tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64972215276329420392024-03-13T06:18:01.796-07:00Crowndot.com Crowndothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03100021146358861345noreply@blogger.comBlogger417125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6497221527632942039.post-41189682553300494832024-02-03T08:49:00.000-08:002024-02-03T08:49:36.841-08:00Life meets Anime meets LifeCurious about recurring eye colors in anime, I started to do some research. Instead of reaching conclusions, I ran into an online quiz: What's your anime eye color?!Okay so IRL my eyes are GREEN. (Well, hazel green.) Okay so the questions are dumb and mostly what my answer would be is not one of the choices in the multiple-choice quiz. Never. The. Less. My anime eye color is:&Crowndothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03100021146358861345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6497221527632942039.post-67095488972776268212023-12-29T16:27:00.000-08:002023-12-29T16:27:34.654-08:00New Look for ArlingtonIt's a little bit difficult to stay on top of the news these days. It seems that this memorial pile of sculpture at Arlington National Cemetery, erected in 1914 as a sign of peace and North / South brotherhood, has been declared by the Biden regime to be a sign of oppression and racism that must be destroyed. Which means that they must be looking for a new sign of peace and North / South Crowndothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03100021146358861345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6497221527632942039.post-66659408564709826532023-10-18T16:57:00.005-07:002023-10-18T16:57:49.371-07:00I Agree Crowndothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03100021146358861345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6497221527632942039.post-65357209619176958122023-10-12T11:33:00.002-07:002023-10-12T11:36:19.382-07:00In Fourteen Hundred and Ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blueToday, 12 October 2023, is the traditional Columbus Day. Over at thenewneo.com is a reprise of a 2022 post that revealed to me an odd fact: it was not our indigenous peoples or other ethnic minorities that started the anti-Columbus thing, it was white supremacists. Neo quotes a National Review article (the link seems dead since then) by Jennifer C. Braceras Crowndothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03100021146358861345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6497221527632942039.post-63371146444682989742023-05-05T17:35:00.005-07:002023-10-18T16:58:36.964-07:00Careful! We might learn something! A university is a collection of departments that agree not to talk to each other. I ran into an article claiming that cows radically changed the marine ecosystem in the second half of the 19th century. The title of the piece is "How Cows Destroyed an Entire Marine Ecosystem in California." It's from 2021 so it's not particularly fresh as a topic, but I thought it would be a good exampleCrowndothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03100021146358861345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6497221527632942039.post-16242366815570456772023-05-02T10:05:00.001-07:002023-05-02T10:05:55.041-07:00Let Him Slip AwayCanadian singer Gordon Lightfoot has passed away at the age of 84. Considering that when I saw him at the Marines Memorial Theater in San Francisco in 1979 his brain was apparently so drug-addled that they passed him a freshly tuned guitar for every number with a lyrics sheet taped to the top of the body, I'd say that he had a good long run. Carefree highwayLet me slip away on Crowndothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03100021146358861345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6497221527632942039.post-14775444551242265452023-04-22T09:28:00.003-07:002023-04-22T09:28:49.209-07:00Android Emoticons Why are there more sad, mad, and bad smilies than glad smilies?Does this reflect someone's judgement about the default human condition? "Odds are" you feel [this way]? Not much room here for those who were born somewhere on the Snark Spectrum. Just for instance: Where is Playfully Sarcastic? Cheerfully Wry? Weirded-out Sidelong Glance? I feel so excluded. Crowndothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03100021146358861345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6497221527632942039.post-34414549729262837542023-04-21T16:17:00.004-07:002023-04-22T09:35:40.296-07:00But Don't worry -- @RealDonaldTrump has a new Non-Fungible Token! The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® (LEI) for the U.S. fell by 1.2 percent in March 2023 to 108.4 (2016=100), following a decline of 0.5 percent in February. The LEI is down 4.5 percent over the six-month period between September 2022 and March 2023—a steeper rate of decline than its 3.5 percent contraction over the previous six months (March–September 2022).US Leading Crowndothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03100021146358861345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6497221527632942039.post-91270785059152785792023-04-10T12:32:00.002-07:002023-04-10T13:40:12.330-07:00In Which a Work of Literature is Confronted We will go through this one number at a time. This is offered without knowing anything about the poet. The original will be in italic type.Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbirdby Wallace StevensIAmong twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird. The blackbird's eye (like most birds) does not actually Crowndothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03100021146358861345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6497221527632942039.post-88325604030422114432023-03-08T16:37:00.005-08:002023-03-11T11:32:12.237-08:00Ran into this P. G. Wodehouse Quote “One prefers, of course, on all occasionsto be stainless and above reproach, but,failing that, the next best thing is, unquestionably to have got rid of the body.”― P. G. Wodehouse 15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975 I guess he died longer ago than I thought. Now there was a man who never worried that he was going to run out of commas, Oxford or Crowndothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03100021146358861345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6497221527632942039.post-64276469696570641422023-03-03T14:36:00.003-08:002023-03-03T14:36:30.868-08:00Today's computer apocalypse alert levelI asked www.mage.space for a picture of orange blossoms.As you can see, the blossoms are... orange.Singularity Alert Level lowered from 3 to 2. Thank you. Crowndothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03100021146358861345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6497221527632942039.post-48770826960987567782023-02-26T08:03:00.000-08:002023-02-26T08:03:27.207-08:00Tanka, February 25, 2023Almond trees in bloom --Like mine their heads have turned white.Snow on the mountain --An old man in a white shawl.And yet -- and yet! -- new Spring grass!Crowndothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03100021146358861345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6497221527632942039.post-29391451344324312742022-11-20T07:42:00.002-08:002023-03-29T16:28:01.181-07:00From the Ground Up https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/moms-liberty-berkeley-county-school-board-superintendent-rcna57528"Moms for Liberty-backed school board members fire superintendent, ban critical race theory" the headline reads.One dares hope this kind of thing signals the end of the "just talk" phase of the culture war. Crowndothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03100021146358861345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6497221527632942039.post-55537720393641317802022-11-19T07:29:00.002-08:002022-11-19T07:32:19.697-08:00International Pro-Life Agreement is Still Alivehttps://www.lifenews.com/2022/11/17/37-nations-sign-document-confirming-theres-no-international-right-to-abortion/Biden on day one of his administration canceled American support for the international agreement supporting the sanctity of life and the family. Crowndothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03100021146358861345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6497221527632942039.post-15949953625705355872022-11-14T14:41:00.002-08:002022-11-14T14:41:33.680-08:00How to Make Your Country Civil-War-ProofVoter ID, paper ballots, and a finger dipped on ink (instead of a "¡Yo voté!" sticker) would be a good start. Crowndothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03100021146358861345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6497221527632942039.post-59016624163843487562022-11-11T08:16:00.000-08:002022-11-11T08:16:02.443-08:00As Someone Once Said [paraphrasing]If you like your Swamp, you can keep your Swamp.Crowndothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03100021146358861345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6497221527632942039.post-72985814626360652092022-09-05T15:26:00.000-07:002022-09-05T15:26:01.083-07:00"Exhibit A"An itemized list of items taken by the FBI from President Trump's Florida residence includes 103 pieces of paper that Trump had declassified that were still stamped with various security labels. By my quick count, 103 pages. Right then. What else was in those bins they removed? Oh, they also took hundreds of newspapers and magazines. And empty folders. A few books. And several "Crowndothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03100021146358861345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6497221527632942039.post-1359951307190970282022-08-28T08:13:00.011-07:002022-08-28T08:13:00.169-07:00Treasure Map When I was eight or nine years old I went through a pirate phase. I had a pirate birthday party, fashioned a multitude of wooden swords, and crafted treasure maps. The cartographic content of a treasure map is of secondary importance. The main thing to achieve is the appearance of treasure-map-ness. The paper must be crumpled and smudged with dirt. The writing and terrain details must Crowndothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03100021146358861345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6497221527632942039.post-70918847067314063632022-08-27T08:13:00.007-07:002023-03-29T16:31:40.477-07:00Big SpillI tipped over a full glass of water on the kitchen table a while ago. It seemed like a lot of water. I grabbed a few dish towels and dropped one into the middle of the puddle. Water continued to drip over the side of the table. More dish towels. Crisis averted. Detailed wiping begins. I could have put the first towel on the edge of the puddle before it dripped off the edge onto the chair Crowndothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03100021146358861345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6497221527632942039.post-53861545914246094412022-07-29T12:07:00.002-07:002022-07-29T12:07:25.428-07:00Hotter Then ExpectedWe get emails from TD Ameritrade. Sometimes informative, sometimes way over my head. Today's was... Proofread much? And to cap it, when you click the link, you get: Crowndothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03100021146358861345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6497221527632942039.post-68329046970343410222022-07-24T14:16:00.001-07:002022-07-24T14:16:31.546-07:00Eco prediction 23 July 2022Eight "environmental activists" belonging to the radical group Dernière Rénovation in France attempted to interrupt the Tour de France bicycle race by sitting in the path of oncoming cyclists. The protestors were hauled off the course by fans and security personnel, and later arrested. Many of the eco-protestors were wearing white t-shirts bearing the message, "We have 978 days left."&Crowndothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03100021146358861345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6497221527632942039.post-57820865675467056952022-06-13T11:42:00.001-07:002022-06-13T11:42:22.662-07:00Money Mysteries According to the exchange rates and charts on xe.com, the only currency that has been strengthening versus the U. S. Dollar lately is the Russian Ruble. The price of gold (Comex August 22 Gold Futures, ticker symbol "GC=F") in U. S. Dollars is down this morning by $45 (it goes up and down but that is quite a swing in just a few hours). Yet the government of the United States has Crowndothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03100021146358861345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6497221527632942039.post-35650789550440008832022-05-31T17:44:00.003-07:002022-07-29T12:08:19.578-07:00On "How Much You Need to Retire"This afternoon while looking for something completely different on the Charles Schwab financial site, with which I have some small and insignificant dealings, I saw this on the menu tree: Of course for me, it is already a fait accompli, but still. "How much you need to retire" -- wow!I think (?) they want to help you calculate how much money you may need to live up to Crowndothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03100021146358861345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6497221527632942039.post-27164294580794415522022-05-27T16:59:00.000-07:002022-05-27T16:59:03.834-07:00A. K. Chesterton Gilbert Keith Chesterson's alter ego? Saw this: Thought this: Crowndothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03100021146358861345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6497221527632942039.post-85049310208663307612022-05-26T10:36:00.000-07:002022-05-26T10:36:48.134-07:00 From A SONG OF PARSLEY, by Irving Vanderblock-Wheedle.Ah, the inimitable and irreplaceable Dr. Boli!Crowndothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03100021146358861345noreply@blogger.com0