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From impressed to unimpressed
After being impressed by the learning abilities of the prosecution and judge in the Craig Wright case, I made the mistake of reading some “independent” “journalists”. Highly unimpressed as always. I keep stupidly hoping that one of them will eventually show a grasp of reality and history, and they continue to disappoint. They constantly throw…
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Talent and drive
A British court has decided firmly and colorfully that Craig Wright is not Satoshi. The general verdict was announced earlier, and the final document was published today. Overall I’m impressed by two things. 1. Impressed by the comprehension and understanding of the judge, who clearly spent vast time and effort learning the details of the…
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Kissinger in reverse
Perusing headlines about the ever weirder and trivialer and nonsenicaler and meaninglesser pro wrestling in so-called “congress”. Many years ago Demon Kissinger spent some time in academia after “retiring” from government. He famously observed that academic battles were fiercer than political battles because the stakes were so low. Now the same rule applies to political…
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Missing the syllogism
A Redditor asks if bitcoin can ever be widely adopted. The comments and countercomments miss the point. Bitcoin has ALREADY been widely adopted, but NOT as a store of value or a currency. Blackrock has started using Bitcoin as a gambling chip (aka ETF). Bitcoin is ideal for gambling since it has no real-world connection…
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YOLO vs hoarding
A pretty good article from the Telegraph. = = = = = START QUOTE: Generation Z is known for being staid, puritan – even boring. According to a July 2022 survey from livestreaming platform Keep Hush, Gen Z’s interest in clubbing has waned since the pandemic, with only 25pc expressing interest in going out. The…
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More Studie trivia
1. It appears that Studebaker tried out hydraulic brakes in ’26, just two years after Chrysler started the trend. Hydraulic appeared as an option on the big President for one year, then disappeared. The company made the switch for sure in ’35, around the same time as everyone else. 2. The ’32 Hudson Terraplane adopted…
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OTOOOOOH
Here’s an odd one. Religion Unplugged sees a Christian angle in the trial of billionaire Bill Hwang. They call him a philanthropist. Admittedly this is a complex situation. On one side, Hwang is a standard superselfish Chinese billionaire who loves betting for its own sake and loves to gain status by owning everything. The perfect…
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Pinfeed and Pigskin, part 4 of 5
This is Metrology Day! I’ve done several relevant items in recent weeks, especially GenRad’s color comparator and a return to the alidade theme. = = = = = I’ve been researching and modeling a lost tech, closely related to my recent sequences on Pinfeed and Pigskin, and Pinfeed and GenRad. Instead of regrouping the previous…
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Pinfeed and Pigskin, part 5 of 5
Now let’s look at the process of making and punching and selecting Filmsort cards. I’ve modeled some of Filmsort’s patents and reused some of my old McBee animations, subbing a Filmsort McBee card for a non-image McBee card. = = = = = Polistra is an office manager tasked with turning a company’s film into…
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Virus = voices
This isn’t the worst example by any means but it’s the available example at the moment. A local bridge has been out of service for four years during maintenance and upgrading. = = = = = START DEVIL: “It’s been a long four years. You know, a couple those years of construction was during COVID,”…
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Dogs resemble owners /// EDIT: FAKE NEWS.
UPDATE: THIS WAS A FAKE STORY. I STEPPED INTO THE TRAP! I APOLOGIZE. ================================================================ Fake story: For some reason the big Aggregators like MSN and DailyMail are hitting hard on every business closure lately, even the ordinary and predictable ones. If the news is accurate, Red Lobster’s closure is predictable. They made an obvious mistake…
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News for ya, bud.
Fareed Zakaria claims to be puzzled by the unrest on college campuses, and says that colleges are not the nice COMMUNITIES that they once were. More students are lonely and depressed. Got news for you, asshole. Colleges were NEVER a community for unpopular people. Colleges were DESIGNED to be a community for aristocrats. In the…
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Nothing new.
Something randomly reminded me of the remarkable Tyler family history. President Tyler’s grandson Harrison Ruffin Tyler died earlier this year. Grandpa married a trophy wife and had a son when he was 75, then the son did the same thing and had Harrison when he was 63. From a 2012 interview with Harrison: = =…
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Reprint from a few months ago
Reprinted because I’m goddamn tired of seeing this formerly somewhat useful country IMPRISONED AND TRAPPED AND BOUND AND GAGGED AND TORTURED by ALL of its politicians and corporations and universities and churches and organizations at ALL fucking levels. No exceptions. Nobody is functional. Everybody is working harder and harder to BLOCK AND STOP AND TRAP…
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Old joke still works
Q: Who killed the president of Tanzania? A: Yes. Q: Who killed the president of Burundi? A: Yes. Q: Who shot Slovakian PM Fico? A: Yes. = = = = = Stupid sidenote: I was trying to remember the real original form of this joke, which was pretty good. The best I could come up…
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