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When I was in high school, I was a great fan of the Beatles and related bands. This led to my listening to stuff like the Radha Krishna Temple LP that George Harrison produced. Nobody except Mike the Hippie ever wanted to borrow my records. A couple of them were duds, but most of the Beatles-related albums like the Radha Temple, or Tonto's Expanding Headband are quite solid musically, if not in line with most people's tastes. It's fun to freak out the Hare Krsna converts too when you can sing "Govindam" with them :)
Now, 35 years on, a lot of my vinyl (including the Radha Temple LP) have become major grails for Beatles' collectors. My problem now is that I've got all this irreplaceable vinyl, and no player to listen to it anymore. I need to get this stuff burned off onto CD, because most of it's never going to be reissued. The collectors don't want the music (they never did) but just the physical album, to show they have it. Had I not liked the music, the albums would have been put away and the sleeves stayed in pristine condition, instead of being faded and worn as they are now. I've got the records that the collectors covet, but mine are all used-looking.
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Now the villainous FDA is considering banning Primatene, ostensibly because of the propellants used, but probably so the drug companies can sell more lucrative medications such as Albuterol. I've got mild asthma, not really enough to justify spending money for prescription medicine, and certainly not while Primatene is available. One of its critics described its use for mild asthma as "hitting a tack with a sledge hammer" which is pretty accurate. I can't imagine Albuterol or anything else doing the job like Primatene. Taking a hit of Primatene is like lighting a big rocket engine. In 30 seconds I go from being wheezy and panicked to feeling like I could flap my arms and fly away.
I suppose I'd better stock up.
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A Moscow street scene, from das Beeb.
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Injured by a pile of accident-claims forms. You couldn't make this stuff up.
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This is curious.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
austin_dern was just speculating on continental drift, and whether we'd be able to detect it from space. Inter alia, he seemed to wonder why other molten-cored bodies didn't do that, which is an interesting question.
What if the whole process is driven by tidal drag? Instead of the crust sitting in one place and hardening, the lunar drag broke it up? Once you had it started, perhaps plain convection could account for the subduction zones. Continental drift would presumably be quite rare then, as you'd have to have a planet with a huge moon that wasn't rotation-locked to its moon. Io, Ganymede and Titan, as molten as they are, are rotation-locked to their primaries, so won't experience that directional drag. Other places lack the big moons.
The impressive discoveries are always the ones that were just sitting in plain sight, but nobody recognized them.
Now, 35 years on, a lot of my vinyl (including the Radha Temple LP) have become major grails for Beatles' collectors. My problem now is that I've got all this irreplaceable vinyl, and no player to listen to it anymore. I need to get this stuff burned off onto CD, because most of it's never going to be reissued. The collectors don't want the music (they never did) but just the physical album, to show they have it. Had I not liked the music, the albums would have been put away and the sleeves stayed in pristine condition, instead of being faded and worn as they are now. I've got the records that the collectors covet, but mine are all used-looking.
*****
Now the villainous FDA is considering banning Primatene, ostensibly because of the propellants used, but probably so the drug companies can sell more lucrative medications such as Albuterol. I've got mild asthma, not really enough to justify spending money for prescription medicine, and certainly not while Primatene is available. One of its critics described its use for mild asthma as "hitting a tack with a sledge hammer" which is pretty accurate. I can't imagine Albuterol or anything else doing the job like Primatene. Taking a hit of Primatene is like lighting a big rocket engine. In 30 seconds I go from being wheezy and panicked to feeling like I could flap my arms and fly away.
I suppose I'd better stock up.
*****
A Moscow street scene, from das Beeb.
*****
Injured by a pile of accident-claims forms. You couldn't make this stuff up.
*****
This is curious.
austin_dern was just speculating on continental drift, and whether we'd be able to detect it from space. Inter alia, he seemed to wonder why other molten-cored bodies didn't do that, which is an interesting question.What if the whole process is driven by tidal drag? Instead of the crust sitting in one place and hardening, the lunar drag broke it up? Once you had it started, perhaps plain convection could account for the subduction zones. Continental drift would presumably be quite rare then, as you'd have to have a planet with a huge moon that wasn't rotation-locked to its moon. Io, Ganymede and Titan, as molten as they are, are rotation-locked to their primaries, so won't experience that directional drag. Other places lack the big moons.
The impressive discoveries are always the ones that were just sitting in plain sight, but nobody recognized them.
