10:20 Monday 16 August 2021

The 1A is doing an episode "Why Are So Many Healthcare Workers Unvaccinated?" - people who for months have been seeing other unvaccinated people come in very sick, and often die.
96% of doctors are vaccinated; 83% of nurses.
(Excepting those with medical conditions and immunatory limitations) Why should I trust the advice ( Read more... )

Sun Sep 8 23:10 EDT 2019

WAMU's The Big Broadcast tonight included a WWII story, Escape "Operation Fleur De Lis" (Original air date July 14, 1947), about American OSS operatives working with the French resistance. (You can hear this week's program online through Sunday 9/15.) There was a passing reference to Phenix City, Ala. Quoting from a ( Read more... )

Sat Aug 10 06:34:34 EDT 2019

So why isn't XLVIII written as VLIII or IIL?

I woke at 05:30, a bit overheated. I had added long tights and thermal socks because last night was colder. I eventually got a little more sleep.

Saturnsday 07:00

Laptop at 61%.

Saturnsday 07:52

I've had some leftover chicken stir-fry for breakfast. (And there's still some ziti ( Read more... )

Fre Aug 9 08:13:47 EDT 2019

I woke around 06:00 again today, but managed to get back to sleep until 08:00. A few minutes after that I heard someone blowing a bugle (natural horn?) and summoning Calontir to muster at 09:00 - for the war's final battle?

Laptop at 21%.
The solar panel was not charging in the early sun. The tent east of me finally ( Read more... )

Mon Aug 13 11:35:22 EDT 2018

I listening to the last of The Big Broadcast from August 5 (a week ago). The shows are on line for a week, so I could just catch the show I missed at Pennsic. (I used the cellphone to hear the previous episiode from the night I got to Pennsic.) Comcast's replaced modem/router complicated listening last night, and I ( Read more... )

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Sat Jul 9 17:39:57 EDT 2016

I don't like the voice of one of the WAMU's new announcers. It's nasal, and she has a strange sense of what kind of inflections make her delivery more engaging? (That wasn't really a question? I just thought I'd try writing?with a high rising terminalI don't like thinking that a person's appearance or voice can affect ( Read more... )