JamesSavik

One of my favorite author's characters often gives people an arch look(1). I've not sure anyone knows exactly what that means. One claim is the person looks at you with an arched eyebrow. Another claim is that it means "mischievous or playful". Yet another says it means stern or foreboding. Since I can't define it, I won't use it. My characters will raise an eyebrow, appear mischievous or possibly stern, but will give no one an arch look. _________________________ 1) The Lost Fleet by Jack Campbell's Senator Victoria Rione.

The pinnacles are one of the many spectacular features at Crater Lake National Forest in Oregon that get overlooked. They were actually fumaroles that formed before Mount Mazama's catastrophic caldera forming eruption. The heat caused these features to solidify and remain after the soil eroded from them. If you ever get a chance to see Crater Lake, go! You might want to stay a week and hike all over the park.

Jeff Beck died Jan. 10th. I can't describe how good he was as a guitarist. He was enormously talented, played for the Yardbirds and, practically, everybody else in rock. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame twice - once was a Yardbird and again as a solo artist. Jeff Beck Dies Suddenly of Meningitis (ABC) Here's one of my favorites. If you have a streaming service, do yourself a favor and look for some of his work. I suggest the albums Blow by Blow, Wired or There and Back. His work transcended genres spanning rock, blues and, jazz. He was a great influence on music and was known to often work with promising young artists. I'm going to miss him.

In football, it doesn't matter how high you are drafted or resplendent you look in your uniform if you can't play.

Some of us live in the woods, way off the rails, and haven't been on the rails this millennium.

On the classic B-17g bomber, the dorsal turret is often called the top turret. Crewmen much preferred this position to the ball turret on the bottom of the bomber.

I fell into a burning ring of fire I went down, down, down and the flames went higher 🎵 And it burns, burns, burns The ring of fire, the ring of fire 🎵

I will be with you again

Air strike with napalm and willie-pete.

Telemarketers never get a chance to deliver their spiel to me. If they get past my robo-killer software, or spoof a known number to trick me, depending on my mood, they get expertly cussed out or dial tone.

Not my current song, but I remember this guy. He wanted to do metal but his producers didn't want him to.

Paladin is also a holy warrior of ancient times. In some lore, paladins start out as monks and volunteer to be warriors of the faith. They have many restrictions, based on their faith and for all of their holy powers to manifest, they must be and remain virgins. (God knows, that would make me a homicidal maniac.) The Knights Templar took some of the existing lore and used it until the RCC rather abruptly divested itself of their services.

Auxiliary often refers to several types of ships that accompany task groups of naval vessels. These ships can be oilers, repair ships, floating dry-docks, ammunition ships, hospital ships, supply ships, command ships, and refrigeration ships. Over the course of the US Navy's prosecution of the Pacific War (1941-45), they quickly discovered that handling the logistics of a fleet and opposed amphibious operations over thousands of miles was a real ball-buster of a problem. You can't accomplish the mission with your gear in the rear. To make fleets work over the vast distances of the Pacific, these specialty ships had to be built. Existing merchant hulls were too slow and not equipped for these specific missions. Luckily, US yards were churning out liberty ship hulls at a prodigious rate. Some of these hulls were diverted to the Navy's for use as fleet train, and converted to fulfill their specific roles. USS Mount McKinley (LCC-7) - was a late war amphibious command ship outfitted with the communications, supporting equipment and supplies to command amphibious landings. She served in that role until 1970.

The Hunga-Tonga Eruption may have had something to do with the severity of this winter. This eruption occurred slightly less than a year ago (2022 Jan 15) and was classified as a five on the Volcanic Explosivity Index(VEI). Some may even argue it was as much as a six. In the case of this volcanic eruption, satellites recorded the entire thing and showed the explosive plume reaching the mesosphere. There have been many incidents of volcanic cooling in our history. The massive eruption of Mount Tambora in present-day Indonesia caused the Year Without a Summer in 1816. Many Volcanic Winters have been discovered by carefully examining historical records and ice cores from the arctic. There are two schools of thought on the actual mechanism that creates this condition: a) the volume of material and b)the height at which the material is when it is blasted into the atmosphere. Once this gas and dust get in the jet stream, it is distributed worldwide.

Funny you would mention Freddie Mercury. I answered this question on Reddit the other day: What's your favorite pop/rock song written for a movie? I don't often post on Reddit. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. Except perhaps for twattter. I'm beginning to call it NatSocMedia since the Feds seem to be running the whole show.

Narwhal is uncommon slang for a sailor with an unusually large...

If Santa knows when you've been bad or good, no wonder he drinks.

It's frightening to watch moms and suburban housewives ransack the stores in these last weeks before Christmas.

Getting caught with paraphernalia will cost you a hundred bucks.

Paramount has done such a fine job with Star Trek, turning it over to the 10,000 Woke Monkey's Typing script shop, Gene Roddenberry wouldn't even recognize it and would be horribly embarrassed by it. Star Trek offered an optimistic, idealistic post-scarcity vision of the future. It offered insights into technology that inspired its child viewers to grow up, become engineers and invent the tech. What the hell were they thinking? They took something inspiring and wonderful, then shit all over it. As someone who actually tries when I write, I am enraged by low-energy efforts that will be published or produced anyway. Especially on established franchises with significant cultural importance and impact. There is fan-fiction better written and more thoughtful than the video diarrhea Paramount has excreted in its latest round of ABJECT FAILURE with this franchise. With such a rich heritage, telling a decent story and following cannon should be a labor of love. Instead, it's an F-ing labor to watch in its current state. After Pic-tard and Douche-covery, I doubt the whole franchise is worth more than about tree-fiddy max. It'll probably be sold out of the trunk of a meth dealer's car. God knows what sacrilege the next bunch of Hollywood fuk-wits will get up to with it. My hopes Trek's legacy will be treated with any respect are about ZERO because that optimism and hope is something the WOKE machine cannot tolerate in its serfs. It needs us hopeless and broken to tolerate its future vision.

The FTX Crypto Ponzi scheme is the largest of its kind and bilked billions of dollars from investors.

That's Billy Bob Thornton as Bad Santa.

When Santa drinks too much, his nose acquires a rutilant glow.

After taking my 95 and 88-year-old Aunties Christmas shopping, I'm a little further along than languid.

I want to deracinate the fire ants from my yard.