Ball Diamond Ball

Dateline:Moab, Utah.

A nexus of family tourists (weekends), extreme rock climbers, river rats, hikers, atv freaks, 4×4 hardcore, dirt bikers, geezers seeing sights and foreign tourists in guided groups and solo.

Desert, rivers, canyons, hot, dry  at 4600 ft.

Today we repped the geezer brigade and auto toured Arches Nat Park.

Perfect weather, sunny and 70.

 

Afterwards,  we took rt 279 along the Colorado river.

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The Red Headed Irish Wisecraker and I took the F150 for an extended tour, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Nevada and back. We plan 3 days in Moab, seeing Nat Parks.

Here is Great Salt Lake Saturday , just before dusk.

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

Jam a topic in the comments below and let people read up if you like.

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
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I’m thinking about the efficacy of Bannon’s “war on the Establishment”.  Looks like the combination of Trump and Bannon’s bad cop / bad cop routine has casued a new day to dawn upside Mitch McConnell’s head.  I don’t believe it for a minute, of course, which is why I support the war on the Establishment.  IMHO, to call off the dog now would be to fall for Mitch & Paul’s patented Charlie-Brown-football trick.

That’s what I think.  How about you?  I’ll do some reading and YouTube viewing on the matter.

See you there!

Oh, and I’ll be there early — and sober, darnit.  I have a meeting

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Either Dime or I will soon get about a face full of ocean.  Big storm coming this way.  Still almost a week out, so low confidence in particulars of the forecast, but this is going to be a supertyphoon with 60-ft seas, mercifully while it is close to absolutely nothing.  It will weaken to a “mere” typhoon before it gets here.  but it will very likely get here in some regard.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/16/roofers-in-maine-stop-work-to-respect-national-anthem-flag.html

Often dismissed , little understood by people of lesser character

So, NEXT Sunday, 10/22, will be the US F1 Grand Prix, to be held at the track in Austin. Those interested can probably find it at your local cable network. Any able, sort of doubt tickets are still available, but what do I know.

This week-end’s project has been putting together an archive of documents and images about the company I founded and operated from 1977 through 1985, Marinchip Systems.  Marinchip delivered, starting in 1978, the first true 16-bit personal computer on the S-100 bus, with the goal of providing its users the same experience as conecting to a commercial timesharing service which cost many times more.  When other personal computer companies were providing 8 Kb BASIC, we had a Unix-like operating system, Pascal, and eventually a multi-user system.

Marinchip (which was named after the Marinship shipyard not far from where I lived, which made Liberty ships during World War II), designed its own hardware and software, with hardware based upon the Texas Instruments TMS9900 microprocessor and the software written by, … Continue reading →