Huh. Remind me… how did Russias war on Ukraine start, again? China military rehearses ‘encircling’ Taiwan after US Speaker visit A total of 71 Chinese warplanes crossed over the Taiwan Strait on Saturday. with 45 entering Taiwan’s air defense identification zone, Taiwan’s defense ministry said in a statement. China 🇨🇳 Taiwan 🇹🇼Today China finished encircling…
So there I am minding my own business when a text message comes in from my dad. Nothing unusual there. But the message is long, rambling, kinda stream-of-consciousness, seemingly part of a conversation I wasn’t a part of. I have received messages meant for other people before, but the format of the message, and the…
National Weather Service confirms a tornado touched down a few blocks from here. It was puny as such things go… EF-1, winds of 95 miles per hour. But it did raise a ruckus. Destructive Winds, Very Large Hail & Tornadoes: April 4-5th, 2023 Date 04/04/2023 Time (Local) 09:41 AM – 09:43 AM EF Rating EF-1…
In Colorado Springs: Former D20 student accused of planning attacks on three campuses “D20” here is “district 20.” The new trend isn’t “19-year-old tries to shoot up a middle school and some churches.” Guess what it is. Go on, guess. Here’s a subtle hint: William Whitworth who identifies as “Lilly” has been charged with felony…
A healthy, sane society would see bystanders reacting with outrage when someone shoplifts thousands of dollars of non-essentials. But we live in a society where madness is celebrated, and thus we get this:
As I’ve previously mentioned, something holding back my return to cyanotyping is a sudden lack of availability of the transparent film required. Without that I can’t print off new negatives. Early on in this protracted process I managed to get a few prints from a local print shop; these prints were made at a distant…
Storms took out my power this morning. I drove around and looked at the damage…. it was quite extensive. I figured it would be days before power came back, but it was restored a little while ago. My neighborhood saw little actual damage, but just a block away big trees were yanked out at the…
You Didn’t Finish Watching the Lord of the Rings TV Show …the premiere of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power TV series had 25 million global viewers on the day it premiered. That’s quite a lot! But as it turns out, by the time the first season ended, a shocking number of those…
A Russian movie from 2022 seems to have had some good VFX depicting a series of relatively small asteroid impacts shotgun-blasting a city: On the one hand, you can say that the Russian VFX people are quite good. on the other, you can point out that in 2022, Russians got a lot of practice with…
