Archive for May, 2026

May 25, 2026

I’m afraid this might be right: “The Boomers were good. It’s the Gen Xers who went crazy.”

May 24, 2026

Dunnage (thinking of the third definition): personal effects; baggage.

May 15, 2026

“Two people dead, just so we can live without working, why?” … Gun Crazy

May 13, 2026

FamilyMusic In A Dolls House” 1968 vinyl full album.

May 10, 2026

Hazel Dickens: American bluegrass singer, characterized not only by her high, lonesome singing style, but also by her provocative pro-union, feminist songs.

May 9, 2026

Karoo: “The Karoo formed an almost impenetrable barrier to the interior from Cape Town, and the early adventurers, explorers, hunters, and travelers on the way to the Highveld unanimously denounced it as a frightening place of great heat, great frosts, great floods, and great droughts.”

May 8, 2026

Gedankenexperiment… thought experiment. (Curious that an English language paper would not just say ‘thought experiment.’)

May 6, 2026

When I reached a former longtime senior FBI official to ask whether he’d ever seen personally branded liquor bottles distributed by a previous FBI director, he burst out laughing… Atlantic.

… In March, Patel and his team brought at least one case of bourbon to the FBI’s training facility in Quantico, Virginia, for a ‘training seminar,’ where Ultimate Fighting Championship athletes provided mixed-martial-arts instruction to aspiring FBI agents and senior staff. At one point at least one bottle went missing, which caused the director to ‘lose his mind,’ […] Patel began threatening to polygraph and prosecute his staff over the missing bottle. ‘It turned into a shitshow.’