tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17251383926651551072024-03-16T11:51:51.605-07:00A Vulnerable GeometryA blog by Robert CarlsonTuna Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454266137206818053noreply@blogger.comBlogger118125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725138392665155107.post-36760704374718007212024-02-11T08:47:00.000-08:002024-02-11T08:49:06.470-08:00Lunar New Year - Year of the Dragon<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://bit.ly/3SY0Ije" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Dragon peering ove the parapet in Santa Fe." border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibGTOw-T4H8xpjE0hgbeiAv63Cs1IGdYCDEV6M6VkxgYIiENokds53mcsERojIzMFvhOzut-2w0B02A-ko148G_d0J-MVmjn4ZxoSxTHG0eKXbwdGy__-fmRKSYouCU8rmWczvKryiUehF1nSj-MVBEc8Ke5I-O6gYolgg4s3Wk78memXLhyphenhyphen_hLZmb4sw/w640-h480/Dragon.jpg" title="The Year of the Dragon" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">To all my Asian Readers and followers: Have a great celebration.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://bit.ly/Lens4anEye" target="_blank">See all my other photos at ClickaSnap.com</a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Image is available on many items at my Merchr store...</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://bit.ly/Lens4anEyeShop" target="_blank">Lens4anEye Shop</a> </span><br /></p><p> </p>
Tuna Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454266137206818053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725138392665155107.post-16151477687315974182023-12-24T09:29:00.000-08:002023-12-24T09:30:45.669-08:00Great Gifts at My Merchr Shop<p>Visit my MERCHR shop of ClickaSnap images and products. Here is the link <a href="https://lens-for-an-eye.clickasnap.shop/">https://lens-for-an-eye.clickasnap.shop/</a></p><p>Here is what it looks like.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf7rKQNJ08xTTxMpmAqB9-EqQKXZ46kAZxJLKGMPcErG_FnVoABGMHrH8dZZzNfaYGtqGTGZ5EEn7NErgLatv4D9UNMUZjur1cQgdcE6HDIjmfNhr-rUfSQyGiQihPcFuPXIF632ndSSrleyB1uTyr7DSzv_stIYW0IChTA1h7FdNuE7pe_s8r398LnGv4/s1505/Screenshot%202023-12-24%20at%2012-17-14%20Shop%20-%20Lens%20For%20an%20Eye.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1341" data-original-width="1505" height="570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf7rKQNJ08xTTxMpmAqB9-EqQKXZ46kAZxJLKGMPcErG_FnVoABGMHrH8dZZzNfaYGtqGTGZ5EEn7NErgLatv4D9UNMUZjur1cQgdcE6HDIjmfNhr-rUfSQyGiQihPcFuPXIF632ndSSrleyB1uTyr7DSzv_stIYW0IChTA1h7FdNuE7pe_s8r398LnGv4/w640-h570/Screenshot%202023-12-24%20at%2012-17-14%20Shop%20-%20Lens%20For%20an%20Eye.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">There are loads of great gift ideas there at reasonable prices. Help spread the word.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">My email is <a href="Mailto://Lens4anEye@Modalchoice.com">Lens4anEye@Modalchoice.com</a> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">My ClickaSnap profile is <a href="http://bit.ly/Lens4anEye" target="_blank">Lens4anEye</a> and can be seen at <a href="http://ClickASnap.com/Lens4anEye">ClickASnap.com/Lens4anEye</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p> </p>Tuna Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454266137206818053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725138392665155107.post-67542029315970849722023-11-01T08:35:00.001-07:002023-11-01T08:40:06.920-07:00It Is a Simulation But Not What You Think<p> </p><h1 class="pw-post-title zj oh zk be fz zl ea zm zn zo eb zp zq sp nm sq ss st np su sw sx ns sy ta zr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" data-testid="storyTitle" id="4de9"><b class="al">It’s a Simulation But Not What You Think</b></h1><div class="zs zt zu zv zw"><div class="speechify-ignore ab ms"><div class="speechify-ignore bg l"><div class="zx zy zz aba abb ab"><div class="bm bg l"><div class="l ob"><span class="be b bf z cj"><div class="ab ki dv dw kj"><span class="be b bf z cj"><div class="ab ae"></div></span></div></span></div></div></div><div class="ab ms abm abn abo abp abq abr abs abt abu abv abw abx aby abz aca acb"><div class="h k w cn co q"><div class="aco l"><div class="ab q hi"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div aria-describedby="314" aria-hidden="false" aria-labelledby="314" class="bl"></div></div><div class="h k"><div><div aria-describedby="315" aria-hidden="false" aria-labelledby="315" class="bl"><div aria-hidden="false" class="bl"></div></div></div></div><div class="db agw ki"><div class="l ae"><div class="ab cc"><div class="kc kd agx agy agz jq do bg"><div class="ab"><div aria-hidden="false" class="bl bg"><div><div aria-describedby="335" aria-hidden="false" aria-labelledby="335" class="bl"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div aria-describedby="postFooterSocialMenu" aria-hidden="false" aria-labelledby="postFooterSocialMenu" class="bl"><div><div aria-describedby="316" aria-hidden="false" aria-labelledby="316" class="bl"></div></div></div><div aria-hidden="false" class="bl"><div aria-describedby="creatorActionOverflowMenu" aria-hidden="false" aria-labelledby="creatorActionOverflowMenu" class="bl"><div aria-describedby="collectionSubmissionPopover" aria-hidden="false" aria-labelledby="collectionSubmissionPopover" class="bl"><div class="aha l ob"><div><div aria-describedby="369" aria-hidden="false" aria-labelledby="369" class="bl"></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph adg adh zk adi b adj adk adl adm adn ado adp adq pf adr ads adt pi adu adv adw pl adx ady adz aea fy bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="eca5">The
popular idea we are living in a simulation proposes there is some
massive computer and sysop which programs us and our environment for
some unknown purpose. The hypothesis goes: we are merely subroutines
running in a cyber world. Each of us only experiences what we are
thereby programmed to see, hear, feel, smell and think.</p><figure class="aee aef aeg aeh aei aej aeb aec paragraph-image"><div class="aek ael cq aem bg aen" role="button" tabindex="0"><div class="aeb aec aed"><picture><source type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og"></source><img alt="Portal at the end of the tunnel" class="bg jq aeo c" height="230" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/1*M-nkguDLWGRmkUDkPLPijg.jpeg" width="400" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph adg adh zk adi b adj adk adl adm adn ado adp adq pf adr ads adt pi adu adv adw pl adx ady adz aea fy bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="4c52">One
variation of the hypothesis is we are humanoid biological units kept
suspended in life support pods and are being fed our experiences
directly into our brains. We are like comatose patients being maintained
and dreaming our lives. Of course this would also be true if we were
some other species instead. Zhuangzi, Chinese philosopher, wrote about
dreaming he was a butterfly. Upon awakening he was not sure he was not
indeed a butterfly dreaming he was human.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph adg adh zk adi b adj adk adl adm adn ado adp adq pf adr ads adt pi adu adv adw pl adx ady adz aea fy bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="8e36">The
other hypothetical variation is we are only the machinations of a
computer code and there is no other realm for us to escape to. This
variation of the simulation asserts there is no objective reality but
only what the computer programmers code into our memory segment. This is
not unlike the atheist belief of the “bricks and mortar” flesh and
blood version most people accept.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph adg adh zk adi b adj adk adl adm adn ado adp adq pf adr ads adt pi adu adv adw pl adx ady adz aea fy bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9d7f">The
comatose human version is more palatable in that there is a possible
escape and possibility of a better world outside the simulation.
Religions preach of such sanctuary with a perfect transfiguration of our
bodies in a heavenly realm.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph adg adh zk adi b adj adk adl adm adn ado adp adq pf adr ads adt pi adu adv adw pl adx ady adz aea fy bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="cf10">The
comatose human version posits there is someone somewhere outside of the
simulation who has a purpose for our existence and the resources to
maintain our bodies while we are fed our experiences. But then we may
only be disembodied brains sitting in bell jars of nutrient-rich
oxygenated synth-blood. For that scenario there would be no reprieve.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph adg adh zk adi b adj adk adl adm adn ado adp adq pf adr ads adt pi adu adv adw pl adx ady adz aea fy bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ad1d">Both
of these variations suggest there is a super computer with the IO ports
to connect to each of us. We do not know how many of us there are. The
sysop programs the statistic of 8 billion humans at this time stamp:
1697042266. There might only be as many simulated humans as YOU interact
face to face with in your entire life or this day only. All the
others are merely variables coded in your program. Even a nonexistent
yesterday could be merely an encoded memory.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph adg adh zk adi b adj adk adl adm adn ado adp adq pf adr ads adt pi adu adv adw pl adx ady adz aea fy bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="fe47">Now as I suggested in the title of this essay, it’s a simulation but not what you think.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph adg adh zk adi b adj adk adl adm adn ado adp adq pf adr ads adt pi adu adv adw pl adx ady adz aea fy bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="c688">Every
molecule, atom and subatomic particle is like a data bit in a computer.
The Cosmos is a massive database. The data is churned and changed
constantly according to a few rules. Newton’s laws of motion, Lord
Kelvin’s laws of thermodynamics, Einstein’s Relativity and a host of
other Natural Laws govern how mass moves and where particles will be at
some time later.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph adg adh zk adi b adj adk adl adm adn ado adp adq pf adr ads adt pi adu adv adw pl adx ady adz aea fy bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="c61b">Along
with the Universe shifting masses on a cosmic scale we humans dig holes
and shovel dirt and rock around to suit our own purposes. Collectively
all this action makes the world we see.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph adg adh zk adi b adj adk adl adm adn ado adp adq pf adr ads adt pi adu adv adw pl adx ady adz aea fy bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b7db">Then
there is us. Each of us is a CPU which accesses the database. For the
universe to be, there is no need for computation. Only the initial
conditions need to be and the natural laws take care of the rest.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph adg adh zk adi b adj adk adl adm adn ado adp adq pf adr ads adt pi adu adv adw pl adx ady adz aea fy bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3202">Our
conscious connection with this universe is accomplished via our self
replicating brains. Those brains contains short and long term memory
with which we can navigate our minuscule speck of the grand cosmic
database. For most intents and purposes we have no use for anything off
planet or outside our slice of time in which we are alive and in
connection with the Universe.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph adg adh zk adi b adj adk adl adm adn ado adp adq pf adr ads adt pi adu adv adw pl adx ady adz aea fy bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="29ef">Our
eyes, ears, nose and skin cells receive stimulation by electromagnetic
energy and our bio-electric bodies conduct signals to our brains. There
they are processed and projected out into the void around us. Some how
those processed signals are perceived by our consciousnesses.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph adg adh zk adi b adj adk adl adm adn ado adp adq pf adr ads adt pi adu adv adw pl adx ady adz aea fy bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="dcd1">The
world around us we experience is not the same as what we see and hear.
It is a reproduction. You never see the apple on the table. What you
experience is the light which reflects off of the apple. While there is
an actual apple to touch and eat everything about it is a reproduction
to our senses.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph adg adh zk adi b adj adk adl adm adn ado adp adq pf adr ads adt pi adu adv adw pl adx ady adz aea fy bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="08e2">Sounds
are different. You cannot experience a person’s voice without
intermediary mass to conduct the larynx vibration to your ears. The
sound starts out as an intent by the person talking. It becomes a
mechanical vibration which moves from one medium to another until it
vibrates little tiny hairs in the cochlea of your ears. It’s all energy,
waves moving in a medium. Our brains receive the ears’ EM stimulation
and project its source out to a place where it appears to originate.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph adg adh zk adi b adj adk adl adm adn ado adp adq pf adr ads adt pi adu adv adw pl adx ady adz aea fy bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ee75">The
perception of the external world is quite detailed and complex. We
don’t see the graininess in the optics. We don’t see the edges of our
field of view. We don’t perceive world behind our heads or inside it for
that matter. Our vision is not like being inside a room looking out
through a window.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph adg adh zk adi b adj adk adl adm adn ado adp adq pf adr ads adt pi adu adv adw pl adx ady adz aea fy bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="0316">Even
as our experiences are a reproduction of the objective world, we
ourselves do run simulations. In a dream state (simulation) we are able
to see light where there is no photons. We can hear sounds where there
are no vibrations. We can feel sensations where there is no touch. We
can place ourselves in settings which have no analog in the objective
world.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph adg adh zk adi b adj adk adl adm adn ado adp adq pf adr ads adt pi adu adv adw pl adx ady adz aea fy bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="fd43">The
curious fact is we have a ChatGPT-like function built into our brains
or minds. In a hypnotic state a hypnotist can talk to this function and
conjure experiences, images, sounds, actions and emotions. They make the
suggestion and we do the manifesting. In the end they can cause us to
delete the memories or save them. A current craze is to practice <i class="aep">lucid dreaming</i>,
a mental state where we are essentially asleep but keep active a part
of our brains where intent can manifest. We seek to control what we see,
hear and do in the dream state. Now there is where a simulation can
exist.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph adg adh zk adi b adj adk adl adm adn ado adp adq pf adr ads adt pi adu adv adw pl adx ady adz aea fy bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="d197">For
our conscious existence to be a simulation doesn’t require a
micro-managing programmer. There doesn’t need to be a physical central
“mainframe” type processor on which algorithms and subroutines are run.
There doesn’t need to be a place where a different body resides. There
doesn’t need to be anywhere else but <i class="aep">here</i> in which to exist.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph adg adh zk adi b adj adk adl adm adn ado adp adq pf adr ads adt pi adu adv adw pl adx ady adz aea fy bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f15d">But
on the other hand, if programmers have written computer code which
manifests you as a conscious being they only need to code one day which
runs endlessly as a loop. It would start when you open your eyes,
contain all the memories you have of past days and restart when you open
your eyes again. No need for there to be any massive infrastructure
because there is only you and enough bytes to hold one day. You would
never know there was no previous days or a next one. At some Unix
Timestamp the sim will terminate and you will cease to exist. Fin.</p>Tuna Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454266137206818053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725138392665155107.post-82508514496643278912023-09-24T08:43:00.002-07:002023-09-24T08:44:41.295-07:00Hello, Singapore<p>Hello to the nation and people of Singapore.</p><p>The statistics of this blog indicate a lot of web traffic from Your country. The issue is there are no specifics for what anyone is reading or looking for. Every view is anonymous.</p><p>Are there those people who are willing to tell me what their interests are? I would really like to know.</p><p>If you click on this image you can get a free download of the full sized image.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSQGMFMsLTBG_aS1PtlPKwgawEbp_LhZYkdFRw9jFkrmL5kZoya_3sb66_1uN86OxcMoUW0SUyQFsqb_fLXLZlr1akQ1OsjRCcay77zR0VtyM-O3EA1GbtSbZ1tG0ecqAfTHJbd-TGqehmAaW-qh9303U70MHi-QNjvbyTPFOJsFjD9peOq1u7a9kVcxM/s482/holiday.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="361" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSQGMFMsLTBG_aS1PtlPKwgawEbp_LhZYkdFRw9jFkrmL5kZoya_3sb66_1uN86OxcMoUW0SUyQFsqb_fLXLZlr1akQ1OsjRCcay77zR0VtyM-O3EA1GbtSbZ1tG0ecqAfTHJbd-TGqehmAaW-qh9303U70MHi-QNjvbyTPFOJsFjD9peOq1u7a9kVcxM/w150-h200/holiday.png" width="150" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://share.clickasnap.com/profile/Lens4anEye/photo/01H5G9H94YFG4M1WF72Q8RB2DD" target="_blank">Neon Holiday Inn Sign<br /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>I have over 1400 varied images for you to view. Many are listed for purchase as downloads or prints of various sizes.</p><p>Please take a look. <a href="https://clickasnap.com/Lens4anEye" target="_blank">Lens4anEye</a><br /></p>Tuna Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454266137206818053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725138392665155107.post-84546046694425666062023-07-20T10:00:00.004-07:002023-08-10T09:45:40.548-07:00QR Codes<p> QR codes.</p><p>The easiest way to access my "Lens4anEye" photography at ClickaSnap.com.</p><p>Give it a try. Especially from an iPhone or Android.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHJaEsYq5GJvM0__eepiFG1rihWWjUO4TJohefzq8fBJSzHHxVE5uVF87jXs8iHsFAJvqP3glIROq3ta0EWF_iGEcrKCr7fUOjsJJUWHspMvRLohP24AnCovKyLeQ7dsDO_ZM5O2tRCTZnKXDdH__mP3CZmvicsMbFBgvDJBABqRER6WFQ-6asE21RVYc/s656/bit.ly_Lens4anEye.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="656" data-original-width="656" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHJaEsYq5GJvM0__eepiFG1rihWWjUO4TJohefzq8fBJSzHHxVE5uVF87jXs8iHsFAJvqP3glIROq3ta0EWF_iGEcrKCr7fUOjsJJUWHspMvRLohP24AnCovKyLeQ7dsDO_ZM5O2tRCTZnKXDdH__mP3CZmvicsMbFBgvDJBABqRER6WFQ-6asE21RVYc/w200-h200/bit.ly_Lens4anEye.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">This is just one of over 1300 photos in my numerous Albums on ClickaSnap.com<br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibEHv5kK5W_WaGNb227PtCuRzm0IxVFnACNFp1CIEA5yWjJhIuwxh9iv2Z913vSb4JqRLqoIst04rKg3XrNWdAqxNHP_930rV0EM11QaL-n-VB_az20wCmJuGjyh8NneIkO15UCEUm4SbAMEBhttFkMcXNzpHrwuz6MuAlzyOBMFq1HTM7WE65evrfG_4/s855/Iconic%20Abandoned%20House.sm.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="855" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibEHv5kK5W_WaGNb227PtCuRzm0IxVFnACNFp1CIEA5yWjJhIuwxh9iv2Z913vSb4JqRLqoIst04rKg3XrNWdAqxNHP_930rV0EM11QaL-n-VB_az20wCmJuGjyh8NneIkO15UCEUm4SbAMEBhttFkMcXNzpHrwuz6MuAlzyOBMFq1HTM7WE65evrfG_4/s320/Iconic%20Abandoned%20House.sm.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.clickasnap.com/profileLens4anEye/photo/01GZ72MQFZ7SJM0QYJMKVNM651" target="_blank">House in New Mexico</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p><br /></p>Tuna Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454266137206818053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725138392665155107.post-71686452751073050372023-06-25T11:51:00.000-07:002023-06-25T11:54:29.627-07:00The E.T.s are Coming! The E.T.s are Coming!<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The E.T.s are Coming! The E.T.s are Coming!</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Whatever could interstellar or inter-dimensional beings want?</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span></span></span><br /></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span>Hypothesis
have been made since about the date we humans first discovered nuclear
fission. There were science fiction tales sensationalizing the nature
and appearance of off-world creatures who come to earth to conquer us,
enslave us and exploit our natural resources. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span></span><br /></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi-t4Sba18lGRSAMGBG1oInIta3k2TUn6vPTviJpvpSr7IwBFFDmX880FhNQaRl0Qk90h03HImVZV1ObexyRxSP_eYDmr4cNTPEwK5wWS4-u8tTEHxw4D7D03h9LWhbRvIMn4Us-vhRMYDE_Q1bkr_WDGg0P7iezvGLdUMYncGKmLl_NImUWPWO_n_Bv0/s480/internal%20crossing%20book%20cover%20photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="480" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi-t4Sba18lGRSAMGBG1oInIta3k2TUn6vPTviJpvpSr7IwBFFDmX880FhNQaRl0Qk90h03HImVZV1ObexyRxSP_eYDmr4cNTPEwK5wWS4-u8tTEHxw4D7D03h9LWhbRvIMn4Us-vhRMYDE_Q1bkr_WDGg0P7iezvGLdUMYncGKmLl_NImUWPWO_n_Bv0/w200-h200/internal%20crossing%20book%20cover%20photo.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Prior
to suggesting alien civilizations are coming here mankind feared devils
and demons, incubus and succubus, fallen angels, et al. <span> </span>These
latter entities were primarily inter dimensional rather than travelers.
Such entities are relegated to the dim centuries before we understood
some of the inter workings of the mind and what nature could concoct.
Religions perpetuate the notion of such beings for the mere control of
human behaviors.<p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span>So
now the dominant theory is they are travelers from some distant planet.
The Big Question is why would any species of beings muster the
resources and invest their time coming to our speck of dust in the vast
universe? </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span></span><br /></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span>In the 1950s and 60s they were <span> </span>monsters
here to eat our brains, fornicate with women, make zombies of us, and
turn us into slave labor. How odd it is they wanted to do to us exactly
what we do to each other on a daily basis. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span></span><br /></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span>Not
too much later we speculated they want our resources. Gold and diamonds
were common lusts they had. Our water. They wanted our water. Our land.
They needed a new place to live and thrive. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span></span><br /></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span>Even today with our 8 billion people vast expanses of land is uninhabited. <span> </span>If
they could travel interstellar space surely they could comfortably live
in the interior of Australia or the Saharan Desert. If they preferred
cold, there is Greenland and the northern latitudes of Canada and
Russia. Only if they behave like us would we need to be concerned with
how they treated our planet. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span></span><br /></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span>They
would have traveled for generations in their spaceships maintaining a
perfect ecological balance and environment. Why would they suddenly
despoil the earth when they got here?</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span></span><br /></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span>If
they needed water our planet is not a great exploitable source. Comets
and asteroids are composed of far more water than here on earth. Some of
the moons of our neighboring planets have plenty of water and no one to
complain about them taking it. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span></span><br /></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span>Humans
make for a poor source of manual labor. We are high maintenance and
prone to resistance. Almost every high-tech and industrial process is
easier handled with robotic machines. We are seeing the loss of labor
requirements in every field of endeavor. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span></span><br /></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span>Humans
are not very good food sources. Pound for pound we are far too lean for
industrial level meat production. Pigs, cows and chickens produce far
more protein than do people. Furthermore the livestock doesn’t complain
or mount resistance. <span> </span>The procreate quickly and mature fast. Birth to mouth in a year or less. A good human it’s 15 to 20 years. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span></span><br /></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span>Scientific exploration of our gnome is not really necessary. Why abduct an adult to probe the butt and drill into it eyes? <span> </span>We find non-invasive non-destructive means of exploration with MRI, CAT, and other technological devices. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span></span><br /></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span>If they need our DNA they could rob a sperm bank or grab some frozen embryos from a fertility clinic. <span> </span>No
need to abduct women and men. If they can genetically engineer an
entire hybrid species bovine gestation would be a cakewalk. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span></span><br /></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span>Now
we are getting down to the last reason for visiting. Trade. They could
exchange their resources for ours. What could they have brought with
them we could use in exchange for something we have that they don’t. My
supposition is: nothing. They could get anything we have for free if
they scanned our Solar System and harvested/mined unclaimed sources. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span></span><br /></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span>My
concerns are that arriving aliens behave just like us. Sloppy careless
exploitive authoritarians who take take take and leave their pollution
behind. Mostly I am concerned they might be deeply devoted to a deity
who demands everyone praise his name or be killed. There would be no
negotiating with that sort of thing. They would ravish and destroy with
no end in sight. We would be in a state of eternal war or submission. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span> </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span> </span></p><span style="color: #888888;"><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span><br /><br /></span></p></span><p> </p>Tuna Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454266137206818053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725138392665155107.post-24537692454677991542023-06-09T19:54:00.090-07:002023-08-10T09:44:39.199-07:00 Legacy Streetcar Tracks in Pittsburgh<p><span style="font-size: large;"> Legacy Streetcar Tracks in Pittsburgh</span></p><p><span> <br /></span></p><p><span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiAnHVYajWLILIvdTdqE2VJe6IddUl6xEgcRJWcnA6LVYUrLXzrEmK7GvLv3MBpOafikQhRtwoYK97DfOdkBPxv3r4dSEErk0CYAQeC86NYvkEJdiNGB2y7MiOBgb-f4RYX8sDSpN2lN3481QtFfUwVWYJWfL3xXGKtT6a06hLhIqLF7-fm_HeAa8HE" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="297" data-original-width="399" height="149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiAnHVYajWLILIvdTdqE2VJe6IddUl6xEgcRJWcnA6LVYUrLXzrEmK7GvLv3MBpOafikQhRtwoYK97DfOdkBPxv3r4dSEErk0CYAQeC86NYvkEJdiNGB2y7MiOBgb-f4RYX8sDSpN2lN3481QtFfUwVWYJWfL3xXGKtT6a06hLhIqLF7-fm_HeAa8HE=w200-h149" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://share.clickasnap.com/profile/Lens4anEye/photo/01H26HWEEF13HM50WC8KF5ZCDQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here to view larger image</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br />Here are a set of
streetcar Legacy Tracks leading into and out of what at one time was the
Rankin Car House in Braddock, PA. {G3130} Pittsburgh once had hundreds of miles of streetcars
and interurban passenger rail routes. The Port Authority of Allegheny
County rebuilt a few miles of ROW into the T, but most of the other
tracks have been pulled or buried under a layer of asphalt. The Legacy
Tracks, as I refer to them, have never been covered and remain in
isolate places around what remains of the former Pittsburgh Railway
Company service area.</p><p><span>Legacy Streetcar tracks still exposed in the Pittsburgh area.
{11039} I've researched more old trackage and have placed images in my
"Pittsburgh" album. Photo by Robert Carlson. Pittsburgh and Allegheny
County have undertaken to obliterate all vestiges of its once extensive
passenger rail system. The tracks have been pulled from streets where
new concrete pavement is placed. Where an asphalt layer is placed, the
tracks are merely buried under the pavement. Those tracks occasionally
reappear when the asphalt weathers, cracks and crumbles. Even so, there
are seven locations I have documented where legacy tracks have never
been buried under pavement.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8q_1HFf3fPSSHyQQlG7ld-EPJdnup9B1JK9w-sCUGnqNGZvfM-1_k_g_3qr11NV4ZJwfiaxzBlwgfj4g_dq2XnKsWPwl5ct37XCU-3EjQoMfQApWpF02j4V1YZ12jvmP_R3cOA0q6P1Mi9d9uQ3rOf9vrFy4EV5Buifl89-FDK0Hh9PdTR8-hEutb/s394/Dookers.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Dooker's Hollow Tracks in north Braddock," border="0" data-original-height="220" data-original-width="394" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8q_1HFf3fPSSHyQQlG7ld-EPJdnup9B1JK9w-sCUGnqNGZvfM-1_k_g_3qr11NV4ZJwfiaxzBlwgfj4g_dq2XnKsWPwl5ct37XCU-3EjQoMfQApWpF02j4V1YZ12jvmP_R3cOA0q6P1Mi9d9uQ3rOf9vrFy4EV5Buifl89-FDK0Hh9PdTR8-hEutb/w200-h112/Dookers.JPG" title="Dooker's Hollow Tracks in north Braddock, Pa" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.clickasnap.com/profile/Lens4anEye/photo/01H0X5GADBXC5S6J81MDEACNY5" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dooker's Hollow Tracks<br /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLAOFwXd7sPKA62n1nRl62GpwMYtW63IsHa78pQqdhQWZiYIWdK5u3Z4N7YOuImVzhqAcanfIjpxyKSCLwgfsWfiaDZlYipK81ooYzEZ2xpDLJgNW29EfF0CwO5NEAeAlNN6sZiUEq8tM1LjRJH_w9mFV4DBjTfGorjN78CYlHbVm34NliDr46V87r/s391/legacy%204.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="ols streetcar tracks" border="0" data-original-height="222" data-original-width="391" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLAOFwXd7sPKA62n1nRl62GpwMYtW63IsHa78pQqdhQWZiYIWdK5u3Z4N7YOuImVzhqAcanfIjpxyKSCLwgfsWfiaDZlYipK81ooYzEZ2xpDLJgNW29EfF0CwO5NEAeAlNN6sZiUEq8tM1LjRJH_w9mFV4DBjTfGorjN78CYlHbVm34NliDr46V87r/w200-h114/legacy%204.JPG" title="Legacy Tracks on Pgh Southside" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.clickasnap.com/profile/Lens4anEye/photo/01H0WYV0X1XNBKQHK1EF5HQCZW" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">#40 Line on Soffel Street</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span>400 yards of streetcar tracks have been hiding in the weeds
parallel to Bell Avenue in North Braddock near Dooker's Hollow. The
recent replacement of the bridge revealed the tracks when they cleared
the roadway as a construction access. This section of tracks was
abandoned when the first Dooker's Hollow bridge was constructed. They
lay there in the weeds known only to locals who continued to use the
road as a pedestrian route. {10297}. Pittsburgh and Allegheny County
have undertaken to obliterate all vestiges of its once extensive
passenger rail system. The tracks have been pulled from streets where
new concrete pavement is placed. Where an asphalt layer is placed, the
tracks are merely buried under the pavement. Those tracks occasionally
reappear when the asphalt weathers, cracks and crumbles. Even so, there
are seven locations I have documented where legacy tracks have never
been buried under pavement.</span></p><p><span> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-QwsHYlrSDhkf7ZU3AIOKtQKrxybmE23w-LjFZDbb_n1d4IBwi8shACJXR7rsFE3WTvGKmqKf8P9R_UatKhC8GEv9P9UJgqhgETx1Oaad4n10VwCRRKD96zAHbvWBSc0sG04QOrfEhw5XRt_m8PmCUHCW8a8MqPeobjSBGt8euZrhuasDpgcJu0Ej/s392/legacy%206.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Short segment of double Streetcar tracks" border="0" data-original-height="219" data-original-width="392" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-QwsHYlrSDhkf7ZU3AIOKtQKrxybmE23w-LjFZDbb_n1d4IBwi8shACJXR7rsFE3WTvGKmqKf8P9R_UatKhC8GEv9P9UJgqhgETx1Oaad4n10VwCRRKD96zAHbvWBSc0sG04QOrfEhw5XRt_m8PmCUHCW8a8MqPeobjSBGt8euZrhuasDpgcJu0Ej/w200-h112/legacy%206.JPG" title="#56 Line - Dravosburg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.clickasnap.com/profile/Lens4anEye/photo/01H0WYTXBCHXHY01777TV53J57" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">#56 Line at Dravosburg</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX2IiKTtKbAZCObR9fTFdw29jLphqaSKlr6h0cnRVHSCA7i2xs0wXqy6HbVy2JeZcP0PN-pkJEEqUzZ7GHgi2vM720ZzMFx2PyN8ibG59nuOG5qXtmEN1pFMkv3MG6HTI9JI5ElBsyxHlCSTh86TYpY24HS7chm2wPoGsollupz28O2prnh-K_KzZk/s396/legacy%205.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="single streetcar rail still embedded in sidewalk pavement" border="0" data-original-height="224" data-original-width="396" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX2IiKTtKbAZCObR9fTFdw29jLphqaSKlr6h0cnRVHSCA7i2xs0wXqy6HbVy2JeZcP0PN-pkJEEqUzZ7GHgi2vM720ZzMFx2PyN8ibG59nuOG5qXtmEN1pFMkv3MG6HTI9JI5ElBsyxHlCSTh86TYpY24HS7chm2wPoGsollupz28O2prnh-K_KzZk/w200-h113/legacy%205.JPG" title="#96 Line in Morningside" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.clickasnap.com/profile/Lens4anEye/photo/01H0WYTTRAGT4JE4W4N3CVAJ7X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">#96 Line in Morningside</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span><br /></span><p></p><p><span>Legacy Streetcar tracks still exposed in the Pittsburgh area.
{11036} Several other location still exist in the region:</span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span>Chestnut Street in the Northside has about 3 blocks of tracks still set in red clay bricks</span></li><li><span>Old section of Braddock Avenue in Regent Square/Edgewood</span></li><li><span>Tracks rising to meet the former bridge over Turtle Creek in Wilmerding, PA.</span></li><li><span><br /></span></li></ul><p></p>Tuna Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454266137206818053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725138392665155107.post-80129193021301847912023-05-25T18:15:00.008-07:002023-08-10T09:41:08.937-07:00ClickaSnap.com: How Useful Is It?<p> </p><div><h1 class="pw-post-title gc gd ge be gf gg gh gi gj gk gl gm gn go gp gq gr gs gt gu gv gw bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="877a"></h1></div><div><h2 class="pw-subtitle-paragraph gx gd ge be b gy gz ha hb hc hd he hf hg hh hi hj hk hl hm cp dv" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ce6a"><span style="font-size: x-large;">ClickaSnap.com: How Useful Is It?</span></h2><h2 class="pw-subtitle-paragraph gx gd ge be b gy gz ha hb hc hd he hf hg hh hi hj hk hl hm cp dv" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ce6a"><span style="font-size: medium;">This large photo sharing platform is many things to many people.</span></h2><div class="hn ho hp hq hr"><div class="speechify-ignore ab co"><div class="speechify-ignore bg l"><div class="hs ht hu hv hw ab"><div class="bm bg l"><div class="ab"><div style="flex: 1 1 0%;"><span class="be b bf z bj"><div class="if ab q"><div class="ab q ig"><div class="ab q"><div><div aria-describedby="4" aria-hidden="false" aria-labelledby="4" class="bl"><p class="be b ih ii bj">by <a class="af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar ij" href="https://modalchoice.medium.com/?source=post_page-----94c4fc932143--------------------------------" rel="noopener follow">Robert Carlson</a></p></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></div><div class="l ik"><span class="be b bf z dv"><div class="ab cm il im in"><span class="be b bf z dv"><div class="ab ae"><br /></div></span></div></span></div></div></div><div class="ab co iq ir is it iu iv iw ix iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf"><div class="h k w dz ea q"><div class="jv l"><div class="ab q jw"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div aria-describedby="5" aria-hidden="false" aria-labelledby="5" class="bl"></div></div><div class="h k"><div><div aria-describedby="6" aria-hidden="false" aria-labelledby="6" class="bl"><div aria-hidden="false" class="bl"></div></div></div></div><div class="ev qn cm"><div class="l ae"><div class="ab ca"><div class="qo qp qq qr qs nc ch bg"><div class="ab"><div aria-hidden="false" class="bl bg"><div><div aria-describedby="7" aria-hidden="false" aria-labelledby="7" class="bl"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div aria-describedby="postFooterSocialMenu" aria-hidden="false" aria-labelledby="postFooterSocialMenu" class="bl"><div><div aria-describedby="8" aria-hidden="false" aria-labelledby="8" class="bl"></div></div></div><div aria-hidden="false" class="bl"><div aria-describedby="creatorActionOverflowMenu" aria-hidden="false" aria-labelledby="creatorActionOverflowMenu" class="bl"><div aria-describedby="collectionSubmissionPopover" aria-hidden="false" aria-labelledby="collectionSubmissionPopover" class="bl"><div class="qt l ik"><div><div aria-describedby="350" aria-hidden="false" aria-labelledby="350" class="bl"></div></div></div></div></div></div><article class="meteredContent"><div class="l"><div class="l"><section><div><div class="fx fy fz ga gb"><div class="ab ca"><div class="ch bg fb fc fd fe"><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ls lt ge lu b gy lv lw lx hb ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi mj mk ml mm mn fx bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="58a7">You’ve heard of <a class="af mo" href="https://clickasnap.com/profile/Lens4anEye" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">ClickaSnap</a>.com
probably from some Youtuber or Tiktok star who makes claims of getting
rich sharing your snapshots. Put most of that hype out of your mind and
concentrate on what it is that makes you take photographs and want
people to see them. Mine are all located at “<a class="af mo" href="https://clickasnap.com/profile/Lens4anEye" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Lens4anEye.</a>”</p><figure class="ms mt mu mv mw mx mp mq paragraph-image"><div class="my mz ec na bg nb" role="button" tabindex="0"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><picture style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><source type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og"></source><img class="bg nc nd c" height="147" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:875/1*PVO7_AZFbRGDJoHnlVpOKQ.jpeg" width="400" /></picture></div><div class="mp mq mr"></div></div><figcaption class="ne nf ng mp mq nh ni be b bf z dv" data-selectable-paragraph=""><a class="af mo" href="https://clickasnap.com/profile/Lens4anEye" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">National Building Museum, Washington, DC</a></figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ls lt ge lu b gy lv lw lx hb ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi mj mk ml mm mn fx bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e39b">Some
people are long-time practitioners of the Optical Arts, others have
only recently picked up their first camera. Most people fall somewhere
along the wide variation of interests and experiences. ClickaSnap.com is
for sharing your own pictures, not images you saw on the internet and
think you’ll share them. The platform has a list of Terms of Service
which enumerates acceptable and unacceptable imagery. Don’t ignore them.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ls lt ge lu b gy lv lw lx hb ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi mj mk ml mm mn fx bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="a2d6">In order to determine how the platform can be useful to you, you must decide whether you are in it for</p><blockquote class="nj"><p class="nk nl ge be nm nn no np nq nr ns mn dv" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="250c">1. the exposure of your craft to strangers around the world,</p><p class="nk nl ge be nm nn no np nq nr ns mn dv" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6b96">2. for being a place for your friends and family to see your snapshots,</p><p class="nk nl ge be nm nn no np nq nr ns mn dv" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5d3f">3. to get feedback as a critique of your skills,</p><p class="nk nl ge be nm nn no np nq nr ns mn dv" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3242">4. access to a Seller’s Shop at which you can sell digital files and prints of you work.</p></blockquote><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ls lt ge lu b gy nt lw lx hb nu lz ma mb nv md me mf nw mh mi mj nx ml mm mn fx bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="712f">Pause
here while you ponder what your level of work will be to meet the above
expectations. While there are hundreds of thousands of ClickaSnap
subscribers they won’t trip over your profile without your efforts to
get them to see your pictures. I don’t have access to ClickaSnap’s
statistics but it would be safe to say most of the subscribers are the
FREE ones. Those profiles represent people who want to see if it is
worth their time and effort to prepare pictures, upload them and
properly identify them so others will “trip over them.” The other
subscriber level cost money and breaking even will take a while.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ls lt ge lu b gy lv lw lx hb ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi mj mk ml mm mn fx bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="69fe">In
the four months I have been a subscriber on the ClickaSnap platform,
933 subscriber have visited my Profile and looked at at least one of my
pictures.</p><figure class="ms mt mu mv mw mx mp mq paragraph-image"><div class="my mz ec na bg nb" role="button" tabindex="0"><div class="mp mq ny"><picture style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><source type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og"></source><img alt="" class="bg nc nd c" height="118" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:875/1*ibrjlD4bOl0N1OC3tymKvg.jpeg" width="580" /></picture></div></div><figcaption class="ne nf ng mp mq nh ni be b bf z dv" data-selectable-paragraph=""> Subscriber Visit Frequency for Lens4anEye</figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ls lt ge lu b gy lv lw lx hb ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi mj mk ml mm mn fx bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="24ac">The
chart above is the frequency of visits. 70% have only visited once.
Another 15% stopped by twice. The number drops off rapidly after 3
visits (5%). A good factor is most views of my photos come from
non-scribers through Twitter, Facebook, Google searches and other as yet
unknown (to me) sources. Those views did not just happen. I made posts
to Facebook groups which might like my pictures. I utilize a Twitter
feed and widely employ hashtags [#streetphotography #BlackandWhitephoto
#PhotooftheDay] et al. A good description with the images is essential
for Google to index them. Leaving your uploads titled as IMG_1234.JPG is
wasting that way of getting views. If your intentions are as a hobby,
don’t worry it will remain known only to you. Even your friends and
family are a hard-sell to get them to look.</p><figure class="ms mt mu mv mw mx mp mq paragraph-image"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><picture style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><source type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og"></source><img alt="" class="bg nc nd c" height="128" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:235/1*t0FlrFO4cDLpQ8F5mA6R2w.jpeg" width="188" /></picture></div><div class="mp mq nz"></div><figcaption class="ne nf ng mp mq nh ni be b bf z dv" data-selectable-paragraph=""><a class="af mo" href="https://www.clickasnap.com/profile/Lens4anEye/photo/01GQZHEFF8165V7G3JXN2672Z8" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Front Porch Album</a></figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ls lt ge lu b gy lv lw lx hb ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi mj mk ml mm mn fx bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="cff8"><b class="lu gf">Generating Views</b></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ls lt ge lu b gy lv lw lx hb ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi mj mk ml mm mn fx bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="25ea">Twitter
and Facebook are free. You can create accounts and post links to your
pictures. It remains to be seen if you can reach the right people. When
you do, the results can be good.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ls lt ge lu b gy lv lw lx hb ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi mj mk ml mm mn fx bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="61f2">When
you are a serious photographer you must use as many platforms as you
are able to pay attention to. It has to do with that saying about
putting “all your eggs in one basket.” Diversify. Even when you do find a
productive place to post about your images, keep in mind they age
rapidly. Even the best post will get “pushed down” very fast in 2 days
or less. On Twitter it may be a matter of hours before other peoples’
content pile on top of yours. Few people, including myself, take the
time to scroll down beyond the first 3 pages of any website. Keep
something of interest at the top of your Profile for when visitors come
looking. In the newsprint business they talk of keeping a story, or at
least the headline, “above the fold”. Think of the newspapers stacked
for sale, “above the fold” can be seen when looking in the direction of
the stack. Many stories never get seen because they are on the bottom,
or they get buried on Page 6.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ls lt ge lu b gy lv lw lx hb ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi mj mk ml mm mn fx bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f4e4">So
far I have said nothing about photo quality or subject matter. Those
factors will shape whether or not people will come back to see your
material. When a subscriber visits your Profile and starts to scroll,
they make the decision for whether or not to click on a picture. If they
don’t click you will never know they were there. The Notifications page
will show you their activity if they actually click something.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ls lt ge lu b gy lv lw lx hb ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi mj mk ml mm mn fx bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9599">They
make their decision within several seconds: Scroll, bail or click. Too
many out of focus frames; bail. Crooked horizons: bail. Pets, babies,
fingernails, food and the ubiquitous airplane wingtip; they are gone
fast. Yes, there are subscribers who love those subjects but look at
other Profiles and see how many Views those pictures get.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ls lt ge lu b gy lv lw lx hb ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi mj mk ml mm mn fx bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b3ae">There
is no shortage of sunrise/sunsets, beach shots and Cappuccinos. You
love those shots, but do others? Again look at the view counts of those
pictures.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ls lt ge lu b gy lv lw lx hb ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi mj mk ml mm mn fx bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3e3b">Follow
others. It is difficult to justify following a subscriber who has only
12 pictures unless they are extraordinary. Make sure you have enough
content to encourage a return visit. Keep in mind 2nd and 3rd visits are
difficult to obtain. Subscribers who Follow you will see your new posts
in their Feed and have the opportunity to check them out.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ls lt ge lu b gy lv lw lx hb ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi mj mk ml mm mn fx bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="35db"><b class="lu gf">Making Sales</b></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ls lt ge lu b gy lv lw lx hb ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi mj mk ml mm mn fx bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5027">One
of the big advantages of ClickaSnap.com is that they are a fulfillment
house for sales of your pictures. You do not need to have a printer, a
shipping account nor a method of receiving payments. They will handle
all of that as part of the price to the buyer. Once upon a time I was
making 13"x19" prints for sale. Business was good. The printer cost me
$600 and a full set of inks was about $130. Printing went well until the
Print Heads needed to be replaced. The manufacturer wanted $77 for each
of the four devices. At $308 the cost suggested a different approach. I
needed inks too. The price of $438 was above the cost of a new printer
at $399. At about $10 profit on a ClickaSnap fulfillment sale I would
need 40 sales just to make up for the investment. Then there would be
packaging and shipping to pay. With their fulfillment process I have
zero investment to make. Of course, many subscribers don’t have access
to the funds necessary to print for themselves. The fulfillment services
are important.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ls lt ge lu b gy lv lw lx hb ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi mj mk ml mm mn fx bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9b54"><b class="lu gf">Conclusion</b></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ls lt ge lu b gy lv lw lx hb ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi mj mk ml mm mn fx bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1321">Image
sharing via ClickaSnap.com is a labor intensive endeavor as it is with
every such platform. Pictures need to be their best presentation.
Descriptions and tags need to be relevant and extensive. Your commitment
to your goals is essential.</p></div></div></div></div></section></div></div></article><div class="ab ca"><div class="ch bg fb fc fd fe"><br /></div></div>Tuna Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454266137206818053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725138392665155107.post-67993750362022999632023-02-11T14:48:00.001-08:002023-08-10T09:39:22.040-07:00ClickASnap Photo Sharing<p>In January of 2023 I learned of the existence of the photo sharing platform "ClickASnap.com". It promised to generate revenues from user views of my photos. While it does what it claims to do, the ROI for the effort incurred is very low. At 7/10ths of a cent per "Authentic View" one needs needs 14,285 of them to earn $100. An Authentic View is one where the user views the photo for at least 5 seconds.</p><p>With the Free account, the $100 needs 100,000 authentic Views. even at the Pro level the $100 needs 11,111 Authentic views. Obviously, the more photos uploaded the more opportunities there are to garner the requisite number of views. The ratio of ordinary views to Authentic Views in my experience is about 25%. That is a lot of work for the revenues.</p><p>Maybe as time moves on, the number of Authentic Views might approach 14k per month, i.e. $100, when more users discover my account. Meanwhile, the jury is still out on whether this platform and its revenue policy is worthwhile. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://clickasnap.com/Lens4anEye" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="987" data-original-width="1004" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTqYL5El1HBo7D1rZuL9XnyutbSCulOPyu3XimCZYtb-DruNfg4iENhtBJlbY3BP6jEzVHx4nWHJ5Ymc0hjsQ4CR4wVbmVVlHrgI-e2j2GCH5QtJ5z8-S1lRQx6FD18BxJA3UQ3b3vJncLkBWeqn7d3YFRd5LoKXRiS1xpw5xC8ZD0L5dpnMT9PbRQ/w320-h316/lens4aneye.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://clickasnap.com/profile/Lens4anEye" target="_blank">A few of the images I posted</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>Tuna Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454266137206818053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725138392665155107.post-53567593077784636742022-09-30T11:04:00.000-07:002023-06-23T16:28:18.242-07:00<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Outer Crossing </span></p><p>The 3rd Book in the Crossing Series</p><p>by Robert<span style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span> Carlson</p><span class="gvxzyvdx aeinzg81 t7p7dqev gh25dzvf exr7barw b6ax4al1 gem102v4 ncib64c9 mrvwc6qr sx8pxkcf f597kf1v cpcgwwas m2nijcs8 hxfwr5lz k1z55t6l oog5qr5w tes86rjd pbevjfx6 ztn2w49o" dir="auto"><div class="m8h3af8h l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf n3t5jt4f"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"></div></div><div class="l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz n3t5jt4f"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">I've made OUTER CROSSING, the 3rd Book in the Crossing Series, available for <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BGQHBSVZ?ref_=pe_3052080_276849420">pre-order</a> on Amazon. </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">These books are a grand tour of Sci-fi in the quantum universe genre.</div></div><div class="l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz n3t5jt4f"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">The publishing date is Oct 31, 2022. Go to the following to link to <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BGQHBSVZ?ref_=pe_3052080_276849420" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">pre-order</a>.</div></div><div class="l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz n3t5jt4f"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span><a class="qi72231t nu7423ey n3hqoq4p r86q59rh b3qcqh3k fq87ekyn bdao358l fsf7x5fv rse6dlih s5oniofx m8h3af8h l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk srn514ro oxkhqvkx rl78xhln nch0832m cr00lzj9 rn8ck1ys s3jn8y49 icdlwmnq cxfqmxzd ezidihy3" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BGQHBSVZ?ref_=pe_3052080_276849420&fbclid=IwAR0j7EzMvaH_Y_XwbOUY3A83C9-XxkpyQOTSPc7pID04dfLoiEuR55R65cg" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BGQHBSVZ?ref_=pe_3052080_276849420</a></span></div></div><div class="l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz n3t5jt4f"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">For
those of you who have not yet read the first two parts, Internal
Crossing and External Crossing are both available on my Author page. I
think you will be intri<span class="gvxzyvdx aeinzg81 t7p7dqev gh25dzvf exr7barw b6ax4al1 gem102v4 ncib64c9 mrvwc6qr sx8pxkcf f597kf1v cpcgwwas m2nijcs8 hxfwr5lz k1z55t6l oog5qr5w tes86rjd pbevjfx6 ztn2w49o" dir="auto">gued with the characters and story line.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span class="gvxzyvdx aeinzg81 t7p7dqev gh25dzvf exr7barw b6ax4al1 gem102v4 ncib64c9 mrvwc6qr sx8pxkcf f597kf1v cpcgwwas m2nijcs8 hxfwr5lz k1z55t6l oog5qr5w tes86rjd pbevjfx6 ztn2w49o" dir="auto"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span class="gvxzyvdx aeinzg81 t7p7dqev gh25dzvf exr7barw b6ax4al1 gem102v4 ncib64c9 mrvwc6qr sx8pxkcf f597kf1v cpcgwwas m2nijcs8 hxfwr5lz k1z55t6l oog5qr5w tes86rjd pbevjfx6 ztn2w49o" dir="auto"> </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxR0sZwshcC5AKEbrXeoyoIxMBaXUXW3NZ1lpHqBOi3BzQztclHUA9JMSUQVFstsfrXOmTBQhbCA8eOUWMk-NwVcuVZp00TwhYbrbgOKrN0jpEgRYlabqxVLBPBwwkFSmCNaC16hcT20lC_6z8ocPfU_GIHSbst2zyQuQ0BmD1f2MlWgH5zg9aanyq/s676/HPAA2222.cover.small.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="507" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxR0sZwshcC5AKEbrXeoyoIxMBaXUXW3NZ1lpHqBOi3BzQztclHUA9JMSUQVFstsfrXOmTBQhbCA8eOUWMk-NwVcuVZp00TwhYbrbgOKrN0jpEgRYlabqxVLBPBwwkFSmCNaC16hcT20lC_6z8ocPfU_GIHSbst2zyQuQ0BmD1f2MlWgH5zg9aanyq/s320/HPAA2222.cover.small.JPG" width="240" /></a></div></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Robert Corbin continues to meet versions of himself in this 3rd
part of the Crossing Series. He has learned what is happening to the
Past and that there are people and entities which seek to control the
process. Nothing you can know is for certain any longer."</span></span></blockquote></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>About the Author</b></span>:</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Robert Carlson, aka Me, has been writing from a very early age.
Somewhere around age 13 I started recording the thoughts I had and the
experiences I went through. Granted most of that is not the kind of fare
that anyone would be interested in reading, but over the years I have
honed that narrative style that does provide for a consistent level of
interest by the reader. </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><p>My first attempts at publishing resulted in nothing published but
then eBooks and the Internets came along and some of that here-to-fore
unpublished material found a new outlet.</p><p>My books cover
existential fiction blended with a lot of true story. The first three
volumes represent just the beginning. The backlog of material extends
back in time 50 years. Readers will be spared most of that early "stuff"
except as accents and punctuation in a larger more contemporary
writing.</p><p>Along with my Left Brain language dominant thinking I
also have a Right Brain image dominant thinking that is expressed in a
prolific photography legacy. I hope to be able to properly format an
eBook of some of the photographic themes that I have covered since 1971.
</p><p>Along with the flights of fancy in the fiction, I also have a
penchant for observation and the connecting of dots that reveal "The
Principle of Imminent Collapse" and "It's All Tuna!" Both are books that
are yet to be made ready for publishing.</p><p>Meanwhile... enjoy the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Carlson/e/B00S1MVYTA/ref=aufs_dp_mata_dsk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">books that are available</a>.</p><p>1st Book in the Series <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LZ6ZWHQ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i5">Internal Crossing</a></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLNtxS66eL24LwtbeQwyTbZmTe19CKVW_x7ev972GgIK4s4T4cZEdU7-OFQtuXb6OSw66SL0hGNbR7WRBka5TJv3k0GPRaeu5zAgUndwwxElel13vG5UjgLRHqcNNsD3eL8wasTMkNiULWPCO9wDYkMITuMTQEmuFfGUklb_0n9dYtbtwWZzQyU80suw/s240/71JgPoJh0vL.SR160,240_BG243,243,243.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLNtxS66eL24LwtbeQwyTbZmTe19CKVW_x7ev972GgIK4s4T4cZEdU7-OFQtuXb6OSw66SL0hGNbR7WRBka5TJv3k0GPRaeu5zAgUndwwxElel13vG5UjgLRHqcNNsD3eL8wasTMkNiULWPCO9wDYkMITuMTQEmuFfGUklb_0n9dYtbtwWZzQyU80suw/s1600/71JgPoJh0vL.SR160,240_BG243,243,243.jpg" width="160" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">2nd Book in the Series <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09NQK2QCV/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">External Crossing</a> <br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb5-NBiWdRetvkeaTFP9geK0xULWKlZBJRdVcEYaTmEF6-wE4v6u8uc0_Pj7cdELV_0bDNUzFkh6PrNrjfjwV6ISeTosMH0_zF5bNnqAqU_Sz0GQJMrNSRe0aTu2bIcqhR1TeY8ptGznyJPyrVXT9phPllrK6Q40yg0Axb1wrFTf-XffazYYWg2GFU-Q/s240/71q5CnU2dKL.SR160,240_BG243,243,243.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb5-NBiWdRetvkeaTFP9geK0xULWKlZBJRdVcEYaTmEF6-wE4v6u8uc0_Pj7cdELV_0bDNUzFkh6PrNrjfjwV6ISeTosMH0_zF5bNnqAqU_Sz0GQJMrNSRe0aTu2bIcqhR1TeY8ptGznyJPyrVXT9phPllrK6Q40yg0Axb1wrFTf-XffazYYWg2GFU-Q/s1600/71q5CnU2dKL.SR160,240_BG243,243,243.jpg" width="160" /></a></div><br /><br /> <p></p></div></div></span><p> </p>Tuna Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454266137206818053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725138392665155107.post-15702168353185762662022-04-10T10:28:00.000-07:002023-06-23T16:28:39.882-07:00Follow Those NFT Collection Links<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal">Like tens of thousands of Twitter users who have an interest
in Photography and NFTs in particular, I love scrolling through all the great
images the earnest photographers and digital artist post in hopes of exposure
to the people who will buy one.<br />
<br />
Therein lies the problem. I don't know what other photographers experience. I
don't see the exposure of seeing one posted image being translated into visits
to my collections in the NFT repositories, my website or other places. <br />
<br />
For example, I will mint an NFT of one of my photographs to my OpenSea.io
collection. I then Tweet a link to it so the Twitter-verse can see and
ostensibly enjoy it. There will be a number of Impressions, Engagements, Detail
expands and Link clicks. It feels good to see the little heart statistic with a
high number. Having the Retweet number grow and the Comments indicates
additional exposure. The most important number is in the Analytics of the
Tweet. In there is the "Link clicks" number.<br />
<br />
Compare your Link clicks to mine and you will see if you have the same issue as
do I. Mine are few and far between. They sometimes reach 3-4 out of 100-200
Impressions. If your number is high: Congratulations. When you include a link
to your NFT collection such as to OpenSea and that Link clicks number is low it
means very few people went to see what else you have to offer.<br />
<br />
They may love your posted image, but they did not reciprocate by increasing
your standing with the platform on which your work is listed. And if they did
go see your other work but did not favorite any of them, your standing with the
platform was not improved either. <br />
<br />
The minting platforms and Twitter itself are algorithm-driven. Engagement
breeds engagement, engagement makes exposure, exposure gets your content out to
those precious few people who will actually buy your work.<br />
<br />
It is disheartening to make a collection, polish it and put it out there for
the world to see and have only the "Cover" image ever seen.<br />
<br />
The bottom line is you should click the links to the collections the poster
included. Once there leave a modicum of encouragement by Favoriting something.
When I see a picture I like, I go to the included link and if I see something I
like, I favorite it. Then I go back to the Tweet and tell the
artist/photographer I was there and favored something. Sure this is time
consuming, but I want them to do this for me, too. <br />
<br />
The overall Twitter Analytics demonstrate most people who Live, RT or comment
on something I post do not ever see the collections. Good; if you have a
different experience. <br />
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Tuna Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454266137206818053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725138392665155107.post-67915319110536334072022-04-09T10:01:00.001-07:002022-04-09T10:01:19.438-07:00What is a Small World?<p> </p><div class="ie if ig ih ii"><div class=""><h1 class="pw-post-title ij ik il bo im in io ip iq ir is it iu iv iw ix iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="a8e5">What is a Small World?</h1></div><div class=""><h2 class="pw-subtitle-paragraph ji ik il bo b jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz br" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5af3">How does one break out and benefit from more exposure?</h2></div><blockquote class="abw abx aby"><p class="ka kb ss kc b kd ke jm kf kg kh jp ki abz kk kl km aca ko kp kq acb ks kt ku kv ie gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="483a">“Of
all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into
mine.” ~ Rick Blaine referring to Ilsa Lund, Casablanca.</p></blockquote><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ka kb il kc b kd ke jm kf kg kh jp ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv ie gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="a4ac">Rick ruminates about how the beautiful woman, Ilsa Lund, happened to walk into his life when she walked into <em class="ss">Rick’s Café Américain</em>.
Rick’s place is a small world. While there may by thousands of gin
joints in all the towns and in this world, there would be only two or
three such places in the town of Casablanca, Morocco. Her chances would
be quite great especially since she needed to escape and he was noted as
the person who could make it happen.</p><figure class="tj tk tl tm ga tn fo fp paragraph-image"><div class="to tp ct tq ea tr" role="button" tabindex="0"><div class="fo fp acc"><img alt="Sun rise behind the wires" class="ea oc ts" height="353" src="https://miro.medium.com/max/875/1*YHTDo0dUB_zkGlvmC7mfGg.jpeg" width="700" /></div></div><figcaption class="tu ec fq fo fp tv tw bo b bp bq br" data-selectable-paragraph=""><a class="au tx" href="https://opensea.io/itsalltuna" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Sunrise in California</a></figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ka kb il kc b kd ke jm kf kg kh jp ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv ie gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ab75">The
concept of a small world is equally applied to the exposure a single
person gets in a crowd of similar people. In the attendance crowd at a
venue such as the historic gathering at Woodstock where upwards of
500,000 gathered for three days or the 80K crowd at Coachella there will
be those who came for one particular reason or performance or another.
All together they comprise a population of music lovers who have the
time, money and inclination to venture out to the venues and experience
the festivities. On one hand, the crowd seems to be highly similar but
as opposed to the whole US population. On the other, within the crowd
there are smaller pockets of interest in specific performers. The larger
venue is the driving factor in getting all the diverse interests
together.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ka kb il kc b kd ke jm kf kg kh jp ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv ie gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ed93">The
people there are members of groups who arrived together and constitute a
pod of concert goers. Each of these pods can be thought of as a small
world with similar interests. Collectively, they make up the Universe.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ka kb il kc b kd ke jm kf kg kh jp ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv ie gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="fcfd">How
this all applied to Twitter and product marketing is this. If each pods
of attendees were the only ones to arrive, the concert would be a bust.
If they did not communicate one pod to others there would be far less
exposure to the venue. In the small world of NFT photographers and
artists, we each are all disconnected pods. What is needed is:
connection.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ka kb il kc b kd ke jm kf kg kh jp ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv ie gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3421">A
shill-account on Twitter can promise to Tweet a person’s content to
their randomly accumulated followers and the artist will make sales. The
question is just how many of those followers they claim to have are
really interested in what you as a photographer have to offer? Those
accounts specialize in accumulating followers to make themselves look
good and ostensibly effective. However, they don’t provide any
guarantees of outcome for their fees.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ka kb il kc b kd ke jm kf kg kh jp ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv ie gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b04d">Let’s
look at Twitter users who have several hundred followers. I’m going to
use the number 300 as an average. Because we all have been marketing
ourselves in the same space, a significant number of them will be
duplicated among the crowd. I will use a 50% unduplicated name
uniqueness factor. So on the average we all each have about 150 unique
followers. Now if a selection of 50 photographers agree to Retweet each
other’s content, those RTs could be reaching 7,500 followers. This
dynamic is powerful in reaching far beyond what any one account can do.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ka kb il kc b kd ke jm kf kg kh jp ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv ie gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="a2c4">It
is important to keep in mind that the marketing strategy is not to try
to sell to other photographers/artists. Peppered in each user’s follower
list is the few buyers and collectors who are the ultimate audience for
our marketing efforts. More importantly, those buyers/collectors are
highly qualified and have shown interest in buying for some of us. They
are not random Twitter handles in a farmed list. They are watching what
is presented. They are not asking for product to be shown to them like
the Hollywood “cattle call” which gets hundreds of wannabee actors and
actresses to show up.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ka kb il kc b kd ke jm kf kg kh jp ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv ie gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="cf67">My
actions are not to RT everything which crosses my feed but I do RT the
images which closely match my style and interests. If we all do the
same, our content will get highly qualified targeted exposure.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ka kb il kc b kd ke jm kf kg kh jp ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv ie gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2cb2">Unless
we do some activity like I described above we all remain isolated in
our own small bubble world where we can’t break out and others cannot
see in.</p><h2 class="acd ace il bo vb mp acf mq ms mt acg mu mw kj ach mx mz kn aci na nc kr acj nd nf ack gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e9e0">Post Script,<br />A small world encounter.</h2><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ka kb il kc b kd acl jm kf kg acm jp ki kj acn kl km kn aco kp kq kr acp kt ku kv ie gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="544f">I chose the Casablanca example above as a good example of how one experiences the small world. Well…</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ka kb il kc b kd ke jm kf kg kh jp ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv ie gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e134">I
took a break before publishing this article and put the DVD in the
player which arrive only today. It was the first disk of Season 2 of <em class="ss">The Orville</em>
by Seth MacFarlane and in the opening of the first episode they were
playing a vinyl recording of “As Time Goes By.” WHAT are the chances?
Two Casablanca reference within hours of each other.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ka kb il kc b kd ke jm kf kg kh jp ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv ie gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="42dc">So there you have it. We exist in tiny universes and must do our best to break out of them into the larger space.</p></div><div class="kw l"></div><div></div><div class="cf rp o dd ky kz"><div class="la df lb lc ld o ao c"><div class="o ao gl"></div></div></div><div class="lp lq lr l"></div><div><div aria-describedby="924" aria-hidden="false" aria-labelledby="924" class="cu" role="tooltip"></div></div><div class="lp sw lr l"></div><div><div aria-describedby="925" aria-hidden="false" aria-labelledby="925" class="cu" role="tooltip"><div aria-describedby="creatorActionOverflowMenu" aria-hidden="false" aria-labelledby="creatorActionOverflowMenu" class="cu"><div aria-describedby="collectionSubmissionPopover" aria-hidden="false" aria-labelledby="collectionSubmissionPopover" class="cu"><div class="sv l hl"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="l"></div><footer class="lu lv lw lx o ao ly cg c"><div class="l lz"><div class="o dd"><div class="ds ea fa fb fc fd fe ff fg fh fi"><div class="o u ma"><div class="o ao gl"><div class="mb l"><span class="l h g f me mf"><div class="o ao gl"></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></footer><div class="mg o"><div><div aria-describedby="928" aria-hidden="false" aria-labelledby="928" class="cu" role="tooltip"></div></div></div><div aria-describedby="postFooterSocialMenu" aria-hidden="false" aria-labelledby="postFooterSocialMenu" class="cu"><div><div aria-describedby="929" aria-hidden="false" aria-labelledby="929" class="cu" role="tooltip"><br /></div></div></div>Tuna Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454266137206818053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725138392665155107.post-56519359793485260922022-04-09T09:57:00.006-07:002022-04-09T09:57:49.420-07:00The Twitter-verse is a Small World<div class="ie if ig ih ii"><div class=""><h1 class="pw-post-title ij ik il bo im in io ip iq ir is it iu iv iw ix iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f557"><strong class="ba"></strong></h1></div><div class=""><h2 class="pw-subtitle-paragraph ji ik il bo b jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz br" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e54c">Shouting into the wind.</h2></div><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ka kb il kc b kd ke jm kf kg kh jp ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv ie gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="60c3">If
a Twitter account has a million or more followers it is probably
because its owner is some celebrity level persona who get followers
merely be existing.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ka kb il kc b kd ke jm kf kg kh jp ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv ie gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="10b2">These people started out well known and famous and the followers materialize as soon as the account went live.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ka kb il kc b kd ke jm kf kg kh jp ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv ie gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="254b">It
is important to understand that there is little similarity among the
demographic other than their propensity for following celebrity
accounts.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ka kb il kc b kd ke jm kf kg kh jp ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv ie gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="22b1">The
content of the tweets are basic and convey little more than a visual
sound bite like “today I sneezed” and 34,565 people will LIKE it, 4,764
people will RT it and 6,351 will comment on it. In part the allure is
being the first person in one’s small circle to be the one to mention
it.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ka kb il kc b kd ke jm kf kg kh jp ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv ie gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b51c">The
connectivity dynamics of Twitter is if I Like your tweet, I get your
attention. If you Like mine, you get my attention. Mostly it stops
there. If either of us comments on the others tweet, there is a limited
spread of our identities across the platform.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ka kb il kc b kd ke jm kf kg kh jp ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv ie gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="78c4"><strong class="kc im">The real influence is when a RT takes place.</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ka kb il kc b kd ke jm kf kg kh jp ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv ie gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="04a4">You
and I are operating in the same mini-twitterverse. Let’s say I have 193
followers and you have 53k. If you grew that following organically, as
opposed to buying 52k random handles, then there is a high probability
that your list contains most if not all of the ones in my following.
It’s just statistics. We have been marketing ourselves in the same
neighborhood. It is only natural there would be a significant overlap.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ka kb il kc b kd ke jm kf kg kh jp ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv ie gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="23e8">What
this means is my RT of your content generates negligible exposure for
you. On the other hand when you with 53k organic followers RT my
content, I can get a huge bump in my exposure. Unfortunately, if your
followers don’t re-engage with my content shown to them by your RT then I
get next to nothing. This is why purchased random accounts only make an
account “look good” but do not perform.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ka kb il kc b kd ke jm kf kg kh jp ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv ie gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="d7ee">When
looking at who one should follow and engage with it is important to
attempt to weed out the bots which respond to everything.</p><figure class="tj tk tl tm ga tn fo fp paragraph-image"><div class="to tp ct tq ea tr" role="button" tabindex="0"><div class="fo fp ti"><img alt="Tweet about tweet-bots" class="ea oc ts" height="432" src="https://miro.medium.com/max/875/1*Sh5RiLt7eZUzNjW3171fog.jpeg" width="700" /></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ka kb il kc b kd ke jm kf kg kh jp ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv ie gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f636">The
annoying bots can be in your face and obvious. This is one of the
“Lovely Content” bots that reply to every new post a person makes that
contains an image.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ka kb il kc b kd ke jm kf kg kh jp ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv ie gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="47b8">I
tested the nature of the silly bugger by posting an image complaining
about the bots. This bot auto replied with a “Lovely Content” message.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ka kb il kc b kd ke jm kf kg kh jp ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv ie gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="0c38">These
accounts proliferate by the hundreds, if not thousands, and are
impossible to avoid. They can be identifies by their Zero to maybe 20
followers rating. Yes a new and earnest account would start out that
way, but bot s have bot-behaviors. For a while I was blocking the Lovely
Content bots but that became a wasted effort. New one popped up as fast
as I would block them. Now I just ignore them.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ka kb il kc b kd ke jm kf kg kh jp ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv ie gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="8449">Other
bot-like accounts post messages they are buying NFT today and you
should shill your items and they will buy a few from their Followers or
will RT them if you RT the offer. No self-respecting shill-bot would
have any number fewer than a 5-figure Follower count. Typically they
have 30k to 50k or more Followers. Their bio usually touts their
expertise at promoting your material. Have you ever seen one of these
accounts follow up with what they purchased? I didn’t think so. If you
did, I’d like to see the tweet they posted that you saw.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ka kb il kc b kd ke jm kf kg kh jp ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv ie gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="d793">The
Bots are a waste of time. I shilled some of my NFT long enough to be
experienced enough with them to write about them. The best action is to
interact with other photographers in your Followers bracket (100 to
2–3K). Comment, share, follow and RT among ourselves. If the “big guys”
with 102.5K followers really wants to see our NFT and buy them, they
will peruse the field and make offers.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ka kb il kc b kd ke jm kf kg kh jp ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv ie gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1f75">My
experience with Opensea.io is that if I mint new items in the evening
(8–9 EDT) I will get 1 to 3 Favors on some items even as I am completing
the next one. I usually do 3 0r 4 at a time. This means there are
people watching a “live feed” of new content being created. One night I
minted 5 images and got 4,3,3,1 and 0 Favorites on them. While the
people representing the 3s could all be the same three people and be
included in the 4, there were at least 4 people watching and possibly as
many as 11. Probable more like the 4 count.</p><figure class="tj tk tl tm ga tn fo fp paragraph-image"><div class="to tp ct tq ea tr" role="button" tabindex="0"><div class="fo fp tt"><img alt="Littlerock, AR Manhole cover, i.e. a Street Coin" class="ea oc ts" height="467" src="https://miro.medium.com/max/875/1*xN2RdQVPbk7YPCxodJwdPQ.jpeg" width="700" /></div></div><figcaption class="tu ec fq fo fp tv tw bo b bp bq br" data-selectable-paragraph=""><a class="au tx" href="https://opensea.io/assets/matic/0x2953399124f0cbb46d2cbacd8a89cf0599974963/91931664106156571735263247446027128189393314859416519894388302201473971781633/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">a Street Coin from my listings.</a></figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ka kb il kc b kd ke jm kf kg kh jp ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr ks kt ku kv ie gj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="bb71">OpenSea.io
has what is called the API which allows app developers to access the
databases and pull such data. This is good. What it also means is the
serious collectors are invisible and not out asking hopeful artists such
as us to hand them the picture. Besides, then one of these shill-bots
gets 1,000 or more replies, no one ever sees most of them. Just use your
own scroll-down experiences to see how quickly you stop looking.</p></div><div class="kw l"></div><div></div><div class="o ao gl"><br /></div><p> </p>Tuna Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454266137206818053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725138392665155107.post-73181210001285080622022-03-23T10:17:00.001-07:002022-03-23T10:17:21.731-07:00Pictorial History Frame by Frame<p></p>I started my photographic journey in the early 1970s. My camera was a Minolta SLR with no electronics other than the flash meter. Focusing was accomplished via the split mirror circle at the center of the viewfinder. One had to know the facts of optics in order to get the right results. There was a lot of playing around with the f/stop, focus, ISO films, etc. Most of the photos were shot on Panchromatic B&W negatives. As a young man my budget was quite limited and the cost of travel dominated the day.<p></p><p>Film processing and photo-finishing was expensive for the person I was in those days. Generally, I shot the frames and sent the film off to be developed without being printed. Later I had a wage paying job and while still living with my father put together a darkroom in a closet. I invested in an enlarger and a print dryer. More than once I needed to escape the fumes of that small enclosed space.</p><p>I wanted to do color photography too but it was out of my budget range. That is when I began the Kodachrome transparency phase. Slides were convenient and eminently portable. Ciba-Geigy marketed a unique kit for printing the color positives to color paper. Then I could shoot a roll of slides and print the few which were worthy of the cost of printing.</p><p>Back when digital cameras first appeared, I swore I would never "go digital". That was when the sensor would shoot only a 1 megapixel frame. Soon the resolution of the electronics increased until it rivaled film negatives.</p><p>I say all the foregoing as prologue to the idea which occurred to me all those years ago. There were places I would go or pass by at irregular but repeated intervals. These locations became the subject of my multi-decade studies of the aging of the subjects. Some of my examples are only a then and now comparison bracketed by 1975 and 2020, or similar intervals. Other examples are: then, later on, later on more, later on again, later still and now. These series are a bittersweet look at places and times which are now gone or nearly gone.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://opensea.io/assets/matic/0x2953399124f0cbb46d2cbacd8a89cf0599974963/91931664106156571735263247446027128189393314859416519894388302441167506636801/" imageanchor="1" rel="nofollow" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Dilapidated Water Street Inn" border="0" data-original-height="409" data-original-width="584" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinafUDH23_HkkA4bXG4XCyb0WSxMuLuEUCOew2MLEBnpvoA6o_Ui0e5WC_Mwnq8aLYxpAWeercmvcOzP74UynVVo68adpx8Z62zLZrk8dv0JWxjsymYZJ1dsXWT2vyxPQT4_a37HgRVIippZ9JETgLW5TtKN7XFFIQEScHVB5CzGKfU5seSYiHCjio/w320-h224/water%20street%20inn.JPG" title="Water Street Inn" width="320" /></a></div>I used to pass the Water Street Inn on my way to State College, PA where I studied Hydrology. I love the sight of running water. The Inn was already in a state of decay and collapse when I first encountered her. But then my camera captured the nuances of the demise, attempted resurrection and ultimate destruction of that once bustling establishment.<p></p><p>Another place located along US 40 west of Frostburg, Maryland "collapsed in slow motion" in front of my camera over a 30-year interval until its final day and the debris was hauled away. I am saddened both by the ultimate and fully expected collapse and that there is little reason to stop on my journeys to get the next frame. Although unlikely, a new subject may one day spring up on that land and I hope to be alive to photograph it.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e/91931664106156571735263247446027128189393314859416519894388302292733436887041/" imageanchor="1" rel="nofollow" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Frostburg building falling down" border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjER31o_SuU38zasnHdnvB1hwpfZ2Wxy24ADytA9qWdm2yjhia3jbL2WMcAaSAHILdzYbSw38cLUYbBE3YNKld9gbJfVznsBkB5NK1VSQw2L1OZbYkPaH3TBQi_a1iZ33nebLOyjpLjgeMVTp10qwn_O8RqvjT0ayk1uJ35s1Od542zOGPqERcXfsoO/w320-h240/IMG_1983.JPG" title="Frostburg" width="320" /></a></div>My most widely varied study is of the Borough of Braddock, Pennsylvania. Braddock is the location of the Edgar Thompson Steelworks, the site of a bloody strike-riot put down by Pinkerton Agent. The plane and town remain only as a remnant of their former glory. My earliest photographs date from circa 1975 and continue through the present. <p></p><p>The early photo set were shot from one of the high floors of the now gone Braddock Hospital. The later pictures depict the continual and intermittent loss of one building after another as the town is being allowed to die. Each year I return to see the changes i fins more grassy lots where buildings used to be. Once on a July 4th, I shot a building constructed in 1909, next I have a photo of a bulldozed pushing bricks and broken timbers. Lastly the location is a grassy rectangle waiting for its next life. <br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK23g5__snHuOXY_JjWOg8CU1QGeqksXAF9KgNyr-EjMzQHgr27RolQn3SwibSD5FdIBzASBnVA4L7kVaVniGOQ06RwKMMjRAlo8qZTHxXUiT8J4gwRXrx9749-h5UmRaHG6IkCthgDOe1_dUso9mmwjIYROEb3pwC8YkJFL0BV1Z22TrV-SMPDU2x/s641/bradd%202005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="641" height="129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK23g5__snHuOXY_JjWOg8CU1QGeqksXAF9KgNyr-EjMzQHgr27RolQn3SwibSD5FdIBzASBnVA4L7kVaVniGOQ06RwKMMjRAlo8qZTHxXUiT8J4gwRXrx9749-h5UmRaHG6IkCthgDOe1_dUso9mmwjIYROEb3pwC8YkJFL0BV1Z22TrV-SMPDU2x/w200-h129/bradd%202005.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-WOcUNzWH3-Uuqt6cT6KsumD4kdlYrOaDUSMvNqvF-2jEeS1DpCmsCtoIKkLdRuuSCkqDDSWV5BJxeTlluQVb7M4ik3JzcdeRH7esNFrq8xdo2j7O15AsbOee-VCXUnea1dcnVOn7dsbBircnDiM5BU4S-6Y-9NvpsUE4YVUAX1G3eRuHUOwx8rPt/s636/bradd%202006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="636" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-WOcUNzWH3-Uuqt6cT6KsumD4kdlYrOaDUSMvNqvF-2jEeS1DpCmsCtoIKkLdRuuSCkqDDSWV5BJxeTlluQVb7M4ik3JzcdeRH7esNFrq8xdo2j7O15AsbOee-VCXUnea1dcnVOn7dsbBircnDiM5BU4S-6Y-9NvpsUE4YVUAX1G3eRuHUOwx8rPt/w200-h144/bradd%202006.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH3SCxBtisAiiJo3r-ZJA3ip50XlByRsu_5sYNknNdgg__TTdEQr12wUpZt7c7oTMYxeoEZJwaVTLrNolQiQqUez_Fy_WaB6XfwDXCvK2iv8rqspcpNbtBZbPY4_tZYy7aQogSZjJJv_JI1GDMt-qKenVykUcLgoNd8Z7VFUWCO3AByXHTQrRGRoSF/s634/braddc2010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="464" data-original-width="634" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH3SCxBtisAiiJo3r-ZJA3ip50XlByRsu_5sYNknNdgg__TTdEQr12wUpZt7c7oTMYxeoEZJwaVTLrNolQiQqUez_Fy_WaB6XfwDXCvK2iv8rqspcpNbtBZbPY4_tZYy7aQogSZjJJv_JI1GDMt-qKenVykUcLgoNd8Z7VFUWCO3AByXHTQrRGRoSF/w200-h146/braddc2010.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These three photos are from my OpenSea.io collection titled simply <a href="https://opensea.io/collection/braddock" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Braddock"</a> . They are Non-Fungible Token images available for purchase along with the other 40 images in the collection.</p><p>My travels have taken me around the 48 lower states and for visits to some of the same cities and regions multiple times. The collection I have posted at OpenSea is my way of sharing that experience with everyone who will follow along in my travels.<br /></p>Tuna Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454266137206818053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725138392665155107.post-60879581833577111322022-02-17T11:47:00.018-08:002023-06-23T16:29:05.509-07:00Robert Carlson's OpenSea NFT Collections<html>
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<h2>Opensea NFT Collections by Robert Carlson</h2>
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<p>These OpenSea collections are the result of my 50 years of travels with my camera. mostly the travel has
been in the ower 48 states, but I did travel internationally a few times and got some really good local
photos in those destinations.</p>
<p>During my travels I have hit all 48 of the lower 48 states and still have the pictures I took at those
times. Due to an unfortunate mishap, my earliest negatives were lost. From that period of time I have only
prints and a few Kodachrome slides. Since one of my passions is the time lapse of sequential visits to the
same subject, there are surviving images of various places.</p>
<p>Gathered here are the selected few of the photos I think you will enjoy seeing. Click on the image to
see details of that picture. Click on the icon at the top right of the image to visit the OpenSea
collection. If you have a compatible crypto wallet you can show me you like the item.</p></div>
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<div class="description">Across the nation there are millions of homes of all descriptions. The front of those dwellings may be plain, contain a stoop by the door, have a covered or uncovered porch or in days mostly gone by, a veranda wrapping around 2 or 3 sides of the house. Some Front Porches are well maintained and decorative while others are places where junk accumulates. This project collects the many instances of front porches and the numerous uses.</div>
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<div class="description"><i>Braddock, PA, USA is "The Town That is Being Allowed to Die". Building disappear on a continuing basis as the population declines and everything ages. Attempt to revive and save the Borough have been valiantly fought but time is not on their side.</i></div>
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<div class="description"><i>I traveled a lot during my salary days and always had my camera and logbook packed. The camera captured the images and the logbook retained the Latitude and Longitude so I could recall precisely where the picture was taken. Now today the camera can geocode the digital images automatically. These photographs represent a life of travel.</i></div>
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<div class="description"><b>Disappearing Railroad Blues. Freight lines still crisscross the nation, but passenger service is but a faint memory of what once was THE way to travel in America. Many of these images evoke the memories of those days.</b></div>
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<div class="description"><i>B&W is one way to look at the world. Sepia is another way entirely. The tone
is not merely a "color" it is an emotion itself.</i></div>
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<div class="description"><i>Braddock, PA, USA is "The Town That is Being Allowed to Die". Buildings
disappear on a continuing basis as the population declines and everything ages. Attempt to revive and save
the Borough have been valiantly fought but time is not on their side.</i></div>
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<div class="description"><i>Impressive architecture of the Museum on the Mall in Washington, DC. 1/1
photos. Photos by Robert Carlson</i></div>
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<div class="description"><i>This series of photos follows the slow motion collapse of one building over a
period of more than 30 years. The building was on US 40 in Frostburg, MD, USA. 1/1. All photos by Robert
Carlson.</i></div>
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<div class="description"><i>Images by Robert Carlson of Reykjavik, Keflavik and surrounding regions of the
island. All images 1/1</i></div>
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<div class="description"><i>Utility covers, usually round, are strewn around the urban streetscape. They
can be decorative or plain. They can highly worn from foot and vehicle traffic. Most are self-identifies
as to purpose but some house a mystery.</i></div>
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<div class="description"><i>Street Coins, those ubiquitous metal disks on the ground in every city of the
world. Photos by Robert Carlson </i></div>
</body></html>Tuna Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454266137206818053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725138392665155107.post-68337654480984669402022-01-22T10:24:00.006-08:002023-06-23T16:29:17.776-07:00Are Non-Fungible Tokens Really Real<p><span style="font-size: large;">Are Non-Fungible Tokens Really Real?</span></p><p>That is the big question being asked by a lot of people who are interested in what they are, how they possess value, and why someone would buy them. The other version of the inquiry is: They are nothing, are worthless and stupid.</p><p>The truth lies somewhere in between <b>worth a great amount</b> and <b>worthless</b>. One must first define the parameters of worth. There is financial worth, personal worth, potential worth, and intrinsic worth. Worth in the personal aspect relates to such things as do I like what is being offered and what would I do to possess it?</p><p>One acquires a thing on the basis of the emotional benefits of having it. Take a painting by a starving artist for example. I give the artist a few dollars for something he/she might have dedicated a couple of hours to create. I buy it because i like it and want to display in in my home. It will never be more valuable than what I paid for it. In the long-run it may end up in my basement or attic or out for sale at the neighborhood yard sale. In the end, my family may put in in the trash when cleaning out my house when I die.</p><p>Potential worth can only be measured in retrospect. Great works of art by famous painters have been found at flea markets, in basements, attics and barns. Suddenly, the finder is wealthy beyond any imagination. Van Gogh traded some of his paintings for breakfast at the local pub or cafe when he was unknown. Later on someone with money decided the work was great and collectors would want to possess it. Only because it was a Van Gogh did it have value. The painting <i>in and of itself </i>was merely canvas and paint. Only because someone else with more money wanted it was its worth increased.</p><p>The concept of intrinsic worth is a difficult one to master. If you cannot eat it or "sleep with it" or heal yourself with it, there is little in the way of intrinsic value in the thing. One might say that gold has intrinsic value whereas a paper dollar does not. But there are societies which assign no value to any such pretty metal, mineral or crystal. What does have value is what you can do with the item. </p><p>As a log time photographer I began my time shooting Panchromatic B&W film with a 35mm SLR camera. Most of my early images were of the B&W variety. Then I became a bit more wealthy and could pay to develop and print color film and paper. Once the pixel density of digital cameras exceeded 1 megapixel, I embraced the digital revolution. I could shoot hundreds of frames at nearly no cost and hold them indefinitely. With a large format color printer I could produce big colorful prints for a dollar or two. Interestingly enough, my B&W versions of digital images and some of my older prints from B&W negatives generated greater interest.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYcdCDRqy7zEsv7rvBDOoJhHbXBwDhsx4DhcnpSHXjbzXLeKm7v-pGyd6id74LjCnDkHnzHx7xoFLvy8I8W42y0H05ANq-lboP75Hp5Kst97kNHR2kO8hpUZ0lVAbOj_c-1oCLPnhzdGEpi48Az1Dy2GhERITFWrtlJoD8PQY1PmL2w0uCN3QdIX7R=s960" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="654" data-original-width="960" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYcdCDRqy7zEsv7rvBDOoJhHbXBwDhsx4DhcnpSHXjbzXLeKm7v-pGyd6id74LjCnDkHnzHx7xoFLvy8I8W42y0H05ANq-lboP75Hp5Kst97kNHR2kO8hpUZ0lVAbOj_c-1oCLPnhzdGEpi48Az1Dy2GhERITFWrtlJoD8PQY1PmL2w0uCN3QdIX7R=w256-h175" width="256" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqfziS7olNepo1irt_9qJE8yuE8-JjVo7NaoRlxdmiSJ5BSKx9K8oOPIYIpuhf3VxikUwC470yDEiuADmv0bb04kevyvKLJLZ5j-2OzNxluIHweFkFIhjDTULLpsSeiGWYMqZZsqjrRjNp6iJaj9Cb57meYt8lkT7mf7J-FZcRgyE6A6rKt8kOqspJ=s960" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="758" data-original-width="960" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqfziS7olNepo1irt_9qJE8yuE8-JjVo7NaoRlxdmiSJ5BSKx9K8oOPIYIpuhf3VxikUwC470yDEiuADmv0bb04kevyvKLJLZ5j-2OzNxluIHweFkFIhjDTULLpsSeiGWYMqZZsqjrRjNp6iJaj9Cb57meYt8lkT7mf7J-FZcRgyE6A6rKt8kOqspJ=w223-h176" width="223" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1k135s1l1fQF6MxoK4k-mgGPzsjGTMzLmqhjGLbSFhDgT8vz5zoG7DyUGzWUyw_kiaYYfhCRUkq3hwv9aeRsXUnqiQSLTOOd4IUy9CaAD0NfYRQakc5BQ7OS0cYd4QC5GNQMwog2Er0SmQ-W8lspsytxs_HjbGKbNsyK_tB5YO_3rPgYAATmoUS6W=s960" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="766" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1k135s1l1fQF6MxoK4k-mgGPzsjGTMzLmqhjGLbSFhDgT8vz5zoG7DyUGzWUyw_kiaYYfhCRUkq3hwv9aeRsXUnqiQSLTOOd4IUy9CaAD0NfYRQakc5BQ7OS0cYd4QC5GNQMwog2Er0SmQ-W8lspsytxs_HjbGKbNsyK_tB5YO_3rPgYAATmoUS6W=s320" width="255" /></a></div><p><br />When a person chooses to collect a picture, the collector must decide whether the purchase is for financial gain, personal enjoyment or both. Possessing art is a double edged sword. You might own a piece of great cost but the possess it one must have it crated, transported by secure vehicles and delivered to your home (or designated location) which then must be made ultra secure, insured and guarded. No matter who owns the Mona Lisa it will continue to hang in the museum for the public to gaze upon. That owner can sell it or use it as collateral for other transactions.</p><p>A person buying a house really only owns the Title to the house since except in a few circumstances the buyer cannot move it. He can enjoy it or merely hold the Title until someone offer an acceptable price.</p><p>Here is where the concept of #NFT comes into play. I have a photograph I took and is not capable of being taken again. The subject is gone. You can buy the "title" to my picture and maybe someday can sell it for a profit. Meanwhile you can bask in the warmth of ownership and have bragging rights to being the owner of an original "Robert Carlson Photography" <i>before he became famous</i>. (You can do that be visiting my <a href="https://opensea.io/itsalltuna" target="_blank">OpenSea #NFT collection </a>and putting al offer on some of my photos.)</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjFbbuuKK3rQlJJU6vWFGxsLt_md5lQP3B-o-bhd6CAQyiooVupUuT-tsyJmo5ce62XQWXDKZZ2rRxJubSkByBk8nCVW_-kvCRQ16oQAWTgDOtQgSB3IDlwLJDDW7T7CINFKZDJESmiMUJyobtOIlVDa3875uNSETei4ELCQVk8-TEOCz4mM8cLSvVO=s2124" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjFbbuuKK3rQlJJU6vWFGxsLt_md5lQP3B-o-bhd6CAQyiooVupUuT-tsyJmo5ce62XQWXDKZZ2rRxJubSkByBk8nCVW_-kvCRQ16oQAWTgDOtQgSB3IDlwLJDDW7T7CINFKZDJESmiMUJyobtOIlVDa3875uNSETei4ELCQVk8-TEOCz4mM8cLSvVO=s2124" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3rTGhFd0ft_Wvqsg_8I-n14CDwxAp1weywR8DugyJUgDN208yDKZB6mPv6_6mZybcVtQD0x5h8X2czhLdz8LkRh_Pkh53EYV-Hd1lyg_1j1JYvfCIjlwRQKRDDgRbCjzo8PYC7-3g570/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2124" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3rTGhFd0ft_Wvqsg_8I-n14CDwxAp1weywR8DugyJUgDN208yDKZB6mPv6_6mZybcVtQD0x5h8X2czhLdz8LkRh_Pkh53EYV-Hd1lyg_1j1JYvfCIjlwRQKRDDgRbCjzo8PYC7-3g570/" width="283" /></a></div><br /> Street Coin<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The concept of #NFTs is new enough that most people do not fully understand or appreciate it. Just like anything which can be bought and sold, these items are no different. They have an initial offering price. They can be sold for more or less than the purchase. Here is the wonderful part of the equation.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If in 2008 I offered you two dollars in cold hard cash (8 quarters for example) or One Bitcoin, which would you have taken? I'll bet you would have taken the 8 Quarters. Today those 8 coins would be worth leas than $1.80. If you had kept the Bitcoin you'd have $34,614.10 (at 1:00 pm January 22, 2022) and at one time would have been over $68,000 (Nov 10, 2021).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Your dollar currency will only lose value due to inflation whereas the Cryptocurrency versions of money can lose or gain value. The same conditions apply to art and more specifically #NFT versions. To sell a physical piece of art you need to present it to the buyer either directly or through a broker or auction house. They will take a percentage of the sale price. Ultimately, that piece will need to be delivered to the buyer. The digital version can be passed by a few instructions on a computer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At the bottom of the ledger, worth and value are in the eye of the beholder and his willingness to trade what he has for what you have to offer.<br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Tuna Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454266137206818053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725138392665155107.post-88283348101606928382021-11-13T16:32:00.000-08:002023-06-23T16:30:27.188-07:00Internal Crossing<p>Internal Crossing is a book like no other. It is a Science Fiction tale which
keeps changing. We all learn that the Future is an unknown and the Past is
immutable. But this story proposes that the Past is indeed changing "all the
time" but most of us have no realization of it. What could accomplish such a
task? No spoilers here. The protagonist, Robert3 Corbin realizes he is not
singular in this reality and that many versions of himself are out there "coming and going" with the changing past. </p><p>The term Internal Crossing is also stock market jargon. This is not that. At least not the same the last time I looked. </p><p>The characters in this book are multidimensional and as real as they can be.
Their actions shape whether the changing past is a good thing or bad. It's time
to order the eBook and find out what is happening.
</p>Tuna Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454266137206818053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725138392665155107.post-29988383227458916592019-09-28T11:57:00.001-07:002019-09-28T11:57:16.625-07:00POTUS Job DescriptionThe position of president of the United States has a job description the includes the following:<br />
Be the representative of the American people on the world stage.<br />
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Sign official documents presented to him by Congress.</li>
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Obtain a vision for the future of the country and work to implement that vision by gaining consensus.<br /> </li>
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Stand as the Commander in Chief of the armed forces in times of war.</li>
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Report on the state of the union to inform the people what is happening.</li>
</ul>
President Donald Trump, you Sir, are failing on all fronts.<br />
<br />
As the designated representative of America to the world the office of
President is a glorified spokesmodel, one who looks good, dresses well,
is well spoken, likable, educated, and able to enlist support from
allies. Wealth and pomposity are not required attributed for the job.
You have none of those attributes to enhance the office.<br />
<br />
The job of signing documents is one of reaction to what is presented,
not one of creating the documents and staging pompous signing ceremonies
where you hold up the folder and display your Sharpie-signature like a
child seeking maternal approval.<br />
<br />
Your predecessors made ceremony of signing significant bills into law
where many pens were used so as to distribute such historical artifacts
to people who were instrumental in bringing the legislation to fruition.<br />
<br />
Your signing ceremonies have been for Executive Orders which you have
promulgated from your personal agenda and circle of Wrecking Crew
members. Most of your Directives have been to vacate previous gains by
your predecessor and to bypass Congress and it’s authority to make laws.
On this job element you fail.<br />
<br />
America has a history of trying to improve itself with Wisdom gained
after years if not decades of injustice to many people who are equally
American and who brave great perils to get to our shores seeking safe
harbor. We have worked tirelessly to make life on this land better even
if we had persecuted the indigenous peoples. Our goals were to improve
life for everyone even though not all factions agreed with the agenda or
results.<br />
<br />
You, Sir, have acted firmly in opposition of all America has stood for.
Instead of rebuking fringe movements of Nationalism, supremacy and
discrimination you have unleashed those dark tides and hold them up as
virtuous to you vision of America. <br />
<br />
You embarrass America on the global stage with you pushy ness, self-
absorbed behaviors, your cow-towing to major dictators, showing favor
and bestowing benefits to those who stroke your ego and visibly showing disdain for those who don’t. This is a major flaw in your job
performance.<br />
<br />
Every Commander in Chief has the duty to avoid the deployment of military might. Surrounding yourself with war hawks and defense
contractors who are eager to drop ordnance on your enemies is a gross
betrayal of America as a peace-loving nation. While her people maybe,
you are not. Your cutting of diplomatic dialog and treaty only stokes
the dies and beats the war drum. The people of America will benefit
nothing from a war even as you and you corporate ilk will. Failing
grades on this one too. <br />
<br />
Your copious misrepresentation of facts, aka lying and confabulation
about nearly everything make everything you say or have parroted for you
suspect. At this point in time you could say it is raining outside and
most people would need to go look for themselves. You could say the sun
will rise in the east today and we’d have to fact check your claim. <br />
<br />
All of these failures of your abilities as president are why you are
under consideration for impeachment. Our Constitutional government
demands the highest level of care and process to remove a President. It
is not undertaken lightly. Calls to the supposition it is a partisan
vendetta or sour grapes for losing the 2016 election belittles you and
every thing you are proud of doing no matter how heinous it is.
Dictators are proud of their despotic actions and seek to own them. The
present impeachment action pending against you is testament to your
style of despotic governance.<br />
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My observation that Trump is well into a major cognitive
decline is not pejorative. Whether or not I like him is immaterial. My claim of
his infirmity does not make it so in the same was as your denial of it doesn't,
makes it non-existent. We can dispute each other's assertions; however, time
will settle the debate one way or the other.</div>
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I do not like his personality, his politics, his behavior,
his lack of veracity, his decisions, his representation of me and this country
around the world because they are completely opposite of my ethic. For many
other Americans, they love him not in spite of those attributes but because
they are so closely aligned with their own.</div>
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Many people more learned than I have observed the same or
similar indications of cognitive dysfunction in the President. While he has
traits to admire and approve, there comes a time in everyone's life when
concerned family and friends need to take away the car keys and hide the
matches lest he precipitates a major tragedy. A person may love the father or
mother who is declining with Alzheimer's or other variation of dementia, but
that doesn’t mean they must allow the parent to go about in public
unsupervised.</div>
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Similarly, whether the affected person was a good person or
bad ceases to be relevant once the dementia is fully manifest. There is little
purpose of prosecuting or persecuting the impaired individual who fails to
understand the gravity of their crimes and misdemeanors. The only valid purpose
that remains is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to contain the damage
already done. Once the compromised parent has crashed into the pedestrians the
only thing left to do is make sure he cannot do it again. Senator Lindsey
Graham spoke eloquently back during the Bill Clinton impeachment proceedings
when he asserted that impeachment is not punishment for crimes committed but a necessary
step in preserving and restoring the dignity and respect of the Office the
public official has tainted with his actions.</div>
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Here is where we arc back to the President. Yes, people love
him. Yes, people would and will vote for him again given the chance. Yes, there
will be ancillary improvements in the economy. Yes, there will be a price to
pay for all the negative aspects of what he says and does. Yes, there will be a
period of "reconstruction" necessary after his Administration is over
just as though there had been a shooting war. Yes, there is a lot of pain
coming down the pike.</div>
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For every apparent positive gain attributed to this
President, there are one or more negative aspects. Mineral extraction commerce
comes at the permanent destruction of the environment. Removal of safety
regulations on businesses may raise their bottom line but at the cost of clean
water and air. Tax rate cuts are really only Revenue Reduction Acts that will
make it impossible to fund the society we hold dear. Cutting social programs
can only further impoverish people who are already poor without providing and remedies.
At the current revenue rates and budget levels, military spending alone is not
supported by the remaining tax rates.</div>
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His claim of "uniting the country" is a bit delusional.
While he has formed a loyal base in the same way as Coke and Pepsi has, the
vast number of people drink neither. And many don't drink the other lesser
brands of sweet fizzy-water either. The brand-loyal people who favor one
product over the other typically cannot describe accurately why it is they do
so. All of the choices are sweet, have some level of caramel colorant and most
of all fizz when opened. This President claims massive support while only
generating rally turnouts totaling less than 0.15% of the eligible voters,
which is 0.075% of the US Population. He believes the spot turnouts demonstrate
love for himself and his job performance.</div>
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His 46 million Twitter "followers" are a combinations
of People who support him, people who just want to read what he says without commitment
of any type of support, Retweet Bots and outright fictitious handles. The
number looks good to anyone who needs his ego stroked. "My numbers are
greater than Barack Obama's." In the election which placed him in the White
House, he received about 25% of the eligible voter's votes. Those numbers
represent slightly less than half the actual votes and about 2.8 million less
than his Democrat opponent. But the Electoral College system prevails. With
these facts being self-evident, he continues to cry "Fake News" at
everything he cannot accept.</div>
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He has been on the defensive for his entire Administration
trying to convince people he is victimized by Everyone else around him. The
Media can't be trusted, his own Intelligence Agencies can't be trusted, the FBI
is against him. His mistrust is so great that he prefers the advice and solace
of foreign dictators with whom he identifies and envies.</div>
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It is widely spoken that his favorable treatment of
President Putin against all reason is evidence of his subservient position
relative to the man. Although he can't see it through his cognitive fog, his
body language and smiling countenance in the presence of powerful men who
stroke his ego to get what they want, the thousands of hours of video easily
demonstrates the essential nature of his condition.</div>
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Every move this President makes, every policy statement and
directive he promulgates with a claim that it is good for the Economy has with
it a greater benefit to Russia and the oligarchs who stand to reap billons from
the void America creates by being lead by the current President. </div>
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Whether a person loves him, hates him or merely doesn't like
what he has done to this country, that attitude informs whether they believe he
bold lies, merely misrepresents facts, speaks the absolute truth or
confabulates a narrative to make sense in his own mind of the gaps of memory
and understanding which are part of his reality. The person experiencing
dementia rarely realized it. The person who has memory gaps confabulates plugs
to fill the holes. His struggle to pronounce words is not specifically a speech
impediment as would be with stuttering and stammering. They are more closely associated
with cognitive lapses that come and go on an irregular interval.</div>
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His speech is peppered with filler words, phrases and
repetitions that attempt to keep the monologue going in the absence of knowing
what to say. It amounts to bad ad libbing. Larry David comedy is rife with long
stretches of ad lib as are many scenes of the serial Soap Operas. When done
well, ad libbing can be creative, but the longer it is employed the worse the
dialog becomes. "Plot holes" and inconsistencies arise which intent
listeners pick up on very quickly. In a Presidential speech it is a sure fire
indicator the speaker is ill prepared to handle the topic or the venue itself.</div>
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Someone with lifelong undiagnosed impairments or at least a
collection of personal flaws should not be able to become elected and remain in
office when those attributes negatively impacts job performance and the lives
of millions if not billions of people. Applying a functional test of
suitability, it doesn't matter whether the deficiencies are nature or nurture.
It is the results that are looked at and matter.</div>
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When a person speaks statement which are incorrect, whether
his is intentionally lying or is merely majorly uniformed, it is the lack of
correction which matters. Whether the person is eccentric in his personal
presentation or mad as a hatter, matters little when that person has control of
so many people's lives.</div>
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Here we presently have to perform the evaluation and decide
whether the man should be allowed to continue on his trajectory or be
stopped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This must not be a political
decision nor one made from love or fear. Today the whole world is watching and
what we do now will have generational reverberations. Choose wisely.</div>
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Tuna Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454266137206818053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725138392665155107.post-32299089386213893092019-09-25T14:49:00.002-07:002019-09-25T14:49:19.830-07:00The Trump Impeachment BeginsThe only reason the Trump Impeachment is a partisan effort is because
the GOP refused to look at the extent of his un-American,
unPresidential, treasonous and criminal acts and behaviors. If it were
one or two instances of merely questionable or unpopular nature the
House would not be considering this ultimate action against the Chief
Executive. They waited. They debated. They tried to not go down this
path even though from day-one they had justification.<br />
<br />
The activities whic<span class="text_exposed_show">h
follow the Sept 24th announcement will have far reaching impact on the
American social and political scene. It will not be pretty. It will be
necessary. And the residuals will be endured for many years. </span><br />
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<br />
Extreme corrupt behavior must necessarily be countered with extreme
remedies. While the claim by Trump supporters is that he WAS elected and
should be allowed to do that job, only the first half of that claim is
valid. He was elected but he is not doing the job he was elected to.
Neither is he doing so in a lawful manner. <br />
<br />
Partisan or not, it
is the job of Congress to hold the President to the laws of the land and
to stop perpetrators from running amok. It is their job to challenge
his actions when he is wrong. <br />
When the proceeding reach the
Senate we shall probably see the GOP Senators mount a partisan defense
of Trump’s actions. It will be a trial with Senators as jury. The jury
is supposed to weight the evidence and render an impartial verdict based
in law and not on personal feelings <br />
<br />
I suspect that if the
impeachment trial were an ordinary criminal proceeding most if not all
Senators would not get past the voir dire to be accepted as a qualified
juror. <br />
<br />
The next few months will be very contentious. But since
Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, holds every House Bill in
stasis anyway, there will be ample time to proceed with impeaching the
President without foregoing other business of the Republic. <br />
<br />
It
remains to be seen whether any GOP Senators will break with their party
bloc and vote to remove Trump for his many High Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Their integrity is at stake.</div>
Tuna Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454266137206818053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725138392665155107.post-65499973750107174702019-07-19T11:19:00.001-07:002019-07-19T11:35:53.796-07:00The Fascist President<br />
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All fascist
governments act the same. They do whatever they want to do
irrespective of laws. Rights or Constitutional authorities. They
operate on the principle that it is far easier to “not seek
forgiveness than it is to get permission.” The leaders who direct
such enterprises never are sorry or apologetic for anything they do.
All rhetoric and action is fully justified I their own minds. There
is nothing that is off-limits to such people.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whereas the
constitutional concept of “innocent until proven guilty” was
supposed to protect prisoners and the accused from punishment without
due process, that concept has been perverted by the present
Administration to dodge the consequences of their highly questionable
acts and policies. In the same way the Tobacco Industry claimed that
tobacco usage did not cause cancers, lung and heart disease, this
Administration claims it is not affiliated with obvious foreign
influences. Not being tried in court for crimes and official
irregularities is not the same as not having committed the crimes.
Opposite the Tobacco Industry claim that correlation doesn’t prove
causation, this Administration colors the nature of immigrants and
asylum seekers in the hues of criminality. The Administration
purposefully declines to differentiate among the types of people who
arrive at our doorstep seeking entrance.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There are those who
arrive at a port of entry seeking a visa to stay. They cite economic
and persecution reasons for their long arduous journey, typically on
foot with children in tow, hoping for the ability to stay and build a
better life. They are summarily turned away by border control agents
at the behest of a President who doesn’t like their language,
national heritage and customs. Such people are profiled by their skin
color and physical stature.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There are those
people who made the same onerous trek of 1,000 mile or more and
crossed the US/MEX border and sat down to wait for border agents to
pick them up and take them to a place where they may apply for
permission to stay based on political asylum. They too are held
indefinitely while “their case is pending” maybe for years as
though they were criminals. The Administration labels them as
criminals and undesirable without evidence or proof of either claim.
There is no due process. There is no right to reasonable bail being
honored. No writs of Habeas Corpus are being filed seeking the
whereabouts of misplaced children or adults in detention. All of
these Constitutional Rights are being summarily denied by the
authoritarian Administration on the principle of “we will do what
we want until a court orders otherwise, then we will challenge the
court decisions.”</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There is no end to
the atrocities a rogue government will commit when the President
orders it and the Legislature is cowed into silence and inaction.
Half of the deafening silence is due to them liking what the
President is doing while the other half is scared at what the
President and his organization will do to them. Many of them surely
have been the recipient of “the offer you can’t refuse.”</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This “offer”
takes several forms in the political arena. Hardcore Republicans
speak of a resistant incumbent being “primaried” in the next
election. That is the GOP will put up and support a candidate to
replace incumbent. Such action would effectively end their political
careers. The Fascist style relies heavily on threats and coercion
rather than cooperation and compromise. The GOP Senate is universally
silent on everything the current President does. They may have been
subjected to the most extreme meaning of “the offer.”</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If so, it would
explain how a Senator such as Lindsey Graham could speak truths about
how wrong and ignorant Donald Trump is then like flipping a switch
turn and praise his prowess and benefits to America.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Trumps highly
visible relationship with the Russian President and his praise for
the man, shows that he too has been compromised and forced to toe the
line. In a country where journalists and political adversaries drop
like flies it is not a long stretch to imagine how far their
influence extends.</span></span></div>
<style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 115%; }</style>Tuna Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454266137206818053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725138392665155107.post-83539046276719792862018-09-07T13:53:00.001-07:002018-09-07T13:53:11.294-07:00Missouri Christian College Endorses Police Violence<br />
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Missouri Christian College Endorses Police Violence<o:p></o:p></div>
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In a move reminiscent of the legal battle over whether processing
marriage license applications for same-sex couples by a Christian county clerk being
tantamount to her violating her deeply held Christian faith, a Christian
college in Missouri declared they will terminate their relationship with Nike
for including the persona of Colin Kaepernick in their "Just do It"
campaigns. You will recall that he is the NFL player who protests police
brutality especially of minority people. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The College of the Ozarks sends its message of tacit approval of police
brutality and excessive killing of citizens whom they suspect are "a
danger to them" for the mere appearance of dark skin even when they are
handcuffed and knelt upon face down on the pavement or while running away from
the threat of being killed by a violent police officer.<o:p></o:p></div>
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"College of the Ozarks plans to remove all athletic uniforms
purchased from Nike or that contain the Nike emblem. Student athletes will no
longer wear the brand in response to the company's new ad campaign," the
private, Christian college said in a statement Wednesday. Certainly any student
who chooses to continue to wear their Nike logoware can expect to be shunned,
persecuted and possibly brutalized for acting contrary to the divine
declarations of the "academic" leadership.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This move reinforces the college's position and perpetuates the
stereotype that all Christian colleges are fundamentally racist and in favor of
police brutality just because they are white and Christian.<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />Tuna Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454266137206818053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725138392665155107.post-92115882657767513692018-09-04T12:04:00.000-07:002018-09-04T12:04:35.876-07:00Would You buy a Used Car From Brett Kavanaugh<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Brett
Kavanaugh is imminently qualified to be Donald Trump's man on the bench. He
certainly has the judicial chops to do the job. The only question is... what
job is that? By the same token Paul Joseph Goebbels was highly qualified to be the
Minister of Propaganda for the Third Reich. The biggest difference between then
and now is that back then Germany openly referred to propaganda AS propaganda.
There was no covert agenda at play. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In our contemporary
times, the Trump Administration denied that anything they say is in fact
propaganda and conversely everything anyone else says is. The simple fact that
the Trump Administration (read Trump, the man) is attempting to keep hidden a
huge amount of Kavanaugh's history of judicial opinion, executive advice and
personal positions that was created two Administrations ago during the George
W. Bush Presidency. Apparently what Kavanaugh said and did weighs heavily on
this administration and its agenda for America in the next 2 or 3 decades.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Not having
access to and being able to evaluate those documents is probably equally
detrimental to Kavanaugh's confirmation as HAVING access to the content of
those documents. That which we do know about the Brett Kavanaugh position on
several topics is in itself troublesome. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">His opinion
that Presidents cannot be guilty of crimes committed while in office is the
greatest of those positions. His position on other extremely important topics
such as marriage equality, women's reproductive rights, corporate financial support
of Senators and Congresspersons, the ability of the Federal government to
protect the environment (people's health) and the entire Constitution are also
topics to be weighed against his obvious academic credentials.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Confirming
Kavanaugh for a lifetime job which will impact the lives of millions of
Americans and billions of global citizens without a compete process of vetting
is like buying a car without looking under the hood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Tuna Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454266137206818053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725138392665155107.post-75592373958555357592018-03-24T12:38:00.001-07:002018-03-24T12:38:08.197-07:00Students Demanding Gun Control<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today as hundreds of thousands of students and their families march for #GunSanityLaws in Washington, DC an even greater number of students and family are doing the same in hundreds of cities across the nation and around the world. The numbers will ultimately total in the million plus range.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida was the site of a mass murder spree by a lone white former student with an AR-15 rifle. While a weapon which is used to assault is by definition an "assault weapon" proponents of unrestricted gun sales impotently point out the AR-15 is not an Assault Rifle. It is worthy of being pointed out the AR-15 is the murder weapon of choice by mass shooters who are defined by the characteristics: Male, White and Young. Yeah, there are some middle-aged shooters but still they are white males.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The NRA has mounted its propaganda campaign in support of the gun manufacturer and tout the absolute necessity of owning such weapons to protect self and family. The mount their lame 2nd Amendment ascertains the Constitution grants them the absolute right to own and carry any and all weaponry anywhere all of the time. They also denigrate the school students who are the source of the motivation for this march. Students have been bullied, bad-mouthed, threatened and punished for their stand on this issue by the NRA, the NRA public and the school systems where the children attend classes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Some of the NRA-sponsored rhetoric circles around how the far-left media are using the children as pawns to further their liberal agenda of disarming America. Yes there is a continuing left-leaning agenda to make the country safer by reducing the ownership of guns rather than increasing it. Yes those activist parties see a champion when he/she/they step out of the scenes of carnage declaring "Never Again." But are the children being exploited? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yes, they are being exploited by the NRA and manufacturers. They are expected to sit down and shut up while some disgruntled white male sprays them with rapid-fire AR-15 bullets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">No, the media is not exploiting them. There is a fully willing collaboration taking place which serves to make the children's lives safer even at the cost of gun manufacturer profits.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One of the biggest fear-factors of the NRA is a generation of pre-voting age citizens becoming eligible to vote by November 2018.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These children reach the milestone of first adulthood rights. Voting. They have not been co-opted by incessant NRA and far-right propaganda. While older voters may be voting for their philosophy, the students are voting for their lives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Tuna Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454266137206818053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725138392665155107.post-1006677792784884252017-12-09T09:58:00.003-08:002017-12-09T11:39:34.968-08:00The Inmates are Running the Asylum<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">When America
was being formed and the wise men of that time got together they designed a
system of governance where the people appointed men (yeah only men) to get
together to make and alter the rules of society and the common good. Part of
the idea was that every (qualified) citizen would and should at one time or
another do his civic duty and become one of those appointed representatives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The process
was one where each adult male of European descent would cast his one vote to
decide which candidate or other would best represent their region of the
Republic. After those early successful years everything went haywire. (Note:
when one mis-handles a coil of baling wire it can energetically become an
un-mitigatable tangle of surprising complexity. Mostly you just toss it out and
go get another coil of haywire. Hence the name.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In more
recent decades, the elected representatives have become lifers in the comfort
of their positions. Not only have they voted themselves great annual salaries,
incredible fringe benefits and time off to ostensibly go home to their
constituents and local office and continue the job for which they were
appointed. Along the way they discovered that they knew what was coming in the
way of regulations (or the removal thereof) and could profit from that
knowledge. They developed the mindset they could write legislation which
impacted the Everyman while exempting themselves and granting special
privileges. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">All of them
are the equivalent of being the hired help of We The People except that they
have taken over. The constituents used to tell their representative what they
wanted them to do, what they wanted and needed, how to protect them from the
reversal of fortunes in the weather, the economy, the relationship with
neighbors and neighboring nations. Where that used to be the way, now the
representatives tell the people what they are <i>allowed </i>to have. Representatives used to represent all of their
constituents. Now they have developed the idea they at best represent only the
citizens who voted FOR them. They have reached a place where non-citizens
residents and voters who voted for another candidate do not matter and actually
should be denied representation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In light of
the more recent shift in parliamentary procedure and Citizen United (a highly misleading
nomenclature) they have come to represent only moneyed interests who pay them
to vote for legislation as written by other paid interests. If those interests
were promoting laws and permissions that benefitted human constituents, it
would not be such a bad thing, but the moneyed interests are always buying
permissions and prohibitions which benefit their business model and
bottom-line.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">With the
reversal of employer-employee relationships, it is as though the <b><i>Inmates
Have Taken Over the Asylum. </i></b>The totally delusional patients have
assumed the roles of Institutional Director, Head Nurse, Strong-arm Orderlies, Groundskeepers,
etc. while the former staff are kept locked up in the basement along with the
weak and feeble-minded patients who did not have a place in the New
Administration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">There are
genuinely earnest inmates who believe the new Administration is legitimate and
will say and do everything they are asked to do. There are many inmates who are
too scared to resist. They kowtow to the Authority of a Nurse Ratched knowing
she will prevail by hook and crook. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Somewhere
along the line, a tipping point was reached in the administration of governance
where the hired help (Representatives and Senators) took over and now run the
operation as THEY see fit. In many cases they have created their personal
fiefdoms and command the loyalties of a sufficient number of constituents to
negate the influence of the majority. That majority must resist and fight back
or allow the consolidation of power by the <i>Inmates</i>
who took over.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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