i always smoke marijuana with coffee, and i always drink alcohol with caffeine.

otherwise, it's not any fun.

that's fine; i'll mix it myself. i'm sure it's cheaper in the long run.

well, what did they think i was going to do?

if i bought a bottle of wine, i'd be passed out on the floor in ten minutes - i need the caffeine, or i get drowsy immediately.

so, i learned today that health canada has removed caffeine from alcoholic beverages, because some kid had negligent parents that didn't raise her properly, and she overdosed on malt liquor.

no word on a darwin award.

and, drano is still legal, apparently.

so, now rather than get a pre-mixed drink at the store with a regulated amount of caffeine and a regulated amount of vodka, i'm going to buy a case of mountain dew and a bottle of vodka and mix it myself, instead.

i'll try to get it as close as i can.

idiots...

so, i've got the travel blog updated, which was probably the most time consuming part of this because i had to log out and back in.

the link is on the side, but it's the same story, just told with a little less detail.

the ndp's tactic from the start should have been to vilify kenney as a bigot, in order to rouse their base up. they need to get them worked up to make sure they get out and vote.

instead, they're trying to make the ridiculous argument that they'll better advance oil interests, in an attempt to win votes in the middle. that's beyond naive, as a strategy; it's flatly stupid. the province is changing, but the center in alberta is still five degrees to the right of the rest of the country, and nobody is going to choose rachel notley as a moderate. they need to be going out of their way to polarize, and they need to make sure people know who the bad guys are.

the only circumstance where this hopey-changey bullshit works is when the sitting government is despised by 80% of the electorate. normal election cycles are not won on hope, but on fear.

and, alberta has very good reason to fear jason kenney.

i'm not sure why the ndp aren't projecting that.

this is an online survey, and you know i don't like those. but, i don't find anything about this very surprising.

i would expect the number of ndp supporters to increase as the number of undecided voters goes down. but, their best hope remains a minority, because they're never going to win in the rural heartland of dumbfuck, alberta, and they have to make up a lot more ground in calgary than they probably can.

but, don't be shocked when it's not the blow out that the media is telling you it's going to be. all evidence leans towards a heavy polling bias on the right.

http://angusreid.org/alberta-election-april-2019/

so, i should get some work done on the weekend, finally.

i think i've got my train of thought back. i'll need to double check the music journal for the second half of july, then i'll need to build a similar file for this blog, then i'll need to make sure the dtk file is up to date and then i'll need to build the travel blog for the second part of july 2013, in some random order.

i should be able to listen to some reviews for the dtk site while i'm at it, and otherwise plan for some shows.

ok. so, i'm going to do the travel blog first...it will just be a subset of this one...

you didn't think i'd like mainstream physics, did you?

i'm too alternative for that.

this is a popular science article, and is consequently quite readable.

if you wanted to know, i'm also a long-time supporter of bohmian mechanics.

https://www.wired.com/2014/06/the-new-quantum-reality/

as we know that the universe is expanding everywhere in all directions at the same time, it follows that calculations about the paths of particles, if precise enough, would need to account for that expansion, as the distance traveled, while perhaps computable, could never be measured with a ruler, as the distance is not static. it would follow that the inability to measure a particle's direction and location simultaneously would be a simple consequence of the fact that the universe is expanding: it would be a fundamental property of space-time. however, it would also follow that you could calculate these properties simultaneously by properly understanding the interaction between matter and space, if you alter your conception of space from one of empty, static neutrality into one of dynamic, active interaction.

any future theory of physics would have to being with a model of geometry that is dynamic.

and, as such, the assumption of locality would need to be more carefully analyzed.

perhaps these higher dimensions of string theory as we understand them are in truth merely a crude way to model the fundamentally dynamic nature of space-time.

and, in the end, perhaps the absurdities of quantum physics are just reducible to relativistic error, in a set of reference frames that we don't currently grasp.

i'm still not doing this just right now.

https://forum.xda-developers.com/chef-central/android/guide-how-to-build-rom-google-cloud-t3360430

the reason this is difficult on my end is that i don't have the processor speed. google has powerful computing abilities in the cloud, and it would make sense for them to do this there, which is what i kind of assumed.

i understand that a phone is a device with minimal storage space and that just downloading all of the drivers and letting the os work it out, like you would with a desktop, isn't feasible. further, i avoid apple products for a reason - i want more control over the device. i bought an android device because i wanted to avoid the hyper-centralized model that apple uses, but google has kind of taken this too far; this is decentralization taken past the point of collaboration, and falling off into alienation. a process that was supposed to create more user choice has resulted in less of it.

it actually wouldn't be difficult for google to automate the api through a web form and let the cloud do it, resulting in a sleek download, after a short wait. this could either be done by having the user specify the hardware specs manually, or by entering the device model. google could then check for the device, or it's specs, in a database, and return a compiled image using open source drivers.

and, it wouldn't be an abuse of the cloud - this is what a cloud is supposed to be for!

as it is, i'll figure this out. just not right now; i have better things to do.