Most of the times when I do an "I got nothing" post, it's because the day got away from me. Today it's because I've been trying to find something to write about for hours and there's just NOTHING - just like the days of coverage of the big nothing-burger (but slightly historically interesting) story of the Cosmos 482 satellite reentry.
Yeah, I guess some of that time was spent doing some research on various personal problems and concerns. Like "we had spectacular Sporadic E Tuesday and Wednesday, why did it just stop?" In the space of an hour I worked two stations thousands of miles away and in opposite directions, Angola in southern Africa and the Austral Islands in the south Pacific. While it's not exactly the same, the 50 MHz (6 meter) ham band is just at the bottom of where the old VHF TV Channel 2 was, so it's like watching TV on channel 2 from sub-Equatorial Africa or the South Pacific.
Said to be from Mechanix Illustrated in the late 1950s, predicting everyone having a flying saucer within 10 years.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comics. I sent this to my son for his 43rd birthday with a note that this was us 35 years ago. He agreed.
Since the live action Snow White bombed so badly, the idea of recasting it with the biggest-name black movie star is being floated. Let's just say Ms. Zegler is not pleased. There are YouTube videos featuring (I assume) AI generated Samuel L Jackson figures that seem to only be there to hear him say the MF word while celebrating success as Snow White.
Now, THAT "Snow White" remake I would watch !!!
ReplyDeleteSnow White and the Seven Mother F#%&@?s. Nice.
DeleteI'm with her. I'd pay to see Jackson play Snow White. Disney... I dare you. I double dog dare you.
Deletethe trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x35-U9ctVwE&ab_channel=WickedAI
DeleteDad: "What's the hardest part about being a retiree?"
ReplyDelete"Lying there awake all night wondering which circle of Dante's 1st book you're gonna wind up in."
Note to Elan: FIND a roguish Scottish Engineer in your company and have him do some of the briefs on the Starship launches in deep Scottish accent. Name tag says M. Scott...It would be Awesome and it would go viral.
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Did you notice the Huge sunspot (4079) that transited the Solar surface? Huge as in over half the size of the Carrington Event storm, crackling with energies capable of X+ storms and well capable of Big CME events while aiming right at Earth? Yet the whole time it sat and crackled and looked threatening as it slowly spun across the Solar globe, WITH narry a peep. And people think the dirt side Wx Forecasters are goofs. As a Professional Wx Guesser I think we deserve to be valued more than our current status.
Don't get me wrong, I am forever grateful for our Political Parties providing a safety net for all other professions to excel when compared to their favorability on this Planet.
(Info from 01May about the potential of 4079) https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=01&month=05&year=2025
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Oh, yeah, I saw 4079. Watched it transit the solar face with only minor burps along the way.
DeleteFWIW, I automatically dismiss any predictions of "oooh! Another Carrington event!!" To the best of our knowledge, something of that size has happened a couple of times in all of recorded history. To me, that says the chances are pretty small at any given time, because two rotating spheres have to be pointed at each other at just right instant while one of the barfs out an enormous cloud of poop. If the alignment isn't perfect it has less effect.
The planetary K index has to approach 9 or 10 for auroras to be visible in Florida. It happened once in my lifetime.
"Check out the big brain on Grumpy!
ReplyDeleteSay "Apple" again, m*****f****r, I triple dog dare you!"
Aesop, Please tell my Wife about my supposedly "Big Brain", she needs a good chuckle.
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They re-released Snow White for the weekend on 1300 screens. $50 gross revenue per screen. Not per showing. Per screen. For the weekend.
ReplyDelete$50 for the whole weekend? That's like a couple of tickets in the evening or a few for the whole day. I mean, YIKES!
DeleteWhich Snow White?
DeleteOriginal, or Extra Woketarded?
Extra Woketarded. And yeah, an average of 1/3 of a human at EACH SCREENING.
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