Today’s music – unashamed seventies pop love song. Because, reasons.
BIDEN BAN ON INCANDESCENT LIGHTS TAKES EFFECT: Okay, it’s not a ban-ban, but merely a regulation that will remove them from the market. CNN actually gives a good ‘splainer about watts and lumens. There are, of course, exceptions including notably for traffic signals, the majority of which are operated by government. Your linkster knows quite a bit about lighting, and has adopted LED lighting for a vast majority of both his household and professional (photo/video) instruments, but there are just a couple of places where only an incandescent will give a proper and tasteful effect. And how is this any business of the federal government’s anyway? And bonus take-away from the story, there are left-hand threaded lamps.
REALITY SLOWLY DAWNS ON DAVID BROOKS: The grey lady’s tame conservative ponders the question “when will we stop behaving in ways that make Trumpism inevitable?” Link to archive since NYT paywalled. A decade late and a deflated dollar short, Brooks.
FEDERAL APPEALS COURT BLOCKS BIDEN BRACE BAN: This is not a final ruling, but it’s still a setback. The bad news is that the feds, the states, and some municipalities will continue to promulgate unconstitutional laws and regulations forcing the RKBA community into an extended game of Whack-A-Mole.
MIAMI POLICE GIVE CONFISCATED WEAPONS TO UKRAINE: Bearing Arms writer Ranjit Singh tells us all about it. Apparently gun grabbers not happy because the weapons weren’t melted down. Previously the city did a weapons buyback and shipped those guns to Ukraine, too. I’m curious about the arms export procedures involved here.
OHIO RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA BALLOT INITIATIVE PROGRESSES: Legalization campaign submits last batch of signatures to qualify for Nov. 7 ballot. Good job on submitting 5% more signatures than required in anticipation of some signatures being invalidated by the counties.
LEGACY LAUNCH BUSINESSES LAMENT COMPETITION: The CEO of United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, has “a bunch of questions” about the latest changes announced by the Space Force for the procurement of national security space launch services. No cartelization or barriers to entry here, folks.
GLIBS CRUISE REMINDER: Shpip and KK are putting together a week-long Glibs cruise departing from Ft Lauderdale on Oct 21, 2024. Here’s a link to the details.
Defend your scrotum!
Or what? My balls will be sacked?
Nah… he’ll just get a little teste.
taint my problem anyhow.
Relevant.
“And how is this any business of the federal government’s anyway?”
It isn’t, and no one voted for it. Aren’t these assholes supposed to be all about “Democracy”?
Only in the sense of the Jackass Party. I suppose we should be glad that isn’t their formal name — I’d hate to have to constantly hear how things are an assault on our Jackass. That our historic goal is to spread Jackassery across the globe, etc.
Oh — and on that topic from our other (one of our others? I don’t track how many we have around here…) friendly bear. The start called out to me since I remember not only Zell but Sam Nunn. Back when the Dems weren’t batshit crazy.
Comrade Biden would love for you to have Democracy but what if you should make the wrong decision? What then, comrades?
Love that book more every year — simple enough I had my 10 year old read it and I think he got a lot out of it… but dead on.
Re: carbonized bamboo — Did not know that, thanks.
Glad your licit affair is apparently going well, Tonio.
I see from the CCPNN article that at least oven lights are exempted… that’s the one big question I had — an LED in that environment would be dead very soon.
Merry Afternoonmas, Glibs.
I wonder about all the chandelier bulbs here.
I found some of that type for wall sconces (not exactly chandelier) about 7 or 8 years back… so I expect they’re out there as LED. You may just have to look a little harder.
My ceiling fan has LED chandelier bulbs. Color matching all the little fuckers is a PITA.
Use Halloween flicker bulbs. Much better mood lighting.
They probably won’t match, so I’d have to replace all of them. Fuck the government.
They are doing some wonderful things with clear candle bulbs with LED “filaments.” These give off a soft and tasteful light. Recommend “warm” 3200K color temperature bulbs which approximate old-school incandescent (as opposed to 5000K “daylight” bulbs which are harsh).
Which is good, but I shouldn’t be forced to replace them.
Why do you hate Gaia?
What about my vintage Easy-Bake oven?
We simply rebrand all 75W and 100W household bulbs as heat lamps.
Buy a bunch now and sell them in later on eBay as collectors items at $50 a piece.
Repeat offenders against the 2nd amendment need to go on a preclearance scheme where any new laws involving weapons are automatically injoined until a hearing on their constitutionality can be conducted, and then the laws promptly ruled unconstitutional because “Shall not be infringed” doesn’t have the wiggle room we’ve let them get away with.
Double Secret Second Amendment Probation… works for me.
I love your fevered dreams.
Seems a complete waste of time. They don’t have much legitimate use, and criminals rarely, if ever, use them.
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pistol braces
Dang. My bet was on “Ukranians”.
I was betting on incandescent lightbulbs.
OK, so I’m going to put even more ??? about your statement that they have no legitimate use.
????????????????????????????????????????????
Are you high? They’re a way of evading the unconstitutional SBR rules.
I don’t think SBR’s are all that useful either, but at least they have a shoulder stock.
How many crimes have been committed with pistol braces?
Hmm… how many times have politicians been shooting their mouths off?
Two. I think.
The one guy shooting up a bar in Ohio is all I can recall.
,em>Okay, it’s not a ban-ban, but merely a regulation that will remove them from the market.
Yeah, I saw something about that the other day. That seems to be accepted practice, now. We don’t “ban” things, we just make a regulatory requirement which is impossible to meet, especially with concurring “offsets” and “allowances” incentivizing production and adoption of a preferred “new” “improved” technology.
Like we don’t go to war… we just send advisors and have kinetic actions.
Skirt the limits of the constitution by not calling things what they are… Progress!
Relatedly, see also “we’re not banning gas stoves, we’re just tearing down every gas plant in the country”.
The gubmint shouldn’t pick winners and losers!
So we can send guns to Ukraine, but they can’t be imported legally.
I will guess that there is no military use for 99% of the shitty guns turned in. They’ll be sold on the black market.
As if the ones with military use aren’t being sold on the black market too…. 😉
That’s what I was thinking. You’ll have all kinds of random calibers that won’t be any use, so they’ll be turned over for export to Africa or taken by the local mafia.
It may be an urban legend, but from what I hear at the start of the war when the Ukrainian government dumped weapons on the street for civilians, the various mafia groups scooped them up and started settling scores.
I will laugh my ass off if Ukraine sells them to a black market such that they’re sold on the streets of… Miami.
So now the kid wearing the “2023 Super Bowl Champs – Eagles” tshirt in some ragtag Central African militia can also rock a broken and rusted .38 that got turned into some gun “buyback” in south Florida?
I fear that we are going to get what is coming to us. And by us, I mean the innocent multitudes that had nothing to do with all the evil shit our “leaders” have done.
“Guns seized on Miami streets sent to UKR as WeApOnS oF WaR.”
Brooksie almost had an introspective moment of clarity – then just waived it away as a bad dream at the end.
A decade late and a deflated dollar short, Brooks.
Hell, Lasch predicted the Trumpian appearance in 1997 (in Revolt of thr Elites).
“Why is this guy still politically viable, after all he’s done?” 🙄
I’ll take your word for it. I can’t slog through more ponderous bullshit from that fucking lying rag ever again.
The whole thing is a wonder of cognitive dissonance. TLDR version: “we coastal elites are a bunch of evil smug incestual assholes whose actions are clearly driving the normies to hate us and like Trump” AND “of course I still think we’re good and right and believe in the system”.
“…. because let’s be honest… the normies don’t really matter and we’ll crush them into submission anyway!”
WHY DON’T THOSE LOSERS LOVE US? WE TOLD THEM HOW GREAT WE ARE.
The subhead of “How the modern meritocracy made Trump inevitable.” is unintentionally hilarious.
There’s nothing meritocratic about DC, unless your only merit is adherence to the one true faith.
You just have to mentally substitute credential for every mention of merit.
Those kinda peeps really love to hear themselves talk.
bonus take-away from the story, there are left-hand threaded lamps.
Does Lucas make them?
[Thunderous applause.]
Bearing Arms writer Ranjit Singh is a fucking moron. He does not know jack shit about whether those persons are “prohibited” and apparently he’s a warmonger to boot.
I hope they’re sending ammunition. Diversity in firearms is not the strength of organized shooters.
The recreational marijuana proposal would allow Ohioans ages 21 and over to purchase, possess and grow marijuana. The drug would be subject to a 10% sales tax, on top of state and local sales taxes.
Within nine months of passage, the proposal requires the state to issue adult-use licenses to all interested medical license holders. Additionally, the proposal specifies that 50 new dispensary licenses need to be issued, plus a new category of small-scale cultivator licenses, with preferences given to applicants from socially and economically disadvantaged groups. After these licenses, no new licenses shall be issued for 24 months.
The state would regulate marijuana, from seed to sale, according to the proposal.
I don’t like all the regulation, but it’s better than what currently exists.
It’s a hell of a lot better than the last proposal that they tried to pass here. It’ll get really interesting if PA gets recreational before Ohio.
Counterpoint: The Virginia legislature legalized recreational marijuana in 2021. The state has yet to license any recreational distributors, so recreational MJ exists in gray market limbo. I suspect the timetable has to do with the Ohio folks anticipating similar shenanigans should legal recreational MJ be forced upon a reluctant legislature and government.
That is because you shipped all your Indians off to Oklahoma. Minnesoda’s only legal dispensary – on the Red Lake res – was overwhelmed on our first day of legalization.*
Of course if you don’t have the right skin color, your pot inventory will be confiscated.
So the indians have a year and change before they have any legal competition.
There are still tribes in Virginia. They’ve just intermarried a lot.
Governor Youngkin receives peace tribute from Cheroenhaka Indian Tribe in annual Spotswood Treaty ceremony
My great-grandfather was supposedly Choctaw. 23&Me says I am whiter than Wonder Bread.
I do have 0.30% Nigerian going for me. Reparations…here I come!
The groups are aware that the legislature has a tendency to drag their feet when it comes to anything passed at the ballot box. As an example, when sports gambling was legalized, there was a deadline when the rules had to be in place, and a date by which the sports gambling HAD to be legal. The legislature managed to get all the rules in place at the last minute, and sports gambling didn’t happen until the final date allowed by the bill.
The most important of those systems is the modern meritocracy. We built an entire social order that sorts and excludes people on the basis of the quality that we possess most: academic achievement. Highly educated parents go to elite schools, marry each other, work at high-paying professional jobs and pour enormous resources into our children, who get into the same elite schools, marry each other and pass their exclusive class privileges down from generation to generation.
David Brooks is a fucking idiot. Academic Achievement means jack shit. They rarely produce anything of value. Only STEM fills the union of academic achievement and real productivity.
Didn’t Trump graduate from Wharton?
Business majors are an interesting bunch. They tend to straddle the line between useful and not useful. You almost have to wait and see if they accomplish anything or not.
Some engineers are some of the smartest people I’ve met with opinions I highly value. Others think because they are technically smart engineers that applies to things well outside their profession and they are always right.
You have to wait and see if they listen to other people or are just arrogant. In my experience it runs 50/50.
As a “software engineer” — I’m firmly in the “neither of the above” category (I sure as hell am not one of the smartest people anyone knows unless you know some real dumbasses… and one of the things my education was very clear on is that you have to go ask people things because you don’t know everything…)
The smartest person I know is an engineer. He is also the most humble person I know.
They might be related as he really doesn’t have to prove how smart he is. I’ve learned a great deal from him.
Well, he can’t quite get away with nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah… I’m so much better than you!
That’s funny. Didn’t Harvard et al spend a shit ton of money trying to reject that concept outright?
It depends on which side of their mouth they’re talking out of on any given day.
He’s less wrong if you replace “meritocracy” with “credentialism”.
I keep forgetting to post this, but re: incandescent light bulb lifespan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb7Bs98KmnY
TL:DR: They burn out when they do because they’re more efficient at higher tempoeratures.
I’ve had led and florescent bulbs burn that are still working fine after a decade + of regular use and others that burned out in year.
LEDs are kind of like computer chips, if they don’t go bad right away, they will last for years.
They just don’t make them like they used to.
Buy sign / rough duty bulbs. They are exempt.
https://www.bulbs.com/Indicator_&_Sign/results.aspx
They are rated 130V so they will be dimmer on a given wattage. But given the rough duty spec and lower voltage they should last for long while while being even less efficient!
Also, each start is a stressor, particularly hard starts. Back in the dinosaur days we would “warm” the incandescent (halogen) theatre lights an hour before the show by stepping them up every few minutes.
In the meantime, duelling sides are duking it out over the August special election with one issue – making it more difficult to amend the state constitution… which battle is really all about abortion.
So… many… terrible commercials.
Riding around the neighborhood, I’ve noticed all of the No on 1 signs are the same. I’ve seen three different styles of Yes on 1 signs from different groups.
Are they pulling one of those bait and switch where “No” legalizes Marijuana and “Yes” bans it? A popular tactic used in Oklahoma, I believe.
Exactly!
No.
*sigh*
Issue 1 has nothing to do with abortion or marijuana legalization. Issue 1 makes it harder to amend the state constitution in the future. This would impact the abortion amendment that is set to be on the ballot this fall (which is why the legislature pushed Issue 1 to be part of an August special election). The marijuana legalization is not a constitutional amendment (which means the legislature can gut it if it passes, but I would hope they have enough self preservation to leave it alone).
Voting Yes on Issue 1 makes it harder to amend the constitution, voting No on Issue 1 keeps that status quo.
I’m in favor of making it harder to amend the constitution, although I think the legislature are pieces of shite for not doing this until Roe v. Wade was overturned, and there were rumblings about putting legal abortion in the state constitution.
Ugh even someone at work was talking about it, because Ohio.
Texas guy (boss-boss) is like “Okay let’s move on from politics….”
The most important of those systems is the modern meritocracy. We built an entire social order that sorts and excludes people on the basis of the quality that we possess most: academic achievement.
And if actual meritocracy doesn’t work, we’ll resort to mere credentialism. That way, the chick with the bachelor’s in communications or Lady Gaga Studies can feel superior to the dude who wires her house or fixes her HVAC.
At least she can double major in Bad Romantic Literature.
I saw a study of a few hundred people that was a plot of income vs IQ. While there was a modest positive correlation, it was interesting that the 3 highest earners all had IQs below 100. It reminded me of the story of Thales and the olive harvest.
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A story, with different versions, recounts how Thales achieved riches from an olive harvest by prediction of the weather. In one version, he bought all the olive presses in Miletus after predicting the weather and a good harvest for a particular year. Another version of the story has Aristotle explain that Thales had reserved presses in advance, at a discount, and could rent them out at a high price when demand peaked, following his prediction of a particularly good harvest. This first version of the story would constitute the first historically known creation and use of futures, whereas the second version would be the first historically known creation and use of options.[76]
Aristotle explains that Thales’s objective in doing this was not to enrich himself but to prove to his fellow Milesians that philosophy could be useful, contrary to what they thought,[77] or alternatively, Thales had made his foray into enterprise because of a personal challenge put to him by an individual who had asked why, if Thales was an intelligent famous philosopher, he had yet to attain wealth.
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“If you’re so smart, how come you ain’t rich?”
IQ, ambition, common sense and capability are all different axes of human potential in my observation. And frankly, the world relies a lot more on the latter two than the first two, imho.
Hi, Derpy.
Howdy. It’s good to be back on a more regular basis.
Those Miami weapons won’t make it to Ukraine.
Have a fun summer, Europe!
Your daily reminder that Jeremy Farrar is a sociopath.
https://twitter.com/NassMeryl/status/1686871284649537536
Elite college based meritocracy really separates the wheat from the chaff. I went to college with a guy who went on to be a United States Senator; Ken Salazar. I wouldn’t hire that idiot to wash my car or mow my lawn.
“Oakland NAACP calls for state of EMERGENCY over soaring crime and blame defund the police movement and Soros-backed DA Pamela Price for violence”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12369543/Oakland-NAACP-crime-pamela-price.html
HA HA
Just like our open border, all that social signaling is great as long as you don’t have to pay any consequences personally.
Topical. Check the twitter video from the former LA sheriff in there too… I figured it would stop the first time high end stores got cleaned out — but they seem determined to stay the course. I wouldn’t blame every retail location in California to shutter up at this point. Or we go full Rooftop Korean mode (because we have to). We’ll see, I guess… I’m still trying to get the hell out of here by next summer.
Just wait till the next election, when the incumbent wins by only 33 points instead of 35! That’ll show em!
Guess what? The white people who form the bulk of support for BLM and like-minded groups never had the interests of black people in mind.
Better late learning this than never, I guess.
“Existence of aliens could be proven in 28 DAYS: Harvard physicist to announce if debris pulled from the ocean are extraterrestrial – or just meteor fragments”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12369725/Existence-aliens-proven-28-DAYS-Harvard-physicist-announce-debris-pulled-ocean-extraterrestrial-just-meteor-fragments.html
28 days later….
Anyone want to tell her?
Aren’t meteors extraterrestrial?
“Woman in blackface terrorizes Target worker and demands to know where its Pride section is – before going on a rant in nearby Starbucks where she complained about being fired from her post office job”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12370149/Woman-blackface-terrorizes-Target-worker-demands-know-Pride-section-going-rant-nearby-Starbucks-complained-fired-post-office-job.html
Drugs or just crazy?
Maybe just a goofy sense of humor.
Crazy because she stopped taking her drugs? Dunno.
Why not both?
Crazy. Also not in black face. That’s a clay mask beauty treatment.
She wore a red T-shirt to Target?
In the Well, she seems extra nice department. I really do think there’s a subset of the Indian (dot not feather) American population who were raised to believe in socialism and their elite status (leftovers from the caste system?) and try to hire like minded folks. Extra irony for working closely with Warren (not dot or feather… just lying jackass).
Who really cares when like every other member of this administration, she is the absolutely worst, anti-freedom person they could find for the position?
Oh there absolutely is a specific type of Indian female that is avowedly socialist, elitist, and committed to the caste system.
They are products of both American success and the Indian bureaucracy which is Soviet in tooth and claw.
“How birth control destroyed a generation of women”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvCOCXU_EuA
Click-baity title, but that’s YouTube. A fetching Australian lass explores the dangers of hormonal birth control.
Watched that last night… didn’t realize the Pill also reduced sex drive in women…. and given the whole “seeping into the water supply” / testosterone decrease on the male side, have to wonder if it is having a similar effect across the board.
And the tin foil hat side of me has to wonder if this was Attempt 1 of the Modern Eugenics… break up the family, feed women into the labor force (driving down wages), reduce sex drives and cut population growth… all the sorts of things they’d love.
Promoting single parenthood has been the most successful tactic in keeping the proletariat struggling. Meanwhile the well-off are quite serious about marriage in service of family formation.
Love this description
| the members of the highly educated class tend to be the most insular, measured by how often we have contact with those who have jobs unlike our own.
This is quite true and somewhat explains how many costal elite idiots still have not grasped the appeal of Trump, when most of us here could have made all the points almost 8 years ago that Brooks finally figured out. It’s enough to make you wonder if those fancy ass schools are teaching groupthink and really just a place for the elite to fuck and befriend each other and form a little private club in the corporations and institutions?
At least they’re co-ed now, I guess. I pity the British schoolboys and the Skull and Bones members who could only fuck each other or themselves before graduating to move on to fucking the rest of us.
Heheh. What state you planning on escaping to btw?
Back to GA. We never sold the house we bought when we escaped back there last time to be near my MiL before she passed. And it is close to my parents who are getting up in years. Hopefully this time the market for my style of work won’t end up pulling us back this way.
In the 80’s we talked about being a “global citizen”. It was probably a bunch of BS at the time, but these days I think about that a lot. We’ve got people destroying their own environments and using child and slave labor so people in the west can drive electric cars and have solar panels. And now we’ve “taken guns off the streets” here in the name of safety, but it’s totally fine to send them to the other side of the world for people to shoot each other. This whole WEF/Great Reset or whatever is evil AF.
Make Tribalism Great Again!
Tribalism would be an improvement. At least the people in charge would make sure the interests of the tribe are put first. Or maybe, we’re just not part of that tribe.
Tribalism is underrated. Melting pots make it easier for the bad people. There was a good reason why Italians, Poles, Jews, whatever, had their own neighborhoods and took care of their own.
I saw a neat video explaining why there never was a German mafia in the US. German immigrants mostly became farmers in the Midwest instead of living in cities like many other immigrants. Since the German population was spread out over a wide area, there were very few opportunities for organized crime.
“It’s a big club, and you’re not in it.”
“EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police Chief Called Jan 6 Events ‘A Cover Up’ in Tucker Carlson Interview HIDDEN By Fox News.
Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund told then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson that events surrounding the January 6th riots at the U.S. Capitol appear to have been a “cover up,” in never-seen-before footage published exclusively by The National Pulse.
In the hour-long interview, Sund laments the behaviors of then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as well as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, who he says had intelligence to suggest problems on Capitol Hill, which they failed to communicate with Sund and his cops on the ground….”
https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/08/02/exclusive-capitol-police-chief-called-jan-6-events-a-cover-up-in-tucker-carlson-interview-hidden-by-fox-news/
““We Got to Show Them All the Facts” – President Trump’s Attorney Addresses Media Outside DC Courthouse – PROMISES DISCOVERY in the Case (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/we-got-show-them-all-facts-president-trumps/
*lights Q signal*
How great would it be if we get to a trial, and all Trump’s attorneys look like her, and the government team all look like Rachel Levine?
Whip me, beat me, make me fund frivolous lawsuits. Hubba freaking hubba!
Oh yeah…
So lonely
Years ago, it was typical to have a four-person crew on a freight train. Over time, some railroad positions like flagman (the crewmember manning a caboose) became less common due to advances in technology, and were deemed unnecessary. Now, the freight industry is heading in a direction where trains may only have one worker on board: an engineer, who is the person driving the train.
This is a future that many railroaders tell NPR they aren’t thrilled about for a number of reasons, particularly because it would mean an engineer is alone on a locomotive in remote areas of the country for hours at a time.
Injun attacks are more frequent than you might think.
LOL
It couldn’t have anything to do with union featherbedding.
OK Mr. Lightbulbknowerabouter, is there a decent LED bulb out there that doesn’t fucking flicker like crazy in a fixture with a dimmer? I’ve searched high and low and I haven’t found one.
Not in my experience…
I’ve not yet rewired any of the hardwired dimmers in the wall with any of the supposedly compatible ones.
I’ve got a dimmer on a couple of LED lights (kitchen pendants and dining room chandelier). I have no clue what kind of bulbs they have – they are some kind of fancy thing that Mrs. Dean picked out (they are really cool). The chandelier is fine, but the kitchen pendants have a particular level of dimmer that they flash on and off. Of course, that’s the level I would like to use.
So, not helpful, I know. But apparently some LEDs can take a dimmer. I did not know (per Sensei) there are supposedly compatible dimmers. Will have to look into it.
Carnival throws CDC overboard.
Singling out the cruise industry is a nice touch. Dipshits.
And yes, I know it’s old, but I didn’t realize how hard they fucked those companies.
I’d rather be fired out of a cannon than have to accept a berth on that monstrosity in the most disease free of times. Looks like Hell on earth.
Ahem.
:: Taps Glibs Cruise link ::
To each his own, just not my cup of tea. Too crowded with no escape.
Better cork his fork.
And take his trident.
I love you.
Uhhh… Thank you.
Did you see what that went for in a recent auction? Far over the estimate; low sixes IIRC.
Trident, not cork or fork.
No I didn’t. That’s awesome!
They have distressed bond holders to pay.
Money talks, bullshit walks
*quietly clear throat & whispers* check the date on the article.
PUBLISHED MON, MAY 4 202010:27 AM EDTUPDATED MON, MAY 4 20202:46 PM EDT
They’re not even bothering to hide their glee.
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1687204275565518848
One almost unknown victim of the incandescent bulb purge is early modern (era, not style) art.
I am most familiar with the work of Thomas Wilfred. I was endlessly fascinated by his composition on display in the Joslyn (Memorial) Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. I have no idea if it’s still on display; I hope it is. Slowly moving, slowly shape shifting ‘blobs’ of slowly changing color moving up and across the screen. I’d guess the screen size as roughly 24 to perhaps as much as 27″ diagonal, mounted on the bulk of the mechanism, which raised it to perhaps 5″ to 5’6″ in total height. I spent literally hours watching it in fascination whenever the family visited ‘the big city.’
The colors and shapes result, in part from custom crafted incandescent bulbs, often with apparently bizarrely shaped filaments. The Lumia composition would play for days without repeating. It remains one of the most captivating memories of my youth.
Sadly, few of his works remain; even fewer remain functional. Even 15 years ago there was concern over how replacement bulbs could ever be crafted.
To me, this is a great loss. Everything from light shows to screen savers were presaged by Wilfred’s work, and tragically it’s going to just vanish.
SMDH
Eh, planned obsolescence has been baked into lightbulbs for a long time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulUI7JsFjZU
“Wouldn’t it be profitable to spend a sum of—say—two billion dollars to buy up, immediately, obsolete and useless buildings, machinery, automobiles and other outworn junk, and in their place create from twenty to thirty billion dollars worth of work in the construction field and in the factory? Such a process would put the entire country on the road to recovery and eventually would restore normal employment and business prosperity.”
-Bernard London, advocate of breaking windows
Spoon manufacturers best rewarded.
The light bulbs were custom crafted, so I’m not sure planned obsolescence applies. It’s much more a matter of preventing the craft work needed to make replacements.
How exactly do they prevent that craftwork, People replicate old methods of manufacturing all the time. Are ‘they’ outlawing specific materials or tools that are needed to craft one’s own incandescent bulb?
Lava lamps?
We still have one from the 70’s.
The article is the literary version of this meme.
<em.Trident, not cork or fork.
Trident
The transgender craze reminds me of identify-friend-or-foe codes. Squawk in favor trans-pretenders and you’re a friend. Else, you’re a foe.
Since the issue can reliably rankle conservatives, it will remain in the prog arsenal for a long time.
THICC Thursday makes your glands come alive.
https://archive.is/eoFDu
My divorce became final in May 1 2023. The “paperwork” was filed electronically, including the final decree with the scanned signature of the court clerk. Very easy, very efficient.
But when I went to get my WA driver’s license, I brought a printout of my decree which clearly states “Electronically filed” by the clerk’s signature.
WA won’t accept it. So I wrote to Clark county NV to request a certified copy. It will cost $10 (not a problem) but they say they will contact requesters with instructions for payment—problem. They haven’t contacted me.
So I still haven’t changed my name on any IDs. I need this handled so I can get a passport too. No passport, no GlibsCruise!!