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Wed Sep 26 08:25:38 EDT 2018
Slept from ten to six.
Woke briefly around three.
High of sixty-six and partly sunny today.
Work:
- 9 AM redec meeting
Done.
- Cyber insurance forms
Mostly done, but need to decide a few questions.
- Order printer (or two?) SB
Done.
https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories
Jamie back-of-napkin estimates daily payroll at $35–40K.
Forty-minute walk at lunch.
Very nice weather — slightly cool, breezy, mostly sunny.
Saw a little white butterfly, two medium non-white butterflies (monarchs?), several blue days, at least one woodpecker, and a dragonfly.
Home:
http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/pkg/feeds
https://warisboring.com/a-steam-powered-bike-killed-the-designer-of-the-worlds-first-successful-pump-shotgun/
> The Spencer-Roper pump-action shotgun, while not the first shotgun to use a slide action, was the first mass-produced gun of the type. […] Roper, a pioneer of early automobiles, died in 1896 at the age of 72 while riding a steam-powered bicycle.
https://warisboring.com/rescuing-the-atomic-dog/
> In 1958, the Atomic Energy Commission considered returning the displaced islanders to their atolls. Was it now safe?
> The AEC needed more information, so as part of the preparations for Operation Hardtack, another crew arrived for a second reconnaissance. Given Williams’ rural upbringing, he seemed a natural choice to evaluate the islands’ potential for rehabilitation.
> To the visitors’ astonishment, they encountered three domestic animals still living on the abandoned islands—a pig, a rooster and a dog.
> The dog proved to be friendly and agreeable. After a long flight from the Marshall Islands, Williams managed to get past Hawaii’s stringent quarantine rules with the help of fellow AEC employee Ernest Wynkoop.
> But Williams’ troubles weren’t over.
> In 1958, most airline employees stationed in Hawaii still flew back to the mainland United States for Christmas. Williams managed to get himself and the dog aboard one of the last flights to Los Angeles, only to run into an implacable airline official at LAX.
> American Airlines planes were full of passengers and their Christmas gifts, the official told Williams, and the dog wasn’t going.
> “I’m asking you, sir,” Williams recalls saying, “to please take this dog and send him on to Washington.”
> Nope, the airline man said, no pets during the holidays. The president of American Airlines said so.
> “I looked him in the eye,” Williams says, “and wasn’t going to take his guff even though I was only 28 years old. ‘If you don’t take this dog, sir, I’m going to use that black phone over there, and you’re not going to like me much.’”
> The airline man stood firm, so Williams made the call, then took the dog out to a lawn so it could relieve itself.
> Williams just finished collecting several of the dog’s “specimens” when the airline man came running over to them in high dudgeon. “Who the hell are you and who do you know?” he roared.
> “The right people, sir,” Williams said.
- egg whites (50 cal, 150 Na, 0 sugar)
- spinach (3 cal, 10 Na, 0 sugar)
- coffee with half and half (40 cal, 15mg Na, 1g sugar)
- nuts (170 cal, 35mg Na, 1g sugar)
- medium pizza with feta cheese, green peppers, Italian sausage (2051 cal, 2978mg Na, 9g sugar)
Watched a little anime: Dragon Maid, Sakura Quest.
Read a bit of the Bob Woodward book.
Calories 2314, 3188mg Na, 11g sugar.
Breakfast: spinach omelet, coffee
Lunch: mixed nuts
Dinner: pizza
153/97
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