Sunday, March 11, 2018

Snowing



15 comments:

  1. Ready for the end of this? I am. And am, and am.

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    1. I suuure am, puddle!! I *love* snow, and want it all Winter long. But come Spring I want flowers and long sweet afternoons. Besides, it's been snowing almost constantly for the better part of three days. 11" compacted to 8" is what we have. Fortunately, while yesterday's was wet and sticky, today's has been light and fluffy.

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  2. THANK YOU all so much!!! Thanks for the kind words about the blog mess up. Thanks for magically recovering the thread, Alan (!!!). Thanks for all the great posts that day and on Saturday!! Thanks, Bill for that bit about North Korea (very worthwhile take on it), and for your pithy comments about it, as well, Alan.

    It's been another day, here, of bathroom renovation. We had hoped to get it done by the end of the weekend, but cannot find the right size medicine cabinet in stock locally. So we'll have to wait until late next week to enact the finishing touches. That's okay. MOST of the work will be done and the room will be functional again by Monday, if all goes well from here.

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    1. listener said at 3/11/2018 01:12:00 AM
      The link I wanted to come back to was the one about the quantum nature of gravity.
      But HOW did you recover all of this????!!!! I'm equally impressed and grateful~!!!

      Well, as it happened, two (or three? of the items I had posted were in my text editor, where I formatted them. That made it easier. And when I stopped reading the blog the night before to hurry and finish my work, by chance I didn't close my browser or shut downf my laptop, but just put it to sleep--so the blog page was still there (residing on my computer), available for copying as soon as I opened lifted the screen and tapped a key. I was pleasantly surprised that I could follow the links to get their URL's, then come back to the page for the comments etc. and thus rebuild them. Dumb luck.
      --Alan

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    2. Gee--more typos than usual; a sign that I am tired. A very demanding week, and Friday night I did not sleep well. Now to bed to be robbed of an hour's sleep!
      --Alan

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  3. It's been another day, here, of bathroom renovation. We had hoped to get it done by the end of the weekend, but cannot find the right size medicine cabinet in stock locally. So we'll have to wait until late next week to enact the finishing touches. That's okay. MOST of the work will be done and the room will be functional again by Monday, if all goes well from here.

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  4. How five became one: the odd history of horses' hooves[Click]

    How hard is it to learn to write by hand as an adult?[Click] “Doctors have warned that overuse of electronic screens is leaving some children unable to hold a pen properly. But while learning as an adult is difficult, it’s not impossible.”

    —Alan

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  5. Alan, thanks for the links you put here. Many times I share them to Facebook.

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    1. Thanks for the positive feedback, Susan; I try to work in some variety--horse toes and quantum gravity see a nice change of pace from the antics of Dear Leader. Thanks for your links as well; we peruse different sources, to our mutual benefit.

      --Alan

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    2. "see a nice change" ought to read "seem a nice change"

      Alan

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  6. http://info.nct.news/2018/03/11/trump-announces-hes-not-work-new-unhinged-speech-america-frantic-video/

    " “So our, my slogan, our slogan, this is a team, our new slogan will be, which I’m almost positive — never like to go too far in advance, but let’s assume it is going like it is going. By the way, if we coasted for 2 1/2 years, we did a hell of a job. You know that. In fact, I was telling some of the guys let’s just coast because the stock market is up almost 40% since election day.”

    Yes, you read that correctly. The president with the lowest historical approval rating and the most failures in his first year believes his performance is so good that he’s earned the right to stop working.

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    1. The way I read it, it is incoherent. Incoherent speech bespeaks an incoherent mind. What it says about the "Republican Party" these days is unprecedented in my lifetime.

      Alan

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  7. https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-nra-is-losing

    Copying a pretty big chunk of this:

    "But with gun sales declining and no black bogeyman in the White House to drive firearms hoarding in red states, the group has resorted to rank extremism to keep themselves in the conversation; churning out bizarre videos that warn of looming threats of urban collapse, hordes of brown people storming the hinterlands, and of course Antifa! … while urging their followers to strap up and prepare for civil war. Their latest opus, from Cruella de Ville stand-in Dana Loesch uses a draining hourglass to seemingly threaten disobedient members of the media by name (including yours truly) with the ominous message that our collective “time is up,” stealing the phrase coined by women fighting against sexual abuse in the workplace. Ms. Loesch does not specify what happens to us at our appointed hour of doom, though she attempted to clean up the fallout from the video, which one Parkland father who lost his daughter in the Valentine’s Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, likened to the productions of ISIS, by saying that what “happens” when the sand drains out is that her online show comes on.

    The Stoneman Douglas students reacted to Loesch’s snarling take in precisely the way that should worry the NRA most: not with terror but with ridicule, in the form of a parody video featuring MSD survivor Sarah Chadwick that quickly went viral, garnering the attention of outlets like The Mary Sue and Teen Vogue.

    Message to the NRA: the kids aren’t afraid of you. Nor are they impressed by your lame never-quite-viral video campaigns. And unlike adults who spend most of their time at work or in the case of Republican and some Democratic lawmakers, cowering in the legislative cloakroom hoping the NRA lobbyists won’t get them, the kids have phones and sarcasm on lock and they can do this all day. Ms. Loesch and her equally lame friends will never beat teenagers at the social media game."

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    1. Parody video? Gotta check it out! And yes, the kids will tromp all over the "grown-ups" in social media.

      Alan

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