Stick a fork in me, I’m done… Last panel was with Larry Correia, I’m peopled out, and my butt is draggin…
The panels were a pleasure for the most part, except once again some were overcrowded, and I ended up not going, or I was on a panel when I wanted to SEE a panel.
The LC crowd was loud and proud, having fun and watching the ‘reactions’ for some of the other folks…
Full write up when I get back. Flying out Today.
More panels, more ‘fun’ times… We are the few LibertyCon regulars, but By Gnu we’re having fun! 🙂
I’m tired, dogs are barking, and my butt hurts from the ‘conference’ seats…
Go read the folks on the sidebar, they’re good!
Day one- Good panels, at least the ones I could get in. My one panel for the day was Self-defense, and we think it came off fairly well. Interesting questions, and lively chats after the panel, which seems to be a default. Most of the between panel time was catching up with friends, and trying to figure out when/where to eat. Lots of kids, the vast majority very well behaved, or asleep…LOL
The con volunteers are doing and excellent job of steering people in the right direction, and getting panels started/ended on time.
Seems like ‘certain’ panels are drawing MUCH better than expected, which happens, sadly usually when it’s a small room to start with.
Ι don’t know why this didn’t go, but trying again…
An interesting video compilation of musical and other oldies…
The car cruise videos are from the Woodward Dream Cruise in Detroit. The Woodward Dream Cruise actually started as a small fundraiser to raise money for a soccer field in Ferndale, Michigan. In August 1995, a group of volunteers looked to relive and recreate the nostalgic heydays of the 50s and 60s, when youth, music and Motor City steel roamed Woodward Avenue, America’s first highway. That year, 250,000 people participated—nearly ten times the number expected. The rest, as they say, is history.
Today, the Woodward Dream Cruise is the world’s largest one-day automotive event, drawing 1.5 million people and 40,000 classic cars each year from around the globe—from as far away as New Zealand, Australia, Japan and the former Soviet Union. North American cruisers from California, Georgia, Canada and all points in between caravan to Metro Detroit to participate in what has become, for many, an annual rite of summer.
And since it’s Valentine’s Day…
The ancient Romans may also be responsible for the name of our modern day of love. Emperor Claudius II executed two men — both named Valentine — on Feb. 14 of different years in the 3rd century A.D. Their martyrdom was honored by the Catholic Church with the celebration of St. Valentine’s Day. The day first became associated with romantic love within the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. In 18th-century England, it evolved into an occasion in which lovers expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards known as “Valentines”.
Sooo…
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Off to a writer’s conference to see if I can beat some knowledge into my head on writing…
Life, the Universe and Everything is three days in Provo, UT with over 200 panels on various parts of the craft. Well worth it, and a good chance to catch up with friends and other writers.
Blogging and commenting will be light for the next few days. Your regularly scheduled brain drippings will return next Monday.
As the US Navy winds down to its last P-3 squadron, many of us look back on our time in the Orion and remember the good times, shipmates, and the many places we operated from… And we remember too, the shipmates we lost. May they rest in peace.
And a ‘slightly’ different perspective… This is the one the submariners didn’t like very much. And yes, the bombay doors are open…
She wasn’t real comfortable, or quiet, and beat the hell out of your spine, but she brought us home time after time. Thanks to Lockheed for one helluva airplane, and the crews that flew them for 57 years!!!
Tired of the Debbie Downer posts… So you get humor. 🙂
~ What if my dog only brings back my ball because he thinks I like throwing it?
~ If poison expires, is it more poisonous or is it no longer poisonous?
~ Which letter is silent in the word “Scent,” the S or the C?
~ Why is the letter W, in English, called double U? Shouldn’t it be called double V?
~ Maybe oxygen is slowly killing you and it just takes 75-100 years to fully work.
~ Every time you clean something, you just make something else dirty
~ The word “swims” upside-down is still “swims”.
~ Intentionally losing a game of rock, paper and scissors is just as hard as trying to win.
~ 100 years ago everyone owned a horse and only the rich had cars. Today everyone has cars and only the rich own horses.
~ Your future self is watching you right now through memories.
~ The doctors that told Stephen Hawking he had two years to live in 1953 are probably dead.
~ If you replace “W” with “T” in “What, Where and When”, you get the answer to each of them.
~ Many animals probably need glasses, but nobody knows it.
~ If you rip a hole in a net, there are actually fewer holes in it than there were before.
~ If 2/2/22 falls on a Tuesday, we’ll just call it “2’s Day”. (It does fall on a Tuesday)
~ 100 years ago a twenty dollar bill and a twenty dollar gold piece were interchangeable. Either one would buy a new suit, new shoes and a night on the town. The twenty dollar gold piece will still do that.
I’m sure y’all can add a few to these… LOL
The more I read, the more unbelievable it is that ANYONE would propose something like this!
It is not hyperbole to contend that GND is likely the most ridiculous and un-American plan that’s ever been presented by an elected official to voters. Not merely because it would necessitate a communist strongman to institute, but also because the societal costs are unfathomable.
The full article is HERE, from The Federalist.
And HERE is the saved page from Occasional Cortex’s web site (hint- The internet is forever, even when you take the page down…
Here are her (and the GND) first five priorities-
Read it and weep… And they want to do this in 10 years??? Technology doesn’t exist, the money to do this doesn’t exist, the infrastructure to do this doesn’t exist, and how do you get to Hawaii, etc.?
What is even scarier, is this is NOT a hoax proposal, most of the Dems presidential candidates are standing behind this!!! They seriously want to take the USA back to a pre-industrial age…
Ramirez says it MUCH better than I can, and doesn’t even cuss once!
Michael Ramirez – Saturday, February 9, 2019
I need some range Zen to get my BP back down… sigh…
Between the Dems in Virginia, by the way, what happened to ‘You must believe the women?’ And the idjits on the house oversight panel today, it’s been an amazing week in politics.
I absolutely could not believe the crap coming out of politicians mouths during that hearing today. The acting AG was called everything in the book except competent, and it was sheer political theater on the Dem’s part. If you ever wanted to see the swamp in action, today would have been the day to do it.
I really need to invent a bulletproof screen to put over the TV, I could make a fortune!!!
All the BS over blackface has me wondering where/how these people grew up. Did they not ever interact with blacks? We did, and we’d never have thought of doing anything like that, because we knew not only the kids, but the parents.
Is the next step that anyone who camouflaged their face in the military for operations or training going to harassed for using blackface? And how sad is it that it could even be considered?
And the whole green energy thing? Really? Replace cars, trucks, busses, trains, and airplanes in 10 years? DO THE MATH- Impossible. The simple fact is ‘green energy’ isn’t. The amount of petroleum required to PRODUCE those green energy systems outweighs the total output over those systems during their lifetimes. Why do you think all the wind farms change hands every 10 years? They lose the ‘subsidy’ and tax write off. Next company gets it for 10 more, lather, rinse, repeat… Oh, and the ‘power’ produced by wind isn’t stable. Neither is solar. And Nuke plants are right off the table, because of the econazis protests, even though they are the safest, cleanest, 50 year power plants.
I swear the dems are determined to turn the USA into a third world country… Sigh…
Sorry, the scheduler didn’t go this morning.
Why old sailors have no personal modesty…
When I first came in, everything was open bay barracks, in one case 160 man open bay. I never saw a ‘semi-private’ room until I made E-4, and that was a shared room with three other sailors. On deployments, it was usually an 8 or 9 man room, or a 40 man quonset hut.
The ‘best’ I ever had was a 2 man room, and that was as an E-6. Granted it’s better now, but it’s still not real privacy.