Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts

Monday, September 7, 2026

Screenshots from my Cellphone

Is this an ad for the preexisting short, user created version or a newer, fuller version?

Because the farm bill, you can still purchase Delta strains of canabis legally.

Yes, AI is here and theis industry is growing like weeds. Weeds have a way of chocking out other life. Shouldn't we be thinking about this?

Bob Seger album art. I will have look this one up.

Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Recent Cell Ad Screenshots

I believe everyone should try a Linux distro and see what you think. Unlike Microsoft Windows Linux provides multiple versions to try. Think of it like an adventure. You may want to run it from a DVD to see if the distro fits your style.


Coffee samples. I wonder if the samples are whole bean or as the coffee been ground specifically for some version of coffee maker.


"Don't over think it." You will not be dissatisfied.


If you haven't read the original Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy you should before taking a look at this new edition.

Sunday, June 7, 2026

Random Cellphone Screenshots

I believe I have a few more of these waiting to be posted. They are screenshots from my Motorola cell phone.

I am familar with Space 1889 and I own a few of these miniatures and have a couple of the game-rules pamphlets on my shelf. This really a great game concept. It is like a steampunk universe where somehow nations made the trip to space in hte 1880's.

A blind fat cat. The fat cats are all blind to our needs, except, except they are offering a great deal here?

It is ashame that the word could not have of gotten out eairler. Alas, these deals are set to disapear toward the end of this year.

This is an image that I ran through an AI to enhance the appearance. I am ready to take a bite into this.

Saturday, June 6, 2026

What I am listening to at this moment:

Beautiful! Tonada De Luna, Alice Zawadski.



Spanish Lyrics

"Yo vide una garza moraDándole combate a un ríoAsí es como se enamoraTu corazón con el míoLuna, luna, luna, luna llenaAnda muchacho a la casaY me traes la carabina, jioPa’ matar este gavilánQue no me deja gallinaLuna, luna, luna, luna llenaLa luna me está mirandoYo no sé lo que me veYo tengo la ropa limpiaAyer tarde la lavéLuna, luna, luna, luna llena"

English Translation

"I saw a black heronBattling it out with a riverThat is how your heartFalls in love with mineMoon, moon, moon, full moonGo, boy, to the houseAnd bring me the rifleTo kill this hawkThat won't spare a single one of my chickensMoon, moon, moon, full moonThe moon is looking at meI don’t know what it sees in meI have clean clothesI washed them late yesterday afternoonMoon, moon, moon, full moon."

Another rendition can be found here

Monday, June 1, 2026

Pink Floyd - Pigs

Back in the day I saw Floyd perform the animal album down in Tampa Florida. Great time, what I can remember of it.


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Monday, March 23, 2026

I am now on Running Linux Mint

I have experimented with various linux distros in the past and I was ready for something different. We still have a computer running Microsoft and since I have retired there is no longer a need for both of the computers to run a Microsoft OS.

Monday, March 16, 2026

My Favorite Internet Radio Stations

"Radio Paradise was founded in 2000 is a listener-supported internet radio station currently based in Eureka, California." They offer several channels, however the Main Mix is my favorite.I have been listening to Radio Paradise's main mix for a couple of years and I am always pleased.

If I should want something different I have recently found these Internet radio stations.

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Triangulation

Tomorrow never dies, James Bond.

They have used a triangulation technique to hone in on your location, 007.

Wednesday, September 11, 2024

What Did the Handbook Say?

"You will take your work seriously. Infinite numbers of yet-unborn humankind depend upon you who keep open the communication lines through negetive space. Let the angle-transmission networks fail and Man will fail."

Haigh Company Employee Handbook

By the Book, The Worlds of Frank Herbert, 1971

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Friday, January 19, 2024

The Beginnings of Cyberpunk

Image Creator from Designer, Bing

“The Matrix has its roots in primitive arcade games,' said the voice-over, 'in early graphics programs and military experimentation with cranial jacks. 1 '"

William Gipson, Neromancer

I recently listen to commenter speak about Delany,s "Nova". The commenter mentioned that William Gipson and his cyberpunk novels had many influencers such as Philip K. Dick, Michael Moorcock, Roger Zelazny, John Brunner, J. G. Ballard, Philip José Farmer and Harlan Ellison, all were part of the New Wave science fiction movement of the 60's and 70s.

The following excerpt from "Delany's Nova" even envisioned humans "jacking into" the ships computer system, thus becoming one with it:

"Mouse reached around to the small of his back beneath his vest, and felt for the socket. It had been grafted into the base of his spine cord back in Cooper. He picked up the first reflex cable that looped across the floor to disappear into the computers face, and fiddled with it till the twelve prongs slipped into his socket and caught. He took the smaller, six-prong plug and slipped it into the plug on the underside of his left wrist; them the other into his right."


1 "Cranial Jacks are human-computer interface devices, designed to connect directly to the brain/brain stem in order to control complex machinery."

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

A Host of Characters - Red-Shift

"Red is an industrail family with its roots in the dawn of space travel, it is very firmly fixed on Earth specifically and throughout the Dacro system.

Red-shift made the components for all conceivable space drives, the tools for dismantling them, the machines for servcing them, and replacment parts."

Chapter 2, Nova, Samuel R. Delany

Sunday, December 17, 2023

Cyberpunk Documentary, part 1

Cyberpunk may be new to some of you, but while away at university I cut my teeth on the cyberpunk genre and literature while reading William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy. These texts changed the way I looked at the world. We are not there yet, however it seems that we are moving in the direction.


Edited on 1.1.2024 @ 11:34 PM.. Added additional comments.