It's not science if it's not woke science
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Well, this faith in science was only valid until Earth Day festivities were over
Fascinating article, if you can navigate past the cash wall
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WSJ: Apollo 11 had a hidden here: software. A totally absorbing read, about the kids — many were in their early 20s, fresh from college, and some savvy oldsters inventing an entirely new science.
“You can’t get a degree in how to fly to the moon,” says Dana Densmore, who joined the lab in 1965 and became a control supervisor for the lunar-lander software. “You had to get people who know how to think, who are creative and alert. It was all invented on the spot.”
Pal Nancy was able to access the article via Apple News, and I’m sure there are other avenues too. If you aren’t a WSJ subscriber, this is a story worth searching for.
Crystal power surging in New Hampshire
/Marianne Williamson outpolls Booker, Gillibrand, Gabbard (?), Inslee (??) and O’Rourke (0%)
I confess to technological cluelessness, and can’t figure out how to just post the relevant snippet of a video, but start at 10:10 here.
Personally, I'd never drink from a pool W.C. Fields might have pissed in
/From a friend and reader:
One of my kids got a mouthful of pond water at the Byram/Junior League pool.
She puked that night, infecting our 2 youngest daughters (1y and 2y) with some pool borne virus.
They then infected my wife and I.
The also infected 3/4 of their grandparents and 2 great grandparents.
I'm sure the viral infection is spreading around town now.
We told our friends about the experience and they and their friends had the same thing happen.
That place is overcrowded and under chlorinated and I'm sure the politically motivated Greenwich news papers won't do anything to investigate.
So here it is, put it out there. From our small circle of friends experiences, there seems to be a real issue. Would love to see the comments come back with similar experiences so they can do something about it.
Riverside's own Bide a Wee Inn
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Not quite, yet, but these owners may be beginning to feel that way. 4 Highgate Road, down in Harbor Point, has cut its price again and the owners would now be willing to move for $3.595 million. That’s quite a drop from the original price of $4.995, but the house has been for sale since 2016 and seems to be going nowhere, and even the owners have probably lost track of how many agents and how many price cuts they’ve gone through, so what’s one more?
Two problems here: the owners paid $2.925 for the land this 2011 construction sits on, so they’re pretty much looking at giving away the house they paid to build, and that must hurt. The house was never, ever worth $5 million, but one can understand why the owners hoped it was.
And the property is entirely in the VE flood zone. The topo map appears to place the structure right on the minimum 13’ elevation line, but with the global warming hysteria going on at Town Hall, another panic attack by town planner Katie DeLuca could very well result in yet another bump-up in height requirements, and that would be a bummer.
Maybe if they offered to toss a boatload of water wings into the deal.
Well, bottoms up!
/Katy Perry says the secret to slowing aging is enemas.
I’ll confess to having no idea who or what a Katy Perry is, other than a name I see online from time to time, and I deliberately didn’t look her up because there are many things I don’t want or need to know, she being one of them, but it’s hard to resist a bottom story like this.
“I’m kind of into those type of things, like health and healing places and self-betterment places,” the 34-year-old pop star shared. “Especially as you get older and you have longer hangovers, you realize the cells in my body are dying. I did this thing called Panca Karma, it’s basically Ayurvedic eating and cleansing, you do lots of enemas.”
According to Adore Yoga, Panca Karma is “a full cleansing program that removes all the harmful toxins from the body to create optimum healing conditions … that takes 21 days to complete.”
Were I suffering from hangovers, and especially if those hangovers were lasting longer as I aged, I might consider quitting, or at least tempering the booze intake before I resorted to squirting warm water up my fanny, but … whatever.
On a hunch, I DuckDucked “Katy Perry Trump” and found that this genius has pages of opinions on the president and how he could improve his behavior to better suit her demands. Her uninformed idea of why he’s to blame for the California wildfires that threatened her friends’ mansions seems typical.
But back to the enemas and the wisdom of pop stars:
She and fiancé Orlando Bloom prefer “new age,” holistic treatments to modern medicine.
“There are ancient ways to heal yourself besides just taking a pill, which is something I always love to investigate,” she said.
Though she’s passionate about health, the “Never Really Over” songstress also admitted she’s all about balance.
“Orlando is very all about that kind of new age of living, for instance, today we are actually on a little bit of a health kick because we ate so many croissants when we were on vacation,” she explained, adding that they’re “eating fruit and apple cider vinegar and later I may have a vegan meal.”
Another Old Greenwich sale
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14 Tait Road, $3 million, 21 DOM. Owners bought it new in 2012 for $2.925, so no loss of new house premium here (ignoring transaction costs, but ….). This was another one of brother Gideon’s listings; he’s been on a tear the past two years, so it’s no wonder he’s so cheerful about the market. A broader perspective tells a different story, but if one is personally having no trouble topping up the jolly Jaguar with premium, who needs a broader perspective?
And a quick sale in Old Greenwich
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12 Hendrie Drive (off Edgewater), asking $1.499 million, reports a contract, twenty-four days after being listed. It’s on a small lot: 0.12 acre, which is typical for this neighborhood, but its appeal is understandable. The sellers paid $1.276 for it in 2012 and did a nice job freshening it up.
It’s in the AE Zone, which can impact future improvements, depending, but if it’s under contract, the buyers’ attorney would have investigated that and satisfied his clients in that regard. Presumably.
The (just) under $2 mm market seems to be doing okay
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12 Dingletown Road
12 Dingletown Road asked for $1.950 million, sold for $1.9, (April) contract in 70 days. Sellers bought it for $1.850 in 2003, but at least it didn’t lose value over the past 16 years; a lot of homes in Greenwich have.
9 Glen Avon
9 Glen Avon sold, full price, for $1.995 million after just 5 days on the market. Not quite my idea of the world’s best architecture, but Glen Avon is a very well located street and the house itself is up-to-date and clean. For under $2 in Riverside, I’m not surprised that it went so quickly.
And if there’s a common theme here, it is that both properties were well priced by their agents and owners. They might have stretched for, say, the mid-$2s, but would probably have ended up here anyway, or lower, a year from now.
Jesus wept
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But don’t you care about how I feel?”
And Abraham, Mohammed, and Buddha, and if you care about your country, you will, too.
Millenial writer loses it when her editor/boss insists that “hamster” is not spelled “hampster”.
“But that’s how I’ve always spelled it! That’s how I want to spell it!”
To get the full flavor of this incident and to reach the nadir of despair, you must, I say must, read the whole thing. Snippet:
Bonus track: here is what’s promised to be (I didn’t check) a one-hour continuous loop of Miss Skeeter Davis playing the perfect song for this young lady and any of her fellow college graduates who suffer a deep, personal catastrophe such as this. Go into a softly-lighted safe space, cuddle a fluffy, and hit “play”.