I have been crazy busy at work, staying late, going in early, and not doing much else. It’s nice to have a challenging, rewarding job, especially when the fun/futility quotient is better than one.
The regularly scheduled substandard blog posts will resume in good time.
Meanwhile, here’s a giant asian hornet eating a mere wasp. I could actually hear the smaller insect’s head being chomped to bits by the orange killing machine.
Video to follow posted.
Get yourself a cup of coffee. The time has come to speak of LGF.
For those who do not know, Little Green Footballs (LGF) is a forum blog run by Charles Johnson, and which was influential and well-respected in its day. I enjoyed my time there greatly, but I’ve never been able to get right with what Charles Johnson did to a user named “Dianna”.[1] She’s one of the nicest people one could hope to befriend online, who did him no harm or even insult. Oh sure, Zombie went over the line at times and God knows BabbaZee lived over the line and only occasionally wandered back on this side of it. But when BabbaZee was right, she was right, and she knew about totalitarian control structures. On the … Continue reading
Somebody has taken blog comment spam to the next level. Somehow, this comment made it past Akismet (the Cloverfield monster of blog spam defenders):
Whenever I read one of your posts, my balls get even bigger.
Naturally, the comment was accompanied by a link to a commercial site, in this case a page on the highly suspect site “Evaporative Humidifier Reviews“, which I am going to simply link here and wish the guy good luck. If all spam were this funny, the web would be a different place. I hope you get lot of hits, dude.
neXt was Steve Jobs’ project in his inter-Apple years. ‘It will be the last startup to succeed, or the first to fail”, he said indicating the door to PC startups was closing. In a way, it did both, as he used the tech from the cratered company to rejuvenate Apple upon his triumphant return.
Survived by four kids and exactly one wife; a life well-lived.
Boy, no sooner do you extend a bit of patience than you realize how late it really is. I hadn’t done any reading on the three hikers who have now all been released by Iran, so when I saw some comments on FaceBook which I thought were harsh and critical, I responded that I thought they were just granola hippies caught up in the Iranian propaganda. I figured their criticism of America was just reflexive parroting of the Iranian line they had had no choice but to hear for a couple of years.
I wrote, in closing:
“They are hippie hikers who never understood the danger they were in, and I would not expect them to have a moral core to rely on to resist having their thoughts … Continue reading
There were several photos with better lighting, detail, or other values, but this one captured one Hell of a story:
Some comments on this:
The debris is expected to fall over a swath of Earth about 500 miles (804 kilometers) long, NASA officials said. [Video: Where Could UARS Satellite Debris Fall?]
There is a 1-in-3,200 chance of satellite debris hitting a person on the ground, odds that NASA says are extremely remote. Outside experts agree.
“Look at how much of Earth is covered with water,” Victoria Samson, the Washington Office Director of the Secure World Foundation, an organization dedicated to the peaceful use of outer space, told SPACE.com this week. “There’s a really good chance it’s going to go straight into the ocean.”
via Huge Defunct Satellite Falling to Earth Faster Than Expected, NASA Says | Falling NASA Satellite, Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite | Space Junk & … Continue reading
Now I know why the goofy name for this company. Their one-trick pony is a cylindrical solar panel. Solyndrical, plus a suitable Kumbayah web 2.0 ending, I get it.
The problem with these panels is the same problem with water injection to boost the expansion of an internal combustion engine. Sounds dumb right? Water kills fire. Oh, but wait, if the heat of the fire is used to power the unbelievably explosive power of steam expansion, then you actually get MORE power from each ignition, right? Amazing! Oh, but… water kills fire.
Even if you can get the system to work consistently, the steam expansion would remove so much energy from the cylinder that a tremendous amount of fuel would be required just to keep the engine … Continue reading
Japan’s economy has been stranded by the same moronic scheme announced by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. Japanese politics is an impenetrable hive-mind of graft and just-so stories, but the fundamentals of the economic problems are shockingly similar. And I try not to sprinkle the internet’s favorite word about too much.
Japan, inc. was overvalued and when the walls came down, nobody got out. Yet an unwillingness to allow real corrections has resulted in a state of suspended economic activity, where the official policy is zero interest, and everybody’s still waiting for the other shoe to drop. Periodically you see headlines announcing that the worst is over, that they’ve turned a corner, that this at long last is the real bottom, except that nobody actually believes it. The media, … Continue reading
This is the guy who fawningly crafted the neo-Soviet Obama “Hope” propaganda piece. His latest kumbayah government suck-up agitprop was set up in Copenhagen, but his syndrome is one-hundred percent Stockholm. He’s worried about his lefty street cred after getting whipped by the lefty street. What a pathetic tool.
The artist said he had not filed a police report following the attack in Copenhagen. “I did not know any of the people or get a great look at them, so it seemed pointless,” he said.
“I’m not a huge fan of the cops anyway. The only thing I could see coming out of it was further media commentary like ‘street artist whiner Shepard Fairey can’t hold it down in a fight so he snitches to the cops’.”
via … Continue reading
