The earthquake triggered a tsunami warning for areas along the Alaska Peninsula coastline, according to the U.S. Tsunami Warning Center.
The warning extended from Kennedy Entrance, 40 miles southwest of Homer, to Unimak Pass, 80 miles northeast of Unalaska.
The warning does not include Cook Inlet or Anchorage, according to the warning center.
A late-70’s NASA rendering of the solar power satellite. Not exactly shown to scale… the satellite, approximately the size of Manhattan, would actually reside in geosynchronous orbit some 22,000 miles up. But the size of the receiving station, located outside of a probably fictitious city (gotta love the H-shaped skyscraper), seems about right. Such stations, which would approximate fields of chickenwire suspended atop telephone poles, could be located over farms, fields, lakes and ponds. The wire would intercept the incoming microwaves beamed down from the SPS with the same efficiency as the wire mesh in the door of your microwave oven keeps your face from getting fried while you watch your popcorn or soup getting nuked.
Philip Anderson, the guy who tried to host a “free speech rally” to protest Big tech censorship and got his teeth beat out by leftists… has been suspended from social media by Big Tech.
Philip Anderson is banned from Twitter @teamsaveAmerica pic.twitter.com/nty3nySwIu
— KrazyRussianAmerican 🇺🇸 (@KrazyRussian13) October 19, 2020
Fortunately a GoFundMe has been set up to help him with his medical/dental bills. I would not be surprised if *that* gets yanked as well.
The leaders of the Proud Boys, slanderously called a “white supremacist” organization, were not impressed by Andersons rally. Not because they disagreed with his point, but because he failed to recognize just how violent and dangerous and flat-out unhinged the modern left is.
This Japanese guy(?) “Nyango Star” plays the drums. And he plays them like a *beast.* But he plays them while wearing this silly mascot costume. Which on the one hand makes the whole thing seem rather silly, but on the other hand it clearly adds a couple extra layers of difficulty. both mobility and vision are compromised with this costume, yet the guy(?) is still able to do things with a drum that even if i had any musical talent or givadam about playing the drums I could never hope to approach.
Nyango Star has a YouTube channel with a dozen videos.
If, like me, you look at all this and go “WTF,” THIS ARTICLE kinda explains the deal.
Stay weird, Japan.
As of yesterday, the diagram count for Book Two surpassed one hundred. The spreadsheet lists a bit short of 160, but I think it’ll realistically top out at 120-ish. The final product may have notably fewer; many of the designs feature two and even three separate diagrams (for 2 to 3 separate pages), including not only general arrangements but also inboard views, sections, undersides, scrap views and the like. The publisher will decide whether or not to include them all, trading off size vs. cost. But progress, while slower than I’d hoped, is still moving forward.
I mentioned “bardcore” a while back… modern songs sung/played in medieval style. The ones I linked to previously were in more or less modern English… but a few go the extra mile to translate the songs into actual medieval languages. Whether the results are good music that you’ll listen to over and over is up to you, but they are clearly the results of considerable craftsmanship.
A vote for Biden/Harris is a vote to make this sort of thing commonplace.
Gotta admit to some mixed emotions here. So one Steven Gallant beat a firefighter to death and was sentenced in 2005 to 17 years in prison. That seems rather light to me, but then I don’t see why any out-and-out murderer should ever see the light of day ever again. Call me a little strict, I dunno. Anyway, last year he was out of prison on a day release program to help with a conference on prisoner rehabilitation, when another Mostly Peaceful Religion Enthusiast decided to go on a stabbing spree in London. Gallant grabbed a Narwhal tusk and stymied the Cultural Enrichment Practitioner until the Police could get there and shoot him. As a result of his actions, Gallant has been given a *bit* of a reprieve by the Queen of England… ten months off his sentence.
On one hand… someone who does something heroic should be recognized and rewarded for it. On the other hand:
“Gallant had been among a gang who battered his dad Barrie to death outside The Dolphin pub in Hull in April 2005. It was so savage paramedics who tried to revive him couldn’t find his mouth.”
Ummm. Fortunately, the murder victims son seems ok with this turn of events. But if he hadn’t? Had Gallant had a proper sentence of life plus 180 days (an extra six months in his cell to freshen the air for the other murderers on his cell block) and got a sudden *actual* get-out-of-jail pardon, and if the murder victims family had a real problem with that, then there would be a real quandary. In that case, I think the best solution would be to let him out, but to declare him outlaw. Just like the good old days.
I saw this photo in a book, article or paper *years* ago, but for the life of me I can’t find it. Familiar to anyone?
So a few days ago the review site “Yelp” decided that it would be a neato-keen idea to institute a new feature on their reviews of businesses: a button you could click that would plaster a “this business is racist” warning on your review. This was an astonishingly obvious avenue of abuse, and it appears that it has already been used to cause harm, both in the form of reputational damage as well as harassment and bullets. Recently some media outlets have found to their financial cost that falsely labeling people -ists and -phobes (and whatever the latest moral outrages are about) is not a good idea. So can Yelp be held to the same fire here? Could this be the sort of thing that brings their finances and existence crashing down?