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Article at The Weather Channel.
Even though it was way down-state from home, I remember it well because most of my music listening (mainly heard above a howling Davidson 500 offset press) came from Tampa Bay area radio stations. Naturally, this was the lead story for quite a while.
Also, I remember this picture clearly from the front of the daily paper. It sticks in mind, because my high school H&MP teacher drove an identical car.
That... was a close one.
Not together though. That would be awful. Or at least, really hard to imagine.
Jimmy Buffet: Life on the Flip Side May 29
Bob Dylan: Rough and Rowdy Ways June 19
That is all. What, like you could expect anything better?
Article at the BBC. Of course it's for a COVID-19 related cause, read about it a the GoFundMe page.
Starts at 10am BST – that's 4am CDT – tomorrow May 8th, and is expected to run about 12 hours.
I probably won't be up for it (I mean, 4am, come on), but maybe there'll later be a downloadable mp3. Either way, it seems like a good and worthwhile listen. Other than Tolkien himself, can you think of anyone better to do a live reading?
OK, that's all for now. Back to it.
The termite swarms return, same date as last year. The cooler weather this spring doesn't seem to have much effect. Hopefully this too will pass quickly.
What Other Coronaviruses Tell Us About SARS-CoV-2 at Quanta magazine.
Sure, we're all bombarded with virus news lately. But this one actually has some science behind it, and gives some educated guesses as to which way the winds are blowing.
Just wish we had some reliable mass testing going on. This flying blind through an ice fog business is getting old.
It's a WWII mystery thriller about an against-all-odds clandestine operation. It's an ultra-endurance intro. It's all about low heart rate training. Low-carb too. Wild animals and parkour. Shadowy sheep thieves, blood feuds, and on-the-fly nutrition in the original Land of The Gods and Heroes. It's about being chased by 80,000 hell-bent Nazi troops when all you've got is a ragged pair of boots and and borrowed donkey. And it's all over the place, ping-ponging between ancient Crete and modern desert hermit fitness gurus. I don't know how it all holds together, but it does.
It's called Natural Born Heroes by Christopher McDougall, the author of Born to Run. If you've read that, and I highly recommend it, this one leaves it in the dust. It's just one ripping adventure after another, and it points the way for your next adventure: reclaiming the fun in fitness.
As always, consult with your local cat-equiped book store for a copy.
And no, it's not a book about biking exactly, but in the overall scheme it fits so this gets the 'bike' tag, among several others.
Just because there's not a lot else going on, here's a pic of the WMEJ tower's base insulator and lightning arc-over rods:
WMEJ
You can see the feed line coming in on the right hand side. Reaches Gulfport on a good day. But enough of all that. Let's look at a properly constructed and maintained tower:
W4ZNG
Works 6 shortwave bands, reaches Canada and Central America on a regular basis, Europe on a good day. Now that's an antenna. Also, as you can see in the middle background, powering this thing is never, ever a problem.
