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

Thursday, November 28, 2019

Shopping around for Cosequin for my cat

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In was $30 for a white plastic bottle of 60 doses from a big pet store down in Concord. It is $18 for an envelope of 84 doses of a product...

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Talking Politics at Thanksgiving dinner

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NHPR has been running a piece on why you should not talk politics. Polarization is mentioned. And, the Number 1 political subject, impeach...

Saturday, November 23, 2019

Electoral College.

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What it is and why we care. Back when the Founders were setting up our constitution they made a number of decisions to even things ...

$2295.50 for a Z-scale briefcase layout

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The Lilliput catalog come in amidst the usual shower of catalogs for Christmas. Full of neat toys with scary prices. The Z-scale (as small...

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Regulating Facebook

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There is talk about doing something about Facebook. They complain that Facebook is canceling posts, and closing accounts of posters they ob...

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Lotta talk about thinking and feelz, little about doing anything of substance

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I had the house impeachment hearings on all day. A lot of yak. Talk about influencing people's (mostly Trump's) thinking. Emails ...

Saturday, November 16, 2019

Still Not Impressed

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I caught the impeachment hearings on the radio while driving up to Berlin, and back from Berlin this Friday. About an hour each way, so I ...

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