Problems down at the WuJo keeping up with all the high strangeness, not the least of which were all the orb pictures people sent me.
Which gets me to the first point of this morning’s update: While Mr. Esoteric is in the high powered aquisition of new ways to behold Universe at all times – which implies an open mind – he is always balanced by Mr. Science who says “Open mind, yes, but not so open as to have your brains fall out…”
One set of ‘orb’ pictures I reviewed was such an obvious set of doctored pics that I wondered how anyone could fall for them being as purported. But, to be sure, there were some that seemed straight-ahead “Yup, that could be one…” but even these are not conclusive in any sense since I’m not actually buying into ‘orbs’ until I see some face-to-face, or at least take the pictures myself with known camera gear under known conditions and tear it apart with the latest from Corel and Adobe (Photo-Paint and Photoshop) which I keep on hot standby for events like people telling me that this picture is this, or that picture is some space goat entail or whatever.
Remember: Open Mind, Skeptical Always. Remember the state motto of Missouri. (A big-ass hint if you need it by scrolling down a ways here…)
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Speaking of which, I have to stop mentioning Missouri. In one of may manic marketing moments I sent the State a note suggesting an updated motto more friendly to building tourism dollars. I suggested what?
“Missouri Loves Company”
Never heard back from them.
If you’re not rolling on the floor (or yelping from spilling coffee) you have absolutely no sense of humor. Read it aloud a few times and see if the lights come on, or if anyone is home upstairs.
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A little more intriguing, while I run around snapping flash pictures all over the ranch at night (much to the consternation of the goats who are sure (again) that I’ve ‘lost it’, is the report of high strange out of Oztralia. Folks on the net there have been writing up all kinds of copy (and snapping screen captures) of supposed ‘radar anomalies” lately.
Our Ozstralia regional WuWu correspondent sends this…
“You want to know JUST how odd it was here in Australia today???
The electronics all over the house went nuts, the wifi connection for my computer reset itself again and again (and it’s been acting nutso for almost a week now), my cameras (which all have computer sensors in them) stopped working and then later resumed all functions, my electronic flash unit stopped and then later restarted, and the icing on the cake was when the emergency flashers on the station wagon suddenly started flashing just before dinner time and the car hadn’t even been driven for several days!
The cat came in the house this morning and he was really, really agitated and he never left my side all day — following me to and fro between the cottage and the studio. And he kept ‘talking’ all day to let me know that he was quite upset about something. The last time I saw him like this was 2 years ago on the 100-plus degree day that my husband Mark got bitten by a poisonous snake and the snake also killed our Burmese Gigi.
Mark and I knew something was wrong all day — it was like the air was a gel consistency and you had to work at moving through the density of it. Throughout the day we had to keep stopping ourselves and doing little mental corrections so we didn’t absorb the energy or get stroppy with one another. And I knew straight away that it was something external.
When I had the flash unit cease working tonight and then the car flashers started blinking all by themselves within 20 minutes of each other, I told Mark, “This is NOT coming from us! There is something going on out there in the world!”
I don’t have time to read all of the forums and alternative news sources to keep up to date with this stuff nowadays — but it was quite apparent from my own inner sensing that things were being ‘toyed with’ out there in the planetary atmosphere. If this isn’t HAARP, it certainly is something equally insidious and it is frankly appalling that people’s lives are being toyed with in this manner!
We’ve got a couple of candidates for ‘source of high strangeness’ on the radar (pun intended, sorry). One is this persistent rumor on the ‘net that there will be a major earthquake around 11 AM this morning (or is it tomorrow?) on the US west coast somewhere, which will be an 8.0 or some-such.
While we’ve been terrifically accurate with our own earthquake predictions based on the rickety time machine (example: The 2008 China quake call within a three days) but there doesn’t seem to be much threat of “Big Ones” until after July 7 by that metric.
On the other hand, if we indeed do get something north of say a 6.5 today or tomorrow around 11 AM, then the source of this particular quake prediction will go up several notches in credibility.
Meantime, the quake is ,supposedly to be nearest to Portland, Oregon. The hell of it is, that when made, such predictions (Feb 3 instead of Feb. 6) gain lots of traction on the net because it sometimes seems people don’t have enough to worry about. Like tax hikes, the national debt, multiple wars, pink slips flying all over and the soaring cost of groceries wasn’t enough.
Either that, or there has been so much mental energy put into this particular meme that something relatively routine (6.0 or under) would be declared “IT” and the effects of prayer will be credited with making it smaller than the 8.0+ which has been so widely bandied about.
Not to put down prayer – or any other way of manipulating the template of The Field in any way, shape, or form, but seems to me that if it’s a smallish quake that could just have easily been created by pushing the templates of The Field/kalapas around, know what I mean?
if not5, run over to Amazon and pick up a copy of “How We Know What Isn’t So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
On the other hand, an 8.0 felt anywhere in Oregon today is a statistical improbability and that would impress me greatly. However, be advises, I don’t impress easily and under a 6.0? Forgitaboutit.
Cheap Screens
I think I’ve mentioned that one of the joys of coming out to my office in the morning, sitting down with a 24 ounces of coffee and writing up this running commentary on money, Universe, and the missteps of the great Dance Instructor is that I have multiple monitors on my computer.
Four to be exact.
So I can watch a market ticker on the left screen, have a 64-bit browser open on the right side of #2/middle, FrontPage on the left side of #2, Outlook and weather/time/date gadgets on #3 and network monitors, intrusion attempts and so forth on #4. A 32-bit version of Internet exploder is on #1 in case I want to see something in Flash whichj seems not to work on 64-bit exploder.
Reason for laying this out for you is to explain that by simply plugging in an additional screen (if you have a spare video out, as on a laptop) you can utilize the extended desktop feature of Windows. So you can have material on one screen, and should you wish, just drag it to the other. Dandy for writing reports while looking at a spreadsheet, marketing plan, or running SQL queries (little early for that, though) on the other screed while your word processing hums along on t’other.
Why mention it again this morning? Because as part of rampant deflation, the price of LCD monitors is collapsing. I have three matched 24″ Sceptre’s that came in at $160 each. And I got an email this morning that CompUSA has $99 18.5″ monitors on sale. TigerDirect’s overstock page features some 22″ monitors (refurbs) for $119.97.
Ever since I got hooked on multiple screen computing back in 2001, or so, I would never live any other way. It makes work fly past and it’s just a lot more efficient way of operating.
There is one drawback…and only one: When people came into my office I would have to peer around a pile of monitors to see them. A simple rearranging of furniture ended that LCD-lined foxhole appearance.
Even visiting Panama Bates has two monitors now, the regular one on his laptop and an extended monitor above it. Works like a charm.
Mr. Ure’s Birthday
In light of the horrible condition of the economy, I’ve decided to recommend only CraigsList items for you to send me for my birthday this year. Here’s an ideal one. (See the pix…nice ride, fo sho)
Power From the People
Say, yesterday I was moaning about my high electric bill and a reader wondered if I was selling anything to the local power company off our solar system. Nope. Consuming that, too.
Nevertheless, the reader makes a dandy point in that IF I had an amount of power to sell back compared to what I consumed, the local utility would still get the upper hand since they charge all kinds of things that residential solar types don’t charge them.
Think about it: The local utility charges a “power correction factor” so on a seasonal basis they charge more per KWhr because of their higher costs, and then there’s all kinds of taxes, too.
“You oughta be charging them taxes back…” suggests our egalitarian reader.
Fine point, that…
One Second Thought
…send the money to your local food bank. “Hunger in America jumps to ‘unprecedented’ 46 percent.”
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Wonder if there has been a corresponding downturn in the weight-loss industry?
Including the ones of this page here…
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Peoplenomics This Week
The “Art” of Social Engineering
I have only written about Directorate 153′s social engineering mission a couple of times previously; once when its existence could be hypothecated in the wake of September 9/11 (Peoplenomics #6, Dec. 1, 2001) and we covered the hypothetical hiring of a new fellow at the Directorate – an economics/applicant named simply Rick in our September 5, 2004 report #150. As you’ll recall, we hypothecated that a new head of strategic economic planning for the world’s hidden perpetrators of ‘peaceful war’ had been hired from senior global banking ranks in order to ensure social engineering and orchestration of global banking went smoothly. In today’s report we look at how that project has been going or late (hypothetically) and look ahead to future inflection points where terrorism/social distracters may again be desired by the PTB. Let me emphasize again, this is all hypothetical.
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Cookie Video
The folks at Maxa Research have put together a short video (sound track by guess who?) that shows the Maxa Cookie Manager. You can see it here.
I don’t usually get all whipped up about software, but this is one of those dandy tools that just simply works great. First thing I put on my new computer when I got it was Avira Anti-virus and Maxa Cookie Manager (MCM). Either follow the on-screen download instructions of simply click:
Once you try it out, to upgrade to the fully functioning version, just click the upgrade button (!) on the upper right hand side for the $35 unlock to get it to remove even those nasty and highly intrusive ‘non-browser specific’ cookies. Bonus: You computer may run faster.
Not for Mac’s: MCM does support the Safari Browser, but that does not mean it is compatible with Mac OS. Maxa-Tools only support the Windows world….so far. Give them time…
“Live on $10,000″ A Year
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MyGroPonics
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