[Kzyxtalk] Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome.

/"My fundamental concern with how much voting control I have at Tesla 
is, if I build this enormous robot army, can I just be ousted in the 
future? I don't feel comfortable building a robot army if I don't have, 
at least, influence over it." -Elon Musk/

Marco here. Here's the recording of last night's (9pm PDT, 2025-10-24) 
eight-hours-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on KNYO.org, on 
107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) and also, for the first three hours, on 
89.3fm KAKX Mendocino, ready for you to re-enjoy in whole or in part.
https://memo-of-the-air.s3.amazonaws.com/KNYO_0667_MOTA_2025-10-24.mp3

Coming shows can feature your own story or dream or poem or essay or 
kvetch or announcement. Just email it to me. Or send me a link to your 
writing project and I'll take it from there and read it on the air.

Besides all that, at https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find a 
fresh batch of dozens of links to not-necessarily radio-useful but 
worthwhile items I set aside for you while gathering the show together, 
such as:

"Vatch her take za pleasure from za serpent zat vunce corrupted man!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPpwXUZNbNs

Satellite photos of progress on the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom.
https://boingboing.net/2025/10/24/satellite-image-shows-east-wing-of-white-house-completely-demolished-to-make-way-for-epstein-ballroom.html

Results of a study on muggers' victim-selection criteria. In a nutshell: 
Don't look down. Don't look up. Don't step too long or too short or 
swing your arms wrong or smile or frown. Don't look nervous. And they'll 
pick somebody else to mug. This reminds me of Meryn Caddell's poem that 
begins, "Martina hobbled home," and ends, "Don't get raped, knock on wood."
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/how_to_avoid_getting_mugged

World championship boogie-woogie dancing. One, two, a-one-two-three-GO.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2013/12/world-championship-boogie-woogie-dancing.html

And rerun: Scooter lady in 1916. The last time I saw this I misread it 
as an electric scooter. I see the heat-engine cylinder now. Um, the 
other day I was walking home from the grocery store and a modern 
stand-up scooter zipped by at car speed, 35 or 40 mph (!), its tiny 
front wheel twitching alarmingly, kept upright by constant 
white-knuckled concentration of the rider struggling with its ridiculous 
design. The woman in this picture is probably going four miles an hour, 
max, which would be safe and comfortable, even with the bad 
steering-balance leverage and high center of gravity of the combined 
rider and device. But the guy I saw was risking his life (for what? to 
get where?) and clearly not having a drop of fun. A couple of blocks 
away from there, maybe thirty years ago, I saw a boy on a kick-scooter 
/working! working! working!/ to keep up with his friends riding 
bicycles. They suddenly had enough of restraining themselves, 
accelerated as one, laughing, and effortlessly abandoned him. My 
impression was, those scooter things are stupid in every way and they'll 
never catch on. Bicycles are close to free, they're fun and perfected so 
you nearly have to try to fall off them. People can still hit you with a 
car, or a truck side-view mirror, or open a door in your path, but just 
getting onto a scooter is an obvious mistake. With all that in mind, but 
one time I saw a good-looking young Hispanic boy and girl zip past on an 
electric scooter. They were shining with happiness. The boy driving, the 
girl standing behind him, her arms around him, holding on for dear life, 
the side of her face against his shoulder. They were /so happy 
together/. I still feel like that with Juanita, but those kids were 
feeling it maybe for the first time, and... Try to remember how you felt 
when you were that age and you were with that person, flying through the 
world together on an open dangerous vehicle, shouting a conversation to 
each other from zero distance apart.
https://x.com/pickover/status/1980821807134323193

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