Bastille Day

What do you red blooded Americans out there think of all the dissing of the French that's going on. We hear they are leftists, that they are cowards, ungrateful, smell bad, and along with their new good buddies, the Germans, never vote our way in the UN. Actually the French are kind of like America's twin sister, born the same year we were, in 1789. The French are responsible for a lot of great literature and art, and they are the ones who presented the Statue of Liberty to us as a gift. For some reasons American's haven't trusted them for a long time, since the days of Charles De Gall. When General Patton made that speech about the Americans and Brittish being destined to rule the world, he should have included the French. When it came to the planning of World War II, the Americans were consulted, the Brittish were consulted, the Russians were consulted, but what about the French? It was only fought on their land. Of course now French cooking is getting a bad rap for containing too much cholesterol. And what do people remember now? That soccer team captain who head butted his Italian opponet on the soccer field. But we don't know what the Italian said to him first. I'm tired of people saying that yeah they were all for the French untill the head butt and then they were rooting for Italy. People speak of German ingenuity and science but they forget about the French.

I guess the question is has President Bush gone insane? According to Randy Rhodes at a German news conference and gathering all George Bush could say in response to questions about a possible World War III is "But what about the Pig. I want to know about the pig". It seems Bush took the baton out of the orchestra conductor's hand and began leading the orchestra himself. Then he tapped a flute player on the shoulder and starteled her and mentioned that Congelisa Rice wants to play their organ. I have been wondering today- - it's actually a revelation that hit me right after a missile blue up that train on Passions- - I was thinking what if Bush "lost it" completely and Dick Chaney had to take over as President? People say that Dick Chaney and Donald Rumsfeld have been running the country for years anyhow. What would be the best way to do it? I was thinking that to save Presidential face they would fake George Bush's death and take over and Bush would turn up January 21st. 2009 after Hillary took office. According to Randy Rhodes it seems "Hes Ballah" are only the "flying monkeys" sent as a little distraction to take peoples' minds off of Iran. It seems Bush and Chaney want a war with Iran after and they're thinking of the best excuse they can come up with for having one. It seems now that Syria and Iran are working together and are the ones behind the current Hes Ballah conflict with Isrial. Of course I would agree with the French and the Germans that Isrial should show a little tact and not bomb civilians. After all they don't want to swell the ranks of Hez Ballah. Of course I'm sure Isrial thinks of it more as a roach infestation that needs to be "Cleaned out" and then everything will be just fine. Just from what I've seen Isrial has a decided advantage. They're doing more damage to Lebanon than Lebanon is doing to Isrial. I guess we should let Isrial fight all of our wars since they enjoy it so much.

Oil has now gone up to 78 dollars a barrel. They were predicting it might reach ninety, which seems very likely now. They are predicting gasoline here at four dollars a gallon. The stock markets won't like that. Some say we should put all of that empty land in Wyoming, the Dekodas and Nebraska to good use since the wind blows so much of the time there and put in those giant wind thingies to generate power. I don't know. We in the US are so bull headed it may take even something more caticlismic to get us off of our oil addiction. It seems to me they have yet to prove that automobiles can be run more efficiently on either ethanol, or vegetable oil. And of course we can always make methane out of manure. They have a lot of that in America's heartland. Not only is Bush not slapping a windfall profits tax on the oil companies, but they are still actually giving them millions (or billions) in subsedies. I suppose a war might look attractive as a way of securing more oil fields at "market prices" as Rush used to say was our reason for Gulf War I. However the US is like a hog at the troff and pulling away a hungry wild boar might prove challenging. But if we don't change, or even if we do, the economy is going to take a nose dive and Bush better pray it doesn't happen before November.

Now we hear the reason why Antarctica and Greenland have more snow in their interiors is because there is more moisture in the air and moisture produces snow. But we also hear the reason why there is no longer snow in Killemanjaro is because we chopped down all the forrests and there is LESS moisture in the air there to produce snow. I think we pretty much have to go with the scientists on this one. I guess the World Net Daily people say there is a vast conspiracy to silence any scientists who disagree with Global Warming because all their funding dries up. Well, let's not forget who is in power now. If those scientists can't get funding now from Bush, I don't think they will ever get it. I still haven't seen Al Gore's film. Of course it's like someone with blood pressure of two hundred and cholesterol of three hundred. You can tell them they are in danger of having a heart attack any minute but you don't know whether it's six weeks, six months, or six hours. We're not tea leaf readers. This January I think we're going to have the most thorough house cleaning in Washing that we've had in a long time.

This may be the last blog post I'll do from this location. We did an edit and expanded the list from one CD to two of thirteen songs each. These songs have never been listed on blog postings and they aren't even in my somewhat larger collection in my Word files. Actually I guess some of these songs were rejected before because they were TOO good or too dramatic. I can't believe we've never used "Let There Be Rock" before but I can't locate it.

OUT OF OUR HEADS 2006

Go Down (AC DC)

Mad Man Across the Water (Elton John)

The Prophet’s Song (Queen) (ends on long note after fade-out)

Vampire Tatoo (Blye Oyster Cult)

I Am The Walrus (The Beatles)

Down by the River (Neil Young) (song Pink Floyd ripped off)

Frightened of the Real World (Alice Cooper)

Sweet Sally (Ted Neugent)

Blue Morning (Foreigner)

Not Guilty (The Beatles) Anthology version

Seven Furry Creatures Gathered (Pink Floyd)

Dead Line (Blue Oyster Cult)

Dear Mr. Fantassy (Traffic)

---Disc Two

Instant Amnesia (Ringo Starr)

Hole in my Shoe (Traffic)

Sad But True (Metallica)

Sweet Soul Sister (The Cult)

Black Hole Sun (Sound Garden)

In Bloom (Nirvana)

Black (Pearl Jam)

Walk Like Me (Blondie)

Suicide Solution (Ozzy Osborne)

Let There Be Rock (AC DC)

Fight The Good Fight (Triumph)

A Little Less Conversation (Elvis Presley)

Columbia Shuttle Launch (Rush)

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I guess if you want to be famous as a kid, first be a mouseketeer because so many from that show in the early nineties went on to be famous. It seems you have to be born a star almost from infancy. I get kind of tired about hearing about all that stuff. The Media acts as if that’s all we want to hear about.

Isrial has found its Huevos these days. Now they’re back to bombing Lebanon like they did in the old days. I guess Hamas and Hez Balah get the message. They have renued reasons why Isrial should be wiped off the map. Isrial is decimating Gaza. They bombed their power station two weeks ago and have benerally made life hell for the people who live there, all on the fig leaf of belief that all this devastation will get back one Israeli who was taken hostage. I’m sure a lot of us like to see Isrial confident. We’ll have to see how it all plays out.

Randy Rhodes is upset because they compared Ken Lay to Jesus Christ at his funeral eulogy today. Like John Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Lay will be “vindicated” after death. Bush 41 and Barbra Bush were there in attendance in the second row. Perhaps Barbra could say something like, “Since he’s going to jail anyhow I guess you could say things worked out rather well for him”.

Ed Schultz is worried about Isrial and Hez Balah starting a major war, and some say the U S may get sucked in. I guess we’ll do what we always do. We’ll give Israel all the weapons they need and they’ll kick ass on their enemies. Then at the Negotiation table they’ll give back all the land and rights they won.

The Federation announced today they have completely dropped war on the Centaurians and letting them pretty much have what they want. I don’t get it. It’s as if the last year and a half never happened. To make matters worse they are supporting Hez Ballah against Isrial in the current conflict. I would go with the Federation, but why, if I’m going to be on the losing side? What has the Orion Federation done for me? (Is that an unfair question?)

And now, a little something from a couple weeks ago for time perspective.

The Seventh Day featured “Smash Hits” and “In the Dark” by the Grateful Dead, missed. I also missed side one of “Out of our Heads” but I did catch side two, as well of some of the puzzling bonus tracks they played. The Simpson’s weren’t on. Instead I watched the intro of that Navy frog man thing they had on and commented on it on my blog. Sixty Minutes had Illian Gonsolez on again. Stu had indicated he supports Illian but I do not. There was talk by the Federation a day or two ago that the Centaurians had attacked this one Centaurian unit again, but elsewhere the White Andromadans had made significant progress against the Centaurians on another front. I did a lot of dial twereling

Spinning the News for You

By now you all know about the awful series of train station bombings that took place in India for the evening commute. All the bombings were stratigically planned to take place along the same rail line just minutes apart. I think as of now over 140 people have been killed outright, to say nothing of the injured. I don't like Randy Rhodes' take on this. According to her, at least she was vaguely implying, it's because India just tested a missile one day after a Pakistani commercial flight crash under "mysterious" circumstances. They don't know who did it though it has all the ear marks of Al Quaida. Randy didn't like George Bush for not condemning India for the missile test. They didn't sign any treaties so they have the right. That's how I see it. Perhaps those Al Quaida members will come back as a cow or something in their next life. Preferably not one of these "contented cows" that live in pastoral bliss here in California that pull pranks on humans, but a real cow raised almost entirely in confinement who's udders are bursting with milk most of the time because of the way they have been overbred. Clearly Islamic extremist are nuts, and they have know knowledge of God. I feel it necessary to re state this. If Bush were a more popular President than he is he could exercise some of his political capital and go after the terrorists. I'm sure India has the world's sympathy. It really is time this sort of violence be brought to an end with international cooperation.

They say that the average wedding in America costs $28,000. That's what a confortable house cost forty years ago. For a lot of people even today that's a whole year's income. I guess I don't see the point in such an expensive wedding when it's probably going to end in divorce. Divorce seems to be a birth right of the rich. The richer you are and the more famous you are the more you're likely to get a divorce. Having some corporation sponser your wedding to me seems the height of tackiness. What must the Russians and the Chinese be making of this news that we in America are so crass we have corporations sponsor our weddings? Of course Paul Mc Cartney was criticized for not having an ante nuptual agreement with Heather. Rather than be critized he deserves praise for not doing this. I'd like to know when they're going to get around to eliminating "till death do us part" from the ceremony. What I find most obscene is the way the Catholic Church deals with marriages that don't last. They have them but they end the marriage by annulment and not divorce. To me any marriage annuled for any other reason than fraud or incest is an abomination tword God. You are in essence calling the innocent person a liar. As such by seeking an annulment you yourself are breaking the commandment by bearing falst witness against your neighbor. You know what I think about no fault divorce laws. I think they are immoral and ought to be eliminated. But I know they won't be.

Apparently the book "Silent Coup" is about John Dean. I baught the book sometime around seventeen years ago but I guess I never got around to reading it. The only thing I remember about the book was it said that Bob Woodward wasn't who he claimed to be. The book supposedly claims John Dean is the primary cause of Watergate. John Dean sued over this book for years in the early 1990's. Mike Wallace was about to interview the author on his show, but when he realized what a liar he was he called John Dean instead to interview him. John Dean never profitiered from Watergate parlaying the incident into some high or low political. Instead John Dean went into business to earn an honist buck. The myth of the right is that all of the whistle blowers of watergate like Mark Felt are only in it for the money. What Dean observed was people who were considered fringe characters in his day 35 years ago such as Gordon Liddy are now considered main stream by the Right. The last thing Liddy was doing was telling people how to murder A T F agents on his radio program. John Dean was shocked at how regimented the Republican Congress was during the Clinton impeachment trial. My only complaint is that they didn't include Whitewater, Travel Gate, or Rose Law Firm in the proceedings along with Monica. I didn't know that Clinton had something like 62% popular support even at the height of the impeachment hearings. Now John Dean is writing a book on the Bush Adminestration. He says they may not be Fasciests but they are the clossest thing to it. This is a read I am looking foreward to. I guess Bush people have in common being unusually bull-headed. Nobody can tell them anything. Just how old is John Dean now anyway?

I want to talk about the morality of the real Jesus Christ, the one who actually lived. Unlike the Christians of today who believe the louder and longer and more empty headed your prayers are, the more spiritual you will look in the eyes of others. Jesus said to go into your closet and pray to your father in secret. Classic Christianity teaches that we are all Brothers in Christ and children of God. Fundamentalists prefer tallying the people destined to go to Hell. Jesus said to pray for God's will to be done. According to the K F I jock, God has predestined all from the beginning so his will is "locked into" happening from the foundation of the earth. The real Jesus suggests that what happens on earth is not necessarily God's will and that it can be changed. Jesus saw the Kingdom of Heaven as something that men will bring about on earth. He didn't see it as a place, but as a state of being. Jesus said to forgive others if we are to expect forgiveness. This puzzled me. Am I to forgive Charles Tex Watson for the Tate - LaBianca murders. I'm not even qualified. Jesus gives us hints what he meant. He said "Whatever you mete out to others will be dealt back to you". George Harrison sang "Whatever you do will come back on you". Jesus said "By the standard you judge, so shall you be judged. Jesus said to ask and it will be given unto you. He didn't say "Ask, but if it's denighed and you don't accept that you are spiritually inferior". He said knock and the door will be opened. He said to seek and you will find. He said blessed are the pure at heart and those who hunger and thirst for rightiousness for they will be Satisfied. They will see God. He didn't say "Except if you're a Hindu or a Moslem", either. He meant everybody. As to the sincere - - some teachers say that Christianity is like dialing up a phone number or a security code. If you're one diget off you don't get in to see the Man. Jesus asked one man, "Why do you you call me good? Nobody is good except God alone". Jesus also said "Call no man on earth Father. Jesus also taught, as to Bhudists and Hindus, "Narrow and hard is the road that leads to salvation, and few there are that find it". Salvation is a path, not a magic formula or a security code. St. Paul said "Work out your own salvation". I think most people instinctively know all these teachings, but I feel it necessary to remind you of them because there those people out there in Evangelical land, who would rob you of your faith. Finally, Jesus said to become as a young child. One thing about children is they aren't embarrased to ask questions. Children learn from experiance. Above all children GROW, which shows that religion isn't a stagnent thing. And when children are lied to they get madder at the teller of a lie than adult would. Children are the fastest to spot hypocricy. Above all, children live in "The Now". Meditate on this truth now.

Here We Go Again

For the record this is Tuesday July 11th. of 7 /11, a good day to play craps. Before we get started I would like to mention that nine years ago tomorrow morning a neighbor of mine for nine years, nine years ago, named Ken Hancock died of a sudden massive heart attack. Apparently he had to dial the 9 / 11 number himself and died before the paramedics could save him.

Too much of life is "Here we go again". We are now hearing that senator Hillary Clinton plans to keep on raising money for her Senate campaign so she can squrrel it away for her 2008 Presidential campaign. A commentator said "Apparently she is playing the odds and figures that the chances of her being elected President in 2008 are higher than having a majority Senate. I believe she is grossly in error and that that money could be more wisely spent raising money for other democratic Senators this year so that we will pick up the six senators we need for a majority senate. It's pointed out that all the bills have to pass the Senate conference committee and that more bills end up looking like the Senate version of bills than the House version of bills. Also, the Senate has exclusive control over things like nominations, including Supreme Court Justices. Hillary is playing the odds by betting on herself rather than her party. I wish I could say she is the first to do this but she isn't.

I guess it was Gene Scott who in June of 1991 talked about all the "Bulsh" that's going down. Sometimes you wish if something bad is going to happen, it would be something new rather than the same old "bulsh". Of course "Bulsh" is kind of a contraction of the words Bullshit and Bush, and has become a more comon word lately. Today President Bush released the National budget deficite figures and the figure for this past fiscle year is 296 Billion. That's hardly a figure for anyone to brag about. It's probably the sixth or seventh highest deficet of all time, but they warm their hearts by saying they were expecting worse, and delude themselves into believing people will be cheered when they hear the actual figure. Nixon used to talk about "full employment ballanced budgets" when in 1970 he first started actually planning for a budget deficet. The trouble is NOW is the time when we actually HAVE full employment, hence the budget this year should be ballanced. What we need to do quickly is raise about three hundred billion in revenues. Apparently O Riley announced that Clinton in 1995 raised only 1.5 trillion whereas bush in 2005 raised 2.1 trillion. But O Riley needs his math checked because both "equivelant mid points" should be eight and not ten years apart. It's pointed out that if you use inflation adjusted numbers Clintons figure for year 2000 was 2.3 trillion whereas Bush this year will only bring in 2.15 in revenue. So Bush will have about 150 Billion revenue shortfall compared to Clinton's last year. If Bush thinks lower taxes bring in higher revenue, I'd urge him to think again. I predict the deficet will never again be this low during the life of his adminestration, and correspondly, the economy will never again be so high. But basicly what we have is the same old thing of the Bush Adminestration grasping at straws.

We now have a full fledged Civil War in Iraq. Nobody can now doubt this. Fighting has escalated something fierce the past week or so. And we didn't have to wait for our troops to leave for a civil war to break out. Can there be any question now that we should withdraw our forces from Iraq and let Iraq get on with its Civil War and let nature take its cource. I as recently as a year ago was optimistic about Iraq. We all were. We felt things were "coming into shape" and that stability and infrastructure were being established. But once again it turns out that the nay-sayers were right and that the United States was accomplishing nothing in Iraq.

Gasoline prices, once again, are at an all-time high. Three dollars a gallon nationally means higher prices here because we're 30 cents higher than the national mean. For the average American citizen it's just more "Bulsh" to deal with. People say how hard it is for the middle class now but part of this is because what passes for "normal" is a much higher bar now. People take their blackberries into movie theaters and churches and other public places. I guess the ultimate insult would be to be on a date and having your date be constantly interrupted talking on a cell-phone, or worse, making the calls herself. Andy Roomey has a lovely idea to solve our energy problems. Put up some gigantic mirror in space so that the earth is continually bathed in daylight. Andy says, "We have the technology to do it". Let's not, because someone just might try it, and that would be too Buck Rodgers for me. The economic facts are that poverty has gone up every year of the Bush adminestration and went down every year of the Clinton adminestration. Peoples' wages, particularly minimum wages, are not keeping up with the cost of living. Commuters will have to put up with this "Bulsh" at the pump untill we do something about congress. Doesn't it seem as if November 2006 is awfully far away?

Lexi Carver on a soap opera is one personally gone beyond the moral pale. It's no longer just Samantha's sin that Lexi has to worry about, but her own sin, her own complicity, and her own medical mal practice. Her lies are more and more adversely affecting everybody's lives. How many Lexi Carvers in government are there. Once Nixon told Eisenhour, "Get off the pot" but I tell people today "Get off the Pod". Because they've got something plugged into their brains that are affecting their moral judgements. Of course they Four-flushed us yesterday by tantalizing us with previews and then crapping out on their audience. Kate said wisely, "Whatever bad karma or retrobution is visited on Sammy, you're also going to be cought in the cross-fire, and don't delude yourself that you won't be". On a recent posting we made reference to the pastor of Calvary Anaheim. Of course all the Calvaries are screwed up theologically, but the pastor of Calvary Anaheim is particularly screwed up in that he has been brainwashed much as Lexi has. It's affected all his decisions about various people. I've been looking forward to HT TV because the color on normal TV is inherently flawed so that you can never get a proper picture. I learned that the red phospher has too much orange in it, and isn't really red, and that the blue phosper should really be violet. Isn't it funny how you never see proper pinks and purples on your TV screen. If you see a magenta or pink on your TV you can bet it's because the picture isn't properly adjusted. The TV picture doesn't know what's real and what is not. The same holds true for the pastor of Calvary Anaheim. He's been brainwashed by various parties and is held hostage by them, and every thing he does is colored by that brainwashing. But he who brainwashed him is in Jesus' words "Guilty of the greater sin". Don't write him. It won't do any good.

The Calvary Chappels as a rule aren't "Paulinist" in a way that they should be. Revelations teaches the White Throne judgement by God alias Jesus. Paul speaks of the Judgement Seat of Christ for believers. But these people don't believe they will Be judged. They believe they have gone "from death to life" and everything they do is perfect. St. Paul and the book of First Peter speak of "the living HOPE of the reserection". The Apostles Creed speaks of a coming judgement by Christ of the living and the dead and that that date is sometime in the FUTURE. It hasn't occurred yet. Of course some Calvary Pastors say "I hope I never attend a Church servace that recites the Apostle's Creed ever again". It's painful to be reminded of the truth. The judgement is in the future. There is no magic rightiousness Pill. George Harrison and John Lennon are into real religion. Real religion involves seeking something greater than yourself, and you realize it might take time to do it, perhaps many life-times.

Thomas Paine had the right idea to citizens of America in colonial times. He said "Why put up with the same ol', same ol'? Why don't you DO SOMETHING about it. In EST there is something known as the Reasonableness equals Rightness trap. Dr. Phil has often said, "Would you rather be Right or be Satisfied"? Morally I find that a challenging statement. You know, back around Forty years ago there was a pastor named Harry Green who preached at a Presbyterian church in Whittier, and one day he came up with the starteling statement preaching on the "Last Times", "Society at any time has just as much probability of Progress as they do of retrogression". I never till then thought retrogression was a viable prospects. That's because the democrats ran everything and we didn't have to think about it. Now the republicans run everything and the expression "Had Enough?" takes on new meaning. For me the answer to that question is an emphatic "Yes".

Time And Space

The thesis is this posting is to express the oppinion that Time is NOT the mysterious "fourth dimension" because it is not provable. Many scientists maintain that when the Universe was first formed there were ten or eleven dimensions and that they somehow "collapsed" down to four, or three. People say there was a "starting point" to the universe because they point out that all of the galaxies in the Universe are approximately same age. They further point out that the galaxies that are now farthest away, the ones most "red shifted" are "under-developed" and hence less "time" since "Creation" has passed since they were formed. I guess I'd have to ask these scientists just how many galaxies they had to fish through to come up with some that were "under-developed". Is this a universal phenominum among the most red-shifted galaxies we see, or they did they have to fish through thousands of galaxies to come up with an idea of what a galaxy out to look like that's much "younger" than our Milky Wal galaxy or any of the "comon place" galaxies we see in the sky normally. The whole four dimensional thesis is that along with the three dimensions we exist in spacially, that time was also formed. There is something immediately wrong with these theory because many of these same people who see the universe as we know it as an infinitely thin surfice of a soap bubble, will also have to observed that this bubble is a moment IN TIME. So right away you have an asymetry. Time right off the bat is not recconed equally among the three other dimensions.

It was the second weekend in the new decade, January of 1970, that I took to drawing what four-dimensional space looked like. I used sort of a checkerboard grid to illustrate various shaps of things in the fourth dimension. By this hypothetical construct I was able to create four different sub realms. There is the realm of our three dimensions. But there are also the realms including Time as a spacial dimension, but lacking either dimensions one, two, or three. You can picture one of those eight pointed stars, or a cross and an X superimposed on it to get the picture of looking in four dimensions. Some may say "If you can draw it, it must exist". Not necessarily. Because scientists have never "found" any of these three other "realms" where Time isn't Time as we knows it but exists as a spacial dimension. Of course these realms would be only seen as a plane, and an infinitely thin plane existing in our own space. Stumbling accross this "plane" by accident might prove problematical. It's kind of like belief in UFO's. No real scientist seems to have seen and studied one, but we take it on "faith" that they exist. The same could be said for "sixth dimensional psychic plane" space we have talked about before, where The Orion Federation and other governmental entities exist. This psychic realm too would only be seen as an infinitely thin "plane" in this universe. Only in the case of the Federation we teach both a "sixth dimension" called the psychic realm, plus the Time dimension. So instead of being an infinitely thin plane, it would be an infinatessible line, which would make a dot or "portal" on this plane of earth. What we would see would stuff going on in our Time so I as observer see events with the Orion Federation as changing and evolving, but in their own perception, they see Time as "all at once" past, present, and future. It would be one of these "portals" that Captain Kirk was trying to find when he was stranded in that seventeenth century realm and all the people around him thought he was practicing witch craft, particularly when the "voices from the portal" only seemed to be addressing him.

There is another way we can deduce that Time isn't a co-equal dimension with the other three dimensions in space, and that is because- - if we switch the metaphore from a soap bubble surface to blowing a bubble gum bubble- - the bubble keeps expanding and expanding untill it bursts. Many people would say the Universe will keep expanding (note "expanding" canotes we are leaving out time when we talk about "The Universe) and expanding untill the faboric of the Universe gets stretched too thin or something and bursts, perhaps as described in the book of First or Second Peter in the Bible. The universe and the heavenly bodies either burst, or explode or "melt" or in some caticlismic way, disappear. All of this involves physical action. This idea that Time is just like any other spacial dimention kind of flies out the window when we speak of other cosmic events occurring "In Time" because it implies that Time itself keeps on going when the other dimensions are gone. Of course many Biblical scollars say Time Itself comes to an end- - but that's a matter for a whole other discussion.

This is Saturday July 8, 2006 at ten to one. Leo Le Port is on. Leo says they don’t use ASCII code now because Asian letters have more than 250 characters, so they have something called Unicode, which is 16 bit, which gives you 65,000 individual characters if you want them. This guy was having trouble with his space bar terminating his E mail entries. Leo recommended using plain rather than “rich” text. Leo talked about parallax distortion. I didn’t entirely understand that optician talking about lens nodes. He said to put your camera on a lazy Susan and rotate it with two pencils lined up and when both pencils when seen through the focus window disappear, that’s your node. I understood more clearly when he said images around the edge look bent. This is the problem the Disneyland Bell Labs thing had. A straight line would be bent away in each segment. I was thinking about this and if the back of the film were completely flat you would exactly counteract the trigometric angle narrowing of parrellel lines we’ve talked about before when you’re looking off to the right or left. What a flat surface would require is a lens with a variable focal length depending on the angle. A round backing with identical focal length is what I suspect cameras use. If you used a flat surface the image would appear stretched- - tword the edge kind of like those maps of the world. Leo says that your standard nano-pod has only two megabits and not four and it’s the twos that have a thousand songs. I thought the fours had a thousand- - - because if the twos have a thousand songs that would represent a lot more than ten to one compression radio.

Leo often has talked about how copyright encryption turns ordinary users into pirates because we’re forced to learn to crack code. Leo says that the CD and DVD manufacturers are at a disadvantage because the machines they are played on have to know how to crack the code, so you just take the machine apart to find the key. Of course Blue Ray has been talked about for a year or two. The HDDVD has been out about a month and already the encryption code has already been cracked. It seems what you do is enter “print screen” after each frame. That sounds tedious but of course that’s what program writers are for. I guess there are all sorts of cracks for codes you can find on the internet. I must confess I haven’t really looked.

I have to take slight question to something Leo just said. He says if you want to encrypt your stuff use “True crypt”. Is that like Master locks, where there are roomers one key opens up all the locks? Penny Lane was named after James Penny.

I would like to comment mainly on the material in red. When I did that sun angle BASIC program last year I made a mathematical discovery. Picture yourself inside a giant hula hoop tilted 34 degrees a angle from perfectly vertical. Now as you look around in the hoop image, the image should form a flat line in your eye ball or whatever. If you look at the highest point it should be 56 degrees above the horizonal plane. Therefore half the way down tword the "west" it should be 28 degrees. Right? But it isn't. It's a straight line; it should be 28 degrees or exactly half. We are talking about the angle the sun makes at noon vs. three o clock in the afternoon. My point is that even though the hoop path looks straight it really isn't. Because if you were to face south and take a picture of the hoop on an east west axis, the hoop would appear curved. Because this is what straight lines become when photographed by wide angle lenzes. Straight lines become curved. This amounts to "paralax distortion" we were talking about in the red print above. The hoop is only "straight" if you're looking straight at it in your focus. If your focus is off skiew- - the hoop will appear curved. (Selah)