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Brand Spanking New Dimensions

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  Hot breaking news flash... A development in particle physics could point to the existence of a new dimension Just think, an entirely new dimension to go with the 3 dimensions we have now. A 4th dimension just may have been discovered by r esearchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Lab in Batavia, Ill.  I'm willing to bet that Batavia, Illinois is pretty dang close to Chicago. Could be but I really don't care where Batavia, Ill. might be. Anyway and cutting to the actual chase here, this "new physics dimension" has something to do with 'wobble' and 'spin' and some bullshit about "muon wobble" and therefore this "new possible dimension" is on the SUBATOMIC LEVEL  and therefore this  entire soiree into theoretical hyperbole is, curiously enough, THEORETICAL! Physicists get themselves worked into a lather over the silliest little tiny thingies and they're treading on flimsy scientific evidence. So...

Hurricane Much Ado About Nothing

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  In an almost Shakespearean tragic letdown, Hurricane Hilary was not much at all. A way out here in the Mojave Desert Northeast Entrance, we got rain but nothing to get hysterical about. If you happen to follow the bozos over at the Weather Channel, you'd think that Hurricane Hilary was "apocalyptic." No "apocalyptic" out here. Dang, don't you just hate a letdown like that? We got all prepared for the "worst event possible" and turns out the sidewalks got wet and the air was a mite humid. Bummer no doubt. California had an earthquake under Ojai and Ojai is northwest of Los Angeles and sort of close to the San Andreas Fault HOWEVER, the quake was a 5.1 magnitude and for Southern California a 5.1 magnitude quake doesn't even raise eyebrows. Angelinos are pretty  bla sé about earthquakes unless the freeways start to collapse and then it's a big deal. The weather talking heads were having fits over Hurricane Hilary and a California earthquake....

Waiting On Hurricane NoShow

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  For several days now, all the denizens of Mojave Desert Northeast Entrance have been waiting on Hurricane Hilary. So on Saturday as just like back in 2016, Hilary is a no-show. We got a little rain on Friday but that rain wasn't enough to warrant the planting of sandbags. Weather Service hinted that the serious rainfall would begin on Saturday. So while we waited even more, Vegas got rain. Kingman, Arizona got rain. Cabo San Lucas got lots of rain. Saturday rolls around and we got nada. However, Sunday will be the day that the clouds open up and the rain falls. So says the  National Weather Service. The NWS is hardly ever wrong. Hardly ever at all. We have their very scientific and using the wrong weather models, word on that. I'm not about to break out an umbrella UNLESS it actually commences to rain. As in buckets filled with rain and wet and wind and all the peripheral crap-o-la that accompanies a hurricane. Hell, Cedar City, Utah got rain and they got so m...

'Trans' Then To Now

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  Back in the day and I'm talking about the 'day' before most any reader was a gleam in their daddy's eye, the term "trans" was a shorthand epithet for transvestite. Yes and a long long time ago, there were guys liking to dress as women. Some of the 'trans' dressing guys were so gorgeous that regular knuckle-dragging horn dogs could not tell any difference and were therefore left with one colossal surprise as a quick pickup date went horribly wrong. Surprise...! That was then. This is...now? 'Trans' has taken on an entirely new definition and that, as things turn out, would be cultural evolution. I'm a student of cultural evolution and it is one surprising field of study. I'm not certain if one can get a BS degree in cultural evolutionary studies. If one could, well, I'm most certainly on my way to an earned PhD. There was a really spiffy and old apartment building I used to hang out in a way back in the day and there was a raft of ...

Gosh...Really?!?

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  From Nature.com on their webpage the headline reads thus - NEWS 16 August 2023 Melting glaciers will reveal vast new ecosystems in need of protection So on the one hand we've got us a climate disaster Planet wide and ain't about not a thing anyone can do about that now. HOWEVER...all the global warming will create "new ecosystems in need of protection." WE CAN'T PROTECT THE ECOSYSTEMS WE HAVE NOW!!! IF new ecosystems are evolving, those ecosystems will succumb to humanities endless pursuit of global rape. No cheesy platitudes or smarmy panaceas will change an inevitable planetary mass extinction event. Judas H. Priest...it would seem that the people standing on and or around Planet Earth are happy just to stand and watch as our Planet dies. This would be one of those face in palm moments. D'uoh!!! How about some Friday machine art. Off topic and enjoy the weekend. white ship - suspend all belief - prize - nun on the half shell - woods - face time - as an add...

Tongue In Cheek?

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  Space.com is usually a quiet, buttoned down, science-for-brainiacs kind of webpage. I like to read their material on a fairly regular basis. That and I can glean all manner of ideas and stuff to crack wise about. Today's installment of w ...t ... f... is a real treat and I'm not certain if the Space.com folk realize what they've done. Here posted for your viewing pleasure is the EXACT headline from the Space.com page and no I didn't ask for permission. After all, the internet is still the wild and wide open frontier where there are NO rules. Headline... NASA's New Horizons will investigate Uranus from the rear (Neptune, too). Here's how you can help How you can help is obvious to any wisecracking smart ass that ordinarily would be hard pressed to get a foot in sideways. Here's how you can help...ready? Drop your shorts and grab your ankles. ☺ ☺ ☺  Ur - anus - from the rear...!?! Juvenile to the max and I can admit that however...these are some miserably de...

Voted Most Likely To...

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  Donny 'slick greasy' Trump has been voted most likely to be indicted by a grand jury. At the state level AND at the federal level. Indictment number four greeted 'slick greasy' as he rose to face another Tuesday morning ensconced in his hidey-hole notoriously known as Mar-A-Lago. Which by the way...has anyone seen 'slick greasy's' barbie babe? You know, Melania or Melanoma, or Mashie Number Nine, or 'slick greasy's' current bitch. The woman has not been seen in public or at 'slick greasy's' side for quite some time now. Doesn't really matter too much as the woman is mostly vacuous and vapid. I'm not certain the woman can even speak the old American form of the English language. That doesn't really doesn't matter too much either. Anyway, America can be truly proud of an ex-president's fourth indictment and the latest indictment comes under the Rico Act and that makes this latest indictment damn serious. Way to go ...