JamesSavik

Getting referred to a cardiologist is never good news.

Does it offer any features to help writers block?

This time of year, allergists are overworked.

In Mississippi, we've got our fingers and toes crossed hoping we don't catch a nasty hurricane to the face.

Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get. Then you get hyper-critical of your own writing and stall, but that's a different conversation.

I prefer my chiropractor to osteopathy. It may sound like a bowl of rice crispies, but I feel better afterward.

YouTube is infested with banal AI-generated content. It's so painful to watch and listen to, I doubt authors will be obsolete any time soon.

No silly. It's cats I like better than people. Cat's are assholes, but you can never tell about people. At least cats are consistent.

Complacency has lost more battles than Custer and France combined.

My incorrigibility was greatly enhanced since I was going to get hit anyway, I decided I might as well make the most of it.

Everybody is undefeated at the start of the season. Whether the fan's cheery optimism is justified gets sorted out by playing the games. Except for Cleveland fans. They are cursed to suffer.

It's not nice to compare whores to lawyers. Whores have principles.

Sometimes it's a character's pathological traits that make them interesting. 🥜🐿️

Beware of the government arriving to "help." Historically, their benevolence has mostly been violence.

Working as a field engineer can be a lot like archaeology. You arrive to find wiring closets with the work of dozens of other field engineers in layers, over decades, and you must figure out what they were trying to do, what is actually happening, and if the widget you are there to install will work as advertised or explode in your face. That's the sort of multifaceted problem engineers face every day, and sometimes several times a day.

It's unbelievable that those who want to reduce the planets' carbon footprint would overlook nuclear power.

In his effort to be inconspicuous, Howie Garner alerted store security to his nefarious purposes.

Photosynthesis is the key to plant's respiration and nutrition cycle. Key to the process are chloroplasts in the cells which use chlorophyll to transform water and CO2 into sugars. One of the persistent questions for sci-fi world-builders is does chlorophyll have to be green? The answer to that question is tricky, and it might to be linked to the spectral class of the star that they evolve under. Every star's output is unique. It is no surprise that our G class Sun evolved green chlorophyll because green is right in the middle of our star's blackbody curve. This might suggest that other types of stars might evolve different colors of chlorophyll analogues. For hotter A class stars, the chlorophyll analog might be purple or a cooler M star might evolve a chlorophyll analog that is red or operates in the infra-red.

Welcome to GA. One of my favorite character creations is named Rowdy.

What's hard for most people to grok about thermodynamics, or the way heat behaves, is that in every system, heat tries to achieve equilibrium. It sounds like a simple concept, but it is the ball-buster of physics students the world over. Consider the case of running water into a bathtub on a cold morning. The water in the pipes is cold until the hot water from the water heater makes it to the faucet. Depending on how far away it is, the first gallon or two is cold and then the hot, steamy water makes it. Sometimes, you can literally see the convective currents in the water as it tries to find equilibrium. A fun experiment might be to drop a little ink in the water to better see what is happening. The equations to figure out what the temperature of the water will be when 2 1/2 gallons of 40 degree water gets mixed with a dozen gallons of 110 degree water are quite elaborate, but most people aren't that thermodynamically sophisticated and simply put their foot in the water and stir it up.

Many people have checked out from the mainstream media because their "mistakes" are too consistent and all benefit one side for it to be simple misinterpretations. They are lying, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out.

There are some people you don't need an electroencephalograph to tell that the lights are on, but nobody is home.

I have been uncharacteristically silent of late because my internet died horribly in a storm. I'm back.

My favorite intercontinental ballistic missile is a Russian bird code-named SATAN by NATO. It is a MIRV (Multiple-Independent Reentry Vehicles) with up to a dozen warheads that can strike different targets with precision. Before the Soviet Union collapsed, there were plans for warheads to deliver chemical and biological payloads. The nuclear warheads range from 200Kt up to 1.2 Mt. This weapon has been replaced and modernized by the R39 Sarmat or the SATAN II. These missiles are civilization enders.

I am melancholy because my internet is down hard and my IsP is clueless.