One year ago today: January 22, 2021, it’s a Type XXI.
Five years ago today: January 22, 2017, he still owes me $1,600.
Nine years ago today: January 22, 2013, on copper wire.
Random years ago today: January 22, 2010, most popular tech, seriously!
Nothing, that’s what happened today. You get editiorial, not much else. It was bitter cold, for Florida, and this cabin reflects the past four years of neglect while I was in Tennessee. The walls are painted, but no trim. The floors are level, but not finished. And the walls, wired for 20A heaters, still don’t have the heaters. I’m using two space heaters to keep the office warm enough to read and snooze, which describes the day.
Curling up under my old electric blanket, which barely gets warm any more, I spend most of the day reading. My book on Darwin gets maybe a half-hour at a time because the material is difficult to follow. One may have to be a real specialist to even follow some of the points they make why this or that theory cannot be true. I get things like there will never be a perfect organism because there is no “final” destination, that is, the environment always changes and so will anything living in it.
That’s followed by half a chapter on why some organisms have not changed in millions of years. The treatment is exhaustive, whereas I just accept that they didn’t have to change. Their environment was changing at a much slower rate. Just don’t test me on the terms they used to say the same. Same with variations at birth, there is no good or bad, just those which succeed over those that have less advantage.
Wait, moments later I hear Mrs. Red in the front. These pics are through a screen window, but there she is. Much older and greyer, but still singing up a storm. This couple were my first visitors to the cabin back in 2016, and I believed they’ve raised a family every year since.
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These millennials have no idea what a nightmare they’ve created. This one they cannot blame on the boomers. When millennial cars catch fire, airliners disappear, and suicide becomes common, there’s no way to pin it on anyone else. Today’s example was Isandlwana, the battleground where Zulus wiped out Chelmsford. I thought I’d finally look on a map and find the place. You know, so I’m not like millennials who talk about Guernica and Chernobyl, but can’t find the on a map. Well, I found it, but not exactly. It was there, but could not be seen under the icons of pizza parlors, hotels, and ATMs. And I think every millennial who posts an animation as a youTube video should be castrated.
Let’s see what’s happening in the rest of America, since the impact of COVID here in Florida is nil. Virginia takes a bold step, the new Governor (Youngkin) is leading the charge. He’s told the entire staff of the State’s “diversity” office to take a hike and appointed an anti-CRT fire-breather to head the office. He’s said the diversity people were nothing but shills for the former governor, who is now severely unemployed. While Youngkin is not my favorite, he’s the strongest indication yet that the mood in America is now anti-woke and about to get more so.
Seems almost 100% of the attacks on Asians were by blacks, but check that on your own. I don’t quote many sources, as this blog is for my information, not yours. Yep, the Chinese, who are no friends of white people, come over here and make something of themselves. They make other races look like the lazy imbeciles they are. No wonder they get attacked, some would say. Kamela says one of her hopes for 2022 is amnesty for the illegals who jumped the border, that will make her lots of friends.
That quizzical look on my face just now is from reading an outsider’s view of rumspringa, the Amish practice of letting 16 year olds go experience the outside world. It is true up to the point where the story reports that most of the youths return. This is only a technical truth. I speak from first hand experience. When you keep a kid away from any real education, jobs, or survival skills, don’t let him learn to manage money, drive, sing, or dance, and prevent him from gaining any social contacts, or a larger view of the world for the first 16 years of his life, you’re darn right most of them will come crawling back.
ADDENDUM
Zeloof, that’s the dude they are heralding as the 22-y.o. that builds microchips in his garage. Have you seen the garage? Better equipped than NASA. Come back and tell us this story when you explain how he got the money for an electron microscope. A Connecticut mother sues because her daughter was addicted to Instagram. That spells single-parent family to me. Trivia, in 2007 the Russians sent a diver under the ice cap to place their flag on the North Pole.
One thing I didn’t know was that improvements in armor meant the longbow became effective at ever shorter ranges, and at Agincourt they had to hold their fire until the French mounted knights were around 100 yards away. Now, that took nerve. By then, the narrative went, the English has special arrowheads. Nonsense, and this photo shows some picked up from the battlefield. None of these would have pierced any armor, and if you look, many have blunted points from trying.
I’m aware the English had the latest “bodkin” arrowheads, possibly made from steel. It seems to me the fame of the battle rests more on the English being heavily outnumbered, and the soggy plowed field the French charged over. These arrowheads are still sold today to archery enthusiasts. There is a cottage industry making these out of rebar. I found this interesting video on how this is done, and that soup can forge is something anybody could make.
Until I see a bodkin pierce armor, I don’t believe the legends any more.
