Dean W. Armstrong

Proud of her continued advocacy of human rights, democracy, and all things good in Southern Nevada. (HS friend)

There's a little over 10,000 lbs of lead bars available for commercial reuse at the old Project NERVA rocket site at the old Nevada Test Site is anyone wants it. But you gotta get it off site by May 1st of 2027.

bsky.app/profile/ewin...

Loop transit apocalypse tomorrow

I am reminded again how in 1935, the US Congress passed a tax law that created a new top tax bracket of nearly 80%. That tax bracket contained exactly one person, John D. Rockefeller, and was designed to stop him from causing so much trouble. In case anyone needs the precedent.

Now is a good time to disconnect everything from the internet.

A very successful EVE effort has happened. This is an amateur radio earth-venus-earth communications attempt, which builds on the many years of legacy established by AMSAT-DL in 2009, was stepped up to by CAMRAS/Dwingeloo in 2025, and now fully achieved in 2026.

Conspiracy take: what if the MSI is holding up the Clarence Darrow bridge repair because they want all the foot traffic once the south entrance is open?

I know some of these words

monk parakeets at 87th and the Dan Ryan yesterday

maybe with all these strong winds the weak tree limbs that have never been trimmed by the supposed newly efficient department of forestry will come down and all the problems will go away.

Peak Time Savings 4-6PM, the Eastern PJM Interconnection is having capacity issues yesterday, today, and tomorrow. A Pre-Emergency Load Mgmt Reduction Action has been issued.

www.justice.gov/jm/jm-9-4800...

I know this is a long post on a complicated issue, but I hope you give it the time it deserves.

d'oh, DNS is down at organization. told the people I care about about 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8 but it's lunchtime.

Drama! At the supermarket. On a Saturday morning too.

300,000 tonnes of diesel sounds like a lot! The US uses more than that daily.

"Third Down Sports Bar and Grill" is coming to the former Bob's Pizza place in Harper Court.

mitpress.mit.edu/978026263174... #manholecovermonday

Fresh clean mantle water, by Nestlé

The US consumes about 20 million barrels of oil daily.

Great typo Featured Speaker: CIO, Illinois Boint & Joint Institute

WGN is reporting Bicyclist critically injured in South Side crash 82nd and Blackstone #bikechi wgntv.com/news/chicago...

"Giant Starlinks are hardly good for astronomy. The little ones were already interfering with deep-sky astrophotography and professional research. The big ones could be much worse." www.spaceweather.com

The Salonica flannel shirts are gone.

"Oops, my AI agent downloaded all the science papers behind paywalls and put them on a Tor web site"

Agreed, and some of us recall a related felony conviction: bsky.app/profile/john...

#PPOD: 180 years ago today, Johann Gottfried Galle used this telescope to discover Neptune — almost exactly where mathematics predicted it would be. Urbain Le Verrier calculated the location of an unseen planet from its gravitational effects on Uranus. On Sept. 23, 1846, Galle searched for it. 🧪 🔭