January 2025

Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Real VR Fishing is an absolute gem. I got the France DLC for $4. There is a Belgium and Netherlands DLC as well, for $4 each.

The Western US DLC alone is $14 which is more than than the other 3 put together.

Europe has the old world elegance. Don't be surprised if I get the other 2 Europe DLCs, I mean for $4 each. 

Galactic Catch is the first VR fishing game and that one is a gem as well. Surrealistic abstract fantasy worlds and fantasy fish. The chain of events. I got Baba Yaga on sale, which turned out to be an app for girls. Then Baba Yagas main screen menu featured a link to Galactic Catch. I already had the other games too, GC is the one I didn't have. It was on sale so I thought why not? Best VR purchase I made all month. 

The US and the Japan DLCs are prohibitively expensive. About $18 each. Holy crap, you'd have to be rich to afford all that. I've always loved the elegance of Europe. 

So I'm in the hole for the Great Gatsby, $9, plus $14 including tax for the fishing in Europe DLCs.

So I also got the Belgium and Netherlands DLC. 

The Netherlands DLC makes me think of The Dutch Bakery, a local bakery. 

It would be mind blowing if Real VR Fishing were to do the pier in Sidney BC as the would also be a mind blowing experience. 

Not good. Screen takes literally and not figuratively forever to load. That's when its running on 1 out of 4 cylinders. When it runs on all 12 cylinders, it works really well. So well that's its easily one of the best apps on VR. Per od. Most of the time it seems, it's not running well. And this is after plonking down $12 on the Europe DLCs which leaves me wondering how I would have been treated had I not gotten the Europe DLCs. I want this app to work properly. Others have commented about this in reviews. The developer replies and says to uninstall and reinstall. I did that but it doesn't work. 

Works most of the time. The trick is, just before getting into the app, go to settings and turn off cloud storage permission which is a green switch which can not be missed. Then get into the app, play the app and when complete, go to settings and turn on cloud storage permission again, then go to the Main menu of Real VR Fishing and go to storage and click the save data button. And that's it. 

Leaving cloud storage permission off will disable the auto save progress function of all VR apps installed and played. Leaving it on will result in the Real VR Fishing intro screen taking forever to load. When functioning normally, it clicks on in less than 5 seconds. It's that fast when running on all 12 cylinders. 

If you don't do this ritual, it will only work about 25% of the time and that's after uninstalling and reinstalling. Otherwise it just works 0% of the time with the intro screen taking an eternity to load. 

The Japan part 2 DLC looks interesting. $10 and has exotic squid fishing. 

There is a West Coast USA which has catfish fishing. But not noodling. Noodling is going into the water to use bother arms to scoop out the fish which theoretically is doable in VR but not yet achieved. Certainly not in Real VR Fishing. 

The game is absolutely mind-blowing. Not to spoil it, but it has rain as well. Imagine sitting on a fishing boat on a lake and its raining, all in VR. 

I checked out the Japan DLCs. Part 1 was all right. Part 2 was a lot better. 

Part 1 had one scene with shimmering glowing yellow lanterns set against a Japanese village made all of wood that is painted red but the village is set along a mountain and appears small in the distance yet instantly and grippingly medieval Japan nostalgic. 

Part 2 has several scenes. It has a nice wooden village scene, a cosmopolitan city scene, hauntingly beautiful winter scene all white and even then shrouded in a thick white fog, a Japanese royal castle, and a nighttime scene of glowing lanterns set along a bridge made of painted red wood and the bridge is very near not in the distance csdting quite an impressionable and mesmerizing presence. To be honest and not to euphemize, the squid that I saw in the preview trailer looked horrid and grotesque. A shiny VR grotesque John Carpenter The Thing like entity with sliderly insectoid arms. I was expecting an elegant white cuttlefish with exquisite spots. It did promise other cephalopods aka squids. For the exquisite backgrounds, all of them that I liked were good. There's one boring unmemorable one but the rest were top class. I'll get Japan part 2. 

Updste: I got Japan Part 2. I hope I don't have to uninstall and reinstall it to access this again which I never had to do on any other app. Other apps ran like liquid diamonds. Smooth. Get a DLC and it's retroactively there. No reinstallation required. Nope, not with Real VR Fishing. Retarded or what. Even then it's worth the money because this app is next level. 

Part 1 had all unmemorable scenes and only one that was semi good. Whereas part 2 had a few really good scenes. Wtf. Get Japan part 2. 

I'm still watching my budget like a hawk. I'm mindful of my budget. I'm only getting straight goods. 

Just like with Puzzling Places VR, I could only get a few and not all of the DLCs. Puzzling Places does have a monthly subscription where all puzzles can be accessed and I got that. It's worth it. I'm on the thing every day. 

I checked out Puzzles of Loci. There's one really good one. Red painted Newfoundland style houses set against 19th century style wooden bridges and boardwalks. Highly nostalgic. But that one kind of good scene set against other strange arbitrary surreal irrelevant unmemorable scenes didn't seem worth the asking price. 

When I lived in Dawson Creek, I met a guy named Hawkeye, probably one of a few people referred to as Hawkeye that you'd find in any small town in N America. That was probably an omen because in Gun Club VR, I'm getting some incredible shots that even amaze me and it doesn't seem to be rigged or auto aim. Sometimes I get the most incredible headshots while the captor is holding a hostage and st a distance. 

2025 is the start of the 2nd half of the decade.

I was somewhat thinking of getting Ocean Rift VR but after watching the only fan made 360 VR video of it on YouTube, it was a complete turn off. Sea snake. Poisonous as anything. Sure, whatever. Piranha looks intriguing. Swim in the midst of a school of piranha in VR. A pop up placard says that attacks are usually extreme rare.

Then a moray eel. I commented about it then the narrated placard appears. Strange timing. Wait. Those three animals each live hundreds if not thousands of miles apart. Sea snake, Indian ocean. Piranha, Amazon River. Moray eel, Pacific Ocean. And there they are all swimming together. In real life, any of those species would love to tear a chunk out of any human if not eat them completely altogether. I won't get this. At $12. Even a millionaire wouldn't carelessly fling away $12. I like scuba diving VR apps. 

There is another VR app where the player uses a hand held underwater jet propeller to get to a shipwreck. That game was fun except for when it got a person to look for impossible to find things and to do impossible tasks. 

Update: January 2, got it on sale for $8. 

Also got Fishing in VR. Trailer shows realistic fish. $4. I hope it's a good VR app and not a money laundering scam. The fish look realistic. The scenery looks sub par. And I'm guessing there's no fish tank. It looks like one person made this app living in a basement. 

Fishing in VR was horrible. Just horrible. Requested refund. 

I got news that my hotel is staying open for another three years at least. So I won't be moving and living on the streets in a tent and jug hitting meth and fentanyl mixture at 5 in the morning with the gang then dying this year. What a relief. 

Thursday, January 2, 2025

I bit the bullet and got Japan part 1 for $10.07 including tax on Real VR Fishing. That real nice wooden village I thought was in part 2 was actually in part 1. 

The United States DLCs on Real VR Fishing are about $20 each. Fuck me, that's pricey. I'd opt if I had a preference to get the West Coast DLC. I live on the West Coast and tis DLC includes Hawaii. It's really five times the effort to travel to the East Coast from where I am. That'd be travelling clear across the Continent and I don't think I can handle that level of intensity. The few places I'd like to visit on the East Coast would be New York and Disney World Star Wars in Florida. Washington DC would be interesting too. I'm not that much into politics although I have had a few dreams of American Presidents. 

$20 each. I'll have to mull it over for awhile. I get a $200 GST cheque. We all do. People who work get a workers rebate that along with the GST totals $1,400. 

Trudeau is or is not going to give Canadians a $250 just because cheque. Really it is a tacit agreement for voters to vote for him in the next election. "We have an understanding. This $250. Vote for me in the next election!" 

Chrystia Freeland called this costly political gimmicky and she was Trudeau's Right Hand Lady which leaves me wondering what politicians who aren't Trudeau's Right Hand, Otto the Hand, think of him. It's like Knives Out. On the News they want him to resign. Canadian PM's usually have a maximum shelf life of about ten years so all of this is right on schedule. 

I think Trudeau should have another kick st the can and he probably will. 

The honeymoon period with the next PM will be over and people will want Trudeau back again. Just like with George Lucas. Fans complained about Jar Jar Bunks but after the Disney sequels, fans wanted George Lucas to do more Star Wars movies again. 

Trudeau will most likely return for a stint but it won't be nearly the ten year run of his first administration. He will be an older Trudeau, a salt and pepper Trudeau. 

What the heck. I'll take another peek at the US DLCs. If I get West Coast, it will be next month due to the paucity of my budget unless there is a drastic price drop limited time sale. At that point I'd have to get it then. 

East Coast is more iconic. But pricier, $17 plux tax. It has the Statue of Liberty, Miami Beach, Brooklyn, Central Park, Niagara Falls, and the Florida Everglades. 

West Coast is $14 plus tax and has The Grand Canyon, San Francisco, a ferris wheel amusement park at Santa Monica Pier, A couple of bridges st lakes that I don't know. It looks all right but the East Coast one has more iconic scenes but is more expensive and I don't plan to travel there in real life unless I'm a Millionaire. Whereas West Coast has less iconic scenes, but costs $3 less and the West Coast is in the intellectual geographical  vicinity of my dreams of traveling to the US. Don't worry, there is a free United States level in the game which has a few scenes although I don't know how famous those places are. 

I like West Coast. 

I have a Police story. They'd like to know that I was keeping score. 

On Monday, December 30, the 2nd last day of the year, I was sweeping the grounds of the Courthouse. I swept both sheriff garages making sure to get every last leaf even in the seam along the walls. I swept the North area of the Courthouse making sure to get every last leaf from the cracks along the sidewalk. The Courthouse should look nice. 

As I was sweeping the first garage, I saw an Amazon Prime van. I checked and my Amazon delivery arrived. So that van was an omen and a nudge. 

Then as I was completing my work, I saw two Police cars pull up to the Courthouse. They were parked on opposite sides of the street facing in opposite directions. 

For a second, I thought that they were there for me. I once talked to an old lady at the soup line who said that often when she sees the Police, for a second, she wonders if they are there for her. It's a common enough thought. If the Police want to talk to me, they would have. The Police are a lot of things but reticent isn't one of them. 

They didn't. Then I thought that a symbol of the new year is Janus and Janus is a two headed God that faces in opposite directions. The year is over. 

Also that I didn't really have to work the next day. Take December 31, take that day off. So I did. 

They didn't talk to me so they would have been at the Courthouse for something else. 

Squid Game Season 2, The Complete Season released a few days ago. I watched the first part of it. It was just where it left off. 

The main protagonist arrives at the airport. At a restaurant the Police Chief is baffled that Jun Ho the Police Officer lost his phone at the island and couldn't place the location of the island. The Chief asks who shot him. Not wanting to reveal that not only is his brother alive, he's the Dr No of that island which would be even more baffling than losing the phone, the Officer says, "I don't know." 

A teenage couple argues with Jun Ho. I'm thinking it's foreshadowing and that teenage couple could be seen again later on in the Games. 

I saw a YouTube video about a divination ritual in Hong Kong. The Chinese characters read Dah Siyu Yun. Which translated leterally means hit little person but translated figuratively and colloquially means voodoo. A paper figure who is named after the person who is getting under the client's hair. The person did something or humiliated the client in some way and the client just can't stop thinking about the person. The voodoo practitioner hits the small paper effigy with a shoe which in non first world countries is an ultimate insult until the small anthropomorphic paper origami is nearly pulverized. 

I wouldn't pay for this ritual for anyone in my life. I envision a room which I would place anyone in my life who I hate. The thing is, I always see this room as empty. 

Jesus said to say a prayer for those who slighted you. That's what I always make sure to do. I wish anyone who ever slighted me the best for their future. As long as it's not a future that involves me. 

The Bible strongly admonished against any form of divination and even psychics although King Saul tried to summon the ghost of the prophet Samuel. 

Psychics use a science that can be correlated from anyone who has ever had a vivid dream about a relative who died let alone Royalty who died. Dreams that seem more vivid than this life. Stories of such dreams are plentiful. 

Such powerful dreams come from God energy. The two are interconnected. Pastor Joel Osteen talks about the God level. Matt Fraser talks about the spirit level. Each of those levels of knowledge is incomplete without the other. 

This kind of divination is illegal in Canada as under the Laws of Canada, I think witchcraft, necromancy, black magic is illegal in Canada. On the streets, it's just not very good mojo. 

Other countries sure got a lot of strange things. 

Oblivious. Aztec Camera. 

Still Thursday the 2nd. I put up my new calendar. 

I spent all night obsessing about the Real VR Fishing US West Coast and East Coast. Even though they cost about $15 each, they each have over 20 locations. Each. The Europe DLCs at $4 have just 3 scenes each. $15.67 including tax for the West Coast edition and $19.03 for the East Coast edition totals $34.70. 

Every time I play this app, I spend a minimum of an hour on it. Real VR Fishing is much better than Galactic Catch. It's like Galactic Catch and Brink Traveler heck, Teleport Iceland got together and had a baby. 

It's a very good life. Work sweeping the streets and then relax with time at the gun range with Gun Club VR and or fishing with Real VR Fishing. 

I imagine that the sheriffs at the Courthouse likewise when they completed their work for the day, they would either go to a gun range, Gun Club VR or else go fishing, Real VR Fishing. 

I wonder if there are any good fishing spots in Victoria BC? You need to get a good fishing rod, a couple of good floats, good lures, live bait like worms or squid is best. And good fishing line. Use a 10 pound test to catch a 5 pound fish, amateur. Use a 10 pound test to catch a 20 pound fish, expert. And get a fishing license. 

With the amount of ergs, joules and caloric output in terms of brain energy expenditure that I spent mulling over the US editions, don't be surprised if I actually decide to get them, the East Coast and the West Coast DLCs. 

This is the only app where one wouldn't feel out of place if they were to urinate off the side of the boat for that more realistic VR fishing experience. 

I figured out that one room has the freshwater tank and the other room has the saltwater marine aquarium. Now that's thinking two steps ahead. This is the app of the year. It's life changing. This is way better than Galactic Catch. 

The fish tanks in Real Fishing VR can hold a lot of fish but not an unlimoted amount. In real life, the optimum is ten gallons of water per fish maximum of 5 gallons per fish. Depends if its a bigger fish or a smaller one. That's because the undergravel filter can only filter out so much uh, extrusions. It's always a wretched sight to see fish swimming with a tube of extrusion just dangling from its back side as it swims past as if in a grim parade procession. 

With VR fish, you don't have to worry about that. 

VR will get better. The fish still look somewhat cartoonish. I'm counting on it one day looking so shockingly photo realistic that it looks more real than real. 

In Real VR Fishing, when bait is changed, the fish color changes. Red means the fish doesn't like the bait. Yellow means that it kinda likes the bait and green means that it likes the bait completely. Match the catch. 

Crap. My friend did give me a calendar. It was a 2024 calendar. Don't worry. Look for a month that starts the dame day as this month does and do it like that. In that way, all calendars can more or less be used over and over again. 

Society is a synthetic set up where months are 31 or 30 or 29 days. The moon never does a 29 day month. A true lunar month is 28 days. 

One reason for this is because if every month was 28 days, there goes the calendar industry. It's a billion dollars a year annual worldwide industry. 

But if every month started in the same day and ended with the same day, the day that it ends would have some kind of bad luck stigma attached to it. 

Just like now, there are 13 lunar cycles a year. Moon means night, darkness, death. 13 at dinner. The 13th guest, Judas, was the unlucky one. Hotels cancel out floor 13. But NASA in all its wisdom didn't cancel out Apollo 13 like hotels cancel out 13th floors. Result, between Apollo 11 and Apollo 17, Apollo 13 was the only one that didn't work. 

The LEM Lunar Ejection Module has a descent and an ascent stage. When the ascent stage initially left the moon, the descent stage remained. When the ascent stage hooked up with the LCM Lunar Command Module, the ascent stage was subsequently ejected back onto the surface of the moon where its location remains a mystery to this day. 

Artemis is going to the moon somewhere between 2026 and 2028. 

I hope I find a free calendar. Otherwise a calendar usually costs nearly $20 of which the opportunity cost is a Real VR Fishing US DLC. Calendars are usually a lot cheaper in February. 

Well. I knuckled down and paid for the 2 US DLCs on Real VR Fishing so it's in the can. I'm also going to get Shores of Loci. 

The States DLCs are running on all 12 cylinders. There is an update. Runs better now. 

I swept the Courthouse grounds. New Year. I did extra. I made sure to sweep out all of the cracks on the sidewalk. I don't know how many other people would just volunteer to do that for the Courthouse despite what good works the Courts have done for them. I am honored to work for the Courthouse. 

Believe it or not I'm actually trying to stop getting VR apps. I have too save my money for what. Traveling? 

Shores of Loci. Absolutely breathtaking. Had to put it down and have a coffee first before venturing further. While some apps are underwhelming, this app is overwhelming in the best way. Sheer absolute spectacular. 

Ocean Rift. Got it. Tried it. Very good. MR leaves much to be desired. Strange. Otherwise awesome app. Scuba diving experience. 

Tip: best used lying down on the stomach for a more realistic experience. 

Ocean Rift. The mixed reality made me draw a mirror. The mirror could onky be drawn in one place where I have a shelf full of knick knacks. The shf registered as a black block and I was unable to see the champagne level aquarium that the app promises. 

I went to the Caspian white beluga level. I've only seen that shiny plastic textures on things in VR in still life. In this app, things with that shiny texture are animated. Wait, I did see the penguins in the Nat Geo app. 

Do you think that me getting so many VR apps is crazy? VR is a learning experience. It's like going to school but without grade quotas and homework and requirement for the ADD to be turned off at all times like st an actual University. 

I'm a VR afficianado but not really. As with all platforms, Gba, DS, Psp, Android tablet etc I'm always never getting the prime premium games that most serious gamers get. I'm talking about teenagers that can play video games better than adults of any age. For eg. the big game on Gba was Final Fantasy. I never got that. 

On meta quest, the top games are Arkham Asylum and Bone Lab and Contractors. I never got those. 

The most famous game on PSP was Code of Honour and Brothers In Arms and I never played that due to being prone to lotion sickness which would make me a terrible astronaut. So much for going on the Artemis program. That program has some criteria. 

1. United States citizen. 

2. University minimum of Masters Degree in Sciences achieved. 

3. Some military experience. 

4. Minimum height requirement of 6' tall. 

5. Dependent on results of psychological assessment. 

Well, zero out of five ain't bad. Therefore I won't be going on the Artemis program. 

Tried the MR experience again in Ocean Rift. Works really good and can set up more than one aquarium window and in the middle of the room where I am standing. It's more of a window than an aquarium. A window into the sea. 

Sometimes apps have to be tried again. 

Friday, January 3, 2025

The entry stage was released back to the moon after it left the command module and is at an unknown location. When I see unknown location, I'm thinking classified location. The entry stage had another mission. It probably had a tactical nuke and it was there to test the effect of incendiaries on the moon. There was a camera there and measuring devices. The military would want to know that. 

That is one possibility. 

On meta quest VR, someone called Mindy Scott is always calling me. When you go on meta horizon world's, a few times for the inexperienced is all it takes. People notice you and follow you or send follow requests. It can even come from leaving a review. Don't go on horizon world's ever and don't leave reviews. Of course over the course of a few months, people sent me follow requests and I followed them back. Why not? 

Getting calls. There are many reasons I would get a call and none of them are good. I guess I'll have to block this person. Unfollow and block. 

The Police on television have said never accept any calls on social media. 

I hope that someone contacting me named mScott is an omen that Teleport Scotland will be released to meta quest. Teleport Iceland is already released. It used to be on meta oculus then it was taken down for updating. Well, where is it? Who wouldn't want to teleport to Scotland especially the famous curving Victoria Street? Scotland is more island living. Mainland living and island living are two completely different dynamics. Island living is more backwater. 

My Court case is coming up. I'm supposed to call my legal aid lawyer but every time I call him he never calls back. Sometimes I get calls on my phone with a strange area code, not a local area code. One time I looked up the area code and it said Quesnel. Why would my lawyer be in Quesnel? Thera probably a scammer call and looking up the number, it was a scammer number. 

My phone is not working because I want to save money. If I reactivate the phone and can't get that old number again and get a new number, I would have to tell that to my bail supervisor aka probation officer. 

I left them all, Courthouse and the lawyer a second number I could be contacted. That number has never been called. 

Meanwhile I just go on sweeping the Courthouse to a level that is almost military clean. 

I'll just show up on the Court day and accept any judgement the Court gives me. 

The name, Scott. Mindy mscott381926 makes me think of the Presbyterian Church. If I don't go there for awhile, people from there will see me on the street and ask me why don't I go back there? Presbyterian Church is from Scotland. It's a cult. Al religions are cults. Hyperspecific details, they all think they have the monopoly on truth. Cult. 

Religions think they have a moral authority on you equivalent to the authority that the government has on you. Church and State. The problem is that Churches are schismatic. So many schism, denominations. They sort of cancel each other out. 

The Catholic Church is more unified, have more things in common. The Protestant Church is all about schism and crazy denominations. The Catholic Church is the OG Christian Church but is more high maintenance than Protestantism. So many more details. 

In most countries Church attendance is declining as the years go on. 

There is a great preacher on YouTube and I've thought of moving to that town to be with that Church. However since I'm already watching his sermons on YouTube, I'm already getting some of the best of that town and none of the worst of it. Some of and not all of because come on, there are a lot of other great things in that town. Restaurants, good people etc. 

These weird cults will try to coopt me but they can only do so much. What if I got a job? What if I'm into other things? What if I'm not avoiding something but rather just more into something else? What if I moved to another town? What if I have a mental issue that prevents me from returning? 

The shitbag garbage forces of life. Why does life send me nudges pertaining to people and places that I decided that I don't want to have anything to do with anymore? 

Why do I generate a certain kind of energy and why do the forces of life throw this personality and that personality at me, none who are as talented as me or are into the things I'm into and at my level? Sure they might be skilled in other areas but that still means hsving not much in common. 

Why does the often shitbag garbage defective forces of life throw thoughtless people at thoughtful people? 

It is because like I said before, it's the same forces that decided to dither around with dinosaurs for about 350 million years. Life is about islands of mindfulness surrounded by oceans of mindlessness. 

Or is mscott - mascot? A common enough online moniker which has nothing to do with Scotland or the Presbyterian Church. 

Life isn't always wretched and garbage. Often I get some really good things in life. I guess how would you know one without the other without those things offsetting one another? 

I once talked about seeing someone whom I thought to be a delinquent outside of Shoppers Drug Mart a few years ago. He was carrying a fishing rod. He was angry. He looked at me and said, "I'll break you!" 

Well, that fishing rod turned out to be an omen of Real VR Fishing which is the ultimate fishing app and not even Galactic Catch which is a penultimate fishing appp. 

And even the word break. I was working 7 days a week being a caregiver with seemingly no end in sight. That phrase could mean that eventually I'd get be getting a break or a stop to the work. That's metanoia. 

Paranoia would think that the guy would eventually attack me. But that was years ago and he never attacked me. 

Wherever that guy is, I wish that guy complete blessings and a good life. That fishing rod was a makor good omen. 

At the time I thought I was the forces of life presenting me with yet another delinquent. It turned out that he held in his hands a vital and blessed omen. 

Fish, pisces, Jesus. One of the symbols for Jesus is fish which of course makes sense since Jesus was a carpenter. 

Jesus is the Age of Pisces. Then there is the Age of Aquarius which is the next one. I don't know what year that starts. Hippies talked a lot about the age of Aquarius. 

I'm scared of that call. I'll have to put on a 24 hour do not disturb. 

William Burroughs once wrote, "Do not answer the call. Turn the machine off completely." 

Burroughs had problems with cults that tried to coopt him such as Scientology, he did the squirrel test. And Jehovah's Witnesses as well. 

I put a block on the person. 

I'm thinking, "What if that person was a celebrity or to quote the Simpsons, a big wheel at the cheese factory?" Curiosity killed the cat. It's such thoughts that lead to people getting involved in weird online bullshit. There are many reasons anyone would get a call and none of them are good. Exploitation, sexploitation, solicitation, etc. The sometimes garbage forces of life. 

South Korea. The Parliament wants the Leader to resign. What's the difference between that and what's going on the Canadian Parliament? MPs want Trudeau to resign so what you have here in Canada is South Korea lite. 

The main takeaways are about a year ago, President Yoon survived an assassination attempt when a knife was plunged into his throat. He survives. More political infighting. The rarefied rabbithole that is politics of any country. A preacher gifts Yoon's wife with a $2,000 Christian Dior handbag. She was vilified in the press. #triggered  To protect his wife's dignity, the President orders martial law and less than two days later retracts the martial law and apologizes on National television. 

Since then its been unending calls for his impeachment, resignation. And it looks like he got busted for the illegal unconstitutional institution of martial law and is impeached now. 

Tommy Douglas of the NDP said that politics is like mice voting for cats. Sometimes they vote for a white cat, sometimes they vote for a black cat and then it's back to the white cat again. 

Washington DC is taking a keen interest as South Korea is an American protectorate just like Taiwan and the Philippines. 

Today I got the Sports Illustrated swimsuit calendar. Or else get the Harry Potter calendar with a picture of Voldemort, no thanks. I was thinking that perhaps one of the ladies in the swimsuit calendar if you knew her in real life is evil like Voldemort. So either way I got a calendar. Due to my optimum points, I got the calendar for free. 

The calendar was $9 plus tax. My optimum points discount was $10. Fist you have to get more than $10 of things but I got some whipping cream too. That's the upper class luxury choice for milk for coffee and tea. Whipping cream. And I got that today. 

The News said that Liam Payne's coke dealer got busted. 

Whitney Houston's coke dealer did not get busted. She died while in the bathtub. Her coke dealer said, "You don't die from doing coke and then getting into a bathtub. The onky thing you get is cleaner." 

The coke could have been laced with lidocaine which will kill if taken in more than small doses. It depends if the coke was laced with some deadly adulterants. 

A dealer can otherwise not be held accountable for the amount the customer takes on each dose. Any user ought to know that the lethal no return the body finally medically succumbing to the lethal amount of a drug for coke is about 2 grams and for heroin is just under a gram. An eightball is 3 and a half grams so doing that eightball in the bathroom probably wouldn't be the brightest idea in the world. It would be a downright deadly idea. 

15 dead and 35 injured in New Orleans after someone drove an SUV into a crowd. The 15 dead includes the suspect. 

New Orleans is known for its recipes. I know of a couple. Jambalaya. Fry some garlic and then add some ketchup, some Worcestshire sauce and some sugar. Then fry some shrimp and diced salami or pepperoni, sliced red bell peppers, sliced onions green scallions and white onions then some penne pasta. Fry all that up. Real Jambalaya has Cajun spices but like any dish, there are about at least a dozen varieties depending on region. Hardcore Jambalaya calls for alligator or crocodile meat. An alligator is a reptilian just like a chicken or any bird so the meat tastes like chicken with a heavy brsckish flavour of the swamp. It's an acquired taste. 

At the end of the movie JFK, which takes place in New Orleans, Tommy Lee Jones left the Courthouse saying, "I'm going to go home and bake an etoufee." A etoufee is an open faced pie. Get a pie shell and in a frying pan, fry up jambalaya but without the pasta. And add in some egg to give it body. Scoop that from the frying pan into the pie shell and bake in an oven. It should be pretty good. It's a foolproof recipe. 

New Orleans has Antoine's which has oysters Rockefeller. Local restaurants have that too. I tried it myself. Pretty good. There are probably a few varieties but the original recipe at Antoine's is a secret. 

Whoever did that is an idiot. The Police killed him on the spot. Play with the bull, you get the horns. 

In learning to do a backflip, one can make a table which is with the back arched and all four limbs on the ground, bend over forward quickly, thus doing a backflip. 

When I bend my upper right arm backwards along with bending my hand backwards, there is a tremendous pain and stiffness in my upper arm that occurs sat no other time. Putting on my doctors hat it would be attributed to years of plaguing the drums. While the left hand pounds down kn the drum on every second and fourth best of 4/4 time, The right hand beats down in 8/4 time. Do that for years. It's the using the hands to pat down on the knees in that eight four time rather than doing it holding drumsticks. Do that for years and I wonder why my upper arm cramps up like anything when I bend it back. 

This reminds me of Celine Dion talking about stiff body syndrome. She feels that all over the body all the time while making no otherwise unusual or extraordinary gymnastics moves. 

I wonder if that's normal or a sign of muscular dystrophy or even stiff body syndrome which is what health anxiety and just a faint dismal medical knowledge can do. 

One day soon, I'm going to start that cartoon. It's different when you see an actual graphic interpretation of that story all fleshed out. Time travel. I have a specific vision in my mind for every frame of that cartoon. That's when you have to do it. 

As for the Cyberpunk Police cartoon, I had a vision but one scene is of a sleek futuristic neon lined Police car parked outside a hotel at night. All kinds of darkened buildings with neon lighting. It's raining. The view is from a worm's eye view, from the ground up. 

There are people walking around with umbrellas. Are you kidding? I don't have the skill to do that. To put on screen the vision that matches the one in my mind. So forget it. An AI graphics generator like King could do a picture of that with those exact words entered in the description. 

I saw quite a few cyber ambience videos on YouTube. You can tell that they are AI generated. There is a shanty town derelict cabin perched in an otherwise ultra futuristic city in a sort of sub K1 meets above K2 Kardashevian graphical architectural bestial coupling. And you can tell that it's AI generated because the Chinese characters are all horribly wrong. You don't have to enter in an entire Chinese dictionary, just the top 100 recurrent Chinese characters of very day living, seafood Hoy sin shows up a lot. Words like chicken as found on a menu or restaurant sign, wine, hay which means fortune and double hay which shows up a lot in the pantheon of every day Chinese characters that can be expected to be seen. Can't the AI process 100 Chinese characters? Even someone as squeamish about the language as me can still manage to piss out 100 Chinese characters committed to memory. So much for the advancement of AI. At least program 52 Chinese characters. That's the same number of upper and lower case letters put together or at any rate a deck of cards. Can't AI properly learn 52 Chinese characters? Even completely Caucasian tattooists at tattoo parlours can in all probability manage to bang out 52 Chinese characters committed to memory. 

First and utmost, I would like to say that the entire meta quest VR community on this planet would have a collective nerdgasm on the day that in the meta quest horizons virtual environment Cyber City, a player is able to actually climb the ladder, go into the tiny hallway alcove space and open the door into the second floor bedroom space with the bog screen TV. I can visualize what that would be like. Lighted ladder stairway and small hallway like on a submarine. Then the second floor is geek nerd second floor, drab coloured carpet, bed with all kinds of pizza boxes, comic books, action figures, VR paddles strewn on the floor and the inevitable bug screen TV and looking out the window onto the Coruscantlike future Earth. That will be the day. 

Saturday, January 4, 2025

I got Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny on YouTube for $11 on sale from $25. I had to. It looks gorgeous on YouTube. I couldn't afford it for $25. 

Other movies. Horizon an American Saga. On sale for $7. Comments were mixed. Some said the show has no real beginning or end, disconnected stories and part 2 might be years away like the space between Squid Game season 1 and 2. 

The Outsiders. I watched this with Heather. On sale for $8. The problem is, it's not a spectacular movie. The setting is underwhelming. Impoverished area of America in the 50s.  I'm not paying for a movie that isn't science fiction George Lucas Steven Spielberg Interstellar level of spectacular. Science fiction and spectacular historical movies. 

Horizon isn't a show that I know well. And The Outsiders. Both of these movies can be watched on free movie sites. 

The Outsiders is a chick flick. 

Horizon is spectacular. At the price, I got it.

"I hate doing old time Western movies. You have to turn off the camera every time a plane flies overhead." said no one. 

Horizon.. An American Saga. Well worth the sale price of about $8. 

I feel lost in existence. It feels like everything is overwhelming and all wrong. I'm going to sweep the streets at a certain area tomorrow unless it rains. 

Weekday and raining, I might work, 50%

Weekend and sunny I might work 50%

Weekend and raining I won't work 100%. 

Groups try to nudge you and coopt you to join them because they know that you know that they know that they are some xulty organization and that they have to resort to these tactics to get you to go back there in a place where they otherwise wouldn't have to do that. 

People from races like to walk on the shoulders of giants. People from my race invented that is expressed as "We invented that." Yeah, right, as if you actually hand a hand in any of that. 

Like Bill Maher said, "When you say," We won the game!" You didn't win the game. Six guys who would hate you if they met you won the game." 

You didn't invent that. Some guy who would hate you if he met you invented that. 

And then some people of all Nationalities inherit money. It's not like they applied any skill to get that money. Theyre otherwise gormless people who got their inheritance through some mindless process. It's people like that which I don't have anything in common with. My life is based on skills whether it's drawing faces accurately, doing animated cartons, riding a kicks copter using only one hand, riding a skateboard, doing gymnastics etc. 

Syria. Syria is mostly Sunni. Hamas is Sunni. Benjamin Netanyahu went after Assad with a vengeance. Everyone else who was involved at the top level of the Oct 7 Hamas attack is now dead or in Assad's case deposed. October 7 happened under Assad's watch. 

Netanyahu propped up the new Syrian Leader. It didn't matter that the new Syrian Leader is also a Russian puppet. He just didn't have the sentimental actual involvement in October 7th. Assad escaped with his life. I'm sure that he was targeted for assassination by Israeli forces. 

Dictatorships are more upfront in the way that the cards are all on the table. Democracies are a dance of deception and misrepresentation as popular vote means nothing. There are all kinds of algorithms. 

I wish that Trudeau could be PM for life. It would be a benign dictatorship. Trudeau is a platinum grade politician. That's my ideal. The reality is that in all probability, there will be an election next year. Even Trudeau is hard pressed to withstand such political pressure. 

2 out of 3 worries were struck down just like that. Worry about growing old. Oh well, that will take care of itself. Worry about my hotel. It's not closing. It's still staying open so I won't be living on the streets hopefully because if I were, I wouldn't last a week. My only worry is the Court case. But the general consensus with all those I discussed my case with are that I don't have much to worry about at all and it was unanimous. 

Was Siri listening to me? One doesn't actually have to install Siri as it's not so hidden tech, it's part of the default OS. 

I'm not perfect at all. Far from it. I often say things hundreds of times over and over again in echolalia such as 

- "I'm fucked in the head."

- "I'll never get a girlfriend ever again." Yeah, right, if I could only get that in writing. Women are a rabbbithole of issues and bossy b*itchiness. Being single, having a girlfriend, I am only trading one set of worries for another. 

- "Oh Beebs. I love you so much, beautiful. I can't make it without you Beebs. I don't know if I even want to try but I have to try. Oh sweetness. I'll always love you." 

- "Herbessa, my precious little girl. You're so cute, baby." 

If that's all Siri gets on me, it's not much. 

Heather lived to be 54 years and so many months and so many days when she died. It was about the time I got to about 54 years and so many months and so many days that I saw Heather in the dream where she was standing in front of the Cactus Club. 

Pay attention to that. Ghosts love to do that. 

President Jimmy Carter's funeral is today. 

52 cards in a deck. 52 upper and lower case letters in the alphabet. 52 weeks in a year. Jimmy Carter became President at age 52. All connected? Not unless you have some form of confirmation bias. 

25 as in 2025 is 52 backwards. 

Sunday, January 5, 2025

Bullet Train. On sale on YouTube for $8. Got it. 

Today, I'm on the Colorado River, Arizona stage of Real VR Fishing. The canyon reminds me of the setting of Horizon An American Saga. 

I'm going to talk about America in a minute. 

I don't know where exactly Horizon is set. Montana? That's the State just East of Washington State so it's pretty near Canada. 

Imagine me time traveling and teleporting there. I'm at a small river near a canyon. Kevin Costner and his gang are a few miles away. The chance that they'd just ride up in the next five minutes are slim considering that they're probably at that moment a lot somewhere in town smoking tobacco and drinking whiskey at the bar. 

As long as I don't affect any human destinies, I should be all right. Imagine a deer shows up and it was going to go in a certain direction. It sees me, gets spooked and runs. Along the way the deer hits or injured a person. This person would have otherwise been a major politician. 

Anyways the Colorado River stage has a bridge to the left. You could film an 1800s movie there as long as you don't shoot the bridge or any planes flying overhead. 

America. When I was younger I did different drugs. Cheech and Chong. Still Smoking. What can I say? That would completely cancel out any visits to the States only if the Customs Officer quizzes me about that. They might not. 

I've had quite a few dreams about famous Americans including Condoleeza Rice, Kampala Harris, George W Bush, Obama, Trump, Nixon, and Lincoln. I saw something. Tell us what you think you saw and don't leave out any details. It was too weird. 

Anyways I would like to visit a few places in the States. The most famous. New York, Los Angeles, Disneyland California Star Wars Galaxys Edge, Las Vegas Nevada, Disneyland Orlando Florida Miami Beach, Houston Texas Pastor Joel Osteen and Lakewood Church, Monterey California Cannery Row, Antoine's Restaurant in New Orleans. 

Those are the number one prime choices in the US. If I had enough money, I'd also visit Chicago. I thought I'd be shot if I ever visit but someone on the internet once wrote to me and said specifically that I would not be shot and that the area is safe and they have lived there for years. 

I hope to be able to visit the States one day but that would be beyond my imagination. 

Today I plan to go and visit what I think would be prime fishing spots in Victoria near where I live. Some of the prime fishing spots, not all of the prime fishing spots. That would take forever. 

I'm thinking Clover Point, Dallas Road Beach Holland Point Park, Ogden Point is a place I see quite a few fishermen and fisher women. 

Sometimes an Officer from Fisheries Canada will walk along Ogden Point asking anglers to produce their fishing license. A fishing license is generally $8 a day, $12 a week or $24 a year. There must be a separate license purchased for tidal salt water and non tidal fresh water fishing. A person can be finned I mean fined for fishing without a license. 

I plan to actually get some fish to eat. Not expensive. The fish market at fisherman's wharf. I've been playing a few fishing games on VR. Galactic Catch which I will look at again one day, Real VR Fishing and A Fisherman's Tale part 1 and 2,. Part 1 was hit it out of the park adventure on the St Roch level of nautical excellence. Part 1 is legend in my mind. Legend. 

Jack Dempsey, cichlid fish species. 

Real VR Fishing, the big fish look awesome as they are in the air at a distance doing a flip before going into the water again. The big fish so far aren't that exciting. A few salmon, a few large trout. Let's face it, the most major fish are the swordfish, the marlin, stingray, grouper, baby great white shark, nurse shark, hammer head shark, catching a tuna is Mor major than catching a salmon. Albacore tuna, skipjack tuna. As one gets experience, that gives access to the more major fish. 

There is one freshwater fish called the Jack Dempsey that just looks amazing. Not named after a fisherman, named after boxer Jack Dempsey. 

There is a technique. When a big fish bites, don't do any reeling. Any reeling at all will tighten the slack and the line will snap. Let the line spool out. The video game assumes this but in real life, one can release the spool rod which can not be done in Real VR Fishing. Oh well, nobody's perfect. Then reel in the fish. In the game, there is a blue zone, a transparent zone and a red zone. Reel in big fish getting the line close to the blue zone, very near but not in the blue zone, in the safe middle ground transparent zone. Impatience will make a person get the line close to the red zone which reels it in faster but when the fish is enraged, the line automatically and quickly advances hard into the red zone, line snapped, fish, bait and float as well is gone. More floats must be eventually be purchased. 

There are mind blowing surprises which just blew my mind. Spoilers look away if you are planning to get this. Whales at the San Francisco Bay level. They scared me. I thought that was something I had to catch which dwarfs any fish I've seen so far. Different whales doing different things. Each is a surprise. Humpback whales. Interesting since I visited the Humpback Whales stage in Ocean Rift VR. 

Lightning strikes at a beach somewhere in Korea. 

I know I'm getting long winded but the AI behind the aquarium in Real VR Fishing displays a high error rate. In optimum cases fish bounce off one another as if they were solid. 

In less than optimum cases, the fish swim through each other as if they were ghosts. 

Unreal Engine 5.5. Genisys 6? Unity? 

Today I did go to Clover Point to see the ocean live and not in VR. At Clover Point I saw a fishing boat! Silver and the L shaped winch that was on it reminding me of the movie Jaws was unmistakable. That is a good sign of Real VR Fishing. 

Today I did get some fish. I got some halibut for cooking that Chinese recipe which I should discuss in a second. Then I went to the fish store at Fisherman's Wharf and got a smoked salmon skewer and two halibut cakes. 

Usually with the fish steamed with a topping on ginger and scallion, put more scsllion and ginger on it after steaming and por some very hot oil on it. After that, just add soy sauce. That's it. Kinda plain but good. 

A VR cooking app called Lost Recipes said do that and then instead of pouring just soy sauce pour a specially made sauce of a few ingredients. I forgot the ingredients exactly but got the gist of it. 

I add in a mixture of sugar, soy sauce, vinegar and a drop of sesame oil. After pouring on the hot hot oil, I give it a minute so the oil can cook the fish further and then pour on the specially made sauce. 

There are other variations. Crown the fish with oyster sauce and dried fermented black beans, steam and then pour hot oil on top and then add soy sauce with or without sugar. With or without vinegar as well. Your choice. Your variation of the recipe. 

Lost recipes is about ancient recipes. One recipe includes tacos just like the Aztecs made. The Chinese fish recipe is presumably from the 19th Century. The modern era is rushed and has only enough time to top the steam fried fish with soy sauce while in the 1800s there was more than enough time to add all these other ingredients. 

In Real VR Fishing, the saltwater stages, a shark sometimes steals my catch. The line goes to the red section and no amount of not reeling or extending the fishing rod forward does anything to stop it and the line snaps and a huge shark appears to partially jump out of the water, chomping down on the catch. 

This brings to mind an intrusive thought, a quote from Eddie Murphy's Delirious, "And then the big brown shark came." Wretched.

Catching the shark would be a nightmare. Theoretically you could. I got the most expensive rod and reel. Usually large fish will swim quickly about five feet from side to side in an attempt to escape. A shark would swim quickly from side to side about 40 or 50 feet and put up a fight many times along the way. Any pulling or reeling will make the line snap. Even then one would need a 100 pound test. Only fishing boats can haul in a shark. 

Monday, January 6, 2025

Trudeau quit as PM. He caved in to the mountain of pressure. 

Nixon resigned before he could get impeached. Perhaps there's a little bit of that going on here too. 

Machiavelli wrote something about being able to pick your successors as a true sign of power. 

Now Trudeau moves on to the next phase after Prime Minister and that is handler.  

Who's going to be the new Liberal Leader? Answer: Who knows? 

It will be a new Canadian PM who will handle Canada under a Trump Presidency. So it won't be Trudeau vs Trump part 2. 

Trudeau got a ten year run which is the envy of the last few British PM's in a row. 

This is shocking. I would have wished that PM Justin Trudeau would have been PM for life. 

This doesn't necessarily mean an election this year. An appointed but not elected PM could milk it for as much as two years like Kim Campbell did. Heck, just like Premier David Eby did. 

I wonder if the new PM will be scary. Better the devil you know. 

Working at a job. Told there will be a new manager. Will the new manager be scary. Usually they are not. 

The new PM would be scary if the new PM was accountable to only one person. The PM is accountable to 35 million Canadians so he or possibly she won't be scary. 

Proroguing Parliament for a trimester or 3 months. Not going to work, collecting a paycheck. It's the Canadian way. "It is the way." The Mandalorian 

The RCMP found a burned out body in a house. Crispy critter. Holy smokes. That's Satanic. 

However, the Police don't use that kind of wording. Otherwise it would be, "Today our Officers made yet another Satanic find." 

Satanic is a word used by people who are easily shocked. That wouldn't be the Police. 

Ridley Scott. The Gladiator. On sale for $8 on YouTube. Got it. 

Spectacular. Must be viewed on YouTube. 

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Weat Vancouver Police helped an injured eagle off Lion's Gate Bridge. Wasn't that ill eagle? 

I swept and cleaned the sidewalks and moss just outside the legal aid office today. 

President Trump said something about Canada being the 51st State. To quote Sam the American Eagle on an episode of the Muppets, "I will not dignify that statement with an answer." 

Why does the media chomp down on the bait like a fish in Real VR Fishing and just air any random crackpot thing that Trump unfiltered casts again as some bizarre bailiwick. 

Canada as the 51st State. Yet another strange challenge. 

Canada is a Canadian-British consortium. Anything like that would have to get past the Sceptered Isle, England. 

This has me worried. The only way this can happen is military invasion. Canadians will have to take up arms and form a civilian resistance army apart from the official government army. 

I really don't want to shoot and kill any Americans. I like Americans. They are great people. The American trouists who come to this town are great people. I don't think that any other Canadians want to shoot an American either. That wouldn't exactly be a priority. Most Canadians are under a gun possession ban anyways. 

One would have to use blades or anything you can get at the hardware or sporting goods store. Axe, air gun, crossbow, machete. That would be Satanic. I think I'd most likely eventually and sooner rather than later be killed because Americans are very skilled people. 

Get a syringe loaded with heroin. If the Americans capture you, their redneck civilian military will automatically think that you are part of a resistance and want to ply information. The usual method is cutting off the fingers one at a time with wire cutters. Better to do oneself in before that happens. 

What has the Pentagon said about invading Canada? Oh yeah, like they would announce it. Now I'm really worried. 

"We are all going to die!" Zulu, movie

Now if Canada were to invade the US, the US would be fine and survive that for sure. 

There are military people in Canada who know a lot more about the military than the average person. 

Canada is part of the Commonwealth which is 56 country alliance inuding military alliance strictly for ddfense never for invasion. 

Anyways, what does Trump think this is? That he is Putin and Canada is the Ukraine to his imaginary Russia? 

Oh no! War of 1812 again? Star Spangled Banner? 

54-40 or fight? 

Since Canada is North of the US, doesn't Canada have the drop on the lower 48? Unless, ha ha, you turn the globe upside down. Then the US has the drop on Canada. Egregious. 

Other countries, US Protectors tea and US puppet states merely have to deal with the influence of the US. In Canada we have to deal with their actual physical presence. 

Trump wants to purchase Greenland and possibly name it Trumpland. Greenland is connected to the Danish government just like Canada is connected to the British government. 

Trump is an all or nothing kind of guy. On the one hand he wants to build a wall to segregate Mexico from the US. On the other hand in some antithesis to this strange Hegelian dialectic, he wants some kind of amalgamation with Canada. Make up your mind! Either idea, whether the wall or amalgamation, is odious. 

The Canadian government might think about requisitioning emergency supplies of heroine as standard issue as a bulwart against an impending US Canada War. 

I'd rather die of a heroine overdose. If the civilian military captures you, it's usually wire cutters and then a shot to the head. I learned this from The Last of Us. If the government militia captures you, you will be detained, questioned in the lock up and then brought to a military Court tribunal where you will be deemed as an enemy terrorist agent acting against the safety and homeland security of the United States government and citizens too and the usual sentence is a firing squad. A heroin overdose is definitely better. 

A heroin overdose in this case would be a military act. It is also a surgical act. Heroin is a local and general anaesthetic. Using a gun would be surgically devastating. A heroin overdose would be surgically ameliorating. Only to be used in extreme emergency military situations. 

A person could probably just head downtown and score the emergency dosage for themselves. Now usually a lethal dose of heroin is one gram. Today's heroin is cut with fentanyl which makes it stronger. So you'd probably need less than a gram. 

The Police said that the 2.5 grams legal possession of decriminalized controlled substances is a failed experiment. The Police said it made it more difficult to bust drug dealers. Of course. Heroin is sold in points which is a tenth of a gram and caps which is three tenths and a half of heroin. So 2.5 grams is 25 points or else 10 caps. Well no wonder. 

I feel fear. If I didn't feel fear I wouldn't feel anything st all. The fear is my link to consciousness. 

Today I caught my first shark on Real VR Fishing! It was a white fin reef shark. 

At one time I wondered if I would ever catch a shark. I thought I might never. 

At the dentist office, I was given a form to fill out. It had a lot of questions. It asked among other things about whether the patient ie me in this case has things like anxiety, schizophrenia, Asperger's, autism, etc. 

I ticked off yes to anxiety and schizophrenia. 

Later on, I felt that I had been humiliated. I lost face. The form asked other questions as to whether a person had asthma, OCPD, thyroid is, parathyroidism, sleep apnea etc. 

What does this have to do with the teeth? These questions are the personal information of the patient. 

I'm thinking of going to another dentist. 

When asking about schizophrenia, it is the middle class way of putting a person in their place, pigeonholing them when they view their intellect as a threat. 

I'm thinking that I'm better off dead. I think of Heather. Of how she is in a phase of life where she doesn't have to deal with this bullshit at all. I'm upset that Heather went and that I didn't go too. She left me. 

Heather is already heir to a better set of physics and I'm stuck with this set of physics. If the afterlife is as good as I hear it is, why bother sticking around? 

Every town is a problem. The same set of gangsta-like cliques. I really don't have anything in common with any of them, really. They want to coopt me but I want to move on. 

That dentist office is a place that once you have been accepted as a client, whether or no not you ticked yes or not to any of the questions, they will accept any story you give them. The dentist could say, "We didn't make you tick yes to anxiety and schizophrenia. That was all you. Most people lie on these forms anyways." I've been at that dentist office for years. That was a form letter and thus is standard to all patients and probably at all dentist offices. 

Things can change. I could move to another and better town all of a sudden. Then that form would be irrelevant. Better town is subjective. A better town for me. It probably wouldn't be a better town for every one. 

As I wrote before, backwater countries that can't expand outward turn inward. The mental health of its citizens becomes a National pastime. 

Often it isn't who you are but where you are that's the root of all problems. Not all countries are created equal and you could have a much better life if you moved to the right country. 

It can be argued transferring the medium. A person who has the wrong personality in one town will bring that personality to all other towns. 

Just as everyone has a different temperament and indeed astrological make up, astrologically, a person can be in the wrong country. And there is a right country somewhere to suit their personality even if or especially if they are transferring the medium. 

You're not successful? That you're in the wrong country with no future can't have anything to do with it. It must be because you must have some kind of autism. 

"Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels." Samuel Johnson 

Poor Things is back to $25. The $11 sale ended yesterday. I don't know if I would have gotten it even for $8. It's pretty much a chick flick. No fighting action, explosions, violence, explosions, gun fights, oddlust, revenge. Just a lot of painterly scenes. The dining room with all the ble transferware plates must be seen in HD. 

There are already lots of free movies in HD on YouTube. You just have to dig around. 

I would have gotten it for $11 but not $25. Why couldn't the sale lasted for one more day? Don't worry. YouTube sales on movies have a strange way of returning. I might even see it for $8 one day, in two years. 

Half the movie is in black and white. Who cares? The Lighthouse is in black and white and it's one of my favorite movies. 

If Poor Things was on sale for $8, I'd get it immediately. If it was on sale for $9 I'd mull it over for a few hours before getting it. And at $11 it took me a full day to decide to get it and then the sale was over, back to the original price of $25, which is ghastly pricey. 

For sure, it will be on sale again. One day. 

Actually watching it on the meta quest browser screen off of a free movie site is pretty good and it's free. 

Sometimes the YouTube VR app has a ridiculous screen size. So huge that it would be like sitting less than five feet away from a very large movie theatre screen. For eg Stanley Kubrick The Seafarers. I had to shrink down the screen a little. 

With the meta quest screen, it is the equivalent to having a 110 inch television screen and that's not enough? It is for most movies. For television shows like The Squid Game etc etc I usually shrink the screen down to a 75 inch screen setting. Thats a nice sized television for shows which really, have sharper production values than most movies did 20 years ago. Some movies like Gladiator and Lord of the Rings are impossible to beat just on a television show in terms of production values. Those movies were way epic. 

So Poor Things on the meta browser screen for free. No need to purchase. YouTube does have exceptionally sharp definition and Poor Things is a visually spectacular masterpiece. 

For that price, $25, I could pay $5 more and get the entire first season of House of the Dragon. I think the first season is better. But the second season got the technology better for showing the dragons so you see more of them doing more things. That's almost ten hours of entertainment. 

I'd rather pay the $30 and get ten hours of entertainment. Than $25 for two hours. Season 1 has the Crabfeeder and that scene would be epic on big screen. I'm going to mull it over for a few days. 

Anyone who gets that has more money than brains as it's available free on movie websites like soap2day. Lots of ads but better definition than the other free movie site movies5online. Soap2day 1080p. Movies5 720p definition. YouTube VR UHD 4K definition. 

Thera why YouTube is for premium paid for movies. Because it's online, it's a lossless transaction and the performers, movie studio etc get a royalty but how much royalty would they get exactly, on an $8 purchase? Well enough people internationally get it, I'm sure YouTube movies sales are at least a million dollars a day and that's just for the on sale movies let alone the ones the are not. 

Never Cry Wolf is on YouTube. Every one in awhile, a diamond grade movie is released for free on YouTube in HD and it just stays on there like forever. Awesome or what? Never Cry Wolf must be experienced on big screen. Some scenes. Some scenes aren't as good as others. I've seen this movie a million times on small screen. On big screen, the scene where the plane was losing control and the pilot was looking for a wrench and asking the passenger to take the wheel, I was getting a slight panic attack as I was watching that scene on virtual IMAX sized big screen. It's something else on big screen.

The scenes with the plane in the air, opening scenes. Must be experienced in big screen. That's how it was meant to be seen. 

Since it's a television show, House of the Dragon can be seen on the meta quest browser. 

Poor Things is a movie and would look good in Big Screen HD. Some scenes aren't all that spectacular at all, lots of talking heads otherwise some great scenes etc etc. 

Global News puts on the weirdest commercials. It usually puts on a commercial from hell, the cleft lip commercial. To night, it's the Co-op commercial like literally every five minutes. Bonkers. 

Pastor Joel said to watch the News for only one hour a day. After that it repeats itself all day. 

The narrow telescopic lens of the News. The News sets up multiple stressors. 

The News is comprised of yet another local clique with localisms. What were the chances of that? 

The News gets a lot of letters every year about their weirdness that's for sure. 

Move to another country. The local News would then be irrelevant. 

If I had a million dollars and could emigrate to another country, would I stay in this one? I'm not sure. If I were financially independent would I stay in Canada? I'm not sure that I would. 

Don't like the way a place treats you? Go to another place and don't go back. Don't like the weird batshit crazy commercials on the News? Turn to another channel. 

YouTube has its weird commercials too but there is gold in the dross. Sometimes the commercials on the News is really good as well. 

I might as well tell the whole story. The Co-op commercial keeps on bringing up the name Amanda. Well I did meet a lady with that name somewhere or other, at least one. That name is like Smith or Jones for ladies around here. Amanda looked like a real hippy. A Vancouver Island hippie. A bike stock wearing Volkswagen driving hippie. She most likely isn't a hippie. She's probably the opposite, more like Cyber Amanda. People imagine weird crap about people. 

It's probably projection. Even though I'm not a hippie I probably think of hippies a lot. 

People will push some persons onto you that's got nothing to do with who you really are but is just an extension of their fuck ups. 

Sweeping at the Courthouse I often think that is where hippies like Amanda who got busted for protesting in the forest would get sent to. Hippie Amanda is an imaginary thoughtform. 

So the telepathic prairie dog that is the News somehow read my mind and thus put on that Co-op commercial as if to say, "We know that you're sweeping the grounds of the Courthouse just about everyday thinking that's where hippies like Hippie Amanda get sent after getting busted for protesting in the forest. So where putting on this commercial because we like making secret references to people in welfare living in rooming houses."

Don't ever lose that imagination. 

What would Heather say about all this? She knows because ghosts can read your mind completely. They don't think of your thoughts the same way that you do. You take it so seriously. They merely see it as being under the physics of this dimension. 

"The play's the thing that will catch the conscience of the King." Shakespeare, Hamlet

But everyone sees this commercial. I don't know. I think technology exists where different viewers can see a different set of commercials than other viewers. Commercials especially tailored for them and not in a good way. 

This has been talked about in urban legends for decades where people in a certain area would for a few seconds see something on television that people on other televisions didn't see and they attributed this to alien extra terrestrial messages. Now it's not just people within a certain area. It can now be made for individuals. 

The grim wretched physics of this dimension. Better off dead? 

I must have schizophrenia. One of the symptoms is a persistent belief that the television and radio is making references about you. 

The commercial couldn't be making a reference to me. For one thing I don't know anyone in my life right now called Amanda. It's impossible for my name to be Amanda unless I be like Alice Cooper and change my name to a female name. No thanks. 

See, Alice Cooper did that as a career move to advance his career. Since you put it that way it makes total sense now. 

"Knock knock." "Whos there?" "Amanda." "Amanda who?" "I need Amanda hug and kiss." The Simpsons

"Amelia needs a meal but Amanda needs a man." Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence 

I can't wait to get to the afterlife with its better set of physics. Wishing for anything better in life pales in comparison. Life is a trap. The afterlife is freedom. I can't wait to get the death process over with. That would be ghastly and wretched. Once that's over and the life review is over then I'm home free. The life review is never over. It's a limitless process of reaching back and rediscovering and even a few hundreds years later in the afterlife, one would still recall lessons learned when in earthly life. That's the premise anyways. 

Anyways once physical death has been gotten over with, hopefully I make it to heaven. Everybody hopes that unless they're twisted. 

I haven't been perfect but I hope I've been a good person enough to the community.

"Easier it is for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." The Bible 

Is that true? There are lots of rich people. Billionaires. But if they give to charity that helps the poor, they won't go to hell. If they don't help when they could have, not even once in their life, they could possibly go there. Who knows? I'm talking billions and not helping even once? 

The thing about death and the afterlife is that it is absolutely forbidden to go there before your time. 

Tonight I've opted to drink ginkgo biloba tea. It is a nootropic that can help my brain as it deals with the trauma of the dentist form and now it seems, Amanda. 

What is this. A Boston song? Amanda? 

Because of heaving been traumatized from life itself, I won't be leaving downtown Victoria for the foreseeable future, not even to Saanich. Beeb's death has traumatized me so much that I'm not able to leave the local area. Ever. 

It might be literally years before I ever leave the downtown area for any reason. 15 minute city or what? All that I need is a stones throw away. Grocery stores and supermarkets. Asian supermarket too. Other than that, I don't really go to Church or any place else. Church, let's face it, is like Nightmare Alley. Those who are lower class should never mix with the middle class. 

I believe that I'll be single for life. I haven't met any ladies whom I feel are right for me. I can love with being single for life because just about all the people in my hotel are single. For life. 

Looking up what is the population of Victoria BC? 100,000. 

And looking up when was Vancouver's population 100,000 people? 1910.

Living in Victoria would have the same pace of life as living in Vancouver in 1910 which was when Emily Carr lived in Vancouver. 

Wednesday, January 9, 2025

1:25 am. Caught a Great Hammerhead Shark on Real VR Fishing. Mind blowing. The sharks dwarfs all other fish in the fish tank. Much larger than expected. That reminds me of the hammer that one would see at the Courthouse. The judges gavel. 

California Forest fires. Oh the humanity! 

Actually two were found dead in the fire, a most Satanic find. 

A spokeswoman said something like, "We are not out of this yet."

She could have said we're not out of the woods yet considering its a forest fire. Golden opportunity missed. 

It's really bad. The worst event in SoCal since the riots. Los Angeles. The whole area is being evacuated. Most massive fire insurance claim in US history. 

Tens of thousands being forced to evacuate. That's not the whole of Los Angeles which has quite a few million people. 

Los Angeles Kings postpones NHL hockey game against Calgary, what, Flames?! Really?! 

The News aid the usual wind speed is about 80 kmh. In this forest fire, the wind speed is 160 kph! The Pacific Palisades Fire is Los Angeles answer to the fire of London on September 2 - September 6, 1666.

At least the Lytton fire June 30, 2021 and the Fort Mac Murray May 1 - August 2, 2017 fires happened in the summer. This isn't even the middle of January. Global warming or what? 

Milankovich cycle or what? 

Global warming or global tilting or a combination? 

Or worse. The start of another extinction extent similar to the great Permian extinction. Now that didn't happen all jn one day. It happened over a few million years. Starting small with forest fires and fish dying in the sea. Is that where we're heading? That would explain a lot. During the heat dome in Vancouver, lots of fish died in the sea. Permian extinction event or what? To give you an idea, the Great Permian extinction wiped out a greater percentage of species on Earth than the Chicxulub Asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs! 

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas. We'll that's out the window. 

Victoria BC is a border town. It shares a border with the town of Port Angeles. Thank goodness that town is all right. 

Los Angeles, Port Angeles. 

Thep means angel in Thai. Thailand has a Wat called Wat Thep naree and another Wat called Wat Thep lila. While Bangkok, aka krung Thep which means City of Angels would be the archangel to the two angelic named Wats. 

Thailand has 76 Provinces. In 2003 a Thai movie was released called Jungwat 77. Jungwat means Province in that language. The movie was set in Los Angeles meaning that Los Angeles is Thailand's 77th Province. Interesting. Anyways that movie is gangster to the bone. To say that the movie is heavily saturated with gangster culture would be an understatement. It's worth a watch. Gangsters are scary. It's a very edgy movie. 

Parts of Los Angeles looks awful, like Dresden after the war. 

Some Canadian firefighters went to Los Angeles to help along with Coulson helicopters from Sechelt BC. 

I caught another shark. The Atlantic Sharp Nose Shark. 

I got The King's Speech on YouTube for $9.99 plus tax. 

Thursday, January 10, 2025

The new PM won't last long. The Opposition is talking about a summer election. 

Any new PM would have to form a coalition with the NDP. 

When Kim Campbell was appointed PM, the Conservatives had a strong majority government. That increases the chances of being able to milk it for at least a year. 

Summer election it is. 

There are some good movies on YouTube. 

Got War of the World's on sale for $5. At that price and the movie is spectacular. 

YouTube sells a movie like Poor Things for $25. Then it's on sale for $11. Then the sale price is retracted. 

There is less chance of people getting the movie at the higher price. Ten people getting the movie at $25 is $250 in sales. 70 people getting ot for $11 is $770 in sales. YouTube must know that. 

You think you're getting a deal at $11 when the original price was $8. YouTube is thinking two steps ahead. Of course if they marked it up to $11 occasionally from the original $8, that would be a retarded move and less likely to net the $8 than the former method. 

It's kind of like immigrants. Any country that says our country is ever growing and needs immigrants to facilitate a local work force, fewer immigrants would want to go wondering what is wrong with that country that they would be asking for more immigrants. A story like there's too many immigrants some even committing crimes and we don't want any more. For some twisted reason that brings in even more immigrants. That experiment has been done before. Shock value, negativity bias, etc etc 

No way Poor Things is worth $25. A third of the movie is in black and white which is kind of a turn off, it's a chick flick. The cinematography and scenes are something else so it is a movie I'd pay money for but not more than $11 like it was on sale for a couple of days ago. Meta quest also had a sale on app that lasted until January 6. There will be other sales. Marketing. Advertise it at some pricey sticker price that only the most rich and absolutely a fan of the movie would get and then lower it to the original price. 

Let's face it, YouTube has tons of free movies in 4K HD and they are all spectacular on the big screen. In most of them, there are scenes that are slow. Talking heads in rooms that don't look that spectscular. They look all right but not spectscular. There's no need to purchase movies. Dig dig and dig around. Lots of good free movies although there's no accounting for taste. I think He'll or High Water and Never Cry Wolf are good movies for free on YouTube. The Lighthouse is a good movie too. It's a movie about doing menial blue collar work which has a kind of Victorian era nostalgia. 

I'm taking the day off today. A work life balance must be maintained. That's not possible in a caregiver situation where any days off are impossible since the survival of the patient depends on 7 days a week care. 

Doing normal work like volunteering seeping the grounds on the streets there isn't the same situation. I can take days off. 

Otherwise clinical exhaustion aka burnout occurs. It's very painful. It's actually physically painful not just psychologically painful. The Japanese call it karoshi. 

Real VR Fishing. 

Pearl VR Fishing has a limited arc. There are about 374 fish in total. There are 50 fish maximum in any of the two tanks. There are 7 sets of furniture, 2 aquarium decorations for the freshwater tank, 8 decorations for the saltwater tank which I will get to in a second, and six boats, the most expensive being a catamaran. That's not a priority as how often have I talked about that kind of boat? What about a trimaran? A seaplane uses the catamaran principle, two floating pontoons. Why not a tridecamaran? 30 pontoons in all, a boater on either side of 29 pontoons. That would be something from a Doctor Seuss book. A tridecamaran would be unsinkable though but have lots of drag on the water. 

The saltwater tank has one decoration which is a shipwreck. Feng shui said any images photos, statues of broken wrecked things like a shipwreck is bad feng shui. So there's that. 

That's it. What do I do after getting all the fish and furniture, boats etc? Rearrange the aquarium with different fish combinations. What about a saltwater aquarium of all 50 snipefish? They are dreamy orange and white looking fish and 50 in a large aquarium would look fantastic like something from A Midsummer Night's Dream. 

In the freshwater aquarium stock it with 50 Jack Dempseys. The JD's on Real VR Fishing are all male. Females have an exclusive peculiar mapping on their forehead while males have green dots under the lower eyelid. Oh well, it's just a VR app. What do you expect for $18 base price, $12 European DLCs and $50 for Japan 1 and Japan 2, there's no Japan Four, and two US DLCs, East US and West US. That's $80. What do you exoect for $80? Fish that go through one another like ghosts. Fishing rods that go through boats and fishing rod holders like it is a ghost unlike Gun Club VR which has grasped the concept of and the differences between solidity VS holography in VR rendering and procedural generation, procedural mapping. 

Although there are 374 fish, there is theoretically no limit to the number of fish of each species you can catch as it ends up being just a number on the screen which doesn't take up much memory. Stick it with all 50 Great Hammer head Sharks. That would look hilarious actually. I mean Sacha Baron Cohen level of funny. 

Shutter Island $5 on sale. YouTube. It looks epic on YouTube big screen. It's a movie about schizoid delusions. A movie about that's my story and I'm sticking to it. 

I have a few DiCaprio movies. The Aviator, The Revenant, The Great Gatsby and Shutter Island. He's a good actor. 

For that price. I remember the $5 DVD bins at Walmart. This is something like that. 

The $5 video bins are still there at Walmart. I got quite a few good movies there. Ghostbusters was there. 

Friday, January 10, 2025

More work at the grounds of the Courthouse. 

I got Munich Christmas Market VR $3.

Waterfalls VR $1 A 360 VR video. Still life. Otherwise not bad for $1. Not really that good either but it's only $1. 

London Buckingham Palace Changing of the Guard. $1.25. Worth it!!! 

I also got Travel VR Thailand. Immersive trip to a tropical beach in Thailand. $3. Good app. Wonderful escape. 

Paris Fish tank aquarium $1. Oh my Lord. A screen. Otherwise 3D medium to high definition. A screen in the middle of an ocean of blue background. When you move your head, the screen moves with it. Bad. Bad. Can't there be a stationary screen with the 3D image that doesn't move when the head moves? $1. Who cares? Hopefully the sale encourages the person to not give up in VR. Otherwise very good images. 

There is a YouTube uploader called HuebiVR and there is an aquarium video, set in Germany. That video is better than this app. All of HuebiVR videos are of exceptional high quality. He does a few of Dresden Christmas market at night and they are simply mind-blowing escape to another timeless world or what? If you have VR check out HuebiVR's videos on YT. BazTravels and AirPano do good VR videos too. 

After mulling it over for ten minutes, I got Nee York Liberty Island boat tour VR $3. 

These travel apps, London, etc are from the same developer. A tourist who carries a VR camera, makes a VR 360 video and sells them on the meta quest store. I bought quite a few apps. Other apps are places I don't really think about often or else other videos are available on YouTube. A boat tour can't be duplicated but there are tons of Times Square VR videos newer and in higher definition than this developer's apps. 

Oh fuck, well worth it. I was visiting the Statue of Liberty in NY in VR. Look up and it's there. Imagine me visiting the Statue of Liberty. It was an if my friends could see me now moment. Magic moment, usually I was looking up at the statue. At one moment for some reason I looked down and saw a woman dressed up the statue holding up a torch! Had I not looked down at that moment. 

There's a VR video on YouTube that shows going up the stairs of the statue. Quite the climb I imagine. 

A VR app called Qatar is really nice and it's free. No pay. 

There are film segments and the camel race. Holy smokes, it's not just a VR video, it's a travel experience. Camel race, diving in the sea, off of boats which reminds me of the video game Prince of Persia. Lots more videos. 

There's another app about race cars in the middle east. A2RL VR. Great app too. High quality video, must be 16K. Really good. 

To be honest, YouTube screen on the YouTube VR app is way too huge. Look up at the right half of the screen and you missed whatever was going on on the left side of the screen. I wish the meta quest browser screen was a tad bigger, about 20%. Otherwise it's a pretty muc perfect sized screen for any movie. It's equivalent to having a 200" television. The TV's at rock concerts aren't 150 inches. Try 150 foot televisions. I've seen them. One large screen not screens joined together. Large televisions like on that building in London with the large advertising screens. 

Poor Things is good on the meta quest browser. No need to shell out $25 plus tax. I'd still get Poor Things if I saw it on sale for less than $10. It's on my wish list for cheap movie purchases. One day it will be. What. In a few years? 

I've already seen the movie a few times. 

Saturday, January 11, 2024

I did some sweeping at the parking lot, at the Royal Theatre and at the Courthouse. 

My wandering mind. My brain is like a monkey in a cage that is unleashed. Sometimes a money in a cage is attached to a leash but not in the case of my brain. 

I had a disturbing thought. If Trump's iteration of the US invades Canada then Canada might form an alliance with Russia for defense. In exchange, Russia would install nukes in Canada, I'm thinking around Sarnia Ontario, and have first strike capability. 

No way would Britain allow that to happen. Watch James Bond movies. All he ever did was kill one Russian agent after another and to underscore that, he will probably do in more Spetznatz agents in future movies. 

Living in Victoria BC, I'm already living South of the 49th parallel so we already got one foot into it so to speak. 

Trump is just trolling. Detractors might think that this is the first sign of onset senility and who knows how long he will last? Would Trump turn into a Joe Biden in four years? President Joe Biden seems to be doing pretty good. He is very lucid, very aware. He talked about the California Wildfires. Joe Biden has not echoed Trump's crazy clarion call of 51st State. The States already has at least three 51st States, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and the Philippines. 

Greenland and Panama too? Talk about piling up a list of enemies. If Trump decided to invade all these places, wouldn't they be fighitn a multifront war? These countries Canada, Greenland, Panama surround the lower 48 so that would make for an interesting game of goh. 

I'm worried about the future. What else is new? But Jesus did say, Don't worry about the future. I couldn't make it without Jesus. He is my spirit guide. The other night I had a dream where I went to a place then I was standing in an area near the entrance with silver metal railings like the entrance area at Playland in Vancouver. I was told that it was an exit are but also an entrance area. The section was a slightly long rectangular hall on one side was an open doorway where people entered and on the other side where they exited. My spirit guide was with me, long dark brown curly hair and wearing a dark brown vest and dark beige shirt. He told me that was an entrance and exit area. 

Sunday, January 12, 2025

Terminator Salvation. On sale. $10. YouTube. Got it. Best line in the movie. "You are more important than you realize." 

Ghost. On sale. $5. Got it. Patrick Swayze. Swayze to and fro. Now I don't know if it's worth the bother paying $5 to see it in YouTube ultra platinum grade big screen to have the true original movie theatre feel with the movie theatre shivers at seeing the very large images on screen. What the heck. I probably always under rated the cinematography of this movie which seems nothing out of the ordinary nor science fictiony like Terminator Salvation. Now that is a spectacular movie. I spent some time "window shopping" on the YouTube movies channel under the heading 'Hot Deals of the Week'. 

Poor Things is a chick flick made for women with girly painterly aesthetics that would appeal more to women. It's spectacular, but chick flick spectacular. Lots of feminine touches, so much so the movie is saturated with it. Lots of talk about women's issues about a woman's body etc. Things that would go over the head of most men. I listened and absolutely didn't know what to think of it, having no previous reference points to whatever chick flicky topics the characters were talking about. 

I'll get it but for no more than $10.99 which was the sale price. To quote Pawn Star's, I'll pay not a penny more. It would be optimum if it was on sale for even cheaper than that. 

The Lobster, Killing of a Sacred Deer. Lots of Dutch angles and some slight fish eye lensing. This can be used to make rooms that aren't epic to begin with look epic and cinematic. Those movies are all right cinematically. 

The difference between Lobster, Sacred Deer and Poor Things is like the difference between early Beatles and post Sergeant Pepper psychedelic Beatles. 

Poor Things is on another level cinematically and must be experienced on YouTube platinum big screen on the YouTube VR app. But not for $25 plus tax. 

I won't be purchasing House of the Drsgon or any other television show on YouTube bug screen. I've never seen a television show released on IMAX which only does full length movies. 

The meta quest browser is more than good enough. I'm spoiled it is equivalent to having a 200" screen. Only thing is movie released in full screen are better. Movies like Big Fish, Kingdom of Heaven, Never Cry Wolf, Here, etc utilize the full screen making images appear larger. Letterbox preserves the full artistic vision of the director but makes the image seem smaller but who cares? 

Horizon An American Saga. Spectacular in full screen. 

At one time all movies were filmed in full screen aspect. People thought that was old fashioned and boring. Then wide screens showed up in theatres. Now people are preferring full screen of it is going to be seen on a flat screen television or on the meta quest browser. 

Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes - full screen. 

Sherlock Holmes a Game of Shadows - letterbox. 

Horizon. Let's face it. Most of the movie is boring. Talking heads. Slow plot development, establishing setting, characters. Kevin Costner is a secret special forces operative or the equivalent of it back then who works for the Federal government. He goes to a town to stop a gang from terrorizing people. Of all the Kevin Costner fights the trailer showed. Only one of those fights shows up in this first episode. 

It was released in the theatres so this is really a preplanned trilogy because they said there would be three 3 hour episodes making for 9 hours of a semi fictitious revisionist version of American history. Same time length as the Lord of the Rings extended trilogy. 

The next chapter will be released in 2 years, 2027. And then in 2029 will be the next episode. The one where hopefully Kevin Costner is taking down a lot of enemies, spaghetti Western style. 

The cinematography is quite spectacular. 

Plot summary. Some settlers. Impoverished settlers. They have to fight the Indians who constantly attack them. And then they have to fight some outlaws of their own kind that are an invasive pest in their community committing different forms of larceny. Kevin Costner shows up and deals with the situation, fighting and killing whoever challenges him. It's a good premise for a Western, original for sure, and it was on sale for $4. I mean come on, at that price. 

The Human Centipede part 1. A professor joins three young women, college girls, together as a human centipede. Won't watch. I don't like to see slasher movies where young women get hurt. Part 2. All in black and white. I don't know. I just don't know. 

Part 3. 500 orange is the new black jumpsuit wearing prisoners conjoined in a singular human centipede as an added disincentive to commit further crimes because the traditional prison experience just wasn't enough. Sacha Baron Cohen level of funny. 

Of all of them, part 3 seems the most worth watching. That's if you think that would be worth watching at all on any level to begin with. 

Someone is following me or else is my friend on meta quest. The avatar picture is of a female. But the name of the person is fsg. There are probably thousands of users with that name as it doesn't sound original. 

Fsg is to the word fag what pwned is to the word owned. Funny. 

They follow me I follow them. I must have clicked follow inadvertently, that and along with a few others like Black Lizard who seems to own a lot of really cool apps. I've seen some apps on the app store thst says, 'Black Lizard owns this app', supposedly an enticement to get the app. 

Professor Andrew Huber an talks about Rika sunglasses. Reduces stress, raises dopamine levels. When going from one brightness of light to dimness or vice versa, the eye has to make all these micro adjustments. The sunglasses make these adjustments for you. Sure. At $145 American a pair, I don't know. Not sold on Amazon. I'd be willing to give them a shot. If I had money. I won't get them because of the price. 

Vrbo is a website that has the premium champagne living arrangement. Private. No noisy neighbours. No slamming doors. No neighbours talking loudly. None of that. Ever. 

I like quite. A Quiet Place, Day One. 

In Minneapolis Minnesota is a place called Orfield Laboratories. It has a quiet chamber that cuts out 99.99% of all noise. People can only spend 45 minutes in there before going crazy. Presumably a person yellows and no noise will emerge, I mean if the room is a sound vacuum just like outer space is. In space no one can hear you scream. 

Forget turning on a stereo or television, all noise is cut out. That kind of silence makes the ears ring. 

This laboratory makes a Vrbo living arrangement seem like a rock concert with loud speakers. 

I'm hoping it's some kind of omen that one day, I would live in a Vrbo type arrangement. 

It may or may not be but God has the power to bring things in your life better than you imagined. Pastor Joel Osteen says as much. 

I would love to live in a rich place one day. Pastor Joel Osteen said, Don't approach God with weak prayers like I'll settle for any place with a roof over my head. Pray boldly. God, I would like to live in a rich place one day.

Who wouldn't want to live in a rich place? Everyone who makes it to heaven will live in a rich place in the afterlife. 

Today I got a bag of Starbucks Pike Place coffee. I got it on sale unexpectedly at check out. This coffee is good quality. You can taste it. 

Monday, January 13, 2025

Mulling over when to get The Grand Budapest Hotel. Not on sale on YouTube for $15. Ira is my favorite Wes Anderson movie. I've watched it dozens of times on different televisions and computers. 

What would be my second favorite? French Dispatch but a distant second. Grand Budapest Hotel is on another level. 

There are other movies like The Terminal and Elf. The settings in those movies aren't spectacular. 

I thought of other movie like Matt Dillon's City of Ghosrs and Drugstore Cowboy. 

All 4 of these movies are in full screen aspect making an unspectacular movie look more spectacular. The only one of these four which has a fantasmagorical setting and must be experienced in cinematic IMAX is The Grand Budapest Hotel. 

Its not exhorbitantly priced like Poor Things. I've seen this movie dozens of times and it's not a chick flick. This movie is a classic which has aged very well. 

Cheque day is in a couple of days. I'll defer payment until then. 

Oh yeah, the movie ends most depressingly. If the Spanish flu was in 1920 and Covid was in 2020 and World War 2 was in 1939 - 1945, does it mean that in 2039 - 2045, that it Wil be like World War 2 again? First of all, Spanish flu started in 1918 and ended in 1925. Covid was from 2020 - 2023. 

World War 1 was 1914. In 2014 was there a European War? No. 

The movie ends with the train the main characters were on being pulled over during World War 2. German soldiers round up the occupants and the main character wound up being shot in a firing squad. And the other main characters girlfriend died which reminds me of my situation. Lifelong grief is a terrible thing. The heart just never stops hurting. 

Otherwise a grand European adventure and Mendl's reminds me of The Dutch Bakery and vice versa. 

I love life on the island. I can't believe I spent so many years with Heather in fear. My mind painted a picture that I'd be working for her daily for the next ten 20 years. There were certain things going on in my health that I didn't understand. Things like exhaustion, burnout, adrenaline and fear based on a perceieved life and death situation. 

I would love to live one of those days again. I thought my life was going nowhere and I was with the lady whom I would give up on life right now if God allowed me to so I could be with her in the afterlife. 

It was the good old days. 

"It's too bad that there's no way to know that you're in the good old days before they're actually over." Andy, The Office 

Two and a half weeks until my Court trial and I'm scared shitless. Who wouldn't be? What I will mention in Court is that God works in mysterious ways. I'm not glad I did what I am accused of and I wouldn't do it the first time let alone do it again knowing what I know now. But what it did do was to bring the Courthouse to my attention and I swept the grounds at a time when it was needed and no one else seemed to do it. No one from the city, no other private citizens. Had it not been for all this, it wouldn't have even occurred to me to clean the Courthouse grounds. I think of what the Courthouse grounds might look like now had I not entered the picture. I'm glad that I did it because I do think a lot of the Court. 

The people who work at the Courthouse live in nice houses in nice neighborhoods. It would be a downer for them to then have to go to a workplace with garbage on the grounds and weeds and moss growing everywhere. Seedy. They don't have to worry about that now because I removed the weeds and the moss from a lot of different areas and the place looks a lot less seedy. There was moss growing out of mounds of dirt overflowing the sidewalk cracks. I scratched out and cleaned a lot of, if not all of those sidewalks cracks. I'm honored to have done that and I ask for no money. 

Those people from nice neighborhoods. That's their workplace. I imagine they would be happy that someone would keep that area clean. 

Monday, January 13, 2025

Today I cleared weeds off walls at 

- the Catholic Church 

- the wall at the hill near the Courthouse 

- parking area of Thrifty's 

- outside of a corner store. 

- another wall on another hill near the Courthouse. 

I don't know why I do it. I wonder what it would look like in a couple of months if I didn't do it now. 

I also lost my keys today on lucky 13. 

Losing keys means an era of life is over and a new one starts. I had a bunch of keyfobs that I never looked at twice and a few extraneous keys that were there. One key I don't know where or what it's from and two keys for a $2.50 padlock that I was planning to use at a hostel locker but I just got lazy and never went traveling to a hostel. I WA thinking of staying at Jericho hostel as that is in all likelihood the best hostel on this planet. If I'm going to stay in a hostel it would be that one. Best on the planet is a subjective statement of course. 

My key fobs were an Eiffel Tower that someone got me from a trip to France, a plastic key fob like from a motel that I got at HMV, a Game of Thrones plastic keyfobs multi headed dragon seal of House Lannister also bought at HMV, and that's it. All of those are things that I never gave a second look at. The Eiffel Tower key fob I can get on Amazon, in fact all of it. 

Because I removed the extraneous weeds from different walls at different places, the forces of life itself removed the extraneous keys and fobs from my life. 

I had that set of keys and fobs with me when Heather was alive. Now she's gone. Getting a new set of keys and one plain key fob which I got, not three extraneous ones. 

If I threw the Eiffel Tower souvenir away, that would be an asshole move. But I lost it unintentionally. I still think of it just a tiny bit but the person who gave that to me would probably tell me to just forget about it. 

My new key fob is a rectangular piece of orange plastic which I got for 90 cents. 

I want a keyfobs that looks like a miniature longboard or I might just see one, one that catches my eye. That will be my keyfob. 

Today is George Orwell's death day. 

I got Grand Budapest Hotel at the regular price. $16.79 with tax. I prepaid for it already on a credit card. 

This is Wes Anderson's best movie. 

I feel a lot of fear tonight. I guess losing the keys freaked me out. 

A lot of things scare me. Loss of control. How and when will I stop doing work removing weeds from areas. Compulsive. Clump grass must be hand pulled. The roots must be pulled out. 

And my addiction to online things. Apps, movies. When will it end? 

I spent too many moments in fear in this life. I can't wait for the afterlife. Hopefully I make it to heaven. 

A town ideally ought to have a civility. Nature fights back to reclaim a city. Over time weeds grow in sidewalk seams. Remove them. Then the neighbourhood looks less seedy in general. 

I lost my keys. How could I have been so clumsy. I'm a perfectionist in my own way because perfection doesn't exist. Losing the keys scares me. I'll be scared for a few days now. Unless I get a divine intervention. 

Tonight I went to look for my keys at the placdes I think I might have dropped them. It was dark at night. Genius move. That will help in the search for the keys. Didn't find them. It was the first time I rode my electric skateboard at night. Marty Mcfly rode a skateboard at night to Twin Pines Mall. 

I lost those key and key fobs good and proper. I ought to have my own key fobs. I guess I wasn't meant to die holding onto the key fob that my friend got in France and gave me. 

It's weird to hold on to something of someone I haven't talked to for about 15 years at least. I don't think the person knows I even had it. They probably thought I left it behind somewhere. 

That's life. Don't focus on knick knacks. People in Los Angeles lost entire houses with roomfuls of sentimental objects. 

This is the physics of this dimension. Things come and go. 

I had that for years. Held it in my hands using it every day. It feels weird to not have it. Clumsy. I lost the keys. Happens I guess. 

I get too attached to trivial items. It must be my schizophrenia kicking in. 

I wish that God would remove the fear from my heart. I would rather be poor and feel nostalgia and bliss than to be rich and feel fear. 

I fear my clumsiness. How could I have been so clumsy to lose my keys? 

Losing the keys has put me in a state of shock. I'm going to sweep the grounds of the Courthouse in a state of shock over losing my keys. 

Looking to the News to seek some reassurance for my shock. 

In Kelowna, some people broke into a minerals store and stole a bunch of agates. Ha ha. Anyways they also stole a large geode from Brazil. Think of it as a large egg made of quartz like mineral, hollow with all kinds of quartz looking jagged angles lining all surfaces. That geode is worth $2,500.- $3,000. The thieves were thinking two steps ahead. "Not if but when we get busted it's still theft under $5,000. Careful to have their stolen things itemized to a tally totalling $4950 retail. 

That geode is all form and has no function. Come to think of it, just like my keychain ornaments. I don't know if it's called a key fob but you know what I mean. 

Form follows function. Or else all form and no function. 

The security camera footage shown on the News showed two men at 5:30 in the morning going in to a gem store. That would have been hard core if a cop car was driving past right at that moment. But there wasn't. Those guys were talking a chance. 

Note to self. In the future get a stylish, cutting edge, yeah yeah keychain ornament but knowing there is a 1% chance that they keys could be lost, don't get one that you would be too upset if you lost it. So the $2,000 Beverly Hills keychain ornament with gold and real diamonds would be off the shopping list. Really?! 

Some Canadian politicians visited Mar a Lago. Mar a Lago is an island. So like BC, and the country of Canada, the US is governed from an island.

What would they say that Mar a Lago is like? Think The Great Gatsby meets Fantasy Island meets the Scarface The World Is Not Enough compound. 

I'm sure there are tours of Mar a Lago on YouTube. 

When I went to Vancouver last year, I got a keychain ornament. I'll use that one. Last year still haunts me. 

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

I lost my keys and had fear and worry. 

Carl Jung would have a few things to say about that. 

- He said that one should expand their definition of themselves and see themselves as capable if not more than capable to handle any problems. Trusting yourself is important. 

- Problems are a part of self actualization and are an individuation process. Problems are not out of place but the Universe naturally unfolding. Problems are supposed to help you grow and develop as you get through them. 

- The unknown or new phases in life should not be something that is feared but rather embraced. 

- Worries and fears are one part of your psyche, the conscious, trying to bring attention to another part of your psyche, the shadow, about issues it hasn't faced and come to terms with or neutralized. Gestalt therapy is about facing and dealing with all aspects of oneself even the uncomfortable things about ourselves. 

Feng Shui talks about blockages. It's important to have a free flow of traffic in any room. 

Feng Shui also talks about not having too many extraneous things. Having one or two pencils is one thing. Having 37 pencils is another. 

Thus having one set of keys that one mainly uses and one key ring ornament is one thing. Having more than three key ring ornaments and having three other keys that are never ever ever used is another.  Less is more. Not having so many extraneous items reduces the tendency in the mind to cling on to a lot of trivial, irrelevant, and extraneous things. 

Now I have the two keys, replaced that I use. And one plain orange key ring ornament that I got for less than one dollar. 

Lately I've had quite a few problems and they all went away in a short time. Headaches, stomach problems, clicking ear, and lost keys. All problems went away. It's the magic of life. This phenomenon can happen in all towns on this planet. One couldn't say, it's the magic of the town or the magic of the island. 

Pastor Joel said that if a person is bad, bad karma chases them. However if a person is righteous, good karma actually chases them. It is the ordained hand of God. 

I got rid of all the sharks in my aquarium. Let's face it, the great hammerhead shark would eat all of the other fish including the other sharks all in one day. The other sharks would eat every other fish in the tank and finally have a go at each other if there was nothing else to eat. The only shark I have is a newly caught dogfish. It looks exactly like a shark except that it's vegetarian I think even if not, it's not very large and most of the other fish would more than give it a run for its money especially the larger ones like the black drum, the Pacific redfin, the comber. The puffer fish aka the fugu fish would kill the sharks if the sharks ever are it. It has a very powerful neurotoxin. So does the blue ring octopus. Tiny as anything you can barely see it in the large aquarium but it has enough poison to kill any large animal instantly let alone a human. 

The dog fish is so named because if you look, there is a black marking at the front of its nose that looks just like a dogs nose. Eerily similar. And the shape of the nose looks just like a dog's. That one is staying in my aquarium. I removed all other sharks and added in the dogfish. Dogfish can be caught locally in the waters in British Columbia. They have the most eerie green eyes. Scary haunting. 

Are they edible? It depends on what culture you ask. Some cultures will eat anything including pangolins, camel hump, sea cucumber and bird saliva. And even more strange, those items are expensive delicacies. So in that culture, I guess dogfish would be on the menu. Recipes being very sauce based, any seafood is approached with ginger, green onion, and sometimes garlic. Soy sauce as well. 

I'm thinking about getting a VR app called Faroe Islands. It looks as good as Teleport Iceland. Just offhand, the website said Teleport Scotland is being released in 2025 to meta quest. Again. They had to update it, do some tweaks, etc. 

I didn't think much of it but seeing VR videos of the Faroe Islands on YouTube, the place looks nice, peaceful. But it's smack in the middle of the ocean! Talk about a backwater. Any civilized continent is thousands of miles away in any direction. Jeez who would want to go there except in VR. That's almost as bad as visiting the moon along with Apollo 11 in VR which I did. Faroe Islands, the island of Tuvalu, Easter Island, Fantasy Island, really remote islands or what? 

Speaking of fantasy Island, the actual Minnow of Gilligan's Island, another remote island is in Nanaimo! It's in private storage I think. If it was available for public viewing, it would be worth a trip especially if people could step on board. I'd do it. Gilligan's Island is major. Legend. 

I thought it would be Stateside. What's the Minnow doing in Canada? 

You probably won't be surprised to know that I will be getting Faroe Islands. I wouldn't mind having a look in VR. Price $11.19 including tax. 

All reviews are five and four star. No three stars or less reviews. 

Faroe. That reminds me of Pharaoh of Egypt. 

Those guys were major. And ladies. There were at least two female Pharoahs. I wonder if anyone has ever had a dream about Egyptian Pharoahs. I sure the heck never did. 

Today, about half an hour ago was the first time that I ever heard about the Faroe Islands. 

The Madeira app was made first. The second app is the Faroe Islands app. The developer Peter Nagy said that he learned from the first app, the Madeira app so the second app has better sounds, colors, etc. 

Madeira is about 8 GB

Faroe Islands is about 19 Gb. 

Visit Faroe Islands has a sister app. Visit Madeira. That name sounds Spanish. That island must be somewhere near Spain. Same price as the Visit Faroe Islands app. I'm most likely going to get it. The trailer for Madeira didn't look as good as the Faroe Islands trailer which has a Church with yellow painted slats of wood for walls that looks simply breathtaking. 

I thought that the Faroe Islands was in the South Pacific. It's actually in the North Sea which reminds me of the Battle of Jutland in World War One and it is North of the Shetland Islands. Fricking yeah! European travel. Northern Scotland or what? George Orwell stayed on the island of Jura in the Hebrides. 

Any topic is a potential rabbit hole. Like Greenland, the Faroe Islands are connected to the Danish government. The island has a dark controversial history, as it is a  geographically and socially outcast region of Europe, many travelers won't go there. The shores are stained with red. The island has a population of 50,000. The controversy is whaling which the islanders do on an industrial level. They don't do the Nantucket sleigh ride. They use whaling ships. That's why the shores are stained with red and whaling is the dark secret controversy.

Hartford Whalers. Bob Marley and the Wailers? 

Really? What is this. The 1800s? What would whales be used for? Whale oil lamps? Nope. Ambergris? Yeah, they probably still use that for very expensive perfume. 

Whales are used for fish food to feed fish at fish farms. Or are they? I don't know what they would be used for. Eating? Who eats whale meat? There is no demand for that at all. 

Madeira is off the Coast of Morocco about a couple oh hundred miles South of the Rock of Gibraltar which I've been thinking got its name from the Moors in Spain. Gibraltar, that name sounds Middle Eastern rather than Spanish. Morocco? Moroccan blonde hash? That would be worth ten dollars. PA The Faroe Islands app alone has over 120 locations and I'm guessing that would be similar to the Madeira app. 

Faroe Islands. The steeped rich nostalgia of Northern Europe. 

Madeira. An exotic middle Eastern and African setting. 

As I don't actually plan to visit these places ever, the apps are the closest I'll get. 

Madeira is connected to the government of Portugal.  It is one of a chain of 47 islands. 

There are no movies worth getting. I got all the good movies. 

No movie where I'm clicking on purchase in less than five seconds. 

Only God Forgives and Trainspotting and In the Heart of the Sea aren't available on YouTube. Neither is Tree of Life. 

Underworld, Skyfall, Casino Royale are available on YouTube. Casino Royale is sad. The girl dies. I couldn't afford to get any more movies. Those movies are all right but I already got all the movies I want. 

The Pacific rock sculpin available as a fish to add in the aquarium in Real VR Fishing reminds me of the sculpin at the Sidney BC Centre for the Sea. The tour guide said that fish is also known as an Irish dancer. I'm sure the guide tells that a few dozen times a year to anyone who asks about that fish. Are sculpin edible? It depends on who you ask. 

Any fish fried in a sauce of ginger, green onion and soy sauce and a dash of sugar served with rice is edible. 

I never tried curried fish from a restaurant or self prepared. I wonder how well fish goes with curry. I'm thinking not as well as with other things. Plain curried potato would be better than curried fish but what do I know? 

I am going to work cleaning the streets often. That way I feel that I earned my VR apps rather than just sitting around and collecting welfare. 

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Could AI do music too? Ask Artificial Intelligence to do a Led Zeppelin cover version of Paul Anka's Times of Your Life. Could AI do it? 

I'd like to hear a Ray Parker Jr edition of You Make Me Feel Like Dancing the Leo Sayer performed. 

The first few years, it will sound weird. High error rate but even that would be art. Later and better renditions with better tweaks in technology will eventually happen. 

Some of the early error rate music will be classics because of the error rates rather than in spite of. 

Some artists can't be imitated like Jimi Hendrix. He had an inimitable style in his music. 

The Minnow could be seen on VR big screen. It's almost like being on board. VR Big screen often presents things to scale.

Faroe Islands. It has a nice Church. Torshavin Cathedral. In VR that place looks better than anything previously imagined. 

There is an island that is pronounced UVIC like the University. It is the island of Hoyvik. 

The Faroe Islands is a group of a few islands, a few large main islands and several smaller islands. Just like Japan and Hawaii or any other island nation. 

Johnathon Wilkinson was the former Fisheries Minister. He's running for the Liberal Leadership in Canada. Tom Wilkinson was in Batman Begins and in The Grand Budapest Hotel. 

Wilkinson is the name of the local maximum security prison. I have a Court Trial coming up but my case is a small one. It has been unanimous all the advice I asked of all people. None thought I'd be sent away. I never heard the phrase "Don't drop the soap." even once. They all said, probation at worst but your chance of conviction is way less than 50%. 

Fisheries Minister also reminds me of Real VR Fishing. 

The fish I like to eat are all saltwater. Halibut, sole, rock fish. 

Some salmon are saltwater like Chum salmon. Some are freshwater like Chinook salmon. 

The Lake Biwa Cherry salmon looks epic. It's a freshwater fish. It has the actual color of cherry and a marbled mottled coloring that makes it look exotic. 

I fished at Lake Biwa in Japan in VR. 

"Gorman. How many drops is this for you?" 

"27. Simulated."

"How many combat drops?" 

"Two. Including this one?" 

Aliens

How many times have I fished at different places in VR? Lots. 

How many times have I fished recently in real life? Zero. Including this one. 

Weird thoughts. 

In the novel Legends of the Fall, after Tristan, Brad Pitt, killed those enemy soldiers in World War One, he had smoldering looks. 

I used to think the smoldering looks was from the gruelling frustration of living a difficult life and yearning for a woman's touch. Getting laid is really trading one set of worries for another. Women can be a rabbit hole of issues and bossy bitchiness. Not all women are like that but the potential is high. 

The smoldering looks comes from the resentment of being enmeshed in the physics of this dimension knowing there is another dimension with a much much better set of physics. 

That's how I feel all the time. 

I wasn't going to mention this. Too weird. But I saw a movie title called Pitt. And the News talked about a Brad Pitt romance scam. So I thought why not mention it? Strange thoughts. Monkey unleashed in a cage kind of brain. 

Brad Pitt was nearly 60 when he did the movie Bullet Train. Tom Cruise was 60 when he did the movie Top Gun Maverick. So there's hope for all of us. 

In Real VR Fishing, there is a destination called Maroon Lake, Colorado. I look up and holy fuck, that mountain has devil horns! Mount Krampus, Krampus Mountain or what? 

Who doesn't tremble before the might of the Courts. I hope I don't get grilled during my trial. Vindictive. 

The Courts aren't vindictive. The Courts are indictive. 

And even then not all the time. It depends on what they decide. 

It just occurred to me. 

The Faroe Islands is North of Scotland. Heather was Scottish. 

Madeira is connected to the government of Portugal. Maria was Portuguese. 

Ghosts of girlfriends past or what? 

Got. 

Batman Begins on YouTube. Sale. $8.

Mission Impossible Rogue Nation. On sale for $5. 

These movies are spectacular on big screen. 

Catch Me If You Can is available for $7. I'm still mulling it over. 

Cons - not spectacular in a science fiction way. Lots of ordinary scenes of rooms. The scene in France at night during Christmas is good. 

Pros - it was one of the first DVDs I ever bought. It was on sale for I don't remember. I played it on a mini portable DVD player with built in screen. The first DVD movie I bought was Revenge of the Sith and I saw it on that player which I thought was amazing. Better definition than VHS and it was on a 720p digital flatscreen. 

$8 is just $2 more than $5. At that price. It's a full screen aspect ration movie which means IMAX viewing in VR. It's a Steven Spielberg movie. 

I got other DiCaprio movies. The Aviator, The Great Gatsby, Shutter Island. Why not? $7? 

Gotten. 

Window shopping on YouTube movies, Hot Deals of the Week. 

Got Mad Max Fury Road for $8. At that price. 

Spectacular movie and the most beautiful women. 

Seeing the drum life sized in big screen is a must. I didn't hesitate long with this one. 

All right. No more movies. I'm tapped out for the month. 

These movies should be good for a month plus all the other ones. 

I remember shopping for DVDs, Blu rays, PSP games. That was almost never ending. 

Otherwise all movies are free on television vis the Internet and free movie sites. I pay which automatically ports all movies to the YouTube VR app where they can be seen in virtual IMAX. 

I watched The Trolley in IMAX the other day. Available on YouTube. Excellent film. Trolleys are mainly gone in Canada except in Toronto. The early buses were horse pulled, had two storeys and even then they were for the wealthy. Trolleys became a public transport even for the poor. The first trolleys were way overcrowded. 

Some years ago, just about all trolleys left. It would be a funky way to ride the streets I guess. Railway tracks aren't flexible like driving with tires on the road. Tracks had to be maintained etc. One accident or mechanical failure ties up all trolleys behind. Whereas if a bus conks out, other buses just weave around it. 

Tonight I'm going to drink some yerba tea in a can. Yerba is supposed to be a source of caffeine but also a slight nootropic like ginkgo biloba. I'll give it a shot. Drinking yer a gave me ideas to do cartoons. 

I don't know how much of a cartoon animator I am. It was said that Kubrick just about never watched his own movies for entertainment. I'm like that. I never watch my cartoons again over time. Other newer things are just that much more distracting. 

How much of a cartoonist am I then? 

Well a lot of sculptors sell their carvings and then never see them again for enjoyment. Same thing. 

I didn't drink the can of yerba yet. Tomorrow. 

Thursday, January 16, 2025

I got the Inside History JFK app. It won awards and costs less than $5.  

It's a depressing topic and I questioned whether or not to get it. I like the United States. Would someone getting the app means that they don't like the United States? The app won an Emmy award and Emmys are from the US. 

Cheap and won awards. 

The Eva Holocaust VR app was on sale for $5. Now it's back to $12. I hesitated for too long because it's a depressing topic. There are probably free VR videos of the topic on YouTube touring thebolaces that's if one wants to watch. If it's on sale again, I'd probably get it. 

I saw a YouTube video about this. Rather dry. Immersive but some scenes are done in animation. Others are photorealistic. The best part was the barracks. 

Often when stepping out of the shower I wondered how people in the holocaust cleaned themselves. Was it a cold shower and then into the cold wintry air? 

The barracks were quasi interesting but what you want to see is it in full swing. The app shows it as it is now. Desolate walls, rows of almost dream like empty wooden bunk beds in rows of three bunks beds side by side on each side of the room. Not a immersive experience that I need nor even want. I won't be paying even $5 for this. No scene is completely immersive as there is a big screen with endless narrated documentary scenes. 

Whatever. This is the kind of app where you can see better for free on YouTube. It's almost a bad idea to do any travel app. These apps will be eclipsed with newer cameras being used to upload newer travel videos on YouTube. 

The HuebiVR Berlin #3 aquarium video was miles better than the $1 paid aquarium app. 

David Lynch died. Legend. Died at age 78. The same age Trump is now. 

Dune. The dancing dwarf on Twin Peaks. Portrayed John Ford in the movie The Fabelmans. 

He is in the next and more advanced phase of life. 

Malthus said, "Food production increases arithemetically but population increases exponentially." 

That's wrong. It's more like the other way around, actually. 

It looks like Malthus was an exponent of artificial scarcity. 

If that were true, for eg two fish would have somewhere bewteen two to four babies. A nuclear family of fish. Or a tree would have only two seeds to grow one or two new plants. 

A pair of fish actually has hundreds of babies. One tree or food plant produces thousands of seeds in its life. 

Anyways, to paraphrase Malthus on a different topic, Life in thud dimension has an arithmetic set of ohysics. Life in the next dimension has an exponential set of physics including simultaneous multiplication and time travel as the time dynamic there is time travel is time experienced on an objective rather than on a subjective level etc, Gone into before. 

So that's where David Lynch is now. 

In the movie Ghost Patrick Swayze was in the run down hotel room where Carl and the junkie criminal were talking about what sinister deed they were going to do next. As if as a ghost Patrick Swayze needed to hear the people speak the words. He could read their minds! The movie dumbs it down a bit. 

Indiana Jones, Crystal Skull. $7. Got. On sale. 

Another movie on sale for $5. I'm not getting. Braveheart. Not my kind of movie. I didn't think it was that exciting. 

Indiana Jones I didn't hesitate for that price. Braveheart, even at that price. 

F* it. I got True Grit. On sale for $5. On YouTube. 

2010 movie. Better than a 1995 movie. Got it already. 

Stars Matt Damon. Jeff Bridges. 

Having these movies makes me happy. It gives me something to look forward to in the future. I'm spoiled. The meta quest screen is a virtual 200" television screen but I need to go for the full IMAX scale experience. YouTube VR app offers that. IMAX experience. 

Inception. On sale for $8. Got it. Spectacular movie which must be seen in big screen with subtitles. 

Now I don't want to chronicle the thoughts of my brain which is an unleashed monkey in a cage. Spiralling monkey. 

I wanted to check out the price of a movie if it's available on YouTube. Usually I don't know and forget it. This has been on my mind strongly for over an hour. 

David Lynch movie? Harrison Ford movie? Note, I would only get it for sure if it was on sale for $5. It's a movie often seen in $5 or even $1 DVD sale bins at video stores. And if it was available for $5, it would have been listed in Hot Deals of the Week. Poor Things, again? What movie was I trying to remember? 

Eidetic memory is something you can't force. When the mind is calm or even thinking about other things, the name of that movie might return again. Taxi Driver? What movie. If I remember, I'll tell you. Don't count on me remembering. 

Still don't remember. 

Anyways. I have to remember to save money. 

I think it was Munich. It's a movie I'd want to see in big screen and I've seen it on sale a lot. 

The JFK app is very immersive. Brings you there like never before. Best used standing as it is a 360 degree experience. A dark depressing chapter but very realistic. The Chevrolet sign on top of the building. I imagined being this age now, 54, time traveling to a time about eight years before I was born. That was exhilarating and scary. Back to the. What would I do? First thing is look for a Chinese restaurant for won ton noodles. They were probably about 50 cents a bowl back then at a time when wages were probably about 75 cents an hour. 

I'd try to find a rooming house and they were dirt cheap to live in back then. I'd get a radio which was starting to be really good in 1962. Animal House was set in 1962 with a contemporary to the time soundtrack. Then for entertainment I'd get paperback novels. In the early 60s most people living in rooming houses couldn't afford even a small black and white television. There was a communal television in a communal viewing area like in the movie Staying Alive. But Staying Alive was set in the early 80s and the communal television was at least a color television. 

Paperback novels I'd get are anything Orwell wrote, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens ghost stories. Forget Stephen King and William Burroughs, they weren't published yet. 

I'm a fan of Burroughs despite his strange lifestyle. He had a command of the language and he wrote alot about heroin use and he wrote about it well. The other strange things about his life he wrote about, I just glossed over. Junky was his best novel. 

Skateboards weren't a thing in the early 60s. Not even a kick scooter. The squares of today seem hip compared to the squares of the early 60s. 

Back then you couldn't just collect welfare and do drugs like some people do today. Back then you had to work. 

I'm so happy that I chanced upon Inception. Another $9 plunge with taxes included but worth it. Pay for it once. From then on its free. When I visited Victoria back in 2011 I saw Inception in the theatre. I walked out not understanding it at all. This is a movie that must be seen again like Memento and The Sixth Sense. 

Oh yeah, forget about dark. It gets confusing. Too many timelines. Too many people whom you aren't sure of are they talking to their future or their past self? Is this person a child or a parent of another character from a different time along a different timeline? 

A story of five families kind of like Gangs of New York, The Five Burroughs. 

Friday, January 17,  2025

I can't afford anymore online stuff. Apps, movies on YouTube. I'm financially exhausted. It's no shame to admit poverty and not being able to afford things. 

At least with YouTube, I can be sure that studios and actors are getting their royalties. Really? YouTube is the video company where a person can upload cartoons for years, have a few hundred thousand views and not get even one cent, ie me. 

A customer sends money digitally to YouTube. Does YouTube divy it up and say, we get 50% and the movie studio gets 50%. The actors already got paid. The money to the studios is to pay actors for future movies and to finance future production costs. 

I already refused to get at least one movie and there is a VR app called VR 3D 360. A generic name like that. The app costs $1. Anyone who pays for that app has more money than brains even at $1. What you get is a few random still life videos of places in VR 360. There might be some movement or walking around but you can see literally thousands of random VR videos on YouTube for free. I refuse to get that app. So there's hope for me. 

The only one other thing I'll get for sure is Poor Things that's if it's available on sale for $10.99 like last time or for less. How would I find out? If it appears as a thumbnail recommendation, it might be a sign. I'll click on it. It could be on sale. 

Israel Gaza ceasefire. It didn't seem too major of a News story. Haven't they had quite a few ceasefire? Or they haven't because Israel was strictly against ceasefires. 

There were quite a few ceasefires in World War One. 

The timing in this case is interesting. Trump will be President on Monday. 

This is when a Republican President takes over from a Democrat President. 

One of the previous times in history that happened was when President Reagan assumed Office taking over from President Jimmy Carter. It was at that time when 40 hostages were freed from Iran including someone named Terry Waite. 

Trump said that when he takes over the conflicts will end very quickly, within 48 hours. 

What's happening in Israel seems to be consistent with that. But what about Russia and Ukraine?