tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89541765686805462552024-03-10T23:22:15.681-04:00Mister SanitySanity? Why yes, indeed, I do have sanity. I've got loads of sanity, all <em>kinds</em> of sanity. Perhaps I've got a little too <em>much</em> sanity. I've got so much sanity, it's driving me out of my mind!Jonadabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17960094338418224109noreply@blogger.comBlogger164125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-71940798191591409932024-01-10T16:44:00.034-05:002024-01-10T16:44:00.137-05:00A Week Since You Left<p>The last set of song lyrics that I posted were really upbeat and positive and sappy.
In the interest of balance, here is one that leans in the opposite direction.
I'm not actually bipolar. It's just poetry. I can write this stuff without
actually feeling the emotions the narrator must be feeling. Honest.</p>
<hr />
<div>It's a week since you left,</div>
<div>And I'm so bereft,</div>
<div>A mangled-up ball of emotion.</div>
<div>I feel like a sham,</div>
<div>And I don't give a damn.</div>
<div>I'm struggling to go through the motions.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>I can't let you see that I'm falling apart,</div>
<div>But when I go out I don't know what to do.</div>
<div>I can't let you know that you've torn out my heart,</div>
<div>So I try to pretend I can live without you.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>It's a week since I've slept,</div>
<div>And I'm such a mess,</div>
<div>But I put on a brave face and fake it.</div>
<div>I think about you,</div>
<div>And I know what to do.</div>
<div>It hurts but I just have to take it.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>So no one can know that I just want to die.</div>
<div>I pretend to believe I can find someone new.</div>
<div>I walk through the park and I stare at the sky.</div>
<div>If you found out you'd hurt me, that might hurt you.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>For a week you've been gone,</div>
<div>And my life is just done,</div>
<div>Since I have no more use for my future.</div>
<div>I'm deeply obsessed,</div>
<div>And completely distressed,</div>
<div>Because thinking about you is torture.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>But I relish the hurt, it reminds me of you,</div>
<div>I don't want to forget or get over the pain.</div>
<div>You're my reason to live even though we are through,</div>
<div>And forgetting would mean that I'd lose you again.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>For a week I'm alone,</div>
<div>And I guess that's the plan,</div>
<div>Even though it's incredibly lonely.</div>
<div>I will learn not to fuss,</div>
<div>And I'll do what I must,</div>
<div>And I'll think about you, and you only.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>So go, live your life, and forget about me,</div>
<div>I promise I won't let you know of my pain.</div>
<div>I wish you the joy, be content and carefree,</div>
<div>Go, leave me behind, and find true love again.</div>
<div> </div>
Jonadabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17960094338418224109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-40457924720704243872024-01-09T07:55:00.074-05:002024-01-09T07:55:00.145-05:00Everything About You<table class="labeledlyrics"><tbody>
<tr style="color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>The way you smile when I look at you,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>Your gorgeous hair and the way you laugh,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>Your sense of humor splits me in two;</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>Your wicked smirk breaks my heart in half.</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>I like the way that you look at me,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>Love the admiration in your stare.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>So tall and handsome and so carefree,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>Your humble blush caught me unaware.</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr style="color: #EE99FF;"><th class="label">Duet:</th>
<td>Everything about you,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #EE99FF;"><th class="label">Duet:</th>
<td>Everything that makes you</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #EE99FF;"><th class="label">Duet:</th>
<td>Who you are.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #EE99FF;"><th class="label">Duet:</th>
<td>It isn't any one thing,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #EE99FF;"><th class="label">Duet:</th>
<td>It's everything.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #EE99FF;"><th class="label">Duet:</th>
<td>Every single thing,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #EE99FF;"><th class="label">Duet:</th>
<td>It's everything about you.</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr style="color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>I love your voice and your burning eyes.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>I love your wit and your curvy form.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>You are as clever as you are wise,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>As full of grace as you are of charm.</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>Your corny jokes keep me entertained.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>My tummy flips when you hold my hand.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>Your creativity is unrestrained.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>You always ask, but you don't demand.</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr style="color: #EE99FF;"><th class="label">Duet:</th>
<td>Everything about you,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #EE99FF;"><th class="label">Duet:</th>
<td>Everything that makes you</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #EE99FF;"><th class="label">Duet:</th>
<td>Who and what you are.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>It isn't one thing,</td>
<td rowspan="2" class="explan meta" style="font-style: italic; color: #FFE6BC;"><div>same</div><div>time</div></td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>Isn't any one thing,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #EE99FF;"><th class="label">Duet:</th>
<td>It's everything.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FFFF7F;"><th class="label">Backup:</th>
<td>That's what I love,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #EE99FF;"><th class="label">Duet:</th>
<td>Every single thing,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FFFF7F;"><th class="label">Backup:</th>
<td>... is what I love,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #EE99FF;"><th class="label">Duet:</th>
<td>It's everything about you.</td>
<td rowspan="2" class="explan meta" style="font-style: italic; color: #FFE6BC;"><div>same</div><div>time</div></td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FFFF7F;"><th class="label">Backup:</th>
<td>... what I love about you.</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr style="color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>I can rely on your common sense.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>I love your drive, know that you'll succeed.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>You always know when to take a chance.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>You make it clear to me what you need.</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>You're always working with those burly arms,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>But you have time to tell me how you feel.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>Your compassion takes so many forms,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>Your generosity is so unreal.</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr style="color: #EE99FF;"><th class="label">Duet:</th>
<td>It isn't any one thing,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #EE99FF;"><th class="label">Duet:</th>
<td>Because it's everything.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FFFF7F;"><th class="label">Backup:</th>
<td>That's what I love,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #EE99FF;"><th class="label">Duet:</th>
<td>Every single thing,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FFFF7F;"><th class="label">Backup:</th>
<td>... is what I love,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #EE99FF;"><th class="label">Duet:</th>
<td>It's everything about you.</td>
<td rowspan="2" class="explan meta" style="font-style: italic; color: #FFE6BC;"><div>same</div><div>time</div></td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FFFF7F;"><th class="label">Backup:</th>
<td>... what I love about you.</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331;"><td colspan="3">
<div>Rap Bridge:</div>
<div class="explan meta">[M should have no breaks in his flow as he raps <a href="https://youtu.be/mI8hPSSZSL4?t=154">like J-None in Valhalla Calling</a>.]</div>
<div class="explan meta">[F talks over him, overlapping the end of his line and start of the next one.]</div>
<div class="explan meta">[F speaks at a slower speed than M, in a breathy alto half-whispered bedroom voice.]</div>
</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>Hold up now, I gotta verbalize</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>Please do advise.</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>What you mean to me; I must vocalize</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>I can empathize.</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>What it's taken me a while to realize,</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>Let me emphasize:</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>'Cause you look at me and I'm mesmerized.</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>You're the prize,</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>I'm awestruck, bowled over, and hypnotized,</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>Your face a sunrise.</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>My blood pressure is on the rise.</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>Did you know I fantasize</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>You know how I like to just look into your eyes,</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>about touching your hair?</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>I get so lost in your gaze that it's hard not to stare,</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>I don't even care.</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>'Cause no other girl that I've met can compare,</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>You're so debonair,</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>You've got your own style, your own kind of flair,</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>I fell out of my chair,</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>And I really must say that we make quite a pair,</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>Consider my plight,</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>'Cause whenever I'm sad, you are such a delight,</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>Now I'm upright,</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>Your mind is so keen and your face is so bright,</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>But I'm still quite a sight,</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>You take all my passions and set them alight,</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>I'm getting excited,</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>Awakening all of my base appetites,</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>Weak in the knee,</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>So I swear to you that now I'm gonna be</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>'Cause I think I see</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>Your number one fan and your best devotee.</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>How you feel about me,</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>'Cause I'm looking at you and you're looking at me,</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>And that's gotta be</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>And you're giving off all of the right energy.</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>The best thing that's happened to me.</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>I'm picking that vibe up and liking it too,</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>That makes two:</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>And now that I've got it I know what to do,</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>I'm liking it too.</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>And my days of pining for you might be through,</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>Yeah I'm with you.</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>'Cause I'm telling you now that I'm in love with you.</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: #1B3331; color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>Oh, me too.</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr style="color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>I never knew, until I met you,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>How much emotion my heart could feel.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #EE99FF;"><th class="label">Duet:</th>
<td>It's a little too good to be true,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>But now I surely believe it's real.</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>I never worry that you're gonna cheat:</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>I can see the focus in your eyes.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #EE99FF;"><th class="label">Duet:</th>
<td>It's your love that makes my heart beat.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>And when I'm with you the time just flies.</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr style="color: #EE99FF;"><th class="label">Duet:</th>
<td>Everything about you,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #EE99FF;"><th class="label">Duet:</th>
<td>Everything that makes you</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FFFF7F;"><th class="label">Backup:</th>
<td>Who...</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #EE99FF;"><th class="label">Duet:</th>
<td>Who you are.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FFFF7F;"><th class="label">Backup:</th>
<td>... you ... are.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>It isn't just one thing</td>
<td rowspan="2" class="explan meta" style="font-style: italic; color: #FFE6BC;"><div>same</div><div>time</div></td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>It isn't any single thing,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #EE99FF;"><th class="label">Duet:</th>
<td>It's all of the things.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FFFF7F;"><th class="label">Backup:</th>
<td>That's what I love,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #EE99FF;"><th class="label">Duet:</th>
<td>Every single thing,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FFFF7F;"><th class="label">Backup:</th>
<td>... is what I love,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FFFFFF;"><th class="label">Chorus:</th>
<td>It's everything about you.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #EE99FF;"><th class="label">Duet:</th>
<td>Every single thing,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FFFFFF;"><th class="label">Chorus:</th>
<td>Everything about you.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #EE99FF;"><th class="label">Duet:</th>
<td>It isn't any one single thing.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #EE99FF;"><th class="label">Duet:</th>
<td>It's all of the things.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FFFF7F;"><th class="label">Backup:</th>
<td>That's what I love,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #EE99FF;"><th class="label">Duet:</th>
<td>Every single thing,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FFFF7F;"><th class="label">Backup:</th>
<td>... is what I love,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FFFFFF;"><th class="label">Chorus:</th>
<td>It's everything about you.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #EE99FF;"><th class="label">Duet:</th>
<td>Every single thing,</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FFFFFF;"><th class="label">Chorus:</th>
<td>Everything about you.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #66AAFF;"><th class="label">M:</th>
<td>Everything about you.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FFFF7F;"><th class="label">Backup:</th>
<td>That's what I love.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FF9999;"><th class="label">F:</th>
<td>It's everything about you.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FFFF7F;"><th class="label">Backup:</th>
<td>Everything I love.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #EE99FF;"><th class="label">Duet:</th>
<td>Everything about you.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FFFFFF;"><th class="label">Chorus:</th>
<td>Everything about you.</td></tr>
<tr style="color: #FFFFFF;"><th class="label">Chorus:</th>
<td>Everything about you.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
Jonadabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17960094338418224109noreply@blogger.com0Galion, OH 44833, USA40.7336687 -82.78990259999999112.423434863821157 -117.94615259999999 69.043902536178848 -47.633652599999991tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-41194760788366224052024-01-05T08:20:00.024-05:002024-01-05T08:20:00.143-05:00Cut out of a Mountain<div>It was a rock,</div>
<div>Cut out of a mountain.</div>
<div>Not by human hands.</div>
<div>It was a rock,</div>
<div>Cut out of a mountain.</div>
<div>Do you understand?</div>
<div> </div>
<div>[Musical introduction]</div>
<div> </div>
<div>The wind blows in the north.</div>
<div>The wind blows in the south,</div>
<div>Eventually we all strike out,</div>
<div>And everything we care about</div>
<div>Goes flying in the wind.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>It was a rock,</div>
<div>Cut out of a mountain.</div>
<div>Not by human hands.</div>
<div>It was a rock,</div>
<div>Cut out of a mountain.</div>
<div>Do you understand?</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Everything that we have done,</div>
<div>However great, the time will come.</div>
<div>We build it tall.</div>
<div>We build it strong,</div>
<div>But it will fall,</div>
<div>Before too long.</div>
<div>Everything that we have made</div>
<div>Is doomed to fail, and then to fade.</div>
<div>Everything that we have built</div>
<div>Will break and let us down.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>We work the long day through,</div>
<div>But what good does it do?</div>
<div>We hurry forth, we hurry back,</div>
<div>Running on our weary track,</div>
<div>Until it's gone again.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>It was a rock,</div>
<div>Cut out of a mountain.</div>
<div>Not by human hands.</div>
<div>It was a rock,</div>
<div>Cut out of a mountain.</div>
<div>Do you understand?</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Everything that we have done,</div>
<div>However great, the time will come.</div>
<div>We build it tall.</div>
<div>We build it strong,</div>
<div>But it will fall,</div>
<div>Before too long.</div>
<div>Everything that we have made</div>
<div>Is doomed to fail, and then to fade.</div>
<div>Everything that we have built</div>
<div>Will break and let us down.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>[musical outro]</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Do you understand?</div>
<div>It was a mountain...</div>
<div>Do you understand?</div>
<div>It was a mountain...</div>
<div>[repeat, fading to silence]</div>
Jonadabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17960094338418224109noreply@blogger.com0Galion, Ohio40.017518 -83.06429715.239359245592162 -118.22054699999997 64.79567675440785 -47.908047000000025tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-47109891238115416792023-09-13T16:46:00.001-04:002023-09-13T16:46:00.158-04:00No, Google, I didn't meant that.Can we please just <strong>stop</strong> trying to implement autocorrect features?
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkcXxWTEJ1YPI9wrs4jxiRzgyPclfQSWB56AqGcmkV-1RJVRg_LgOhZupNIcISboL3CE3Yyw3uomOf7L9NAqzEdTaFoOjiGYVCPutjl5Qzo5zhU7xeC0TqeqSIsNSTQ7T6GET-TWoq0arRkJHQPdrbxK_AnVsOaCwza1pkXsUOZPG2AUza3DImC0eYAJa4/s971/didyoumean-badgrammar-google.png" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="[screenshot: Google's Did You Mean feature miscorrecting my grammar, badly]" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="232" data-original-width="971" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkcXxWTEJ1YPI9wrs4jxiRzgyPclfQSWB56AqGcmkV-1RJVRg_LgOhZupNIcISboL3CE3Yyw3uomOf7L9NAqzEdTaFoOjiGYVCPutjl5Qzo5zhU7xeC0TqeqSIsNSTQ7T6GET-TWoq0arRkJHQPdrbxK_AnVsOaCwza1pkXsUOZPG2AUza3DImC0eYAJa4/s320/didyoumean-badgrammar-google.png"/></a></div>
Computers aren't smart enough to correct a native speaker's grammar. Computers will probably <strong>never</strong> be smart enough to correct a native speaker's grammar, and when they try, it just makes things worse. Please, just <strong>STOP</strong>.Jonadabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17960094338418224109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-8898495865197248662023-07-28T09:18:00.020-04:002023-07-28T09:18:00.144-04:00Dust<div>There's one thing in this life that you will learn:</div>
<div>Dust you are, and to dust you will return!</div>
<div>They say time is the fire in which we burn.</div>
<div>Dust you are, and to dust you will return!</div>
<div>Eat and drink, and weep with those who mourn.</div>
<div>Dust you are, and to dust you will return!</div>
<div>Death comes for every person who is born.</div>
<div>Dust you are. To dust you will return!</div>
<div>Dust you are. To dust you will return!</div>
<div>It was years ago, I was twenty-two,</div>
<div>Ready to go, fresh out of school.</div>
<div>I had so much that I wanted to do.</div>
<div>I had no idea I was such a fool.</div>
<div>There's one thing in this life that you will learn:</div>
<div>Dust you are, and to dust you will return!</div>
<div>They say time is the fire in which we burn.</div>
<div>Dust you are, and to dust you will return!</div>
<div>Eat and drink, and weep with those who mourn.</div>
<div>Dust you are, and to dust you will return!</div>
<div>Death comes for every person who is born.</div>
<div>Dust you are. To dust you will return!</div>
<div>Dust you are. To dust you will return!</div>
<div>I couldn't change the world by myself,</div>
<div>[But] I had ideas and a full bookshelf.</div>
<div>I saw the world and I saw the grief,</div>
<div>[But] if we worked hard it could be enough.</div>
<div>There's one thing in this life that you will learn:</div>
<div>Dust you are, and to dust you will return!</div>
<div>They say time is the fire in which we burn.</div>
<div>Dust you are, and to dust you will return!</div>
<div>Eat and drink, and weep with those who mourn.</div>
<div>Dust you are, and to dust you will return!</div>
<div>Death comes for every person who is born.</div>
<div>Dust you are. To dust you will return!</div>
<div>Dust you are. To dust you will return!</div>
<div>It seemed to me that the plan was sound,</div>
<div>Get a group together and buckle down,</div>
<div>With sweat and tears and some common ground,</div>
<div>We could bring the world around.</div>
<div>There's one thing in this life that you will learn:</div>
<div>Dust you are, and to dust you will return!</div>
<div>They say time is the fire in which we burn.</div>
<div>Dust you are, and to dust you will return!</div>
<div>Eat and drink, and weep with those who mourn.</div>
<div>Dust you are, and to dust you will return!</div>
<div>Death comes for every person who is born.</div>
<div>Dust you are. To dust you will return!</div>
<div>Dust you are. To dust you will return!</div>
Jonadabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17960094338418224109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-66865656803395252972023-07-19T10:10:00.018-04:002023-07-19T10:10:00.144-04:00Personified<div>I am the pain, I am the sorrow.</div>
<div>Here today and gone tomorrow.</div>
<div>I am anger, I am suffering.</div>
<div>I am the death I am the carcass.</div>
<div>Light has come, but men love darkness.</div>
<div>I am terror, I am far from grace.</div>
<div>I am the bruise, I am the black eye.</div>
<div>Life's a b-word, and then you die.</div>
<div>I am sickness, I am damaged goods.</div>
<div>I am the wrong, I am the failure.</div>
<div>This world is a dumpster fire.</div>
<div>I am ruin, I am broken dreams.</div>
Jonadabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17960094338418224109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-1692812277245354842023-06-12T08:16:00.010-04:002023-06-12T08:16:00.144-04:00I Have Wandered<div>I have wandered lost and blind,</div>
<div>Within the confines of my mind.</div>
<div>My mental state was slowly sinking.</div>
<div>I needed to explore my thinking.</div>
<div>But the dolor that is lodged</div>
<div>Within my brain, still remains,</div>
<div>When I am done rethinking.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>My mind has such a hollow shape,</div>
<div>An empty cage I can't escape.</div>
<div>If all my thoughts could be directed,</div>
<div>A useful structure thus erected,</div>
<div>Something good and useful might</div>
<div>Even be gained, or obtained,</div>
<div>Some evil circumvented.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Would I, could I, do some good?</div>
<div>I have no doubt at all I should.</div>
<div>Alas, I doubt that I am able,</div>
<div>The notion seems like just a fable,</div>
<div>For the focus, I am missing,</div>
<div>And the lack, holds me back,</div>
<div>Making me quite unstable.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>[instrumental metal segment here, with maybe some incomprehensible growl vocals]</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Chained to myself, I cannot break away.</div>
<div>I babble, but I know I have nothing good to say.</div>
<div>Sick to death of life, I am terrified to die,</div>
<div>I question all my goals, and I cannot answer why.</div>
<div>My dark thoughts tear me up, I have no one to confide,</div>
<div>It's eating me alive, all bottled up inside.</div>
<div>I want to go away, but there's nowhere left to turn.</div>
<div>I'm doomed to ride it out, and then in hell to burn.</div>
<div>Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!</div>
<div> </div>
<div>In the dark I sit and brood,</div>
<div>Savoring my somber mood.</div>
<div>But all my thinking turns to folly,</div>
<div>Empty, hollow, meloncholy,</div>
<div>And dejected, I return</div>
<div>To what I know, so I go</div>
<div>Back to the crass and bloody,</div>
<div> </div>
<div>For I am quite unstable,</div>
<div>Oooooooooooooooooooooooh!</div>
<div>And I am done with thinking.</div>
<div> </div>
Jonadabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17960094338418224109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-64526301610149826122023-06-07T17:02:00.002-04:002023-06-07T17:08:37.505-04:00Microsoft Has Nerve<p>I just directly and personally witnessed the Automatic Updates system of Windows 10, flashing a computer's firmware without getting any kind of permission for that specific action from the user or system administrator.</p>
<p>The PC in question is a recent-model (less than three months old) Dell desktop, though I'm not sure whether this fact is significant.</p>
<p>I'm not going to explain the implications in detail, because if you don't already have a pretty good idea, you likely wouldn't understand the explanation either.</p>
<p>I don't happen to know whether the motherboard on this model has a backup firmware chip, in case of power outage during flash. Hopefully it should, because that is a reasonably common feature these days. But I don't feel like opening the case to verify it at the moment. Nonetheless, I'm going to give Microsoft the benefit of every doubt here and tentatively assume that surely they are only doing this on systems that have that safeguard. (Not because of virtue, but because of the potential for really nasty bad publicity.)</p>
<p>The stated reason (which was displayed on screen as the flash was happening) is, of course, security; but Microsoft cares about your security like Apple cares about your budget. With that said, I looked at the firmware setup after the flash occurred, and it doesn't seem any more egregious than the usual UEFI setup. I'm tempted to put a small Devuan install on the thing, even though it isn't needed on this system, just to verify that it works as expected; but I don't see any indications in the firmware setup that would suggest a problem in that regard, at this time. Secure Boot is enabled, but it appears to still be possible to disable it. So if this is a major power grab or exclusivity lock, I'm missing something.</p>
<p>But I sure don't like the precedent.</p>Jonadabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17960094338418224109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-7939071002536421032023-06-03T16:27:00.000-04:002023-06-03T16:27:25.571-04:00Londonderry Err<div>O [person], Dear,</div>
<div>Mine heart, mine heart is broken,</div>
<div>For I dispair, to ever hear a word,</div>
<div>A word from you,</div>
<div>A word that love betokens,</div>
<div>That word I long to hear,</div>
<div>But I will not.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>And so I go,</div>
<div>I go but I am saddened.</div>
<div>I go to live a life of solitude,</div>
<div>A life alone,</div>
<div>Without you in my presence,</div>
<div>Oh [person] dear, oh dear,</div>
<div>I am alone.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>So fear ye not,</div>
<div>Oh [person] dear, be happy,</div>
<div>For if I leave, I leave you well alone.</div>
<div>And if I go,</div>
<div>I'm sure you will find someone,</div>
<div>A better man, for you,</div>
<div>Than I could be.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>And as for me,</div>
<div>Mine end, mine end is fitting,</div>
<div>There is for me, a better match indeed.</div>
<div>For if I can't</div>
<div>Have you then I want no one.</div>
<div>And that is good,</div>
<div>For no one wants me too.</div>
<p> </p>
<p>Sung to the tune <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londonderry_Air">Londonderry Air</a></cite></p>Jonadabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17960094338418224109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-51398139212986537412023-05-14T20:21:00.000-04:002023-05-14T20:21:12.827-04:00The GOAT
<div class="stanza">
<div style="font-style: italic;">Verse One:</div>
<div>We couldn't believe it, although we were told.</div>
<div>He wasn't an actor, musician or such.</div>
<div>He came out of nowhere and wasn't that old.</div>
<div>And no one expected from him all that much.</div>
<div>When we finally noticed him,</div>
<div>He didn't seem that great.</div>
<div>How could we have known about</div>
<div>His complicated fate?</div>
<div>We thought we knew about him:</div>
<div>He grew up down the road.</div>
<div>But when his life was finished, (finished)</div>
<div>It turned out he's the GOAT.</div>
<div> </div>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<div style="font-style: italic;">Bridge:</div>
<div>It was in the dark at night,</div>
<div>My people made their way.</div>
<div>And when we saw the dawning light,</div>
<div>We knew we couldn't stay.</div>
<div>The fighting and the looting then</div>
<div>Were like a holiday.</div>
<div>We shouted in excitement,</div>
<div>But we barely got away.</div>
<div>We had to hide the evidence,</div>
<div>We had to burn our clothes,</div>
<div>But we forgot we'd left him there.</div>
<div>We'd left him there exposed,</div>
<div>And he became the GOAT.</div>
<div> </div>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<div style="font-style: italic;">Verse Two:</div>
<div>He wasn't important, as far as we knew.</div>
<div>And so when he walked by, we all turned away.</div>
<div>We laughed behind his back, in front of him too.</div>
<div>We thought he was nothing, till that fateful day.</div>
<div>And when it finally happened,</div>
<div>He suffered all that pain.</div>
<div>The things that happened to him then</div>
<div>Were simply not humane.</div>
<div>He didn't try to stop it,</div>
<div>Just took it like a sport.</div>
<div>He took it all and finished, (finished)</div>
<div>Because he was the GOAT.</div>
<div> </div>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<div style="font-style: italic;">Chorus:</div>
<div>He stood accused of all our crime,</div>
<div>The greatest scapegoat of all time.</div>
<div>They laid it all upon his back,</div>
<div>And so he took up all our slack.</div>
<div>He took it all and paid the cost,</div>
<div>An endless well of pain and loss,</div>
<div>The greatest scapegoat of all time,</div>
<div>The greatest scapegoat of all time.</div>
<div> </div>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<div style="font-style: italic;">Verse Three:</div>
<div>They asked for his defense. He kept his mouth shut.</div>
<div>He just wouldn't answer whatever they asked.</div>
<div>He could have gone free if he ratted us out,</div>
<div>But he remained silent and finished his task.</div>
<div>And when they read that judgement</div>
<div>He didn't say a word.</div>
<div>He let them sentence him to death,</div>
<div>Although it was absurd.</div>
<div>He knew that we were guilty,</div>
<div>But he was not a turncoat.</div>
<div>He took the execution, (finished)</div>
<div>Because he was the GOAT.</div>
<div> </div>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<div style="font-style: italic;">Chorus:</div>
<div>He stood accused of all our crime,</div>
<div>The greatest scapegoat of all time.</div>
<div>They laid it all upon his back,</div>
<div>And so he took up all our slack.</div>
<div>He took it all and paid the cost,</div>
<div>An endless well of pain and loss.</div>
<div>He owned our debt and paid our price,</div>
<div>Our greatest scapegoat, Jesus Christ,</div>
<div>The one who paid for all our crime,</div>
<div>The greatest scapegoat of all time,</div>
<div>The greatest scapegoat of all time,</div>
<div>The greatest scapegoat of all time.</div>
<div> </div>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<div style="font-style: italic;">Final Chorus:</div>
<div>He stood accused of all our crime,</div>
<div>They laid it all upon his back,</div>
<div>The greatest scapegoat of all time.</div>
<div>The one who took up all our slack.</div>
<div>He took it all and paid the cost,</div>
<div>An endless well of pain and loss.</div>
<div>He owned our debt and paid our price,</div>
<div>Our greatest scapegoat, Jesus Christ,</div>
<div>The one who paid for all our crime,</div>
<div>The greatest scapegoat of all time,</div>
<div>The greatest scapegoat of all time,</div>
<div>The greatest scapegoat of all time,</div>
<div>Because he was the GOAT.</div>
</div>
<p><a href="https://musescore.com/user/38812472/scores/10853302">Sheet music is available at musescore.com</a>.
Besides lead and backup vocals, the arrangement that I put up there also calls for oboe, piano, timpani,
a drumkit, violas, and double bass. However, I believe the song could be adapted for other combinations.
</p>Jonadabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17960094338418224109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-7854493970246453372022-11-14T10:23:00.035-05:002023-05-14T20:09:42.132-04:00Purple Frogs<div style="font-style: italic;">
<div>I search the world for purple frogs.</div>
<div>They bring me such delight!</div>
<div>I love their croaking, smooth and clear,</div>
<div>Their colours bold and bright.</div>
<div>The way they swim around the bog,</div>
<div>And lay their eggs at night,</div>
<div>Their mating dance while people sleep,</div>
<div>Is such an awesome sight!</div>
<div> </div>
<div>The purple frogs are edible,</div>
<div>And this is my advice:</div>
<div>If you can capture purple frogs,</div>
<div>They bring a handsome price.</div>
<div>When cooking purple frogs in stew,</div>
<div>I season them with spice.</div>
<div>Their smoky taste, with vegetables,</div>
<div>Makes dinner very nice.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>I teach the purple frogs to speak,</div>
<div>And I have always found,</div>
<div>That once they learn our English words,</div>
<div>Their thoughts are most profound.</div>
<div>This world has many governments,</div>
<div>Some good, some inept, some harsh;</div>
<div>But soon with the help of the purple frogs,</div>
<div>They'll all be ruled from the marsh!</div>
<div> </div>
</div>
<div>This is written in the common meter, so it can be sung to any number of existing tunes. Nonetheless, I intend to write original music for it at some point. Ad interim, I saw no reason not to go ahead and post the lyrics. Enjoy, or whatever.</div>Jonadabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17960094338418224109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-70761255766660244502022-06-24T07:44:00.001-04:002022-06-24T07:44:00.151-04:00Sing to Yourself and to God<p>
I sing, when I am alone,<br />
Then I get into the zone.<br />
I sing with the rest of my squad.<br />
I sing even though I am flawed.<br />
I sing and I clap, stomp, and nod.<br />
I sing to myself and to God.<br />
</p>
<p>
Waking up to dawn's first light,<br />
I stand up and stifle a yawn.<br />
I didn't get enough sleep last night;<br />
I'll take what I got and move on.<br />
I wanna be happy and bright,<br />
Like a person whose troubles are gone.<br />
Well music makes me feel alright, [so]<br />
I'll sing to myself and to God.<br />
Oh I'll sing to myself and to God.<br />
I gotta sing to myself and to God.<br />
</p>
<p>
I sing, when I am alone,<br />
Then I get into the zone.<br />
I sing with the rest of my squad.<br />
I sing even though I am flawed.<br />
I sing and I clap, stomp, and nod.<br />
I sing to myself and to God.<br />
</p>
<p>
I sing to myself and to God.<br />
I sing to myself and to God.<br />
Sing to yourself and to God.<br />
</p>
<p>
When everything goes your way,<br />
When everything's going to pot,<br />
When you're having a really good day,<br />
And when you're really really not,<br />
Nevermind what people might say,<br />
Set aside that insecure thought.<br />
They are not your judges today,<br />
Sing to yourself and to God.<br />
Sing to yourself and to God.<br />
</p>
<p>
Sing, sing when you are alone.<br />
Sing and get into the zone.<br />
Sing with the rest of your squad.<br />
Sing even though you are flawed.<br />
Sing, now clap stomp and nod.<br />
Sing to yourself and to God.<br />
</p>
Jonadabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17960094338418224109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-85161190398341510182022-05-25T09:41:00.021-04:002022-05-25T09:41:00.159-04:00Voices<p>
Why're you always asking who I'm talking to?<br />
I thought it was apparent, I wasn't talking to you.<br />
You ain't got no business, asking about what I said.<br />
It wasn't meant for you but for the voices in my head.<br />
</p>
<p>
Voices in my head, voices in my head,<br />
When I hear them talk to me, I've never been mislead.<br />
Voices in my head, right between my ears,<br />
They have kept me company for many many years.<br />
</p>
<p>
People often interrupt the voices in my head.<br />
So then they have to say again, whatever they just said.<br />
I know the people mean no harm, they're simply unaware,<br />
But to the voices in my head, it really seems unfair.<br />
</p>
<p>
Voices in my head, voices in my head,<br />
When I hear them talk to me, I've never been mislead.<br />
Voices in my head, voices in my mind,<br />
They tell me things, and then I find,<br />
That I'm the only one they told,<br />
The only one of all mankind,<br />
The only one who stayed enrolled,<br />
The only one who can still hear the voices in my head.<br />
</p>
<p>
[whispered] The voices in my head, say that I'm inbred,<br />
[whispered] 'Cause both my grandparents also heard voices in their head.<br />
</p>
<p>
I am always talking to the voices in my head.<br />
If I don't keep them listening, they talk to me instead,<br />
And once they start to argue, I can't hear myself think.<br />
If I don't keep them quiet, they drive me to the brink.<br />
</p>
<p>
The voices in my head, voices in my head,<br />
When I hear them talk to me, I've never been mislead.<br />
Voices in my head, right between my ears,<br />
They have kept me company for many many years.<br />
Voices in my head, voices in my mind,<br />
They tell me things, and then I find,<br />
That I'm the only one they told,<br />
The only one of all mankind,<br />
The only one who stayed enrolled,<br />
The only one who can still hear<br />
The voices in my head.<br />
The voices in my head.<br />
The voices in my head.<br />
</p>
Jonadabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17960094338418224109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-24083931383663434192022-02-09T10:34:00.036-05:002022-05-24T15:26:09.908-04:00Bubble Wrap<style type="text/css"><!--
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<div class="p">
<div>I like [beat] bubble wrap.</div>
<div>Pinch it once, it goes snap.</div>
<div>Again and again, pop-pop-popping,</div>
<div>Once you start, there's no stopping.</div>
<div>I like [beat] bubble wrap.</div>
<div>You agree? Stomp and clap!</div>
<div>I like [beat] bubble wrap.</div>
<div>I like [beat] bubble wrap.</div>
</div>
<div class="p">
<div>Ev'ry time I get a package, [I]</div>
<div>Tear into it like a savage,</div>
<div>Ripping tape and shredding cardboard,</div>
<div>Cutting boxes, plunging inward,</div>
<div>Take the product out the carton,</div>
<div>Gotta see what it was packed in,</div>
<div>Hoping for some mindless pleasure.</div>
<div>Did my goods come wrapped in treasure?</div>
</div>
<div class="p">
<div>I like [beat] bubble wrap.</div>
<div>Pinch it once, it goes snap.</div>
<div>Again and again, pop-pop-popping,</div>
<div>Once you start, there's no stopping.</div>
<div>I like [beat] bubble wrap.</div>
<div>You agree? Stomp and clap!</div>
<div>I like [beat] bubble wrap.</div>
<div>I like [beat] bubble wrap.</div>
</div>
<div class="p">
<div>[I]</div>
<div>Just can't seem to get enough of</div>
<div>This fantastic packing stuff of</div>
<div>Legend. You know, it's my fav'rite,</div>
<div>I just love it, gotta have it,</div>
<div>Love to pop it, have to pop it.</div>
<div>Once I'm popping, I can't stop it,</div>
<div>Oh, it's gone now, what an outrage!</div>
<div>How long till I get a package?</div>
</div>
<div class="p">
<div>I like [beat] bubble wrap.</div>
<div>Pinch it once, it goes snap.</div>
<div>Again and again, pop-pop-popping,</div>
<div>Once you start, there's no stopping.</div>
<div>I like [beat] bubble wrap.</div>
<div>You agree? Stomp and clap!</div>
<div>I like [beat] bubble wrap.</div>
<div>I like [beat] bubble wrap.</div>
</div>
<div class="p">
<div>Pop pop pop pop pop pop pop.</div>
<div>Pinch and pop till I can't stop.</div>
<div>Pop pop pop pop pop pop pop.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Pop and pop and pop and pop.</div>
<div>Pop pop pop pop, Hop on Pop.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>"We / like to hop on top of pop."</div>
<div>Hop hop hop hop, Hop on Pop.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>"You / must not hop on top of pop."</div>
<div>Pop pop pop pop pop pop pop.</div>
<div> </div>
</div>
<div class="p">
<div>I like [beat] bubble wrap.</div>
<div>Pinch it once, it goes snap.</div>
<div>Again and again, pop-pop-popping,</div>
<div>Once you start, there's no stopping.</div>
<div>I like [beat] bubble wrap.</div>
<div>You agree? Stomp and clap!</div>
<div>I like [beat] bubble wrap.</div>
<div>I like [beat] bubble wrap.</div>
<div>I like [beat] bubble wrap.</div>
<div>I like [beat] bubble wrap!</div>
</div>
Jonadabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17960094338418224109noreply@blogger.com0Galion, OH 44833, USA40.7336687 -82.78990259999999112.423434863821157 -117.94615259999999 69.043902536178848 -47.633652599999991tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-53459809039122773652021-05-22T00:58:00.002-04:002021-05-25T12:41:26.998-04:00Pretty Little Yellow Flowers<p>
Popping up free all over the place<br />
Bright as the joy on a child's face<br />
Golden yellow like a wedding ring<br />
Where they appear you know it's spring<br />
</p>
<p>
Fields as white as your grandfather's hair<br />
Windborne seeds distribute here and there<br />
Planting more flowers for you and me<br />
Flowers everywhere for all to see<br />
</p>
<p>
Dandelion's root is tough as nails<br />
Everyone who tries to kill it fails<br />
Grumpy curmudgeons all hate its guts<br />
Well if you ask me they're just plain nuts<br />
</p>Jonadabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17960094338418224109noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-51583720775627810852021-01-12T10:54:00.010-05:002021-02-14T20:00:20.912-05:00Terminology Across the Political Divide<p>I want to address the way we use words to describe our political differences, in contemporary America. Specifically, I want to discuss the deep asymetry of how we use these words, depending on which side of the political spectrum is being discussed. There have always been some differences, related to the spectrum itself: words such as "liberal", "conservative", "radical", "reactionary", even "left" and "right", are obviously aimed in particular directions, and that's useful, because it's nice to have the ability to indicate political leanings. These words are generalizations, of course: not all conservatives have exactly the same political views. Not all liberals have exactly the same political views. But the terms are useful anyway.</p>
<p>But those are not the terminology differences I'm talking about.</p>
<p>One group (or part of a group) of protesters this year went beyond the original peaceful protest activity, siezed control of several blocks in the downtown area of a major city, and held it for more than a week. Another group (or, again, part of a group) of protesters elsewhere in the country, later in the year, went beyond the original peaceful protest activity, siezed control of a government building, and held it for a couple of hours. These are in many ways remarkably similar events. But we describe them with very different terminology. In the one case, we mostly call the participants "demonstrators", "protesters", and only occasionally say "rioters", perhaps because we're afraid that if we call them rioters, we'll be labeled as racists. In the other case, we rarely call the participants anything so downplayed as "rioters", instead reaching for breathless hyperbole: they are "domestic terrorists", and it's "insurrection" and possibly even "treason".</p>
<p>I want to be clear that I'm not excusing what was done in either case: both groups of rioters should be prosecuted for rioting, for the destruction of property that they caused, and for the disruption to public life. (In both cases here, I'm talking only about the persons who participated in the violent siezing and occupation of areas. The peaceful protest marches, in both cases, would've been fine, if things hadn't gone so much further; and of course we cannot prosecute anyone for peacefully marching down a street carrying a sign: that's a constitutionally protected freedom. Even if what's written on the sign is wrong, it's still a constitutionally protected freedom.)</p>
<p>In cases where people were harmed (which did happen: mostly it was the rioters themselves, and at least in the second case some of the responding police officers), the rioters should be held accountable for that as well. If there were deliberate killings, I'm not aware of it; but if there were, then murder charges would be appropriate. For accidental killings, there's another charge, manslaughter; when it happens during the commmission of another crime, such as rioting, that may be aggravated manslaughter. Criminals should be prosecuted for the crimes they committed.</p>
<p>But it's not right to just pick out random (or perhaps not so random) other crimes, crimes that were not in fact committed or even contemplated, and attempt to apply them arbitrarily. "Treason", to pick out one particularly egregious example, has a fairly particular definition under US law. Treason is when a person who owes allegiance to the United States (for example, by virtue of having sworn an oath to defend it, or by being a member of the US armed forces; merely being a citizen is not the standard here) gives material comfort or aid to an enemy nation, i.e., a foreign country with which we are at war. Note that acting against the government, or against current political officers of the United States, is not treason. Assasinating the President, for example, would not be treason. It'd be a very serious crime, but it wouldn't be treason. Treason is when you act not against individuals or the government, but against the entire nation, betraying your country to an enemy power, when you are supposed to be defending it. At least, that's what it is under US law. So for example if a high-ranking military or government official sells military secrets to the commies, that's treason. If some loon shoots the President, that's not treason. It's a different crime and, legally speaking, a less serious one, though still plenty serious enough to warrant the death penalty. Let me be perfectly clear: if the rioters had somehow managed to get an assault rifle into an active session of Congress and shot a bunch of Senators and Representatives, that would be on the one hand a much, much more serious crime than what they did; but on the other hand, it *still* wouldn't qualify as treason under US law. It would be mass murder among other things, and the people who did it would be in some very serious legal trouble; but it would not be treason.</p>
<p>The definition of terrorism is not quite so narrow, but fundamentally terrorism is about terror: mailing out envelopes of anthrax so that people are afraid to get the mail; crashing planes into buildings so that people are afraid to fly in a plane or work in a tall building; blowing up truck bombs in public places so that people are afraid to go out in public; setting fire to elementary schools so that people are afraid to send their kinds to school; these are all examples of terrorism, and they all have one thing in common: they scare not just the people who are directly involved, but people all over the country who are worried something similar might happen to them. That's what terrorism is. If you aren't at least attempting to frighten the population, then whatever you're doing isn't terrorism. Forcing your way past a police barrier and into a government building, isn't terrorism. It's tresspassing and destruction of property, and if you do it as part of an unruly mob it's rioting, and when the police try to stop you and you keep going that adds several additional charges, and if some people in the mob and/or some of the police officers involved become injured or killed, that adds yet more (increasingly serious) charges. But none of those charges are the same as terrorism.</p>
<p>When you call ordinary rioters "terrorists" or "insurrectionists" or call their actions "treason", you are ignoring the actual meanings of words and making up random claptrap; and you are accusing people of various serious capital offenses (markedly more serious than mere first degree murder), who are in fact guilty only of various non-capital offenses, with maximum sentences involving prison time. Maybe you're doing it to be dramatic, or maybe you're doing it to be persuasive, but whatever the reason is, what you're doing is wrong. You're slandering (or in print committing libel against) the criminals, by accusing them of much more serious crimes than they've actually committed. Whatever political point you're trying to make does not give you the right to just accuse people of things you know perfectly well they did not actually do. It's deceptive, dishonest, disingenuous, wrong, and illegal (or at least legally actionable in civil court, i.e., you can be sued for a lot of money for doing it). It also turns the criminals into victims, which is really unfortunate; I don't like to be in the position of defending criminals. I know there are people whose whole job is defending criminals, but I didn't sign up for that. Please stop making me do it.</p>
Jonadabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17960094338418224109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-60807238271181683892020-09-19T12:23:00.000-04:002020-09-19T12:23:14.127-04:00Those Were the Good Old Days (2020 Edition)<div><span color="var(--darkreader-inline-color)" data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" style="--darkreader-inline-bgcolor: #181a1b; background-color: white;">Oh sometimes I think back to when I was younger, </span></div><div><span style="font-family: monospace;">Life was so much simpler then.
<br />Dad would be out with the guys,
<br />Getting a burger and fries,
<br />Or maybe going bowling again.
<br />
<br />Oh, and mom would be fixing something in the kitchen,
<br />A casserole for a church carry-in,
<br />And I'd spend the weekend hanging out with my friends,
<br />Wandering round town
<br />And going into stores on a whim.
<br />
<br />Those were the good old days.
<br />Those were the good old days.
<br />The weeks go by, and the memory fades.
<br />But those were the good old days.
<br />
<br />I can still recall, my favorite mall,
<br />The one with the big grocery store
<br />Oh, they hired a man, just to, shake your hand,
<br />And say "Howdy" when you walked in the door.
<br />
<br />The produce was nice, always was a fair price,
<br />It's such a shame that they closed down that mall.
<br />Oh I don't know when they'll ever open again.
<br />Maybe next year in the fall?
<br />
<br />Let me tell ya now:
<br />Those were the good old days.
<br />Those were the good old days.
<br />The months come and go, and the memory fades.
<br />But those were the good old days.
<br />
<br />Do you remember Christy Anne?
<br />She was my high school romance.
<br />She had a pretty smile, and she held my hand,
<br />So I took her to the homecoming dance.
<br />
<br />But then halfway through the night I left her high and dry.<br />I left the dance with her former best friend,
<br />And her open-mouthed stare
<br />Became a withering glare, <br />But I'd still do it over again.
<br />
<br />I tell ya buddy,
<br />Those were the good old days.
<br />Those were the good old days.
<br />The years pass away, and the memory fades.
<br />But those were the good old days.
<br />
<br />Those were the good old days
<br />Those were the good old days
<br />My old life is gone, and the memory fades,
<br />But those were the good old days
<br />
<br /></span></div>
— Parody of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZaQWoQvh8k">Good Old Days by Weird Al Yankovic</a>Jonadabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17960094338418224109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-71548174266018960532020-04-21T19:49:00.001-04:002020-04-21T20:50:37.386-04:00Flattening the Curve Too MuchThere's been a lot of talk, during the 2020 virus pandemic, of the need to <q>flatten the curve</q>. The reasoning, which is valid up to a point, is that hospitals don't have enough equipment (e.g., ventilators; Galion hospital for instance has two of them) to treat as many people at once, as would need to be treated if the virus ran its natural course. This is true up to a point, as you can see in places like Italy, which didn't flatten the curve nearly enough and have consequently seen a disturbingly high mortality rate. The American medical care system would be more difficult to overwhelm than that of most other countries. American culture is obsessed with medical care; on an <strong>average</strong> day, something like 10% of the population receives medical care of some kind, and that's if you don't count prescription drugs as medical care; if you do, it's more than 50%; so our medical care industry is pretty substantial. It's expensive (and Americans spend a disturbingly large amount of money on medical care), but it's substantial. Nonetheless, we don't want to be in the boat Italy is in. We want to flatten the curve —up to a point.<br />
<br />
<strong>But there is such a thing as flattening the curve too much.</strong><br />
<br />
I live in Crawford County. It's difficult to get an exact population figure, because population changes over time, but the 2018 estimate is around 41 and a half thousand. (This is down from almost 44 thousand in 2010. The population is on a long-term decline since the mid twentieth century, because most of the graduating students who go away to college, never come back. There are very few jobs suitable for college graduates here, and an employer would be mad to locate here if they need that kind of workforce, which creates a vicious cycle. What, if anything, we could be or should be doing about that, is an interesting question, which I will not attempt to address today.) It's now 2020 and we're due for a new census, but meanwhile I will be conservative and estimate that we have <strong>at least</strong> 40 thousand people in Crawford county.<br />
<br />
We've had, according to the latest figures, which are about a day old at the time of this writing, 37 known cases of the virus. Being generous and assuming that only one case in twenty is confirmed and known (bearing in mind that some people never show symptoms), we could guess that perhaps as many as 750 people in the county have been exposed to the virus and are no longer in danger of catching it, either because they already have it, or because they are immune. (The difference between already having it and being immune may be of great personal importance, but for the calculation we are about to do, it actually doesn't change the figures, so it's something we don't need to distinguish in our estimates.) The true figure is probably markedly less than 750, but I'm being conservative here.<br />
<br />
We started canceling stuff back on March 6th, and at that time we had 0 cases in Crawford county. (Some people were already being tested; but those early tests ended up coming back negative.) Our number-of-cases figure is from April 20th, a difference of more than six weeks. If the curve were linear, this would mean we'd need to stay home for about six more years. The curve is, as the word "curve" suggests, not linear. Technically, it's still an exponential growth curve. But we've flattened it so much, that the difference from linear is not nearly as dramatic as you'd normally expect. For the last month, the only time the statewide increase in reported cases has been noticeably different from linear, was in the last few days, when comprehensive testing in the prison system confirmed a large number of already-suspected cases. Prisons are a particularly problematic environment, for a variety of reasons (nursing homes aren't much better), so you expect a higher curve there. For most of the state, and especially for smaller communities, the curve is effectively so close to linear as makes no practical difference. Maybe we won't have to stay home for six years, but if something major doesn't change, <strong>it's going to be months and months and months</strong>. Which is really not ok.<br />
<br />
We have flattened the curve too much.<br />
<br />
We cannot, realistically, all remain cooped up at home for even one year. Inevitably, at some point, we are going to have to start going out again. And then the curve will be less flat, possibly a lot less flat. The natural shape of this curve, when people aren't all staying home, is very steep. I propose that we would have been better of with a curve somewhere in between these two extremes. Flattened, but not so <em>completely</em> flattened.<br />
Jonadabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17960094338418224109noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-10113112326275846602020-01-08T12:34:00.001-05:002021-02-14T20:06:35.724-05:00Why English Breakfast Tea Hasn't Caught On in AmericaIf you pay attention to the portions of the internet that deal a lot with international travel and cultural differences, and if you watch for patterns, certain questions emerge. This is one of the lesser ones, but it's persistent: British people come to America, and they go to the grocery store and find the tea aisle, and they look for the specific teas that they are used to buying at home. This usually includes something called <q>English Breakfast</q>, and they don't always find it. Why, they want to know, is such an important staple tea so uncommon here?<br />
<br />
There's some history that's worth knowing here, and I'll talk about that, but first I want to focus on the present situation. First of all, English Breakfast tea <em>is</em> available here, but it's one of several hundred named teas. It has to compete not only with such old standby teas as Constant Comment, but also with the explosion of flavors we've seen in the tea aisle in recent decades. If you go to any large grocery store (say, Meijer) and find the tea aisle, you're going to see hundreds of shelf-feet of different teas, ranging from the mundane (three or four different orange teas, three or four different lemon teas, three or four mint teas, chamomile, ...) to the peculiar.<br />
<br />
Some of the most peculiar teas that you will find on the American grocery store shelf belong to a category that I am going to call <strong>gift teas</strong>. As far as I know, no one else calls them that, but the only time I have ever seen these sorts of tea, other than on the store shelf, was when they were purchased by one person and given to another. Rather than trying to formally define the category, I'm just going to give a couple of examples, and hopefully the idea will become clear.<br />
<br />
I was once given a box of tea for Christmas, the exact name of which I no longer recall, but it had <q>Christmas</q> in it. It might have been something like <q>Christmas Brunch</q> or <q>Country Christmas</q>, or some similarly vague holiday-themed name. It was a flavored black tea, meaning that someone took ordinary black tea and added flavors to it. (This in itself is not odd. The aforementioned Constant Comment is a flavored black tea, and it's perfectly normal and reasonable and good.) Unfortunately, I don't remember the exact list of flavors it had in it: there were at least six, and I'm certain that almond and cherry were among them. If it had just been an almond and cherry flavored black tea, that might have been good, but there were several other flavors as well, and it just came out as a muddle. I only ever made one cup of it, which I didn't finish.<br />
<br />
My mom currently has in her cupboard a box of <q>Sugar Cookie Sleigh Ride</q>, which was, of course, also a gift. It's an herbal blend containing, again, at least half a dozen different flavors. Among them are, I swear on Dave Barry's soul that I am not making this up, thistle and barley. It's been in the cupboard for at least a year. It was a gift, and you can't throw away a gift. Realistically, nobody's ever going to drink it.<br />
<br />
Given the existence of these sorts of teas, with vague, non-flavor-related names, can you begin to get a picture of why Americans see <q>English Breakfast</q> tea and don't immediately think <q>that sounds good, we should try that</q>. Frankly, most Americans are more likely to buy this product for someone they know who is planning a trip to England, than for themselves. Oh, you're interested in England? Well, here you go, here's a gift tea that has England in its name, so even if it's no bloody good, you'll know that I was thinking about you and what your interests are. It's the thought that counts, right? And no, to preempt an obvious question, I don't think most Americans are aware that English Breakfast tea is a thing in England. We get lots of things here that purport to be of various national origins and in fact are not. Why should this English tea we've never heard of before be different? The only way people are going to know otherwise, is if they see British people talking about it on the internet. Which, admittedly, is now possible.<br />
<br />
I've glossed over something, though: how is it that Americans have not previously heard of English Breakfast tea? <br />
<br />
The really weird thing is, if you look up the history of English Breakfast tea, it is believed to be of American origin. Well, the name, <q>English Breakfast</q> is believed to be of American origin, though it's hard to be quite certain of the particulars. As odd as it may seem, this is a clue. It is worth noting that the blend that went by that name in nineteenth-century America, is not the same blend that goes by that name in England now. In fact, it appears to have been composed of teas imported from China. (The British <q>English Breakfast</q> tea is, according to Wikipedia, made of teas from India, Sri Lanka, and Africa.) Why is this relevant? The thing is, pretty much all American teas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, were made of local American products (sassafras, mint, etc.), black tea (mostly pekoe grade) imported in bulk from China, or some combination thereof. Going across the Pacific, China is just plain closer than India. Also, prior to the advent of containerized shipping, it was cheaper and more practical to get all the tea from one port of origin, because you had to fill an entire bulk hauler with nothing but tea if you wanted the shipping to be at all affordable. Today, an importer can fill a single <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipping_container">shipping container</a> with palettes of various goods; but that is a relatively recent development.<br />
<br />
We didn't start to see imported named teas in our stores until the nineties, by which time we already had several major competing tea companies (Bigelow, Celestial Seasonings, Arizona, Nestea, Snapple, and of course the old and much maligned standby Lipton, which ironically enough was originally British), each pushing their own line of teas (some more bottled-and-served-cold than others). We already had a pretty well stocked tea aisle. All of the real, tea-containing teas on the aisle had certain things in common, but this was not obvious from their names alone, and of course there were always the herbal <q>teas</q>. Into this mix we now add green tea (which we started to see in stores in the nineties), oolang tea (some time around the turn of the century), white tea (subsequently), and any number of imported blends and specialty teas. But they don't have a long history here, and they have to compete with everything that's already on the shelf. Earl Grey got free publicity from Star Trek, but that doesn't help English Breakfast.<br />
<br />
Of course, it's early days yet. If we've only been getting imported named tea blends here for less than a generation, it follows that some that haven't yet caught on, still may do so in the future.Jonadabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17960094338418224109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-33359590655591138462018-03-22T19:24:00.000-04:002018-04-05T21:35:16.199-04:00Nice error message, Microsoft<q>We're sorry, but your password couldn't be changed. Code: 0x8007052d</q>
<p>What does this mean? It took me a bit of experimentation, but I figured it out. Windows Ten has, believe it or not, a <u><strong>max</strong>imum</u> password length. (That's not a typo. I don't mean a minimum. That would actually make sense.) It has two maximum password lengths, actually.</p>
<p>The above error message is what you get if you exceed the longer length limit of 63, when changing the password at some point <em>after</em> the account is set up or, at any rate, after the computer is set up. (I haven't tested what the rules are for additional accounts you create later.)</p>
<p>So what's the shorter limit? 20. When you turn on your computer for the first time and create an account and enter a password, you must enter a password that is 20 characters or shorter. There's nothing on the account creation screen to indicate this, and no warning if you exceed it. Everything seems to go fine, in fact, until you later try to log in, at which point you can't. (This can, of course, be solved in the <a href="https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/tr-dojo/reset-windows-passwords-with-the-help-of-linux/">usual</a> <a href="http://z-issue.com/wp/changing-windows-account-passwords-and-enabling-the-local-windows-admin-account/">ways</a>. So much fun.)</p>
<p>Now if you'll excuse me, I have an urgent need to go install <a href="https://devuan.org/">a real operating system</a>. Immediately.</p>Jonadabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17960094338418224109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-26302525741967904702017-12-07T05:27:00.000-05:002017-12-07T05:27:09.577-05:00Screenshots: NetHack Fourk 4.3.0.4These screenshots are for NetHack Fourk version 4.3.0.4, which is being released today.
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</div>Jonadabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17960094338418224109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-25277345369952074232017-09-09T00:30:00.000-04:002017-09-09T00:34:49.829-04:00When Sheryl Ran for GrantedIt started on a Tuesday,<br />
I remember that much now,<br />
When Sheryl ran for granted.<br />
She never really did say,<br />
But we heard her anyhow,<br />
When Sheryl ran for granted.<br />
<br />
When Sheryl ran for granted,<br />
before two, after three,<br />
When Sheryl ran for granted,<br />
over you, and under me,<br />
When Sheryl ran for granted,<br />
<strong></strong>feeling trapped, feeling free,<br />
When Sheryl ran for granted,<br />
we were there, you and me,<br />
When Sheryl ran for granted.<br />
<br />
We had a lot of backers,<br />
They poured in by the dozen,<br />
When Sheryl ran for granted.<br />
Some of us were slackers,<br />
But the diligent were chosen,<br />
When Sheryl ran for granted.<br />
<br />
When Sheryl ran for granted,<br />
day by day, thick and thin,<br />
When Sheryl ran for granted,<br />
'twas the way, that was then,<br />
When Sheryl ran for granted,<br />
child's play, kith and kin,<br />
When Sheryl ran for granted,<br />
what she'd say, how we'd win,<br />
When Sheryl ran for granted.<br />
<br />
Surprises kept on coming,<br />
So much was unexpected,<br />
No one foresaw the end.<br />
Sheryl just kept on running,<br />
She was so underrated,<br />
It was such a mighty trend.<br />
<br />
When Sheryl ran for granted,<br />
all as one, none alone,<br />
When Sheryl ran for granted,<br />
what a run, in the zone,<br />
When Sheryl ran for granted,<br />
she was the one, our backbone,<br />
When Sheryl ran for granted,<br />
it was fun, the world to own,<br />
When Sheryl ran for granted.<br />
<br />
<br />Jonadabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17960094338418224109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-71787249258758549692016-03-24T20:11:00.000-04:002016-07-15T14:23:06.477-04:00Pear Cake<p>Note that, for this to be any good, you must use proper canned pears. Do <strong>not</strong> go to the grocery store and buy flavorless so-unripe-they-are-crunchy canned pears. Ever. Nothing good can come from that.</p>
<div class="ingredients"><div><strong>Cake Ingredients:</strong></div>
1 quart of home-canned pears (in light syrup, ideally).<br />
1.5 cups of (granulated white) table sugar<br />
3 eggs<br />
1/4 cup oil<br />
1/2 cup milk<br />
2.5 cups all-purpose flour<br />
1 tsp. soda<br />
1/2 tsp. nutmeg<br />
1/2 tsp. allspice<br />
2 tsp. vanilla flavoring or extract<br />
1/2 cup golden raisins (optional)<br />
<div><strong>Glaze Ingredients:</strong></div>
all the juice/syrup from the pears<br />
plus any excess blended pears (see instructions)<br />
1/2 cup sugar<br />
2 TBSP cornstarch<br />
1/4 tsp. pear extract (optional)<br />
2 tsp. vanilla (optional)<br />
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<div><strong>Instructions:</strong></div>
Open the pears and pour the juice off into a saucepan, allowing the pears to drain well. (Not only do you want the juice for the glaze, you also don't want too much liquid in the cake.) Place the pears themselves in the blender and puree them, then divide the results: use up to 2 and 7/8 cups of the pear puree for the cake and whatever remains (if any) in the glaze. (If there isn't any pear puree left for the glaze, that's ok. The juice is enough.)
<p>Preheat the oven to 350<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit">F</a>.</p>
<p>Combine the larger portion of the pear puree with the sugar and eggs and beat until foamy, then beat in the oil and milk. Stir the dry ingredients together and then add them to the pear mixture. Beat until smooth. Fold in the raisins (if desired). Pour into a bundt pan. Bake at 350F for about 50 minutes (depending on your oven). When it's almost done, start the glaze (below). Let the finished cake cool in its pan for 5-10 minutes, then invert it onto a plate. Spoon glaze over the top while they are both still hot. If you get the top of the cake coated and a decent amount dripping down the sides and there is still glaze left, it can be spooned over individual slices while it lasts.</p>
<div><strong>Glaze Instructions:</strong></div>
<p>To make the glaze, combine the pear juice, the remaining pear puree (if any), the 1/2 cup of sugar, and the cornstarch in the saucepan. Stir and bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring frequently, until it thickens up. When you are just about ready to spoon the glaze over the cake, stir in the extract.</p>Jonadabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17960094338418224109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-16612603053858364792015-08-14T07:19:00.000-04:002015-08-14T07:19:00.070-04:00Big Rocks.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiU5H_gmclm7bf9D8dfE_aVZAKXt1uPxJ5gtqeucxC7F5CCeMFEAITTvzrtfJo03ztcxtcJQcH6EyQUzwbw1oimTwotCbHt4vw2kYLZJAprGDDty334FQREinv6fGVEdNWjoGlj9fx6riZ/s1600/DSCF3038.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiU5H_gmclm7bf9D8dfE_aVZAKXt1uPxJ5gtqeucxC7F5CCeMFEAITTvzrtfJo03ztcxtcJQcH6EyQUzwbw1oimTwotCbHt4vw2kYLZJAprGDDty334FQREinv6fGVEdNWjoGlj9fx6riZ/s320/DSCF3038.JPG" /></a>
This photo was taken on the <q>Cup and Saucer</q> hiking trail east of Kagawong.Jonadabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17960094338418224109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-72556910225802328442015-08-11T07:14:00.001-04:002015-08-11T07:14:37.165-04:00Sault Ste Marie<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA1K9g6wAGd8E0LLuhxseKDoMwAzWjlxseMTvREu9cp-F0kBS7Pd-SsaCg_pJSYXiuY4R2yEOeYwHCjlXQ2LhsnvPHdF1PyDhtn3Choan89d6EGRARDqKJ0rmMUl5qd1JBOxsufWVwWD9A/s1600/DSCF2830.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA1K9g6wAGd8E0LLuhxseKDoMwAzWjlxseMTvREu9cp-F0kBS7Pd-SsaCg_pJSYXiuY4R2yEOeYwHCjlXQ2LhsnvPHdF1PyDhtn3Choan89d6EGRARDqKJ0rmMUl5qd1JBOxsufWVwWD9A/s320/DSCF2830.JPG" /></a>
<p>This is a photo of the bridge over the St. Marys river, taken from a lookout point on the campus of Lake Superior State University in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Peninsula">the UP</a>.
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