An incident from December 2022: And another MiG 31 comes in for a landing, spewing fuel at a prodigious rate… There seems to be something wrong with the Russian Air Force lately, lots of planes seem to be having trouble. I’m sure we can all agree that the best thing would be for…
It’s been long enough that “Dr. House” *could* make a comeback (he *might* be getting out of prison about now…). Saddling him with Dr. Murphy could be entertaining as hell. Will it happen? No, it’s about as likely as Disney making a good Star Wars movie. But it’s fun to think about.
Good news: In a First, Caltech’s Space Solar Power Demonstrator Wirelessly Transmits Power in Space This is *many* orders of magnitude away from a practical solar power satellite… but ya gotta start somewhere. And on the other hand, bad news: Boeing finds two serious problems with Starliner just weeks before launch Problem one:…
Today I swung by “The Davenport,” the century-plus old apartment building that partially collapsed a few days ago. Roads were closed off for a radius of a block or two around it so I couldn’t get very close in my car, and I didn’t have the time to find someplace to park and walk. Ehhh,…
A recent Mexican TV news piece showed a cartel member wandering about with a shoulder-fired AT-4 anti-tank rocket slung over his shoulder. A number of commenters immediately leaped to one or both of two wrong conclusions: 1: It’s a Javelin missile 2: It’s a missile we gave to Ukraine, which they then turned around and…
I’m working on generating more cyanotypes, focusing again on prints formatted to fit in standard 11.75X36 frames. Below is a screenshot of the current crop. However, I probably won’t have all of these made, at least right now; this is costly and i want to make sure I’m making prints people want. So if anything…
This tool seems singularly useless for it’s stated roles. Maybe it would be useful for something else… It’s unclear how thick that striking surface is.
Music based on applying notes to “Sierpiński Triangles,” a basic form of a fractal. To me the result sounds like “medieval music.” It also sounds far better than a lot of the drek that gets airplay these days.
