● 07.20.23
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● Gemini Links 20/07/2023: Cuttlefish and Antenna
Posted in News Roundup at 8:30 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Gemini* and Gopher
Personal/Opinions
- Several nights ago while laying on my back in bed en route to falling asleep, meditation upon a bit of “spiritualish” verbiage preceded (word chosen over “caused” because I don’t know how/why what follows happened) several seconds of the absence of conceptuality, an am-ness sans any representational aspect, e.g. words, description.
- I’ve been interested in the paranormal, cryptids, and unexplained phenomena all my life.
- Some of my favorite shows growing up were the crappy melodramatic paranormal hunting shows like Ghost Adventures and Finding Bigfoot. I still will watch an episode here or there, more so Finding Bigfoot than anything else just as a little comfort show. I would rent out any books I could find about sasquatch at my local library growing up, though it was quite a small selection. For a number of years, after fifth grade, my interest subsided and I didn’t give hairy hominids or bumps in the night much thought. Then I stumbled upon the podcast Jim Harold’s Campfire, where people call in about mysterious events that had happened to them. I loved the show and would listen to peoples’ stories for hours on end. Now this interest has maintained into adulthood and if anything seems to be growing as I get older, though I always thought it would go away someday.
- last month i spotted a cuttlefish (30 cm) in about 2 m of water; visibility only about 3 m that day.
- this week i was fortunate to observe another cuttlefish in about 1.5 m of water; visibility about 5 m. the cuttlefish was hanging around a clump of seaweed, and after a minute or so moved off. i started to follow but because it was speeding up i stopped following because i didn’t want to chase it. live and let live. a few small fish then came out from the seaweed; safer now that the cuttlefish had moved on.
Politics and World Events
- “…even highly educated persons … continue to put their trust in media outlets that do not deserve our trust. … Indeed, it takes temerity to realize that our own politicians and media lie to us, that they are purveyors of dis-information and practitioners of Orwellian doublethink.”
Technology and Free Software
Internet/Gemini
- So I recently got an antenna instance up and running, and I’m primarily writing this entry to ensure it works, and then I’ll add more to it.
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