Tuesday, December 10, 2024

The end of yooper tales?

 So many people from all over this world...  I am truly humbled. Thousands have popped in to see what is new, others to try to figure out how to algorithmically solve for zero residuals... in matrix methods or how to approach a mariner's propulsion engineering exam.  LOL, or more recently, how to calculate life expectancy... 

Wow, I never expected how many around the world were interested in mathematics as applied to physical ICE problems - I always knew if there were those presented with  torsional vibes problems they could be hard to master - so look in my archive, let me help you understand - engine dynamics -  that's how to solve that! You can always e-mail me. I keep Ker Wilson and Pestel/Lecke on the shelf.

On a more spiritual note, those I most care about are long gone, content I assume and on their own.  So what about the blog going forward?  Well most of the filtering, anonymous traffic and the algorithms know the kind of warnings  I wish to get out there and I have done as much of that as makes sense to me. Sorry for the shadow banning depending on where you live. I've reached a natural place to hit pause and really see if there is a reason to keep posting topics like depletion and the very connected geopolitics to make sense of it all.  Let me know if you'd like more of my content and I'll keep at it .  Else I may take a very long break.  Good luck NLO and JRO you have always been and always will be in my prayers.  


AML



Sunday, December 8, 2024

December 25th or Jan 7th?

 Christmas in the East as celebrated by the Orthodox is based upon the Julian Calendar. So when did Western churches decide to move to the Gregorian Calendar?  Why in 1582 the then Pope Gregory decided that his calendar was closer to the Solar Calendar.  The Protestants went along with this change over a hundred years later.  That left the very staid 300 million Orthodox the predominant group to continue on with the tradition of celebrating 13 days later.  14 if you consider in the 2100 leap year will be skipped and the Orthodox will be celebrating on January 8th!  

No matter how you celebrate your spirituality or what your traditions are, I wish you all peace, health and happiness as we approach this Christian celebration. We are all more alike than different and the things that separate us are mostly man made and projected forces like inequality, scarcity, hubris, evil oppression and greed (to name just a few). Love and kindness, kindness to share and to help each other does nothing to concentrate wealth or project power.  But rather love, mercy, compassion, repentance and care for each other diminishes the very things that divide us.   With the World redefining itself in so many ways, and old systems falling away, perhaps the Christmas message would be a great start.  




AML