January 29, 2023

@__kchero__ Ánimos Dmitri 🐈❤️ #tiktok #parati #foryou #cat #kitten #gato #gatito #love #amor #amoralosanimales ♬ Relaxing Japanese-style piano song inviting nostalgia - Akiko Akiyama
FUN'MENTAL A basket of old things and bucket lists January 29, 2023
@__kchero__ Ánimos Dmitri 🐈❤️ #tiktok #parati #foryou #cat #kitten #gato #gatito #love #amor #amoralosanimales ♬ Relaxing Japanese-style piano song inviting nostalgia - Akiko Akiyama
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June 13, 2022

June 12, 2022

Best New Way To Back Up Your Home Energy?

It's high time that we reinvent the house, 
a hopelessly antiquated concept in North America. 
We're on it at Your Shelters International Inc.  
 Rick at Two-bit DaVinci is our research buddy in San Diego; 
there's a whole lot of us out there.

June 11, 2022

OPERATOR STARSKY



My new branding and graphics for Denys...he liked it a lot.



  Denys is he popular man who runs the best CHANNEL to follow the events and drama of his country that we all love. Him and Operator Starsky have about one million followers who are moved daily by the candor and sheer professionalism from these two war correspondents. men that passionately love their country. but also having immense talent to share that love with followers from all over the world. 

Denys just saw it and said WOW!. Please comment positively below here as we need to push this man above the million subscribes fo the sake of his country!  

June 8, 2022

Tesla House: Tesla's NEW $15,000 House Confirmed!

Hello there FUN folks with the adequate MENTAL capacity to be stimulated by housing 
ideas that starting to fit the bill for TODAY but don't quite make it for TOMORROW needs.
And please forgive exaggerations and/or BS as this seems to be the adopted style of today.
I do however swear to keep my data honest, with needed embellishments under control.


Learning Italian the FUN'MENTAL way!

June 3, 2022

THE TV REPAIRMAN, another short one by Jai.




 I was in 1958 an engineering student at Ottawa U., renting a room where I heated my spaghetti sauce in a plate sitting on a boiling pot of noodles cooking on a defective hot plate that probably threatened the curtains, my room …and my life. Happily, my mother was 200 miles away. This was twenty years before cheap microwaves took care of student hunger with fast popcorn. My TV had all her guts exposed, showing off her ancient round picture tube. That thing had been soldered together as a kit ten years earlier. Yeah! My dad made for us a TV set four years before Canada had TV stations. Living not far from the US border, I had all the kids in my street watching Space Command and Howdy Doody on WPTZ Plattsburgh NY…weather and rabbit ears permitting.  Word got around as I remember my dad and I installing home-made TV antennas on rich doctor’s roof. And so at age 7, I thought of myself as “tech savvy”

So it was only fair that I would inherit the original TV set that gave me so much pride fun. By connecting the sound output of my record player to pins of its vertical and horizontal oscillator lamps, I could thrill to black and white light shows in visual sync with the beat of early rock and roll playing on my radio speakers so connected.

One week before the Grey Cup, the TV died and I took it to a pipe-smoking repairman on Rideau Street. The day before the big game, I entered the place with excitement, holding in my hand a ten-dollar bill, the estimation money for a yoke replacement. That’s the big donut-shaped magnet around the neck of a picture tube. While I waited inside, I got to survey a mess of wiring, electronic circuits and transformers clogging counters, work benches ..and the floor. Then on a high shelf that went around three walls, crammed helter-skelter with all brands of TV sets, I happily spotted my own naked baby, the only one of the few not covered with dust and spider webs. Said he didn't have time, but a week later still no TV to take home with me, this time not even bothering to give me an excuse.

I was very upset, looking puzzled as I walked out. The lady next door, a hairdresser I think, stepped out to tell me that she hadn't seen a thing come out of that place in months "He can't seem to repair anything anymore. Yet TV sets to fix keep getting brought to him. I warn people when I get a chance".

As a brash sixteen years old, I was pouring scorn on that old man not fit to be in that business . I thought he was obviously in over his head with the new tech. "But he's only forty and used to be good" the lady said, interrupting "His wife used to do the books, clean the place up and all.

She paused and looked down at the sidewalk. Her doctor wasn't sure if she died of lead poisoning or an asthma attack .She did an awful lot of soldering. I can still see her at the workbench in a corner. She didn't smoke but you often could see a plume of blue smoke rising over her head ".

The Ottawa Roughriders had won the Grey Cup in 1951. I was hoping to watch a repeat win in 1954 on my repaired TV, a game I watched somewhere else with no pleasure as they lost it badly. They got to win the cup in 1960 and I heard that the quiet Ottawa population exploded and managed to destroy a lot of Ottawa's downtown in their celebration, Go figure! I went back to that town years later. The repair shop and hairdresser’s, demolished for a high-rise.

A year ago, as a wasted 78 year-old, I needed to dispose of mountains of wires, computer circuit boards and so many defective electronics, junk and computers, stuff I hoarded for years... to be fixed one day... or recycled later. Looking at that amount of unfinished business, I remembered that "old" repairman's shop and a sadness wrapped over me. A month earlier my own cigarette-loving wife passed away from lung cancer. Today, I don’t watch TV,  all in on YouTube...and...TikTok.

It's never easy to drop out of anything that used to arouse passions, even after they turn into poison, problems or pain. That goes equally for people and things , I guess.

JAI

June 2, 2022

JUNE BLOOM

Better news today, after a first time  for me in this century, much throwing up,  into the manicured rose bushes of a shopping center,, I put those pills away as evidence for a possible lawsuit if my Canadian lawyer wants in. I think CVS made a mistake since those pills with no markings have nothing in common with what the Pharma has on its website. I was given something for rheumatoid arthritis when you all know me as never having had a physical pain in my life, only metaphysical ones. I feel my normal self in every way today, happy to write a company's June letter you will soon see in your Inbox. It has been a ridiculous body and mind bending week for the fragile soul that you know me to be hahaha.

June 1, 2022

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If the 2022 Winter Olympic Games go to  Kazakhstan, we are offering our new larger modular spaces to individual country teams. After the games, the host country will unbolt and disassemble the houses and containerize the components. At no cost to their owners, sold houses are shipped to the team’s country and others are auctioned. These panelized houses are then erected under the guidance of a local Hi-Tect paid technician  . It is Hi-Tect's way to quickly spread the word about the life-saving solutions we offer for world areas exposed to natural disasters.

We are a non-profit building an international team to promote our tested solutions, stimulating designers and local building industry to pick-up and learn our methods and processes. These affordable yet super-comfortable athlete residences are designed with near complete autonomy: community solar tech, underfloor energy storing, state-of-the-art incinerating toilets, smart windows, embedded sprinkler, wi-fi, cable and vacuum networks etc.., (see the details here in Jan 2015) Importing one of these futuristic buildings to any country will start countless careers and businesses..! (click pictures to enlarge)

War Bulletin for today the 2nd of June

 

Denys, our beloved Ukranian war correspondent has a bit of very good news.

May 27, 2022

Well!    It's a GO. We made the plunge after much hesitation and a lot of really hard work to clear our thinking and provide REAL solutions to refugee housing. In retrospect, our tested concepts for natural disaster prone areas where so close to what refugee camps require that the transition was natural for all. SO WHAT ARE THE MAIN REASON WHY WE DECIDED TO FOCUS OUR MISSION ON DESIGNING THE REFUGEE TOWNS OF TOMORROW? A great opportunity is offered us by helping the generous Tijuana, Mexico authorities to house some the several hundred Haitians migrants that have been blocked at the US border for months. We have a project to build a modest camp in Primo Tapia, just 25 miles south of Tijuana. We expect to present in here in early April 2022

The short list is:

1. Our new member, the Brazilian/Australian architect and civil engineer Abdon Dantas wrote a remarkable book after his visit and analysis of several of the larger refugee camps. His powerful conclusions in light of the projected 500,000,000 refugees of the year 2050 leave no one indifferent to our need:  immediately start to plan these future towns or camps. Having so much work invested in low-cost construction solutions for difficult areas of the world, we could not resist his plea to fight denial, no more than any responsible construction professional would. We have that capacity and we know it. Please read the book, one that you can order here. Or again you can read also it as a PDF eBook here. Note that you can also read Abdon's winning 2016 paper presented in Porto, Portugal, at the International Conference on Sustainable Housing Planning, Management and Usability, a short yet very powerful document that really wraps up the program for the successful design of these cities of the future.
2. The recent noisy exit from the UNHCR by Kilian Kleinschmidt left no doubt in our minds that this 'too-big-to-fail' organisation is in a terrible mess, some of it of its own doing, but mostly from the consequences of population surge, climate change and resulting civil wars and unrest. The scope of consequences that lie ahead is mind-boggling, with numbers that have us rub our eyes. Just take this touching video by our Angelina Jolie about rape, something that is a daily problem in most refugee camps.
It simply turns out that we already had a solution to cut down on rape with some of our older low-cost solutions for poor countries:

Most of the rapes in refugee camps where it is also a big problem occur in the evening or at night. There is then little security because the guards avoid the camps fearing for their life. At night when women go to their badly lit communal latrine is where most of the rapes occur, but a good number happen when rapists easily force their entry into flimsy tents or other unsecured structures. This explains the pit latrines dug near their tent by occupants, creating the problem of contaminating ground water tables by their sheer number. My partner and I are proposing shelters that cost a fraction of these tents and offer complete security by making a forced entry almost impossible short of using a bolt cutter, the shelter walls and roof being backed up with a tempered steel mesh. something that brings the cost down of a 180 ft2 shelter to less than $200 because the outside skin can be cheaper because of the strong backup offered by the mesh. Lights can help cut down on rape, but until we can solve the sewerage question, the safest solution is what we have in our project.