War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Near-cloudless, sunny and warm this Thursday afternoon on California’s north coast — actually maybe hot without that 5 mile-an-hour ocean breeze, the NWS claims it’s 70. Way-nice in the shade, though, and with a windbreak. Another unusual morning — a PG&E outage here in Mckinleyville, and Arcata, with electricity out for my apartment for several…
Bright sunshine this early Friday on California’s north coast with like weather forecast for the next few days — no rain as yet in sight. Of course, no post yesterday — the big story around these parts was the AT&T ‘fiber’ episode. First, the asshole comm giant claimed Thursday’s big Internet/phone service breakdown came from…
Bright and bold this Wednesday afternoon on California’s north coast, with the wind giving the air a crisp, spring-snap here not too far from the Pacific. Not-too-much of a snap earlier this morning — in fact, there was no loading to snap. As I later learned, my Internet provider’s apparatus apparently encountered some kind of…
Beautiful, wondrous skies early Wednesday up top this little section of California’s north coast — clouds like red-tinted porcelain seems to stretch far back east as the sun readies to arrive. Of course, not-too-far back east, a shitload of people are well into mid-week — bustling, hustling along, apparently without a freakin’ clue. Yesterday, from…
Rainy, dark clouds this afternoon, and pretty-much predicted for the immediate-near future, thus prohibiting us here on California’s north coast from checking out some shooting stars in the morning via the naked eyeball — only by some technological device. This time, the ‘Orionids‘ are coming. The Orionid Meteor Shower, which could produce 25 meteors an…
Overcast and chilly this early Thursday on California’s north coast — this week is blowing off the doors. And for the whole year, too. Today is special — Dictionary Day, or the birthday of Noah Webster, the guy who made the dictionary the dictionary. The first real, full-blown one was published in 1864. (Illustration found…
High overcast again this early Thursday on California’s north coast as we continue to plow on through the work week. Time appears to be moving faster, like water finally flushing down a drain, sucking quicker and quicker — until it’s all gone. The weekend will be here before you can say, ‘Shithead,’ and then we”l…
Rainy and chilly this early Friday on California’s north coast — on the plus side, it’s Friday! Another work week bites the dust as we move further and further into 2014. Hard morning. A nasty bout of insomnia during the night, which eventually peeled away for a couple of hours sleep, but beyond my “normal”…
Another piece of space rock, without much advance warning, will shave close to the earth this evening — known as 2000 EM26, the 885-foot wide asteroid (about three football fields) is scheduled to zap past us about 6 PM PST (9 PM EST). Although the chunk will supposedly clear the planet by 2.7 million miles,…
Another off little Eddie’s never-ending entrée-menu (via the Guardian): The National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have been developing capabilities to take advantage of “leaky” smartphone apps, such as the wildly popular Angry Birds game, that transmit users’ private information across the internet, according to top secret documents… Some apps, the documents state,…
