Why wasn’t global warming an issue in 1972?

Air pollution was much worse in 1972. Cars were using LEADED gasoline and I remember that in San Jose, California the air pollution was extreme. I worked outdoors in Almaden and some days I could not see Mount Umunhum. Standing at the corner of Blossom Hill Road and Almaden Expressway, visibility was reduced to less than 10 miles…

Then we all switched to a mixture of UNLEADED gasoline and conditions improved.

Riddle me this, Batman. Often people claim that global warming is caused by air pollution… I’m not kidding… So, when air pollution was really bad, we heard not a peep but now that air pollution has gotten better we have climatologists running around in circles screaming “The Sky is Falling, The Sky is Falling…”

Maybe the eARTh is heating up because of the HOTTER SUN we have in the last few years. Could be… Nasa says the SUN is producing more energy recently. Both the eARTh and Mars have had similar shrinkage of their ice caps…

We should do real science and figure out what the real cause is. Then we can take appropriate action. Like Building the SPACE PARASOL.

Let's Build the Space Parasol

Earthquakes and global warming: Linked?

Is there a cause and effect between the two? anyone know?
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Let’s suppose you take a balloon with two parallel lines on it. If you inflate the balloon the lines become farther apart. Now, suppose the lines are fault lines and the balloon is planet eARTh. If the fault lines move farther apart would we not get more slipping? more eARThquakes?

This question does not involve any discussion on causes of global warming… As we all know, The GLOBAL WARMING ON MARS is not due to air pollution… or greenhouse gasses.. or Driving cars… We have photographic Proof that MARS is heating up and the ice caps are shrinking… What we really need to do is start building THE SPACE PARASOL.
It’s cooler in the shade…

Human behavior has no effect on Global Warming

click here to learn about the SPACE PARASOL

Photoshop Tutorial: Winged Hearts from any picture.

example of mathematical Winged Heart

The winged heart shape is created in Photoshop by using EDIT-TRANSFORM: PERSPECTIVE: and then moving the lower corner all the way to the opposite lower corner creating two pyramid shapes… one right side up, the other upside down… then… FILTER- DISTORT- POLAR COORDINATES- RECTANGULAR TO POLAR… then…  LAYER- STYLE- INNER BEVEL…

To get a heart shape without the wings… when you are doing the perspective transform, bring the lower corner to the center of the picture at the bottom… Have Fun!

Math Joke… Jailbait Equation…

Are You Over 18 Cutie Pie?

This artwork is for sale printed on a T-Shirt… http://www.zazzle.com/gregvan*

It reminds me that Numbers have flavor, meaning and emotions attached to them… Like: 61 makes me think of Highway 61 a song by Bob Dylan and sung by Johnny Winter… also the main Northern migration route from the South to Chicago or Detroit… Many people moved along this road to take JOBS in the city. 5150, Number 9, Love Potion #9, 42, 420… many numbers have flavors of their own… for a complete list read: http://gregvanderlaan.com/numbers.aspx

For Safety’s Sake, become a hippie…

It’s kind of IRONIC that the people in favor of the War in Iraq and Afghanistan are the ones most likely to have children in the military…and the most likely to have children DYING in wars…

There are very few children of Hippies getting killed in foreign wars… we are not gullible. Our kids just say know… No thanks, we’re not dying for bogus war.

Reply to Comment: Grateful Dead Re-unite.

A new comment on the post #144 “Dear President Obama: Grateful Dead reunite. THANKS! You did it…”
Author : JoAnne@12stepgolf
URL    : http://www.12stepgolf.com

Comment:
I guess it wouldn’t have been so bad had kids not been jumping out of the windows.

You may find this interesting:
http://12stepgolf.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/and-they-call-themselves-free-thinkers/

A reply to this comment.

Classic misinformation. The comment ask’s one to suppose that there were kids jumping out of windows… and that LSD increased the quanity of Kids Jumping… WOW, isn’t that an urban myth? Is there any verification?

I do remember the strange case of Dr. Frank Olson. He jumped out of a window a few days after he was given LSD without his knowledge. Part of the MKULTRA project. Some say he was thrown out the window…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson

http://www.frankolsonproject.org/

 

 

Photoshop Tutorial: Create a Rainbow Squiral using Actions.

AFTER: rainbow squiral

BEFORE: Redwood Forest in Eureka, CA

Photoshop Tutorial: Create a Rainbow Squiral using Actions.

Window:Actions allows you to memorize series of commands to be played back later. In this example we will play back an action 42 times.

Open a SQUARE image. Like this Redwood Forest… 1536px by 1536px
Layer: Duplicate layer: OK
Edit: Free Transform: 90 percent both vertical and horizontal: click check mark…
Layer: Layer Style: Outer Glow:
select from the drop down box Structure: a rainbow gradient,
drop down box Elements: Technique: select precise,
set size to 79…OK

(size is related to picture size-try different numbers)

Layer Style Photoshop

Now we have a rainbow edged layer…

Rainbow Edged Forest Layer...

Click on Window:Actions to open the menu.
Click on the three tiny lines in the upper right hand corner.

actions menu

Click on NEW ACTION from the drop down box…

Give it a name and click on RECORD button.

new action

{record all these mouse clicks to be played back later…}
Layer: Duplicate layer: OK
Edit: Transform: Rotate:
92 percent both ways, -12 degrees, click on the check mark…
Image: Adjustment: Hue/Saturation: -25 hue, OK
Filter: Blur: Blur

Stop recording by clicking on the square at the bottom of the Actions Menu.

actions-stop-play-buttons

Click on the name you gave your action in the list of all possible actions…
Play that action again by clicking on the triangle at the bottom of the actions menu…

rainbow forest after a couple of rotations...

play that action about 42 times… YES, 42 times!

Layer: Flatten Image
File: Save for Web and Devices, SAVE, give it a name, SAVE

This is a Archimedes Spiral. Not a Fibonacci Spiral… that one is interesting too!

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Do the Math: a silly story… by gregvanderlaan.com

During the early 1970’s a gentleman and his wife were working in Palo Alto, California and he discovered the key to enlightenment. He published it as a book and became a leader of a religious group very popular with the high tech crowd surrounding Apple and HP. To put it briefly, the key is 01101011001110110100010001… and it went on like that for a hundred pages finally ending with the amazing conclusion that astonished the world and allowed the couple to earn a million dollars from royalties… 11010011100001110101100110.

A few years passed and the wife made a public statement: “While my husband is a fine fellow and a wonderful father to our children, I sadly must inform you that he is almost entirely wrong about the key to enlightenment. I have been doing the math and can state that there is a missing part… it is:10010100110001001011101110… and it went on like that for a hundred pages finally ending with the amazing conclusion that astonished the world and allowed the couple to earn another million dollars from royalties… 00101100011110001010011001.

And the people of the world did the math… and she was right… while each of the strings of zeros and ones by themselves showed part of the key to true enlightenment, if you add the two numbers together, they equal:1111111111111111111111111…. and it goes on for a hundred pages finally ending as you would expect… 111111111111111111111111111.

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Idea Factory at work: This joke came to me pre-written in a dream, all I did was type it into the computer before I forgot it… Yes, it was slightly different in the dream, more visual. They took the number over to RSA Associates and asked them to study it. When plotted on a rectangular grid 3.5 inches wide by 2 inches tall the numbers form a labyrinth in the shape of an eye… the gentleman had the eye printed on business cards… with a one printed as a black dot and the zero printed as a white space… then years later, the wife had similar cards printed on mylar with the one printed as a white dot and the zero printed as a clear space… when you overlay her card on his they form a totally white image… but just before the image whites out, the eye appears to wink at you… as if it was laughing along with you enjoying a private joke.

Well, here is that joke.
“There are 10 types of people in the world, those that read binary and those that don’t.”

Re-set Social Security Retirement age to 55: Cure Unemployment NOW.

There are simply not enough jobs to be filled by people looking for work.

If we reduced the quantity of people looking for work by re-setting the age to 55, we would solve the unemployment “crisis”.

When I was young, everyone retired at 55. Every year the age has crept up… Now it’s 62. a few years from now it’ll probably be 64, then 66, 68, 70, 73, 78… how high can we count? It seems that retirement is always a few years away and constantly receding…

My dad pointed out that when he was working, the secretaries never got carpool-tunnel sin-drome… Why do they report it now???

Well, they typed on typewriters until their fingers wore out (at about 55) and never complained because they were retired… or never complained because they were afraid of getting fired… Lack of reporting does not mean the problem didn’t exist.

So, in order to reduce unemployment and reduce worker’s compensation claims… Set Social Security Retirement Age to 55.

If we have a trillion dollars to give away to the bankers, we can spent what’s needed to pay the people that have WORKED THEIR WHOLE LIFE.

Get the Baby Boomers out of the workforce so that the NEXT generation can thrive without unfair competition.

So, what’s it to be? Pay for Worker’s Compensation, Social Security Disability, State Disability, Welfare or do the right thing and re-set retirement age to 55.

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For safety’s sake, Legalize and TAX Hemp!

Crazy LAWS make reefer farming profitable, attracting idiot criminals that burn down the forest accidentally.

~~~~~newspaper article~~~~~
Fire Investigators Suspect La Brea Fire Caused By Marijuana Cultivation

Evidence Points to Illegal Cooking Fire As Cause of the 84,000-Acre Blaze
Saturday, August 15, 2009
By Ray Ford http://www.independent.com

A week-long investigation by U.S. Forest Service Special Agents, Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Narcotics Unit, and Fire Investigators revealed that the origin of the La Brea fire is the result of a marijuana drug trafficking operation. Specifically, officials believe the fire started from flames or sparks from a campfire used for cooking.

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Narcotics Unit has confirmed that the camp at the origin of the fire was an illegal marijuana operation believed to be headed by a Mexican National drug organization.
~~~~~newspaper article~~~~~

So, how’s that PROHIBITION working out for you? Not too good.

Here in Eureka, California we have had many housefires caused by faulty electrical lighting systems at indoor grows. The lights used to grow the hemp are often installed by people that have no idea about safety AND THEY ARE OFTEN STONED.

Public safety is endangered by the idiot LAWS that make grass farming profitable. We could have regulation of the industry with OSHA safety inspections.

Alien Art Show. A celebration of science fiction Images.

what the inside of a time machine looks like while traveling.

I’ve recently done a series of images depicting science fiction themes… aliens dancing, power stations, spaceports… click link to view them all…

http://gregvanderlaan.com/alienart.aspx

peace button: art designed to relax the viewer

For sale as a button… click here to see many, many more…

http://www.zazzle.com/gregvan/buttons

printed on a necktie...

http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/1189686

rainbow squiralism

Patriotic Bumpersticker: Tax Hemp

Red and White, Blue Suede Shoes... I'm Uncle Sam, How do you do?

Hemp for Victory. This is a bumpersticker for sale on http://www.zazzle.com/gregvan/bumperstickers

DO NOT PASTE THIS ON A CAR! That would attract attention from police and lead to you getting busted for the kind bud.

Even if you don’t have any of “The Nice” they will stop you for having a bumpersticker… Clearly a person that supports Sound Fiscal Policy: Tax Hemp, is a danger to the New World Order and should be stopped by the police…

I've been facinated by rainbow Squiralism for years. Squares rotated and resized.

In this case, I took a picture, then resized it slightly smaller and rotated it slightly. Then repeated those actions. In paint dot net it’s a ctrl+shift d z once you set up the factors… SQUIRAL… Learned the idea from a “basic” programming book designed to help TRS-80 users. I really liked basic… and made screensavers to demo the computers I sold when working at Radio Shack… One thing about the RS Computers, they really hit the nail on the head with “The Sensation”. That was the first computer for sale to the public that had a cd-rom drive in it… quite a good idea!

On a different subject, I googled the name of this blog and find that it’s a common slogan… Earthday Everyday

http://www.energy.gov/energytips.htm

here is a link the the US Department of Energy… and a lovely Illustration in that “isometric” art style…

Relaxing art designed to entrance. (to put into a trance)

We are all one 'neath the infinite Sun. Forever, forever, forever

In the event that you are stressed out, remember to sing your rainbow songs… I heard this one at a gathering and wrote down the words. Then emailed Michael’s Cosmic Kitchen. He declined to add the extra lyrics to his page… He feels that his source of lyrics did not verify the extra words. http://www.cosmic-kitchen.com/song.php?id=rainbow.circle.songs__TheInfiniteSun

http://www.cosmic-kitchen.com/

He has a great website… I have used it for lyrics for years… Two thumbs up for Michael.

Star of David Flowers Coffee Cup Art

available for sale printed on a MUG. Click on Image.

This is one of a series of stars. This symbol simply appeals to my draftsman mind. Straight lines rotated 60 degrees. Hey, I can draw that! Visit http://www.zazzle.com/gregvan* for more…

Thanks to Corel Paint Shop Pro for the fine kaleidoscope effect.

There is a lot to recommend winplot for the fine graphing freeware… I just use the best parts of many different paint type programs… and look for interesting images… more at http://gregvanderlaan.com

Got Budget Crisis? Tax Hemp!

Arnold Smoking Grass in the Movie "Pumping Iron"

Yes, That is a REAL picture of a Wisconsin Tax Stamp for a producer of Marihuana… Yes, That is really Governor Arnold… “Yes, it’s real grass and I inhaled” is what he says… Go Ahead Arnold, Tax Marijuana… the state needs the money.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss… Why NOT trial by jury?

Obama to resurrect military tribunals for terror suspects
By Ed Henry
CNN Senior White House Correspondent

WASHINGTON (CNN) — In a move that could reignite tensions with liberals in his own party, President Obama is planning on Friday to resume the Bush administration’s highly controversial military tribunal system — which Obama suspended his first week in office — for some Guantanamo detainees, according to three administration officials.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/14/obama.military.tribunal/

SO, WHERE IS THE CHANGE?

Still got the Patriot Act, Still got war in Iraq and Afghanistan with no end in sight, still spying on Americans with warrentless wiretaps…

Who is running this country anyway? Is Obama a puppet of Wall Street?

He did help them steal a trillion dollars, the largest bank robbery in the history of the world.

Is the democratic process a failure? Are elections a sham?

Should we try a DIFFERENT technique for REGEIM CHANGE?

This one isn’t working…

Where does Rush Limbaugh get those CRAZY IDEAS????

He gets stoned out of his mind on hillbilly heroin and just starts babbling like a fool…

Rush got busted for getting a huge quantity of oxycontin from an illegal dealer and while he was tripping he was talking on the radio.

THAT’s why he sounds like an insane maniac….He’s speaking from the other side of the Looking Glass in an Alice in Wonderland trip!
What’s the difference between Rush Limbaugh and the Hindenburg? One is a flaming NAZI gasbag and the other is an aircraft…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster

“I think Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker but he was just so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight.” -Wanda Sykes

Where’s Osama? Relaxing in the tropical Paradise of Islamic Indonesia?

President Barack Obama’s national security adviser says he isn’t sure if Osama bin Laden is dead or alive.
Retired Marine Gen. James Jones said Sunday that U.S. intelligence agencies are looking at data and watching for confirmed appearances by the al-Qaida leader.
Jones said, “The truth is, I don’t think anybody knows.”

You have to admire George Bush for his “Turn the other cheek” Christian response to Osama been Forgotten, a lesser man would have hunted him down and killed him but George was content to let him die of old age. Good for you, George…

Retired from 'errorism, Osama been Forgotten Takes up a new Hobby.