Tag: asked and not worth asking
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Y Euclid?
Noticed a news item about a car crash on Euclid here in Spokane. Reminded me that Euclid is a nearly universal street name. Almost all the cities I’ve lived in have a Euclid, often an important street. Trying the autocomplete in Googlemaps finds a Euclid in about 90% of the cities I could think of.…
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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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One sober man
From the 50s to the early 70s, the big three automakers were running on alcohol, not gasoline. By all accounts their top execs were falling-down drunk all the time, making uninhibited random bad decisions and generating stupid ideas which were forced on their companies. Mormon Romney was the only sober man in the industry, and…
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Better useless analogy
There’s no way to stop warmongers with logic, but nevertheless there is one easy analogy. Why do we get involved in SOME domestic disputes between other countries and not OTHERS? Ukraine is not a good comparison with Israel. We started the Ukraine conflict, first by breaking up the USSR in 1990 and then by color…
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New stupid thought
Random thought, seems wrong, but maybe worth writing down… Thinking again about the peculiarity of the partisan divide on the “virus”. The lockdowns and ballgags and needles were developed and scheduled by BUSH appointees acting on a 2005 command by BUSH. The lockdowns and ballgags and needles were implemented and mandated by TRUMP. The anti-Trump…
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WTF is he thinking 2
Continuing from here. I didn’t waste time listening to the DeSantis announcement. Reading about it is bad enough. He’s doubling down on strategic stupidity by trying to beat Trump at the nastiness game. WRONG BRAND! Trump is the literal killer app of blackmail and filthiness, trained by Roy Cohn. You shouldn’t get into the nasty…
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Conglobulate
Totally irrelevant. I was running laundry and getting pissed that the load insisted on tangling up. It wouldn’t let me transfer to the dryer piece by piece. I had to wrestle out the whole glob at once. Of course I’m always pissed at cloth. Baseline condition. Me and cloth DO NOT GET ALONG. The word…
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Y no Metni?
Reading Pat Foster’s history of the Metropolitan again. At one time Pininfarina developed a ‘wagon’ version of the Met which looked both practical and cute: Sort of a Nomadette. In reality this was just a proper coupe with a usable back seat. In a tiny car like the Metro, the two-box plan is the only…
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Super-random thought
On this morning’s walk, my old eyes thought I saw some miniature writing on the pavement. First thought: Micro-graffiti! Neat idea! Turned out to be a piece of plastic food wrapper, transparent with white letters, so it looked like white paint on the asphalt. Still a neat idea. In other forms of art, miniatures are…
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