Tag: Nonbark
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Finally barked, sorta
Until today the DeSantis campaign hadn’t even bothered to send anything. All the other candidates in both parties have been flooding my inbox for three months. Today for the first time the DeSantis campaign sent an email. It starts: Hi. I’m Ron DeSantis. This is who I am. He runs through his biography and his…
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Noncluck
Noticing a nonbark or more specifically a noncluck. I heard a rooster crowing just now, distant and barely audible. Reminded me of what’s missing. From 2012 to 2016 several neighbors started keeping chickens. Typically I heard three or four competing roosters in the morning, each trumpeting the superiority of his flock. Now most have given…
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ID nonbark
Random nonbarking thought about social media… Intelligent Design, at least by the keyword, is totally absent from Substack. The search brings up several newsletters that use the pair of words in a colloquial way (designing your life smartly, or smart use of UI/UX) and exactly two newsletters claiming to be about ID in the proper…
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Today is Woman Astronomer Day
Reprint from two years ago. = = = = = START REPRINT: Continuing the theme of astrometeorology, focusing this time on a side trip into the Islamic history of astronomical instruments. I’ll return to the main theme of solar magnetic fields in the next entry. Astrolabes were developed first in Greece at the time of…
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Random neighborhood notes
1. A little toothpaste-like tube, meant for cosmetics, ended up on the street about 5 years ago. It flattened immediately, and has retained its shape and position ever since. Snow, snowplows, rain, wind, car tires, nothing moves it or degrades it. Good advertisement for the supplier who made the tube. 2. Bit of conversation heard…
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Blasphemy
I was deeply inspired by Beatrix’s detailed account of the old Muses. BBC was founded in the early grandiose high-culture moment of radio, and spent plenty of taxpayer money on classical crap, which it promptly and permanently blasphemed. An archway dedicated to the Muses and to Almighty God, placing the Almighty Prophet Director Reith on…
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Nonbarking tongue
Listening to a fast-food CEO interviewed by Yahoo. He’s talking about pizza being innate in some parts of America before everything got franchised. I noticed it when I moved to Pennsylvania. Pizza was solely a franchise food in the midwest, but pizza by the slice was served in every little cafe in PA. Random thoughts…
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Taft = tech
Noticing yet again that Pres Taft loved and understood technology. He also loved Ohio, which at that time was a major center of new tech. Ohio had more auto companies than Michigan, and Ohio birthed the aircraft industry. Here he’s congratulating the winners of a gas mileage competition: And here he’s sending off a Chalmers…
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Nonbark?
Just noticed that tomorrow is President Day. In previous years online ads were full of President Day Sales, which have nothing to do with presidents. Any old excuse for a sale. This year I haven’t seen any. Given the basic fact that all media and corporations are pure D, you’d think they would have canceled…
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Why less demand?
Continuing to ramble on newspapers… Noticed this 1917 edition of the Ayer newspaper atlas. It represents early Oklahoma better than the editions found in American Radio Library. We believe that modern social media gives every group a chance to write and communicate. Partly true, at least for fashionable groups, but NOT NEW. In 1917 every…
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Odd nonbark
After wasting a fair amount of time in both Medium and Reddit, I’ve gradually non-noticed the complete absence of courseware from both tech and economic subjects. I had already non-noticed the lack in a more practical form when trying to get useful info in programmer hangouts like Stackoverflow. Medium is especially full of IPO-type announcements…
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Worth reading
Crux publishes Benedict’s short summation of faith and grace. He wrote it in 2006, soon after he was appointed, at a “late hour in his life”, and then lasted 16 years longer. Wasn’t so late after all! Nevertheless, it’s a perfect short letter from a man of grace and gratitude and SCIENCE. The sciencey part:…
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