Hulu has ordered 20 new episodes to begin airing in 2023. Huh.
‘Futurama’ Revived at Hulu
Huzzah!
Feb 092022
Feb 092022
Weird thing is, apparently I did it before. I tried to sign up and was informed that the email address I planned to use was *already* associated with a twitter account. Huh. Musta been a good long while ago, as I have no recollection of that. (Anybody know how to figure out what the username associated with that might be?)
Anyway, my plan is to use it solely as a blog backup of sorts, and a way to maintain contact when next the blog goes belly up.
I guess this is me now:
Sigh.
And so the degradation begins. Soon, TikTok. And then an Only Fans. Uuuuuuuugh.
Feb 092022
The “Luty” is a submachinegun designed by a British feller specifically as a form of protest… a protest against British anti-gun laws. The goal was to show that an average person with minimal skills and access to s basic workshop and some off the shelf hardware could make a functional 9mm submachinegun. I’ve seen a lot of people talk about this gun, but few actually go to the bother of building it. And it turns out that following the directions does result in a functional firearm, though not a particularly *good* one. It might be interesting to sic a decent gunsmith onto it, and modify the design to make it a better weapon. Better trigger, better magazine retention and basic rifled barrel.
As it is, it’s a poor firearm. But a poor firearm is better than no firearm in a situation where the badguys – criminals and/or oppressive government agents – are better armed than the citizenry. As with the old “Liberator” pistol, a Luty can be used as a way to shop for better guns.
Feb 092022
A number of people earlier today noticed that up-ship.com and the blog both seemed to have vanished. This occurred promptly after IT fixed a *previous* issue, one where if you came to the site using “https” rather than “http” your browser gave you a security warning. Fix one problem, incur another, worse one. But things now seem to be back up and running.
But it will happen again. It *always* happens again.
So once again I’m faced with a dire prospect: signing on to some form of social media, such as twitter, as a way to maintain some sort of online presence the next time the blog goes kerblooey. Every time it happens, I get messages from people worried that I’ve yoinked the blog, or it has been hacked, or I’ve died. The second issue has happened before, and I do fully expect that one of these days I’ll die (I haven’t yet, but looking at the track record of humanity, the verified list of actual immortals is pretty thin)… but it’ll likely take more than a few days for my website to get scrubbed after I keel over.
So… anybody have preferences/suggestions as far as social media platforms? All I’m interested in is something where I can post links to the latest blog post, and “I’m not dead” updates when needed. Gettr? Gab? I tried Discord specifically for aerospaceprojectsreview blog alternative, but I quickly found that I didn’t much care for it. Twitter, irritating as it is, seems the most popular choice. Taking suggestions.
Feb 092022
Akaash Singh is a stand-up comic. Dude’s *funny.* A bit NSFW, so make sure to ply it loud enough for your SJW-Karens at work to hear.
Feb 092022
Astronomers Discover First Quadruple Asteroid
130 Elektra is a potato-shaped rock about 160 miles along the long axis, and now it has been seen to have three moons, all a mile or more across, orbiting it. I’m not sure if that’s terribly useful from a scientific or industrial point of view… but long-term, it’d probably make the asteroid a neat place to live. A spherical transparent bubble around the asteroid, just very slightly smaller in diameter than the length of the asteroid, should hold in an atmosphere; where the asteroid intersects the sphere can be the polar airlocks for ships, cargo and people. The surface gravity would be a meager 0.001 G’s or so; probably enough to hold stuff more or less down on the surface, but certainly low enough to permit easy manual flapping-winged flight. The moons could be simply “art” in the sky, but they might serve a practical purpose: since the asteroid orbits between 2.5 and 3.8 AU from the sun, it would be cold and the moons, fitted with fusion reactors, could serve as small artificial suns to light and warm the place. The asteroid rotates once about every 5 hours; this could be slowed to a 24 hour day if needed, although if it has multiple mini-suns orbiting it, the length of the day would be pretty weird no matter what.
Feb 082022
I have one last copy of B-47 Stratojet and B-52 Stratofortress: Origins and Evolution. It is signed, numbered (#23 of 23) and comes complete with three bonus 18X24 prints, also all singed and numbered. The total *including* shipping within the US (I shudder to think what shipping overseas would be as the book is honestly fairly massive) is $62. If you would like this copy, the very last of this batch (and there’re no plans for a second batch), send me an email and I’ll send you a paypal invoice. First come, first served…
Update: SOLD.
Feb 082022
So Showtime has decided to excrete a “documentary” series based on the idea that white people are terribly racist and awful and evil (at least, that’s the impression the trailer gives). It starts off with the following in great big letters:
WARNING: THIS TRAILER MAY TRIGGER WHITE PEOPLE
Uh-huh.
Now, I’m sure there are a few white people who will get their knickers in a knot over the nonsense in the trailer and start firing off angry messages. But as a long-time white person, my reaction to it was… “Uhhh, *this* again.” And then I put it out of my mind, because it’s not worth ulcerating over. However, there are some people who watched the trailer, got triggered… and ain’t white. Perhaps their points of view may be of interest.
If you go to YouTube and search for “everything’s gonna be all white,” a total of twelve videos are returned (as of as I’m typing this) as top results. One of those is the actual trailer; the other eleven are reaction videos. Of those eleven, nine seem to be black reactors, two seem to be white… and ten of them think the trailer is racist trash. The eleventh is a white guy speaking foreignese, so I don’t know what his point of view was… but he didn’t freak out jump up and stomp around like the “documentarians” seem to think white people are supposed to do when confronted with racist non-white folks.
After *decades* of race baiters shrieking incessantly, rather than being “triggered,” this seems to be the most likely response:
Now, to go back to my life and continue to not pay for Showtime.
Feb 082022
Charter school for BIPOC students opening in Portland
OK, so a school specifically for non-whites. Uh, sure, whatever. But here’s the “these kids are dooooooomed” part:
“We’ll focus on what’s in your community. Like, it’s a very strong entrepreneurial focus […] There’ll be a very strong hip-hop focus around our kids’ learning style,” explained Knox.
He said concepts from hip-hop would be utilized.
“[Like] what does it mean to keep it real? […] What does it mean the grind? How to handle your haters,” Knox said.
That’s kinda like teaching immigrants in their native languages. It will give them an education that will keep them on the outside of mainstream society; not only will their educational understanding be incompatible with reality, it will probably give them a conspiratorial outlook, making things *worse.*
Feb 082022