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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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It's Autumn and soon to be Winter

I had a server failure and am just getting back to putting this website up again. This is a test to see if I can easily publish


Dec 09, 2024
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Winter will soon be here!

A lot can happen in a year. I used to update these pages all the time. Maybe I could start doing that again?

Today was the day of setting the clocks forward.


March 10, 2024
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Winter 2024

I would go back to work if I had an offer.

No one who contacts me about work seems to provide any serious prospects, like they are just hazing me..

Avoiding discord

The realization that much of what you find on line is just bots messing with people and trying to train them to be ineffective at debate by making them revert to insults, putdowns, and sub-human behavior makes social media seem to be a wasteland. It is best to not participate in that.

All the rain could have been snow!
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Political and Media Inanity

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Truck-u-later

in this column Truck-u-later steps in deeper . . .

well most news was about the raid a few weeks ago, I read up on what I could find.

I read up on it but I didn't try to spend too much time dwelling on it.

I wrote some things. But I can only observe these things. I wish not to be seen as being one who understands what it going on in the world these days. I try to learn what happens and try less to 'splain about the peeps involved. That whole 'It's them!' finger pointing is bogus and discordant to an eccumenical and open hearth world view.

And those who seek to live within a meta where they rule the world as a cartoon avatar persona . . . and do their pyramid scheme money-thang and their virtuality as if it's real . . . They do as they will and I have no say over their futures. So why do they pretend to have a say over mine?

The answer is: that if they live within a meta, then their rules are for them there. Outside of that, in the real world, those of us who aren't crazy with self-entitled ideation, and wealth beyond measure that enables us to put the equipment on, and all of it's tethering and attachments and live within that matrix world . . . all of us who do not wish to join them in what seems to be a depraved cult of wish fulfillment cooupled with a magical point of view about the fate of peoples and persons . . . all of us who have not gone crazy like that . . . you can't really expect us to let you carry on and try to rule us from within your cage of technology?

video gaming morphed into 'meta world creation' because the games were too depraved that had the cool world layouts that people like. The puzzles one loves to solve, and the cool graphics that one wants to see were those times interspersed with simulated acting out of depraved behaviors, like having to kill all the other characters in the scene before one moves on to the next level.

So at some point you trained yourself to not do it, to click through the depravity as if it's not there, and maybe miss a creepy backstory. I gave up playing those kinds of games, and I still ike to watch old replays, but I fast forward through the gun fight parts, the ghouls who hound Lara Croft in the end levels of, say Tomb Raider aniversary are tiresome and almost designed to make the players hate this kind of depravity in a game, as if the writers are telling their funders ;Really, a kill anything that seems alive simulation? Like clones could never be born without a need to kill everything else in the proximity from where it emerged? Well, we all know what happend to the Lora Croft franchise, and most video games.

But the graphics can be compelling and fun, so people still get some enjoyment out of it.

And those who think that they can rule from within a meta? they have the persona of the villianous ancient ghoul who haunts Laura through out here travels. Watch a walk through of tomb Raider Aniversary. Feel free to fast forward through the psychopathic parts. But do listen to the banter and the dialog. Spoiler alert: Laura has a lot of soul searching to do.

Aug 29, 2022


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sometimes you just need to remove kruft.

Politics never ends but sometimes it's better to remain mute. Mostly when there is nothing needing or wanting to be said.


but that is no one, that has
not hapened to anyone
you made it up.

thankfully true.

We move along. We keep doing for ourselves. We survive. We don't let the world define who and what we are, or how we feel, or what any of this really means.

And if they have bad humor, and will not forgive they will hate you then.


but at least in that
story they leave you 
alone after all of that

They dont' always leave you alone. It seems they still sometimes want to connect to try to draw that cray cray narrative out one more time. And you have to explain that, no, sorry, this is a bit. You caught me while I was writing a character, that's not me. I am using tht as a dialog in a paly that I'm having my character write inside of his narrative, he's writing his own play about a guy writing a play.

It's like he feeds on it, I get bothered that he lets me go on with it.

tell us how you really feel . . . . . . well . . . Truck-you-later!



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London is a nice City.

London is an awesome tourist Destination.

I would love to go there as a tourist on Savage tours. LOL. In any case I had the item yesterday concerning the LIBOR, where the 'L' really ought to not be London, because London is so nice. We, as a group of concerned citizens, ought to consider the 'L' to mean 'Liar'. Does it matter what the other 4 letters mean?

I have a tiny book that is from the 1940's about 'Shakespeare's London. It explains a lot of interesting facts about that ancient city. I was especially fascinated by the London Bridge. The London Bridge in William's time was a district of the city! People had buildings on the bridge. The bridge harbored apartments and living quarters as well as businesses. And then, if there were to be a play at the theater, a flag would go up and people would go to the other side of the bridge and go to which ever theater was holding the play. Maybe even Elizabeth, herself, their queen, would also be in attendance. That is the fiction of a movie about the Globe Theater and also about Shakespeare. The idea of that story was . . . well the movie is called Shakespeare in Love. I won't give it away if you haven't seen it. It's not bad and worth your time if you have an interest in Shakespeare.

I have a tiny engraving print of Westminster Abby. It looks to be very old. It is an awesome portrayal of that revered place. London has a lot of such places is my guess; like New York; like Boston; Like Washington DC. But just like any place that has great people, it becomes a haven for anyone who hit the lottery anywhere. They want to come and live in the luminous city. London is one such luminous city. A luminous city will be complete with both rich and poor. And there will be nice ones and bad ones, no matter how much money they have, or can spend. Lost souls with a lot of money love to flock to places with great historical treasures of soul like London. And they go there and set up their inequity. They create a nest of liars. They make a mockery out of a hard working city. They give a name of the city to an overnight rate that . . . well . . . turns out to be a great big con.

If I made any real Londoner think that I disrespect your wonderful city, please know that I fancy myself a master of English. Well, at least New English. I don't pretend to know etymology like a Doctor of English at Oxford. But I do respect the vast and enormous contribution that English people have given to the world.

We have the same problem here in the new world. Anyone from anywhere comes here, set's up their ponzi scam, nests where the good money is (by good money I mean old-class money. People who were not just craven rich idiots. There were far more awesome and generous rich people over the years than the cretins of financial fiction. Wouldn't it be nice if the 'evil banker' motif were just that: a fiction?

I'd write the story like that. I'd have Mr. Potter decide to give the money back. He would do the right thing.

But, alas, sad and true, the movie its a wonderful life does portray that miscreant soul who does not repent. The rest of us survive in spite of the villainous cretin. And we must note that the rest of the town are not cretins. I do have problems with that film.

Getting back to London: Do I need to mention how awesome I felt about how London must be when I read Great Expectations and Pip and his dudes are out rowing on the river? That is a pastime that I, too, enjoy. The river is an important part of that city. That city has been at not just a ford in the river, but also a ford in civilization. The British have prided themselves as discoverers. May the plundering was part of that? Or did they send in the optimists and then the looter went in, behind the scenes? You can read a lot about the shenanigans of the British if you read the history of colonialism. Do you think that same copy made it back to London about how ridiculously fascistic some of the minions of the crown became? How many times in history do you read about a country burning down a city? And yet if you read history you hear about British troops doing just that. They, in that case, were not virtuous and, I am sure, if they would face it as individuals they would admit, maybe not to you and I, that what happened in the name of their crown was not always for Queen and country.

So now they are the place where great scams get put forward. And because that has become a cottage industry of theirs I am sure that many of them are on board with denying it all. They will cover it all up just the same way that we covered up Contragate. It was too big a scandal and made the whole nation look as fools.

We know that the British have fools, but they are not ruled by them. And the fool is a subject of English literature: notably the times that fools and Jesters show up in Shakespeare. So hopefully they will regain a moral sense and allow for something better to happen for them. They are almost captives of a socialist nightmare. How will they ever be free? Can they cast off the nanny state or is the dual cast of Socialism to be a permanent part of British life? Well, they have always had two casts. Under socialism they can pretend to be egalitarian, meanwhile give positions in the government to all the connected insiders of the special upper cast.

Is what I write fiction? Am I just stabbing at a curtain with blatant accusations? Did I not learn a thing from reading Hamlet?

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       haven't I?

If my column upsets you then why?

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He didn't make this up on his own.

I got nothing more

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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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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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April

glossary of what's next

Wake up!

The Message Column

It's Autumn and soon to be Winter

Winter will soon be here!

Winter 2024

I would go back to work if I had an offer.

Avoiding discord

All the rain could have been snow! 2024!

Praise the Lord!

Praise the Lord

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Political and Media Inanity

Truck-u-later

in this column Truck-u-later steps in deeper . . .

蠱 work on what has been spoiled

London is a nice City.

London is an awesome tourist Destination.

If my column upsets you then why?

Lost in Boston

The deep snow.

Fedora 40

Fedora Core 38 beta

Fedora Core 36 beta