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Uvalde Shooting: Ways to Help
How to Help Uvalde, Texas shooting victims and their families – includes links to verified charities set up to help the victims and their families, information on helping children deal with the event, and information on what is already being done for the community.
How to help Uvalde families following yesterday’s elementary school shooting – from NPR.org
5 Ways To Help Kids, Parents, Victims…
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Getting Back On the Horse
The other day, I managed to forget to post on a Sunday. To the best of my knowledge, that was the first time I’d accidentally skipped a post since sometime in 2020. From there, I took the next couple of posting days off because I honestly couldn’t think of anything to post and I kind of just needed some time off.
I don’t really have much of anything to say today but I’m posting so that ‘taking a…
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Quick Reviews:
Due to changes in my work schedule, I’ve had a lot more time to read. I used the library app Hoopla, I’ve started downloading comics to read. Toward that end, here’s a few of my favorites:
American Cult: A Graphic History of Religious Cults in America from the Colonial Era to Today, edited by Robyn Chapman – a non-fiction title from 2021, this anthology comic talks about fringe religious groups…
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Moderate Success!
I still haven’t tracked down exact measurements for the stadium at Soldier Field, but I have found figures that are close enough for my purposes, thanks to CalcMaps – Maptools. Using their distance tool, I was able to put points on a satellite photo of the stadium itself and get a rough estimate for length and width.
It’s honestly shocking to me how hard it is to find out what I’d thought would…
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Checked Out
Good news: my colonoscopy came back negative! This means I don’t have to have another one for ten years — hopefully by 2033 medical science will have advanced enough to create a colonoscopy prep solution that doesn’t taste like sadness and misery. Or, barring that, at least comes in a smaller portion.
Otherwise, I have been playing around with numbers and vaguely working on my scale model of…
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Not Doing Nothin' Today
Except prepping for a colonoscopy. Which leads to the question of the day: why the hell does the prep stuff have to taste so damnably foul? I mean, is there a medical reason for it or what?!
So far, other than having to choke down the first round of the Awful Stuff – and not looking forward to Round Two in the wee hours – the prep hasn’t been so bad. I’ve been loafing in bed, listening to…
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More Adventures with Stupider Big Numbers
More Adventures with Stupider Big Numbers
I’ve been continue playing with ridiculously large numbers, particularly as relates to explosive yield. I made a spreadsheet to relate explosive yields in terms of tons of TNT equivalent versus how many pounds of TNT that yield would represent (i.e. 1 ton of TNT equivalent equals 2,000 pounds of TNT, 1 kiloton is 2 million pounds of TNT, 1 megaton is 2 billion pounds of TNT, and so on). And,…
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Adventures in Stupid Big Numbers
Adventures in Stupid Big Numbers
As I mentioned in my Goals Post back on Monday, I’ve been working on a way to create scale comparisons of nuclear blast yields. I’d already created a couple spreadsheets full of figures for yields between 1 ton and 100 megatons for surface blasts and airblasts and I’d even created a scale where 1 foot = 30 feet but that led to a model that was too large. Especially since I’d wanted to compare the…
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It's The Final Blog Post...of 2022
It’s The Final Blog Post…of 2022
I’ve been spending the last couple days watching old episodes of Columbo, because I have a major soft spot for the bumbling detective. Watching him take down elitist creeps is just soothing – also, it’s fun to check early 1970s prices against an inflation calculator.
I also started watching a British series called New Tricks, which features retired officers being brought in to rework cold cases.…
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#fnord#ARO80: 2022#AROW80#Good books: Cold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s - The Bunkered Decades#Good TV: Columbo#Good TV: New Tricks#Nuke Opera 2020#Nuke Opera 2022
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Snuggled In
Since it’s supposed to be cold as hell the next few days, I’ve made the bed with nearly every blanket we have and am preparing to sleep the cozy warm sleep of the well tucked in.
In other news, I’m playing around with creating a way to better compare nuclear explosions to make the damage and destruction they can cause easier to wrap my head around. This will involve fiddly bits of math and…
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New Bed, Nuff Said
We got a new bed and it is the most comfortable thing in the universe. This is 87.5% hyperbole and 12.5% sleepiness.
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Progress!
Not so much with notetaking, but as far as cleaning the house goes, I’ve made some actual progress! Like, I’ve found areas of floor we haven’t seen since…well, longer than I like to admit. Depression + Pandemic+ Lack of Motivation = Auuugh!!
But, we’re on our way to actual living space! Yay!
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Stuff I Found Out...
Stuff I Found Out…
I did some reading about the history of the survivalist movement, since that’s cromulent to my interests. I thought that survivalism had its roots in civil defense preparations for nuclear war. Turns out, it originally sprang from fears of economic collapse in the 1960s and especially in the 1970s. Nuclear war became a concern in the 1980s, due in part to increased tensions between the US and…
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Adulting!
Went to the doctor today and scheduled some routine medical tests – Pap smear, mammogram, colonoscopy – got some blood drawn and arranged to use a new online pharmacy which looks like it will save me close to 85 bucks a month!
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Brain Food
I’ve taken a break from taking notes on cheesy books to take notes on meaty articles on weighty subjects. Which is good since it’s helping me build a framework for later articles but now my brain is full so I’m going to sleep.
Articles I’ve read include:
Umberto Eco’s “Ur-Fascism” – which outlines fourteen points for identifying fascist movements. The article is not a breezy read, but it is a…
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Grump.
Spent today dealing with what might’ve been another round of food poisoning or some kind of tummy bug. Did get some notetaking done. And now, sleep.
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