Big Stick Physics
NPR: Teens aren’t challenged or prepared.
Morning Edition on NPR did a segment about a survey showing that teens don’t feel that school challenges or prepares them.
The NPR segment isn’t very interesting, but the discussion on the Teacher forum on Reddit is. Here is the post that introduces the NPR segment.
Sparky’s gut was making extraordinarily loud gurgling noises last night. Loud enough that it was audible, 10 feet away, with my CPAP on. When I’m asleep, Sparky has limited options to resolve an urgent intestinal issue. He wouldn’t dream of barking or howling to wake me up. If the situation were dire, he might make some decisions that, in the morning, I’d find appalling.
We stayed up and talked for a while, then he went outside to eat some grass. His situation has improved today, but we haven’t come to a consensus on the cause of the problem.
Sparky insists that since he has completed his course of antibiotics, his gut hasn’t adapted to the lack of peanut butter and gravy in his food.
I believe that Sparky should stop eating rotten garbage that he finds in the woods.
WSJ: Quest for electric planes.
WSJ: Quest for electric planes.
Why must we entertain and finance blatantly stupid ideas? Nothing is going to make Greta Thunberg happy, so let’s stop trying. No government money or mandates should encourage the dumb ideas.
Sparky tolerates a bath, but he doesn’t see the point.
Dark matter detector doesn’t find dark matter.
In a cavern, mile below the surface of South Dakota, is the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector. They haven’t detected any dark matter
There is something wrong with Disney that will be difficult to fix. The Acolyte was in trouble before it even aired. Snow White opens next year, and will fail.
RCS: Germany’s Disastrous Switch Away From Nuclear
It’s interesting to watch a country intentionally destroy itself. Germany presents itself as a technically-minded country with high-quality manufacturing, not a country that makes uninformed and impetuous decisions.
Just another picture of Sparky enjoying a car ride.
Sparky keeps hoping that I’ll come out of the store with a can of Pringles or a slim jim.
Sparky takes umbrage at being told he has to cut weight.
He accused me of fat-shaming him. I was, so that line of argument wasn’t persuasive.
He said that he was just big-boned. I explained that his bones didn’t get bigger in a month.
He has been packing on muscle from fighting that coyote and running down rabbits. I reminded him that he prefers baby snatching to bunny chasing.
I’m not making excuses when I say that it’s not his fault that he’s been packing it on. Well, except for eating babies and garbage he finds in the woods. That’s on him. Sparky has been on doxycycline all month after our vet visit.
Sparky is averse to taking pills, so measures were taken to hide the antibiotic. The capsule is dipped in peanut butter, then mixed in with his dog food. A bit of gravy is dripped on the capsule blob and the rest of his dog food. The success rate is about 95%. Last time he was on doxy, it was about 60%.
Sparky is a sap for love, so he wanted me to take a photo.
Look, I don’t spend all my time screwing around with Sparky, but I’m not going to post about cutting the grass, changing the oil or doing the laundry. Nobody cares about politics because our current president has dementia, and Trump will be elected or the deep state will cheat sufficiently to elect a diversity candidate. No new movies or TV shows seem worthy of comment and I’m deep into a science fiction book series that isn’t boring enough to quit or interesting enough to care too much.
Rather than open my mail or pay bills, Sparky and I went for a long walk that included a visit to the tree fort. Joe and I built it 20 years ago as a deer blind and it seems to be holding up well.
When I was a kid, we used to roam around in the woods and play at the old boy scout camp. We called it that, but who knows if that’s what it was. Now, at some point, neighborhood kids were sneaking up into my deer blind. They didn’t leave any trash laying around, so I don’t care. Plus, that must have been years ago.