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Blog entries by southwestforests
I don't know if you care but I'm going to share anyway. :D
Got a 'heads up' email just now about this brand new article from Change dot org of all places.
A Newly Digitized Menu Collection Shows Off America’s Lost Railroad Cuisine
Once, Americans rode the rails for charbroiled steak, golden...
November 27, 2019
A method with roots in AI uncovers how humans make choices in groups and social media
by University of Washington...
Yep, tornado watch.
And as an added bonus at no extra charge,
Oh, Yay,
This manner of thing has potential to significantly help disabled people & the article has a feeling which makes it seem to me that the authors are ultimately mocking its very existence.
https://techxplore.com/news/2019-11-grocery-carrying-robots.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7717891/Rod-Stewarts-new-track-Rockstar-saves-model-railway-10-000-donation.html
And we now present another example of alcohol’s great history of contributions to the uplifting of humanity;
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-49397838
A little bit back I got 2 phone calls from ex after not having communicated with her for a couple years.
Not hearing from her was fine by me.
there was one call then couple days later another call.
On the surface at the time the calls seemed mostly innocent.
First call she said she looked my...
The Worlds Most Famous Cat.- Dirt the Cat at the Nevada Northern Locomotive Shops
1,977 views
Nov 17, 2019
Toy Man Television
See also: still here; https://www.railpictures.net/photo/649499/
Inflation sucks.
Got curious what this 35 year old book would cost today.
Calculator is on web page of US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl
25,566 views|Nov 2, 2019,9:50 am
Climate Darwinism Makes Disabled People Expendable
Imani Barbarin Contributor
Diversity & Inclusion
I understand disabled life, advocating for independence and inclusion...
Gotta love getting an 8lb, 3.6kg, railroad book in the mail. :)
Had been wanting a copy for a good number of years; at beginning of month found one on Amazon being sold by Friends of San Francisco Public Library for about $32 including shipping.
Okay, yeah, my 11 dollars a month below the...
My friend Nan, Nancy, called a couple days ago asking could I take her to a new PT appointment Monday morning.
She's a fun and interesting person, 70-something widow with MS who was involved with the aerospace industry.
Her late husband was with the FAA and their son and daughter are both in...
Well, guess I won't be going to the space station.
NASA grant to study space station fungus
by Jeff Zehnder
Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 03, 2019
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NASA_grant_to_study_space_station_fungus_999.html
And speaking of interrupted hobbies,
Finally this evening felt like doing some on a model railroad building from my part of our club's layout; had wanted to do this last week, or even the week before, but my health got in the way.
Had really wanted to do this last week so as to return building...
The 1980s Flash Gordon movie with its famous soundtrack by Queen came up tonight on the Starship Modeler forum via news about what I guess counts as a documentary about it in general and the actor Sam Jones in particular.
It is one of very, very, few movies I have gone to see.
In the 1980s we...
Cool!
Just found out one of the canal boaters I follow on YouTube is autistic like me!
And was likewise diagnosed as an adult after a difficult event following a difficult life to that point.
And I so absolutely totally get what he is saying about stress.
Here are the videos;
You know that thing about the 1938 War of the Worlds radio show causing widespread panic?
There was no such panic.
That expression "Fake News" which is currently tossed around, while that is of debatable reality the widespread panic reported about the radio show literally and documentably...
Looking with my feline fellows at last night's snow, first of this winter.
Also snowed night before last in town 80 miles north-northeast of here where railroad webcam is at Amtrak station.
With this neurological and endocrine stuff going on I've lost the happy kid with snow attitude, now it...
Just got back from a 2 bag trip to there, I'll let the sign speak for itself.
After I say, "Curiouser and curioser, said Alice."
Two articles which are perhaps of interest?
https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-long-knotty-world-spanning-story-of-string/
and
https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-symbolic-seashell/
Be it either in-person or online.
Amtrak has 2 trains a day stop at La Plata, Missouri, about 80 miles from my home. There is a eastbound SWC in morning & westbound in evening. Amtrak's Southwest Chief goes between Chicago and Los Angeles by way of Kansas City, Missouri, Albuquerque, New...