Experimentation seems to show that Firefox can play videos from here if you load them from my home machine, at
https://home.vin-dit.org. That is a complete replica of this site. Maybe this has to do with Caddy handling things
better than Apache??? Also, in the Firefox developer console it seems Caddy is using HTTP/3. 🤷‍♂️
Since retiring, I've had some health adventures, and tried different things to devote myself to. There's so much wrong with the world, I'd like to help
fix it. Not sure what would make a real impact. I guess lots of people
practice religions and probably believe that if everyone followed their
beliefs, the world would be so much better. My religion is sort of pseudo-Zen Buddhism and also a lot of atheism and secular humanism. I've been vegetarian (more or less) for a long time. I'm averse to violence and domination.
I grew up thinking common monotheistic religions were all nonsense. I think the idea that there is an "us" and a "them" (thanks to Roger Waters) is one of the core delusions that drives the horrors in the world.
I devoted a lot of time to writing code,etc., now it seems like that's being automated away as a human endeavor.
I think people really want the same things - to have them and their families thrive, to be in a community, to enjoy the arts, sports, physical pleasures, good food. People who want to wreak vengeance or be sadistic are deluded in my opinion. They need to "wake up".
Science, as I understand it, as a way of trying to understand "reality" (if there is such a thing) has been "unreasonably effective".
Mad props to everyone in the healing professions.
March 12 Straightened out the RSS.
March 11 Doing this on OpenBSD, because reasons.
Haven't posted for a bit, just don't know what to say. I'm recovering from my mitral valve repair (heart surgery). Pretty amazing that doctors and their teams can do what they can do. Downloaded this video of Esperanza playing Overjoyed for Obama just to see that is possible on OpenBSD....Overjoyed.mp4. I had my issues with Obama but consider this, and what we have now..... Mourning the 175 innocent girls killed by our military. God help us. People are so deluded. Maybe trying to end delusion/ignorance is the most important thing. So ashamed of what my country has done to those people.March 04 ** 2 more info, from looking at the Portugese wikipedia entry, Internet Archive has their website: https://web.archive.org/web/20160708073544/http://www.meninascantoras.com.br/historia.htm Right there, there's a quote from George Martin (in a graphic, but easy to extract) "SĂł os anjos cantam assim..." -- Google translate says it is "Only angels sing like this...". So I think there's more to this story than the Instagram post had. Maybe someday I'll look at his autobiography (I think he has one) and find out.
March 04 During a visit to Brazil, George Martin was surprised at Rio de Janeiro’s airport by a performance from the Meninas Cantoras de Petrópolis choir. The group sang “Because,” a song he produced for The Beatles, and the reaction was immediate: Martin was visibly moved by the a cappella performance. Composed exclusively of girls, the choir stood out as one of the most important in the country in this format and ended its activities years later. GeorgeMartinInBrazil.mp4 That's what it said on the Instagram post, but Wikipedia discusses other (earlier?) connections between Martin and the group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meninas_Cantoras_de_Petr%C3%B3polis. I trust Wikipedia. Also, see Chris Cron breaking down the harmoniesMarch 01 Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit!
