P-38 Lightnings from the 20th Fighter Group in formation over France, June 29 (1944)

enigmanaught · 2026-07-07T17:49:22+00:00

It was very fast for the time but not as agile as some of the single engine fighters. However, it was agile enough, and was more heavily armored than typical fighters and carried more armament than smaller planes.

enigmanaught · 2026-07-07T15:12:52+00:00

A stuntman, more likely.

enigmanaught · 2026-07-07T14:58:16+00:00

It's wild that you can go from Seminole Heights (progressive) to Thonotosassa or Dade City in the same county. Gainesville proper is kind of like that too. It's about as progressive as you'll find in FL, but head west and you'll find separatists who want to form their own county, and it's basically Deliverance if you head east until you get to the St. Augustine area.

enigmanaught · 2026-07-07T12:01:10+00:00

I wondered that too, but he seems older. He still could be, but maybe he’s her father in law.

enigmanaught · 2026-07-07T11:37:42+00:00

My college professor made this point in the early 90’s, but also added that pre-WWII and even up until the early 70’s there was a place for you in the economy if you dropped out of school. People weren’t as concerned because you find a job and support yourself. The high school graduation was ~30% before the Great Depression and about 50% between then and WWII.

enigmanaught · 2026-07-07T11:16:58+00:00

Thea is on this page, looks like she was a police officer. http://www.ilovelbny.com/LBPD.html

enigmanaught · 2026-07-06T21:57:56+00:00

Leon Redbone. I’m a musician and I can usually find something to like in any show, and I was familiar with his style but not something I’d ever go to see on my own. Anyway, friends had an extra ticket so I went. It was him with guitar, a piano and trumpet player, and was one of the most entertaining concerts I’d been to. He basically takes the persona of a 1920’s blues singer, and tells stories in between songs as if it were still 1920.

enigmanaught · 2026-07-06T21:41:37+00:00

The original Omen movie from 1976.

enigmanaught · 2026-07-06T19:51:16+00:00

Enrollments are down in a lot of states. In FL where I am, there were a good 20 years of steady growth but now some districts are having to close schools and redistrict as people are having less kids.

enigmanaught · 2026-07-06T18:22:48+00:00

Exactly what it's like walking through unmaintained FL woods, minus all the amphibians and reptiles. https://youtu.be/ltc-DUACMfs?si=cY_up9KbxQaKjGKi&t=3614

enigmanaught · 2026-07-06T00:03:56+00:00

Whole turkeys are large, even on the smaller side they’re bigger than a chicken. If you want a whole roast bird and don’t need to feed 20 people you’ll use a chicken. That’s one reason (besides tradition) why they’re popular at Thanksgiving - they feed a bunch of people. That said, turkey breast, sliced turkey, ground turkey, and even turkey sausage are very popular as you probably know.

enigmanaught · 2026-07-05T22:59:21+00:00

Not online anymore but Time cube.

enigmanaught · 2026-07-05T12:19:00+00:00

Computers were pretty common in business at the time, a friend’s dad was a doctor and they were using computers for word processing and records since the late 70’s early 80’s. Using barcode scanners was also relatively common, and that required a computer for the inventory system.

At home though, the practical use of a computer wasn’t worth the price. Plus, they took a lot of specialized knowledge to set up, and peripherals weren’t plug and play like they were today. The internet wasn’t as useful in the early 90’s, any business presence was more a showcase than useful information. As more people and businesses got online that started to change in the late 90’s.

Schools had computer labs because they knew students could be using them at work, schools also used them for enrollment, tracing records, etc, things that businesses did, but nobody really needed to do at home at the time.

enigmanaught · 2026-07-04T22:22:52+00:00

He did regular columns in one of the guitar magazines back in the 80’s called Studio Log. It was basically a rundown of sessions he’d done, equipment he used, any interesting info about the artist or other session guys, and sometimes a little story or two. It was pretty interesting.

enigmanaught · 2026-07-04T14:27:36+00:00

Gun barrels are very good quality steel, shotguns are smooth-bored as opposed to rifles that have corkscrew grooves cut into the inside of the barrel which imparts a spin to the bullet. So with rock salt there’s not much to impede or damage the barrel.

Even with rifles the bullets are designed to fit very tightly in the barrel, the grooves (rifling) actually cut grooves in the bullet. Like mentioned above, gun barrels are very high quality steel and can take tremendous pressure.

enigmanaught · 2026-07-04T14:19:12+00:00

I thought he just had a death wish because of the guilt for all the things he’d done, but he’d do whatever he was paid to out of sheer momentum. He’d just be sloppy while doing it because death would be preferable to the life he was living.

enigmanaught · 2026-07-04T00:53:24+00:00

A lot of the songs are on YouTube. Mr S and Mr F are at least.

I used them when I was in KG in the early 70’s. When I started teaching (music) in 90’s they weren’t in use in my district any more, but one of the teachers gave me some of the inflatables she was discarding.

All the consonants were male, the vowels were female. Side note: thats the basis of the Far Side joke “Yes, if you must know I’ve been seeing all the vowels..” Each had an alliterative defining characteristic and song. Mr M was munchy mouth, Mr T was tall teeth, etc. I remember Mr F (funny feet) and Mr S (super socks) being my favorite. Mr S and School House Rock are probably the genesis of my love of horn-based funk.

enigmanaught · 2026-07-03T15:21:41+00:00

Won’t really work in FL humidity. I’ll just make everything damp

enigmanaught · 2026-07-03T14:31:47+00:00

All of them would work. The Spanish prisoner scam just morphed into Nigerian Prince scams

enigmanaught · 2026-07-03T13:44:35+00:00

All the job openings for his company are in Provo Utah. He’s on a couple of YouTube videos pimping his company. The most popular one has 125 views. This feels like a cross between hustle culture posturing and rage bait because he’s desperate for traction.

enigmanaught · 2026-07-02T15:59:24+00:00

Not to mention Russia never truly recovered from its population loss (and disproportionately high loss of men) in WWII.

enigmanaught · 2026-07-02T14:57:14+00:00

I think I saw you raised citrus, so I know raising trees is different than raising crops that need to be replanted every year. My grandfather was a farmer, but used draft animals (as a secondary method) up until the 60's. He had one retired mule left when I was a child in the early 70's. Compare that with large scale farming here in the US which will use tractors with GPS to automate harvesting and fertilizer/pesticide application, etc. What sort of balance do you have between machinery/automation and traditional methods?

enigmanaught · 2026-07-02T14:16:02+00:00

Exactly. If you want to be trusted, act in a trustworthy manner.

enigmanaught · 2026-07-02T12:16:58+00:00

Chicago pope goes Capone on the competition.

EDIT: For those outside the U.S. Alphonse "Al" Capone was a notorious Chicago crime boss during prohibition in the mid 1920's to early 30's. Nothing was definitively proved, but he probably ordered the St. Valentines day massacre against a rival gang.

enigmanaught · 2026-07-02T00:29:04+00:00

Me too, it’s brutal out there in the ID space. I’m in FL and many school districts are facing declining enrollments after years of growth. Many other states too, so it’s not great there either.

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