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Moran Cerf - Brain Hacks
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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A couple on Moran Cerf, former computer/bank hacker and current expert on hacking the brain. Some intriguing insights into dreams and how changing the dream can change the waking outcomes, still lots of research to be done, but lots of interesting discoveries already...
Link: Moran Cerf on TED
and, if you liked this, maybe listen to his bank-robbing story on THE MOTH...
He reminds me a bit of Justin Trudeau, handsome, that Gallic Charm
Prospectors
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Yeah, what happens on the mountain, stays on the mountain. I just watched 4 seasons of this so you don't have to.
Imagine a "reality" "adventure" "prospecting" show that was created expressly created for the Weather Network and you'd have this. Exactly this. "DRAMA", meaning the scripted overreaction to predictable weather - "SURPRISE" - and the escalating weather conditions over 4 seasons - from rain and lightning in episode one to "ThunderSnow!!" (I'm not making this up, I swear, and I didn't Photoshop the screen-capture above...), to Tornadoes. (Cut to Stock Footage of Tornado), Escalating threats of VIOLENCE with Claim-Jumpers (by episode 2 characters are carrying GUNS), the "Love Interest" (last husband died, one year later she finds new one, they get tattoos, happy, by season 4 he's disappeared and unmentioned in favor of a cute female California miner), people painfully reciting obviously scripted lines, obviously scripted rockfalls, dramatizations, reenactments, boring, incorrect and occasionally outlandish "factoids", "Experts" a'la Antiques Roadshow or Storage Wars, over-valued finds, families, people of every level of competence and success...
Fuck I'm glad it's over. I mean, for every 21 or 43 minute episode I could maybe get 2 or 3 minutes of good, new information. The rest, all complete and utter bollocks...
But I can imagine for the Weather Network this is perfect filler, and it's proven surprisingly popular, people rooting for their favorite miner to get ridiculously rich, praying for the Christian family (that prays together before mining), they're living the American Dream after all, Seniors trapped in their houses by adverse weather buying every scripted, edited and preposterous minute as fact..."he's still down with his injured finger....wasn't able to make it up to the claim...", the show's still finding it's formula, mixing up the characters, as TV goes, reality or otherwise, it's bollocks...but a lot like prospecting, in that, in all the bullshit and drama, irrelevant and inaccurate factoids, occasionally there's a bit of good information you might be able to use...never very much, and youtube has far better resources, but it's over now and I can move on...
Lake Louise
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Sunday, take the sane Italian waiter for a hike up to the plain of the Six Glaciers behind Lake Louise. It's been a long winter, mild, but too much work, not enough prospecting, this isn't strictly speaking a prospecting trip, but I'd like to take a look at some different rocks and start getting back into shape.
Almost 9 KM from Lake Louise to the Plain of the Six Glaciers, 18 round trip, the Tea Hut is closed...It's good I didn't know this, or chances are we wouldn't have went...Sometimes it's good to go into things blind. The trail, a lot of snow past the 4 KM mark, the weather, fine, warm even, ...
The View up the Mountains...
The View from 8.6 or thereabouts KM of the Chateau Lake Louise...
Some pretty ferns opening beneath some rocks...
And, finally, at the 4 KM marker on the way home...
Meanwhile, I'd spent the half hour up at the Plain of the 6 Glaciers trying to reacquaint myself with hardrock geology, looking for indicators of, well, anything...
Merely keeping a hand in...
Florida Man
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- Category: WTF
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And discussing potential vacation destinations the daughter suggests "Florida". And while there's an awful lot there to interest me (archaeology, Spanish Galleons spilling pieces of eight, Disneyworld, Caves, the Everglades, etc, etc) I just can't do it...
"Have you never heard of the Florida Man? Look up the Florida Man!!"
Find here a list of headlines involving the rather infamous Florida Man...his Twitter Feed, if you will. Yeah, Florida, another time maybe...
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