I knew Obama had done well last night
I knew Obama had done well last night at the debate when NPR didn't say much about it when my alarm came on in the morning. I guess it was hard to be polite to the Repub's and say much about it.I...
View ArticleGiving a Pizza
Another sign of the difference between Obama vs Rmoney inc. The Rmoney gang is getting a lot of publicity for their canned "can drive". OFA had a link to the red cross donation site and ane email about...
View ArticleTesting ORCA
There are a couple of recommended posts about anonymous's claims to have hacked the Republican software platform and thereby blocked a planned large-scale forgery of voting results. As someone who...
View ArticleThe nuts are ripening early in Georgia
I read a little about this in the daily fishwrapper (AJC), and have seen more detailed conformation online. The response of our cross-threaded wingnut legislature to issues of gun control is not more,...
View ArticlePolitically Christian Georgia
There is a recent article in Slate that brought home the difference between the theory and practice of Christianity in the American South. In a very quick summary, the poverty rate in Georgia is among...
View ArticleOn Ammunition
Just a few thoughts about ammunition sales, since without ammunition a firearm is just an expensive baseball bat.A couple of years ago I built one of the AR15 clones - for several reasons including...
View ArticleThe Scouts Decision
With apologies to another entry that I can't seem to find.The national organizations' decision to "punt" gay scout/ adult leader membership to individual units, if it actually happens, is fantastic...
View ArticleThe Joy of Nmap
There was a recent discussion about how nearly every computer operating system could be "powned" by the NSA, and how you should use "my favorite supersecure OS" to avoid the problem.This is somewhat...
View ArticleAgile programming, anyone?
GOPanic had a recent posting showing that much of the information needed for enrolling in a qualified health plan was available from http://data.healthcare.gov. (though it does seem a little...
View ArticleThis IS a spam diary
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View ArticleCommercial Piracy?
This is a little off topic, and I apologize in advance. There are enough authors on this site that someone may be able to clue me in on what I'm finding.I'm a low-level beginning self-publishing author...
View ArticleLove America, Hate Americans?
One of the conservative columnists was shooting his mouth off in the morning fishwrapper (AJC) today. It was about how "Obama doesn't really love America." Yeah, right. Believe that and I have this...
View ArticleThe Cityhood Saga Continues
Suburban Atlanta is going through yet another paroxysm of "Cityhood." The idea, in itself isn't completely nutcase bonkers (Think townships in the Northeast), but the implementation is more than a...
View ArticleWhat up in GA?
The city of Lavista hills, the latest in the ongoing devolution of Dekalb county into partitions is going up for a vote on November 3. While the county government isn't exactly known for its...
View ArticlePresident Obama says it like it is.
Not much to say other than this NPR snippet explains why I voted, twice, for him. It’s also what distinguishes both Hillary and Bernie from the republican circus. Anyway I found his words to be moving...
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In the South.
Herr Trump’s adds have been showing up in odd places. I guess, because I’m in the south and reading a political site, I must be a supporter. The copy when you click on it is equally uninspiring. Here’s...
View ArticleKrugman's latest.
Krugman’s latest post about the “Gridlock” economy is worth a read. Especially if you’re of a “gold bug” sort of mind. He makes several salient points:Low interest rates hurt the “affluent older...
View ArticleSocial Distancing Matters - Simulation results.
As part of moving to online instruction, i decided my programming class might like to simulate COVID. Of course, everyone and their sibling is doing this, but it is instructive to see how a model is...
View ArticleIt's bending.
You can see that the number of new active infections has become more linear at places like the worldometer. I’ve been fitting this data with a lumped parameter SIR model (The key difference between a...
View ArticleI'd rather be ...
I’d been trying to think of a good replacement for the infamous “I’d rather be Russian than Democrat” image. This probably isn’t it, but it’s a start. By the way, most of the tractors I’ve seen in...
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And now for something different - Green Sea Turtles
Something of a feel-good story. At least as far as it goes. My wife and I had a chance to visit Punalu’u Black Sands beach in Hawaii. This is one of the last refuges of the endangered Green Sea Turtle....
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Fall Foliage in Alabama
Something of a break from the intensity of election worries and watching Ukraine.These images are a few I made yesterday with the sun lighting the leaves from behind. Most of the leaves in this part...
View ArticleChickadee and Titmice
Birds on a feeder, in slow motion, not much else but I thought you might enjoy it. These are fairly common fall/winter birds in the Southern Appalachians. I like using slow-ish motion (100fps) because...
View ArticleSandhill Cranes
I visited the Wheeler NWR this morning. It opens at nine am and it is by far best to be there at 9:01 because of both the light (from the east) and the birds. After about 10, the birds move away from...
View ArticleA little squirrel biology
While I’ve been filming the birds at my Huntsville feeder, I’ve also been watching the squirrels. One of the biggest and baddest of the lot is a male with a torn ear. This boar seems to be the dominant...
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Seed Caching
I hadn’t known this until I caught it on camera, somewhat accidentally, but nuthatches cache seeds for eating later. I’m not the first, by a long shot, to observe this and many small birds — like...
View ArticleA Tufted Titmouse
I caught one of “our” tufted titmice eating a sunflower seed. This is a stop-frame video with somewhat lame music (feel free to ignore — it’s from Adobe’s free stock clips). One of the difficulties...
View ArticleFinch Fights
House finches have a not undeserved reputation for being aggressive to other birds. Unlike most of the other visitors to our feeder they will stay on it and eat seed after seed. While they know their...
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