Haram talk
Convective thought after hearing politician A condemn politician B for failing to condemn some comment by politician C.

The natural-law diet rules in Leviticus, as expressed most clearly in the Islamic version, are based on the chain of predation. Plants create life. Animals only transform life into different forms.



Overall rule: Ideally you shouldn't eat animals at all. If you must eat animals, you should eat only animals that eat plants. Don't eat animals that eat animals. Stay close to the point of creation.

A similar rule would help to avoid nonsense in political speech. Stay close to the point of creation. Ideally don't talk at all. Keep your filthy mouth shut. Just DO what's needed. If you must talk, talk only about what you will DO, and then fucking DO IT. Don't talk about talk, and especially don't talk about talk about talk.

Any politician who talks about talk (ie calling other politicians divisive, or condemning for failing to condemn) shall be shot. No trial needed. Our action compensates for your satanic lack of action.

Labels: Natural law = Sharia law

  ¶ 4:25 AM

  More on GoogCar
Reading this essay in Spiked on driverless cars. Fairly old article that has accumulated a bunch of comments. Author raises serious questions, mainly Who is programming the driverless cars? Which type of morality and ethics will be embodied in the decisions?

We know the answer, of course. Google and Apple. This means that Goog/Aapl ethics will be embodied. Goog/Aapl ethics are ETHICS. The word has only one meaning now.

ETHICS = Kill the poor, enrich the rich.

Pedestrians are poor and often defective. Untermenschen. Kill them.

Most of the comments are from Tech Tyrants who have also been programmed by G/A. Some are from outsiders who understand the problem with G/A ethics.

The first one is typical of Tech Tyrants running G/A code.

The central argument is nonsense. I want driver-less cars because I do not like driving, and I want to be able to use a car when I am not fit to drive (a freedom those who have chauffeurs already enjoy). You may as well argue that public transport deprives us of moral choices, or that using email deprives secretaries and postmen of the moral choice of deciding to whether or not to send/deliver a letter.

"When I am not fit to drive" raises a completely different point that hasn't been discussed much. The usual proposal assumes that GoogCar will be similar to taxis. The cars will be owned by Google, and will somehow pick you up when you need a ride.

Aha! But what happens when you're not fit to drive? When you're drunk or drugged or senile or permanently disabled? How does the car recognize whether you're even fit to sit, or fit to get in and out of the car competently? Aside from actual disability, drunks are often unable to get out of a taxi and cross the parking lot to the bar door without assistance. What if you're incontinent? Pissing and shitting and puking? Will the next passenger enjoy the car? Who pays to clean up? What happens if you're malicious enough to take control of the car? There will undoubtedly be a way to do it, and there will be assholes who enjoy trying. What if you want to use the car for a robbery or kidnapping or drive-by shooting?

Cabbies and bus drivers face all of these problems daily, and they try to solve them humanely up to a point. Beyond that point, which is purely subjective, the common good requires leaving the passenger out in the cold. Don't pick him up.

There's NO WAY a car can make that judgment on its own. It WILL require human intervention, perhaps via some kind of GoogSecure with vast banks of humans observing TV monitors. And now you're back to human cabbies after all.

Labels: Ethics

  ¶ 1:24 AM

  One Million Dollars!
Fidel speaks:

Fidel Castro marked his 89th birthday with a newspaper column Thursday repeating assertions that the U.S. owes socialist Cuba "numerous millions of dollars" for damages caused by its decades-long embargo.

Numerous millions!!???!!! Fidel doesn't look like Dr Evil, but he's clearly been stuck in a similar time bubble, which is A GOOD THING for Cuba.

We no longer comprehend mere millions. We only know how to counterfeit trillions and quadrillions. We don't keep change for a billion in our wallet.

Labels: Alternate universe

  ¶ 4:05 PM

  Rich world problem
Ambiguous envelopes seem to be spreading. More and more utilities and insurers are labelling BILLS as "Important Information About Your Account" or "Information about your Plan".

This is a terrible idea. The same utilities and insurers ALSO send out a veritable blizzard of legally required changes in Terms and Conditions, which are ALSO labelled as "Important Information etc."

I don't need to read the legally required nonsense. It may become relevant if I file a claim that doesn't fit the rules. In that case the agent will explain the problem ANYWAY. Knowing the rules in advance won't prevent me from needing a prescription or surgery. It won't prevent the windstorm from damaging my house. The wind isn't going to say "Oh! I see this house doesn't meet the latest modifications of Clause 34A Subpart 17.8 on its policy! Time to attack!"

The only envelopes I need to open are actual bills and statements. If you label them clearly as "This is an invoice" or "This is your monthly bill", I'm more likely to open them and less likely to miss them.
  ¶ 10:08 AM

  We need to get honest about Caste
KXLY's Repooflican 'editorial' from Fitz today is about a dispute in Seattle. A Repoof group tried to place ads on city buses showing mugshots of wanted Islamic terrorists. The wanted-ness is real. The USA STRONG "government" is offering the reward for these dudes.

Seattle's bus system rejected the ad because it was being placed by the wrong sort of people. If the current "government" had placed the same ad, it would be OK because the "government" is currently headed by a man with D on his label. If the "government" had placed the same ad in 2007, it would obviously be improper and illegal because the "government" was headed by a man with R on his label.

The 9th Circle Of Hell ruled in favor of the bus system, saying that they should be able to reject an ad that violates their principles.

Whoopsie, 9th Circle. You're the same Circle that REQUIRED Christian butchers, bakers and candlestick makers to accept commissions that violate their principles.

Fitz thinks this is wrong. Fitz says you shouldn't be able to reject a paid ad because it offends your principles.

Whoopsie, Fitz. By your logic the Christian butchers, bakers and candlestick makers must be forced to accept orders from same-sex couples.

Everyone is trying to have it both ways. Everyone is using "law", which no longer exists, to justify a tangled pile of inconsistency.

Solution is simple. Stop using extinct "laws" and "constitutions". Simply recognize that

Specifically, acknowledge that different customers want different things, and acknowledge that different businesses want different things. Stop trying to force either side into Procrustean conformity. Allow all nonviolent forms of discrimination in business, because DISCRIMINATION IS LIFE. All living things discriminate at all levels. All living things spend every moment of life saying A Is Good and B Is Bad, based on sensed characteristics of A and B. Non-discrimination is death.

Just enforce basic rules of honesty. If you promise to accommodate everyone's taste but in fact you don't, you've violated your contract. If you make it clear that you have specific tastes and restrictions, customers can't complain.

Labels: defensible spaces, Natural law = Sharia law

  ¶ 7:11 AM

  Sane India
India's equivalent of the EPA Terrorist Army arbitrarily banned Maggi, India's favorite ramen brand. Supposedly Maggi contained a trace of lead.

Amazingly, India's Supreme COURT (and I use that word specifically in contrast to our Supreme SATAN) immediately countermanded the ban.



Couldn't happen here. Our Supreme SATAN would react to Nestle's petition by banning all food permanently.

Yay for ramen, yay for India!
  ¶ 4:12 AM

  Octoporn
Ever wonder what sex with 8 arms looks like? Now you can see it!

Via RCS, this article on a newly rediscovered octopus species. It seems to be the only octopus that engages in mating and nesting behavior, though it's rather brief. Male and female occupy a shell together for a few days; they clean out the nest, then have long and lusty sex. See Movie S6 at the bottom of the linked page. Watch especially the arms of the right octopus caressing the left octopus.
  ¶ 2:20 AM

  There will always be an England
From UK Telegraph:

"The fishermen said they heard an almighty splash but he was just sitting there and carried on smoking his pipe while the car sank. It went up to the car windows in the end but he just kept puffing away - completely unperturbed by what had happened."

Nuff said.
  ¶ 1:55 AM

  On the fourth day of Gaiamas
I shouldn't joke. This is deadly serious and may be fatal for somebody. Not clear yet. A RECYCLING plant in East Spokane opened a barrel containing Arsenic Trichloride. [Later: No, it's chlorine.] Dozens of employees were taken to the hospital, and two are listed as critical. [Later: One has died. The others are OK.]

Thanks, EPA Terrorist Army! Recycling is good! Everybody must recycle so we can die!

Now we know the next step in your Orange River Festival. Evil genocidal fucking fuckers. Monsters. Monsters. Monsters.

Labels: 20th century Dark Age, Carbon Cult

  ¶ 3:31 PM

  Common sense in an uncommon place
Here's a columnist who gets it. Anthony Zurcher, amazingly writing for the BBC website. I clicked in, expecting to get a nice 100-point jump in my blood pressure (Unfortunately clickbait works, even when you know goddamn well how it works!) but instead found pure common sense.

Zurcher treats both Trump and Sanders as indications that the one-party Establishment has shot its wad. Even more amazingly he gives full credit to UNPERSONPat BuchananUNPERSON for prophetically defining the problem 20 years ago. At that time the Establishment could still overrule the masses with no visible pushback. Now at least the pushback is visible, thanks to the web and formalized crowdfunding. Will it make any difference? I doubt it.
  ¶ 4:07 AM

  Customers, not products 2
Got the first issue of Readers Digest today. Good stuff, as anticipated. For instance, a long article on how to keep your voice healthy gets everything right. That's rare even in 'scientific' websites.

A couple of thoughts....

(1) Real paper magazines with real subscribers don't have to use clickbait. There's no way to click paper.

RD doesn't include anything that's purely eyegrabbing. Everything is included with the hope of stirring deeper thoughts or emotions, which will be positive for some readers and negative for some. They're clearly trying to provide info and writing that you can't get on the web.

Online magazines, even when the majority of their content is paywalled, are full of obvious clickbait. Tits and snits, or sexation and vexation.

(2) Real paper magazines with real subscribers respond to their real subscribers because the subscribers are the customers, not the product. I haven't seen this yet with RD but I've seen it with Collectible Automobile, a pure subscription mag with no advertising at all. Last year CA quietly dropped two of its semi-regular departments, assuming nobody was interested. Subscribers quickly instructed CA as to the degree of interest. CA apologized and brought back the departments.


(3) Real paper magazines haven't succumbed to inflation by reduction. CA's page count and 'content volume' haven't changed since its inception in 1984. (I have most of the issues in a bookshelf so I can compare directly.) I don't have a precise comparison for RD, but the new mag seems about the same as the last time I read it regularly in the '80s.

Meanwhile, other consumer products are shrinking fast. This week I noticed two more: aluminum foil is thinner, and the socks I normally buy at WalMart are thinner.

Labels: Metrology

  ¶ 5:24 PM

  Antichrist deletes Nature
Latest from Antichrist Francine:

The rejection of migrants fleeing violence and hunger is an act of war, Pope Francis told youth Friday. Francis told members of the Eucharistic Youth Movement that when migrants are forced to flee from country to country, with no one giving them shelter, "this is an unresolved conflict, and this is war, this is violence, it's called murder".

In other words: You cannot separate inside from outside. You cannot decide what to let in and what to keep out. Any attempt to distinguish good from evil is "murder". Walls are war. Borders are violence. Fences are murder. Doors are war. Locks are violence. Skin is conflict. Bark is murder. Cell membranes are genocide.

Or in the broadest terms of all:

Life is prohibited. Nature is prohibited. Only raw unordered unorganized chaos is allowed.

Pretty neat trick, actually. Antichrist has just hit Ctrl-Z on the whole Bible. If we follow her command strictly and comprehensively, the universe will be right back to "The earth was formless and void".

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Aside from the fact that Antichrist is trying to de-exist the universe, there's a smaller tragedy here. Imagine a normal Pope in the same position. A human Pope, applying solid Roman doctrine, would see the migrants as RESULTS and SYMPTOMS of a dozen UNJUST WARS. Israel, acting through its US puppet NudelmanPyatt War Partners LLC, is deliberately fomenting wars in ALL of those countries that are sending migrants toward Europe. These wars are completely unnecessary. Their sole purpose is to satisfy the sadistic blood fetish of Our Prophet Binyamin Netanyahu. A normal Pope would see this situation clearly and aim his criticism accurately. Antichrist is doing the opposite, working WITH Our Prophet and NudelmanPyatt to foment the wars and then to slaughter Euros. Bankshot genocide.

Labels: 20th century Dark Age, defensible spaces

  ¶ 2:59 AM

  Antichrist creates Gaiamas
Antichrist Francine has declared Sept 1 as Gaiamas, the High Holy Mass Of The Planet Goddess. Seems a little surplus since we already have Earth Day in April, celebrating Ira Einhorn's holy sacrifice of his girlfriend. I guess it's a matter of branding.

The day will be an opportunity to reaffirm in Christians their vocation as stewards of God’s creation, to recognize their gratitude for God’s earthly gifts and to pray for the protection of the environment and pardon from sins against it, the Pope said.

Note "pardon from sins against it" or rather Her.

The EPA Terrorist Army has jumped the gun a bit with its Orange River Festival, cleverly rebranding the old Christmas tradition of an orange in your stocking. Maybe they have something bigger and more toxic planned for Gmas itself, rebranding a lump of coal or uranium. Like Advent leading off the Twelve Days. I can't wait.

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A whole bunch of us ACTUALISTS have been trying to tell you for 20 years now that Gaia is a full-fledged religion. You call us DENIALISTS because we refuse to bow down to Gaia. Thus proving our point.

Labels: Carbon Cult

  ¶ 3:50 PM

  Consistent tyrant
As usual, Antichrist Francine loves brutal imperialistic tyrants, and insists that our job is to lay down and let them rape us and kill us.

Pope Francis on Sunday recalled the 70th anniversary of the "terrible" atomic bomb attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, saying this tragic event "still arouses horror and revulsion" in us many years later. The Pope said these attacks have become the symbol of the enormous destructive power of humanity when it makes a distorted use of scientific and technical progress and serves as a lasting warning to us.

A whole lot of Koreans and Chinese would disagree with you, Francine. Just as the ghosts of a whole lot of dead European Catholics and Jews would disagree with your earlier expression of love and admiration for Hitler.

But on the other hand, a whole lot of living hard-left Catholics and Jews seem to agree with your love of Fascism, so I guess it's OK. Anything leftists want is OK by definition, because dictionaries are written by leftists.

Labels: Carbon Cult, defensible spaces

  ¶ 3:34 PM

  Story of a desk



This little folding desk belonged to Grandma. She bought it used in the late '40s. It was probably a Sears or Wards product made in the '20s. Possibly homemade, since it doesn't have any labels or brands. Not a valuable antique for sure.

I doubt that Grandma used it much. She kept letters and checkbooks in it, but I never saw her open it up and write anything on the foldout part. I know she didn't use it after 1970 when her apartment was remodeled with a dense bouncy carpet. The desk was extremely tippy on that carpet. I tried to use it once and found out. The varnish on the inner surface of the foldout is remarkably undented and unscratched, indicating very little usage by anyone.

[[[ Major update Sept 4: I've been using the desk a lot; got tired of the little compartments on top that blocked part of my workspace. Carefully pried off the compartments. Made more room for my work, and also revealed a couple of letters that had been slipped in between the compartments and the top board! Both letters seem like junk mail, not important documents. One is a blank 1938 order form to the Personal Shopper at JL Hudson dept store in Detroit, the other is a mimeographed 1938 postcard sent to investors of a business in Detroit. But how did they get there? It's a tight fit, so they weren't tossed in by accident. If you wanted to discard these things, you'd simply discard them; if you wanted to stash for later retrieval, you wouldn't put them in a place that requires disassembling the desk. Best guess is kids playing Secret Agent games with throwaway mail. No matter the cause, the mere presence of these 1938 Detroit letters changes the story of the desk. Clearly Grandma brought her furniture along when she moved to Okla ... which also changes the story of Grandma and Grandpa as I understood it. No surprise there. I figured out a long time ago that the family story as understood is full of myths and mysteries, with Grandpa as Official Enemy. ]]]

When Grandma died in 1990 I inherited the desk and chair along with a couple other items. I never used the desk or chair because I remembered that it was tippy and unbalanced. For 25 years this desk and chair have been purely ornamental, holding miscellaneous items like spare disk drives inside and decorative crap on top. The chair, with its protruding posts, is good for hanging a shirt or coat.

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A few months ago, when I returned to electronics, I decided to use the desk for project storage and possibly a workspace. Cleaned out the useless junk that had accumulated, and put the soldering iron, vise, and breadboards inside. Added cushions to the chair.

But for some reason I still didn't OPEN IT AND WORK WITH IT. Didn't even try sitting in the chair.



I just continued working on the big eating table (blue tablecloth to the left), as I've been doing for every task that requires a surface. I quickly found that the eating table has two disadvantages for this task. The soldering iron's cord goes rightward to the nearest plug, which is highly inconvenient for a left-hander; and the eating chair is directly in front of the air conditioner, which is highly uncomfortable. (Even a tiny house has microclimates!)

Grandma's desk would solve both of those problems. It's to the right of the plug and out of the AC's path. A couple days ago I finally tried it. The chair is comfortable enough, and the desk is absolutely non-tippy on my wood floor. Perfectly stable. 25 years of stupid assumptions destroyed by reality.



I added the foil to protect the nice untouched varnish from hot solder, and it also makes the area easy to clean. Every bit of stripped insulation and every solder blob stands out on the bright surface.

In short: This desk is around 80 years old. I've known it for 60 years and owned it for 25. It may have been used for practical purposes in the first 20, but it's been purely ornamental for the last 60.

Until two days ago.

Now it's back in the saddle again. Turns out to be ideally suited for a purpose that didn't exist** when it was built.

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First real project: building one of those Pixie QRP transceivers. These have been adequately 'unboxed' elsewhere, so I won't bother with the details, except to note that other 'unboxers' found missing parts. I found all the needed parts in the kit, plus a few extra caps.

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The finished Pixie in context. I like to use hardback book covers as platforms. The key, needless to say, is Russki. Has a nice feel and a nice sound. The pieces will get firmed up and glued down now that I know it works, but it's not going to get highly formal. I'm not licensed yet. After I get licensed, I'll buy a serious receiver and build a better transmitter from scratch. This is just a 'jumpstart' to make electronic fun happen fast.


The VOM is set to read frequency. Here's a closeup with Pixie unpowered:


And here's what the freq meter shows with Pixie turned on but unkeyed. A foot-long pair of wires leading to a 50-ohm R serves as antenna and dummy load. I couldn't hear any signals in the earphones, but did hear appropriate-sounding static, identical to the sound I heard on a portable SW receiver tuned to 40 meters. Lack of signal is typical. Spokane is NOT a hot spot for shortwave.


And here's the keydown condition. 7020 kc. Pixie's xtal is nominally 7023; can't tell if this is a 'pulled resonance' or just slight inaccuracy of the VOM. The portable SW receiver also verifies that a signal is coming out. Tuned across the 40-meter band while V-ing the key, and sure enough the clicks come through around 7020.


Yay! Fun!

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The desk and I are both proud. We're back in the saddle.

This saddling up, returning to electronics, feels significant in my own life as well. Feels almost like a 'calling'. Vaguely related to the Benedict option crap and the Orlov crap. I'm not sure where this is going, but my analog electronic skills and tools and junkbox may turn out to be useful in a world of barter. Or this may lead toward the right direction. If nothing else, I'm having loads of fun.



The soldering iron is a key to an unknown door. Danbo seems to know something....


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** Footnote on "didn't exist"... Radios were starting to grow popular in the '20s, but building and fixing them involved BIG tools and BIG workbenches, more like carpentry or auto mechanics. A little desk like this wouldn't have served at all.

Labels: Danbo, defensible spaces, new toy

  ¶ 7:22 AM

  Rain!


Nice soft rain. Looks like it's going to be a meaningful amount, maybe enough to slow some fires. Yay!

I went out to walk in it 'for best results', and noticed this sort of monochrome rainbow? or sundog? just before the actual rain hit. I'm facing SW here, and the sun was just beginning to clear the horizon in the NE. For once my crappy picture looks like the real thing.

Later: Yes! Rained off and on for 4 hours, total 1/4 inch here. Soaked plants and soil, and did slow the fires somewhat.

Labels: Heimatkunde

  ¶ 6:05 AM

  Why two exceptions?
This picture from a brushfire west of Spokane shows dramatically why you should create a defensible space. An aerial view of a green island amid a black burned sea.

I added this to previous item showing a NON-defensible space, but this one is so dramatic that it stirred a broader thought about defensible spaces.

The authorities correctly recommend self-defense in exactly TWO areas. Fire and biological viruses.

Fire authorities give correct instructions for creating a defensible space against fire. They enforce the rules by stating clearly that you shouldn't expect the firemen to help if you haven't taken the proper steps on your own.

Public health authorities give correct instructions for creating a defensible space against viruses. Vaccination is enforced by schools and (in a few extreme cases) by police.

In ALL other situations the authorities require total vulnerability and HARSHLY PUNISH self-defense. You can't use encryption to form a defensible space against hacking and snooping. You can't use effective insecticides. You're not allowed to stop a burglar. Cops are not allowed to shoot back when a Vibrant thug attacks. You can't protect your savings against confiscation. You can't carry anything aboard an aircraft. We refuse to defend our own borders against invading hordes, giving them special privileges instead. Soldiers can't carry guns on military bases. Schools can't form defensible spaces against mass shooters. Christians can't form defensible spaces against immorality.

You must simply hold still and die.

What's different about fire authorities and public health authorities? Why the exceptions? Are they simply slow to get the message, or do they have an ulterior motive?

Labels: defensible spaces

  ¶ 2:58 AM

  Iowa secedes
In the news:

Iowa Democrats have Rectified their Jefferson - Jackson Dinner. Because Jefferson and Jackson were slaveholders, like most rich men in those days, they are now Unpersons. They do not exist. They never existed.

Modern rich men, of course, do not own slaves. Owning slaves is immoral. Modern rich men own companies that own slaves in other countries. This is called Individual Liberty because it frees the rich individual from the responsibility of caring for the slaves when they grow old or sick.

This was not a decision that was made lightly. The vote today confirms that our party believes it is important to change the name of the dinner to align with the values of our modern day Democratic Party: inclusiveness, diversity and equality,"

Inclusiveness = excluding several Presidents of this country from legitimacy

Diversity = Only MY opinion counts. All other opinions SHALL BE SLAUGHTERED.

Equality = ditto.

Hmm. I can think of a couple other words as well. Refusing to recognize parts of your own government as legitimate ... Hmm. It's on the tip of my tongue ... GOT IT!

REBELLION.

SECESSION.

Welcome to the club, Iowa Dems! You are now rebels. You are now secessionists. Yeeee-haaaaaa!

Does this mean you will understand and empathize with those of us who are trying in various direct or indirect ways to rebel and secede from YOUR psychopathic genocidal hyperlunacy?

Nope.

You will not understand, precisely BECAUSE you are psychopathic genocidal lunatics. A psychopath is God. His Will Shall Reign Supreme. No Other Opinions Exist, and anyone who appears to exhibit such opinions or beliefs is also nonexistent. If these Other Things insist on attempting to Exist, they shall be restored to the Correct State Of Nonexistence.

Labels: 20th century Dark Age

  ¶ 4:20 PM

  Could Trump do as well as Moonbeam?
Trump continues to deeply satisfy normal humans with his rhetoric. He's offending EXACTLY the people who need to be offended. Speaking truth to power, and power is fighting back. This is purely wonderful. Every rejection and anti-endorsement by Satans is another endorsement in God's eyes.

The real question about Trump is not about his words. The real question is whether he will implement his words. When given real power, will he say YOU'RE FIRED a million times? Or will he go along to get along?

We have a good example of another Trump-like character in action. Jerry Brown. Good old Moonbeam. Brown has reached the point in his career where he doesn't give a fuck. He has either turned remarkably sane in old age, or possibly remained in the same place while the Feds roared a trillion light years beyond Brown's old hippie-level insanity. I can't tell which.

In either case, he's remarkably sane by comparison to current reality. When the 9th Circle of Hell ordered him to pay for a "transgender" operation for a life-sentence inmate, he refused. He chose to parole the inmate so the 9th Circle of Hell couldn't force the ordinary people of Calif to pay for unnecessary nonsense.

Semantic secession at its best and smartest.

The ideal response would be to arrest and instantly execute Reinhardt for 35 years of infinite hypercrimes infinitely beyond the imagining of all previous tyrants.

This is practically impossible, so Brown just SLIPPED THE PULLEYS.

Bravo, Brown!

Labels: defensible spaces

  ¶ 12:33 PM

  Found decimal streets!
I've wondered why there are no decimal street names or decimal addresses. Cities use various tricks for 'in-between' streets or addresses. The fraction ½ is common on addresses but rare on streets. Usually the halfway street is given a different type-name. For example, KC uses Terrace. 14th St, 14th Ter, 15th St, 15th Ter, etc.

Why doesn't anybody use 13.5 North Walnut St or 1544 South 25.5 Av? It would certainly be easier for computer-addressed envelopes. Computers have trouble with ½, often treating the 1 as part of the number and the 2 as part of the street. (I once lived at 1212½A, which caused all sorts of confusion.)

Finally found a whole shitload of decimal streetnames, all in one county around Dolores, Colo.



This screencap shows Road T.5 (horizontal) intersecting with Road 7.8, Road 27.7, and Road 27.9 (verticals). Must be a story behind such an exceptional use of numbers!

Labels: Metrology

  ¶ 7:16 AM