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Marching Banned

Happy Hasty Hump Day! I’m busier than a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest, so this is likely to be rather brief.

Nutshell

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem. ~John Galsworthy

This is a summary of Admin46’s platform. When you look at everything from the bizarre little world of Washington DC, it’s not too hard to think you can rule by decree.

They’re doing a fine job of reversing every good thing that has ever happened in this country and they’re only just getting started. 😠

Getting Warmed Up

Marches by Sousa – American Marches

Spring has kicked in and temperatures are rising dreadfully. The bright side is that Ol’ Handsy declared that if we all get vaccinated by May, we might be able to celebrate in small groups for Independence Day.

That the Senile Fucker in Charge thinks that it’s his place to declare what we can or cannot do on Independence Day (much less any other damned day) is utterly unconscionable. The Beltway Bandits need a serious reality check.

Phenomenon, Doo-Dooby-Dooby…

There is nothing like a dream to create the future. ~Victor Hugo

It’s funny how you think of something and suddenly it’s every-damned-where. Apparently, it’s called the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon.

It’s one thing when you think about something innocuous like a type of car, food or some such. It’s something else entirely when people in another time zone are seemingly sucking the very ideas out of your head.

Back in the 90s, I came up with a story idea that involved transmitting secret information on people’s blood cells. I had read an article about a high school kid who had written 32 or 64 lines on a human hair with a laser. Not only was this mind-blowing, but it also inspired a sci-fi story idea. Never wrote the story. Not sure I even wrote the idea down. And yet…

In 2001, Star Trek: Enterprise debuted with an episode called Broken Bow which featured…

My blood cell inscription idea!

C’mon, man!

Okay, it’s not that original of an idea but the problem is that whenever I get around to using that in one of my stories, everybody’s going to say I was ripping off Star Trek: Enterprise and I have nothing written down or dated from before the show premiered to prove it was my own idea. I hate that.

Another thing, which is no problem at all, is an idea in my current story. Sentinels fangrrl, Claudia, is working on a bulletproof material as a gift for the Sentinels. She develops a synthetic silk that becomes hard at the point of impact in directly inverse proportion to the force applied to it. In reality, somebody came up with the same basic effect using two layers of graphene.

My idea was based on medieval Mongolian armor. They used to wear a silk shirt under their lamellar to keep arrowheads from piercing their skin. The armor slowed the arrow and the silk wrapped the arrowhead up before it could cut through to the skin. I didn’t know the actual science. It’s a superhero story. The science doesn’t technically need to make sense.

Somebody did it for real and I think that’s pretty cool.

Muppet Show – Mahna Mahna…m HD 720p bacco… Original!