https://news.artnet.com/art-world/national-archives-museum-under-fire-2564854
Friday, November 8, 2024
And thus begins another round of whitewashing history
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/national-archives-museum-under-fire-2564854
Thursday, November 7, 2024
This story made me chuckle
https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/05/schneider_electric_cybersecurity_incident/
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Its election day. Now get out there and vote!
And if you voted early, now is your chance to "vote often" :)
Sunday, November 3, 2024
Watch "Breakthrough: Voyager 1 “Phones Home” After 40+ Years Using Backup Transmitter" on YouTube
Friday, November 1, 2024
What the actual fuck?
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/2024-election-updates-trump-violent-rhetoric-attack-war/?id=115388990
Here’s to hoping that THIS is the lasting image we have of the trumpster fire
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Carbon capture
Monday, October 28, 2024
Another budding young scientist
Two high schoolers and the Pythagorean proof
NY is well on its way to reducing its carbon footprint
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Stephen Miller can suck it.
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Flying cheese!
https://futurism.com/the-byte/rocket-launch-sliced-cheese-leg
WAPO declines to endorse a candidate
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Wait. Tua wants to play again this week?
https://www.sportskeeda.com/college-football/news-someone-tell-tua-take-notes-cfb-world-reacts-nc-state-qb-s-decision-future-post-scary-brain-injury
What’s the point? To control people. Duh.
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Elon Musk shows he is smurt
"It's Simple Math. If You Work 100 Hours A Week And Others Work 50, You'll Accomplish Twice As Much As Them" - Musk
Except of course it's more than math. There's a limit to human productivity and fatigue that figure in there.
There's a point of diminishing returns. Once someone reaches some number (I believe it's around 60 hours), their productivity plummets.
But by all means, lex luthor, tell us how we need to be more like you to be a billionaire.
Well, that productivity and a couple of million like you were fortunate enough to start off with.
A new CEO at disney in … 2026?
Monday, October 21, 2024
Sunday, October 20, 2024
Shohei Ohtani’s 50th home run ball
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/19/g-s1-29064/dodgers-baseball-shohei-ohtani-auction
Disney’s new money making schemes are annoying
Saturday, October 19, 2024
Its money being (probably) illegally spent
The grift is real!
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Reminder: election related videos
Same on both platforms
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
About abortion access
Of course, they are operating with a broadsword, and some equipment used for abortion is also used for general women's health. So... the outcome will be that women won't have access to medical devices and procedures unrelated to abortion that could be used in healthcare and/or to save their lives. You've heard about women dying in parking lots in states where abortion is outlawed. Get ready for it to happen everywhere and extend beyond pregnancy.
Darwin’s finches and evolution
This study provides critical evidence that ecological factors, such as droughts that alter beak shape, can indeed drive the emergence of new species by changing how birds communicate and recognize one another.
For those of you who don't believe in evolution, here's an example of it happening in our world.https://www.earth.com/news/finch-beaks-and-bird-songs-a-new-story-of-evolution/
An op-ed about hurricane Milton, life in St. Petersburg, and misplaced priorities
https://www.cltampa.com/tampa/op-ed-the-shredded-trop-and-a-fallen-crane-illustrate-the-foolishness-in-st-petes-priorities/Slideshow/18770755/18770770
Sunday, October 13, 2024
The early days of gas cars
Saturday, October 12, 2024
Part of the roof came off the Polynesian village
https://blogmickey.com/2024/10/photos-high-winds-from-hurricane-milton-peel-off-roof-from-disneys-polynesian-village-resort-buildings/
The benefits of organic farming
After comparing their results, the researchers concluded that soil treated with manure or compost fertilizer stores more carbon than soil treated with chemical fertilizers or no fertilizer.
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Woah. A black hole in a lab! Science rules
https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-simulated-a-black-hole-in-the-lab-and-then-it-began-to-glow
Space junk: COLLISIONS ARE NOT A QUESTION OF IF BUT WHEN.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/space-junk-disaster-inevitable
Toyota and hydrogen fuel rods
The big lie started with just one email
Why monster hurricanes like Milton are happening in the Gulf. It’s not geoengineering
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/climate-change/article293741614.html
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Nature returns. And so do the salmon
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/salmon-swim-freely-klamath-river-1st-time-century-114571347
Zachary Taylor legacy
Monday, October 7, 2024
Such odd responses
Back in June, there was a proposal (pitched by Democrats) to expand the selective service, so that women would also have to register. The concept was to help encourage more people (both men and women) to signup for military service.
Senators and Congresspeople had mixed reactions, but in a general sort of sense, there was some agreement that the military needs to be expanded and automatically registering men (rather than having to send back a form), and perhaps some means of expanding the program to women might make sense.
But not everyone felt that way. Senator Josh Hawley, for example 'derided the measure to put women on equal footing as another "woke" decision being made on behalf of the nation's military.'
"We need to get reality back in check here. There shouldn't be women in the draft. They shouldn't be forced to serve if they don't want to."
But he also doesn't believe its a womans right to control her own body as it relates to abortion.
Is it safe to assume he 'respects' womens rights ... as it relates to how they serve men?
Watch "Titan submersible owner said he'd 'buy a congressman' if Coast Guard became a problem, witness says" on YouTube
Sunday, October 6, 2024
Sheer stupidity is rewarded
Saturday, October 5, 2024
Is it a cult?
Friday, October 4, 2024
It’s really sad when corporate malfeasance wins
https://electrek.co/2024/10/02/elon-musk-celebrates-winning-lawsuit-tesla-self-driving-claims-embarrassing-defense/
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Tom Sawyers Island
The Orlando Sentinel ran an article about the closure of Tom Sawyers island at Disney World.
What's so very Disney about it
The island leans into its cutesy, old-timey theme. It's Disney-level clean in a great outdoors way.
There are a handful of animatronics, including one that's snoring.
On the modern side, there are the standard warnings about alligators and snakes, and there are rules for Tom Sawyer Scavenger's Fort (ages 2-12 only) and the "surfaces may be hot" advisory.
What's not very Disney 2024 about it
On Tom Sawyer Island, there's no MagicBand needed, no PhotoPass stops, no Lightning Lanes, no dessert party offering and no cast members telling us to keep our hands and feet inside the fort at all times.
There are no characters to meet or greet, no touting the latest holiday, no Mickey Bars, no souvenir merchandise or really anything to spend money on with the exception of a couple of vending machines by Aunt Polly's.
Decide for yourself if that's a plus or minus.
Using your friends family in photos is just weird
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Another example of gaslighting
https://www.kqed.org/news/12007150/californias-20-fast-food-minimum-wage-sees-no-job-loss-slight-price-hikes
Monday, September 30, 2024
Sex Ed in Florida doesn’t educate about sex
https://apnews.com/article/florida-sex-education-curriculum-5b1a46f5a73e3122f4815cf1d439aef0
Floridas insurance crisis
Friday, September 27, 2024
Xitter and free speech
Cards Against Humanity is suing Elon Musk…
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
1972 Miami Dolphins
The passing of Mercury Morris made me reflect on the passage of time. The undefeated season was going on 52 years ago when the players were mostly young men. And the coaching staff was fairly young as well.
11. Jim Del Gaizo, quarterback is 77 and living in Plantation FL
12. Bob Griese, quarterback is 79, is retired and living in Jupiter.
20. Larry Seiple, punter/tight end is 79, is retired and living in The Villages
26. Lloyd Mumphord, defensive back is 77 and living in Lafayette, La.
28. Ed Jenkins, running back is 74 and living in Florida,
39. Larry Csonka, running back is 77 and recently moved to North Carolina.
40. Dick Anderson, safety is 78, living in Miami
42. Paul Warfield, wide receiver is 81, living in California.
45. Curtis Johnson, defensive back:is 76, is retired and living in Detroit.
49. Charlie Babb, safety is 74, retired and living in Naples.
51. Larry Ball, linebacker is 75 and living in Miami
54. Howard Kindig, offensive lineman is 83, and living in Houston
59. Doug Swift, linebacker is 76 and living in Miami,
60. Al Jenkins, guard is 78, and living in New Orleans.
65. Maulty Moore, defensive tackle is 78 and living in Florida,
66. Larry Little, guard: is 78 and living in Florida,
72. Bob Heinz, defensive tackle is 77 and living in Fresno, California.
73. Norm Evans, offensive tackle: is 82 and living in Seattle
75. Manny Fernandez, defensive tackle is 78 and living in Ellaville, Georgia.
77. Doug Crusan, left tackle is 78 and lives in Indianapolis,
80. Marv Fleming, tight end is 82, and living in Marina del Ray, California
81. Howard Twilley, wide receiver is 80 and living in Dallas.
82. Otto Stowe, wide receiver is 75 and living in Santa Barbara, California.
83. Vern Den Herder, defensive end is 75 and living in Sioux City, Iowa.
And here are the players who have left us. The first - and only for a long time - was Wayne Moore who had a heart attack in the 1980s
1. Garo Yepremian, kicker: Died in Pennsylvania in 2015, at age 70,
7. Billy Lothridge, defensive back: Died in 1996 at 54 in Pensacola
13. Jake Scott, safety: Scott died at the age of 75 in 2020,
15. Earl Morrall, quarterback: Died in 2014 at age 79;
21. Jim Kiick. running back: Died in 2020, at age 73,
22. Mercury Morris, running back: died at 77 in 2024
23. Charlie Leigh, running back: Died in Albany, New York, in 2006 at age 60.
25. Tim Foley, cornerback: died in St Augustine FL in 2023 at 76
32. Hubert Ginn, running back: died in 2023 at 76, ih South Carolina.
43. Mike Howell, defensive back: Died in 2016 at 73.
53, Bob Matheson, linebacker: Died at age 49 in 1994 at Duke University Hospital
56. Jesse Powell, linebacker: Died in a Texas hospital in 2012 at age 65;
78. Jim Dunaway, defensive tackle: Died in 2018 at 76;
79. Wayne Moore, offensive tackle: died in 1989, at the age of 44 from a heart attack .
57. Mike Kolen, linebacker: died in 2024 at 76, in Alabama.
62. Jim Langer, center: Died in 2019, at age 71,
67. Bob Kuechenberg, guard: Died in 2019, at age 71, in Fort Lauderdale.
84. Bill Stanfill, defensive end: Died in Albany, Georgia., at 69 in 2016,
85. Nick Buoniconti, linebacker: Died in New York in 2019 at age 78
86. Marlin Briscoe, wide receiver: died on 2022 at 76 in Norwalk, Calif.,
88. Jim Mandich, tight end: Died in 2011, in Miami Lakes, at age 62
How stupid does he think we are?!
What a pillock
Monday, September 23, 2024
breaking down plastics
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/vaporizing-plastics-recycles-them-into-nothing-but-gas/