I’ll explain why the Chinese sockets are bad. There is a phenol disk at the base of the bulb to insulate the positive and negative contacts. Phenol is that dark green material you see on printed circuit cards. Except the Chinese use a plastic disk which, over time, deforms from the heat of the bulb until there is intermittent contact. This is perplexing, because you can’t see the problem when the bulb is twisted into the socket.This is what the scooter looks like today, approaching 9,000 miles. Shiny as new and expertly maintained as I do with everything when I’m in charge, there Wallace. The pending changes are a custom cargo box to replace that snazzy milk crate. It should arrive tomorrow. Also, see that skinny tire I have on the back? It looks bland compared to the new front tire, so it may get replaced before it needs to be. Like the gal I went on the date with that you want to hear about.
It didn’t fly. As soon as she thought she had the upper hand, she showed her true colors. Is that some kind of Florida thing? I put up with her sh*t for an hour. The problem was clear. I don’t think it is “weird” that I don’t have a car. It isn’t “weird” that I don’t watch TV. Nor is it “weird” that I don’t eat in restaurants. Being a musician isn’t “weird”. Not having a credit card isn’t “weird”. If any single women over 35 don’t see the pattern, get your teenagers to help you pick it out, since we’re pretty sure your exes aren’t anywhere near.
Silver in one ounce bullion slugs is becoming rather rare. Where I used to select from a bucket, there is now a small tray. This is another indicator that supply and demand isn’t operating. I’m wary of the larger sizes since one never knows when the authorities will swoop in, but if silver hit an all time high it would not be too long at all. And I warn all you small operators to stay under the radar as long as you can.
Here’s another mystery, and today’s trivia. Few war buffs haven’t heard of the Vemork heavy water plant in Norway, the one that was sabotaged in 1943. But, being war buffs, I wonder how many of them ever asked what in sam hell such a factory was doing there in the first place. In the middle of nowhere. In 1932, when production suddenly began, heavy water had no commercial value or industrial use, none, zero. It was, at the time of construction in 1911, the largest building of any kind in Scandinavia. It looks modeled on Alcatraz.The cover story is that it was a fertilizer plant. If so, the Norse did a better job of concealing their endless steppes of golden wheatfields. The factory, shown here, was built of reinforced concrete. Why? It was placed in a valley known to be a difficult bombing target. The use of heavy water for atomic research was not even conceived until 1940, when France (a nation flat broke and preparing for war) bought the entire stockpile and shipped it to England. Apologizes to Willy, but I gotta say it, “There is something rotten in Vemork.”
I watched the 1981 movie “Outland”. An early attempt at sci-fi but it is the same old. A mining camp in space that walks and quacks like a California maximum security prison and I love those monochrome computer monitors. There are no machines, the mining is manual labor and they still use shotguns. For a tiny moon of Jupiter, they’ve got full Earth gravity indoors.
These are youTube movies and of course, you get the blocking message at times. This video contains such and such and has been blocked in your country. It is hard to say if it is from youTube or from Sony, but what they hope to gain from it is beyond--or beneath--comprehension.
