Drooling Drummer

As long as the genocide in Palestine continues, I will at times post graphic images. For various reasons I do not have the capacity for applying filters, so please take heed there will be horrendous things shown.

Ni-cad batteries in Uniden phones used to last ten to fifteen years. Now Li-ion batteries in Uniden phones last two to three years. Technology does not always create improvement; only productivity. Takes more to make Li-ion than Ni-cad. Which means more profit! Yay!

I was drooling over marching snares last night and I fell in love. 14”x18” field drum. 4 wires, two on top skin, two on bottom, one each of the pair gut strands and the other wires. 14 strands but that’s still 56 total! 18”! It’d be a bastard to march with! Five grand.

I’ve always felt I wouldn’t break under physical torture but I saw one last night that’s left me wondering. They put him in a vacuum chamber and suck all the atmosphere out. (Some physics problems in the show, but the idea would work, more slowly.) Damned terrifying!

I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage. This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country. #CommitToALivingWage #DoIt

Dream gig: scoring a Mario game. It’s not just the game and the world, it’s the rich, wonderful musical history that comes with it. So much to play with, and lots of room to create. I’d never get the gig. Nintendo guard their Mario music! Wisely, I think. It’s a serious asset.

I’ve always felt that Agent Smith was just meant to be a throwaway character, but that Hugo Weaving made so much of the role that they just had to make Smith the main villain for the sequels.

Just reading about flint and I have a feeling I’ve never actually seen it. Not sure, but it seems a different colour to the sparking rocks I knew in Dharug and surrounds, which were more blue. Looking at a vid, flint spark a lot more!

Yesterday the wind died for a couple of hours around sunset. I’ve noticed that happens a bit. That’s my work target for today at least. Better than just writing the whole day off. Will finally get to work under the work lights! Been barely used since we got them.

Whale oil beef hooked.

Rapists in government just the new normal now.

*talking about the Institute* Me: it’s got me in, alright. But I want all the cops to die. Dad: Really? Why? Me: They’re cops. Dad: Oh, right, of course!

Do you know a cop? Punch them.

Amiibo was the beginning of the end of my great respect for Nintendo. So now to unlock all the content I’ve already paid for in the game, I have to buy several hundred dollars worth of otherwise useless figurines? The Lego game at least you bought Lego sets at normal prices.

Just going through my records and it seems this year about 3 out of every 5 days has been either wind or rain. A good patch a few weeks ago, almost two weeks with no wind or rain!

I cannot draw life, living things. I can draw just about any inanimate object, but not life. Yet I can add life to any inanimate object as a cartoon! Anything can be made into cartoon life. I’ve always found that odd. I’ve studied techniques, but I don’t like my real lifes.

Can you light a fire from scratch? It’s our main thing, humans, lighting fires. Yet most of us have forgotten how. I can with sparking rocks, prefer flint but any sparking rocks will do. But it requires having good dry tinder. Don’t know any other natural ways.

Old Grandpaw Hubbard, Went to the cupboard, To get his poor doggy a snack, When he opened the door, There were snacks galore, No wonder the doggy gets fat,

This poll also shows that some 5 million Australians just don’t give a shit, and there’s a statement of Australian political engagement! 5 million people just don’t even care.

It’s good to be the king.

Wouldn’t be in Australia where they charge more for a dog mattress than a human one.