squished my dog?
You know, I learned the word "ostracized" in grade school. I remember a saying that was used to bring people into line "you'll be a pariah." I didn't really understand the word. It sounds too much like "parish" and "parochial" but a pariah is a person who is not welcome in human social groups. I should submit my image to Oxford for the dictionary. it's the thing that happens to you after you've become a whore, pedophile, or crazy person. It's the worst possible outcome, worse than those things. Gee whiz. It isn't making me want to try harder, folks. It's removing from me any remaining motivation to try at all, actually, and the isolation is ensuring I lose what skills I had.
Ok, I'm just taking myself down the garden path of self pity again. Nothing new to be learned from chewing on it.
I almost squished my dog last night. I crawl into bed, and while I was out he'd wormed down under the folded blanket across which I crawl. My hand hit him on the hips, through the thick blanket, and pushed him into the pillows below. He screamed like I'd broken his pelvis and I backed off and turned on the light. I touched him to see if he was injured and he screamed again. He sat up, but kept crying if I tried to move him or anything. Finally he moved off to his bed and we spent yet more time soothing, bonding, and being sure he really wasn't injured. I don't know how I finally slept but the TV was brought into play. Today I keep suffering flash backs to that scream and how it felt to realize he was there, not just more pillows. He's loving the attention this causes.
I'm watching a tv show talking about tigers and how the people are victimized by them, even being torn from their beds at night. They show the village. An assortment of twig and rush construction that would be laughed at as a kid's playhouse. Well, you build crappy houses, for people with tigers prowling at night! Can't someone show them how to build a fence?
I do wonder what sort of answers we'd see if people everywhere had the same access to human knowlege that you and I enjoy at our fingertips 24/7
Simple fishermen, desert herders, and jungle gatherers are all so unique, they must discover their own tech innovations. This happens in naural human populations but very very slowly. the villagers are still cooking on open fires, but they have aluminum pots and acrylic knits! Still, if those bengali villaggers could look at diagrams of fences through history, videos showing people assembling fences from various materials, etc., wouldn't at least one of the have a flash of inspiration? They could grow rows of trees with stacks of brushwood between them in circles around the village. By the time their children were adults there'd be a strong wall for the tiger to have to climb.
II don't know though, Tigers are pretty agile that way too. What kind of wall would hold him back? NNot one made of mud or wood, I suppose, since his claws can fight. Stone has crevices for large paws to hook. Stone is rare there anyway.
Wow, that'd be part of it, tigers can climb higher than humans. tigers are strong enough to pull down walls of bamboo too. Stout lumber is too expensive. then there's the issue of rot and flood in that wet place. So they stick with stuff that is easy and quick to replace and rebuild. It would take money, lots of it, to buy building bricks, lumber, doors, etc. to create tiger proof homes.
So that's how I think my way through stuff. No solutions this time, but the idea will come up again now and then and I do think they'd find the answer themselves if they had the internet.
We really should try and do that. Ok, I'm tired of typing. bye
Ok, I'm just taking myself down the garden path of self pity again. Nothing new to be learned from chewing on it.
I almost squished my dog last night. I crawl into bed, and while I was out he'd wormed down under the folded blanket across which I crawl. My hand hit him on the hips, through the thick blanket, and pushed him into the pillows below. He screamed like I'd broken his pelvis and I backed off and turned on the light. I touched him to see if he was injured and he screamed again. He sat up, but kept crying if I tried to move him or anything. Finally he moved off to his bed and we spent yet more time soothing, bonding, and being sure he really wasn't injured. I don't know how I finally slept but the TV was brought into play. Today I keep suffering flash backs to that scream and how it felt to realize he was there, not just more pillows. He's loving the attention this causes.
I'm watching a tv show talking about tigers and how the people are victimized by them, even being torn from their beds at night. They show the village. An assortment of twig and rush construction that would be laughed at as a kid's playhouse. Well, you build crappy houses, for people with tigers prowling at night! Can't someone show them how to build a fence?
I do wonder what sort of answers we'd see if people everywhere had the same access to human knowlege that you and I enjoy at our fingertips 24/7
Simple fishermen, desert herders, and jungle gatherers are all so unique, they must discover their own tech innovations. This happens in naural human populations but very very slowly. the villagers are still cooking on open fires, but they have aluminum pots and acrylic knits! Still, if those bengali villaggers could look at diagrams of fences through history, videos showing people assembling fences from various materials, etc., wouldn't at least one of the have a flash of inspiration? They could grow rows of trees with stacks of brushwood between them in circles around the village. By the time their children were adults there'd be a strong wall for the tiger to have to climb.
II don't know though, Tigers are pretty agile that way too. What kind of wall would hold him back? NNot one made of mud or wood, I suppose, since his claws can fight. Stone has crevices for large paws to hook. Stone is rare there anyway.
Wow, that'd be part of it, tigers can climb higher than humans. tigers are strong enough to pull down walls of bamboo too. Stout lumber is too expensive. then there's the issue of rot and flood in that wet place. So they stick with stuff that is easy and quick to replace and rebuild. It would take money, lots of it, to buy building bricks, lumber, doors, etc. to create tiger proof homes.
So that's how I think my way through stuff. No solutions this time, but the idea will come up again now and then and I do think they'd find the answer themselves if they had the internet.
We really should try and do that. Ok, I'm tired of typing. bye