What's on your mind now?

[littletune]

But it's very bad because people usually don't respect nature at all!!    And they just think that nature and plants and animals exist just so that people can use them and do whatever they want with them  that is sooo wrong!
And even if it's ok to sometimes cut down trees and even  kill animals  it makes me sad anyway, specially for the animals it really hurts me!! I can't help it!

Oh Wolfi cool pictures!!  and cool story about baby Wolfi hugging trees     

Oh what's also on my mind is... who is a new member at pianostreet with almost exactly same name as mine!?  and what's with that weird post in the audition room??

[krystellle]

What was it?  Did you open it?  It's locked now.  Sort of scary, isn't it?     I guess Nils got to it before anyone opened it.  They registered at 1:25, put that AAA thing at 1:35, and were last active at 1:42.   Wierd   

[pianowolfi]

Yeah that's really weird

[pianowolfi]

I'm with you all the way!!!   

You're nice

My way is steep and stony though 

[m1469]

Yeah, I think that one of the problems is when man starts to think of himself as removed from nature, as though s/he is not actually fundamentally inseparable from it and that man is one thing, nature is another.  Earthfully speaking, I see human beings as just as much a product of nature as anything else and in one sense, can't exactly blame him for being the "powerful creature" that he is.  But he is part of a living ecosystem called earth, and that's important.  It's not *just* about selfishness or not as though man's actions are solitary, though I believe in having values and using reasoning, etc..  But, even for humankind's own sake, it is important to maintain the balance of the ecosystem or humankind will eventually be his own worst enemy (well, actually, not even "eventually" I think).  Bears like salmons and it's their nature to eat salmons, and they simply CAN eat salmons and so they eat them as much as they want.  But if that's all they ever ate and the situation were a bit different than it generally is, they would kill themselves off if in the process of being their most powerful selves, they ate all the salmons so that there was no more food.  It's even in the bear's best interest to be rational.  

Something that I see is that humankind seems to think of himself less as a part of the ecosystem, and more as though he is an alien to it who merely governs it in some whimsical and microscopic way (like, I could eat all the fishes if I wanted to - that's how powerful I am!).  So, for example, there are sometimes little creatures that are part of a forest's ecosystem who become endangered because of man's logging, and there are households of humans who think it's *crazy* for other humans to be upset about if a certain kind of frog stays alive while loggers and their families don't have a job.  I do see the point, but at the same time, it's not truly about frogs or not.  It's about what the ecosystem is and the fact that there is a balance that no man knows for sure just how delicate the balance actually is.  If the frogs die off, what other creature stops eating and dies off?  What kind of chain reaction does that cause?  Etc.

The very trait that seems to make mankind feel as though s/he is above and more powerful than nature, humankind's power of reasoning and intellect, is blinding humankind to itself.  I believe that mankind's truly most powerful self is in seeing himself as part of the principles which make up our entire ecosystem, as though when s/he looks at himself in a worldwide mirror, s/he sees the whole worldwide view as himself (and knows what to do with it).

[Bob]

(Warning:  Contians some disturbing images.)

Is that real?  A grand piano hanging from the ceiling?

[littletune]

What kind of disturbing images? 

Well today is exactly 2 years since I joined Pianostreet!!     
And today is also exactly 1 week since my doggy had surgery, and yesterday we went to the vet and they said it was healing well and they took out this plastic thing she had in her belly so that blood and all that was going out. And next week they will take her stitches out. And she is very happy and playing a lot and she started eating more too.     

[Bob]

What kind of disturbing images? 

Something along the lines of tighty whities.  *Bob takes another drink.*  I found it a little off putting.

Good that your dog is doing well.


I found this.

[littletune]

Thanks Bob! I'm sooo happy that my doggy is doing great!!! Today when we went for a walk she was running and jumping and everything and then we met one dog and his owners and they asked what's wrong cause she still has that thing on (like bandages) and I said she had surgery and they were like really but it doesn't look like it (cause she was all jumpy)
Well actually she has a crush on that dog  Really, cause she usually doesn't like playing with other dogs or anything, there are only a few dogs that she really likes, but when she sees this one she is running around him and jumping and sometimes even crying but she is soo small compared to him cause she's a small doggy and he's a big dog, but he is very cute

Oh and I forgot to say yesterday, yesterday was her (my doggy's) half birthday  cause her birthday is March 21 so yesterday was exactly 6 months since then so that's a half birthday! 

Oh and I also saw that it was Pianostreet's 10 year anniversary!!!  which is sooo cool cause it was also my 2 year anniversary since I joined Pianostreet!!! (so I joned Pianostreet on it's 8th anniversary!) 

Oh and also one more VERY happy thing! Today after my piano lesson I went again to that place where my music school was before... I just felt like I had to go there one more time to see if the doggy would be there. And when I was walking towards there I had this good feeling like there was just no way that the doggy wouldn't be there. And I was still very worried and afraid that he wouldn't be, but I just had to go!! And first I didn't see him and then I went around a little and I came back and I was walking really slowly by and trying to like caugh a little so he could maybe hear me... and then I looked again and I saw him!!!! He was standing really close to the fence like he was expecting me... and I was sooooo happy to see him!!!      and then we ate my toasts together and I was there for like more than half an hour! He is sooo cute and cool! I mean of course I love my doggys the most but if I could also have a big dog I would want a dog that would be exacltly like this one!!! He's just a perfect big dog! And my doggys are perfect little dogs!  (I mean my doggy and my angel doggy.)

[pianowolfi]

Very good news from your doggy, littletune!
I have also met a little doggy today, which has just become a new member of a family where I teach. She (the doggy) is at a school for doggies for blind people and has to spend one year in a family. After that year she needs to undergo a sort of exam and if she passes she goes on to the next level of her education. If she fails she can probably stay at that family. Now that's a thing! That doggie is very young, and really adorable and sweet and friendly and I imagine that it might be very hard if they need to let her go, if she passes the exam.

[elspeth]

At the opera house I work in, we do a lot of work with our local guide doggie school. People who are training the dogs can bring them into the theatre on show nights sometimes so the dogs can get used to a big, complicated building with lots of people around.

And when the doggies are old enough and well-behaved enough, we let them and their handlers come into watch shows so that the doggies can learn to behave during opera or ballet... they're brilliant, both the doggies and the handlers. So much fun to work with!

[Bob]

I'm thinking about that ton satellite falling to the Earth tomorrow. A 1 in 3,200 chance it hits a person.  *Bob wonders if he should stay inside tomorrow, and if the roof can handle six tons plummeting from space.*

Falling satellites and particles or whatever moving faster than the speed of light.  According to Einstein if we can go faster than the speed of light, we can send a message back.  *Bob ponders the possibilities of being able to send a message back to himself, 60 billionths of a second back into the past.*  The things I could tell myself with the wisdom I've gained.

[krystellle]

Funny.  I read it's falling in northern Italy, and there's a 1 in 33,000,000,000 chance of it hitting somebody.   

[Bob]

https://news.yahoo.com/huge-nasa-satellite-fall-earth-today-103802783.html
"It is still too early to predict the time and location of re-entry with any more certainty, but predictions will become more refined in the next 24 hours."

Whew!  *Bob is glad he won't have to take an umbrella today.*

"Scientists at the Orbital Debris Program Office at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston calculated the odds that anyone anywhere in the world will be hit by UARS debris at 1-in-3,200. But, the chance that you personally will get hit is much smaller, somewhere on the order of 1-in-several trillion, NASA officials said."

They said 1 in 21 trillion on tv.  Odds of it hitting anyone.  2pm today to 1am eastern US time it's supposed to hit. 

I'm surprised they let stuff like that fall, at least in an uncontrolled way.  And that they don't know exactly where it will land.  They are rocket scientists.  The predictions looked like something a layperson could predict -- Somewhere on Earth, but not the very top or very bottom, and it probably won't hit anyone. 

[littletune]

Well the important thing is that they have been able to rull out North America from the potential impact zone!!      How selfish!!

The second selfish thing:
" ... calculated the odds that anyone anywhere in the world will be hit by UARS debris at 1-in-3,200. But, the chance that you personally will get hit is much smaller, somewhere on the order of 1-in-several trillion... "  yes because as long as we personally don't get hit there's nothing to worry about and it's all cool!      cause who cares about others right??   

And third: did anyone think about animals getting hit at all??? 

Stupid people!!!!!!!!!!

[krystellle]

Littletune, you're getting a taste of what it's like to live in this world.  We're controlled and conditioned by a selfish caste that consider us "disposable" entities.

[Bob]

North America is back in the debris zone. 

I guess that's just how they plan that stuff.  "Let it fall -- It probably won't hit anyone or anything."  They know it's going to run out of power/fuel eventually.  And the cost of capturing it again, but still...  It doesn't sound like the most responsible way to take care of its end.  I would think they could add an extra fuel piece on to push it down at a certain time so it would land in an ocean for sure.  And maybe stick a parachute on it while they're at it.

[Bob]

It could hit a fish too.  Haha.  I'm more concerned about it leaking some satellite toxins onto the planet.

https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/tracking-falling-uars-satellite-212112448.html;_ylt=AiXz_7X7XXefA6rTamGfQCas0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNtZWM2YTJkBG1pdANUb3BTdG9yeSBGUARwa2cDMjYzZTdjMDktYmI0OS0zYjZkLTk4ZTMtMTUzNmNkMzU3NDYyBHBvcwMxNQRzZWMDdG9wX3N0b3J5BHZlcgNkNDZkMTVhYy1lNjJlLTExZTAtOWE3ZC0zM2ViZWRkZmM2MDE-;_ylg=X3oDMTFvdnRqYzJoBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25zBHRlc3QD;_ylv=3


https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/uars/index.html
"...will be passing over Canada, Africa and Australia, as well as vast areas of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans."

[Bob]

"Re-entry is expected between 11:45 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, and 12:45 a.m., Sept. 24, Eastern Daylight Time (3:45 a.m. to 4:45 a.m. GMT). During that time period, the satellite will be passing over Canada and Africa, as well as vast areas of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. The risk to public safety is very remote."


https://www.heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx?satid=21701&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=CET
The pics here take a while to load.  If this is correct, the satellite is heading SE across Africa.  Then into the Indian ocean and Pacific.  California if it actually makes it that far.  

1145pm Eastern time, 1045pm central, 945pm Mountain, 845pm Western...  That's in 30 minutes.  And it's appears to be over Africa on the heavens-above map right now.  


https://www.cnn.com/2011/09/23/us/us-nasa-satellite/index.html
Ah, according to the video they now put enough fuel in them so they can steer them to a safe place before they fall.  It took a rocket scientist to figure it out... 

[Bob]

It's over whatever is SE of Austrailia.  New Zealand.  It should be coming down now.... And if it takes an hour... It's going to rain some debris down on the US possibly.

And the path is different now on that website.  It's pointing at Washington/Canada now.  Maybe it will keep heading north and end up toward Canada more.

[Bob]

Geez.  It's almost to Hawaii now.  It's going to spit stuff over Canada I bet.

[Bob]

Here is comes, if it's still up.  I'm not finding any new news on.

Another map site.
https://spaceflightnow.com/uars/status.html

[Bob]

Almost out of Canada now.

[Bob]

Halfway across the Atlantic, heading back toward Africa.

It's over Africa now.

&feature=related

[Bob]

Ah, yes... Duh on me.   *Bob realizes the satellite is probably down already and wouldn't be in Africa.*

[pianowolfi]

Weird:

https://www.independent.ie/national-news/man-died-from-spontaneous-human-combustion-inquest-finds-2885633.html


 

[oxy60]

Remember we often say "it's not rocket science," well now we know that rocket science is NOT rocket science..

[krystellle]

Weird:

https://www.independent.ie/national-news/man-died-from-spontaneous-human-combustion-inquest-finds-2885633.html


 

wierd?!  That doesn't really quite describe it.  Although I have heard of it before. 

[Bob]

   Halloween.


And the Ginosaji!!!

Part 2...

[littletune]

So did that satellite (or pieces of it) land exactly where they said it wouldn't?
Oh well...

Bob, halloween is still like a month away!!  That was really kinda scary!  You know what that guy should do? Put glue on himself! And then all the spoons would get stuck on him so he couldn't get hit with them anymore... and besides he would then have something like an armour on him. 

[krystellle]

Bob, that is too funny!      

[Bob]

*Bob whacks littletune and krystellle on the kneecap... with a spoon!*
 

[jesc]

memorization... memorization... cramming...

spending most of my time memorizing on the digital piano (ooh the lightness) cause my hands hurt a bit to play the real one.

I never had to memorize so much when I was taking my phd in math, and I left med school since I was weak at memorization.

[littletune]

*Bob whacks littletune and krystellle on the kneecap... with a spoon!*
 

*Littletune puts on knee pads.*

I hope I'll have more time tomorrow to practice piano!! And recorder! And I should also practice music theory!! I mean we start with music theory on Monday and I haven't been practicing at all since June!! I thought I would practice a lot during the holidays but I didn't!  Oh well... 

[sausagefingers]

.....why does repeating the name Sceptimus Warren Smith relax me.  Why cant I understand Proust, do I need a psychiatrist, Why do I watch nieghbours, is you tube eating my soul, is facebook eating my soul, is my soul eating my soul, why does my sister think I like picnics, Would Dudley Moore have like me.....

[littletune]

Well... hmm...  ... is the song Hallelujah

really about sex? Some people say that in the comments. And I don't really understand everything  but it seems to me it could be about a lot of things I guess but I don't know...
 

[pianowolfi]

You're absolutely right littletune, it's about a lot of things The lyrics are a bit cryptic to me also, but they don't really suggest sexuality as the main subject at all.

This might help:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallelujah_%28Leonard_Cohen_song%29

[littletune]

Thanks Wolfi! 

[m1469]

I have a theory that planet earth is basically a spaceship, and it's got a huge engine inside that is lubed by oil - the oil lubes the section between the crust and the core.  And, we are pulling too much oil out of it, therefore there are becoming problems with the engine and it is causing earthquakes and such.  I am wondering where does the earth go to get an oil change and its fluids checked?  hmm?

[m1469]

Because there are a few things lately that have hurt my feelings.  One is that when I went to take my doggy for a walk the other night, I was strolling along and my sixth sense zeroed in on something in my line of vision, as I was walking under a tree ... and, do you know what it was?  It was a spider hanging down and I would have walked straight into it but I somehow put my brakes on immediately and saw it, even though it was dark.  But, it does kind of hurt my feelings that it was doing that and I never walk there anymore.

And also, there was an entirely different spider in an entire web in another spot, and for most people their head wouldn't touch it, but mine could because I am tall.  And, that kind of made me feel like that spider was being prejudiced against me because I am tall, and I think it was a little bit laughing at me, too, because my head almost went into it even though it was daytime and light out.

ALSO, would you like to know something else?  Yesterday I was driving along and there was a broken skunk on the road and there was a breeze and its tail was separated from it and the tail was rolling around in the breeze like a piece of trash ... and, I can still see it exactly in my mind ... AND I can still see the spider hanging down in my mind.  Those hurt my feelings.  Plus, I can still smell the skunk, too.  

Plus, one time, awhile ago, I was riding my bicycle near some orchards in the evening and I stopped by the side of the road and I heard a rustling in the bushes and I looked over and do you want to know what I saw?  I saw not one, but exactly two skunk bottoms pointing right at me with their tails straight up, and they were wanting to spray me but I left.  I don't think that was very friendly.

And ALSO, a coyote went poopy on the sidewalk right in front of our house.

[Bob]

Honey badgers wouldn't care about those kind of things.  

[m1469]

No, THIS honey badger DOES care about whatever I want, and DOESN'T care about whether humans THINK I should care about those things and the things I WANT to care about (nope, sorry, no secret code in the caps letters).

[oxy60]

It's ugly out there in the animal kingdom. And we don't exactly get along with them either.

[m1469]

It's ugly out there in the animal kingdom. And we don't exactly get along with them either.

Whatever I want.


AAAaaaaaaaaaghhhhhhh ... my mind is *exploding* with ideas and thoughts and they are just bursting all at once and I am trying SO HARD to write these things (by hand) down with patience, reasoning through individual concepts, questions, and how they all weave together to create something of meaning and value as a more or less complete idea ... but, it all just feels/sounds like a clamor in my head and body which is SO distracting from anything else!!! 


Me (writing in my journal):  "Okay, such and such ... blah blah blah"

Me in response:  "Okay, this and that, this and that"

Me in helpful question mode:  "yitah hey, yitah ho ... ?"

Me:  "Okay, this leads to that leads to this"

My feelings:  "HEY THIS IS ALL REALLY SOMETHING!!  FEEL ME HAPPEN!"

My mind:  "shh, shh ... please, this is already difficult enough"

My feelings:  "LOOKY HEREE!!!"

Me:  "argh"

Me:  "Go run an errand"

[Bob]

No, no no.  *Bob shakes head.*  Honey badgers don't secretly care deep down.  They have thick skin and do whatever they want, such as eating poisonous snakes and eating from a working bee hive.  They don't care. 

[m1469]

No, no no.  *Bob shakes head.*  Honey badgers don't secretly care deep down.  They have thick skin and do whatever they want, such as eating poisonous snakes and eating from a working bee hive.  They don't care.  

Exccccccuuuuuuuzzzzzzzzeeeee ... moi, BOB, but you seem to be forgetting one very important fact and that is:  I AM THE HONEY BADGER AND I DO WHATEVER I WANT AND I DON'T CARE!

Which means I can care about whatever I want.  And anyway, I DO eat plenty of poisonous snakes and working behives.  One time, I stuck a single claw into the gullet of a snake and simultaneously told it with my mind to "get as stiff as a board, you snake" and even I saw fear in his eyes and he got as stiff as a board.  THEN, I put a marshmallow on one of his fangs and I roasted the marshmallow over a fire, using the stiff snake as my roasting stick and even I ordered him to put a little bit of venom in the marshmallow.  THEN, I sprinkled some alive bees on the marshmallow for spices and also I put honey on it and I ate it like it was nothing.  Then I roasted the snake and ate him, even though I told him he would live if he did what I asked him to.

[Bob]

*Bob only slightly cares... Because he's a honey hamster, not a badger.*

[m1469]

*literally inhales the honey hamster*




instead of me drawing it:  *imagine a little cartoon of a honey hamster inside a honey badger's stomach, next to a roasted snake and beeish marshmallow*

[littletune]

Wow some scary things! 

[Bob]

I believe a honey hamster might allow itself to be eaten, but only so it can eat whatever the eater-of-itself ate, before eating the eat-of-itself itself from the inside out.