Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer, we’d all have frozen to death.
—Mark Twain
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Welcome to Autumn
Or Spring if you’re in the Southern Hemisphere. The equinox occurred at 9:04 pm ET.
Another Milestone of the Year
Tonight was the first evening that I’ve seen lightning bugs this year.
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We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens. The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
—Johannes Kepler
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Ahh. You seek meaning. Then listen to the music, not the song.
—Kosh
Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!
Well, only one tiger. Glenn Reynolds has a link to a report that the Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency is leading the search for a tiger that was spotted by a deputy sheriff in Knox County. The professor adds, “Tiger shows up at my house, he’s a rug.”
One of the neighborhoods where I lived in California had a problem with mountain lions. They were usually dispatched by a deputy using a 12 ga shotgun firing slugs. Mountain lions were also a problem where I used to hike in the Cleveland National Forest. I never hit the trail there without a suitably powerful handgun. I prefer to remain at the top of the food chain.
The post at Instapundit got me thinking about what I might have in my locker suitable for converting a tiger into a rug. 12 ga or even 20 ga slugs would probably do the job, but I think I would reach for my .45/70 lever action rifle. It will stop a large bear, so it should be adequate for a tiger, and I’m more confident with my ability to take a fast precision shot with it than with a shotgun
A Rainy Day
There’s a tropical storm headed in our general direction here in Westminster. The weather folks say it will probably pass to the east of us, so we’re just outside of the likely path of the high winds. While we’re expecting some much needed rain, it isn’t supposed to be torrential.
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The trouble isn’t that there are too many fools, but that the lightning isn’t distributed right.
—Mark Twain
A Rainy Spring Day
There will come soft rains and the smell of ground …
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I’m sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just been too intelligent to come here.
—Arthur C. Clarke
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It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.
—John von Neumann
Senate Votes Down The Green Nude Eel
As noted in the Babylon Bee, Republicans colluded with Reality to defeat the Green Nude Eel. The vote was 0-57. All of the Republicans voted against it, as did three Democrats and one Independent. All the other Democrats and the other Independent voted “present.” That included the bill’s sponsor and all its cosponsors. It included all the senators who had endorsed the Green Nude Eel in connection with their candidacies for the party’s 2020 presidential nomination.
These remarks by Senator Lee (R-UT) are a fair summary of the Republican objections to the bill.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics was available for comment and noted, “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.”
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Ignorance is fatal.
—Ray Bradbury
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It is known that there is an infinite number of worlds, but that not every one is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so if every planet in the Universe has a population of zero then the entire population of the Universe must also be zero, and any people you may actually meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.
—Douglas Adams
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Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower.
—Albert Camus