Curiosities

I Want to Hibernate

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Bears have got it made. Hibernate after eating a bunch, chunky fat, wake up trim and ready to go. That hibernation thing, I’d like to try it for a couple of days or weeks. They sleep through the winter. I would sleep
through the layer of smog, fog, whatever it is. Hibernation, it is for me.

We, Portland, continues to lead the world in air quality from the fires. I saw the number one thing in the issue is CO, carbon monoxide. I wonder if the CO detector will go off, like a smoke detector telling you about how your food is burning.

This Is Lockdown

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Back in March, I worried about the seriousness of the lockdowns. Would they ban travel? How would they do that? I was driving back and forth to Salem (about 60 miles south) every week. Would I be required to stay in one place or another?

None of that happened. I was essentially free to go about our lives freely. There was a lot, a lot, less traffic. That was pretty nice. No waiting at the intersection looking to the left and right, waiting for a break in traffic. It was there all the time now. Not that there was anywhere to go. But I could get there without issues.

Now we are in lockdown mode. The air quality is so bad that I don’t want to be out and breathing it. How bad? According to IQair Portland has the worst quality air in the world.

We stay inside where, for the most part, we can breathe without any complications. That is a lockdown.

Listening to the World

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I discovered this long after the day that the world listened. World Listening Day 2020-08-18 in Portland, OR was one of many World Listening Project recordings.

The World Listening Day 2020-08-18 in Portland, OR talks about the experience of making the recording. It also has a link to the recording he did last year. If you have trouble listening to his recording, it is ambient noise, on his site you can listen here on the Internet Archives.

Or you can list to other places on the World Listening Project. It’s fascinating stuff. They describe it like this,

The Collective Field

There is something new afoot. The field itself is changing.

The creature world knows.  The creative one does too. 

So what does it mean now to listen? How do we express what we know?

Be alert.

Individually and in concert,

There is sanctity in it.

Amid new conditions, travel the field and explore

By call and response

The rhythm within. 

How does your song fit

Within the collective chorus?

What? Really?

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I opened up email and found this.

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Which, according to Google Translate, means:

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~ Google Translate

This is the first Japanese based SPAM for me. Fun!! I’ve head it in Italian and Germany and (I think) Spanish before. Add Japanese to the list.

Me Here Again

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If you’re here, welcome. There is a wide variety of things written about. But, ultimately, they are about me. And what I’m interested in. And there is a lot that is left out. Well, maybe. There is a lot. You get what pulls my attention in for the day. Like haiku, or stamps, or forest, or, or well there is a lot. Stiff that is not coming to mind anymore. Yes, it is a problem for me now.

Thanks for coming. Come in once in a while, there is sure to be stuff that is different than what you’ve read here before. And hit the random page bit. It will surprise you.