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My July fund-raising campaign to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary since I began Behind the Black is now over. I want to thank all those who so generously donated or subscribed, especially those who have become regular supporters. I can't do this without your help. I also find it increasingly hard to express how much your support means to me. God bless you all!

 

The donations during this year's campaign were sadly less than previous years, but for this I blame myself. I am tired of begging for money, and so I put up the campaign announcement at the start of the month but had no desire to update it weekly to encourage more donations, as I have done in past years. This lack of begging likely contributed to the drop in donations.

 

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SANS ICS HyperEncabulator

An evening pause: Essentially, a detailed and accurate history of the important encabulating technology that has revolutionized all technology, both real and imagined.

Hat tip Wayne DeVette.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
 

"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

11 comments

  • pzatchok

    I must have a new one now.

    How could I have gone thus long without just one?

  • Robert Pratt

    Sounds similar to a DEI or CRT seminar but makes even more sense.

  • David M. Cook

    Warning! This is a giant JOKE! This should have been posted on April 1st! Thanks for wasting my data-bits on this!

  • Concerned

    This is hilarious, but only to those of us with discernment and critical thinking skills.
    There are literally tens of millions of people in advanced countries, including ours, that cannot see that this is a joke and will believe it because of the cinematographic presentation and the “sincerity” of the host. Now, just dial back the frequency of nonsense in the presentation, and you basically get CNN and MSNBC.
    With the advent of advanced AI, this video, after you get done laughing, should graphically illustrate how the public can be so easily led to “believing in the science”. After all, that guy sure sounds like an “expert”.

  • commodude

    The Turbo Encabulator video was a classic.

    One manager from outside the tech/maintenance world gave it to us and tagged the email with “This is what you sound like to the rest of us”.

  • Bought one. Putting it in the garage, next to the Interociter.

  • Andrew R

    As sson as I can afford it I’m getting one and hooking it up to my Eschatron 9000. Then we’ll see some immanentizing!

  • David M. Cook

    Heh, I turned it off just after the crack about the “Natural Guard”! Can‘t wait to use that on the next ANG member I see at the grocery store. (173rd Fighter Wing, flying the mighty Eagle!)

  • Jeff Wright

    I remember hearing about how spent ack-ack shells would sometimes land sharp-end first on the teak decks…and how one sailor fooled a congresswoman about the ruby throat deck-pecker or something—where she said she read up about them.

    I mangle jokes.

  • Andi

    He left out one critical piece of information- where do you plug in the flux capacitor ?

  • wayne

    Blair–

    This Island Earth (1955)
    How To Make An… Interociter
    https://youtu.be/0gGY4FgUViI
    1:33

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