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A good week to be in Florida
It’s been raining all day in Jefferson City, MO. I’m going to have to take the rubber floor mats out of the Land Rover because they’re stopping the water from draining. Not airtight… not watertight.
Barb and a friend are in Destin this week where it is sunny and warm.
Meat Wars
“Americans do not eat meat in moderation, and never have. Since the 1960s, the per-capita intake has doubled. The average man eats more than his own weight in meat every year (even as that weight has increased by 30 pounds since 1960). Americans eat meat in quantities that are double the global average.”
— Why Eating Meat Is Unhealthy (The Atlantic)
Old technology
Spectrophotometer
When we took the hardtop off the Land Rover last year we scratched the body and I finally got around to buying some touch-up paint. A local auto parts place has a gizmo called a spectrophotometer. According to the parts guy the thing cost $15,000! I can’t confirm that. I can tell you it didn’t help him match the color worth a shit. Plan B is to go back to the guys who repaired the tornado damage. They got the color exactly right.
O. Kay Henderson on Meet the Press
Friend and former coworker O. Kay Henderson was on the Meet the Press panel this morning. Kay is the news director of Radio Iowa, a state radio network I helped create back in the late 80s. Kay’s first job out of college was reporting for the network. A few years later I had the good sense and good fortune to promote her to News Director. Nobody knows more about Iowa politics than Kay.
Riley doesn’t like riding in the back
Hattie rides up front. That’s non-negotiable. So Riley has to ride in the back and she doesn’t like it. And she’s only there because she is leashed to the spare tire and cannot climb up front.
How we’ll be remembered
“This will be remembered as the time we all waited for someone else to take the risk, not wanting to disturb our lives. The spoiled citizens of a country that fought wars without a draft, that got tax cuts in time of war, inflated our economy as we inflicted chaos on others.”
– Dave Winer
Fresh Start
Jefferson City is still recovering from last May’s tornado. This weekend some of George Tergin’s friends are helping him demolish what was left of his business. A sad chore that marks a new beginning.