Thursday, July 30, 2020
K.Flay - Blood In The Cut - 10/4/19
K.Flay - Blood In The Cut - 10/4/19K.Flay at ACL Fest weekend 1 performing Blood In The Cut! This was the first time seeing her set even though we met 4 years ago Ha! All videos are up, https://www.youtube.com/c/JasonJude1
Posted by Jasonjayeah Productions on Saturday, November 2, 2019
The Best Neon Signs in Phoenix
Cool stuff!:
“Neon really encapsulates a certain era when cars were heavily on the rise, people were traveling faster than ever before, further than they've traveled ever before, and didn't know what was around them,” he says. “So you had to have a sign that was bigger, bolder, brighter than your neighbors to attract the attention.”
Neon’s made a bit of a comeback in recent years. Since 2014, a number of Valley businesses have re-embraced the art form and use neon signage, including a slew of spots in Gilbert's Historic Heritage District. Over at Uptown Plaza at Camelback Road and Central Avenue, most of the restaurants and shops feature neon.
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Arson In The Valley of the Sun
A loose Democratic nut:
Police arrested an unhinged ex-Democratic state committeeman today on suspicion of the July 24 arson fire that severely damaged the Democratic Party headquarters building in Phoenix.
Matthew Egler, who's 29, is being accused of arson of an occupied structure following an investigation. A video released by police shows a man starting the fire at the building at Central Avenue and Thomas Road, which is shared by the Maricopa County and state Democratic Party. A small car Egler used in the crime was also recorded; it was registered to a family member, making it easy to find him.
...Social media history shows Egler has made several delusional comments while representing the "council," including in April that he got Ivanka Trump pregnant.
Egler referred to his "love" for Ivanka in a video shared on social media, and in the same video confesses that he "took out a building." He added that he and Trump's daughter were "married in secret by the governor of New York" and claimed he wasn't getting "responses from the senate" about his claims and was thrown out of the Supreme Court building on an apparent visit to Washington D.C.
Fire In The Valley Of The Sun
Train derailment:
Union Pacific spokesman Tim McMahan, who said the train was en route to Phoenix from Tucson, explained that two of the three tanker cars on the ground under the bridge contained cyclohexanone. The third contained a rubber material. "None are reported leaking, and no tank cars were involved in the fire," he said. According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, cyclohexanone is a colorless oily liquid that is both flammable and an irritant. It's mostly used for the production of nylon.
The cars that burned for hours were carrying lumber, some of which fell into the lake.
The Ferocious Thunderstorms of Northern Argentina
Coming soon enough to a warming U.S.:
Nesbitt, who is a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, had dedicated much of the last 15 years to studying the freakish storms of this sleepy agricultural region. He first became fascinated by them in the early 2000s, when a NASA satellite tentatively identified them as the largest and most violent on Earth. “We knew about the Great Plains, the Sahel,” Nesbitt said. But this appeared to be another world. Radar images suggested cloud structures dwarfing those of Tornado Alley or Ganges Plain, many of them materializing in as little as 30 minutes. (Thunderstorms typically develop over the course of several hours.) And yet in the years since, little reliable data had emerged. Many in the meteorological community felt the storms were simply too remote and too dangerous for controlled study. “The only thing the science community knew for certain,” Nesbitt said, “was that these things were monsters.”
Rachel Bitecofer's Analysis
Less than a hundred days out. Feels like forever:
Democratic candidates/consultants/strategists would have fractured into chaos over a Sanders nomination. It would have been an unmitigated disaster the GOP was already positioning themselves to capitalize on. And although the many progressives reading this see Biden’s nomination as an unmitigated disaster, citing his bland moderation ... I can assure you, Biden fills the role of “generic Democrat” perfectly fine, and that is all that is really required from Democrats to win this election. Because as Sanders supporters are just now coming to learn, while 2016 was about revolution, 2020 is about one thing and one thing only: making the scary, bad man go away.
Democratic candidates/consultants/strategists would have fractured into chaos over a Sanders nomination. It would have been an unmitigated disaster the GOP was already positioning themselves to capitalize on. And although the many progressives reading this see Biden’s nomination as an unmitigated disaster, citing his bland moderation ... I can assure you, Biden fills the role of “generic Democrat” perfectly fine, and that is all that is really required from Democrats to win this election. Because as Sanders supporters are just now coming to learn, while 2016 was about revolution, 2020 is about one thing and one thing only: making the scary, bad man go away.
Bats Want To Get Some Things Off Their Chests
Argumentative bunch:
They were able to classify 60 percent of the calls into four categories. One of the call types indicates the bats are arguing about food. Another indicates a dispute about their positions within the sleeping cluster. A third call is reserved for males making unwanted mating advances and the fourth happens when a bat argues with another bat sitting too close. In fact, the bats make slightly different versions of the calls when speaking to different individuals within the group, similar to a human using a different tone of voice when talking to different people.
Finally saw Comet Neowise
About a week ago, sitting with my binoculars in a well-lit parking lot in the middle of a well-lit city, I was finally able to see Comet Neowise.
According to the LA Times, "Comet NEOWISE is made of equal parts dust and water. NASA scientists estimate the liquid part as the equivalent of '13 million Olympic swimming pools of water.'” All that water, and not a drop to drink!
According to the LA Times, "Comet NEOWISE is made of equal parts dust and water. NASA scientists estimate the liquid part as the equivalent of '13 million Olympic swimming pools of water.'” All that water, and not a drop to drink!
Aplomb
About a week ago during our nighttime walk, Jasper ran right up to what I first thought was a cat, but in fact was a skunk. The two animals stood about two feet apart and blinked at each other. I slowly pulled Jasper away.
Gotta love the skunks. They are fearless, very hard to rattle, and keep their aplomb.
Gotta love the skunks. They are fearless, very hard to rattle, and keep their aplomb.
More Icebergs From Hell
George Will:
Page reports that Will said that will be voting for Biden and that it is the first time he has voted for a Democrat since he started voting Republican when Barry Goldwater ran for president in 1964.
Preemies Diminished
Inquiring minds want to know why:
This spring, as countries around the world told people to stay home to slow the spread of the coronavirus, doctors in neonatal intensive care units were noticing something strange: Premature births were falling, in some cases drastically.
It started with doctors in Ireland and Denmark. Each team, unaware of the other’s work, crunched the numbers from its own region or country and found that during the lockdowns, premature births — especially the earliest, most dangerous cases — had plummeted. When they shared their findings, they heard similar anecdotal reports from other countries.
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