Tag: Heimatkunde
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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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Pits and spoons
Briggs is trying to bring real human experience back into science. In this piece he analyzes claims of telekinesis and speculates on quantum action. He doesn’t reach any conclusions. I think he may be starting from an unproductive angle. Our thinking on these subjects is narrowed down by our intuitive sense that force is a…
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Why we get news from FB
Last night around 9:30 I had doors and windows open as usual to bring in the nice cool air. Heard some sirens. The sirens stopped close by, and then I heard: SUSPECT, YOU ARE UNDER ARREST! NEIGHBORS, STAY INSIDE YOUR HOUSE! Decided it was a good idea to close windows and doors. SpokaneNews Facebook came…
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Copyright trap or just error?
While looking through my old maps to find the right corner of Manhattan for previous item about city dumps and barrios, I noticed a really odd error on a USGS map. File creek? I remembered it as Pfeil Creek. Another USGS map got a little closer: Here’s the same Phiel, scanned from a more recent…
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Natural growth
Following on previous item about Sailer contours. Our homeless camps remain camps, with uncontrolled fires and craziness. They’re strictly illegal, not allowed to settle. In countries with softer governments, poor people build casual houses in their camps, and the houses gradually become more permanent, turning into barrios or favelas and gradually acquiring infrastructure. A similar…
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Contours
Reading the constant flow of ‘reported brush fires’, really homeless campfires gone out of control, I was struck by the perfection of Sailer’s altitude rule. Height = status. The homeless occupy the floodplain and hillsides next to the river. The urban Democrat types are on the first shelf near downtown. The working class and retired…
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Productive oddballs
EnidBuzz posted an ad for an apartment. Looks like an uninteresting but solid unit. The rental is $750, which is NOT hyperinflated. Back in 1980 an apt like this would be $350, and overall inflation is x2 since then. The address rang a bell, so I googlemapped it. Sure enough, the lot was formerly occupied…
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