Right Angle: Backstage (11-29-2022)

LOL That last clip reminds me of the Star Trek Next Gen episode where the Enterprise has been taken over and Riker is forced to describe how the bridge consoles work. He uses words like “ramistat,” aetc, just like this. 🙂

Monty & Ike are meeting about D-Day. Ike says, “Everything should go fine as long as your forces are on schedule.” Monty says, “SCHEDULE? The word is ‘shedule,’ my boy. Where did you learn how to say ‘schedule?'” Ike says, “In grammar ‘shule.'”

For those who don’t know much about Kenyon College, let me give you a short story.
I lived in a very small town in Ohio when I was first out of college. My first job as a design engineer working for a large corp and that was my first rotation. 45 miles NE of Columbus among the wheat fields. Not much going on.
My second weekend, a guy mentioned that the next town over was Kenyon College. Now, having grown up in the NYC area, I had heard of Kenyon. It was what my folks called a baby Ivy. It was one of the places rich families from the NE sent their kids when they weren’t actually smart enough to get into Harvard or Princeton. So, hey, people from NY. Okay!
So we drove over. Wandered around the campus and area. Engaged in conversation with quite a few, and as much as I liked hearing an accent I could understand, the people were horrifying. We didn’t stay long. What a wholly obnoxious, elitist group of simpering pustules, even if some of the older female types were not-unattractive physically. Mentally, they were of the 20 year old shrieking harpy variety.
This was three plus decades back. I can only guess that these are the kids of those brats.
BTW – cost of Kenyon College – $80,000 per year!!!

The appeal of the course Bill talks about is simple. Its in effect: ‘The emperors new clothes.” You are special if you use and *understand” the terms, and are “lesser” if not. Use it, you have “special knowledge”. If not, you are ignorant Neanderthals.

But reality, in complex things normally goes like this: if you can’t explain it using normal words and have most people understand; you probably don’t understand it yourself.

Note: I can normally do that with most of my complex engineering and computer understanding. Quantum is more difficult.

My local area has also gone traffic circle mad.
A couple of places they were installed were very useful.
However, the city planners seem to be saying to themselves, well that worked here, let’s do more. Where else can we put them?
I think we got federal money to do it and are just spending it before it’s gone. Basically a jobs program by adding traffic circles.
Oh, and the area inside the circle always has to be “aesthetically pleasing”.
The latest one is red brick pavers surrounding a nice planting of flowers and shrubs. I see a maintenance headache.

I gotta tell my redlight story. I’m coming home from work, work being an 18hr stint running lights at a rodeo. It’s about 2 in the morning on a Sunday and I’m leaving the warehouse on the industrial side of Houston. There is nobody around. I’m exhausted. I come up to this red light and I stop and wait. And wait. Edge forward a little bit to trigger the light. Wait. Look both ways. Nothing it’s pitch black and there is nothing and nobody around. Edge forward a little more looking both ways. And wait. And wait. Finally, screw this. I look both ways again and slowly drive thought the red light across the deserted intersection. The direction I didn’t look? Directly behind me. There was a cop right behind me watching the whole thing. Soon as I got across the intersection, lights and siren were on.
He let me go w/o even a warning. I guess he was looking for drunks.

Had the same but morning,,,daylight and on my way to work. I’m 1st at the light. Waiting. Listening to the radio, thinking about work. I see green and begin to go. Halfway through the intersection, I realize I took off straight, but only the left hand turn light had turned green, and I had the red. No harm, no foul I said to myself. No one was coming from the other direction…..
100 feet passed the intersection, lights and whoop whoop whoop!
I asked the CHP , “No one was around. ,how did you see and get to me so fast?”
He replied, ” I was right behind you and was so surprised you did that it took me a few seconds just to light you up!” No warning . All ticket. $375 bucks.
Can this story get worse? Where I pulled over was in the parking lot of the doctors office my wife managed. She came out to see the action, realize it was me, made some comment and the patrolman asked if I knew this woman. I answered “that’s my wife”. Never looking up from writing my ticket, he whispered “I’m so sorry”. Not sorry enough to tear up the ticket however.

Scott, if that beard gets much longer it will be assumed that you sing with the Oak Ridge Boys.

That would be an honor. Here’s my favorite in recent years. https://youtu.be/Wgm9gZs1hYw

More like ZZ Top….

Well, Scott is a sharp-dressed man! He’s got those circa 502/60s glasses rocking! And he has at least 3 shirts that we know about, the two he wears for these shows plus the one he was wearing in the pic David McMillan posted last week. 😉

Scott,
Now go out and get yourself some thick black frames
with the glass so dark they won’t even know your name,
and the choice is up to you ’cause they come in two classes,
Rhinestone Shades or Cheap Sunglasses….
OH YEAH!

I’ll hit the streets a-runnin’ and try to beat the masses.

The 3rd shirt was a rental.

There has been a traffic circle in Long Beach for as long as I can remember. And in that time, I’ve never seen traffic able to figure out how those things work.

Oh, I agree Steve. I feel better having bought an MSI laptop this week for reasons unrelated to Apple being evil. BUT. This is the first time I’ve touched a Windows machine in 15-20yrs. What an absolutely obtuse and annoying OS.
All I wanna do is reverse the scroll direction on the mouse and a)I had to look up how on the interwebs and b) there’s a multistep process that involves editing the Autoexec.bat or suptin’ but doesn’t involve anything in the Mouse prefs in Settings.

I’m all in favor of Scott looking like a Prussian general. I also prefer the evil, mirror universe Steve.

A near perfect example of Bill’s language topic distilled to just one word….
Karinejeanpierre. Yes. It should have been 3 names. However, if you say it with no breaks, it sounds more important. And because it sounds important, the words coming from the mouth of Karinejeanpierre MUST be important!

Fun fact, the turboencabulator has a new variant, the hyperencabulator, look it up, an excellent continuation.

All this encabulator talk reminds me of…

Ha, that’s good. But it made me think of this.

A mighty “Hail Vectron” for thr Turbo Encabulator!

Bill: Don’t forget the Retro Encabulator, and the new Micro Encabulator!

That turbo encabulator bit was perfect, all I could see was Fauchi selling BS every night on tv.

Considering the roots of the term, I do believe that “neuro-divergent” is a nothing more than a euphemism for schizophrenic. Perhaps that is just my euphemism for Bill’s terminology: CRAZY.

There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil. – Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

“Nobody walks in LA.”
HAH! That reminds me of the LA Story scene where Steve Martin drives to the end of his 30-foot long driveway (and back) to get his mail. Good times.

The subscription model for online services ignores the elephant in the room … connectivity is king. Without an internet connection the subscription is useless. Well, you might say that Starlink is the silver bullet … that presumes that the authoritarian regime allows compatible hardware within its borders. Inevitably, the struggle against authoritarianism will become bloodier than it has ever been, and that is a very high bar to clear. Who will win — the people or the thugs? It remains an unanswered question that only future history will be able to provide.

Well said and spot on. Your ‘unanswered question’ is why we have to fight this right up until the end.

The human condition is dynamic and has always been so. Victory can come from unexpected directions at unanticipated times. There’s no telling if the people or the thugs will be victorious as long as the fight continues. There is absolute certainty that the thugs will win if we stop fighting.

You’re right, connectivity is a single point of failure. The US Navy tried to address that with a thing called “TOR” but now that’s used by criminals and pirates as much as it’s used for its original intent of providing unhindered access to the world outside totalitarian firewalls.

Still, there are things in development that are meant to counter access restrictions. So I have hope on the connectivity issue. Not certainty, hope, this is an ongoing battle that probably will never result in certainty.

The presumption is that if everyone in the world has access they’ll be able to hear what The Free World has to say and that will be a good thing. If what they’re hearing from The Free World is “Mutilate your kids, coddle, promote and normalize deviancy like Drag Queen story hour(s), The West is all Evil Colonialist slave mongers, Gay people don’t want your kids right up until they can get your kids, you have a right to make demands of wealthier nations because of climate alarmism”, etc. — Then access isn’t really going to be a great advantage to the world.

I think that we can provide unhindered access by technical means eventually, having something that’s worth accessing is another matter altogether.

Speaking of roundabouts, we have one here that is 7 car lengths from a major intersection. When the light is red, traffic backs up before the roundabout and it takes up to three traffic light cycles to go through the roundabout.

Wow! That is a traffic engineering marvel that probably has to be seen to be believed.

Correction, Steve …
“Y” is often considered to be a vowel, so LBRY has a vowel. 😉

I have Bill Whittle, Tim Pool and Stefan Molyneux websites set up with short cuts on my iPhone. Works just like having an app

I’ve been in Japan for 25 years and have been studying Chinese for the past couple of years. With my background in Japanese, the characters come quite easy. The rhythm and flow of the language has been tough, however. I also flirted with Navajo and gave up because Chinese is easier!
The study of high- and low-context culture and communication explains a lot about the different needs and facets of languages.

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