Saturday, September 26, 2020

Should I?

Low Chill, self fertile, sounds like a plan.



 Mendocino Cox apples are easier to grow bud sport of the Cox Orange Pippin. The Mendocino Cox apple is striped red over yellow, and this is crisper, later and a better keeper than Cox's Orange Pippin. The Mendocino Cox apple tree has a spreading habit lending itself to improved branch angles for fruiting. The flavor is equally intense as the original Cox Orange Pippin.  Mendocino Cox apple trees also do well in warmer interiors.

Shave of the Day

 


Using Grandpa's old Swedish steel SSA straight razor that I've got good and shaving sharp.  That Stirling Christmas Eve is very nice as well.  All good stuff.

Rewarded with a paycheck and an E-Ticket ride

 


Knockout!

 


Yikes! Time to jettison the escape pods?

 NASA and the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos are searching for a small air leak on the International Space Station (ISS), according to Sputnik

The crew of the ISS will move to the Russian side of the station on Friday, and through the weekend, to allow for a couple of days of air pressure tests. This will be the second time astronauts have isolated in an attempt to find the leak. 

"Over the coming weekend, the ISS crew will self-isolate in the Russian segment of the station to search for an atmospheric leak at the station. The crew will regularly perform all planned operations, nothing threatens the crew's safety," a representative Roscosmos told Sputnik.

NASA has said the leak was first detected on Sept. 2019 but has worsened in recent months.  

As the ISS crew works over the weekend to find the source of the leak, readers may recall, in 2018, the station experienced another air leak that was initially thought to be the result of a micrometeorite. It was eventually concluded the tiny hole that created the air leak was a "deliberate sabotage."  

Beam me up, Scotty!  The leak is getting worse, they don't know where it is or why there's a leak in the first place.  I'd worry about a sudden increase or even catastrophic loss of air,  since so far they don't know why there is air leaking.   Might be nothing, might be something, no one will know until it's found and fixed.

Should have used a shorter drill bit when putting up those shelves.

Thursday, September 24, 2020

Serbia and Kosovo Agree to Name Disputed Lake After Donald Trump

 The lake, known to Kosovars as the “Ujman” and to Serbians as the “Gazivoda,” is the subject of dispute between the two countries, with around 80 percent of its waters located in Kosovo and 20 percent in Serbia. A banner appeared over the lake on Thursday, however, reading “Lake Trump.”



Both Kosovo Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic have expressed their willingness to accept the name moving forward.

“What to call the lake that is in Kosovo and Serbia has been a serious sticking point despite the U.S. forged compromise to launch a feasibility study to create jobs and more energy for the region….so both sides have agreed to a new name: Lake Trump,” former acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Richard Grenell wrote on Twitter.




Just what Trump's massive ego needs.