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

Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Alternate History. What if Japan had NOT attacked Pearl Harbor in WWII?

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Japan had a number of aggressive plans for their neck of the woods. The US did not approve, and eventually embargoed shipment of oil and sc...

Saturday, July 28, 2018

Plastic straws?

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Used to be, straws were paper. They worked. They issued straws at the soda fountain with milkshakes, frappes, and root beer floats. Speci...

Thursday, July 26, 2018

Facebook stock tanks today

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Has the last few months of bad news, leaks of personal data, censoring of conservative posters, Russian trolls, fake news, and 'bots pos...

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Seattle is paying $5.2 million a piece for trolley cars.

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Damn. That's a ridiculous amount of money for a trolley car. You used to be able to buy a brand new diesel bus for $50K. You would thi...

NPR played the Cohen tape over the air this morning

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I could not understand most of what was said on the tape. Nor could I recognize Trump's fairly distinctive voice. I'm not saying i...

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cute but dumb

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She IS cute. Too bad she isn't blonde. If she were, we could call her a dumb blonde. Which has more bite to it than dumb brunette. ...

Monday, July 23, 2018

Bears over the years

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We have bears up here in the North Country. Here are a few bears photographed from my deck. I am OK with bears, I keep my dis...

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