BIM 58
June 2009
The
An oracle for the wise
Vox clamatis in deserto
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"The best philosophers are useless to the world, but that is the fault of the world, not of philosophy." Plato
Skin Cancer
Lately I’ve run into several people my age and older who’ve had basal and squamous cell carcinomas removed. Since I’m in heavy sun a lot due to my long hikes in the mountains I’ve ramped up my sun protection a lot. I am currently using SPF 70 Neutrogena sun block in a waterproof cream and a convenient spray. I am particularly careful to put lots on my nose – where the two people had ops, and my ears, where one friend has had a topical chemotherapy done. The ear is so thin that if conventional chemo is done it frequently burns holes. Be warned.
Let me remind you that the world class dermatologist I once worked for thought aloe was one of the absolute best healers for the skin. He grew his own aloe in the yard, ran it through a juicer and froze the untreated juice. This was then used directly on the skin of patients who had had dermabrasions and heavy chemical peels. I have been using an aloe vera based moisturizing lotion for 35 years. I usually lather on bunches of it every morning and let it soak in. The best real aloe you can purchase may be this.
My current outdoor hats are;
Outcasts of roads better traveled
My girlfriend, who was educated at all Catholic schools in the NY area in the 50’s and 60’s, has reported that the girls she met who went to the Ursuline high school in the
“Angeles Crest is a place where the outcasts of roads better traveled can be with like-minded souls.” http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-crest19-2009may19,0,6585700.story
LA basin created by a meteor strike
I know, it’s more of my radical ideas and to my knowledge no one has alleged this BUT it seems clear to me the LA basin was created by a meteor strike. It became obvious to me a week ago or so as I hiked to LA through the mountains and descended into
Don’t believe the BS by media types who deride Twitter. I was going to write this up earlier but demurred thinking even my subscribers might not be able to wrap themselves around the concept due to stodgy thinking. Increasing hype on the general uselessness of Twitter abounds in the recent press. All these commentators are older than 40. I first heard of Twitter 2 years ago when there were protests by bicyclists in NY and the NY Times article mentioned the pole-isse couldn’t keep up with the organization of the ‘mob’ who were following protest orders on something called Twitter. Twitter allows one to post short messages to one’s Twitter account. BUT if you have a Twitter account you can FOLLOW other people – get their posts sent to your account stream AND you can have posts from selected people you follow sent directly to your cell phone. Here are some example uses;
- A reverse 911 that actually works. You have a photo shoot with maybe 50 staff and cast members. The director sends tweets to the film’s account which everyone on the set is following.
- You have a family of 5 – you and 4 kids. You all have cell phones – RIGHT? Everyone follows everyone else in the family account so everyone knows when the soccer practices end etc.
- You have a small company with 200 employees. …..get it.
- I am in the TV commercial and theatrical acting business in LA. That’s how I am going to
As an inducement, people who are following my Twitter stream can make requests for ‘stuff’ from Kathmandu on this trip I’m about to take. You can make the request by direct email if you have my address, as a tweet, or by email to the name on my Twitter account at gmail dot com.
The above was written in May 2009. Clearly recent events show how important Twitter can be. Don’t be as dumb ass like Hillary –"I wouldn't know a Twitter from a tweeter," said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, "but apparently, it is very important." Geometry was hard also. Just because you’re older does not mean that you are somehow absolved from having to learn new things.
The Tenth Trip of a Lifetime
I mentioned to one person at a meeting I was on the waitlist for
At a very important conference on Elderhood a few years ago one of the seminarians suggested that her most important contribution to other people, especially children, was ‘the creation of significant memories’. If that is true, then the most important function I can perform for myself is the same – even if it does not always feel comfortable.
Here’s a compendium of tweets from the twip.
· I’m back – if there is such a place. It implies there’s an ‘away’ which, if the world is your home, doesn’t exist. Jun 18th
· I’m outta
· Where there is a will there is a Tweet – Maoist bandh (closure) in
· I’m dizzy from reading the Upanishads and then just returning from Swayambhu – the Monkey
· Soooo if my pharts are air now I MUST be well from the trots here in
· There is no joy in the finite, only in the Infinite is there joy - Chandogya Upanishad - Here in the finite I am twiddling around
· early AM flight from Lukla – 10 days in the land of the Sherpa - Honored guest at big wedding - taxi direct to http://mikesbreakfast.com/ Jun 9th
· Oh yeah – God is the travel agent! Jun 9th
· Lukla waiting flight to
· tweet from Namche -huge problem of how to get a wedding cake down 4000’ and 5 hour walk to Phakding – rescue heli overhead as we tweet Jun 4th
· clouds lifted in Namche - Tibetan next to me at breakfast wood blocking prayer flags - got wish list Kunde hospital meds will post later Jun 3rd
· Hand sanitizer works great under my arms! even better than Listerine. End of the trail in Namche – food is too good. Day hiking from here Jun 2nd
· the cloudless day has changed to slight rain and mist - a few wild Tibetans have stopped by - all watching a music video w/Sherpas Jun 2nd
· Cloudless day in Namche. Taking a rest day to acclimate at Zamling Hotel Jun 1st
· The Big Collapse Could Be Very Near http://bit.ly/sxdWI Jun 1st
· Have moved my tea drinking up to Namche Bazar at 3660 meters altitude - a bitchy 800 meter climb up the final hill in bright Himalayan sun. Jun 1st
· Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #Adventurer #astrologer #mystic May 31st
· rainy day in
· I am in little Sherpa village named Phakding - my stay has been extended to attend a huge Sherpa wedding 8/9 June arranged marriage -try it May 30th
· still at Namaste Lodge surrounded by 20000' peaks cascading falls greenery up steep hills feet from rushing stream May 30th
· Tweeting from 8000' in the
· I'm leaving for Namche tomorrow - 6 am flight to Lukla - sounds like heavy rain up in Solukhumbu May 26th
· I keep moving to avoid pre-traumatic stress syndrome. Reading Jhumpa Lahiri pretty obsessively – which she deserves May 25th
· AS USUAL my long-standing predictions are coming true http://tinyurl.com/pqm7vl The
· tech hints http://my.foxmarks.com/ ALL my Firefox bookmarks here in
· Rez to LUA 28 May – world’s 2nd most exotic airport designator after SYH – return 7 June May 22nd
· now tweeting from
· Tweet from Bankok airport - now a non stop 16:35 from LAX May 20th
· one small tweet for man one big tweet for twitterdom off to LAX heading for
· http://yfrog.com/2sgq9j7:45 AM May 19th from yfrog
· “Eternity is made up of todays. Glorify the hour.” Christopher Ruess
Travel tips for Asia
Water purifier – I have not yet gotten sick purifying my own water in
I have a special Indian anti-dysenteric ayurvedic medicine I cannot be without – either overseas or in the
Listerine is a very strong anti-fungal, anti-odor, disinfectant, and a superb hand sanitizer. At a minimum you can splash some under your arms if you haven’t been able to bathe for a while. Only the original works, not the CVS and other knock-offs. Great for taking the smell out of latrines. I put it into a spray bottle. Sample usage – I have a 40 oz. stainless steel water bottle. One of the bottle’s uses is to fill it at night with hot water and put it into my sleeping bag. I was at a Sherpa lodge for a few days and the bathroom was outside and far away. At night I peed into the s/s bottle, emptying it in the morning. Before using it again for drinking water I rinsed it out several times with Listerine.
My girlfriend works as a nurse R.N. in one of the
The origins of oil
I have a theory that oil was created on our planet by asteroid strikes not the supposed decomposition of organic matter as is commonly and unthinkingly purported. I haven’t looked over the geography of oil in detail but most of the large fields occur in areas that are clearly shaped like huge circular depressions – like the
The Origins of Oil and Gas
Happily, I can report the ready furtherance of my theory that the origins of oil
and gas on the planet come from meteor and asteroid strikes. Significant
corroboration has come to me in the past month as I have explored the Red
Desert Basin here in
and is a 100-mile in diameter depression loaded with natural gas whose
extraction the conservationists here in
having looked closely at the map, I suggest that the large asteroid strike that
created the
cloud killing the dinosaurs, had large fragments that struck ‘nearby’ such as here
in
resources. from BIM43, 2006
