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The Members Show and Sale
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And visited the Nelson Art Gallery today, the members show and sale, 40% to the gallery, the rest to the seller. Limited to one artwork per member, I was so impressed at the diversity of styles and the quality of work that I'm going again tonight to take down a few of the names of the artists. The Gallery, unfortunately, does not have their works posted on their website.
Interesting as well how I recognize some of the artists - their appearance frequently belies their talent.
"Ghost Murmur"
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More BS from the US Government. Apparently during a press conference they alluded to using "long-range quantum magnetometry" to track down the lost pilot. With it they can isolate a human heartbeat from as far away as 40 miles.
If it sounds like BS it probably is. In fact, anything from this administration can be reasonably interpreted as BS.
Scientific American explains here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-quantum-ghost-murmur-purportedly-used-in-iran-scientists/
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In other news the AI Asian guy has taken to pitching home remedies and practical housekeeping solutions. Always an AI script, but nice to see him branching away from political BS.
Wednesday, April 8 2026
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So today, the old schedule, a cherished day off.
I have many of these, I'm bailing on the system, I have other priorities.
This morning, I awake too early, dreams, bad dreams. Always that I'm at the restaurant, yes-sir-no-sir-three-bags-full sir, trying to do things, forgetting things, interacting with customers. Only I'm not so asleep that I can't recognize that I'm dreaming and can't I dream of something better, more profitable, anything but this...
I don't have much luck. Semi-lucidity then back into the same shit. Less dreams, not quite nightmares, but the world is a bigger place...
And then there is the one where I'm looking through my wallet, I've raided my float for groceries, and I'm turning over $5 bills and discovering that in the dim light of the restaurant I misread them, they're $50 bills, and I have a few, I'm richer than I think...
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This morning, after I get up, restive and not sleeping due to shit restaurant dreams, off for coffee. Then groceries, a few I need, then home, drop them off, peanuts for the crows I'm not feeding, they've been beseeching me, following me down Baker, a few other things. Home, drop them off, a brief stab at a nap, catch up on the world via the news and Facebook, all of it BS, but I'm trying. Then to the library, blog, write a bit, study Lidar a bit, I've got some prospecting plans, questions, stop and grab a double deluxe and poutine, home for a nap, and then off again to Balfour to scour for arrowheads. Nada, a few flakes, I have plenty already...
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Home, I should make dinner but lunch has filled me plenty. The light has gone and I'm not terribly inspired to paint, or - the light being gone and the interior lights not so good I'm not going to bother. Tomorrow. I've been painting more, not better, just more, and sometimes that has to be enough.
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The boy, on a phone call yesterday, has promised to transplant all my remaining shit from my locker in Calgary to here. Yayyy. There's no room, but I'm excited (as always) at what I might discover. This next week and since there's no room here I'll need to find another locker, and make an appointment with the antique shop to take the rest.
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And, having abandoned trying to paint, write, I'm now watching "Waking Life". So far, so good, a tonic for my soul. I'll review when I've finished...
I wonder that I haven't seen it before. Or maybe I have...
Iran's meme battle
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And every day, another Iranian meme, the lego-diss tracks on Trump, Hegseth, they're winning the internet. When it's done - the war, I mean, there could be a film festival of this; they're not wrong. And given how long this war is going to go there will be more than a few feature films worth of material available...
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