Sunday, December 30, 2018

Emlek - Memory

Ok i spent too much tonight to find that fb post where i posted the original Hungarian lyrics to this song.

(Yes i believe Ilona Bencze is the same person as Barbra Streissand and i try to learn some basic Hungarian using this song's lyrics.)

Éjfél, sûrû csend ül a járdán,
Mire gondol a vén Hold, hogy csak mosolyog rám?
Lomha szél fú, rõt avar fut a lábam elé,
Tépett ág jajong a fán.
Holdfény, derûs emléket ébreszt,
Újra éled a régmúlt, minden gyönyörûség.
Boldog órák, az ifjúságom szép idején,
Gyertek hozzám vissza még!

Halvány lámpa villog felém,
Még áldott árnyék rejt el.


Szúrós zaj kél, összerezzen a csend,
Ha rám tör majd a reggel.


Hajnal, ne tarts tükröt a vénnek,
Ha csak emlék az élet, talán szép marad még!
Tán e kék éj, a holdvilág még ifjúnak lát,
Úgy, mint egykor, réges-rég
Füstben barnult új nap kél
A korhadt, pállott széllel
Kihunyt lámpát gúnyol az ömlõ fényár,
Ha elkullog az éjjel
Nézz rám, kicsit érints meg némán,
Maradj még szelíd emlék,
Színes hajdani nyár


Érj csak hozzám, és feléled a boldog idõ
Jaj, a hajnal pirkad már!

Friday, December 28, 2018

Catch Can II

Continuation to https://georgesblogforfriends.blogspot.com/2018/12/catch-can.html

Break time could be blogging time. Got the catch can in the mail at an Amazon locker. They sent me the code in the email, Angela picked for me from the locker at a convenience store.

As i was expecting at that price and level of complexity, many small problems with it. "Blue irregularities" on the inside. Aluminum shavings (removed, not seen in picture). Missing o-ring at the dipstick, vacuum leak (as i read on some reviews).

Two pairs of connectors. 3/8, with very small holes inside and an am even smaller passage, about half that diameter. 5/8, with huge holes inside, had no hose to connect to.

I tried to enlarge the 3/8 with a 7 mm drill bit on my hex ended screwdriver. However the hole started to go out of alignment with the initial one. Finally drill bit locked.

So i ran to Home Depot but there only plumbing connectors which are tapered. One of them almost fit. I could had put it in with Teflon. However the guy who was selling it looked very grumpy and discouraged me from doing it. Maybe he wanted me back on the road for more show.

Was really sick from some smoke here in the apartment coming from the backyard earlier. Shortness of brath, wakness, fainting like feeling.

However i tried to go to a machine shop and have them drill the small connectors on a small lathe. The owner was in vacation, there was a trainee who didn't know how to use the lathe.

Came back home. Out of frustration i tried and pushed a 3/8 vacuum line on the 5/8 connector. With a little grease, i did it (after all, it's rubber). Wondering if it's not gonna break. However, i don't think it even needs a clamp. Can't take it out no matter how hard i try, needs to be cut. (Right on the picture).

On the car originally there was a hose two size ended, 3/8 at the PCV valve side and i didn't know the other that goes into the composite intake. So i went outside to measure it. It was coming out hard (probably no more oil in there, the plastic catch can i already installed has something like half ounce of milky emulsion (oil and moisture but i wonder if it works during summer, now oil and moisture condensates easier on the cooler walls of the can) but i don't like it totally because of the relatively small connectors.

I needed a long nose pliers for the clamp and when i tried i saw there was some metal filings on the tip of the pliers. I cleaned it, i didn't see any on the clamp, i pulled the clamp, the hose, measured the connector, it was 9/16 or 15 mm. Then i remembered where the metal filings where from on the clamp, from me building a metal catch can out of a paint can, but cannot believe they were so many (basically the tip of the pliers where covered by it).

Again during the whole time of the procedure i was still under the influence of that smoke in the morning.

Anyways. I am really paranoid about getting stuff in there, this time i was lucky because i went to measure that connector first an was during daytime and there was still enough light outside for me to see the fillings on the pliers.

Then i went at NAPA and got a 5/8 which is for water heater and they say it's not oil resistant. However i don't expect oil to get past this catch can again.

But ever since and the main reason i'm writing this post is i realized why is so bad to have oil in the intake (besides burning on the valves and make them stick and have hydraulic lifters squeeze oil through and make the oil foamy and the risk of bending valves).

Any contaminant that can make its way in there, be it through the filter, past it (last time i changed oil at Jiffy Lube i found mine on the truck not fully closed in the box from a previous oil change at again Jiffy Lube in Salem, or basically air getting past it, and filter perfectly clean after months) ends up in the unwanted oil coating the intake on the inside. Those particles slowly but surely will travel through the intake all the way to valves. There they can get on the aluminum valve seat and if are hard particles they can get embedded into the aluminum valve seat contributing to the wearing out of the engine. Also when i got the car, before i removed most oil from previous trickling through PCV system, i found oil on the spark plugs to the point one of them came loose, damaging the seat, prompting me to resurface the seats with a special tool i designed myself. So dust or contaminants basically do not fly through the intake, through the valves, burn or pass the cylinder through exhaust valves, but stick on the intake, valves and ultimately cylinder walls contributing to wearing out of the engine.

So in a way unwanted oil getting in the engine through PCV system acts as a magnet for dust and contributes to the wearing out of the engine after the initial break in when blow-by gasses start to pass the cylinder, pressurize the engine and open more the PCV valve, and finally spitting oil through it.

Not talking about contaminating the intake gasket (In 2015 i realized i had a vacuum leak at the truck and on Halloween's eve the guys at Meineke in Tigard found a twisted gasket probably from that reason.

Got an open window because i'm drying laundry and it's hot in here. I think smoke from outside is building up in here and i start to get sick again.

This is the final result, the next day. Again, apartment surrounded by smoke. I noticed some holes next to the building's foundation built and plugged them. Also in the grass in front of the car where i was working they were some small holes like finger diameter i don't know from what animal, maybe big earthworms. After i covered all of those the smoke disappeared. Starting to clear now. Went for a test drive. Bigger hoses and connectors made a world of difference in power. Blow by basses from the now a bit worned out engine (50k) vent better through those. Now i'm curious to see if the new can with bigger hoses and flow actually catches more oil than first one made of plastic seen above. BTW, i found a drop of oil in the intake connector, which means that one was escaping a bit.

Thinking about what a pressurized crankcase does to gaskets. Oil pan gasket. If oil blows by the gasket due to pressure inside and made it's ways to the bolts, then you're in for a permanent oil leak. Hopefully this didn't happen yet. This car has one more valve for this reason. In case PCV valve gets blocked, it opens and lets the gasses go into the air duct before the throttle.

Tuesday, December 25, 2018

May The Qi Be With You. Always

"From myself
and from the others
i extract the square root
and i realize it is only water,
water in a state of thought,
water with soul and whirls,
water, in an incurable
chemical formula."

Păunescu, RadicalPăunescu - Wilder

A Chinese radical is a graphical component of a Chinese character under which the character is traditionally listed in a Chinese dictionary. This component is often a semantic indicator, though in some cases the original semantic connection has become obscure, owing to changes in character meaning over time. Wikipedia

Here is Chinese radical 84

Chinese radical water -shui

Chinese character Chi (Qi)


And wind - feng (simplified)

Feng shui in different Asian languages


“Chi [Qi] is simply an ancient term used to describe what cannot be seen by the naked eye, such as sound waves, odor molecules, bacteria, heat waves, and others that were not scientifically known in ancient times.”

"Feng shui identifies the odor from the restroom and trash as a negative form of Qi because they have the ability to adversely affect our health. Imagine if you live in conditions where you are surrounded by these repugnant smell. How would you feel? How would you react mentally and physically? When stench or foul smell gets to me, my body reacts by giving me the urge to vomit.

Imagine this: how would your sleep quality be if the toilet is right next to your bed?"
https://fengshuinexus.com/blog/what-is-qi-in-feng-shui/

Why do we need school, why do we need science. To be able to predict. How things work. What others will do, how we need to react do and how can we use prediction to get advantages. Over others of course. But there are many things not thought in schools. One of them is feng shui. On reason of not being scientific.

If it can, using pseudo laws, to predict to a certain degree future behavior of systems, a pseudoscience is better than nothing or ignorance in a certain aspect of reality. And if those aspects are in human social relations (read competitiveness) area it will definitely give a certain advantage to the user over the complete ignorant.

Now scientifically. Anything vibrates. Any structure has a certain or a whole bunch of resonance frequencies. That is it will vibrate, when energized, like when being hit, on certain preferred frequencies.

There are numerous recent researches on how sound can move things. Levitation on sound waves, name it.

It is obvious that inside a building vibration can move air around. If the shape of the home is "inauspicious", that is its own built-in vibration modes that will allow moving your air around at resonance, which can be triggered, especially in light constructions (made of hollow, wood frame walls closed with panels) by starting with wind, vehicles hitting bumps all the way to slammed door in your parking lot, air from the dirty places of your home can travel all the way to you.

Ancient people if not scientifically, knew about through feeling the effects and had at least some sort of approach to this problem.

https://www.google.com/search?q=feng+shui+ancient+china+building+codes

Humans (in the evolutionary hypothesis) are quite complete, well built, adaptive beings, but there are some limits. It takes several minutes for a person to adapt at a certain smell and chemical, microbiological makeup of the surrounding air. If we are to imagine some social entity chooses to mess with someone and has the means to, all it takes is to rotate the environment parameters by altering the feng shui using shock waves. That is mixing your smells inside your dwelling fast enough for you not to have the time to adapt. That means brain has to quit or suspend some higher level activities to work on the adaptation processes. That may knock out your higher level thinking processes for minutes, or if repeated, for hours or the rest of the day.

But this is just an example. Besides moving air around at resonance sound itself is part of the environment and can set you off in different aspects also discussed intensely on the web.

It is amazing how the floor plan of this apartment is similar to the last one in Lake Oswego (except for the wall between kitchen and bathroom, which here is one ft thick, though not shown in the floor plan).

It was French philosopher René Descartes (Cartesian was his other, Latin chosen name). But now, if i take a closer look at him...

Monday, December 10, 2018

Catch Can

Due to normal wearing of cars' engines after several tens of thousands miles hot gases from cylinder start to escape by the ring of the pistons inside the engine or on the other side of the pistons. Since the engine is closed by seals and gaskets, pressure starts to build up. Depending on how much the engine is worn, more ore less gas have to be released in order to obtain maximum efficiency. Also. Exhaust gases may have water and gasoline in them. Water would emulsify the oil and gasoline would thin it.

However those are exhaust gases and unburned fuel, you can't simply let them escape in the air. Most manufacturers choose an option design called PCV (Positive Crankcase Ventilation). It's a very simple idea. When pressure builds up (certain rpms and engine output) a valve opens (PCV valve) and lets those gases back into the intake manifold. The parameters of the process are more complicated, cause manifold vacuum that varies with the rpm and output. A simple valve is not the best solution but this is what we got on most cars.

PCV valve is usually placed on the valve cover in the highest point to avoid oil that splashes to escape into the circuit and into the intake with the gases. However that is an ideal that never happens.

Every time when i replaced a PCV valve i saw it had oil in it. And sometimes oil cooks in there and stuck the ball and spring of the valve either open or closed, again decreasing engine efficiency. But i never had a major problem with it until i owned a Hyundai.

Hyundais are different from other cars at least by two accounts. Valve cover is minimalistically low. Main design engineer there who worked at Daimler chose to copy an improvement from Daimler which they also took from diesel engines. The so called swirl flaps. There are two rows of butterfly like valves inside the manifold that open and close according to vacuum (first row) and actuated by computer (second). Those are installed in there to create turbulence and again get you a few percent of more gas mileage.

Now comes the interesting part.

I recently installed a modified filter for water to catch the oil from PCV line. The filter was transparent and i could see inside it's not only oil coming on PCV line. Oil is emulsified by the water present in exhaust. When that emulsion ends in the intake somehow interferes with the functioning of the first row of flaps, those actuated by vacuum. It changes the weight of the flaps on one end and they start oscillating, creating variations in engine's functioning which in the end translate in vibration. Vibration that surpasses the design performance of the exhaust manifold sealing gasket and starting intermittent exhaust leaks. Again vibration transmits to the hood that intermittently opens and let small amounts of exhaust pass by the seal and into the cabin fan intake. Shall i say more?

The filter i installed after a few improvements catches most of that emulsion however it restricts the flow of gasses at certain rpms decreasing efficiency.

The problem is known to car enthusiasts from race cars. There are what they call oil catch cans that costs up to hundreds of dollars. I once found a cheap one on Amazon made of blue anodized aluminum, looking nice and shiny, and... one quart capacity (hard to find a place under the hoos).

The lead's sealing gasket was made of cardboard and looked weak and i didn't want to take the chance for parts of that gasket to get into the intake so i sent it back. Drop of efficiency with installed filter is more severe in town and generally when accelerating when pressure builds up inside engine. I finally decided to build my own catch can. First i went to NAPA to buy some connectors. Had no idea what to attach them to. The idea was to go later to Home Depot or Lowes an buy anything that looked close to a can and had a detachable lead (you need a detachable lead because you have to screw the connectors). However, conveniently next to the connector there was what they call a "brake bleeder".

Don't know, in auto mechanics slang, for some reason they call purging of the brake fluid "bleeding". At Les Schwab they even have the so called "power bleeder" LOL. It's some sort of round reservoir with several gallons of brake fluid in it where at one end you attach a hose with compressed air and the other all sorts of adapters that go in the place of master cylinder reservoir. Pressurized brake fluid would go into the reservoir. On cars at each wheels brake caliper and pistons have a small screws with halls call again... "bleeder". You unscrew those a bit and usually can have someone press on the pedal to "bleed" the system then screw them back when the pedal goes up. With the power bleeder though, one person can do it. But it's very wasteful. The caps would not fit really well on top of master cylinders and much fluid is lost on the floor. However. You could purge the whole brake fluid from lines and reservoir and cylinder and replace it with new one.

The brake bleeder from NAPA works in the opposite way. You are supposed to attach a vacuum hose (supposed you have a vacuum pump) at one end and connect it to the bleeders at the wheels. Or just attach it and use it to just collect the fluid. While pumping on the pedal fluid would not go on the floor but in the can and air would go out on the other connector. Why it was there at NAPA next to the air connectors? Did they know i was looking for something just like it?

Anyways. It has a tight sealed lead, two connectors and it seemed to fit the purpose. However when i came home and cut those connectors which where too small and again would obstruct the PCV flow, i realized it was all made of cheaper plastic, not nylon as i thought. There is a serious chance it would melt at summer. While working at it was thinking of gluing those connectors that i almost self thread in the very tight holes i made in place of built in connectors, an idea came to me. Why not making the whole thing out of a... tin can. Drill the holes, force self thread the connectors, use JB weld to seal them and voila. Only trouble would be i would not be able to see inside and empty the can. Don't know yet.

Saturday, December 8, 2018

Focus On Me

After the landscape guys came in Friday they blew some mulch in and partially covered one of the vents of the basement, the one i just cleaned the night before. The nearest to the exhaust pipes from driers where probably there's a broken one. I noticed in the last couple of days no new mole mounds in the yard, don't know about dog poo but it doesn't look like it smells.

Yesterday i vacuumed the apartment. Angela bought Fabreeze bags at Walmart (Bissel nr.7). However the're not as good as Arm and Hammer. Some dust went past them. I vacuum about every month or so, and when i do it it stinks in here about 24 hours. The new Winix filter i bought online from Home Depot has an air quality sensor. But what i call "the after vacuum stink" is not even showing on that one.

The guy with the blue Dodge, after more than two months break started to make the terrible noise again within last two days. Yesterday he started it and went for short trips more than 5 times, including after midnight. I think it stopped the day when i posted the picture of Ariana Grande's ex boyfriend saying he looked like him, the guy with the blue Dodge pickup.

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/camp-halfblood-roleplay/images/0/0c/Jai-brooks-luke-brooks-nirvana-sexy-Favim.com-2621588.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150603035502

After the old man upstairs moved in early September i haven't been using his parking spot next to ours. However other people started to use it and random cars where being parked next to ours.

So i decided to better use it myself. It didn't seem right for me to park it elsewhere and occupy a much sought for visitor's spot while others to use this one.

Two days ago a team of three maintenance techs went upstairs for about 10 minutes. It seem they didn't have a place to park their cart.

Yesterday they came again and dusted the garages next to our building. Something i've done once about 2 years ago. There was so much dust, back then it looked like they haven't been dusted for many years. Again they parked next to my truck, in the alley. In three years i haven't seen them dusting any of the building except once. I dusted this building three times only this year.

Today, after using that spot for about a month this morning i found a warning label on my truck's right door's window saying to move it or it will be towed.

I think the Dodge noise stopped after i posted this resemblance she showed herself here walking a dog, i saw here when i took out the garbage.

https://similarities-asemanari.blogspot.com/2018/10/ariana-grande-szilagyi-dorottya.html

I think after what i posted in the last few days the're trying to move focus on myself.

Last time i saw a warning sign on my truck was in the evening of July 4th, when i came back from a trip in California. I came back a day earlier than estimated time because i drove almost 1000 miles in two days. The truck had a slashed tire and was to be towed the next day. A week later, after i put new tires on it, another one slashed. This time the drive of the towing truck looked like that guy from Patriot Prayer, Joey Gibson.

Had big problems with the new car. Oil was getting in the intake manifold through PCV circuit interfering with the swirl flaps, new efficiency additions taken from diesel engines. Oscillating swirl flaps meant engine vibrating, temporary exhaust leaks.

Got the car from an auction, Copart. It was sold under the category of "small dents and scrathces". However it was sold the second time. The car has been in a wreck, somebody bought it, partially fixed it and and sold it back in a different category. When i got at home i saw the engine was vibrating (because of oil in the manifold), there was a broken headlight and windshield reservoir in the trunk, car was painted on the right side including the door. Hood was slightly bent and out of alignment and was not making contact with the seal, exhaust getting in the cabin. Radiator's coolant cap was loose and leaking coolant, there was some sort of salt from the road crystallized on the windshield, etc.. https://www.copart.com/lot/29697838/?eid=email_G2US_mktg_transactional_BT_US_1007_Buyer_Seller_Counters_Rec



A few weeks ago i found a lot of oil in the filter in installed but after i changed oil i think it stopped. Last time at Jiffy Lube on 99 in Tigard they put by mistake 5W30 instead of 5W20 as recommended. Before that at dealerships in Beaverton and Salt Lake City they overfilled it and that caused small amounts of oil to flow through PCV valve. Every time i was getting in tire pressure was changed, including during the trips.

Exhaust and coolant in the cabin, poor driveability, all where potentially safety problems, and i drove it like that more than 5000 miles in two trips across many states in the west.

One of the guys of the maintenance team, the one who speeding with his cart in the parking lot disappeared after i posted this https://similarities-asemanari.blogspot.com/2018/11/radu-almasan-laszlo-barnak.html, and after i thought he just might have looked like him.

I think i've identified some of the others, as being some of the team of Christa Jakobson, ex-Chris Jacobson, ex Chris Brooks (not the famous athlete), a ninja instructor,  her(himself) acting as the handy-woman (middle of the picture). They seem not to be present here all the time. One of the guys disappeared after i posted what i thought to be his picture, he's got his own ninja school somewhere but i forgot his name now but he showed back about a week ago.

In this happy ninja group picture he might be the one on the lower left.


Just remembered now. This ninja dude from Christa's team looks exactly like Matt Bennett. Beware ninja use all kinda tricks with modified teeth.  (All current fighting technics in modern Japanese martial arts derive from ninjutsu which is at least 900 years old, however ninjutsu is much more than this and includes acting, other performing art, person substituting, disguising, infiltrating, mastering psychology, etc..)

Today as i was writing this post somebody went upstairs and starting making noises. That reminds me of the month from hell that started several weeks after the old man moved from upstairs, when they took out all the old appliances fainted, fixed cabinets etc.. for at least 8 hours a day in the morning. They were times when i simply had to leave because of the noise, smell, etc.. Angela just looked online ans saw the add for the apartment was taken out which means probably somebody is moving in and that explains the warning label on my truck. At least there was no squeaking noises upstairs for the last three months but that is about to change.

Friday, November 23, 2018

Octavian Goga, Petru Groza, aceeași persoană?

Născuți la 3 ani diferență, 1881 și 1883, amândoi au absolvit Universitatea „Eötvös Loránd” din Budapesta, deci vorbeau perfect limba maghiară. Amândoi politicieni, deși Goga ne este mai cunoscut ca poet, Groza a fost comunist iar Goga nazist. Groza începând din 1928 a lipsit 5 ani din scena politică exact când a fost Goga mai activ, iar acesta a murit în 1938, când a început cariera lui Groza ca și comunist.

Goga a luat cetățenia română la 250 mii sau o treime din evrei.

Groza a lichidat Partidul Național Țărănesc și toate celelalte formațiuni politice după 1947 în afară de Partidul Comunist Român și cel Național Maghiar.

În majoritatea fotografiilor de pe net Goga apare cu ochi mari larg deschiși  și capul înclinat înainte ceea ce-i micșorează bărbia iar Groza îi ține strâns cu bărbia ridicată și mai aproape de cameră. Am putut vedea în zilele și lunile care au trecut cât de bine colaborează celebritățile cu fotografii, atunci când e vorba de dedublări.

În rest scrisul pare identic, deși Groza face G-ul altfel. În mod ironic, P-ul de la Petru seamănă mai mult cu un O iar combinația G și r de la Groza simulează G-ul de la Goga.


Pe net am găsit doar o poză de rezoluție scăzută cu linia profilului lui Groza și una ceva mai bună a lui Goga

Sunday, November 18, 2018

A Trip to Thor's Well

Click on the first picture then hit right arrow in sequence.  (press F11 for best results) Enjoy!


















Friday, November 9, 2018

Știință și tehnică

Ce deliciu era în copilărie sâmbăta. Ne obligau la școală să ne abonăm. Aveam de ales între Urzica, Știință și Tehnică, Cutezătorii, Luminița, ce mai era. Minitehnicus. Primeam revistele și deși e totul foarte vag, îmi amintesc că învățătoarea ne lăsa parcă o oră să ne uităm la ele. Sau în pauze. Nu mai știu. Cred că le schimbam între noi și le citeam toate. Acasă taică-meu avea abonament la Magazin. Venea și ăla sâmbăta, mirosind a cerneală. Toate miroseau. Culorile erau cam aiurea, rezoluția, chiar și pe atunci atunci îmi dădeam seama că era proastă, pentru cele color ce se voiau lucioase. Dar erau câteva ore de imersie într-o lume magică, a viitorului, poate. Benzi desenate cu eroi locali. Mașini americane cu 5 viteze, circuit de frânare dublu care consumau 10 litri la sută.

Ce contează că aceste publicații erau făcute după cine știe ce model sovietic sau franțuzesc. Care la rândul lor poate se făceau după publicații americane.

Am aflat multe multe chestii de acolo. Nu prea discutam între noi, subiectele de discuție erau impuse de copii populari și de multe ori erau glume proaste, multe de natură deocheată.

Azi, după o facultate tehnică, după sute de mii de pagini de internet explorate, prin filtrul unui realism tehnic ca să zic așa, am învățat să recunosc din prima știrile, noutățile științifice reciclate, doar cu scopul de a corecta impresiile zilnice ale celor mulți.

Cred că H Pylori e un mit, ca multe altele. În realitate și în știri. Am fost tratat pentru H Pyori și nu cred că mi-a făcut rău fiindcă probabil aveam tot felul de alte infecții digestive, (esofag, stomac, duoden, pancreas, bilă, intestin) de la trăit în locuințe absolut sub limita igienei și de la consumat carne cu antibiotice. Americanii vorbesc despre lumea a III-a fără să știe în ce lume trăiesc ei. Ar trebui să meargă să viziteze orice țară din Europa să vadă, dar ei preferă o vacanță în Hawaii. Cel mai rău. Nimeni nu mă crede ce spun, nici ei fiindcă nu au comparație, nici europenii care se uită doar la filme, nu vin pe aici.

Mă uimește cantitatea de poze care descriu lucruri nevăzute, cu o rezoluție fantastică, dar nimeni sau poate doar specialiștii din redacții știu că toate acestea sunt doar imaginații ale unor artiști, care poate s-au consultat dar cel mai probabil nu, cu specialiști.

(Nu, H Pylori nu este verde. Nu are culoare pentru că cel puțin grosimea este sub lungimea de undă cea mai scurtă, violet.)

Iată o imagine de H Pylori la microscopul electronic. Microscopul electronic nu folosește lumină. Electronii, deși mult mai mari ca fotonii, nu sunt limitați la lungimile de undă ale luminii, sub care nimic nu poate fi "văzut", de aceea pot fi observate detalii, ca și cozile sau flagelele acelea.

Aceleași H Pylori la microscopul optic, cu un agent fluorescent.

Obiectele nevăzute din macrocosmos. Săptămâna trecută un asteroid exotic a bântuit știrile. O fi existând. O fi avânt traiectoria respectivă. Oamenii de știri au sugerat că ar putea fi o navă spațială galactică ieșită din uz. Au sărit să îl deseneze, iar unii deși pun o notă lângă care avertizează că este o imagine artistică, nimeni nu e atent la acea mică inscripție care de cele mai multe ori lipsește.

Nici un telescop, radiotelescop sau câmp de telescoape în uz nu are suficientă rezoluție pentru a vedea acele detalii. Din aceleași motive de lungime de undă a luminii. Ele, asteroidele în cel mai bun caz sunt văzute ca niște puncte. Din variația intensității luminoase se deduce viteza de rotație și cumva forma, în sensul raportului lungime-grosime. Astăzi nici un jurnalist nu se poate scuzat că nu a știut. Este suficient 2-3 căutări google pentru a te lămuri înainte de a publica ce poate influența mințile a mii de cititori.

Mă duce gândul la senzaționalism, care este un stil literar folosit mai ales în tabloide (publicații de exagerări mondene).

Dar motivul poate fi cu totul altul. Despre asteroidul Oumuamua ar fi putut scrie sau pune imagini senzaționale reale ca de exemplu traiectoria exotică.

Dar ei preferă exotisme imaginare dirijabile, care parcă toate converg spre o singură direcție. Simboluri falice, semantisme ca Oumu și roid. Iar România, acum, pylo.

Friday, November 2, 2018

魔鬼人 - mó guìrén - Devil People

One thing leads to another.

Nu ar fi asta definiția scurtă a consecințialismului, un curent filozofic contemporan foarte important?

Vroiam să postez ceva și din idee în idee am ajuns iar la această sintagmă pe care am însă de data aceasta am făcut-o imediat titlu al unei postări de blog. Am mai tradus cu ajutorul lui Google Translate de câteva ori 4 hanzi (caractere chinezești). Le-am pus acum din nou înșirate în GT întâmplător în altă combinație și mi-a ieșit o surpriză. Am mai aflat de un hanzi. Și se potrivește atât de bine cu ce vroiam să spun.

(Subiectul lingvistic pare vast, o discuție separată, nu vreau să intru în detalii. Plănuiesc să intru în contact cu cineva de origine chineză ca să discut puțin ca să mă lămuresc definitiv).

魔 mó - magic

高 gāo - expensive,

贵 guì - high, noble

鬼 guì - ghost

人 rén - people

Deci imediat după ce am terminat și consumat câteva bucățele din prăjitura cu unt de cocos am căzut buștean. Am dormit două ore, între 8 seara și 10 seara și m-am trezit fără chef dar trebuie să termin ce am început. Mă simt ceva mai bine.

Nu e nici un secret că în ultimele zile pancreatita mea s-a acutizat. Am aflat și cauza. În ultimele săptămâni am petrecut mult timp în zona bucătăriei. Am început să spăl vase manual (nu mai spăl niciodată la mașină după ce am aflat cum funcționează, apa murdară urcă într-o gaură din capac și grăsime murdară care acumulează acolo), pizza aproape în fiecare zi, alte feluri. Lângă bucătărie este cămăruța boilerului. Ușa este mai mult de formă fiindcă are un grilaj, ceva ca niște aripioare de respirat pentru rechini. Acolo când m-am mutat am găsit praf din acela pentru cutia de pisici, folosit excesiv. Sub mașina de spălat dar și în cuva boilerului. O parte a intrat sub boiler. Urmele de jeg de pe mașina de spălat veche, mai ales în interior sub panourile metalice puțeau extraordinar, mi-am cumpărat o perie specială, am răsturnat mașina pe o parte și am spălat-o de mai multe ori. Boilerul mai curgea pe la țeava de apă rece. O picătură pe minut. Cândva, peste un an, l-am ridicat prin înclinare stânga dreapta și introducere niște șipci de lemn și am reușit să bag un prosop dedesubt pe care-l scoteam negru de rugină. Era și o țeava de canalizare în mijlocul cuvei cred, dar sunt sigur pentru că nu am văzut-o. Am simțit-o cu o riglă de lemn. După ce am scos cât am putut cu prosopul (recunosc, putoarea insuportabilă mă făcea să mă grăbesc, și eram amețit de un fum care venea de afară) am băgat niște spumă din aceea la cutie de spray de la un magazin de bricolaj. Am auzit la un moment dat cum spumă a făcut un sunet ca și cum ar fi pătruns undeva. Dacă există țeava de canalizare care normal nu mai avea apă în partea în formă de S, mirosul de canalizare venea pe acolo. După toată faza s-a liniștit mirosul dar nu a trecut niciodată complet dar era greu să-mi dau seama fiindcă era acoperit de alte mirosuri. Probabil ar fi trebuit să aștept câteva zile, să ridici din nou boilerul și să scot spuma acea întărită după care să pun alta curată. După ce vara asta dar mai ales în ultima lună a încetat fumul care venea pe undeva în apartament, nu mai vreau să intru și în discuția asta și am curățat mucegaiul de pe un perete din spatele etajerei de la televizor și de pe marginile geamurilor din aluminiu, am început să simt iar mirosul de la boiler. Mult mai puțin, poate o zecime sau o sutime din ce a fost înainte.

Acum 2 zile parcă am fost în parc, era rece, soare, dar m-am întors din drum fiindcă tot aerul mirosea a fum iute de lemne locale (niște esențe de pin uriaș, cu lemn foarte tare, care arde cu un miros iute, care domină pădurile din Oregon și alte zone din SUA). Probabil "de la un cămin care abia a fost pornit și nu a avut coșul timp să se încălzească".

Ieri când mi-am dat seama am făcut curățenie generală. Dat cu aspiratorul, spălat lenjerie și toate rufele acumulate în câteva zile, am pus un ventilator lângă boiler. Totul în casă, rufele în contact cu apa, aveau un miros foarte subtil de canalizare. Am găsit iar rugină lângă țeava aceea, deși nu mai curgea. Am strâns puțin țeava, o zecime de tură cu o cheie (garnitura de nailon în timp cedează). Am mai curățat multă rugină împuțită de canalizare mai jos într-o gură de vizitare unde se acumulase fiindcă a curs de-a lungul firului electric. Azi dimineață adică a doua zi după ce am terminat curățenia m-am trezit fără nici o durere în spate sau abdominală. Nici o durere în timpul înghițitului. Orice urmă de pancreatită mi-a trecut într-o noapte.

Dar a mai fost un motiv. Acum câteva zile când mă durea rău am poftit cookies (un fel de fursecuri americane). 10 minute (timp folosit, timp în cuptor, total 20), două ouă, o lingură de grăsime sau unt, un pic de zahăr (ca pentru diabetici) un pic de bicarbonat și un pic de smântână ca să aibă cu ce să reacționeze bicarbonatul (partea acidă). Dar nu am avut smântână și am făcut fără. Bicarbonatul nu a reacționat cu nimic. Cookie-urile avea gust de bicarbonat încât pișcau de limbă dar acele cookies mi-am făcut să îmi treacă durerile aproape complet. După care am trebăluit iar în zona cu putoarea din bucătărie, mi-am mai făcut odată cookies din alea, între timp mi-am dat seama, combinația bicarbonat - ulei de cocos care se eliberează în timp, la fel ca medicamentele care se degajă în timp, fiind prinse în făina din aluat.

Am mai uscat o mașină de rufe rămasă de ieri, am mai scris pe aici și m-am dus în parc. Era cald ca vara, 20 de grade. Umiditate 98%. Mă simțeam ca în vacanță la mare. Bine că am făcut curățenie generală. Am mers vreo milă și am observat niște tipe care acționau ciudat. O tipă cu tricou fără mâneci verde deschis cu o fustă mini de un roz pastelat, care arătat ca și cum ar fi fost o balerină dar cam la sfârșit de carieră, plimba un câine pe o alee din fața mea.

Mergea doi pași, se întorcea, se oprea, se rotea, iar mergea, iar se oprea, iar se rotea după cum se mișca câinele. Mă uitam curios și a ridicat mâna spre mine. M-am uitat în spate, nu am văzut nimic. Am mai făcut câțiva pași și o mașină care a ieșit de la sala uriașa cu mai multe terenuri de tenis înăuntru a claxonat, Am întors capul și o tipă la volan făcea cu mâna tot în direcția mea. Altă tipă cea din mașină a început să vorbească (țipe) cu ea, de la distanță de 100 de metri, eu fiind exact între ele.

Am mers mai departe. Soare. Respiram aerul curat și umed și cald ca vara. Am ajuns în zona cu copaci iar la vreo milă, când vroiam să mă întorc am simțit miros de fum. Fum de gunoi, mi-am zis eu. M-am întors, fumul apărea și dispărea. Nu era așa de rău ca acum două zile. M-am întâlnit cu călugărița, (mantis religiosa, mantidae, așa îi spun eu deși ea e din specia șerpilienilor). O tipă cu aspect de unguroaică înaltă cât mine dar la o treime din greutate, eu acum având cam 125 de kg. Are niște picioare de 2 sau 3 inci grosime in zona coapsei, de altfel, sănătoasă. Dacă ar bate vântul ar trebui să se țină de ceva. O văd acolo în fiecare zi, îmbrăcată tot așa în pantaloni scurți cu un tricou pastelat. Și ea a ridicat o mână la ceafă și apoi la față.

Când am venit acasă (e o milă distanță, așa putea să merg pe jos până în parc dar e mult fum și zgomot pe stradă) am evitat din nou accidentul de la intersecția foarte periculoasă de la alea care vine pe lângă parc (Nyberg, pronunțat naiba) și dă în strada principală, tot Nyberg, care se schimbă în 65 chiar acolo. Pe partea cealaltă este semafor pentru cei care vin din parcarea de la magazine. De fiecare dată când se face verde, după 5 secunde apare o mașină de undeva din parcare și vine spre mine care sunt gata să o iau la stânga, tot pe verde. Venind înainte, are prioritate, dar nu-i vezi fiindcă nu sunt acolo când intri în intersecție. Deci a apărut o mașină gri vopsită mat (într-un atelier de mâna doua), cel mai greu de observat, și a pornit spre mine pe verde exact când o făceam la stânga. Am oprit și l-am lăsat să treacă. Un tip care semăna cu Tolontan, pe trecerea de pietoni dar bănuiesc mult mai scund, mi-a atras atenția înainte de a veni acea mașină. Însă am văzut mașina fiindcă am trecut de 300 de ori prin acea intersecție și știu lecția (eu veneam pe săgeata înainte stânga de sus, el a venit din parcare și a intrat pe verde pe săgeata înainte stânga de jos când eu eram la jumătatea intersecție).


Deci am venit acasă și în urma vrăjilor din parc am uitat de pancreatită și am mâncat înghețată. La vreo oră gata m-a luat iar la fel ca înainte. Cu frisoane de data asta. Repede, în grabă, mi-am făcut iar cookies, dar acum aveam smântână. Deci nu mai aveau gust de bicarbonat. Particulele de fum încărcate cu ceva (gunoi cred) încet încet se curăță din plămâni și se elimină în esofag. Gura, gingiile mă ustură. Esofagul îmi dă o durere ascuțită.

Atunci mi-am dat seama că asta ar fi rețetă bună pentru pancreatită acută. Fursecuri, de fapt mai mult biscuiți, cu un ou-două, puțin bicarbonat, o lingură-două de ulei de cocos dar fără agent acid (smântână, iaurt, zeamă de lămâie). Bicarbonatul în mare parte rămâne intact și împreună cu uleiul de cocos se eliberează lent pe măsura digestiei și ajută cu inflamația. Alimentație variată, fibre, fructe, vitamina D.

Generațiile noi, chiar și preoții născuți în perioada comunismului au auzit poate vag de vrăjitori/oare. Că au fost cândva. Că au fost persecutate (ți) de inchiziție. Părea ireal. Însă vă spun eu. Există și sunt bine-mersi. Formează diferite curente religioase. În unele țări s-a păstrat în paralel cu catolicismul timp de o mie de ani. Însă ce religie, ce spiritualitate e aceea care se manifestă prin arderea de murdării (lucruri necurate) afectând un spațiu vast doar pentru o singură persoană care trece pe acolo? Și întrebarea de bază. Pe câți au aranjat în felul acesta?

Thursday, September 27, 2018

Kogi-Onmitsu

Updated 02-06-23

Don't know exactly who wrote Ninja Encyclopedia. It is not 100% proper English. However, what they are saying things way too important to be ignored for this reason only.

"Kogi-Onmitsu was the direct intelligence organization of the Edo-Shogunate. At most, there were 3,000 members in this circle. Though Kogi-Onmitsu is [are] spies as well as Ninja, the most [biggest] difference between them is that, Kogi-Onmitsu basically does not use active, physical, violent and bloody means in their missions unlike Ninja."

Here is a secret service used as a political police since 1603. Instituted following the great battle of Sekigahara, biggest and last battle in feudal Japan. Name of course suggests Koga, one of the two strongholds of Ninja in feudal Japan.

Until 1603 all daimyo (lords) of the feudal Japan were constantly fighting with each other, and for that they were all hiring both samurai and ninja. Samurai for the real fights and ninja to gather information and secretly cast influence, and that happened until 1581 when ninja officially disappeared from history.

Japan at that time was divided in regions roughly corresponding to today's prefectures, but two of those regions, in the middle of Japan, not far from Edo (Tokyo), Koga and Iga, belonged to ninja where they could be hired from.

"On October 1, 1581, Oda Nobunaga led about 40,000 warriors in an attack on Iga province, which was defended by approximately 4,000 ninja and other Iga warriors. Nobunaga's massive army attacked from the west, east, and north, in five separate columns. In what must have been a bitter pill for Iga to swallow, many of the Koga ninja came into the battle on Nobunaga's side."

It is said everywhere, in Wikipedia and other sites. Ninja disappeared from history after 1581. Any yet on this site (Ninja Encyclopedia) they say Kogi-Onmitsu are in fact ninja.

There are at least two obvious reasons to believe ninja did not disappear but turned into something else.

One is the name of the organization, Kogi-Onmitsu, Koga being the name of the last of two ninja province taken by Nobunaga.

Second is the fact that after turning into Kogi-Onmitsu they were never required to take life risking missions.

What i believe it happened. Oda clan as most participants in the battle of Sekigahara (following the battle of Koga in 1581) were heavily infiltrated with ninja. Ninja in 1581 with the help of Oda actually staged their own disappearance and organized the subsequent battle of Sekigahara (in the same way they did many times before when they influenced daimyo in fighting each others, as part of their jobs working for third parties, only at a much larger scale) and in the end captured power in Japan. In other words, everything was scripted, from the attack of Nobunaga on Iga and Koga to the Edo period with the creation of Kogi-Onmitsu, Meji restoration, etc..

Some say that even Ieyasu himself was a ninja, actually, three of them, during his long shogunate.

But they did not stop there. They started to create strongholds throughout the world, notably Europe, with the help of the first occult Buddhist missionaries there, the Magars of Nepal who in the meantime took control of Catholic Church, through dominicans.

I believe, to this day, one of their greatest expertise is create and use of what i call "phantom leaders". Like it was, still is, the Emperor. Like all political leaders of the world in the last few hundred years.

A period of 264 years of peace followed under Tokugawa dynasty of shoguns. During this period the samurai gradually lost their privileges.

In 1867 there was a restoration of imperial power called Meiji restoration during which samurai class and privileges ended, with approx. 2 million samurai losing their right to wear a sword and becoming absorbed in the larger society. Also during early Meiji the daymio started to loose their privileges too.

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The two so called World Wars are very similar with Sekigahara battle. It was said about WWI that will be the war to end all wars, like Sekigahara battle. It was not enough. WWII followed. Two senseless wars in Europe which destroyed 100 million human lives with another 100 million maimed with no winners but disappearance of normal elites and replacement of those with actors mostly from Hungary. Who were being bred in Hungary using european settlers, brainwashed and prepared for this purpose only during several centuries.

Both Japan and Hungary directly participated in those wars and had casualties. But who can verify how many casualties they had and if it compares to others? Thinking about HitlerStalin, others being their tools. Tools of the ninja.

There is a work on the web comparing the unique language of Japanese and Magyar, the language of Hungarians. Don't know exactly where the similarities come from but most likely from their common ancestors, Sumerians.
And last, one of the 36 war stratagemes of Sun Tzu.

Make the host and the guest exchange roles (反客為主/反客为主, Fǎn kè wéi zhǔ)

Usurp leadership in a situation where one is normally subordinate. Infiltrate one's target. Initially, pretend to be a guest to be accepted, but develop from inside and become the owner later.

They of course lie about their own existence. They lie about their numbers. By some estimates, there are currently at least 10 million Japanese, missing from their country where they are considered to be socially isolated. Hikikomori, who have been recruited by the ninja and sent abroad in all countries for their final purpose, to control the whole world.

Right after they took control of Japan, in early 1600s they wrote for the first time, a manual, first published of course, mainly for the purpose of attracting recruits. Bansenshukai or The Book of Ninja is only a less useful skeleton, the vast amount of their knowledge being transmitted orally and within clans, is translated in English and available online. There are ninjutsu dojos all over the world, including at least two in Portland area where i live. One of them, from Lake Oswego, moved from that location, after i posted about.

Sunday, September 23, 2018

Editare

Editare. Ce înseamnă editare. Nu știu prea bine și nici nu mă prea interesează. Ceva cu care se ocupă editurile. În trecut, primeau materialul scris la mașină de un dactilograf și un tipograf culegea literele la propriu, dintr-o cutie și le așeza una lângă alta formând o matriță, ceva. Literele erau ca niște cuie dar nu rotunde ci dreptunghiulare, cu litera propriu zisă în vârf și se așezau una lângă alta. Literele, cuvintele, frazele, totul era în negativ, pe hârtie ieșeau normal (termenii îmi sunt foarte vagi, și nici nu vreau să deschid acum pagina de Wikipedia să mă uit. Mai ales că nu se mai practică) După ce se făcea matrița cineva, probabil un corector trăgea o probă pe hârtie și se uita să vadă dacă nu sunt greșeli. În unele cazuri se uita și autorul să vadă cum iese lucrarea lui, mai ales dacă era vorba de vreo lucrare tehnică, care includea desene, paginații, etc. Era o muncă foarte migăloasă, imaginați-vă că o carte are sute de pagini, fiecare literă trebuia așezată manual. Nu știu cât dura să se tipărească o carte întreagă, cred că lucrau mai mulți, un singur tipograf nu putea să culeagă toată cartea. Erau mai multe tipuri de litere, sunt sute cred. Fiecare are un nume. Arial, Courier, Times New Roman, Sans Serif sunt dintre cele mai cunoscute.



Una din primele chestii care s-au făcut vreodată pe un PC a fost tehnoredactarea computerizată. Steve Jobs a făcut numai vreo 2 ani de facultate parcă, de artă, cel mai mult a studiat caligrafia. El a introdus literele frumoase pe calc.. Așa cum le vedem astăzi mai sus. Până la el apăreau ca de la o mașină de scris. Fiecare literă, la distanțe egale în cuvânt (Monotype sau monospace mai sus). I-ul de exemplu este subțire și m este lat, și ocupă spații diferite de exemplu în această postare. La mașina de scris apar altfel. I-ul stă stingher într-un spațiu larg iar m-ul este înghesuit. Din cauză că tamburul cu hârtia avansează în mod egal la fiecare literă. Nu știe să facă diferența.

Ca să n-o lungesc prea mult că îmi pică ochii în gură acum la 4:30 dimineața și mă uit printre dinți ca Florin Tudose. Sunt mai multe programe sau aplicații, cum doriți, pe PC. Adobe care este scump. Word, care vine de la Microsoft și este mult mai ieftin, dar nu prea compatibil cu Adobe (adică o paginație în Word nu iese chiar la fel, deși teoretic se poate face conversia). WordPad vine gratuit cu Windows, este un subset al Word. Cu unul din aceste programe sau cu altele se poate aranja frumos o scrisoare, CV, etc.. după care se poate tipări frumos la o imprimantă laser sau cu jet de cerneală.

Pentru mine zilele astea editare înseamnă ce pot face cu browser-ul în blogger, fb, și g+.

Mergeți în fb la orice postare scrisă de dvs, pe time-line-ul dvs sau la prieteni. Apăsați pe cele 3 puncte din dreapta sus. Veți vedea o opțiune unde scrie editare. Dacă alegeți acea opțiune, veți avea posibilitatea să modificați sau să corectați ce ați scris.