Lovely moroccan silver & copper plate with fake finger.
Long, long day
3.5+ hours of commuting with Sir Terence David John “Terry” Pratchett, 11 hour workday (important upgrade), soaking in hot hot water and bubbles with chapters of Woodpecker, and now I’m ready for the sleep of appeased Gods. I know I have outstanding work that needs catching up on, but it will be there tomorrow, and I have run out of those little sticks that hold the eyelids open. Goodnight, fellow collections of particles, fellow bags of water, fellow assemblances of energy. May everyone wake up aroused tomorrow!
Award
Sabina won a writing award!
Best Feature Writing, for her article on Model UN earlier in the year. I foresee great things ahead for her.
Murder Ballad of the Week, 5/18/15: Tom Brosseau — Will Henry
The Terry Pratchett Experience
I’ve been listening to the audiobooks of Discworld recently. I’m nearly finished with the third of what looks to be forty-one in total, according to Wikipedia. I started out of order, just because I wanted a taste. I think after I finish this one, I’m going to start in order and go through the whole set.
I’m already starting to see people as otherworldly creatures. Imagine how much stronger this will be after finishing the entire set.
If you follow the series, I started with “I Shall Wear Midnight,” then “Making Money,” and am now finishing up with “Snuff.” Thankfully, so far it seems that he’s one of those authors that writes in a way that you can jump in any time and get to know the aspects of the characters being presented in that particular volume, and learn more later, and so far, they mesh well.
Top Shelf Software Cynicism
Adobe Flash Player, which I’m sure we can all agree is rather ubiquitous at this point…
During an UPGRADE, mind you, not a fresh install…
Sneaks an install past the end user of a limited version of McAfee Security Scan.
1) McAfee products haven’t been considered viable players on the security market for YEARS.
2) Something offered as a bundled product which you CHOSE not to install before should not be again snuck in during an upgrade. Especially something that doesn’t play well with other products.
3) I can’t honestly remember the last time McAfee caught anything in terms of malware.
4) The sole purpose of THIS McAfee product seems to be to sell you a beefier product — which ALSO SUCKS.
5) Ubiquitous software, which is installed on just about every desktop and powers some of the most frequently-accessed pages on the internet should ABSOLUTELY not bundle SHITware along with it. You really want to tie your reputation to that of McAfee, Adobe Some of us are paying attention.
Passages from Finnegans Wake – Mary Ellen Bute (1965)
Mary Ellen Bute was an experimental filmmaker. This appears to be the last film she directed. It was screened at Cannes.
Three Little Bops — Masonic/Illuminati Propaganda?
I recently noticed a few interesting things in the Three Little Bops, my all-time favorite Looney Tunes cartoon.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x57z8c_the-three-little-bops_music
- First, this is a Warner Bros. / Looney Tunes cartoon. Jack Warner of Warner Bros. was a Freemason.
- Mel Blanc was a Freemason as well, although he didn’t do any of the voices in this particular cartoon. In fact, this is the ONLY Warner Bros. cartoon to NOT feature Mel Blanc. Conspicuous coincidence?
- The number three figures quite prominently in Freemasonry. http://freemasonry101.blogspot.com/2009/10/significance-of-number-three-in.html
- Shorty Rogers, the jazz trumpeter who composed the tune, also made an appearance in the Frank Capra film Alphabet Conspiracy, a story of the science of language and linguistics centered around plot to destroy the alphabet and all language. Frank Capra was a member of the Knights of Malta.
- After destroying the first two houses of straw and sticks, the pigs take up residence in the house of bricks (“Sturdy place, this house of bricks, built in 1776”). The camera pans to the cornerstone which is dated May 1, 1776. This the date that Adam Weishaupt founded (or resurrected, depending on which story you subscribe to) the Bavarian Illuminati.
- The wolf attempts to disguise himself to enter the house. In Masonic lore, a Mason must be “properly clothed” to enter the Lodge. This entails the wearing of the apron, which is made of lambskin. Wolf in sheep’s clothing?
- The wolf’s ultimate demise, by accidentally blowing himself up, and the following rebirth as a cool jazz player, symbolizes the symbolic death and rebirth inherent in all occult ritual.
Perception
When you’re a policeman, everything you see is a crime.
Red hair…
“Red hair is caused by sugar and lust. Highly evolved beings do not indulge in sugar and lust.” – Still Life With Woodpecker
(Although I’ve spent most of my life indulging in sugar and lust, and not a red hair to show for it.)