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Sat. Mar. 19, 2022 – stubby, yeah don’t laugh
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Good advice, Nick. I packed up our essentials of life, and set out a suitcase just in case. Paul and I discussed how it would play out for us, and where we would go. If we did get the evac call, I'd put him in the truck first, then load up "stuff". Out of habit, I always gas up at half a tank, so there is plenty of gas.
During our various hurricane evacuations, I gradually got to where I was willing to say goodbye to all of our "stuff". I still own stuff and like having stuff, but it no longer means much to me. While waiting for the fire department last winter, I just picked up medicines, valuables, laptops, and a few changes of clothes, and left the rest to its fate. It felt odd to be so detached.
I think we will be fine this time, although the fire is not well contained yet. But until it rains, wildfire is going to be a genuine and constant hazard for us and everyone around here.
Our fire is the Oak Mott fire. One death over in Eastland county – vehicle ran off the road and she couldn't get away, the fire caught up with her.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-wildfires-evacuations-eastland-kidd-wheat-field-oak-mott-walling/
Doh! I want to do that sometime.
Four years ago, for Spring Break, we had planned to see how far we could get into TN starting west and moving east before weather became a factor. The trip was cancelled when I got the previous previous job.
In retrospect, I should have blown off the job and stuck to the Spring Break plan. Who yells at a candidate in an interview? There was only one way that employment adventure was going to end.
Starbucks to Phase Out Iconic Disposable Cup, Will Install Washing Stations For Reusable Mugs to Help with Its Long-Term Climate Goals
Checking to see if April 1st came early this year .. nope.
From David Weber on Facebook:
In 2022, Jonathan Swift's great, great, great, great grandson did an update of his great ancestor's eighteenth century classic, Gulliver's travels. In it, Capt Lemuel Gulliver travels five hundred years into the future and explores the landscape of the European continent he could not have imagined. However, when he visited Ukraine, he did find one thing that hadn't changed a great deal, and that was that Ukraine was still infested by a small-minded, vicious creature with delusions of grandeur name Vladimir and his army of LilliPutins.
Over The Hedge: Password Manager
https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2022/03/19
Do not make your buddy your password manager.
"The World Faces Both A Hydrocarbon Shortage And A Divest Fossil Fuels Movement. What Next, Oil Patch?"
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/19/the-world-faces-both-a-hydrocarbon-shortage-and-a-divest-fossil-fuels-movement-what-next-oil-patch/
We are living in absolutely crazy times. And the Californians are paying a three cent/gallon cap and trade gasoline tax that they refuse to relinquish. Not much but it is just one more thing for their citizens to pay for. Absolutely crazy times.
I saw a lot of California plates up in The Colony and Frisco earlier this week, more than a few on 2022 Sienna minivans.
Spring Break house hunting?
And what's the deal with the Toyota vans?
>> Checking to see if April 1st came early this year .. nope.
Personal mugs at the drive-thru?!
And people complain about the Chick-fil-a lines?
"To Arkon! (Perry Rhodan #30)" by Kurt Mahr, translated by Wendayne Ackerman
https://www.amazon.com/Arkon-Perry-Rhodan-30/dp/4041660130?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number thirty of a series of one hundred and twenty-six space opera books in English. The original German books, actually pamphlets, number in the thousands. The English books started with two translated German stories per book and transitioned to one story per book with the sixth book. The German books were written from 1961 to present time, having sold two billion copies and even recently been rebooted again. I read the well printed and well bound book published by Ace in 1973 that I had to be very careful with due to age. I bought an almost complete box of Perry Rhodans a decade or two ago on ebay that I am finally getting to since I lost my original Perry Rhodans in The Great Flood of 1989. In fact, I now own book #1 to book #103, plus the Atlan books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Rhodan
BTW, this is actually book number 38 of the German Pamphlets. There is a very good explanation of the plot in German on this website of all of the PR books. There is automatic Google translation available for English, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, French, and Portuguese.
https://www.perrypedia.de/wiki/Vorsto%C3%9F_nach_Arkon
In this alternate universe, USSF Major Perry Rhodan and his three fellow astronauts blasted off in a three stage rocket to the Moon in 1971. The first stage of the rocket was chemical, the second and third stages were nuclear. After crashing on the Moon due to a strange radio interference, they discover a massive crashed alien spaceship with an aged male scientist (Khrest), a female commander (Thora), and a crew of 500. It has been over ten years since then and the New Power has flourished with millions of people and many spaceships headquartered in the Gobi desert, the city of Terrania.
Perry Rhodan uses his new Springer built space warship, a cylinder 2,500 foot long by 600 foot wide that he named the Ganymede, to fulfill his long term promise to take Khrest and Thora back to the planet Arkon. It has been thirteen long years since Khrest and Thora left Arkon, searching for the planet of eternal life. But Arkon is not the place that it once was. And somebody else is running Arkon.
One has to remember that this book was written in German in 1962 and translated to English in 1973. Many items that came about in the 1970s and beyond such as cell phones are not reflected in the book. However, commercial aircraft commonly traveling at Mach 3 are not available to the public as talked about in the book. Niels Bohr's saying "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future" comes to mind.
Two observations:
1. The publisher should have put two to four of the translated stories in each book. Having two stories in the first five books worked out well. Just having one story in the book is too short and would never allow the translated books to catch up to the German originals.
2. Anyone liking Perry Rhodan and wanting a more up to date story should read the totally awesome "Mutineer's Moon" Dahak series of three books by David Weber.
https://www.amazon.com/Mutineers-Moon-Dahak-David-Weber/dp/0671720856?tag=ttgnet-20/
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 5 out of 5 stars (3 reviews)
Personal mugs at the drive-thru?!
And people complain about the Chick-fil-a lines?
Data for intervals between paying for orders during rush times is accessible from the cash register records. Easy to monitor the effect of offering this option.
Extending the time interval means fewer served and higher expenses.
Is someone going to lean out the window to pour coffee into a mug? How's their liability insurance carrier going to respond?
Are customers going to pass their filthy unwashed mugs in to be washed and refilled? How is the city health department going to respond? How will customers respond when an employee posts a video of an epically filthy mug?
Starbucks to Phase Out Iconic Disposable Cup, Will Install Washing Stations For Reusable Mugs to Help with Its Long-Term Climate Goals
No freaking way. Just about any city health department will shut them down.
Ah, I see that using “reusable” cups is optional. Not that I go to Starbucks very often but when I do, I want to be at the front of the line after a deep cleaning of the facility.
"Elon Musk's satellites help Zelensky dominate the skies: US billionaire's internet system is allowing Ukrainian drones to pound Putin's helpless tanks"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10630625/Elon-Musks-internet-allowing-Ukrainian-drones-pound-Putins-helpless-tanks.html
Do the Starlink satellites have cameras accessible by users ?
Hat tip to:
https://drudgereport.com/
I just watched "The Tomorrow War" again on Amazon Prime. Might I say that those regular troop issue future M4 looks like a popgun on the 300 to 600 lb alien creatures. 5.56 mm ain't gonna cut it, 7.62 gets better, and .50 cal becomes a necessity.
https://www.guns.com/news/2021/07/06/the-tomorrow-war-the-guns
I wouldn't doubt that the satellites have a basic camera, but more important is the mesh network enabling the drones to communicate their images back to base. Doesn't Starlink have a transciever which can be mounted in an aircraft?
Not that Starlink is really necessary. I saw a presentation on cheap drones at Dallas Maker Space in 2015 which spotlighted some scary/cool capability available for a couple of hundred dollars in parts — tens of miles range, preprogrammed flight paths. As long as your payload wasn’t heavy … like a camera.
A couple of guys even built disposable drones so you didn’t have to worry about landing the aircraft intact, cut from single sheets of foam with the Maker Space’s new laser — delivered earlier that month via … Fedex!
I wanna introduce you to a personal friend of mine …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo7oW0DH4kY
I was the only one in the room who got it when Biehn showed up on "Baby Yoda" last season.
You know, I thought that the two week Koof lockdown two years ago was foolish and crazy. Now we get this nonsense. “Intl Energy Agency report urges ENERGY LOCKDOWNS: ‘Banning use of private cars on Sundays…Reducing highway speed limits…more working from home…cutting business air travel’ & SUV ‘tax’”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/19/intl-energy-agency-report-urges-energy-lockdowns-banning-use-of-private-cars-on-sundaysreducing-highway-speed-limitsmore-working-from-homecutting-business-air-trav/
“Zoom in: The plan says that “immediate actions” in advanced economies could reduce global oil demand by about 2.7 million barrels per day within four months.”
Oh yeah, that will help reduce the 100 million barrels of oil that the world uses every day.
I like this comment:
“I’ll just cut to the chase:
And report to your community euthaniztion center on your 65th birthday or sooner if you haven’t met certain requirements.”
Worked all day. Got skimmed stuff done. Plumbing issues have arisen. Uggg.
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>> Is someone going to lean out the window to pour coffee into a mug? How's their liability insurance carrier going to respond?
But…but…fewer paper cups will help, umm,
global warning,the pandemic,the oil crisis, oh right the plastic mug makers. Now what was it again that we use to make plastic??Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel has been advocating 75 for the better part of the last decade.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/10/why-i-hope-to-die-at-75/379329/
The Atlantic is about as official as a Prog opinion outlet gets, being wholly owned by The Widow Jobs. Emanuel is the brother of the former Obama Chief of Staff and Mayor of Chicago, Agelina Ballerina Rahm Emanuel, and was involved with advising on Obamacare's architecture. He is also serving Biden on the Covid-19 advisory board.
Emanuel is currently 64.