The Uncertainty Principle

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Just put it down next to mom's suicide note..

It's been running an average temperature of 104-107.5 degrees
from noon to 1830 hrs here...
We have been putting out a can, filled with ice,

next to the mailbox on our front porch.

In the can surrounded by the ice,
we put a small carton of coconut water for our Mail Carrier...

Our Bungalow, which was built in 1903, is in the historic district of town so the
Mail Carrier has to walk the entire district and up to each individual house.
There are no curbside or communal mailboxes allowed.

This makes our particular neighborhood exhausting duty
for the mail carrier in brutally hot weather.
The offering of chilled Coconut water is
just our way of trying to help out a bit...
and saying
Thanks for the mail.

The incident at this link is pretty terrible but the worst thing about it is that I'm sure

90 million other bloggers across the world are without a doubt----envious---!

Envious that somebody actually read & paid attention to these guy's blogs???

Blogger hacked to death
Other bloggers be like--
"I wish i could get hacked to death, proving people read and take my blog seriously!!!"

I speak often of working on our Bungalow.

The work we have done can be difficult to describe

however these before and after photographs may help?

This is the back yard taken from the rear of the house..

On moving in:

Today:

The front of the Bungalow on moving in:

The front of the Bungalow today:

Ten years and the work still goes on--we enjoy working on it!

I have made considerable progress on my 1/72
TU-95 Bear model project.

Retirement has made me a much, much better modeler.
I now consider my kit building obsession a form of art?
I have become much more detail orientated, and accepting of the fact
that specific techniques take time to obtain.
TU-95 Kit progress photographs:

I try to stay as realistic as possible including the application
of a 'Soviet baby-shit-green' colored cabin interiors?

Wings, cockpit,engine nacelles, and fuselage assembled and ready for
sanding, detailing then paint....
As you can observe from the length of the fuselage this is a BIG
kit even in 1/72 scale.
This is a little bit each afternoon project with a great deal of detailing, masking,
and painting since there are multiple shadings all over the
aircraft's metal surfaces..
I did order several accessory items to use in the future display of the TU-95
and to increase the kit's accuracy.
I obtained Verlinden 1/72 scale concrete runway sheets:

and Verlinden's 1/72nd Airfield Accessories kit for use on the
display base with the aircraft when the kit is completed.

I really wanted a tanker truck for the TU-95 display base, as a tool to

represent the true size of these aircraft.

Searching the net for such a kit i discovered

what appeared to be very bizarre pricing structure.

Kits of any 1/72 Soviet airfield tanker trucks were listed for $20-$25 while

a Chinese Air Force 1/72nd tanker truck--which is a Soviet truck--

(the Russians supplied these trucks to the Chinese)

was $7.00?

I, of course, ordered the $7.00 truck and I am simply

planning on painting it Yellow and using the red star decals while omitting the

Chinese Characters.

This will make it Russian again?

WTF, you know?

Last but not least I located and obtained a ICM air to surface Soviet

Missile set.

The TU-95 Bear over the years of modification has become

a cruise missile carrier, much like the US B-52.

My intent is to wing pylon mount two KH-59 Kazoo

air to surface missiles on my TU-95 since they are a

wicked looking item, although technically obsolete for this aircraft.

I hope that at the conclusion of the construction process

I will have a unique aircraft model to enjoy displaying for a long time.

On streaming:

Le P'tit Quinquin is a French--well--part detective/mystery
and part I have no fucking idea what?...It's great tho.
Think Salvador Dali creating a mystery TV show.
I guess there's a plot--we're still not really sure--but---
In a small French village on the English Channel,
someone is killing, dismembering, and shoving the body
parts of villagers into the assholes of live cows..

Yes, yes you read that correctly, and no I am not going to
explain this any further...but it happens to several victims.
The two detectives investigating are just as unique as the crime--

One has a incredibly bad twitch and the other
almost no teeth---
One fires off his pistol into the air often, and says "lets roll" all the time?
The other dreams of driving the police car on two wheels only?
The show is 3 hours long, yes three hours....and starts off slowly,
and is the only detective show that ends without a solution, that i know of?
but
Le P'tit QuinQuin is bizarrely absurdly awesome!
I (of course) highly highly recommend!!!!

Funny

Doc Martin--funny

Dire Straits:
Ride across the River

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

He say you blade runner...

It was 165 degree's F in area's of Iran over the past few days.

My summer heat complaints of our
105-108 degrees F here in New Mexico,
makes me now feel like a complete wuss compared to the temps in Iran.

The highest temperature recorded in the Middle East
was in Saudi Arabia July 8th, 2003 registering 178 degree's F.
That was in the inhabitable, great dune sea.

165 F in Iran this week
These Iranian high temperatures are occurring in populated area's.
My Jo advises that 165 degree's is the standard temperature to cook beef...?

I'm sure you may have heard about this but it bespeaks

of the Murican' cultural experience.

Canadians built a rather cute, talking, GPS tracked, photo taking robot

they called Hitchbot.

Designed to hitchhike, with it's own little chair from the side of the road

to take a photo every twenty seconds, upload it's photo's and GPS location
to it's own website.
It could even talk in a limited fashion--attempting to socialize
with those who picked it up.

Hitchbot traveled completely across Canada and Europe.

Many many people picked-up Hitchbot.

and co-existed with him peacefully.
Kids followed his travels on his website.

In the Netherlands he was even a guest at a wedding....

People took him on a boat ride.

Things were going great for Hitchbot, life was good and interesting
until he reached Murica'

The plan was for Hitchbot to cross Murica' to San Francisco

and from there to the far east.

Hitching across Murica' was different from Canada and Europe

Hitchbot was stomped to death within 10 days in the good ole' USofA...
He never got further than Philadelphia?

Cute little robot didn't stand a chance here
As nation we remain that Psycho High School kid--

The destruction of this little bot is an important display of
how tremendously fucked-up we are.
In the Merican' twilight we have become Mogadishu with fast food.
Our nation culturally and operationally has become a DICK.

We failed to obey the single necessary cultural, economic, political and

personal rule that applies across all beliefs and boundaries:

With the wanton destruction of this harmless little robot,

we, as a culture, are now officially DICKS

Roddy Piper passed.

I love John Carpenter films.

Roddy was the Star of Carpenter's "They Live".

They Live

Our front yard Moon Plant was blooming this morning.

It usually only unfolds it's flowers after dark--henceforth the name.

Shot a few photo's while i had the opportunity.

Photographic updates on projects mentioned here:

The 1/72 Vulcan finished and placed in the nerd cave...

A very recent photo of the ever growing boombox collection

and the wall of sound in the nerd cave....
This photo is missing two boomboxes,
one residing on the back porch for music outdoors,
and one disassembled awaiting the winter for action.

Working in the yard I now carry an ESEE Izula small sheath knife on my belt.

A straight bladed knife works so much better on homestead jobs I randomly encounter

as compared to a folding pocket knife.

I spent the afternoon today organizing my kit--

sharpening my knifes and cleaning my weapons--

It felt good.

In Japan it is considered good luck for

your child if a Sumo wrestler makes them

cry....

Tattoo's are considered to bring good luck & protection

to their owners in Tahiti.

I guess if you are one of those modern helicopter parents,

you should tattoo your newborn

and find a Sumo wrestler to babysit them?

The new modeling project is a 1/72 TU-95MS BEAR--
I've already started on it during these recent 105 degree afternoons.

After a morning of working out in the yard..it is very enjoyable
to retreat indoors once the temperature hits 95 or so--and
after cleaning up--spend the afternoons in the cool
modeling,
The high afternoon temperatures are forecast to continue unabated for
quite some time and facing afternoons indoors for possibly quite a couple of weeks,
I decided I needed to consistently have a kit on hand.
I found a real buy in Japan on a Soviet SU-34 Strike Flanker kit.