with no one /rectify

When you are alone with yourself all the time, with no one but yourself, you begin to go deeper and deeper into yourself until you lose yourself. It's a perverse contradiction. It's like your ego begins to disintegrate until you have no ego. Not in the sense that you you become humble or or or gain some kind of perspective, but that you literally lose your sense of self.   // he is not crying yet, as says lose yrslf.  cries at: not sure anyone can understand. //
 And I'm not sure anyone, unless they have gone through it, can can can truly understand how (INHALES DEEPLY) profound that loss is.




http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=rectify&episode=s04e01
Those other guys in the house, Nate, Pickle, Tyrus, when they were in prison, they were usually around a lot of other guys, right? Interacting. Sounds like prison. I was alone, interacting with myself. I'm aware of that. Or the voices inside the grate. Voices? The other inmates on the row. We would communicate with each other through the grates. I see. Sometimes with friends, sometimes with no friends at all. But no matter who it was, I would never get to see them or feel them, their their presence. And that's not the same. No. No, it's not. And I did that. I lived like that for 20 years. That's a long time. It's a strange way to exist. It's inhuman. What is it, Dan? If not now, when? After my friend was executed, I became despondent more despondent. I guess depressed. Enraged. But more than anything, I was lonely. So deeply lonely. He had protected me from that more than I realized. I bet. When you are alone with yourself all the time, with no one but yourself, you begin to go deeper and deeper into yourself until you lose yourself. It's a perverse contradiction. It's like your ego begins to disintegrate until you have no ego. Not in the sense that you you become humble or or or gain some kind of perspective, but that you literally lose your sense of self. And I'm not sure anyone, unless they have gone through it, can can can truly understand how (INHALES DEEPLY) profound that loss is. It's like the psychic glue that binds your whole notion of existence is gone, and you become unglued. I think, therefore I am. I think too much, therefore I am not. I am not, therefore I am nothing. (VOICE BREAKING) I am nothing, therefore I am dead. And if I am dead, then why am I still so goddamn lonely? It's good that you're talking about this, Dan.   What you've been through and what you've lost Part of the grieving process, you know? Is there a 90-day plan for that, too? A New Canaan House grief plan? What color binder is that housed in? Ain't no plan for that. But we're here to help you. We really are. The problem with your program is I don't fit. You're a human being, Dan. You fit. One of your biggest tenets or dictums or whatever you call it is is to be upfront, yeah? Be straight, be real. Tell the world what you did, right? No, not tell the world, just who you need to. The tiny little issue I am having, Avery, is that I don't know what real is. I don't truly know what I did or didn't do. I can say I am a convicted murderer, which is true. I am convicted. And I can say that I killed her, too Hanna which I have said more than once. And I can even imagine that I killed her, which I have imagined, because that's what I've been asked to do multiple times. But I honestly can't say that I did, in fact, kill her. Because I just don't remember, for the life of me. And that's (EXHALES SHARPLY) Your truth. Yes. That's my truth. And what if you never know what happened? I don't know. And I don't know what to do with that unknowing. Sounds like you got to accept it. What else can you do? It's not so easy. Of course it isn't, but you never tried, have you? No. - Why not? - I don't know. Come on. You know why not. Because I don't feel like I deserve it. I-is that the answer you wanna hear? Deserve what? A life? I didn't think it would end this way. That you'd get out? Alive. No. Then that's what you've got to decide, whether you deserve a life or not, out here, after all you've been through. After all that punishment, after all that suffering, your one life. Do you deserve to live it? And just because you don't remember or know for sure whether you killed that girl or not, that doesn't mean you did it either. Right? Maybe you oughta lean the other way for a while, that you didn't do it. But if I lean that way, it it means Means what? That I'm just making a decision. Okay. What else can you do? Not make a decision? And isn't that the same thing? And didn't you already make a decision the other way? This may sound hokey as shit, but you gotta figure out some way to love yourself.



















When you are alone with /is it with/  yourself all the time, with no one but /no one but/  yourself  /so you are someone some one/, you begin to go deeper and deeper into yourself  /yes though it is not clear wh th /   until you lose yourself   /again yes though not clear what is lose what is your what is eh self (I dont even like word 'self'.  not meaning how m d n like myself meaning how m I feel d n say wh.  more than th.  says sth th I feel not true.   is th why I want da-sein being-there  in each case my own  does he H heidegger translator manage not to say self  no I think says   selbst   in each case my own  is  sein selbst   well still maybe   about how to not be saying untruth I feel said in 'self'   how not to talk about God as an object./.
And I'm not sure anyone, unless they have gone through it, can can can  truly understand how profound that loss is. // this is where I.  he cries.  and I.  because wh them to understand.  he cries bcs wants understand.  -and-or- cries because the loss.  seems: the same  - this is a qstn.    crying the loss and crying want someone understand  
- how is it the same.   try answer:  
crying loss of myself is loss of  .someone I was with.  .there was no one but.  (this someone. myself). 
and then I was not.  loss.  left without.    //here remind.  faulkner is it.  as I lay dying.  prepare myself for sleep.//
missed someone. 
 _and_
crying want someone to understand.  want. lack.  "not sure anyone can understand.."  afraid no one can understand.  want someone understand. 
if someone (else) understands then.  less lonely. yes but say more.     self not lost if someone else understands (the loss of self).   /self constituted in relationsh * eh maybe exactly but it's not said for me by th.  I thou  maybe closer  this maybe more close/    what if just I understand, then am not lost?  there is no 'just I understand'    .there is only being understood.
"I am nothing, therefore I am dead.And if I am dead, then why am I still so goddamn lonely?"
I am not understood, therefore I am not.  and I am alone.
csl "I did not believe in God.  and I was very angry at Him for not existing." do I mean this is the same or different.   csl not alone.  angry at someone for being not there.  csl 'self' is there.  this is in Surprised by Joy and I think not sure remember right he means it twd that he did believe.
daniel is he does not (believe).  he does not have 'himself'  .he is not.


faulkner is it.  as I lay dying.  prepare myself for sleep. *    "And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I don't know what I am. I don't know if I am or not."
*   and before you are emptied for sleep what are you // A Reader's Guide to William Faulkner: The Novels - Edmond Loris Volpe - Google Books / huh: Darl's meditations on being and non-being are less imagistic bcs he is intelligent and he is capable of identifying the problem.  / ~ less imagistics bcs intelligent /
...And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I don't know what I am. I don't know if I am or not. Jewel knows he is, because he does not know that he does not know whether he is or not. He cannot empty himself for sleep because he is not what he is and he is what he is not. ...
The dependence on emotional attachments and upon the identity of others for our own sense of identity is stressed in Dearl's references to Jewel.  Darl knows that Addie is dead, but Jewel does not: therefore Jewel, Darl muses is what he is not.  The identity that Jewel knows in his relationship with his mother no longer exists, though he does know it yet. But Darl, knowing that Addie is dead, knows that Jewel "is what he is not"










 

i'm not there 2007

10/9 watch I’m Not There todd haynes.   had bn not so int bcs ~ catherine blanchett as dylan feels too..fmlr.  but now am int, d n know had christian bale.  is other char actually a singer, I guess more folk (blanchett dylan more electric, rock).  then heath ledger as movie star plays bayle char, gets the love story like dylans, w charlotte gainsbourg, who I can see here as interesting beautiful.  / so those three as young men Dylan, stars.  then the poet Dylan, a voice.  ben whishaw who is lead in the bbc criminal justice, of wh ‘night of’ is adaptatn.  / then older mythological outlaw figure billy played by gere.  and kid following the mythology hopping trains calling himself Woody Guthrie.  //
pretty cool.  collage poetry ~ in vicinity of idea of this person bob dylan.  int to read about. 
christian bale char, 42 min into film, drunk receiving civil liberties award: “ first of all bcs you’re all young.  and it’s taken me a while to get young; and now I consider myself young. and I’m proud of it.  it aint old peoples world out there.”  /isn’t it? they’re shaping it but ~ the young have it to be within, to react to./  (‘I’m younger now’)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368794/faq   the young boy hops trains and lives with hobos-poor folks, the poorest. He is 'saved' by middle-class white folks, who treat him as a curiosity, but don't pay much attention to his radical political ideas. As an adult, as Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, or Heath Ledger, he struggles with this 'split'-how can he sing songs about poor folks to middle-class folks…   Each of them struggles with the split differently-through anger, opposition, sadness.  /wh? is it th dffrnt?  I read chr bale as sad.  but also angry.  oppositional.  blanchett all those as well, rt.  ledger mostly angry?//
bale: “you can boo, but booin’s got nothing to do w it.”   “they want me to sing pointing fingers songs, I only got ten fingers.”

/love this movie, crafted  ~
                             rimbaud char speaking throughout as voice poet under all. 
beginning = kid folk wanderer   }  d n see him again after woodie guthrie deathbed   ~ 40 min in . 
           three men in life:  folk singer jack rollins..                 /near beginning, and at 40 min in we see his awards dinner upset ~ end docum/               / .. til near end come back to him as Father John. 
                heath ledger fame love story..   /this starts within and overlaps fr there out/                    quinn (who I actually think as dylan) first seen at ~ 45 min in.  after finished w beginning (kid)  and thr segue of jack rollins seeming end of story, upset public
                        > quinn’s public also upset w him ..   .. near end:  “folk music just a word I dnt get to use anymore”
ending = outlaw { d n see him until ~ 1:15  // his is last story beat, on train. 

political ~ man is animal who speaks

meanwhile d trump.  that debate.  felt like the grownups -civilizatn - might not be able to keep things ~ civil.  reasonable.  not man against man.  trump “it’s one against three” - they were trying.  felt like we need Obama. 
(saw tweet quoting the republ ~ last thing we want is four more yrs of obama. and saying, that is wh we want, that is all we want.)  

trump felt to me like jack nicholson in A Few Good Men.   like Trump, saying he hadn’t paid taxes, or saying sth else, would  - w that hand gesture  let me tell it like it is  yeah I did this  look, this what everyone does  - go too far.  say sth straight up unacceptable.  wh I guess wld have to be legally actionable, immediately.   like j nicholson saying he ordered the code red, and everyone got quiet.      and that was it.  no more question.   and the prosecutor for the us govt kevin bacon had to recover, and arrest the general. 
like that moment where everyone will looks around, clinton too, and then what?
who wld hv bn the authority in that room?   here?  the moderators?  the debate commision? security police?   
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//this is where I am.  this is personally how I react:  who will keep that room safe?
with the danger I see being?  this one man.  Trump.  to the room.  
threatens to override the civility of the institutions he is within.
/and I might like a radical who disrupts that civility?  if in the name of - well, if acting out of a subjectivity that is appealing and relatable to me?  even, maybe, "burn it all down".  [I'm Not There - christian bale at civil liberties dinner, drunk, getting award, saying he saw in Kennedy's assassin sth he has felt.]      (but also I think that would be contained.  that is danger possible in and from me, but it is not widely present in people, or ~ not in a way they would act on?  that feeling tends to stay more solitary.  doesn't it?  it's not a feeling of people in power, accruing power. usually.  what feeling? despair. > nihilism.)
Trump wants followers.  he wants to be big. famous.  motivated to be beloved and right and to win.  and capable at it. 
bullying.  I mean even if not choosing to be.  will react to any slight with a great attempt to injure.   and is capable at those attempts to injure.  goes all in.  unabashed.  which is powerful.  to meet with Clinton accusers and bring them to family row of debate!  audacious.  and effective, made an impact, created to me huge tension.  ///


 ...   What Is Truth?






what is amazing is th if you trust Trump and distrust Clinton (cause & effect going either way), you think a moment like that almost happened that was -her- -- admitting criminality -- in not denying deleted emails. 
and so trump is saying he wld put her in jail.
and he says she lies and lies.  
and the thing is ‘we’ see this as extreme, coming from him, who hardly has any seeming deference to facts at all. 
vs:    she lies in ordinary political ways of public private not-earnest means-to-ends … we are used to it, accept it as not (newly) dangerous, but we welcome Bernie saying No to it, saying let’s say true things.  let's call it out.  let's not accept but try to fight against the current state of things.  danger already having befallen us. of great inequality. of climate damage. 
we say yes she is not a truth teller.  we say: but Trump just says wildly false things, contradictory one moment to next. 
but to his supporters he seems like a truth teller.  maybe he gets facts wrong; but I guess cld look like he gets the gist?  he believes wh he says.  is this accurate?  he believes wh he says (wh makes it amazing if we are against him and we are considering facts); Clinton believes wh she says only in a complicated way ~ she believes it is worth saying, maybe. 
~~   it’s like incompatible species.  I mean actually.  I mean sort of like clan of the cave bear.  not as an insult.  the neanderthals may have been better people, even better as a species in a way.
but the cro magnons could just do subtraction.  cld just reverse addition.  as a mental process.  and the neanderthals couldn’t get minds around it.  wh also means maybe cld hv appreciated it as an amazing thought, not just a mental manuever (this does not apply to trump, but to someone who is not espclly sharp, but thoughtful?).
 cro magnon mind more sophisticated ~ means what?  can make more movements.  triplicate ratio. 
I don’t know.  incompatible, though. 
and I’d rather the same old status quo lying?    than an earnest hugely wrong (re facts) reactionary style. 
I’d rather smart. 
smart *and* earnest, if you can get it.  (Bernie.)  Obama? compare/contrast.  Obama's selling point is smart rather than earnest.  inspiring.  yes idealism.  but not such a progressive?  (why not?)  Obama is an orator and a leader.  Sanders is a legislator and an activist.   ~ maybe, but cld say same of the other.     
/so, how about ted cruz?  smart, right?  and earnest ~ no.  but let's say he was,  but just earnest about policies I do not like.  wh means what?  policies I do not think *nice* - to those not sharing beliefs, christian stances mainly. ~  to not straight ppl.  to women who want not to have children..
I'd go for not so smart but earnest and careful, maybe, if able to work together with smart. 


 People are different to each other.
   looking at Trumps crowd
 (apparently all white, behind podium in western PA on Monday; but probably some non-white). upsetting.
viewing this as a divide among people - not the two nominees' personalities but the people who support them - (so personalities of the nominees in as much as how they appeal to these ppl, wh ppl see)
left vs right?  liberal vs conservative =  at very basic  =   hope vs fear
(even while Clinton may be pretty conservative, still she does seem to have ideals ..   and pretty certainly people who want the world to progress, to *become* better *for people who are not like them*,  are with her, right? versus people who want the country to *return* to and be safeguarded as prosperity *for people like them* are with Trump? )     

I can see what they like, I think.  “lock her up” goes too far, chanting, bcs aren’t they struck - even if they think her actions are illegal - that chanting for her lock-up is … like a mob? 
so what do I see?  they think open borders is extreme, crazy.  they boo the idea that Hilary wants to rule the world (she doesn’t, but yes I suppose she wld want a more united world!)   vs Trump wants to make the country great again.  against the world.  he will make it so You Win. 
why would you not want a borderless world? maybe you say: bcs it isn’t that. get real.  “give me a break.”  bcs we are at war.  right?  that is the view.  but even as an ideal?   seriously: bcs it means no job for you.  insecurity.  other people getting what is yours.   other people on your home ground hurting you.  you want to be protected. 
govt shld protect its people.  
conservative ~ protecting freedoms first of all.  people get to do what they can for themselves, uninhibited by govt.  get to protect their property.  >> this becomes: get to keep out foreigners, get to not share.  and govt shld do this on the larger scale. 
and not that clinton doesn’t agree, right, that govt must protect from outside threats but her protection from ~encroachers~ even in theory compromised by ideas of fairness (the left). 
and in practice, the bigger deal, she disdains you.  she thinks you are lesser.   
~~  I think she means it that she wants to be president for everyone.  I think she prob is capable of sympathy for most individuals in need.  but as a crowd and a sentiment, does she disdain people who think protectionism has to trump ~decency?  probably.  seems less smart.  bigoted.  / seriously: what is the case for ~bigotry?  in seriousness, mostly a case wld not be made for being a bigot. wld be said that ppl are attacked as 'bigots' for wanting to stand up for thmslvs.  they get attacked as racist, dumb, etc.  ok.  and why is it that standing up for thmslvs has to look like that (open thmslvs up to that)?  bcs not everyone can win.  bcs affirmative action means: someone got your spot.  (you only don’t hv to worry about this if your spot was never in qstn? as an ‘elite’) 

in short, I’d like us not to think “it’s crazy” that ppl cld want trump as president and believe wh he says, but to consider why.  not disdainfully.  like even if we disagree, do not diagnose.  just disagree.  but understand they actually want something here.  right.  they think it will be better.  why do they think that?  because: he’s real, he’s not smug (twd them), he’s successful and he will succeed on their behalf. 
and the readiest most important argument here is probably:  he won’t. he won’t make things better for you. 
that is actually wh shld be conveyed, right? 
it is easy and interesting (to me!!) to get caught up in why this man trump is terrible.  unbelievably reactionary to any criticism, and unthoughtful.   but so what?  his supporters like his demeanor, more or less, and even if they don’t, so what, if they think he will be a better president?  for you.  
wh is pretty much our position, many of us, w Hillary.  we don’t love her ways, personally.  but she’ll do her best and she is very capable. 
trump supporters wld say the same, right: he will do his best, and he is very capable.
and so the thing is, will he?  make things better for you?  even, might he? 
is someone putting out reasoned discussion of why and how he probably will not?
I suppose so, and that is just not what I am reading (other than saying he won’t bcs he is nuts etc).  there are articles saw one today what a trump presidency wld look like.  this seems like the way to campaign against him.  convey to supporters:  Will you get what you want?  No.  (assuming that is the answer.)
like, will be bring back steel and mining to western PA?
(seems bad for envmt I guess, but maybe it's happening elsewhere he says and you are just going to reclaim it.  that aside, will he bring jobs and prosperity to them?)  






////// could I write this in an organized way? 
if I had a very good motivation?  still, not easily?
bcs it is stream.  it's not declarative.  is any of this a declaration I'd want to *make" and *stand by*?  maybe as a declaration of what I think, how it seems to me.... but: as it is?  the part after "I think", not the fact I am thinking that ~~~~

“Gender?” they would say, “I hardly know ‘er!” /// I start to consider what I might be, if my girlness hasn’t counted simply because it wasn’t overtly confessed.

I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out. – Medium  

Imagine a cis-woman evenly saying:  “I wish I looked like that but I don’t and can’t. It sucks and it makes me feel really awful if I brood on it. That’s why I focus on my writing—I’d rather make things. Investing in and building things that aren’t my body helps me cope with the body issues I’ve been saddled with against my will.”

She doesn’t sound like she needs advice on how makeup will actually fix her core problem, does she? She seems like she’s doing alright. I’m her and I’m trans. That’s all.

I appreciate the encouragement I receive from trans friends, but I reject the implication that transitioning is my destiny. My brain is my brain — my body is my body. They don’t match, and I’ve chosen to devote my energy to coming to terms with that and focusing on other things, rather than trying to change my body. I am not advocating this position to other trans people or discouraging anyone from pursuing the path they feel is best for them.



The best I can do, for me, is divest—as best I can—my identity from my appearance and focus, mindfully, on other things. It’s not impossible! Look at those Dust Bowl folks—they were just trying to drive across the country in a jalopy! “Gender?” they would say, “I hardly know ‘er!”   // :)



I am eighteen years old.  I am in college. I learn that some people ask to be called by different pronouns. I see how this feels in my head. It doesn’t make much of a difference. I still want to sit in that chair and flip that switch. Pronouns are the least of my concerns.

I visit a women’s college. I am surrounded by new women and we feel instantly comfortable around each other. I attend a lecture. The speaker yells “who gets to be a woman?” and a crowd of cis women responds “anyone who wants to be!”

The sentiment is nice, but I think about the years I spent staring out the window at the stars and I feel suddenly uncomfortable.

Later during this trip I am having a conversation with my new friends about femininity. They are articulate and intelligent women. I’m grateful to be around them. Until I am told by one of them, angrily, that I am not really allowed to talk about femininity because I am a straight cis boy. It is not my place and it is not my territory. I should shut up and listen.

I start to consider what I might be, if my girlness hasn’t counted simply because it wasn’t overtly confessed. I think about my boyness—about my childhood and adolescence—how my experiences with boys deviated from what I was taught to expect.

I change my major and spend a year writing about non-gay-identifying male femininity from the Aesthetics of the late 1880’s to vaudeville radio stars. Eventually, as a love-hate letter to coming-of-age films of the 80’s, 90’s and early 00’s, I write my thesis on the friendship and sexuality of American males and its representation in television & film. One piece of feedback is “I am so sick of boys writing about boys.”

I think about being told I was not allowed to speak about femininity. I wonder what a person like me is allowed to speak about.

One of the boys from boarding school, who began to shower with me late at night, who told me through gritted teeth that he was too skinny and too fat, throws himself in front of a train.




I hate that the only effective response I can give to “boys are shit” is “well I’m not a boy.” I feel like I am selling out the boy in baseball pajamas that sat with me on the bed while I tried to figure out which one I was supposed to be, and the boys who I have met and loved from inside my boy suit—who believed they were talking to a boy. I feel like I am burning the history of the naked body that sits on the floor of my shower. The body that went to prom in a boxy tuxedo and coveted the gowns.
Because I am not a boy, but I am a woman who had a boyhood.
I was, and am, made to live as a boy and I cannot suspend the perspective that gave me..

((and join in when it’s time to fluster one of those clueless fuckers into anger .. so we can grab those solidarity faves. It’s fucked up. It has metastasized.))

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 Es war einmal ist eine typische Einleitungsphrase für Märchen, Sagen und ähnliche Erzählungen. //fairytales, sayings, other tellings :) // Sie wird seit einigen Jahrhunderten benutzt // for some hundreds years used// und ist dadurch ein Kennzeichen für diese Textsorte geworden. Das Gegenstück dazu bildet oft die Schlussphrase Und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, dann leben sie noch heute

//heard that closing phrase read by student in movie (scene in classroom near the end)     The Forest for the Trees (2003) - IMDb
Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen  original title  / the trees are louder  /in Deutschland it's the trees that have the agency, louder than the wood, that's why we 'miss' it. 

Es war einmal … (Phrase) – Wkp

Sprache	Einleitungsphrase	Übersetzung	Schlussphrase	Übersetzung

 [Übersetzung = Translation]

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Dänisch
Der var engang...
...Og de levede lykkeligt, til deres dages ende

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Französisch
Il était une fois  ...
... et se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d’enfants

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Griechisch
Μια φορά κι έναν καιρό...               [Mia forá ki énan keró ]
...Κι έζησαν αυτοί καλά κι εμείς καλύτερα      [Ki ézisan afti kalá ki emis kalýtera ]
/!  Und sie lebten gut, und wir besser

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Italienisch
C'era una volta ...
...e vissero tutti felici e contenti.
vissero  live   tutti  all    (felici happy)

...Und alle lebten glücklich und zufrieden  
 zufrieden = adverb: contently.  (I first think ~ verb ~ they celebrated? = feiern Sie). 
frieden = peace.  /nice:  zufrieden =  zufrieden  at peace.

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English  Einst, vor einer Zeit
~  Und sie lebten für immer glücklich.
lit.  sie lebten glücklich überhaupt nachher
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dutch
~french
*german
*greek
italian
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Und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, dann leben sie noch heute

tele-v Sept 2016

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People of Earth.   31 Oct TBS                 http://www.metacritic.com/pictures/fall-tv-preview-2016
Search Party.  airs November 21-25 on TBS:  This serialized, darkly comedic mystery series—which has good early buzz following its SXSW debut in the spring—finds a group of self-absorbed 20-somethings (led by Alia Shawkat) uniting to investigate the disappearance of one of their college classmates. Though the cast features several relatively unknown regulars (other thanArrested Development star Shawkat), you'll spot Rosie Perez, Ron Livingston, Parker Posey, and Christine Taylor in recurring roles. Adopting yet another unusual rollout strategy, TBS will air the entire first season during Thanksgiving week, with two episodes airing late each night.   /int  :)  this appealed to me back when I read re upcoming tbs ~ futon critic ~ & saw trailer.
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Gilmore Girls Season 8 streams November 25 on Netflix   / oh right!  not just all seven seasons now avail ~ maybe watch sometimes casually  I wonder ~ will I still like Lorelai so well, after not liking lauren graham so m ~ in parenthood.   but yes new season will hold enough curiosity to me to be int I think!! //   Although beloved by many, the 2000-2007 WB/CW dramedy ended on a bit of a sour note, with a final season that was missing creator/writer/producer Amy Sherman-Palladino. But she, husband and co-writer/co-director Dan Palladino, and virtually the entire Stars Hollow gang (including stars Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel, plus Melissa McCarthy in at least a limited capacity) are back for this Netflix revival, which consists of four 90-minute movies/episodes set during a different season over the course of one year (hence the newGilmore Girls: A Year in the Life title), picking up about eight years after events in the original series. And, despite earlier hints at a staggered release, all four of those episodes will be available to stream immediately in November. Expect some new faces as well, including Graham's Parenthoodco-star Mae Whitman //oh int!  her other daughter :) I wonder as who? her other daughter :)/, plus cast members (including Sutton Foster) from Sherman-Palladino's Gilmore Girls follow-up Bunheads.



14 Sept watch now:

* Something, Anything  - Netflix - expires 19 Sept! ~ 5 days to watch   http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/something-anything-2015
Something, Anything  movie rvw (2015) | Roger Ebert  / gradually (if gently) retreats into contemplation...   After losing the baby, Peggy recoils into herself: the Southern middle-class world she took for granted suddenly becomes unfamiliar to her, maybe even slightly repugnant in its focus on possessions and status. An unexpected sympathy note from a high-school friend now a Kentucky-based Trappist monk  .. She quits her job in favor of a lesser-paid position at a local library, cancels her phone service and starts looking into the possibility of monastic living. **     religious vocation treated with all the attentiveness and respect one would hope for when dealing with anyone’s sense of purpose in life. /this is a v nice review/   
 It would be too much to call “Something, Anything” a story of religious conversion—things never go so far, since Peggy (at one point adopting her given name, Margaret, as a sign of the change she underwent) is only just starting to explore her spiritual side. The script is not pushing her to make any steady commitment to a denomination or a church.  in fact there’s a suggestion that what draws [her] towards monastic life is less the divinity it is centered on than the seclusion it offers..
At one point, Peggy reveals that she used to be a competitive cheerleader, and there is indeed something of a cheerleader’s poise and diligence about her. It’s there even in the religious pursuit we witness: the subtle humor of “Something, Anything” comes from the fact that Peggy is loaning /borrowing?/ out books and making notes on the nature of prayer almost as if she were preparing for some spiritual baton-twirling marathon. She cannot help herself; her seriousness about her choices is her armor (and one much more lasting than the blood-red nail polish we see her apply in the first shots of the film, when she still defines herself by other people’s perception of who she is).
...that what draws Peggy towards monastic life is less the divinity it is centered on than the seclusion it offers, which only adds to the overall subtlety  .. sustained tone serene  opening motto fr poem christina rosetti Who has seen the wind   ** 







and now of int:
> Criminal Justice (ytube)   along w  Night of.       ~ and Nightcrawler movie - on netflix.




FALL 2016    ..  current!  Friday QUARRY cinemax  first ep was 9/9 I like it v m!   … Atlanta FX Tues first was 9/6    ….. this Sat 9/17 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Cities_(film)   lifetime.   and 9/18 Emmys.


Easy - 23 Sept Netflix - anthology half hour epsds each char in Chicago *


Westworld  - 2 Oct  hbo      .. also on hbo ~Divorce sarahjessicaparker


Goliath -  14 Oct az 
Not every Amazon series goes through the streaming service's rather unusual public pilot process. Example one: the eight-episode Goliath, the latest legal drama from from TV veteran David E. Kelley, here re-teaming with his The Practice colleague Jonathan Shapiro. The serialized drama stars Billy Bob Thornton (a replacement, though not a downgrade, for the originally cast Kevin Costner /I’d be m less int!) as a down-and-out attorney seeking redemption through a major case that finds him attempting to take down a giant aerospace company and its powerful law firm. William Hurt, Maria Bello, Olivia Thirlby, Molly Parker, Dwight Yoakam, Jason Ritter, and Sarah Wynter also star.


RECTIFY Season 4 starts October 26 on Sundance   
Rectify quiet, elegiac, unsettling, sexually charged, captivation. not like anyth else in mood & tone

nb  Bloodline   / tried early Sept. mood is cool.   but  ~  no char hooks me, other than maybe int in kid Nolan.  … skipped to last epsds try to get intd ~ a bit. 



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Netflix still, noted below Apr-May: 
30 Degrees in February  (Swedish re emigrants to Thailand) .        ... The Legacy ~ ytube                       Detectorists.                        
 Red Road.     Longmire.    Narcos.      Sons of Anarchy. /~ tried in early Sept a bit. so far not compelled/              Happy Valley s2.    


still:    Night Of. *      //                Kingdom.                

* on ytube can watch Criminal Justice 2008 five part miniseries BBC, on which Night Of (8 epsds) based.  watch part or all of e1 Criminal Justice, then ep1-2 Night of.  go back & forth if int to compare, and if like the BBC orig.  otherwise just watch hbo wh is prob overall better (higher production etc).


not to forget, hbo: TREME.  oh and, John from Cincinnati.



* there is going to be a second season of Top of the Lake  !! 
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reminder  my   5-star (ntflx)           
   Top of the Lake /rewatch*/     Rectify      Melancholia       Fruitvale Station         Terriers   ..  Weeds  ..    SHAMELESS /not to forget! now all seasons Shameless US on Netflix.    
    //and  ~4 star  Bloodline.   The Returned.     The Riches.     UsofTara.  

 //and further reminder:     Hist of Violence    Woodsman     Assassntn of Jesse James by the Coward Rbt Ford      ..  The Prestige

not ntflx. (az) JUSTIFIED.   (hbo) The Lftvrs. 


not to forget:  FAME !!! ytube all or most, s4-6 yay. 
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Aug 2016
watched movie Alpha Dog, v good.  (in ‘last chance’ featured collection on hbo.  also of int ~  I Origins.)  > dir Nick Cassavetes > ~ movie Yellow. not readily avail streaming, that’s ok.   > Max Thierot (Bates Motel s4 still to watch, no rush, prob when avail on netflix) > movie Disconnected. looks good. highly rvwd. jason bateman. frank grillo.      //  nb like Bates Motel also still to watch ~ when avail, on az: Orphan Black s4

Max Thierot also > Texas Rising. history channel, looks v good, cld learn re texas revolutn fr mexico.    }} not on az prime or hulu or netflix.    

nb of int on Hulu:, had started before hulu gone (rg cancelled) in early Sept 2016.
The Outsiders.  wgn amer. also ~ Underground. re Outsiders 1-1 Farrell Wine  -Damn,what was in that moonshine? Ive had some shine myself.I just got drunk. 
/ watched up to ~ epsd 6 or so?  then thought, oh ok hulu gone, almost just as well, not really that good.  I did like the setting though.  and the actor who played Johnno in Top of the Lake.  ~ char kept surprising me here by not being more likable.   lead actor ok.  his love int though not v well writ char.  d n seem like the supposed strongest who shld be leader as the former woman leader said.
…   War & Peace miniseries.  lifetime (huh was expcting BBC) jan-feb 2016.
Banished.  australian penal colony!  bbc worldwide 2015.   / watched opening.  I like the lead acotrs - governor is bad guy fr Top of the Lake.  and prisoner is guy fr Him & Her (hulu, british, v likable). 
1787 Britain banished its unwanted citizens to Sydney in Australia. They found it to be so barren and hostile that very few Englishmen wanted to set foot there.  famine, drought, escapes, hangings and floggings, but the colony thrived.

http://www.fwweekly.com/2013/04/30/blogging-django-unchained-heading-to-candyland/

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Blogging "Django Unchained" (Heading to Candyland) - Fort Worth Weekly  /this is good.. am int in wh he is ldg to, w Stephen:  Stephen rises up out of his chair and comes out to greet the master. His eyes widen at the sight of Django riding in on a horse, then narrow with anger. I really should have had this character pegged from the start, but more on that later.   ..   Calvin greets Stephen, and the latter responds, “Yeah, yeah. Hello, my ass.” I could always feel audience bracing themselves for a typically Samuel L. Jackson loud and brash performance at this line, and I was bracing for one, too, when I first saw this, but this is something else, as we’ll see.   >>> what?  *

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 This is where Calvin’s relatively enlightened nature makes him more dangerous. A racist fool like Big Daddy wouldn’t even perceive the double-dealing here, but Calvin does because he has no problem with the idea that a black man has temporarily outsmarted him, or with another black man pointing that out.

He accepts that an African-American can be intelligent, but does that bring him around to the idea that slavery is wrong? Of course not! He’s like Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds, a bad guy who realizes that the people he’s stepping on are no worse than himself, a realization that only allows him to trample those people more efficiently. Calvin knows that the system is unfair, but because that unfairness benefits him, he doesn’t care. How many people do we see around us who fit this description? It’s funny; you wouldn’t think of turning to Tarantino’s movies for a critique of capitalism, but Django Unchained offers up a pretty good one anyway. (And how different would this movie have looked if Mitt Romney had won the 2012 presidential election the month before it came out? I can’t imagine, and I’m glad I didn’t have to find out.)



-  ?? wish cld read more on that

back up

          after move iphoto off cmptr, so have enough free space to run better ~
     back up iphone to itunes
     maybe to cmptr maybe just to seagate (or both) 




  

How to Backup an iPhone to External Hard Drive with Mac OS X

http://osxdaily.com/2016/03/04/backup-iphone-to-external-hard-drive-mac/


--Connect the external hard drive to the Mac if you haven’t done so already, then create a new folder on the drive (or partition) to dedicate to the iTunes backups.
In this example, we’re creating a folder to store the backups called “iTunesExternalBackupSymLink” so that it’s purpose remains obvious.  // :)
((In this example, the external hard drive is named “FileStorage”, and the iTunes backup folder on that volume is ‘iTunesExternalBackupSymLink’, so adjust those as needed for your situation.))

--Open a new Finder window, then hit Command+Shift+G  [or select Go fr menu top of screen .. Go to Folder]  and enter the following path:               //yes good this path works//
~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/
Locate the folder in this directory called “Backup”   //yes got it// and copy that [the Backup folder] [in]to the folder you just made on the external drive (in this example, the folder called ‘iTunesExternalBackupSymLink’ ).

--Back in the original location of the Backup folder (at ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/), rename “Backup” to “Backup-Old”, or simply delete it – only do this after you have copied this folder to the external drive.  

--Now launch the “Terminal” application, found in /Applications/Utilities/ and type the following command,
changing the names of your external drive [ie FileStorage change to Seagate or whtvr] and folder [iTunesExternalBackupSymLink to maybe, iPhoneBackupbyiTunes or whtvr]as appropriate,then hit the return key:
ln -s /Volumes/FileStorage/iTunesExternalBackupSymLink/Backup/ ~/Library/Application\ Support/MobileSync

/// so that creates the symbolic link   fr orig Backup folder on internal harddr ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync   to the Backup folder now within the dedicated folder [for me, maybe named:  [iPhone6sBackupbyiTunes']

Quit Terminal, then
--Confirm the symbolic link was created by returning to “~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/” in the Finder, the “Backup” folder should now be a generic file with an arrow on it, signifying there is now a direct link between that “Backup” and the location specified on the external hard disk

-->Open iTunes and connect the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to the computer as usual, select the device within iTunes, select ‘This Computer’ as the backup location   << bcs 'this computer' = backup fldr wh will link to the folder on the ext harddrive!

When the backup has completed in iTunes,
--confirm everything is in order by going to the folder on the external drive and confirming there is a “Backup” folder containing a hexadecimal named subdirectory – this is the backup made from iTunes of the device


That’s all there is to it. As long as the external hard drive is connected to the Mac, iTunes will now backup to that external storage volume rather than the internal hard disk.
//and as long as connected, can restore fr there using itunes.

// For this the ext hard drive shld be formatted Mac OS journaled right?  seems clear, since that is wh the mac (internal hard dr)  is, wh is where usually backing up to.

context fr beginning article:
you’ll need some working knowledge of [well, just need follow your instrxns re] the command line and directory structures, since we’ll be using symbolic links to get this done.   "symlink"

tele-v .. May 2016 ..

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27 May Bloodline s2.                     ....... Orphan Black s4 .......                                                        ... pll s7 June 21
Kingdom   1June  yay

WGN:   Outsiders  (appalachia*) .      Underground (railroad) .    

AMC:  Preacher.

 tbs:   The Detour.   <

           
    netflix    30 Degrees in February  (Swedish re emigrants to Thailand) .   
Aprli.. May  -         Red Road.   Longmire.    Narcos.       Detectorists.              Happy Valley s2.          / rg:   Salem.        
Aquarius

& maybe:  ~ The Knick ?     ... The Legacy ~ ytube         ... THE SOPRANOS  cld prob get into now?     ... and d n forget TREME.


hulu   The Path.  done
watchlist:   Srugrim.     ~ Prisoners of War (israeli orig of homeland).  ~Tyrant.     THE SHIELD.   Hill Street Blues (> NYPD).     Line of Duty (british police anti-corruptn unit).    Spiral (s1-s5 52 epsds).    Deutschland 83.
comedies...  HIM & HER.       adult swim: Morel Oral.  squidbillies.   ~ idly ish: mindy project.       //elsewh:     Detour tbs.               hbo silicon valley.  and veep. 
 ~IT Crowd ~s2 work outing gay! musical.    ~Moonboy .                   // w rg:  Him & Her.     (Detour.  can get?).    Silicon Valley.     Srugim.    Detectorists.
movie Rescue Dawn.



hbo movie re thurgood marshall:   Confirmation

via xfinity login > FX: The Americans ( now at s4e5 new eps Wed).     << cld find s3 eps to watch, too.  sometime might go back watch s1-2-3...  s1 was good. 
movie Savages /great cast, think I will enjoy the two leads. fnl t kitsch varying char well? & taylor-johnson lks bit like st pasquale.
        //ah it was in Savages - Blake Lively.  that am reminded of by voice tessa frmga in Amer Horror Story, sampling s3e1 coven.  Madison played by emma rbts (then went on to do r murphy scream queens) "do you own any clothes not from the gap?" tessa as zoe: "not really. why?" > sounds like? someone youngish woman actress seen recently.    // hawk's girlfr in The Path also sounds like?
*Archer per great rvw panjiba below. try s5 Archer Vice season arc!
Married FX s2.    durn not on FXnow.

 The 15 Best Recent {current} TV Show Releases On Netflix  (2015) - pajiba |||    v good descrips!  espclly of int re Archer.  also Bobs Burgers.  The League.  //
Daredevil: smart, dark, grim, fun; moody intensity that’s broken up by moments of genuine warmth between its characters.

Rectify quiet, elegiac, unsettling, sexually charged, captivation. not like anyth else, mood & tone /  Bloodline   /   y.  y.  Bloodline s2 soon, even this month?

Peaky Blinders: Cillian Murphy in th lead is absolutely fantastic, sth akin to a Prohibition era Boyd Crowder./oh. maybe got me. tried & d n readily get into.  but hardly tried. /

Archer: as a historian, I adore the complete pastiche it makes of time, dragging together the Internet, glowing green computer consoles, the Soviet Union, and a hodgepodge of other temporally exclusive details of the last sixty years or so.       In our popular entertainment, we slur together hundreds of years of [past] history into one broad conception of a particular time. And the longer ago that time was, the broader of a brush it gets filled in with over more and more centuries.   And that’s what Archer is: it’s how popular entertainment is going to remember our time period five hundred years from now./wow ok watch. /    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archer_(TV_series)#Time_periodThe show's time setting is comically anachronistic, deliberately mixing technologies, clothing styles and historical backdrops of different decades. The characters wear 1960s clothing and hairstyles, and many episodes feature references to the Soviet Union.  The technological sophistication within the series also varies, with characters using dated computer technology (e.g. reel-to-reel mainframe systems, desktop computers closely resembling the Macintosh XL, dot-matrix printers, and punch cards) and making surveillance recordings on cassette tape rather than digitally, but also using modern technologies such as GPS devices, the Internet, laser gunsights, cryptocurrencies, USB flash drives and cellular phones (season 6 saw the appearance of touchscreen devices and flip phones). This ambiguity is explicitly recognized in at least two episodes, in which characters are unable to answer when asked what year they think it is
^ same voice actor, huh, 
Bob’s Burgers: I watched the first two seasns in four days. That’s about the best recommendatn I can give for a show. frequently laugh out loud funny. and that of all things reminds me most of Calvin & Hobbes. veering madcap smart ass brilliance not in cynicism but in simple good-hearts. /

The League: explores deftly, and hilariously in my mind, the way that the bullshit, macho-bravura that permeates fantasy football is often at odds with real life. if you like Always Sunny. /ok//  &. Always Sunny: the funniest show on tv.



>? tbs:   The Detour. jason jones, n zea. /      & ~ Angie Tribeca /rashida jones v cool, smart.      -Samantha Bee

& upcoming 2016?  Search Party. (ali shawkat).  People of Earth: about a support group for alien abductees.   /ooh cool.   /oh. humans who hv bn abducted (&returned).  I tht aliens abducted to here :) more int.

the kind I like best are the tricked out scooters!" -Brak

Thundercleese, People. Thundercleese. | Rooster Teeth: "Well, here I am
Walkin' down the street
Hey, look down there
I can see my feet
I gave 'em both names
One's Tony, one's Lou
Lou steppin' on Tony
He's steppin' on Lou
Well, I'm walkin' down the street, or should I say
On the sidewalk - the streets are not safe
There's cars and buses and tricked out scooters
And the kind I like best are the tricked out scooters!" -Brak - The Brak Show



"Well, here I am

Walkin' down the street

Hey, look down there

I can see my feet

I gave 'em both names

One's Tony, one's Lou

Lou steppin' on Tony

He's steppin' on Lou

Well, I'm walkin' down the street, or should I say

On the sidewalk - the streets are not safe

There's cars and buses and tricked out scooters

And the kind I like best are the tricked out scooters!" -Brak - The Brak Show

Claude Shannon

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read re/ Claude Shannon - Ggl ddl bday Apr 30  news:  
Claude Shannon's 100th birthday Google‎ - 12 hours ago It's impossible to overstate the legacy of Claude Shannon. The paper he wrote for his ...

Three things you'll wish you owned that Claude Shannon invented The Independent‎ - 4 hours ago   http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/google-doodle-celebrates-claude-shannon-mathematician-colleague-of-alan-turing-and-inventor-of-the-a7007786.html

=a juggling robot
=a small computer that could be concealed about one's person, to aid them in playing Roulette. This is considered one of the earliest wearable computers.

=The Ultimate Machine  
Shannon built what he called the Ultimate Machine, which he kept on his desk. It was a simple box with a single switch on it that, when you pressed, opened the box's lid to reveal a [sleek little] mechanical hand that reached out, flipped off the switch, and then pulled itself back inside its box, rather like a reclusive Jack-in-the-box. Sci-fi writer Arthur C Clarke saw Shannon's machine and wrote: "There is something unspeakably sinister about a machine that does nothing - absolutely nothing - except switch itself off."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ34RDn34Ws

haha!

Claude Shannon: Tinkerer, Prankster, and Father of Information Theory IEEE Spectrum‎ - 2 days ago

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/claude-shannon-tinkerer-prankster-and-father-of-information-theory
This month marks the centennial of the birth of Claude Shannon, the American mathematician and electrical engineer whose groundbreaking work laid out the theoretical foundation for modern digital communications.  
To celebrate the occasion, we’re republishing online a memorable profile of Shannon that IEEE Spectrum ran in its April 1992 issue. Written by former Spectrum editor John Horgan, who interviewed Shannon at his home in Winchester, Mass., the profile reveals the many facets of Shannon’s character: While best known as the father of information theory, Shannon was also an inventor, tinkerer, puzzle solver, and prankster.
Shannon died in 2001 at age 84 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He is regarded as one of the greatest electrical engineering heroes of all time.

A visitor to Entropy House, the stuccoed mansion outside Boston where Shannon and his wife Betty have lived for more than 30 years ...

http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/aboutus
IEEE Spectrum is the flagship magazine and website of the IEEE, the world’s largest professional organization devoted to engineering and the applied sciences. Our charter is to keep over 400,000 members informed about major trends and developments in technology, engineering, and science. Our blogs, podcasts, news and features stories, videos and interactive infographics engage our visitors with clear explanations about emerging concepts and developments with details they can’t get elsewhere.  

.... 3 May news.....

Google Celebrates 100th Birthday of Claude Shannon, the Inventor of the Bit

Fortune‎ - 3 days ago                                                
[ggl ddl had him juggling 1s & 0s]... celebrates a slightly less heralded mastermind omastermind of the digital age, Claude Shannon, who would have been 100 ...

Google Doodle Celebrates 100th Birthday Of Claude Shannon, Father Of Information Theory

Tech Times‎ - 1 day ago

How Claude Shannon's master thesis changed our world

Christian Science Monitor‎ - 3 days ago

...

Google Doodle Honors Mathematician-Juggler Claude Shannon
TIME-Apr 30, 2016

Sanders Can Win.

Sanders Can Win. Here's Why. 4/18/2016:
 The truth is that less than a year ago Bernie Sanders had absolutely nothing, and Hillary Clinton was better positioned to win the Democratic nomination for President than any Democrat in the year before an election since Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Bernie Sanders entered the 2016 primary election a superlatively old Independent socialist Jew with a bevy of Old-World tics (like talking with his hands), no fashion sense whatsoever, unruly hair, no super-PACs, and no national name recognition.     The Democratic Party felt no loyalty to him, at either the state or national level.   He was at three percent in the polls.     He was from one of the smallest states in the nation, one of the ones that few outside New England ever talk about or think about. He had no money. He had no friends in the media.    He had surrogates, indeed a diverse cast of them, but somehow they never got invited onto major-media political panels.  He had no way to force Clinton to do more than four or five debates, all of which would be held, per the decree of the Democratic National Convention, at the most inconvenient hours.   He had a penchant for blunt talk that seemed certain to sink him in a political climate where every mental lapse quickly becomes a meme.   He had a “fringe-candidate” sign on his back that it seemed he would never get off.

It’s now April 18th, and Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have been statistically tied in every single national poll taken in the last month.

That we pretend that any measure in which Sanders comes up short — say, in his support among African-Americans — is somehow a fatal flaw in the man and not a sign that absolute nobodies don’t become household heroes in under six months is an insult to America’s collective intelligence.

(And the sign that it’s well past time for somebody to just say what most of America already knows to be true is that today Philip Bump of The Washington Post wrote a scathing editorial complaining that Bernie Sanders says his average contribution is $27 when it’s in fact $27.89.)

It’s a miracle Sanders is performing even as well as he is,  given the structural disadvantages he suffers relative to his opponent because of how we run elections in America.

In almost every state, Sanders performs better with voters the more they’re exposed to him, and Hillary worse the more voters are exposed to her.

So when both Clinton and Sanders fail to clinch the nomination via pledged delegates alone, and both head to Philadelphia with an eye toward wooing the (still completely unpledged) super-delegates, Clinton will win if her advantages are treated as assets rather than signs that she should have been beating this old socialist Jew from Vermont with the rumpled suits and unruly hair by twenty or more points all along. And Sanders will win if the Democrats pick the better candidate — which, given the harrowing dangers of a Trump presidency, I damn well hope they do.

Data flows through streams ...

Idle Words > Talks > Haunted By Data


This is the text version of a talk I gave on October 1, 2015, at the Strata+Hadoop [Big Data Conference] World conference in New York City. The video version is here ytube (20 mins).

In preparing this talk I decided to check out the data landscape, since I hadn't seen it for a while.

The terminology around Big Data is surprisingly bucolic. Data flows through streams into the data lake, or else it's captured in logs. A data silo stands down by the old data warehouse, where granddaddy used to sling bits.

And high above it all floats the Cloud. Then this stuff presumably flows into the digital ocean.

 I would like to challenge this picture, and ask you to imagine data not as a pristine resource, but as a waste product, a bunch of radioactive, toxic sludge that we don’t know how to handle.

pinboard.in strings and pulleys cross-referencing material across five bookshelves and a greenhouse a cloud of white bookmarks how we laughed!

Pinboard Turns Six

Today is Pinboard's sixth birthday as an online service, but of course the roots of the site go much deeper. 

My grandfather started Pinboard all the way back in 1931, when he was a young agronomy   {(Ancient Greek ἀγρός agrós 'field' + νόμος nómos 'law') is the science and technology of producing and using plants for food, fuel, fiber, and land reclamation.} student in need of some way to help keep track of cuttings. 

What began as a simple system of shelves and apple saplings had soon expanded to encompass the books in his comfortable study.

 In 1968, like so much of Polish culture, Pinboard went underground, in this case literally, as a warren of tubes and cables that could be quickly disconnected if a local political officer came snooping by. The rat's nest of hidden cabling below the floor would inspire me years later when it came time to wire up my own servers.

By 1980 Pinboard was an elaborate system of strings and pulleys cross-referencing material across five bookshelves and a greenhouse.  / :) //  One of my earliest memories is tugging on one of the threads and watching a cloud of white bookmarks fly out from between the onion-skin pages of a thick tome. I got a sound drubbing for it.t

With changing times came changing technology. Visits home turned into long evenings keying cards into a ZX Spectrum, lulled into inattention by the soft hiss of the cassette tapes that the data would save onto (or the dreaded crinkling sound that meant the tape had gotten wrapped up in a spool).

When it came time for me to take over Pinboard, I vowed to continue my grandfather's committment to Eastern European craftsmanship and traditional Polish customer service. But then I got bored and thought, "eh, just put it online and see what happens." That was six years ago today.    {July 2009}

 I changed the business model of the site in January [2015]  from a one-time signup fee to a recurring fee, but has this affected income? It doesn't feel like it. Possibly it has. I really need to look into it. I am a terrible businessman. Thanks for another year entrusting me with your precious data, and giving me the genuinely pleasant feeling that comes from running a useful project. Please don't forget to make backups!

—maciej     July 09, 2015

// am happy he is still maintaining this….  

/my links stop at 2014, bcs stopped auto mirroring dlcs, that's ok.  

https://pinboard.in/u:mcassimatis/   

mcassimatis

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Sunsetting Delicious

Since the birth of the site, Pinboard has always offered a Delicious sync feature. You could enter your Delicious username on the settings page, and the site would periodically poll your public Delicious feed and add any new bookmarks it found.

Because Delicious appears to be in a terminal coma, and because working around bugs in their RSS feed has historically consumed a lot of development time, I am going to turn Delicious sync off effective October 1, 2014. If you want to keep hooking the services together, you will still be able to do it through an outside service like IFTTT or Zapier.

Of course you will still be able to import all your Delicious bookmarks, as well as export Pinboard bookmarks in a format that Delicious can (sometimes) read. The only thing going away is the automatic sync.

—maciej on August 21, 2014

// wld hv used this, m prefered to the new delicious, but as of 2009 was I fading......   
was glad for the auto sync, so I cld defer initiating chang...

/// was maciej a del.ici.o.us user, wanted to make sth simple interface emphasis on content like had bn?  

wh I seem remember.  may have saved early posts about, as dlcs>pin. 

https://thuktun.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/an-interview-with-maciej-ceglowski-of-pinboard/
 built Pinboard because I had long wanted a bookmarking site that would serve as a personal archive (meaning store bookmark content in case the original site went offline). I was also motivated by the Delicious redesign around the summer of 2009, which I found very unpleasant.