I've watched this so many times, and shared it a few times...
It's about how different personality types (the 4-letter /16 personalities /Myers-Briggs) handle the pandemic-apocalypse.
Tell me.
Is it funny? True? A little weird?
Friday, July 24, 2020
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Not saying I'm going to post daily - I'm NOT - but here's another quick one
I claim to hate cellphones but my phone finally gave up the ghost this morning and by early afternoon I had gone off to try to get it repaired. In between I had an online event/meeting/session about education in Lagos. If my sister hadn't gone and got separate internet at home I would have been unable to join in the call since my smartphone was dead. So I joined the call on my laptop then went for a walk and my repair guy said what was wrong and that he couldn't fix it but told me what to do and so on. I normally would not do a post like this one that says (almost says, I'll skip that part) where I will be tomorrow because I'm not comfortable with the security risks. That said, haha.
Meanwhile I saw another sister that was on a videocall with my sister-at-home and that was nice, and she told me that she felt connected (I think was the word she used) to me because she had read my last post. Yes, I have sisterzzz, plural.
People who write minutiae, how do they do it? Yes, I know how they do it, I did it in a novella and so on, with close-ups on people's lives, but I don't do it in my life - sweet God, just sit here and tell you rubbish about: what I ate and who has corona and how I liked the meeting and who gave me some money to try and repair the phone and details about how I asked the phone guy what his specialty was, and he said iPhones and Samsung phones to which I replied that I had honestly forgotten that I didn't possess a high-end phone, it's true. Oh my, oh me. Carrying my cheap ass phone around trying to get it repaired, and also my cheap ass second laptop which has a motherboard issue.
What I do know about my phone is that there are even way cheaper smartphones than mine, swear to God, like they have some things like internet browsers and downloads and music players but they're ... ok I don't actually know sha. But I know that the security guys, people working low income (aboki is not the perfect word to use here, political correctness, even though it's not a mean word) they all have phones, some of them large-ish phones, but they don't have the range of normal apps available to them. I should check and learn more about that.
Now to talk about my second laptop, I'm sad to see it go, but it always did have heat-management problems and considering that I bought it for very little way back when, and got to use it quite a bit esp when I had jobs in recent years that needed you to bring a laptop to work, so of course I lazily kept my little cheap laptop on-site and didn't have to carry heavy load about. Like, the work is not even that serious. The most serious part of some of those jobs was the acting serious. LOL. Or maybe I missed the point of the job(s). Also used it when this laptop I'm using right now was down, for example earlier this year. Also in the past I sometimes used it when I felt like taking a laptop to my food place to chill, sometimes I took both and now I can't remember why; (UPDATED one day later: I remember now - to charge all my devices when there was a prolonged power outage) and also sometimes when I had the back-in-the-day teaching job (which I somehow consider more serious) and did not want the weight of my main laptop and felt sure that I only needed to show something minor that baby-laptop could handle. And sometimes when I needed two laptops, especially I think before I had all the smart-phone stuff going; say main laptop had crashed and I needed to study online how to restore it to life.
O, Baby-laptop, I will try to save your ass. You have value to me.
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| I paid less than 20k (when the exchange rate was about 160 naira) |
And it occurred to me as I walked back home today that I was anxious about the future because I had one laptop and no second laptop, and what would happen if...if, I mean, main laptop is ten years old now, and, I don't know? And I tried to tell myself something from the Bible, that I should "be anxious for nothing." The likely thing I will do with Baby-Laptop is dispose of it - the repair guys buy it, I understand, for close to zero, while I ask them to remove the hard drive first, or somehow remove the browsers and whatever few personal files I may have saved on it - or risk having the next user just open it and have access to my email and all that. You would think I actually had stuff to protect, the way I care about security lapses. Hahaha.
Raw-blogging
It's time for me to exceed my former standards in honesty. It's time to try blogging that strains toward a deeper honesty, or to try rawer posts for a while.
Raw things on my mind:
One of my blogs won't post to facebook anymore. It is very annoying. At first it was maybe all of my blogs, then I complained and then it was just one. That one - NewsBuka - has been banned for several months now and I must have complained a dozen times.
I'll return with more, uh, info. It will be boring stuff like how I once again did the Values Exercise, and how today I got the name for my next poetry collection, and how...that's all for now.
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Speaking of skin-colour, let's ask horse-lovers.
Common Horse Coat Colors from TheHorse.com : "Horses come in a variety of vivid coat colors, ranging from solid and static to multifaceted and ever-changing. These coat colors are controlled by complex genetics." They are described as bay, chestnut, black, dun, gray, roan, ...pinto, appaloosa, palomino, buckskin, seal-brown, ... More from equine-world.co.uk and Even More from wikipedia/equine_coat_color
What are some of your favourite "colours"?
Blue And White Registered Part Bred Arab With A Bright Future For Sale - £2,000 - Carmarthenshire pic.twitter.com/qp2MDRgWPk
— Equine World UK (@EquineWorldUK) October 28, 2015
Flashy 14.2hh Pony For Sale - £2,000 - Gloucestershirehttps://t.co/KlDAXsbYjL pic.twitter.com/qgUg7BPT9H
— Equine World UK (@EquineWorldUK) October 28, 2015
Wednesday, June 03, 2020
Micah Javier Johnson. He eloquently and elegantly expressed his view that Black Lives Matter.
Say his name or shut the f* up.
Share this with former US Presidents Barack Obama. William J. Clinton. George W. Bush. All male by the way.
Which is why everything starts over again today. F* the constitution. F* all f*ing pieces of paper that cause more harm than good. I am the female president of the United States of America. I don't know who the male president is, I guess you could be. We're starting over.
Oh, and happy birthday Rafa Nadal.
Friday, May 15, 2020
Friday, May 01, 2020
Thursday, April 02, 2020
Don't intubate
Well, what should a doctor do instead? Just watch people die?
I'm here studying some of the ways the conditions around treatment might be creating greater coronavirus/covid-19 burden. So far, there is no cure for the disease, just handling the symptoms to hopefully keep patients alive. So let's keep patients alive.
Steps One, Two, Three:
Don't get the virus, or don't get very sick.
Follow the GREAT PUBLIC HEALTH MESSAGING to wash your hands with soap frequently like a psycho, and to observe social distancing as much as possible staying away from people who may be infected and staying away from people because of course you yourself may be infected and with covid-19 you're spreading the virus even before you develop the symptoms like fever and coughs. Read about viral shedding, I don't understand it but it is gross. :-) Now, the germs are out there, and if you encounter the virus you want to be in the majority that gets away with mild or moderate disease, so throughout this crazy pandemic period you should really take care of yourself, eat well, sleep and rest more than ever, enjoy that hot chicken soup or lemon honey tea, or even do the steam inhale things, stay hydrated, gargle salt, clean your nostrils with soap etc etc. Oh Lord, it's exhausting. Glad it's not forever.
It's not forever, in part because in some months or years there will hopefully be a vaccine. Also because there are experiments (known as trials) going on with existing medicines (the malarial ones, the one from ebola, etc etc) to understand their effect on this disease - no they are not very effective or you would have been informed by the health authorities to use them. Scientists are working...you are welcome to join the various efforts.
Steps Four, Five, Six:
But in the meantime, the coronavirus disease is a killer that has caused quick respiratory-related death for some people, just like that. And so there must be a medical response. But the people around all these sick people then get sick, and it seems they get it worse than other people too. Basically, doctors are at risk. Then you start to try to understand why doctors are at increased risk, and you also try to understand how these viruses are finding lungs to infect and all that...let's try to shorten the story by quoting:
1.
from, a picture in The Washington Post, March 23, 2020: What the structure of the coronavirus can tell us. (I didn't include the copy-paste the actual picture because it's probably a copyright violation to do so.) Washing our hands is good advice. But it's not the only weapon we have...
2. This paper that says up the temperature, dump the cool air-conditioning, and raise the humidity. A more detailed discussion of the question is here (BBC: Will warm weather really kill off covid-19?). Short answer, not really, not sure, or not as much as social distancing will.
In Lagos, we've had roughly these conditions, naturally, and one prays that we will therefore be spared a great coronavirus outbreak. Can we replicate this "weather" in the hospitals of New York and Barcelona? Yes, we must try.
(It just occured to me to say: please don't use the heater in your building to a very high level in an effort to dry yourself into a prune - you'll make yourself ill and lower your immunity. Please don't do stupid things. Natural heat with humidity and ventilation is a different thing than using your HVAC as a dryer.) Ask an air-conditioning professional, HVAC engineer, and facilities manager to help.
Please click on each of these to learn more.
I'm here studying some of the ways the conditions around treatment might be creating greater coronavirus/covid-19 burden. So far, there is no cure for the disease, just handling the symptoms to hopefully keep patients alive. So let's keep patients alive.
Steps One, Two, Three:
Don't get the virus, or don't get very sick.
Follow the GREAT PUBLIC HEALTH MESSAGING to wash your hands with soap frequently like a psycho, and to observe social distancing as much as possible staying away from people who may be infected and staying away from people because of course you yourself may be infected and with covid-19 you're spreading the virus even before you develop the symptoms like fever and coughs. Read about viral shedding, I don't understand it but it is gross. :-) Now, the germs are out there, and if you encounter the virus you want to be in the majority that gets away with mild or moderate disease, so throughout this crazy pandemic period you should really take care of yourself, eat well, sleep and rest more than ever, enjoy that hot chicken soup or lemon honey tea, or even do the steam inhale things, stay hydrated, gargle salt, clean your nostrils with soap etc etc. Oh Lord, it's exhausting. Glad it's not forever.
It's not forever, in part because in some months or years there will hopefully be a vaccine. Also because there are experiments (known as trials) going on with existing medicines (the malarial ones, the one from ebola, etc etc) to understand their effect on this disease - no they are not very effective or you would have been informed by the health authorities to use them. Scientists are working...you are welcome to join the various efforts.
Steps Four, Five, Six:
But in the meantime, the coronavirus disease is a killer that has caused quick respiratory-related death for some people, just like that. And so there must be a medical response. But the people around all these sick people then get sick, and it seems they get it worse than other people too. Basically, doctors are at risk. Then you start to try to understand why doctors are at increased risk, and you also try to understand how these viruses are finding lungs to infect and all that...let's try to shorten the story by quoting:
from, a picture in The Washington Post, March 23, 2020: What the structure of the coronavirus can tell us. (I didn't include the copy-paste the actual picture because it's probably a copyright violation to do so.) Washing our hands is good advice. But it's not the only weapon we have...
In Lagos, we've had roughly these conditions, naturally, and one prays that we will therefore be spared a great coronavirus outbreak. Can we replicate this "weather" in the hospitals of New York and Barcelona? Yes, we must try.
(It just occured to me to say: please don't use the heater in your building to a very high level in an effort to dry yourself into a prune - you'll make yourself ill and lower your immunity. Please don't do stupid things. Natural heat with humidity and ventilation is a different thing than using your HVAC as a dryer.) Ask an air-conditioning professional, HVAC engineer, and facilities manager to help.
Please click on each of these to learn more.
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| Building managers, especially for hotels and hospitals, please click for technical information |
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| More great tips from facilityexecutive.com |
3. But also, we must find where we're actively multiplying infection rates and stop doing that or even start cleaning the air, a keyword I've seen is aerosolization, which causes more spread and more disease. WHO is looking into understanding this. Engineers can help.
This thing is highly infectious. Dealing with it may seem frustrating. Don't be frustrated. We'll figure it out.
4. Don't intubate. Now here I sort of don't know what I'm talking about. But it's invasive, with risks to the carer and the patient. Just as the system for giving supportive oxygen produces aerosols that make more patients.
That is why I'm suggesting a pause here to consider: Can we avoid getting to the point where we need a wild number of these extreme procedures? (Oh yeah, isn't that what everybody has been trying to do?)
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Also, there is no evidence that aerosol transmission occurs outside of aerosol-generating procedures in a hospital setting. Physical distancing is adequate protection for respiratory droplets.— Dr. Angela Rasmussen (@angie_rasmussen) March 28, 2020
One choir practice.— Trisha Greenhalgh (@trishgreenhalgh) March 30, 2020
60 well, asymptomatic people who did not shake hands.
45 now COVID positive.
2 dead.
Is singing an aerosol generating procedure? https://t.co/Mp12wYikIo
Here is the latest from @WHO on how #coronavirus is transmitted.— Dr. Dena Grayson (@DrDenaGrayson) March 30, 2020
“WHO continues to recommend airborne precautions for circumstances and settings in which aerosol generating procedures and support treatment are performed.”
SINGING may generate aerosols.https://t.co/kPZ9IsgrvY
This thing is highly infectious. Dealing with it may seem frustrating. Don't be frustrated. We'll figure it out.
4. Don't intubate. Now here I sort of don't know what I'm talking about. But it's invasive, with risks to the carer and the patient. Just as the system for giving supportive oxygen produces aerosols that make more patients.
That is why I'm suggesting a pause here to consider: Can we avoid getting to the point where we need a wild number of these extreme procedures? (Oh yeah, isn't that what everybody has been trying to do?)
Don't let the viruses live.
Don't let the virus find your face.
Don't let the virus get cosy inside you.
Don't let the virus end you.
Don't let the viruses spread.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Saturday, February 29, 2020
Bye-bye
I've been telling people not to panic about the corona virus thing, but I'm a little bit, well, sometimes, over-worried.
Just wash your hands, I guess.
And remember that even if you get the disease, you'll likely survive ... it's not bye-bye yet.
It's a viral disease, not primarily bacterial, so don't start popping antibiotics or the wrong medicines. Instead, support your immune system with good food and rest and avoid exposure to the virus if you can.
If I was very old, I would probably take stricter measures to avoid coming in contact with the virus. What are people doing? What are your thoughts and suggestions?
Big respect to workers who are directly affected, and good luck to everyone.
What can we do to help?
#health
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Just wash your hands, I guess.
And remember that even if you get the disease, you'll likely survive ... it's not bye-bye yet.
It's a viral disease, not primarily bacterial, so don't start popping antibiotics or the wrong medicines. Instead, support your immune system with good food and rest and avoid exposure to the virus if you can.
If I was very old, I would probably take stricter measures to avoid coming in contact with the virus. What are people doing? What are your thoughts and suggestions?
Big respect to workers who are directly affected, and good luck to everyone.
What can we do to help?
#health
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Thursday, January 30, 2020
CNN ...
Vanessa Bryant posts on Instagram for the first time since Kobe's death (HERE)
Priest: Kobe Bryant sought redemption through his Catholic faith (HERE)
Also recently passed, our dearest Shirley.
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Priest: Kobe Bryant sought redemption through his Catholic faith (HERE)
Also recently passed, our dearest Shirley.
We remember Shirley Marneus, who founded Theater Arts at the California Institute of Technology (TACIT) and directed stage productions at Caltech for more than 20 years. She was 83. https://t.co/kfYqKEtrpA— Caltech (@Caltech) January 25, 2020
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Thursday, January 02, 2020
Do you have a New Year resolution?
They're usually not my thing. I usually resolve to be much the same as ever.
That said, I could work on creating the habit of exercising and the habit of (I'm not sure) not not having a job-type income-thingy.
Aquagym:
I don't get enough exercise, since all I do is sit and read things. Taking a sports/exercise class would bring some fun physical and social activity into my life. I actually took a reasonably-inexpensive weekly yoga class late last year, a five-minute walk away, and it was good, so now I'm going to see if I can find (or request) another class, with a different form of exercise that I prefer, like dance or swimming or, like, aquagym.
Edu or Strategy or what?
If I had a job, coupled with needing to take a little public-transport (as opposed to door-to-door chauffeuring) and walking, I would not be complaining about needing to exercise. Which brings me to - oh yeah, as always, it seems I once again acknowledge a need to get a job. Except that I don't... Many jobs actually don't need doing lol. And many times I start on a job and find I have too quickly eliminated the need for the job, or for my income.
Which is actually a problem.
I mean, I could teach again? (Yes, I plan to do that when I grow up, like, my 50s, 60s, ...) I could work in education for more money somehow?
Well, I've been saying how I want to be on boards. But there again, the problem. Example, you see a way you could intervene to make things better, but notice that it should properly be the workforce taking ownership of the functions and not the egghead-board-of-outsiders, and you (hypothetically) find that the intervention to get the workforce up to speed is in the works, or not in the works and never going to be, or ... I mean, at some point, life is one huge shrug - whatever. ( Alright, I'll express that in a more positive/hopeful way: work-life is one learning experience after the other? See? Positive - I earn, you gain, I learn. )
Less ginger
In other news, I just isolated the source of my biggest health problem - how I get dizziness and symptoms of low blood pressure all the time? It's the excess of ginger in my food. My mother has fallen in love with ginger and been adding chopped fresh ginger into everything everywhere all the time - hopefully we can stop. She also used to love garlic and put it everywhere. Both of these things are potent blood thinners, like aspirin. Lord have mercy.
FYI ginger is very good for you, just not good for me.
Actually, one time in the past 2 years or so, my mother had a doctor-recommended daily aspirin that I thought might be useless or harmful. That's not what I said to her directly, I only suggested that she maybe observe the effect just in case she found it unnecessary. It must be that these things don't harm her and actually offer her benefits. I on the other hand keep feeling I need to thicken my blood so to speak, to add a little fat to my diet for instance - my brain gets hungry. Now I need to tell her about the ginger and to try to feed myself better going forward.
I got vitamins the other day, bought a bottle of multivitamins - oh, yeah, maybe I should take a swig of that now.
I'm really happy to have figured out the ginger thing, I was starting to get worried that I'd damage my brain or something. Now I have the hope of exploring foods that make me feel more robust and alright.
This whole blog post is cheesy. It's time to dance.
(One hour later) My mother is back from work, and we've spent the past hour talking about food - ginger, garlic, and their amazing medicinal properties and side-effects. She says that just for me, of course she's going to stop cooking with both. I'm lucky, eh.
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That said, I could work on creating the habit of exercising and the habit of (I'm not sure) not not having a job-type income-thingy.
Aquagym:
I don't get enough exercise, since all I do is sit and read things. Taking a sports/exercise class would bring some fun physical and social activity into my life. I actually took a reasonably-inexpensive weekly yoga class late last year, a five-minute walk away, and it was good, so now I'm going to see if I can find (or request) another class, with a different form of exercise that I prefer, like dance or swimming or, like, aquagym.
Edu or Strategy or what?
If I had a job, coupled with needing to take a little public-transport (as opposed to door-to-door chauffeuring) and walking, I would not be complaining about needing to exercise. Which brings me to - oh yeah, as always, it seems I once again acknowledge a need to get a job. Except that I don't... Many jobs actually don't need doing lol. And many times I start on a job and find I have too quickly eliminated the need for the job, or for my income.
Which is actually a problem.
I mean, I could teach again? (Yes, I plan to do that when I grow up, like, my 50s, 60s, ...) I could work in education for more money somehow?
Well, I've been saying how I want to be on boards. But there again, the problem. Example, you see a way you could intervene to make things better, but notice that it should properly be the workforce taking ownership of the functions and not the egghead-board-of-outsiders, and you (hypothetically) find that the intervention to get the workforce up to speed is in the works, or not in the works and never going to be, or ... I mean, at some point, life is one huge shrug - whatever. ( Alright, I'll express that in a more positive/hopeful way: work-life is one learning experience after the other? See? Positive - I earn, you gain, I learn. )
Less ginger
In other news, I just isolated the source of my biggest health problem - how I get dizziness and symptoms of low blood pressure all the time? It's the excess of ginger in my food. My mother has fallen in love with ginger and been adding chopped fresh ginger into everything everywhere all the time - hopefully we can stop. She also used to love garlic and put it everywhere. Both of these things are potent blood thinners, like aspirin. Lord have mercy.
FYI ginger is very good for you, just not good for me.
Actually, one time in the past 2 years or so, my mother had a doctor-recommended daily aspirin that I thought might be useless or harmful. That's not what I said to her directly, I only suggested that she maybe observe the effect just in case she found it unnecessary. It must be that these things don't harm her and actually offer her benefits. I on the other hand keep feeling I need to thicken my blood so to speak, to add a little fat to my diet for instance - my brain gets hungry. Now I need to tell her about the ginger and to try to feed myself better going forward.
I got vitamins the other day, bought a bottle of multivitamins - oh, yeah, maybe I should take a swig of that now.
I'm really happy to have figured out the ginger thing, I was starting to get worried that I'd damage my brain or something. Now I have the hope of exploring foods that make me feel more robust and alright.
This whole blog post is cheesy. It's time to dance.
(One hour later) My mother is back from work, and we've spent the past hour talking about food - ginger, garlic, and their amazing medicinal properties and side-effects. She says that just for me, of course she's going to stop cooking with both. I'm lucky, eh.
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Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Sunday, December 15, 2019
This year's picks :: Best music+video experiences of 2019
Baby by Joeboy (with the sequels) * Juice by Lizzo (that girl owned 2019) * Good Morning Riddim by Sarz
Bonus: Previous lists
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Bonus: Previous lists
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Saturday, November 30, 2019
untitled
Every year I post my 'top 5' music+video experiences.
My selections usually have
excellent-to-superlative music/sound,
an exemplary-or-masterful video,
and,
in the best cases,
both the song and the visuals work very well together.
I'm working on this year's list - of maybe three items/songs/videos.
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My selections usually have
excellent-to-superlative music/sound,
an exemplary-or-masterful video,
and,
in the best cases,
both the song and the visuals work very well together.
I'm working on this year's list - of maybe three items/songs/videos.
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Wednesday, October 30, 2019
omg I'm discovering apps
I just tried this one called "Paint By Number" and painted my first picture.
It was a delightful experience (if you ignore the problems with apps, like how it stalled my phone on the first attempt to use it)
I'm going to do another one now.
And another one.
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It was a delightful experience (if you ignore the problems with apps, like how it stalled my phone on the first attempt to use it)
I'm going to do another one now.
And another one.
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Thursday, October 24, 2019
Legacies
Guess what I've been re-rocking?
Ice Prince - Jos To The World
Jesse Jagz - Royal Niger Company
J2TW was released 36 months ago, and I remember being astounded that this work would not get a lot of listens relatively, while for example Drake's work did get attention and make the creators money, and how that was just a function of ... oh well, I won't bore you with social justice talk. You just grab the music for yourself and enjoy a dance-and-a-half.
RNC from March 2014, well you know that album made my life lol. It's sonic excellence, exuberant and brilliant work, and includes SDC Tec's "I don't spit on the mic, my guy, I baptize" which just "bursted my brain" again, even though I know the whole verse. It's Tec's birthday today.
As usual, Jesse is working on something new, even though he really doesn't owe us anything.
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Ice Prince - Jos To The World
Jesse Jagz - Royal Niger Company
J2TW was released 36 months ago, and I remember being astounded that this work would not get a lot of listens relatively, while for example Drake's work did get attention and make the creators money, and how that was just a function of ... oh well, I won't bore you with social justice talk. You just grab the music for yourself and enjoy a dance-and-a-half.
RNC from March 2014, well you know that album made my life lol. It's sonic excellence, exuberant and brilliant work, and includes SDC Tec's "I don't spit on the mic, my guy, I baptize" which just "bursted my brain" again, even though I know the whole verse. It's Tec's birthday today.
As usual, Jesse is working on something new, even though he really doesn't owe us anything.
LEGACY - An Album By @Jessejagz Wowww 👑❤️💯🤯— Iceprince (@Iceprincezamani) October 13, 2019
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Saturday, October 19, 2019
Guess who is getting married?
So Nadal is really going through with this wedding tomorrow...? pic.twitter.com/Vic6eBurT2— QuiQui (@Seqsi) October 18, 2019
Rafa: Will you marry me?— nene__nadal (@NadalNene) October 19, 2019
Xisca: Yes 🤗
today is #WeddingDay 19.10.2019
Nadal and his childhood sweetheart Mery Perello#NadalWedding
Maria Francisca Perelló 👰🏻💍🤵 Rafael Nadal Parera #XiscaPerello #RafaNadal #RafaelNadal #Nadal #Xisca #Love #HappyWedding @RafaelNadal pic.twitter.com/lh8ZfOGQOU
Meanwhile,
Buhari's marriage to Sadiya: A hoax | The Guardian Nigeria ...
https://guardian.ng › news › buharis-marriage-to-sadiya-a-hoax
Oct 12, 2019 - Several hashtags have been trending on Twitter on the premise of the wedding and the “sudden” return of Mrs. Buhari to the country to stop the ...
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Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Here are two beautiful words
1. ephemeral
2. ethereal
What do they mean?
The first is brief in terms of time - here now and soon gone, while the second may be hard to pin down in terms of location or space.
The first may be an attribute of concrete things, or in religious language "the things of this world" while the second may describe the things of God, or of Spirit.
In the language of physics, the first represents the particle and the second is the wave...
in other words, matter and light.
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2. ethereal
What do they mean?
The first is brief in terms of time - here now and soon gone, while the second may be hard to pin down in terms of location or space.
The first may be an attribute of concrete things, or in religious language "the things of this world" while the second may describe the things of God, or of Spirit.
In the language of physics, the first represents the particle and the second is the wave...
in other words, matter and light.
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Wednesday, October 02, 2019
On the one hand, philosophical societies
If you love math(s),
one way of looking at this is, ah, ok, we can
integrate, I think, like subsume/embed the fractured parts in a higher-dimensional space where the parts cease to contradict each other. In this case, interfaith. What jurisprudence? Work on one law that works for all. Build an even bigger religion. Or dump it entirely, to build a thing even bigger (in its capacity for consistency) than religion. Philosophize ad nauseum. We are human after all.
Or,
AND,
We can differentiate, ignore the larger shape to interest ourselves only in the edges, get hyperlocal and extremely granular, and that leads to something too, at least the edges get less bloody sharp. In this case some hyperactive individual thing - a bet. A bet. Daily bets. Dancing competition - no, can't do that, or can you do that? Rap battle. Tweet-battle. Twitter wars. Shopping. Money, commerce. Subdivide to meaninglessness. We are human, after all.
Inspired by mathematics
I think what happens after you differentiate is that you can put together the results from the little bits to see the result for the whole. This overall result may not have a name, may not be easy to describe or possible to name, it may be discontinuous, inharmonious and messy, but for the application, it gets the job done. Oh, and it can also be realized in a rather rote, uncreative, unthinking manner after the method is understood and implemented. Also known as automation. Here is the whole field of computational (i think differential equation solving, like say nonlinear solvers). Or the whole field of just collecting grains of data and using AI to make decisions, rather than seeking to describe a whole thing, just subdivide, subdivide and let activity do the work.
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On the other hand,
I think what happens after you integrate, no, I mean when you embed for the purpose of solving, for example I think using the "weak form" of a problem in (again, differential equations, advanced topics),
but there are easier examples, like finding the roots of a simplest type of quadratic equation is hit-or-miss if you only know normal numbers but it's jokingly easy if you use complex numbers,
or for example when you use a general, overall, average, or approximate idea of something to analyze it, that is, when you integrate (since averages are integrals)...
and there are advanced examples that probably have nice pictures, like: to make sense of the world in astronomy they had to come up with string theory which uses not three-dimensions but more - how many more?
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What happens when you embed, one advantage of the embedding thing is that the solving is easier, I mean, first you have to embed carefully and succesfully in a way that includes all the situations that you've been given - all the fractured parts - but now you have a simplified description which is another advantage actually; then at this point you have the great freedom of a bird's eye view that lets you see/find solutions, easy, easily, in this newly expanded framework, oh, everything is so easy; then you just have to select solutions that meet the restrictions of the original problem, real-world, constraints; those ideas/solutions that are most acceptable.
You grab? Understand?
These mathematical methods are analogous to the philosophical concepts of
a. Transcendence and b. Nihilism.
I think. You think?
Slightly delayed thanks to Brexit news sucking the oxygen out of everything but the first of our yemen stories is on the Guardian’s front page today, with photos by the amazing @azavallis https://t.co/lEMGlvNnKo pic.twitter.com/mSFz0TtbkZ— Bethan McKernan (@mck_beth) September 30, 2019
Roles for merchant-folks; roles for eggheads.
Roles for party-folk; roles for stodgy-peeps.
Why is ego talking?
Whatever did Fatima say to Ali?
Who are these people? Can I watch them in a play?
The Early Irish Christians, like the ancient Celts, also saw God as a giant.— Folklore of Ireland (@DarkCloudBeing) October 1, 2019
Here on the Kells market cross, God is depicted as a gigantic warrior; Spear in hand, he leads the guardian deities of the Twelve tribes to battle. #Irish #Giant https://t.co/hrcasiis6K pic.twitter.com/JZnf8e3F28
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