I watched the video. It shows a couple of unfamiliar diesel engines, Russian design and manufacture perhaps. Followed by a lot of flat cars. Each flat car has one tank loaded onto it. The video view is at pretty long range for a side of the train shot. The train goes thru a steel arch bridge. The bridge steel is all pink, a very unusual color for a steel bridge. No rivets showing.
I thought the whole video clip looked like a model train layout.
I came out of Walmart the other day and found someone had left a note in my car, offering to buy it. My car is a 2005, 17 years old, a couple of rust spots, and a front bumper trim piece held together with duct tape. Not what I would call a really good looking car.
Maybe that semiconductor shortage the newsies keep talking about is getting really bad and Detroit just isn't shipping many new cars 'cause the cars won't work without those semiconductors. Makes you wonder about car companies that allow themselves to become dependent upon something that they don't make them selves, or at least have a US supplier for.
Stopped by Wallymart for catfood. Last time I scored a 40 can carton of Friskies. This time all I got was 4 cans for Friskies and 3 plastic containers of something else. Cat eats two cans a day, so I only have a few days of food for Stupid Beast.
The phone rings. I get out of my chair and answer it. Sometimes I get dead air. Sometimes I get a sales pitch so broken up by flaky caller's phone as to not be understandable. Sometimes I get a foreign accent so thick that I cannot under stand it. Sometimes I get a weak voice that mumbles and I hang up.
You would think the buyers of this advertising would do a little quality control and shape up the worst offenders. They are paying for each call placed, not whether the call sells any product for them.
On the Russian side we have
On the American side we have:
Cute movie. The three actors are playing young boys, let’s guess 14 years old. Young enough to be very cute, old enough to be able to do stuff. They invent a spaceship, it moves by clean thoughts and righteous living, nothing as crude as rockets. They evade a suspicious cop, they find off world creatures who know about earth music and flicks. It’s fun to watch. The young actors mumble a bit so I didn’t catch all the dialogue, but it could have been worse. Naturally after adventures in outer space they all make it home safely. Ethan Hawke gets the nicest role of a good kid, who has a girl friend, and stays out of trouble. River Phoenix gets the role of super nerd scientist who creates the spacecraft. Jason Presson gets a decent role as the kid who knows stuff, like welding and finding the more or less ready to go hull of the space craft. Good watch for children in the vicinity of 10 years old. But the time they reach 18, forget it.
The Russians have been showing a lot of newsreel stuff of their army on maneuvers just outside of Ukraine. Assuming this footage is recent, and not left over from WWII, I see some strange stuff. A bunch of tanks with tiny cannon, like 1 inch (20mm) bore. The lesson from WWII is that any decent tank needs a three inch (75mm) gun. Modern main battle tanks have moved up to 4 inch (100 mm) and 5 inch guns (120mm). I wonder what the Russians are doing buzzing around in 1 inch gun tanks? And I saw a number of Russian tanks with really narrow treads. Another lesson from WWII is tanks want the widest tread possible to prevent them getting stuck in snow or mud.
Have the Russians forgotten their lessons from WWII? Or are the Russian newsreels showing obsolete or training versions of their equipment?
