Tag: Heimatkunde
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No mystery
Nieman has an article on a nonprofit local news startup in Wichita. It’s failing quickly, and the reasons are not mysterious. 1. The Wichita paper was a branch of a more successful paper in KC, and the management in KC thought they should be handled the same way. I’ve lived in both cities. Wichita is…
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Hundreds of wells per month!
Shepstone continues to report the REALITY of the oil industry. Both political “sides” make the same idiotic noise about eliminating oil, and both political “parties” actually allow oil to continue booming. It’s a good reminder to pay NO ATTENTION to the noise and consider only the reality. = = = = = START QUOTE: U.S.…
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Ditch Witch is still there
Noticed on this morning’s walk that the TDS fiber workers are using a Ditch Witch excavator. Ditch Witch used to be in Perry, a town of 10k near Enid. Are they still there? YES. The company became a branch of Toro in 2019 but still manufactures in Perry, with 1600 employees. Good sign. In former…
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New way of squatting
Most squatters break into a vacant house and live there. Spokane squatters just gotta be different. This one stole the house!. Admittedly it was a ‘tiny house’ stored on a trailer, so it’s more like stealing a camper. Update: Two days later the cops found it, 20 miles south of town, thanks to tips from…
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Outside the worklog
Before 2017, I wasn’t keeping a private worklog for sleeps and dumps, but this public blog included most of the external events like hot spells or windstorms. Nice example right now. I opened the window at midnight to get some non-airconditioned air, and heard an odd noise. Something wrong with the fridge? No, a cricket…
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Rain at last!
After a month of nearly unbroken heat, we finally have a RAINY DAY! I went out to walk in the rain and everyone had the same idea. Passed 4 walkers, compared to the usual 1. The last long hot spell was in 2015, arguably worse because it was in June with longer days. But I…
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Classy Spokane
Via SpokaneNews: North Division and East Courtland area, Reported thousands of fake $100 bills are all over the streets and causing traffic issues as people are stopping in the road collecting them. = = = = = A similar windfall happened several years ago. A drug dealer working from an RV stashed his cash in…
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People are different
I’m a cool-weather critter. Always that way, even more with age. Happiest and most energetic between 30 and 60 degrees. The current heat wave wilts me. The air conditioner keeps the ambient air in the living room below 76, but my body picks up the radiant heat from ceiling and walls. The neighbor across the…
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Conjugating towns
Oklahoma has two tenses of the same Latin verb. Vinco is a settlement just south of Perkins on the bank of the Cimarron. It has a small leftover grid of streets, probably from an original townsite that never quite jelled. Grandpa lived in Stillwater and bought his cars from Charlie Cheatham, an aptronymic used car…
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Idiot city
The idiot leaders of this fucked “city” received a 10 million dollar federal grant for “Traffic Calming Infrastructure”. Now they’re setting up a project to bring Traffic Calming to even more intersections. A Traffic Calmer is an extension of the curb into the outer lanes of the street at each corner, making it impossible for…
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Weird but nice
Weird event, turned out nice. After lunch, without warning, somebody started mowing my back yard. I thought maybe she was a neighbor, so I was feeling guilty and somewhat trespassed. After she finished she walked back to her parked car, so I knew she wasn’t a neighbor. I went over, handed her $60 and thanked…
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Is digital currency new?
Found the banking statistic I was looking for. It’s not exactly the same quote but it agrees with the proportions. From a history of US banking: = = = = = START QUOTE: Gen. James A. Garfield, in speaking on the Resumption Act in the House of Representatives, November 16, 1877, stated that while Chairman…
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TIL
Today I Learned. I’ve lived in this house for exactly 33 years as of yesterday, and never realized until just now that the city sewer treatment plant is only 3000 feet away as the crow flies. That’s closer than Safeway and shorter than some of my regular walks. I always knew the plant was in…
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Speaking of geomagnetic confusion…
Speaking of confusion and vortexes…. I opened the door just now to see what the weather is doing. A dude in a pickup truck cruised by at a normal speed, casually sitting with elbow on the window, IN REVERSE. He didn’t seem to be backing into a driveway or aiming for a trailer, just heading…
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