Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Me and T-Mobile

 I am having seriously irritating problems with the replacement phone that T-Mobile provided.

When I initially struggled through attempts to get the phone set up I had managed to get it to give me an audible alert  when a Gmail (email) came in, or when I got a text message,

Worked for about a week.  Then didn't.

I couldn't restore it so I contacted T-Mobile.  They guided me to change certain settings, and assured me that “that will fix it!”

Didn't.

Additionally, the phone has a problem charging the battery.  

The receptacle for the tethered cable to charge it will not accept the plug for the charging cable that they sold me for $16.  So I turned to a wireless device that they sold me for $50. It is designed to charge the phone by simply placing it on the charging table. The position of the phone must be precise, to the nearest tenth of a millimeter. Else it turns off the charger after ten seconds.

Tonight I finally got it to function.  Didn't dare reposition the phone until the battery was fully charged.

So when I wanted to access YouTube, I set up the T-Franklin mobile hotspot that T-Mobile sold me for $90.  

Then when the phone was fully charged I wanted to retire the T-Franklin device, and run off of the mobile hotspot in the phone.  

Nope.  No access.  The T-Franklin device had displaced the Samsung phone hotspot, and I would have to reprogram it to connect via the phone.

Sounds easy if you say it fast.

An hour later, and with the help of a double shot of vodka I finally established the connection.

Does Ludditte have one or two T's?

Friday, February 17, 2023

Cause and Effect

 The courts recognize temporal proximity as being highly probative of a causal connection.

In Clark County School Dist. v. Breeden, the United States Supreme Court indicated that close temporal proximity alone may be sufficient to establish a prima facie causal connection.

I don't have a definitive summary of the relevant statistics.  But a casual perusal of the news reports seems to show a sharp increase in the number of shootings in our society. 

One might inquire of a possible cause.  Are there any significant changes in recent years that might be responsible?


Let me think … 

Dow Jones was 36,799 last year. This year it has dipped to 32,930. 

For the winter of 2021-2022 the average maximum temperature was 29.9°F .  For 2022-2023 there is a 22 percent change below average.

Fifteen states now allow permitless concealed carry of handguns. At the start of 2022 only six states allowed it.

The House of Representatives is now under control of the Republicans.

Among others Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Mercury, and Plymouth automobiles have been discontinued.

Gun sales are increasing, probably due to lax carry laws:  2016: 16.7 million;  2021: 19.9 million;  2020:  22.8 million …


Is there any suggestion that any of the changes listed above may be related to the increase in shootings?

Saturday, February 11, 2023

Anunnaki's Purse of Gold

 

I have enjoyed several hunting trips to the forests of northern New Mexico. I went there with my good friend Stan. But he's quit smoking1, and won't be able to accompany me again. So this year I ventured forth alone.

On one of my excursions during the first week of my stay on the foot of Mangas Mountain I drove onto a side road running south off of Highway 93.

I left the road to explore a meadow on its east side.

I walked into a stand of trees to the south, and approached a gorge without a bottom. Of course, it had a bottom. But it sure was a long way down.

Across the narrow gorge was a steep vertical cliff. Barren and rocky, no vegetation at all. And there, maybe thirty feet down on the cliff face, was a cave staring at me. The opening was approximately circular, and probably about ten feet in diameter. For some reason it fascinated me.

After some debate I decided to explore that cave.

I returned to the road and drove south, and found a way to access the area, on the south side of the gorge, near the cave. Looking back to the north, I aligned myself with a clump of trees on the north side of the gorge, that I had selected for reference. That guided me to the irregular rock formation on the south side that I had observed directly above the cave.

Using climbing gear I lowered myself to the cave.

The floor was flat, level and uncluttered, I swung in and unhooked my rope. Securing it took some doing, for the walls and floor of the cave were smooth and bare. I took off my gear, and switched on my headlamp. Finally I found a crack into which I wedged some gear with the rope attached.

There was a sharp curve in the cave, less than twenty yards in.

I approached it cautiously, reminding myself that there might be another entrance to this cave, and there could be an animal in residence.

The area beyond the turn was a high domed, spacious room. It was so large that my headlamp seemed feebly inadequate.

I searched for animal tracks in the dusty floor, but there were none.

I did find a clutter of strange fabric. As if discarded clothing, but a fabric unlike any I've ever seen. I found, half buried in the floor of the cave, a leather purse. Approximately four inches square, with carry handles attached. A metallic container inside held a residue of a very fine gold colored dust. Later a jeweler tested the dust, and confirmed that it was pure gold.


In past two years I have been reading about the Anunnaki who arrived on earth in ancient times. They are pictured in numerous carved representations carrying a small square purse which they held by its handles.

And it is interesting that they had great interest in mining gold here in earth.


The Anunnaki are a group of deities of the ancient Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians and Babylonians. They are ancient alien gods from Nibiru, a hypothetical Neptune-sized planet that supposdly orbits our Sun in a highly elongated orbit far beyond Pluto.


I feel that I have discovered the purpose of the ubiquitous purses, displayed in so many images in sites on several continents -- carvings representing the Anunnaki.

What if their biological chemistry required some small percentage of gold ?

Perhaps while they are here on earth they have a physical need for gold, much as I might need oxygen if I traveled to a distant planet. The purses so pervasively carried might hold the gold they need.


I have heard of a medical application of gold here on earth — the popular form is “monoatomic gold.” My first reaction to this is to remember the snake oil I used to buy for a dime a bottle, back in the 1860's . . . (see Outlaw Josey Wales)

Then I encountered A Preliminary Study of the Effect of Ingestion of Gold on Blood Chemistry by Dinesh C. Sharma.

That article does not conclude that there is any beneficial medical effect from ingesting gold, but it at least gives it a serious consideration.


Who knows? On the planet Nibiru, gold may be like vitamin B12 is here, for me.


Imagine their frantic searches for gold on Nibiru if suddenly there was not an adequate supply on hand . . . and their local Walmart didn't have any in stock, nor any expectation of receiving any.

Here on earth, people jump onto their car and run to Walmart when there is an urgent need. The inhabitants of Nibiru may pile into their spaceship and cruise to the nearest — My goodness, what if that's US ?


There are legendary accounts of aliens infiltrating Earth, and mining for gold — in South Africa, by some accounts. Interactions with humans are said to have included visiting its women, and altering the genes of humans to create an army of laborers to work in their gold mines. Perhaps the visits to earth's women were an adjunct to their efforts in genetic manipulation.


Steven King, where are you? We need a new movie — “I'm Proud to be a Gold Miner's Daughter” . .


1  Stan said that he would quit smoking when he quit breathing. He did.

Saturday, February 4, 2023

Maturity

 It has been said, by a learned philosopher, that “life is a journey to uncover one's self, one's identity.”1

It is interesting to hear the voices of wisdom by my betters. I seek to learn from them. I am inspired by the rambling expressions and opinions of learned philosophers.

But I don't always agree with them.

With respectful regard for the wisdom of the quote in the first line of this essay — I have noted in myself an ongoing, accelerating evolution in my mentality and perception of reality. And with the conceit and arrogance of one who has accumulated a few knocks, bumps and scars I dare to disagree.

I would revise the quote thusly:

. . . life is a journey to mold and develop one's self, one's identity.”



1  Walt Whitman's poem “I Celebrate Myself” is actually about how Whitman celebrates himself. The poem is about finding your identity,

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