Tom and Jerry "The Cat Concerto" - Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 - Franz Liszt...

This is quite possibly the greatest cartoon of all time. Yes, that's right, and it's not even from the incredibly cute Warner sister.  Why do I believe that? When I saw this for the first time when I was younger than you my three readers, it struck me as an example of what you can do when you're allowed to just be free and do it. 

Wait, what?

Apparently I can't insert after the video anymore. (Insert appropriate sound effect here) Solved it!

This is what happens when you grab a free video from the tube that is you. I had to grab the video and move it to where I wanted it. I couldn't just simply start typing after....

Where were we? Well, I know where I am. I hope you know where you are too.

So, I can't do it any less either. Confuzzed yet? I know I am. Let's see if we can get back on track. 

I saw a cartoon that was unlike anything I had ever seen before. I wasn't forced to take piano lessons like everyone else in my friend group, because we couldn't afford a piano. Not even the one Schroeder plays.

I was simply allowed to enjoy the music that was being played at the time, and I thought that the keys and strings were doing what they were supposed to do, as I didn't know. I come to learn later that the tool Tom grabs is what you use to tune a piano, however, you can probably never tuna fish.

Maybe I'll explain that tangent another day at a different blog....

As you know it's been at least two years since I've posted something here. I have to get back to this, as writing here has been the most focused on the core competency: writing.

The music kept time with what I was seeing on the screen. The above video shows what's actually going on. I don't know that two videos side by side like this will give you twice as much enjoyment as. it did me, however, you may get close.

Let me know in the comments.

It's good to be back!

72 and sunny in Redondo Beach. e You next time....™

I'm Here Methinks

I came to this site on a totally unrelated matter, and then I realized it's been over seven years since last I published anything here. I haven't lost focus, however, technology advances on the order of Moore's Law have passed me by, and I haven't felt that I've had anything clever or witty to say lately.

 I do have a life outside of sitting at the computer and cranking out words that when put together make some semblance of sense, and the last post was going to be the start of a series, as time travel has always fascinated me.

However, the need to do other things like work has precluded me from acquiring the requisite money to make the above mentioned movie a success. That's not to say that it won't get made somehow, however, I'm not a charity, and people won't work free. They need to be paid. 

That's the bar. I could post a relatively low budget movie spreadsheet here, and state that at current prices, The Watchmaker, or, Watchmaker depending on whom you ask, could be made for around a half a million dollars USD. No, not USDT, or BTC, or even ETH.

That's right, while I was absent from this site, the cryptocurrency phenomenon has exploded, and it seems like every Chinese 'bot in the guise of a beautiful woman has targeted me as a dupe, and I seem to be approached by one or two of these on a daily basis. I'm almost at the point wherein I'm giving up my Facebook account completely, however, it's truly the only way I can get paid work to earn a modicum of a pittance in order to eat for a few days and keep a roof over my head. 

I tell them that I have no money, and they reply, "No problem! You can borrow some!!!" Well, last I checked, that requires some sort of decent credit rating, and the ability to pay back what you borrow eventually. Pandemic free money not withstanding. Yes, I collected a lot of that, and as a good person I was giving it away left and right to those that came up with some sort of believable sob story.

I did manage to find a somewhat paying gig before the pandemic started, and that's how I got all the free pandemic money in the first place. However, my advancing age precludes me from working more than 2 or 3 times a week, and I don't have reliable transportation either. That was one of the questions on the job application. I was under the false impression that Metro Net in this city was reliable at the time, so without thinking I wrote down, "Yes."  I think it was actually a checkbox. 

I read somewhere that the mysterious "they" are going to either declare the pandemic over, or lift all the restrictions on May 11th. That's 2023 in case you're wondering, and you read this after the fact, in which case most of the above will be irrelevant. 

This here blog thing is supposed to either inform or amuse you, as that's what they tell you when you get one. I can't truly say that I've done that, as that's for you to decide. 

Oh, and in case you were wondering, this is not a de facto plea for donations for me to make my next short film. I'm doing that elsewhere ;) <3

72 and Sunny in Redondo Beach. 

I'll let you guess which one....

We Are All Time Travellers

All you need is a valid central point, and some Einsteinian math to power your machine. There may be a need to generate all the energy needed with a generator the size of the sun with the corresponding output as well.

Or you can move forward one second at a time like most of us already do.

I realize I've started a sentence with a conjunction, and I don't normally recommend that grammatically. However, on an occasional basis, you must break the rules. Like for instance, when time traveling.

I've realized that time travel as a story device is limited in scope, as it truly only solves the problems that it doesn't create by its mere existence.  There's a whole fandom out there that would take you on and battle to the last man if you were to make this argument.  For those unfamiliar with the Grandfather paradox; Is it possible to travel back in time to kill your grandparents, nullifying your birth, at which point, you weren't able to travel back in time to kill them? Philosophy and Physics have the answers to these questions. See also; The Butterfly Effect.  Well, don't see the movie version, as it's not that good.

It's only fun to think about these things if you realize that you can't do it yourself, and you may not even be able to pay a lot of money to make it possible.  So we're stuck for now with varying levels of representation of the phenomenon in the media, most of which is shockingly bad simply because the authors had a squishy vision of what their time travel could accomplish.

I post this here, as this is The Watchmaker site, and as we all know, most if not all of us are continually striving to answer the question.

That's my story™ Hope you enjoyed it. Soon to be a major motion picture....