summer patriot, winter soldier

absolutely, positively inconsequential ..... no. 3 ..... apparently not to windows .....

update, o6.28.2022, last update, i promise.   laughing.  game number 976, of the original 32,000.   it's a little puzzle, but it all falls together, in a fun way.   you have to solve it right off, or you just get horribly muddled.   but, as noted, it is a fun little game, and it provokes a laugh or two, at its cleverness.  a fun game.    and, yes, i am hooked.   i suppose i could solve the mystery of the "big bang," but, who cares, when there is freecell to play.   end update. 

i've been trying to crack the 93% win level with windows "freecell," and i was winning, but it was just taking forever.--

now, i have an old alptop, and it is loaded with windows home vista, a program suite that hasn't been published for a long long time.   well, who ever designed the "freecell" game/program didn't want anyone cracking the 93% win plateau very damned bad.

i will explain, by illustrating the last two games i have played.  they are games number 2,938 and 2,939 in a series that i started at "0."    of those games, i have won 2,732 and 2,733 respectively.   not too bad, and approaching 93%, but i will never get there, not in this lifetime anyway, nor the two or three to follow.

eh, what? you say.

it is pretty simple.--

my computer is keeping track of the win ratio to the tune of 12 decimal points.   so, game number 2,938 has a .929884275017 win ratio.  game number 2,939 has a .929908137017 win ratio.   or, 92.9908137017% win/loss ratio.

the difference between those two games, in terms of increased percentage of wins, is 0.000023862%, or as expressed in fractions,

11,931/500,000,000 th of 1.  that is roughly 12,000th a part of 500 million parts.

i will be a while getting the remaining distance to 93% at this rate.   needless to say, every loss would represent a rather monumental set back.   laughing.   in short, the task before me is to turn every decimal point behind 92% into 9's, for 10 more decimal places.

kapish?

my version of windows home vista seems to regard 93% as 92.999999999%, or, more precisely, 93.0000000000%    and, 92.9908137017% is not 93.0000000000%, not by a long shot.

i really don't know whether to be highly amused by all of this, or really kind of mad.  in short, whether to spit, swallow or smile, as the old saying goes.

so, i will simply regard 92.99% as 93%, though to give the windows home vista scoring scheme its due, it is not.   the difference is, unfortunately, for every discrete game, very quantifiable.  that is, 11,931 parts of 500,000,000.

update, 06.04.2022, yay!!!  checked the stats this morning.  and, i am now at 93% wins.   i hadn't looked there for some days as i figured it would be a while, but apparently a 43 game winning streak put me over the top.  so, the figures were, on 06.03.2022 to the following effect, 2,978 games played, as to 2,764 wins, for a winning percentage of 93.0013458930%.   i have played 3 or 4 games since, all wins, so i have a little "pad" for the time being.   laughing.   well, what does this mean?   in the scope of the universe, not very damned much, but at least for the remaining days of my dotage i can say that for nearly 3,000 games i played at a 935 win to loss percentage.  that's it.   there is no other significance save for that.   but, it feels nice, at least until my next loosing streak.   end update, and the end to all updates on this topic, i hope. 

 

sigh  update, 06.10.2022 .  i know, i know, i promised not to bore you any more w/ this.    but, it has been a real struggle staying aobve 93% wins, and i actually dipped below for a bit, but i've scrambled back over 93 again.  but, the game is not giving me very many breaks, and though i've gotten some easy games most have been pretty tough.   for instance, i just finished #5499 ..... (or was it #4599 ...  i forget.  see what i am "working with."  laughing.) .....  and it was a real struggle, taking just at 45 minutes.   i won, but i had to back out four or five times before i finally saw the "key" to the game.   without the move involved i kept coming up just one move or one card away from the win, and i was getting pretty frustrated.  but, as i was backing out one more time, i finally saw what i had been missing, and tried it, and sure enough, i prevailed.  i am not sure that it is worth the effort.  end update.

i thought someone might like to know.

that's it, i am done w/ statistics.  last night i played game 3,066 for which i had kept statistical record, winning the 2,853 game of that lot, for a statistical game winning percentage of 93.05283757338%.

i tire of the whole pursuit, which has become rather pointless.  windows continues to throw harder games at me, they take longer to win, and the "effort" involved in winning becomes less fun.   and, to be honest about it, i simply do not see how i can improve much over the long run, in terms of percentage of games "won."

that's it.  i am a 93% winner on the original 32,000 games.  if that is "good," that's fine with me.   if it is "bad," i will live with it.  the guitar beckons, and is more fun.  i am done.  end of pursuit, 06.21.2022.

john jay @ 05.31.2022  (06.21.2022)

 

a very hard game for me, update, 07.01.2022.   game no.221, a very hard game for me.  it became a matter of getting the heart ace up, at any cost, and then the game fell open and resolved pretty quickly.  a designed game, seems to me.  but, enjoyable.  end update.

i will never watch another second of n.a.s.c.a.r. bullshit "racing" ..... ever .....

i used to be a nascar fan, but because it has become such a stupid "circus" i haven't watched much of it for the last 3 or 4 years.   but, the weather is bad, i am not on cable, and the only channel i could get in a very bad rain storm was n.a.s.c.a.r.

it was the last stage, and oddly enough, the drivers acted just like they had brains in their heads.

down to the last lap, and the guy in second tries to make a pass, and spins his car to the infield of the track in the attempt.   the leader crosses the finish line well ahead of the nearest finisher.    in anything approach sanity and logic, the race should be over, the guy who finished first should be declared the winner, and the idiot who spun his car out should be penalized by a poor finish.

but, no, nascar has an "overtime."   so, they get all the cars grouped together, as closely packed as they can, and they restart the race for another two laps.   the car which had led the entire last stage of the race rather predictably gets to the lead, as he has the fastest car.   but, no, some fucking chuckle-headed dip-shit fails to slow for a corner, goes into the corner far too deeply and at too great a speed, "looses control & spins" and takes the leader and all the front runner out in a collision involving all of the leading cars, including the two fastest cars on the track.

 in case you don't get it.  the idiot (and that is putting it way too politely) who promoted the collision could not have negotiated the corner at the speed he was going and with his "entry" into the corner.  in short, he spun into the leading cars on purpose, solely to deprive them of a legitimate victory.   he wrecked them, most probably having made a deal with another car/driver/team manager to cause the collision, on the off chance that the other idiot could negotiate his way through the tangle and take the checkered flag.

you can yammer all you want about "racing," but the dip-shit who went into the corner too deep and too fast took the leaders out on purpose.   not even a race car driver who has been breathing "idiot fumes" all race long could not have provoked the collision on purpose.   if i were the leader taken out under that circumstance, i would just shoot the bastard one shot in the forehead, "dead center," for wrecking me on purpose.  and, i would piss on his grave the first chance i could get.

in nascar, as noted, they call it racing.   i call it a bunch of fucking dumb-shits, without any brains, without brain cell "no. 1."  craniums operating at an absolute vacuum.  ***

never again, will i ever watch anything having to do with nascar.   it is just too damned stupid to be legitimate.  "stupid is, as stupid does," and thank you very much, forrest gump.   it cannot be said any clearer than that.

nascar.   what an absolute waste.  all that machinery, all that skill (when channeled & directed), run by buffoons.

john jay @ 05.29.2022

p.s.   ford, toyota, chevy and associated nitwits.  you figure it out.

*** v. putin would fit right in, his kind of stupidity.

absolutely, positively inconsequential ..... over a hump with freecell ..... no. 2 ....

just finished a freecell game, and won.    this puts me at 2650 wins out of 2856 games total, or a winning percentage of 92.78711%, which is 92.8% in anyone's book.   if i break 93% fhat's it, i quit.    laughing.

the first post in this "series" was written at the 92% "plateau," and i thought i could not continue the hot streak.   but, i have.   this is "getting" to be something of a compulsion, but, what do i have better to do with my time.   well, that's it.   i told you that this was an inconsequential post in the grand scheme of things, just my ego at work, and nothing else.

ttfn.

john jay @ 05.28-ish.2022  (who the hell knows?)

update, today is memorial day.   92.86%, with recent wins.  closing in on 93%, which i never thought that i would reach.  amazing.   maybe not for you, but certainly for me. that's open the game, play it however it looks, and discover the results.  win or loose, play them to the finish.   close update.

update, 05.31.2022.  2702 wins divided by 2908 total games equals 92.91609% winning percentage, which, to freecell is not 93% wins.   laughing.   i'd go for the 93, but my poor old eyes have petered out for the time being.   things are too blurry to see the board.  laughing.  end update.

go ukraine!!!  fuck biden!!!   let's hope the ukraine knocks out the russian bridge over the donets, isolating the russians on the "wrong side."   we'll see.   and, yes, if i get 93% biden will still be a non-remedial idiot.

we're i "the chinese"

i would be having second thoughts about teaming up with the russians seeking world domination.  they haven,t looked indomitable in the ukraine, and just a notch above inept.

we're I the chinese, I would view this as an opportune time to settle some old grievances, such as those surrounding the amur river basin.  the russians moved in on that when china was at a bit of a low ebb, and now the tables have turned.

now, the chinese could easily get some territory back.  and let the russians know who is the dominant party, so to speak 

it is a golden chance.

john jay @ 05.27.2022

 

we're i "the chinese"

i would be having second thoughts about teaming up with them seeking world domination.  they haven,t looked indomitable in the ukraine, and just a notch above inept.

we're I the chinese, I would view this as an opportune time to settle some old grievances, such as those surrounding the amur river basin.  the russians moved in on that when china was at a bit of a low ebb, and now the tables have turned.

now, the chinese could easily get some territory back.  and let the russians know who is the dominant party, so to speak 

it is a golden chance.

john jay @ 05.27.2022

 

r.f.n. *****

the ukraine needs fighter jets, multiple missile launchers, and a-10 "warthogs" ground level attack fighters.   they need them "r.f.n."

period.   end of discussion.

john jay @ 05.27.2022

 

p.s.   the ukrainians are fighting a proxy war for the west against the soviet union/russian federation.   it is not right that their soldiers pay in blood for the "bloodless" geopolitical ambitions of western politicians.   get them the weapons they need.

and, as of late, the soviet puppet in chechnya is saying he wants to invade poland.

how god damned clear do the damned russians have to make it, to show their intentions to restore the soviet union to its former glories.  poland, the crech republic, sloviana  .....  do you not understand.

 

*****  "right fucking now."

who is in charge of the white house when biden's meds wear off and when what's her name is stoned?

just asking.   not that it is important.

john jay @ 95.26.2022

the left decries violence .....

they destroy tradition.   they destroy families.   they are immune from the reach of law.  they destroy even the most rudimentary aspects of self discipline.   they ridicule faith, faith in the future, faith in an almighty spirit in god.   they seek to destroy family values, religion, and religious values, ethics and morality.   they destroy all they touch, all they treat upon.   they destroy.   period.

what in the hell do they expect?   why, in god's name, should they be surprised at the destruction of others, those to whom "they have passed on their values?"   they are surprised, that they simply reap what they have sown.  

they have destroyed.   they have given absolutely nothing except doubt, discord and disbelief in anything.   again, what in the hell do they expect in return for their efforts, their destruction of all that is holy?

john jay @ 05.25.2022

it the russians can bring the ukraine to heal, then what do they need the chinese for?

noodling on the guitar (chord harmonies), and doing some work with a small piece of walnut to inlet a smaller part into it, and an idle thought popped into my head.

you know, geopolitical stuff.

just suppose that the west's "sideliine" help cannot enable the ukrainians to beat the russians, and that the west chickens out (more than just slightly likely), and that the russians bring the ukrainians to heal.

just suppose.

now that, would make a formidable military, and coupled with russia's energy reserve, would return them to super power status.   economic swat.  diplomatic "respect."   military power, with an infusion of fresh blood and fresh thinking into russia's military approach.   and, it would serve to make a "resurgent" europe back into a region more concerned about being warm in the winter than trying to reign russia in.

now, in that situation, just why does russia need china to achieve its aims?   and, given such a situation, why would the russians not start to covet some of china's assets on the russian border.   they covet everyone else's land and wealth and assets, why would they not wish to gain control power and authority over china's.   and, having economic power and a revitalized military, what would stop their acquisitive natures from looking rather longingly at china's land and people.

and, the russians are racists, top to bottom.   always have been, always will be.  ask the various --stans about that:  they've always been given short shrift, and always will.   not a big step to view the chinese with similar racial & ethnic disdain for the russians, now is it?  kinda second nature for them, actually.

you suppose the chinese ever have idle thoughts while working with wood?

why is a powerful russia not again china's geo-political adversary.   and, if they get the ukraine, they will again be very powerful.

john jay @ 05.25.2022

p.s.   well, back to chord harmonies. 

he bathes in his own excrement, and smells roses .....

he bathes in his own excrement, walks knee deep in the shattered & rotting bodies of his victims, ... , and smells roses.   such is the measure of his own delusion.   he thinks that he is respected, but, mostly he is reviled.

"powerful?"   perhaps, but certainly not as powerful as he was three months ago.    and, he is trending "down" with every passing second: with every destroyed tank, every downed fighter bomber, every mangled battalion, every bungled "offensive", the measure of the man is less.   still a monster, but, becoming more of a sideshow on the world stage, with very few remaining pretensions of stature.

just a turd, floating in a sea of turds.

john jay @ 05.25.2022