Tag: Happy Ending
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Big things don’t hit the news.
Reading some railroad-related items on Quora. Three years ago, a Canadian insider mentioned that Canadian Pacific was about ready to buy Kansas City Southern, forming the first complete north-south railroad across all of the continent. Sure enough, the merger was completed in 2023 and fully running this year. This is BIG news for both countries…
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Fun to watch
It’s fun to watch the long breakup of Lady Donald and Lady Elon. Somebody memorably described them as two aging divas. Fits perfectly. Liberace and Oscar Levant. From my viewpoint, they’re two iconic psychopaths. Each needs to create chaos and harm, each is convinced that he will always win every contest. Most of their experience…
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The Foy Rebellion HAS ARRIVED.
Headline: Art majors beat computer majors. = = = = = START QUOTE: For computer science and computer engineering, the unemployment rate in those fields was 6.1% and 7.5%, respectively — notably higher than the national average. Finance majors were 3.7%. By comparison, the unemployment rate for art history majors was 3%, and for nutritional…
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Oughta be a word
When I read that yesterday was Cellophane Tape Day, my first thought was “Huh? Is that a newly invented alternative to scotch tape?” No, it’s just the official generic name for scotch tape. When the trademark becomes generic (scotch tape, kleenex, hamburger), reverting to the untrademarked term (cellophane tape, facial tissue, bun sandwich) is a…
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Bravo TVA!!!
TVA was the New Deal’s prime mover in rural electrification. The related REA was starting to work toward small nuclear reactors in 1954! Now TVA is finally making good on the old promise. = = = = = START QUOTE: The nation’s largest public power company, the Tennessee Valley Authority, announced Tuesday it submitted a…
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Math pope
Prevost is a Villanova grad with a major in math. This could make him a somewhat more significant figure for nerd types. A math pope would prescribe csc as the cure for sin. When sin goes to zero, csc ascends to heaven. He would give absolution as the cure for negative feelings. An inner product…
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GOOD!
I finally located a report of the trial that I escaped from. Now I can write about it. The jury did the RIGHT THING and found these assholes GUILTY. The Hilderbrands, operating a set of dubious businesses in Spokane Valley, were found guilty on multiple fraud charges. They will be sentenced in July, up to…
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Free at last!
Did the jury thing this morning. Without breaking confidentiality**, the case was on a subject that I have EXTREMELY strong emotions about. I made it clear that I wouldn’t be able to be objective, and got freed, honestly. The ‘one day or one trial’ system means that I’m ALL FREE NOW, after one morning in…
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Seems extreme, reality is worse.
Somebody quoted a statistic that seemed too far out to be believed, so I checked it with other sources. The extreme stat: EU produces 15 million cars a year, US produces only 2 million. Really? I knew we were fucked, but we CAN’T be that fucked. No, it’s worse. From EU auto mfrs association: Car…
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Localize, localize, localize
An old song has been popping in my mental jukebox lately. I’m convinced it’s a railroad song. You can hear the locomotive chugging and a dopplered whistle, similar to Chattanooga Choochoo. The last two lines seem to be: Riding on the __ __, Riding on the __ __ line. There’s a two-syllable railroad in the…
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Looks familiar!
Skimming through some 1966 trade journals recently added at American Radio Library, this GE clock caught my eye: Hey, that looks like the clock in my living room, my main source of time when I’m not facing the computer. Sure enough, on the back it says Model 7223, just like the one in the ad.…
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Mother-in law and cliff
Speaking of beautiful old infrastructure… An old system is SUSTAINABLE by definition. Whether it’s a house or a car or a coal power plant, maintaining it and using it are CLEANER than building a new one. (As long as it’s still working properly.) Good news: An upstate New York coal plant has been restarted! Yay!…
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Judge doing his job for once!
JUDGE Alsup of the District Court in Calif has summarily ordered the Elon administration to retract its firing of all federal workers. Alsup is the only JUDGE. He knows the law and applies the law, no matter which side wins. JUDGE Alsup blocked Green loonies when they broke the law, and he blocks Elon when…
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Don’t spoil a good thing
A grammarian type on Substack is complaining that da yoots are calling LP records “vinyls”. I used to worry about such things because I’m a natural proofreader, and I used to “correct” people. I finally learned to stop. “Correction” is ALWAYS counterproductive. It doesn’t work and it only irritates the pig. You can’t apply logic…
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What would it be like?
This 1959 union film focused on plumbers and pipefitters who were training to build the pipes for nuclear reactors. Atomic power was the clean future, the reliable source of non-polluting electricity. The National Assn of Manufacturers films from that era shared the atomic dream, with more emphasis on profits and less on wages. The shared…
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