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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Scrolling through Facebook. Life in the metaverse.
The same, the same, only somehow it manages to outdo itself in it's pandering drivel. Comics, because I click on "Calvin and Hobbes" and "The Far Side" I'm inundated with other comics from the period. "Dennis the Menace", nope, I'm not 5 anymore, not funny. And I went off "Dennis the Menace" when I started reading his "Jehova Witness" comics.
Then there's the "Pickle's" Comment, about a happily retired grand-couple. Grandparents. Dumb.
More and more, "Zoki-Poki" humor, which is like an Eastern-European comic for their equivalent of a skin magazine. And I click to see what the punch line is only to discover something that's been translated by someone who doesn't speak Eastern European or English, and this click (and my ensuing bafflement looking for clues as to the puerile humor) something in the algorithm clicks that I've been engaged.
So, more of the same. "K'nif" and "Revenge of the K'nif", the English equivalent, I'm guessing, women with torpedo shaped bosoms, punch lines that aren't in the least funny - and, I suspect, just because I'm of that age, more comics, Archie Andrews, Betty & Veronica as you've never seen them before...
And, given I probably stopped on Betty & Veronica when I was 7 or 8 I'm wondering who on earth has carried a torch for 50 years and wants to seem them redrawn in the buff?
I mean....
There's been a dearth of crystal mining and treasure hunting videos, and the "Painting Reveal" trend was so last week, this week for some reason it's all clips from "Seinfeld" and "Friends". Again, to my taste, rather uncomical, but no sooner do you watch one than every video becomes the same, I'm inundated with clips from "Seinfeld", there's hundreds of groups that are fans, the same with "Friends", and I'm deluged with Jennifer Aniston pictures in Bikini's, "Friends" photos, bloopers, outtakes, nonsense.
And then there are the photos of pretty girls, "Like and Follow" or "Follow me for more..." or "It's my birthday, give me a wish" or "Thank You ❤❤❤". Now sometimes you can't help but look, and I've tried to keep my looking confined to decent parameters. Not that there's anything TOO offensive...
Well, there is, and trust me, it will find you.
So, seldom clicking on the younger (indecently) women, more the handsome ones in their forties, fifties, the profile names - "Nobody Cares" or "Dreamy Designs" or "Abigail Mia" or a hundred other names that give away nothing - you buy the name only after you buy the picture. And the picture, this of one woman, this of another, formerly they all used to be pretty - various women under a single account, and I can see no purpose to it, "Follow Me" just to receive random pics of middle aged women?
So I get less engaged. Speed up my scroll. And now the women change again, now more pear shaped women in lingerie, late 50's, early 60's, late 60's, 70's even.
What is up? Of course, again, no "Only Fans" just the fat older women in silky slips and belly-button high bloomers, meh, don't need this.
Then, a picture of a cute older women, more what I might formerly have clicked on, and I click, scroll, and - my god. It's all amputees, the cover photo gave nothing away, it's bait and switch, I'm getting women missing hands, feet, entire arms and legs, why, I just got a woman with no arms and legs on a surfboard. Another woman - elephantiasis of the ass - otherwise normal but an ass that weighs 300lbs, deformed, massive. Siamese Twins, the one twin largely consumed by the other, his head entering the surviving one's chest, his legs thrown up over his shoulder, ass in the survivor's face, butt to mouth not 3 inches....
I'm thinking my feed is at maximum degeneracy, and no longer am I merely the consumer, the "Customer" that must be engaged, I'm the experiment in how much a user will stand before throwing their phones in disgust.
And - noticing, certainly with the "Pear Shaped Older Women" trend - there seems to be more and more pictures that - well, maybe heavily filtered - but - at that point as likely AI generated, many - not merely the amputees (AI's proven it's good at that) - are concealing their hands and feet...
So, maybe - I mean, given the amount of content out there, it seems possible, if not likely, that these are bot-farms with CGI models worked into AI renderings...
The Eyebrows of a Maestro
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Time, now, to get out and try and find a job.
#1 Shave. This takes a while, my beard had rather grown in and there was an even longer beard framing it, great mats of hair that extend down my neck, swathed up behind my ears. This as well gets trimmed.
#2 The Ears. Yes, the ears. I have to keep on this, in a week I'm looking like Yoda. Old Yoda, not the young cute Grogu.
#3 The Eyebrows. I've the eyebrows of a Maestro, little birds nest that offer shelter to hummingbirds and small woodland creatures. Greenpeace better not find out.
#4 To the Barber. Booked, booked, finally down to one I know, she's never given me a cut I liked but any cut is better than no cut. I explain to her - precisely - what I want. And - presto, she delivers. All this prep work to go to the barber, it's like spending 6 hours cleaning before the maid comes over...
Then time for a shower, a change into civilized clothes and hit the streets.
All this cleaning up of myself has made me realize that this apartment, as well, could use a thorough tidying. This weekend...
Mushroom Painting...
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I saw one of my colleagues had a thing for Mushrooms, trying to sell off her mushroom related art.
And so I took it upon myself to take a break from painting flowers (badly, not even flowers) to paint a mushroom for her:
I added a few other details, but of course I had to...the matt cuts off a lot of the picture, like you can no longer see the astronauts helmet or the grim reaper's hand holding the scythe...but you get the idea. And Mr. Wippets sure looks happy...
The Klondike Stampede - Tappan Adney
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This thick volume was a quick and engaging read. Written by Tappan Adney, a journalist sent to report back on the Klondike in the rush of 1897-1898, it's filled with first hand observations, names of creek, and various details in all departments of life in the Yukon and Dawson City.
Leaving via Victoria, through Juneau and Skagway, deciding in favour of Dyea, over the Chilkoot Pass and then the remaining 500+ miles to Dawson City via a boat of their own building, the whole comprises a rollicking adventure - the tens of thousands of gold seekers, many, if not most, completely unprepared for the trials that await, and - remarkably few misadventures.
The whole thing makes one want to hike (and metal detect) the Chilkoot Pass - of the tens of thousands that set forth, thousands turned back and left it all behind. And somewhere up and over the pass it all remains...
Anyways, arrive at Dawson, realize - that for 2 years - the population of Dawson was greater than the entirety of the Yukon is at present - then, rumors of other gold bearing creeks lured the miners off to other destinations, in Alaska (Nome), and other creeks.
So - lots to metal detect up there, which you wouldn't suspect, given how unpopulated the place is currently.
As for the Klondike gold, estimates (his, and others) that there were millions of ounces - tens of millions of dollars - taken from the goldfields in just a couple of short years - this, with gold at $17.00 per ounce (and all expenses roughly the same as now, if not greater!!!), a short window of work (4 months, although they could dig and work in the thawed underground to a small extent) and you have some idea. Add to this the fact that the bulk of the miners were American, and didn't wish to pay the Canadian Government the royalties they expected, and you would rightly guess immense fortunes made their way back over the border undeclared...
This has greatly inspired me, for there are fortunes and millions up there still...and I've rather mastered the art of misadventure...
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