Tag: defensible thymes
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When Sailer writes what he knows
Sailer writes best when he writes about California. He lives there and PAYS ATTENTION to both current events and local history. He doesn’t blow up verb aspect by conflating permanent with temporary or vice versa. = = = = = START SAILER: In Los Angeles, Hurricane Hilary, the first since 1939, has been a summer…
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There is no coffee in China???
TIL, as they say at Reddit. I’m always suspicious of ‘there are no X in Y’ sentences. Authoritative people have said There Are No Pianos In Japan, and There Are No Basements In Oklahoma. I can debunk the latter from experience, and the former is easily disproved by Yamaha with a long history of making…
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Words are reflectors
EnidBuzz asks “What’s a habit that makes people seem old?” The answerers interpreted it two ways: (1) Physical habits like naps and groaning that are automatic results of aging in any era; (2) Language or cultural habits specific to earlier decades, like writing checks or using landline phones. One of the latter caught my eye…
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The first oil boom was NOT here.
The latest FOIA from John Greenewald at BlackVault is a brief account of a UFO sighting by Sen Richard Russell on a 1955 trip through the Soviet Union. Near Baku, Russell saw a greenish bright orb rising from the ground. He told the other people in the group, who hadn’t seen the orb. A second…
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Where the ice goes
[Redated after several addendums…] I’ve got a brief break in courseware, so decided to do some ‘fun’ graphics. The Ice Plant piece earlier this year didn’t include the destination of the ice. So here’s a condensed version of the original set, with the destination added on. = = = = = How did the ice…
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Centennial soup
Campbell’s no longer makes Printanier soup, but it does still make Vegetable in beef stock, and I eat it all the time. It’s especially nice on a coldish June day like today, 50 degrees with rain. This summer is a reward for two previous hot ones. From a 1922 Ladies Home Journal: The only influencer…
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Kirn vs Cervantes
Latest from Kirn: Privacy, censorship, surveillance, and freedom of expression must be explicit, top-tier issues in the upcoming presidential contest. All candidates must be pressed to take clear stands. First, there’s never any point in saying must. Government does what it wants. Government doesn’t care what peasants think it must do. Writers who put must…
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Three-way flasher
Speaking of medicalized: In the grocery store checkout this morning I was behind a highly overweight older couple who (1) properly self-gagged with M95.78854377 as per CDC instructions (2) brought their own shopping bag as per Our Dear Prophet Inslee’s instructions (3) bought white bread, lunchmeat, frozen dinners, and a case of Bud Light as…
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Dogs hate it
Generative AI is securitized IP. It’s identical to those Mortgage-Backed Securities that blew up in 2008. Suck up a million real houses and farms, mix the debt together into batter, bake it, slice the cake into a million pieces, each containing a hologram of the originals without any way of identifying the original property. Sell…
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Waiting for water
This winter was especially hard on plants. Nov and Dec brought heavy snow, which didn’t get a chance to melt until late March. My front “lawn” was mostly killed by the snow and the shovel-thrown salt from the sidewalk. Yesterday I noticed a few barely visible sprouts in the dirt. Overnight we had 1/3″ of…
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Doveration
Earlier I noted the rather cheap graphics in stamps honoring the new King Charles. Now the invitation to the Crowning has been revealed. Also looks familiar. Here are a couple segments from the invitation, and a couple of stock ‘floral images’ on a CD that I bought from Dover many years ago. Not quite the…
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Alt Hopper
I happened to read a little filler about the American origins of our “Mexican” and “Italian” and “Chinese” food. Familiar territory, including the development of chili on cattle drives. This got me thinking about alt history for cattle drives. Our media and movies treat the Wild West as a long period of widespread wildness. In…
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Today is…
Today is ‘Festival of Life in the Cracks Day’! Saluting a hardy survivor that lives in the cracks, reprinted from Sept 2019. = = = = = This week’s big rain triggered a ferocious sprouting of a ‘ground cover’ plant in ALL of the street cracks. The streets are a dense web of cracks now,…
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Gumption reset
Lately I’ve been low on gumption despite good weather and no actual torture commands. I needed a sensory reset, and got it yesterday in an odd way. In yesterday’s store trip I saw several lunatics voluntarily wearing muzzles, which triggered PTSD. Do they know something? Is the torture about to resume? I checked local websites…
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