Something's really wrong.  So the Heir thought when we went into what appeared to be the second day of jury deliberations in the Maxwell trial.  However, the deliberations have since adjourned until Monday after the holidays.  The Heir *thinks* he saw in writing that they did just an hour on Wednesday until what appears to be communications between the judge and the jury to agree to postpone till Monday.  So that's a sum of 1 day and 1 hour, as opposed to 2 days going into a third.  The Heir *hopes* it's the former and not the latter, because he saw how the Rittenhouse trial went.  The jury in that case went into a second and possibly a third day of deliberations before declaring an acquittal.  He hasn't seen any meaningful trial analysis (yet) regarding whether Maxwell's going to be acquitted or not.  He's wondering whether he'll find it on INN, but he wants someone with authorization *somewhere* to substantively convince him with factual evidence that length of time of deliberations means nothing in terms of what verdict a given jury will reach in a given trial.  The apparent conventional wisdom is that short deliberations=Guilty, long deliberations=Not Guilty.  That seems really cut and dried, so the Heir's hoping for more fact-based analysis rather than the kind of casting of aspersions he's hearing increasingly on public radio (and sometimes INN).  Now here's the thing.  The Heir has *also* read through the Tampa Bay Times through the Wikipedia entry on Ghislaine Maxwell that if Maxwell is acquitted, she still has to stand trial to answer perjury charges, so it wouldn't necessarily be over.  The Heir doesn't know whether a Guilty verdict in a perjury trial would necessarily provide the kind of justice the survivors seek and so well deserve.  But a Guilty verdict in *either* trial the Heir thinks will go *some* way at least towards a culture of the Rule Of Law, rather than the Rule Of Snowdenocracy as per most of the 2010s, people publicly thumbing their nose with "hah I beat the rap" after a Not Guilty verdict or a pardoning, hence displaying a consciousness of guilt.

 

Chef: "Well, what's the Heir has to say for himself, Mentor?"

 

Heir: "That we are a nation of laws, not Snowdens."

 

Chef: "Well, I'm glad *someone's* jumped right out and said that.  Here are your Doubtfighters (chicken sandwich with spicy barbecue sauce)."

So for those of you following The Happy Bachelor Shares Base (supported by Blogger), you've mostly endured and/or followed the Heir's latest social outrages, informed by the his skepticism of the moral state of society at large.  We want you to know that within the next few days to a couple weeks or so (hopefully it won't take long), we'll be migrating both this shares base and our (eventual return to) audio content toward the main themes of principle and a simplicity and meditative state of mind we've called "tropical soul."  There will still be Happy Bachelor type content consistent with the four pillars of sex, classiness, music and food, but we're finding that as society at large descends deeper into personal corruption, we just cannot sit by the sidelines and merely do a complaint du jour.  We need to make a more formal stance over the long term in favor of things like tropical soul and principle.  Definitely know the title of this shares base will change to accommodate those things, along with a separate announcement page explaining the history of where this upcoming migration is coming from and what to expect in the foreseeable future.  That said, you may be interested to know that while we've been going in this general direction for some time, the Heir's come to a dead end in his making of his DIY audio player using a particular type of computer board, and it's become clear he needs to use another type he's been seeing online.  We'll spare you the technicals to let you that what this has to do with our upcoming migration is that we would have preferred to put the migration off till the Heir gets a useable player that replaces anything mediocre that comes off the shelf.  He's been at it for three years, and frankly that's a long time to put off standing for the cause of principle.  He'll still continue going DIY with the player and other things, and we're still looking to get back on audio, maybe in some kind of alt broadcast on an offline analog basis, since we've been oriented and informed by audio mainly on terrestrial analog radio.

Keep it tuned here as we embark on an "exciting" new chapter in what we do.

Here are some resources related to Tok Pisin, which the Bachelor tries (with mixed success) to interpret extreme 50 cent buzzwords from English, to break down language to simpler elements.  That's at least what the Heir sees in the language, though a native may beg to differ.  Here's the Heir trying real hard accordingly: "Mi bilong long Hapi Basela."  I the Mentor think he just said "I am a jelly dough-nut" (or something more embarrassing).  Tok Pisin @ {http://www.omniglot.com/writing/tokpisin.htm, http://www.unilang.org/course.php?res=80, https://research.jcu.edu.au/lcrc/language-archives/papua-new-guinea-languages/some-learning-materials-tok-pisin}

It's that time of year when new episodes are slow to come out, because we're having too much fun at the beach conformant with Naomi's and Sonya's preferred dress code.  But with the beach, the Heir's get-a-room tent had just arrived, so he's looking into testing putting it up and taking it down this evening, and figuring out how to get it on our beach handtruck.  The box that arrived was lighter than he thought.  It was supposed to be 10 pounds, but it feels more like 5 pounds.  Also it seems short enough folded up that it should go on the truck no problem, taking up no more room than the screen does on 70 degree rough-it days.  Heir only wants to put either the screen or the tent on the truck, not both, so he has to ascertain in the parking lot how much he needs the screen that day.  If he doesn't need the screen, it's the tent.

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We're about halfway done with our upcoming episode in progress, but the Heir wants to take a break from further production on everyone's part thus far (me the Mentor, our girlfriends, the Chef and Marco, and other good folk) to get his linuxtop done.  As in a share below/previous, the Heir's satisfied that he only has 80% of his linuxtop up and running, and that he wants to get to the other 20%.  He wants to get networking working, so that he can share a folder on the linuxtop that he can get to through our Mac we do audio on.  He wants to see whether there's a problem with his CD drive, so that he can get to watch DVDs using vlc.  He wants to get Flash/Gnash/Lightspark and/or Pepper Flash running, mainly to do song previews on Amazon (he deems that a higher priority than to spend time with YouTube) for when the time comes for him to buy more tracks in a couple weeks.  He wants to go to wireless.kernel.org to get those WiFi files the installer said he needs to do WiFi with.  And other things on his list include clamz, the ability to record online audio, being able to sync his radio scanner with that scanner site through the linuxtop, and to make turtleback style disc shaped panels for the back of his linuxtop monitor lid.  That last one will help get the linuxtop in line with the second pillar of classiness, even though two turtlebacks will be checkered-flag style (one with red squares and the other with black squares), and the other two will have sheens similar to his spaceplates for the aux jack in the car (one red with chrome trim, and the other turquoise with silver trim, both of which will have a trim seal in the middle).  So if he doesn't get the minimum of the above done by the end of next January, he'll consider that date we did an announcement here that he has 80% of the linuxtop to be when this Year Of Nominality ended.  Right now we're typing all this through that dang tablet the fetters of which he wants to get free of, with the linuxtop, so there isn't that excessive vanilla umbilical cord.

"I want to get the other 20% done with the linuxtop."

The Encouragement The Heir Gets From Carmen And Naomi To Go To A Massage Parlor.  We talk about how authorities went out of their way to talk about sex trafficking during the Superbowl, even though there are numerous parlors up where the Superbowl took place anyway.  The Heir expresses concern that a massage place opening up near where he works might be one of "those" parlors, but Carmen and Naomi tell him that he should still go there if it is, to be adventurous and expand his repertoire in life, and to be sure to ask for extras.  Also in this nearly outdated and long overdue episode, we talk about whether in light of Donald Sterling's racist comments the Bachelor has a possible reputation problem due to its urban image, there likely being a majority around where we live in taking a pro-Kremlin stance favoring Putin's incursions into the Ukraine, and how Bill DiBlasio is becoming known as the horse cart mayor of New York City.  On audio (click on the first play button after the banner ad): http://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

Mentor (center, copper) and Heir (right, gold).