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

Sunday, July 31, 2022

Things Democrats have brought us.

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$5 a gallon gasoline. It has dropped off a bit from $5 but not enough to matter. Attempts to renew the “assault weapo...

Saturday, July 30, 2022

More Old Line Science Fiction authors. Poul Anderson.

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He wrote a lot of stuff. I have 17 Poul Anderson books on my bookshelf and I dare say there are more such books out there. Andersen wrote ...

Friday, July 29, 2022

Are we in a recession?

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The usual description of a recession is two quarters (half a year) of declining GNP. We got that today. The Biden Administration is say...

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

400 Parts per Million of CO2 is nothing.

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The earth takes in a flood of solar energy on dayside. To keep the world’s temperature fairly steady the world has to radiate as much hea...

Monday, July 25, 2022

His Dark Materials

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Unsatisfying. Audio is terrible; I could not understand most of the dialog. Casting is mediocre, Lyra and Will Parry are too tall, and ...

Sunday, July 24, 2022

TV is going crazy about a heat wave.

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I am getting old but I can remember summers going back maybe 75 years. At home (New England) summer weather was mostly warm and pleasan...

Friday, July 22, 2022

Really old science fiction writer. Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Although Edgar ice Burroughs is best known as the creator of Tarzan, he started his writing career with “A Princess of Mars” way back befo...

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