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

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Angela Merkel's Lament

"All I can say is that we Europeans must really take our destiny in our own hands. The times in which we can fully count on others are...

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Words of the Weasel Part 51

Someone invented a new and opaque term for a tax on imports to the country. This sort of tax has been called a tariff since at least the Am...

Fake News takes over the MSM

For the last couple of weeks, stories featuring the name of someone in the Trump administration, the proper noun "Russians" and li...

Latest Intel CPU chip is $1999

That's just for the chip, mother board and casework extra. Read all about on Slashdot. Damn, that is pricey. I remember when the M...

Sunday, May 28, 2017

And yet more unsolicited advice for Detroit.

How come so many cars on the road are painted gray? Car salesmen will tell you it is "silver metallic" but in actual fact, it...

Learning while in a Vegetative State.

Dandelions manage it. They are vegetables, or a least plants. Left to their own devices, dandelions will grown nearly 12 inches tall, flow...

Words of the Weasel Part 50

Impact, used as a verb. Bad English example "The car impacted the guard rail." Impact is not a verb, it is a noun, using it as a ...

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