Skip Ellsworth in new Bruce Lee biography

[Ellsworth]

Apparently rage is the easiest emotion for humans to react to and spread.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scien...est-180950182/

There might be some additional implications. ymmv.

[Ellsworth]

Chair rides as a kid.
Usually after an event like 4H, community potluck, et cetera.

One kid would sit in a chair, grip both sides of the seat and pull themselves down.
Another kid would hold the back of the chair from behind.
That second kid would act as both engine and counterweight and start spinning the kid in the chair.
At one point, let go and see the chair and rider slide away.

The would not work with folding chairs, equipped with rubber feet.
It would work with chairs that had smooth chrome/stainless(?) feet.

Part of the psychology behind the punch's demonstration is the power of the novel.
The new and exotic, it can create additional interest[engagement]compliance.
And Bruce certainly represented the novel to the U.S. martial arts community.

In regards to risk, it's easy to imagine how easily, anything about the action could not line up.
Facing more athletic stances, Bruce's ego might have ended up bruised.
I'd love to watch a video with a couple people that know how to move, explore the overall concept.

Edited to add:
There's lots of ways to increase the slide.
A freshly waxed floor might have helped and may have happened.

I doubt that clear PTFE powered was used.
I really doubt that grease, oil, or butter was used, or any other technique.

[Ellsworth]

Here's a question that I've slowly been forming/exploring over the last few years:

What are all the implications for the present/current time, when intoxicant A creates epigenetic changes to Homo sapien sapiens' DNA that are different than intoxicant B, in a world where for most of the last 5000 years approximately half the global population of Homo sapien sapiens have primarily used intoxicant A and the other half of the global population of Homo sapien sapiens have primarily used intoxicants A+B?

Where A is alcohol and B is marijuana.

Add another concept: during a food collapse caused by a little ice age, volcanic eruption cooling, standard crop failure, war / migration, or other reasons for food collapse -- weeds would be the last to go and the first to pop back up.

This is obviously a question in progress.

This is also a no-judgement question, the whole world is going to pot. [deadpan humor]

[Ellsworth]

I apologize for not realizing this sooner.

I have an odd frame of reference for the 1" punch.
'My dad could do with two fists what Bruce could do with one."

My dad used to do a 2 fist punch.
It could make a heavy bag touch or near touch a 9' ceiling.

One of the many things my dad could do that I never could.
There's no disrespect, in a possible explanation of the physics and stance, to the trained power and skill required.

[Ellsworth]

On Drudge today, a link said that Abraham Lincoln might be gay.
And that there's some historical documents which some claim make the case.
Apparently it's been a debate for decades.

I don't know a thing about that.
I've read near zero Abraham Lincoln related documents.

Ironically though, I reached the same conclusion through a different avenue.
That he was possibly gay because he seemed neuroatypical.
After that, it's statistics, using today's statistics.
(With an understanding that comparing similar cohorts from different eras may yield different statistics)

Today I realized there's also multiple controversies about Lincoln's hat.
The way some neuroatypicals play, I think I have nothing more to say about that.

[Ellsworth]

I wish Trump a speedy recovery and the same to David Dutch and James Copenhaver.
Condolences to the loved ones of the deceased victim, firefighter Corey Comperatore.

Congratulations and thanks to the Secret Service and the support personnel, for performance under pressure.
The desire to blame is everywhere, it is inherent in human affairs, and that is partly why it's so easily focusable.
And usable, as a wedge issue.

I know there's been a lot of unseen changes over the decades in the personal protection field.
While the vests are better, fundamentally it was still body over body, no helmets.

A podium, built in gun shot detector (microphone), pneumatic powered pop up bullet resistant material (3 sides, front, left and right).
The material could be clear or opaque.
All invisible until deployed.

Handheld bullet resistant shields, one stored on each side of the podium (aesthetically integrated into the podium), grab if needed.
Even something as small as 16"x24" provides some coverage.

The SawStop analogy.
The SawStop is an amazing safety device. It has already saved a lot of fingers.

But, it can't be seen. Everything is hidden under the hood, so to speak.
A podium with a pop-up protective feature. Seems similar to a SawStop, only in this case a 'sound / stop.'

May America forever choose the ballot box.
Politics works best within a framework of civility.

#family #thanks

I'll try to keep my future posts on this thread more directly related to Bruce Lee.

edited to add:

To show that I generally try to support both sides.

[Originally posted in the member's only political section on 06-14-2024]

I have thought about Jimmy Carter this year, more than other years.
The result could be called idk, a poem or a prayer.

I bid/bide Jimmy Carter,
the power to rhyme and time,
the energy of his life,
until he rejoins his wife.

And as I have watched his dwindling physical appearances, I contemplate,
Does he resemble a western expression of the Eastern tradition of Sokushinbutsu?

As I have grown older, I appreciate President Carter more.

I'll give the next President, regardless of party, as much thought.

(Originally posted in the member's only political section on 7/15/2024)

I just realized that the only brand new vehicle my father purchased, while I was alive was in 1975 (possibly the only new vehicle, idk 4 sure).

And that it was very likely politically motivated.

(originally posted in the member's only political section on 9/18/2024)

May there not be a third attempt.
May the powers that influences voters be tempered.
May the emotions that influence voters remain in check.
May politics be (and remain) rational and verbal.

(Nothing above is intended to reference the month of May).

[Ellsworth]

The average Roman soldier weighed 145 lb.
Bruce Lee weighed 135 lb.

I don't think Bruce did steroids like modern fighters tend to do.
And his natural food approach minimized exposure via contaminated supplements.

Compared to many/most professional modern fighters/athletes, that's simply different.

[Ellsworth]

'Bruce Lee was an inherently youthful expression.'

But I don't know all the implications to that, because I myself only now, wrestle with what it means to age.

[Ellsworth]

My father said he started teaching in 1965.
I have no proof of that, but it's the date we've used for the Association's beginning.

Yesterday I looked at all the historical events for that year (U.S. centered).
I'm sure I missed more than a few.
What I found was fascinating to reflect upon.
It's a short glance at history, the value of which is interpretative.

[Ellsworth]

I recently learned that the Irish word for Man literally means "fear."

It took me a week of casual research to discover that, in antiquity,
On that small island,
The word for man was, gender neutral.

I could be wrong in that understanding.
And language is truly not my forte.

I used to say that in a gender war,
The children are the losers.

Now I tend to express it like this:

In a gender war, we are all the losers.

That's how misdirection and emotional triggers work.

[Ellsworth]

What are the all the differences and similarities between a physical holocaust and a digital winnowing?

Rephased in perhaps a shorter, more powerful manner:

'How might you compare a physical holocaust to a digital winnowing?'

Rephrased for maximum psychological effect:

'How might I compare a physical holocaust to a digital winnowing?'

The power increase comes from you, in the form of 'I.'

[Ellsworth]

The new posts on this thread have not been indexed by google yet in almost 3 months.

Whereas this thread was indexed by google in just 1 month:
https://community.loghomebuilders.or...new-versus-old

Perhaps new threads and new posts carry different priority weight for google bots/spiders?

[Ellsworth]

We had one year to act, between 1984* and 1986**.

We had one year to react, between the book and the act.

And now, after almost 40 years, maybe we'll get the 180, sooner rather than later.

And Perhaps, don't let AI corrupt/alter/edit/'improve'/'deprove'/'evolve' the accumulated data.

*Book 1984. **Electronic Communication Privacy Act of 1986.

[This is as close to independently arrived thought as is possible. I know others have already arrived there, and have surely expressed it similarly to how I have done in the words above. I have not seen, or sought, the areas of the web where such debates have taken place and I have no plans to. The 'light' web is dark enough for me.]

[Ellsworth]

American Bookends

From the birth of the Silent Generation,
To the end of the Silent Revolution,
There were 100 years of loud change.

[Ellsworth]

Over the last two days I explored a thought.
That the Electronics Privacy Act of 1986 was passed under the rule of Moore's Law.
Considering all the implications of that, alone, is what I do.

Just like how I discovered this Greatest American Issue, alone.
It makes me value this knowledge Moore's Law even more, because I had to discover it. And genuinely, it's possible that no one who was in my 'orbit' knew.
Of course it's possible that, no one knew, despite the fact they were near retirement age, after working multiple stints at places like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, et cetera.
These very nice folks were all solid mi-level managers, trainers, IT security workers, IT security software commercial sales, et cetera.
AKA, pros-in the know (would typically be the assumption description).
It's also possible that it was just a choice, to not mention it, while emailing me member lists with personal data on it and build site addresses.
(edited to add, I suppose it's possible everyone assumed I knew. I suppose it's possible that tech workers don't like discussing that sensitive topic)

I have used Google's Ngram viewer very little.
I've found it can be a quick way to see broad patterns and implications.
YMMV.

Moore's Law, AI and the Electronic Privacy Act of 1986
This may be the pinnacle or end of my intellectual quest.

In the old day's people would say "Brother's and Sister's in Christ," or something like "My fellow Americans."
I have no idea what to say, so I'll try a simple: I care, enjoy your day.

Edited to add:
The analogy I've come up with for this issue:

Imagine Mark Zuckerberg started/owned Google/Alphabet.
Then Mark Zuckerberg wanted to build an Island retreat on Hawaii.
And Mark Zuckerberg has access to all email data, that had been left on google servers for more than 180 days, since the start.
And... attachments. Land contracts, wills, family disputes, affairs, other interested parties, et cetera.

Then add the use of non-commercially available AI (i.e. in-house Google/Alphabet AI).
How might that impact the power landscape on a... small island.

This is a blunt expression.

Ordinarily I believe it is standard for authors to place such concepts within works of fiction, rather than plain language + non-fiction.

[I have never done Linked in. It's never mattered. So right now, this is the best I can offer: Bachelor of the Arts, Philosophy, Cum Laude, from Seattle University (a Jesuit institution). Thirty + years as entrepreneur / small business owner.]

[Ellsworth]

Ps, The LHBA members who did live in the Seattle area, and worked at places like Microsoft, Google and Facebook (at or near retirement, manager / trainer level) were quick to discuss all sorts of kiddie type conspiracy theories. Just like the crap you find on Drudge, Reddit and Alex Jones. The modern Art Bell stuff.

Now I try to de-conspiracy theory the internet (LoL). For instance I converted Pizza Gate to a real issue:

Person A, Q) You've eaten pizza a lot over your lifetime, correct?
Person B, A) Yes, I have.

Person A, Q) Out of all those times that you've eaten pizza, how many specific instances do you remember?
Person B, A) Well, Umm, a couple. ?

It's why Elon Musk's brain chip's sales pitch will be so enticing: perfect recall.
For good or bad, that level of self knowledge/awareness will be enticing.
Fair (or perhaps equal) distribution of the resource and the two way nature of a link, those might be sticking points in the acceptance process.

In regards to the North/South pole shift, I'm no scientist but I have watched a few videos on how a spinning object flips in space.
And learned a bit about the newly discovered, fairly shallow/thin liquid layers within the earth, an inner core that spins counter clockwise to the outer core -- which all mean that in theory the N/S pole flip-flip should be slightly smoother than expected.
Neat stuff, the science. I have no real insights other than at times, the poles switch.

But I digress. Moore's law. 1986. That's no conspiracy theory. That's Act and Ignorance + storage expansion = intro surveillance state

[Ellsworth]

I believe that I can now refocus upon log homes.
And so I shall try.
Certainly not because I want to be some sort of Industry Leader.

There is a need for affordable homes, in America and the world.
There's a need to reduce the financial damage wrought by poorly designed/built log home systems.
There's a need for low cost secondary homes in the wilderness built with mostly site sourced materials.
I may have some small, practiced ability at helping to meet those needs.
I have no hubris, I know others have greater ability and resources.
The more, the merrier.

[Ellsworth]

A few after thoughts and disclaimers.

1) I'm not a lawyer, I'm hardly a talented amateur.

2) It was this post:

My father said he started teaching in 1965.
I have no proof of that, but it's the date we've used for the Association's beginning.

Yesterday I looked at all the historical events for that year (U.S. centered).
I'm sure I missed more than a few.
What I found was fascinating to reflect upon.
It's a short glance at history, the value of which is interpretative.

That helped me start to look at, and understand, the issue with Moore's law.
1965.

So the caveat is: I am learning / exploring this topic in real time as I post. I am surely not articulating all the nuances of the issue as well as they deserve.
It deserves a good college thesis level paper. It deserves a new law.

3) I am starting to explore some Terms of Service for email providers, like Google. It's an interesting read.

4) I move between a few topics that interest me. A new one I acquired recently is the river Dee, it's already so complicated that it's above my head. But I'll keep swimming.

5) Genuinely, no resentments towards members over this issue, or toward Steve for emailing me the entire forum approx last year, after 20 years of never telling me about email security at the Server Level.
Life happens and one moves on, hopefully a wiser and more understanding person.

6) After Moore's law was well established, it became a predictable path to offer incentive sign ups / enrollment periods, product launches and/or push memory development hard to keep pace with permanent data storage (regarding email and other storage intensive services). That might be one secret to the Big Tech takeover, dates and data should reveal that.

7) I am always open to being wrong about something, in whole or in part.

8) Some of this exploration is based upon the framework of the Domestic Analogy. Because at core that concept involved the proposal that human behavior is predictable scalable within operating spheres of similar culture, and scalable for any standard cross cultural commonalities (imho, ymmv, it's a working concept overall, pun intended)

[Ellsworth]

Distempered Individualism

I often wonder,
If Ayn Rand and Bruce Lee were a,
Deliberate punch and kick from the East to the West.

Were they living examples of excess,
In classical 'rugged individualism,'
Whose inevitable success pushed culture toward the failure of extremes?

Or were they both simply natural occurrences,
Pushing us all to be our best,
By the hard route of individual success?

Tempered Individualism

Edited to add on 3/7/25

Line: Today I noticed that line "Deliberate punch and kick to the West" was not what I originally posted.
It should read, "Deliberate punch and kick from the East to the West." As originally written.
The line has been fixed.

[Ellsworth]

Perhaps the definition of WWIII shouldn't depend upon the actual use of nuclear weapons.

Rather it is a war that involves (enough) specific countries where the risk is of nuclear weapons being used is both high and realistic.

We just might get through WWIII without a single nuclear bomb going off (or bio weapon of similar scope being used).

Edited to add:

Once the excitement of war with new toys (I.E. drones, AI and biological viruses) has lost its shine.
Once the major players have learned all they possibly can (at this stage)...
Then imho it'll be time to worry about war's next stage: nuclear. EMP and/or direct hits.

But I do not worry much about that doomsday clock.

It's "midnight in a perfect world."

[Ellsworth]

Thread still not indexed by google.
Moved to picnic table.

I contemplate my posts on this thread and my past experiences.

I do recall Maria gave me a book on Edward Snowden, I should have read it.

[Ellsworth]

I am thinking about this thread.
Archiving it, editing it, leaving it in the member's area, moving it back to the public area.

I have definitely switched to posting on the LHBA blog feature.
I'll trend that way.

[Ellsworth]

Thread moved back to the public side, from the member's only side, on 3/7/2025.
I made no edits to any of the previous posts, nothing added, nothing deleted.

Two incidents have caused me reason to think this forum software is not secure.
I mean it is, not secure by definition, the latest, stable, supported version is 6.0.

But specifically I mean #people being people.

I don't typically make egregiously incorrect mistakes like:
https://community.loghomebuilders.or...s-Inauguration

I would not make a mistake on an expression of self-definition: NON-partisan.
By some outlandish possibility that I did, it would be exceedingly hard to convince me of that, in this specific case.

There's no absolute proof that what I posted in the linked blog entry was continuously wrong, I can't envision anything convincing me that it was my error.
Well, a few narrow set of circumstances might, but each path would be difficult and mostly like leave doubt at the end.

The only impossibility is a logical contradiction, so I must admit that there is a 0.75% chance it was my mistake.
But, patterns make me think that percentage is perhaps a bit large.
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I have a simple outlook.

• It is your actions that define you, not me.
• It is my actions that define me, not you.

The importance of those distinctions matter incredibly.

I stand behind what I write.
But since I publish on the internet, I cannot stand behind what you might read.
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• I did not begin to understand the Red Sea, until I started to learn about the River Dee.
• It was the River Dee that helped me understand the Red Sea.
• Beginning to understand the River Dee, led me to have a deeper understanding about the Red Sea.

There's a few missing phrases / posts from this forum.
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Version 4.25, left just as my former co-owner wanted it to be left (LHBA's former webmaster, up until 2025).

I move at a pace to maximize my own learning.
Like politics and family, it's the people who suffer.

I still wish my former co-owner well.
It's healthier than any other position.
And I can imagine the trials and tribulations of his early life, the forces that formed him.

Last night I learned the date that the the forums vulnerability started -- 2017.

It has been vulnerable since 2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VBulletin
When the company announced that version 4 was at "end of life."

So, 8 years +- a few months.

And it seems that LHBA's former webmaster held the vBulliten license in his personal capacity, making it outside the LHBA.
At least, there's a legal argument to make -- afaik the only license transfer made since the forum launched was in 2025, and there should have been two before that.

That's individual personal liability. It's called 'going naked' no liability protection.
For about 7 years, maybe much longer, 10 or more.
That's nuts, for the sake of convenience! (I'll assume)

All it takes to change the license is to ask the company nicely, then pay a small fee. Otherwise in the case of LHBA I believe that legally ownership would default to the software licensee account holder, after a company closes and a new one forms (the software company does not record company data for purchasers / customers, it only takes personal names.

So the details matter, it would take a license transfer with proof of new corporate payment to move ownership of the forum, and to continue liability protection via using a corporate veil. I move at a pace to maximize my own learning.

[Ellsworth]

The only thing violence ever solved was conflict

There's a topic I don't study, the 100 years war.*
There's lot of reasons why.

I know you probably just kicked out a soundbite, and I'm not knocking you Ronnie.
I also know violence is a crude action that offers no real solutions, ask the Hatfields, ask the McCoys.
First and foremost, it's a lot easier to start violence / conflict than it is to stop it.
Once it's rolling, once it becomes a habit, then there's a ton of inertia behind it.

And when it comes to violence, computer hacking is one of its forms.
Because violence from one to another ought be defined as more than a punch or a kick.

*There is one aspect of the 100 years war that I might study in the future.
The relationship between it and the formation of modern Psychology.
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edited to add,

I checked this post 20 minutes after making it.

The line above read "I know you probably just kicked out a soundbite, and I'm now knocking you Ronnie."
I sure don't think I made that typo, but in reality it's just the sort of language mistake I make and have to correct later (on the same day I make the post).
I don't think that was a hack attack, but damn if it was, it would have been an effective one.
Line has been corrected to read how I intended, "I know you probably just kicked out a soundbite, and I'm not knocking you Ronnie."
(bold added to emphasize the situation)

This is an example of why I review each post meticulously the day I make them. I would not make a mistake on an expression of self-definition: NON-partisan.

[Ellsworth]

Was my father a killer?
Was my father a rapist?
Was my father a pedophile?
Was my father a racist?
Was my father a criminal?
Was my father an anti government protester?
Was my father a patriot?

He excelled at great customer service.
He excelled at helping people find their path and change their life.
He was often one of the smartest guys in the room.
He cared deeply about people.
He was very entertaining.
He was an amazing 'active listener.'
He helped thousands gain freedom from 30 years of debt slavery, aka a 30 year mortgage (Mortgage means, death pledge).

Topics I'll explore in the future.
#life is complicated, that's for sure.

Be careful about the openings that people leave you.
To step in, or to step away, it's often hard to pick correctly.

On one side of the family are the Freemasons, an Indian Reservation, DKE and Gung Fu, on the other side is Ivy league, a tropical island, eugenics and Skull and Bones*.
And by marriage I have a quick line of connection to the New York Yankees and a prison guard of the Manson Family.

Eventually I'll start talking about log homes.
That will be just as serious, and less mysterious.

*I'm 98.6% sure, or maybe 97.9% sure, about Skull and Bones. I'm still jogging my memory and doing research.

[Ellsworth]

It'll be nearly as complicated to speak about my mother.
My FOO siblings and I grew up feeling dirt poor, with worn plywood floors.
2nd hand everything, hand me downs, and cutting ground beef with about 50% some ground plant (I forget the name) -- half cow / half vegan burger!
She's the main reason all her children graduated from college.

Two of the four with graduate degrees -- Law and MBA.

Only one tried to pay her back financially.
The motive was partly just so that it could be said, 'the degree was self-funded.' (or a similar expression)

On my father's side, we're related to Oliver Ellsworth.
On my mother's side, we're related to John Jay.

That and $10 buys a cup of dessert at Starbucks, but frankly it can also push a person to try damn hard.
Because a person should seek to understand their ancestors.
And a person should seek to honor and replicate the good attributes / characteristics of their ancestors.
Such relationships can push a person to seek their own greatness, and it puts a person at risk of being used by others... but frankly those are risks every person faces in life, regardless of their specific ancestors.
(Seeking greatness is itself a great risk, and being used by others is a common risk to all within society)

She rejected the offer of repayment.
For she did not want that child to be able to say that, or anything even close to that.
She assumed he'd claim to be a 'self-made man,' (afaik, iirc, that was the primary objection).
But at root was seeking control of expression. For no one knows how it would end up being explained.
As an adult looking back, it seems clear she wanted credit, and so I give her credit and my thanks for valuing education so highly.

Make it harder to build a future, make it harder to build an individual name (and/or a collective name), make it harder to succeed.
Make it harder to create a novel narrative, which might bring positive public recognition.
That's an easy path to individual failure, and systemic family failure.

Both parents had a hand in that.
My Family of origin (FOO).
And in some ways, both parents helped in their children's successes, few and hard won successes -- may there be more (for my family and for yours!).

It's also hard to talk about a man that had three wives and 6 children.
Four children from wife one,
and one child each from wife two and wife three.
IMHO a plan by design, for it could be said that a union with no child is the fragilest... the easiest to break. I'm confident that is how my father would have seen it.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/are-c...s-doo_b_913051
https://www.sciencenordic.com/childb...vorces/1396768
https://lauracarroll.com/childfree-and-divorce/
https://www.mollybkenny.com/blog/by-...to-divorce.cfm
There are points and counter points, but the stark numbers are undeniable: no children = higher divorce rate.

Skip's last two children could be described as half American and half Filipino, but I don't call them half brothers.
One is an Engineer, the other is an artist that speaks six languages (maybe seven by now).
They are both amazing young men. Real brothers from other mothers.

#Complicated topics

[Ellsworth]

Aki Park, someone I befriended in high school.
I may be misspelling his first name, and I might have it right.

We knew each other for around 6 months or so, and then I never saw him again.
Not on purpose, iirc I changed school, he changed schools, we lived some distance away.

He was a giant Korean guy. About 5' 11" + -
He was punk rock, leather jacket and all.

He had spent most of his childhood growing up in Japan.

From him I learned enough to share 2nd hand, about his 1st hand experience with Asian xenophobia.

Damn, that Korean kid had it rough in Japan.