Modem mixup made momentum morph into moribundity

Ah, I can upload videos again. Takes a while, but at least it works. I think most or all of the problem was at my end: I discovered (via Qwest tech support) that I had rehooked up the modem wrong: the phone cord was plugged into "phone" instead of "line." So I was "throttling" myself! Probably had c. dialup speed or something not much better. Duh!

Anyway, as an experiment, here's a video I took last summer....

Why Fundamentalism should die

Fundamentalism is what keeps peace negotiations from proceding. It divides resources unevenly, along perceived lines of "us" and "them". It inhibits freedom for the classes that are less privileged. It hates equality, and fears it because it does not trust the non privileged to behave any differently if they get power over the privileged. It distrusts all talk of true democracy for the same reason: the voting block of privilege's enemies will grow and take over, and reverse the status quo.

If the vast majority of the world truly believes in equality they will see each other's children as beautiful, the most beautiful thing on earth, in fact. By this mark or gauge can you tell the level of your own openness to the concept of a non fundamentalist society: how much do you find the children of your neighbors beautiful? Would you die to save one of them?

What is the denouncement of fundamentalism? "When you love your own children more than you hate your enemies you will have peace."

I would say it this way instead: "When we love our neighbors' children as much as we love our own, war will cease: for no sane parent ever incited his children to kill each other!"

Muddled, mystified and mad....

I would have uploaded a new video, including MUSIC by now: except Blogger is acting most contrary. When I try to upload any length of video, it just keeps "uploading" and never processes. (stupid age of stupid machines) I checked Blogger "issues" and sure enough, since last November, there has been a periodic video uploading problem: it hasn't been fixed so far. So who knows when another video will appear, if ever: my patience runs very thin in this venue....

More Movie Maker Madness

I was fiddling with visual effects and inserting still photos into a video. Works pretty cool! Easy too. Now, I just have to arrange some musical background. I don't know how to do that yet....

The Winter Wonderland Water Feature

I am keeping the water feature running through this winter. It is almost leak proofed, such that it only requires three or four 5 gallon buckets of water per day. I get up in the morning and put in a couple of buckets from the outside tap. And in the evening I put in one or two more. Lately, it has been unusually cold: 6F yesterday! Which means that without any thawing, at all, I have to break the ice two or three times a day, instead of just once first thing in the morning. Yeah, the heater I dropped in the pond today looks unsightly, but hopefully it will reduce the ice thickness, and especially keep ice away from the pump!

Conrad joins Ricky and Me for a skirmish game on the "dinner table"

http://www.angelfire.com/mb2/battle_hastings_1066/kotdt5.html

Mother Maughan sings w/daughters