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And on these couches I've watched more TV than anyone should ever watch...Dr. Oz, Dr. Phil, Live Kelly, Cityline, it's all idiocy. Sheer and utter vacuous idiocy. I never realized it was this bad.
The new couch, they've got cable, all the channels, 150 or more. New shows, things like Thrift Hunters, which sounds like it would be right up my alley, only it's more garbage, people going to Value Village and buying trash to resell on for a hefty profit on eBay, and watching the credits I see that Telefilm Canada had a hand in it, other Canadian sponsors, why, given it's set in the US, the show looks like it had a budget of roughly $25.00 per episode, hours spent surfing the guide to find nothing to watch, movies, entertainment, the most preposterous confabulations passed off as history, endless unreality, talk shows, interrupted by unending adverts for rubbish, new cars, products, junk food, quack medicines with little hope of remedy and a long list of dire and possibly fatal side effects, if the illness doesn't kill you the cure most certainly will, the promoted prescriptions promising a physical cure for a purely spiritual disease, malaise, the virus of bad ideas and inferior morality passed on to consumers through the very medium that only a short advertisement ago was promising a cure...Just turn it off and the healing will begin. Read a book. Go for a walk. Talk to a human being.
It's insane.
At a friends, Netflix, watching a documentary on Minimalism, she's not getting it, she notices every for 50% off advert, every expansive shoe collection, admiring the ostentation, the very lavish houses and lifestyles the show is seeking to condemn, her attention, she's proving the point...
Days Pass.
Couch Surfing 2
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And couch surfing again, this a 3 week tour, maybe longer, will depend on the new owners, the improvement in the weather leaves me restless to be off and about in the jeep, and all this sleeping on other peoples couches, it's gotten to be a bit much. All well intended and appreciated, but there's a distinct lack of...well, desk, the trifles that I need to get by. A Desk. Maybe a bed, not urgent, a bathroom is more important, and that's it. If I'm here in March I'll have to go looking, there's no peace of mind to found on the couch, in front of the TV, always some idiocy playing, vacuous distraction, the current couch, the full slate of cable, always something inane to distract you from projects of importance, I'm far better prepared this trip, but lacking the privacy to meditate or otherwise catch up is making me insane. "It's only temporary" I tell myself, but that's become at the moment my life...
Enhydro
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Specifically, fluid inclusions in agate, more generally the term has come to mean fluid inclusions within crystals or other gems or stones. The fluids are typically millions of years old and are most frequently water or liquid petroleum...
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The last is not an enhydro inclusion, it's a tiny garnet grown within a diamond.
Mapping Fortune
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Back in Calgary, for a bit at least, winter is spent on the MTO, Mapping treasures, Emeralds, Topaz, Ruby, Sapphire, Diamonds, it will be, if I can afford it, a busy summer. It's all here. The diamonds, they're an Alberta thing, there are claims here for that as well, closer to the Alberta border, but for everything else there are claims within 50 KM of Nelson. I've already found Garnets, when the snow is gone I'll find the rest. Everything. Every Gem in the fucking world. I'm creating my own map, adding 2 or three new markers per day, everywhere here you can dig and be surprised, the trick always is recognizing what you've found and creating value from it...
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