Other Events and Developments

I guess with you know who the theme of the day could be "Suddenly - - Detente".  Relations have relaxed just a little between me and my right wing antagonists.  However don't assume this situation will last.  I would at this time like to encourage you readers to read old blogs.  I was just reading some of my own stuff from last fall.  I have had a pretty good track record as far as coming up with insightful thoughts.  There is one posting where I said I was going to review the eleven dimensions, and I believe I went on and listed fifteen.  I believe in stimulating people to think.  I’d like to clarify something on the posting “Different ways of perceiving things”.  It’s a very enigmatic post.  In that “Obama” stuff, the word “Obama” is substituted where one would normally use “dirt and grime”.  That’s the whole guimic, but it does throw you and takes a while to figure it out.  It just goes to show how changing one word can change the whole tone of a discourse.  There is also a little something about Bo and Hope’s marriage and that this long term relationship is still beset with problems.  In terms of those eleven dimensions,  I believe in a later posting I kind of re-stated all this stuff in a slightly modified, but clarified manner.  Basically I’m saying about the same thing.  We need to give this whole mad political scene a little bit of a break.  Its an area where I can't win because so few people, at least in my social sphere, agree with me on these issues, and the ones that do agree with me are too cowed to say it.  I thought I was going to be getting my new computer today but it turns out alas that won't be happening.  After I get my new computer I imagine there will be delay upon delay as you know who insists of installing this or that protective program.  Just one antivirus isn't good enough for her, by any means.  I am too often in a situation where I feel decisions are being made for me.  I'm like Israel in that Dylan song,  I can't win.  "I have to live by the rules that the world makes for me" and by "World" I mean one or two power hungry people.  I live in this world of false dichotomies.  I am lied to and bullshitted to death by the political right.  My only recourse is to wait for history to prove me right.  And when events do prove me right Rush Limbaugh gets on the air and says "what you see isn't really happening, but it's all just a gigantic conspiracy of the State Run Media".

I would like to take issue with Leo on F stops on cameras.  My understanding that F stops are percent of total lens appitures.  And also that the lower base appiture, this is your base point for all other F stops.  Dad worked with camers typically with 3.5 wide open appitures.  I take this to mean a 3.5 ratio between the focal length and the appiture.  My camera is 2.7 – which I get a rather wide angle when I’m not using any zoom.  Zoom will increase the de facto F stop rating in that going to zoom cuts down on the amount of light received.  What Leo was confused about was lens diameter.  So if you get a big, honking camera lens in a Portrait shot naturally you’re going to have a thin margin of focus due to the size of the lens.  F stops rating is determined by a ratio of the size of a lens diameter verses its focal length.  Given a constant diameter of lens, a higher F stop rating will mean a longer focal point.  Depth of focus is determined by how quickly the rating goes to “infinity” and this takes longer with a big diameter lens.  So a big lens with a low F stop ration will have a greater depth of focus than a Big lens with a high F stop rating since both focal length and size play into depth of focus.  (or “focus clarity margin”)  Those lenses with lower F stop base ratings are your wider angle shots, with a depth of focal length.  Any tiny lens will give you a greater depth of focus regardless of the F stop rating.  I don’t think I’m a complete idiot on this issue.

President Obama thinks he came up with an idea nobody ever thought of before, and that is to change tax laws to not make it advantageous for corporations to relocate off shore.  He’s been in office HOW long- - and he is Just Now thinking of this?  He also spoke of encouraging businessmen to be patriotic and guy American.  Obviously this will benefit the US economy.  The Republicans want him to go through with his promise and officially give the green light on the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas.  Apparently we will get at least some of this oil (even if most of it goes to China) and he will produce jobs, and it will also include petroleum from Montana and North Dakota.  The thing is that the US government has already officially approved this pipeline as of last August.  So really we are committed already.  The President has to make a decision by February 21^st and trying to offer up some lame pussy footing excuse makes no sense at this late date.  I still think it’s a bad idea, but then our government has done a lot of bad ideas and this wouldn’t be a first.  Getting is poll numbers up is the most important thing and if it’s part of a deal to extend the Payroll tax cuts the economy will be helped and these rosy economic figures will continue on into the rest of this election year.

Leo Le Port went to the C E S or Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas.  They said that 150,000 pre screen geeks were in attendance to see 3,100 exhibits.  Leo says this is one year he didn’t get “Vegas throat”.  Leo reminds us that many of the things shown there are just “gee whiz” type exhibits and will never be on the market, just as with exotic car shows some things will never be on the market.  Hopefully most items will be available in the fall of this year.  Leo talked about LCD and Plasma TV’s but he forgot about D L P or digital light processing where a series of thousands of mirrors are employed.  Now the big thing this year is OLED, or organic light emitting diodes.  They say right now Sony only has an eleven inch screem, but the image is amazing in its vividness and brightness and clarity.  Of course if you’re into the 55 inch screen, you will opt for one of the standard means like Plasma, which has come way down in price. 

Mohamed Ali is celebrating his seventieth birthday in Louisville with long time friends.  His wife says what he really wants is a pink Roles Royce.  Well, I’m sure he’ll get it if they make one.  I haven’t heard about how his Parkinson’s is doing lately.

TEVO will be playing tonight for Denver against New England.  Bill Press is suggesting Jesus will help New England.  The Federation has announced that it “favors” Denver but will not “support” them.  Both Denver and New England are “Pike” teams so we’ll let them fight it out.  The Colorado Pikes have a somewhat better relation with the Federation than do the New England Pikes.  One statement that Stu Baby said to me the other day is that “If Romney wins next Saturday we’ll have this race won for our side”.  This means that if the Republicans are locked into Romney they will be stuck with him and all his liabilities, securing the race for Obama, and the Democrats can coast the next few months without having to lift a finger.  The only possible threat would be is that if the republicans are undecided after Florida, for instance, then Governor Christy could be induced to enter the race as some kind of a last minute acceptable Savior for the party.

As far as these Purity products on KTLK you are likely to run into this word salad with all these terms alien to novices.  You have CO Q 10 for energy in the body, and krill oil that works well in conjunction with Salmon oil.  You have resveritrol in red wine, that’s good for cholesterol.  You have hileronic acid for arthritis, which is fading in popularity right now.  On their nine o clock program they discussed Aztezanten, which is the latest miracle product.  Even so they will make a promo and then run it for the next several months, not bothering to do an update sequel.  Aztezantan has amazing anti oxidant qualities being sixty times as effective as Vitamin C.  It is wonder working for reducing skin wrinkles fifty percent.  It gives lab mice 20% more energy.  If you take this stuff animals can be fed a high fat diet and won’t gain weight because all the fat gets burned as energy.  If you do a strenuous work out, your muscles won’t be sore the next day if you take this stuff.  Of course now either on this show or the one at 9:30 they were talking how T-cell proteins are the body’s response to inflammation of joints where it attacks its own tissues.  Of course Projesic was the product on the 9:30 program.  Another word you heard thrown around is Condroiten.   Of course carrotenoids are excellent anti oxidants.  Of course none of these products is cheap as I fround out from GNLD products.  But Purity will offer stuff to you for free except for a low shipping cost.  GNLD would never do that.  Their slogan is “You get what you pay for”.