and then I was Reading Facebook... and Found These Posts about how Great it is to Ride the Light Rail Train in San Jose: TRUE!
SE Said on Facebook: I think the light rail system in Santa Clara Valley has done a pretty good job of extending to the areas where the tech companies are located, but people often say that light rail is a waste of money because most people would rather drive to work, and they complain that light rail is too slow, etc. I agree that most people prefer to drive to work, but I don't think it has as much to do with light rail being slow as the fact that most people like having their car with them during the work day so they can go places on their lunch hour and after work. I think the big mistake with the light rail system around here is the fact that they only thought about extending it to where people work, but they should have extended it to where people play. I've always wished I had the option of riding light rail to places like Santana Row and Valley Fair, because I hate dealing with parking at those places. But there is no other option to get there other than driving. If they build onto the existing light rail lines, they really should consider the fact that people want to drive to their jobs, but they want alternatives to driving when they go out to have fun.
And on a related note, everyone - and I really mean EVERYONE - wishes we had a way to get to the beach without having to drive over highway 17. A long time ago, long before my time, there was a train. If only we had a train now, it would alleviate so much of that nightmarish traffic on highway 17 in the summer. Once again, we need alternatives to driving to the places where we PLAY, not so much the places where we work.
I Replied: I took the Lightrail to Campbell after the Grateful Dead Concert at Levi Stadium, Santa Clara. We were Packed in Like Japanese... Beyond Standing Room Only... Because after the Second Show... The Police wanted everyone to go away... or Go Home... and so... as we were Riding along... someone held up a phone and the entire car sang along to GODZILLA by Blue Oyster Cult... and once I Made it to the end of the line I slept outdoors behind a 7/11... No Expensive Motel room for me! Just a Quart of Beer and ZONK!
I remember Riding the Light Rail on Halloween... I took my Acoustic Guitar and a Mardi Gras Mask and pretended to be a Minstrel... Singing Iko Iko... and Other Songs... That was a Great Party... The Train Runs Real Late and... If you get to the End of the Line at NASA, just get out and Get on another Train Heading to Almaden!
Another Excellent Memory was... When I was Living in Almaden in the Late 1990s. The San Jose Public Library had Free Internet Terminals and Before I Could Afford a Home Computer I went there every Weekend... There were 10 Machines and about 20 people that wanted to go online so... we sat in chairs waiting our turn... and the Other people in line Taught me How to Build a website... My First website was at Yahoo's Geocities... Yosemite/Trails/6803 and another one at Tripod... Both of those Platforms Have Vanished but someone copied and pasted all the Content into oocities... and The Internet Archive... and Yahoo gave us Six Months to Move our Words and Pictures to the FREE Microsoft Website... and then THAT one went out of Business... So I Moved Everything THAT WAS WORTHY to Google's Blogspot and Wordpress... and Published the Pictures and a Words on Facebook, Tumblr, Ello, Parler, Gab, Mastodon, Minds, Twitter, Linkdin, Liker, MeWe and DeviantArt... NO WAY will I Go thru the Trouble of Building a Website Just to Have it Vanish!
At the VTA Transit Center:
ANOTHER case of a Crazy Man With a Gun Killing People... Notice a TREND? A Pattern? Any SIMILARITIES to Yesterday's Crazy Man With a Gun Killing People? or Last Week's Incident? Got a Clue Yet? Outlaw Guns, Collect Guns, Melt Guns... It's Not Complicated... and Help Crazy People! https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/26/us/san-jose-shooting/index.html
FREE COLORING BOOK: Portrait of an American Indian Wearing a Headdress and Many Other Drawings - Print Them and Color Using Felt Pens, Pencils or Crayons... Make as Many Copies as You Like... Thanks! Gregory Vanderlaan
 |
| American Indian with Headdress |
text art guy with a spiral lightning bolt background
"Do the Math" a silly Science Fiction story...
During the early 1970's a gentleman and his wife were working in Palo Alto, California and he discovered the key to enlightenment. He published it as a book and became a leader of a religious group very popular with the high tech crowd surrounding Apple and HP. To put it briefly, the key is 01101011001110110100010001... and it went on like that for a hundred pages finally ending with the amazing conclusion that astonished the world and allowed the couple to earn a million dollars from royalties... 11010011100001110101100110.
A few years passed and the wife made a public statement: "While my husband is a fine fellow and a wonderful father to our children, I sadly must inform you that he is almost entirely wrong about the key to enlightenment. I have been doing the math and can state that there is a missing part... it is:10010100110001001011101110... and it went on like that for a hundred pages finally ending with the amazing conclusion that astonished the world and allowed the couple to earn another million dollars from royalties... 00101100011110001010011001.
And the people of the world did the math... and she was right... while each of the strings of zeros and ones by themselves showed part of the key to true enlightenment, if you add the two numbers together, they equal:1111111111111111111111111.... and it goes on for a hundred pages finally ending as you would expect... 111111111111111111111111111.
A few years passed and the wife made a public statement: "While my husband is a fine fellow and a wonderful father to our children, I sadly must inform you that he is almost entirely wrong about the key to enlightenment. I have been doing the math and can state that there is a missing part... it is:10010100110001001011101110... and it went on like that for a hundred pages finally ending with the amazing conclusion that astonished the world and allowed the couple to earn another million dollars from royalties... 00101100011110001010011001.
And the people of the world did the math... and she was right... while each of the strings of zeros and ones by themselves showed part of the key to true enlightenment, if you add the two numbers together, they equal:1111111111111111111111111.... and it goes on for a hundred pages finally ending as you would expect... 111111111111111111111111111.
And THAT is how you "become one" with the universe.
~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~
One Reason the War in Iraq was a Good Idea. Ronald Reagan Helped Make Saddam Hussein President of Iraq and Saddam Turned out To Have Been a Bad Choice... True, We All Would have Been Better Off if Ronald Reagan Had simply NOT Created a Monster BUT... Once we Created That Mess, we had a duty to clean it up. Here is a National Security Study all about Donald Rumsfeld selling Weapons to Iraq... To Help them Kill Iranians... https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/
It's Crazy that We Waste electricity Mining Bitcoins... all that electricity has to come from SOMEWHERE and a Lot Comes from Coal Fired Power Plants, Natural Gas, Nuclear... Making the world a Worse Place to Live... Every... FREAKING... Day! https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/05/25/bitcoin-mining-energy-elon-musk.cnnbusiness
SE Said on Facebook: I was just reading through a thread where people were discussing the possibility of making some of the outdoor dining parklets permanent after COVID is a thing of the past. The comments were as one would expect: some people were all, "Keep the parklets! Close more streets to traffic!" and other people were concerned about the effect closing streets has on traffic which now has to be diverted to other streets, and they were also concerned about all of the parking spaces which have been eliminated in order to make room for outdoor dining parklets. And of course, the ones who are in favor of keeping the parklets say things like, "Just take an Uber!" as if Uber is some free shuttle service. I really wish people would consider the fact that not everyone has the money for Uber. I realize that the Bay Area is known for money and extreme wealth, but there are plenty of people here who are struggling to afford the high cost of living, especially right now, because a lot of people have been out of work due to COVID. "Just take an Uber" is not an option for a lot of people. I have enjoyed dining outdoors under a tent as a novelty in the past year, but I think it's time to start breaking down some of those setups and open the streets back up to cars and parking again. Traffic is getting heavier as more people are going back to work, and traffic in the Bay Area is bad enough without blocking off streets. Those tents were never meant to be permanent, anyway. They have kind of a post-apocalyptic look to them, and they've served their purpose at this point, so it's time to slowly start breaking them down and going back to the way things were before. Most restaurants already had an outside patio anyway. Now that we can dine in again, whatever patios the restaurants already had should be sufficient. There is no need to block off anymore parking spaces or traffic to make room for tented outdoor dining.
I Replied: Since UBER is so Damn Expensive... I Always Think Twice about going anywhere... For Example: It's Sixty Dollars Round trip to My Doctor's Office but ZERO DOLLARS to Have a Zoom Meeting... I Question WHY I Have to Appear In Person... and Quite often We Took Care of Appointments on Zoom... Twice a year we Review IF the Prescriptions I Take are the Correct Dose and IF they are Effective... Well, That Requires a Trip to The Blood Test Facility but NO WAY does That Require a Personal Visit to My Doctor's Office... I Can Tell Him Verbally what my Blood Pressure and Blood Sugar Readings average... and we concluded that the Dosage was Correct... another place I Have NOT Visited is my AA Meetings... I Can "Go to a Meeting" on the Internet... AND... It's entirely possible that Those People Have Not Had a Vaccine and they Could be Infected... Why Go Breathe The Same Air?
I Never Go to Restaurants since at my Old Folks Home We Have a Cook... and Every Meal is a Restaurant Meal...
Music Video: "MELT the GUNS" - by Greg Vanderlaan - Feel Free To Record This and Make a Top Ten Record. Pass this On to a Friend... Chords and Lyrics Provided.
video is at: https://youtu.be/ml5ziDRoqcc
I read The Google News "FOR YOU" Page Every Morning... Since I've been Clicking on things I'm Interested in for 25 Years... Google Has a Really Accurate Idea of What I'm Interested in... and Serves Newspaper Articles from a Wide Variety of Newspapers, Websites, Twitter Accounts and Facebook Pages... Why would I want to Read What Some Editor at a Newspaper thinks is Important? On the Other Hand... If I Ever want to Line a Birdcage, Newspapers are the way to GO!
 |
| Skyline on Trantor a World in the Book Foundation by Asimov The Entire Planet is Covered By One Giant City |
Remember: Science Works While Prayer Fails... The Coronavirus Vaccine has Reduced the Number of People Dying while... Faith... Did... Nothing... Look at India... all those GURUs and All that Death... Chanting and Meditation is Truly Pointless...
LINKS TO MORE BLOG POSTS!
- FREE COLORING BOOK: Portrait of an American Indian...
- Free Coloring Book: Print as Many Copies as You L...
- tRUMP DOES NOT PARDON: Maria Butina, Michael Cohen...
- 2,017 Years Ago, Three Wise Guys Saw Jupiter and S...
- On 12/21/2020 We Are Halfway thru the Winter and H...
- HOW TO IGNORE DONALD TRUMP Straight Into the Dumps...
- Great Book: "Breaking and Entering: The Extraordin...
- Project MKULTRA: The CIA Mind Control Experiment T...
- As a Nation, We Need to Forgive Each Other and Wor...
- POP QUIZ for Alice in Wonderland Fans. What is the...
- How To Actually DO Psychedelic Regrooving. Feeding...
- FACT CHECK: Pfizer Took NO MONEY From Operation Wa...
- Smart People Will Take The Coronavirus Vaccine and...
- Trump Lost Again! - "Ain't no Great Day Coming Tom...
- #MAGALOSER Fails Again... Trump Will Try to Steal ...
- Georgia Republicans! Boycott the Senate Runoff Ele...
- Almost Everything that Has Been Accomplished Was D...
- I'm Using EDGE to Sign Into 12 Social Media Networ...
- Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler's Corrupt...
- The Reason I Publish TRUTH on the Internet Is: GLO...
- Bring Our Soldiers Home From Iraq, Afghanistan and...
- What IF Abraham Lincoln Had Simply Said Bye Bye? W...
- I Took My Parents to the Iran-Contra Hearings at t...
- Join the Cult of Moral Greyness! Now Accepting GNU...
- CAN YOU SPOT A TREND? Roger Stone=Guilty, Paul Man...
- A Side Effect of Joe Biden's 1994 Crime Bill That ...
- When WAS America Great? MAGA? 1969? 1954? 1854? 17...
- Numbers have Cultural Meanings... A list from Zero...
- We Ought to Encircle the White House with Proteste...
- Once I took an LSD trip at UC Santa Cruz and when ...
- Let's OUTLAW Prescription Medicines TV Ads. The CO...
- #FRANCE1789 Everyone is Predicting a VIOLET OVERGR...
- Let's Lay Off Half of the Police and Refund their ...
- Working at Domino's Pizza as a Delivery Driver in ...
- GOP Revolt: Support for Czar Donald starting to Cr...
- Interesting Leader: Steven Dinan of The Shift Netw...
- We Need To Deploy M*A*S*H* Units to Texas to Help ...
%20(1).jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg "Who WAS Ram Dass? In the Sixties, He was a Psychedelics Researcher and Promoter at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary. (LSD, Magic Mushrooms and Peyote)")
.jpg "Peace Sign Pie Chart")
.jpg "Military Death Chart USA")