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Archive for August, 2024
31 Aug 2024
RFK Jr.’s VP Posted This2024 Election, Anti-Trump Derangement![]()
31 Aug 2024
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30 Aug 2024
The Current Big Fight in PaleontologyAlvarez Hypothesis, Asteroid, Dinosaur Extinction, Melanie During, Paleontology, Robert DePalma![]()
Sayre’s Law contends that: “Academic politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.” New York Magazine has an interesting, gossipy story about academics feuding over competition for credit for a new theory of the cause of dinosaur extinction.
28 Aug 2024
A MysteryAngling, Cuisine, Ernest Hemingway![]()
Of Hemingway books,there are no end. I picked up recently a new one describing in detail his sporting activities and writing during summer sojourns in Wyoming after he left his first wife Hadley for the slimmer, sexier, and richer Pauline Pfeifer, whose family money financed a grand new life style that included multiple new cars, an African safari, and the custom fishing boat Pilar. Thus copiously funded, Ernest Hemingway fished and hunted in Wyoming during six summers between 1928 and 1939. His eldest son, Jack (by Hadley) joined him in the Summer of 1929, and received an introduction to the field sports that made him a life-long fly fisherman.
–Darla Worden, Cockeyed Happy, 2021. Lungs? Lungs?? Trout haven’t got lungs. I suppose the author must mean gills, but gills are not exactly “inside” the fish, and how on earth would they add flavor? 28 Aug 2024
Heh!2024 Election, Bill Clinton![]()
27 Aug 2024
The Trump Campaign is Doing a Good Job2024 Election, Kamala Harris, Political Ads![]()
27 Aug 2024
I’m Back On-lineBlog Administration, Internet, Techology, Viasat![]() Eight days after our satellite internet connection went down, Viasat got a technician out to the Central Pennsylvania farm to deal with the problem. We pay hundreds and hundreds per month for “business” level services and this is what support service is like. But, don’t worry! Viasat will cancel charges for the days our connection was down. Of course, the service call results in a $200 extra charge. For the benefit of commenters: Starlink is not available for my location. Our alternative is Hughesnet, which is not really any better. This kind of thing, a vital system component wearing out and expiring, does happen every four or five years, and repair servics are always excruciatingly slow. 24 Aug 2024
Temporary outage![]() Our rural internet connection has been down since Tuesday, 8/20. Anticipated return: Tuesday afternoon, 8/27. 13 Aug 2024
“A Filigree of Spitfires”Battle of Britain, Britain and the United States, John Keegan![]() I was determined to locate the phrase’s origin, and I did find it in a lengthy 1996 essay in American Heritage by Keegan on his relationship with, and perspective upon America, as a Briton. The quote: “Britain’s glory time, between Dunkirk and Pearl Harbor, when Hitler’s army stood on the French coast and only a filigree of Spitfires hung between my unthinking self and invasion.” It’s a fine essay. 12 Aug 2024
The Glorious TwelfthJ.K. Stanford, Red Grouse, The Glorious Twelfth, The Twelfth![]() In honor of the Feast of St. Grouse, here’s a link to an ebook version of J.K. Stanford’s hilarious The Twelfth. ![]() Feeds
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