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Uvalde Shooting: Ways to Help
How to Help Uvalde, Texas shooting victims and their families – includes links to verified charities set up to help the victims and their families, information on helping children deal with the event, and information on what is already being done for the community. How to help Uvalde families following yesterday’s elementary school shooting – from NPR.org 5 Ways To Help Kids, Parents, Victims…
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Getting Back On the Horse
The other day, I managed to forget to post on a Sunday. To the best of my knowledge, that was the first time I’d accidentally skipped a post since sometime in 2020. From there, I took the next couple of posting days off because I honestly couldn’t think of anything to post and I kind of just needed some time off. I don’t really have much of anything to say today but I’m posting so that ‘taking a…
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Quick Reviews:
Due to changes in my work schedule, I’ve had a lot more time to read. I used the library app Hoopla, I’ve started downloading comics to read. Toward that end, here’s a few of my favorites: American Cult: A Graphic History of Religious Cults in America from the Colonial Era to Today, edited by Robyn Chapman – a non-fiction title from 2021, this anthology comic talks about fringe religious groups…
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Moderate Success!
I still haven’t tracked down exact measurements for the stadium at Soldier Field, but I have found figures that are close enough for my purposes, thanks to CalcMaps – Maptools. Using their distance tool, I was able to put points on a satellite photo of the stadium itself and get a rough estimate for length and width. It’s honestly shocking to me how hard it is to find out what I’d thought would…
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Checked Out
Good news: my colonoscopy came back negative! This means I don’t have to have another one for ten years — hopefully by 2033 medical science will have advanced enough to create a colonoscopy prep solution that doesn’t taste like sadness and misery. Or, barring that, at least comes in a smaller portion. Otherwise, I have been playing around with numbers and vaguely working on my scale model of…
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Not Doing Nothin' Today
Except prepping for a colonoscopy. Which leads to the question of the day: why the hell does the prep stuff have to taste so damnably foul? I mean, is there a medical reason for it or what?! So far, other than having to choke down the first round of the Awful Stuff – and not looking forward to Round Two in the wee hours – the prep hasn’t been so bad. I’ve been loafing in bed, listening to…
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More Adventures with Stupider Big Numbers
More Adventures with Stupider Big Numbers
I’ve been continue playing with ridiculously large numbers, particularly as relates to explosive yield. I made a spreadsheet to relate explosive yields in terms of tons of TNT equivalent versus how many pounds of TNT that yield would represent (i.e. 1 ton of TNT equivalent equals 2,000 pounds of TNT, 1 kiloton is 2 million pounds of TNT, 1 megaton is 2 billion pounds of TNT, and so on). And,…
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Adventures in Stupid Big Numbers
Adventures in Stupid Big Numbers
As I mentioned in my Goals Post back on Monday, I’ve been working on a way to create scale comparisons of nuclear blast yields. I’d already created a couple spreadsheets full of figures for yields between 1 ton and 100 megatons for surface blasts and airblasts and I’d even created a scale where 1 foot = 30 feet but that led to a model that was too large. Especially since I’d wanted to compare the…
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