Tag: Happy Ending
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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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Emerson wins
A few days ago a dream contained an encouraging message. Things aren’t as bad as they look on the surface. Give people a chance. Semi Bird has been running for governor of this “state” on a clear and firm anti-muzzle and anti-vax and anti-lockdown agenda. The last time I checked he seemed to be losing…
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Punching half was so much fun…
In the ’60s colleges expelled and arrested “leftist” protesters. Since then, colleges have been expelling and arresting “right-wing” protesters while supinely obeying “leftist” protesters. Now they’re arresting leftist protesters again, and nobody seems to notice the reversal. Pro-Palestine has been a leftist issue for 60 years. I tried to join the SDS in ’68 but…
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World in one checkout
In Safeway the woman behind me in the checkout line was loading the belt with dozens and dozens and dozens of baby food jars. She was clearly from India, judging by her appearance and dress. The other customers, including me, were Anglo and OLD. Describes the world. India and Africa are winning because they have…
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The bigger question is…
The tranny mess is gradually self-dissolving. Invading women’s sports was the final step, the moment when the torch burned the torch-bearers. If women posing as men had ALSO invaded men’s sports, you could conceivably argue for Die-Versity. But nobody has invaded in that direction, because they couldn’t win and thus couldn’t cheat. The invaders have…
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Another niche switch
Since I’m in adding another example mode this week… The latest issue of Collectible Auto has an article on Kissel, an example of the smart niche switch. I’d heard of Kissel Kars but wasn’t aware of their niche switch and second life. Kissel was founded in 1909 in Hartford, Wisconsin. Hartford is a smallish city…
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NHS right as usual
Purely personal, partly trying to recompense for previous mentions of the subject. The current postwar mess, with every business overworked and understaffed, means a lot of waiting and missed appointments and broken promises. But after you wade through the shit, the actual performance is excellent. In the previous postwar mess around 1948, industries tried to…
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Thanks, Elon!
Elon does shit for his own reasons, mostly to have fun. In this case his own reasons happened to coincide with goodness. A real Canadian DOCTOR, Kulvinder Kaul Gill, who was trying to protect her patients from lockdowns and ballgags and vaxes, is being prosecuted by the Canadian “government”, which is even worse than the…
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Democracy in one county
Stalin’s slogan was Socialism in one country. Trotsky was a globalist who wanted to conquer the world to prove a point. Stalin was a nationalist who wanted to improve his own country. Now there’s a new slogan: Democracy in one county. One county in Texas, solitary and alone among all counties and cities and states…
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Reprint on Glial Equipoise
I was reminded of this by something semi-relevant. It’s utterly amazing and worth remembering. = = = = = START REPRINT: While looking for more ancient stuff to animate, found an interesting 1915 book of questions and factoids. The Book of Wonders is something like Ripley or Hix, but more oriented toward serious descriptions of…
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Even the Austinites are rebelling
Ted Gioia is enough of an insider that he gets invited to their events. He reports that even the wild-eyed Innovative Disruptors at the annual Austin SXSW thing are tired of AI. When a speaker spewed the standard Effective Altruism pitch for AI, promising to enrich the rich and cull the Negative Externalities more effectively…
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Nice conclusion
Unsurprising but nice: A British court finds that Craig Wright’s claim to be Satoshi is false. Several of his accomplices are leaving the sinking ship. Wright is just a suer. Nothing else. He made big money from a pre-bitcoin fraud, and has been using his fortune to run an endless series of mostly losing lawsuits.…
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Good sign of sanity
Geologists are showing some sense. = = = = = START QUOTE: Earlier this month, geologists voted down a proposal to give the years since 1950 a geological name, the Anthropocene Epoch. The vote at the subcommission of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) was 12 to 4, with 2 abstentions. = = = =…
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India’s TVA
Mentioning the TVA in previous item reminded me of this bit of news: India is starting a new giant hydro dam project after completing and turning on another giant hydro dam. Modi is probably the nearest thing to FDR in today’s world. Constantly improving his infrastructure, paying no attention to ESG/DEI, trying to get along…
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Uniquely Enidish
As the west coast continues roaring into chaos and oblivion, the sane states continue gaining economic and cultural strength. Here’s one small but significant sign from my old hometown Enid. A year ago, a woman with a Persian name started a menswear store called Manopolis. She made it through the first year successfully. Downtown is…
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