1/14/2023

Salutations.

It is now 11:01 AM EST for me.

I’m starting late because I had trouble getting into this blog. I’m guessing that the problem is that I need a PHP Upgrade. I’m using the Ipage Web Hosting Service for this blog. The 1st thing that I did was chat with them. I had a number of issues in the past, and using Ipage chat resolved all of those issues. However, instead of just 1 ipage chat, today I went through 3 steps. The 1st Ipage chat, the person tried to help, but eventually recommended me to a WordPress customer service team, which would give me a call in 24 hours. Soon after that, I thought I needed some sort of email verification, so I looked in www.google.com for Ipage’s customer service number, and I talked to a woman over the phone. I requested an email verification for the call I would get, and she also helped me get access to the website, which was great. When I got in, it said that I needed a PHP update, that my current PHP version was about to not be supported by WordPress. So, as soon as I read that, I started another chat with Ipage, requesting that I pay for a service to allow me to have a PHP upgrade. I was told by the Ipage representative that I needed to back the files up before getting that upgrade, in case something happens. I asked if I can just pay some sort of service to do that for me. I was blunt. All I was doing in that blog was type. Ipage offered a backup service and restore service, and while using the chat, I paid for 3 years of that service. It wasn’t that much. The Ipage representative said to contact them later, and they will use the backup and restore service that I purchased to update my PHP for me.

In the meantime, even though I’m able to use the blog, it doesn’t look the same. I’m not able to ‘purge all caches’, for example, and it has that warning in the beginning, saying how out of date my current PHP is, and that WordPress will soon no longer support it. I’m assuming that, after Ipage upgrades the PHP using the service that I purchased from them, that that problem will be gone, at least for another year or so.

In order for me to do all of that, I had to use what I believe to be was a use of reasonable affirmation. I had to clarify repeatedly that I am not able to upgrade the PHP on my own. I’m sure the representative knew of my urgency, since the PHP that I was currently using was about to expire soon, if it didn’t already(borrowed time). So, any answer that didn’t have someone else doing it wasn’t going to work, because I definitely know that I wasn’t going to do it. If I couldn’t get a service from Ipage, I was thinking about looking in google for a 2nd party service. I was going to pay that computer service to upgrade the PHP for me. Fortunately, the Ipage representative understood my situation, and so I paid for the backup and restore service with the help of that representative, and later, I’ll chat with another Ipage representative who will upgrade the PHP using that backup and restore service that I purchased from Ipage. So, to sum it up, Ipage customer service was excellent, very helpful, but I still had to be very affirmative when communicating with them. Perhaps there is no other way of doing it. Perhaps that is the only way to resolve certain problems in general in a short amount of time, that you have to be very affirmative when communicating with others. I’m not a cultural anthropologist, I’m just saying. And to be clear, ‘acceptably affirmative’ is not the same as ‘demanding’. I don’t want to get into that right now.

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And that means that I am very, very late to give you this idea. Instead of looking for a new music video, which could take over an hour easily, I’m going to use one of those music videos that I already selected earlier. It’s new for this blog, but wasn’t made recently. I selected them in advance, but I didn’t watch them yet. I still have to watch them, and check their lyrics. I also still would have to look for a trailer.

I imagined kids, not all of them, but some kids complaining that that previous idea from Wishlist #1357, that ‘Positive acceptable presentation effectiveness’ idea, was somewhat excessive. I didn’t imagine that until sometime after I already typed it in, like a day or so ago. I didn’t think in advance that that could happen. So, my mistake, apologies, etc. What I plan to do in this list is give you ideas, not the ideas I am using right now, but new ideas, ideas that I didn’t type in, that are designed by intent to use some of that excess. Let’s call the excess ‘surplus’, and if you choose to, you may imagine the excess as water from a water cooler, and as you use these ideas, if you choose to, you can get some of that water from that water cooler, to make you feel better when using the ideas in this list.

It is now 11:47 AM EST for me. I am going to prepare that music video, and look for a trailer now. As soon as they are ready later today, I’ll recommend them to you. So, if you are there later today, I’ll see you then.

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It is now 12:30 PM EST for me.

1st things first.(Did I type that in right?) I forgot to clarify that ‘Dua Lipa’ music video possible ‘mix-up’. When I recommended last week to watch music video ‘Be The One’ by Dua Lipa, I thought there was only one official music video. The music video that I recommended for you to watch last week was the one, as of now, with 574 million views, and the publisher is ‘Dua Lipa’, not the one with 57 million views with publisher ‘VevoSpecials’. To be clear, the one published by publisher ‘Dua Lipa’, 1 minute and 3 seconds into that music video, Dua Lipa gives the impression of kissing you.

Last week, I forgot to type in a part of the explanation that I originally planned to type in. This is important because it uses several scenes from the movie ‘Glass Onion(2022)’ starring Edward Norton as Miles Bron. Based on my interpretation of the movie, Miles Bron gave the other main characters that were originally his friends a ‘positive, acceptable presentation of effectiveness’ that allowed their career goals to flourish. And so, I imagined Miles Bron when he had longer hair dancing with character Nikita(Peta Wilson) from tv series ‘La Femme Nikita(1997-2001)’, and they’re both showing one of their index fingers(wikipedia will illustrate) as they are dancing to the song ‘Be The One’. If you imagine seeing them, let’s see, you are looking at Miles Bron’s right side of his face, and Nikita is on the right side of the screen showing her face, the song ‘Be The One’ is playing, and they are both showing one of their index fingers to each other, illustrating when Miles Bron was younger, and he helped his friends succeed in their career goals. That scene when Miles Bron had longer hair, according to Netflix streaming service, that starts about 1 hour and 20 minutes into the movie, when Andi Brand(Janelle Monáe) introduced Miles Bron to the others for the 1st time. Oh, and keep in mind that the movie ‘Glass Onion’ is just a movie. They’re all actors and actresses portraying characters. And if I may offer my ‘movie opinion’ about Miles Bron’s power source, I imagined that a lot of people would get hurt in the beginning, but it would eventually be accepted by the military. The scientists would eventually be able to use it, but a lot of people would get harmed in the process. And that is what his friends were concerned about; too many people would get harmed as they would try to make that power source work. Miles Bron saw the global appeal his power source would have, and he also believed that the scientists from other countries would eventually figure out a way to make it usable. He believed that the governments would really try to make that power source work, in spite of the many people that will get harmed as they try. And that is the danger.

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It is now 1:05 PM EST for me.

The music video that I watched in it’s entirety for the 1st time earlier today and recommend for this list is called ‘Wave of You’ by Surfaces. Here’s a quote from article https://www.totalntertainment.com/ that I found by searching in www.google.com for phrase ‘surfaces wave of you music video review’:

‘ The captivating song is brought to life in its music video, which explores the feeling of falling for someone and realizing what they mean to you. Partially shot in Malibu, the visual further captures the track’s free and easy spirit. ‘

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The article was published by TotalNtertainment / 09/04/2021

And here is a quote from the lyrics to song ‘Wave of You’:

I think I’m caught up in the way I feel ’bout you
I don’t know how I can be so drawn in, to you
I think I’m fallin’ in deep
I think I’m caught up in the wave of you, of you

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To watch music video ‘Wave of You’, search in www.youtube.com for phrase ‘surfaces wave of you’, and it should be one of the 1st selections offered, with 3.7 million views. It was published 1 year ago by publisher ‘Surfaces’.

The part that I like starts 1 minute and 47 seconds into the music video, when the woman is presented dancing in slow motion by the music video. I imagined certain women saying to me that men’s embellishments of her dancing would change her original presentation of dance. So, to fix that, I imagined that I am dancing with the form of her that has no added men’s embellishments, even though I am a man, sort of a paradox. So, she’s dancing with me without the embellishments of men added to her dance, and I am dancing with her. I call that the ‘magic’ of blog illustration. ‘Rome wasn’t built in a day’, so to speak.

The tv series trailer that I watched for the 2nd time earlier today and recommend for this list is called ‘Foundation — Official Season 2’. I watched it earlier because I already planned to watch the 2nd season, since I already watched the 1st season from Apple TV+. And since I’m in a rush, that’s all I’ll say about this trailer. To watch it, search in www.youtube.com for phrase ‘foundation season 2’, and it should be one of the 1st selections offered, with 184 thousand views. It was published 10 days ago by ‘Apple TV’.

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Bias:

It is now 1:46 PM EST for me.

I couldn’t find a definition of the word ‘Bias’ in www.google.com or www.dictionary.com, so this is the definition I’m using: I’m addressing bias created from the unfair treatment of others. More specifically, if you attended college, when a fellow student would treat you unfairly, causing you to contemplationally evaluate such a fellow student in a biased context. So, if you went to college, and you had an experience with another college student that causes you to evaluate them in a biased context, then that’s the bias that I’m talking about. I know that I didn’t specifically identify in words what ‘bias’ means, but that’s what I’m offering.

Idea ‘Bias’ was created from a scene from episode 1.1 ‘Or not to (B)e’ from animated tv series ‘Nier: Automata Ver1.1a(2023)’. It was just made available in streaming service ‘Crunchyroll’ on Jan 7, 2023, a week ago. Here is a quote from wikipedia.org about the series:

‘ Nier: Automata Ver1.1a (Japanese: ニーア オートマタ Ver1.1a, Hepburn: Nīa Ōtomata Ver1.1a) is a 2023 anime television series based on the action role-playing game Nier: Automata developed by PlatinumGames and published by Square Enix. The series is produced by A-1 Pictures and began airing in January 2023, commemorating the sixth anniversary of the video game. The series will have 24 episodes. ‘

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I am a little surprised that, just recently, the streaming service Crunchyroll started to make more available more shows that I would actually watch, and ‘Nier: Automata Ver1.1a’ is one of those shows. The scene that allowed me to make idea ‘Bias’ starts, according to Crunchyroll, about 17 minutes and 13 seconds into the episode, when the armor from man android 9S(Natsuki Hanae) transferred it’s ownership to the woman android 2b(Yui Ishikawa). Here is the quote:

Armor: ‘Unit Ho229, accepting command 677. Transferred authorized user from 9S to 2B. Requesting acknowledgement from 2B.’

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So, basically, just imagine that that armor is from that student that instigated you when you were in college. Accept the transfer, and wear that armor. The idea is that there are various situations that certain participations are managed by that person that instigated you, but that person statistically doesn’t know the people in general. The interactions that you had with that college instigator are rare, allowing that instigator to customize that armor for you to use. If you went to college and were instigated by a few college students, then I recommend if you choose to to test this idea out. Choose one of the minor instigators, imagine that he/she is managing that armor, and allow yourself to wear that armor. Besides, that instigator is far away, and is not even directly involved with it. The idea behind idea ‘Bias’ is to mitigate/lessen the bias you may feel for that instigator, because, in relation to advice said, because of the instigation you experienced by that person. If the experienced instigation bothered you from time to time when you chose to think about it, then step into his/her armor, and feel better.

While you’re in that armor, to help you use it, contemplationally say based on imagined mechanical ability:

You: ‘That person knows me more than I know myself!’

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You are somewhat amazed as to how customized the armor responds to you, since that instigator interacted with you when you were a college student. Then say:

You: ‘If you don’t mind(figure of speech), I’m going to stop that robot.’

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I’m just trying to get you in the mood to use idea ‘Bias’.

So, hopefully, for those of you who were college students, if you were instigated in college, then maybe using their robots would make you feel better. If the experienced instigation from a certain person in college bothers you too much, then just use the other people. Just imagine going into their robots. You don’t have to use the idea on everyone.

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It is now 2:35 PM EST for me.

Since it’s already late for me, the only idea that is quick enough to explain is using scenes from the movie ‘Dune(2021)’ starring Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica Atreides. I recommend that you watch those scenes from your tv set wearing headphones. You can get the HBO Max app to watch Dune. You can also purchase or rent the movie from the Amazon.com app, or watch Dune using the Amazon Video channel HBO Max. And, of course, you can watch it from your computer/laptop, but I recommend that you watch Dune from your tv set using headphones.

I’m going to use Amazon Video to quote the recommended scenes to use with your imagination and thinking. Yes, there’s lots of violence, but it’s sci-fi violence. There are no mature themes in the movie, and here’s a direct quote from www.imdb.com about the rating:

‘ Rated PG-13 for sequences of strong violence, some disturbing images and suggestive material ‘

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Just don’t use the inappropriate scenes.

The 1st scene starts 54 minutes and 54 seconds into the movie:

Paul Atreides(Timothée Chalamet): ‘Won’t you stay? We would honor you.’

Stilgar(Javier Bardem): ‘Honor requires that I be elsewhere.’

Stilgar: (speaking Chakobsa) ‘I recognize you.’

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So, using the ‘Quantum Leap’ rule, from your birthday to the now, imagine a specific context of percentage of people from your school/work portraying Stilgar, and they said, individually, to you:

Stilgar: (speaking Chakobsa) ‘I recognize you.’

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You don’t have to actually imagine all of them individually saying that to you. You just imagine that, without actually imagining them in detail, that they individually said that to you as they were portraying Stilgar. For example, let’s say you’re 8 years old. So, let’s say the parameters are adults that work in your school, that attend your school, during your 8 years, that they individually said what Stilgar said. Even if they attended your school for a short moment, as long as it occurred during those 8 years. You can change those parameters, let’s say you only want certain people saying that to you.

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It is now 2:59 PM EST for me. There are a few more scenes, but it’s getting late for me, and I want to close this list. Just watch the movie once, and choose the relaxing scenes to use. I watch certain scenes myself from time to time. Watching those scenes helps me relax. Next Saturday, hopefully, the PHP will be replaced by then, and I’ll type something in. So, if you are there next Saturday, I’ll see you then.

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Rated PG-13 mature themes, violence, viewer discretion for movie ‘Glass Onion’. Rated TV-14 mature themes, sci-fi violence, viewer discretion for tv series ‘Foundation’. Rated TV-14 animated violence, viewer discretion for tv series ‘Nier: Automata Ver1.1a’. Rated PG-13 sci-fi strong violence, viewer discretion for ‘Dune: Part One’. (Even though there is nothing explicit, there is a scene of an implied mature theme. Just don’t use it.) Use only refurbished for advice references recommended. Throw away rest of episode, series, and movie. [Use mental bookmark ‘Bias’ for reference, allocation, and prevention when needed.