Punxsutawney Phil statues around Punxsutawney

Five/six-foot Phil sculptures everywhere around town.

Groundhog Day - Punxsutawney Phil statues around town and today's live event


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Does Anyone Still Answer Their Phone?

Today I did my weekly cleanup of phone messages. I change my phone number every two years but the nonsense calls build up to an intolerable level after about 14 months. Today there were 27 saved messages from unanswered calls, some from humans (sort of), a couple from someone speaking Hindustani, and some from computers, all from three companies selling things I would never buy. I live in the country and we know what to do with door-to-door salesmen. Between large hungry dogs and shotguns paired with a backhoe. If I ever answered one of these calls I would still be cursing the caller as my BP went up and up so I never, NEVER answer my phone. There were 7 non sales calls, all from my insurance company, UPMC which is a great insurance plan EXCEPT FOR THE VOLUME OF NONSENSE CALLS they force on me almost daily. No, I do not want to join your conference call about "how to make the most of staying at home" OR the very latest news about COVID or COVID vaccines, only about 4 days beh...
Read more

Why I dropped Science (the magazine) because of the extreme censorship imposed

 Some have asked me why I am not  renewing Science since their extreme censorship of the  discussion groups is unrelated. This is the same organization so I now have some questions about how they approach filtering the science they publish in Science, my real reason for not paying even my discounted retired, elderly rate, the money goes to the people who developed AND enforce the censorship and I decline to support meaningless censorship in any way. Other comments/thoughts, welcome. Greetings to my visitors from the UAE and Brazil. (although Google Analytics does NOT track identities or even IPs of visitors, it does try to indicate the geographic location of  visitors.)
Read more

Climate Change, Too Late To Beg Politicians - Time To Follow The Pentagon And Begin Preparation For The Inevitable.

 As for climate change, I worked on it for decades even in an official capacity as an emergency management coordinator. It is too late to change what will happen by 2050. Politicians simply can't move fast enough, even countries which agreed with the Paris agreement have totally failed to  to meet the goals they agreed to. It is time to stop wasting time, money, and effort on fighting short term climate change and focus our energy on preparing for inevitable financial and social changes we or our descendants will face. Working to make long-term changes would be  useful but that will occur naturally as Red states are washed away (GRIN). I wrote a book about this and am working on the second volume now. "Preparing for Climate Change  Coastal flooding will cost the U.S. billions of dollars within two decades." . second edition ebook  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TYTG6ZC [ excerpt below ] As far back as 2014 the U.S. military saw climate change as the  ...
Read more