Just another week…..the world keeps turning but with the leaders we have now for how much longer?

Local–Spring Break is going on and for the next couple of days there will be drink and partying…..I shall stay close to the house.

Some possible good news for the Coast…..

Colorado State University’s hurricane team is dialing down expectations for the 2026 Atlantic season—but not the warnings that come with it. Researchers at CSU, pioneers of long-range hurricane outlooks, project 13 named storms, six hurricanes, and two major hurricanes (Category 3 or stronger) between June 1 and Nov. 30, reports WPLG Miami. That’s a notch below the 30-year average of 14 named storms, seven hurricanes, and three major hurricanes, and the group says overall activity, measured by Accumulated Cyclone Energy, could be the weakest since 2015. It’s also the first time since 2023 that CSU has opened hurricane season with a below-normal forecast. The report came with a warning, notes Al.com: “As with all hurricane seasons, coastal residents are reminded that it only takes one hurricane making landfall to make it an active season.”

The main factor behind the quieter outlook: a likely powerful El Niño taking shape in the eastern Pacific. When those waters heat up, they tend to disrupt Atlantic storm formation by increasing hostile winds and sinking air—especially if the El Niño is strong. Models suggest a rapid shift from the recent La Niña pattern to a robust El Niño by late summer, with some projections hinting at a “super” event rivaling the major episodes of 1982, 1997, and 2015. Unlike the hyperactive 2023 season—when very warm Atlantic waters appeared to blunt El Niño’s dampening effect—current forecasts show a relatively cool tropical Atlantic going into the peak months, which would give El Niño more leverage to suppress storms.

I will drink to that.

Personal–Chemo has left me a bit under the weather…..I have another doctor now, a gastro one, I have more doctors than living relatives.

Back in the day my favorite sitcom was WKRP and now it comes to pass…..

Hold on to those Thanksgiving turkeys! WKRP is coming to Cincinnati—for real this time. “I cannot, by contract, tell you when. I cannot tell you who. But I can tell you, direct to the camera, WKRP, after 48 years, is coming to Cincinnati,” DP McIntire, who runs the media nonprofit that is auctioning the famous call letters, told the AP. “Book it! It’s done!” The call sign was made famous by WKRP in Cincinnati, a CBS television sitcom that ran from 1978 to 1982. It made stars of actors like Loni Anderson and Richard Sanders, whose bumbling newsman Les Nessman reported on a Thanksgiving promotion gone bad when live but flightless turkeys were dropped from a helicopter.

McIntire laughs as he recalls his chat with a woman in the agency’s audio division. He had two sets of call letters in mind. She told him he needed a third. “Being the jokester that I am, I said, `Well, if you need three, and if it’s available, we’ll take WKRP,'” he said. “And 90 seconds later, she came back and she said, `Mr. McIntire. Congratulations. You’re the general manager of WKRP in Raleigh, North Carolina.'” WKRP-LP—101.9 on the FM dial—went live Nov. 30, 2015. The LP stands for “low power,” a class of station created to serve more local audiences that didn’t want mass-market content. LPFM is restricted to nonprofit organizations like his Oak City Media, and it’s definitely local.

Like the WKRP of television, McIntire and his partners set out to be “irreverent.” One of their offerings is a two-hour show called “Weird Al and Friends,” focusing on the satirical works of Weird Al Yankovic. They even had an annual Thanksgiving turkey giveaway. But don’t call PETA—they hand out gift certificates to a local grocery store. “We don’t toss them out of helicopters,” he said with a laugh. After 10 years on the air, the 56-year-old McIntire decided it was time to pass the reins. They put out a call for bids to use the call letters on FM and AM radio, as well as television and digital television. Whatever the buyers do with the call sign, he hopes they will be true to the show that inspired it. “It has a special place in the hearts of an awful lot of people,” he said. “And we have been very, very, very proud to have been a steward of that legacy.”

I remember the turkey episode and the famous words….”As God is my witness I thought turkeys could fly”.

The trend of everyone having a tattoo may not be the best thing….

From minimalist wrist designs to full sleeves, body art has become so common that it barely raises an eyebrow. But while the personal meaning of a tattoo may be obvious, the biological consequences are far less visible.

Once tattoo ink enters the body, it does not stay put. Beneath the skin, tattoo pigments interact with the immune system in ways scientists are only just beginning to understand.

Tattoos are generally considered safe, but growing scientific evidence suggests tattoo inks are not biologically inert. The key question is no longer whether tattoos introduce foreign substances into the body, but how toxic those substances might be and what that means for long-term health.

Tattoo inks are complex chemical mixtures. They contain pigments that give color, liquid carriers that help distribute the ink, preservatives to prevent microbial growth, and small amounts of impurities.

Many pigments currently in use were originally developed for industrial applications such as car paint, plastics, and printer toner, rather than for injection into human skin.

Some inks contain trace amounts of heavy metals, including nickel, chromium, cobalt, and occasionally lead. Heavy metals can be toxic at certain levels and are well known for triggering allergic reactions and immune sensitivity

https://www.sciencealert.com/tattoos-affect-your-immune-system-in-ways-were-just-beginning-to-understand

AI is the big thing these days….and an AI exoert has something to say….

Existence as we know it is almost certainly a simulated design, according to a renowned Latvian computer scientist and AI maestro.

Founder of Cyber Security Lab at the University of Louisville, Dr Roman Yampolskiy joined podcaster and entrepreneur Steven Bartlett on The Diary of a CEO last week.

During their brain-bruising discussion, which ran close to 90 minutes in length, the podcast guest came to the table with several revelations, including his belief that humankind is already so entrenched in technological lives that we’re essentially living in a simulation.

https://www.ladbible.com/news/technology/ai-expert-close-to-certain-simulation-theory-282256-20260407

Did this guy see the Matrix movies?

WE have a resurgence of crazy alien stuff…..add another one to the pile….

Representative Tim Burchett spoke to Newsmax this week and said the US government ‘needs to disclose it all’.

‘I’ve been briefed by just about every alphabet agency there is, and I’ll just tell you this, if they would release the things that I’ve seen, you would stay up at — you’d be up at night worrying about or — thinking about this stuff,’ he said.

‘I will just tell you this, I was briefed two weeks ago on an issue, and it would’ve set the earth on — this country would’ve come unglued, I think, if they had heard all that I’d heard.’

‘Aliens are real – what I’ve been told will keep you up at night’

Sorry that is about all the energy I have for today…..so go out and enjoy your Saturday and as always…..Be well and Be Safe….

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“lego ergo scribo”