Former newspaper colleague turned author Mike Cox has this good column at TexasEscapes about how, because email is killing the post office, it’s time to remember some of the fabled ones.
Because they will, in all probability, soon be vanishing. Strangely, Mike leaves out the story of how Dime Box got its name. Aided, in part, allegedly, by its onetime lack of a post office.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Library, Texana
Tagged Dime Box, email, Mike Cox, post office, TexasEscapes
One of the more amusing tales of science fiction is the one where the exploring earthlings, who believe that technological survival requires logic and logical beings can’t be warlike, run smack into an alien warship whose star troopers proceed to eviscerate them. (See Larry Niven’s warcats.)
Comes now a similar argument from New Scientist (“Hello ET, We Come In Peace”) that we need to pour more tax money into the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Why? Because we need to let any other cosmic civilizations know we’re around. (Like why should they care?) But is that so smart? We might just be inviting some really big trouble to come calling.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Library, Science/Engineering, Space
Tagged alien invasion, ET, New Scientist, SETI, The Foresight Institute
Still a few weeks away from Cavalry Scout Books getting my new Civil War novel up on Amazon–only after which will we begin promoting it by name with links–but in the meantime I’m discovering that the web really is home to a lot of CW material, especially enthusiast sites and blogs. Many are worth a look.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Civil War
Tagged American Civil War, Cavalry Scout Books, Civil War blogs
And, as far the Dem congress is concerned, it’s that they’re also non-union:
“Don’t let Tojo turn you into a unwitting freeway kamikaze for the ‘Divine Emperor’! At the U.S. Department of General Motors, our G-Men are working ’round the clock to stop Jap sneak attacks on America’s publicly owned automotive industrial arsenal. But here on the home front, America’s vehicular victory requires the vigilance of regular Joes and Janes like you. Together we can Shun the Huns and Nip the Nips, and send ’em packing their non-union Priuses back to Yokohama!”
And if Iowahawk’s humor doesn’t convince you, try Car and Driver.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, Science/Engineering
Tagged Car and Driver, Democrat congress, Obama, Obamalot, Toyota, UAW
Naw, that was just for anti-Bush Democrats. Fortunately, these days, all you need is a few bucks for a web site, a video camera, some friends and, bingo, comeback even to the legacy media. Which is so sensitive about its declining audience that it will even take the time to respond to you. What a country.
Via Simply Jews.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, Scribbles, Texana, Uncategorized
Tagged Barry, Captain America, Dallas Tea Party, Keith Olbermann, Obama, Omedrica
Apollo astronaut Harrison Schmidt:
“Recent disclosures and admissions of scientific misconduct by the United Nations and advocates of the human-caused global warming hypothesis shows the fraudulent foundation of this much-ballyhooed but non-existent scientific consensus about climate.”
Welcome aboard, sir.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Science/Engineering, Space, Weather/Climate
Tagged AGW, Anthropogenic Global Warming, global warming, Harrison Schmidt
Like the teleprompter reader-in-chief always says, “Change is never easy.” So the weekend shift from my old Dell Dimension 3000 with its dying audio to this new Dell Inspiron 546 has been a trip. Mostly finished now.
Thanks to a $19 Cruzer Micro 8GB flash drive, it was relatively painless. Along with ninety-nine percent of my old files, I even managed to move the browser favorites and the old email. Can’t figure out how to move the passwords, however, so will do that by hand (i.e., pen and paper).
The only major hassle so far is Skype. I downloaded new software since I couldn’t shift the old over and the new refused to allow me to sign-on using my old account. So now I have a new account and the old one and emailed their powers in Belgium to try and get the new switched with the old. They came back saying sure, you can do that, if you use a new email address. Not wanting to do that, I canceled the old account. I’ll wait a few hours and try setting up the new one based on the same email address.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, Rancho Roly Poly, Science/Engineering
Tagged Cruzer Micro 8GB, Dimension 3000, Inspiron 546, Skype
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