December 29, 2011, it's my brother's birthday, I think I'll call him . . . . .   And we've passed the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, and now the days will be getting longer, good. This is the gloomiest time of year, I mean the darkest as far as sunlight. That's why they put Christmas at this time, to cheer us up. And now I'll try to up load one of my favorite paintings, this is by Vincent Van Gogh. It's titled "the potato eaters".  These people in the painting lived in the Netherlands, and it got dark early, there wasn't much sunlight in the winter, just like what we got now. And they didn't have electric lights, that's why it looks so dark in the picture. I think this was around 1880 approximately + or - 5 years. And they didn't have computers or tv or even radio, duh. I wonder what they did on those long dark cold gloomie nights.
        I really like this picture, when I look . . . I almost feel like I am going to that place and time, almost like I'm there visiting.

Machine Life

                                                         Machine Life
         Many millions of years ago, two basic life forms were created, plant life and animal life. Some  would say that it all started more recently . . . in any case, those 2 have been around for a long time. And no others. And what was there before these two forms? Can I guess there was nothing? Nothing but big barren rocks we call planets and moons and a ball of fire called sun. Nothing you would be comfortable with.
        Aren't we happy to have these two forms of life on earth? Happy to be part of the animal half of this dynamic duo?
         Can I talk about nature for a minute? I like nature. I imagine America before it was over run by woman. A pure wilderness where nature ruled. The grass and trees were free to grow and spread without being destroyed or pushed back by woman. The animals were free to run and play and kill each other, unmolested*. No cities or urban sprawl to destroy their habitat, it must have been a wonderful place. I wish I could have seen it. Nature is-   all plant and animal life untouched by woman.   Uncontrolled, unplanned, left on its own. That's nature.    Woman is not part of nature. By definition she is anti-nature.
         So, as a nature lover I imagined the perfect world where there were no skyscrapers or factories or subdivisions, in other words, a world without woman. Nature in perfect balance and harmony.
         But wait! Where would that leave us? Should we all kill ourselves to make room for the perfect world?! Let's rethink this.         A new line of thought- The factories and manufacturers and the women that create them and run them are starting a new life form, a third basic life form. It's machine life. A third basic life form. We now have plant life, animal life, and machine life. It's true that machine life is only at it's very begining. It's as if we were there to see the first amoeba crawl out of the muck, but it is happening. Machines are begining to show signs of life. They are reproducing, the machines in the facories are busy making parts for other machines. That's reproduction. And they can think. They are CNC (computer numeric control).
     Yes, this is it, right before our eyes it is happeninig,     a new basic life form is being created, "Machine Life!"  This is only the begining.