[Kzyxtalk] Bleach blanket bloodbath.

[Marco McClean]

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some 
blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you 
can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too 
high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” (Easy for Ralph 
Waldo Emerson to say.)


The recording of last night's (2016-03-04) 107.7fm KNYO Memo of the Air: 
Good Night Radio show is available to download and keep or just listen 
to via http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com


That recording was made on my end of the chain, so it’s complete and 
unbroken. For the first forty minutes of the show the connection via the 
web to the transmitter was switching on and off like, um- I say /like a 
crazy monkey/ too much, but that's what it was switching on and off 
like. I put on a fifteen minute recording of Orson Welles excoriating 
not just a bad but an evil Southern police chief who literally /beat the 
eyes out/ of a black soldier returning from the war, and while that ran 
I called Bob Young, and Bob turned the buffer time way up at the 
transmitter end and that helped; it stayed on for the rest of the night. 
The failure log* shows that most of the problem must have been the 
internet service on my end, at Juanita’s house. Time to call for that 
excellent tech support Sonic is famous for.


*Net Uptime Monitor is a tiny program that notices second-to-second 
problems with your internet service. You install it and forget it, and 
it keeps a record in a log file that you can entirely ignore until 
there's a concern, and you can use it to help your help help. $10 for a 
lifetime license.


Multi-term county supervisor Norman duVall called and talked about the 
campaign to make Mendocino a charter county.


Later Mitch called, distraught about what he saw as Bernie Sanders’ 
flame-out and impending tailspin. Trump and Hillary are both bad choices 
for president --or for any god damn thing else. Trump is insanely, 
horrifically, bizarro-world bad, of course. But Hillary, yeesh. Bernie 
Sanders is good in every sense of the word. You'd think that eventually, 
in all these years, one of these times the grinding machine would pop 
its gears and collapse and let something right happen, but no. Oh, well. 
There's always dollar-store chocolate-covered Graham crackers- strictly 
speaking, not crackers, per se, but pleasantly reassuring to nibble on 
during a break, and science continues to point up their life-enhancing 
qualities.


Anyway, also at http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find a yuuuuge 
number of rainy-day or rainy-night links to interesting things to see 
and do and learn about, such as:


Secret society art.
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/as-above-so-below-fraternal-societies


Beautiful old silver airplanes.
http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/03/kellys-heroes-lockheeds-five-finest-airplanes/


Is it okay to torture a robot?
http://boingboing.net/2016/03/04/is-it-ok-to-torture-a-robot.html


Circle of Abstract Ritual.
https://vimeo.com/106181453


And big tears in the fabric of the universe.
http://tinyurl.com/zhxt87u


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Marco McClean
memo at mcn.org
http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com