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how do I even know if anyone even sees these pages? I suppose that's why I stopped updating them


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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Here is today's pretty poem:


 
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Be nice to yourself and others. What other choice?

Praise the Lord Just because it's the right thing to do !© 2012 APC.

Praise the Lord for his deep and unfailing love for us! © 2012 APC.


Wake up!

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Drawing a Rock

Form, Context, and Recognition

My friend is an artist and he also smokes cigarettes. Recently his landlord gave him a letter stating that his is now a smoke free building. Well, at first he was angry. But after that he decided that he would live with the situation. So instead of sitting around all day in his own personal cloud of smoke like he has done for years he now takes little walks out to the park near where he lives. I've accompanied him there at times. And so now he goes out there on a knoll overlooking the Clevland Circle Reservoir and enjoys the sun and the wind and the rain. He has also taken to making little sketches while he sits on his favorite bench. The Clevland Circle Reservoir is a natural low part of the land that has been diked off as was commonly done during the development of New England to many natural valleys. The surrounds are, of course, higher than the water. And where he sits is at the top of a knoll or hillock. The bedrock there is rather unusual: a form of conglomerate. It almost looks like some kind of concrete, but it is not. One of the things that John has sketched is a boulder that sits on the hill next to where he sits about ten feet from the bench. The problem with his sketches is that when you see them, though they are faithful little drawings, the pictures that he produces are very hard to interpret. John does a good job of capturing the essence of line and shadow. But unless you have seen the rock (or a photo of it) it is hard to interpret that this is a sketch of a boulder. The problem is that it looks more like a pile of leaves than a massif of conglomerate. Here is a photo of the boulder: Conglomerate Boulder Massif, Brighton, MA, about 3.5 feet high by 9 feet by 5 feet approx 5:15 PM, July 30, 2009. In this photo the little weeds that grow around the boulder's base give a context as to the scale of the bolder. Also, the shadows from the late-day sun give a nice contrast to the various orientations of the boulder surfaces. You cas see an oak tree behind. You see sunlight on the lawn in the distance. It is easy to tell that this is a picture of a boulder from the photo here. View from a knoll overlooking the Chestnut Hill Reservoir. See the Boston College church tower across the water. Another shot of the boulder discussed above. Sunlight reflecting off the water through a arborifollia tree (cedar) at the Chestnut Hill Reservoir, July 29, 2009

other photos from the place on the knoll

How can John make his sketches, his faithful little sketches, so that the drawing is more clearly a picture of a boulder? It really comes down to the fact that you have to kind of expect that a boulder can be sitting in a field like this one does. If you came from a part of the world where there was not massive glaciation of the type that we had in New England during a series of ice ages, then you might not expect that a piece of bedrock would have broken loose and be disconnected from the rest and just laying in a field. But there it is on the knoll in Brighton. This bench overlooks the reservoir with a view of across the lake which includes the church buildings over at Boston College. These buildings are in a Gothic architectural style of the type of Monet's paintings of the Cathederal at Rouen. I find these towers to be a worthy subject of my photographic efforts. There is a spot at a stop light at the hill in Chestnut Hill right in front of Boston College where, while stopped at the light, one can snap a photo of the tower behind trees and other campass buildings. A 'Boston College' sign is also in the frame if you want it to be. I have decided that if the view is correct, and the light is red, and I am stopped there, and I have my camera and it is safe, then I will take that scene in repeatedly in varying lighting conditions. Ah, but you can't always get the shot. Maybe the light is green as you roll up to that spot. There is no easy place to park there. Beside, the framing of the picture works from driver seat height in the middle of the street, and that is a well-traveled road so I don't recommend going there, standing in the middle of the street and crouching down to get the photo. You would be standing in traffic. I find that I enjoy going back to the same locations at different times of day, different times of year, and getting the same framed shot. With the varying light and weather conditions the photos show the progress of the seasons, the progress of light during the day, the varying faces of the world in varying lighting conditions. I have noticed that sometimes when an artist depicts a scene the light seems unreal. But then other times I see a brillient scene in the late light of the day and the color of the world is such that I say 'who would ever believe it can looks like this?' that is when you snap your photo. But what you see isn't always what the camera gets. I like to take a bunch of shots and then some of them I will like better than others. BP August 1, 2009 mapperelli for California:

Mapperelli Demo Centered on Lake Tahoe

People, still need of work my resume: Hard working Engineer's Resume My silly poem rants, are they worth $4.95. (plus tax and shipping and handling?) Here is a link:

\ / \ / W O R D B O M B S

So can you put a quarter in my cup for those alone? You can send me the $4.95 that I request at the end. But I know most people who read it won't.

here is Lake Tahoe:

Mapperelli Demo Centered on Lake Tahoe

mapdemo2.php was long ago depricated, and yet most access to my website is looking for it. But it doesn't exist. How do I get them to stop? Here are links to The Coder's Edge (my software blog): Linux Sound Enable One Linux Sound Enable Two Linux Sound Enable Three Linux Sound Enable Four

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

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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.

9:12 AM EST
Thursday
Aug 29, 2022

Greetings from tree shaded yard!

 Praise
     The
    Lord
for insight
   given!

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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Sprongg . . . onng . . . ongg ga

Her tired morning
seems more like poetry
than anything you can
find on a blog.


Bark Bark. Bark Bark. Tree
Bark Bark. Bark Bark. Dog

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Coders Edge

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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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