#647: A Note About Education: Why Self Education Should Always Come First
Monday • August 9th 2021 • 6:58:51 pm • 4KB
The most powerful things,are often attacked with shame. For example, Learning astrophysics on your own, versus going to a fancy universityare two very different things, and guess which one you are going to be shamed for. That's right people are going to...
#646: The Balloonist
Sunday • August 8th 2021 • 8:54:08 pm • 2KB
Mysterious Object Newfoundland Express History Of Balloons (1944) Early Balloons (1972) Paul Garber - History Of Flight Hot air balloon sky explorers - O'Hanlon's Heroes I was the first person to fly a balloon around the globe First Trans-Atlantic Crossing...
#645: Real Education, Real World
Sunday • August 8th 2021 • 8:24:48 pm • 4KB
I think, that we have to stop participating it passing on errors,Poverty, Nuclear Weapons, Mass Incarceration, Police Brutality, War - are all errors. None of this should make it into the next generation,it is cruel to act as if Mass Incarceration is...
#644: Learning For Real: A Little Daydream About Real Schools And Real Results
Saturday • August 7th 2021 • 10:29:00 pm • 4KB
Self Education is tested with progress and real little achievements,whereas all the other types, are graded. I don't know what grades are,but I know it is easy to memorize disconnected facts, and we quickly forget it all. I think the moment we get tricked...
#643: Adventure and Art: Take A Cute Little Leap Of Faith Towards Discovering Your Own Genius
Friday • August 6th 2021 • 4:49:52 pm • 4KB
Great things start from humble beginnings,and without humble beginnings you can't create great things. We are all - of course - too unique to share the same beginning,but there are some beginnings that are incredibly entertaining. I will attempt to...
#642: The Passport, The Card, And The New Universal Bill Of Rights: Instructions On The Subject Of Uniting The World
Thursday • August 5th 2021 • 2:52:22 pm • 5KB
You have to believe in yourself and realize that you are a Genius, fight for it, rage for it, it is there in all of us,and that in order for your mind to stay strong and healthy you must aim towards wisdom and Greatness. You will need to create a symbolic...
#641: Cicada Nights: Adventures In Self Education
Wednesday • August 4th 2021 • 11:01:20 pm • 5KB
I finally heard that fancy long sound Cicadas make,I've been waiting forever. In the years that I was settling down in New York,they were up and about, and it was really nice to hear them again. It has been a big day for my inventions as well,I've been...
#640: A Strange Little List Of Artsy Things
Tuesday • August 3rd 2021 • 10:21:15 pm • 4KB
There is of course but one rule in art:Don't Stop. In deed, what makes an artist,is frequent practice. That is all,there is to it, Even so, what follows is a few thoughts I jotted this evening,in anticipation of this poem. An easel, especially a portable...
#639: Art And Inspiration
Monday • August 2nd 2021 • 9:08:23 pm • 3KB
Today I wrote three poems, first about inspiration to wisdom,second about meaningful education, and third about the first two. Every once in a while I have to turn myself around,because even thought I am not rhyming, these poems still steer themselves. ...
#638: The Journal Of Colors: The Selection Of Color For Your Art Is An Art In It Self
Sunday • August 1st 2021 • 10:09:46 pm • 4KB
Here I will ask you to slow down where it comes to color,but I also present an obvious shortcut in the end, both ways will have you learning in a jiffy. Color combinations are all around you,but you need to discover and catalog them. And then create your...
#637: How To Art: From Mona Lisa To Live Portraits
Saturday • July 31st 2021 • 8:50:23 pm • 5KB
When working with graphite,identify the darkest parts of your image first. That is where you should start with a middle pencil, like B or 2B,don't go too dark, because B pencils can be oily and hard to erase. And don't press hard on your paper,paper is a...
#636: Instant Artist: Learn Art Right Now
Friday • July 30th 2021 • 10:07:18 pm • 3KB
Tracing, everyone is tracing, the cool kid at school is tracing,Johannes Vermeer, Caravaggio, Leonardo da Vinci, tracing, tracing, tracing, tracing!. And the people who tell you that tracing is not an art,are all about pretending to be better than you, by...
#635: We Have To Choose To Succeed: 2,154 Tigers, and 14,000 Scientists
Thursday • July 29th 2021 • 10:13:00 pm • 5KB
When we think about it,we know deep down that nobody ever notices the last tree being cut down. A child may notice shrubs, but nobody will remember the trees,and nobody will care when the patch of shrubs is gone. At no point will Humanity ever be...
#634: Programming A Remote Controlled Portable Raspberry Pi Audio Player
Wednesday • July 28th 2021 • 10:21:03 pm • 4KB
I finally connected the little Bluetooth remote shutter,to my heavy little mp3 player invention. My 1998 design was a small mp3 decoder equpped Printed Circuit Board (PCB),strapped onto a huge CD-ROM drive filled with a lot of MOD files converted to mp3....
#633: From Place To Place: The Search For Talent And Adventure
Tuesday • July 27th 2021 • 10:15:29 pm • 3KB
Adventures, quests, vacations, camping, and roads trips,very often help our minds rest and recover from overwork. There is some negativity associated with travel,people who move around are looked down on. But, I think some people take to longer travels...
#632: The Woodland Creatures Of America
Monday • July 26th 2021 • 10:51:57 pm • 3KB1
I remember the first time I saw a possum,I was in US for a few years, but I' haven't seen one until I was in my mid 20's. I was sure that it was an enormous mutated rat,it was on the other side of the road, and I was worried that it would go after me. They...
#631: Wearable Computer Networks: Linux Audio Player Upgrade, Or The Six Key Keyboard
Sunday • July 25th 2021 • 10:09:03 pm • 3KB1
I really like how my portable Linux based player,has neither a screen not keyboard. It is just this one chain,Battery, Linux, Audio Card. The more I though about adding buttons,the more un-pure my invention had seemed. This Is A Digital Audio Player,it is...
#630: The Islander
Sunday • July 25th 2021 • 7:33:00 pm • 3KB
North Manitou Island Backpacking North Manitou Island What a great Place to visit Beaver Island MI Under the Radar! Michigan - Harsens Island/Grand Rapids Great Duck Island Off The Path: Bois Blanc Island Mackinac Island, Michigan - Full Episode HOW TO...
#629: Why And How Do Hackers Use Those Black Screens?
Saturday • July 24th 2021 • 1:54:53 pm • 14KB
The shortest possible answer is,https://linuxcommandlibrary.com/basic/oneliners to get a good overview of what they are typing. It is a different kind of a user interface,and the applications within that world can be connected together to make new...
#628: A Very Brief Overview Of Linux
Friday • July 23rd 2021 • 4:03:46 pm • 9KB
First of all, Linux is not an Operating System,it is a central component of an operating system, refereed to as Kernel. However once it is paired with commands,which allow us to operate the system the two are installed on, we can then call the pair a Linux...
#627: Self Education At A Glance
Thursday • July 22nd 2021 • 10:37:27 pm • 4KB1
We can't limit ourselves,we can't let people with good intentions pave roads for us. There truly is a unique constellation of stars within us,and we have to chart that space. Moreover, a great deal of our strength, personality, and uniqueness,comes from...
#626: My First Homemade Portable Music Player
Wednesday • July 21st 2021 • 10:15:16 pm • 5KB2
What I discovered is that sometimes, inventors,just got to shake a leg. Where would I be today,if I didn't switch to Linux in 1998 or so. And what would my invention be today,if I didn't buy my inexpensive little Raspberry Pi Zero W. Today,I made another...
#625: Self Education: In Hot Pursuit Of Curiosities
Tuesday • July 20th 2021 • 11:32:38 pm • 3KB
I learned how to make a Raspberry Pi button recently,but I researched it my way. I wanted to see if there was a way to do it on the command line,with the simplest kind of programming, there is. The GPIO header is represented with files,on a Raspberry Pi. ...
#624: History and Politics
Monday • July 19th 2021 • 10:11:49 pm • 3KB
History and Politics,are not as boring as they may seem at first if you have a good reason to look at them. Not everything will make sense,and almost all people will be wrong. Just think back to some historical mistake,and look around, the same thing is...