The common denominator of life is the need to consume something outside of itself. It all boils down to location, location, location and even a blade of grass, a helpless blade of grass, cannot escape that core reality. - [ m o t h ]
2025-02-13 13:57:10 PM
2025-02-12 09:16:33 AM
It's just evolution. Musicians used to have to travel for people to hear music. Or at least the best musicians must have traveled a lot because they were in high demand. Symphonies were like speakers with how they have 4 people playing the 2nd viola part.
2025-02-12 09:10:57 AM
** I read a post from someone this morning who complained about people bragging about doing world travel. So, as I start talking about that lower on this page, I want to bring back the thing that I have posted over and over in the last decade or two that "It's basically the same wherever you go. There are people, buildings, cars, animals, food." One of my best memories from world travel was in South America, or Puerto Rico, where I went to a building that had a very open, big feeling with almost no one there and got I a cup of basic black coffee. It's essentially the same thing I do most days at home. Some people rather like travel though. I certainly did it only as part of my profession. It's certainly good to get out of your neighborhood, but, at least for people like me, it's very much wherever you go, there you are. Most of the time, I'm looking for a musical instrument or a writing instrument. And that becomes more complicated when I travel/leave home.
2025-02-07 12:11:34 PM
2025-02-07 12:06:18 PM
My last two partners.
2025-02-07 12:01:55 PM
[ m o t h ]'s Top Theories Early Feb 2025
1. If we stop burning fossil fuels, it will likely stop raining and then the planet will slow down, the water will evaporate and leave the planet for the moon. Once on the moon, it will mix with the carbon surface made from all our burning and will mix into the substance we have known as "oil". It will mix and rotate around the surface of the moon creating canyons. Then the moon will start spinning and eventually trade places with the Earth in a binary cycling system.
2. Natural Gas and our sewer systems may be more local than we are led to believe. Water certainly flows to streams and rivers, but solid waste may be more of a septic system everywhere with the methane product available to burn for cooking and heating as "natural gas".
3. There is very little lightning on the US west coast. The clouds roll over the cascade and rocky mountains and fall down down the east side of the mountain ranges which creates friction resulting in thurnderstorms and lightning. Supposedly our atmosphere is high in "inert" nitrogen N3. The lighning supposedly is able to break that bond to provide nitrogen fertilizer.
4. In the interior of the Northern American Continent, water falls in rolling hills land (the mid-west and south) creating ponds. The smaller ponds tend to evaporate quickly and people are known to fish in these ponds quite regularly. There are fireflys and the weather is muggy. Mowing the thick, fast growing, lush green grass is a matter of timing between storms so that the mower doesn't die from all the grass. It's always wet, but you know, possible to mow is a thing with that timing.
2025-02-02 16:13:14 PM
I'm not saying that "pandemics" aren't a thing, but the name of this last one Co-Video with the apparent widespread adoption of video conferencing using Zoom (is this just in my city, my closest childhood friend was nicknamed Zoom). I feel like Sarah Connor in T2 leaving the mental hospital "What is going on?"
- the grandomother of fusion
2025-01-27 11:05:28 AM
Current musings on planetary tilt and seasons. My travels have shown me proof of the shape of South America and crossing of the Atlantic from the North and South. I never thought of it like that before.
It seems reasonable that I have lived most of my life on the 45th parallel. The sun appears to be straight up in the sky at the height of summer. That has me thinking, contrary to the diagram on the globe I grew up with, that the seasonal tilt is uniform between North and South. The weather is quite like it is here in South America at the 45th parallel from my world travel observation.
But I also observed that South America ends to the South in a small tip, while it is reasonable to conclude that it does not do that in the North. Africa also seemed to have a less defined tip like that, although I'm not as confident about that conclusion as I am about South America. LOL! The Panama Canal sure is a unique planet oddity! Not 100% sure on the uniqueness worldwide, but it's likely.
