‘Rail Force One’: how Ukraine railways got Joe Biden safely to Kyiv [Click] “Alexander Kamyshin, head of the service, doesn’t get much sleep, but his team coordinated the president’s visit without a single leak.” Minor picky: “A handsome bearded man sporting a hipster-ish braid of hair that falls over the shaved sides of his head, Kamyshin . . .” Sounds more like a Cossack hairstyle to me. —Alan
The Atlantic: People Forgot How War Actually Works [Click] “Armed conflict is never straightforward. Weapons are not power. National identity matters.” “Morale is to material as three is to one.” —— Napoleon ---Alan
I wonder if the Russian Civil War holds lessons for us. Maybe that foreign military interventions are useless, and that the Russians must work things out for themselves. ---Alan
Note from the Library: "Make the most of this glorious snow by checking out snowshoes from the library! Jericho Town Library has 20 pairs of snowshoes in a variety of sizes that will fit your whole family, from preschoolers through adults. Snowshoes can be checked out by all JTL and DRML cardholders aged 18+. Visit our catalog to read more about our snowshoes and all the items in our Library of Things"
The current prediction is for more or less continuous rain through Wednesday morning, two and a half inches or so. Not a lot, really, but significant considering that our previous average annual rainfall was 10.9 inches. ---Alan
Historically, it has not been uncommon for I-80 (from Sacramento to Lake Tahoe) or I-5 over the mountains from the Central Valley to Los Angeles, to be closed by snow from time to time in the winter, as they are now. There is snow removal equipment on standby. ----Alan
Didn't mention yesterday, but I finally got my new glasses. I was told in December that they would take about a month. Called the Chicago Lighthouse Tuesday and they had just come in, so an appointment was scheduled for yesterday afternoon. Picked them up without problem and they're great. The previous glasses had a fixed-focus telescope that was good for seeing things like street signs and walk signals across a six-lane street. This has a focusing telescope that they say can bring in things as close as 9 inches away. Makes things wonderfully clear. 20/40 vision at the stand aye-test distance. Only thing is I have to stand up straight if I want to see more than a fdozenfeet ahead, and I have a bit of a dowager's hump these days.
Also! Don't use a metal grill brush on your barbecue!
ReplyDelete4 year old with strange symptoms...doctor figures out what's wrong
Russia launches replacement Soyuz spacecraft for their crew of three stranded at the International Space Station with a leaky spaceship
ReplyDeleteThe heavily armed DMZ separating North and South Korea has become a wildlife haven
ReplyDeleteIt is the same along the ceasefire line in Cyprus.
Delete---Alan
Letter: More on AI [Click] First interesting bit on the subject that I have encountered.
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First Dong on the Moon: We have been working on a prototype cartoon-o-bot. Nobody will know the difference [Click]
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Oh God--if that had been written by a human it would have read "First DOG on the Moon."
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‘Rail Force One’: how Ukraine railways got Joe Biden safely to Kyiv [Click] “Alexander Kamyshin, head of the service, doesn’t get much sleep, but his team coordinated the president’s visit without a single leak.”
ReplyDeleteMinor picky: “A handsome bearded man sporting a hipster-ish braid of hair that falls over the shaved sides of his head, Kamyshin . . .” Sounds more like a Cossack hairstyle to me.
—Alan
The Atlantic: People Forgot How War Actually Works [Click] “Armed conflict is never straightforward. Weapons are not power. National identity matters.”
ReplyDelete“Morale is to material as three is to one.” —— Napoleon
---Alan
How Putin's fate is tied to Russia's war in Ukraine [Click]
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The writer considers civil war in Russia likely; shades of 1917.
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I wonder if the Russian Civil War holds lessons for us. Maybe that foreign military interventions are useless, and that the Russians must work things out for themselves.
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The Atlantic: The War in Ukraine Is the End of a World [Click] “A shroud is settling over the dreams many of us had at the end of the 20th century.”
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Hey Alan...still looking for snowshoes? We can sign them out from the local library here...!
ReplyDeleteTown Library Snowshoes (scroll to the bottom)
Note from the Library:
Delete"Make the most of this glorious snow by checking out snowshoes from the library! Jericho Town Library has 20 pairs of snowshoes in a variety of sizes that will fit your whole family, from preschoolers through adults. Snowshoes can be checked out by all JTL and DRML cardholders aged 18+. Visit our catalog to read more about our snowshoes and all the items in our Library of Things"
That is an amazing variety of things to check out from the library!
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ReplyDeleteRaquel Welsh died the day after Valentine's. We share a birthday. Shook me up a bit, it did.
Republicans proposing a National Gun. . . . .
Rain, rain, rain here all day long; dandy excuse to not do any gardening.
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The current prediction is for more or less continuous rain through Wednesday morning, two and a half inches or so. Not a lot, really, but significant considering that our previous average annual rainfall was 10.9 inches.
Delete---Alan
Historically, it has not been uncommon for I-80 (from Sacramento to Lake Tahoe) or I-5 over the mountains from the Central Valley to Los Angeles, to be closed by snow from time to time in the winter, as they are now. There is snow removal equipment on standby.
Delete----Alan
Didn't mention yesterday, but I finally got my new glasses. I was told in December that they would take about a month. Called the Chicago Lighthouse Tuesday and they had just come in, so an appointment was scheduled for yesterday afternoon. Picked them up without problem and they're great. The previous glasses had a fixed-focus telescope that was good for seeing things like street signs and walk signals across a six-lane street. This has a focusing telescope that they say can bring in things as close as 9 inches away. Makes things wonderfully clear. 20/40 vision at the stand aye-test distance. Only thing is I have to stand up straight if I want to see more than a fdozenfeet ahead, and I have a bit of a dowager's hump these days.
ReplyDeleteWow, that sounds good! Enjoy, Bill!
Delete---Alan