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Wednesday, March 06, 2024

Waiting for Springtime

 "If you make a mistake and do not correct it, that is called a mistake." - Confucius

Sunday, March 03, 2024

Return of the Measles - A public service announcement

 "All external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately.

Individuals, however, are responsible for their own actions which they can examine and control through rigorous self-discipline.

Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or neglecting what is within our power." - Epictetus

Friday, February 23, 2024

The Black Market - It's amazing what you can buy!

 "No man is so foolish as to desire war and not peace.  For in peace, children bring their parents to the graveyard.  In war, parents bring their children to the graveyard." - Herodotus

Saturday, February 10, 2024

The Big Easy

 "But this I know: If all mankind were to take their troubles to the marketplace with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own." - Herodotus

Sunday, February 04, 2024

1999 Subaru Legacy Engine Heater and Timer

"A society prospers when men plant trees whose shadows they will never rest in."  - Ancient Proverb

Monday, January 29, 2024

Saturday, January 27, 2024

Quick update, late January 2024

 "The US policy toward the third world should be depopulation." - Henry Kissinger, former US secretary of State

Friday, January 19, 2024

After the cold, snow

"The poor tell us who we are, and the prophets tell us who we could be.  So we hide the poor and kill the prophets." - Philip Berrigan

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Asteroids

 Pretty cool NASA interactive web page, showing all (known) asteroids orbiting the sun.

 Highly recommended if only for a brief visit!  https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/asteroids/#/home

Below:  Asteroid Ida, Imaged by the Galileo space probe in 1993, while on its way to Jupiter.


Monday, January 15, 2024

Life in the washing machine 'spin cycle'

 "It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron." - H. L. Mencken