R.I.P "Triticale"

Nick Schewitzer has a picture and information.
You might want to leave a message at his blog.

In the olden days, my amateur radio buddies^[1] used to talk about the friends they had "all over the world," friends they had never met in person, but knew only by callsign and location (and maybe an occasional exchanged picture). I guess the blogosphere is like that. I never met Triticale, and knew only as much about him as he revealed in his postings. Yet my years of lurking in comment threads led me to view his handle as a flag for a comment that would be worth reading.

I've learned more about Tom in the last 48 hours than I ever thought I'd know, things which make me regret all the more that I never made it far enough north to crash my way into one of the Drinking Right sessions, just to be able to hoist one with him.

Ave atque vale, Triticale.


UPDATE 071219 02:39: Obituary and service plans

Elsewhere:

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^[1] ...that is, my buddies who were Hams. For some reason- probably laziness- I never got involved, myself.

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Patrick got adopted

...by Kitt.
And who could say “no?”

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Well, this sucks

Author Terry Pratchett has been diagnosed with “early onset alzheimer's.”

Via:  The Register

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A hacker organizes his library

What to do when you have over 3,500 books and can't find the one you're looking for...

Via: Slashdot

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Who is it?

Lileks ponders a mystery:

the face is wrong. The face in the cartoon is from something else. I know that guy.

But from where?

Any ideas?

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Countering music industry cluelessness

Call to action for shareholders at Music 2.0:

For charity’s sake, let’s just grant the music label bosses a leave of their senses in 1999 BUT then over a sustained period of at least 8 years , they still haven’t got it - not one out of the sorry parade of major label CEOs...
...if all the budget and energy is being spent protecting their turf... - instead of finding solutions to facilitate this shift to digital - then the obvious suggestion as the first step in this transition is for the Luddite label chiefs to be fired as they have totally lost the plot...

Good summary of the current mess, and a cartoon, too. (LATER: Actually, the cartoon lives here.)

This post by Howie Klein (linked in the above) deserves its own link:

(Via Hear 2.0)

Previously: King Canute the Great exemplified

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Santa really runs diesel-electrics

A rail buff explains at buzz.mn:

It has always bothered me that the Polar Express is pulled by a steam engine. Santa, being one of the earliest tech junkies, dieselised all trains in and out of the Pole in 1939. The suppiles have to come from somewhere, you know, and they have to get to the pole in some manner. The Polar Express of the era protarayed in the movie shouls have been puled by an A-B-B-A set of General Motors Electro Motive Division F-7 locomotives.

"Scott the badger" continues...

If you want to see what the current diesels on that line look like, go to the Canadian Pacific website, and look up the Holiday Train...

Here you go...
If you're near LaCrosse, Wisconsin, or in Minnesota or North Dakota, you've still got a chance to see it. I wonder if they run with all the lights on.

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"Richard Nixon in a dress vs. Jimmy Carter 2.0"

Clinton vs. Huckabee?

Ken Talton worries about the Mike Huckabee candidacy as a consequence of the migration of the religious progressives from the Democrat to Republican party:

Driven from the Democratic party by the venomous anti-Christian rhetoric of the Maoists who took over their party in the 60's and 70s, they were welcomed with open arms into the Republican party which was eager to return from the political wilderness. Despite their vast differences in views of the role and function of government the embrace of these people was rationalized...

Huckabee is unlikely to differ markedly from any Democratic administration on domestic issues except in the details of his attempts at social manipulations. He'll simply have a largely different set of personal behaviors targeted for harassment.

Then there's the problem of militant Islam. Read the whole thing.

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(I stole the title of this post from this comment by Mitch H.)

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The Wikipedia discussion...

... can be found at Daily Pundit.

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About that intelligence estimate

Howard says "I told you so"

Iran Lied?? No, They Don't Do That
Those of you who have been reading me for more than six months remember my posts (very well researched) that indicated Iran would have to have 50,000 P2 centrifuges in order to produce enough enriched uranium for a bomb and that due to the near impossibility for them to get the correct rotors they were actually three years away 2010, and more than likely 2012. Dirty bomb? Possibly. HERE with links. I just think the Arabs are so good at lying that we bought Iran's bs like we bought Saddam's.

...then points us to "Spook86" for an explanation of why things changed. Short answer: New intel.

...the earlier estimate apparently lacked an important detail--corroboration by human intelligence (HUMINT) sources--insiders who could "fill in the details" on the Iranian effort and its long-range goals. Sad to say, but the new estimate suggests that western intelligence never had a credible source at the highest levels of the Iranian government...

...until now? Important reading.

UPDATE 071210 04:40:

(Update via Hot Air via Ace)

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