Things I Love.....

supper, sweet potatoes, sea food (also see food), sleep, springtime, succinctness, study (without stress and for the sole purpose of satisfying curiosity), sonar, single board computers, single track railways, silence.

 

Tea

 

universe, so many strange wonderful things so few of which are known.

unity without uniformity. not easy to explain to someone who doesn't already understand, but really the only way it would be possible.

universities too. but better when people didn't think you were a terrorist if you wanted to go to the science and engineering library and weren't an enrolled student.
and also, when they had lower tuitions for same state residents. and you could establish residency by living there for a year before applying to them.
unions. between labour/craft unions and small scale retailing, is what created a majority middle class, and the loss of them a large part of what has destroyed it.
i know there are many ways they're a mixed blessing too, but we've really stabbed ourselves in the back by opposing them.

 

Vidovic, Ana. Croatia's finest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaEcDgxm8es

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF81YRi10HM

 

William Wallace (aka my "baby" brother)

 

Xylophone players rocking out in the streets and public settings

https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video;_ylt=AwrTcXbtaNNW2GkAQu6JzbkF?p=street%20xylophone%20player&fr=chrf-yff34&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Ai%2Cm%3Apivot#id=1&vid=5dbd5f13fac4e6581eb33bbff638808d&action=view

 

Most recently I’ve been fascinated by the early middle ages 284-1000 AD.

I converted the youtube online course by Yale Professor Paul Freedman to MP3’s and have been listening to them while exercising


Hotwater

 

i consider that the PRE-middle ages, BEFORE europe got its head stuck up the ass of fanatacism for nearly a thousand years.
i assume your letter "y", which we were on is for yale and young as in early.

which leaves me with z, as in zeotropical and zeoscope, the former probably being spelled wrong, and i'm not sure what it means, though i think i did at one time, and zeoscope, which is/was, and early from the illusion of animation. ok, i've probably spelled that wrong too.

well i love zozzels, which are an imaginary/alien species, who's natural defense is to give their would be predators nightmares from their predator's own minds, which causes them to avoid them. if you can make friends with them, they're this cute little fuzzy thing, about the size of a skwirl. the come from one little short story published back in the 70s in analog sf, in an issue that's probably been out of print for a couple of decades.

zebras are cool too, i guess, but i can't say as i really have any passionate love for them.

zero emissions technologies, now there's a 'z' that i really do love. although zero emissions alone, if they involved consuming something, that can no longer produce enough energy once its consumed, does emit something, its own lowered energy waste. but collecting and storing incident energy, to then be used even at times when its not being collected, that is the real zero emissions technology, and we can get all the energy we want that way, and even propel transportation with it, it just doesn't lend itself to the monopolization of energy production. which is why purveyors of fossil fuels, don't want us to believe it can be done that way. or that we wouldn't like it if we did.
but of course people know what i'm talking about and we are starting to do so. i think we're moving much too slow on transitioning away from fossil fuel dependence, and the energy monopolists keep comming up with dead end side trips to send us down, like fuel crops and hydrogen, and of course they love nuclear, because monopolization is practically built in to that one. but sun, wind, falling water (when i was little it was believed it could have been all done with falling water, but big dams do create problems too) and geothermal (which depends on being where it is, it isn't everywhere, but where it is, yes that one works too).

and beasts of burden aren't zero emissions either, although some people like the idea if there were again few enough of us for more of us to have some place to keep and take care of them.

so yah, i love solar, and small scale water wheels, primarily, and small scale innovative ways of collecting wind energy, which are all "z" because they're "zero emission".

 

Acid

 

Can't get enough of it either! Gunpowder ruined everything!

 

Blue Whales

I'll never forget the only two living blue whales I ever saw from the deck of a crabbing boat 17 years ago. A mother and her calf swimming side by side. The size of the mama's tailspan was bigger than the boat we were on. They kept breathing up at the surface together. We were hoping one would jump high outta the water, but we gave up hope after an hour of following them around. Nevertheless it was truly amazing to see the largest living creature on earth.

 

trashing the library at alexandria ruined everything. gunpowder already existed. europe was just too backward to know about it. but i have to agree, knuckle dragers getting ahold of it certainly didn't help.

anyway back to alphabet love.

c is for creativity and creating things. the ultimate gratification and the only thing that makes us anything special as a species.

 

Driving through the interior of British Columbia.

 

Ecstasy

 

Freaking nothing!

 

Going down....

 

HH Bras
I use them as hats.

 

imagination. this is really what makes life worth living. makes the next day worth looking forward to. to see what others or ourselves, might come up with.

 

Jumping Jacks

(even when they make me pee a little bit)

 

klystron tubes. big hurky high energy microwave oscilators. there's a little one in your microwave oven. and big ones adding their energy to sub attomic particles in those big physics lab accelerators.

k is also for not adding complexity where little or no actual gain comes from doing so, as in 'keep it simple'.

keeping alive hopes and dreams for a level playing field for the persuit of gratification.

keeping and in preserving that which is good, but not be sequestering it to yourself away from others being able to enjoy it.

most of the good things that start with the 'k' sound, seem to be spelled with the hard celtic 'c' instead.

i'm probably overlooking something big an obvious, but i'm not grasping whatever it is.

kelp? is kelp spelt with a 'k'? yah. i like nori. mostly in my soup, but sashimi too.