Thursday, April 08, 2021

Schmelzer

A cautionary tale indeed, lads and lassies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Heinrich_Schmelzer

Schmelzer started publishing his music in 1659. 

He was appointed vice-Kapellmeister on 13 April 1671. On 14 June 1673, after the composer petitioned for ennoblement, the Emperor raised Schmelzer to the ranks of nobility; Schmelzer now added von Ehrenruet to his name. 

Eventually, after his predecessor had died, Schmelzer became Kapellmeister on 1 October 1679.

Unfortunately, he fell victim to the plague early in 1680, and died in Prague (requiring but one change of letter), where the Viennese court moved in an attempt to evade the epidemic. Were they cu’ssed?

There ye go now.  A mysterious legend (which I just invented) stated that anyone listening to this music below and starting to cough or develop a sore throat:

Plague doctor

Mind how ye go now:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-52456180

https://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/19183771.bucks-plague-doctor-spotted-flackwell-heath/

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/6866948/plague-doctor-haddington-falkirk-boness-dumfries-craze/

Now, lads and lassies - may the curse* strangle itself in the bright sunshine soon t'be upon us.

...........

* To properly pronounce the word curse, which we’ll henceforth write as cu’sse, listen at the 17 second mark of this tune and may ye be delivered safely.  Mind how ye go now.

Try these

Match each numbered line with the correct letter below:

  1. Naomi Campbell
  2. Tony Blair
  3. Winnie Mandela
  4. Barry Soetoro
  5. Imelda Marcos

a. Shoes, b. David Kelly, c. Fast &furious, d. Blood diamonds, e. Necklacing.

Interesting fundraising technique

 


The whole thing is out of order of course and smacks of exceeding chutzpah on the part of the treasonous GOP.

To compound that with veiled threat about Trump supporters is an interesting fundraising technique.

Still Thursday

12.  Nice, via haiku

Applies to most industries, where "overload the buyer with features that they don't need" is seen as a plus, [far] outweighing the basic KISS principle of a working solution:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/04/the-takeaway-is-that-we-dont-tend-to-take-things-away/

11.  Via Rossa's mother

Says it’s the vaccine that is creating the new variants (mutant) of C19 using the vaccinated body as the Petri dish!

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2021/04/07/worse-than-we-can-possibly-imagine/

10.  There is radical ... and then there is fake radical

Fake radical, compliant with and furthering the interests of the PTB include Antifa/BLM/violent Greens - latest stunt taking chisels to Barclays and noone - not Plod, not bank security, no one - did anything to stop them.

Real radicals are any quoted somewhere on our blogs and in our tweets and gabs - Marjorie Taylor Greene is one of those.  Josh Hawley, people taking risks.

9.  AK Haart:

As we know, a core problem with the coronavirus debacle is that it may be absurd but is not entirely based on absurdities. The virus is real, poses a moderate but serious risk to the old and vulnerable and is easily transmitted from person to person. The virus is not absurd - but for the developed world it is far from a catastrophically destructive pandemic.

The horror part is that it is a designer virus. Mengeles in the lab observe that it has not wiped out on the scale they'd hoped, so they tweak the old one and release it.  In terms of effect on us, it follows the pattern AKH mentions.  Tends to die off under intense Vitamin D outside.

'Na mestye'

In Russian, 'na' can mean 'on' or 'in' and 'mestye' means place - put them together and you have 'a place for everything and everything in its place'.

if you have that coldly analytical mind which never gets anything wrong and your system is near-perfect, this post is not for you.  For the other mortals, this is just a reminder.

Write it on paper

1.  Storing information online should be minimised, certainly not on cloud, better on desktop, unless you have some encryption system.

2.  All passwords on one sheet of paper and that paper always in the same place.  Downside is naughty people coming into your home.

3.  All disks and sticks in a different place ... yet the same 'different place'.

4.  The Big Book, a sort of diary.  I don't have, instead 1/8 of an A4 page as a stack, itself always in one place.  And written on sheets always in the same pile , no matter how old or irrelevant.

5.  Danger in that is security of course.  Analyse in real terms what level of security you need and why.  Nothing going in my stack in that place affords any intruder much at all.

6.  Every time you come home, every time before going out, check the stack - what have you forgotten?  Keep all old stacks in a different place - all old stacks in the same 'different place'.

At some stage, you'll have to force yourself

Routine is brutal, yet it can save inordinate amounts of time. The enemy of routine is 'just', as in, 'I'll just leave them here for now.'