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How a Maine woodsman's invention paved the way for snowmobiles and tanks Penobscot County native Alvin Lombard invented the machine that was the precursor snowmobile, the tank and many other vehicles.

The Lombard steam log hauler, first patented in 1901, was the work of Alvin Orlando Lombard. www.bangordailynews.com/2025/12/15/b...

The trouble with that kind of advance is that there is no end to it. Development becomes compulsive. It is never possible to call a halt. Once you take the first step you have committed yourself to take the last, some day, even if the last step goes straight off the edge of a precipice. It is fairly easy for man to assert his mastery over his earthly environment, but once he has asserted that mastery he has to go on exercising it no matter where the exercise takes him. The age of applied technology has one terrible aspecteach new technique has to be exploited to its absolute limit, until man becomes the victim of his own skills. The conquest of nature cannot end in a negotiated peace. Invent a simple device like the automobile, to get you from here to there more quickly than you could go without it; before long you are in bondage to it, so that you build your cities and shape your countryside and reorder your entire life in the light of what will be good for the machine instead of what…

This passage highlights automobiles but could very well be AI today, or any carelessly applied technology.

His memoir Waiting for the Morning Train is also very good.

Hash them to ashes, then hash the ashes

Hey, you spammed me from scraped github info and that is really shitty.

Wardens offering $6K reward for info on illegal release of bass in Maine lake Largemouth bass can outcompete naturally-occurring populations of brook trout, lake trout and landlocked salmon in West Musquash lake.

Largemouth bass can outcompete naturally-occurring populations of brook trout, lake trout and landlocked salmon in West Musquash lake.

I have been following since before the redsarmy five dollar a month club. I appreciate you posting here at all. Keep up the good work.

It stuck with me

Also David Cross and the Royal Trux

Canada also uses inches and pounds for human measurements and Fahrenheit for cooking. And pounds for deli meats.

Note that countries that have allegedly switched to the metric system often use a mishmash of metric and other systems already. Canada uses km/h while UK uses MPH for example.

I live on the border and they are rare here in Maine and almost universal in New Brunswick.

My roommate in college put this on his cd player and then left for the day so I heard it on repeat 90 times because I didn’t dare touch his stuff. I liked it at first. By the end of the day I loved it.

Blue October sky