From Dan Gauss, granddog H1lda (not a typo) after jack.
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Q Cover Redux
In the home stretch on the new edition of Q. For the cover, I still favor some variety of this photo (forgive quality of my amateur efforts; I am sure a designer could do wonders with my template). The publisher favors the old cover. Any last thoughts? Here are the mockups I attempted. The old …
Stupid Science Questions
These sorts of things can be really sappy, but I often find I get sucked in and can’t help enjoying them. Examples: How did the thesaurus survive the dinosaur extinction? We’ve long known the speed of light, but what is the speed of heavy? My neighbor said he’s an “acidic Jew”. Are there basic Jews? …
Poetry
From Larry Gavin’s new collection The Initiation of Praise: My Reader My reader is part of a small club like those who fancy terriers and the taking of game to ground. My reader stumbled on this book by accident because of a mistransposed order number or an absent minded librarian that was thinking about fishing …
Farming Makes You Weak
I know I’ve mentioned a number of times here, that as prehistoric peoples moved from a hunting-gathering economy to agriculture, in general their health declined. This was apparently due to a number of factors, including eating a more limited diet, living for long periods in one place increases the spread of disease, etc. I just …
More Ivanpah
A few days ago I posted about seeing the Ivanpah solar plant from the air. A commenter mentioned that it was killing lots of birds. I just saw in the Palm Springs newspaper that the US Fish and Wildlife Service has issued a report calling it a “mega-trap” killing birds. This picture is of a …
Quote
This one is the only one by Bertholdt Brecht I like, at least outside of his collaborations with Kurt Weill, and one of only two great quotes by diehard Marxists I can remember. Anyone know the other? Hint: it was by the most interesting old Commie ever… Brecht, though: “Would it not be easier In …
Weekend Doggage
The imperturbable Almaty Ataika, Queen of the universe and still looking young, surveys her Brokedown Palace.
Cowboy Humor
Montana writer and third generation rancher John Moore has a good new novel coming– which somehow led to this photo by and of his friend, western cartoonist Wally Bagdgett (who is also a thinly disguised character in the book): I am not sure who wrote the caption… “Wally Badgett, creator of the “Earl” cartoon, announces …
Overland Traveller
My sometime neighbor for almost 20 years, Rolf Magener, is sort of a professional traveler (at least when he is not stopping at the apartment of a Swedish countess in Buenos Aires, where I just sent my copy); two years ago he was sailing across the South Pacific, and he sent me my treasured photo …