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Happy Talk
Re: Happy Talk
by AdamB » Mon 09 Sep 2024, 18:43:19
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'A')dam, on the happy talk thread? No, I'm not buying it, he couldn't possibly have anything happy to talk about
I converse on many topics. And I have the ability to discuss things, things I like, and don't like, etc etc.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', '
')I'm heading up into the mountains this week with some friends, Yowie hunters! I'm not a believer myself but they are a great troop who really know how to have a campfire and the food is amazing. I'll ride up on the adventure bike and sleep in one of the camper trailers and help put the remote cams out in the forest. They pack thermal imagers, motion sensor lights and some of the most powerful flashlights I have ever seen. Real techno heads, one keeps a laptop with him at all times during the night to watch for activity.
Sounds like great fun. Of course, you aren't able to do this in the mountains unless you leave Australia, but maybe some hills? I enjoy roaming North America, 2 wheels or 4, but don't require..hunting...something.
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Plant Wed 11 Apr 2007 "I think Deffeyes might have nailed it, and we are just past the overall peak in oil production. (Thanksgiving 2005)"
Plant Wed 11 Apr 2007 "I think Deffeyes might have nailed it, and we are just past the overall peak in oil production. (Thanksgiving 2005)"
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Re: Happy Talk
by theluckycountry » Tue 10 Sep 2024, 02:27:56
Well so much for the plans of Mice and Men
The Yowie hunt has been postponed, perhaps they get smelly in the wet? Either way rain is not conducive to camping even if it's Glamping and the thought of riding across country in it doesn't appeal to me either.
Spare time, free time can be a dangerous thing if you don't have productive activities to fill the hours. Even simple reading, I read an article a whiles back about the Eskimos up in Alaska (or what ever politically correct name those people are called now) and how many live as Alcoholics in squalor. Their old culture kept them very busy, they were always on the go, but now with integration in the degenerate Western system of handouts and Booze, trailer parks and TV many have lost their way.
You don't have to be Eskimo for this to happen to you either. Millions of formerly productive people of all races are now "couch potatoes" that exist but don't actually live. It's a cautionary tale for those of us who retire early and suddenly find ourselves with endless days and no real responsibilities. I personally try to keep a pace up, productive daily things to do even if it's just a short workout on the Gym or hedging a bush of an elderly neighbor. Keep the momentum going so to speak, don't fall into the old-man-trap of just mowing the lawn and watching tennis on TV.
Of course Not owning a TV is a big step in the right direction. They are such an insidious things to own, like keeping a rattlesnake in an old wooden cage or some such analogy, an open sewer pipe in the corner of your lounge room. When discussing life in general with many men over the years the ones that quickly revert to what they watch on TV I find are the most boring. They have nothing else to talk about besides that, the weeds in their lawn, and what their children are doing. "Not Life as we know it Jim."
To have a happy life I found it necessary to eject these people from my acquaintance. Much like you would eject a bad cassette or CD/DVD from a player in days past. You Eject it, stand back and look at it and sometimes wonder if there is any good in it, can it be salvaged? Typically not and it's flicked into the trash can. Why is it that some find this so hard to do with people? Yes they have a right to life and all that, but not in my life, not in my face. Engineering a happy life for oneself often means making hard decisions and following through with them as much as it means simply avoiding downsides and finding an easy path.
One can be greatly aided in this by simply rejecting a lot of what is "progressive" and technoWizz in our societies. Welcoming immigrants to your town and then being mired in crime, buying expensive new cars or devices that turn into millstones around your neck. The old ways worked and even 1970's technology was amazing. I will stick with that in a sense while I look at the new, waiting for the Beta testers to take all the pain, waiting for the technology to ripen and get the bugs out before I enter the market.
Digital cameras are a good example. This morning I was taking some shots of the sun as it rose through the point of a valley on the Eastern Horizon. I was able to look at it for some minutes through the viewfinder because unlike the Digital SLR's of just a decade ago it is 'mirrorless' and the 2.36 million dot high-definition electronic viewfinder doesn't pass the harmful radiation (Obviously) Techie camera buffs fully invested in the old full frame (35mm sensor) DSLR's rejected these along with the smaller sensor chips (micro 4/3) These people are examples of techno suckers and many still exist on the photography forums. Left behind when the technology ripened. Micro 4/3 lenses are half the price and half the length of full frame camera lenses, it's a win win for all but the dedicated professionals who still need the larger formats, but even they too have moved across to mirrorless.
The same thing occurred in the pushbike world. Bikes went across from clunky rim brakes to elegant disk brakes in the early 2000's but not in the racer end of the market. There the old diehards rejected them for the longest time citing dangers when they crashed from the narrow rotors. Any excuse will do when you're a Luddite it seems... So I wait, and watch, and sometimes it takes a decade but the technologies eventually mature and the prices fall and I swap out the old for the new. With cameras I simply opted out of hobby photography for a decade, not satisfied with the offerings in the decade 2007~20017. It's why it's good to have a few interesting hobbies where you aren't dependent on a single one to find your pleasure.
Well time for a drive into town for some shopping. And I don't have to worry about whether the car is charged, it's not that kind of tech, not a millstone
The Yowie hunt has been postponed, perhaps they get smelly in the wet? Either way rain is not conducive to camping even if it's Glamping and the thought of riding across country in it doesn't appeal to me either.
Spare time, free time can be a dangerous thing if you don't have productive activities to fill the hours. Even simple reading, I read an article a whiles back about the Eskimos up in Alaska (or what ever politically correct name those people are called now) and how many live as Alcoholics in squalor. Their old culture kept them very busy, they were always on the go, but now with integration in the degenerate Western system of handouts and Booze, trailer parks and TV many have lost their way.
You don't have to be Eskimo for this to happen to you either. Millions of formerly productive people of all races are now "couch potatoes" that exist but don't actually live. It's a cautionary tale for those of us who retire early and suddenly find ourselves with endless days and no real responsibilities. I personally try to keep a pace up, productive daily things to do even if it's just a short workout on the Gym or hedging a bush of an elderly neighbor. Keep the momentum going so to speak, don't fall into the old-man-trap of just mowing the lawn and watching tennis on TV.
Of course Not owning a TV is a big step in the right direction. They are such an insidious things to own, like keeping a rattlesnake in an old wooden cage or some such analogy, an open sewer pipe in the corner of your lounge room. When discussing life in general with many men over the years the ones that quickly revert to what they watch on TV I find are the most boring. They have nothing else to talk about besides that, the weeds in their lawn, and what their children are doing. "Not Life as we know it Jim."
To have a happy life I found it necessary to eject these people from my acquaintance. Much like you would eject a bad cassette or CD/DVD from a player in days past. You Eject it, stand back and look at it and sometimes wonder if there is any good in it, can it be salvaged? Typically not and it's flicked into the trash can. Why is it that some find this so hard to do with people? Yes they have a right to life and all that, but not in my life, not in my face. Engineering a happy life for oneself often means making hard decisions and following through with them as much as it means simply avoiding downsides and finding an easy path.
One can be greatly aided in this by simply rejecting a lot of what is "progressive" and technoWizz in our societies. Welcoming immigrants to your town and then being mired in crime, buying expensive new cars or devices that turn into millstones around your neck. The old ways worked and even 1970's technology was amazing. I will stick with that in a sense while I look at the new, waiting for the Beta testers to take all the pain, waiting for the technology to ripen and get the bugs out before I enter the market.
Digital cameras are a good example. This morning I was taking some shots of the sun as it rose through the point of a valley on the Eastern Horizon. I was able to look at it for some minutes through the viewfinder because unlike the Digital SLR's of just a decade ago it is 'mirrorless' and the 2.36 million dot high-definition electronic viewfinder doesn't pass the harmful radiation (Obviously) Techie camera buffs fully invested in the old full frame (35mm sensor) DSLR's rejected these along with the smaller sensor chips (micro 4/3) These people are examples of techno suckers and many still exist on the photography forums. Left behind when the technology ripened. Micro 4/3 lenses are half the price and half the length of full frame camera lenses, it's a win win for all but the dedicated professionals who still need the larger formats, but even they too have moved across to mirrorless.
The same thing occurred in the pushbike world. Bikes went across from clunky rim brakes to elegant disk brakes in the early 2000's but not in the racer end of the market. There the old diehards rejected them for the longest time citing dangers when they crashed from the narrow rotors. Any excuse will do when you're a Luddite it seems... So I wait, and watch, and sometimes it takes a decade but the technologies eventually mature and the prices fall and I swap out the old for the new. With cameras I simply opted out of hobby photography for a decade, not satisfied with the offerings in the decade 2007~20017. It's why it's good to have a few interesting hobbies where you aren't dependent on a single one to find your pleasure.
Well time for a drive into town for some shopping. And I don't have to worry about whether the car is charged, it's not that kind of tech, not a millstone
We're 17 years past the peak now and the 3rd World is going hungry and dark. We'll be next, we're well on the way in fact.
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Re: Happy Talk
by AdamB » Sun 15 Sep 2024, 20:22:14
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'W')ell so much for the plans of Mice and Men
Well...mice anyway....
Plant Thu 27 Jul 2023 "Personally I think the IEA is exactly right when they predict peak oil in the 2020s, especially because it matches my own predictions."
Plant Wed 11 Apr 2007 "I think Deffeyes might have nailed it, and we are just past the overall peak in oil production. (Thanksgiving 2005)"
Plant Wed 11 Apr 2007 "I think Deffeyes might have nailed it, and we are just past the overall peak in oil production. (Thanksgiving 2005)"
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Re: Happy Talk
by theluckycountry » Mon 16 Sep 2024, 05:15:49
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We're 17 years past the peak now and the 3rd World is going hungry and dark. We'll be next, we're well on the way in fact.
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