publius @publius@mastodon.sdf.org

#introductions (1/2)

Unashamed space colonist & atomic energy enthusiast. Getting ourselves out of tight spots using technology is pretty much what we humans DO. Appeared in the 2012 documentary “Lunarcy!” & still occasionally get contacted by people who have seen it recently on CBC. Low-key supervillain, looking to build a better world that will be worth conquering. Not a typography nerd, but enjoy using LaTeX.

#thestarsareours
#lunacityorbust
#atomicpowertothepeople

The objective this month is to send one of these tubes, as well as a copy of “Lunarcy!” (which has to go separately), to all the chapters of the National Space Society.
This, in turn, involves a lot of postage, which costs money. Here is a view of the sort of postage which will be used to send out this mail.

“But how do I send money?” you ask.
Physical payments including personal cheques drawn in US funds, US postal money orders, international postal money orders, or (although this is not recommended) US currency, may be directed to :
C.D. Carson
Box 1035
Fort Worth
Texas 76101 USA

Electronic payments may be directed to :
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme2/prometheuslives

If you want to do something else, please send e-mail to "publius@sdf.org" explaining what it is.

🚀 Our posters carry two slogans, “Luna City or Bust!” and “The Stars are Ours!”, to reflect the proximate goal of lunar settlement, and the ultimate goal it leads toward, the O’Neill future.
🚀 But they do us no good sitting around in the box. Send $10 (US$15 for non-US addresses) to receive a tube containing 2 posters with each slogan (4 total), two pin-back badges, and 10 issues of our newsletter LUNA!
🚀 Thank you for your support.

No "Hear Now the Words" today. Computer not cooperating.

The Post Office finally found my cheque, so my box is paid up for another year. And one of the stamp dealers I had contacted sent me $25 in space postage, including some more of those 10¢ Apollo-Soyuz horseblankets I thought I had seen the last of. But my parcel from Japan is still missing…

Does your ISP block nuclearpoweryesplease.org ?
I have never been able to access it from home (AT&T).

What this meal needs is potato.
And I can do that, because the person in this household who doesn't eat potatoes is the one who has gone away for a couple of days, leaving me to prepare the meals.

False Dichotomist : «Since strawberry and peppermint ice cream taste vile together, you must like either one or the other»
Me, a theologian : «Each of them is delicious when accompanying chocolate»
False Dichotomist : departs into unquenchable fire, prepared from the beginning of the world for the Devil and his angels

NOTE : inexplicably, there are some people who do not like chocolate ice cream at all.

Hurrah!
The UPS battery I mistakenly bought last year fits the UPS I bought missing a battery a few weeks ago. (The latter I purchased specifically because I thought there was a good chance it would fit the former.)

I honestly don't know if it's the radically different style, or simply that I don't have the emotional investment in any of the shows, but none of these grab me the way themes of the '80s & '90s do.

https://theglorioblog.com/2020/01/04/the-glorio-decade-the-2010s-in-anime-music/

May get some of these printed.

I'm fairly sure that, if the military forces of Country A, acting under orders, kill a general officer of Country B, that's an act of war, & for the head of government of Country A to hold a press conference to say that "he was a very very bad man who did very very bad things" doesn't somehow make it not an act of war.

The Unihan Radical-Stroke index is surprisingly difficult to work through, in comparison to other lists of characters in K'ang-hsi order I have used. Something about the way it's laid out or presented may need reconsideration.

開まして御目出度う御座います

Great news! The electronic gadget you just bought came with a thick paper booklet. It must be instructions, or documentation, or… well, something useful, right?

It's a printed copy of the GPL.

蔣
總
統
八
秩
華
誕

Inscription on a Bank of Taiwan dollar coin dated (RoC) 55-10-31, commemorating the 80th birthday of Chiang Kai-Shek. I have to assume this is some kind of classical Chinese poetic form.
@Shufei

It's claimed that autistic people lack empathy.

I don't see many autistic cops.

To bludgeon someone unconscious with a truncheon, gas him, zap him, shoot him & watch his lifeblood drain from him, because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, or looked suspicious, or expressed the wrong opinion ― that, apparently, is the act of a “normally empathetic” person. The very idea makes me want to vomit.

Oh well.

BABY YODA USES
A CAR SEAT
BE SAFE HE WILL

Recording of today's show.

https://archives.anonradio.net/201912201500_publius.mp3

#hearnowthewords

As it turns out, I have a favourite Chinese character.
翣 (U+7fe3)
Made up of components meaning "wings" and "concubine", pronounced "sha" in Chinese, Japanese reading "hitsugikazari", and glossed by Father Wieger as "great feather-fans". Of course you need a character for that!