Barb Waksman in 2017

Age 60

How the Megalithic walls of Cusco were made - using pendulums

The answer is: large rocks were suspended in the air and ground together systematically, one rock after another and/or several rocks at the same time. Here, this picture proves it because it shows exactly the sort of partial grinding that must have occurred from time to time:

Foerster does not spend much time, talking about the obvious finishing effort that smoothed away the handles used for attaching the rocks and, further, finished the grooves off to eliminate ragged edges between them. The finishing of the grooves is evidence of post-placement finishing. Once that is admitted, then removing the handles becomes a possibility.
Here is one of the handles that would be easy to remove afterwards.

I write the comment: After watching your videos it becomes obvious that a VERY extensive finishing effort occurred after the stones were placed. The grooves were finished afterwards, so the knobs might have been removed as well. Thus, suspension from ropes becomes the obvious method for grinding large rocks against one another with little or no effort using pendulum motions.

Here is Rosie

Comparing peapod shapes

My Doug Hylan peapod:

The Chesapeake Light Craft tender:

I like the lines of mine better.

Gorgeous oarlocks

June 13 and people are getting their boats into the water.

Could YouTube be democratized?

Seeing that YouTube is capable of censorship, one wonders what kind of distributed capability would truly be "free" to content providers and consumers - without censorship?

The best parts of YouTube are the public eye-share it provides through its "recommended" and "trending" functions. As mentioned in the previous post, to create a filter that re-enforces the viewpoint from "authoritative" sources is a pretty slippery slope.

But these sorts of considerations come up because YouTube not only provides the free (or inexpensive) video storage capability, it also provides the browser and the advertising channel (is there one?) on top of it. In some ways those considerations are a biproduct of YouTube being a monopoly. A little monopoly inside a much larger one - functioning to monetize peoples private behaviors and -now- to reinforce someone's status quo.

To democratize YouTube, the company would need to open source its video classification (labels? AI?) and encourage external vendors to build alternate browsers - some with ads, some without.

Bad YouTube!

YouTube should ask its users to define "authoritative" in there own terms. This is Jimmy Dore.

Painting a boat is hard

Didn't get the light right and could not see what I was doing properly, so the result is imperfect - which you can see now that I arranged the light:

I did ok on the outside:

And later, when I added the stripe: