Mail 682 Tuesday July 5, 2011
This ought to have been posted yesterday.
Subj: Fwd: Best Flash Mob Ever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FATQ0ayQXsA
Jim
It is certainly worth watching. Exuberant.
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Hary Brown
It’s a Michael Caine movie now available to stream on Netflix. He is a pensioner who chum is killed by the local gangbangers. But Harry was a Royal Marine once.
John
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
Dwight David Eisenhower
I have not seen that, but this is a favorite plot with me. I even liked Streets of Fire which had a similar theme. I like stories in which bad guys pick the wrong victim…
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DSK
So, DSK gets put on suicide watch at Rikers until he resigns from the IMF — this is all before the investigation occurs. The maid is connected to the mob, etc. Now, like a row of sharkteeth the next accuser stands ready to put this guy away. This is so blatantly obvious.
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Most Respectfully,
Joshua Jordan, KSC
It does seem rather a parody of real justice. We still don’t know everything but where is all the money coming from?
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I was struck by your comments concerning “The Day is Done” and agree with your thoughts on the decline of education in the face of increasing money spent on it. My students (I teach CS at a liberal arts college) often seem to resent the idea that earning the grade they want involves a great deal of talent and time investment. Most come out of high schools with GPAs > 4 with homework commitments of less than an hour a week. Of course, the shift has been going on for a while. I still remember an episode of “The Brady Bunch” where Greg was forced to watch/help his father recite “The Day is Done” at a school show; the point was that such old poetry had no place in the “hip” world he inhabited. And, in elementary school in the late 70s, I was considered strange for picking Kipling’s “If” to memorize for a class poetry day. On the other hand, my 83 year old father can still recite “The Gettysburg Address” and Leigh Hunt’s “Abou Ben Adhem” flawlessly—they and many other pieces shaped his worldview.
kenny
Kenny Moorman
Abou Ben Adhem, may his tribe increase– Sixth Grade. It’s in the California Sixth Grade Reader I am working into a (public domain so very minimum priced) eBook. Along with a number of other poems and stories we all once knew or at least had heard of. Like Horatius at the Bridge. Incidentally you can find Horatius and the other Lays of Ancient Rome on this site with a short introduction.
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Subject: Researchers create rollerball-pen ink to draw circuits
Almost like Motie technology:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-rollerball-pen-ink-circuits.html
Tracy
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A bit of hope for alternative fuels –
http://www.platts.com/RSSFeedDetailedNews/RSSFeed/Oil/6245497
Alternative fuels for the military need to be “drop-in”: Navy Sec’y
I see real hope for alternative fuels and Mabus says why I think it can happen, “The sheer size of the military needs, Mabus said, means that “what we can do, what the military can do, is we can bring a market.”
I hope.
R,
Rose
Bringing a market is often all that is needed. If NASA had done space that way…
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Subj: Good nukes! TVA signs letter of intent to buy B&W small modular reactors
http://www.babcock.com/news_and_events/2011/20110616a.html
>>The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) (NYSE:BWC) announced today that Generation mPower LLC (GmP), a majority-owned subsidiary of Babcock & Wilcox Nuclear Energy, Inc., has signed a letter of intent with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) that defines the project plans and associated conditions for designing, licensing and constructing up to six B&W mPower small modular reactors (SMRs) at TVA’s Clinch River site in Roane County, Tenn. … GmP remains on track to deploy the first B&W mPower reactor by 2020 at TVA’s Clinch River site. …<<
Rod Montgomery==monty@starfief.com
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Fallen Angels – life imitates art.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/04/us-climate-sulphur-idUSTRE7634IQ20110704
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Roland Dobbins
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‘The man who makes war without the approval of elected legislators is no longer a president, but a king.’
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/the_man_who_would_be_king.html
The King of England constitutionally had the right to make war on whom he pleased. He needed Parliament to pay for it. Congress was explicitly given that power in the Constitution with the English precedent in mind.
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Obama Losing Canada’s Oil to China
Jerry,
This story really requires no comment from me, but I’ll point out that given a pipeline the US would have a competitive advantage that would enable the purchase of Canadian oil at a discount. We are all going to have to learn how to walk.
Jim Crawford
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Littoral Ship Corroding: USN cut protection from specs
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/06/shipbuilder-blames-navy-as-brand-new-warship-disintegrates
Gee, whoda thunk it? Steel + aluminum + salt water? Naa, don’ need no cathodic protection system…
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73s/Best regards de John Bartley K7AAY
Amateur Radio – the first technology based social network
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Day Book and off-line “blogging”
Dear Jerry,
I’m a long-time reader of your great stuff.
First, i wish you the best with your health.
Second, i am also very interested in the issues you raise, including “sequence of blog posts” and “day book”…
“The business of chronological and blogological order still needs resolution. Not much I can do about that either, except to try to keep various bundles of thoughts together rather than letting them get spread out across a number of separate posts. That requires a bit of forethought, which means that the concept of a day book, a log of one’s thoughts and actions for the day, gets lost and nearly impossible. That needs rethinking because this was conceived as a day book, not a “blog” as that has come to be understood.”
One software that addresses some of this is called MacJournal (http://www.marinersoftware.com/products/macjournal/) which may give you some of what you want, including keeping the master copy of your blog posts on your local machine. I am just starting to use it, and learn its capabilities, but it looks promising.
Take care,
Tom
Rick is working on a plan that will allow viewing this place in any order one likes. It takes a bit to develop. We’ll see. Stay tuned…
