News from the Northwoods

This blog posts about aviation, automobiles, electronics, programming, politics and such other subjects as catch my interest. The blog is based in northern New Hampshire, USA

Friday, April 29, 2016

Retraining for workers whose jobs have fled overseas

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NHPR was pushing retraining for the jobless this morning. But if there are no jobs, all the training or retraining in the world won't he...

Thursday, April 28, 2016

I watched The Donald's foreign policy speech yesterday

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It was fairly sanitary, no gratuitous slams on Mexicans, women, Chinese imports and other things that have made the headlines over this camp...

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Democratic Turnout Down 4 million

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So says the Drudge Report. Does this show a significant party switch in the electorate? Or does it show four million democrats who wanted ...

Progress in DVD burners

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After ten years of service, the DVD burner in Trusty Desktop stopped playing. Something got jammed and the tray would no longer open. Even...

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

To Alpha Centauri in just 20 years?

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Sounds good. Ultra small spacecraft, one big silicon chip containing camera, radioactive thermal electric generator, comm and nav systems, ...

Monday, April 25, 2016

Weak Tea from The Economist

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Cover story this week "Can She Fix it?" Cartoon on cover shows Hillary, dressed in mechanic's coveralls, holding a monkey wre...

Sunday, April 24, 2016

North County Do, The Lincoln Reagan dinner

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We do this once a year up here in Grafton county. It's a big deal, everyone who is anyone in the state comes. This year we had all fou...

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