In an earlier Peoplenomics report (December, 27,2023) we went into some depth on a concept called QFPD: “Quest for Perfect Days”. This, when coupled with some ideas covered both in old “ShopTalk Sunday” reports like this one, led to some new insights into a “battle below the perception threshold” that’s waged every day, all around us.
Interestingly, there are not too many people who dare venture into these “real” aspects of self-management…with a few bright shining stars like Jordan Peterson and Cal Newport as delightful exceptions to “me-too’ism.”
Today we pick up where that December column left off – and get into task switching.
But not before a few headlines, Taiwan quake and such that we have word on this morning plus ADP job report just out; coming on the heels of the Tuesday Labor JOLTS report.
Then we can focus on playing better in the game of life.
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Questions Kemosabe, questions…
Do you have a clear line of sight from recliner to garden and or feeders ?
What are the arm rests made of and are they tall enough to Support Ure arms while aiming a bullpup? (357cal)https://www.pyramydair.com/product/benjamin-bulldog-357-bullpup-shrouded?m=3592
Its a heavy airgun, but seated in a nice chair with sturdy arm rests…Squirrel Stew ? Badboy can ethically take larger game like a feral cat no problem, possumpossum ? no problems. Hell time Ure shot right and get a 2fer, cat and possum! Anti-personnel ?
Obviously the bullpup costs more than the shooting chair, but what the hell you only live, millions of times…bwahahahahahah
Still raining here, I needz to find Her – and shelter from the Rain..https://youtu.be/ANQj_ppku9o?si=an9c8QQkGBdQvD95
Checking this out;
https://www.generalgun.com/product-page/charles-daly-model-101-20-gauge-3
Local gun store was in Michael Moore’s movie 2002 Bowling for Columbine.
Office was cross street from there.
When I retired the office closed, 2022.
Vic
” To live a long time you have to give yourself to be happy and this comes largely through self-expression.”
This is the oddest line in the entire column today!
What has self-expression got to do with anything? This is something I just don’t get. I know people who’s entire happiness depends on their desire to sing and/or dance, and the very thought makes me
cringe. It’s so unnatural and weird. It’s definitely worth a ponder since it means so much(apparently) to so many people.
I build and repair things, mostly because I want them. If I could blink and just have them done, I’d do that, but in the real world, that requires writing checks, and I’m too cheap to do that most of the time.
I spend significant time cogitating and meditating(two very different things). I can accomplish some kinds of work doing either(programming and similar tasks can’t be done while the mind is engaged in anything else). None of those things require an audience.
The idea of bar sounds, kitchen sounds, or (God forbid) bathroom sounds as adding to “ambience” is strange to me! Those are all reasons I avoid bars and restaurants. I’d never mix them into a home environment. Silence, tranquility, and occasionally good music that is clear, crisp and deeply soulful seem to be much more desirable. Then again, to each his own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax1csKKQnns
IMHO, we are all neurodivergent in different ways. Most people can get bored. Unfortunately, those of us who can never be bored can be boring to others. Novelty triggers a dopamine rush and that’s highly desirable by many. So does emotional contagion, for better or for worse.
A final question for those of us in the final quarter of life: “How does one maintain serious goals that span a time frame much greater than your life expectancy?”. The answer(if any) may require an entire column.
You’re right, it may seem like an odd notion, but there is support in the lit. for a link between happiness and longevity. Happy and optimistic people live longer.
But the catch is? We have to give ourselves permission to be happy and to engage and pursue that which we value. My thinking is in part based on the idea of self permission, discussed in the healthcare field generally in https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/107845352202900110?rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed&url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org.
I am incredibly blessed to have been schooled (by life) to assume a starting point of unbiased and emptiness. From here, it was possible to build my own worldview based entirely on observable and interconvertible facts.
One can “center one’s self” by simply finding a place at the midpoint of pleasure and pain, love and hate, up and down, and when the above is as below…then you are in a place where you can watch the world.
There are some kinds of antennas, for example (like a vertical tower) which, when flown over in an aircraft, have a strange “cone of silence” over them. Radio waves don’t go there with any magnitude.
On the occasion of being “centered” in the “low noise middle” you can more objectively watch what the DUDE is up to. There are currents, tides, and cycles to the Great Work and – like learning to listen to c lassical music – the listening and watching of the world takes time to evolve and develop.
Thus, we humans are a crazy and confused lot. Most are born (and then trained in) to a familial viewpoint. The family may imprint itself. Yet, the odds are low of getting trained into the quiet and centered middle where you can just watch.
Once you have gotten to where everything that happens elicits a reaction of just “Oh, how interesting” or “My, that’s a change of nuance…” then you can rise to your Partnership/understudy or Universe. Which teaches anyone who listens, and no one who doesn’t.
That’s what that part is about: We have to give ourselves many permissions and embrace those as our rights. And one of our permiwssions is to do what “makes up happy” because in a created (at some level) Universe, that’s the highest expression (along with love) – the learning to embrace the creative, the balanced, the harmony all fostered by events that not only make us individually happen, but which (at the risk of sournding woo-woo-ish) are respected and accepted by the World/Universe and favor gained.
Yeah, I could write a whole really long column or both on this, but the short version is give yourself permission to be happen, practice silencing of the mind into the listening deeply for non-verbal coaching, and then spreading the Universe’s apprehension of self though happiness as about the best things any of us can do.
And all supported in general terms by the current line of scientific research, yet not daringly offered as a superstructure for what the “bones of Humans 2.0” ought to be made of.
Not sure this will help but give yourself permission and “I am the eye through which the Universe beholds itself and knows it is Divine.” We are each a contributory piece of the unlimited whole.
Harder to remember in Kyiv, Gaza, Taiwan, or Ohio today.
1st Step – 4 Everybody, is to FORGIVE URESELF – first and foremost .
You have done nothing wrong, not guilty of anything, a perfect life – still need to Learn How . How to Forgive Ureself. I can hear Ure minds protesting this already, some serious egos..
This is a very Hard concept for many People to wrap their heads around, let alone accept and practice, for it is a constant mental exercise of forgiving Ureself..till you finally have FORGIVEN Ureself. It does Not matter what you are forgiving Ureself for, IT DOES NOT MATTER..just learn to Forgive Ureself. This is essential to advancing thru this matterium.
Do this and you will more easily find the “door” ..to a “Path”, Practice (meditation/going tothewhitewall/quieting mind) – will guide up the path..
I promise – if you do this – the Qi will come more easily into Ure Lives, as benefits unfold in Ure life.
https://youtu.be/ZvbqGubZmgo?si=XC69Ogi0lHBu_xPc
“How does one maintain serious goals that span a time frame much greater than your life expectancy?”
Your life span may span farther than you think. Your work and memories will surly outlive you. Don’t limit yourself to a timeframe.
Do what pleases your heart and makes you smile. Enjoy each day. You’ve already outlived many, many others who have come and gone. That’s a privilege.
You have “serious goals” at your age, while many others at your age have lost much of their mental and physical capacity. Live in gratitude and do the things you love to do.
Don’t stop living until it is truly over. Thank God for the time, so you CAN do.
(“Your life span may span farther than you think.”)
my mini me just asked me about that.. the kids in the third grade are talking about everyone dying in a war ..
he asked me if I died would I still be here for him if he lived.. I told him honey I will live on in you and if I’m A spirit I will always be there beside him..
Reading your post.. brought up memories of the800 million year old sarcophagus that had the princess in it that looked as if she had just laid down and went to sleep..
the original story of sleeping beauty.. when they took the sarcophagus.. for inspection.. ( they never did release their findings.. but a museum has a copy of the sarcophagus) the treasures that were buried with her..
https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.c29cc8d9586c6f83f6017331aef830de?rik=q034ieiSql3F%2bw&riu=http%3a%2f%2fbeforeitsnews.com%2fcontributor%2fupload%2f481712%2fimages%2f3sdnak84022195_689141662_n.jpg&ehk=BnHgE7gwKbaGIq4A8UqbzPCHCvGU%2f4sdqzhpgK%2b0U98%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0
https://archive.org/details/a.-pushkin-the-tale-of-the-dead-princess-and-the-seven-knights-progress-1973
I didn’t even know there was a youtube video of it.. LOL LOL… I read that when I was but a young boy.. and it struck home about ancient history.. about that same time there was an archeologist that was giving a lecture that I talked my father into letting me attend of an archeologist that was in the group that discovered king tuts tomb.. the name of the lecture.. dead men do tell tales.. had me interested.. I can’t wait for next weeks mystery of oak island..
here is the video of the sleeping beauty in the eight hundred million year old sarcophagus..
https://youtu.be/yXSYKoqWLk0?si=mexmJ-KTanyrIOXj
having been told about the find in a wall hidden of the wine that was estimated to be 8000 bc.. and well preserved.. they said that the inside of the stoneware jug was covered in Wax.. and the covering to the jug was waxed material.. and a stone ware cap for it sealed with what could have been clay or wax so long ago.. amazes the hell out of me.. I still can’t locate the story of the find.. but do know that it is real..
I got some seeds a few years ago that were sealed in a jug similarly.. what a treasure..
Makes me wonder just what is under oak island..
https://youtu.be/yXSYKoqWLk0?si=mexmJ-KTanyrIOXj
That, is absolutely fascinating
I keep thinking about that wine..how special it had to be ..sealed so well ..then securely hidden in what would amount to a primitive vault..
that had to be the best wine of the day..
A two hundred year-old wine sold for a half million. for a collection.. what would that one sell for
I believe it is to Pathfinder Bob.. what gets me is very few people even heard about it.. I would emerse myself in books .. ( heck I still do LOL) Makes you take another look at the story of snow white and the seven dwarfs sleeping beauty.. the princess supposedly by legend had seven knights.. what liquid was she emersed in to keep her looking like that.. after that length of time.. No one disclosed what they found out..we will never know..
Now the legends of OAK ISLAND.. are coming out a little at a time.. that is wonderful.. dam sure want to know.. look at how much work went into the flood tunnels and the money pit.. that took a great deal of time and manpower.. something really good has to be there..
Will it be a bowl of beads.. or something more tangeble .. during the time.. glass beads were very valuable.. (heck NY was bought with a bowl of beads) the aztec and inca the mayans.. cherished food..gold was just a decoration.. so like that wine that was hidden in a wall.. will they find fine wines or corn..gotta know.. it drives me crazy .. what makes me feel good is.. they are slowly unraveling the mystery… ( MY FAVORITE SHOW ON TV )
I should also address this:
The idea of bar sounds, kitchen sounds, or (God forbid) bathroom sounds as adding to “ambience” is strange to me! Those are all reasons I avoid bars and restaurants. I’d never mix them into a home environment.
In the field of live sound, sound reinforcement, and soundtrack mixing, sound design is a critical element of any “designer creation.” Textbooks about on sound design.
When we add kitchen noises from one place and floor the whole house with low level bar sounds, it is no less thantual than steeping onto a beach and hearing breaking waves. Or, stepping outside and hearing the winds generating their own waves of sound (pink sounds) rising and falling on the wind.
Silence is good for many things (like writing). But when one is designing an environment to “transport” and “cocreate a real world” then creating the sound, taste, the wind, the tactility of it alll….yeah, that’s mighty pleasing stuff. Beach sounds – sound of rain ont he roof – up but not too angy breezes…year that’s cocreation right there at arms length.
I would recommend a read of https://amzn.to/4aHUzO7 particularly when it comes to the art parts.
It’s only when we collaborate on some of this sound stuff that it all becomes clear. If I said to a seasoned videographer (like WmoRR) what it’s like to use sound as “invisible colors to augment is film” it would seem an obvious thing to him, I’m pretty sure. Just as using (his) film to “Augment my invisible art with his tangible visuals” isn’t the least strange to be.
But if one hasn’t worked at producing those perfect balances of sound and film, or sound and (everything else) then it may sound like gibberish.
Sound of one hand clapping, or shooting everything in blue, anyone? No? Wholeness, completion, balance and from all that a small smile – happiness. Which we wring further life out of.
See:
This is relevant. Though the arts are not my strong suit, my daughter and her husband are both involved in media so it’s somewhat familiar, especially the coordination of sound with video and its emotional effects. There’s a lot in today’s column and the comments too. Thanks for the links – they will be useful. I can appreciate ambiance, though definitely not the bar and kitchen sounds. Others may, and who am I to challenge their tastes. I genuinely appreciate silence much of the time and carefully curated music at other times.
Being kind to myself is something I had to learn, and I did learn it. I do believe that it leads to a greater baseline level of happiness. I just never learned to appreciate cacophonous background sounds. Gentle surf and rain sounds are OK, though I can play them in my head without effort.
It’s not easy to encourage someone else to be kind to themselves without them being ready for it, though it’s definitely worth trying.
And (see) this is really the “magic” of ambient, wild, natural sounds. When Elaine and I were “clubbing listening to music, you just naturally sat closer in order for your partner to hear you. That’s an example of how yes, ambient levels is an art, of sorts, but one with purpose.
I have been in many music studios – at least a hundred. There, the silence is amazing (anechoic) and while the artists were all top notch, the music alone was not integral to the “moment.” That was a different blend, understand, and music was maybe 50 percent? Drinks 10, peoplewatching another 10, food 20-30, ambience 10…its a nonlinear scoring path depending on person, mood, and moment if/when it arrives.
A friend back in 1971 or so had a friend at Princeton who was working on word frequency analysis, I don’t remember any names.
Why a remote for a chair? Wouldn’t you always be in it when you use it?
Ummm your combined ages are 157 or so. Go for the power lift. You are old.
Too late. I was younger when I ordered it. By, um, three days…
(“Clif High’s work on predictive linguistics has been looking for “the Israeli mistake.”)
predictive linguistics.. through the years there’s been many methods of predicting the future.
https://youtu.be/tYyAwHaw_gE?si=WH82wEe58Rf0JMBq
hmm let me put my awake hat on.. with what has been discovered by congress… the fortune of poop says its going to hit the fan with confessed latest report.
https://youtu.be/E5pD_9dJEXc?si=C8DCGejFv36JSJmQ
https://youtu.be/E5pD_9dJEXc?si=77X3C9p-rr7sra3W
https://youtu.be/3D7aJkCRc9I?si=8_gk9LHpkQTizbGI
my question is.. will See no Evil, Hear no evil, speak no evil.. that has essentially lost the respect and belief of their moral and ethical motives of their own staff that sees them as not loyal to our country and constitutional responsibilities.. ( each whistle blower has an estimated ten thousand that feel the same way but are to afraid to say) Flee the country to a country without extradition.. or will they all of a sudden try to change their appearance as loyal..
we all knew it would flip..95 % disapproving of the actions of this administration says a whole storm approaching..
so do the three monkeys do the right thing and try to make it right or get whatever the brand promised them and move to higher ground.
especially now that its hitting the fan and all coming out in the open. or has there been enough of a hidden army that was allowed in so they can take the country from within..
re: Taipei 101 lesson
feat: shaken, not stirred
Folks,
China’s “CGTN” had details of early Wednesday morning’s Hualien (Lotus) earthquake activity “in China’s Taiwan province” 19 minutes after the first 7+ shock with an update 12 minutes later. Once the dust settled, a supplementary report was headlined with an image of the Taipei 101 tower, tallest in the world from 2004 to 2009. According to Wikipedia, the tower now appears to have Japan’s third largest and most profitable general trading company dating to 1858 as its largest shareholder.
Wishing early Happy Birthday bumps to Buddha?
One thing not yet mentioned is the concentration of chip fabs in Taiwan. Serious quakes probably don’t play nicely with 3nm chip fabrication. We can only hope that Mainland China doesn’t decide to help out the situation while taking over essential systems at the same time.
Seriously.. China isn’t going to destroy Taiwan.. everyone living in Taiwan has family on the mainland.. that would be like destroying Hawaii.. because another country in europe said that they would defend them to the ends of time..
well actually isn’t hawaii a little further out from the USA than Taiwan is..
NO.. the president of China doesn’t want to destroy anyones kids or parents.. he is upset that we are giving them false naratives to follow and we keep butting in.. the industry in Taiwan is better left working than not..
the show of force I believe will remain there.. the only way he would move in is if Nato and the USA forces him to move in..
I have seen this whole situation that is going on as a poison pawn trap.. they bought the administrations family business to protect them and he is dumping everything the USA has to offer at them trying to keep the BRAND solvent .. ( they own their Ass’s) I believe that is why he has opened the borders as well to countries that swore vengence against the USA.. sneak in a half million warriors in ten million people would be nothing.. one in every hundred puts a sizeable army within our borders.. every threat assessment says the same thing.. and is probably why our generals are waving the caution flags..they aren’t stupid just trying to do their jobs with a driver that is suffering from dementia and delusions that is driving the car..
I do believe that that HUR Lied.. he said what.. a well meaning elderly man with cognitive decline.. I personally don’t believe that he is a well meaning man that is someone I see as being driven by greed.. never enough and the kid.. both the kid and the brother should be in prison everything they have done points directly to the big T crimes..they had much less on Walker than they do on the brother and kid pervert….
What I see happening.. is the show of force is going to continue.. build up.. they know we can’t defend them we are everywhere else.. then it will ignite someplace else.. whether it is the army hidden within the country or they let Kim in NK start it.. ( I have always thought they would let Kim be the one to give the order to charge) we are near syria israel.. ukraine etc.. that is off to the side..Now that kim has hypersonic missiles that can hit just about anywhere.. then once it all begins.. and if it happens as I see it it will be what is it called.. lets let gunny from heartbreak ridge give the assessment..
https://youtu.be/ZeKMPtcf2MY?si=xGMQWh7gpQK_nc6y
then Taiwan will make the decision to make a deal with the mainland..
10 hours ago Chuck indicated the CIA purported Iran stated 48 hours.
Hopefully the Trump bibles made delivery in time.
https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1775531591550345412
The perfect day. I had many.
Your column today brought back so many memories to me. The sounds, the smells, the tastes, the sights. They all trigger memories. Especially this one.
“in Victoria had a ship diorama when Elaine and I got married in front of the Empress hotel there.”
When I travelled across Canada years ago raising funds for my Water School, I loved to go to Victoria where one of my biggest donors was. There is a wonderful bar in that hotel that has been there for at least a hundred years. It reeks of royalty, pomp and richness. I have sat in that bar so many times, alone and in company and enjoyed fine wine, gracious servers and beautiful conversation.
How wonderful at this stage of my life that I can close my eyes, open my nostrils, lick my lips and bring back those memories in perfect focus.
Thank you.
A reason to travel and experience widely EARLY in life. The memories created can then last and be savored for a lifetime.
I think those who wait until retirement to travel and experience are wasting their lives … and for what? a few extra sheckles on the monthly bank statement? Once they finally do travel and experience they have precious little time left to enjoy the memories before medical issues crop up and limit them. (not that I am stopping traveling to new places and revisiting favorite older places even though I am now older).
I will admit that not everybody’s brain wants to experience or do new things, my ex didn’t which was the principal reason everything fell apart (something I didn’t understand when I got married – I got married later in life). My ex never wanted to go more than 30 miles from where she was born, grew up, went to college, and worked. “Adventure”, “Curiosity”, and the “Excitement” of seeing or experiencing new things, places, people was exactly what she did NOT want.
I thought she hadn’t done that stuff because she didn’t have the opportunity … but I gave her the opportunity by taking her all over the US, Europe, and parts of Asia, trying to introduce her to new things even locally, and she HATED EVERY MOMENT of it. She only felt comfortable with a very small group of people who she had known for decades, hated meeting new people, hated new experiences, and hated traveling even across town to go to a “new” restaurant. If she hadn’t been there as a teenager she didn’t want to go there (even the symphony) … and she was a TEACHER!! OMG!
Experience LIFE is my attitude. Enjoy the changes that you will personally go through as you make your journey. I will have plenty of time to be in one place once my journey with in this bag of bones.
As a self-righteous, ego driven, megalomanic with delusions of world conquest..,
A detailed aerial survey of the international airport and military airports for damage.., then a massive launch of from my airlift command placing thousands of troops on the ground., then hundreds of armored vehicles.., as my fighters and bombers destroy the military aircraft and support buildings., as thousands of drones are dropped just outside of the military bases waiting like angry locus to swarm any aircraft that attempts to launch.., while simultaneously launching support ships and troop carriers as my main naval fleet surrounds the island.
Within two, to three hours I am well entrenched and now virtually impossible to remove without the destruction of the island itself., as my first armored column heads for the chip manufacturing facility.
And to show the world, that yes, we really do care.., fly-in half a dozen large mobile hospitals., fully staffed and supplied.
.., but now the problem. The world screaming in your face for invading a small friendly country as it climbs out of a devastating earthquake. “You sick bastard! How could you!”
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Just a thought………,
China can “win” the fight for the island, and win it very quickly … it is just whether they wish to endure the economic fallout from engaging in such a military endeavor.
Xi has repeatedly said he will NOT leave the Taiwan issue for his successor, but that doesn’t mean he won’t try to engineer some sort of deal like the Hong Kong deal China did with Britain. (if Xi hadn’t been so aggressive at getting rid of the “Two Systems” that were promised when that deal was negotiated I think a peaceful Taiwan “merger” would already be in the works)
Today marks 54 years since Dena and I said “I do!”, and I still count that as the smartest thing I ever did.
One of the dumbest things I ever did was to agree to buy one of the original “Sleep Number” mattresses. That queen size mattress was divided into two air cells to provide individualized support to each side. Unfortunately it also created a ridge down the center, forcing us to stay on our respective sides. After 20 years or so on that mattress, even though it’s gone now, we both remain on our own sides of the bed. I really miss that old intimacy of snuggling.
(“Today marks 54 years since Dena and I said “I do!”, and I still count that as the smartest thing I ever did.”)
Happy belated anniversary… I know how you feel.. the best thing I ever did was meet the wife.. she is the most wonderful woman in the world..
Congratulations!!
May many more years together be in your future!
Yo obD,
See that post on TS ? Casket, roses, RIP DJT with a MAGA sticker ?
Foreshadowing what is coming, one of the “events” that will require high levels of disCERNment.
No worries – remember Safety First !
Be Safe out there, as Scheisse starts to tilt..
Roses on the casket…there are 5. Could it be comms ?
if so, perhaps 5 Roses stand for 5 Days..5 days & Wednesday the 3rd, gives us 2’sday the 8th..dun,dun,DUN!
..usually on a 2’sday, DS dont cha know.
Well., I finally did it. I have completely run out of fu*ks. Totally empty.
To make matters even worse I have been procrastinating for the past three days. Haven’t accomplished a damn thing. [ Except, one very good trade.]
My boat is dead in the water., and some illegal stole my oars.
Energy, momentum, enthusiasm, interest have all taken a hike without me. Didn’t even ask me if I wanted go along., just walked out on me.
– Guess I need something to get me back into the game !
Not to worry mon frer – normal beginning to Retrograde.
The way that works best to get my mojo back rockin is to piss away some money on something just for fu*king fun.
Money isn’t work anything until you spend it. And no point being the richest guy in the graveyard.
Besides, I have this “delay disease” too which is why I am not filing my (amended) 1040/1040x and refi9ling my 70+ pages of 8949s tomorrow (thanks to E-Trade issuing a revised consolidated 1099-B in March after I’d already filed and gotten the refund. Now, though no change in income/refund, my consigliere said to do the 1040x to show on file a corrected tax loss carryforward in ty24…so yeah, hard to whip up some personal steam when mired iun a swamp of paperwork shit.
OH well… up at 4 AM because the renewal of our ag exemption is the next furball on the list today.
See? This is why God created bourbon and scotch. End of days (like this) liquid.
“Oddly worded headline of the day? Politico: NATO eyes $100 billion Ukraine fund and Ramstein group takeover amid looming Trump presidency – Euromaidan Press”
So, according to the NGO Soros formed in Ukraine while he was financing the muscle used during Vichy’s coup d’etat, the Urepeein members of NATO, who can’t seem to reliably come up with more that $10-12bln/yr to support their own defense, are gonna cough up $100bln to finance the Ukraine War for the next FIVE YEARS?
Would anyone care to estimate exactly how many incongruencies, both physical and logical, there are in this piece of journalistic dreck?
Didn’t think so…
“Jack Smith’s ‘temper tantrum’ filing shows he’s ‘had it’ with Cannon: CNN analyst”
Jack Smith was selected by “the Biden team” to run this shitshow because he’s pompous, arrogant, psychopath, and has an incredibly inflated ego, to go with his misplaced sanctimony. His lack of legal knowledge could fill a Blackstone, but he has the balls to demonstrate said lack repeatedly, without a hint of shame or remorse, even after losing 9-0 decisions in, and being rebuked by, the USSC, for his crass and wanton disregard of the Law.
The CNN analyst demonstrates he has almost as firm a grip on U.S. Federal Law as Smith…
Cannon has yet to advise the jury regarding their Right to Nullification. Jurists and Counselors don’t do so as a general rule. However, were I she, I’d do it just to watch Smith’s spleen explode on national television.
I’m wondering what would happen in a serious jury trial if a member of the jury, while in deliberations, was to mention and then expound on the legality and appropriateness of jury nullification. I wonder how the other members of the jury would react, and if brought to the attention of the judge, would he declare a mistrial?
No member of the jury is required to explain his reasoning or other approach to his conclusion as to guilt or innocence.
“2. As in my choice of a used TenTec versus a new Icom ham radio, price isn’t the metric.”
That’s good.
Would it be totally wrong of me to mention that HRO has the 7300 discounted to under $1000, after rebates, right now?
I’d still be $400 up, lol. We ought to do a CW net one of these days…
Hamvention is close timewise … may be time for a trip to see what kind of unadvertised discounts are floating around this year.
All of my last several new “big rigs” I have bought at the Hamvention since the pricing has been so good in the past, though the last time I stopped by the new discounted Chinese stuff was not on display by anybody. (banned so as to keep the the big manufacturers making the expensive trip across the ocean with their HUGE displays and various non-english speaking engineers in tow?).
Umm … need to think about doing a trip again it looks like.
Eventually. Right now, it’s snowing like a mofo and I’m supposed to be at Fair Radio Sales at 1400 (Lima, Ohio ain’t exactly next-door), so I’m probably not going to get my “V” up for a while…
I now possess a brand new Hallicrafters HT-45 Loudenboomer and Symphonic (monaural) record player, NIB, both probably manufactured in 1963…
BTW, I asked the guys at Fair if they were going to Hamfest. They said: “We don’t go to Hamfest — The people who go to Hamfest, come here after they leave…”
Utterly depressing, going there. All the lumberyard lean-tos and open barns are empty, as are the walled outbuildings. All they have left is the main building (probably 160-200k sq.ft.) The only R-390/URR units I saw were a pile of MIL/ non-Collins units in various states of disassembly/repair. I saw no Hallicrafters or Hammarlund, but they had a bunch of National, Johnson, GE, Stewart-Warner, Amelco, EAC, etc. They still have about a 100’x100′ area of shelves of floor-to-ceiling NOS wire-wounds, pots, and trimmers, maybe a dozen 1000 sq.ft. rooms of test equipment, 16″ VOA and AFR LPs and military turntables capable of playing them (I’d never seen 26″ platters before.) They have an indescribably huge number of MilSurples equipment I couldn’t begin to recognize, a shit-ton of SC and RCA broadcast equipment, bunch of Heath HAM separates, walls of repair manuals, etc…
They’re shutting down the online store in two months, and padlocking the doors at the end of June.
End of an era… makes me sad.
*16″ platters*
{I hate this stupid “Chicklets keyboard!” I want my computer, and its IBM mechanical keyboard, back…}