Probably better than it had any right to be, honestly.
It took quite a few liberties with the source, but not so many that it is a crime against nature. (Fair to good acting, nice sets and FX, nice anti-imperialist message.)
Nemo is a little young (I always pictured him as 40-50 in the book), and his personality isn’t really the same as I remember. I miss the much larger crew, but they had some other characters to add for various reasons. I’d say it is more of a prequel, sort of a “two decades before the book” kind of thing.
An audiobook listing for “The Communist Manifesto” written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. On the left is the book cover featuring a sketch of Marx and Engels. On the right, the text reads “The Communist Manifesto,” followed by the authors’ names, and “Narrated by Adam West.” Below the title details, icons and text indicate it is an audiobook, unabridged, with a duration of 1 hour and 19 minutes, and eligible for a benefit or credit.
Hearthwave turns any home server into a shared radio station you reach from any browser. It transcribes what comes over the air and speaks what you type — so no one is left off the channel.
This is some garbage level reporting, with the AI formatting on top to take bad/incorrect information and make it into an unreadable, useless bit of text that only shows how little the Rambler now cares about content curation and fact checking.
AI can be a useful tool, but the way that article was slapped together and implemented was an embarrassment to news media.
Yeah, I’m not getting in a plane under this administration. Here I thought Reagan tossing air traffic controllers to the wolves back in the 80’s was a terrible idea.
Trains are very nice.
(Abandoned passenger train cars located at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, Virginia. The train featured prominently in the center is an EMD E-unit locomotive.The tall building visible in the background is the Norfolk & Western Railway Office Building, now named the Robert B. Claytor Building)
Maybe in my top two favorite overall shows of the year.( I loved widows bay, but the end of the season got a little soft at the bottom. Still solid A material though)
Murderbot, while not as brilliant as Widow’s Bay at its best, was consistently solid entertainment throughout. I hear there is a series of books, and I will likely investigate them before season two comes out (if it comes out, in these uncertain times)
Some U.S. states designate clergy as mandatory reporters of child abuse, but 32 states explicitly exempt religious leaders from reporting abuse if the information is learned during a protected confidential rite, such as a sacramental confession. These exemptions protect the religious privilege of confidentiality, though legislative debates and legal challenges continue nationwide.
Yeah, no. Believe in whatever spiritual thing you like, but commit earth crimes on kids, freedom of religion can get waived on that, in my opinion.
To put this into perspective: when you see a therapist or other mental healthcare professional, for example, you work with them under “therapist-patient privilege”. This means that what you share with them cannot be shared with others; it creates a standard of trust.
However, if you disclose to your therapist that you have harmed or intend to harm another person, or have been the victim of child abuse, your therapist must report this.
Couldn’t find any more information on this find in Roanoke, but mammoths have been found at other salt licks, including Saltville, VA; Wythe, VA (Wytheville?); and Thomas Jefferson’s favorite, Big Bone Lick, in KY. The first shipment of Jefferson’s excavated bones is on the bottom of the Mississippi River, the boats having sunk. The author seems sold on Catastrophism; he would have loved Noah’s Ark World or whatever it’s called in Kentucky. It’s a pity that local residents just carried off the bones and teeth; who knows where they ended up.
“There is in the immediate neighbourhood of the Big Lick, a stratum of earth of about the thickness of forty feet; constituting what is called the barrens of Botetourt, which is deposited on an elevated portion of the county; the soil is not alluvial, nor is it composed of regular thinner strata, such as are peculiar to deposits from water, the soil differs materially from any in its neighbourhood; but after digging through this thick heterogeneous stratum, about thirty or forty feet, the bones of a mammoth, and other fossil remains have been found, lying on the peculiar soil, (or black Lick mud as it is called) of the neighbourhood surrounding the barrens.”
The museums below have exhibits on the local finds
THE SCRIBBLER, No. VI. Among the various objects that have arrested my attention, none have struck me as more impressively wonderful, than the Geology of Botetourt county.
The Geologist, discovers in every part of the Globe, that material changes have at different periods, taken place in the structure of its surface; for the most part, by the slow process of washing down eminences, and proportionally raising depressed surfaces.
But besides these ordinary, and every day occurrences, by making researches into the general structure of the earth’s surface, it is plainly discoverable, that those revolutions have on some occasions been immense and sudden, and numberless living beings have been the victims of such catastrophies. Some drowned by sudden inundations, others of the aquatic species destroyed by being suddenly laid dry.
On the highest mountain tops, in every part of our globe in which such researches have been made, various marine shells, and other fossils, evidently productions of the ocean have been discovered; and the various strata of this marine description, give countenance to the supposition, that they had at some period since the creation of the world, constituted the bottom of the Ocean.
The next conclusion is, that at this period, that which is now the bottom of the ocean, was the dry habitable portion of the earth. By some terrible convulsion, the immense depths of the ocean have been upon a sudden, raised to the towering height of the Andes, and lands and mountains of equal elevation, have been depressed to the fathomless bottom of the deep, submersing and destroying all living beings who inhabited them.
This and similar conclusions, are not derived merely from geological observations on the strata of the earth, & the fossils therein contained, but are powerfully, and I believe I might say, substantially corroborated by history, both sacred and prophane.
The history of the deluge, given by Moses, in sacred writ, destroying all the inhabitants of the earth but Noah and his family, strongly corroborates this supposition: if there are any, who are infidels enough to doubt this portion of sacred writ, they may find it confirmed by the histories and traditions of every nation of antiquity. The Chaldeans, Egyptians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans, all had handed down to them by tradition, or hieroglyphics, an account of a mighty destruction, that at a remote period had befallen the world by a deluge.
Now it cannot be reasonably supposed that the relative proportion of solids and fluids constituting our globe, have ever materially varied since the earth’s formation, and we cannot suppose, the quantity of water belonging to this globe, sufficient to deluge its whole surface, in the manner represented by the patriarch Moses, even if it could forsake its uniform level: For this, or a revolution, of the nature above mentioned, must at that time have taken place; and this latter supposition, is fairly supported, not only by the researches of Geologists, but also, by literal revolutions of a similar character.
Violent earth quakes have frequently depressed considerable portions of the earth’s surface, and a corresponding elevation of some part of its adjoining surface, has generally succeeded. The great earth quake in South America, by which Lima was submersed, and many of its inhabitants destroyed, had the effect of raising sand bars, and obstructing navigation in parts that were previously of a great undeterminable depth. But there is in this county, a phenomenon in Geology of an appearance entirely anomalous. There is in the immediate neighbourhood of the Big Lick, a stratum of earth of about the thickness of forty feet; constituting what is called the barrens of Botetourt; which is deposited on an elevated portion of the county; the soil is not alluvial, nor is it composed of regular thinner strata, such as are peculiar to deposits from water, the soil differs materially from any in its neighbourhood; but after digging through this thick heterogeneous stratum, about thirty or forty feet, the bones of a mammoth, and other fossil remains have been found, lying on the peculiar soil, (or black Lick mud as it is called) of the neighbourhood surrounding the barrens.
This stratum, bears the appearance of having been recently deposited, I shall attempt a description, and give a theory of my own upon this subject in a future number.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman, dated Wythe, Virg. Dec. 27, 1805. “I cannot omit amusing you, with some items of a late discovery in this county. About two miles east of Gen. Wampler’s, an attempt was made, to sink a pit, to search for salt water. A few feet below the surface, have been found several bones of the mammoth of an unusually large size.
One tooth is said to weigh 17lb. and proves it to be a creature that fed on herbage. With these bones are intermixed a number of that of an animal of the largest species-of the carnivorous kind, also a number of bones of young or smaller mammoths; and one might conjecture from appearances, that these carcases have not been more than one hundred years deposited in the earth.
Entire pieces of reed, six inches long, and twigs of the pine tree, are found in a large bed of dung, supposed to have been in the intestines of the mammoth, when it was killed. Our acquaintance, the Rev. Mr. Stanger, is busy in good weather, in having a full search made, for the whole skeleton, which if he succeeds, it probably will give further information concerning the nature and properties of a species of animals now extinct.”
Extract of another letter from the same gentleman, dated Wythe, Jan. 4th, 1806.
SIR, I wrote you in haste about two weeks ago. This day I went to the spot where the Mammoth bones are found, and with my own eyes satisfied my own curiosity. The teeth, or rather the grinders are larger than those I have seen, that were found at Campbell’s Saline on Holstein, or even those at the Big bone Lick in Kentucky; these grinders and the substances that appear to have been in the entrails, prove that this monster of the forest has been a creature that fed on herbage. But the singular appearance of this new Lick, and the variety of large bones already dug up, proves, that a part of them belonged to large animals of a carnivorous species. A large tusk or horn has been found, inserted in the head or rather upper jaw, about two feet long, and eight inches in circumference. There have been seven under jaw bones already found of this latter animal, as Mr. Michael Kinser informs, on whose land this curious deposit is found; by the shape of the horn, and its place so near the nose, the smaller animal may have been a species of the Rhinoceros, one kind of which is said to be the Unicorn of the ancients. But how so many of them have been laid prostrate in the same spot with the Mammoth, and of those by the teeth found, there must have been several, makes the whole a matter of some admiration. Bishop Madison will be disappointed in getting an entire skeleton; the bones, at least several of them after having been exposed several days in the open air became very brittle; and the country people have carried off several; the teeth, particularly the grinders of the Mammoth, are in a good state of preservation, and may bear transportation any where.
💬 Story behind the art: always loved playing dwarves, back in frp days. maybe my inner contrariness, but dwarf fighters and clerics were my go to when most of the others chose elves, magic users, rangers, thieves or assassins. (when not basic humans)
BHK and MIL worked on pom-poms for the little free art gallery. BHK does yarn, and MIL does beads.
Pearl loves giant pom-poms
FIL and I watched music and Appalachian history videos.
July’s books: *Starseekers* by Nicole Glover – not grabbing me, reading it for book club. Not bothering to finish it today, since it looks like we are skipping book club tonight to have a last hurrah with the in-laws before they launch. It may land in my DNF pile, unless I hear something amazing about the story after 40% boring. How can a book about magic, space flight and empowerment be boring? I dont know, but they manage it.
Reread *Martian Chronicles* and *Dandelion Wine* by Ray Bradbury as a way to procrastinate reading the book club selection above.
Dwarven warrior being dissolved by a gelatinous cube
When ordering coffee in German, make sure you order ‘einen Latte’, not ‘eine Latte’, unless you want very special treatment. (Saying ‘eine Latte’ uses the feminine article and translates to slang for an erection, while ‘einen Latte’ (or ‘der Latte’) refers to a latte coffee.)
See also *Umfahren* – This verb means both to drive around something and to run over something.
“Ich habe den Fußgänger umfahren” can mean you safely bypassed a pedestrian, or you actively hit them with your car. (The difference lies entirely in whether you stress the first or second syllable.)
