BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Sep 25 - 10:31 AM

2.5 hours left before airport pickup. I'll have a Seattle drink for Stilly.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Sep 25 - 11:04 AM

Yes, Mom. Sunday, the day after tomorrow, I leave for Seattle to fly to Nome. Yes, I will pick you up a Nome gnome for our home, but not for our Rome home. Your roaming kid is going Noming. Tuesday I'll set sail for Vancouver (the BC one, not the WA one). In the meantime I'll check in whenever I can, as service is spotty when you're living in a kayak on the Bering Sea, the Gulf of Alaska, and the Inside Passage.
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Sep 25 - 08:43 PM

The surgeon, named Megan (Ol' Doc Megan) grabbed me and threw me into a chair. No anesthesia, she wrapped a bedsheet around me neck and attacked my head with scissors and electric clippers. When it was over, parts of me lay on the floor, the chair, the counter, and all over the surgery chair.

Then she charged me USD30.00 and tossed me out into the street.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Sep 25 - 12:02 PM

Google doesn't want to offer up any information about "capilliotomy." What are we to know about this procedure?

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 04 Sep 25 - 12:00 PM

> taking over novice jobs at first

That's the long-term problem with Artificial Incompetence: once one generation of trainees has been replaced, where will the next generation of experts come from? I still treasure my ability to do arithmetic by hand, despite having an electronic calculator, as wetware doesn't need a battery or mains supply.

.... That's assuming there *is* a long term for LLMs. The bubble may have been given the skin of a dirigible, but I can hear the creaking of canvas under strain.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Sep 25 - 08:31 AM

The criminal will endure.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Aug 25 - 09:35 AM

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE EXPERT

Mnay experts have been fired but the real vacuum will come from AL taking over novice jobs at first and more advanced skills as time goew on. Mentors that remain may not be called upon to teach or inspire.
Going down tech roads that are programmed to be bigots or unintuitive will mislead societies and culture. What it is to be human may become a bored, unemployed, overweight observer of life and art. Or life will have panaceas never dreamed of with idealized adventure. Utopia or depression are both possible. But the expert will probably go extinct.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Aug 25 - 11:53 AM

There are well over 5,000 near-miss reports of UFOs from pilots willing to report. There are 100 times as many distant sightings by pilots. Never has there been a collision.


There is a likelihood that UFOs are vulnerable to lighting but not hittingS our aircraft. Since 2017 when the US military admitted that many UFOs are material realities, but there has been no outcry or public outrage. On the other hand there is far more concern regarding Trump tariffs.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Aug 25 - 09:06 AM

Well, I had a capilliotomy yesterday. Yes, some of my hair was cut off and thrown away, instead of being saved and revered as relics.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Aug 25 - 05:33 PM

Apparently, enough is never enough.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Aug 25 - 07:58 AM

Today is National Dog Day. Every dog has its day.
It's the canine version of 15 minutes of fame.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Aug 25 - 09:20 AM

There is a movie for people who like to think.
It is called 'Frequencies'.
It defines free will, fate, politics, and profound music in such a way that is excedingly simple yet haunting in its implications.
It is available for free on Prime.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Aug 25 - 07:23 AM

In my book. Netanyahu now ranks with the moat cruel Nazi genocide Generals.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Aug 25 - 06:57 AM

Like Sgt. Shultz or Ghislaine Maxwell, "I KNOW NOTHING!"

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Aug 25 - 02:51 PM

You don’t KNOW?!???

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Aug 25 - 08:29 AM

100 is binary code for...

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Aug 25 - 01:31 PM

THIS if number 99! A palindromic number!

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Aug 25 - 01:23 PM

He was an old thin skinned man
They said he had a smile.
So I went online and followed him awhile
I don't know what they're thinking
He even cheats at golf and con man deals
He's taxing us making profits when he steals
He's killing me harshly with his wrongs
Killing me harshly, with his wrongs.
Killing me harshly
with his wrongs

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Aug 25 - 05:08 AM

Good morning our Capitol how are ya?
now that troops direct your every move.
All the checkpoints and arrests are fairly heavy.
Many will be gone when the day is done.

School kids and workers try to hide
the fear and worry goes far and wide
the police take over is on the news
and is watched in case relatives disappear.

The fear and loathing makes citizens sad and blue.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Aug 25 - 05:16 PM

Ain't Trump cute
He's enough to make you puke
I tell you very confidentially
Trump's a fluke

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Aug 25 - 03:16 PM

I don't know doesn't mean something will never be known to mankind.
Every impossible thing witnessed is a clue that there is more we don't know and a pointer to new knowledge yet to be understood.

I have only seen about 6 physics impossibilities that conflict with what we have been taught. Based on new data, there are thousands of 'whys' I can not comprehend, like why is Parkinson's accelerating past Alzheimer's? Why America has stopped the research of mRNA vaccines against cancer, dementia, flu, and other devastating conditions is easy to understand. =Idiots love to own the libs with bibles and guns.=

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 20 Aug 25 - 01:38 PM

*Agree*, Rap: over time, humans tend to misunderstand things less. Sadly, the rate of progress is far from linear (or even monotonic), nor is the distribution of misunderstanding uniform. But at least most of us have advanced from weather being at the whim of some poor overworked deity to it being at the whim of the Quantum Weather Butterfly.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Aug 25 - 05:28 PM

Because something exists that we currently don't understand doesn't mean we will never understand it.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Aug 25 - 08:28 AM

Its so unseasonably cool this week. I've seen more pumpkin spice at the grocery and drug store already.

As for my metaphysics hobby, I am firmly in the camp that the UFO technology is manipulating space and time. We manipulate matter and energy much to the aggravation of non-human intelligences.

Whether their mastery of time is great or small, I do not know, although some think the 'aliens' don't want to harm us because they would be subject to the grandfather paradox hazard. That implies a great mastery, but they could simply coexist with our timeline without time travel. Then their time manipulation would be technologically smaller.

Along with time manipulation is the phenomenon that nothing in our dominion can be locked away from them. They would have full access to everything since there would not be a vault that would be impenetrable.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Aug 25 - 12:51 AM

Not yet, Don. Give it a few weeks. Though I have been drinking more hot tea these days, just for a change from iced tea.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Aug 25 - 08:26 PM

I clearly see a flash of light when I turn on the switch. When I push it the other way I clearly see darkness.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Aug 25 - 09:29 AM

Tis the season of pumpkin spice
like the decay of dumping sites
Followed by an artificial cinnamon
smelling like a dismal carcinogen

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 16 Aug 25 - 02:12 PM

> you can see the individual flashes of fluorescent
> lights

I don't know why, but I can see one particular bar of ceiling lights in the kitchen coming on in two steps, maybe 100ms apart, where nobody else seems to. But then the first time I saw The Sound Of Music in the cinema, I saw the trees judder between frames in the panning aerial shot in the opening sequence. I don't *think* I've trained myself particularly, but I used to be able to spot missing lines in MSDOS boot-up message sequences ("Ah! *that* line's missing, so you're missing *this* driver").

[snip: saga of a work colleague]

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Aug 25 - 06:35 PM

If you train yourself to speed up your perception, you can see the individual flashes of fluorescent lights. Some baseball players can see a fastball at a slower rate. Seeing individual flashes does not work on LED fluorescent tubes, since I believe there aren't any. I speculate that other dimensions have their own unique temporal rates still within the Planck scale. You may have seen the STNG plots based on different time dimensions. Suppose a dimension has a time signature so unique that it is adjacent to all regions of space without elapsed time. It would be very useful in sci-fi scenarios.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Aug 25 - 12:15 PM

I really enjoy 3D TV. The end of Valdamort is never better.
Also the 3D navigation globe in Aliens 4 is masterful.
I have the 3D versions of Cameron's Avatar movies.

Real POV freedom movies might be good for mysteries.

Filk may not know that I made a cochlear assist device decades ago but it was external and caused synesthesia. I was inspired by a deaf guitarist at RIT.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Aug 25 - 12:01 PM

The bell is a symbol of survival and predictability. It is an expensive privilege to be the group to ring the bell. It's a box of chocolates, they don't know if the day will soar or crash at closing.

History of the NYSE bell
Early Days: The initial method for signaling the start and end of trading at the NYSE was a gavel.
Transition to gong: In the late 1800s, the gavel was replaced with a gong.
Iconic brass bell: In 1903, the NYSE moved to its current location and installed an electrically operated brass bell that has become the iconic symbol we know today.
Modern era: While the physical bell is still present, the act of "ringing" the bell is now typically initiated by pressing a large button on the podium.
Even with the rise of electronic trading, the tradition of ringing the NYSE bell persists and holds significant symbolic value for both the financial world and the broader public.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Aug 25 - 12:14 PM

VR movies are probably a Zuckerberg dream. They would be very expensive.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 13 Aug 25 - 09:41 AM

.... but keep 'em coming, Donuel. It does the ol' grey matter good to be given a workout from time to time. Massage for the mind.

Question of the Day: Why do all the Wall Street traders need to applaud every time someone rings a bell? As a separate but related question, why do they feel the need to take selfies every time? It's not as if exactly the same thing won't happen at the same time the next working trading day.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 13 Aug 25 - 09:18 AM

Heads-up VR cinema: methinks that'll go down as well as 3D glasses (something else that comes around once a decade or two). And that's before you factor in the nausea induced by the millisecond lag between the user's head moving and the picture adjusting to compensate, which is what sank it for military use in the trenches. Remember the expression "glassholes" .... ?

Nice try, Donuel, but no cookie. You'd only throw it up.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 13 Aug 25 - 08:58 AM

Just got forward to the hydrogen-from-sunlight entry, and had to make this comment before continuing. There's two things (other than Big Oil money) that'll kill using hydrogen for fuel, except under extremely specialised circumstances like rocketry:

1) Hydrogen leaks like the bugger. The standard way to find a leak in a cryo situation (eg cooling down superconducting magnets) is to test for a helium leak, as it's almost as good at finding the least little leak as hydrogen, and it's easier to detect helium in vanishingly small amounts as there's not much of it in breathable air.

2) When hydrogen burns in air, the flame is invisible to the naked eye. The standard way in NASA of checking whether (and where) there's a hydrogen leak that's aflame is to carry a brush broom in front of yourself, bristles first, and see whether that catches fire.*

Put those two together, and *foom*. And *that*, medames et messieurs, is why the idea of using hydrogen as fuel gets, erm, shot down every time it's put forward, which is about once a decade.

* Perhaps that's where Sir Pterry got the idea from for CMOT Dibbler's patented dragon detector.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Aug 25 - 10:49 AM

Very funny Rap but;

My experience is that the internet has many examples of REAL; fraud, cons, exploitation, uninformed opinions, and that YouTube will not remove such posts.

While there are wonderful posts on YouTube, the lies, exaggerations, and criminal fraud are tolerated with equal time. You know, just like MOABS.

There are red flag warnings on some posts, which is an improvement.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Aug 25 - 10:31 AM

Today is Nagasaki day, which invites the question: Who is more likely to out crazy the other, Putin or Trump?

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Aug 25 - 09:55 AM

Like everything else there, Internet porn is REAL!

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Aug 25 - 04:17 PM

Naw, they said that about internet porn. It may have cost us a generation of socially sound young men, but that's all.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Aug 25 - 02:57 PM

Then no one would have to go do much of anything....

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Aug 25 - 09:36 AM

I had another new idea this morning. Just like adding sound to movies changed everything about the motion picture business, a leap in technology could change movies forever. A big screen will not be required. Instead, streaming data to 8K visual googles with a controller will allow the viewer to change their POV and move about with freedom.
The 'film' would never be the same twice with each viewing or among different observers. You could even move around an object or person that might block your view of something.

In this artificial holographic world, you become a participant in a brand-new way. Cameras would be both visual and laser scanners. The rendering would be AI. The theatres would own the googles, data, controllers, and headphones that would also have POV volume.

While some people would enjoy looking at a dynamic sunset from a mountaintop, others might dare to peer down the cliffside. I think you get the idea and possibilities now.

This could change motion pictures just like my idea for phone-controlled doorbells changed the doorbell.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Aug 25 - 09:17 AM

GRANDFATHER Drumpf fled Bavaria to avoid the draft (soud familiar?) and went to the Klondike. He found gold by opening the "Arctic Hotel", a wayside tavern/brothel on the way to Dawson City. He took his "earnings" to NYC, where he bought real estate. Visiting Germany, he was to be arrested for draft-dodging but apparently money changed hands and he was allowed to return to the US.

Nice family. Makes me cautious about being an American of German descent.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Aug 25 - 06:25 PM

I dunno, Stilly. Almost certainly Thanksgiving-ish.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Aug 25 - 07:51 PM

The early root family of the Scottish McCleods was known as Saint Nuages in France and was defended by De Molay and associates.

In Germany, great-great-grandfather Drumpf was known to be an influential pimp.

As much as Donald Trump wants to brag about his German heritage, he has been advised to hide that side of his family.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Aug 25 - 02:00 PM

Fred Trump and Anna Maria were unaware of their unlikely ancestry, but their children ranged from the just to the conflicted to the amoral.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Aug 25 - 01:50 PM

Somewhat lost in the mist of historic ancestry is the remarkable, if not impossible, joining of the last descendant of Jesus and an Austrian ancestor of Hitler.

The Scottish McLeod family had protection from the Knights Templar in their time as the remaining descendants of Jesus, whose earlier roots had been in France. The small Island in the north of Scotland had suffered greatly in WWII by losing 1,000 of its young men. Then, at war's end, the drowning of 200 returning soldiers in the Stornaway harbor sinking of their ship. That left Mary McLeod, born in 1917, the last descendant.

In Germany, the Drumpf family had maternal descendants in Austria who included Maria Anna Schicklgruber: Adolf Hitler's paternal grandmother. A sister of Maria Anna, Gretchen had one child out of wedlock, who was Fred Trump's grandfather.

What do you get from the union of Hitler genes and Christ? Apparently, you get an amoral monster called Donald John Trump.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Jul 25 - 06:48 PM

Rosette Nebula

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Jul 25 - 10:26 PM

Rap, when is the next time you'll be in Salt Lake City?

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jul 25 - 07:41 PM

Or both. Look at the advances in aircraft made during WW2.

Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jul 25 - 02:18 PM

The ongoing threat is if science will advance weaponry or wonder in our lives.