Missive from ‘Merica: X, T and C Conversations…

So how was it for you, Dear Reader?

I, myself, have been having a quiet but busy time of it: proofing Hugo Stone’s new tale and putting the finishing touches to an ‘interview‘ we had just before Christmas…

*Oh, I see what you’re doing Clicky… /taps nose… *

… And hosting ramblings from Cade, The Okie Devil. You’ll find his latest below, but he’s also reposting some of his older Sync Miss For Him warblings, hear. They are intense but I do hope you’re enjoying his missives, Dear Reader…

*But of course, Clicky… /chortles… It means eye get to be Dear Reader… /wink…*

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What are you doing?
Really?
What are you wearing?
I’ve been WAY too fucking serious recently. So I thought that I would start this whathaveyou off with a dirty joke…
The white horse fell in the mud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s88MjrrkPnQ
^The Crystal Method – Name Of The Game (Hybrid’s LA Blackout Mix)^

Ya see…it’s like this.
When I see a picture like the above? Yeah…cool shit. Wicked looking, and someone prolly spent a shitload of time creating the graphics that went into that gif. But then, I start to see stuff. I start to wonder…”Outside of art and the art itself, what does that image represent?”
Then I got to thinking about sand and silicone, and starting thinking about…”That almost looks like a mathematical/graphical/materials science representation of how a certain element and/or molecules of a certain compound break down over time.” I don’t know “the” or any specifics for that matter. It’s just what came to mind when looking at it. It looks like a crystalline structure of some kind breaking down to a certain point, to where it represents a less fractal type of structure, and more geometric type of shape. And I would assume, that the point at which the animation ends is when the more geometric type of shape reverses and starts to assume a more fractal shape again with same type of conditions and time that caused it to arrive where it did, and the process starts over again at some point. It just reminded me of some engineering that was done some time in the past where there was a point to where some of the structures that engineers were designing? Well, we’ll just say that nature was/is having major problems dealing with those materials, structures and/or shapes. Especially over time and times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpgpNX7pJAA&
^Dyno – Serena^

Maybe there is a reason and or reasons that “nature does not draw in straight lines.”
Maybe we just don’t understand the straight lines that nature draws in.
I can see some of them. They are rarely straight…and yet very straight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_Q-e0jokP4
^Mark The Beast – Breathe (ft. Niks)^

Yesterday I went to a Christmas party. I had a few beers, followed by a few cocktails, followed by a few shots. I still had the sense to know that I was over the limit. That’s when I decided to do what I have never done before: I took a cab home. Sure enough, there was a police roadblock on the way home, and since it was a cab, they waved it past. I arrived home safely without incident. This was both a great relief and a surprise because I had never driven a cab before. I don’t even know where I got it and now that it is in my garage, I don’t know what to do with it.
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I found that joke on another forum, and copied it verbatim. Except for the formatting.
It bet cab drivers have heard many jokes. Prolly seen a few too. Maybe even inspires them to write a few of their own. I bet someone could write a book about it. I know that I wasn’t fond of the “Taxi Cab Confessions” series on HBO. Seemed like there was too much leading. But that “Cash Cab” show they had on TLC or Discovery Channel or whatever it was? Fucking AWESOME show.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9H9mIWIkx4
^Deadmau5 – Faxing Berlin (1080p) || HD^

Carbon – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon
Timeline of Chemical Element Discoveries – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_chemical_element_discoveries
Actinium – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinium
Harriet Brooks – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Brooks
Natural Philosophy – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_philosophy
Teleological Argument – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleological_argument
Creation Science – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_science
National Defense Education Act – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Education_Act
DARPA – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA
Derp – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derp
NASA – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA
Derp – https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/derp
Derp – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=derp
Dammit – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=dammit
Cultured – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=cultured
Sophisticated – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=sophisticated
Sophisticate – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=sophisticate
Cell Culture – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_culture
Tissue Culture – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissue_culture
Plant Tissue Culture – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_tissue_culture
Wildcard Character (Redirected from *.*) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcard_character
Question Mark – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark
Irony Punctuation-Percontation Point – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation#Percontation_point
Question Mark-Mirrored Question Mark – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark#Mirrored_question_mark
Content Clause (Redirected from Indirect question) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_clause
Sentence (Linguistics)-By Purpose – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_(linguistics)#By_purpose

My balls itch.
What is this shit all about.
My balls still itch.
X: Perhaps you should scratch them.
Cade: Mind your own fucking business.
X: …
Cade: THX!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B4fat0ZfrY
^Deadmau5 – Lack of a Better Name (1080p) || HD^

Cade: They are my balls after all.
X: But they didn’t even itch.
T: Yeah. You were just trying to make some silly point.
Cade: Was I successful?
0: Be careful with that kind of “cleverness”…k?
Cade: Where this is going? I see it.
X: O RLY?
Cade: Maybe.
0: Why speak as if you know something, if you in fact…don’t.
Cade: I dunno. How else am I supposed to learn?
X: Blend.
Z: Yeah…blend.
B: It works for some people.
Cade: Lemme guess…”and not so much for others?”
B: Some do tend to “stand out.”
Cade: Welp, as long as I can stand, I figure…good for me.
X: And…
0: Yeah…you left some stuff out there.
T: …
Cade: I tried to avoid the incoming penis joke.
X: …
0: …
T: What are you looking up here for? The joke is in your hand.
Cade: A very common phrase of wisdom, written on many a bathroom wall.
X: Why do you think that is?
Cade: Public bathrooms? You do that kind of shit at home, and someone is gonna get an ass kicking.
X: Shit in public. Is that what you are saying?
Cade: Sure. Whatevz.
X: …rawr….
Cade: Thanks for the smiles.
X: Whatevz.
A: Yeah…whatevz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbw2XBBVO3A
^deadmau5 – So There I Was^

Yeah…when you hear things that others cannot hear? Yeah…it tends to scare people more than anything else. But when you see something that others cannot see? And then you take the time to point out what you are seeing? And then, they see it too? Yeah…it freaks them out pretty bad, but there is a kind of “relief” there. Maybe even a sparkle in the eye. A kind of…”Oh, maybe he’s not so weird, and maybe it’s kinda OK to be weird sometimes.” But the worst, is…yeah…when someone starts to hear what you are hearing. I’ve spent time trying to describe what I am hearing, and when people start to hear it? They freak the fuck out. And not in a good way. They’ll plug their ears and start that “la la la” kind of crap. They become convinced that the only reason that they heard what they heard, is because I heard it first, then described what I was hearing until they heard it. The sense of smell may be the most poignant and jarring sense. But sound? By far the most frightening. I would assume, primarily among those who have their eyesight reasonably intact. I mean, why rely on the ears when you have the eyes? I dunno. I have weird/limited hearing and good eyes. I love hearing stuff. Especially during thunderstorms when you can see the lightning, smell the rain, hear and feel the thunder, and the electricity in the air just makes your hair stand up on end. And I have kind of a booming voice…when I choose to. I like sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZB6tkZXmyY
^Tiny Dancer (Deadmau5 Remix)^

This song goes here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O1_3zBUKM8
^Naughty Boy – La La La ft. Sam Smith^

McCarthyism – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
Subversion – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subversion
Belligerent (Redirected from Belligerency) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belligerent
Treason – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason
Petty Treason – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petty_treason
High Treason – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_treason
Counterfeit Money – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfeit_money
Miscegenation – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscegenation
Genetic Admixture – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_admixture
Lineage (Genetic) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lineage_(genetic)
Speciation – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciation
Sympatric Speciation – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympatric_speciation
Allopatric Speciation – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allopatric_speciation
Allo – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allo
Emic Unit (Redirected from Allo-) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emic_unit
Allo – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=allo
Allotheism – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=allotheism
Allotheism – https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=allotheism&title=Special:Search&go=Go&searchToken=d29bj3nl7oamubvuqyxckpbfk
Death Valley – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Valley
Pupfish – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pupfish
The Phenotypic Plasticity of Death Valley’s Pupfish – http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/the-phenotypic-plasticity-of-death-valleys-pupfish
Greater Roadrunner – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_roadrunner
Roadrunner – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadrunner
Horned Lizard (Redirected from Horned toad) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horned_lizard
Autohaemorrhaging – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autohaemorrhaging
Asclepias (Redirected from Milkweed) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepias
Asclepias Syriaca – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepias_syriaca
Taraxacum (Redirected from Dandilion) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taraxacum
Latex – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latex
Latex (Disambiguation) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latex_(disambiguation)
Latex Clothing – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latex_clothing
Latex, Texas – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latex,_Texas
Texoma – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texoma
Texarkana, Texas – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texarkana,_Texas
Texarkana, Arkansas – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texarkana,_Arkansas
Pacific Islander – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Islander

Now…you may be saying to yourself…
“How in the FUCK…did you start off at McCarthyism…and end up at Pacific Islander?!?!?!?”
I dunno.
But I did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogMNV33AhCY
^Pendulum – Witchcraft (Official Video)^

I dunno. Since when do I need to always FUCKING KNOW what the fuck I am talking about? Does that make me fit in or some shit? Cause I can assure you…the one absolute without a fucking DOUBT way for me to NOT “fit-in”…is for me to try and fit-in. I’m either too smart, or too stupid…usually too stupid…but I digress. It’s that way for and with a lot of groups. They let certain people join, for no other reason, than to single them out. A living breathing walking talking fuckup for everyone else in their group to point and laugh at, and justify their whatever and whathaveyou. Cause we all know that when it’s just you and a bunch of nod-mouthed drones just like you? Ya gotta…break up the monotony occasionally. Remind yourself why you are doing…whatever it is that you think you are doing.
Sounds like sound logic.
Kudos to you.
Good job at being there for…whoever you are there for.
Sounds…unified.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfuzg_C2PFU
^Stonebridge ft. Therese – Put Em High (JJs Club Mix) HQ^

Yeah, I was kinda thinking about the Masons and Illuminati and Templars and whatthefuckever types of groups that seem so goddamn popular all of a sudden. From what little I know about them, I have kinda equal parts of respect and contempt for them. Especially the Masons. You can’t have a hammer, if you have nothing to crush or drive with it. You cannot have a measure, if you have nothing to measure. You also cannot have any of it, without those to help you dream for whatever it is you are dreaming of, and those that you serve by doing…whatever it is you are doing. People wanna wear rings and chat and drink beer in some exclusive club…I have no problem with that. Sounds like the military, excluding the enlisted. Unless they have a high school class ring of course. But who wears those after high school. Assuming you could even afford one. Even if you did make it to graduation. It’s almost like a sifter into a sieve eh? Take the good ones, and send the rest down the shitter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ9Wj8GyrDU
^Highroller by The Crystal Method^

Oh…I’m sorry. Am I trampling on you sensibilities and beliefs?
Fuck you AND your sensibilities and beliefs.
If you think this isn’t difficult for me…you are mistaken.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ66ClagzN0
^Crystal Method – Jaded^

If it looks like shit, and smells like shit, do I really need to taste it to know that it is shit?
A: Sometimes. My soon to be ex-wife is a pretty terrible cook. But she’s gotten better. Not that it benefits me really, but I’m still glad to see her cooking and enjoying it and getting better at it. The key? She’s not afraid of cooking anymore. She’s not afraid to fuck up, and deals with her fuckups better than she used to. And as a result, she’s gotten pretty good at it. (not fucking up/cooking well that is)
It’s amazing what a little bit of confidence will do for you.
It’s also amazing what good a bad situation can bring about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7JOa3dISg0
^Caravan Palace – Rock It For Me (live at Le Trianon, Paris)^

Z: You finished?
Cade: I dunno. What do you think?
Z: Pretty long posting to dump off on that poor young lady, and expect her to edit/make sense of your nonsense.
Cade: Um…just…whatever…and stuff.
X: What were you gonna say there?
Cade: I don’t fucking know! What the fuck do you say to something like that?
Z: Nothin.
Cade: OK…um…nothin.
Z: Touché.
Cade: I’ll skip the swordplay, and stick with wordplay.
Z: Really? What’s the difference?
Cade: One I can’t do, and neither can I.
Z: WHAT?!?!?
Cade: I dunno…just…learnin and bumbling my way through this shit.
Z: Which is?
Cade: Whatever it is.
T: You were gonna say something there.
Cade: How can I say what I don’t know how to say?
T: Try?
Cade: I’m trying.
Z: You are at that.
Cade: …but, yeah.
X: Woah…leave me outta this.
Cade: LoL…k. Will try and remeber that next time.
X: You mean…”remember?”
Cade: Nope. I had it right the first time. It’s an Internet thing.
0: You wouldn’t understand.
Z: …
X: …
Cade: Yes. I’m angry.

But this is all I have. And it’s enough. I see a light at the end of the tunnel, and I don’t give a flying fuck if it’s a train or not. I didn’t ask for a light OR a train. But I’ll deal with either when and if whatever comes…comes. My mind doesn’t work like that. I don’t prepare for the impact of the relief, irrespective of the type of relief. I don’t see myself in a tunnel at all. Just maybe…a little in the dark in some respects. Nothing wrong with that.
Now all I need is… ….whatever I need. Capice?

X: And what do you need?
Cade: …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM_htiBzpzU
^Crookers – Remedy (Feat. Miike Snow)^

So a video came up in my “Recommended For You” videos, that was about this US Navy ocean tank that they have somewhere. Some dude named “Artem Lobov” made a comment that suggested they put sharks into the tank “to enhance the real world experience”…which made me laugh, but it also got me back to thinking about “biomass.” The video is below if you want to watch it, and you can prolly find the comments I made in there under Artem Lobov’s original comment.

The Navy’s Indoor Ocean

But changing gears a bit from the technical bullshit that I ranted about over there, and changing to a new gear about the technical shit I’m going to rant about here…the term “biomass” has always bothered me. That kind of “nagging” serial killer kinda of inhuman and impersonal objectifying kind of…(shudder)…that just nullifies life itself. As if you and only you and only your life is important, and all other life is there for you personal amusement and/or to do whatever in the fuck you want with it, simply because you choose to do so. The reason/reasons become irrelevant at that point, because everything else becomes irrelevant at that point, save for it’s relevancy at some point. Lotta points there. No wonder there is always so much finger pointing. I guess that movie “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” and the method in which “the aliens” used to identify those that were still human? Maybe it wasn’t so over the top after all. I just see many biomasses in that biomass. The power of one. The power of zero. Kinda has a…”extinction” kinda ring to it eh?
Q: How fucking horrible would it be, to actually SEE an extinction event?
A: ?¿?
Irrespective of size(s) and/or amount(s)…I think that would be pretty terrible.
/me shrugs
Peaks and valleys I guess.
/me shrugs again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cPa0Kcbx2Y
^Deadmau5 – Catbread (1080p) || HD^

I dunno, maybe it’s one of them security type things that they can actually manufacture Unicorns that shit rainbows and puke gold bullion, they just can’t tell anyone about those kinds of details until you have cleared the security screening. Which I guess would explain why other country’s military and governmental peeps are more likely to gain access to these facilities than an average citizen, because they have been through all kinds of security clearances and shit like that on THEIR end. As if to say, welp, their own country trusts them, we can prolly trust them too. Not that we trust their country or anything. Because their country is full of people who haven’t been through security screening(s)…so we can’t trust them. Buncha greedy money hungry scumbags that need to be wiped off of the face of the earth. If it wasn’t for untrustworthy people, we wouldn’t have all these problems…right?
Q: When does someone become untrustworthy?
A: When does someone become trustworthy?
Q: When does someone become trustworthy of determining who and what is or is not trustworthy?
A: What happens when these type of people are no longer trustworthy, and who makes THAT determination?
Must be predetermination or something like that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZEYMyhknTc
^Deadmau5 – The Oshawa Connection (1080p) || HD^

Board of Trustees

I guess if no one else trusts you, you can only trust yourself.
Time to go rogue eh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhzRf5pabCo
^ROYKSOPP – What Else Is There (trentemoller remix)^

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/c/F/a/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrP6ARSX348
^Deadmau5 – Templar^

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*Ha! I can even see Z and 0 in that one, Clicky…*

*/guffaws… Don’t think much of yourself, do ya?*