Steve MC

"It seemed to me that self was utterly absent: I and the chimpanzees, the earth and trees and air, seemed to merge, to become one with the spirit power of life itself."
- Jane Goodall

Now she's merged with that spirit again, and her friends have welcomed her home.

Jane Goodall was one of the most saintly people. Calm, curious, wise, a great sense of humor, and a tremendous heart. Always advocating for those without voices, always guiding us towards a better way to be.

"I have been younger in October
than in all the months of spring."
W. S. Merwin

Andor is in no mood for this bullshit

I was going to sign up for Disney to watch the second season of Andor, but heck if I'm going to give money to a corporation in league with an authoritarian regime and then sit back on my ass and watch a story about people actually rebelling against one.
#Disney #Kimmel #WhatWouldAndorDo

YouTube video by Monover Susstereo The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978)

Eric Idle couldn't have said it better
youtu.be/sEwySvgfwLE?...

Yes! So great to never have to see these goons

Thanks for the update! Glad to see you got a nice view. Studies show that nature scenes and music can help with healing, so soak up some trees and trails and tunes and plenty of snoozes, too.

I love to see favorite authors crossing out whole passages and jotting in new ones. Here's the last chapter of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested Adam Savage Interviews 'The Martian' Author Andy Weir - The Talking Room

Just saw this a few days ago. The video should start when he's telling a story about Armstrong. youtu.be/5SemyzKgaUU?...

Thanks for the tip!

Just a few weeks ago I watched Harmen Hoek's hike of the John Muir trail and thought to tell you about it, in case you could use a tour of your old stomping grounds. Glad you're out there experiencing it first hand!

Or maybe, because they're physicists, they don't know what their opinion is until it is observed.

“Whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves, and wiser people are full of doubts”
George Bernard Shaw, born on this day in 1856

I hadn't read a Dave Barry piece this century, and it turns out it's exactly what I needed. Along with a loaner dog, of course!

It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a big bag of silicon monoxide, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses. Hit it.

Wait, what? I did not know this! Why didn't they put Krypto on the poster?

He did quote scripture once, when asked what his favorite Bible passage was. He said, "An eye for an eye."

YouTube video by Alyn Wallace Photographing ALMA Observatory at 5000m Altitude!

Enjoy your journey! When astrophotographer Alyn Wallace went there, I was surprised at how he had to be on oxygen even on the drive up. Here's his experience for those who can't make the trip.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhON...

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Do you think Wallace would mind if I used that quote as a blurb for my book?

A young crocus growing up through a hole in an old oak leaf.

Come to witness spring's new hope,
born of leaves decaying.
- The Moody Blues

2000 BC: "Uh, Dad, remember how I said I sacrificed the lamb to Ra? I um... I actually let him go. My bad."

A screenshot from Dec 9, 2019 of Aaron Rupar reporting about "Trump muses about serving more than two terms," and Joyce Alene writing, "This is hugely dangerous. It's not a joke. He's said it too many times for that."

You called it in 2019

We call ourselves the land of the free, but Canada gave women the right to vote two years before we did, and freed their slaves over thirty years before we did, without a single life lost in battle.

A Conversation With Janny Wurts

Janny Wurts is great. I actually discovered her by chance through this interview, and in it she talks about how that book came about.
www.writerswrite.com/journal/jann...

When Washington took command of the militia at Boston and was told how little gunpowder they had, he couldn't speak for half an hour. France then sent us 90% of the gunpowder we used to win the war. Not to mention muskets, training, and the fleet and troops that surrounded Cornwallis at Yorktown.

Read it three months ago and was thinking about it just this morning.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
- PG Wodehouse

Yeah, I couldn't fit that in, but when WWI began, he volunteered for the German army even though he was over 40. He became a second lieutenant in artillery, wrote three important papers on relativity and quantum theory, and died from illness two months after returning home.

I was thinking about this just yesterday - how Karl Schwarzschild, scratching out symbols on paper, discovered the existence of black holes. Even Einstein didn't believe it at first. But those magical symbols revealed not only what we couldn't see, but what created all galaxies.