Wednesday, January 27, 2016
about beadle glitter
first there was the store, beadle glitter, then there was this, and now there is also live.
what the cloud is
When we take a picture the image should go to the cloud. From there it can be linked to from other content, but it won't just transmit anywhere, only to authorized receivers. Then it can be requested with filters, and one becomes many.
drawing board
So my gallery opportunity went Poof and it's back to the drawingboard.
who can provide me with rebar like this?
who can provide me with rebar like this?
right and wrong
There's so much that's right with this and so much that's wrong with it. Windows shouldn't have frames and borders, they should just be blocks of text and imagery ... and they shouldn't include menus, those pop up when you hover over them a certain way. Windows can appear in windows or over windows ... interacting with a window shouldn't bring that window forward, unless that's what you want. It's ridiculous!
a blue mark on the time line documents the creation of a page, or some similar event. a green mark indicates an addition to the activity record. It does no good talking about all this though.
a blue mark on the time line documents the creation of a page, or some similar event. a green mark indicates an addition to the activity record. It does no good talking about all this though.
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Monday, January 25, 2016
clips
to prevent exposure to unpleasant ads, stop the video just before the end. now more than ever, watch it full screen! the second frame is deprecated.
Sunday, January 24, 2016
Saturday, January 23, 2016
Friday, January 22, 2016
Thursday, January 21, 2016
Monday, January 18, 2016
mothership
display a view of the mothership
this is a model of a place called the mothership
setting up the plot
x axis runs west and east
y axis runs south and north
z axis runs up and down
northeast corner is (0,0,0)
northwest corner is (50 feet, 0, 0)
the front berm top is a rectilinear surface connecting the northeast and northwest corners and the point 2 feet south of the northwest corner
this is a model of a place called the mothership
setting up the plot
x axis runs west and east
y axis runs south and north
z axis runs up and down
northeast corner is (0,0,0)
northwest corner is (50 feet, 0, 0)
the front berm top is a rectilinear surface connecting the northeast and northwest corners and the point 2 feet south of the northwest corner
Sunday, January 17, 2016
frames
A frame is a division of time, 1/30th of a second. I wish to create a record for each frame, on my laptop, continuously.
Saturday, January 16, 2016
about beadle glitter
beadleglitterlive begins with an almost truly dynamic post - really, it's completely cool, and that's the actual objective, and then there's a fun and eye catching post following that, which is, though, despite myself, a little wordy ... just a bit. So, you can see the problem. And then after that are quite a number of text posts, which are at least colorful, and which maybe tend to be on important topics, and some of which are actually concise ... but, definintely, they're problematic.
Maybe I need to do some serious editing.
Maybe I need to do some serious editing.
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
about
All I want to do is blog.
It's a disease. I don't want a job. I'm not getting a job.
If you have a job, you are so lucky. Praise your stars.
But, people with jobs seem to often wish they had something more.
I have to believe there's potentially some value to what I do want to do, real value.
It's like the oil that lets the world machine turn ... these things ... words, pictures.
Let's see if I can create some value.
It's a disease. I don't want a job. I'm not getting a job.
If you have a job, you are so lucky. Praise your stars.
But, people with jobs seem to often wish they had something more.
I have to believe there's potentially some value to what I do want to do, real value.
It's like the oil that lets the world machine turn ... these things ... words, pictures.
Let's see if I can create some value.
practicality
How can I be useful with just blogging? I mean, I'm too screwed up to get a job, but I sure like blogging, but it's maybe ethically and definitely practically probably a good idea to do something useful ... if you're gonna do something.
From my perspective, if you've got a job, you're extremely fortunate. If you hate your job, maybe I can't help you. You've got a bad habit, and you should learn to be a lover and not a hater. I probably don't want to know you anyway. But it seems to me a lot of people like their jobs, at least somewhat, but they don't feel like the job is giving them everything they need from the world of work. In particular they don't feel it's giving them security, so that weighs on their minds. Similar issues - and these are also important matters - are freedom and abundance. There's also health. I may have some ideas about these things.
Seems to me the key is, when you get off work, don't think of that as the end of your productive day. Rather it's time to do other productive stuff, and productive stuff that's more focused on you.
I'm pretty aware this can be easier said than done. Here's a suggestion: the easiest productive thing you can do outside of work is appreciation. This, of course, is a spiritual idea. The idea is that just appreciating stuff is actually productive. The idea is that just appreciating stuff will actually bring you those maybe missing things, security, freedom, abundance, and health.
So, you could just keep that in mind, and practice it: when you get off work - and, of course, when you're at work, too - just appreciate things. Look around you for things you appreciate, and make a mental note of them. "Hmm. What do I appreciate around here. Huh. I appreciate that little thing (a box of crayons). Huh. And I appreciate this thing here - a little sculpture I made that I do really like. Huh." I'm finding quite a few things to appreciate around me right now, even though the overall situation is pretty crazy, sitting in the bitter cold outside, so I can smoke, and writing a blog no one reads, and my desk all cluttered and really quite a mess. But, you know, I really do appreciate these things, and, I'll tell you, I feel kind of strong, and I think just doing this little exercise ... that it's huge. I'm sort of, in a way, worry free. I feel kind of invincible. I feel like I'm gonna power through. I even feel like I'm gonna WIN. (I'm gonna show that guy who belittled me so bad the other day. He's gonna hear about me.)
It's all about other people. If you've got people to talk to, and they really appreciate you, and you're all positive and working on stuff, you're gonna be happy. Crank it up, and you can be secure and abundant. But it's not just the talk, by itself, that makes that work, it's talk + positivity. And positivity means working on stuff. It means work, like, in the sense that your work day doesn't end when you get off work, at all. But you want to be really relaxed about it. So, if you just go into this independent state where you're continually appreciating stuff, like I say, trust this, that you are being productive, and you will see results, and be massively empowered.
I'm not just being woowoo, here. This little exercise I've given you is a starting place. It's a good starting place because you don't need anything but yourself to do it, so you can start. But the mind and the world are an interactive pair. You do need to move your mental power out into the world, and make it physical, to be whole. That's the "work" equation. I suggest writing postcards. Disclosure: I'm not doing this myself. I'm thinking about it, and I'm sort of trying to do it. Right here I'm thinking about what I maybe can do to make this a reality. But, try it. Send someone an obscure postcard with some kind of symbol on it of something you appreciate. Maybe it's a sketch, or some kind of funny graphic. Listen, I'm gonna work on this, and I'm gonna post about it again, here on this blog. I want to send cards to a gallery. I'm planning to put everything on one side of the card, so the card becomes an art piece - like, you could put it in a frame ... hmm ... or I might do some weird sketch on the back, so you could show that, or the other side, depending on what you want to do with it.
I need to order stamps.
I do believe I'm gonna put my return address right on these cards. I'm going public. I'll just have to deal with that.
So, for me, it's also about blogging. Man, I think Blogger is the coolest thing. I could care less about WordPress. I love Blogger. Somehow, it's just so straightforward. You just sign up for an account, and you're launched. Choose the basic template, ignore all the rest, and in about two seconds you've got a url of your own, and you can post.
Post a picture, for Christ's sake. Keep it simple. Give your post some odd one word title. (It'll come in handy later.)
Now, you can just post it - a picture of something you appreciate. There you go. Making it material. But that's still in the realm of the pure exercise. I'm kind of thinking you want to take this public.
Put this below your photo, in big colorful letters like I'm using here: send me five dollars on Facebook and I'll send you a mail art print of this, OK? (Are you aware you can send and receive money on Facebook now?) Well, now you're in business!
(I'm trying to navigate around all the intricacies, the fiddliness, of things like Kickstarter and Fiverr and Etsy, and even GoFundMe, here. I've looked at those services, and I just feel like they're beyond me and probably won't work for me, because they're beyond me. Maybe I'll become more powerful - probably by connecting with people - and be able to get into those platforms, if I can get something going. The above is my plan for doing that.)
Here's the thing: if you just post something, sure, maybe people can comment or like it, but if you've got something for sale, they can really connect with you. That's my theory. What you want to do is build an audience, a network for yourself. We've got to work on adding substance to our posting. Then our networking, our exchanges of messages, will become more and more substantial. This is how I think we can become bigger. That's my theory.
There's another thing about life for working people: your program for financial security is not complete unless you are investing in the stock market, it's as simple as that. And a lot of you, if you're working people and kind of struggling, are going to say I'm really talking crazy now, but I'm not. You're going to say "I don't know anything about the stock market. You're telling me to gamble. I'm just going to loose my money." OK, as regards the first part, you don't need to know anything, or you only need to know what I'm gonna tell you right here. As regards the second point, if you're not gambling, you're not living. What are you doing, then? You're cowering. But you do want to gamble smart, and the key to gambling smart is knowing when to place a small bet, which is most of the time. That's where people go wrong in the stock market: they think they need to bet big. No! Don't do it! But do this: bet small, and do that regularly.
So let me explain how this works. First of all, the way the economy works, for you to have a complete financial life, you need a job, so you're making money by the sweat of your brow (or, if you don't want a job, you need to at any rate make some dough by the sweat of your brow - and you can do it ... I mean, if you don't have faith, and aren't willing to figure something out, like I say, I can't help you), and then, you need to invest in stocks. The economy has two components: people working, and people investing. The first part gets the work done, and the second part creates the tools people need to get the work done. It's actually your duty as a citizen to invest in the stock market. And, if you fulfill that duty, you will have financial security. But to fulfill that duty, you need to be just minimally smart about it. If you're stupid about it, and just throw your money away, you aren't fulfilling that duty. So what's the minimally smart thing you need to do? Read on.
Take your advice from Warren Buffett. This isn't how he made billions - that's his business - it's how he says you and I, who aren't in that business, should invest, and what he says is: invest in an S&P 500 index fund. "I like Vanguard," he says.
Here's the plan: put $100 a month into an S&P 500 index fund. You can swing that. Hey, listen, I just Googled Vanguard. You can do this on line. You don't need to talk to anyone else. Hmm. You know, John Bogle, the founder of Vanguard, seems like a really wise and caring guy. Here's his page at Amazon. Buy a book. This, by the way, is an affiliate link. If you buy through this link, I make a little money. And here's Bogle's page at Wikipedia. Listen, listen, one of the things to do after work that's productive is reading. You may think reading is just for entertainment, or for general information, but you should think differently. Take it serious, and by that I mean, just affirm: "by reading I will make myself great, free and abundant. This is true. If I come to my reading, relaxed and easy, not worrying about a thing, but with this in mind, that I can be free and abundant, and that this, reading, is part of the way people can achieve that greatness, then I will receive real benefit from my reading. Watch and see." Wikipedia is such a great thing. You can read totally serious stuff there, completely for free. Now, Wikipedia isn't going to turn you into a millionaire just like that. I'm not talking some stupid fantasy, here. But you can read there, and it's serious reading, and if you eventually are going to be a millionaire, you need to start reading. If you want to be a fun person, and not a whiny monster, start reading. Don't say "this isn't going to do me any good." If you do that, you won't do the reading.
(There's another thing about reading: if you want it to really work for you, also write. Get your blog set up, and start building your network. Don't post much, take it slow and think about what you're doing. Post something, and then network around it. But eventually you'll want to post about literature, about what you're reading. That's going to be part of your product. Keep that in mind as, like, a navigation tool, so you know where you're ultimately headed.)
One hundred dollars a month in the index fund, and this is for the long haul, and that's no joke. It won't do you a bit of good for the first twenty years. But after twenty years, it'll start to produce for you, and you will actually be a financially secure person.
Here's the final thing you need to know, and not forget: you don't want to ever, ever sell you shares until you're out there in the twenty to thirty years in area, and your investment has started to really produce. Then you can sell shares and do things with the money. Or you can just do things with your dividend. (While you're building this up you want to re-invest your dividend, or most of it.) The terrible mistake people make is, they'll watch their account go up and up during good times, and then there'll be some sort of market calamity, their account will loose a whole bunch of value (on paper, mind you ... in reality, it means nothing), and they'll loose faith, and sell out at the bottom. Well, they've just killed their whole investment plan. When the market's down, if anything, buy more. The market always comes rocketing back, and that is precisely when you will really make your money ... if you stayed in it.
Well, one more thing. If you're an old guy and you're just starting this plan, you're going to be seriously old by the time it starts to pay off. I think you should still do it, if for no other reason then on principle. At least you'll know you've now got a complete plan. It'll be good for your spirits. But for a young person, this is a truly great thing. They can keep it up for thirty, forty, fifty years, and by that time this will actually make them wealthy.
Um, if you're not sure about all of this, connect with me on Facebook, and we can talk it over. I have to emphasize that I'm not an investment adviser, or anything like that, but I hate it when people say "you just need to figure it out yourself." If it would help you to talk it over, we can even do some Skyping, and I will give that a shot with you.
Mid morning. The above was, like, 4 am. I just ordered 160 stamps (for $80). It was quite a chore, but I got it done. https://www.usps.com/. Carefully saved screenshots of the whole process.
From my perspective, if you've got a job, you're extremely fortunate. If you hate your job, maybe I can't help you. You've got a bad habit, and you should learn to be a lover and not a hater. I probably don't want to know you anyway. But it seems to me a lot of people like their jobs, at least somewhat, but they don't feel like the job is giving them everything they need from the world of work. In particular they don't feel it's giving them security, so that weighs on their minds. Similar issues - and these are also important matters - are freedom and abundance. There's also health. I may have some ideas about these things.
Seems to me the key is, when you get off work, don't think of that as the end of your productive day. Rather it's time to do other productive stuff, and productive stuff that's more focused on you.
I'm pretty aware this can be easier said than done. Here's a suggestion: the easiest productive thing you can do outside of work is appreciation. This, of course, is a spiritual idea. The idea is that just appreciating stuff is actually productive. The idea is that just appreciating stuff will actually bring you those maybe missing things, security, freedom, abundance, and health.
So, you could just keep that in mind, and practice it: when you get off work - and, of course, when you're at work, too - just appreciate things. Look around you for things you appreciate, and make a mental note of them. "Hmm. What do I appreciate around here. Huh. I appreciate that little thing (a box of crayons). Huh. And I appreciate this thing here - a little sculpture I made that I do really like. Huh." I'm finding quite a few things to appreciate around me right now, even though the overall situation is pretty crazy, sitting in the bitter cold outside, so I can smoke, and writing a blog no one reads, and my desk all cluttered and really quite a mess. But, you know, I really do appreciate these things, and, I'll tell you, I feel kind of strong, and I think just doing this little exercise ... that it's huge. I'm sort of, in a way, worry free. I feel kind of invincible. I feel like I'm gonna power through. I even feel like I'm gonna WIN. (I'm gonna show that guy who belittled me so bad the other day. He's gonna hear about me.)
It's all about other people. If you've got people to talk to, and they really appreciate you, and you're all positive and working on stuff, you're gonna be happy. Crank it up, and you can be secure and abundant. But it's not just the talk, by itself, that makes that work, it's talk + positivity. And positivity means working on stuff. It means work, like, in the sense that your work day doesn't end when you get off work, at all. But you want to be really relaxed about it. So, if you just go into this independent state where you're continually appreciating stuff, like I say, trust this, that you are being productive, and you will see results, and be massively empowered.
I'm not just being woowoo, here. This little exercise I've given you is a starting place. It's a good starting place because you don't need anything but yourself to do it, so you can start. But the mind and the world are an interactive pair. You do need to move your mental power out into the world, and make it physical, to be whole. That's the "work" equation. I suggest writing postcards. Disclosure: I'm not doing this myself. I'm thinking about it, and I'm sort of trying to do it. Right here I'm thinking about what I maybe can do to make this a reality. But, try it. Send someone an obscure postcard with some kind of symbol on it of something you appreciate. Maybe it's a sketch, or some kind of funny graphic. Listen, I'm gonna work on this, and I'm gonna post about it again, here on this blog. I want to send cards to a gallery. I'm planning to put everything on one side of the card, so the card becomes an art piece - like, you could put it in a frame ... hmm ... or I might do some weird sketch on the back, so you could show that, or the other side, depending on what you want to do with it.
I need to order stamps.
I do believe I'm gonna put my return address right on these cards. I'm going public. I'll just have to deal with that.
So, for me, it's also about blogging. Man, I think Blogger is the coolest thing. I could care less about WordPress. I love Blogger. Somehow, it's just so straightforward. You just sign up for an account, and you're launched. Choose the basic template, ignore all the rest, and in about two seconds you've got a url of your own, and you can post.
Post a picture, for Christ's sake. Keep it simple. Give your post some odd one word title. (It'll come in handy later.)
Now, you can just post it - a picture of something you appreciate. There you go. Making it material. But that's still in the realm of the pure exercise. I'm kind of thinking you want to take this public.
Put this below your photo, in big colorful letters like I'm using here: send me five dollars on Facebook and I'll send you a mail art print of this, OK? (Are you aware you can send and receive money on Facebook now?) Well, now you're in business!
(I'm trying to navigate around all the intricacies, the fiddliness, of things like Kickstarter and Fiverr and Etsy, and even GoFundMe, here. I've looked at those services, and I just feel like they're beyond me and probably won't work for me, because they're beyond me. Maybe I'll become more powerful - probably by connecting with people - and be able to get into those platforms, if I can get something going. The above is my plan for doing that.)
Here's the thing: if you just post something, sure, maybe people can comment or like it, but if you've got something for sale, they can really connect with you. That's my theory. What you want to do is build an audience, a network for yourself. We've got to work on adding substance to our posting. Then our networking, our exchanges of messages, will become more and more substantial. This is how I think we can become bigger. That's my theory.
There's another thing about life for working people: your program for financial security is not complete unless you are investing in the stock market, it's as simple as that. And a lot of you, if you're working people and kind of struggling, are going to say I'm really talking crazy now, but I'm not. You're going to say "I don't know anything about the stock market. You're telling me to gamble. I'm just going to loose my money." OK, as regards the first part, you don't need to know anything, or you only need to know what I'm gonna tell you right here. As regards the second point, if you're not gambling, you're not living. What are you doing, then? You're cowering. But you do want to gamble smart, and the key to gambling smart is knowing when to place a small bet, which is most of the time. That's where people go wrong in the stock market: they think they need to bet big. No! Don't do it! But do this: bet small, and do that regularly.
So let me explain how this works. First of all, the way the economy works, for you to have a complete financial life, you need a job, so you're making money by the sweat of your brow (or, if you don't want a job, you need to at any rate make some dough by the sweat of your brow - and you can do it ... I mean, if you don't have faith, and aren't willing to figure something out, like I say, I can't help you), and then, you need to invest in stocks. The economy has two components: people working, and people investing. The first part gets the work done, and the second part creates the tools people need to get the work done. It's actually your duty as a citizen to invest in the stock market. And, if you fulfill that duty, you will have financial security. But to fulfill that duty, you need to be just minimally smart about it. If you're stupid about it, and just throw your money away, you aren't fulfilling that duty. So what's the minimally smart thing you need to do? Read on.
Take your advice from Warren Buffett. This isn't how he made billions - that's his business - it's how he says you and I, who aren't in that business, should invest, and what he says is: invest in an S&P 500 index fund. "I like Vanguard," he says.
Here's the plan: put $100 a month into an S&P 500 index fund. You can swing that. Hey, listen, I just Googled Vanguard. You can do this on line. You don't need to talk to anyone else. Hmm. You know, John Bogle, the founder of Vanguard, seems like a really wise and caring guy. Here's his page at Amazon. Buy a book. This, by the way, is an affiliate link. If you buy through this link, I make a little money. And here's Bogle's page at Wikipedia. Listen, listen, one of the things to do after work that's productive is reading. You may think reading is just for entertainment, or for general information, but you should think differently. Take it serious, and by that I mean, just affirm: "by reading I will make myself great, free and abundant. This is true. If I come to my reading, relaxed and easy, not worrying about a thing, but with this in mind, that I can be free and abundant, and that this, reading, is part of the way people can achieve that greatness, then I will receive real benefit from my reading. Watch and see." Wikipedia is such a great thing. You can read totally serious stuff there, completely for free. Now, Wikipedia isn't going to turn you into a millionaire just like that. I'm not talking some stupid fantasy, here. But you can read there, and it's serious reading, and if you eventually are going to be a millionaire, you need to start reading. If you want to be a fun person, and not a whiny monster, start reading. Don't say "this isn't going to do me any good." If you do that, you won't do the reading.
(There's another thing about reading: if you want it to really work for you, also write. Get your blog set up, and start building your network. Don't post much, take it slow and think about what you're doing. Post something, and then network around it. But eventually you'll want to post about literature, about what you're reading. That's going to be part of your product. Keep that in mind as, like, a navigation tool, so you know where you're ultimately headed.)
One hundred dollars a month in the index fund, and this is for the long haul, and that's no joke. It won't do you a bit of good for the first twenty years. But after twenty years, it'll start to produce for you, and you will actually be a financially secure person.
Here's the final thing you need to know, and not forget: you don't want to ever, ever sell you shares until you're out there in the twenty to thirty years in area, and your investment has started to really produce. Then you can sell shares and do things with the money. Or you can just do things with your dividend. (While you're building this up you want to re-invest your dividend, or most of it.) The terrible mistake people make is, they'll watch their account go up and up during good times, and then there'll be some sort of market calamity, their account will loose a whole bunch of value (on paper, mind you ... in reality, it means nothing), and they'll loose faith, and sell out at the bottom. Well, they've just killed their whole investment plan. When the market's down, if anything, buy more. The market always comes rocketing back, and that is precisely when you will really make your money ... if you stayed in it.
Well, one more thing. If you're an old guy and you're just starting this plan, you're going to be seriously old by the time it starts to pay off. I think you should still do it, if for no other reason then on principle. At least you'll know you've now got a complete plan. It'll be good for your spirits. But for a young person, this is a truly great thing. They can keep it up for thirty, forty, fifty years, and by that time this will actually make them wealthy.
Um, if you're not sure about all of this, connect with me on Facebook, and we can talk it over. I have to emphasize that I'm not an investment adviser, or anything like that, but I hate it when people say "you just need to figure it out yourself." If it would help you to talk it over, we can even do some Skyping, and I will give that a shot with you.
Mid morning. The above was, like, 4 am. I just ordered 160 stamps (for $80). It was quite a chore, but I got it done. https://www.usps.com/. Carefully saved screenshots of the whole process.
links
random from looking at stocks: Obama on the economy, 2016. some white guy's comment: if you have the skills to work with the digital economy, you're doing great ... apparently that's what the Prez means that the economy's changing. Hey, that's what this blog's about! except, I don't have skills. can't program. the programmers think I'm a bug. squash me. whatever. things are always changing, always have been. the skills we need are ... the skill we need is FAITH. not "in God". I'm not babbling someone else's words at you. In LIFE. in DOING STUFF. dream dream and do. put yourself out there. faith in ART, I'LL PUT IT THAT WAY.
Quora. I say it's a discovery ... Now to explore. (This could be a way for me to get free traffic, is my one-track thought.)
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg
Quora. I say it's a discovery ... Now to explore. (This could be a way for me to get free traffic, is my one-track thought.)
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg
Sunday, January 10, 2016
system testing
At Finviz.com you can get embedable charts you can put in your blog. These come in two flavors, static, which will always show the same pattern, from the same date and time, and dynamic, which will always show the latest data when you load the post. So, set up a blog on Blogger, then go to Finviz and look for a stock you think is likely to move. Do a post with a static chart and a dynamic chart, one above the other. Now the static chart is permanent evidence of what (pattern) you thought was a buy, and the dynamic chart shows how your idea is working out. (When you get a result, you can change the dynamic chart to a static chart so it will always show that result.)
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