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Does It Flush? A Primer by Bill (and Caitlin) Walsh

[image error] *I asked for this post after venturing from the house twice and finding water bubbling up from two intersections, then reading in the paper that people are flushing shredded t-shirts.  What the heck, even people?  So I thank the Walshs for providing their expertise- SAH* Does It Flush? A Primer by Bill (and Caitlin) Walsh-

In these perilous days of calamity and toilet paper shortage, many of us face a question that we, in our nation of prosperity and plenty, have never faced before:

What can...

Screaming In The Forest

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If a sane person screams in the forest of madness, but the circus goes on, did it really happen?  Asking for a friend.

Look, guys, I know Im not exactly sane, since sanity consists of fitting really well with the herd. I remember being called crazy in the seventies in Europe, when I said that hey, how come if Russia is so wonderful people risk death to get out of it? How come if Cuba is a paradise no Americans are floating in an inner tube to Cuba, instead of the other way around?

I am, as...

Vignettes and Book Promo

*Okay, late again, and I should explain: When Dan and I were very young, sometimes he got to work from home. It was really really rare, but his company had this portable computer that weighed maybe 50 lbs and was the size of a large suitcase.
When for some reason everyone else was on vacation (it was a very small company) and they didnt want to keep the lights on in the office, they would let him bring the computer home.
What we found is that after 3 day of both of us working from home, we...

Covid 19 and US Mortality by I. Ratel

Covid 19 and US Mortality by I. Ratel

Let me preface this by saying that Im not a statistician.  Im not an epidemiologist, nor am I a medical doctor, or even a schmuck with an undergrad in biology.  My degrees are in Industrial Management and Automotive Technology.  I am a long term organ transplant recipient who has lived with being immunocompromised long enough to take interest in these subjects because disease activity has more potential impact on me than on the average person.
Ive been...

The Shape Of The Future

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Making predictions is hard. Particularly about the future.  And if you just did a double take and said Uh, Sarah, thats what youre supposed to do for a living.

Well, not actually, no.  Were not prophets. We might be bards, in that we take some spark of the future and bring it forward.  Just a little bit, just enough to say The future could be like this.  But around it we build a plausible world, which, as we all know, could not possibly be true.

So what...

Rebel Millennials Without a Cause- by Marshall Hoyt

Rebel Millennials Without a Cause- by Marshall Hoyt

Hey yall, you probably havent seen a post from the youngest Hoyt in a while, Ive been working tooth and nail. But before I submit a project proposal and prelab tomorrow, I figure its time for one of my deep dives into culture Or at least a nice quick dip.

To those not totally plugged into comics culture, theres been a bit a crisis going on lately. Now, with all the COVID-19 panic, you might have not even thought about whats going on with...

Cures and Diseases

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Im sorry Ive been largely absent from my own blog. The truth is that Ive been largely absent from my own life.

It is a form of depression, but one I hadnt wrestled with before. Ive never before been THIS angry. Angry enough I had to shut my entire ability to work including non fiction and short pieces down in order not to live in a state of near-berserking.

And Ive never before felt so impotent that it feeds into the depression. Of course Ive never before watched the imposition of...

Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike and Book Promo And Announcement

*Sorry to be so ridiculously late. I woke up at 4:30 am, came downstairs and pounded out posts for PJM, because I was too angry to sleep.  Lets say Im hearing Green Acres.
At around 8 am I couldnt keep my eyes open and I slept till 11: 30 am. Sorry. -SAH* Book Promo

*Note these are books sent to us by readers/frequenters of this blog.  Our bringing them to your attention does not imply that weve read them and/or endorse them, unless we specifically say so.  As with all such purchases, we...

A Sale For While You’re Housebound

Everything 99c.  Okay not exactly EVERYTHING.  I obviously cant do that with the Baen books, and some of my books werent on KUL till I went to do the sale. (I didnt remember Id taken them off for a bundle.)

So.

If youre like me, youre going just a little bit crazy.  Okay, remember my baseline is writer and no one ever accused us of being normal.
But all the same, if youre the type of introvert who needs to go out and have casual contact with people so you dont start feeling like youre the...

Witch’s Daughter, Free Novel in Installments

*There is some overlap at the beginning as Id put in a bit of the next chapter.  Sorry its short. More next week. Ill also do a tab for it, so you can catch up.- SAH*

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Witchs Daughter Second installment  (first is here.) The Kindness of Strangers

 

Miss Albinia Blackley didnt scream.  Or at least she tried, but as she turned over, her hair falling out and her cap being lost in the street below, it seemed to her that the air robbed both her ability to breathe and her ability to make a...