another shot, this one from the US Naval Air Museum
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Tom’s World – 06SEP2025 – Photo
If you don’t mind I’ll piggyback the scene below. Not planned, leaving my house at 06:30. I can tell from the sun location that it is mid September but several years back. This is why I tend to carry a smaller camera with me to capture unexpected scenes.
Tom’s World – 29AUG2025 – Chaotic Input
The thing about highly ordered systems like the social system of a large country is that they can only take so much disordered and chaotic input. And if the insanity forced down the nation’s throat over the past 12+ years doesn’t count as chaotic input, I’m not sure what would short of a total collapse.
I think that in a future in which social science has evolved from a pretend science for average or less intelligent people to waste money getting degrees in to a real evidence and calculation based science, one of the social real scientists would point to these happenings and say in consternation, “Well, what did you expect?”
Tom’s World – 28AUG2025 – Afrika-Corp-Bug
Tom’s World – 16AUG2025 – Photos
Tom’s World – 11AUG2025 – Tunnel Munch
And now, something completely different—- I added an element to this shot in Photoshop, see if you can find it.
Tom’s World – 10AUG2025 – The Prayer
Tom’s World – 23JUL2025 – The Next Generation
There is an INTENSE need for people who can think and have experience + a work ethic, goal driven. I’m a subset of one out of 300 million+ so I can’t exactly extrapolate but—
Like photog, I’m an engineer but at 76.8 years old, a supposedly retired one. To keep myself in touch and engaged, I have a part time consulting business out of my house. I do design and in addition, construction contract and managing, budgeting and walk dogs on occasion.
I have people coming out of the woodwork begging me to work for them. They tell me that the current system isn’t generating people like me at the needed replacement rate.
I have all the clients I want (2), I work all the hours a week that I want (15) and I have no intention of getting back in harness. I like the commute from my bedroom to my home office but I have problems keeping the cats off my plan table.
Before retirement, we spent a couple of years trying to hire and train my replacement. A number of recent grads but there seemed to be at least something wrong with every one. No motivation, no work ethic, can’t get out of bed, not interested, HUGE holes in their knowledge base, scatter brained. One of them could not generate a simple logical excel based budget to save his life.
I can’t do the typical retired thing, traveling, visiting grandkids, etc. My wife is well into Alzheimer’s but not quite yet a nursing home candidate. So I’m tied here. But if I’m not working on something interesting, I’m pretty sure I would rapidly dry up and blow away.
Tom’s World – 18JUL2025 – It’s the Real Thing
For the last decade or 4, I’ve not had more than 1-2 soft drinks per year and most times not even that. Don’t ask me about craft beers though I don’t even do that now.
When I can get some of the new, I’ll definitely try though. My boyhood memories of the 6 oz bottles with condensation running down on a hot summer day—. When we first got picked bottles, we’d bet a nickel to see who had the bottle that came from furthest away; the bottlers had their location cast into the glass.
Tom’s World – 12JUL2025 – The Joy of Reading
The gift of the ability to enjoy fiction, or nonfiction for that matter, has a requirement: an attention span exceeding a minute or two. And that seems to be becoming increasingly rare. Both my parents were readers, likewise myself and two siblings.
I don’t remember exactly when I started reading Sci-Fi but it was as a teenager somewhere along the line. But I suspect that I’m one of the few people on earth who, while in grammar school, read every single volume of Encyclopedia Britannica cover to cover.
I really wish that Nook and Kindle were available back then. I started with Nook probably around 2010 and now use both. Point being that every book I’ve read in the last 15 or so years is still available to me. When, in 2009, I moved from my last residence in metro Atlanta where I had lived for 20 years, I “donated” a long bed and a half pickup truck loads filled to the brim with mostly paperbacks. What a loss! And that wasn’t the only donation made from that house.
I could have that entire mass of books on around several gigs on a thumb drive with lots of room left.
But at least I have the last 15 years and I find myself rereading. +The device keeps perfect order, organizing by order of purchase, title or author.