so, what i've done is start at the beginning and, whenever i see a thread in one of the blogs, have noted it, with the hope of maintaining consistency and completeness, godel be damned. the blogs will each morph, now, to better fit these threads.

this should help everybody understand the differences between these blogs, which i'm only beginning to fully grasp, myself.

politics:
- life narrative. feelings. events. reflections. dialogues. stories.
- essays. rants. comments. short stories, notes, reactions to quotes.
- philosophical reflections
- political activism
- lectures exclusive
- debates
- news reports exclusive (except sarcasm)
- mathematical & scientific analysis, of varying levels
- historical analysis
- cultural analysis
- economic analysis
- legal analysis
- blogs of any sort, really
- any excerpts of existing texts
- anything published to the appspot site, including cd reviews, concert reviews & music web
- food blog
- all official music releases
- some extra discussions outside of the main narrative
- persies
- benchmark discs
- reviews of substantive influences in real time
- concerts
- headphones
- posts about isps & network topology
- installation files & scripts
- posts about non-musical celebrities, and about some newsworthy musical celebrities
- theory of art sequence
- other youtube videos posted and/or commentary around them should have some kind of relevance to one of these categories
- general commentary about web pages and their uses (with personal use commentary, too)

music:
- life narrative. feeling, events. reflections. dialogues.
- studio narrative
- cover art
- all official music releases
- damaged cds are part of the narrative.
- computer troubleshooting is a part of the narrative
- cleaning the studio. scripting machines.
- benchmark discs / obligatory influentials / comment threads about influences
- reviews of new records by selected artists that are of specific historical influence
- some obituaries of direct or indirect influences
- no appspot reviews, but reviews of new music affecting me as i'm recording.
- concerts
- persies
- headphones
- installation files & files created when recording
- posts about isps & network topology (ends after getting isp access)
- posts about personal social media sites
- posts about music theory or music history or music as any other academic interest
- posts about music production, gear, equipment, etc
- posts about the guitar, the development of the guitar, guitar music history, specific guitarists, etc
- comments where i drop my own music
- comments where i present biographical information in a way that is relevant to understanding my influences and development as an artist
- theory of art sequence
- concepts that relate to topics explored in songs
- some excerpts of existing texts as they are relevant to art or my artistic development
- discussions with people inquiring about the music

dtk:
- any posts containing music videos of any sort
- any youtube videos or comments around videos except those that are considered official new sources
- tv show & film excerpts
- news source allowed for light content or content about music
- interviews with musicians or authors, but not speeches or lectures, or news reports.
- posts with pictures or comments on pop culture or music, broadly
- media commentary & criticism
- cds, cd reviews, cd collections, etc
- anything posted to the appspot site as a review
- music web
- official original album releases
- spontaneous song lyrics
- minimal personal commentary (almost none).
- no persies, except profile updates.
- gaming exclusive
- posts about isps & network topology
- any paintings & cover art
- release dates
- animal vids
- general commentary about web pages and their uses (but not personal use commentary)
- headphones sequence
- border stuff because of concerts
- concerts
- not considered official news sources: vice news.
- posts about music theory or music history or music as any other academic interest
- comments on articles about music and art in any abstraction
- some excerpts of existing texts as they are relevant to art or culture, broadly
- some (usually ironic) self-referential comments about my posting habits

travel:
- posts made to facebook, blogger, etc from somewhere physically outside the house or about things that happened outside of the house
- travel blog needs to be more about action scenes, and less about documenting every time i leave the house. so, actually try to avoid posts that just mention going somewhere, and make it more about the narrative of actually going somewhere.
- should avoid planning posts
- should include reflections on travelling or moving
- posts about isps & network topology
- posts made about the weather
- persies for going out only
- border stuff because of concerts
- concerts
- posts about time zones
- posts about odsp renewal
- posts about dr's offices

so, i have now finally finished a very careful run through of the first reconstruction phase, with the purpose of ensuring consistency & completeness, as i said i needed to do however many weeks ago, before i got badly slowed down with it. i started over several times, and rethought things many times in the process, but i'm done, i think, at this point.

two posts will follow. the first will contain a list of concepts that are running through each of the blogs for the the first reconstruction phase (07/13-01/14). this list will continue to update as i flip this over and keep moving through 2014 and into 2015 and beyond. the second will include a list of what i'm going to call errata to the already published deathtokoalas and travel blogs. i'm going to chew on that for a bit before it posts. there will not need to be a second errata because i can make the edits before any sort of publishing, which won't happen for a long time.

the next thing i'm going to need to do, once i'm certain of the various changes, will be to actually make the updates. so, i will need to update and reupload the pdfs for all of the deathtokoalas blogs and all of the travel blogs. as mentioned, the errata will be posted here for easy comparisons; these are not major edits, but are merely being done to ensure that the narrative flows through each of the blogs in a contextually self-contained manner. no changes are expected for the main two blogs.

that's a good way to get a lot of dogs very sick, very fast.

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/dogs-detect-covid-19_ca_5f1b4463c5b6128e6825be1e

listen.

they're going to need to bring in mandatory testing & vaccination for foreign workers next year, anyways.

this is a federal responsibility, and it's the feds that need to make some changes.

this looks like it's going to mostly be a rain event.

but, i'm just imagining the effect that a major hurricane coming into a state like florida might have on the spread of the virus, if it results in the need for people to utilize things like sports arenas for shelter.

....or, what might happen if the earth finally swallowed los angeles, right now.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/hurricane-hanna-texas-1.5663150

in crude terms...

we can't force the migrant workers to put a needle in their arm. it's their body; they maintain sovereignty over it. like, period. that's sec 7 in it's most assertive form, and the form i will generally interpret it.

but, we can tell them that if they don't want to get tested then they're not allowed to work and they have to go home. sort of. that's still likely to be deemed unconstitutional, but because it's a lesser breach, and in the name of public safety, it's likely to be allowed.

can doug ford order mandatory testing for agrifood workers?

no. sec 7, clearly.

however, the federal government can make periodic mandatory testing a work visa requirement and challenge the courts to undo it. it would no doubt fail an oakes test (that is, the oakes test would conclude that a breach is justified). so, this is one of those scenarios where the federal government breaking the rules on purpose could actually lead to a useful clarification of the rules, moving forward. this is the nature of our peculiar type of easily suspendable constitutional law - the government has to be willing to push loopholes.

if you want to look doug ford in the eye and give him a clear answer he understands, tell him it's out of his jurisdiction - but that the feds can effectively do it.

see, this has been understood the whole time.

the article doesn't really touch on it, but the canadian system of reporting has a lot of privacy restrictions built-in that can protect causes of death from becoming public for quite a while after it happens. quebec is always the caveat, when talking about canada. so, i keep arguing that the data is useless and it isn't worth seriously analyzing, and some of that is stating to come out in the wash.

the numbers for canada are going to be revised upwards, it's just a question of by how much.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/07/24/theres-a-death-gap-in-canadas-four-most-populous-provinces-if-covid-19-isnt-killing-these-people-what-is.html

it's sort of poetic, actually.

didn't even come close to getting it right.

and, he just shrugs it off, after.