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Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Pursuit of Jade - Netflix Series

[ENG SUB] Zhu Yu / Chasing Jade First Trailer | Zhang Linghe, Tian Xiawei
Dawn

Great show. This is another Chinese historical drama / feminist fantasy much like Unveil: Jadewind. This one is more light hearted and includes some comedy. We still have the inscrutable machinations of the Imperial Court operating in the background threatening to visit terror and destruction on our happy little town, but meanwhile everyday life goes on.

Like Unveil: Jadewind, our girl is an orphan. However, this time instead of being a princess our girl is a pig butcher. How she manages to slaughter pigs without messing up her fancy clothes, hair and makeup would be amazing, except, well, this is a fantasy. She also looks to be about 100 pounds soaking wet, but has no problem tackling a horde of thugs. Her father trained her in the martial arts, you know.

We're about half way through and it's been snowing ever since we started, but these folks are really tough, or they have incredibly warm clothes, because nobody ever bothers to shut the windows.

There are 40 episodes and they are releasing one or two a day until the end of the month.

Mont Saint Michael's Mount

Mont-Saint-Michel, France

I didn't realize until I tried looking up the English one this evening that there are two of these things just 200 miles apart.

St Michael's Mount, England

Wikipedia

St Michael's Mount, England, left &
Mont-Saint-Michel, France, bottom center

Silver statue of Saint Michael the Archangel slaying a dragon in abbey Mont Saint Michel

And here I thought St. George was the dragon slayer.

Mont-Saint-Michel has appeared here before.

The Future is Here

Garmin Xero C1 Pro Chronograph $500

Tam writes about going to the gun range and mentions this device and tells us she can "sit there in the dry while making notes" about her shots. How does that even work? I remember chronographs having screens or antennas downrange from the firearm. How does the Garmin work? It has RADAR, that's how.

Chronograph and Shooter

Anit-Aircraft Guns

The Highest Altitude AA Guns Ever
SiegeMental

One of my favorite topics. Thought I had pretty well covered it, but he's got a lot of stuff I hadn't heard of.

I'm always amazed at how much heavy metal was produced during WW2. It doesn't seem like we are doing that anymore. We're probably spending more money on making stuff, but our money is only worth one percent of what it was back then, so that's not telling us much. We are building stuff like cars and trucks and trains, but I suspect it's mostly just to replace stuff that's worn out. We are building roads and buildings, but it seems like it's just incremental, we aren't engaged in any ginormous projects.