The old 1/32 scale Renwall Blueprint model of the M65 “Atomic Annie” cannon with prime movers has been re-released by Revell. I’ve spoken to a local hobbyshop owner who believed that there won’t be many of these made.
I *still* think these would be neato next to a 1/32 scale SICBM Hard Mobile Launcher…
Some may have noticed that the blog was a blank slate for about the last 8 hours. This occurred while I was in the process of trying to edit the blog to add the Amazon search thingie to the blog page itself (I’ve tried before to no avail). Not only did the public face of the blog vanish, but so did all the editing pages. So I couldn’t fix *anything*. I had to resort to getting the web host to revert the entire blog to a version from several hours earlier. So far it looks ok, but I don’t know if it’s actually all here. For all I know, stuff may have gotten lost or corrupted in the process. Getting them to replace the extant blog with a several-hours-older version cost money, more than I would’ve liked to have spent. So, once again… feel free to hit that “donate” button.
I actually foresaw something like this coming down the pike, so a week or two back I spent even *more* money and bought me a few more domain names. Right now there’s nothing in any of them, but my plan is to break my online enterprises apart. Right now there’s photos, docs & drawings, APR, models, and the blog that has all those plus random junk and rants. When it’s all up and running up-ship.com/blog and the Unwanted Blog will remain, and will remain the cluttered, confusing and cumbersome monstrocity, but there will be specific webpages for other stuff. The Unwanted Blog will remain where I put *everything,* but as with the “artbyearthlings” blog, the other pages will have their own blogs that have just their specific areas of interest. So there’ll be an APR blog that has all the “projects” stuff that currently goes on the Unwanted Blog, but without the cat photos, political rants, attempts at humor, etc.
I’m hoping to figure out how to copy over the Unwanted Blog to, say, the APR blog and just cut out everything that shouldn’t be there, so the APR blog will start off with about 80 pages of projects stuff right from the get-go. But as we’ve seen, my attempts at making my blogs better have not exactly been spectacularly successful.
And before I forget:
Normally I’d assume that this was a lame stab at humor, but her presentation is serious as a heart attack:
Roseanne: Rich Should Be Beheaded If They Don’t Give Up Wealth
“I, first, would allow the guilty bankers to pay back anything over $100 million (in) personal wealth, because I believe in the maximum wage of $100 million. If they’re unable to live on that amount, they should go to re-education camps. And if that doesn’t help, then be beheaded.”
The fuller context here is lacking. Again, I’m assuming that this was some form of humor. But even if so… imagine a right-winger suggesting that George Soros should be beheaded, or that those on welfare should go to re-education camps.
I’m going to take another stab at “monetizing” the blog (i.e. loading ‘er up with ads and such). After the fiasco with Google Adsense, I got kinda soured on it, but it’s time to try again. Still figuring out the whichness of the whut on this, so it may or may not be a few days before things happen (if ever).
I’m looking at several different non-Google-Adsense companies for this. In doing so I did some searching on the general concept of how one makes money with a blog… along with ads, the usual suggestions are “sell stuff” (gee, ya think?), and “beg for money.” Hmm. Haven’t tried that latter approach in a while. Never really worked in the past, but what the hell: please send me money. If’n ya like the blog and the stuff I offer, hit that “Donate” button off to the right. If, on the other hand, you massively disagree with my politics or whatever… then clearly the best way for you to demonstrate your superiority would be to hit that “Donate” button and dump such a vast pile of cash on me that I become convinced that your way is clearly the right way.
Yeah. That’ll work.
By the way: I can jam an Amazon search box into any old post, like so…
But what I *want* to do is jam the same search box into the sidebar to the right. Efforts to do so have so far been spectacularly unsuccessful. It would be monumentally *lame* to just keep cramming this into posts, but at this stage I’ve become rather inured to lame.
1975 Boeing concept drawings, copied pretty much directly from a Rockwell study from 1971, for a space station to orbit the moon and serve as a way-station for surface exploration. Max crew of 8 in an 111 km circular lunar-polar orbit. The surface operations would be sorties of four men lasting up to one month. The lunar landers (derived from orbital tugs) would be single-stage, reusable and capable of hauling a fair amount of cargo.
Plugging away on details now.
