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Bluefish Way
The life of Ralph and his cats

October 12, 2018

347: Don’t Give Up !

~Update~ Video credit: Reddit What a year ! One thing I have learned is to not give up, especially when things become difficult, looking hopeless and seems to have no end. Do you remember the weeks of emotional stress, the €800+ payment that Natascha...

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Take Back the Sky

Take Back the Sky
Because the first private manned US spaceship should be named SERENITY!

October 6, 2018

SpaceX’s SAOCOM-1A Launch This Weekend Will Feature First RTLS Landing on the West Coast

SpaceX plans to launch the SAOCOM-1A satellite this weekend from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, with liftoff currently scheduled for 10:21 PM EST (2:21 UTC) on Sunday, October 7 from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E). This weekend’s launch will feature the same Falcon 9 Block 5 first stage that launched Iridium NEXT 7, and […]

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Esme’s Cloud

Esme’s Cloud
The Wanderings and wonderings of a sentient cloud.

October 15, 2018

Guess the Mug (bear with on comments folks, I’m getting there)

Esme spied this fellow in an online auction and found him to look so similar to one of her WP …

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gigglinginthegutter

gigglinginthegutter
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October 16, 2018

Jeannie McD’ark

Famous McFeminist freedom fighter

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Skeptical Inquirer

Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

October 16, 2018

On the Set of Cosmos’s Season Two

Atop a small hill south of Santa Fe, New Mexico, just far enough east of Interstate 25 not to be obvious from the highway, rises a large multistory structure. Its adobe-like earth tones and setback style remind you of the great Southwest pueblos. But something far more modern is going on there. This is Santa Fe Studios, built in 2011 and home to a variety of movie and television productions, all part of New Mexico’s burgeoning filmmaking industry.

We visited there one day recently to see Ann Druyan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and colleagues filming the second season of their television science series Cosmos. The first Druyan-Tyson Cosmos (Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey) aired in 2014 to much acclaim. (In addition to its other honors, our Committee for Skeptical Inquiry gave it CSI’s Robert P. Balles Prize in Critical Thinking.) That series was of course a fresh incarnation of Carl Sagan’s original blockbuster Cosmos series and book of 1980. Sagan and Druyan were husband and wife, and they worked together on that original series. So in a way, the new thirteen-episode Cosmos: Possible Worlds, to premier on multiple Fox and National Geographic Channels in the United States and at least 171 other countries in Spring 2019, is the third incarnation of the Cosmos brand, all with Sagan-esque origins and style.

With all this luminous history in mind, we somewhat nervously step inside the vast studio building. Vanessa Goodwin, Druyan’s assistant, shows us around. First stop is the Art Department. There in a large open room artists work at desks and computers surrounded by walls filled top to bottom with photoboards of what is to be filmed. Hundreds of oversize images of everything from ancient Mesopotamian cities to today’s Amsterdam to future interstellar spacecraft adorn the walls. Tyson appears in the middle of some of t

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Oaklandon

Oaklandon
The Unofficial Oaklandon Community Website

October 17, 2018

BANDIT BUSINESS IN INDIANA DULL

Muncie Post-Democrat,Muncie, Delaware County, 25 April 1930

BANDIT BUSINESS IN INDIANA DULL

Hard Times Causing Banks to Close, About Put Bank Robbers Out of Job.

Indianapolis, April 25. (UP) Even the bank robbing business has its dull days, according to George Hartman, 23, who with three other men set out to rob a bank somewhere but came back empty handed after visiting eight towns on one day.

"Maybe, we were a little timid." Hartman admitted as he sat in the city jail here with Albert Harmon, 22, awaiting transportation where they will be tried for planning to rob a hank there. "But nowhere in in the entire tour could we find conditions suitable for pulling a job."

In a confession to E. L. Osborne, chief of the state bureau of criminal identification and investigation, Hartman told of the trip to nearby towns with Harmon, Cecil Johnson and James Ryan. The last two recently were sentenced to 10 years in state prison on charge of robbing the Fishers' state bank on February 24.

"We formulated our plans on a street corner in Indianapolis and one of the fellows stole a Chevrolet for the trip," Hartman said. "Determined to rob a bank, we started out one morning and stopped at Lawrence. There were too many people in the bank there so wo drove on to Hadden Hall but when we saw five men in the postoffice that looked like coppers we decided to drive on to Thorntown. Things were not to our liking there so we went back to Buck Creek and then to Battle Creek, Oaklandon and Plainfield."

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Armed and Dangerous

Sex, software, politics, and firearms.
Life’s simple pleasures...

October 8, 2018

Reposurgeon’s Excellent Journey and the Waning of Python

Time to make it public and official. The entire reposurgeon suite (not just repocutter and repomapper, which have already been ported) is changing implementation languages from Python to Go. Reposurgeon itself is about 50% translated, with pretty good unit-test coverage. … Continue reading →

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Bloggin’ It While Doggin’ It

October 12, 2018

Boss God

I promised a follow-up article to "The Truth About God" and although I know (pretty much) the ideas I wish to convey, the approach to doing so has been somewhat elusive. With today being officially "Freethought Day," I figured it best to simply begin the task and work my way toward the end. To wit...

A proposed discussion of God will probably elicit eye-rolls from the vast majority of potential readers while a minority might actually be intrigued. Those with long-held traditional beliefs may have zero desire to explore what others of differing ideals would have to say on the subject of a "Supreme Being."

Religion is big business. There seem to be more religious based institutions and houses-of-worship than coffee shops, which suggests to me that folks must need their God as much as (if not more than) their coffee. Like coffee, God seems to be available in several popular flavors: from the trendy to the traditional, chances are somebody, somewhere has a God ...

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