[Kzyxtalk] A snook in the drain.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: A snook in the drain.

/"Don't hand me golabki and tell me it's cabbage!"/

Here's the recording of last night's (2022-02-18) Memo of the Air: Good 
Night Radio show on KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA):
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0476

Thanks a lot to Hank Sims for all kinds of tech help over the years, as 
well as for his fine news site: https://LostCoastOutpost.com

And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which provided almost an 
hour of the above eight-hour show's most locally relevant material, as 
usual, without asking for anything in return. Though I do pay $25 
annually for full access to all articles and features, and you can too. 
As well as go to KNYO.org, click on the big red heart and give what you 
can. Radio is cheap to do but it isn't free, so we'd all appreciate you 
to do you part. As Doug Piranha pleasantly menacingly said in Monty 
Python's Flying Circus, "You've got a nice shop, here, Clement. Now, you 
bought one of our fruit machines, would you please pay for it." Also 
email me your work on any subject and I'll read it on the radio this 
coming Friday night. You are a real radio writer now, or will be when 
you do.

BESIDES ALL THAT, at https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find a 
fresh batch of dozens of links to not necessarily radio-useful but 
nonetheless worthwhile items I set aside for you while gathering the 
show together. Such as:

Google Earth fractals. (via Clifford Pickover)
http://paulbourke.net/fractals/googleearth/

An essay on Cowboy Bebop and Blade Runner.
https://theawesomer.com/cowboy-bebop-x-blade-runner/658297/

I think a situation like this next one has something to do with 
brain-to-body mass ratio. Generally when a creature's brain to body mass 
ratio is high, like in a pig or a human or a dolphin, the creature 
demonstrates higher intelligence than a similar-size creature with a 
smaller brain. (Birds' brains are made better, so they can be lighter 
and smaller and still work great, and an octopus' brain is distributed. 
Like all rules it isn't perfect.) But when you get behind the wheel of a 
car the vehicle becomes an extension of your body, so the 
brain-to-body-mass ratio goes critically down to like a dinosaur with a 
brain the size of a walnut, so you're kind of an impulsive, 
irresponsible idiot, but you're a person so you can still talk, and then 
talking makes it worse. (You might have to click the sound on.)(via b3ta)
https://twitter.com/mattDCLXVI/status/1492667852272259073

And 1950s atomic bomb tests as seen from L.A.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2016/09/how-atomic-tests-looked-like-from-los.html

-- 
Marco McClean, memo at mcn.org
https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com