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House Project: The Results of Designing With the Environment (& Money), Instead of Against It
One of the decisions we made early on was that every window in the house would be openable, so that we could take advantage what breezes were available--even if meant that what might have been a spectacular picture window ended up as a sliding glass door instead.
Yesterday and today have borne out the wisdom of this decision. It is the mid-90s down in Boise. Here, 1300 feet higher up, it has been in the mid-80s. In our old house, which had only a few opening windows, and lots of picture windows, the only realistic choice would have been to turn on the air conditioning--you just could not get enough cross-ventiliation to make this comfortable.
In this house, the cross-ventiliation has worked as I expected. I have nearly every window in the house open. Since there are windows on the south, east, and north sides of the house, I am catching breezes from all directions. Outside, in direct sunlight, it is warm enough to be a bit uncomfortable. For most of the day, it has been entire pleasant or tolerable enough that changing into shorts and a T-shirt was sufficient to be comfortable. It is only been since about 4:30 PM that I have been tempted to turn on the air conditioning--and now that is a bit after 6:00 PM, the late afternoon breezes are again bringing the interior temperature to a point where air conditioning would be only a minor improvement. Best of all--I don't have to pay for the wind!
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Dark Skies & Things That Go Bump in the Night
It is really dark up here. I dragged Big Bertha out of the garage Wednesday night, trying to find M51 (the Whirlpool Galaxy). No luck. I'm sure it's dark enough--I just need to spend a bit more time with the locator charts that show where it is relative to nearby stars.
I confess that I have never put much time into looking for deep sky objects (i.e., galaxies, nebulae, and other faint fuzzy bodies) because I have never lived somewhere dark enough for this to be useful. Now I do--but that means that I have to learn where these objects are.
As an example, M57 (the Ring Nebula) is a planetary nebula in the constellation Lyra. It is bright enough that you can find it from almost any suburban location--and you don't even need a huge telescope to see it. I saw it (with averted vision) with my Televue Ranger, which only had a 70mm front lens. But to find it, you need to know where to look. It is on a line between Beta Lyrae and Gamma Lyrae, about 2/3 of thw way between them. If you start out with too low of a power on most telescopes, you won't see it, because it is pretty small, and you may not be able to distinguish it from a star. If you start with a high enough magnification to see that it is a smoke ring, not a point source, you have to pretty much on it, or you will be wandering through the celestial neighborhood, and never hit it.
The same is true for most other deep sky objects--some are barely visible with the naked eye (and most are not), so you need the light gathering ability of a telescope to have any hope of finding them.
Anyway, because I knew where to look for M57, I had no problem finding it with Big Bertha. Even with a low power eyepiece (about 80x), M57 was obviously not a star. On a smaller scope, you can't really go up much above 100x, because the image becomes too faint to see. (Higher magnification with the same amount of light yields contrast problems.) With Big Bertha, even at 222x, M57 was still easily visible.
Along with the darkness of the sky, there is the darkness that brings out critters. Thursday night our dog went absolutely bananas in the wee hours, barking ferociously at the sliding glass door in the family room. My wife couldn't see what she was barking at--but the front motion detector lights came on as well. (I slept through it.) What was it?
Today I was walking back from the mail box, and ahead of me on the road was what at first looked like a small dog--but turned out to be a coyote. Conforming to their reputation as being shy and retiring creatures, it bounded up the hill along the boundary line between our parcel and lot 3 to the south.
Starting To Whip Out Adventures in Building: My Wife's Dream Home in the Mountains
This is writing very quickly, and will primarily create a narrative structure around the blog entries. I expect to have it written in six to eight weeks--then I have to persuade my agent that it is worth shopping around.
Armed America is currently targeted for Februrary publication, I understand. I'm busily soliciting magazines to publish articles excerpted from Armed America to coincide with publication.
There Are Days I Can't Tell If Professor Reynolds Wants To Be Taken Seriously...
Reynolds' column here makes the claim that because rapes fell dramatically from 1970 to the present--and because pornography is so much more common today--that porn availability reduces rape: What's different since 1970? Lots of things, of course, though bared midriffs and short-shorts are back. But probably the most relevant difference is porn. In 1970, some people argued that porn caused rape. Since 1970, though, porn has exploded. In 1970 you had to work pretty hard to find porn. Now you have to work nearly as hard to avoid it.
This is so sloppy that I almost don't think he wanted it to be taken seriously.
But rape has gone down 85%. So much for the notion that pornography causes rape — or, at least, if it did have much effect in that direction, it would be hard to explain how rape rates could have declined so dramatically while porn expanded so explosively.
1. A bivariate analysis for an entire nation is nearly useless. At most, it shows that if porn was the dominant factor in causing rape in 1970, it must have been overwhelmed by other factors. That doesn't preclude it being a minor factor, nonetheless.
2. Strawman argument: I don't think anyone has ever argued that pornography is the major cause of rape. Even the Meese Report, which Instapundit points to, but I suspect hasn't actually read, is pretty careful about the claims it makes: When clinical and experimental research has focused particularly on sexually violent material, the conclusions have been virtually unanimous. In both clinical and experimental settings, exposure to sexually violent materials has indicated an increase in the likelihood of aggression. More specifically, the research, which is described in much detail later in this Report, shows a causal relationship between exposure to material of this type and aggressive behavior towards women.
Concerning non-violent porn: With respect to material of this variety, our conclusions are substantially similar to those with respect to violent material, although we make them with somewhat less assumption than was the case with respect to violent material. The evidence, scientific and otherwise, is more tentative, but supports the conclusion that the material we describe as degrading bears some causal relationship to the attitudinal changes we have previously identified. That is, substantial exposure to material of this variety is likely to increase the extent to which those exposed will view rape or other forms of sexual violence as less serious than they otherwise would have, will view the victims of rape and other forms of sexual violence as significantly more responsible, and will view the offenders as significantly less responsible. We also conclude that the evidence supports the conclusion that substantial exposure to material of this type will increase acceptance of the proposition that women like to be forced into sexual practices, and, once again, that the woman who says "no" really means "yes."
With respect to material of this type, there is less evidence causally linking the material with sexual aggression, but this may be because this is a category that has been isolated in only a few studies, albeit an increasing number. The absence of evidence should by no means be taken to deny the existence of the causal link. But because the causal link is less the subject of experimental studies, we have been required to think more carefully here about the assumptions necessary to causally connect increased acceptance of rape myths and other attitudinal changes with increased sexual aggression and sexual violence. And on the basis of all the evidence we have considered, from all sources, and on the basis of our own insights and experiences, we believe we are justified in drawing the following conclusion: Over a large enough sample of population that believes that many women like to be raped, that believes that sexual violence or sexual coercion is often desired or appropriate, and that believes that sex offenders are less responsible for their acts, will commit more acts of sexual violence or sexual coercion than would a population holding these beliefs to a lesser extent.
3. Instapundit's claim that porn was hard to find in 1970 is simply false, at least if the claim is about the entire United States. In 1970, Professor Reynolds was either not yet born, or too young to be aware of the extent to which porn was widely distributed.
It seems more likely that Reynolds doesn't really know what the availability of these materials was.
4. Reynolds didn't read very carefully the Washington Post article to which he links. First of all, the comparison is to rape rates in the "1970s"--and the associated graph only goes back to 1979. Furthermore, lots of violent crime rates fell from those peaks, including murder and robbery. The aging of the Baby Boomers is a more plausible explanation for the decline not only in rape rates, but those other crimes as well, because violent crimes are highly correlated with the age of the criminals. That's the simplest explanation for why violent crime rates started to rise in 1964, peaked in 1980 and 1981 (depending on the crime), and fell dramatically in the 1990s.
5. The entire criminal justice system does a much better job of prosecuting rape than it did in 1970. Why does this matter? Because a very large number of rapes are done by a few rapists. It isn't uncommon for the police to clear dozens of rapes by arresting a single criminal. I can remember when I lived in the Los Angeles, one rapist's arrest cleared hundreds of rapes. This might explain why rapes have not only fallen, but fallen faster than other violent crimes. Take one hundred rapists off the street, even if it only for five years, and you may have prevented thousands of rapes.
Do I think that porn is a factor in rape? If it is, it is probably a minor factor. The rage that drives some men to become rapists probably has a lot more to do with childhood abuse than with porn. Adding to the complexity of the problem is that men with serious sexual dysfunction problems (as seems to be the case with many rapists) and serious misogny, might be more inclined to use pornography for its arousal properties--so the correlation of pornography and rapists might not indicate causality. But these are serious questions that require serious discussions. Professor Reynolds isn't engaged in a serious discussion of a serious question.
UPDATE: By the way, here's some of the testimony that the Meese Commission heard from victims concerning the pornography/rape nexus. It is possible that these rapes wouldn't have happened without the porn being present. It is likely that these were atypical situations, and most men won't become rapists because of exposure to pornography. Still, go ahead read these accounts for yourself, and tell me that there's no causal connection between porn and rape for at least some creeps.
Mountain Living Agrees With Me, I Think
I went to see a sleep disorder specialist yesterday about my snoring. (Those of you who live in adjoining counties will be pleased, I know.) Blood pressure: 124/76; pulse, 67. This morning, I came to the horrifying realization that I now absolutely must wear a belt, because my pants are getting way too loose.
500 Chemical Weapon Shells Found in Iraq Since 2003
And the mainstream media (and worse, the Pentagon) are now saying, "Oh, well those don't count."
Two Tickets To United 93 To The First Requester
I received these for promoting the movie. I had already gone to see the movie by the time the tickets arrived, so I don't really need them. Be the first person to request them, and I'll mail them off. I think it is still showing in theaters.
UPDATE: That was fast! Gone!
Is There Such A Thing As A Midget Thickness Planer?
A thickness planer is a gadget that you use to turn pieces of lumber into reasonably precise pieces of flat wood--ideally, both sides will be parallel to each other after you run them through. I need something like this to trim chunks of Delrin down to a particular size--but we are talking about pieces that are one to two inches wide and high. Yes, I can do it with a flycutter on a mill, but if you want to reduce a 1.4" thick piece of Delrin to 1.13", this is a very slow process, because you typically only remove .020" to .050" per pass.
The smallest thickness planers that I can find are 12" wide. This both consumes space that I can't afford to lose, and these are generally more expensive than I particularly want to spend at the moment. I also suspect that a very small thickness planer--like you might use to make models or dollhouses--might also be a little more precise in its adjustments.
Any suggestions?
UPDATE: Several readers pointed to the Proxxon DH40, which fits the requirements in every way--but being German made, it is about $500. This makes it substantially more expensive than a full-sized thickness planer--although it is almost certainly much more accurate.
A little more what I had in mind was this suggestion from another reader, the Wagner Safe-T-Planer. This is a cutting tool that goes into a 1/2" drill press, and once you have constructed a path to control the movement of material under the tool, you can use it to plane the material. It is $48.35, and I suspect that I could use my existing drill vise to control movement of the material. Alternatively, I could mill a path way to path the material through.
Horseshoe Bend Is Growing!
Or so says this article from the Idaho Statesman: A $29 million residential, retail and commercial development is under way in Horseshoe Bend, breathing new economic life into a town that fell on hard times when Boise Cascade closed its lumber mill there in 2004.
It's still a small town. One of our neighbors was, until last month, when he retired, the Horseshoe Bend Police Chief. (In fact, he was the entire department.) The medical tech who gave my wife a tetanus shot last week knew our neighbor too. Yesterday, we ran over to the dump to drop off our garbage--and our neighbor was running the equipment at the dump.
Ultimate Log & Custom Homes LLC has launched the first phase of its Riverbend Development on 75 acres where the old Boise Cascade mill once stood, company President Kathryn Volin said Tuesday.
The development company is hiring local workers for a $1.2 million road project it is undertaking. Meanwhile, other area residents are finding work with businesses that have begun relocating to a 17-acre commercial site in the project, Horseshoe Bend officials said.
After the mill closed, laying off all 15 workers, "A lot of people had to leave town to find work," Horseshoe Bend City Clerk Denise Hall said. "But this development expects to create 30 new jobs this year. And there are plans for large companies to move in here, and they would also employ some Horseshoe Bend people."
It's rather like that I Love Lucy episode where Lucy and Ricky get pulled over in a small town in North Carolina where Andy Griffith plays the police chief. Lucy and Ricky demand to see the justice of the peace--so Andy changes hats. Then they call the local newspaper to complain to the editor--and the phone rings on Andy's desk.
As usual, it appears that we landed just ahead of the growth curve.
Oh No!
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned the "Oh, no, Mr. Bill!" house--and forgot to include the picture. I have since included the picture.
Oh No! The Cramers Are Moving In!
We have been looking at this house on top of one of the adjacent hills to ours ever since we bought the property. 
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The combination of windows on this face will, depending on your generation, either remind you of Edvard Munch's The Scream, or "Oh no! Mr. Bill!" (You didn't even know that there was an Official Mr. Bill website, did you?
House Project: Something For Next Time I Have To Engage in Algal Genocide
I mentioned previously my fun with chlorine bleach to kill algae and sterilize. A reader points to this recent item from Microbe magazine. (No, it's not the magazine that the young, hip, urban bacterium reads for lifestyle hints, but a publication of the American Society for Microbiology.)
Yes indeedy, there will be the smell of chlorine gas, so be very, very careful with it. But it does suggest that next time, instead of using 15 gallons of bleach, I can use a gallon of bleach and a gallon of vinegar to get the same result, with less unpleasantness in the water while it works its way through the system.
Bleach is sold as a stable alkaline solution with a pH value of about 11 or 12. At this alkaline pH value, virtually all of the bleach is in the form of the chlorite ion (OCl-). At an acidic pH value of about 6.0 to 6.8, 90% of the bleach is in the form of hypochlorous acid (HOCl). Hypochlorous acid is 80 to 200 times more antimicrobial than the chlorite ion. Thus a simple formula to prepare an effective antimicrobial dilution of bleach is to add 2.0 oz of concentrated bleach to one gallon of tap water, and then add 2.0 oz of 5% distilled white cooking vinegar, also inexpensive and commonly available, to lower the pH of bleach to about 6.0. This will yield about 800 ppm free available chlorine from hypochlorous acid. Use this acidified bleach in well-ventilated areas as there will be a mild odor of chlorine.
Why I Will Not Live in Canada
Nice people, beautiful country. But their legal system is obviously run by morons: Two suspects in a weekend home invasion went straight to the police after the incident... because the homeowner shot at them.
Oh well, at least they charged the intruders as well, instead of declaring them honorary Mounties.
According to police, it happened about 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon, 45 kilometres north of Roblin.
Two men kicked in the front door of the home, and the property owner grabbed a firearm.
At that point the invaders left... but as they were going, a shot was fired at their vehicle and hit the driver.
The culprits drove to Russell to complain to the RCMP.
The driver was treated for his injuries and released to the police.
Now, 28 year old Harvey Joseph Young is charged with Attempted Murder, along with eight other weapons and firearm-related charges.
Fifty- year- old Terry Eldred Curle of Russell and 37 year old Darren Norman Lindsay of Roblin face several charges each in connection with the home invastion attempt.
Moral Equivalence Arguments & Where They Collapse
The left is very partial to moral equivalence arguments--that the U.S. really isn't so different from the "insurgents" in Iraq. Michael Moore's infamous comparison of the insurgents to the Minutemen was an especially offensive example of this argument. The premature claims about Haditha (where they may well have been murders committed, but we don't yet) are in this category.
Still, when you read a news account like this: ELEANOR HALL: Three US soldiers have been charged with murder over the deaths of several Iraqi prisoners, who were allegedly killed during an operation near the town of Tikrit in northern Iraq last month.
I just have one question, for those who subscribe to the moral equivalence argument: When has al-Qaeda or the various Iraqi insurgent groups tried any of their members for murder, instead of promoting them?
The US Military has confirmed that the soldiers have been charged with murder, attempted murder, conspiracy and obstructing justice.
Proof That The World Has Changed
Nampa is a somewhat smaller town west of Boise--generally thought of as much more conservative than Boise, which most liberals would think of as American Taliban. Yet look at what is a matter requiring public pressure to remove from the Nampa Public Library: A group of concerned citizens urged the Nampa, Idaho, city council May 14 to press the city library board to revisit for a third time its decision to retain the Joy of Gay Sex in the library collection. “We have a lot of kids in there,” Mayor Tom Dale said, according to a May 17 Associated Press report. “We need to have a safe place for them.”
Gee, with all the affinity between pedophile groups and homosexual activists, you would think that they would know better than to admit this connection in print.
Explaining that Nampa Public Library must “meet the needs of a diverse group in our community,” board Chair Sharon Brooks explained that trustees refused complainant Randy Jackson’s request for reconsideration twice “based on the principle of freedom of information rather than that book.”
Jackson told Fox-TV Boise affiliate KTRV May 14 that he browsed the title after learning that a 15-year-old boy had reported to his mother that he had found Joy of Gay Sex on a library table. “One of the chapters is titled daddy-son sexual fantasies about two people having sex together and pretending they are father and son,” Jackson said. He has also called for the removal of eight other titles, including the Joy of Sex, because he finds them “very pornographic in nature [with] very explicit and detailed illustrations and photographs.”
Thuggery To Suppress Political Dissent
Homosexuals are at it again. I mentioned last year that David Parker, a parent in Lexington, Massachusetts, objected to the schools promoting same-sex marriage by reading story books to kindergartners with same-sex marriage as a theme--and was arrested for failing to leave the school grounds when he asked to speak to the school superintendent. This isn't peculiar to Massachusetts; in hotbed of liberalism North Carolina, first graders have books such as "King and King," a fairy tale romance (hmmm, maybe fairy shouldn't be used here) available to them.
Well, David Parker eventually filed a civil rights suit--and not surprisingly, homosexuals have escalated their efforts against Parker by inciting their kids to attack Mr. Parker's son at school: At the courthouse hearings and many of the protests outside Parker's home the nasties had used children to hold up hateful signs and demonstrate alongside their nasty parents. They also recruited young children to participate in angry anti-Parker demonstrations outside the school and to engage in letter writing campaigns.
Unfortunately, homosexuality, because it is based on a lie, requires violence to maintain the lie. That's why homosexual activists rely on intimidation and law professors to accomplish their ends.
But on May 17 they crossed the line.
That was the day that 10 of these thug-kins grabbed David Parker's 7 year old son, dragged him behind the corner of the school, well out of sight from the school officials, and proceeded to punch him in the groin, stomach, and chest, before he dropped to the ground when they then kicked and stomped on him. Several of the alleged thug-kins were children of the adults who had been protesting Parker, several of them - not even in the same class as Parker's child. It also needs to be pointed out that May 17 was a targeted date because that is the anniversary of changing the marriage definitions in the state of Massachusetts to include homosexual unions. Emotions among many activists were running very high on this day.
The school district "investigated" and did determine that the attack was pre-meditated. Shockingly they decided no punishment necessary for the 10 thug-kins who were serving as political hit men for the activists in Lexington.
UPDATE: The school district superintendent who is a major player in the propaganda campaign is insisting that the attack on Parker's child has nothing to do with homosexual activists. Yeah, like I would trust him to tell the truth.
Sin City: A Movie That Doesn't Qualify As Obscene, But Should
I was wandering through the cable channels yesterday, and I ran into a movie titled Sin City. I watched about twenty minutes of it--and that was enough. Imagine a film that makes you wish that you were watching hardcore porn, because of how much more uplifting to the spirit it is. This is easily the most repulsive twenty minutes of video that I think that I have ever seen. It makes the most depressing film noir seem like The Sound of Music--it is that dark.
This loathesome film is inspired by a series of graphic novels (with the emphasis on graphic, I fear) by an artist named Frank Miller. It is shot in black and white, with only a few elements colored as appropriate, and an interesting mix of cartoon-like action and effects in what is still a live-action film.
I won't go into detail--but after rape and cannibalism are introduced as important plot elements, I didn't think it could get much worse. It did. Much worse. This film qualifies for an R rating--but I think NC-200 (no one under 200 allowed) is more appropriate. A few of the sequences were done in silhouette, which turned what could have been nauseatingly gross parts into the merely repulsive. As Roger Ebert observed about Hannibal: “we must give it credit for the courage of its depravity; if it proves nothing else, it proves that if a man cutting off his face and feeding it to his dogs doesn't get the NC-17 rating for violence, nothing ever will.” There are lots of things that minors do not need to be exposed to; that anyone would find Sin City less destructive to a minor than many hardcore porn films (which always get an NC-17 rating) is insane.
I believe that the most repulsive violent hardcore pornography, such as Extreme Video's rape/murder trash, deserves prosecution under the existing obscenity laws. Don't get too excited about the prospect of using obscenity laws against trash like this. Sin City would almost certainly be found by the courts to have redeeming cultural or literary value, as repulsive as it is.
UPDATE: I was impressed by the amount of response I received from people seemed to think that I was arguing for the use of censorship laws against Sin City. As i think that last paragraph pointed out, Sin City would qualify as having redeeming cultural or literary value. I find it utterly repulsive and degrading to the watcher, but it isn't obscene by any legal definition, and I am not proposing that the laws need to be rewritten to "fix" that. I am just very disappointed that there is a market for degrading and repulsive stuff like this.
One reader suggested that I didn't watch enough of it, and that while the heroes of Sin City aren't flawless, they are trying to achieve good. There's a difference between being a "flawed" hero and the sort of torture that Sin City's Hartigan inflicts on one of the bad guys.
I guess another aspect of Sin City that I found so dark is the utter hopelessness of the world that it creates--a society in which the only clearly good (but flawed) person, a police detective, is shot to death while trying to prevent a politically connected sociopath from kidnapping a little girl.
There's no question that evil exists out there. Every single sociopathic incident that I saw in those twenty unrelenting minutes either has taken place somewhere in the United States over the last thirty years. The most gruesome of these incidents, however, have been isolated incidents, and constructing a city where all of these evils are taking place at once is the inverse of the sunny and unrealistic world that Hollywood constructed under the influence of the various production codes.
Now, I understand and agree with the criticism of the movie production codes where evil was always punished. They presented an unrealistic world, because in the real world, evil isn't always punished. But if the argument against those production codes was the need for "realism," then Sin City fails that test. It is unrealistic in the extent to which sin utterly dominates the society.
I know that sewage exists. I also know that there are streams of fresh clean water as well. This focus on the sewage is unhealthy and unrealistic.
