This is a fragment I said I’d post … the part which gives the picture:
“Maintenance (…) from doors to electrics to plumbing and of course, welding and not only operating machines, I have to fix and service them. Meanwhile, I’ve sorted out the wood shop, after 35 years of abuse (all of the tools/machines are donated).
You can appreciate that I’ve been busy off the scale, since around May. I think that I was invisible to society, even my half finished house had to be shelved. When I got a chance to go back to the blogs, your blog was gone.
I tried to post on Foggy’s to find out where you had gone, but Foggy’s blog refuses to publishing my posts. BTW, all the Blogspot blogs are doing the same.”
It’s all about humans working in synch, feeding off each other and nowhere was it … still is … more pronounced than in the most recorded song in popular music history … skim down and look at the number of cover versions by everyone from big players to most garage bands … at some stage, they’ll run Louie Louie … despite blurred, unclear lyrics in the most popular version by The Kingsmen:
The story about the lyrics is part of the whole story about the song, the times, the reaction of the establishment considering it dirty, banning it from airplay … and the way we embraced it at the time, both for its hook and for the furor. I loved it.
It was an African Cuban ditty, he put words to it and earned $750 towards his upcoming wedding. Later, it was used in a major commercial and he did earn millions then. Good. Pornographic lyrics, hence the need to blur them? Judge for yourself:
In more detail … he’s at a bar, he confides in the barman, Louie, he’s mellow from the rum, whatever, he has it bad for this girl … which is beautiful … this is as romantic in an earthy or shipboard way as you can get. Yes all right, there’d be some nooky once he found her but it’s really lovelorn romance … he’ll sail the seas for days to get back to her.
The song was written by an LA black guy, quite different to reggae but a bit like Sloop John B … however, it really does lend itself to calypso, reggae, the Caribbean, as many have said … and so the version I’m running here is Toots and the Maytals … cranked down, smoother, more harmonious, more Caribbean:
Don’t miss the last 30 seconds of underwater guitar.
Had to fish Juan out of a dozen spam earlier … WP is obviously unsure … plus I’m thinking navigation just now. I have an advantage patrons don’t … I can find all Juan’s comments in the engine room … readers though have to scroll down through HQ posts to find his … or anyone’s.
That one step barrier is a double-edged sword … it helps protect his comments, similarly to Steve at NOWP … as long as Juan understands he’s not being ignored, it works. Before going on, a word about archiving in general.
May I humbly suggest using dead tree if you’re not already doing so? I usually cut some A4 in half, making it A5 and use a clipboard. Any notes go there, nowhere else. After some time, I file to various subject boxes (literally boxes) which I have stacked … the A5 is better, goes into small trays better.
Let’s say you wanted to access Juan’s link on Kabbala-Hindu … rather than store electronically, use the dead tree scribble method … this would be the post you needed:
Now you’re not going to remember that after tomorrow, as I deliberately use a non-pointer form of boring, same-old post headings, specifically to obscure, to make opaque.
Right, so I have already dated the day’s A5 in the morning, now I wish to save the Juan drop … I can either write Fri 030125 kabbala hindu … sufficient to track it down again or write out the full url .. or both.
If I write the shortened form with blog heading, that’s fine, for as long as Unherdables exists. Though HQ stands a better chance than Nourishing due to MMUTR, there are still unknowns … my blogs do have a history of being nuked by hosting platforms.
In the end, it comes down to what priority you give it … if high, better to write the url in full, if you take a chance on HQ surviving, then just the post heading suffices. Keep similar types of notes together, using physical spring paperclips. Ifyou want that url, go HQ => Fri 030125 => comments thread.
The above is just one method good for me … you have your own of course … some use usb sticks, some use usb connecting hard drives.
But do have a system, folks.
3. Weird things inside the goldmine
… as The Doors sang … or in this case, weird things on X and Gab … both. Ab was rubbish today, plus the DMs were down … someone’s messing over there. Meanwhile, on X, there’s something about not seeing unverified accounts replies … “verified” just means controlled, that’s all, with us paying money for the privilege.
Other than that, it’s operating all right, apart from the dropouts which occasioned mt OoL and Jstack posts … it’s still happening, on and off today, so those posts stay.
2. Steve drops at 928
Four: Tommy R and plenty of other bits and pieces…..
Three: Speaker Johnson, FBI, plenty of other etc…
Two: Uke sit-rep, the elan of western v Russian troops, much more…..
One: UK government plans to profiteer from NHS patients’ private medical information, Musk on TR, plenty more…..
According to reports in Bloomberg and the Telegraph, several major U.S.-based financial institutions have recently left the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA). Yesterday, Morgan Stanley announced that it had pulled out, though offered no reason. This follows Citigroup and Bank of America both quitting the Alliance on Tuesday, and their exit follows Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs, which both quit earlier in the month. Though it is mostly U.S.-based, this has altered the global context of climate politics immensely. So what has caused this ‘exodus’, and what happens next?
NZBA is a project of the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Finance Initiative (FI), launched in 2021. It convenes figures, plucked from the financial sector, who agree to attempt to align the interests of major financial institutions towards climate outcomes.
It is the fruit of financial news media tycoon Mike Bloomberg’s UN entryism, and his underling, former Governor of the Bank of England and Bank of Canada, now manager of Bloomberg’s business empire, Mark Carney. Bloomberg and Carney are respectively UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’s Special Envoy on Climate Ambition and Solutions and Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance.
