What's left of it. I've been writing all day, making up for lost time. Checking the'Net at last at 6 p.m...Id and then the computer became fractious. Microsoft is not legally forbidden to annoy people by "rolling out updates" the minute the ideas cross their twitchy little micro-brains, then realizing that these "updates" contained errors and "rolling out" more interference with people's use of their own property until they think they've got it right.
We need a law. Call it the Internet Triage Law:
1. "First-party input" comes from the owner(s) through the computer keyboard. It must always be obeyed instantly. If it's not what the owners wanted, that's the owners' problem.
2. "Second-party input" comes from sites specifically recognized by keyboard commands, but not their sponsor organizations, and must be allowed to transmit responses to the computer owners' messages. Second-party input would include web searches, forums, comments, posting to hosted blog sites, videos, etc.
3. "Third-party input" comes from anyone else, including the sponsor organizations of sites computer owners visit and interact with. (The specific Blogspot blog you visit would be a second party; Google would be a third party.) Third-party input is suspect because it comes from a third party and must never be allowed to interrupt computer owners' use of their computers. Ideally it would be held for 24 hours of automatic scanning by the FCC to identify anything that might compromise the use of a computer, such as spyware. No third party should be able to see anything we type that is not visible to the general public without producing verification of payment of a minimum of 10 cents per word seen or $5 per picture seen.
'The louder the Microgoons bray that that's impossible, the faster they need to be held accountable for getting it into effect.
Environmental
This would not be primarily Glyphosate Awareness. Glyphosate breaks down pretty fast in water. Some of its residues could be sucked up into clouds and redistributed as rain, but they would soon cease to be be glyphosate. Some other "pesticides" are more durable and might recirculate endlessly through nature's cleaning system...
Music
(If nothing else, this section does show how many pages I visited and didn't feel a need to share...a music video, then a plain text link, alternating on and on.)
The Ventures.
The Lovin' Spoonful.
Steely Dan.
Gerry Rafferty.
Tom Petty
Seba Campos.
Led Zeppelin. I would not have listened, much less danced, to a recording like this when it was new. It took years of wear and tear to reduce my hearing to a level where I can enjoy it.
Kiss. Note that among baby-boomers this song is now good for rueful laughs about when and how we discovered the limits to our crazy teenage energy, but when the song was new even teenagers thought it was terrible because some people really did take drugs and give themselves serious brain damage...
Kids I knew would have been less hypersensitized to this one, although our parents wouldn't have been. Some of my schoolmates developed real drug addictions, but those of us who had had premarital sex and not become premature parents all said they could do without any more sex for a long while.
Thelonius Monk.
Avishai Cohen.
REM. Much mentioned in Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs. Hoot! I thought the Weavers actually made it sound pretty good, but this version....
Peter, Paul, & Mary.
Wes Montgomery.
Toto.
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