Okay, so I've been giving it thought what few spare CPU cycles I've had lately....  

Here's what I got in mind so far.

3902 McCullough Rd
San Antonio, TX 78216


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This is a busy little corner in the unincorporated Olmos Park enclave of San Antonio.  If you pan north and east a bit, you'll find a thin, twisty, meandering little road called Contour Drive.  This is no ordinary neighborhood.  Local millionaire businessman Red McComb makes his home here on this street.  Thus, it will be here that we're find the Lowell-Bunnings and Tsukimura households.  It's amazing this isn't a gated community, but despite its affluence, Olmos Park is down to earth like that.

There is also a gun club nearby, but it's nothing to stress over.  It's a trap and skeet shooting range where they use low-power bird shot.

An idea I have is that when they do show up, the building changes so it has a second floor with apartments in the same Art Deco style as the storefront below.  The main apartment will have direct access to the main storefront.  The roof will have the family dojo and garden.

As usual, the rank and file will not notice these changes, as the Metacontinuity, with its malleable causality, will make it seem as if it's always been that way.  The only people that will notice are displacees and Managers.

Basically, this will be one of those things that manages to slip through the Goddess's carefully cast nets.  As for the plot, I'm still trying to hash that out.  Don't worry, it will come at some point in time or another.

The main reason I like this is because not only is it in a wealthy neighborhood that will easily support the Takamachi family's public business venture, the storefront itself is whimsical and trendy.  While the sudden shift to the Art Deco style will undoubtedly throw the Takamachis, they will certainly get used to it as the visual style is inviting and friendly to Americans, loudly declaring "Good food is found here!" Even if it's not exactly what Americans are used to, San Antonians are increasingly metropolitan these days, even among those of the Conservative bent.

Thoughts?

Earlier Jeff Bezos' legal team released the following: https://medium.com/@jeffreypbezos/no-tha...6e3922310f

They received a couple of lawyer letters from the National Enquirer saying that unless Bezos makes a public statement denying that the Enquirer's stories on Bezos are politically motivated the Enquirer would publish a set of photos of Bezos' junk.

So the Enquirer is trying to extort a man who can build his own inter-regional ballistic missiles.

[Sits down with gourmet popcorn] This is going to be fun.

How does this work now?  Can anyone post sample code of how to embed a Youtube?

Some say, he was taken from an elephant - others, that bureaucrats file in his name... all we know is, he's not The Donald, he's The Donald's European counterpart. 

And he hath unleashed a statement upon twitter which has managed to say what everyone sane has been thinking these last few months/years, inflammed the red-tops across the UK and basically left half a continement going 'what'.

It's rare for a politician to let slip just how utterly fucking pissed off they are. Especially when the stakes are this high.

This is brilliant. 

https://twitter.com/eucopresident/status...2293266435

https://features.propublica.org/navy-acc...ign=buffer

Quote:The collision of the vessels was the Navy’s worst accident at sea in four decades. Seven sailors drowned. Scores were physically and psychologically wounded. Two months later, a second destroyer, the USS John S. McCain, broke that grim mark when it collided with another cargo vessel, leaving 10 more sailors dead.
The successive incidents raised an unavoidable question: How could two $1.8 billion Navy destroyers, protected by one of the most advanced defense systems on the planet, fail to detect oncoming cargo ships broadcasting their locations to a worldwide navigational network?

As you may recall, I had Luna introduce herself as "Mauno Luna" to Motoki in chapter 2.  This was just me compressing "Mau no Luna" -- "Luna of the Mau" -- into something that looked like a proper name.

Well, in chapter 3, Luna asks Doug to get her identity papers like he obviously has.  And I said to myself, "Say, is 'Mauno' a real surname anywhere?"

Answering that question has suddenly turned a "utility" scene -- "Hi, Luna, here's your ID."  "Thanks." -- into something a lot more fun, as I get caught up in what has occasionally been the unexpectedly entertaining part of writing this story, the research.

And because I am a cruel, teasing author, I shall leave it at that.  <evil grin>

Good news, Rajvik!  The rest of us, maybe not so good…

For those of your who have been living under a rock, you may not have heard that the governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Ralph Northam, is in a bit of hot water for wearing blackface back when I was like two years old.  The photo in his medical school yearbook he apologized for being in, then he said he wasn't in the photo because he wore blackface somewhere else.  And his wife had to tell him not to moonwalk at the press conference.  So, things are not looking up for him, and the resignation seems like it should be coming soon.

But his successor, Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax, he has an accuser suing him for sexual harassment.  If this goes on too long, the Democratic party will start asking him to resign, so as to live up to our MeToo cred.

Which leads us to the next in line, Attorney General Mark Herring, also a Democrat.  Looks like he'll be moving up, and oops, today he also admitted to wearing blackface to a party back in 1980.  People are already calling on him to resign.


Which leads us to the next in line, the Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates.  Who is that?  Well funny story, back in the 2017 election, the 94th delegate district was very close, and was ruled to be an exact tie.  So a lots were drawn, and the seat went to Republican David Yancey.  This was enough to give the Republican party a bare majority in the House of 51-49, rather than a 50-50 split with a Democratic tiebreaker.  Because of this, Republican Kirk Cox was elected Speaker, and may find himself in the Governor's chair.  In fact, all three statewide offices could go to Republicans, now.

Statewide control of the entire government could flip because of scandal, and because of one single voter in the 94th district.  You know who you are, Scott.

It's the little things which make a difference sometimes.

Polar express: magnetic north pole moving 'pretty fast' towards Russia

Navigation based on magnetic north is going to be tricky for a while until the poles flip or it slows its movement.

And here is yet another reason to consider CNN fake news, because even when they are being factual, they are biasedly covering the democrat's asses.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/02/03/us/ra...index.html

Look, it is no secret that I don't like CNN, I was around when they started and even then their bias was so apparent that we called them the Communist News Network. Then when they went all in on covering Bill's ass when his misdeeds were so telling that the only real reason he wasn't successfully impeached was that the crimes didn't reach the bar, but were a state issue, it became the Clinton News Network.

This though, this goes beyond the pale, an article that if you boil it down to basics is saying that its okay to be a racist, so long as you are a progressive. Yeah no, its time to call out their bullshit for what it is, and maybe the progressives at the top while were at it.

A boy in Indiana was arrested after posting Siri's reaction when he told the Apple digital assistant that he wanted to shoot up a school.

Fox News has the story, so YMMV.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/indiana-boy-1...o-shoot-up

This is encouraging because its possible that the kid was just being an ass, seeing as he made no threats to a specific school or person... but the threat was taken seriously by other people and reported to the authorities.