Cruising along…
Feb 182021
Feb 172021
Here’s your slightly obsolete word of the day:
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/blithering?s=t
adjective
talking foolishly; jabbering
informal stupid; foolish you blithering idiot
Example:
Joe Biden on China’s human rights violations and genocide against the Uighurs: “culturally there are different norms”
Shameful. pic.twitter.com/kTtXvTIsK6
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) February 17, 2021
All sales are final.
Feb 172021
Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio pioneer, dead at 70
He’s been fighting lung cancer for a while. Get ready for a tidal wave of gloating by The Worst People In The World.
UPDATE: As Expected.
Some actual wisdom:
Keep in mind, their hatred of Rush is really a hatred of you. Their celebration of his death is the hatred of the ideas he shared with millions of people. They hate you as much as they hate him, and that hate stems from an ignorance they have no desire to cure.
— Brandon Morse (beep/boop) (@TheBrandonMorse) February 17, 2021
Feb 172021
Feb 162021
The trailer below is all there is, all that there is planned to be, created as an art project by one guy. Compare to the dreck pumped out by Hollywood.
A similarly-themed short film the guy produced a littler earlier. Maybe cosmic horror…maybe shrooms.
Feb 162021
I saw a few of these weeks/months ago at local WalMarts and Targets and the like and didn’t buy them because… well, why would I? Sigh…
Report: Hasbro Stops Making Gina Carano’s ‘Star Wars’ Action Figure
Feb 162021
A masterclass in elocution by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki:
I gotta admit this was the best laugh I had all day.
Own your own space museum
AARRRGH, art, awesomeness, blather, Gah., history, Hmm..., models, news, rockets, spacecraft, ಠ_ಠ
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Feb 162021
Difficulty: stuff’s in Finland.
I was directed to an online auction of space replicas. The first items were things like 1/72 scale Space Shuttles and 1/72 scale Saturn V’s and Atlases and Redstones… nice enough, but nothing out of the ordinary.
BUT THEN…
14. Apollo Lunar Module cockpit full-scale replica 1:1
And…
15. Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle full-scale replica 1:1
And…
16. Gemini spacecraft full-scale replica 1:1
And…
17. Space Shuttle Orbiter Vehicle full-scale replica 1:1 (front section)
And…
19. Mercury spacecraft full-scale replica 1:1
And…
27. Apollo Command Module Exterior replica 1:1
And not last and certainly not least:
21. Saturn V scale model 1:10
Gimme gimme gimme gimme…
Where would I put a 1/10 scale Saturn V if I had one? I have no friggen’ clue.
The auction appears to be a bankruptcy auction:
Online bankruptcy auction under the authority of trustee Mr. M.W. Schüller of Lexington Advocaten in Hoofddorp concerning the inventory originating from the bankruptcy of John Nurnimen Events B.V. at Schiphol. The goods are located in Finland.
“John Nurnimen Events” still has a functioning website, but was declared bankrupt in the Netherlands, so I’m a bit confounded as to what’s going on here. On one hand I’m saddened that such a collection of awesomeness was apparently not a profitable enterprise; on the other hand… it’s Finland. I’m unclear that that would be the best place for such a thing. The specific website for the “NASA – A Human Adventure” traveling exhibition is offline, though it’s archived.
Opening bids on all these things are 100 Euro each. I have no idea what they’ll go for, though I imagine shipping costs could be a bit spendy.
Feb 162021
A followup to yesterday:
The environment will often talk to you and give you hints, subtle or otherwise, that something explosive is coming. (Feel free to interpret this in a political context). In this case, the buildup of a static charge on a mountain can often be heard in the rocks just before a lightning strike. Disregard at your peril.
Feb 152021
It is time for the media to REEEEEEE at full volume:
After Weeks Of Being Offline, Parler Finds A New Web Host
Apparently it’s only just kinda sorta working, and then in a very limited way on a fraction of the platforms. But one presumes that it will get up to speed as time goes by. You don’t get assassinated and then get right up and run a marathon, after all.
I found this hyperventilatory piece particularly entertaining:
Parler Is Now in the Hands of a Right-Wing Activist Seeking a Radical Rewrite of the Constitution
A “radical re-write of the Constitution?” Whatever could this extremist want?
Meckler went on to found Citizens for Self-Governance (CSG), now the Convention of States Foundation, a right-wing nonprofit that manages the Convention of States project, with the Koch-connected Eric O’Keefe. Convention of States (COS) wants to hold an Article V convention of the states to amend the U.S. constitution to severely restrict the power of the federal government.
Oh, Noes! Restricting the power of the federal government? What a shocking and wholly unAmerican concept!!!
According to the COS website, they want to amend the Constitution to:
- Require Members of Congress to live under the same laws they pass for the rest of us.
- Impose term limits on Members of Congress.
- Require a balanced federal budget.
- Impose limits on federal spending and/or taxation.
- Get the federal government out of our healthcare system.
- Get the federal government out of our education system.
- Stop unelected federal bureaucrats from imposing regulations.
- Set term limits for Supreme Court Justices.
- Set term limits for federal bureaucrats, ending the dominance of the “swamp.”
- Remove the authority of the federal government over state energy policy.
- Force the federal government to honor its commitment to return federal lands to the states
Regardless of how likely you think they are to get their way, their goals are wholly reasonable to at least discus.