“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
Pablo Picasso
The United Nations Cop28 climate summit wrapped up this week. The best language the participants could agree upon was to transition away from fossil fuels. Did not see any call to decrease military activity contributing to climate change.
New studies keep identifying additional methods we may effect the climate.
Happy Friday everyone. I hope everybody is doing well. Post any photos, memes, or music you like.
Another week of nice weather with sunny blue skies and day time temps in the low to mid 70s. It has been getting cold at night though. The last few mornings it's been in the mid 30s. Gotta enjoy the nice weather while it lasts. There's rain in the forecast for most of next week.
All these shapes and patterns except the high voltage tower were taken yesterday morning in Old Town San Diego.
The history of mankind is basically a timeline of war, from the first empires to the present. Many great civilizations, cultures, histories and knowledge down through the centuries have been lost to war. There are many examples of the victors erasing a peoples existence and replacing it with their concept of national identity. For example, The Old Testament is full of war, genocide and slaughter. History books are chronicles of war with intermittent smatterings of peace and prosperity. How much knowledge has been lost to the scourge of war? We will never know what the world has missed or how different it may have been because of the antiquities that were conquered and lost forever.
If the victor rewrites history in its favor, how can we trust anything that has been handed down to us, considering the possibility that the other side of the story may have been lost or altered for all of posterity? How much knowledge has been lost due to war, and the rewriting of history. The Library of Alexandria is just one example of ancient histories and knowledge lost to conflict. What knowledge and wisdom was lost forever in that fire of conflict? We'll never know.
They blockaded the 110 freeway in Los Angeles:
Friend,
Crooked Joe’s prosecutor just made an emergency request for the Supreme Court to TAKE AWAY MY PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY.
He’s bypassing the Appeals Court, skipping normal procedures and arguments, and asking for an IMMEDIATE RULING to ROB me of a right that has been granted to every other President in history.
The Biden Administration is DEADSET on having my trial begin and end before the 2024 Presidential Election.
Dogs, Dogs, Dogs - Wow
I thought I'd present a few bits of knowledge I've gotten from one of the papers in the book on dogs I'm very slowly reading. The book's in pdf format, for some reason that makes it slower to read - I guess because I can't read it in bed before I go to sleep! The book is entitled Dogs, Past and Present: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. It's very, very academic - each article has like 4-10 pages of bibliography! 
I found it at Archaeopress, a publisher in England where I frequently get books about archaeology for my research. The book is available as a pdf through open access, which is an English/British library system which allows online access to research publications; it's sort of like going to the library on your computer at home.
Jaska would sweep the floor, or do the scrapping, if she had thumbs! She's a big help!
