Proximity Fuze

Proximity Fuze – The 3rd Most Crucial Development of WW2
Curious Droid

I've been aware of the proximity fuze for a while now, but I just checked and didn't find anything about it in this here blog, so here we are. Curious that he doesn't mention the Norden bombsight, but then it didn't depend on new technology, it was just mechanical engineering developed to a fine pitch. However, the  cost to develope the Norden bombsight was of the same magnitude as the atomic bomb. Sounds like the WW2 version of the SLS.

Soledar Salt Mine

Rumor has it that the private Russian military firm Wagner Group  have taken control of the town of Soledar in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk. The ground beneath Soledar is riddled with 75 miles of salt mine tunnels. Here's some pics from Zerohedge:

I've put up a couple other posts about salt mines.

P. S. May 7, 2023, RT gives us a status report on Soledar with a bunch of pics.

Hush up; you haven’t as much sense as a rabbit.

JMSmith tells about some theological squabbles from his local area in Texas that occurred near the end of the 19th Century. Great stuff.

Danger, Will Robinson!

Danger, Will Robinson!
Tom Crimmins

Got an email this morning from our benevolent overlord Google telling me that one of my posts has been "unpublished". Here's the key bit:

Why was your blog post unpublished?
Your content has violated our Malware and Viruses policy. 

The offending post contains a bunch of links, all of which were copacetic except for this one:

Chrome Warning Sign

Ignoring all their warnings and pushing past the red warning screen I got to the site, but then quickly got redirected to Sarah Westall's site, which seems to be legit.

Blocked by Chrome

The second time I tried to push past the warning I got this message.

Blogger Review Request Button

I changed the link for "made men" to Wikipedia's page, and pressed the Request Review button. We shall see what happens.

P.S. Just including the URL of the offending site, just as text, not as a clickable link, was enough to get this post bounced. If you want to visit the forbidden zone, you'll just have to type in the address yourself.

Update a couple of hours later: added a link to the offending post which has been reinstated.

Curses, foiled again

It's not like I don't have enough to do, but I had to start playing with ncurses, a computer programming library that enables doing crude, text based graphics in a terminal window. I did something and now my cursor keys are behaving erratically and capital-h and control-h don't work. I am going to try and find a solution, but I suspect I will have to reboot to clear things up. I am reluctant to do that because I've had a stupid recursion demo running in another terminal window for about a week and it would be a shame to shut it down when it is so close to finishing. Yeah, right, it's probably going to take a couple of months to finish and we'll probably have a power failure before then.

Cafe Nell

Cafe Nell
on the corner of 20th & Kearney

Cafe Nell is my new favorite place for lunch in downtown Portland. I've been there like four times in the last few months. I'm not quite sure what sets it apart from other places. Could it be the carpeted floors? Pretty nice in any case.

On “False Flags” and Agents Provocateurs

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754 – 1838) by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon

JMSmith has a new post up on The Orthosphere that is all about government bullshit. The comments are pretty great as well. I especially like this one from Michael Paterson-Seymour:

One recalls Talleyrand’s maxims: “Nothing is what it seems; everything is connected; there are no coincidences.”

His great opponent, Prince Metternich seems to have been of the same mind. On hearing of Talleyrand’s death, he mused: “I wonder what he meant by that.”

 

Prince Metternich also know as Klemens von Metternich (1773 – 1859) by Thomas Lawrence