Q: Post-lockdown, where would I like to go? A: As far away from my own head as possible More good news for Team GB's Tokyo Games medal winners: you're going to the Moon. This is true because I read it. It was in a press release sent to me this week. "Olympic Medalists Get Free Ticket to the Moon," it says. That is going to be one expensive flight, with more than 50 medals awarded to Brits so far, and the …
Sending DNA to the moon can easily be done NFT style by digitizing the strands and sending the resulting binary data via radio to the moon. This is a real winner. A winner not only from a monetary point of view for the transmitter, of course, but you will also reach the TFH(*) people because the radio waves will reflect off of the moon and come back to the earth again.
So, there you have it. You can make marionettes using DNA and a radio transmitter aimed at the moon. The beamed DNA will cause us all to perform better at the next Olympics and we all will get metal medals. I'm sure some three letter agencies already are using this method of control for distribution of other human properties. Otherwise, how do you explain inaudible audio?
(*) TFH: Tin Foil Hat; only top of the head is protected. Everybody knows, real intelligence is in the body, not the head.
Sounds good - I mean what could possibly go wrong...
The current edition is apparently (and appropriately) a mixture of two previous books retaining the title of one.
The great thing about longevity is you get to recycle your material for another generation. I look forward to reading this column again in 30 years time...
My wife has a certificate in baking and pastry arts from a culinary school. I keep photos of her cakes on my phone to show off to folks. Edible figurines and flowers, piped beadlike icing borders, molded sugar to mimic ice or glass, etc. One turns into a checkerboard pattern on the inside when cut, dark squares are chocolate cake and light ones are yellow cake.
Baking a cake, properly, and decorating it well is NOT easy.
Baking an edible cake, with the correct texture, flavour, and cooked properly is not the same thing as being able to make art with that as a starting material.
Pretty much anyone can do the former, if they can follow simple instructions and work a set of scales, very few people can produce something with artistic merit.
As an analogy, anyone can mix paints, but not many can paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Admittedly, the television programme to which this article refers, is largely about the latter, and not the former, which is why I find the "celebrity" version more interesting, where you have people who have never baked anything before demonstrating that, when you're under pressure, you can fuck pretty much anything up.
The baking part is actually easy. It's just applied chemistry.
Decorating, on the other hand ... The way I see it, just smear it in sweet goo and call it post-modern if anyone asks. But they wont. In fact, 99.99% of the intended audience will applaud you ... even if some of them are applauding because they didn't have to make a mess of their own kitchen.
Never explain, never apologise." —Julia Child
I called them dumbshits, and I meant dumbshits. Please do not dilute the concept, either here or in your every day life. Thank you.
The folks who have actual mental issues need help, I'm not denigrating them! Nor am I talking about the folks who actually have medical issues with vaccines. I'm talking about the vast majority of the anti-vax crowd. Fucking dumbshits, the lot of them.
I seem to remember at the end of the 70s there being a clamour for the single of a new wave song "Don't Be A Dummy" off the back of a Wrangler (?) jeans advert. The problem was that Gary Numan had never recorded a full version, nor had he written it in the first place - he'd just been hired to sing a few refrains by the ad agency and that was it.
From memory, it was Midge & Chris as they partnered up for ad music, Max Headroom 20 minutes into the future* & the bloody awful **The Bloodied Sword*.
*I'd kill for a decent version of the elevator duel/closing theme, someone did cover it, but I didn't make a favorite of the link (Beer again).
**Played it twice, once while drunk on a Saturday afternoon (It was pissing down), didn't improve on my ear when I was sober.
> Midge & Chris
Yes, yes, yes... alright. But it was on the tape accompanying the tour programme booklet on the Lament tour in 84, so that counts as Ultravox in my book :-)
> The Bloodied Sword.
We'll have to agree to disagree on that one.
I had it on tape decades ago, which obviously got lost, then bought the vinyl 2nd hand last January and had it converted to MP3 a couple of months ago.
I absolutely love it.
Not heard of the Max Headroom stuff - thanks - will go searching.
Funnily enough I was one of the few who hated the advert music but liked the the actual song when I heard it. The pretend techno part of the song that made the advert seemed like a joke tacked on to the end.
There were plenty of other hits generated by Levis in those days though, one hit wonders like Stiltskin or Freakpower, or classics like 20th Century Boy and Should I Stay or Should I Go? getting a re-release.
> Never have so many singles (remember them?) been sold off the back of the first 30 seconds appearing in an advert.
Stiltskin - another classic Levi's ad
Ugh, this all sounds a bit too much like some creepy science fiction movie from the 1970s.
The sort of thing where you'd see fresh faced smiling couples queueing up outside "LifeShip HQ" waiting to get their DNA extracted, then they'd be led to a room with shiny silver cylindrical pods with automatic doors, and after they'd got in and the door had closed there'd be a muffled scream and a shot of some green gloop flowing down a perspex pipe.....
We have a new "Thing" they are doing at work. Surveys.
Specifically, they to make sure we are all happy putting in the hours at home working for the company and to make sure that management are doing a good job.
Each Survey is split into 5 to 10 sections and each section has 3 to 5 questions and then another box to clarify our response. The questions are rated from "1 = Totally disagree" up to "10 = Totally agree".
The last 3 I've had were all filled with #1 and every comment was "Too many questions, too many surveys and if you have to ask me if you are doing a good job then you are doing very badly".
Another Survey popped up in the Email this morning ... This time, I took a different tact and reported the Email as spam.
I think these two strips sum up these surveys perfectly:
We had a survey at one place, last century & were assured of total anonymity.
Me being me asked the question "How can you assure us of that when there's only three or four of us in Quality Inspection & Test (We all hated our mangler, who thought he was Mr Big & micromanaged the heck out of us).
When there's only four of you (as per OP's example), and say if two have a track record of certain comments in normal work time, any 'anonymous' survey among the four becomes somewhat less anonymous if people are honest when they complete it.
Well, so long as a human is reading the results rather than AI.
I remember telling my manager several times he was micromanaging too much (resulting in pointless meetings to discuss how he wasn't micromanaging at all (the irony)), so it was obvious in any survey that if the word 'micromanagement' (or similar) came up, it was probably me.
That would be true, but the company I worked for liked to do things like this, and pushed them out from the top and into the departments.
It was a Blue Chip company at the time, with close to 100,000 employees around the world.
When you were forced to complete one of the surveys, it was hardly objective or useful because you either told the truth (and became known) or lied to protect your career and skewed the results. Many did lie (i.e. 'everything is great' when it clearly wasn't).
Furthermore, they were usually internal email surveys in the latter days, which further removed any assurances of anonymity.
> it was hardly objective or useful
Maybe you misunderstood the point of those surveys? Management couldn't care less about what you think, those surveys are only there to validate the top management's internal strategy, so obviously nest poopers aren't too popular: You're telling your bosses they are a failure, and unsurprisingly they are bound to not like it.
Telling the truth to them is pointless, if they wanted they could had improved things without your input, it's just they don't really want to.
playback at the lowest level of volume to diffuse the bio active sonic vibrations without hearing the music
This seems to be a thing with German cars, of which I have two. If you switch off the car audio, it will come back on next time you start the car. But it does so at an almost inaudible volume, so you spend the next hour driving around while searching for the source of the annoying whispering sound, and maybe concluding that you're hearing voices in your head.
It's almost as bad if you turn the car off while the audio is playing. When you restart it comes on at about half the volume you left it at, so you spend the first five minutes fiddling with the controls to get it back the way you like it. I remember old-fashioned, pre-digital audio where you could set the volume once and it would be right for the life of the car.
And why is Bluetooth streamed audio always at a small fraction of the volume of other audio sources, including BT phone calls? It's just a digital transmission, so it has no intrinsic volume. Somebody just decided to play BT music in inaudible mode.
Maybe they use the same supplier as Kia.
Possibly because the music is turned down when the phone integration or traffic alerts want your attention. And that becomes the default, with no override possible.
On the other hand, my previous car (a Peugeot) could do that, remember my preferred settings, match output volume on any source AND turn the music up when the engine/road noise increased.
Wolverhampton couple's wedding photo in Moon launch
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-58102566
Mr Saunders said he had secured some room on a commercial space flight, run by private firm Astrobotic, set to launch next year.
As well as scientific instruments and technologies, the company said it would be taking a "Moonbox" on the unmanned flight containing mementos from people around the world.
The personal items will be left on the lunar surface in the box as a time capsule, the company says.
be doing their utmost to preserve DNA. Sending it into the harshest environment outside of a reactor containment vessel is surely the height of irresponsibility. Especially when you add the environmental impact of rocket travel. Any DNA worth preserving, should be stored in one of the several ice-cave species banks which already exist around the world.
Don't get me started on the even more stupid idea of sending ash to the surface of a celestial body which is already effectively 100% covered in flyash.
Laws against fraud should automatically quadruple the sentencing where it can be shown that a reasonable person can see unjustified environmental harm has or will occur as part of the original scam. Now is the time to get serious on willful polution.
Why do they call it the Havana Syndrome as it's just a repeat of the Moscow "sickest embassy in the world" syndrome from 60 years before.
https://www.emfacts.com/2012/06/john-goldsmith-on-scientific-misconduct-and-the-lilienfeld-study-an-oldie-but-still-relevant-today/
In fact the Moscow US embassy would have been irradiated with RF from 1945
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_%28listening_device%29
so 76 years.
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