Out hiking
Posting will resume this afternoon. Diane wanted to do a mid-week hike and I needed desperately to get out. The gyms are closed, you can’t go anywhere without being accosted for not wearing a mask, and the news is just too depressing.
In the mountains you can at least make believe you can still breathe free in America.
We should be back by 2 pm (Pacific). I will begin posting then.
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 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
Posting will resume this afternoon. Diane wanted to do a mid-week hike and I needed desperately to get out. The gyms are closed, you can’t go anywhere without being accosted for not wearing a mask, and the news is just too depressing.
In the mountains you can at least make believe you can still breathe free in America.
We should be back by 2 pm (Pacific). I will begin posting then.
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 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
Keep on hikin good sir. Tis a wonderful and necessary escape.
“OK, Karen! ?♀️”
Paul Joseph Watson
May 2020
https://youtu.be/aR3uA2eLgbk
8:33
(adult language & themes, therein)
wayne: Yup, it happens now on every hike, just like that woman in Watson’s video that yells at the bicyclist as he zips by for not social distancing.
I however do not like the new term “Karen.” Too vague. We already have a bunch of very good English words for these idiots: busybodies, nosy-parkers, meddlers. The first however is the best, as it clearly describes them in a very unflattering way.
Mr. Z.,
Yepper, not overly fond of the term ‘Karen’ myself, it’s apparently hip, edgy, and new, or something.
ref: “nosy parkers,” hmm,… not sure I’ve heard that one in actual conversation. (Sounds like something I would have heard in an old movie.) Is that maybe a Regional thing?
Q:
Any quaint Yiddish words come to mind ref busybodies & meddlers?
wayne: Gosh, I am sure there is a perfect Yiddish word for these busy-bodies, but I don’t speak Yiddish and my mother (who did) is long gone. Any other Yiddish speakers out there?
Here we go, sorta Yiddish…..
‘Kochleffel’
–derived from the German words for cooking [Koch] and spoon [Loeffel].
“A Kochleffel is a busybody—someone who stirs things and people up.”
“Kochleffel Syndrome
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/602703
(I can’t people these people have a sense of humor.)
“The Syndrome is widespread and relatively contagious and is transmitted by an as yet unidentified agent, usually by word of mouth. Its manifestations are protean and may mimic several other illnesses. Its most striking form is remarkably abrupt in onset and transforms the most charming person instantly into an excited, churning, and brewing creature with agitated behavior and delusions that curiously mimic those of paranoia. These delusions are so powerful that they force the patient to externalize them, preferably to someone of similar or higher status….”
(a variant of Trump Derangement Syndrome)