"Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man." - Bertrand Russell
An advertisement-free blog about motorcycling, Northern life, home improvement, power plants, submarines, nuclear stuff, and a few other off-beat subjects. Comments are welcome. (Image is the Selway Crags in Northern Idaho)
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
Wednesday, January 03, 2024
Another nickel plating project
"The things you need are few and easy to come by; but the things you imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied." - Epicurus