(0543) Morning all, good sleep, need a cuppa. Item 1 below will also be at OoL and Jstack, linked on X. (0644)

 

2. Quora fills a Readers Digest type function

… and most just goes through my inbox here but now and then something appears to repost. This is a cobstant thread … anything Beatles … some academic in London.

When did George Martin first realize that the Beatles were finished?

“He said that after the Let It Be experience, he was quite sad that it ended like that and he was surprised to get a call from Paul saying the Beatles wanted to record another album and they wanted him (George Martin) to produce it.

During the recording of Abbey Road, there was a feeling it might be the last album, but it was by no means certain – John had recently proposed an album with 4 tracks each for John, Paul and George and 2 for Ringo “if he wants them”.

However, a few weeks later John announced he was leaving the band – the other Beatles didn’t know whether to believe him (he’d recently announced he was the second coming of Jesus but forgotten all about it the next day!) however, In Feb 1970, John appeared on TV performing Instant Karma with a group of other musicians – that made Paul in particular realise that John was serious – and that was probably the moment that George Martin knew that the Beatles wouldn’t be recording together as they did before.”

Uh huh. As with Jim Morrison and his increasingly lost soul thing, shaking his fist at God etc., the one in the Beatles involved in the legend of urinating on nuns below was John, the one who went off the rails was John (to an extent George with his Maharishi bollox), the one shot was John. The most self-destructive was John … horrible new wife etc., way he had treated Cynthia … in my eyes, it was odds on, just as with François-Marie Arouet way back in France.

The essential difference, esp. with the Jesus Christ crack, was that he was the only one in the four openly hostile to God, just as with the original fallen angel. The others were just searching for the lost chord. And the most interest aspect for me, stretching back 2000 or so years, was how the most blinkered and obtuse were those supposedly intelligent, intelligentsia … yet so soul-dumb at the same time.

1. There’s most certainly mischief afoot online

… which was always odds on. The two latest in my sphere are Toodles and Moosh. Toodles attempted to write a reply to Steve, about family and friends I presume … just disappeared it did. Sometimes it can be intended by the good side, not just the mischievous techie goblins, elves and gremlins. Thing is, it could be absolutely anything, from the provider to the platform to the device to the person using it … we’re all of us under the hammer right now.

There are some golden rules. One is not to click on anything which just appears, however innocuous it seems … I was nearly tricked last night into installing something here. I suppose I’m mid tech savvy, very much front end, knowing some things about backend … knowing what not to touch is one step on that journey.

Looking at Moosh … a new account just appeared, using her images but I’m not sure it’s her, there was no indication from her own site, plus she has enemies, as many of us do. I’ll check that out a bit later. Latest for me is one of Elon’s developers, so he says.

I found this too … interesting, suspected as much:

Combining something my techie mate said about the evolution of devices … with a Happy Days observation about “jumping the shark” … the driving force behind any new “thang” is the creator, the innovator, those about him too, decades ago.

Gradually, it becomes apparent that nothing much has really changed … and why should it? Why fix that which ain’t broke? But the tech company mindset is “change for change’s sake”, staying “relevant”, unlike MTV, also a payroll of developers, all wishing to show off, earning brownie points.

So, inevitably, lesser techies are in there and the company fears losing market share. It becomes about profit … just that. Meanwhile, technically, they just have to “jump the shark”. It’s not unlike the imperative an addict feels.

Back to these two ladies … yes, easy meat for those wishing to stop them. Plus Roob, and to an extent Julia. Me? Semi-easy meat, obviously there are ways around me too. Having access to backenders does alter the equation, plus a cautious mindset helps, learnt over time. Plus a partly detached attitude, realising that anything potentially worthwhile will always bring out the stoppers.

Tomorrow’s post at OoL will be about something which was on X about health … thought it might be of interest. Have a good weekend, chaps and chapesses.