“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
Pablo Picasso

Morning, just finished rewatching a BBC series WarTime Farm about the challenges of running a farm during WII in Britain. It was a forced shift from traditional farming methods to modern commercial agriculture. Surprising number of technological advances from chemicals to machinery existed for significant time. The market for the products simply did not develop without government intervention.

Welcome one and all to Friday night photos. Post um if you got um.

Last week dystopian was trying to remember a Japanese word that means "pleasingly out of focus background". The word he was thinking of is bokeh. There is ongoing debate in the photo world about what constitutes pleasingly out of focus.

Here are a few examples of bokeh.

the New Age is being born.

This morning at 9:40 am I posted as part of the Evening Blues

Political Implications
@humphrey

"NYC had 6.91 inches of rain in a 24 hour period. Ihe most intense hour dropped almost 4 inches.

Even the best parts of NYC sewer system can handle fewer than 2 inches an hour.

Apparently, there are few to none possible ways to fix this even a little bit.

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It isn't a question of treatments or vaccines, it is the sanity of using both. I've seen three clips today which illustrate the stupidity of censoring conversation and scientific debate. People are dying, and yes we should be concerned. Joe Rogan is being attacked for getting over his COVID infection in three days by using a cocktail of (unacceptable) treatments. Data is being ignored and suppressed and conversations disappeared for exploring treatments. Doctors are being silenced despite their rather remarkable success treating COVID. Why? I would suggest the profit motive. The clips are below the fold...

Almost everyone knows about Orwell's 1984. Fewer people are familiar with Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, and The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
However, one of the greatest dystopian novels of all time generally gets overlooked.
I'm speaking of The Trial by Franz Kafka.