As I don’t speak Spanish or Portuguese or Klingon or whatever this is, I can’t follow along with the mission control. But there are a few subtle hints that there are a few hiccups.
Clothes are throwaway items now. Back In My Day, socks with holes in them were repaired; now, often enough, shirts are worn only a few times then tossed. Sometimes sent to thrift stores and the like, sometimes simply thrown out. But thrift stores have more clothes than they know what to do with. So often…
I believe I am unanimous when I say… An army – a *small* army – of poorly trained, ill-equipped chuckleheads managed to get within range of Moscow without getting kerploded by the Russian Army and Air Force. There is no getting past the fact that this makes the Russian military and leadership – especially Putin…
Russia accuses Wagner chief of urging “armed rebellion” Ummm… BREAKING: The Wagner Group has launched a military coup and are now fighting against the Russian Army. Around 30 000 Wagner soldiers have now taken control of a large area north of the Russian city of Rostov. A Russian helicopter has been shot down. pic.twitter.com/wEf7Vw63pJ…
The Red Rocks Amphitheater in the foothills west of Denver is a neat place. While I never went there for a concert when I lived in the are in the late 90’s, I went there often enough to hike around and test liquid biprop rocket engines in the parking lot when security wasn’t looking (what,…
As is well known by now, Disney has been making a mess of many of the properties they’re in charge of. The Marvel movies/shows have plummeted downhill; Pixar movies stink; the endless CGI “live action” remakes are soulless cash grabs at best, and to all reports that forthcoming Indiana Jones movie is gonna be *terrible.*…
This video hit earlier today. It *appears* to depict (because it might be staged) a family at a gas station; as the video begins, the father, pumping the gas, is apparently acting strangely. It transpires that the father has seen something concerning, so he’s getting the hell out of there ASAP. Some commenters have suggested…
This morning I started seeing this context-less clip. In short, a guy is throwing rocks at houses, when he is suddenly mowed down by someone in a golf cart. Amusing enough. https://twitter.com/DonutOperator/status/1670907638152933377 But the river and the bridges? They looked *very* familiar. but it’s a big country. Finally, a news item on the incident:…
Gropey Joe trotted out this old lie again: Guns are the #1 killer of kids in America. More than car accidents and more than cancer. We can't let that become just another statistic. Let's ban AR-15-style firearms and other assault weapons. — President Biden (@POTUS) June 16, 2023 Fortunately, the internet is full of fact…
USSR Sprinkled More Than 2,500 Nuclear Generators Across The Countryside These units used Strontium-90 (half life: 29 years) for the earlier ones, then Caesium-137 (half life 30 years) and Cerium-144 (half life 285 *days*). Half a century or more later the earlier units should still be kinda warm; those Cerium units will be dead as…
