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The Unwanted Blog

Buttons & Abby June 28, 2025
Buttons is about 16. While nowhere near the oldest a cat can get, it is, sad to say, old for a cat. All my prior cats made it to 10 or at best 11, so Buttons has outlasted them all. And sadder to say, he has some medical issues that, left unchecked, will end him […]
Ebay is getting expensive June 23, 2025
For about 20 years I’ve been buying aerospace documentation on ebay. For a good chunk of those I’ve crowdfunded the purchases of really expensive stuff. And by “really expensive” I’ve meant something like “hundreds of dollars for a single report.” Split the purchase price between one or two dozen people, send all of them high-rez […]
200 K June 23, 2025
Sadly not $200,000 or 200,000 followers willing to do my bidding, but 200,000 miles on my car a few days ago. Not much of a milestone I suppose, but it’s what I got.
Hello? Is this thing still on? June 23, 2025
Yeesh, it’s been months since I’ve blog posted much of anything. Of course all my yapping is now done at Twitter (@UnwantedBlog), where I post a handful of things a day. But even with that, I write a hell of a lot less than during my blogging days. It’s a lot easier to tweet. Question: […]
April 2025 APR rewards May 2, 2025
Rewards for April, 2025 have been released. These include: Document: “Performance Data Report for Class VF Convoy Fighter Airplane,” Convair report from 1950. 100 pages of data (no diagrams) on what would become the XFY-1 “Pogo.” Document: “Hard Mobile Launcher” Martin Marietta brochure on the Midgetman launcher, with some bonus Martin Marietta HML info and […]
Norspiel February 23, 2025
Now scanning: “Norspiel,” rules book for a wargame created at Northrop Aircraft in 1957. Not the usual sort of thing I go after, but it seems interesting. I wasn’t able to find anything online about it other than the ebay listing, so it may be new to the wargaming world. I’m not a wargamer (not […]
The 80’s reign supreme February 22, 2025
Everyone is nostalgic for the days of their youth and think that “those years were the best.” But I really believe a good case can be made that the 80’s and well into the 90’s were in many ways the pinnacle of our culture. Pop culture was almost undeniably at it’s zenith. We still had […]
Einstein Ring February 12, 2025
This is worth noting: Einstein Was Right – Euclid Just Captured Space-Time Warping in a Perfect Cosmic Ring Which references: Euclid: A complete Einstein ring in NGC 6505
Last day for eBay February 8, 2025
Got some stuff on eBay that might be of interest, but the auctions end in less than 24 hours: Hawk Beta I Atomic Powered Bomber XAB-1 model kit, complete https://www.ebay.com/itm/256801825475 Diamond Select/Art Asylum NCC 1701 USS Enterprise HD Edition https://www.ebay.com/itm/256801824805 Diamond Select/Art Asylum NCC 1701 USS Enterprise “Where No Man Has Gone […]
January 2025 APR rewards February 4, 2025
Rewards for January 2025 have just been sent out. They include: CAD: Lockheed-Martin RATTLRShypersonic missile ART: Douglas Nike-Zeus advertising artwork Doc: 1987 Martin-Marietta “Titan II Program Familiarization – Titan II Training & Certification.” Well illustrated guide to the Titan II launch system. Doc: University of Michigan report: “The Radar Cross Section of B-70 Aircraft,” 1960. […]