Tag: TMI
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NYC envy?
Vaguely related to recent realization that my surname is an Oil Name…. This 1909 advertisement in an Enid historical FB page shows two impossibly dapper young men attending an impossibly elegant party at the Waldorf Astoria in NYC. The caption says: The men in the scene are wearing Benjamin Full Dress and Tuxedo Suits. The…
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Sunflower blooms again!
The former Sunflower Ammunition Plant in DeSoto is being recast into a giant EV battery plant by Panasonic. I caught a hint of this via Reddit, and noticed that the location looked like Sunflower. Most of the articles miss the Sunflower connection. This article at Bizjournals confirms it. Sunflower was a mysterious ghost town for…
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Noblesse oblige?
Thinking about the instant response of Medium’s algorithm to my futile insults in comments, which was definitely a good thing. Kicked me out of a place I shouldn’t have bothered to enter. Facebook has never cancelled or banned me despite some vastly harsher comments about the demons in charge, especially during the first year of…
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One year in WordPress
Just noticed that 11/27/21 was when I switched from my old Blogspot location to WordPress. I didn’t write much in the first month. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to continue writing at all. Cancelers were starting to take down important stuff from Blogspot, and I wasn’t convinced that WP would do any better. After…
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Regret?
As equipoise to previous ‘thankful’ item, here’s a newly formed regret. This week I’ve had a standard common cold. It’s not standard for me! My nose gets annoyed sometimes from dust or allergens, but I haven’t had a proper cold in at least 50 years. I had to google the right way to cough and…
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Mark of aristocracy
The Buttcoin reddit notices a year-old picture of Bankman-Fried speaking to his political slaves in a congressional meeting. His shoelaces are weirdly tangled up, just barely making it through the holes. He responded to the earlier twitter thread by saying that the shoes “came that way”. Well, okay. Shoes do sometimes come with the laces…
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Write but not read
Just noticing an oddity for the hundredth time. ‘Write what you know’ is excellent advice. EXPERIENCE is the only thing that counts. When you know about a job or a skill or a place or a culture, you can IMMEDIATELY spot an outsider’s attempts to describe it. Staying inside your zone of familiarity also breeds…
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Raking record
Time to start the roof-raking record for this winter. As always, this should be in my private daily worklog, but I started doing it here, so I’ll continue the tradition. Last winter was EASY. Only three rakings, and the first was 12/31/21. This winter is likely to be harder than average. We started with a…
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Impressive and depressive
Now that I’ve got the dull parts of the new courseware version out of the way (switching out images to adjust for changes in DRM) I’m returning to the fun part. I’m reviving and modernizing some complex programs I wrote in the ’90s, so they can be presented as ‘accessories’ to the courseware. The impressive…
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More WordPress erosion /// Edit: No, it’s not WP.
Last week I noticed an odd gradual “erosion” in some of my GIFs posted here. The sender in the original Morse prototype was being erased in an oddly analogish way. The result looks like a printer smearing ink. Now another set of erosions shows up. Instead of fixing and reposting, I’ll just link to this…
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Print equivalent
My bedtime OTR playlist has changed its form over the years, partly from available material and partly from my tastes. In the ’90s when I started pulling away from current toxic crap and seeking older and better entertainment, the only available tape cassettes carried the Big Shows like Fibber and Jack Benny. After the early…
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Media puzzle
Trying to sort out a meaningless puzzle. Part of the 1965 ‘banner year’ or Grand Finale for UFOs happened in Okla and Kansas. In August a chain of sightings ran from Chickasha to Wellington to Wichita to KC, including some radar readings at TV stations in Wichita and KC. If the group was seen in…
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Still more Zenith musings
The Zenith memory pulled me back into those first few months after release from prison. I was appreciating freedom, but I was starting out on the wrong track AGAIN. What was the wrong track? COLLEGE, and especially college courses in physics and math. College drove me crazy, drove me into hopeless depression which led inevitably…
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