May

10

Scientology v. Christiany

Sometimes you find real gems deep down in the comment section of a post in on of the big blog sites.

This one find in the Slashdot article “Surprise Arrest For Online Scientology Critic.” Obviously there are many comments for an article like this with the typical Slashdot crowd and I was about to veer off to other things when this caught my eye.

Somebody had summarized the OTIII story as:

“The head of the Galactic Federation (76 planets around larger stars visible from here) (founded 95,000,000 years ago, very space opera) solved overpopulation (250 billion or so per planet, 178 billion on average) by mass implanting. He caused people to be brought to Teegeeack (Earth) and put an H-Bomb on the principal volcanos (Incident II) and then the Pacific area ones were taken in boxes to Hawaii and the Atlantic area ones to Las Palmas and there ‘packaged’. His name was Xenu.”

which was obviously considered as rather loony, but was then countered with another better known and not so secret summary:

As opposed to, say, the belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree…

The first quote anonymous and the second by steven&crinklink,com

Posted by Merlin Silk - May 10th, 2007

May

10

The Right Pitch

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Toilet Technology About a week ago I could not avoid it any more - I had to repair our toilet because it was just filling too slowly. A visitor was expected and we were not sure if he might perhaps need two flushes and then he would have to spend an extra 15 minutes in the bathroom just to wait for the tank to fill up again.

While changing the fill-valve I knelt in front of the bowl in reverence of this miracle of modern technology and regulation I could not help taking a look into the future …

… I had learned very early that I could, sitting on that bowl - its cavernous inside acting as a resonance-body - create crashing thunders rolling throughout the bathroom - and probably turning heads on the other side of the street.

Do I do this because I am an anarchist?

I also remove flow reducers in the shower heads.

Because I’m an anarchist?

I hold down the lever on the toilet tank until the whole tank is empty instead of using only my federally mandated 1.6 gallons per flush by only briefly tapping the lever.

Maybe also because I’m an anarchist?

Or just a misfit? Whatever it is I am sure that in ten years I will be much more than just a misfit - I will be a criminal.

Let’s fast forward to 2017…

It’s now only three years ago that the first man was put to death by humane drowning for tweaking his toilet to 1.9 gallons of water per flush. He had been very smart by even faking the federal markings on the water tank, trying to fool the flush inspector. But with the inspectors highly accurate flush-meter - that only costs the tax-payer a measly $13,998.99 - he was quickly caught, and the fact that he had gone through all this effort of hiding his acts, gave the jury proof beyond reasonable doubt that his intentions were bad - real bad and that he had not been willing to give his share to make this world a better world.

Unfortunately for all the many souls that came after him during these last three years the sample he set was not scary enough and we the tax-payer had to pay for all the water to drown these poor souls that objected these sensible regulations.

Luckily I’m in no danger here because for me that scare was sufficient. I reinstalled all the flow limiters and got all new and federally approved toilets - I went all the way. Not only did I get rid of the tank with my tweaked markings, I also got new bowls to be sure that they don’t exceed the federally mandated maximum sound amplification.

No more than 10dB - NO SIRE!

But how will I ever get the pitch right?

It makes so much sense, 498 to 511 Hertz for men and 617 to 691 for women. Shivering I remember a time about ten years ago when I blew off winds without any pitch control whatsoever, sounding like thundering white noise. How much could I have hurt the development of children playing on the other side of the street. Remorse still fills my heart.

But then I was a misfit - maybe even an anarchist - today I don’t want to be a criminal. So maybe I really have to go to one of the federally approved wind-breaker schools to get the control required to finally not hurt our children’s development any more.

Please wish me luck that I get the pitch under control when blowing off - it’s for our children!

Posted by Merlin Silk - May 10th, 2007

May

10

TV - as good as it gets - The Japanese Way

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This is TV as good as it can get!

Why don’t we have such good shows here in the US??

In the RSS feed you can probably not see the video - go the web site and enjoy!

Update: the clip was gone on google video, so I had to find it on YouTube. Will see how long that stays there.

And, by the way, if you want to find out more, look for Hinoi Team with Korikki and obviously the title of the song is “Night Of Fire.” This is one of the clips that I have to go back once in a while and reinforce it back into my consciousness.

2nd Update: Should you love this clip so much that you would rather sing it yourself, there is help. I found the karaoke version of it where these five beautiful people just create the mood and dance so you get the chance to sing.

Posted by Merlin Silk - May 10th, 2007

May

1

Father and Son

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On the occasion of the arrival of my son my ex-father-in-law gave me a book set of e.o. plauen’s “Vater und Sohn” (father and son).

First I enjoyed these cartoon myself, then a few years later I looked at them together with my son, still requiring some explanations and now we are at the stage where my son, closing in on his eighth birthday, dug out the books by himself and enjoys them. Here and there there is a little bit of German that I have to translate, but in general they are his books now.

I love the very different mood in these cartoon, they are just have a lot more time. And you also have to bring the time to enjoy them.

So, don’t be in hurry when viewing “Morals and Bees.”

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