Technology
Operation Phoenix Chapter 4
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011Chapter Four Gary took a seat in the reception area to draw up his charts for Menach. While 400-ounce bars were readily available he wanted smaller sizes, despite the premium he would pay for them. His best guess was that one ounce of gold would ultimately purchase goods currently valued at $16,000-$32,000. If one had [...]
Fahrenheit 81
Monday, June 20th, 2011Linda Brady Traynham Back in the Carter years a fairly affluent friend said, “I wouldn’t mind how big the electricity bills were if the house were even comfortable.” The friends here last week commented that they have the thermostat on 78 during the day and 81 at night, and I felt faint. Quite literally when [...]
Kinetic Energy
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011Linda Brady Traynham | I really wanted to call this one “The Trebuchet and Kinetic Energy,” but I wasn’t certain even real fans would have opened a thing like that, although that IS where we’re going to start. A tray-boo-SHAY is a superior form of catapult which does not involve whacking off long, thick golden [...]
TRAFFIC GRIDLOCK
Sunday, March 13th, 2011Tony DeMaio Once upon a time, many years ago I worked for California State government. (Strike that!! Change it to I was EMPLOYED by California State government.) I was employed in the research unit of DMV and had achieved a bit of a reputation as a problem solver with a mathematics background. During my tenure, [...]
How to Take Out a Refinery
Saturday, February 26th, 2011Author Linda Brady Traynham Where do we find information we can trust? Most of us got over “If you read it in Time it must be true” fifty years ago, and we know the MSM isn’t to be trusted, but more and more I am finding absolute balderdash on the ‘net, too. Consider this quote: [...]
You Can’t Do That!
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010Author Tex Norton In what turned-out to be the first of many different lives I’ve lived, I worked in the Advanced Engineering Department of the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan during the last half of the 1950s. I shared an apartment with the late Carl Cameron who ultimately became the father of the Muscle [...]
Who Is Watching Your Inbox?
Friday, July 30th, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham I have a superb SPAM filter built into the e-mail provider I use customarily and ferocious protective software on my share of our…seven, is it, now?… computers, so I do not ever get advertisements for Viagra or cures for prostate cancer, neither of which would be of any use to me. [...]
City Slickers on the Farm
Friday, October 2nd, 2009Farm and ranch work does not appear to be obvious to the meanest intelligence. I’m going to regale you with some tales of our experiences based upon hiring men with military backgrounds in need of stable, happy, long-term employment who try very hard. They’re darlings, but some of the mistakes they make would never be duplicated by a six-year-old reared in a bucolic environment.