th coders_edge 10th coders_edge 11th coders_edge 12th coders_edge 13th coders_edge 14th coders_edge 15th coders_edge 16th coders_edge 17th coders_edge 18th coders_edge 19th coders_edge 20th coders_edge 21st coders_edge 22nd coders_edge 23rd coders_edge 24th coders_edge 25th coders_edge 26th coders_edge 27th coders_edge 28th coders_edge 29th coders_edge 30th coders_edge 31st coders_edge 32nd coders_edge 33rd coders_edge 34th coders_edge 35th coders_edge 36th coders_edge 37th coders_edge 38th coders_edge 39th coders_edge 40th coders_edge

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August Tomatoes

In the back yard!

It's August. People are harvasting their tomatoes. Other people don't have any tomatoes. The chipmunks will eat every single one while it's still very tiny. You need a fortified and fenced in garden.

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Aug 29, 2022

Greetings from tree shaded yard!

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     The
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for insight
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Praise the Lord for insight given!

Fix your self and the world gets fixed around you

as an example . . . I have tried to do some introspective things as I come into awareness of my own flaws, and recognize the way I act and correct my self and make a better narrative for myself and for others.




you raise me up
from far away
when a memory
of you
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Somethings never change
nothing need stay the same
ah, but on a website
the constant change
 is kind-of the point . . .

change without continuity and tradition is often very hard to manage for those thrust into it. And thus the frame of things gives a place for the change to happen. If you violate that idea then you are coming up with something completely different and maybe no one will want to see your new idea, or use your great, new venue, because it's too far out, and very far away from what they currently care about. It's a nether or a meta and it's merely for a lark? Or does it become the next big thing? As fun as graphics are (CGI) and animation, and making a world to fly around in (like minetest, which is easy when you learn how) ultimately such a meta is a hollow place. It's a distraction during the season of gaming. It allows one to brush up on geometry and math, and architectural design, it gives people training in computer languages, it allows someone to make some graphical ideas, and pass a few hours of time every few days or so . . .

To live within such a realm really isn't possible.

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Poem Shards

just who reads, who writes these poems?
off a mountain road the poet roams
but only in a poem.

Realizing that the empty 
is empty
and not needing anything there.

just who shows up and for what?
I'm lonely or am alone or what does it matter?
driving off towards the nothing
walking along the nowhere path
up high
sure, it's a pretty view
but seen it, done it, jaded, back to the air port
he flew
his fantasy of happy vacation was through.


The deep snow.
The deep snow.
She doesn't know how deep. 
She didn't think about it. 
Depth of snow
no one know
in rills and hollows
where you shouldn't go
when the storm is fierce
and the night is cold
even you shouldn't be so bold.

poem is from 2012 
short story titled Blizzard Baby





The morning light is hued in cold awareness.
Warming in the sun the bunny explores the snow covered lawn.
The tracks melt by mid morning. 
Bunny doesn't know what the song means, anyway.




 This giant bubble that we call awareness?
  How could it have been formed?
  Seemingly hollow,
  it's filled up
  with you
  reading this
  and wondering
  where does this idle poet
  get his idle hours
  to spew out this bubble web
  of hollowness?
  


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Her tired morning
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Bark Bark. Bark Bark. Tree
Bark Bark. Bark Bark. Dog

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Fedora 40

After 40 different versions what can one say about it anymore? It's installed in all my systems, a day earlier. There are a few minor issues, but no show stoppers.

I did some stuff with lvm to resize a root area. That took a very long time. It's on a machine that maybe just should be retired . . .


April 22, 2024
12:02 PM

Fedora Core 38 beta

Ya, I decided to load Fedora Core 38 Beta about a month ago, and this machine kept shutting down . . . I think I finally fixed it. Tomorrow is the big release day for the Fedora Core 38. My production workstation is still running FC37. I don't know if I'll jump right on it right away. . .

my server is still resetting, or maybe I have it fixed. I decided to just remove plasma-desktop, as I don't use it. The journals were giving all kinds of errors with that, and I think that might have been the issue, conflicting with the gdm that I do use. Worst case I'd just go to runlevel 3 but, as I said in another column, I don't really even know if anyone views these pages anyway.

My production box would upgrade but the dnf says it would downgrade grum and associated tools, and that's never a good thing to do. I'm just not going to do it! anyway I'll check tomorrow when the offical release is and probably do it then. If I'm in the mood.

So now I've run every version of Fedora serving this website! that's a long time.


April 17, 2023 8:28 PM EST

here is from a year ago:

Fedora Core 36 beta

It took some time to figure out how to defeat the new screensaver built in, but I was able to. It's the biggest downside to the new Gnome.

I set the keybindings to something I don't use, and then put in a custom keybinding to use the old tool.

There are other minor things that annoy too, like the restoration of a deleted file that I always have to delete again on every FC core upgrade. The file is name camera-shutte.oga. It's in /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo

1:12 AM EST 9 April, 2022

At the precipice of coding.

a mountain trail often has a place with a great view and a perilous fall if you wonder just a bit too far to one side of the trail. It's called a precipice. It's not a scary place. It's a safe place that one passes through.

OK, so I've done an update to FC34.

the biggest issue was . . . . drum roll . . .a lock up of gnome.

and if i clicked on the activities button I would need to reload (log out log back in).

I was able to run stuff without that, and thus determined a list of files that might need to be removed. I did as full reinstall of gnome as such:

dnf reinstall gnome

then I did a

dnf list installed |grep fc33

which gave me a list of files to consider uninstalling.

from that I got the following:

first odd issue:

sudo was not at first working! I had to install it! I kept the configuration file so I have my preferences still set up.

dnf install sudo                                                                                                                                                                          dnf reinstall gnome-*                                                                                                                                                                       dnf reinstall kde*                                                                                                                                                                          dnf reinstall NetworkManager*                                                                                                                                                               dnf remove gnome-screensaver                                                                                                                                                               dnf remove gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-20.04.0-2.fc33.noarch                                                                                                                       dnf remove xorg-x11-xkb-extras-7.7-33.fc33.x86_64                                                                                                                                          dnf remove compat-openssl10-1:1.0.2o-11.fc33.x86_64                                                                                                                                        dnf remove mozjs60-60.9.0-7.fc33.x86_64

there are still some fc33 packages, (I also looked for fc32 packages, anything older that was gnome)

sudo dnf list installed |grep fc33
biber.noarch                                         2.14-4.fc33                            @fedora               
gamin.x86_64                                         0.1.10-37.fc33                         @fedora               
libgta.x86_64                                        1.0.9-5.fc33                           @fedora

if removing a package also removed large numbers of other packages, I left it. For each of the few that I did remove, I always would make sure by reading what would happen before agreeing to the transaction.

now the gnome-shell is working and it doesn't lock up. So which of the packages that I removed made the difference? I am not sure.

and so after just a few short hours of install, I've got my system working in away that seems normal.

the new gnome shell moves the icons to the bottom of the screen.

I find gnome-shell to be annoyingly poppy at times. I tend to do things rapidly, and all the popping can be nauseating.

It is helpful to learn how to use dnf. I've found that the reverse history stuff works as long as you haven't made too many changes. It's a dicey, though, to try and go back to an older revision but I did it ONCE. Next time it didn't work out so well. AT that point it was installing dnf and yum from rpms.

and I had success. It's the kind of thing that when you know how to do it . . .

but there was one other trick that I needed and it was a scary way to reset a password and I did discover how to do it. I'm not sharing that one (barely remember) it's like these things exist in a nether, and it's best to . . . let the knowledge fade unless you need it. It's too scary to dwell in that space.

anyway, gnome shell is working. It's not flighty and hanging up. And all it took was to remove the old packages of gnome that might conflict with it. And now I can continue with my review.


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