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The Moron’s Dozen

May 8, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

By Dirty Matt Leonardo Traded for a small donation with Mr. Leonardo in Petaluma CA in 2018, a copy of an original 4 x 6 inches in ball point pen

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: art, California, Dirty Matt Leonardo, Moron, Petaluma, Roses

The Foundation Book: Bay Hill Road Bodega Bay

May 8, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

By Dirty Matt Leonardo Traded for a small donation with Mr. Leonardo in Petaluma CA in 2018, original 4 x 10 inches in ball point pen.

Posted in: Content, Faits Divers, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: art, Bodega Bay, California, Dirty Matt Leonardo, Petaluma, The Foundation Book

The Demon Test by Dirty Matt Leonardo

May 8, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Traded for a small donation with Mr. Leonardo in Petaluma CA in 2018, original 4 x 6 inches in ball point pen.

Posted in: Content, Faits Divers, Thinking about Tagged: art, California, Dirty Matt Leonardo, Petaluma, The Demon Test

Qian Xuesen

April 29, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

(From Wikipedia) Qian Xuesen, (11 December 1911 – 31 October 2009), was a prominent Chinese aerodynamicist, cyberneticist and politician who contributed to rocket science and established engineering cybernetics. Recruited from MIT, he joined Theodore von Karman’s group at Caltech.[1] Later, he returned to China and made important contributions to China’s missile and space program. During … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, Faits Divers, IT Failures, Nuclear Industry, Obituaries, Politics, Racism, Science, Thinking about Tagged: aerodynamicist, atomic bomb, Caltech, Chinese, Communist, cyberneticist, fission-to-fusion, hydrogen bomb, Korean War, Nuclear Weapons, politician, Red Scare

How Murdoch’s Empire Influences the World

April 14, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

From the April 4, 2019 New York Times: Part 1: Imperial Reach Part 2: Internal Divisions Part 3: The New Fox Weapon

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Finanace, Politics, Racism, Thinking about Tagged: 20th Century Fox, Boston Herald, Donald Trump, Fairness Doctrine, Fox News, James Murdock, John Major, Lachlan Murdock, Margaret Thatcher, New York Post, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdock, Sky Television, The Sun, Theresa May

Paint By Numbers – Dan Robbins

April 6, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Love them or hate them, Paint By Numbers were a big hit in the 1950’s  – this Washington Post obituary highlights the fad and man who created it, Don Robbins. One woman recalled the enjoyment the kits brought to her mother and other relatives as they struggled with illness. “Today, as I cruise the aisles of … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, Obituaries, Sea Stories, Thinking about, This Day in History Tagged: 1950's, Dan Robbins, fad, Obituary, Paint By Numbers

Meteor blast over Bering Sea

March 18, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

From the Guardian 03/18/2019 – Fireball over Kamchatka peninsula in December went largely unnoticed at the time A meteor explosion over the Bering Sea late last year unleashed 10 times as much energy as the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, scientists have revealed. The fireball tore across the sky off Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula on 18 … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, Science, Sea Stories, Thinking about, This Day in History Tagged: 18 December 2018, Bering Sea, Chelyabinsk meteor, explosion, Kamchatka peninsula, meteor

AutoSIG – CompuServe Forum

March 6, 2019 by sergneri 1 Comment

Back in the early 1990’s there was an internet provider called CompuServe. At Autodesk, we had a forum on CompuServe and provided this disk to our interested users and partners so they could participate in the forum: I was a sysop for the Autodesk forum at that time, but it was so long ago I … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, IT Failures, Thinking about Tagged: Autodesk, CIS Forums, Compuserve, GO ACAD, GO ADESK, GO AUTODESK, sysop

The Mao Red Book Clock

February 12, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Sometime in the early 2000’s, I took a trip to Paris from Neuchatel Switzerland, where we lived. Getting to Paris was easy as the TGV ran between Zurich or Bern through Neuchatel to Paris. You could literally have breakfast in Neuchatel and four hours later, have lunch in Paris. The hotel I stayed at was … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: La Chaux-de-Fonds, Mao, Musée international d’Horlogerie, Neuchatel, Red Book, Switzerland

U.S. sues Lockheed Martin over alleged kickback scheme at nuclear cleanup site

February 10, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

U.S. sues Lockheed Martin over alleged kickback scheme at nuclear cleanup site – From the Washington Post, 02/10/19. Oh, what fun we have at Hanford!

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Finanace, IT Failures, Nuclear Industry, Politics Tagged: AECOM, Bechtel National, decontamination, Energy Department, Hanford, Lockheed, Lockheed Martin, malfeasance, Mission Support Alliance, Nuclear, plutonium
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