Cool and damp. Wet and muggy. Pretty close to the same thing right now. Wasn’t bad yesterday, with clear skies until later in the day, and then it was just a few clouds. The temperature did come up in the evening, which was a bit weird. 64F when I went to bed.
Did my big drive down to Dickenson to pick up and drop off. Sold one freezer. Picked up two more. Took them back to my storage unit. I’ve got more organizing and sorting to do there, but it’s supposed to rain today. Can’t pull half the stuff out into the rain in order to sort the other half.
If it does rain, I’ll find something to do. There’s a list you know…
Birthday is approaching and everything is coming due. Renewed my driver’s license online. Filed the renewal for my LTC online too. Will have to file my ham license renewal today. There are a couple of extra steps to go through this time, due to changes at the FCC. Renewed my membership in my hobby org a couple of months ago to get an early bird special. Several trade magazines wanted to be renewed this month too. Spring is all about renewal I guess. I just hope not in the Logan’s Run sense…
Had a big outage here last night. Longest one we’ve ever had. If the host company shares anything with us, I’m sure Rick will share what he can. If it happens again, you can check for a status update at flandrey.com. If I’ve had time to do one…
Hopefully the hamsters will get back on their wheels and keep running into the future. Lazy little furballs.
Today will depend on the weather. I’ve got a couple of minor things to pick up, and lots of options for other work here, so I’m sure I’ll be able to keep busy.
It’s all about keeping busy, as long as progress is made.
Too many weird things happening in the world, time to be conservative in the classical sense. If you saw all of what’s going on today, looking back from ten years in the future, would the steps to world changing conflict look so obvious you can’t believe that people didn’t see them? Consider that. And consider that people do and did see them but it happened anyway. Then consider your plan for the next few years.
Stack it up while the stacking is good.
nick
If it isn’t random, the details will trickle out verrrrry slowly. God forbid the university have to explain the room temperature IQs admitted to the school for diversity purposes who bring the thugs to campus to hang out.
67F and only 91%RH this fine day.
Welcome to the Catholic, Christian Feast of St. Valentine. Enjoy your pink fluff.
Dunno what kind of day we’re going to have, but take the reminder to focus on a loved one.
n
No one ever blames the kids or the culture.
Where ARE things going wrong? Damning report finds there are 23 public schools in Baltimore where NONE of the children understand basic math – as parents blame Dem-led city’s ‘fraud and corruption’
Although I’m certain fraud and corruption are present.
n
Who still watches FoxNews?
MSNBC Guest Suggests FOX News Viewers Are In A Cult And Need Deprogramming (VIDEO)
n
MSNBC segment producers stuck for topics since Trump left the White House.
The Mouse has learned nothing.
https://nypost.com/2023/02/06/critics-slam-disney-for-the-proud-family-anti-white-episode/
The time for “put up of shut up” on the subject of reparations is rapidly approaching.
The good: “I’m Batman” … and Danny Elfman’s score.
The bad: Gender swapped Superman.
The ugly: Ezra Miller.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vwaD9cHLNw
Any show we’re currently seeing, especially animated, but also anything with a lot of effects, will have been shot some time ago. Disney could pull the show, but they can’t change storylines in animation that’s already been done for months.
n
The approval for that show and the episode would have happened under Iger’s previous watch.
Disney deserves the continued beat down they’re getting. It is a long way down from a PE of 60, and work continues at full speed on Super Mario Land in Florida with nothing in the pipeline from The Mouse to counter.
Surely you didn’t forget about the retheme of Splash Mountain. That will solve all of the Earth’s problems. At least the mouse is fixing the mechanical aspects of the ride as well.
Oh, and Tron. But if the mouse handles ride queuing like they do for Guardians, then it will be another frustrating hot mess. I will likely never ride Tron, as I don’t see myself spending any more money there.
Yeah, I’m not excited to give them any money either, but we’re DVC members, and the kids have maybe one more visit in them before they’re “too old”. We’ve been “renting” our points for the last couple of times, rather than use them.
It all makes sense when you read the article linked here some time ago that Disney’s main customers are not couples with small children any more. With the absorption of all the other franchises, their main customer now is a 20 or 30 something childless adult. That’s a pretty profound change and I don’t think it’s penetrated the zeitgeist yet.
n
Why these clowns that call themselves designers get away with that crap is beyond my comprehension. Had I done such a show I would be hammered in the press and fashion world, probably face legal charges. I would be declared a pervert, put on a sexual offender list, banned with 1,000 yards of a school or daycare, my computer seized to look for unacceptable something.
Fashion designers are weird fags by any definition. Once their name is widely accepted, they can do anything they desire and it will be applauded. For anyone to question the design would be suicide among the fashion circles, a career ending move. Sheep following sheep.
If those outfits could be purchased, that $15.00 worth of electrical tape from Home Depot would sell for $10K or more.
DC really poked the pooch picking Ezra Miller for The Flash role. Another movie I’ll wait for the free version on the inner-tubes. That’s how I’ll reward wokeness.
Occasional spotting has turned into a very light drizzle. Heavy mist really. Not going to be at my storage unit in any case.
better start looking at the list…
n
–more battlespace preparation?
n
Out of a sort of anthropological curiosity I read this article. Yep, all of it. SWEET HOLY FLOCK.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11745699/JACI-STEPHEN-loathe-Valentines-Day-America-does-too.html
I’m kinda at a loss for words, but if this is what she’s really like, why the heII WOULD anyone come around?
The only thing she doesn’t mention is how long she’s been in therapy, and given the trendiness of that, I have to assume she isn’t getting any help if she doesn’t mention it.
Jebus H what a mess.
n
@Nick: Ever “work” the sub-antarctic?
https://gcaptain.com/ham-radio-team-reaches-worlds-most-remote-island/
@EdH, I’ll leave the space for the guys who need or want the contact to fill in a goal. I might try to listen though.
I usually only skim the DX sections of QST.
n
Re: Valentine’s Day. Before the first one rolled around when we were dating, my wife told me she doesn’t celebrate it. She didn’t expect flowers, gifts, or even a card. It was just another day. Thankfully, it wasn’t a trick. I save the flower money for our anniversary.
Re: Valentine’s Day. My bride of 42 years figures that she doesn’t need one day to celebrate love and romance, since we do that EVERY day.
Not at all unusual. See? It happens all the time….
This is starting to get out of hand.
n
In regard to the site outage last evening – the hosting place (DreamHost) had failures on two different database servers in one hosting center. One of those two servers are used by this place (and Barbara’s site).
There are no details on the cause of the issue. It did take them a while to recover, though. It only affected the sites using databases (the WordPress sites); the static pages were just fine. If you tried to access the site, you got the pretty ‘explosion’ image – which is shown when there are problems with some part of the hosting area.
I notice today they are having some other issues with their Virtual Private Servers, but it doesn’t appear that this site is on the servers that are having that issue.
The retheme doesn’t fit in Frontierland, but, yes, it is probably being rushed to answer the challenge in Orlando before Spring 2025 brings Super Mario and Donkey Kong to the heart of the convention district.
The really crazy rumor friends in Florida keep hearing is that Universal will have the capability to stage private events in the Nintendo attractions as early as next Summer. Who needs the authentic “Star Trek” experience that is the Galactic Starcruiser when you can play virtual Mario Kart?
“Star Wars” “Rise of the Resistance” has been running in degraded mode in Florida most of the time for over a year. You would think that priority would be fixing that ride, but The Mouse is hurting for cash.
Just finished renewing my ham license. What a PITA. Gotta create a new management account, then associate your FRN (the number the feds use to identify entities that hold licenses) to the new account, then fumble around until you find the page where you renew a license, then that bounces you back out to the new management site. From there you drill down a couple of levels, after logging in again, and finally get to somewhere that you can click on ‘pay or see my bills’… and you can pay the fee. Cluster doesn’t even begin to describe it, especially if you make an error or leave a required field blank. Firefox’s auto fill for credit cards doesn’t work either. For that matter, pasting into forms LOOKS like it works, but doesn’t actually.
It’s worse than godaddy.
n
If this spreads, an effective vax would have people lining up around the block. This is the real deal.
Nasty stuff.
n
Not at all unusual. See? It happens all the time….
This is starting to get out of hand.
I cannot tell if the died suddenly death rate has suddenly jumped or is normal. I have read several articles about the subject and watched a documentary on it also.
https://www.diedsuddenly.info/
Unfortunately, heart defects kill people suddenly and usually young. I have survived over 62 years without a right coronary artery but many people do not. Most heart defects do not show up until you are doing something strenuous or, sleeping peacefully at night. Single pump systems are the most efficient but they are prone to random failure without a backup system. I believe that God made our bodies more efficient so that he could give us bigger brains, I have actually researched the numbers.
How convenient that a Marburg vaccine trial showed promising results last month at the Army’s testing facility.
Fool me once … well, not me, I’m not jabbed …
We are never going to know for sure if something is wrong with the jabs. The official cover narrative may already be in place.
Show me the US stats on Comirnaty and Spikevax effectiveness and safety post approval.
Trade name vials, not the EUA doses.
I’ll wait.
It’s quieter today and a typical Monday…
n
Uh, it’s Tuesday?
My daughter and I are non-GMO human beings. So far as I can tell, everyone else in the families, natural or by marriage, has gotten the clot shot. None has expressed long-term health concerns to me, possibly because of a perfectly reasonable expectation of being told-you-so’d.
My daughter and I are non-GMO human beings. So far as I can tell, everyone else in the families, natural or by marriage, has gotten the clot shot. None has expressed long-term health concerns to me, possibly because of a perfectly reasonable expectation of being told-you-so’d.
My wife and I got the double Pfizer jab. One side effect is that we are continuously getting old.
Both of our kids skipped the jab. The conspiracy theorist known as number one son has many sayings about the jab.
Tyler Durden cowardice.
There is only one manufacturer of tanker cars in North America right now, a piece of trivia I’m sure won’t make this weekend’s release of The Gecko’s Shareholder Letter like it has in recent years.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/buttigieg-breaks-silence-ohio-train-derailment-after-backlash
It identifies as a Monday.
Four jabs for me and the spouse. No flu or covid. No side effects, either.
Other than that ‘getting old’ thing. Still happening.
Nice day here. Cold. Had a short small flurry of snowflakes last night, but didn’t stick here. Frost in the morning. Mostly blue sky now and 40F with a little bit of wind up to 10mph. Some whitecaps on the water out on the Strait.
Taking a break from web site programming. A couple of loads of laundry. Writing a story using the broad suggestion from the ChatGPT.
Have noticed that the left shift key is a bit flaky. OK when writing, as Word automatically capitalizes the first character of a sentence. Might need to clean up the keyboard. Don’t think it’s a side effect from the jab.
Until recently, I simply didn’t want to be told to get the jab by a pair of Yoga Pants as a condition to keep a job.
That was an issue at the last place, but never where I currently work. From what I understand, lots of Yoga Pants received layoff notices this week. So much for an liberal arts school diploma and a flexible morality keeping someone employed for life.
The last place had Clapper, poster child for flexible morality, on the board until Pinch’s Brood and The Post pulled the rug out from underneath him with the mea culpa about Hunter’s laptop. He disappeared from the company’s web site real fast.
BTW, I don’t know if it is deliberate or not, but the photo “Tyler Durden” chose of Mayor Pete really emphasizes the “Kim Darby in ‘True Grit’” resemblance.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/buttigieg-breaks-silence-ohio-train-derailment-after-backlash
I only knew Kim Darby from “Better Off Dead”, but then I saw the “True Grit” poster in the hangar-turned-movie theater at the LBJ Ranch after Christmas. Too funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heP3s725hSA
Jeesh, David Ogden Stiers was good.
“Love in the Time of AI: A Kurt Vonnegut Short Story”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/love-in-the-time-of-ai-a-kurt-vonnegut-short-story
“Hell, it’s about time someone told about my friend EPICAC. After all, he cost the taxpayers $776,434,927.54. They have a right to know about him, picking up a check like that. EPICAC got a big send off in the papers when Dr. Ormand von Kleigstadt designed him for the Government people. Since then, there hasn’t been a peep about him—not a peep. It isn’t any military secret about what happened to EPICAC, although the Brass has been acting as though it were. The story is embarrassing, that’s all. After all that money, EPICAC didn’t work out the way he was supposed to.”
A significant fraction of classified documents are classified because the information in them is embarrassing to a general or colonel. Not counting routinely-classified documents such as operations orders and intelligence estimates*, I’d SWAG it as a third of the classified documents that I saw.
* “Intelligence estimate” meaning briefings on what an enemy might do, which might involve signals intelligence or debriefings of defectors. It doesn’t mean estimates of the IQ of senior officers; that would fall under the heading of “embarrassing to a general or colonel”.
John Kerry didn’t release his military records until after the 2004 election.
Among other information, the file included Kerry’s Yale transcript and GPA, which was a point lower than Shrub’s “Gentleman’s C” average.
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4684384
BTW, Kerry served in Vietnam.
SteveF:
Half, at an absolute minimum.
Greg Norton: John Kerry’s “discharge” from the Navy was signed by the Board for Correction of Naval Records, not by the President.
Translation: He’d gotten a DD or BCD when he went AWOL from the Navy, and had his discharge upgraded by Jimmy Carter’s amnesty for draft dodgers and deserters after Vietnam. I had a friend who was jailed for refusing to report for induction, who later received an “honorable discharge” and a DD-214 stating that he’d exited the Air Force as an E2 after 2 years.
“The Best Science Fiction Books Written by Scientists” by Dan Livingston
https://best-sci-fi-books.com/the-best-science-fiction-books-written-by-scientists/
I have read “Startide Rising”, “Lucifer’s Hammer”, “The Forever War”, “I, Robot”, “Project Hail Mary” and “Rendezvous With Rama”. I have seen the “Contact” movie.
I would add “Flood (A Novel of the Flood)” by Stephen Baxter and “Warp Speed” by Travis S. Taylor.
Dilbert: Gaming Causes Violence
https://dilbert.com/strip/2023-02-14
I see no difference in Dogbert’s standard behavior.
Was that an explicit result of the pardon or was it possibly a paperwork screwup?
I found a number of significant errors in my Army personnel packet, some years later, presumably a result of going from paper to electronic. Not much to be done about it, not that the errors matter much. Similarly, my college transcripts (BS and MS) have significant errors. The BS transcript in particular was for someone who got the same degree in the same year, with the same mandatory courses, but the electives and the grades were simply not mine. Again, nothing to be done about it at this point but it probably doesn’t matter much.
WRT yesterday’s shutdown. I was very disappointed, I was going to login with a phony name and do some heavy trolling. But then I had to go to another forum.
“Interlude on Siliko 5: Perry Rhodan #59” by Kurt Brand, translated by Wendayne Ackerman
https://www.amazon.com/Interlude-Siliko-Perry-Rhodan-59/dp/0441660428?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number fifty-nine of a series of one hundred and thirty-six space opera books in English. The original German books, actually pamphlets, number in the thousands. The English books started with two translated German stories per book translated by Wendayne Ackerman and transitioned to one story per book with the sixth book. And then they transition back to two stories in book #109/110. The Ace publisher dropped out at #118, so Forrest and Wendayne Ackerman published books #119 to #136 in pamphlets before stopping in 1978. The German books were written from 1961 to present time, having sold two billion copies and even recently been rebooted again. I read the well printed and well bound book published by Ace in 1974 that I had to be very careful with due to age. I bought an almost complete box of Perry Rhodans a decade or two ago on ebay that I am finally getting to since I lost my original Perry Rhodans in The Great Flood of 1989. In fact, I now own book #1 to book #106, plus the Atlan books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Rhodan
BTW, this is actually book number 67 of the German pamphlets written in 1962. There is a very good explanation of the plot in German on the Perrypedia German website of all of the PR books. There is automatic Google translation available for English, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, French, and Portuguese.
https://www.perrypedia.de/wiki/Zwischenspiel_auf_Siliko_V
In this alternate universe, USSF Major Perry Rhodan and his three fellow astronauts blasted off in a three stage rocket to the Moon in 1971. The first stage of the rocket was chemical, the second and third stages were nuclear. After crashing on the Moon due to a strange radio interference, they discover a massive crashed alien spaceship with an aged male scientist (Khrest), a female commander (Thora), and a crew of 500. It has been over sixty-nine years since then and the Solar Empire has flourished with tens of millions of people and many spaceships headquartered in the Gobi desert, the city of Terrania. Perry Rhodan has been elected by the people of Earth to be the World Administrator.
Perry Rhodan and Thora were married a while after Perry found Thora’s Arkonide spaceship crashed on the Moon. They have a son whom they kept hidden from the Terranian population and from their son himself. Their son graduated from the Space Academy of the Solar Imperium at the age of 22, thinking he was without parents. Thora was going to attend the graduation ceremony but missed it due to the administrator moving the ceremony up two days and not telling her. Their son, Thomas Cardif, was immediately assigned to the squadron on the planet Rusuf.
Thora takes a new Gazelle spaceship and flies it out to Rusuf so she can observe her son in person. After she is put into a bungalow on the Terranian base by Colonel Julian Tifflor, the base is attacked by Arkonide robots and Thora is kidnapped.
BTW, whoever drew the cover for the Ace version of this book, Thora was quite pretty and dressed very skimpily. The German pamphlet cover is more like I envision Thora.
https://www.perrypedia.de/wiki/Datei:PR0067.jpg
Two observations:
1. Forrest Ackerman should have put two or three of the translated stories in each book. Having two stories in the first five books worked out well. Just having one story in the book is too short and would never allow the translated books to catch up to the German originals.
2. Anyone liking Perry Rhodan and wanting a more up to date story should read the totally awesome “Mutineer’s Moon” Dahak series of three books by David Weber.
https://www.amazon.com/Mutineers-Moon-Dahak-David-Weber/dp/0671720856?tag=ttgnet-20/
My rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars (1 reviews)
When my wife left her Florida employer, the clinic was about to undertake a massive conversion of medical records from paper to EMR, probably EPIC. Ultimately, however, I think the staff punted on a bunch of the files, and, for the last decade, when records were requested which weren’t available in the system, the clerical staff would respond that we had the physical records in WA State and, later, Texas.
Highly illegal and impossible.
As far as I know, no one has been fired or even reprimanded, but, since going to work at the VA, Federal lawyers get involved when inquiries go as far as actually tracking us down to see if we have the paper.
Sooner or later, someone is going to get fired. Hopefully sooner.
It’s not clear what’s going on here.
My first Epic project, we specifically left old records on paper. Only current patients were transcribed to Epic; it was a big job. There was a bit of JIT to it; we were abstracting records of patients who were on the schedule for clinics in the coming month.
But the
Medical RecordsHIM department could always access the old paper files if legally necessary; it would just take a while. Sounds like your Florida people are just lying.You don’t have to keep the records forever, legally. There are laws about that. I suppose they vary state-by-state.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
A combination of Amish and white trash managed by a third world attitude who married a documented slumlord and reputed local [nationality omitted] gangster for his money.
>> Yeah, I’m not excited to give them any money either, but we’re DVC members, and the kids have maybe one more visit in them before they’re “too old”. We’ve been “renting” our points for the last couple of times, rather than use them.
Is DVC a timeshare? And if so, is it like other timeshares that you own “forever?” (A Google search gave a mixed response.)
>> It identifies as a Monday.
Yeah, but what are it’s pronouns?
Alright ! Our far left county judge wants to build a homeless residential center here in Fort Bend County for 1,500 families. I can just imagine what that will look like, probably 15 stories. The cops will only go inside in groups of six or more. Things will be thrown off the balconies, hopefully not human.
Yes, a PRC (public residential complex).
BTW, every time our county judge builds something, the developers show up and throw money into his campaign pot. He just got through building a 10,000 seat air conditioned theater and has nothing scheduled for it yet. He did not go through the voters (us) to get it approved since he used slight of hand to get the $130 million to build it. I am fairly sure that he used our road bond money which was recently increased to over a billion dollars.
https://thefortbendepicenter.com/
And the latest legal wrangling re the RUST cases…
Alec Baldwin Slammed By Santa Fe D.A. For Trying To “Distract” From Fatal ‘Rust’ Shooting With “Fancy Lawyers” & New Motions – Update
Contentious discussion in the Comments.
KJP assures us that no aliens or extra-terrestrials were involved in the last three shootdowns.
Glad that’s settled.
@Greg
You must not have recognized her from “Miri”, the original Star Trek episode featuring one of the most poignant lines ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfgqP4M2XAs
But the one you must see is “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” with Jim Hutton.
“Return Of The Rifleman: The Next Generation Squad Weapons Program”
https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/return-of-the-rifleman-the-next-generation-squad-weapons-program/
“The U.S. Army makes a move toward longer-range, harder-hitting small arms, paired with high-tech optics and suppressors, to give the American infantryman the advantage over the enemy.”
So the new 6.8×51 mm polymer high energy cartridge with a 135 grain bullet is a done deal now. One of the reasons for the new cartridge is the fact that most armies are wearing body armor now.
And optics and suppressors are a very good thing. The only problem with the suppressor is there is no place to mount a bayonet.
One downside is that the magazines are being reduced from 30 rounds to 20 rounds due to the weight. So, if the standard load out is seven magazines, then that will be 140 rounds instead of 210 rounds. I am not sure what to think about that.
@Lynn
Taylor has written a number of good books, but none better than Von Neumann’s War with John Ringo.
Yes. In theory, getting out of DVC is easier than, say, Westgate, but it is still a timeshare at heart.
As the company heads into a relative decline and skimps on maintenance in the brutal environment of Central Florida, it will be interesting to see what happens to the DVC.
WRT a certain paucity of comments, I meant that today, Tuesday’s, volume was lower than even a normal Monday. And FWIW, I thought it was WEDNESDAY all day…
WRT medical records, I would really like to know some of the things that were done to me as a child, that are [presumably] long gone.
WRT Computerizing records, when Illinois state computerized their court records the often failed to include the case resolution… leading me to have to talk my way OUT of being denied entry to Canadia some 30 years later. They also fat fingered the charge from xxx.A to xxx.B, with the mistake being a more sinister offense. This is why you REALLY need physical documents for some things, and you need to KEEP THEM.
Did one pickup, hit the Goodwill, did some grocery shopping, had dinner with the family, ingested an enormous amount of sugar, and will probably be crashing shortly.
n
Re: comment volume today…. it is Valentine’s Day, after all.
Perhaps the ‘regulars’ here were busy heading to the local CVC to get the gifts they forgot about.
DVC is a timeshare, sorta, and I think you get 99 years max. Disney has right of first refusal when you sell, and you can ‘rent’ your points to someone else (and borrow some to get more nights or stay at a better resort) or sell privately. Usually a better deal to sell privately instead of using their exchange.
You buy a certain number of nights at a particular resort, and get a pool of ‘points’ that is equivalent to that stay. You don’t have to use your points at your home resort, during your nominal stay time though, like a trad time share. And you can buy more points (from Disney or a private seller) and they can either be attached to a particular resort and days, or not. Points can be loaned, borrowed, sold, or bought, and combined. Plus you can ‘borrow’ from yourself once every two years.
That’s what we do. We bought only enough points to stay a part week, so we borrow next year’s points to get a full week every two years.
There are a lot of permutations and since the different resorts cost differently and give different points (and take different point values when used) there are some ways to game the system. Our home resort and dates gave the most points for the dollar, and we can use them at any of the resorts, so we actually got more for our money than someone buying Christmas week at Baylake Towers… of course, they are guaranteed Christmas week at a really nice resort because of that. Using your points outside your home resort and time is subject to availability.
And if all that sounds very confusing, it is, and that’s why I let my wife and siblings manage the whole process.
n
(and I could be wrong about most of the details listed, but that is the gist…)
to get the gifts they forgot about.
– last night my wife told me the walgreens store was out of ‘husband’ cards but well stocked with ‘wife’ cards. The HEB today still had a few ‘husband’ cards, but almost no ‘wife’ cards. My wife almost got a card in spanish…
We did ‘breakfast for dinner’ instead of a steak or lamb meal. Waffles with bacon crumbles inside, and real maple syrup, lots of butter. Freshly cooked bacon strips on the side. Yum.
n
>”Is DVC a timeshare? And if so, is it like other timeshares that you own “forever?””
My experience with a timeshare is that it is more like I am leasing it, as the annual fee makes my week long stay just a reasonable deal, rather than being a minor fee that covers maid service and maintenance. I don’t think it is worth paying much for one.
Damn that NM DA is dumb. She desperately wants to distract from the fact they unconstitutionally charged Baldwin with something that wasn’t a crime when he did it.
And using language like “everyone – even celebrities with fancy attorneys – is held accountable under the law”” should be prejudicial enough to move for a change of venue at the least…
Does the DA really want to be on record saying that defendants shouldn’t be able to get competent and effective legal representation?
Jeez.
n
>”WRT medical records, I would really like to know some of the things that were done to me as a child, that are [presumably] long gone.”
When my pediatrician retired sometime during or after my college years, he gave my mother a stack of notes that apparently constituted all of his records for me. If I didn’t remember most of it myself, it would be hard to reconstruct what happened between the poor handwriting and terseness. I recommend that everyone keep their own medical diary and fill it out in detail. That would also cover various incidents and maladies that did not require commercial medical care. The value of being your own historian is often realized too late, when your memory is fading. That applies to much more than medical records.
Regarding Dan Livingston’s latest list:
The Best Science Fiction Books Written by Scientists
He does not define “scientist”. S. L. Huang has a BS in Mathematics, so by inference it would seem that a BS is sufficient.
On that basis he missed at least a few of considerable note:
Michael Crichton and Alan E. Nourse, both with undergraduate B.S. degrees prior to the MD.
L. Sprague de Camp
Stanley Schmidt (better known as an editor)
Vernor Vinge
Heinlein did not have a degree (wiki:”In 1929, he graduated from the Naval Academy with the equivalent of a bachelor of arts in engineering (the Academy did not at the time confer degrees)”) but certainly practiced as an engineer during WWII.
Which in turn begs the question: Are engineers scientists?
For the purposes of this list, it would seem so, since most undergraduate engineering degrees are B.S.
I’ll simply start adding engineers with perhaps the most famous:
E.E. “Doc” Smith, PhD
And several more come to mind:
John W. Campbell
Leo Frankowski
I ordered roses last week at the local independent flower shop and picked them up this afternoon.
I used to get roses at HEB, but the local shop isn’t much more expensive, and the flowers are nicer.
Which in turn begs the question: Are engineers scientists?
For the purposes of this list, it would seem so, since most undergraduate engineering degrees are B.S.
I would not classify myself as scientist as I have a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M. I write and sell chemical / mechanical engineering software.
I am debugging Fortran in one window today. And I am debugging C++ in another window. I am just about ready to go blind.
Scientists do science ie. looking for new things, better understanding of new and old things.
Engineers build things. They use the output of science but do not ‘do’ science.
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because I say so, that’s why.
SteveF:
He told me that it was a result of the Carter amnesty for draft dodgers, refusers, and deserters. All those people got honorable “discharges” and access to veterans’ benefits. When he found out about it, years later, he started wearing a “USAF Veteran” ballcap.
>> Alright ! Our far left county judge wants to build a homeless residential center here in Fort Bend County for 1,500 families. I can just imagine what that will look like, probably 15 stories. The cops will only go inside in groups of six or more. Things will be thrown off the balconies, hopefully not human.
Where are these 1,500 families now? Homeless? Waiting en Mexico?
>> Perhaps the ‘regulars’ here were busy heading to the local CVC to get the gifts they forgot about.
CVC?
>> last night my wife told me the walgreens store was out of ‘husband’ cards but well stocked with ‘wife’ cards. The HEB today still had a few ‘husband’ cards, but almost no ‘wife’ cards. My wife almost got a card in spanish…
Decent VD cards were still available at Trader Joe’s on Sunday for the grand sum of $1. Stack a few… if you think you’ll be able to find them next year… and you plan to keep her for a while longer…
>> Alright ! Our far left county judge wants to build a homeless residential center here in Fort Bend County for 1,500 families. I can just imagine what that will look like, probably 15 stories. The cops will only go inside in groups of six or more. Things will be thrown off the balconies, hopefully not human.
Where are these 1,500 families now? Homeless? Waiting en Mexico?
I guess hotels, families, friends, foster children aging out, etc. Yup I would not be surprised if half of them are illegals. There are reputedly 40 million illegals wandering around the USA now.
>> Perhaps the ‘regulars’ here were busy heading to the local CVC to get the gifts they forgot about.
CVC?
Gotta be CVS.