Fine Art Tuesday
Tragic Prelude, John Steuart Curry, 1940 John Steuart Curry was a Kansas born American painter of the Regionalist school, whose rather brief career, starting in…
Year: 2020
Paying the price
I feel like I’m kicking someone when they’re down. However, they did it to themselves, and I feel that it is instructive to the rest…
Sunday Reading
I’m going to do something that feels weird to me, but I’m going to recommend a book that I haven’t finished reading. It’s that good…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 21: Observations
In the past two weeks, I’ve been out and about a lot, and I have seen things worth seeing. I have seen a lot of…
Not a Grand (Maunder) Minimum?
If you aren’t a subscriber of the SpaceWeather.com email newsletter, give it a shot. Many interesting and often beautiful things come through on it. Today’s…
Fine Art Tuesday
Alexander and Porus, Charles Le Brun, 1673 (This week’s Fine Art Tuesday’s work was inspired by this article from War History Online.) Charles Le…
Sunday Reading
I’ve been sharing the occasional thing I’ve read with The Email List That Must Not Be Named. When looking at opinion pieces, rather than news,…
Life in the People’s Republic of California
It pains me, although probably not as much as it pains the people in California, to document things like this. I’ve visited Northern California on…
A small victory
But a victory none the less. A 3 judge panel of the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a ruling that a California…
We now know who the Democrats really want as President
The mask is off, and we know who the Democrats really want for President: Kamala Harris. If you harbored any hope that you could sit…
Fine Art Tuesday
A Wet Day, on the Boulevard, Paris Alfred Stieglitz, 1894? At the suggestion of long-time friend of the blog Jed, we’re going to expand our…
Fighting the demon RFI
St. George had an easier task. Since I’ve finally gotten my HF radio setup in place, I’ve noticed that my home simply reeks of devices…
Want to see the damage from a tactical nuke?
(Via Bayou Renaissance Man) Well, it wasn’t really a nuke, and it would be a very small one, but enlightening all the same.
Fine Art Tuesday
In the Conservatory, Frances Maria Jones Bannerman, 1883 Frances Maria Jones Bannerman was a Canadian painter and poet. She was one of the first North…
The Old Folks
I don’t know if it’s a uniquely Southern thing, or maybe a rural thing, but there has always been the concept of “the Old Folks”…
Things are looking up
We don’t want to go there. Folks, you don’t want to be That Guy. Like most, I’ve been on a lot of video conferences lately,…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 20: Intermission
I haven’t been posting much that is directly about the Wuflu follies, because it has pretty much been more of the same things I’ve published.…
Activity at the Woodpile Report
There has been some activity at the Woodpile Report. It confirms what we have heard elsewhere.
Fine Art Tuesday
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishops Grounds, John Constable, 1825 English painter John Constable was a 19th century landscape painter who worked in the Romantic tradition,…
Hooking up
Sorry about the black blobs, but OPSEC. No, that kind of hooking up. Y’all got some dirty minds. I mean hooking up the ham radios.…
I was going to post about ham radio today
But Old NFO had something much better for me to steal.
Revising history correctly
It seems that man has been on the North American continent far longer than has been believed. That’s interesting as is, but I think the…
Yum, froglegs
No, not those frog legs, but Intellectual Froglegs, the output of Joe Dan Gorman’s everlasting desire to skewer the left. If you haven’t seen his…
Why am I in this handbasket? Why is the wind in my face getting faster?
I’m on a self-imposed news diet-I’m deliberately not reading the news, outside of the weather and a very basic, quick scan of certain aggregator sites.…
Fine Art Tuesday
The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh, 1889. I’m generally not a fan of the Impressionists or Post-Impressionists. Vincent Van Gogh is one of the…
YouTube follies
Selected because he looks like he could work for YouTube Despite an dislike for all things Alphabet (the parent of Google, YouTube, etc.) it seems…
Putting up a 6m/2m/70cm beam antenna, Part 6
Cushcraft A6270-13S. The little round white guy is a broadcast TV antenna. It’s a bit embarrassing that my last post was on this subject was…
Tuesday is now “Fine Art Tuesday”
Albert Bierstadt, “Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California”, 1868 I think most who stop by here know of the death of Remus, proprietor of The…
How I spent Saturday evening
While the new ham shack isn’t feature complete and won’t be for some time yet, it is running at somewhat reduced capacity-but reduced is good…
Not what I was hoping for
(Via the Email List That Must Not Be Named) It’s being reported that Remus, writer of The Woodpile Report, has left us. As noted in…