This is a still frame from my upcoming cartoon. I am now able to download and save frames. This is a very powerful app. Slightly different approach than windows movie Maker. With WMM the time of the individual frame could be set from .03 of a second to whatever. FlipaClip is a preset frames per minute. More like with a traditional old school animation camera.
The Kardahev Scale is infinite, so what would the subsequent stages look like? That is any purpose in the afterlife demystified. At Kings Cross Station, when Harry Potter asked where does the train go, the answer was beyond. This is perhaps the beyond he was referring to. Recently I had a dream of my old music teacher Mr Guy. This was days before I started composing my own music and uploading it to YouTube. Mr Guy taught me more about music than anyone else ever had. I would thank him personally but I think he's gone to the great musical Hippodrome in the sky. The best way I can thank him is to remember and utilize well the lessons he taught me as well as the entire classroom, the elements of music theory. The thing is, I had dreams of being in the auditorium that he taught us at. The stage, the room to the side where the instruments were stored, looking out at the chairs in he audience. It's all part of the schedule, part of the plan. Yes, there is a plan. The plan is to move from Kardashev 1 to Kardashev 2. The Kardashev scale is infinite so what would the subsequent stages look like?
Congrats to the Toronto Raptors for their win. It's the first time Toronto won a top sports championship since the Toronto BlueJays won the World Series in 1992. Joe Carter was the star athlete for the BlueJays. Kevin Durant and Kashi Leonard are star athletes for the Raptors. Hearing the yells and the cars honking their horns. That's what Canada sounds like when really happy. That what Canada sounds like after it won a championship. Baseball was invented in Canada by James Naismith.
Kashi Leonard was named the Toronto Raptors MVP and he was offered a condo, free food for life, keys to the city. When LeBron James got the same award a couple of years earlier, MVP for the LA Lakers and what he got was someone spray painting the 'n' word on his house. Which leaves me wondering what they would have spray painted if he didn't lead his team to the NBA championship.
Things are not what they seem. The News overblows things. All the people who were involved in the Hong Kong protests wasn't even 5% of the population. Hong Kong is a big city of 8 million. China wants to extradite people from Hong Kong to China as a part of their territoriality laws. But who does China want to extradite? Mainly the real estate money launderers driving up the prices of real estate. China is cracking down on white collar crime. Otherwise triad leaders and those who are political dissidents. Who do you think is organizing the protests? Those who have a dog in this fight. Number one rule in China. Don't get involved with politics. China is very smart. Often those involved with politics would seem to supplant and replace the current system. Politics is notorious for having a lot of rivals and competitors. I write about politics but I do it in a very general way that is balanced. I very rarely mention names and if I do it's usually only in passing. If I were in China, I'd never get involved with politics. First of all I wouldn't know enough about it to do that.
It's the same in Canada except it's more streamlined. Write a certain article in a certain way about the Prime Minister or any other politician and see what happens. I wouldn't try it! I wouldn't recommend it.
Justin Trudeau is one of the best Prime Ministers in Canada's history. He'd make the top ten list for sure, if not too three. He gets my vote this October. He legalized marijuana. SNC doesn't get as much ink as it once did and the newspapers are starting to yellow on that one.
Other countries do 'extraditions'. This Hong Kong China extraditions is a misnomer because it all happens in country. The proper term would be in-country transfers or extraterritorial conveyance. Someone charged with a major crime in one Province in Canada might have to go to trial in another Province. Are people in Taiwan transfered to China? Anyways, the case originated from an Amanda Knox-like case of a Hong Kong man accused of murdering his girlfriend in Taiwan. As if that wasn't bad enough for him, he has been convicted of money laundering as well. In baseball, that would be a double play. China wants him extradited to Taiwan but there is no legal framework to do so.
Of course China has no extradition treaty with Taiwan, otherwise they like have extradited Chiang Kai Shek!
The West likes stories like this, as to say, especially to Chinese living here, it's much more stable in the West. You're better off here than to go back to China. Propaganda. Canada relishes such an opportunity to try to coopt Hong Kong people to come to Canada while creating an artificial exclusivity saying, we don't know if we can handle so many people. Even with the problems, Hong Kong people are better off in China where they're one of the visible majority than to be in Canada and be designated a visible minority. If I had enough money, I'd go back to Hong Kong. They know that I know that they know that I was born there. - And while I'm there, I thought I'd take the opportunity to pay respects to a local Chinese God statue. It's a distinct feeling different from anything I've ever felt here. If I went back to Hong Kong is make them stronger. More valid. And that's a threat to the crackers who want to coopt me. If I had even $3,000, I'd move to Hong Kong.
I saw on the News, 'Hong Kong mama'. That made me think about my mother. Even though I don't see her, my mother is watching me all the time.
A Hong Kong person is better off even if 'extradited' to China where that person is still a visible majority than to be sucked in and co-opted to Canada where they are a visible minority. If I went to Hong Kong and decided to stay, there's no way I could or would be extradited to Canada. Like Lau said in the movie Batman The Dark Knight, "The Chinese won't extradite one of their own.
1919: "We'll flush out those Manchurian rats hiding out in Manchuko!" The Last Emperor
2019: Government people in China must be saying, "We'll flush out those money launderer rats hiding out in Hong Kong!" Bottom line is, I trust Beijing.
Update: Saturday, June 15, 2019. The Bill is suspended indefinitely. Suspended indefinitely?! What is this. The James Webb telescope?
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security." That is from the US Constitution and it means those who have the power to protect others from government abuse and tyranny have the moral obligation to stand up and do so.
The bill got suspended. That got the protestors off the streets. The bill has been placed in the virus vault. But it hasn't been deleted from the virus vault. So it still exists as an item in the virus vault.
This wouldn't be the first or the last protest in Hong Kong. Not by a long shot. Like clockwork, HK seems to have a large protest every five years or thereabouts. So much so that it would be surprising if they didn't have a protest. A protest? 'Gum jor mmm chut kay.' In Chinese that would be, "That's not out of the ordinary. Every city in the world seems to have it's regular protests if not about this thing, then about that thing. That it's about this thing is incidental. Superficial and cosmetic or not, protests are an integral part of urban and even small town living as a part of civil disobedience as Henry David Thoreau wrote about. You can learn this in either sociology or anthropology 101. Protests are a kind of roundabout festival that injects cash into the economy. Merchants are way busier and even Police Officers work more during protest days and I'm sure after the protest, they go to a restaurant and have a banquet. Protests is a kind of make work project industry. As for 'the fucking ugly reds', how can Hong Kong claim to distrust red China yet be fans of HuaWei which is from mainland China?
"The year 1997 has arrived. A herd of fucking ugly reds' are rushing from the mainland." Hong Kong 97 video game
Update, Tuesday July 9, 2019: The bill 'is dead'.
Final Result: Hong Kong people 1, Hong Kong government 0.
Protests are ongoing. I don't know how others would cut it, but I would avoid the protests completely. It's too hairy. I think soon there will be martial law, curfews like in Thailand during the red shirt protests. During the curfew, the ringleaders are rounded up and taken to the hoosegow. Then the curfew is lifted. Good luck.
28 years to go until 2047. Tick-tock, tick-tock.
In Soviet Russia, government protests against you!
China calls the Hong Kong protestors at the airport terrorists. That's projection. That's the pot calling the kettle black. China is the one talking about having people extradited. That's not terrorism? When people do things the government doesn't like, that's terrorism. When the government, that is the very specific clique of opportunistic personalities running things with their own gut level self-interests, does things the people doesn't like, for some reason, that isn't terrorism. No, it's hypocrisy. It's a sign the government is losing it. And they know that you know that they know that.
China and Hong Kong are fighting one another when they could be fighting their White foreign invaders. Maybe the Whites caused them to do this to show division, divide and conquer. But do the Chinese need White people's help to fight one another? They've been fighting one another for centuries, like every other country that has peripheral tendencies to civil war that's because those countries have actually had civil wars and within the last century. Old habits die hard.
My safety advice: Only 5,000 in all probability paid professional protestors were at the airport. It's not like the whole city of 8 million was there. The city isn't locked down. My advice is to go to Macau and holiday for a week or more until the protests abate. Or else, ironically, if you have a visa and could do it, it would be safer still to actually go into Mainland China and holiday to avoid the thick of the maw or the thick of the fray. There are a few rockin' neon lit cities, and not backwaters at all there.
One protestor held up a sign, "5 big new..." the last word was obscured. 5 big new what? I'm guessing, typically, ultimatums. Ultimatums in Cantonese is tew geen. "Mmm dye sun tew geen?"
Specifically, the 5 demands are 1. Scrapping of the extradition bill. 2. Inquiry into alleged Police brutality. 3. Amnesty and release of jailed protestors. 4. Universal suffrage meaning 100% of the Hong Kong Legislature are popular vote candidates, more on this in a minute. 5. That the authorities stop referring to the protests as riots. I learned this from Paul Joseph Watson.
Publish and be damned. The Chinese used to talk about The Mandate of Heaven which was the governments right to rule. This was not given but had to be earned. I guess that's all out the window now.
US President Donald Trump said of the situation, "Everything will be OK." What reassuring words. No panic unlike me. He is growing into the Elder Statesman that he is. What fine kind words. Elder Statesman words. He is a great President.
I do support Hong Kong. However, I don't see what good protests could do. Has protests ever changed things in China? Historically?
The protestors are complaining that either China is too corrupt, or else not corrupt enough to allow unfettered inflation, money laundering scams, out of control capitalism. In China, the corruption is overt, in Hong Kong it's covert; it's more streamlined. Or is it the other way around? I'm confused here.
One protestor said in essence, "It's baffling that some support China when China doesn't give them the same rights." I'm sure there are advantages the Chinese in Mainland China have that Hong Kongese don't. Sure China suffers under that odious social credit system but the vast majority pass. You'd probably pass if you were on it unless you're a meth dealer or user. Hong Kong has long since been run to the ground. Over capacitated infrastructure. China isn't known for people living in cage housing. Hong Kong is. Unlike Hong Kong, China has lots of liebensraum. The Communist system is a check and balance against real estate hyperinflation, Wild West capitalism, comparatively untamed economy, housing bubbles, speculation flipping scams, etc. The Hong Kong system turns a blind eye to that for the most part. As the saying goes, if you are going to trust a National government, you might as well trust ours. We have your best interests at heart, I'm sure. Ha ha, the Hong Kong people are caught between Scylla and Charybdis. Between a rock and a hard place, as the Rolling Stones said.. Another protestor said, "I have an opinion but I don't want to say it." That's your classic tacit admission. Everyone at a protest is protesting against someone or something unpopular. A person is asked, "Who do you support." "I don't want to say." That's your tacit admission. An opinion that goes against the groundswell of popular opinion that is being widely shored up.
Hong Kong protestors will never win. The core integral structure is this, in the Hong Kong Legislative Council or Legco seats comprise of 4 designations, Pro-Democracy, Independent, Pro-China or simply vacant. 40% of the people are voted in through popular vote but in every popular vote, always a few pro-China candidates are voted in. 60% or 30 seats I comprised of people that businesses and corporations vote for or appoint as political stand-ins on their behalf, so one represents the medical industry, one represents the insurance industry, one represents the banks,one represents trade unions, like that meeting at the roundtable with Count Dooku on Geonosis. Anyways, these appointees are almost as a rule, always pro-China because that makes the businesses more money. It's a crooks table. It's a stacked deck. At the end of the day, Hong Kong's Parliament is dominated by pro-China candidates and all the protests in the World can do nothing about that. It's neither right or wrong. It is what it is. I learned this from Vox on YouTube, Hong Kong Protests Explained.
In the West Democratic is a left wing term, from the New Democratic Party in Canada and the Democrats vs the Republicans in the States. In Communist countries, Democrats, Democratic, is a right wing term.
I see the Hong Kong Protests on YouTube, the News, and I don't see as much King Fu as I thought I would have. I thought they'd all be universally breaking out into moves. That's the new generation. That's what happens when you ditch the old traditional alter ego of the Shaolin monk for the alter ego of the hippie who smokes cones all day and plays video games, the pothead gamer. I thought it'd be like The House of Flying Daggers where the Police would use martial arts. I did see some of that as the Police used aikido to clothesline, tackle, then throw someone down.
Perhaps Hong Kong has to hit bottom before it gets better, as the old saying goes. But what would that look like? There is a TV show called The Thinning. I suspect that may be what's going on in Hong Kong. HK is over populated. Protestors charged with the most egregious of crimes including defacing the legislature building and otherwise third degree murder are sent away to the Mainland, to their version of Gitmo. They'll be there for the next 20 years and who knows if they'd return to Hong Kong then. Storm Area 51. Anyone who does that might be sent to Gitmo, Guantanamo Bay, except didn't they close that place down? Or not?
Police spray blue eye on protestors. Also protestors go out of their way to have a certain, now standard look: BMX pads, black bandana over the face, some kind of helmet, construction or else BMX and the backpack with the anarchists cookbook of personal inventory including laser pointers. I saw a sad video of Hong Kong's finest, a Police Officer with a shield standing on a balcony. On his shield were at least a dozen last pointers, green and blue. That's ignorant! Those laser pointers blind. It's a five year sentence for aiming a laser pointer at the Police.
Thursday, September 5, 2019. Pictures I drew of Carrie Lam. Note the punk rock hairstyle.
Protests are also around the trans Pacific pipeline. I don't care about it. I'm not for it or against it. Either they don't want the pipeline or need to be paid more money to approve it. North of 60, the TV show was all about a Native town being convinced to let pipelines etc run through their town. Some were against it, some wanted a bigger payoff. There are two kinds of protests for pipelines, the don't want it protests and the want a bigger payoff protests. Meanwhile the pipelines get siphoned along various points by criminal gangs, cartels etc. Using dead animals as fuel is kind of anachronistic and will not get us to Kardashev 1 let alone the Kardashev 2 of Star Trek or the Kardashev 3 of STAR WARS. Oil and petroleum maintains a status quo and keeps a cartel more powerful than drug cartels OPEC in operation. You can't deny though, next to miniature nuclear engines, petroleum or oil gives more kick than electric or steam engines. Unless there's a prototype all electric sports car. There probably is. There's other forms of energy like ion engines, cold fusion, electric engines, proton engines, and probably engines that run on orgone or maybe biomass like Back to the Future.
I doubt I could go to Hong Kong. I'm too wired to the English language. I speak English 24 hours a day for decades on end.😃 Would people of Hong Kong exactly be known for speaking English 24 hours a day? I think they're more known for speaking Cantonese 24 hours a day. And I get a generous government pension. I often think I don't belong anywhere on Earth, in Canada I'm a visible minority, in Hong Kong is prefer to speak English all the time, England too snobby too expensive, so why don't I overdose on heroin and move to the afterlife instead?
Visible minority is relative and a shifting term. Its meaning is not static. Before 1949, women were a visible minority in Canada as they didn't have the vote. At one time, children and the elderly were classified as visible minorities. Handicapped people were a visible minority too as not too many places were wheelchair accessible and with handicapped designated parking. What about invisible minorities? At one time the LGBTQ community was an invisible minority. An invisible minority is those with hidden handicaps such as mental illness. Or those of a European country that lost a war with Canada or the States, so at one time Germans were an invisible minority. Canada is nice because people are accepting of people from different places like the starship Enterprise which has all manner of races even extra terrestrial and androids" on board. Other countries are more obsessed with race. Everytime you walk through the door someone says farang. I shouldn't care about that. That actually means nothing. Someone black or Asian could be named NBA MVP and somewhere else a White person is sitting in stir because he did 51 people in. I'm going to stop caring about that.
US warship attacked in Iran. Tonkin Incident again?
I saw an apartment under construction on fort street and cook streets. The balconies had no railings on them yet. That reminded me of the prison that the dwarf in Game of Thrones was in, no bars. No reaching through the bars for the stars. What bars?
Wishlist: STAR WARS, Journey to the force awakens trading cards. At least two packs.
"Have you ever heard a seal sing 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star?'" Sonia Singer, Global News. I never heard a seal sing The Go-Gos 'Our Lips Are Sealed', let alone Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
Speaking of sealed with a kiss, I had my tooth extracted yesterday. Sudden, unexpected. It had been feeling 'weird' for a couple of days. Today, my room is being sprayed for bedbugs. I washed and dried all my clothes and bedsheets. I only have one laundry load of clothes, and one laundry load of bedsheets. Placed in garbage bags and placed in the center of the room. All surfaces wiped down, furniture pulled away from the walls, electrical socket covers removed. Then I have to be away for 6 hours. That's a pain for someone, yours truly who recently spent three days a row, not leaving my room. No wonder my YouTube career is tanking. One needs exposure, promotion, advertising. In my case, zero out of three ain't bad. Also one needs to interact with their audience. It helps to be extraverted rather than introverted if one is going to go into entertainment. I could have, should have, talked more on YouTube; vlogging. I also have the skills of artistic illustration. Too bad I didn't make money with it. I think people are stealing my thunder. My Star trek cartoon only got 7 views. If I took that kind of thing with any kind of seriousness, I'd be really upset. I'm happy enough to have FlipAClip with the tablet. Ibis Illustrator is redundant although it has more features, watercolour paintbrush, etc. Even if there was no internet but a tablet with FlipAClip including adding ones own audio, I'd still be happy. Tablet with FlipAClip is better than drawing with a mouse. This method feels more natural. The tablet is portable, take it with me anywhere even on board a third class train in Thailand. I can see that. The portability of the tablet is better than drawing hunched over a desk. All those years of desk drawing did bring a lot of training I otherwise wouldn't have gotten. FlipAClip gives you the option of so many frames a second, maximum of 30. Imagine if it had a femto setting. That's be about a trillion, not billion, frames a second. That's mind-blowing! How many units of Planck time is one of those frames? Uh, a length of Planck time is 10 -44 power. A femtosecond is 10 -12 power. 12 into 44 is roughly 3 and a half so does that mean there are 3 and a half Planck lengths of time in a femtosecond? No that's fuzzy math. That would mean that since a thousand is ten to the power of three and a million is ten to the power of six does then two thousand is equal to a million. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. To divide the powers of ten you subtract the exponents. 10 -44 divided by 10 -12 power is 10 -32 power, that's how many Planck units of time is in a femto second and that's a lot. 50 years ago a camera could do a million frames a second. It could photograph a bullet going through an apple. A video shot with a femtophotographic camera would take a year to play out. It could photograph a light beam and have it appear to be moving slowly. I wish I first got this at 10 years old rather than at 50 years old. That's life. At 50, I bring a lifetime of experience including international travel to the table that I otherwise wouldn't have brought if I was younger. My baby. Herbessa was my baby.
To my guinea pig: "I love you." My guinea pig: "And I love you too."
This was the month from hell. All in one month, 2 cockroach sprayings, and 1 bedbug spraying which means at least leaving for 6 hours if not all the other stuff. Then 3 dental appointments, one to drain the abscess, another extraction and then a root canal. Otherwise, a 5 week month, no GST, but with $100 raise which is the same as GST. Next month is sweeter. Only 1 bedbug spraying, no dental appointments, 4 week month with $150 raise and with GST.
On a 4 week month with GST, I could afford to go to Vancouver. $5 Victoria bus all-day pass plus $18 approx x 2 = $36 plus $11 compass card day pass = $65. Four, five hours each way. I saw the Butchart Gardens website. 1, 2, 3 hour itinerary. So for Vancouver, 2 hours is Granville Street Downtown area plus English Bay. 3 hours is Granville Street Downtown plus either Vancouver Museum Vanier Park. 4 hours is again, Downtown Granville and then UBC MOA, Museum of Anthropology. Give or take one hour. Meal stop not included with time estimate and would be additional.
Vancouver Chinatown would be a prime tourist destination, that's if you like discarded needles and safe injection sites which is what you have to brave the gauntlet of to visit the esteemed wonton noodles restaurants of Chinatown. I'd be willing to visit there. However, any wonton noodles I can get in Vancouver, I can get in this town.
I was thinking of getting a Google chromecast at $54 plus tax. That's crazy. I already have a PC hooked up to the TV. Wouldn't a tablet be redundant? Chromecast works along a certain vector. Apps have to be chromecast enabled. Not all are. YouTube probably is but is hoopla or tubi? Therefore, no dice. I can also get YouTube on my big screen TV through either of my Blu Ray machines. No Chromecast machine.
After the extraction, my gums hurt. I tried T3 but they left me with an undesirable druggy pilly tranquy feeling. The best way to live is clean and sober. Then online I read that clove oil or even chewing raw garlic which is in the clove family helps. I have garlic. I chewed it. It works. Cuts down the pain 75% to 100%. I was going to get orajel at 7-11, but why not save money? I still have at least one whole clove of garlic.
I got GOT season 1 and 2, so far. In season 1, the brother tried to steal the dragon eggs. He later on got liquid gold poured over him and died. In season 2 there was Qarth, the greatest city that ever was and ever will be. I've been to a few cities. They all say that about themselves. I think Vancouver is the greatest city despite the substandard roller coaster and hockey team which has never and probably will never win the Stanley Cup.
Ultimate wish list. An impossibility. If I were to live in Vancouver, the number one place is between 16th and 25th Avenue and between MacDonald and Arbutus. Actually, the Point Grey area. Maybe in the next life. I doubt in this one. Me having written this is useless.
In the near future in election ads would have a disclaimer, written on the bottom of the screen, "this is not a deepfake video". Has the human species after 100,000 years of evolution come to this? Well, it's been a good run.
The algorithm for detecting deepfake videos would be that a normal video is like an unscrambled Rubik's cube. A deepfake video is like a scrambled Rubik's cube.
King Arthur. Thursday, June 27, 2019. Hypnagogic voice upon awakening. An answer to a question.
Cocaine is absolutely legal in Peru 2 grams, Colombia 1 gram and Mexico 1/2 gram. Interestingly, 2 grams is the minimum lethal dosage. Whereas for heroin, the lethal dosage is 1 gram.
I don't go to parties. Every day, some times. Things, people, situations have a way of "getting into my hair". That it's this person or that person is incidental. The pattern is there. And I can't seem to stop thinking about it. For one day. But over the years, on a lot of days, I had a lot of people get into my hair, then now thinking back I can't remember what they were. Like months later, I won't remember what, quote, "got into my hair" today. I should have said more. I should have said less. Did I commit a faux pas unintentionally? Every day, all the time. Year after year of fuck up after fuck up.
