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Crossed the line
Every medium goes sour eventually. Substack just crossed the line. For a while I’ve been getting less pleasure from reading. Now that the pro wrestling match has a living opponent, the former “independents” revealed as Trump cultists are getting nasty and slanderous, just like their Dear Leader. Canceled a bunch of subscriptions. No need to…
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What’s a vehicle?
Spokane News uses the word vehicle in sometimes odd ways. A car hitting a bicycle is vehicle vs bicycle, but a bicycle hitting a person is vehicle vs pedestrian. Sometimes the word means only a motorized vehicle and sometimes all things on wheels. Got me thinking. Is a ship a vehicle? I don’t think so.…
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From an extremely different era 22
In a 1934 Billboard magazine: Cooper and Clifton, Four Robeys and Dare and Yates will be the first vaude troupe going into Soviet Russia. The first two acts sail next month and will be joined in Europe by Dare and Yates. Alexander Basy, head of the Amsov Agency here, says he is negotiating with several…
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More good things
More good things are happening this month! At least temporarily good things. A judge in Colorado issued an injunction to prevent the merger of Kroger and Albertson until the feds finish dealing with the case. Safeway has already been suffering from the costcutting moves intended to aid the merger and improve Share Value. FEDS, GET…
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Satisfying ending
Now that the superhot weather is done and I’m functional again, let’s try to keep up with some stories. Here’s a surprising update on the Craig Wright saga, which I was following before the heat. Via CoinTelegraph: = = = = = START QUOTE: Australian Craig Wright has finally admitted he is not the inventor…
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Metaphor explains it
Wolf writes up yet another stupid Venture Capitalist trick that failed AS INTENDED, leaving the insiders vastly richer and the public shareholders broke. This specific trick was a small Calif wine company that went on an “acquisition spree” during the time of free counterfeit, then crashed when Powell restored real business. I can’t understand the…
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Pay attention to what PEOPLE WANT!
Judge rulers by what they do, not by what they say. When Harris was AG of California she was strongly pro-police, strongly in favor of controlling crime. Now both the Libertarians and the ‘progressives’ are hammering her for doing the right thing. A majority of Americans of all colors and ages want to see stronger…
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Another old rule breaks
Along with switching to the Euro campaign method, this sudden change also breaks another long-time “rule” of politics and corporations. For 40 years both monstrosities have been IGNORING the millions of human customers and SOLELY serving the dirty dozen billionaires. Basic rule of business AND government: If you want to make money from humans, you…
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Not exactly a rectifier
I noticed this strange tube in the same 1897 book where I found some weird Magic Lantern displays. This isn’t for a Magic Lantern; it belongs to the world of early X-ray work. When I saw the diagram it first reminded me of a mercury-vapor fullwave rectifier. It also reminded me of the mercury-vapor Vreeland…
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Fairness can’t be monetized
All the alleged “independents” worked hard to build up a movement against Trump’s biggest crime in history. Now all of them are slotting back into the Trump cult seamlessly, without even observing the change. It’s disgusting but no longer surprising. Machiavelli wrote the tech reference manual 500 years ago. More narrowly, the big “independents” got…
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Accidental Euro
Euros always complain, and Yanks SHOULD complain, about our perpetual “elections”. Other countries have well-defined campaign times, often limited by law. Parliament decides it’s time for an election, sets the date a few months later, and the candidates get going fast and hard. The short interval insures that the discussion pertains to current events, and…
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Dog’s dream
After one week of storms and three weeks of solid 90s and 100s, we’re finally back to normal summer with cool mornings and warm afternoons. As usual I’ve been sleeping and eating poorly in the heat. This morning I finally made up for lost sleep AND missed dreams, with a hugely complex dream, lots of…
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Shifting balance
Quick polls and other measures of real support show an abrupt shift toward D after Harris definitely became the candidate. This makes sense from my own perspective. I gave up on the two teams a long time ago. Until 2020 I was just not interested in “voting” at all. After 2020 I became a strictly…
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