william.scherk

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I don't understand this answer now.

Who told us that, please?

Great opener to the topic. Thanks, Michael.

I am training Descript's "Overdub" to incorporate a William Scott Scherk voice for text-to-speech rendering. Birthday blessings continue. Starting with the first post to Objectivist Living ... voice-training WSSCHERK.COM Farm to Table ...

Art got in touch today! I'm hoping we remaining band members could bang out one last new A and B side. Here's hoping. My fave of his mid-career. Big money? No. Lots of gratis labor and five thousand Canadian dollars.

My father Sidney's early death was from heart disease. Heart disease did not kill Sid's brother, my uncle Don Scherk. Uncle Don survived his 'big one' ... and lived on till age 75. My dad was a boozehound of sorts in much of his 30s. He was sober and starting a new job when his 'big one' brought him down on a business trip. He had just become a father to my half-brother David. David never knew his father. The maternal line is the one with a run on depression and mood disorders and cancer of the lung, with a bit of Dark Norwegian Fjord brooding that we don't talk about at family reunions. Our longest lived relative is from my mom's side -- an original Enwright. She is now 103 and lives in Seattle with her youngest son as home care-giver. She's pretty frail, but gets to church on time, via ZOOM these days. After my cardiac 'big one' was averted by a successful arterial stent, I started to prepare myself mentally for the next family 'drop.' I figured it was me that would be dropping -- and soon. I figured wrong.

I believe this apparent gross misidentification stems from Florida Senator Rick Scott big mouth -- he put forward some kind of point-form plan that offered an obvious target for the put-on 'outrage' we see in the House.

I liked reading your OL post here, the first time and the second time. We are worlds away, but some words help move toward good moods. Hope you wake up cracking like that every day. It's hard to push against a seemingly immovable mass, but. My ancestrals back a scant hundred years were dark and brooding, extremely hidden fjord Norwegian, who found an even starker forest inlet at Bella Coola. Closest counterpart in 2023, would have to be that scream of a TV show, "The Truth Will Out." Norwegians do not always show a grim face to the world, or greet each curtly or with disdain. They will not feed you dinner if you linger, yes, but neither do the Swedes, also dour and prone to axe murdering. My clan was Enwright down the male line and Norwegian Depression down the maternal mitochondrial. That means yes, all you Enwright lot will be bald like every uncle. I am half-joking about the Norwegian heritage. Most Norwegians I know are your basic convivial, temperate Hosehead Canuck. Prone to screaming at hockey games and drinking Molson. On the other hand, there are senseless, brutal, shocking and mystifying murders in every locale on this old blue Earth. For a scream of an introduction to the Mirth of WSS, be content to not understand half of this on first watch ...

[Edited January 2 2019 -- to remove or replace dead visual-links] Long ago Jonathan and I got some good traction out of a tangle of issues related to Global Warming slash Climate Change. I think we are slated to renew or refresh our earlier exchanges. I am going to poke in links to some he-said/he-saids from a few different threads at different times. One feature of the updated software is an automated 'sampling' of a link posted raw. See below. So this blog entry will be kind of administrative-technical while being built and edited. I haven't figured out if Jonathan and I should impose some 'rules' going in, so your comment may be subject to arbitrary deletion before the field is ready for play. Fan notes included. http://wsscherk.hostingmyself.com/VIDEOCASTS/A23KF/globalWarmingPEWpolarization.png Adam, see what you think of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, especially the revealing map-based representations of opinion. You can drill and zoom down to state, county, district level to track data across a number of survey questions, where some of the answers are surprising. On some measures at least, the thing it is not found only in the UK, Quebec, Canada: Here's a snapshot of several maps which do not always show an expected Red State/Blue State pattern; [images updated January 2 2019; click and go images] http://wsscherk.hostingmyself.com/VIDEOCASTS/A23KF/2018YaleClimateOpinionMaps.png http://wsscherk.hostingmyself.com/VIDEOCASTS/A23KF/personalHarmYaleCC.png [Deleted image-link] Edited 4 May 2015 by william.scherk Plug my How To Get Where I Got book of books, Spencer Weart's The Discovery of Global Warming. Insert link to Amazon, Library link, and to the intro chapter of Weart's companion website to the book. Make sure you include a link to Ellen's mention of a book review. Bob Kolker's June 3 comment is a good hinge. What do we (J and I) think we know about the mechanism Bob sketches? What can we 'stipulate' or what can we agree on, for the sake of argument?

What do you mean by "fixing"?

Which we did ...

She does!

Nobody? I'd maybe go with "Who is asking a questions about the following [blah blah]?" Some crackhead ChatGPT YouTube mavens asking a questions:

Maureen Dowd, seer? A.I.: Actually Insipid Until It’s Actively Insidious Opinion | A.I.: Actually Insipid Until It’s Actively Insidious - The New York Times WWW.NYTIMES.COM ChatGPT ain’t Shakespeare, but it’s still a threat to humanity.

Good piece, Michael. Looks like you have fun while writing each day.