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

Monday, November 15, 2021

DISH. Slow and a little flaky

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I got tired of Spectrum's endless price hiking and switched to DISH. DISH works, most of the time. The data rate is plenty fast enoug...

Sunday, November 14, 2021

Is a Lush Beard a Signal of Having More Testosterone?

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Title of a piece on the Web. Actually since many (most?) guys shave their faces every morning, it is hard to believe that a beard is attra...

2 1/4 inches of snow in the Notch

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First real snow of this winter. It ain't enough to open Cannon, but it helps.

Saturday, November 13, 2021

Dark Matter could be Macho's rather than WIMPs

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Astronomers discovered a free planet, some 100 light years away. It's a sizeable beast, several times the size of Jupiter and way out i...

Friday, November 12, 2021

Wind blew hard all night. Leaves are gone

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As late as yesterday we still had fine crop of colorful leaves on the trees. The wind blew hard all last night, and this morning the leav...

Thursday, November 11, 2021

Veteran's Day

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The TV (at least Fox News) is making a bigger deal out of Veteran's day than they used to. I'm a veteran, so this is just fine by ...

Kyle Rittenouse Trial on TV

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What I see on TV is bad, bad, bad. Kyle Rittenhouse, a teenager, 17 years back than, 18 now was at the Kinosha riot. Wound up shooting th...

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