Don’t know how to put photos in here, but our refugee quarters were quite snug. Including the solar panels, the marine battery and the LED light fixtures. Our remaining question is whether the system would power a small fridge.
(And, OK, the drawback is the nightly choice between throwing on a kirtle and shoes and tripping down to the porta-potty or using the coffee can — ah, the chamber pot. Fortunately this was a dry Pennsic, so I opted for the nightly excursions. Besides, I got to look at the stars).
THIS is my big issue with camping. I refuse to go anywhere without my own bathroom as close as possible at night. Particularly now. The other “hardships” don’t bug me, but that DOES.
Some years ago on a Paleo trip explaining the bathroom facilities to a newbie city student: “Bathroom? See the long-handled shovel with a tp roll on it? Pick your juniper bush and mind the snakes”.
Our shire’s camp was within one or two backyards of a bathroom with showers, and we had enough light from the sky to get there easily, even on dark nights. (Because we were camped on the slope of an open hill.)
The difficulties with bathrooms usually arise if you are camping in the Serengeti (because there are so so many camps, even though it’s a grid system in that field), or way back in the woods (which means a winding path to the bathroom, in the dark, even though the paths are somewhat lit).
I knew people who brought along an entire four-poster elevated bed with steps, and more than one featherbed mattress. First, because they had back problems. Second, because they were really good furniture- and featherbed-makers. Huge pavilion tent. Lots of comfy furniture. Such a flex, it was. It was like a clubhouse for everybody they knew, and very little like camping.
I was camping this last weekend, and it was only 500 feet to a bathroom. With FLUSH TOILETS.
I’ve been places where I had to trek further just for a vault toilet, and kids never seem to understand that the only reason those stink is because THEY KEEP LEAVING THE LIDS UP. (Port-a-potties are the same way, FWIW; if you put the lid down, the vents are supposed to draw the smell AWAY. But nobody remembers that…)
“Our remaining question is whether the system would power a small fridge.”
It might. I have a 23-quart AC/DC RV refrigerator, plus a 300 watt power pack and solar panel for charging. Runs the refrigerator continuously for 8-12 hours, depending on weather. We keep it bundled under blankets to limit temperature fluctuations, and plug it in periodically to keep the inside cool.
I’ve been calling Pennsic a refugee camp for years. Recall fondly the day the attack helicopters blitzed the camp. Only in America will you have two attack copiers buzzing a campground and the people below are cheering, laughing, waving and holding their kids up to get a better look.
They weren’t supposed to be flying that low, nor doing the straying runs or the Hellfire shots over the lake.
I understand that it became not fun for the pilots when someone from one of the Serengeti camps called the commander of their training base to complain and introduced himself as “Air Force Brigadier” …
They weren’t supposed to be flying that low, nor doing the straying runs or the Hellfire shots over the lake.
I understand that it became not fun for the pilots when someone from one of the Serengeti camps called the commander of their training base to complain and introduced himself as “Air Force Brigadier” …
They weren’t supposed to be flying that low, nor doing the straying runs or the Hellfire shots over the lake.
I understand that it became not fun for the pilots when someone from one of the Serengeti camps called the commander of their training base to complain and introduced himself as “Air Force Brigadier” …
Sadly, nobody seems to have much good footage. Allegedly there were some cool maneuvers before people managed to get to their cameras. But yeah, clearly a tribute to Leonardo da Vinci.
There were many cool manuvers. One Apache was making gun runs over the Serengeti from parking to the near edge of the lake at 100 to 200 ft above ground level, with hammerhead pull up turns at each end of his runs, while the other one hovered over the lake, holding a direction for about 10 seconds, then reorientating for another 10 seconds. I assume that he was simulating a missile launch at each stop. He did 5 or 6 of these.
There were many cool manuvers. One Apache was making gun runs over the Serengeti from parking to the near edge of the lake at 100 to 200 ft above ground level, with hammerhead pull up turns at each end of his runs, while the other one hovered over the lake, holding a direction for about 10 seconds, then reorientating for another 10 seconds. I assume that he was simulating a missile launch at each stop. He did 5 or 6 of these.
Holding a heading for a few seconds sounds like they were performing a compass calibration swing. I’ve done dozens of these with the Litton LN-94 system. (I believe Litton was purchased by Grumman- I’ve been retired for a while now…)
I was fixing dinner one night & muttering to myself & realized I sounded like Rabbit on a video the kids had watched earlier. I ended up laughing & changed my attitude.
So, in other news, I’m trying to figure out how to install a chat function here so I can hang out with you guys while working.
BUT — I want to make this very clear — NOT WITH 11B in the morning. One of us would be dead.
Our cats have kibble 24/7 (high enough that the dog cannot get to), plus treats throughout most days. Sometime between 8 – 8:30 PM the 5 share two 3oz canned cat food. Thus at 8 PM on the dot, all five are hovering and vocal in around the dinning room. The only time two will tolerate the others, including each other. Makes for an interesting Saturday evenings because our son is the one who preps and distributes the food, he is out Saturday night not getting home until after 9 PM. They let him know that he is “late” very, very, vocally.
Homeless encampments are what you get when your government allows Chinese money laundering to drive the price of a detached house in the suburbs up over two million dollars, and the price of a dog-kennel condo up over $700K, while deliberately importing 7 MILLION destitute foreigners in 8 years. (That’s Canada by the way, you guys got something like 20 million.)
Junkies pretty much flop under bridges, they can’t get it together to manage a tent in a homeless encampment. The sh1t they sell these days causes profound brain damage. And gee, I wonder who let that happen?
But don’t you dare fight back if one of them kicks in your door at 3AM, you filthy white people. You just die properly, and you better leave your dead body where it’s convenient for the cleaners to pick up.
The employed-on-the-margin folks were for a while living in rented RVs that they had to move every so often to stay ahead of the parking laws, but that went south into the same demographic as the tent encampments did, so the cities have been cleaning those up. These days they either commute from incredibly far away to their multiple jobs, or if they can make it work, group together into apartments bunkhouse-style so they can afford the rent until they land a better paying gig.
The tent encampments are overwhelmingly junkies and mentally ill, which are pretty much a single circle Venn diagram.
Look back at the history. Theodore Dalrymple, for instance, found that the criminals he treated in jail had generally served time before becoming addicts — and in modern day Britain, where only a hardened criminal does time.
Note that Middle Kingdom money parking in US real estate is in fact still a thing here, though in contrast to the ghost-houses with full landscaping services and pro upkeep that were characteristic of such in my neighborhood back during the Great Recession 15 or so years ago, it generally now comes with a family member and spouse that lives where the family parked their money far outside the grasp of the CCP, and who is responsible for upkeep to keep the family’s investment intact.
The annual income required to finance the median house in San Jose in 2025 is $454,296 according to Zillow (cite: https://www.financialsamurai.com/income-required-to-afford-a-typical-home-by-city/ ). That is so far away from entry-level or service workers pay reality that it really has no impact on whether someone is in a tent encampment. Average rent per apartments.com in San Jose is $2,687/mo, on an average 705 sqft apartment. That craziness is closer, but still way out of reach, even with all the housing assistance, ignoring Section 8 housing.
So even out here in crazy-expensive-housing-land, the foreign money is not really moving that boundary where it’s relevant to “the unhoused”.
You’ve heard of the Vancouver Model of money laundering?
A) Guy shows up to #Casino in BC with hockey bags full of cash. Buys chips with it. Plays for a couple hours, wins/loses some. Cashes out with #Casino check.
B) Guy takes check to friendly Big Five #Bank. Deposits it. Big Five #Bank pretends this is okay, takes the money.
C) Guy buys house. Doesn’t care how much he pays. Runs up the prices of desirable house numbers with bidding war. Then guy renovates it. No expense spared.
(I experienced this personally, I looked at a tear-down rooming house in crap location with no parking and no yard. This multi-floor student housing wreck was listed for $900K, went for $1.8 million in 2018 after a bidding war. There was a -river- of flowing water running through the basement and the roof was f-ed. $2 million to fix it, in my estimation, it needed foundation work and concrete work, and an entire roof including trusses. House would have been ~$3 million after a renovation, utterly insane amount of money to spend, no way it was worth it. Chinese bidders. Cash deal, no mortgage. Sketchy?! Oh yeah.)
D) Guy sells house, now has clean laundered money, 100% legit. Buys another, bigger, house. Renovates that.
Rinse, repeat. This is how you get ALL the houses in Toronto, no matter how f-ed, being worth well over a million. Don’t forget, Canada’s economy and population is roughly the size of NY state, somewhat smaller than California.
It also says they’re going to put up pre-fab concrete houses — made in China. Chinese concrete is infamous. Those fancy new houses will be crumbling within 3 years.
ONE bill to restrict foreign ownership of American property made it through the one-party Democrat legislature and Gruesom vetoed it, claiming that the federal government (the Biden* regime) was addressing the issue. News flash — they weren’t, any more than they did anything else useful.
Meanwhile, people whose houses burned down due to government incompetence can’t get permits to rebuild. They’re being forced to sell prime real estate for peanuts. To Chinese front corporations.
I’ve been saying since Day 1: BOM’s team cannot release all the good stuff and start arresting people before they’ve gotten law enforcement (the people who do the arresting), prosecutors (who do the prosecuting) and judges (who hear the cases) at least identified as friend or foe, and preferably replaced by sane people. Otherwise, we have a Spanish Civil War scenario, where Franco is supposed to arrest communists, prosecute them, and jail them – using law enforcement, lawyers, and judges under Communist control. Not working! We saw and continue to see how that works with the St. Floyd Riots, etc. So federalizing DC law enforcement is an obvious preliminary step.
I’m very pleasantly surprised he’s gotten this far in only 7 months!
As to announcing that certain files would be promptly declassified and published (tipping his hand before he’s got arrests lined up), my guess is that he’s trying to scare people into flipping. But I don’t know – never made sense to me. Hang onto your evidence until you’re ready to move, with law enforcement, lawyers, and judges on your side.
BOM is running a balancing act, trying to show enough progress through legal channels to mollify the “I want my perp walks now” crowd, without actually breaking the law himself.
Once you realize that, this little maneuver by DeSantis should be regarded as the opening of 2028. Now the judge is going to find DeSantis in contempt and Trump will be expected to arrest him.
What’s funny is I’ve been stopped a couple of times walking around Boston by people who thought I was Stephen King. If I was smarter and thought faster on my feet, I should have offered to autograph their books for $20 each. /laugh
That Skyline Chili meme triggered flashbacks* over the spaghetti, turkey, and sauce donation last November. The Mission staffer told me he was going to use that for spaghetti tacos, as inspired by some TV show I’ve managed to miss. Reason #5823 why I don’t watch TV beyond DVDs of old shows.
OTOH, I’ll admit to making a peanut butter and jelly pizza once in college. Freaked out my roommates. Cheese was not involved. Nor spaghetti. :)
What an awful Reddit post! All the comments seemed to come from people who were a little too proud of their three whole semesters at college. Was I so annoying at that age? Eh, probably.
Now, is Ohio real? Well, I grew up there, so if it’s not, I’m not. Having just typed it out, I don’t find the thought terribly reassuring!
Ohio is real, all right — real cheap! We’ve done shows in Cincinnati, Columbus, Toledo and Dayton, and never done better than break even. I’m pretty much ready to swear off that whole state as not worth doing business with.
So, the 70-year epic rivalry between U of Michigan and U of Ohio is a lie? I used to live less than 30 miles from Toledo. Last time I rode through there was in the late 80s so it was still there then.
There is a reasonable facsimile of the Wick Fowlers’ recipe available on line, which is notably less expensive to produce than purchasing the kits. And I like fresh onion and garlic better anyway.
Have not yet gotten around to buy masa for the finish, though.
But I’ve fiddled with the recipe often. A little leftover red wine, sure! Can of Rotel, yep! Brown the beef in bacon fat. Maybe dredge the meat in regular flour before browning.
It wasn’t only Skyline. Gold Star competed in the same market space, as did others. Back in college, one guy in our circle would go home every weekend to see his girl. His hometown was near Cincinnati, on the Indiana side. On Sundays he would return to Worst Layflat with frozen Empress chili and a six-pack of Christian Moerlein beer. That was our Sunday supper, and it was a good one.
That was back in the early 1980s. So go the memories.
And I’ll grant you, Cincinnati style chili is an acquired taste. One either loves it or is totally without culture. :-)
Cincinnati style “chili” does not deserve the name. It’s merely spaghetti with meat sauce and a few other things. Chili it ain’t. Topping the list of its wrongness is simple: the stuff is not spicy at all. Chili should have some fire to it (though not enough to mask the flavors).
I’m actually agnostic about things like beans in chili – they absolutely were in the stuff that range cooks served up in big pots – but the stuff they serve up under that false name in Cincinnati would have gotten a range cook staked out in front of the next day’s cattle drive.
It’s not an abomination. It’s Greek-American cuisine. There’s spaghetti noodles, seasoned meat, lots of cheese, and oyster crackers on the side. There used to be twenty-some different recipes in Cincinnati, because every neighborhood had its own Greek-run diner that served chili spaghetti.
And of course, cinnamon in meat is very typical of fine medieval dining, so we’ve circled back around to Pennsic.
One of earliest encounters with medieval meat involved beef with currants and raisins and, I suspect, warm spices. Unfortunately, it made me queasy. So I’ve tended to avoid sweet meat dishes since then.
Hey, as long as the peanut butter and jelly doesn’t get baked in the oven but rather goes on after the pizza dough is baked, that’s just an open-faced sandwich in a custom shape. You wouldn’t have gotten any weird looks from me if I’d been your roommate. Maybe a “Huh. Cool idea.” but not a weird look.
Wellll, they got baked in. FWIW, it was in a thick-pan crust, though done in a smallish skillet.
The four of us shared dinner cooking on a schedule that worked fairly well. (Each roommate did one dinner hisself, one as a pair, and which pair didn’t do Saturday got the groceries. Sunday, order pizza or go out.
Lunches were random. College eateries were close, and we’d keep sandwich fixings, but nothing suitable was on hand. I was good at pan-pizza crusts, but when that was ready, it was time to improvise. It sort of worked. Didn’t try it again. Ever. ($SPOUSE and I do a medium crust pizza each week; traditional toppings, (mostly–Colby Jack cheese some weeks) and the obligatory gluten-free crust. Dire consequences from each of our bodies if violated.)
Well, I’ll try almost anything food-wise, at least once. (Though I don’t plan to ever try fugu. I don’t care how good it tastes — and I bet it doesn’t taste that good, I bet the appeal is the thrill of danger — it’s not worth it). So I would have given it a shot.
I still remember the time when I was eating with a group of people, at a place where you didn’t choose the menu, you got served what the chef decided to cook that evening. That particular evening the menu included a side dish of escargots. Having grown up in France, I had no problem with the idea of eating snails, and I tucked in (the garlic butter sauce was really good). But nobody else wanted them. There were two snails per person, and it was a table of eight — so I got to eat about a dozen snails that day. (I didn’t eat sixteen because some people were brave enough to eat one, but nobody except me ate more than one.)
Some place near work (when we were in Palo Alto) had escargots, though the rest of the menu was much more downscale. We tried a plate. Meh. As a friend described eating lobster: “It’s an excuse to eat drawn butter and garlic.” Same with these. I skipped them in future visits, and one of the succeeding times, somebody got the Kalifornia Quickstep from bad snails. Place fell off our list.
On the Hammer Films scene meme: I have and I will again. From that movie in fact. (I believe the actress in question is the last surviving cast member with dialogue.)
Speaking of Hammer, it just seems odd that nobody has apparently tried to bring Lucifer’s Hammer to the screen, big or small, and that is such a good disaster story.
Funny thing is for awhile during the STS era the “change capsules for reentry” thing for the astronauts stranded in orbit was superceded by reality, but now it would work again.
In the movie NASA launched an experimental (fictional) “XRV” lifting body vehicle through the eye of the hurricane that was passing right over the cape to go rescue the stranded “Ironman” space station crew (think Skylab missing the observatory thingee) in their Apollo CM/SM stack from Earth orbit when they could not get the main rocket
Apparently the original book had the astronaut on the final Mercury flight stuck in orbit, and the rescue happening in a new and untested Gemini capsule with a single astronaut aboard to allow room for the rescued guy.
Back to the movie: By the time that rescue ship got there, Russian cosmonauts had rendezvoused with the Apollo and were working to jury rig hoses to supply O2 from their suits to the remaining stranded astronauts suits, who had run out of air as they waited around for someone else to solve their problem.
It always bugged me that that crew didn’t try to use what they had working, the maneuvering thruster quads on the Apollo service module, to deorbit.
And It looks like NASA thought of this too – from a good article on the movie at The Space Review ( https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3723/1 ), after noting the main rocket motor, the service propulsion module (SPS), ”…used hypergolic fuel and oxidizer that ignited on contact and therefore did not require an ignition system, effectively making it unlikely to have the malfunction that was fundamental to the movie.” :
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“But, for the sake of drama, let’s accept (Screenwriter Mayo) Simon’s and (movie novelization author Martin) Caidin’s SPS failure. In anticipation of such a malfunction, NASA planners had developed an alternate technique for deorbiting Apollo using smaller maneuvering thrusters (Figure 2). The Apollo service module mounted four reaction control system (RCS) “quads” of four thrusters each at 90-degree intervals around its circumference. Each quad had one thruster pointed aft, another forward, and one each to the left and right; the correct combination of thrusters allowed rotation about the pitch, yaw, and roll axes as well as translation forward, backward, to the left and right, and up and down.[12]
Clearly this was also an option familiar to the Ironman One crew. On being advised to prepare for a second attempt at reentry, spacecraft commander Pruett logically assumes that they will be using those aft-firing SM RCS engines, referred to in the movie as “backup thrusters.” This was standard procedure in Apollo planning and it was designated (without irony) as “the prime backup deorbit procedure” in a NASA planning document.[13] The late astronaut Donn Eisele explicitly referred to this option in his recently-published memoir about Apollo 7, the Earth-orbiting maiden test flight of Apollo: “There was plenty of reaction fuel for normal pre-entry maneuvers but we wanted to save all we could in case we had to use our attitude control thrusters for the deorbit burn. That is, in the unlikely event that the main rocket engine would crap out.”[14] Eisele had confidence in the SPS, perhaps because he had not seen Marooned yet.
Each of the RCS engines only had a thrust of 440 newtons, so even with all four aft-firing engines, the combined thrust would only be 1,760 newtons, about 1/50th that of the SPS, a shortcoming that would be overcome by firing them longer than the 19-second SPS burn time and accepting a longer and more gradual descent of the combined command-service module (CSM) spacecraft toward atmospheric entry, contrary to what some sources maintain.[15] The four SM RCS engines were radiatively-cooled with unlimited life, at least from a burn-time standpoint.[16]
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If interested go check out the linked article (there are diagrams!) as article author John B. Charles also describes (and diagrams!) two additional backup procedures to using the SM RCS quads which NASA worked out and trained the astronauts on to deorbit the command module if somehow a Really Bad Day occurred.
And WPDE. For some reason today my attempts to post comments directly from the comments section page go to a blank page and don’t do anything. Commenting in the WordPress reader page works, as does commenting in Jetpack. Because WP hates me.
They wrote it just as disaster films were going out of style IIRC, and the one partial comeback the genre had in the 1990s was cut short by 9/11, for obvious reasons. But it is brilliant. I love the charge of the surfer dudes, riding the Big One.
Sarah is inspired today. Lol-ed at the dog martini, giggled like an idiot at the Godzilla one, and lol-ed again with two thumbs up at the “Kier Starmer vandalism.”
Painting every line on the crosswalk into a St. George’s flag? That’s evil genius. Whoever did that, I salute you.
Oh, that’s totally true. How do rival bike gangs screw over their opponents? They do wheelies in front of the cops, and then run away to the rival gang’s clubhouse and get everybody arrested.
This only works if the cops will actually get out of the cop car, ever, which they won’t do in California.
I used this idea in Secret Empire. It’s a funner answer to the Fermi Paradox, that being “Where Is Everybody?” What if they’re all hiding from the Space Cops?
If so, what if a bunch of crazy monkeys “acquired” a ship and did wheelies on Saturday night next to the rival gang’s clubhouse? ~:D
There was a skit in an old Cheech and Chong movie where armed officers storm in when they are with Cheech’s (large} family arresting everybody. Cheech: “It’s not the narks, man! It’s immigration. We have a wedding in Tijuana this weekend, so we turned ourselves in. We get a free bus ride over the border and even get a lunch. We’ll be back next week”.
No, the Road Runner says meep meep, but is always written in the titles as “Beep”. And that came from an office boy in Termite Terrace, who always did the “meepmeep!” when delivering mail.
That Welsh one has always gotten to me. If you are a translator and people contact you because they can’t speak Welsh, then why would your email auto-reply be in Welsh? I know it’s real, I just want someone to explain this to the guy.
And, my favorite one about bad translations goes back to china where, during the olympics, the CCP wanted to have ZERO bad English. So, they set up a website for translations. At the Olympics there was a big sign that said “Server busy, try again later”
Finally, about the annoying Vegan – she was protesting the cows. It’s not just an annoying tourist, she had been kicked out in the past for annoying the farmers.
The logos in Heaven one got to me. My beloved still misses Aunt Jemima, who he visualized as the nice lady who let’s the neighborhood boys hang out and feeds them.
My gripe is the “compassionate ones,” dissed the first black female millionaire in America.
Everything they do is about making them feel better about themselves. Oh, and virtue signaling to all the other loony Leftroids. That’s all that matters. They could give a flying fig about the real-world consequences of their ‘caring’.
That might very well be, but she wasn’t first, is all. I just figure a black lady who became a millionaire on her own entrepreneurial initiative in the early 1900s is worth remembering. It’s not the sort of thing public schools teach, but they should.
It disses the whole concept of named, recognizable individuals in favor of “All [Members of Identity Group] are identical interchangeable widgets. The idea that different black women might possibly be different from each other is hateful right-wing blasphemy!”
Can’t focus enough to write because of too many ideas pinging around, but I need to write to get rid of the brain clutter so I can concentrate! Arrrrrrgh.
Establishing English as the official language will not only streamline communication but also reinforce shared national values, and create a more cohesive and efficient society.
Accordingly, this order designates English as the official language of the United States.
Eh, not enthused about any dynasty. Dynasties get too comfortable, or they produce people who don’t make the cut, then whine at great length about the horrible people who didn’t recognize the whiner’s true worth and value. (*coughcoughAdamscoughcough*)
Scandinavia and the World (the comic from whence the various coats of arms came) is a very fun comic. Written by a Dane, so the usual caveats apply, but generally good-natured if occasionally NSFW. (After all, Iceland has a penis museum.)
According To Hoyt 
The Reader scores one for the Rooftop Korean.
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Don’t know how to put photos in here, but our refugee quarters were quite snug. Including the solar panels, the marine battery and the LED light fixtures. Our remaining question is whether the system would power a small fridge.
(And, OK, the drawback is the nightly choice between throwing on a kirtle and shoes and tripping down to the porta-potty or using the coffee can — ah, the chamber pot. Fortunately this was a dry Pennsic, so I opted for the nightly excursions. Besides, I got to look at the stars).
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THIS is my big issue with camping. I refuse to go anywhere without my own bathroom as close as possible at night. Particularly now. The other “hardships” don’t bug me, but that DOES.
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Some years ago on a Paleo trip explaining the bathroom facilities to a newbie city student: “Bathroom? See the long-handled shovel with a tp roll on it? Pick your juniper bush and mind the snakes”.
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Snakes? Where on earth are snakes more of a worry than the mosquitos/black flies/other local biting insects?
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The kind of snakes that bite.
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Like I said, where on earth?
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yeah, no. JUST NO.
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Our shire’s camp was within one or two backyards of a bathroom with showers, and we had enough light from the sky to get there easily, even on dark nights. (Because we were camped on the slope of an open hill.)
The difficulties with bathrooms usually arise if you are camping in the Serengeti (because there are so so many camps, even though it’s a grid system in that field), or way back in the woods (which means a winding path to the bathroom, in the dark, even though the paths are somewhat lit).
I knew people who brought along an entire four-poster elevated bed with steps, and more than one featherbed mattress. First, because they had back problems. Second, because they were really good furniture- and featherbed-makers. Huge pavilion tent. Lots of comfy furniture. Such a flex, it was. It was like a clubhouse for everybody they knew, and very little like camping.
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Our camp is on the Seregenti, but finding the PP is easy. Our household used to be large enough to do serious clamping. I miss the hot tub.
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I was camping this last weekend, and it was only 500 feet to a bathroom. With FLUSH TOILETS.
I’ve been places where I had to trek further just for a vault toilet, and kids never seem to understand that the only reason those stink is because THEY KEEP LEAVING THE LIDS UP. (Port-a-potties are the same way, FWIW; if you put the lid down, the vents are supposed to draw the smell AWAY. But nobody remembers that…)
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“Our remaining question is whether the system would power a small fridge.”
It might. I have a 23-quart AC/DC RV refrigerator, plus a 300 watt power pack and solar panel for charging. Runs the refrigerator continuously for 8-12 hours, depending on weather. We keep it bundled under blankets to limit temperature fluctuations, and plug it in periodically to keep the inside cool.
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I’ve been calling Pennsic a refugee camp for years. Recall fondly the day the attack helicopters blitzed the camp. Only in America will you have two attack copiers buzzing a campground and the people below are cheering, laughing, waving and holding their kids up to get a better look.
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Attack copiers? I’ve dealt with those! :-D
You don’t want to know about the assault printers…
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And the prize for most inspired typo goes to Dorothy!
/cheer!
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Would that be an Epsom assault?
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Ohhh my ghod…
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Someone slip a big cold carp into his bath.
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They weren’t supposed to be flying that low, nor doing the straying runs or the Hellfire shots over the lake.
I understand that it became not fun for the pilots when someone from one of the Serengeti camps called the commander of their training base to complain and introduced himself as “Air Force Brigadier” …
I watched that from Dark Horde Camp.
John in Indy
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They weren’t supposed to be flying that low, nor doing the straying runs or the Hellfire shots over the lake.
I understand that it became not fun for the pilots when someone from one of the Serengeti camps called the commander of their training base to complain and introduced himself as “Air Force Brigadier” …
I watched that from Dark Horde Camp.
John in Indy
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They weren’t supposed to be flying that low, nor doing the straying runs or the Hellfire shots over the lake.
I understand that it became not fun for the pilots when someone from one of the Serengeti camps called the commander of their training base to complain and introduced himself as “Air Force Brigadier” …
I watched that from Dark Horde Camp.
John in Indy
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Sadly, nobody seems to have much good footage. Allegedly there were some cool maneuvers before people managed to get to their cameras. But yeah, clearly a tribute to Leonardo da Vinci.
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There were many cool manuvers. One Apache was making gun runs over the Serengeti from parking to the near edge of the lake at 100 to 200 ft above ground level, with hammerhead pull up turns at each end of his runs, while the other one hovered over the lake, holding a direction for about 10 seconds, then reorientating for another 10 seconds. I assume that he was simulating a missile launch at each stop. He did 5 or 6 of these.
John in Indy
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There were many cool manuvers. One Apache was making gun runs over the Serengeti from parking to the near edge of the lake at 100 to 200 ft above ground level, with hammerhead pull up turns at each end of his runs, while the other one hovered over the lake, holding a direction for about 10 seconds, then reorientating for another 10 seconds. I assume that he was simulating a missile launch at each stop. He did 5 or 6 of these.
John in Indy
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Holding a heading for a few seconds sounds like they were performing a compass calibration swing. I’ve done dozens of these with the Litton LN-94 system. (I believe Litton was purchased by Grumman- I’ve been retired for a while now…)
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I feel like Mr. Rabbit. More Coffee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I tend to identify with Eyore, but I feel Rabbit’s pain.
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I was fixing dinner one night & muttering to myself & realized I sounded like Rabbit on a video the kids had watched earlier. I ended up laughing & changed my attitude.
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Mornings, I am Tigger.
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Um….
So, in other news, I’m trying to figure out how to install a chat function here so I can hang out with you guys while working.
BUT — I want to make this very clear — NOT WITH 11B in the morning. One of us would be dead.
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The Reader fears that would lower the productivity of every writer here – making his habit harder to feed.
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(grin)
Doesn’t everyone wake up by 5:30am?
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Well, there is “waking up” and there is “getting up”.
I’ve “woken up at 5:30 am” but went back to sleep. [Crazy Grin]
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Sometimes. But walking into walls doesn’t count.
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330AM. Every bloody morning. Orange fuzzmonster knows that 330 is the time. There is no 5moreminutes. Nao. Hooman will fetch foods nao!
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Your cat is probably a fan of the video I linked earlier…..
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Our cats have kibble 24/7 (high enough that the dog cannot get to), plus treats throughout most days. Sometime between 8 – 8:30 PM the 5 share two 3oz canned cat food. Thus at 8 PM on the dot, all five are hovering and vocal in around the dinning room. The only time two will tolerate the others, including each other. Makes for an interesting Saturday evenings because our son is the one who preps and distributes the food, he is out Saturday night not getting home until after 9 PM. They let him know that he is “late” very, very, vocally.
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Homeless encampments are mostly refuges for the reality challenged.
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Homeless encampments are what you get when your government allows Chinese money laundering to drive the price of a detached house in the suburbs up over two million dollars, and the price of a dog-kennel condo up over $700K, while deliberately importing 7 MILLION destitute foreigners in 8 years. (That’s Canada by the way, you guys got something like 20 million.)
Junkies pretty much flop under bridges, they can’t get it together to manage a tent in a homeless encampment. The sh1t they sell these days causes profound brain damage. And gee, I wonder who let that happen?
But don’t you dare fight back if one of them kicks in your door at 3AM, you filthy white people. You just die properly, and you better leave your dead body where it’s convenient for the cleaners to pick up.
Could be I needed a laugh this morning. >:(
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No here. Most homeless encampments are the home of the the addicted.
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Not out here either.
The employed-on-the-margin folks were for a while living in rented RVs that they had to move every so often to stay ahead of the parking laws, but that went south into the same demographic as the tent encampments did, so the cities have been cleaning those up. These days they either commute from incredibly far away to their multiple jobs, or if they can make it work, group together into apartments bunkhouse-style so they can afford the rent until they land a better paying gig.
The tent encampments are overwhelmingly junkies and mentally ill, which are pretty much a single circle Venn diagram.
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The addiction may just be a symptom of the refusal to accept the social contract.
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Once the addiction has hold, it’s hard to tell which side is cause and which side is effect.
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Look back at the history. Theodore Dalrymple, for instance, found that the criminals he treated in jail had generally served time before becoming addicts — and in modern day Britain, where only a hardened criminal does time.
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Note that Middle Kingdom money parking in US real estate is in fact still a thing here, though in contrast to the ghost-houses with full landscaping services and pro upkeep that were characteristic of such in my neighborhood back during the Great Recession 15 or so years ago, it generally now comes with a family member and spouse that lives where the family parked their money far outside the grasp of the CCP, and who is responsible for upkeep to keep the family’s investment intact.
The annual income required to finance the median house in San Jose in 2025 is $454,296 according to Zillow (cite: https://www.financialsamurai.com/income-required-to-afford-a-typical-home-by-city/ ). That is so far away from entry-level or service workers pay reality that it really has no impact on whether someone is in a tent encampment. Average rent per apartments.com in San Jose is $2,687/mo, on an average 705 sqft apartment. That craziness is closer, but still way out of reach, even with all the housing assistance, ignoring Section 8 housing.
So even out here in crazy-expensive-housing-land, the foreign money is not really moving that boundary where it’s relevant to “the unhoused”.
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Zillow says average rent is $3,225/mo ( cite: https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/san-jose-ca/ )
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You’ve heard of the Vancouver Model of money laundering?
A) Guy shows up to #Casino in BC with hockey bags full of cash. Buys chips with it. Plays for a couple hours, wins/loses some. Cashes out with #Casino check.
B) Guy takes check to friendly Big Five #Bank. Deposits it. Big Five #Bank pretends this is okay, takes the money.
C) Guy buys house. Doesn’t care how much he pays. Runs up the prices of desirable house numbers with bidding war. Then guy renovates it. No expense spared.
(I experienced this personally, I looked at a tear-down rooming house in crap location with no parking and no yard. This multi-floor student housing wreck was listed for $900K, went for $1.8 million in 2018 after a bidding war. There was a -river- of flowing water running through the basement and the roof was f-ed. $2 million to fix it, in my estimation, it needed foundation work and concrete work, and an entire roof including trusses. House would have been ~$3 million after a renovation, utterly insane amount of money to spend, no way it was worth it. Chinese bidders. Cash deal, no mortgage. Sketchy?! Oh yeah.)
D) Guy sells house, now has clean laundered money, 100% legit. Buys another, bigger, house. Renovates that.
Rinse, repeat. This is how you get ALL the houses in Toronto, no matter how f-ed, being worth well over a million. Don’t forget, Canada’s economy and population is roughly the size of NY state, somewhat smaller than California.
The USA catches the cold, we get pneumonia.
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And as predicted, similar things are happening in Malibu…..
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2025/08/23/land-grab-in-california-foreign-shell-companies-are-buying-up-swaths-of-land-incinerated-by-firestorms-n4942963
Lots of extra links in the article.
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It also says they’re going to put up pre-fab concrete houses — made in China. Chinese concrete is infamous. Those fancy new houses will be crumbling within 3 years.
ONE bill to restrict foreign ownership of American property made it through the one-party Democrat legislature and Gruesom vetoed it, claiming that the federal government (the Biden* regime) was addressing the issue. News flash — they weren’t, any more than they did anything else useful.
Meanwhile, people whose houses burned down due to government incompetence can’t get permits to rebuild. They’re being forced to sell prime real estate for peanuts. To Chinese front corporations.
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Ditto, Pennsic
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I’ve been saying since Day 1: BOM’s team cannot release all the good stuff and start arresting people before they’ve gotten law enforcement (the people who do the arresting), prosecutors (who do the prosecuting) and judges (who hear the cases) at least identified as friend or foe, and preferably replaced by sane people. Otherwise, we have a Spanish Civil War scenario, where Franco is supposed to arrest communists, prosecute them, and jail them – using law enforcement, lawyers, and judges under Communist control. Not working! We saw and continue to see how that works with the St. Floyd Riots, etc. So federalizing DC law enforcement is an obvious preliminary step.
I’m very pleasantly surprised he’s gotten this far in only 7 months!
As to announcing that certain files would be promptly declassified and published (tipping his hand before he’s got arrests lined up), my guess is that he’s trying to scare people into flipping. But I don’t know – never made sense to me. Hang onto your evidence until you’re ready to move, with law enforcement, lawyers, and judges on your side.
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BOM is running a balancing act, trying to show enough progress through legal channels to mollify the “I want my perp walks now” crowd, without actually breaking the law himself.
Once you realize that, this little maneuver by DeSantis should be regarded as the opening of 2028. Now the judge is going to find DeSantis in contempt and Trump will be expected to arrest him.
https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2025/08/23/the-chomping-will-proceed-desantis-pulls-an-andrew-jackson-on-order-to-shut-down-alligator-alcatraz-n2417765
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I for one 100% believe the one about Stephen King.
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What’s funny is I’ve been stopped a couple of times walking around Boston by people who thought I was Stephen King. If I was smarter and thought faster on my feet, I should have offered to autograph their books for $20 each. /laugh
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Me too.
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That Skyline Chili meme triggered flashbacks* over the spaghetti, turkey, and sauce donation last November. The Mission staffer told me he was going to use that for spaghetti tacos, as inspired by some TV show I’ve managed to miss. Reason #5823 why I don’t watch TV beyond DVDs of old shows.
OTOH, I’ll admit to making a peanut butter and jelly pizza once in college. Freaked out my roommates. Cheese was not involved. Nor spaghetti. :)
(*) OK, “disturbing memories”.
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Oddly enough, peanut butter seems to go well with cheddar cheese in a sandwich.
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They put cinnamon and allspice in their chili. It is an abomination. And yes, I’ve had Skyline chili.
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What an awful Reddit post! All the comments seemed to come from people who were a little too proud of their three whole semesters at college. Was I so annoying at that age? Eh, probably.
Now, is Ohio real? Well, I grew up there, so if it’s not, I’m not. Having just typed it out, I don’t find the thought terribly reassuring!
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It’s reddit. Everything is awful at reddit.
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Sarah, I stay as far out of reddit as I can get.
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I only look at it in this kind of situation when it comes up in my searches and it’s ridiculous.
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Reddit is not all insanity. At least, my very specialized narrow window has some normal moments, though I must admit I provide many of them myself.
I’m a reddit moderator of /CAguns. I actually know about the subject area, and I get to squelch horriblebad posts sometimes.
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Remember, “mythical” is so much more satisfying than “imaginary” or “fictional.”
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But Legendary is Much Better. 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
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High-paws Drak.
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I have to be careful with that one:
Legion. Dairy.
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Did you know they used to raise Holsteins at Camp LeJeune?
You’ve not heard of this?
It was LeJeune Dairy!
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Wow. I didn’t even know the carptapult could launch that much carp at once. It’s like a cloud, obscuring the sun!
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“Then we will fish in the shade.”
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LOL. Well played, Steve. Well played.
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Man, I miss when crypto-geography was obscure.
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Ohio is real, all right — real cheap! We’ve done shows in Cincinnati, Columbus, Toledo and Dayton, and never done better than break even. I’m pretty much ready to swear off that whole state as not worth doing business with.
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I just spent a week at the other end of Ohio from Cincinnati. Cleveland, at least, is real. If it wasn’t, Pittsburgh would be under water.
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So, the 70-year epic rivalry between U of Michigan and U of Ohio is a lie? I used to live less than 30 miles from Toledo. Last time I rode through there was in the late 80s so it was still there then.
That post is stuck-on-stupid.
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I’m shocked no one has yet corrected you: the rivalry is between U of Michigan and THE Ohio STATE Buckeyes.
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Focusing LIKE A LASER on the important issues, I see. I too tend to do that.
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If Ohio isn’t real, maybe the Reader imagined his first marriage. Nah, that would be too much to ask.
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That is because the chains’ founders were Lebanese, and those are spices used in their meat sauces.
I use beef round, cubed, with Wick Fowlers’ Chili Seasoning, baked at 300 for 4 hours so it doesn’t burn, and no beans.
John in Indy
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There is a reasonable facsimile of the Wick Fowlers’ recipe available on line, which is notably less expensive to produce than purchasing the kits. And I like fresh onion and garlic better anyway.
Have not yet gotten around to buy masa for the finish, though.
But I’ve fiddled with the recipe often. A little leftover red wine, sure! Can of Rotel, yep! Brown the beef in bacon fat. Maybe dredge the meat in regular flour before browning.
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That is because the chains’ founders were Lebanese, and those are spices used in their meat sauces.
I use beef round, cubed, with Wick Fowlers’ Chili Seasoning, baked at 300 for 4 hours so it doesn’t burn, and no beans.
John in Indy
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It wasn’t only Skyline. Gold Star competed in the same market space, as did others. Back in college, one guy in our circle would go home every weekend to see his girl. His hometown was near Cincinnati, on the Indiana side. On Sundays he would return to Worst Layflat with frozen Empress chili and a six-pack of Christian Moerlein beer. That was our Sunday supper, and it was a good one.
That was back in the early 1980s. So go the memories.
And I’ll grant you, Cincinnati style chili is an acquired taste. One either loves it or is totally without culture. :-)
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Dan is trying to convince me this was a great thing.
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Cincinnati style “chili” does not deserve the name. It’s merely spaghetti with meat sauce and a few other things. Chili it ain’t. Topping the list of its wrongness is simple: the stuff is not spicy at all. Chili should have some fire to it (though not enough to mask the flavors).
I’m actually agnostic about things like beans in chili – they absolutely were in the stuff that range cooks served up in big pots – but the stuff they serve up under that false name in Cincinnati would have gotten a range cook staked out in front of the next day’s cattle drive.
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Perdue guy, huh?
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Undue Perversity
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It’s not an abomination. It’s Greek-American cuisine. There’s spaghetti noodles, seasoned meat, lots of cheese, and oyster crackers on the side. There used to be twenty-some different recipes in Cincinnati, because every neighborhood had its own Greek-run diner that served chili spaghetti.
And of course, cinnamon in meat is very typical of fine medieval dining, so we’ve circled back around to Pennsic.
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One of earliest encounters with medieval meat involved beef with currants and raisins and, I suspect, warm spices. Unfortunately, it made me queasy. So I’ve tended to avoid sweet meat dishes since then.
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at least camphor is not used to season meat anywhere now. It was another middle ages favorite.
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Hey, as long as the peanut butter and jelly doesn’t get baked in the oven but rather goes on after the pizza dough is baked, that’s just an open-faced sandwich in a custom shape. You wouldn’t have gotten any weird looks from me if I’d been your roommate. Maybe a “Huh. Cool idea.” but not a weird look.
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Wellll, they got baked in. FWIW, it was in a thick-pan crust, though done in a smallish skillet.
The four of us shared dinner cooking on a schedule that worked fairly well. (Each roommate did one dinner hisself, one as a pair, and which pair didn’t do Saturday got the groceries. Sunday, order pizza or go out.
Lunches were random. College eateries were close, and we’d keep sandwich fixings, but nothing suitable was on hand. I was good at pan-pizza crusts, but when that was ready, it was time to improvise. It sort of worked. Didn’t try it again. Ever. ($SPOUSE and I do a medium crust pizza each week; traditional toppings, (mostly–Colby Jack cheese some weeks) and the obligatory gluten-free crust. Dire consequences from each of our bodies if violated.)
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Well, I’ll try almost anything food-wise, at least once. (Though I don’t plan to ever try fugu. I don’t care how good it tastes — and I bet it doesn’t taste that good, I bet the appeal is the thrill of danger — it’s not worth it). So I would have given it a shot.
I still remember the time when I was eating with a group of people, at a place where you didn’t choose the menu, you got served what the chef decided to cook that evening. That particular evening the menu included a side dish of escargots. Having grown up in France, I had no problem with the idea of eating snails, and I tucked in (the garlic butter sauce was really good). But nobody else wanted them. There were two snails per person, and it was a table of eight — so I got to eat about a dozen snails that day. (I didn’t eat sixteen because some people were brave enough to eat one, but nobody except me ate more than one.)
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Some place near work (when we were in Palo Alto) had escargots, though the rest of the menu was much more downscale. We tried a plate. Meh. As a friend described eating lobster: “It’s an excuse to eat drawn butter and garlic.” Same with these. I skipped them in future visits, and one of the succeeding times, somebody got the Kalifornia Quickstep from bad snails. Place fell off our list.
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SFBS!
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you know, now that we’ve met and hung out together, I imagine you squeeing and it’s so much fun.
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By the neck doesn’t count, Sarah.
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I like him!
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How do you know? I might be into that….stuff ;-)
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On the Hammer Films scene meme: I have and I will again. From that movie in fact. (I believe the actress in question is the last surviving cast member with dialogue.)
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Speaking of Hammer, it just seems odd that nobody has apparently tried to bring Lucifer’s Hammer to the screen, big or small, and that is such a good disaster story.
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Funny thing is for awhile during the STS era the “change capsules for reentry” thing for the astronauts stranded in orbit was superceded by reality, but now it would work again.
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Not sure if I saw it (maybe on TV, might have read the book), but didn’t that go on in Marooned?
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In the movie NASA launched an experimental (fictional) “XRV” lifting body vehicle through the eye of the hurricane that was passing right over the cape to go rescue the stranded “Ironman” space station crew (think Skylab missing the observatory thingee) in their Apollo CM/SM stack from Earth orbit when they could not get the main rocket
Apparently the original book had the astronaut on the final Mercury flight stuck in orbit, and the rescue happening in a new and untested Gemini capsule with a single astronaut aboard to allow room for the rescued guy.
Back to the movie: By the time that rescue ship got there, Russian cosmonauts had rendezvoused with the Apollo and were working to jury rig hoses to supply O2 from their suits to the remaining stranded astronauts suits, who had run out of air as they waited around for someone else to solve their problem.
It always bugged me that that crew didn’t try to use what they had working, the maneuvering thruster quads on the Apollo service module, to deorbit.
And It looks like NASA thought of this too – from a good article on the movie at The Space Review ( https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3723/1 ), after noting the main rocket motor, the service propulsion module (SPS), ”…used hypergolic fuel and oxidizer that ignited on contact and therefore did not require an ignition system, effectively making it unlikely to have the malfunction that was fundamental to the movie.” :
“But, for the sake of drama, let’s accept (Screenwriter Mayo) Simon’s and (movie novelization author Martin) Caidin’s SPS failure. In anticipation of such a malfunction, NASA planners had developed an alternate technique for deorbiting Apollo using smaller maneuvering thrusters (Figure 2). The Apollo service module mounted four reaction control system (RCS) “quads” of four thrusters each at 90-degree intervals around its circumference. Each quad had one thruster pointed aft, another forward, and one each to the left and right; the correct combination of thrusters allowed rotation about the pitch, yaw, and roll axes as well as translation forward, backward, to the left and right, and up and down.[12]
Clearly this was also an option familiar to the Ironman One crew. On being advised to prepare for a second attempt at reentry, spacecraft commander Pruett logically assumes that they will be using those aft-firing SM RCS engines, referred to in the movie as “backup thrusters.” This was standard procedure in Apollo planning and it was designated (without irony) as “the prime backup deorbit procedure” in a NASA planning document.[13] The late astronaut Donn Eisele explicitly referred to this option in his recently-published memoir about Apollo 7, the Earth-orbiting maiden test flight of Apollo: “There was plenty of reaction fuel for normal pre-entry maneuvers but we wanted to save all we could in case we had to use our attitude control thrusters for the deorbit burn. That is, in the unlikely event that the main rocket engine would crap out.”[14] Eisele had confidence in the SPS, perhaps because he had not seen Marooned yet.
Each of the RCS engines only had a thrust of 440 newtons, so even with all four aft-firing engines, the combined thrust would only be 1,760 newtons, about 1/50th that of the SPS, a shortcoming that would be overcome by firing them longer than the 19-second SPS burn time and accepting a longer and more gradual descent of the combined command-service module (CSM) spacecraft toward atmospheric entry, contrary to what some sources maintain.[15] The four SM RCS engines were radiatively-cooled with unlimited life, at least from a burn-time standpoint.[16]
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If interested go check out the linked article (there are diagrams!) as article author John B. Charles also describes (and diagrams!) two additional backup procedures to using the SM RCS quads which NASA worked out and trained the astronauts on to deorbit the command module if somehow a Really Bad Day occurred.
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My long answer stuck in mod. Short answer – kinda not quite.
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I’ve released it!
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And WPDE. For some reason today my attempts to post comments directly from the comments section page go to a blank page and don’t do anything. Commenting in the WordPress reader page works, as does commenting in Jetpack. Because WP hates me.
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They wrote it just as disaster films were going out of style IIRC, and the one partial comeback the genre had in the 1990s was cut short by 9/11, for obvious reasons. But it is brilliant. I love the charge of the surfer dudes, riding the Big One.
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Sarah is inspired today. Lol-ed at the dog martini, giggled like an idiot at the Godzilla one, and lol-ed again with two thumbs up at the “Kier Starmer vandalism.”
Painting every line on the crosswalk into a St. George’s flag? That’s evil genius. Whoever did that, I salute you.
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Now I wonder if that last one is true.
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Oh, that’s totally true. How do rival bike gangs screw over their opponents? They do wheelies in front of the cops, and then run away to the rival gang’s clubhouse and get everybody arrested.
This only works if the cops will actually get out of the cop car, ever, which they won’t do in California.
I used this idea in Secret Empire. It’s a funner answer to the Fermi Paradox, that being “Where Is Everybody?” What if they’re all hiding from the Space Cops?
If so, what if a bunch of crazy monkeys “acquired” a ship and did wheelies on Saturday night next to the rival gang’s clubhouse? ~:D
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There was a skit in an old Cheech and Chong movie where armed officers storm in when they are with Cheech’s (large} family arresting everybody. Cheech: “It’s not the narks, man! It’s immigration. We have a wedding in Tijuana this weekend, so we turned ourselves in. We get a free bus ride over the border and even get a lunch. We’ll be back next week”.
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🤣
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THANK YOU, Chuck Jones.
The roadrunner says Beep Beep, not that damned ‘meep meep’!
Wouldn’t the catgirl prefer a box?
Love the Newsom doll, but it’d scare away the kids I want to reward and attract The Wrong Kind.
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No, the Road Runner says meep meep, but is always written in the titles as “Beep”. And that came from an office boy in Termite Terrace, who always did the “meepmeep!” when delivering mail.
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So funny, since roadrunners don’t make that sound in real life.
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Its an aftermarket horn kit, I beleive.
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Oh. the bird. Well. Right.
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Hmmm. I think I just decided what I want to add to my current ride.
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…because everything else about the cartoons is so very realistic.
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Now, the cliff side tunnel paintings were very realistic…
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I liked the welsh one
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That Welsh one has always gotten to me. If you are a translator and people contact you because they can’t speak Welsh, then why would your email auto-reply be in Welsh? I know it’s real, I just want someone to explain this to the guy.
And, my favorite one about bad translations goes back to china where, during the olympics, the CCP wanted to have ZERO bad English. So, they set up a website for translations. At the Olympics there was a big sign that said “Server busy, try again later”
Finally, about the annoying Vegan – she was protesting the cows. It’s not just an annoying tourist, she had been kicked out in the past for annoying the farmers.
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”Annoying vegan”
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Seems redundant.
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The logos in Heaven one got to me. My beloved still misses Aunt Jemima, who he visualized as the nice lady who let’s the neighborhood boys hang out and feeds them.
My gripe is the “compassionate ones,” dissed the first black female millionaire in America.
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Yes.
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Everything they do is about making them feel better about themselves. Oh, and virtue signaling to all the other loony Leftroids. That’s all that matters. They could give a flying fig about the real-world consequences of their ‘caring’.
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The first black female millionaire was Madam C.J. Walker, not Aunt Jemima, and she dealt in hair care products.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madam_C._J._Walker
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OK. I think I remember a piece about the lady who was behind the pancake mix also becoming wealthy.
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That might very well be, but she wasn’t first, is all. I just figure a black lady who became a millionaire on her own entrepreneurial initiative in the early 1900s is worth remembering. It’s not the sort of thing public schools teach, but they should.
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Yeah. Aunt Jemima was a figment of a marketer’s imagination.
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not completely.
Anna Short Harrington was the real person who both served as the model and created the original recipe.
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It disses the whole concept of named, recognizable individuals in favor of “All [Members of Identity Group] are identical interchangeable widgets. The idea that different black women might possibly be different from each other is hateful right-wing blasphemy!”
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I quipped several elsewheres about “DC Cleanup, and maybe some indictments now?” Or something similar.
And what do I find here in the memes? heh.
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That was C&C’s take when this was announced.
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Sarah, you have 4 cats, right????
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it’s too late to go to tube of ew. I assume I’m a crazy cat lady?
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If they start a band like this one, the crazy is guaranteed….. 😸😸😸
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Can’t focus enough to write because of too many ideas pinging around, but I need to write to get rid of the brain clutter so I can concentrate! Arrrrrrgh.
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The Doctor may be watching, we hope!
Hold still indeed. Pfui, vampires….
“I’m self-published! I can be as weird and kooky as the fans will read!”
Fight the system! For the flock!
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This is the kind of thing that gives me encouragement.
https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/08/25/trump-administration-puts-assimilation-over-feelings-in-new-education-guidance-n2193191
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So does this.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GzD8PMsW8AApgkT?format=jpg
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And …
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GzExb5wXYAANNb2?format=jpg
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Eh, not enthused about any dynasty. Dynasties get too comfortable, or they produce people who don’t make the cut, then whine at great length about the horrible people who didn’t recognize the whiner’s true worth and value. (*coughcoughAdamscoughcough*)
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Won’t disagree regarding the dynasty thing.
OTOH for trolling the democrats? Priceless.
OTOH2 what is the alternative? Letting the demorats have a whack at the pie again at this point is insane.
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Scandinavia and the World (the comic from whence the various coats of arms came) is a very fun comic. Written by a Dane, so the usual caveats apply, but generally good-natured if occasionally NSFW. (After all, Iceland has a penis museum.)
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Lots and lots of internal screaming.
Incidentally, I need to buy some more cork board.
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