Dave Nicholson

  I listen to every episode of The Moth on my podcast app. They are always entertaining, moving, inspirational, and sometimes devastating to listen to. Today I got devastating. I listened to a woman who was a reporter traveling to Syria to report on the civil conflict there. This ends up making me feel so bloody lucky to be where I am, so I will never experience the things she did. She describes being in a cell not knowing if she is going to die. The cell is covered in blood. She focuses in on a young boy being tortured to death. She listens as he screams in pain and begs to God for help, and cries out for his Mother. This makes me so intensely sad for people who live this. It also fills me with intense rage toward people who can do things like this and still sleep at night. Humanity can be the most glorious of creatures and the worst of demons. Long ago I lost the ability to think we will not end our planet in a hellish nuke fight. Things like this make it harder for me to see th...

Been playing with the free version of Deep Dream Generator . You get 20 points and they regenerate after a few hours. Later if you keep up it promotes you to Dreamer from Member and you get 35 points and a slightly faster regeneration time. I have done almost all of my play time on it at the base settings, but you can make the image bigger, and make it better quality. I just want to play and pass time, so the base settings is good enough for me, and I can crank out 7 images with my 35 points. I have saved every last one of them and have made puzzles out of  396 of to the time of this post. It's very easy to use and you should be able to get onto it in a half an hour or so. All but 3 of mine have been text to Dream only and I have only used a base image 3 times so far. It's an enjoyable hobby, but I'm not going to call it creating art. There has been people who say it is creating art however. They claim it's just another tool like Blender . It's to my knowledge the o...

This is me in the hospital on hour 13 of a 20 hour stay. My legs are extremely swollen and so are my feet. I explained in detail what is going on and how hard it is for me to walk right now. I was given blood work, and EKG and an ultrasound. No blog clots where found in my legs thank the Goddess. However diagnostic imaging is not available all the time in our hospital it seems. I had to wait until noon the next day to get the test done. The staff where wonderful but overworked as there was a great deal of people in the ER that night and the next day. I've been hearing from people around the world, all saying there is a global shortage of nurses, techs and so on. I know it's the case here. I also know from people I know and trust, that a lot of corners are cut in our Saskatchewan hospitals by management, no doubt on government pressure to cut costs. The fact is, staff who are working too hard for too long makes it not safe for the staff or the patients. Mistakes can be made when...

The Prince (2019) This movie is based on a pulp fiction novel that had almost no circulation. I find it interesting because the movie is very good. It's set in a very violent prison in the 1970's and is a homoerotic drama. There is a lot of content in this movie that will be considered a trigger to some people, so maybe not watch if you are easy to be triggered on violence or non consensual sex (kind of). This starts out dark and gets darker as it goes on leading to murder. Was expecting more from it because it was so hyped up. I would use the word gritty on this. 7/10 Cinema Paradiso (1988) This is the story of a now rich and famous movie maker. It is a recalling of his childhood in a village and his friendship with the cinema projectionist. It's rather a coming of age movie where the boy grows and learns along the way. I remember first seeing this in the 1990 on TV late at night and being blown away by it. It really gripped me. 10/10

Well, after deleting TikTok from my life, I decided to get rid of nine more sites I never really use anymore. So they are all deleted but one, that being Qora, for some dang reason it just won't delete. I followed all the steps, and it just won't go away, so I turned everything in the settings off, and I'm just going to abandon it, knowing no notifications will be emailed to me. Qora was the only one of the nine I was active on, and I'm just no longer interested in answering questions over there, so goodbye to it. The others, I have not used in over 2 years, so they can be gone and not cared about. I updated my password list and encrypted it as always, then sent it to my phone. Now I'm a bit lighter on what I have accounts for. I'm kind of sure I have accounts on several sites, that I can't remember, but they will be in an email I no longer have, so I don't really care, I'll be locked out anyway. So now on with a less cluttered life, and on to delete...

Well this is the 3rd time I gave TikTok a go. I tried hard to care, but I don't. It's just not what I want in my social media life. I should have just left it be in the first go at it, but people keep telling me, "IT's really fun", so I tried it again two more times. Well it is a bit fun, it's also filled with a lot of annoying content I can't seem to make go away no mater how many times I click, "not interested". Like the reams of people going on how the PM of Canada is the worst person in history and how they are, "destroying Canada, and taking away our freedoms". The thing is, it sucks a tone of battery life, and I have no idea why. I can't be bothered more than a couple of times a week to open the app and go looking at videos. It was nice to keep up with friends, but other then that, I just was not interested - and following the same 12 people when they hardly post, was just not doing it for me. Only one of them posted a lot, an...