Unnamed Wednesday 9pm Eastern Time Conference Call

It’s that time of the week again, when we connect for another town hall meeting in the Village of the Darned.

BDB still wants somebody, multiple somebodies, or multiple nobodies out there to volunteer to speak on interesting subjects.

If the software tells you that you’re the only caller, don’t you believe it! Press on with the access code and you’ll probably find us in there!

US: 515-604-9908

Access Code: [see chat in “BDB Chat” tab above]

International Local Dial-in Numbers

Albania +355 4 454 1702
Argentina +54 351 569-7183
Australia +61 2 8077 0505
Austria +43 1 2650524
Belgium +32 3 294 11 50
Brazil +55 11 3042-5274
Bulgaria +359 2 495 1701
Cambodia +855 96 696 7824
Chile +56 2 3210 … Continue reading

Unnamed Wednesday 9pm Eastern Time Conference Call

It’s that time of the week again, when we connect for another town hall meeting in the Village of the Darned.

BDB still wants somebody, multiple somebodies, or multiple nobodies out there to volunteer to speak on interesting subjects.

If the software tells you that you’re the only caller, don’t you believe it! Press on with the access code and you’ll probably find us in there!

US: 515-604-9908

Access Code: [see chat in “BDB Chat” tab above]

International Local Dial-in Numbers

Albania +355 4 454 1702
Argentina +54 351 569-7183
Australia +61 2 8077 0505
Austria +43 1 2650524
Belgium +32 3 294 11 50
Brazil +55 11 3042-5274
Bulgaria +359 2 495 1701
Cambodia +855 96 696 7824
Chile +56 2 3210 … Continue reading

Unnamed Wednesday 9pm Eastern Time Conference Call

It’s that time of the week again, when we connect for another town hall meeting in the Village of the Darned.

BDB still wants somebody, multiple somebodies, or multiple nobodies out there to volunteer to speak on interesting subjects.

If the software tells you that you’re the only caller, don’t you believe it! Press on with the access code and you’ll probably find us in there!

US: 515-604-9908

Access Code: [see chat in “BDB Chat” tab above]

International Local Dial-in Numbers

Albania +355 4 454 1702
Argentina +54 351 569-7183
Australia +61 2 8077 0505
Austria +43 1 2650524
Belgium +32 3 294 11 50
Brazil +55 11 3042-5274
Bulgaria +359 2 495 1701
Cambodia +855 96 696 7824
Chile +56 2 3210 … Continue reading

Unnamed Wednesday 9pm Eastern Time Conference Call

It’s that time of the week again, when we connect for another town hall meeting in the Village of the Darned.

Thank you ctlaw for hosting and administering this call for us!

  • Admin

BDB still wants somebody, multiple somebodies, or multiple nobodies out there to volunteer to speak on interesting subjects.

If the software tells you that you’re the only caller, don’t you believe it! Press on with the access code and you’ll probably find us in there!

US: 515-604-9908

Access Code: [see chat in “BDB Chat” tab above]

International Local Dial-in Numbers

Albania +355 4 454 1702
Argentina +54 351 569-7183
Australia +61 2 8077 0505
Austria +43 1 2650524
Belgium +32 3 294 11 50
Brazil +55 11 3042-5274
Bulgaria +359 … Continue reading

Unnamed Wednesday 9pm Eastern Time Conference Call

It’s that time of the week again, when we connect for another town hall meeting in the Village of the Darned.

BDB still wants somebody, multiple somebodies, or multiple nobodies out there to volunteer to speak on interesting subjects.

If the software tells you that you’re the only caller, don’t you believe it! Press on with the access code and you’ll probably find us in there!

US: 515-604-9908

Access Code: [see chat in “BDB Chat” tab above]

International Local Dial-in Numbers

Albania +355 4 454 1702
Argentina +54 351 569-7183
Australia +61 2 8077 0505
Austria +43 1 2650524
Belgium +32 3 294 11 50
Brazil +55 11 3042-5274
Bulgaria +359 2 495 1701
Cambodia +855 96 696 7824
Chile +56 2 3210 … Continue reading

Fitzgerald in Drydock

Photos have just been released showing the patching:

Note the work that would have gone into scribing and cutting the I-beams. Presumably, the beams or a proxy were scribed underwater, then the beams were cut above water and finally welded in place below.

The article mentions that the hull is warped. Perhaps, we may be writing it off rather than repairing.

Unnamed Wednesday 9pm Eastern Time Conference Call

It’s that time of the week again, when we connect for another town hall meeting in the Village of the Darned.

I am posting early to solicit a volunteer or two to speak on interesting subjects.

If the software tells you that you’re the only caller, don’t you believe it! Press on with the access code and you’ll probably find us in there!

US: 515-604-9908

Access Code: [see chat in “BDB Chat” tab above]

No Yoko!

How do you screech “chutzpah” in Japanese? Yoko Ono had herself added as coauthor of the song, Imagine, based on a 1980 statement by John Lennon that he based the song on supposed anti-religious sentiment expressed in in her 1964 book, Grapefruit, which also had a number of passages beginning with “Imagine”.

Less than a decade ago, she threatened action against Paul McCartney for reversing the Lennon-McCartney order on the liner notes for his album, “Back in the U.S.“, which featured Beatles songs on which McCartney was primary or exclusive author and Lennon had acknowledged as such. McCartney took the position: “I think it is fair and accurate for the songs that John declared were mine to carry my name first.

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Unnamed Wednesday 9pm Eastern Time Conference Call

It’s that time of the week again, when we connect for another town hall meeting in the Village of the Darned.

If the software tells you that you’re the only caller, don’t you believe it! Press on with the access code and you’ll probably find us in there!

US: 515-604-9908

Access Code: [see chat in “BDB Chat” tab above]

International Local Dial-in Numbers

Albania +355 4 454 1702
Argentina +54 351 569-7183
Australia +61 2 8077 0505
Austria +43 1 2650524
Belgium +32 3 294 11 50
Brazil +55 11 3042-5274
Bulgaria +359 2 495 1701
Cambodia +855 96 696 7824
Chile +56 2 3210 9930
Colombia +57 6 7334210
Costa Rica +506 4090 1321
Croatia +385 1 8000 … Continue reading