Stop Global Lieing
Who is the second most important person in America?
Let us not leave this important question for columnists to answer,
columnists, by the way, that have very little credibility left.
In a democracy should we ever say that one man is more important
than another, or more powerful?  A man in a high position who
wants to live up to a roll of being powerful is, by obligation,
straight jacketted to carry water for all of the causes
that actually deserve, and have already been billed for, the water.
And so the so-called powerful man must, there fore be a powerless slave,
doing the bidding of all of those who
paid to have him be in his position.  

He could try and violate this rule, not be the servant
that he really is with only the power to carry out the
collective will (what ever that is).  But if he 'goes rouge'
then he will be removed from power by the very forces
that let him wiggle his way to the front of the podium in
the first place and claim to speak for the power of authority.

Liberty

We are all the same
Of course we realize that in the real world
the equality is only in some areas and not in all.
In actuality we are all unique and with individual needs
and requirements.
We are all unique and beautiful in our own way
Nice statement of religious truth, again, only true in
some contexts and not in others.
Truth may spare the Headline
Real truth must be larger than the fragmented sentence
that is a headline.
So how do we all make sense of this mess that we
called the modern age?
Get over yourself
Really, are your problems any worse
than anyone elses.  We are, after all, 'all the same'.
rule for bad governance:
Confusion:  tongue tie your foes
do this if you really don't respect them and don't care
what they have to say.  Shout them down, don't let them listen.
Try to get them so they are unable to even vote . . .

Who would do such a thing?  The characters of a bad novel?  The
leaders of political parties in the third world?  Or own 
political leaders?

You have to take care of yourself first
But don't be greedy.  After you have
done enough to secure your own survival you must then, help others.
Of course, you have free will, and you could just become a selfish narcisscist.
But then will you end up in some horrible Scrooge-like bout with demons, angels,
and ghosts? Because, after all, so ye sow, so shall ye reap.

Share what you steal
Politicians who do not share what they steal so that
their life style is not any better or worse than those who
elect them . . . may have problems getting reelected.
Not all politicians are crooks.  But the one's that are have an unfair
advantage on account of that the corruption makes them rich.  And with the 
money that they make they can 'buy' elections.

Dassle them with BS
We all expect this from government.

Don't trust them any farther than you can throw them
If you try to pick them up to see how far you
can throw them you can be expected to be
charged with assault.

Expect good government.  And when it seems less than that 
assert your expectation and see the beuracrates trying
to live up to your high expectations.
"I know that a prudent and responsbile
court will want to do the right thing.  And
even though there might be prosecutors
who put their careers above the truth, and
seek conviction even on baseless charges, that
is the exception and not the rule."

No kidding, readers.  And now I am not being factious.
It is true.  If you expect people to not be craven pigs
at the trough, then you give them the opportunity to
show you that they really do try and provide good
public service.

Otherwise, when they precieve that you expect the worst,
maybe they will give you even worse than you expect (just
to spite you).
people are psychic to your bad moods
It is not that people can read minds but that
mood is so clear from your demenour and your continence
that people pick up on it right away.
They can't know what you are thinking.  But they
can know that your thoughts might not be kind or well-wishing.

A hard hearted pessimist is foder for other people's bad moods.

Really, it is almost like we are mirrors of mood.
If someone is in a bad mood they come in and see your bad mood.
If you then augment their upset at your upset . . . it makes things even worse.
It can be like an explosion of bad moods, a chemical reaction of the worst kind.

So you just don't let them get to.  You don't shake up their volitile solution.  You chill it with
good mood and humor.

Use good humor to lance the boil of
      other folks'es foul moods

And they may just laugh themselves into a better
day.

Mood can change all at once, like clouds moving 
away from the sun and warmth entering a cold and
cloistered place.  Suddenly the room is warm.  It become
magical, a secret garden of mystic delights.
A winter bird lands on an evergreen.

 



You can see more of these photos at image bucket 3:  IB3


I am still doing the kbounce thing.  Here is a screenshot themed 
with Bavo's ideas (Bavo, the artist, whose site I host here at The Artist Bavo's site



John is a computer illiterate old-school grahic artist and master painter.  
His theme involves three shapes, one square, one circle and one equalaterial triangle.  
One is yellow, one is blue, one is red. 
which is which color is random.  
Hence there are six possible combinations.  
this picture shows six instances of the modified kbounce one with each of the themes



Here is one for a list of 'life rules' that I wrote a few years ago.
IB77



More Posts on 
Image Bucket 
Pages
You will find
the image bucket links up top.  Some of these may be empty in that they have
not been used.  You can read these without being logged in.  But in order to post
you must have a user name and password.  If you are a friend of mine I can
give you some pages.  Donations are always appreciated.  
I am not yet selling space here though I probably should.



 Coding on the Edge 
 Addicted to Coding 

Here are some fresh notes on my on-going Qt work:
Qt blog 001

And here is a screen shot from the implementation of 
a QWebView component in a QFrame and running on my
desktop:




kbounce notesIB18
I booted the FC10 live CD onto my notebook computer.  read about that in IB15


I also have some new poemss as well as 
some automatic writing for
Secret
Elevator
 at IB4

My writer's block wasn't really a block so much as just
not having any good ideas.  I was still doing some poetry which is here at new pages (which
are still not worked out:
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
fresh last night (and unedited?)
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

A comment about dating poems which is formated like a poem
 but in not actually a poem:
16th poems


still blank pages to be filled later:
17th poems
18th poems
19th poems
20th poems
21st poems

There is an experimental page, a beta page.
I like and try and leave simple things simple.
And I read about this today, how people are tinkerers (on slashdot
I read this) and  "we can't just leave a good thing alone."
Screwmaster's Insightful Comment
Screwmaster is talking not just about the Wikipedia but also all human projects.
This gives me insight into how I can move my own project forward (this
website).  I need to maintain the simple and
working interfaces that I have and meanwhile push forward with 
new interfaces that are yet to be developed.  I need to leave the
simple as an artifact so that if the simple is all that is needed, well, here
it is. Nice insight.  It really struck me hard when I read Screwmaster's post.
 In life I have made many things much harder than they needed to be.
I want my pages to be easy.

Readers, I have a lot of new ideas and also a lot of good energy.
The Winter has been tough, what with shovelling and whacking ice
off of my roof (and more to come on Wednesdays so show the forecast).

some of these might be empty for now.
I want to make some image link bars and put these on them 
so it is easier for me to find a blank page.
Also, the theming of these pages is because I use the
various blog features of my site to enter different information
depending on what I am writing about at the time, or
what kind of mood I am in.

I am now able to pass a name to a page in a post and then
make a page from a saved file.  Pretty damn spiffy if you ask me!
This means that once a page has been finalized I can load it from
a load page which will be the same for any content at all.

OK.  That is cool.

It actually is a very interesting question of software and data
architecture.  There are trade offs to the various ways of doing things.
I am getting closer to my dream of a world-quality website spawning
utility and website data-gardener.

What's been going on with Secret Elevator?  I had a little bit of something,
but it is still in the incubator.  I imagined that maybe it needs to have two times
more than what it already is added to it.  If I don't write that I bet I'll write
something else.  I guess all my energy has been on these pages lately, especially
the new poems.


B.P. 


Jan 26, 2008