Some recently unveiled helicopter mockups look promising, but they are just mockups. Build them, test them, prove them out… and if they work as advertised, put them into mass production ASAP before the Chinese stamp out ten thousand cheap copies.
Just naw.
Ticklishness is not a feature I look for in a phone.
Good jorb, California:
If a freelance journalist writes for a magazine, newspaper or other entity whose central mission is to disseminate the news, the law says, that journalist is capped at writing 35 “submissions” per year per “putative employer.” At a time when paid freelance stories can be written for a low end of $25 and high end of $1 per word, some meet that cap in a month just to make end’s meet.
Huh.
This sure seems like a massive violation of the First Amendment, and thus should get smacked down by the Supreme Court. But then…in California pistol and rifle magazines are capped at ten rounds, so clearly the Supreme Court is cool with California putting limits on the things otherwise free people can do. Still, this *really* seems like more of a Britlander law than an American one. But it’s a California law, so…
An obvious solution presents itself, for those freelancers who can pull it off. Write the twenty stories that you normally crank out in two weeks… then submit them as one solid block. Not optimal, of course; journalism is often about what’s happening Right Now, and waiting days to weeks to turn in a story would be a killer. Another alternative: break California up into five states, one of which being a strip from San Fran down the coast past Los Angeles. Let CalCoast pass whatever craziness they want and let everyone else live like regular folks.
If you have a half hour and a whole lot of excess brain cells to kill, have I got a simple solution for you…
What he did was technically illegal. Time for the jury to be reminded of the concept of “jury nullification.”
Hah. This is so good dude, I’m so glad to see the view from below. pic.twitter.com/XuMavivG4q
— Micah|Micycle 🎃 (@Micycle444) October 19, 2019
Protesting is fine. But when your form of protest is to block the streets like this, you are IMO illegally detaining random citizens… essentially, you’re kidnapping or hijacking them.
I found the comparison interesting. Consider first “In Maidjan” by the musical group Heilung, sung live in 2017.
Then consider “Wolf Totem” by the Mongolian group “The HU,” the video of which dates from 2018. The two songs seem to sound a lot alike.
And they’re both FRICKEN’ AWESOME. That there is man-music, baby.
And if anyone starts yapping on about “cultural appropriation” with Heilung’s use of throat-singing, take it up with The HU’s appropriation of western instruments and American biker gangs.
UPDATE: AUCTION HAS ENDED.
Here are some things that I think *should* be of considerable interest. If you are indeed interested in making a bid, send it via email to: 
Buyer is responsible for postage, which for most of these can be Media Mail for low cost. Auction will end 48 hours after I put this post online. Items and photos after the break…
OK, the sale is over. Most items did *not* sell out, but I am now no longer in a position to package and mail stuff off. Consider this an archive post.
UPDATE: AUCTION HAS ENDED.
For sale to the highest bidder… a lot of 1/40 scale (same as the vintage Topping display model) X-15’s, mostly X-5A-3 stretched delta-winged configurations. These are solid-cast resin models that I worked on a number of years ago. From left to right:
1: An incomplete model with the Marquardt SERJ airbreathing engine
2: An incomplete X-15A-3 with upward-swept wingtip fins
3: An incomplete X-15A-3, missing fins.
4 & 5: Completed, painted and decaled X-15A-3 models
6: A vintage Topping X-15 model.One of the horizontal stabilizers had broken off, and repairs were underway.
These are, again, incomplete (except for #4&5), but a decently skilled modeler could finish the job. What you see in the photos is what you get. Except the dust. I’ll blow that off. The level of dustiness might give an indication of how long these have been sitting abandoned. Buyer also pays postage by whatever means desired. If you’d like to bid, send an email to: Bidding ends 48 hours after this is posted. There won’t be any more of these, at least not from me: the molds are not only old, they are now in a landfill.
Well, there goes my stuff. Some of my very worst stuff in one truck, just about all of my very best in the other.
I am exhausted.