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NASA is now offering a range of free ringtones for your smartphone. Don't know if you want to have the sound of a rocket blastoff whenever somebody calls, but it's available.
Interesting to me, as my wife worked on the STS-26 mission.
I don't think I'll use the liftoff as a ringtone, but they have a lot of other audio in there.
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Difference between being a Cubs fan and a socialist? A Cubs fan can point to a success every 108 years
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Whizzing and pasting and pooting through the day...
So, is it a good idea to pee on your lawn? However gratifying it may be, the high salt content makes it a bad idea - although your pee does have a lot of nitrogen and some potassium and phosphorous - which is all good for plants. Therefore, what you need to do instead is pee into a watering can and dilute with water on a 2:1 ratio.
Diluted urine, as it happens, reduces the salt content, and plants like it.
"There is certainly no need for a suburban family to ever buy any fertilizer," he says. "Diluted urine grows wonderful vegetables."
Just wash before consuming.
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Temperatures in the Portland area are expected to get above 100 degrees F. in the next few days, with one model suggesting it may hit 113 by Thursday. Everybody panic!
Not really - it'll be dry heat. There hasn't been rain here in a month and a half, so humidity won't be an issue. Not like August 8, 1981, when I unloaded 25 tons of hay by hand in 107 degree temps. Now, that was fun!
And we had no air conditioning out there. Good times.
It seems that there's also been an issue with some of the hotels in Oregon as they gear up for the eclipse on August 21:
Some have been cancelling reservations without notice, and others have raised room rentals to as much as $1000. Apparently, anticipating as many as a million people coming to the state to witness the eclipse, a dozen or more hotels located along the totality path have got into some serious price-gouging, and people who made room reservations months ago are being advised to check back to make sure that they still have a room - and at the original price.
I saw the last total eclipse when it came barreling up the Columbia River Gorge, and it was a knockout. Today, with all the media and internet publicity, I'm not going. At our place, it'll be 99.4% total, so it's better to step out into the yard than to deal with traffic.
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When a B.C. couple noticed a grass fire as they cruised their jetboat on the Thompson River, they also saw that it was endangering a nearby home. So they did two things: she called the fire department, and he spun the boat around, using water from the jet to hose down the area.
Other boaters shot video of the action. The boat has a 1000 horsepower engine, and he just cranked it up to full bore and made several passes to hose down the area. When firefighters arrived, they were able to quickly extinguish the rest of the fire.
But that's Canada, and the boaters were hailed as heroes. Here in the USA, they'd doubtless be charged with violating some environmental rule.
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For some reason, they've renovated their Hotel of Doom, which is among the tallest buildings in the world but has never been occupied.
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This afternoon the Siletz River Ecosystem filed a motion to intervene in the lawsuit Rex Capri and Wakefield Farms, LLC v. Dana W. Jenkins and Lincoln County, and Lincoln County Community Rights. This is the third ecosystem in the United States to take legal action to protect its rights, secured in this case by Measure 21-177, which was adopted by Lincoln County voters in the May 2017 election.
The two plaintiffs – Rex Capri of Newport and Wakefield Farms of Eddyville – claim that their “right” to spray toxic pesticides aerially is greater than the right of the people of Lincoln County to protect public health, clean water, and the rights of ecosystems and natural communities not to be poisoned from the air.
Okay. It looks like some old lady filed:
I speak for the rights of waters and forests and wildlife to challenge human violations of natural law.
Well, she seems to think she's pretty important, since she's "speaking" for all that stuff. So by extension, I reckon that agriculture's a violation of natural law. Maybe she lives on air. And one hopes that her home doesn't have wood materials, as that would violate natural law. Electricity? Another violation of natural law.
If she wants to go that route, she needs to live it.
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In Queensland, Australia, which is in a tropical location, the heightened costs associated with government's push toward "green energy" has resulted in an increase of 55% of people having their power disconnected during the past three months due to inability to pay.
It's always the little people who suffer.
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20 year-old South Carolina college student Jordan Dinsmore finished her shift at Buffalo Wild Wings and arrived back at her apartment around 1 a.m. When she got out of her car, she was accosted by three guys who shoved her to the ground, taking her purse and phone and threatening to shoot her if she didn't stop screaming. They ordered her back into the car and prepared to drive her away.
Difficulty: the stick-shift buffaloed the boys. One of them gave up and left on foot. The other two finally ordered her to drive. She did, but left her seat belt unfastened, and upon coming to an intersection she threw it into neutral, opened her door, and jumped out. Her car kept on rolling, ending up in shrubbery. A passing car stopped for her, and the driver called 911.
The two goons fled on foot.
Another good reason to drive a manual transmission.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Officials with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) claim the Multnomah County Jail let a "serial immigration violator" walk out last year despite a detainer, and did so without notifying ICE.
That same man is now accused of violently assaulting two women earlier this week in Portland.
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