Thor’s Hall

Recently Scott Adams took a cursory look at the economics of Nuclear Energy in the US, and he rasied some great points.  Ultimately the issue is much larger than just building plants, and disposing of the waste material.  Go take a look here.  The best thing about Scott’s posts are the discussion that it generates.  There are a lot of intelligent folks that get opinionated in the comments section.

Gotta love the conclusion though:

The U.S. nuclear power debate usually gets characterized as a wrestling match between irrational scaredy cats and clear-headed rationalists, refereed by a comically incompetent government. The only thing I know for sure is that no one can understand the economics of a 40-year investment.

I was just looking for .45 ACP at Midway for grins…0 in stock. Incredible!

I little humor to infuse into your day:

A Senior citizen drove his brand new BMW Z4 convertible out of the car salesroom. Taking off down the motorway, he floored it to 160Kmh; enjoying the wind blowing through what little hair he had left.

“Amazing!” he thought as he flew down the N1, enjoying pushing the pedal to the metal even more. Looking in his rear view mirror, he saw a police car behind him, blue lights flashing and siren blaring.

“I can get away from him – no problem!” thought the elderly nutcase as he floored it to 180Kmh, then 220, then 240Kmh. Suddenly, he thought, “What On earth am I doing? I’m too old for this nonsense!”

So he pulled over to the side of the road and waited for the police car to catch up with him..

Pulling in behind him, the police officer walked up to the driver’s side of the BMW, looked at his watch and said, “Sir, my shift ends in 10 minutes.

Today is Friday and I’m taking off for the weekend. If you can give me a reason why you were speeding that I’ve never heard before, I’ll let you go.”

The man, looked very seriously at the policeman, and replied, “Years ago, my wife ran off with a policeman. I thought you were bringing her back.”

“Have a good day, Sir,” said the policeman.

The team over at Blackfive have done things up right.  As usual.  Go on over here and here to see the details.

Here is a quick taste of what you will find:

Pinocchio, Snow White, and Superman are out for a stroll in town one day. As they walked, they come across a sign: “Beauty contest for the most beautiful woman in the world.”

“I am entering!” said Snow White. After half an hour she comes out and they ask her, “Well, how’d ya do?”

“First Place!” said Snow White.

They continue walking and they see a sign: “Contest for the strongest man in the world.”

“I’m entering,” says Superman. After half an hour, he returns and they ask him, “How did you make out?”

“First Place,” answers Superman. “Did you ever doubt?”

They continue walking when they see a sign: “Contest! Who is the greatest liar in the world?” Pinocchio enters.

After half an hour he returns with tears in his eyes.

“What happened?” they asked.

“Who the hell is this Nancy Pelosi?” asked Pinocchio.

It’s well past time for a friday funny.

Into a Belfast pub comes Paddy Murphy, looking like he’d just been run over by a train. His arm is in a sling, his nose is broken, his face is cut and bruised, and he’s walking with a limp.

‘What happened to you?’ asks Sean, the bartender.

‘Jamie O’Connor and me had a fight,’ says Paddy.

‘That little O’Connor,’ says Sean, ‘He couldn’t do that to you, he must have had something in his hand.’

‘That he did,’ says Paddy, ‘a shovel is what he had, and a terrible lickin’ he gave me with it.’

‘Well,’ says Sean, ‘you should have defended yourself. Didn’t you have something in your hand?’

‘That I did,’ said Paddy, ‘Mrs. O’Connor’s breast, and a thing of beauty it was; but useless in a fight.’

About 16 months ago, I ran across a book Monster Hunter’s International.  I hemmed and hawed about it, do I really want to read a book about Zombies that is written by a professed B Movie addict?  Well, I decided to give it a read and bought a copy from the author who was self publishing the book.

I started reading it, and couldn’t put it down.  It hooked you in the opening pages, and never let go.  Zombies?  Uh, not really… so much more than that.  So, I was hooked and have read through it a couple of times now.  Unfortunately, it is currently out of print and has been for about a year or so.  The author signed a contract with Baen and had to stop the self publishing cycle.  Well the release date is coming up at the end of July, and Baen has begun the marketing cycle.  Larry Correa reports that:

http://www.webscription.net/chapters/1439132852/1439132852.htm

MHI is now available on Baen’s webscriptions. The first seven chapters are available for free. For something like $15 you can purchase the E version of my book, and FOUR others that are being released at the same time.  That is awesome.

So, get yourself out to read those first seven chapters.  Then pre-order that book from Amazon.  Larry has four (or more) other MHI books lined up behind this one if it sells well.  Selfishly I would really like to read them.

Ah, the desert.  Warm, sunny, the great wide open.  Why is it that we only remember the good things.  A swore I would never voluntarily spend any great amount of time in the desert again.  The last couple of years I have been thinking that, it wasn’t that bad.  It might be nice to head back to the desert again.  Maybe find a nice retirement property in the SW US somewhere.

What the FRACK was I thinking.  The desert can really suck…

U.S. Marines make their way back to their vehicles in the middle of a sand storm after patrolling a nearby mountain ridge in Bakwa, Farah province, Afghanistan, May 3, 2009. The Marines are assigned to India Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, the ground combat element of Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force Afghanistan. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Brian D. Jones

That stuff (moondust) is just plain nasty.  It gets EVERYWHERE.  It is like talcum powder with embedded grit.  It gets in and through your clothes, you will chafe everywhere.  Cleaning it out of your nostrils and nose hair sucks.   My hat is off to these and every other guy and gal that is going through this on a regular basis.

@JimDeMint Gitmo is a US military installation. Seems to me that this is US soil.

@TheMajPain I would drink to that, except my client would frown on it. Will have to wait a bit.