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Life in the cracks (honorary)
I’ll declare today Honorary Life in the Cracks Day, though it’s not the real thing.. I make the same storetrip every Monday and wait for the bus in the same places on each end, so I have time to look closely at houses, plants and cars. The weekly interval lets me calibrate changes. Google Streets…
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What happened to Flash?
Somebody on Substack showed a 2005 online issue of The Onion, done entirely in FLV and SWF. The issue was a prophecy of 2025. They missed the basic point that Flash itself would be “outlawed” by the tech lords. I’ve never understood why Flash needed to be “outlawed.” Allegedly it was “vulnerable”, but we know…
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Headline vs actual
Why you should be careful about “BREAKING NEWS”. First report: East Second Ave and South Custer Rd, reported a male was cutting down tree branches when a branch knocked a power line down when falling. Reported the male was electrocuted in the process. Reported the power line is down and sparking. Oh no! That’s awful!…
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Odd assumption
Reading the Reddit subsection for Post Office employees. Some of them got into an insult session against Boomers. Probably not wise to publicly rag on your last loyal customers. They see us as blank and mindless, which is how every generation sees the previous group of wrinklies. It’s simply true. Age stiffens the skin and…
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Same old game
I see Tulsi is playing a standard Deepstate game again. As she leaves the top Deepstate job of DNI, she pretends to reveal some truths about the “virus”. She’s continuing the fake Lab Leak shit, treating the origin of the “virus” as the only important question. In the first place, Deepstate NEVER gives information. When…
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This guy makes sense.
The Spokesman is running short features on the dozen Auditioners trying their hand at running for a major office. This one makes a lot of sense. Michael McGarr was an Air Force mechanic, then an air traffic controller, then a copy editor for most of his career, ending up at the Spokesman itself. Mechanic to…
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Skill matters more than facts
Via Reuters. A hacking group has exposed a huge batch of “secret information” from Novo Nordisk, the Ozempic company, asking for $25 million ransom. Apparently they worked through a Github area where Novo stored some of its code. The usual sides are saying the usual things. Lawyers are setting up class action suits to “compensate”…
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Sue for maintaining extreme danger
We had an ordinary windstorm yesterday, hardly worth calling a storm. Three hours of winds around 10g35. It didn’t cause any power outages, didn’t knock down any trees. The Weather Bureau gave out a Red Flag Warning because conditions in trees and brush are ripe for fast fire spread. Avista did its part in preparing,…
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Bird == dinosaur
Everything we learned in school was wrong. The majority of those “facts” were known to be shit at the time when we were learning them. An especially big piece of shit: Intelligent adaptable mammals defeated dinosaurs. Dinosaurs went extinct because they were big and stupid. This is still part of conventional wisdom, still used as…
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Taking back lost territory
It’s good to see one publication returning to the RESOURCES of paper and press. Other RESOURCES are unused in recent decades. Printers allowed digital to capture those tricks and didn’t try to take them back. 1. NYTimes has started using its especially talented presses and pressmen to print full-page or triple-page works of art. A…
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Auditioning
It’s interesting to watch the few remaining bits and pieces of the old pragmatic political system. One of the old rules: When an officeholder is unbeatable, the opposite party treats the election as an audition, a chance for random people to try their hand and see what happens. Real power-seekers don’t waste time and energy…
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Blazer
Via Spokane News: = = = = = On June 15, 2026, at approximately 4:30 am, Spokane Valley Deputies responded to the report of a suspicious vehicle at the Exxon station in the 3400 block of S. Dishman Mica Road. The caller said a vehicle, later found to be a red 2007 Chevrolet Trail Blazer,…
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What’s the half-life of loyalty?
Marketers don’t have a political or cultural slot for the majority of people. I was a standard neocon Repooflican from 2001 to 2008. The shock of 2008 made me start looking in different places. Soon I switched to pure New Deal, and haven’t switched back. My writing here and elsewhere has been pure New Deal,…
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Why not use the British soul?
I’ve been puzzled by the locations Hudson used for their promo pics. They knew the ad agency would retouch the photos, inserting pleasant upscale backgrounds. But why did they make the retoucher’s job so hard? In the 30s they photographed cars near the factory, often with an even drabber factory in the background. In the…
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