Category: General

  • Forever

    Jill and I realized last night that being married forever isn’t as long now as it used to be. We both found this quite amusing.

  • 200,000 deaths from SARSCoV-2 virus

    I worry we’re at the calm before the storm. Justin Lessler, associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Star-Tribune 2020-09-20

  • Mediæval Time

    The monasterial rule (which before the general introduction of clocks was commonly followed by the mediæval public in the computation of time) divided the twenty-four hours of the day and night into seven parts (six of three hours each and one of six), the inception of which was denoted by the sound of the bells…

  • Taxonomy of a pandemic

    The virus: SARS-CoV-2 Possible patient 0: 2019-12-20, a 61-year-old man from Wuhan, China, presented to the Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital with a fever and a strong cough. The resulting disease: COVID-19 The prognosis 2020-07-14: World Health Organization warns that the pandemic may get “worse and worse and worse.”

  • Basic biology

    It’s really hard to place trust a President that seems not to have even the tiniest understanding about biology, except perhaps where to stick his penis.  His comment yesterday Trump: Is There a Way We Can Do Something With Disinfectant? is unbelievable.  How do we get rid of this bozo?

  • Goodbye David

    My father, the Hustler, died this morning, 2020-03-30 at 11:22 EDT.  In calendar terms that represents: 83 years, 3 months, and 14 days.  He was a first-class manipulator, who never met anyone he didn’t feel justified in taking advantage of for his own personal gain.  When I talked to my mother later, she said that…

  • Masticator

    I kept hearing about using a masticator when I was at the Bull Draw fire in August 2018, so I looked it up on youtube after I saw one roll by the ICP on a lowboy trailer.  Check it out: A masticator working to improve the fire line.  That would take care of the bushes…