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Open thread 9/24/22 — 30 Comments

  1. Art Deco:

    I’ve been blogging for a long time and have written about a lot of subjects, but I haven’t yet gotten around to having an opinion on every well-known person who ever lived. I think I can safely say that Mitzi Gaynor is not going to be a topic I’ll be delving into.

  2. I’d like to see Neo offer an open thread/opinion on a baseball great– her choice of team and player.

  3. Mitzi is awesome. She was the hostess for the 1954 NCAA ski championships at Reno’s Slide Mountain. The University of Nevada hosted the event and hired Mitzi to be the hostess. The first night there was a welcome event for the competitors and the highlight was Mitzi, who gave a short welcome speech, sang a couple of songs, and just looked spectacular.

    At the end of the meet there was an awards baguette and Mitzi handed out awards to the top five finishers in each event. No kisses, though. 🙁 She certainly made a big event even more memorable. Thanks to Art D. for mentioning her. 🙂

  4. Lots of cleverness indeed. Not to be a debbie downer but…

    I presume like RVs, there will be steps to get in and out of it but with no overhang, opening the door will let rain into the house.
    A flat roof raises snow load concerns.

    I also don’t recall her mentioning how its heated… compounded by all that glass being a massive heat sieve during cold winters.

    For that matter what about AC? In summer, all that glass is going to heat up the interior a lot and with no screens those windows do not open. No window shades or curtains also raises privacy concerns. Its Alaska, big animals have been known to view large windows as an opening and treat them as such.

    Plus, better not have a bad back or knees with all that floor storage. Not to mention getting foods in and out of that miniscule refrig.

    Cleverness is no substitute for pragmatism.

  5. Lots of clever ideas in that tiny house. I like the elevator bed; that would be very handy in any small place.

  6. I had similar reservations about the practicality of that trailer.

    I think this form factor is just too small ..and narrow. It’s smaller inside than an RV – but longer and more awkward to drive due to the hitch.

    Check out the Never Too Small channel on YouTube for some really nice studio-and-smaller dwellings. They are typically urban renovations of old housing stock in cities – which provide the shops, restaurants, gym showers, laundromats, and entertainment that are necessary to make this lifestyle work.

  7. I was a teen or pre-teen watching the Ed Sullivan show to see the Beatles, and Mitzi Gaynor came on before the Fab Four. Whoa, what was that?! Sex appeal overload!

  8. Re: UFO sighting

    Jordan Rivers:

    Briefly, I saw a glowing orange object in the east at dusk, while playing with school-age friends in the street. We watched it for several minutes while it drifted somewhat randomly.

    At one point it shot off a greenish-white light. Then it continued drifting south until it was out of view.

    The next morning in the local paper I read an account of a car being chased by a UFO in the direction we saw the UFO heading.

  9. Time to put up a statue in honor of Enoch Powell?
    “Leicester violence and Europe’s civilizational war”—
    https://www.oneindia.com/india/leicester-violence-and-europe-s-civilizational-war-3465513.html
    – – – – – – – – – – –
    And here we thought humor was dead…
    “‘She was 12, I was 30’: Biden leaves viewers stunned in teachers speech”—
    https://nypost.com/2022/09/23/biden-leaves-viewers-stunned-in-teachers-speech-she-was-12-i-was-30/

  10. shes a mao fan girl, imported from blair’s uk, free people and regimes are few and far between

  11. enoch was a prophet, perhaps the fact he knew arabic and urdu, and the cultures they entail, he was in charge of military intelligence in north africa,

  12. Neo hasn’t even offered an opinion about my friend Bob.

    For how much of his life did Bob make a living as a dancer?

  13. I went to high school with Anna’s brothers in Delta Junction Alaska. All of those kids grew up building, fixing and engineering shit. Like Anna, I currently live in Fairbanks. The snow load is usually a non-issue as we don’t generally get much snow in the interior..its mostly just brutally cold (-40, -50). As for the windows, which are surely triple pane, trust me when I say you’d rather pay a but more for heat in the winter than sacrifice what little daylight there is… 22.5 hours of darkness is no joke, especially in a small space. I lived in a 300 Sq ft waterless cabin (outhouse, hauling water, wood stove) for a decade and the worst part was that the few windows I had were small and it made the night feel like it closed in on you faster

    As for wildlife, I’ve lived here 35 years and have never heard of wildlife coming in the windows anywhere in or near the city. Had a moose on my deck once, but that’s cuz she followed the path from the outhouse.

    Now it has happened to people I know at places like Volkmar lake (two bears in one night, even) , but you have to fly in there in the summer or snowmachine something like 20 miles in in the winter, so it is in the middle of nowhere.

  14. Headline from “The New Republic”:

    The Republican Plot to Weaponize the Government Against Political Enemies
    Jason Linkins

    You can’t say something so insane that the Left won’t try and do it… like claiming the GOP has plans to use government to attack their political enemies… unlike the actual behavior of the PostModern Left.

  15. Megan,

    I’ll take your word for it that snow load is generally not a concern in Alaska. That said, it might only take one instance of an unusually heavy snow fall to learn how strong they made that roof.

    As for the windows, hopefully they are triple pane, but they don’t look it to me. Go to 47 seconds into the video and you can see just how shallow is the glass in that largest window. I assume that the rest are the same. Plus, there was nothing apparent as to how the tiny house will be heated. That seems problematic at best. So too with cooling in the summer.

    She mentioned they live in a rural area, which may be an indication of where the tiny house will be located. In any case, a quick internet search will bring up examples of deer and bears coming through windows in Wisconsin and elsewhere.

  16. Barry Meislin,

    Enoch Powell warned the boomers and they forced him out of politics. I assign responsibility to the boomers because the majority of the prior generations then still living were much less condemnatory of their own culture. Liberal/leftists of the day dishonestly labeled opposition to immigration of non-whites to racism, when in truth it was an implicit understanding that profound cultural differences matter.

    “It’s not that you love the planet, it’s that you hate humanity” Dr Jordan Peterson

    Dr. Peterson is speaking of the climate change ‘activists’ but that cultural self-hate equally applied when Powell issued his warning.

  17. Enoch Powell warned the boomers and they forced him out of politics.

    The ‘rivers of blood’ speech was made in 1968. People born in 1946 weren’t in much of a position to ‘force him out of politics’. For the most part, it’s a bad speech.

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