nonfer: May 2025

difficult to remember that he never ran for President? as an independent he ran to be the democrat's nominee twice.

[ and again, today ]

the strategy of pretending to avoid the thesis versus antithesis of obvious republican versus republican worked for fundraising. i remember not posting about his age being a concern in 2015 and in 2020. i didn't for two reasons. one, he never ran for President. two, i went through his voting record as a member of congress. then, he dropped out of the race to be the nominee before the convention in 2016. not how that was supposed to work, failing to bring supporters and delegates to nominate candidates and decide on the party platform didn't allow his supporters to be heard? his large dollar donors were. you do know that despite all the talk about how he got the support of small dollar donations that they were matched by large dollar donations? as one of over five hundred of my representation in congress i didn't neccesarily find myself at odds with his voting record. it still would have felt just as cruel to vote for him as it would have to have voted for hillary or trump.

he also dropped out of contention in 2020 (very disappointing for not hearing from him that the public's health was more important when he did).

retire ?

"Rococo Variations were composed in short score near the end of 1876 for Wilhelm Fitzhagen, who was principal cellist at the Moscow Conservatory. Fitzhagen got a short score of the new variations so he could make the cello part idiomatic while Tchaikovsky was orchestrating the rest. This was introduced at a Moscow concert on November 30, 1877, when the composer was "recuperating" in Switzerland from the debacle of his one and only marriage earlier that year. He didn't know of revisions Fitzhagen made and presented to the publisher Jurgenson as "authorized." Tchaikovsky's own version had a brief introduction for strings before the theme itself, in two parts, then eight variations, and a coda. Fitzhagen added repeat marks to both halves of the theme, killed variation 8, rearranged the original order (to 1, 2, 7, 5, 6, 3, 4), and truncated the coda. Although biographer David Brown has damned this version as "deplorably corrupt," it remains charming, albeit less effective than the original, finally published in a 1956 Soviet edition of Tchaikovsky's complete works."

sound quality's for shit, am listening over bluetooth anyway.

am going to check these on mobile.

[ time that youtube recognizes a view...]

update from friday the sixteenth of may:

unbelievable?

https://www.cancelledscifi.com/sci-fi-tv-shows/murderbot/

seen quite enough of that already? kind of doubt it will be anytime soon. have to launder that dishonest money somewhere is exactly what their subscriber numbers look like. only real viewership won't likely be from downloaders either. if anyone to speak of ever sees this it will be years from now.

end update.

was looking for twine the other day.
thought maybe kite string would be less expensive.
found this saturday: https://www.target.com/p/bright-creations-200-yards-of-2mm-macrame-cord-for-crafts-white-cotton-string-for-gift-wrapping-bakers-twin-for-wall-hanging-plant-hangers/-/A-81837196

rather than spending billions for the 2024 elections we'd be better off just not.