Harmonic Series Diverges

A fairly quiet week--49.1 mpg for the Prius, the weather here is constantly improving until it begins to get wintry---feeling my age this week...and every punch I've ever taken---but i managed to keep getting along....

I just ordered two wooden machinists chests as displayed below..( Cheap Chinese copies of course I could never afford the real ones)---to enable me to keep my modeling supplies, and projects available in the cottage dining room to work on. Packing and unpacking everything every weekend was time consuming..this way i can simply seal up these furniture like storage boxes and leave them out with none the wiser.....Eat you heart out Ozzie !!!

We recently had a friend visit for two weeks, not only was it excellent to see her but it pushed us to accomplish cleaning and organizing around the homestead that usually gets lost in daily life...Things like cleaning, organizing and washing down the front and back porches---so having people visit is an excellent motivator for projects. I even rebuilt the bargain BBQ my JoJo obtained described in previous postings----

There were some things that we could not accomplish on our own..as in, we are still awaiting the solar panel installation crew--as of this writing....and there is apparently no pushing the outcome of when they will arrive---it is something we just have to accept. All of our vehicles are recently maintained and now need cleaning and detailing by me....which I hope to start this week. As the weather here in New Mexico begins to cool i hope to get additional outside work completed prior to the arrival of winter....

with the arrival of winter i will be shelling pecans and making cigarettes indoors. We have pretty much decided to switch over to hand rolled smokes after the success of the first batch I made up without any difficulty last weekend....this would be most excellent, reducing our monthly expenses by a huge amount and giving us one additional level of independence. The garden is pretty much done for soon---giving up only squash and pumpkins now, but it is perfect timing for the garden to go out gracefully. Other than vehicle cleaning, geezer weather station updating, and tearing apart my big shortwave radio--I am actually almost close to being on top of things for once...and it's a good feeling.

Any Religious Fundamentalist sucks---with the exception of the Amish. I give the Amish a pass on this statement---a "new thing" I've noticed commuting to work here in Southeastern New Mexico is the placement of crosses in people's front yards. Small white crosses have appeared in the front of several houses alongside of my commute---the first ones i saw I thought were for little pet graves or something until enough of them popped up in so many yards to make it clear even to a pagan like myself that these people were trying to say something--as in, hey--- here's a sign that  Christians live here-----as with the fish symbol on the back of the soccer mom's SUV as she races to walmart....

The owner of a Pecan Grove on my commute route, had to outdo everyone by putting up a huge, gigantic cross covered in lights in his farm yard ....sort of a Help me Jesus Helipad kinda thing going on, blinding passing traffic with this symbol....Muslim or Christian is immaterial when it comes to the stupidity of fundamentalists---Proud they are that there is no brain activity involved in anything they do---and they cover their weirdness by throwing around the words from old dusty books to cover their killing, abuse of others and attempt to change the world around them to the way their fantasy wants it.

I absolutely hate seeing animals dead alongside the road any animal--killed by passing vehicles--I just hate it---it is not because i have a soft heart---or a good soul---as a famous man once said "I'll kill a man in a fair fight, or if i think he's gonna start a fair fight".  I hate it and it disturbs me for what it represents our selfish destruction of life because we are late for the sale at walmart..these animals killed by us in huge quantities on the roadways are only trying to get by within the range of human stupidity--and we cannot even allow them to cross a roadway without them dying for no reason.....this is why i get upset at any roadkill---it is a sign of our selfishness...our stupidity....our slavery to speed---add to this of course that studies have shown that 6% of American drivers will purposefully change course and aim at a realistically stuffed bunny placed in the roadway shows us for what we really are killers for no true reason.

We shall soon learn tho that we will be the animals in the roadway facing the oncoming destruction we have created---let's see how we feel about it then.

JoJo and I just finished viewing year 4 of the Son's of Anarchy. We are behind a year because of no commercial TV in the house which means we must wait for rental DVD releases...but the wait was worth it all. I consider the Son's of Anarchy the one viable commercial Television show available. A soap opera with guns motorcycles and fat, hairy, dangerous guys it is---make no mistake...but it features excellent writing and acting. There is also to me the enjoyment of watching, even fictitious individuals, do exactly what they want to do, at all times with complete disregard for the rules of society or the Law. I find their complete disregard of society wondrous. Although prison or death things do happen because of this disregard, at least it happens because of actions they took knowingly and willingly. I would have never in my wildest imagination have believed a show like this could be done on commercial Television with it's whore like pandering to any and all groups of religious righteousness that shout loudly at them. For once I am proud of the medium for creating something like this....who'd thought?

The recent ancient piece of papyrus talks about Jesus's wife---that should stir up the pot of the born again....

Apparently so far this piece of writing has passed all the required tests for historical accuracy and is close to being considered a real relic..

Jesus's old lady

My favorite company, probably still secretly run by my favorite human Dick Cheney helps out America again---by losing the below illustrated, radioactive cylinder oil tool--- somewhere in Texas..What i really enjoy is that Halliburton's press release shown in the link, says it's no danger to the public unless---
YOU GET WITHIN 25 FEET OF IT! Bah! I Imagine that right now this thing is being used somewhere in Texas to prop up a swing set used in an illegal trailer park day care or something---Halliburton and Cheney--the gift that just keeps on giving......

Halliburton you just gotta love em...

Three New Zealand soldiers were killed in Afghanistan recently...the watch this link---- shows their unit doing the Maori Haka for brave warriors who die in combat..the men welcoming their departed home are all colors and and i am sure all religions---it does not matter as they honor their fallen in the traditional manner....inspiring and saddening at the same moment.

what is the Haka?

watch this

"If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics."

Francis Bacon

Csaszar Polyhedron

This was a somewhat quiet week---several days of rain---which is unusual here in New Mexico for us brightened the week up---we are probably the only people who are happy when it is dark and rainy. 

Work was work with no surprises for a change...this was also good...I have some odd jobs around the homestead to complete while we STILL await the solar panel installers---construction is always at their pace, not your own. 

With the change to cooler temperatures a small drop in weekly MPG to 48.4...to be expected. 

I'm not writing about the election or Libya---both of which are the result of the cauldron of insanity we now exist within...there can be no sense made of anything any longer...and there should be no attempt to try. 

I've finished my Italian Breda gun truck--I still have to take photo's however, sorry, and am preparing to start my next project the CV3/L3/35 Italian tankette--a two man, very small tank, this style light tank at one point the Europeans believed to be the future of armored warfare---the Italians fought in them until 1943 !! all the while out-gunned and out designed by the world powers around them....
Myself, the Oz and a friend Bruce are talking of starting a armor modeler's club here in town to meet drink coffee and talk about our shared hobby. I am not good at these types of things, groups, but the hold on me that modeling has obtained is demonstrated by me really wanting to do this....strange behavior for a hermit like myself....I'd better watch out or else i might become  actually sociable. 

I am so proud of my, cheesy, $40.00 perimeter alarm system...it works perfectly. No false alarms, no problems other than I imagine every few years I will have to replace the system due to weather attacking the sensors---but at that price i have no problem with that issue. It feels good to figure out how to adapt something cheap to fulfill a need and have it work.....

Today i am going to make my first attempt at rolling my own cigarettes with a machine...as both a fight against blackmail capitalism and as part of the ongoing attempt to determine a method by which we can afford to smoke when retired--- I have no predetermined concept of how to do this--or what the end result will be---but I am going to have at it--we've obtained tobacco (which we plan on growing ourselves later) a rolling machine, papers, filters, and cases to carry our homemaders with us....I'm really interested in seeing and trying the results...Jed Clampet here i come. 

The link below takes one to a CNN article on how terrorism numerically does not really exist--domestic extremists create more deaths than our supposed national Bogey man, the Muslim fundamentalist...Since 2001 19 Americans died by domestic extremist individuals or groups. 17 by supposed Jihadists, most of the Jihadist deaths were in the singular, US Army event at Fort Hood which killed 13...strange eh? So basically removing the US Army personnel deaths at the hands of one of their own...we are talking 4--4 citizens dead domestically since 2001 at the hands of individuals linked to overseas groups.
Think of the freedoms lost, the billions spent--against who or what? 

The terrorism statistics say it all

The FBI has been quietly working on developing a national, computer based facial recognition system. It is completed and was activated this week. Only 1 Billion dollars was spent on this system that combines facial recognition, voice printing, iris scans and DNA samples...Oh, by the way, it collects streaming data from public surveillance camera's constantly. 
Of course we have a billion dollars to spend on this--why should we insure our citizens have a decent life--tracking our citizens is much, much more important....

nothing to see here citizens move along

"In the absence of light, darkness prevails"

In Absentia Luci, Tenebrae Vincunt

Loxodrome

47.4 MPG this week---terrible winds on the homecoming commute leg, but the season is changing which drops the Prius MPG lower this time of year. Work continues to be deep in the suck--nothing new there...the Democratic Convention show is over and the election is FINALLY down to the stretch and I could care----nothing will change it doesn't matter to me if the new President does wear magic underwear. 

We have some cases of West Nile virus in my area, but nothing like the deaths that are happening elsewhere across the country. How can we deny our  third world status with West Nile mosquito spread disease, Hanta virus in the national parks, resistant staph infections and flesh eating bacteria in our hospitals. I'm sure Sweden and Norway, those demon socialist countries, are much worse off than we are.....right?

We are in the process of increasing the amount of solar power we produce here at the urban homestead---We have new, more powerful panels ready to be mounted on the residence roof and just awaiting the installation crew to show. 

This is part of the retirement security project, producing more of the material that corporate America could use to blackmail us price wise, once retired. When completed the power production upgrade will allow us to power our necessities, if the grid disappears or if the 1% price gouges electrical power out of reach of retiree's. Don't laugh it for sure could happen.

This weekend we are planning on trying to produce our first batch of kitchen constructed cigarettes as well...so we have several projects going on as the gardening season winds down into fall.

This is why thousands have died or been wounded in combat. So you can take your individual fat ass and your idiot kid to the 911 memorial in NYC and change your kids diaper on the dead's nameplates----God we suck as a country.

we suck

The US has FINALLY suspended training the Afghan Police...
The Afghan police candidates repeatedly, again and again and again, killed our guys while being trained. Nothing displays the stupidity of our involvement in wasting what's left of our national fortune in the misguided attempt to turn Afghanistan into Iowa, than the death of our guys at the hands of Afghans we are attempting to train to protect their own people.

These people hate us and do not WANT to change--- can't we get this? They have stolen all the, so called, infrastructure rebuilding funds, they throw acid in the face of women, they don't want us there and it is only the stupidity of our leadership that keeps us there. Kill them by drones if we need to...and get the fuck out of there..........

WTF took you so long?

Building and modifying a captured gun truck--as my latest project. The early stages of WW2 in North Africa was between the Italians and the British. Both focus groups of my modeling---in the early days the war lines see-sawed back and forth--both groups made use of captured equipment. The Australians operating captured Italian tanks...and the Italians using captured British trucks. I am in the process of building a 15ct British truck captured by the Italians and pressed into use mounting a 20mm Italian Breda cannon. 
Photo's of the Italians using such vehicles exist, proving that jury rigging a big gun on a small truck is not a modern 3rd world invention.

Modifications I must preform include having to cut and remove the vehicle's top structures, part of the rear platform and figure out a method of mounting the 20mm in the vehicle's cargo area.

My candidate for President, Vermin Supreme, was hard at work protesting, in a civilized manner, the RNC convention...he even wrote the local police departments requesting they think about preventing officer "chafing" during the heat which could cause unwanted aggression....that's my candidate Vermin. The link is to a CNN article on Vermin that is not actually that bad.....

my candidate in the news, Vermin Supreme

None of us is as dumb as all of us.

I really enjoy this commentary on our society

A report on average humans being sent to jail for debt collection, due to a legal loophole in many states recently appeared in the New York Times. 
(link below)
Is there any doubt that the 1% would wear our skins, if allowed, this should erase it. There is a creeping class war raging within the United States. Slowly they move, much like a snake swallowing a mouse..our corporate rulers take more and more..it is our own fault for believing their advertising nonsense--for supporting their greed and avarice---those of you who support them..by banking with them, voting for them, buying from them, watching them on television admiring them...this is what can happen to you. 

debtors go to jail the 1% loves us

I pre-ordered, The Bourne Legacy, from Amazon on DVD, refusing to allow the net critics to change my belief structure that "any Bourne movie is better than no Bourne movie". I am also looking forward to the DVD release of the new JUDGE DREDD film on DVD.  I think that Judge Dredd makes an excellent film concept--it just takes the right person to create the world he inhabits on film....

We are on the list to rent Iron Sky via Netflicks based the conflicted reviews of Iron Sky I thought first rent then buy if it turns out to be excellent......

These are several upcoming movie nights to which i am anticipating greatly.

"If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy,

It will in the end not produce food, either."

Joesph Wood Krutch