The September Yammer Festival, Slowed and Mowed

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1. After my lawn spray showed results, I overseeded with 15lbs premium grass seed. A friend overseeds turnip seed where he sets up for deer hunting.
   Had to look up Dutch clover. Ah, we call it white clover here… what I sprayed the lawn to kill.

2. “The whole world is becoming humanoid, creatures that look human but aren’t… mass-produced, programmed and numbered.”
   — Paddy Chayefsky – Network [Screenplay]

3. as the deer take to ‘X’ to post their latest issues,,”ORANGEMAN BAD”
   I am wondering if ure sprouting any of those broccoli seeds for human consumption, how about the less common plant,,,kohlrabi, I like the purple variety, for the mature plant to be dined on

   hummmm, feeding deer on a gun range,, sounds like prepping for if and when needed,,, just in case,, till then it is wallyworld curbside pickup,, carry on,,, say hello to the Bridgport from me,, as the flintknappers claim it will cause job losses

   • Voodoo Island (1957)
     This movie features three different kinds of man-eating plants! First, there’s a scene where a huge cabbage-like plant eats a child — very bold for the time. Second, there’s a water plant that kills one of the two women on the expedition. And third, there’s a land plant that resembles a lamprey. For fans of man-eating plant movies Voodoo Island is a bonanza!

     Voodoo Island – Official Trailer

     https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BEdlSI2mYps&pp=ygUaVm9vZG9vIElzbGFuZCAxOTU3IHRyYWlsZXI%3D

     • so good . there was a cinema in newtown Sydney oz called the valhalla . we would rock up pissed in the late 1970s for the midnite to dawn sessions on friday and saturday . absolute sensational movies from great cinema of the 1950s and 1960s . favourites , plan 9 and creature from the black lagoon

       • Creature From the Black Lagoon: Complete Legacy Collection [DVD]

         https://www.amazon.com/Creature-Black-Lagoon-Complete-Collection/dp/B00L8QP0K0

       • re: “Mermaid – Welcome to Florida”, 2025
         feat: something fishy in the upper airs

         Royal Society member Sir James Porter arrived at Istanbul in the 1740’s as a diplomat to a peaking Ottoman Empire. He is credited with introducing the Turkish proverb “a fish rots from the head” to English readers in 1768. He is a direct ancestor of the 7th Duke of Westminster who has an estimated £9.56 billion fortune, and the Prince of Wales is godfather to his child…

         Welcome back, and thank you DJ George for bringing us “American Boy” by Kanye West featuring Estelle.

         Last week msm pictured former Mrs. West turned billionaire fashionista Kim Kardashian exiting the ultra-exclusive Club Estelle of Grafton Street attired in a mermaid dress. Presently the club allegedly reports closure with immediate effect for some weeks to come due to “a serious public safety matter outside the premises”.

         Developed in the 1760’s by the 3rd Duke of Grafton, a most recent tenant at the address until 2017 or so had been the colonial era established Hong Kong Trade Office. It was known as the Hong Kong Government Office answering to the Governor of Hong Kong until 1997.

         One might have thought that the Princess of Wales earned the Amazon crown with her mourning amethyst jewel-laden march into Tom Cruise’s new movie premiere of “Digger” on Tuesday. Spoiler alert: the plot involves a fictional world’s richest man. However yesterday the U.S. First Lady made a circa 1984 Tom Hank’s mermaid “Splash” by dropping her State Dinner menu on the White House website at the following link:

         https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2026/09/first-lady-melania-trump-releases-details-on-the-state-dinner-with-his-excellency-xi-jinping-president-of-the-peoples-republic-of-china-and-madame-peng-liyuan/

         Her wine toast selection may be seen to link #37 Admin’s CReeP letter and the vineyard’s pre-colonial home domicile name of “Chicken Hawk Place” to offer an unsettling aftertaste on elite palates. According to a State Dinner billionaire guest-owned “Washington Post”, the bass main course is alleged as the Black Sea variety native to Eastern USA coastal waters. Wiki informs that the fish type largely exhibits a “protogynous hermaphrodite” lifecycle. They are typically born female and later convert to male. Meal courses were scheduled to be polished off plates using the famous 1981 Nancy Reagan commissioned dinner service.

   • tobD : *shooting over bait* is strictly verbotten. Now if we did scatter licks and minerals it would draw a crowd. Simply not needed around here. Land ‘o plenty if ya like venison. A good friend invited me and the Missus to an old world outdoor fishfry. Hundreds of panfish (bluegill, crappy, rock bass) plus a few perch (Egor fav.) and some MN walleye. Num. ~E~

4. Rick Ackerman: AI, uh, it’s gone crazy, really, and I think that’s part of what makes people crazy, and going back to what I was saying earlier, the internet is generally a force that’s simply not a force for the good of mankind, it’s really driving people crazy in general, and I think that what you could look at, the things that are going on in the real world are I think, craziness generated by the digital world.

   https://talkdigitalnetwork.substack.com/p/rick-ackerman-will-ai-investors-ever

5. tick tick tick tick tick tick tick

6. you sure thats be be they all walked out on in the united nations? . damn i dunno head looks bigger , something about the ears . bit of the old strength by deception . weekend at bernies great movie . could be weekend at be be s

   • The Colossus of New York (1958)

     Ending clip at The United Nations.

     https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yp31QK2MbCk&pp=ygUoQ29sb3NzdXMgb2YgbmV3IFlvcmsgVW5pdGVkIE5hdGlvbnMgY2xpcA%3D%3D

     • great stuff !!!

7. heres a great movie title for a celebration of these great times !!! black monday !!! september 28

8. heres a blast from the past . the old andrews pitchforks . git yah techy AI inta yah .. wwwwooooaaaa!

9. Portent of future doom ?

   I had just uploaded a library to the J.A.R.V.I.S. ‘foundation’.., picked up my coffee mug.., and – the handle popped off – dropping the mug about two inches back onto the desk.
   – WTH ! That’s shame. It has been my go-to mug for over 24 years. Thick and heavy clear, dark green glass. Over 26,000 cups of morning-mood elixir. Not counting all the cups of tea. Which would add about a third more.
   – Throw it away !? Never ! It will now become a pen and pencil holder sitting prominently on the desk. Gorilla-glued the handle back on – for looks. Been a buddy of mine for many a mornings.

   The hunt is on for a new ‘morning-friend’.

   The library I uploaded was 6,200 books and over 12,000 peer-reviewed papers on human psychology. Criminal, abnormal, child, military and all the other areas of study. I hesitated at first., as I really don’t need to be constantly examined by J.A.R.V.I.S. – however, the intro note stated that this library has become the second most requested from A.I. builders. And I decided that I shouldn’t short-change J.A.R.V.I.S.’ education.

   .., back at it. Only half way there.

   “Stay Frosty!”

   • We are sorry to hear about the mug. I finally gave up on lifetime mug relations – nothing lasts on a sailboat more than a season or four.

     OTOH, I am pleased that you are uploading a real – not purely online – training base – and we keep a couple of tera’s full of offline knowledge handy, as well. Our little “pocket AI” won’t do much compared to the big guns, but time has a price and for two grown-up (well, sorta) AIs on a commercial platform, that’s a deal because the cost per calculation gets silly if I have to keep up a machine. G2’s buddy Silky (don’t ask) is one of those 96GB fellows and it’s fun watching him try to figure out how to get into the serious money in ai.

     That exercise, at some level, is like going out into t6he woods, finding some musyterious power tool, and figuring out first how it works and then how to make money with it. A younger man’s pastime.

     Besides if it really does work to its limits, government will find a way to tax or impound it anyway. And while their attention is diverted, your 2×8 bucket rig for hydro mato’s is a much cleaner (fruitful>) use of time.

     • Check out Fine Arts America for mugs and even shower curtains. Everyone needs an impressionist shower curtain and coffee mug or four.
       For Fall theme, Grandma Moses pumpkin themes are in season.

     • My favorite mug is green ceramic with “I found Flying M Ranch” on it. Chipped by the dishwasher, it remains in service and likely will for the foreseeable future.

       Flying M ranch is a neighbor of yours, George, at Reklaw, TX. If you haven’t been there, you should. Quite a fly-in on the last full weekend of October every year. That looks to be 10/24 – 10/25 this year.

   • Use Google and find it’s a vintage brother or sister coffee mug.

   • If it’s glass, just fix it.

     Glass mugs are borosilicate glass (Pyrex/Kimax, etc.)

     Use these, or similar:

     https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D1NSJQKW

     and a propane or MAPP gas torch.

     Glass is the easiest substance I can think of, to weld, because between “red hot” and “runny,” it gets really sticky, so all you have to do to reattach a handle is heat cup, heat handle, get all four contact points to shiny neon-white hot (you’ll understand, once you see it) and stick the handle where you want it. Keep the torch on the joints, back off to an oxidizing flame, and slowly back off (‘cuz it’s a pain in the butt, redoing your work because the damn’ thing cooled too quickly and cracked.) It helps if you’ve seen glass blowing done in a carnival, but it’s dead easy to learn (if you blow glass, NEVER INHALE {duh!})

     I watched my brother build several intricate condensers out of tubing & flasks, then started doing blowing, folding, and welding when I was about 9-10, with his scraps. I never once burned myself or the house. I quit when I was 13, after a piece of half-inch glass slipped and cut me (not badly, but sufficiently-bloody to attract ‘rents. I ended up with two stitches and a stern suggestion to “stop.”

     So I stopped, and began my 12-pad automatic rocket launch control center, instead, using a 4rpm clock motor and a homemade finger-switch. My parents did not encourage me to do anything in particular, but they only discouraged me from doing things which might kill or cripple me (or someone else.) Model rockets are safe, right?

     My rocket launch experiment led to me wondering if I could make my own propellant and re-use those expensive (29¢ or 3/79¢) Estes rocket engines. This led me to making giant powder, followed by my first cannon. The first shot put a ball bearing through the side of our garage, 12 hundred-year-old oak 2x12s, and the other side of the garage. (It took just one shot to figure out that I needed a backstop…) ‘Never fired that cannon again, without a proper range.

     I dropped the cannon in favor of learning how to hit kids so hard in pickup football games, as to make them not want to tackle me — then back to mowing lawns.

     Oh, to be 13 again…

     BTW, the propane torch is also the cure for chipped rims (or chipped edges on Corelle, which is also a type of borosilicate glass.) Heat until white hot, let cool slowly, and presto: No sharp edges. You can use the rod I linked to, to fillet-weld a deep chip, but you have to be picky about your fill because ya ain’ta gonna grind it down or radius it…

10. “harsh”

    You really need to get the poll widget going.

    Raise of hands, who supported NAFTA?

    Trump is integrating the Northern and Southern hemi’s into the Economic Zone Clinton spoke of….. The Amero and all that. Twice as good as NAFTA.

    But in the end, there will be no new factories northern half. And no cheap sweets from Venezuela.

11. robots sedating vix again into close . aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. wait till it wakes up .

12. This is totally….OFF TOPIC….but Hank hit me with something the other day I had never even heard of..
    BLACK GARLIC….now I love garlic , onions, and peppers ( sweet peppers) but was curious.. black garlic in marinades soups or just eat it..
    Black garlic is made by aging regular garlic under controlled heat and humidity, resulting in a rich, sweet, and probiotic packed ingredient. Beyond its distinctive taste, it boasts high levels of antioxidants, which help combat free radicals and support overall wellness….. Studies suggest black garlic may promote heart health, strengthen the immune system,battle cancer, and improve digestion. Its versatility in both savory and sweet dishes also makes it a favorite among chefs and health enthusiasts alike, proving that good flavor can go hand in hand with powerful nutrition….
    Now…. everyone here knows that I am excited about KOJI and speed aging steaks..since the world is going to he’ll in a handbasket.. I decided for this Christmas I am giving my normal kitchen gadget bring the family to the table..sit enjoy and share your life…A lamp to be the light for others.. so this year I made cold countertop smoker some koji ( everyone should have the opportunity to enjoy a steak or roast that usually sells from between $40.00 – $300.00 a pound..in fancy restaurants a four hundred dollar meal)
    which got me thinking..what IF…..black garlic is added to the KOJI marinade.. so I did a search…
    (“Combining black garlic with a koji marinade can:
    Enhance umami due to the additional amino acids in black garlic alongside the protein breakdown from koji.
    Add sweetness and depth without overpowering the marinade.
    Support flavor balance, especially in meats that need both tenderizing and rich seasoning (e.g., beef, pork, or chicken).
    Tips for Using in a Marinade
    Quantity: Start with 1–2 cloves of mashed black garlic per cup of liquid in your koji marinade. Adjust to taste. The goal is subtle sweetness and aromatic complexity, not to dominate the meat flavor.
    Timing: Add black garlic at the same time as the koji. Since black garlic is soft and processed, it does not require fermentation time but incorporating it at the start allows its flavors to meld with the meat.
    Complementary Ingredients: Ingredients like soy sauce, mirin, sesame oil, ginger, or citrus can harmonize the flavor profile without interfering with the enzymatic action of koji.
    Marinating Duration: Koji tenderizes meat relatively quickly. Large cuts may need 4–6 hours in the refrigerator, while smaller cuts can require 2–4 hours. Avoid over-marinating, as koji can overly soften the meat.
    Cooking Considerations: Koji-marinated meat can be seared, grilled, or roasted. When cooking, be aware of black garlic’s sugars; it may brown faster, so monitor heat to avoid burning the glaze.
    Flavor Notes
    Black garlic complements beef, pork, and dark poultry particularly well.
    The combination adds savory-sweet depth similar to aged or fermented marinades, enhancing both texture and umami impact.”)

    A good mojo marinade is..
    Liquid Koji Steak Marinade
    21/4 cups rice koji
    11/4 cups water
    2 tablespoons non-iodized salt
    Optional: 1–2 tablespoons sake or dry white wine….( hey I wonder..what if..I used cacao wine..)
    Warm the 11/4 cups water to about 140°F.
    Let it cool somewhat, then combine with the koji and salt.
    Put everything in a clean jar and stir well.
    Cover loosely and ferment at about 65–75°F for 7–10 days, stirring once daily.
    When the koji has softened and smells pleasantly sweet/savory, blend it with an immersion blender until smooth.

    now how does black garlic work to kill cancer cells???
    Some of the compounds associated with fresh garlic decrease during its fermentation, while relatively stable sulfur compounds such as S allylcysteine (SAC) and S allylmercaptocysteine (SAMC) become more prominent…..

    From what I have read the chemical mechanisms Encouraged apoptosis — programmed cell death… similar to sweet wormwood attacking the iron cells. these garlic compounds can activate pathways that cause damaged or cancerous cells to undergo apoptosis that have been observed in laboratory models….
    These chemicals Interfered with the uncontrolled cell division of cancer cells. These studies have found effects on cell cycle signaling, potentially preventing cancer cells from continuing to multiply….
    Influencing invasion and metastasis…. Experimental studies have found inhibition of processes cancer cells use to migrate and invade surrounding tissue.
    Influencing oxidative and inflammatory pathways. Garlic’s sulfur compounds interact with several cellular signaling systems rather than acting through one single mechanism….
    All of this information hints that black garlic possibly affecting carcinogen processing…. Some garlic compounds appear to influence enzymes involved in detoxification of carcinogens…..

    As interesting as this is Black garlic has not been proven to treat or cure cancer in humans…. The strongest evidence for these mechanisms comes from cell cultures and animal studies, and the amount of a compound that affects a cancer cell in a laboratory isn’t necessarily achievable by eating garlic…. The National Cancer Institute specifically notes that there is currently no proof that a food, supplement, herb, or dietary trend that can slow, cure, or prevent cancer from returning….or killing it outright..
    Similar to the cancer studies in the UK and Canada that suggest marijuana oil and coconut oil suppositories (rectal and vaginal)assist with fighting cancers….( all lab so far marijuana is still being demonized by congress …and the lobbyists still pushing to keep it illegal )
    back to KOJI and black garlic..

    Now…wet fermented garlic… will it work with a 1 gallon experimental batch
    Ingredients
    3 lb peeled fresh garlic cloves ( Costco’s bag of whole garlic)
    1 gallon total fermentation liquid
    3 oz salt — about 5–6 Tbsp, 1/4 cup
    4 oz sugar — about 1/2 cup
    1 packet wine yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)
    1 cup 5% vinegar, included in the gallon liquid
    Non chlorinated water as needed to make the final liquid volume exactly 1 gallon
    i will use wine yeast rather than bread yeast because I am deliberately trying to produce a controlled fermentation with a predictable organism….
    I might end up with something quite different from commercialy available black garlic—potentially it could be softer, tangier, less pungently garlicky, and with a different mixture of sulfur compounds…. then do the heat aging..
    I will try three batches..one like making sour kraut one like wine with sugar and one the conventional way..
    For the conventional black garlic I will start with 2–3 whole garlic bulbs
    my Slow cooker with LOW/WARM or my Insta pot
    Small rack or steamer basket….
    1 cup water
    Foil….
    Thermometer capable of measuring around 140–180°F

    Don’t put the garlic directly into water…what I need to do is keep a humid environment like a humidor for cigars…
    Leave the garlic bulbs whole and unpeeled…..
    Put a rack/steamer basket in the slow cooker.
    Add about 1 cup water underneath the rack.
    Put the garlic on the rack.
    Cover the cooker.
    Wrap the lid with foil or a towel if necessary to reduce moisture escaping—but don’t make a pressure tight seal…. not needed in the Insta pot
    Set it to the lowest setting that actually gives you roughly 160–170°F around the garlic….
    Then the hard part… let it sit 3–5 weeks, depending upon temperature……

    I know its simply easier and probably cheaper to go to the ZON and ordering it..but tgen..the what if…you can’t just run to the store.. in a dry slow cooker or solar aging ..spray a light mist of water daily yo keep the humidity high..
    for your KOJI / BLACK garlic marinade..add one or two cloves to the marinade..depending on your taste buds..up or down..you choose…

    • Yum.

      Let me know where you find the patience to not raid it ahead of time…

    • garlic cant have heat more than 45 seconds loses its sellenium

      • (holds up card)
        Have to roll with LOOB on this one:
        You’re mixing two different garlic stories and attaching the wrong clock to the wrong molecule. The 45-second selenium rule is not right.

        Selenium is an element. Heat does not make the atom disappear at 45 seconds. What cooking can do is change which selenium compounds are present, and in hard frying some organoselenium can leave with the steam or oil. A 2018 cooking study on Se-enriched garlic (oven 10 min, boil 10 min, microwave 3 min, steam 10 min, stir-fry 3 min at 180 °C) found roughly 6–11% total Se loss from boiling or steaming and about 64% loss from frying. Those are minutes, not 45 seconds, and frying is the outlier—not a brief sauté.

        What you may be remembering is sulfur chemistry, not selenium. Crush garlic and the enzyme alliinase turns alliin into allicin (the smell and a lot of the “raw garlic” talk). Alliinase is heat-shy. Song and Milner showed about 60 seconds of microwave heat, or 45 minutes in an oven, can wipe out that enzyme path and the anticancer activity they were measuring. Letting crushed garlic sit ~10 minutes before heat preserved a good share of that activity. That is 45 minutes in an oven, or ~60 seconds in a microwave—not “45 seconds or you lose the selenium.”
        Cooked garlic is not empty. You lose some allicin-path compounds; you keep minerals (mostly), other organosulfur leftovers, and flavor. If you want the crush-and-wait chemistry, mince it, wait several minutes, then add it near the end. If you want dinner, cook the garlic. Don’t treat a 45-second selenium ban as a law of nature.
        OK – that’s that part. And the other part?
        I did a lot of work on AGE (aged garlic extract) when I was doing my antiaging research and it’s still a very important part of the arsenal under certain conditions (injury, flu-likes, and so forth). Not as powerful as ginger, for blood pressure, as an example, buet very good stuff andf especially in combination with C. I was focused on telomeres, though, and not day-in-day-out moving the average.
        But thought you’d want to know, Len. Ginger People sells the ginger juice by the liter on Amazon.
        And if you ask me to go deeper (because this is important to those of us who are aging…)
        There is no large randomized trial of AGE with all-cause death or years lived as the endpoint. Reviews that list serious anti-aging candidates (metformin, NAD precursors, rapalogs, (think rapamycin) senolytics, GLP-1s) do not put AGE in that class.
        AGE is a better BP long-term (in what has been studied so far, no real RCT’s) but if you have hypertension there’s a stacking caution Len – If you stack them, watch bleeding risk (both can nudge platelets) and don’t treat either as a reason to skip the cuff or the prescribed pill.

        • ahh well . you cook it mate . i never do . russian blue best . you all need more garlic alright

    • Lazy ass that I am, I just bought the gel pills to swallow. Now If I wanted to make a marinade I would be piercing the gels and squeezing out the liquid to get a few tablespoonfuls. Sacrilege, I know. But like I said, I’m a…….

13. an australian aid agency has sent 900 whellchairs to gaza for children made amputees by the accidental bombing of the strip . they have been in locked storage by the israeli processing centre since 2025 . maybe the likely new good guy prime minister ben givor could be humane and get them released for the kids

    • Check the Dinner guest list, Miriam Adelson, 3rd largest GOP donor ($111+ million, owner of pro Netanyhu newspaper Israel Hayon:
      https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-xi-state-dinner-guest-list-includes-spacexs-musk-nvidias-huang-lvmhs-2026-09-25/

      Adelson recently annoyed by Trump’s efforts to appease Iran,
      ‘Trump Megadonor’s Newspaper Dumps on ‘Failed’ President’
      https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-megadonor-newspaper-dumps-failed-194129295.html

14. Well, George, I finished reading The Good War last night. It was a very interesting story that was most compelling. I can easily visualize it as a movie. I would have liked you to have further explained the use of nuclear bombs, where they were detonated, what the payload could have been, and the damage incurred. That all seemed nebulous in the story, but perhaps that particular data might have exceeded certain limits of the book.

    • The thing is two fold – first is that if I had done that the book would have crossed from a good fictional account of some very hard choices into “just another doom porn EoW” story [end of world].
      The further problem is that I may still know too much about specific weapons, triggering, and which targeting packages would be used – and I didn’t want to get down to the “exchange targets with enemy in advance, or not, because that would have been a whole other layer of government conspiracy.

      • Yeah, I thought so.

15. According to this movie from 1970 Texas is going to get hit.

    Colossus: The Forbin Project

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project

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