Weekly Facebook 2023-09-18 (Sun Sep 24 22:18:09 2023)

September 24, 2023

I am getting a new drum and will want a strap. Does anyone have one or two Kata straps I could have/buy from you? I know that one is too short and two are much longer than i need. I’ll be needing to have them cut and sewn together. Anyone with a sewing machine that could handle that, i would appreciate knowing as well.

PM me or something please.

Sat Sep 23 18:07:52 2023

Weekly Facebook 2023-09-18

Friend of a friend. No one is guaranteed tomorrow.

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/greeley-co/todd-schisler-11461659

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Sat Sep 23 08:34:20 2023

Weekly Facebook 2023-09-18

My first in-laws built a retirement home near Oxford, Mississippi, that followed this design philosophy. From one side, it looked like a building the size of a gas station kiosk like they have over by King Soopers, sitting on top of a hill. You went in, and there was a stairway to the lower level. This was where there were bedrooms, kitchen, and living spaces. The lower level had a wall of windows that faced south with windows. It was made of concrete.

There was a steel barn next to it, which had a couple of rooms to live in during the building of the other building, into which they moved all their possessions accumulated during their ~30 years in the home where they raised their kids that they built in the 1950s. Moving the stuff from Michigan to Mississippi took three runs with a semi-trailer.

A distance from the buildings, there was a pond with catfish in it. They fed the catfish stuff that looked like dog kibble but never caught them or did anything with them that I was aware of. I waded into the pond with a laundry basket once, dropped food on the surface, and scooped up some fish, which we cooked and ate. No one else up til that point had ever eaten any of the catfish.

The first home they had built in the 1950s in Farmington Hills, Michigan, was also built and lived in over the years by paying with cash. They lived in the basement while the upstairs was finished. The old man (I never had a proper name during 9 years of being married to his daughter for him for various reasons) worked for the phone company and once had his boss over. The boss looked around and decided he must have been paying “Bunny” (as his family knew him) too much because the home was much larger than the mortgaged-financed shack that he lived in. They bought the land when Farmington Township was mostly an apple orchard before the build-up of mass-produced subdivisions by companies like Pulte in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. In the intervening time, the home’s value rose because it was next to a town called Franklin, Michigan, which was home to an awful lot of rich bastards. The property taxes had risen quite a bit, so Mr B couldn’t afford them on his retirement income.

The tragedy of this story is that Mrs. B got cancer just when the Mississippi home was complete She died within a year or two because her breast cancer was not a lump but rather like a layer behind her breast. Mr B lived a few more years with a daughter or two in what was called the monument to his wife.

As a result of the flurry of DMs before I tried to run away from Facebook, I had a nice chat right here on Facebook with my first wife, whom I will call “D,” the other day, which happened to be on her 60th birthday. I was told that the second home had been sold about 6 years ago.

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Thu Sep 21 12:38:50 2023

Weekly Facebook 2023-09-18

An “off by 1 error” happens in computer programming when someone forgets if we start counting with 1 or 0. Because this is slot A0, it’s even funnier to me.

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Wed Sep 20 11:15:31 2023

Weekly Facebook 2023-09-18

What do you know, I can get Facebook from the browser on my phone…

My friend Warren Stott generated this on Bard, thought moght be fun to share:

This is the result from telling Google’s Bard, a large language model AI:

“Trump for president, Answer as Abby Hoffman”

Abbie Hoffman:

Trump for president? Oh, man. That’s a good one.

Imagine it. A reality TV star, a billionaire, a self-proclaimed genius, and a racist bigot to boot, sitting in the Oval Office. It would be the biggest joke ever played on the American people.

But wait a minute. It’s not a joke. It’s real. And it’s terrifying.

Trump is everything that’s wrong with America. He’s the embodiment of greed, corruption, and ignorance. He’s a bully, a liar, and a demagogue. He’s a danger to our democracy.

But why are people supporting him?

It’s because they’re angry. They’re angry at the system. They’re angry at the establishment. They’re angry at the status quo.

And Trump is promising them change. He’s promising to make America great again.

But what does he really mean by that?

He means making America white again. He means making America rich again. He means making America powerful again.

He means making America what it was before the civil rights movement, before the women’s movement, before the gay rights movement. He means making America a country for the rich, white, male elite.

And that’s something that we can’t let happen.

So what do we do?

We fight back.

We organize. We protest. We vote. We make our voices heard.

We tell Trump and his supporters that we won’t stand for their racism, their sexism, their homophobia, their xenophobia, their Islamophobia.

We tell them that we’re not afraid of them.

We tell them that we’re going to defeat them.

Because America is for everyone, not just for the rich, white, male elite.

And we’re not going to let them take our country away from us.

Abbie Hoffman, out.

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Tue Sep 19 07:52:08 2023

Weekly Facebook 2023-09-18

In the novel Anathem by Neal Stevenson, there is a monastery inhabited by monks who study things like physics and higher math. The outside world has little use for these things, so the monastery only opens occasionally for a day.

I have a pretty high estimation of myself sometimes, others not; I am going to close the door to Facebook again for a little bit. Thank you for the kind pings from when I bounced out last week, I will be back provided the proverbial bus doesn’t find me. Not Kesey’s bus, but the one that takes out the IT person when you don’t have proper backups.

I think of all of you when I see a funny video or picture or some pithy bit of wisdom. I have ambitions to parse out my facebook history, along with all the videos that I have saved to “Watch Later” on YouTube, or interesting informational things from Reddit to my personal blog page. ChatGPT will mostly likely be my assistant in this endeavor, as well as a somewhat clear head and an urgent sense that none of us has as much time as we want.

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Tue Sep 19 07:39:02 2023

Weekly Facebook 2023-09-18

https://www.effedupmovies.com/julien-donkey-boy-1999/

This website has some fun movies.

You can save to your hard drive with yt-dlp

https://www.effedupmovies.com/julien-donkey-boy-1999/

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Mon Sep 18 22:00:28 2023

Weekly Facebook 2023-09-18

In northern Michigan, they have interesting things at the Ace Hardware store this time of year. And the freezers have stick figures of one or more deer, depending on how big it is.

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Mon Sep 18 19:40:30 2023

Weekly Facebook 2023-09-18

I lasted as few days. I am not an addict (says anyone so accused, at first) but I will own being habituated to Facebook. Twitch to post things happen a few times a day.

As a result of the flurry of PMs I sent before I shut the door, I have gotten a couple of pings on phone text. I had a long text conversation with my best friend from high school, which was nice. I have also had a couple phone calls with old friends. I didn’t have to quit Facebook for these things, but I have the attention span to think about other things. I haven’t had as much of an impetus to just sit here and scroll endlessly. that’s not true, i have wondered what was up, but i put just enough friction into the process for me to remember why I am taking a break.

Reddit is still a good place for me, but I can scroll endlessly there, as well. It is serving my current aims so I will keep it in place.

I spent the weekend on a rare sojourn south of 120th Ave. I went to the Bass Pro Shops to exchange some socks, saw three friends in different places who haven’t seen me much because my car wasn’t safe for long trips. I feel much freer to drive places now since I fixed my front suspension.

I miss you all and this isn’t a permanent thing. I open my phone and look at the spot where my Facebook client was and i smile at my mechanicalness.

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Mon Sep 18 18:49:45 2023

Weekly Facebook 2023-09-18

living without facebook was harder than it looked. I am looking for someone who can help me get a copy of Macos Monterey for a mac mini I just got from a pawn shop for $55. I have it plugged in but it needs an install. Can anyone with a safari browser help me get this?

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