K E B 6 4 9 – The Bomb Shelter Radio Blog
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A good article on the downsides of the “Golden Age of Air Travel”
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/golden-age-of-air-travel-downsides/index.html My first flight was when I was in college, circa late 1985 or 1986. I flew from KSYR to KDFW and back for a Job Trip. I didn’t end up moving to Dallas, instead I moved to Washington, DC. The rest is history… I used to fly quite a bit for work during the […]
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You shouldn’t have come back, Flynn.
120 CLOSE SHOT OF FLYNN 120 settling in, loosening his fingers, like a concert pianist, or a safecracker. He types in a code number, presses the “enter” key. 121 VIEW OF THE CEILING 121 We see a camera emerging from a sliding panel. 122 POV OF MCP 122 We watch as Flynn starts typing. SCREEN […]
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People and Differences
“People are pretty much alike. It’s only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.” Linda Ellerbee (from https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/21682.Linda_Ellerbee)
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The Dash
“I read of a man who stood to speakat the funeral of a friend.He referred to the dates on the tombstonefrom the beginning…to the end. He noted that first came the date of birthand spoke the following date with tears,but he said what mattered most of allwas the dash between those years. For that dash […]
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Ethical Infants
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Omar Bradley, General of the Army, USA (February 12, 1893 – April 8, […]
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Frustrating
Among one of the things I am trying to do with this blog is collect quotes that I find inspiring and true. This is inspired by my creative writing teacher (kudos to Jim Sorrell, RIP 2004) in high school. The Internet is rife with great quotes that are often wrong in some way. I get […]
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CHRISTMA EXEC … as clumsy or random as a blaster.
“Sherman, set the wayback machine to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, December 1987.” Bask in the madness of CHRISMA EXEC. Below is the source code of the first wide area network worm/trojan horse to cause a lot of grief worldwide. It spread across the network commonly known as BITNET (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET), and managed to traverse […]
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Oh shit, there I was…
Reports Say Hackers Broke into NASA Computer System GIRARD C. STEICHEN September 15, 1987 FRANKFURT, West Germany (AP) _ Computer hackers broke into NASA’s worldwide data network throughout the summer and gathered secret information on space shuttle projects and rocket failures, West German media said Tuesday. News reports said young West Germans gained regular access […]
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Git and Git-ability…
Wikipedia defines Git as a British slang term of insult denoting an unpleasant, silly, incompetent, annoying, senile, elderly or childish person. That begs the question “What is GitHub?” Me on Mastodon
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Marx on being happy…
“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.” Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
Meanwhile on Mastodon https://epsilon-ix.masto.host/@fuzzface
- I’m telling you, those chickens are organized…
- The train left Culpepper about 17m late at 12:08pm. Assuming it resumes, next stop will be Manassas. Likely two diesel engines, either GE Genesis or Siemens Charger units are at the head of the train. […]
- The incident is south of the end of #VRE Manassas Line and VRE Yard near Manassas Regional Airport. It is also south of the Norfolk Southern Crew Change facility at Bristoe, VA. This is in […]
- The Crescent, AMTRAK Train 20, left New Orleans yesterday headed for New York. About 12:41pm the train hit a pickup truck in Catlett, VA near 38.64695° N, 77.65028° W (Catlett Road at Battle Lane). No […]
- https://www.newsweek.com/us-nuclear-missile-base-swarmed-squirrels-2092907
- Apparently, I won’t be able to get a Covid booster soon. Or, I suspect I will have to pay for it myself because who ever heard of a US medical insurance company spending real money […]