Had someone ask for the Saturn V large format cyanotype I used to produce. While I have some remaining cyanotypes, the Sat V’s are gone. If there’s some interest, I’ll make a short run.
UPDATE: Sold.
some more books. As before, I’m starting off by selling these as a single lot. If you are interested, let me know via email or comment. If nobody wants the lot, I’ll start breaking it up in a day or two.
The total of all the individual books here is $116. If you want the lot, the price is $90 plus postage, which if you’re in the US, will probably be about $15 for media mail.
“Victory Through Air Power” by Seversky, 1942. Good shape, no dust jacket. $4.00
“Royal Air Force Flying Review,” hardbound collection, some exterior water stains but otherwise intact, Volume XVII, #1-12, 1961-2. $25.00
“US Fighters,” by Jones, 1975. $4.00
“Aviation, The complete story of mans conquest of the air,” by Gunston, 1978, hardbound, torn dust jacket. $3.00
“Huey,” by Drendel, hardbound, slightly torn dust jacket, 1983. $9.00
“Gunships A Pictorial history of Spooky,” by Davis. hardbound, dust jacket in good shape, 1982. $5.00
“Pedigree of Champions, Boeing since 1916,” softbound, Boeing, 1963. $4.00
“727 Fuel Burn Executive Summary,” Boeing, 1982. $6.00
“757 Tail Strike Assessment,” Boeing, 1990, $6.00
“Tail Strike Event Analysis,” Boeing, 1991. $6.00
“767 Advanced Composites,” Boeing, 1981. $6.00
” Large Jet Aircraft Operation on Unsurfaced Fields,” Boeing, 1964. $6.00
“Leading Edge Development Program,” General Dynamics, 1987. $6.00
“Status Report 707/727/737 Division -Renton,” Boeing, 1972. $6.00
“Boeing 747 Cargo and Baggage Systems,” Boeing, 1967. $6.00
“Soaring Eagles McDonnell-Douglas F-15,” by Scutts, 1990. Hardbound, great shape, $4.00
“Modern Warplanes,” by Richardson, hardbound, 1982, great shape. $4.00
“757 Facility and Equipment Planning,” Boeing, 1982 $6.00
There is a long tradition in literature & film of single-sex environments. Off the top of my head, “male-only” societies tend to be places like prisons, penal colonies, industrial facilities, military facilities or ships. Those places where he men know that they will be in a male-only society *forever,* such as prisons, tend to be grim, hopeless places where the male characters either live only to escape, or live only because it’s simply in their nature to fight till the end.
On the other hand, “women-only” societies seem to be more common as fantasy & sci-fi situations, and tend to be shown as much happier places, often utopias *because* there are no evil horrible nasty no-good men around.
Now, we know a few things about male-only societies, for the simple fact that the real world provides them. Prisons and naval ships are real things. Female-only societies have been fewer and more tenuous… the occasional womens prison, of course, and towns where all the men left to go fight a war or something (but this is invariable a temporary situation).
Male-only prisons *are* grim places, especially for straight males. A colony on a distant alien world where the *one* colony ship crashed and all the womens cryo-storage tubes were mashed into a hillside would, it seems to me, be a profoundly joyless place. But we keep seeing tales of women-only utopias, like in the recent “Wonder Woman.”
But would a society truly dominated by women really be a utopia? Here’s where things get tricky for Social Justice Warriors. On the one hand, they keep yapping on about how there are no fundamental differences between men and women, and thus the relative dearth of da wimmins in STEM fields is due to social issues, not biological ones. On the other hand, they keep demanding that women get a shot to run the show, because they’d be better at it.
Buh.
Now, here’s an observation I’ve made over the years, one that has been backed up by both men and women: men and women are different. One of the ways in which we’re different is in how we deal with rivals. *Generally,* men *tend* to be more open about rivalries, sometimes up to and including the likes of arguing, yelling at each other, threats and finally physical conflict. Sometimes one or both of the men is a true asshole, in which case anything could happen; but in many cases, once the two had hashed it out… it’s *done.* Sometimes lifelong friendships are built on an initial beatdown. This appears a *lot* in literature, from Gilgamesh and Enkidu throwing down, to Arthur and Lancelot going at it, to Robin Hood and Little John, to, one of my favorites, Sean Thornton and Will Danaher making a mess of the Irish countryside.
Women, on the other hand, seem to have a different approach to rivalries. Sometimes it gets physical, resulting in the legendary “catfight,” but mostly it *seems* to involve a sort of acidic passive aggressive fake friendship. Smiles all around but with gossipy stabs in the back. Poison in the drink rather than a punch to the face.
But hey, I’m a guy. I’m not supposed to be allowed to have an opinion on matters such as this; I’m certainly not supposed to express an opinion that goes beyond “I think all women are the equal to all men in all things and at all times and please stop asking me about which woman I think would win the world titles in boxing and the UFC.” So, here’s a woman’s take on the subject:
The Myth of the Peaceful Woman
So what would a world made up totally of women really be like? It would be tyrannical beyond belief. No one would be willing to speak against the accepted narrative unless they were willing to be unpersoned or killed. Think of a mix between 1984, the very worst social aspects of socialist regimes, and the Borg. There would be constant pushing for position, usually by starting whisper campaigns or setting someone above oneself up to be badly embarrassed. Look at the SJWs of today’s world and see how they operate. That’s what it would look like, writ large across the entire planet. They attack anyone outside the group who doesn’t comply with their demands, and if someone inside the group says a single word out of line according to the ever-shifting standards the entire group turns on them without mercy. The only way to get back in their good graces is to loudly proclaim your “sin” and accept their abuse until they get bored of you. Even afterward, you’ll forever be “tainted” with the sin of noncompliance.
The comments section of that blog post, unlike the vast majority of comments sections are the internet, is full of reasoned discussion and some pretty good points.
This looks like it has considerable potential. If there’s anything more ripe for comedy than the death of a socialist dictator, I don’t know what it is.
My evening went in a whole different direction than what I’d wanted, with the sort of results a non-sociopath should expect. Fortunately, you can always rely on the news to bring you the most uplifting scenes of destruction, like this one out of Austin, Texas back in July:
The woman driving the car apparently hit the gas rather than the brakes, plowed through the cable barrier and plunged *seven* stories. Since she survived, I guess that’s a seat-belt-and-air-bag success story. Doesn’t exactly say great things about that barrier system, though.
Junior was, as far as cats go, kind of an asshole. He hissed at me every time he saw me. He wouldn’t let me near him. If I tried to touch him, he’d try to swat me, claws out. He was terribly ungrateful even when I cracked open a cat of wet food for him.
Still, he was a cat.
Like the cat in February, he was hit by a car. Like that cat, I sat with him as he died. Unlike that cat, it was mercifully brief. And then I buried him in my back yard as he thunder started rolling in.
He was not *my* cat, he lived free in the world. But he is why *my* cats will, so long as I have anything to say about it, live safely indoors, for a long, long time.
Junior was the last of the outside cats around here. There was a time when my house was the center of attention for a *lot* of cats, always litters of kittens showing up. But now those days are done, and the world is a little less for it.
Well, this feller sounds like fun:
Muslim Professor at CA University: “Genocide” of White Racists “Morally Required”
Also:
“Morally Required Genocide”
The latter one is written by one David Cole, a “Holocaust revisionist.” In other words, a dumbass. But he did interview the professor in question, and raises some interesting points. The professor expands the definition of “genocide” rather broadly to include wiping out “ways of life,” so that the United States stomping the the CSA flat and exterminating their slave-holding way of life was “genocide.” Well, ok. But if we accept that as a valid definition of “genocide,” then the current wave of invasion into Europe, with some regions having their prior culture being remade in the image of the newcomers… isn’t *that* genocide?
You expand the definition of politically loaded worlds at your own peril.
Hmm.
Get ready for the ‘tech alt-right’ to gain power and influence in Silicon Valley
The author proposes that one of the results of Googles firing of Jame Damore will be an emboldening of those who work in the tech sector and who are “alt-right” or just plain conservative, including suggestion that alt-righties will actually pretend to be SJWs in order to sort of destroy the system from within. I don’t know about all that, but I think it’s reasonable to imagine that one result of this will be that Damore winds up with a good chunk of Googles money.
This is the sort of thing you’d think we’d already have:
Goodbye, MiG: Boeing, General Dynamics Debut Anti-Aircraft Stryker
It can pack:
- AI-3s, a ground-launched version of the AIM-9 missiles used by US fighters, with significantly better range and maximum altitude than the old Stinger.
- Longbow Hellfires, originally an anti-tank missile, made famous as the favored weapon of the Predator drone, and suitable for both ground targets and low-flying aircraft like helicopter gunships.
- Hydra 2.75 inch guided rockets;
- 0.50 caliber machineguns;
- and even low-powered lasers capable of burning out quadcopters and other small drones.