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Three Magic Words - U.S. Anderson
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This took me forever to read, mainly because I've read countless others just like it and have long since arrived at the same conclusions and taken the message to heart. The reading, then, a formality; I know the subject well enough to lecture on it myself.
Another one for the Theosophical Library.
Bandwidth
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And so I ran out of bandwidth the other day on my phone following a drunken downloading of the entire internet.
SO, for the next few days my internet use is restricted to the library.
At home it's too slow. Way too slow.
Facebook - can't even load the shortest inane video. Reddit stalls, even news sites are unreachable - it just shows how bloated with code the internet is; this website is no exception, these things should load on my phone no problem, they're simply text and images, that they don't shows how grotesquely badly the internet it being implemented. Code bloat. What should be done with a few kb worth of files & text now takes mb, even gb; and to no avail. Bandwidth for sale, use up the bandwidth as quickly as possible so we can sell you more...
That said, this is odd to me. I can play YouTube videos no problem. The video quality, not so good, but the audio is fine. Why is YouTube the only optimized website? In any event, listening lately to Sir Roger Penrose - interesting, but he's in decline, and there are these interesting AI narrated videos in the voice and style of the late Richard Feynman "Explaining" gravity, motion, etc, and these I'm finding good background listening, I'm putting together my own theory of Cosmology (much as Karl Pilkington might put together a theory of Anthropology) - still, I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one confused by the state of the Cosmos.
NYE 2025
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The two days leading up to - NYEE and NYE - both crazy. The restaurant fills on the 30th - people avoiding the NYE rush, instead creating another. Crazy, and I'm more or less on my own, there's back-up, the owner's wife to bartend and a busser, but - nonetheless, the restaurant is crazy.
NYE, same, but less crazy, less all-at-once and more regulated. And by 9:30 it's done and I'm off on my own little party.
The "Dosed" party, location undisclosed, but I've got the email and all suspicions confirmed. It's great. All the usual suspects, spicy outfits, people you know and people I have yet to meet, everyone is there, from the surprisingly bookish bookseller (on a tear), the lawyer, the librarian, the insurance, the .... customers from the restaurant that night, the night before, one - a 50 something man with what I thought was his daughter (oops) - and - well...spicy, spicy. Everyone in town, basically, a proper "Young Goodman Brown" and a good time is had by all.
I'm starting to know a lot of people, but not (or never) nearly enough. Dancing, dancing, until 2:30; the party's starting to fade and never be the last one there.
New Years Day, wake up, go back to bed, wake up, eat, go back to bed, wake up, go back to bed.
I've made my NYE resolution for 2026. More raves, more MDMA. Life is too short to miss out on these events.
Essays and Aphorisms - Arthur Shopenhauer
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This was a somewhat interesting read, mostly his thoughts on a variety of topics, from God and Religion, the Arts, Women and a whole lot else. Chapters like: "The Indestructibility of Being", "The Will to Live", "On The Vanity of Existence" etc. Some of it's insightful, but conclusions I'd arrived at (or would have, had I thought about the topics with the same investment he had), some of it - well, you can disagree but still take his point of view.
Despite some of his remarkably progressive views I was taken with his views on women, and how they must be humoured and tolerated, a genuinely patronizing tone that simply wouldn't cut it today. Contrast this with John Stuart Mill's, who had a very successful relationship with his muse and was thoroughly in favour of Women being given the right to vote, etc.
Overall a surprisingly easy read for a German Philosopher.
Now to clean up a few other half-finished books so I can enter the New Year with a new reading list.
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