2023-06-03 – CAVEAT DVMPTRVCK

Best hyperbole ever!
"tla alahui, tla petzcahui in tlalticpac" - Nahuatl proverb
He aquí los pensamientos aleatorios de un epistemólogo andante.
"eald enta geweorc idlu stodon"
"Is it getting solipsistic in here, or is it just me?"
"The immediate task of philosophy is to unmask human self-alienation in its unholy shape." - Karl Marx
"i" before "e" except after "c" - disproved by science!
"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo." - Don Marquis
"[M]etaphysics is no different from table manners, in that there are all sorts of ways to set the table, all of which will look “wrong” from the outside, but all of which work just as well as any other for those who adopt them?"
- Justin Smith-Ruiu
"A blog is the height of ego and narcissism, rivaled only by the act of procreation, or the wearing of a man-bun." - Jamie Wahls
"Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days." - Flannery O’Connor
"Down through the centuries, the notion that life is wrapped in a dream has been a pervasive theme of philosophers and poets. So doesn't it make sense that death, too, would be wrapped in dream? That, after death, your conscious life would continue in what might be called "a dream body"? It would be the same dream body you experience in your everyday dream life. Except that in the post-mortal state, you could never again wake up, never again return to your physical body." - spoken by a character in the excellent movie Waking Life (2001).
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." - Marcus Aurelius
"If I had a dollar for every time I got distracted, I wish I had some ice cream."
Sometimes setting yourself on fire sheds light on the situation.
"Tenho o dever de me fechar em casa no meu espírito e trabalhar quanto possa e em tudo quanto possa, para o progresso da civilização e o alargamento da consciência da humanidade." - Fernando Pessoa
피할수 없는 고통이라면 차라리 즐겨라
As of June, 2013, I have assumed a new identity: I am a cancer survivor. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
This world, for aught he knows, is very faulty and imperfect, compared to a superior standard; and was only the first rude essay of some infant deity, who afterwards abandoned it, ashamed of his lame performance: it is the work only of some dependent, inferior deity; and is the object of derision to his superiors: it is the production of old age and dotage in some superannuated deity; and ever since his death, has run on at adventures, from the first impulse and active force which it received from him.
- David Hume, in Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, 1779
A blog, in the end, is really not so different from an inscription on a bone: I was here, it declares to no one in particular. Don't forget that.
- Justin Smith-Ruiu
재미없으면 보상해드립니다!
All things are enchained with one another, bound together by love.
- Nietzsche [really!]
Leviticus 19:33-34
Business is a good game - lots of competition and minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
- Nolan Bushnell
What if we're not conscious, we just think we are?
Donc, si Dieu existait, il n’y aurait pour lui qu’un seul moyen de servir la liberté humaine, ce serait de cesser d’exister.
- Mikhail Bakunin
Solvitur ambulando.
Only thoughts reached by walking have value.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Los Angeles is to America what America is to the world.
- someone on the internet
Art is not a projection of self, it is an utterly alternate self.
Loneliness. Did ya know that loneliness will kill you deader than a .357 Magnum? Did ya know that?
- Andrew Sims (Rapper)
"When I was a stranger you gave me razor wire and pushed me in the river." - Matthew 25:35
Sometimes I wonder why I even bother to soliloquize. Where was I?
- the villain Heinz Doofenshmirtz, in the cartoon Phineas and Ferb.
Is seer periculeus voor de onbekende, om aan te doen.
- Hendrick Hamel
Liberty and justice for all
Offer not available in some areas
Prices subject to change
- internet meme
I will buy a 32 foot ladder at home depot, and I will make America pay for it.
- a Mexican
Psalms 51:17
Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.
- Linus Pauling
I dream of a world where chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned.
여유있는 태도를 잃어서는 안 된다
Blogging online since 1965

My name is Jared Way. I was born in rural Far Northern California, and became an "adoptive" Minnesotan. I have lived in many other places: Mexico City, Philadelphia, Valdivia (Chile), Los Angeles. And for 11 years, I was an expatriate living in South Korea. In the summer of 2018, I made another huge change, and relocated to Southeast Alaska, which is my uncle's home.
I have a background in Linguistics and Spanish Literature. Two decades ago, I was a database programmer. Last decade, in Korea, I worked as an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teacher. Currently I'm a ne'er-do-well retail clerk and freelance website administrator living amid the Alaskan rainforest.
In June, 2013, while I was in Ilsan in South Korea, I was diagnosed with cancer, and underwent successful treatment. That changed my life pretty radically.
Currently, you could say I'm "between jobs," somewhat caretaking my uncle (to the extent he tolerates that) and getting adapted to life in rural Alaska after so many years as an urban dweller.
These bloggings, then, have been my random jottings on the subject of my mostly pleasant life among the Quasi-Confucian Cyber-Industrial Paleolithic Peninsulites of Lower Far Siberia, and my more recent time spent on the Free-range Insane Asylum known as Southeast Alaska.
I started this blog before I even had the idea of going to Korea (first entry: Caveat: And lo...). So this is not meant to be a blog about Korea, by any stretch of the imagination. Life in Korea, and Korean language and culture, inevitably played a central role in this blog's incarnation for many years, and life in the rural, temperate rainforest plays an important role these days.
Basically, this blog is a newsletter for the voices in my head. It keeps everyone on the same page: it has become a sort of aide-mémoire.
For a more detailed reflection on why I'm blogging, you can look at this old post: What this blog is, and isn't.
If you're curious about me, there is a great deal of me here. I believe in what I call "opaque transparency" - you can learn almost everything about me if you want, but it's not immediately easy to find.
A distillation of my personal philosophy (at least on good days):
I have made the realization that happiness is not a mental state. It is not something that is given to you, or that you find, or that you can lose, or that can be taken from you. Happiness is something that you do. And like most things that you do, it is volitional. You can choose to do happiness, or not. You have complete freedom with respect to the matter.
"Ethical joy is the correlate of speculative affirmation." - Gilles Deleuze (writing about Spinoza).

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Caveat: Tree #1589 “Down along the shore”

2023-06-03, 19:53 2023-06-03 A Daily Tree / My Photos

This tree noted there is still some snow on yonder mountains.

[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3km]

Caveat: May, 2023, User Statistics for OGF

2023-06-03, 14:08 2023-06-03 Databases, Smartphones & Computers / Geofiction

[This is a cross-post from my other blog.]

Here is a detailed user summary data for May. These results are ordered from highest number of objects touched to lowest number. I think number of objects touched (nodes, ways, relations) is a more meaningful way to evaluate user activity than changeset counts, which are highly variable depending on how individual users use available tools to connect to the database (iD vs JOSM, etc).

Izaland Terramorphing Committee	15584	122	332441	18459	420	351320
CharlieG	4058	52	244678	16326	50	261054
EMKLI	17	24	181351	6110	59	187520
BMSOUZA	954	178	111739	27535	0	139274
joebro	2580	21	131978	4529	14	136521
oneofbeatlefan	6427	25	113620	11804	77	125501
varnel_maiser	6691	59	119351	2076	63	121490
Liadrien	17542	33	115835	1758	131	117724
Imperator	1141	168	93027	13009	375	106411
zhenkang	3225	71	100438	3217	323	103978
Geoc3ladus	14788	34	96109	4248	101	100458
Toadwart	2322	48	59874	11034	154	71062
Arlo	10218	251	65552	4177	341	70070
Bixelkoven	16933	26	63546	4916	124	68586
Rustem Pasha	4928	8	59836	6828	57	66721
Alexmar983	25870	669	47701	10937	68	58706
Luciano	294	6	40566	8785	64	49415
thermo_nuclear	2386	45	45177	2794	97	48068
ParAvion	3527	25	39713	2201	12	41926
Halvarda	21685	76	37975	2437	476	40888
Taka	14001	59	36416	3134	538	40088
Otto Yamamoto	1368	58	31384	4345	0	35729
tars	10312	51	33605	848	75	34528
Mie	22733	28	31752	2336	77	34165
Zytik	13652	62	32662	1448	37	34147
Brunanter	1761	51	31419	1851	76	33346
Olejowy	22566	157	30101	3049	53	33203
reCharged	17492	12	27354	3674	57	31085
Eretra	11292	13	26151	1907	63	28121
newflanders	3228	19	25862	1428	212	27502
Glauber	14612	44	23336	2638	23	25997
Infrarrojo	9678	27	22279	2415	42	24736
plainoldbread	3272	22	22093	2399	30	24522
ruadh	2725	33	21689	1549	85	23323
Intergan	15076	16	20584	1914	29	22527
sudo91	22243	42	18804	3455	151	22410
Koziu	24578	107	18629	3629	31	22289
UN1TY	2194	64	19434	2812	20	22266
Huachachi	15931	39	18654	3025	73	21752
poweikao	12084	4	19155	143	4	19302
Mantan	25551	71	16956	2205	37	19198
CrisChoky	18079	3	18637	486	4	19127
Icefur2	22747	63	16200	2705	2	18907
2amCereal	18270	7	17211	1205	81	18497
CaribbeanIslandMapper	25002	126	16929	1064	99	18092
tparigo	1747	18	15073	2651	89	17813
Colombus	25535	45	15645	2145	19	17809
Martinawa	11407	16	16493	559	28	17080
Pav	12292	80	15374	1639	21	17034
bananaman101	25559	85	13318	3580	13	16911
iBallasticwolf2	1355	12	16066	806	10	16882
Fayaan	18131	159	14632	2178	40	16850
ShavedParm	25749	159	13331	3276	15	16622
ItsTybear	17286	81	12621	3141	79	15841
Myrcia	1630	19	13648	2044	17	15709
elindio23	8153	14	13425	1808	16	15249
Davieerr	8029	96	12762	2330	26	15118
sergjack	26317	163	12726	2221	37	14984
Bulest	26434	62	11948	2867	7	14822
P Gaillard	25179	37	12989	1343	114	14446
jl06	18719	45	12097	1791	56	13944
kengoman	24572	8	11614	2086	82	13782
waterstealer	24870	20	13355	263	12	13630
Crarji	22595	40	12571	527	3	13101
jjrc1996	20575	29	10708	1945	11	12664
roadyote	14592	47	10276	1712	2	11990
Aces California	759	57	10405	1548	23	11976
津瀬tu	26428	36	9492	2242	20	11754
ante44	1822	12	9978	1375	7	11360
Distel	23033	43	9127	2061	1	11189
Le Mathou	790	23	10991	68	7	11066
Enderbyte09	25083	24	9912	1057	23	10992
cheakshibe	26049	60	8776	1877	4	10657
Smockwette	26468	84	9848	701	19	10568
acv	24879	17	9898	621	29	10548
Sweetykid	25913	65	8266	2186	25	10477
Thaman	26447	57	8759	1635	0	10394
Squizie3	17920	11	9432	815	6	10253
Leowezy	1267	26	9181	1053	18	10252
anakes	1510	13	9539	599	4	10142
forkymapper	14790	3	9994	45	0	10039
yoyo21	1559	15	9641	379	18	10038
NM$l	25192	27	9489	429	51	9969
Reviriegu	25104	38	8086	1857	6	9949
DT_Planner	25648	5	9689	126	5	9820
Lithium-Ion	22476	17	9243	422	4	9669
Y Knott	1158	41	7082	2202	3	9287
Alessa	2664	5	8341	576	8	8925
RicardoNolazcoC	1582	85	7397	1111	13	8521
Toad	23441	19	7584	892	4	8480
lankusiek	23807	3	7554	845	38	8437
Dfltcher2	24710	27	6059	2272	12	8343
gannman	2405	5	7765	398	0	8163
hallowed_embers	24992	3	6580	1218	4	7802
Oriolet	4764	333	6088	1643	1	7732
Bob Lee	18271	20	6773	954	1	7728
AmusingSage2454	25347	6	7398	205	1	7604
ndgid	21484	10	7466	48	0	7514
indyroads	344	3	6901	236	5	7142
anjn	24787	22	5358	1577	1	6936
wangi	468	20	5901	853	64	6818
coshatiuav	18421	19	5732	984	30	6746
WoW	25408	12	5409	1285	3	6697
ciaosamuu	24620	31	5478	1122	10	6610
stjur	2533	14	5801	708	53	6562
super_empath	25865	12	5175	1286	5	6466
deltanz	1438	170	5430	995	4	6429
Pawl	1294	30	5866	386	45	6297
ifgus	4790	14	5138	775	11	5924
Hilsonbergman	6375	15	4980	879	2	5861
TGSpace	25394	24	5058	756	5	5819
curiomap	11647	53	4603	1113	0	5716
Crétin_Dauphinois	25595	11	4788	847	1	5636
Vay	15996	4	5148	254	3	5405
ethanxman	2516	2	4960	413	0	5373
PortCal	1477	48	4670	675	9	5354
Alfred	14361	32	4392	930	2	5324
Fluffr_Nuttr	6846	15	4260	749	6	5015
Mapping Expert	17027	16	4657	290	2	4949
pablopilar	875	13	4269	601	0	4870
快乐的老鼠宝宝	24171	38	4457	186	27	4670
nejisadd	25152	91	3950	635	0	4585
amicharski	24799	7	4009	541	1	4551
Easky30	18	15	3920	545	9	4474
Anonymous21	23682	37	3393	1011	52	4456
Reece202	1514	5	4242	172	6	4420
alessio2243	26462	14	3516	593	1	4110
blz	24720	26	2831	1166	7	4004
Kalh79	401	14	3610	317	0	3927
Qing_Jue	26304	48	3402	504	4	3910
Rulania	3603	10	3526	252	0	3778
tasmeni	26450	32	2860	882	5	3747
BDoyle	17873	13	3091	478	0	3569
Pierater	26399	50	2086	1464	4	3554
jjmakesmaps	26505	22	3024	494	2	3520
JSanchez	253	33	2978	397	11	3386
antoon	217	4	2206	1018	0	3224
SammyStar	26528	50	2646	576	0	3222
Timboh	324	3	2706	478	37	3221
Ecchi Kei	25847	22	2963	197	23	3183
mapper941	25228	11	2988	181	5	3174
JustSomeMapper	26026	17	2713	427	13	3153
BelpheniaProject	1020	1	2814	197	0	3011
mstr	1973	14	2822	174	6	3002
t833	19093	17	2362	600	1	2963
KHBritish	3450	13	2244	714	1	2959
senju	19525	16	2266	537	124	2927
Legoman	26243	9	2475	428	0	2903
Gabry GA 2000	26551	18	2729	109	0	2838
jba487_14	6326	25	2224	476	0	2700
trabantemnaksiezyc	2161	15	2293	246	4	2543
Mike’s World	14591	5	2266	251	1	2518
ThePhrogianOverlord	25594	12	2234	273	5	2512
cartographersurgeon	25890	21	1856	638	1	2495
Arq635	24043	10	2199	249	40	2488
Inkwinter Ye	25597	18	2063	389	4	2456
mikumikumapper	25619	2	2074	256	2	2332
Aiki	2336	24	1849	365	68	2282
DanDo	25243	21	2027	207	0	2234
SmartCity	26471	10	1852	371	0	2223
TheMayor	14026	16	1373	730	108	2211
chazeltine	7402	9	1816	300	27	2143
Boge	224	21	1671	430	0	2101
kotnaoborot	26417	10	1948	127	10	2085
noncertifiedbruhs	22665	8	1672	361	0	2033
AmpereBEEP	23019	11	1661	358	4	2023
Ilthracna	22530	5	1612	337	0	1949
TheSeamonster	25941	37	1478	339	26	1843
ChaoticwasTaken	25995	3	1497	317	3	1817
Charlie	26149	3	1376	411	0	1787
Chan Yun Kai	12958	7	1445	323	2	1770
Christiaan de Vries	1228	35	1310	450	0	1760
georgecg	1504	21	1220	418	0	1638
Stephenplays	7055	8	1291	297	6	1594
Vine117	24863	16	1288	303	2	1593
OhioRiverSSA	26088	6	1463	113	0	1576
Leo	26496	30	1158	379	2	1539
raxx	25343	13	1081	447	0	1528
Stara Zagora	2514	9	1315	198	8	1521
Mattlas	17336	4	1149	360	1	1510
Yuanls	1459	30	1000	485	1	1486
Singapura-Oriental	21382	30	1145	265	0	1410
MarcustheMapper	13156	11	1164	158	0	1322
CartographerKing	5562	3	1190	113	0	1303
confusedtoad	25218	13	915	374	0	1289
AustinBoath	17528	4	1151	111	0	1262
fngf3501	25280	1	1181	73	2	1256
ellocomigue	10830	12	994	219	0	1213
AtlanticIsles	25943	11	964	223	0	1187
Rasmus Rasmusson	1139	10	919	261	0	1180
TenOndra	26442	11	939	218	0	1157
nsenx	26093	1	967	183	0	1150
Romhfvir	15174	7	907	176	0	1083
Tomikals	22998	3	863	214	0	1077
sude	15789	8	900	134	11	1045
faru	24926	4	874	168	0	1042
ADB52	4597	10	954	69	6	1029
ZyrellfromJB	14262	3	851	174	2	1027
drgtgd	24865	9	701	202	3	906
Black Baron	2822	8	831	55	16	902
joschi81	4	1	785	116	0	901
thosehlar	1343	12	747	124	6	877
julijahaller	15972	10	758	71	0	829
Alejandro24	1811	2	777	43	1	821
SwissCrusader	12676	8	646	93	49	788
sjk23	23494	1	668	99	0	767
cya	26130	12	597	167	0	764
kingfries	1956	30	592	169	0	761
diamantschiff	11298	3	642	112	2	756
skquinn	1192	23	570	186	0	756
dmeister	26444	12	591	152	0	743
RhodeIslandWV	25253	2	727	13	2	742
Intergalactic	1384	1	667	63	7	737
otter2714	26548	30	510	182	0	692
james smith the great	26185	4	583	101	0	684
tothr	18890	11	567	71	5	643
trussell2019	17416	6	380	214	0	594
sko2436	25330	6	424	168	0	592
Sortsdam	25841	14	414	163	7	584
Gonzy	16354	1	557	10	3	570
theCubic	24412	2	501	55	1	557
dsilcott	15620	3	428	90	0	518
fbmdf1821	25986	2	449	40	0	489
KameKaza	25617	3	428	57	0	485
Theman76onOSM	26491	7	360	95	0	455
Aglet	26443	4	392	61	0	453
natpeter816	26531	3	358	87	1	446
Artem	25352	4	380	65	0	445
IgorR31	26504	2	372	59	0	431
Kokerey	14213	6	380	46	0	426
Marcello	3254	4	346	71	0	417
shining-k	24800	2	374	37	0	411
Greg_Rose	22777	5	331	41	2	374
pdplm	6697	12	206	114	17	337
Kasey1776	26096	4	250	44	0	294
Ernestpkirby	232	2	228	30	1	259
Duncan	18635	5	149	80	0	229
PueblaPueblaMx	22076	1	195	33	0	228
yonah2	25682	3	170	50	0	220
El Perroquito	26461	3	171	46	0	217
foglet1	21862	1	187	24	0	211
Arte Onions	26506	2	164	38	1	203
Diamondarmorstev	25967	1	152	36	1	189
caillou15	23996	8	95	85	1	181
Canada_LaVearn	22831	1	138	33	0	171
Fer Jiménez	20466	1	117	43	0	160
MarchisioThePal	25969	1	135	20	0	155
ratsoff2u	1017	2	109	37	0	146
Palencia	26525	11	119	25	0	144
Juan&don	26552	1	110	23	0	133
Dardarlinx	26488	21	113	17	0	130
The Drive(r)	25901	1	106	20	0	126
Portier	15365	1	115	3	0	118
hoodieman1250	26184	1	85	27	0	112
Tromero	25942	3	92	18	0	110
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Caveat: Poem #2495 “And then I woke up”

2023-06-03, 05:48 2023-06-03 A Daily Poem / Book 4 / Cinquain / My Poetry & Fiction

ㅁ
in dreams
there's a soundtrack
fragments of ancient songs
incoherent intrumentals
which fade

– a cinquain.