tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post6053343470728823009..comments2024-03-29T05:24:12.453+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: HOW TO FOOL YOURSELF INTO WEALTH.call me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-13887282453188807982017-01-19T23:15:53.012+00:002017-01-19T23:15:53.012+00:00Thank you, mr walter. I used to describe much of M...Thank you, mr walter. I used to describe much of Mozart and suchlike as walking about music, for it was often mere backdrop to the dounbgs of the the Great, there is nothing wrong with walking to Mozart. It is against the complete atomising of such experience that we should guard, each living in his own digitised sensory universe, his knowledge of art playlisted, his culture on speed dial.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-71382123011356724502017-01-19T19:13:24.908+00:002017-01-19T19:13:24.908+00:00Thanks for your reply,I listen to mozart because i...Thanks for your reply,I listen to mozart because it does not impair my thought processes,Folk music would with all the singing, I would like to stop thinking for a while..I was using the phone to communicate about a linux distibution i was a about to try..the photo was too prove what a lovely day it was! There arent many sounds of nature around the lake only dogs barking! Im crap at the punctuation and vocabulary, because ive never written anything other than a birthday card for over fifty years<br />Ive two awards on my writing desk for innovation earned in my last two years at work<br />The last one is named after me and will be awarded annually..Mozart doesnt interfere with my mind it makes me feel wonderful and a bit of beethoven too, your like all celts mr ish passionate are about language and feelings, In my old age i dont care much about what people do aslong as they dont interfere with me, what pisses me off is idiots with unsuitable breeds of dog barely under control!walternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-81606957647740129682017-01-19T18:19:51.306+00:002017-01-19T18:19:51.306+00:00Ecpverything is not to like. The digitised reprodu...Ecpverything is not to like. The digitised reproduction of everything, mr walter, diminshes everything but what you lose most in your digi-stroll is yourself, your own silence, your own imagination, this enslavement is destructive kf creativity, and the poor children, given programmed trickery in order to supplant there own daydreans. There is very little about expensive information-handling technology which is not corrosive of those instincts and thought processes which brought us here. Often, at the airport, I am the only one, among hundreds, not peering at a tiny screen, thumbing and swiping like a chimp, not braying self-importantly into an already obsolete telephone. I am often the only person in the airport lounge who is really in the airport lounge, lounging and imagining, all the others are having their imaginations managed for them, eternally connected to the Great InfoShit In The Sky, like obedient Aztec primitives.<br /><br />Mental arithmetic, estimating? No, I don't need them, I got an app. Grammar, comprehension, vocabulary? Nah, just run everyfin froo Spellcheck. That's what's not to like, mr walter, amongst much else, voluntary idiocy. Sense of direction, map reading? Nah, gottanapp wot does that for ya. An I gorra SatNav, too. Does all yer finkin for ya, this stuff, duneed to bovvah wif finkin'. Wossapoint? That's your brave new bluetooth world, mr walter, a race of obedient idiots with highly developed thumbing skills, good for fuck all.<br /><br />I live in those Orkney sea and skyscapes which Neil Oliver and his chums rave about and let me tell you, they cannot be accurately photographed but only seen and breathed and lived-in; a bit, I suspect, like your lake; how have sensible people been so hoodwinked into believing that they can point and shoot and thus replicate nature's majesty, it is such a fucking impertinence, such stupidity, such arrogance. You sent your son some pixcels, which he can display on any number of devices, enlarging and enhancing them, but it's all just electrinic voodoo, and a practice which restricts and diminshes and ultimately destroys all the other senses, it reduces everything to a Polaroid Camera moment. He, you and the world would be better if you wrote him a letter, describing the lake and encouraging him to imagine, to think differently, y'know, as I do, here, to you.callmeishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-46921563971520525522017-01-19T15:05:45.742+00:002017-01-19T15:05:45.742+00:00Ive got an ipod {the one with the stainless back}I...Ive got an ipod {the one with the stainless back}Ive got a ten year old Macpro works a treat after a £100 hardware upgrade its astonishing quality, How many old windows computers work after ten years, Ive also spent£1800 on parts that my son turned into an extremely fast computer, Ive just come back from a walk in a beauty spot whilst walking i was listening to Mozart piano concertos, bluetoothed to my headphones from my samsung smartphone at the same time i was communicating with my son on whatts app and<br />at the the same time i sent him a very good photo of the lake with the phone, the phone is 5 years old and works perfectly technology whats not to like!walternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-83640067329296178822017-01-19T13:23:30.408+00:002017-01-19T13:23:30.408+00:00Debt is selling the future, isn't it? It used ...Debt is selling the future, isn't it? It used to be that debt was that sofa and the tallyman would come on a Friday for his sixpence. Now it's an electronic scorecard that you cannot see or control because it is plugged into the game. Your sixpences are aggregated, securitised, sold on, and hedged. The risk is distilled ever more keenly while the profit is siphoned away. Didn't we play this game to its logical hiccough of a conclusion almost a decade ago?<br /><br />The problem with capitalism BTW is not the capitalist and the capital - the farm, the farmer, the tractor, and the seed - but the fucking crows.<br />mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-38726206937982022082017-01-19T13:20:31.347+00:002017-01-19T13:20:31.347+00:00I wouldn’t touch any ithing. Give me a keyboard an...I wouldn’t touch any ithing. Give me a keyboard and desktop computer any day. My phone is 9 quid out of tesco’s about 10 years ago.. 15 quid top-up just before Christmas and still have 12 quid in the thing. So that’s 3 quid a month and oly on a busy month.<br />I have an old ipod which won’t connect to youtube anymore and I suspect it’s to make me buy a new one. <br />Everything’s about getting more new stuff isn’t it? Used to repair stuff…washing machines and the like.. make them go on for years. My brothers and me self-taught repairmen cars, music stuff …domestic appliances. Some folks never learn that.<br />Guy came round to fix the dishwasher the other day. New main pump needed…250 quid. Fuck that..60 quid pump from espares and I’ll fix it myself. <br />Lost all that kind of stuff when I was raising a family and the ex would just buy a new appliance when the old one burst a component.. It’s all come back now….lovin it.<br />The more stupid and inadequate we get to be, the more govment can control and abuse.<br />Doug Shouldersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-19753077023470266592017-01-19T07:46:10.057+00:002017-01-19T07:46:10.057+00:00Mr I: a succinct summary of the modern day equival...Mr I: a succinct summary of the modern day equivalent of the feudal system we all live in. I thought I had escaped here, Down Under, but its a diluted version of what you describe, up there. I'm independent, financially and in all other matters, but I feel the system closing in on me. Although some would consider Sydney to be paradise, my older daughter has said 'fuck it' and gone to live in Bali. For younger people the cost of living here is beyond them and it becomes slavery. I've advised my younger daughter, after she finishes uni, to enjoy life rather than join the other lemmings on the daily commute to the city, and wait for me to die and inherit the pile.<br /><br />Marx was correct when he said capitalism would be its own downfall. Debt is a pernicious bond most onerous.<br /><br />Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-81571489155414404062017-01-19T03:01:02.181+00:002017-01-19T03:01:02.181+00:00Possibly, mr dick, but short of war on the Falls a...Possibly, mr dick, but short of war on the Falls and the Shankill, nobody here gives a fuck, do they, about Kneecaps and Arlene? Nor about Blair, Clinton and the Peace Praw-cess and Peace4Pardons. The best news is that Marty looks ill.callmeishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-70320148680808698802017-01-19T02:38:12.277+00:002017-01-19T02:38:12.277+00:00I would have loved to read all of that but I didn&...I would have loved to read all of that but I didn't. Sir, Northern Ireland is more important than Brexit. James Brokenshire is the minister's name. He got bored.Dick the Prickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02683095612320513712noreply@blogger.com