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NBC News - GOP tuck 8 billion military weapons package into the Coronovirus relief bill

BBC - One of the mysteries around Stonehenge's origin has been solved

To be absolutely fair, one of the key reasons for Jordan's increasing time between books , was that he was suffering a slow terminal disease for the last 4 or 5 he actually wrote himself.

I remember John Ringo doing a blog about how the past few years he has been engaging with his fans, enjoying the interaction, having a steady income..and as such, he hasn't been retreating to his basement to write. He made the point of "I'm in a happier place now then I've ever been, so I'm not escaping from the world..and my writing is suffering." He half joked that he'd have to stop talking to fans, and figure out what makes him unhappy so he could go back to actually working.

BBC - Portland protests: Federal forces ready for phased pull-out

It's when you pick up a $12 128 GB memory stick... and then remember the day when you picked up that aaaabsolutely massive 20 MB hard drive to put in the IBM/PC Compatible desktop back in the early 90's that you were never going to manage to fill.....

As gets pointed out :

Digital History - Explorations; Zheng He Although there's still much discussed on whether the big ship actually did go on the long trips or just stayed close to home...

For that randomly divergent quote:

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000007243995/portland-protests-federal-government.html?

Now, I've ordered up tha tslew of replacement parts and pretty much doing the complete new PC when it all turns up in a week... And I've suddenly found it really hard to actually get any enthusiasm to play the games I'm currently doing... It's that "better memory, graphics, cpu" expectantly waiting, and that part of my head thats saying why play anything now when it'll perform so much better in a week or two....

NYTimes - How play energises your kids brains

Got told to take a 10 minute break by my line manager, because he thought I was getting frustrated and needed a breather. For something like the 4th time in a row , after sending a guy a data set with a "here is a mass of data, please tick "Y" in the column "in scope" so we know which to actually migrate for you, the guy has returned a completely different file with all the data structured completely different ways, marked with his own unique variants of "keep" "don't keep" "yes" "obsolete this"....

Oh the juggle of politics vs funny...

NASA - Study the cosmos with a stratospheric balloon