Winning an election, Illinois style:
I’ve said it before: never trust an Illinois politician. No politician who has gone through the Illinois machine should be allowed to hold national office. No good will come of that.
Seems there’s more excitement up Ottawa way:
Apparently at least three separate shooting incidents, including *in* the Canadian National War Memorial on Parliament Hill. One Canadian soldier was apparently intentionally targeted. A gun battle of sorts in the Parliament Building itself. Multiple shooters, at least two, possibly three.
So… let the speculating begin! Who could be behind this?
UPDATE: CNN’s current chattering head keeps saying that there’s no evidence that this is Surt Worshipper Terrorism. But she also just said that the FBI is apparently going to a much higher level of readiness, due to “chatter.”
UPDATE 2: Looking more and more like there was just the one shooter. And who was he? He was one “Michael Zihaf Bibeau.” What dow we know about him so far? Guess. Go on, guess.
Further progress.
Just in Britain though. Gah.
http://www.bfi.org.uk/whats-on/bfi-film-releases/2001-space-odyssey
The trailer put together for this re-release is pretty spiffy:
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It seems that one “Martin Couture-Rouleau,” who became “radicalized” and changed his name to Ahmad, ran down two Canadian soldiers who were walking along a road near a shopping area in Quebec, killing one. The Surt worshipper then led the police on a chase and was shot dead, which is the only good part of the story.
More details and photos here:
And here:
Several days after the event, there are, so far as I’ve seen, still no good images from NASA. Feh. But here’s an interesting video from a mountaintop telescope in Tenerife showing the comet sliding by. Mars is *seriously* overexposes, but that’s a sad necessity in order to spot the comet. Interesting “flare” presumably due to the tail interacting with the atmosphere.
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It has been a good long while since I’ve worked on this. But now that my arm has regained functionality and I’ve gotten THESE out of the way (come on, folks, buy up!), I’m back to working on the “Deep Impact” Messiah model for Fantastic Plastic.
Note: Some photoetch is pretty much inevitable for this kit. But there are some parts, I’m thinking mainly of the structural supports that hold the “outrigger” boosters, that would benefit from something like laser-cut aluminum parts about 1/8 inch thick. Is this even remotely feasible on a budget? Anyone know anything about such things?
And now, back to Ferguson, MO:
In short: Mike Brown got his blood onto Officer Wilsons car and uniform… which tends to corroborate the cops story that Brown had reached into Wilsons cruiser and was fighting him.
Whoopsie.
What does that mean? Well, lessee:
“If there is not an indictment, excuse my French, all hell is going to break loose.”
So either way, injustice. If there is an indictment in order to appease the mob, it’s an injustice. If there is not indictment because the evidence supports the cops story, there’ll be more rioting and destruction… thus, mob-based injustice. Spec-tacular.
When I briefly lived in Maryland in 2008, Raedthinn figured out that he could open closed doors. This was because the apartment had those ADA-approved handles, rather than round knobs. Once he figured that out, keeping him contained became something of a chose. And once we got back here with knobs, he became an Angry Cat… he knew that he *should* be able to open doors, but the knobs defeated his ability to grip and turn (he does know how they’re supposed to work, he just can’t work ’em). And that frustrated/annoyed him to no end.
Cats might not be tool makers, but they can often manipulate the world around them to suit their purposes. And many of them, like Raedthinn and the cat in this video, are smart enough to figure out how some things are put together, so that they know *how* to manipulate the world around them to get what they want.
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An interesting graphical way to depict the relative abundance of elements on the surface of the Earth (not the universe at large… in which case it would be a whole lot of hydrogen,a little bit of helium and a speck of the rest).
This was posted at THIS TWITTER ACCOUNT, which is more full of intersting science and math stuff than a Twitter account really should be.