Monday, March 20, 2023

Spring 2023 and 2,089 Days Since My Last Acturus's World Entry –OR– A Life, a World, and a Worldview Radically Changed

The beach path in the South Pointe area of Miami Beach, Fla.,
4:38 p.m., July 17, 2022

The above image and the two that follow were taken in July 2022 or about 8 months ago. The file names contain place / time info.

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The first day of Spring 2023....

Wow, I couldn't even remember how to log onto this account.

It has been 5 years and almost 9 months since my last entry. Actually, it has been 2,089 days ...

My life and the world have changed radically. This includes my politics, my worldview, the people I know, and even where I live.


Above: This is the SECOND-MOST southeastern coconut palm in Miami Beach with THE actual southeastern-most one also visible but low down and just "above" the three people on the path. However, at the present time, this tree -- OK, palms aren't techincally trees but MONOCOTS -- is very visible looking down the beach.

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I no longer live in Washington, SHIT-BAG fucking, D.C., or its WOKE Mind Virus-infected Covid Karen suburbs.

As a result of the Branch Covidian bullshit nightmare that destroyed our civilization and turned most center-left Western countries into totalitarian biosecurity dystopian nightmares, the transgendered fucking lunacy now enforced by genocidal but low IQ, midwit fucks, and the Soros / elite-sponsored "Color Revolution" in the form of the woke "Summer of Love 2020" George Floyd quasi-civil war, I now live in Miami Beach, and my life is completely different.


Anyway, I've been wanting to update this blog just to note it -- except I couldn't figure out how to log on. But I have now, and I am posting this entry.

OK, well, I have, and I said what i wanted to. I don't know if/when I'll update this blog again. In the meantime, you can follow me on my Regulus blog.

--Arcturus

Friday, June 30, 2017

An Entry, Finally -OR- Arcturus's World: A Blog In Search of a Star (and a Purpose)

The Potomac River near the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge, Washington, D.C., 4:49PM June 25, 2017.

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Yes, I'm actually posting an entry on this Arcturus's World blog ...

I haven't posted anything since March 2015 -- the Trump daily freak show and likely multi-year nightmare was still months in the future from even beginning, not to mention nearly two years before my stepfather Ray passed away -- and it has been bothering me lately that I haven't posted anything (anything!) on this blog.

I had intended to use this blog for my "Wall-P and Me (and Hysterical Gee Make Three)" series to include the BIG Y'EYEMAH chronicles, but that never happened, either. Instead, I post the occasional BIG Y'EYEMAH's Friday Night Creature that (sort of) substitutes for what I had intended on this blog.

Sigh.

1272 New Hampshire Ave NW, Washington, D.C., 2:14PM June 25, 2017.

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Anyway, I just wanted to post a new entry here and say that I'm still trying to find a purpose for this blog and have been ever since the very original purpose -- entries to M. WADE Tipamillyun (a.k.a, Tripabillyun and Tattoatrillyun) -- has long since vanished (along with nearly all the entries I posted back in the 2009 - 2012 time frame). And I'm fairly sure that was the last time anything like that will ever happen -- and I couldn't be happier. (So many dumbass mistakes made in my life.) 

Elm tree, 2000 block New Hampshire Ave NW, Washington, D.C., 1:42PM June 25, 2017.

This tree is across the street from my apartment building and I see it from my window. It's actually about 7 stories tall -- higher than my 5th floor apartment. This means it is taller than the tallest dinosaur that ever lived (Sauroposeidon)-- but not longer in length than the blue whale.

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Anyway, before I find a purpose for this blog, and in the meantime, I continue actively to keep up my Regulus Star Notes blog.

--Arcturus

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Arcturus's World Greets the Internets Again! -OR- Four Less Years

I've reopened my Arcturus's World blog, including with a new and open URL, although I've deleted virtually all the previous entries and scrubbed those that remain. The purpose of this blog is now very different from the original, one that is NOT SIRIUS.

Instead, I intend to post various short stories of the sort I cannot on my Regulus blog. However, I won't announce this on that blog until I've at least one new story posted.

To be clear, photo images are going to be relatively rare on this blog because that is not it's purpose.

--Arcturus

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Just Checking In, Arcturus -OR- Still the Blog with a Great View

The cliffs of northern Guadeloupe on the "Grande-Terre" part of the island by a place called Pointe de la Grande Vigie (Place of (with?) a Great View?). I was there in 1993 with my dad and again 5 years later to see (by happenstance occurring there) the total solar eclipse of February 26, 1998. The first trip was much better. (The southern part of this butterfly shaped island is Basse-Terre, but it is the mountainous, lushly jungle-covered part. The northern half is flat and semi-arid.)

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Hey Arcturus blog,

How are you doing?

I'm just checking in over here. It has been 10 months. I know you are pretty much in a dormant state, a prolonged hibernation, if you will. I have a feeling, though, I may return to this blog at some point -- although I'd have to remove some offending entries as part of a general change in thrust of this blog.

The landscape around Antioquia, Colombia.

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Things are fine for me, I guess. Still working at the same place ... still going to the gym (my weight is down to about 145 pounds or off 40 pounds from my flabby peak back in June 2012 and more like 43 or 44 pounds of fat) ... Oh, and to be clear, I'm not trying to lose much more weight (maybe 5 more pounds maximum) but I'm pretty much where I want to be ... And, lastly, my life and existence is still deep inside the D.C. Bubble, and I'm unlikely to leave anytime soon.

Here is a recent picture of me taken last week (Oct. 18, 2013) in my apartment.

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I guess that's all for now. It's kind of late and I want to update my Regulus blog. I also need to make dinner -- and all before going to be bed around 130AM. I'm watching my late night TV right now (A Married, With Children rerun at this exact moment on Antenna TV.)

Take care, Arcturus blog. I'll check in with you from time to time. I haven't forgotten about you.

--Arcturus

Monday, January 21, 2013

Cooling Down and Chilling Out: Here is a Replacement Entry

Towering iceberg that broke off Antarctica approaches the rugged isolation of South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic Ocean deep in the "Furious Fifties" latitude zone.

It's cold and stormy down there. But maybe it's good as a theme for this entry of chilling things out.

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Thrill-seeking kayakers circumnavigate South Georgia Island around the southernmost point of it called Cape Disappointment.

--Arcturus

Sunday, December 30, 2012

On the Cusp of 2013 -OR- Good Morning

Updated 1:55PM 12/30/2012

The South Atlantic Ocean shortly after sunrise in La Paloma, Uruguay in a nice photo I found on the internets. La Paloma is located approx. 100 miles "up" the Uruguayan coastline from Montevideo.

I updated this entry today with this new lead image to be more in keeping with the spirit of the entry.

I don't feel well today. I think I have a cold.

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Late afternoon view from my apartment on New Hampshire Ave. looking southwest toward 16th and U Streets NW, Washington, D.C., 3:59PM, December 29, 2012. We're still pretty much at the shortest daylight hours of the years.

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Of late, I have become quite interested in a that stretch of the Atlantic side of the South American coastline from southern Brazil down to southern Argentina and Chile including the coast of Uruguay (see above map). This includes the curious Brazilian city of Florianópolis and the capital of Uruguay, Montevideo, plus all the small coastal places in between.

--Arcturus

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Jersey Shore Reflections

Yours truly on the Jersey shore in Wildwood Crest, New Jersey, 12:01PM, Aug. 26, 2012.

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Just got back from the Jersey shore, in particular from Wildwood. I will be posting one and hopefully two entries about this lots of pictures on my Regulus blog. Gary, Wendy, and I drove back late tonight, which was actually an easier time to go. I'm still taking tomorrow off from work.

A couple seated at the edge of the surf, Wildwood Crest, New Jersey, 3:00PM, Aug. 27, 2012.

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--Arcturus

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

07.31.2012: A Midsummer Night's Arcturus Blog Post

No trip to Daytona Beach is complete without one of what is often called the Main Street pier ... Here is a picture of it in its newly renovated form, complete with "Eat at Joe's" sign for the new location of the Joe's Crab Shack chain that is located there, and the gurgling surf, Daytona Beach, Fla., 2:48PM, July 27, 2012.

I took this on my short-lived, ill-fated, indeed disastrous trip to see my crazy old father last week. From start to finish including travel time to and from my apartment, the trip lasted about 60 hours.

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The Daytona Beach pier, southside, and the lightly roiled Atlantic surf, 3:22PM, July 27,2012.

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Phew. *Sigh*

I really need to update this poor, forgotten, and hidden blog. I want to have at least one entry with a July date. However, it simply doesn't make any sense to have a lengthy entry.

Therefore, in this entry, I just want to note some things ...

A dogwood growing along the sidewalk of the 1500 block of 16th Street NW, Washington, D.C., 8:36PM, July 9, 2012. I was walking home from the gym (discussed below).

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The summer is now about half over and it has been hellishly hot, although our region is not in a severe drought as is so much of the rest of the country. We're still significantly below normal on precipitation, though, and the summer is as hot as the previous two. The current pattern for the mid-Atlantic is actually just summertime "normal" with highs around 88F here and occasional bouts of t-storms.

A little ornamental birdbath in the small yard of 1734 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, D.C., 7:02PM, July 21, 2012. That was a cool, showery day with at 71F high at DCA -- the coolest July high there since 2002.

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This follows our own record heat that for all intents and purposes tied on July 7th the all-time D.C. record of of 106F, except it counted as 105F due to the 3-minute rule.

This was the front page print edition picture of The Washington Post ("The WaHoPo") on July 7, 2012, the day it "officially" hit 105F and "unofficially" hit 106F at Reagan Washington National Airport climate station (KDCA). This is a picture of Mike and Eileen Hutson of Trenton, S.C., taken the previous day by the U.S. Capitol Building when it also topped 100F.

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The high on July 20, 1930 was actually 105.6F -- a pre-KDCA record when the official climate station was in downtown D.C. This is a JPEG image of The Washington Post headline from the next day, July 21, 1930 (article in upper right). Thus, the record was actually rounded up 0.4F and probably did not use the 3-minute rule but was an instantaneous temperature).

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The southern Great Plains are in a dangerous heat wave and much of the Lower 48 are in moderate to severe drought that overall is on par with the 1930s Dust Bowl ones. Indeed, it is a repeat of the Dust Bowl heat and drought, except land management / soil conservation practices are far, far better now -- hence no giant "dusters."

Apocalyptic-looking dust storm -- well, all dust storms have that apocalyptic look to them -- approaching Stratford, Texas on April 18, 1935.

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U.S. Drought Monitor map issue dby NOAA - USDA, updated July 24, 2012. A huge stretch of the U.S. -- the largest since the Dust Bowl era -- is in moderate to severe drought conditions.

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Greenland, BTW, seems to have undergone at least a brief "flash melting" of its surface earlier this month following extreme / nearly all-time warmth there (approaching 78F at the southern tip), and you may expect more of this.

This is a NASA produced image from the MODIS sensor aboard both the Terra and Aqua satellites showing melting versus non-melting in the surface layer of ice across Greenland, July 8 (left side) and July 12 (right side), 2012. The "flash" melting spread to an unprecedented 97% of Greenland's surface, though it lasted only briefly.

Of course, rapid Greenland melting possibly accelerates the next ice age. Or at least another Younger Dryas event. But in the Age of Man -- the Anthropocene -- it's not clear where the forcings on the atmosphere and biosphere end.

Delta Air Lines flight 1439 somewhere over South Carolina showing clouds below and deep blue sky above as seen from the middle troposphere. It wasn't as blue when I took the picture, 1:58PM, July 26, 2012.

I was thinking of the Bible versus Psalm 19:1:  "The heavens declare the Glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork." (NKJV)

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My job is going so far OK, I guess, although things may chance for the worse by fall / early winter, esp. if idiot America is as dumb as we all know it is and elects R-Money for president with an all cuckoo GOP Congress, and then it's probably economic depression by 2013-2014. On the other hand, there could be other opportunities.

Image of the YMCA National Capital from its website.

On June 23rd, I REJOINED the gym -- the YMCA National Capital -- after 8-1/2 years, and I have gotten more or less back into the habit and swing of it where I was back then (when circumstances forced me to quit).

There is one, well, two important differences: I'm 8-1/2 years older and 50 pounds heavier from then.

I've lost about 5 pounds so far -- down to 179 lbs, but I realize you can't look at day to day changes. And my weight changes very slowly. I'm still doughy fat.

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Crossing the Florida coastline over Daytona Beach on final approach to DAB, 7:41PM, July 26, 2012.

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And, as you may have surmised, my trip to Florida to see my insane old father in Flagler Beach was a total disaster, a borderline catastrophe. You can read about it on my Regulus blog. I plan to post a much lengthier entry in the next few days about it, complete with the pictures I took.

Passing near / around a thunderstorm located close to the Florida - Georgia border just off the coast near Jacksonville, 5:34PM, July 28, 2012.

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I managed to make a decent 1-1/2 day trip out of it, though, by staying in Daytona Beach at the Hilton. But I won't be going there any longer to visit him. Indeed, I'm not sure if / when I'll be seeing him again.  Daytona Beach, for its part, was crowded -- jumping -- with tourists, much more than I thought would be the case in July. It is a very straight place, though, and tilts conservative politically despite all the social detritus and gentle hedonism and easy-going libertine quality. 

Daytona Beach boardwalk looking north from the edge of the pier, 3:29PM, July 27, 2012.

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I am looking forward to going to the Jersey shore -- Wildwood -- with Gary and maybe Wendy in late August for several days.

OK, that's all for now.

Yours truly on the Daytona Beach pier, 2:38PM, July 27, 2012.

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My next planned update on this blog likely will not be for one to two months.

--Arcturus

Monday, July 18, 2011

A Patch of Blue

Cumulus cloud field in a warm, summer blue sky over Washington, D.C., as seen from my depressing apartment, 1:53PM, July 17, 2011.

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--Arcturus

Monday, January 17, 2011

Sailing the Sea of Tranquility (Sort of)

Here is an image that I found online four or five years ago and have posted previously on my blog(s). It is a picture of a sailing boat on the open ocean on a sunny, windy day. I so love this picture.

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And here is another image that I also love that I found online around the same time as the one above. It shows a person (a young man) digging in the sand at Point Reyes National Seashore, Calif. As with the one above, I don't know where I found it, but this one is identified as being taken by someone identified as Polvi.

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The above images remind me of one of my favorite songs ... Christopher Cross's "Sailing" (his hit 1980 song).

Christopher Cross performing "Sailing" back in 1980. He sure doesn't "look" like his voice.
--Arcturus

Monday, November 8, 2010

Genesis Questing Revisited (Part 2) -OR- Solar & Human Systems

Behold, the dazzling heart of the Centaurus A Galaxy 10 million light years away with its active supermassive central black hole that tips the scale at 1 billion solar masses -- compared to our Milky Way's "puny" and quiet supermassive central black hole Sagittarius A*, which comes it at "just" several million solar masses.

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Yes, I've posted this too before on my Original Arcturus blog.

It's the opening of Second Genesis by Donald Moffitt, the sequel to his other 1986 book Genesis Quest. It sets the scene of how recreated humans are traveling in one of the branches of the hundreds of kilometers long and wide Dyson Tree named Yggdrasil.

Yggdrasil was attached to a huge Bussard ramjet (fusion drive) and was moving at extreme relativistic velocities (incredibly high gamma factor) across the 36 million light year* intergalactic gulf between its starting point, the M51 Whirlpool Galaxy, and its destination, the Milky Way Galaxy, in order to return to Earth to see what became of Original Man tens of millions of years earlier.

The whole premise is quite absurd yet wonderful to read.

*The actual distance is uncertain -- perhaps as "little" as 23 million light years.

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Excerpt (I've added some extra paragraph breaks):

"The tree named Yggdrasil plunged toward the heart of the Galaxy at very nearly the speed of light, safe within a cone of shadow from a sleet of radiation that otherwise would have charred it to ash in microseconds.

It still clutched the remains of a comet in its roots, so water not yet a problem. But light and gravity were strangely wrong, interfering with its tropisms.

Yggdrasil was a very confused tree.

Ahead, always, was a funnel of dancing sparks. Behind was a terribly bright light. Yggdrasil's senses told it that it was in the terrifying grip of a one-g gravitational field that was tugging it toward the unnatural sun.

It had been trying for twenty years to escape. But when it tried to turn the reflective surfaces of its leaves toward the perpendicular, something always frustrated it.

Yet, wonder of wonders, Yggdrasil never fell. An equal and opposite force applied to a small region of its central trunk prevented that. Yggdrasil knew in its vegetable fashion that a girdle of foreign substance encircled its waist, but its senses were not adequate to tell it about the tether and the gargantuan turnbuckle that anchored the girdle.

A strange thing had happened to the stars as well. They swarmed around the tree in rainbow hoops of color -- violet, then blues, greens, and yellows ahead; orange and progressively darker reds behind.

Both ahead and behind, blind disks had blossomed as the stars marched in both directions through the spectrum and disappeared. The rearward spot was larger. Over the years it had kept expanding and compressing the rainbow hoops and pushing them forward until now they circled the coruscating funnel of sparks like concentric halos.

Scores of times Yggdrasil had tried to pick a yellow target star, only to have it change colors and vanish from the Universe.

Only the odd pursuing sun had not dopplered through the spectrum.

It remained fixed in color and distance, seeming to grow ever brighter against the expanding dark region behind it.

Jupiter: "King of the Planets"

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Saturn: "Lord of the Rings"

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Fretting, Yggdrasil tried to concentrate on growing one of its branches. Its crown -- since it had been prevented from spinning -- was no longer perfectly symmetrical, and this was a branch that needed to catch up. Fortunately, the direction of the tug of gravity was always a guide. Growth, Yggdrasil knew in its simple wisdom, was supposed to be perpendicular.

There was commensal life in one of the cavities of the errant branch, but it was too insignificant to be noticed. Yggdrasil ignored it. The only verities were light, gravitation, and water."

Speaking of Neptune (above image), it's always been my favorite planet after Earth, if only because I was born in Neptune, New Jersey and it's "water blue" appearance.

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The largest of the Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNO's), including "dwarf planet" Pluto.

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Schematic diagram showing the paths of Voyager I and II with Voyager I having gone through the termination shock initially in 2005 and into the heliosheath, though the position of it undulates with the solar wind.

Voyager I is still a long way from the bow shock, the boundary where the interstellar medium (either on the forward or rear ward side of the Solar System's motion with respect to the galaxy) becomes subsonic and the effects of the solar wind essentially vanish -- and thus our Solar System finally ends. More information here.

Speaking of termination shocks, I fear my own from my job.

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Diagram of the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud of frozen comet nuclei. The Oort Cloud extends a third of the way to the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, which is 4.24 light years away and may be loosely gravitationally bound to the binary Alpha Centauri system in a trinary system. The Oort Cloud extends well past the bow shock.

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OK, that's all for now. I keep dreading something terrible will happen to me. If nothing else, that's just how my mind works.

Yours truly at the Fresco pizza / snack bar place in the sunken Watergate Shops promenade area, Washington, D.C., 6:10PM, Nov. 8, 2010.

Tonight, I took one of my after-work jaunts over to Foggy Bottom and thence to the Watergate Safeway -- stopping first at Fresco -- before walking back home to the life-force enervating D.C. gayborhood.

My next planned update will be later this week.

--Arcturus