When you fight the existential threat you will not win

Let's do a quick hang-out with my humor blog, since that hasn't got attention in a week now. Recent postere there have been:

• MiSTed: Dreams of a Lost Past/Loss, Part 3 of 4


• 60s Popeye: Operation Ice-Tickle, and I don't get what that's a pun for either


• Statistics Saturday: Comic Strips That _Starlog_ Thought Were Being Made Into Movies in 1987


• 60s Popeye: Quick Change Olie and another Whiffle Bird cartoon


• On How Technology Has Changed the Way We Discover Dialects


• What's Going On In Rex Morgan, M.D.? What does Buck Wise do? February – May 2021


• 60s Popeye: Popeye's Museum Piece, in which he puts nothing into the museum


• MiSTed: Dreams of a Lost Past/Loss, Part 4 of 4

Now for some more puttering around town, since that was a fun theme. Pictures from April 2021. I'll catch that bridge's progress yet!

Triumph! bunny_hugger began putting together the Gobbler Farms puzzle here right before Thanksgiving, laughing at my sister's joke that she would be working on it still at Christmas. Last month, bunny_hugger finished it. It's a hard puzzle. She shares her feelings about it here. In the month or so since she finished this she's completed about 62 more puzzles.

Walking back toward the doomed bridge. I found this den of old construction equipment in a vacant lot at the end of Other Clemens Street, the street that parallels the Aurelius Road with the to-be-demolished bridge.

Aw, they haven't even got near demolishing that bridge, though! Look at it, it's a much a bridge as it ever was.

Peering underneath the bridge and over to the Coal Tower.

At least the project has its giant doughnuts bagged up!

Not sure where they're getting all this dirt from before they've even dug the bridge out, though.

Walking back home. So, residents around here are very cross, generally, that traffic comes down the neighborhood street too fast. The speed limit is 25, but this is a major neighborhood road and it just looks like it should be a 35 or even 45 zone. I don't know whether this resident put a giant mirror shining the sun back into traffic in order to slow cars down or whether it's just there in the hopes someone off Freecycle will come take it, but I admire the decision to Do Something about the cars.

Oh, and here's an actual dirt road, one of a handful of mostly one- and two-block unpaved streets. There's a few streets in this area scheduled for road construction this year, but I don't believe this is one of them.

Trivia: The United States Information Agency sent coverage of John Glenn's Friendship 7 flight to TV stations in 74 courntries.
Source: Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo, Teasel Muir-Harmony.

Currently Reading: The Thurber Carnival, James Thurber. You forget in-between readings of ``The Macbeth Murder Mystery'' how nicely Thurber nailed fan theories.