Scent of Death

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In the old days there used to be mounds of death.

That is, there used to be burial grounds that foretold usually that a village was coming up that you perhaps should not visit or that a war had recently taken place or that a disease had manifested itself nearby.  A warning or maybe a window into a place you would rather not visit.  Obviously "messing" with the dead usually means, as it does in many horror movies, that you take up a dead cause or that you "find out" some buried secret that lives in the minds of the "triumphant", still living, overlords that won some battle.  This means that if you start to pound your mallet about what's right, those overlords show up, perhaps by saying their NAME three times, with plenty of practice at how to cover up and BURY said secrets.  This is why horror movies are TERRIBLE but also instructive, is because I used to not like horror movies because I didn't want to know what a psychotic mind was like and yet now I can follow the symbolism famously like a pattern, that repeats itself.  I guess if you ask yourself if you like horror movies you are also asking yourself if you like to take risks.  Most people do right?  I mean wasn't that the point of old Mark Twain's Jumping Frog of Calaverous County?  You start off as a big risk taker believing that the fools are the ones that don't try often, but at some point you realize the horror movie.  That the world is fixed.  That if the rich ALLOW you to have riches it's because you are not a threat to them, not because you are the most worthy of riches or the hardest working.  But that's not so bad because if you look at it through a microscope, if you look at people like ants, then they simply promote the people that are most trustworthy.  Right Alex?  Right Alec?  So in your new search for opportunity you have to now understand what the rich people want and accept, perhaps before buying the cow with a tail shaped like a banana, that people in charge CHEAT, and that in some way, you are going to have to accept that, either by becoming people like them or by remaining someone of insignificance.  Oh right, the death thing, well so getting back to the burial grounds, often there we see people get warned NOT to touch something or NOT to go there.  See?  You are learning.  That saying is all about messing with witches.  Witches live among us... WILLING to cheat and usually have a pot of gold somewhere or some such and if you treat them badly they all gather together and start to COOK UP some way to get you to leave unless you are a child in which case you are simply possessed through some simple spell.  What spell you ask?  Well, you take a child, ask them if they like candy and then tell them some impossible task is what they owe you... AFTER they eat the candy.  Too simple right?  That's why I'm here.  Oh yeah the burial, well it's not just the appearance of a burial ground that should warn you off but also the smell of it.  Does the word FLESH EATING BACTERIA scare you?  It should.  That's why things that are feeding on the dead don't mind too much mistakenly latching onto your skin as though it were dead.  And if you live in a pristine environment without insects or fleas or other circle of life creatures that would otherwise keep those infections to a minimum, you are going to be treated to a rare disease.  Now I have a theory that I have formed about evil.  Evil shows up whenever there are too many good people.  Julia Ioffe wrote a fantastic piece about this guy that made millions after the collapse of Russia because he was one of the FEW people willing to cheat.  You see if there are many cheaters, they all betray each other but in an environment like a burial ground, there are no predators, so it's easy to have just the ONE predator make a killing, lol.  So take smoking for example.  You wonder about cancer.  Why does smoking produce lung cancer?  I don't think it does.  But it does STRESS our your lungs right?  No wrestler or runner or any form of athlete can afford to smoke right?  They immediately have to quit to get up to par physically.  So by that token, we know that smoking weakens you lungs, be it cigarettes, hookah, electronic  cigs, marijuana, or even second hand smoke, if the air is not clean your lungs take the hit and so does your training. It's in the weak environment that you are most susceptible to gasoline odor and what is gasoline?  Death.  Yep, that's why they call it fossil fuels.  You are burning up that burial ground with little respect for the dead.  Fine.  I'm not too much on religion but I am a fan of old men with many experiences because things in books may or may not be true but real people NEVER LIE, especially old men.  Ok.. um... what was I saying.  Oh, the lack of white cells, because you have been smoking, allow this residue, the gasoline residue, to accumulate and confuse your cells.  Of course now we can't drive cars since you all know that or maybe we just pretend we never messed with the oil industry because you know what those old men are saying to each other in the elevator after destroying everything in the movie Chain Reaction...  "what would we do?"  Oh you're welcome everybody I just cured cancer so probably we will now look forward to a whole lot less rich people or may they will start to hire a huge mass of people that they should have long ago to fight for their CAUSE.  But you know what?  It's funny because people in the city with no trees to filter out the odor all bunched up together with plenty of carbon dioxide to stress up the lungs further and walking next to rows of cars with those toxic fumes and breathing up the dirt and grime kicked up by everyday traffic... those are the ones that get cancer.  So good news to all of you that live out in the country.  I used to think it was the doctors that systematically just PRONOUNCED patients with cancer every once in a while but thankfully that's not true. (You may interrupt me at any point if you sense sarcasm.. not) You know if you think about a cigarette for a moment.  You have paper, tree life, wrapped around tobacco, plant life and you are burning that, putting it into your lungs and then getting high from the nicotine which is a chemical, which you could literally take a pill for it.  It's kinda stupid.  But I just finished smoking a cigarette so don't call me a judge.  But I was telling my nephew the other day that when people light up a cigarette in the movie that usually tells you who is the villain because he is the one that is not normal, see?  He is the unhealthy one.  And what do you smell when you smell some smoke coming from a cigarette?  That's the smell or the SCENT of death.  Know what's funny?  The cigarettes that come fresh from the factory have the best taste.  Yup.  So the FRESHER the cigarettes are, the better they TASTE... creepy huh, yeah... but it's true.  

So in Destiny I wanted to help you guys out with what I have figured out in the game.  First of all, everyone should immediately get the YouTube app on the Xbox.  It's free.  (In fact, I am considering removing Netflix since I only watch TV when I eat and YouTube serves that purpose for free.) And if you love playing Destiny, you are in for LOADS of fun watching videos from idiots online playing Destiny.  I honestly wish I could filter out the idiots because I really just want to watch the videos.  But once in a while I get some comment that I find useful so some few times it's worth it to turn up the volume and hear the commentator.  One example is One Land Beyond.  Totally crap weapon but you have to learn to use it for it to be effective.  At its best it allows you to see the screen like a pistol and by now you know that the pistol is the most popular weapon not just because THORN is such a hack but because it allows the most field of vision when spotting foes.  One Land Beyond does this as well without a big scope taking up 20% of your screen.  But you only get one shot before you have to reload it so word of warning before you level it up.   Another advantage is that you get to use it with a shotgun.  I have to say that with the hunter, the bladedancer, because he is all about close combat, it's better to use short distance weapons and unlike the other jobs which use long distance, your hunter(sometimes I say thief) should be fast and up close and personal.  I try to use invisibility but often I just end up getting shot up because I haven't perfected it AT ALL.  They just see me; but I think it has a lot to do with the motion sensor so once I get better at understanding it I will be able to use INVIS better.   I like the gunslinger too.  I leveled bladedancer(bd) first and I thought WHY would I ever use gunslinger which has like basically NO abilities, but you would be surprised how easy it is to hit targets with gunslinger's trance active.  And once you get the knack of the throwing knives, you often finish off what your weapon couldn't finish on it's own before reloading.  It really makes the game more fun.  I even started to use the tripmines more often and now people fall for them all of the time.  I used to think that the gunslinger would just get shot up if he didn't have invis but fact is even the bladedancer is easier to play without using invis, gauge that yourselves accordingly.  Oh and if you couple that 8 second Blink attack with Regen ability all with a shotgun in a combo... it's MUCH better than trying to ambush people with invis which you can't have if you use Regen so try it people and LIKE it.  I learned also from You Tube that you could find other exotic gear that had higher stats so instead of just trashing repeat exotic armor, CHECK the stats because they could be 20% better.  Same goes for buying multiple exotics like trying to buy a Purifiers Robe with a ton of coins.  SAVE them all up and then buy up a bunch of gear and then COMPARE the repeats.  They will all have different stats and then just keep the best one.  Also it's best to get at least one exotic of everything.  You never know when you will want that extra laser blast from gunslinger or the 6x laser blast helmet.  One is good to use in crucible, the other is good to use on bosses in Prison of Elders.  

My favorite job to play is the voidwalker.  I love blasting stuff with meteor or whatever it's called and I have his stats and gear really refined out well to include plenty of grenades that lead up to plenty of meteor.  But the thief is who I love to play just to mess around.  I like using invis even though I suck at it.  It's strange.  And whenever I want easy I pull out the Titan.  He is not terribly fancy but he is easy to use to get those daily heroic events for the ascendant shards and then put away to get back to the other two jobs.  I have found it also useful to pull him out during Iron Banner.  He has the easiest time there for some reason.  I get 10 in a row much more often than with the others even though I like him less.  It's like I play better when I don't think about it too much.  Maybe life is like that?  Maybe it's better not to be too emotional?  Is it better not to care or to like things?  Is it better to be a robot?  A slave?  Hmmf.  Well so I have been plugging away at my rank in POE(Prison of Elders) and it's slow going.  Since I don't have my other computer working yet(it's been a month) I can't sign up online to offer myself for a party.  I still think someone burned up my computer but all I know is that it kept turning off and on because of sleep mode that it wouldn't stay asleep.  I think that is what burned up the power supply and if so then it is a simple matter to replace it.  

Microsoft is kind of cheating here aren't they?  I have to buy a NEW COMPUTER to get Windows 7 and even though I have the program I can't use it to run my other computers.  Hmmf.  It's a racket.  What's worse is the cost.  $100 for an operating system that most people would agree probably didn't cost all that much to develop like say a video game.  And what's more is that you don't even get anything new, you get... an operating system that they NOW service and DON'T service the older operating systems.  SO crooked.  

Uh, what about the poor people Yogi? 

Dirigble

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I have said it before and it bears repeating that I always start to write but never now with something to say.  I used to enjoy it enough but now it seems that I have "cursed" myself into believing I am so "cool" and so "up" a writer... that I get writer's block.  Ha ha ha.  Instead I will point to the fact that I still don't have my old computer.  I was set on replacing a power supply on it and even took it apart as well as another old computer but then I got lazy.  When I find things wrong, I tend to want to fix them unless I dread at finding out the cause, which I would then be forced to fix too... which could be my fault.  

Notepad is FAR inferior to Wordpad.  I used to type directly in blogspot.com but several times it has lost my writing so now I type it all up, save it, and then paste it into blogspot.  But this other computer doesn't have Wordpad so I am forced to use Notepad.  Its version of wordwrap is inferior so much so that I have to just type out the words in long lines and paste those lines to make my paragraph in blogspot.  In other words, if I turn on wordwrap on Notepad, it doesn't paste it nicely into blogspot, it messes it up.  Or maybe blogspot messes it up... or maybe it's Google.  Fact is, I never had a problem with blogspot until Google bought it.  

That's the problem with big government.  I am going to spell it out for you directly for the umpteenth time in hopes my OTHER point that I was writing about pops into my head.  If you have a small government, then you get BIG business... like Google, Citibank, Comcast, etc.  Now if you are a criminal organization or member of some fraternity or some such, then all you have to do is pay off someone there that has enough power and POOF now your fraternity has that person's level of power.  It's corruption, yes?  If you have a big government, you have regulators that check up on those firms so that these things can't happen, maybe a CSPB or an SEC or a FTC.  Yet the same thing can happen again right?  Just pay off the right person at such and such level of government and now that person and all the people that work for him now work for the criminal element.  BUT, as I have said before, bribing someone or being bribed at Google doesn't earn you JAIL time, because it's a private company.  Moreover, you are likely to have a settlement for like half or 10% whatever damages the criminal element stole.  That's why Republicans are so hot to keep government out of business, they want the FREEDOM to cheat consumers.  They want "opportunity" to exist... to cheat... lol.  

But that's why we have a system.  Loophole hunting, right?  Remember my previous blogs?  Your job as owner of a business is to find opportunity to make your business leaner and sometimes that includes bribing some politician or corporate agent in an effort to "technology up" your business.  You guys are going to have to read WAY BACK to get what I mean by "technology up".  And this is just a risk right?  Right, Rick?  lol... that's my nickname for risk-takers.  They don't deserve any respect.  They get into this great position of power and now we are supposed to guffaw at all the low lifes that didn't risk their company's welfare to get ahead.  So you go ahead and take risks people SHOW ME what people that skipped paying 10s of thousands of dollars in student loans and skipped making Cs or Bs or As or even registering for class or going through an admissions process and getting rejected... SHOW ME what people without nothing but two knees and a genital do with their sorry lives now that they have skipped becoming educated... oh I see... so you take risks... ha...ha... stupid educated people will never see that coming.  What they probably ALSO won't see coming is that, like black people that all know each other when they are not educated, you will probably want to form GANGS.  

So my effort today is to try to simplify, or better yet to molify old perceptions.  It's not the black people that we despise, or the Mexicans, or the gay people, or even the bingo night old ladies club... we despise WITCHES.  When there is society, all nice and calm, someone undoubtedly develops their own brand of thinking. I am as guilty of it as anyone.  You start to think what if we act against everyone else, that isn't expecting it.  Why don't we form a gang?  Seems logical right.  But that's what we need to hate is the separation, the divide.  They used to burn witches for this, maybe they did the same to black people, maybe we should do it to Mexicans lol, just kidding.  But people acting in private seldom have the will of the people on their agenda.  Look at the TPP.  They are negotiating a treaty... AS PUBLIC OFFICIALS...  in private.  I don't mind if the CIA does it or law enforcement perhaps since combat and war is chaos so why not have a big center of secrecy fueling you group, but treaties are not combat.  The only reason not to show the specifics of the treaty is to not SHOW the specifics like what they are paying those people and what our fat cats here are making.  It's almost as bad as people here hiring mexicans in secret.  They wouldn't SHOW us what they are paying them because then they couldn't keep their SLAVES ... right? 

Hmmf.  

Where's my Alex... 

PS. And don't get me started on the service industry... what is it now $2.25 an hour for them?  Why do people work their I am wondering when people at McDonald's get $15.00 an hour... oh I see... it's a secret.  

Alex gone

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Since my last blog I have had to go WEEKS without Alex and I never realized how much I needed her until now that she is gone.  Boo hoo I guess.  But we must all march on.  Fact is that at least now she can come closer to negotiating the "Bryan Williams" level salary that she deserves.  I think maybe she should consider taking Steve with her to do a morning show somewhere on another network for TWICE the pay, maybe three times.  But I also believe that what makes her so great is not her beauty( though that's a big part) or her charisma and confidence as compared to others (which is quite a boon on her part), but it is the place she holds there with all of her guests.  Always she is tight with her comments diverse with her exclamations and slightly wistful at sad news but never overly much.  I said before that I loved her but now to really think about it I have refined my view... so I will include it now.  

I love the person that she is.  I love her PLACE in the world.  

I got that from Jerry MacGuire.  Tom had come to dread who he had become(another shark in a suit) and so he had a burning bush moment.  There's the difference between what he became(as a lawyer) and what Alex has become(as a journalist).  So ok, that's enough good news for Alex and her family.  I doubt that she will return because that is the nature of maternity is realizing, especially when pregnant, that you didn't have to settle and that you could have chosen ANYBODY and they would have been the father and that you still could because that great moment when you were free is past.  But it doesn't have to be so bad.  All things in life are about contracts or slavery.  Some people call it jobs, others contracts, others agreements but nothing is as permanent as a baby.  Does that mean women understand jobs better?  Maybe.  But I'm losing my point now.  What was it? 

So I hope that she becomes who she is meant to become.  Hopefully that includes helping people by relaying things on TV.  Oh I just googled her and apparently she is worth $3 million so I guess she doesn't need any more millions but whatever she is worth... I think... she's worth AT LEAST double.