So some screwed up mexican chick who lives with her parents and
has 6 kids has had octuplets.
We can only hope that they die peacefully and that she is sterile thereafter.
She's no doubt a drug abuser, a fertility drug fiend.
29 January 2009
27 January 2009
Alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, and cannabis have been shown to have beneficial properties for H. sapiens. Various supposed vitamins and cures have been shown bogus. Scientific method identifies useful tools; organic chem invents new ones to try.
Alexander Shulgin is God.
Naturally the USG will not let his Manna cure the violent post traumatic stress of its sacrificed soldiers. Ecstasy could calm and cure; instead, the government prefers the edge.
Americans need to fear the edge.
Hunter Stockton Thompson's passing...
The basic human thing is improving your kids' lot.
Unfortunately, plague, famine, and war will ravage the next generation more than the past.
And that's saying a lot.
Keep enough ammo to check out without pain.
Alexander Shulgin is God.
Naturally the USG will not let his Manna cure the violent post traumatic stress of its sacrificed soldiers. Ecstasy could calm and cure; instead, the government prefers the edge.
Americans need to fear the edge.
Hunter Stockton Thompson's passing...
The basic human thing is improving your kids' lot.
Unfortunately, plague, famine, and war will ravage the next generation more than the past.
And that's saying a lot.
Keep enough ammo to check out without pain.
I'm eating edimame. Its $1.59 / lb at Albertson's and $1.49 at Zion (Korean) market. They're frozen, and shelled. I want the shelled ones, same price, but Albertson's is out of them. Obviously the shelled are more efficient, a better buy, but the shells taste good when you scrape with your teeth.
You also grind them better when you eat more slowly. The human gastro-intestinal tract expects to be fed finely ground mush.
You also grind them better when you eat more slowly. The human gastro-intestinal tract expects to be fed finely ground mush.
26 January 2009
Make charcoal from redwoods. Then make black powder from that.
Then dust a plastic surface with the meal powder in John Muir's portrait.
Then fire it up.
The plastic is the deliverable.
(With acknowledgements to the los alamos folks who make art with bristant explosives
and metal plates, using the Monroe effect, see
http://www.intdetsymp.org/detsymp2002/PaperSubmit/FinalManuscript/pdf/DavisHill-52.pdf
)
25 January 2009
Butter on the top. Toasted twice she wants. My 300 pound Samoan cat looks the other way.
My assistant, a hundred pound nine year old, runs chores.
I was biking in Irvine. With a jigsaw slung on my shoulder, safety glasses on my forehead, cheap tainwanese calipers sticking from my shirt pocket. I realized, I am Hunter Stockton Thompson as an Irvine dad.
I saw the HST biography recently on Netflix, and am reading the biography of same name.
I resume work tomorrow on a high power CB radio that destroys tissue for doctors. Through slim tubes they stick into your inflated abdomen. The tools follow scripts. Its the most advanced thing in the world, and I'm very glad I didn't have to find a new job doing something less.
My assistant, a hundred pound nine year old, runs chores.
I was biking in Irvine. With a jigsaw slung on my shoulder, safety glasses on my forehead, cheap tainwanese calipers sticking from my shirt pocket. I realized, I am Hunter Stockton Thompson as an Irvine dad.
I saw the HST biography recently on Netflix, and am reading the biography of same name.
I resume work tomorrow on a high power CB radio that destroys tissue for doctors. Through slim tubes they stick into your inflated abdomen. The tools follow scripts. Its the most advanced thing in the world, and I'm very glad I didn't have to find a new job doing something less.
24 January 2009
23 January 2009
The DIME concept resembles the highly-fragmenting home-defense pistol ammunition made of dense metal in an epoxy binder. The point being that the round expends its energy rapidly --after hitting a target, for the pistol ammunition, or after a certain distance in air, for the DIME.
For both there should be less 'richochet'.
I wonder what applications there are to DIME in space for anti-satellite work. I also imagine that shaped charges ---kind of the antithesis of DIME-- can go farther in space, which would make for some wild hypervelocity shootouts.
For both there should be less 'richochet'.
I wonder what applications there are to DIME in space for anti-satellite work. I also imagine that shaped charges ---kind of the antithesis of DIME-- can go farther in space, which would make for some wild hypervelocity shootouts.
Seems likely that the Israelis used DIME munitions in Gaza, to reduce collateral damage ie far-field damage from shrapnel and the traditional blast wave. Shrapnel greatly expands the lethal field because it couples with the explosive energy better and travels farther than the blast. That's why ball-bearings, nuts, etc are packed around the explosive charge in eg suicide vests and HE warheads. (There was a video about Hamas making candy-rocket engines and they show the lining of the warhead with a layer of bearings-in-plastic.)
In DIME munitions you cut the explosive amount, mix in dense metal powder, and package in something that doesn't lead to shrapnel. Then the metal powder couples the explosive pressure and temperature, but stops after a certain more limited distance. Pretty clever. Of course the survivors don't think so.
Anyway here's an air force paper on it that has been pulled by the AF, it was originally
04-MN-16.pdf
http://web.archive.org/web/20060613210452/http://www.afrl.af.mil/technologymilestones/2004/support_war/04-MN-16.pdf
22 January 2009
Note that I have not commented on MO's attire, because
I don't care
I'm blind to that
I don't care
She is not her clothes
I don't care
She's not even going to keep them
I don't care
One of the designers was delighted and surprised over the top
I do care a little bit, because this fellow got appreciated, and that's always nice.
I don't care
I'm blind to that
I don't care
She is not her clothes
I don't care
She's not even going to keep them
I don't care
One of the designers was delighted and surprised over the top
I do care a little bit, because this fellow got appreciated, and that's always nice.
I voted for RP, obviously, but I'm very happy BO won. And I am wanting to share a zillionth of the satisfaction of the SS folks who kept/keep BO alive. That has got to be intense. I think BO wore a ballistic jacket for his walks (with wife, who didn't seem to be wearing one) on the Day. But I could be mistaking male fashion; or his wife is not a target. I would have; I'm not faulting him at all.
I saw that SS movie with "I will always love you" and it was friggin' great. I have moral problems with government fiat money and the treasury (which I mention because I think its part of the SS) but I think the VIP protective service people are great. They also often look cool, although some looked like elves because of the new ear-gear. I wonder if they freak when BO & Co decided to walk. I wonder how they keep awake (and un-obtrusive!) guarding 7 (or whatever) year olds.
BO's wife has a subnormal facial attractiveness (to me --its the jaw) but is likely very smart and appears to have survived a pair of kids well, body-wise. BO has those Kenyan cheekbones and is very very smart. I find it fascinating that he married a negress, given that he was raised by white grandparents, but its his choice, and who cares except us bored anthropologists?
I really like folks who think. That's the impression I get from BO & Co.
Biden, that's another matter.
I saw that SS movie with "I will always love you" and it was friggin' great. I have moral problems with government fiat money and the treasury (which I mention because I think its part of the SS) but I think the VIP protective service people are great. They also often look cool, although some looked like elves because of the new ear-gear. I wonder if they freak when BO & Co decided to walk. I wonder how they keep awake (and un-obtrusive!) guarding 7 (or whatever) year olds.
BO's wife has a subnormal facial attractiveness (to me --its the jaw) but is likely very smart and appears to have survived a pair of kids well, body-wise. BO has those Kenyan cheekbones and is very very smart. I find it fascinating that he married a negress, given that he was raised by white grandparents, but its his choice, and who cares except us bored anthropologists?
I really like folks who think. That's the impression I get from BO & Co.
Biden, that's another matter.
"There will be no more fighting in the middle east while I'm president. The oil is too important and all players inflict too much "collateral" (TM) damage for modern nations to ignore.
Therefore, anyone lobbing things at another will be destroyed by the US military. That includes Israel and all groups or nations threatening it.
We are in control. We are in control."
(The latter a reference to Rush's 2112 album. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2112_(album))
Therefore, anyone lobbing things at another will be destroyed by the US military. That includes Israel and all groups or nations threatening it.
We are in control. We are in control."
(The latter a reference to Rush's 2112 album. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2112_(album))
Civil War cannonball kills relic collector
Hobby cost collector his life, shaking close-knit community of relic hunters
updated 9:17 a.m. CT, Sat., May. 3, 2008
CHESTER, Va. - Like many boys in the South, Sam White got hooked on the Civil War early, digging up rusting bullets and military buttons in the battle-scarred earth of his hometown.
As an adult, he crisscrossed the Virginia countryside in search of wartime relics — weapons, battle flags, even artillery shells buried in the red clay. He sometimes put on diving gear to feel for treasures hidden in the black muck of river bottoms.
But in February, White's hobby cost him his life: A cannonball he was restoring exploded, killing him in his driveway.
More than 140 years after Lee surrendered to Grant, the cannonball was still powerful enough to send a chunk of shrapnel through the front porch of a house a quarter-mile from White's home in this leafy Richmond suburb.
White's death shook the close-knit fraternity of relic collectors and raised concerns about the dangers of other Civil War munitions that lie buried beneath old battlefields. Explosives experts said the fatal blast defied extraordinary odds.
"You can't drop these things on the ground and make them go off," said retired Col. John F. Biemeck, formerly of the Army Ordnance Corps.
Battlefields everywhere
White, 53, was one of thousands of hobbyists who comb former battlegrounds for artifacts using metal detectors, pickaxes, shovels and trowels.
"There just aren't many areas in the South in which battlefields aren't located. They're literally under your feet," said Harry Ridgeway, a former relic hunter who has amassed a vast collection. "It's just a huge thrill to pull even a mundane relic out of the ground."
After growing up in Petersburg, White went to college, served on his local police force, then worked for 25 years as a deliveryman for UPS. He retired in 1998 and devoted most of his time to relic hunting.
He was an avid reader, a Civil War raconteur and an amateur historian who watched History Channel programs over and over, to the mild annoyance of his wife.
"I used to laugh at him and say, 'Why do you watch this? You know how it turned out. It's not going to be any different,'" Brenda White said.
She didn't share her husband's devotion, but she was understanding of his interest.
"True relic hunters who have this passion, they don't live that way vicariously, like if you were a sports fanatic," she said. "Finding a treasure is their touchdown, even if it's two, three bullets."
Weapons remain buried
Union and Confederate troops lobbed an estimated 1.5 million artillery shells and cannonballs at each other from 1861 to 1865. As many as one in five were duds.
Some of the weapons remain buried in the ground or river bottoms. In late March, a 44-pound, 8-inch mortar shell was uncovered at Petersburg National Battlefield, the site of an epic 292-day battle. The shell was taken to the city landfill and detonated.
Black powder provided the destructive force for cannonballs and artillery shells. The combination of sulfur, potassium nitrate and finely ground charcoal requires a high temperature — 572 degrees Fahrenheit — and friction to ignite.
White estimated he had worked on about 1,600 shells for collectors and museums. On the day he died, he had 18 cannonballs lined up in his driveway to restore.
White's efforts seldom raised safety concerns. His wife and son Travis sometimes stood in the driveway as he worked.
"Sam knew his stuff, no doubt about it," said Jimmy Blankenship, historian-curator at the Petersburg battleground. "He did know Civil War ordnance."
Investigation continues
An investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms will not be complete until the end of May, but police who responded to the blast and examined shrapnel concluded that it came from a Civil War explosive.
Experts suspect White was killed while trying to disarm a 9-inch, 75-pound naval cannonball, a particularly potent explosive with a more complex fuse and many times the destructive power of those used by infantry artillery.
Biemeck and Peter George, co-author of a book on Civil War ordnance, believe White was using either a drill or a grinder attached to a drill to remove grit from the cannonball, causing a shower of sparks.
Because of the fuse design, it may have appeared as though the weapon's powder had already been removed, leading even a veteran like White to conclude mistakenly that the ball was inert.
The weapon also had to be waterproof because it was designed to skip over the water at 600 mph to strike at the waterline of an enemy ship. The protection against moisture meant the ball could have remained potent longer than an infantry shell.
Homes evacuated
Brenda White is convinced her husband was working on a flawed cannonball, and no amount of caution could have prevented his death.
"He had already disarmed the shell," she said. "From what I was told, there was absolutely nothing he had done wrong, that there was a manufacturing defect that no one would have known was there."
After White's death, about two dozen homes were evacuated for two days while explosives experts collected pieces from his collection and detonated them.
Today, there is little evidence of the Feb. 18 blast. The garage where White did most of his work is still crammed with his discoveries, many painstakingly restored and mounted. Rusted horseshoes are piled high in the crook of a small tree.
White's digging partner, Fred Lange, hasn't had the heart to return to his relic hunting.
"I truly miss him," Lange said. "Not a day that goes by that I don't think of him."
Hobby cost collector his life, shaking close-knit community of relic hunters
updated 9:17 a.m. CT, Sat., May. 3, 2008
CHESTER, Va. - Like many boys in the South, Sam White got hooked on the Civil War early, digging up rusting bullets and military buttons in the battle-scarred earth of his hometown.
As an adult, he crisscrossed the Virginia countryside in search of wartime relics — weapons, battle flags, even artillery shells buried in the red clay. He sometimes put on diving gear to feel for treasures hidden in the black muck of river bottoms.
But in February, White's hobby cost him his life: A cannonball he was restoring exploded, killing him in his driveway.
More than 140 years after Lee surrendered to Grant, the cannonball was still powerful enough to send a chunk of shrapnel through the front porch of a house a quarter-mile from White's home in this leafy Richmond suburb.
White's death shook the close-knit fraternity of relic collectors and raised concerns about the dangers of other Civil War munitions that lie buried beneath old battlefields. Explosives experts said the fatal blast defied extraordinary odds.
"You can't drop these things on the ground and make them go off," said retired Col. John F. Biemeck, formerly of the Army Ordnance Corps.
Battlefields everywhere
White, 53, was one of thousands of hobbyists who comb former battlegrounds for artifacts using metal detectors, pickaxes, shovels and trowels.
"There just aren't many areas in the South in which battlefields aren't located. They're literally under your feet," said Harry Ridgeway, a former relic hunter who has amassed a vast collection. "It's just a huge thrill to pull even a mundane relic out of the ground."
After growing up in Petersburg, White went to college, served on his local police force, then worked for 25 years as a deliveryman for UPS. He retired in 1998 and devoted most of his time to relic hunting.
He was an avid reader, a Civil War raconteur and an amateur historian who watched History Channel programs over and over, to the mild annoyance of his wife.
"I used to laugh at him and say, 'Why do you watch this? You know how it turned out. It's not going to be any different,'" Brenda White said.
She didn't share her husband's devotion, but she was understanding of his interest.
"True relic hunters who have this passion, they don't live that way vicariously, like if you were a sports fanatic," she said. "Finding a treasure is their touchdown, even if it's two, three bullets."
Weapons remain buried
Union and Confederate troops lobbed an estimated 1.5 million artillery shells and cannonballs at each other from 1861 to 1865. As many as one in five were duds.
Some of the weapons remain buried in the ground or river bottoms. In late March, a 44-pound, 8-inch mortar shell was uncovered at Petersburg National Battlefield, the site of an epic 292-day battle. The shell was taken to the city landfill and detonated.
Black powder provided the destructive force for cannonballs and artillery shells. The combination of sulfur, potassium nitrate and finely ground charcoal requires a high temperature — 572 degrees Fahrenheit — and friction to ignite.
White estimated he had worked on about 1,600 shells for collectors and museums. On the day he died, he had 18 cannonballs lined up in his driveway to restore.
White's efforts seldom raised safety concerns. His wife and son Travis sometimes stood in the driveway as he worked.
"Sam knew his stuff, no doubt about it," said Jimmy Blankenship, historian-curator at the Petersburg battleground. "He did know Civil War ordnance."
Investigation continues
An investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms will not be complete until the end of May, but police who responded to the blast and examined shrapnel concluded that it came from a Civil War explosive.
Experts suspect White was killed while trying to disarm a 9-inch, 75-pound naval cannonball, a particularly potent explosive with a more complex fuse and many times the destructive power of those used by infantry artillery.
Biemeck and Peter George, co-author of a book on Civil War ordnance, believe White was using either a drill or a grinder attached to a drill to remove grit from the cannonball, causing a shower of sparks.
Because of the fuse design, it may have appeared as though the weapon's powder had already been removed, leading even a veteran like White to conclude mistakenly that the ball was inert.
The weapon also had to be waterproof because it was designed to skip over the water at 600 mph to strike at the waterline of an enemy ship. The protection against moisture meant the ball could have remained potent longer than an infantry shell.
Homes evacuated
Brenda White is convinced her husband was working on a flawed cannonball, and no amount of caution could have prevented his death.
"He had already disarmed the shell," she said. "From what I was told, there was absolutely nothing he had done wrong, that there was a manufacturing defect that no one would have known was there."
After White's death, about two dozen homes were evacuated for two days while explosives experts collected pieces from his collection and detonated them.
Today, there is little evidence of the Feb. 18 blast. The garage where White did most of his work is still crammed with his discoveries, many painstakingly restored and mounted. Rusted horseshoes are piled high in the crook of a small tree.
White's digging partner, Fred Lange, hasn't had the heart to return to his relic hunting.
"I truly miss him," Lange said. "Not a day that goes by that I don't think of him."
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