Saved comments during September 2023
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neonvincentHappy Wester! Here are the comments I left on blogs, YouTube posts, and Instagram posts last month.
My comment on Hello Everyone!
Congratulations on winning the Streamy Award for Learning and Education!
My comment on The state of UAW negotiations for Labor Day 2023.
Thanks to driftglass for linking to this post in Mike's Blog Round-Up at Crooks and Liars and welcome to all of you who came here from that link! You might appreciate my follow-up, Examinations of the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes leading into the Labor Day weekend. Also, welcome to all my Singaporean, Canadian, Dutch, Ukrainian, and other international readers. I appreciate all of you, especially my Singaporean readers, who have contributed about 11,300 page views this week, about five times as many as my American readers! Keep it up!
My comment on #Nyssara was EVERYTHING.
I was wondering if you were a fan of Katrina as Nyssa. I see you are. So am I. The first time I saw her as Jessica take down a suspect with a broom handle, I yelled "Kick his butt, Nyssa!"
My comment on The History Guy tackles 'The Rise and Fall of the American Mall,' a tale of the Retail Apocalypse.
Done. Thanks for asking.
Yeah, I forget that sometimes. I think I even created that community. Facebook doesn't send me warnings when groups have no activity for a month like MeWe does. Those remind me to post at MeWe when I get them.
My comment on Skunks of the World: Spotted Skunks.
I don't recall if I've mentioned here that I was a seasonal Ranger Naturalist at Channel Islands National Park in 1987. While I learned about the endemic deer mice, island foxes, dwarf mammoths, plants (I even gave talks about the latter two), and land snails while I worked there, I never knew that the two largest island in the park had their own endemic subspecies of spotted skunk. Thanks to you, I now know. It's always a good day when I learn something new.
(Actually 1986 — senior moment.)
My comment on We're Up All Day to Get Lucky.
I had a front-row seat to the divergence in how urban and rural residents see wolves in Michigan during 2014. That year, three wolf-hunting measures got enough signatures to appear on the ballot. Two proposed banning hunting wolves and a third allowing the wolf hunt to continue. The state legislature, which was apportioned at the time so more seats represeented rural areas, small towns, and conservative suburbs, approved the pro-hunting measure, which also made the first wolf ban measure moot, effectively overturning it in advance. The measures banning wolf hunting went before the voters, and both passed on the strength of urban and liberal suburban voters. The second wolf hunting ban superceded the pro-hunting measure passed by the state legislature. After that, the U.S. federal government put Michigan's wolves back on the Endangered Species List, ending the wolf hunt regardless of the will of the either Michigan's legislature or the state's voters. What a divisive issue!
My comment on Talk like a Straw Hat Pirate — 'One Piece' for Talk Like A Pirate Day.
Welcome to Crazy Eddie's Motie News and thanks for the comment and recommendation! Now I'll have to actually watch it.
My comment on Cheap Shots: Schadenfreude at No More Mr. Nice Blog.
For a couple years, I've been trying to get my nickname for McCarthy to catch on — Pickled Tongue. I came up with that when Mystery Solvent asked on X when it was still Twitter "if you are what you eat, then what's Kevin McCarthy?" It's the funniest sounding dish at a popular Bakersfield restaurant.
My comment on Cheap Shots: Schadenfreude at The Rectification of Names.
They were always gamblers, but they were sports gamblers who couldn't bet on games during the pandemic and discovered meme stocks as a substitute.
My comments on Five, now six, days of the UAW strike.
Thanks to Steve in Manhattan for linking to this post in Mike's Blog Round-Up at Crooks and Liars and welcome to all of you who came here from that link! Also, welcome to all my Singaporean, Canadian, Dutch, Ukrainian, and other international readers. I appreciate all of you, especially my Singaporean readers, who have contributed about 33,500 page views this week, about 24 times as many as my American readers! Wow! Thanks to you, September 2023 is already the second-best month for page views in the history of the blog and is on track to break 100,000 again! Keep it up!
Thanks to Infidel753 for linking to this post at Link round-up for 24 September 2023 and welcome to all of you who came here from that link! Also, thanks again to all my international readers, including the Israelis, who I forgot to mention in yesterday's comment above and provided 300+ page views today, nearly twice as much as my American readers, and my Chinese readers, who I haven't seen in a while. Welcome back!
My comment on Hello Everyone!
Congratulations on winning the Streamy Award for Learning and Education!
My comment on The state of UAW negotiations for Labor Day 2023.
Thanks to driftglass for linking to this post in Mike's Blog Round-Up at Crooks and Liars and welcome to all of you who came here from that link! You might appreciate my follow-up, Examinations of the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes leading into the Labor Day weekend. Also, welcome to all my Singaporean, Canadian, Dutch, Ukrainian, and other international readers. I appreciate all of you, especially my Singaporean readers, who have contributed about 11,300 page views this week, about five times as many as my American readers! Keep it up!
My comment on #Nyssara was EVERYTHING.
I was wondering if you were a fan of Katrina as Nyssa. I see you are. So am I. The first time I saw her as Jessica take down a suspect with a broom handle, I yelled "Kick his butt, Nyssa!"
My comment on The History Guy tackles 'The Rise and Fall of the American Mall,' a tale of the Retail Apocalypse.
Done. Thanks for asking.
Yeah, I forget that sometimes. I think I even created that community. Facebook doesn't send me warnings when groups have no activity for a month like MeWe does. Those remind me to post at MeWe when I get them.
My comment on Skunks of the World: Spotted Skunks.
I don't recall if I've mentioned here that I was a seasonal Ranger Naturalist at Channel Islands National Park in 1987. While I learned about the endemic deer mice, island foxes, dwarf mammoths, plants (I even gave talks about the latter two), and land snails while I worked there, I never knew that the two largest island in the park had their own endemic subspecies of spotted skunk. Thanks to you, I now know. It's always a good day when I learn something new.
(Actually 1986 — senior moment.)
My comment on We're Up All Day to Get Lucky.
I had a front-row seat to the divergence in how urban and rural residents see wolves in Michigan during 2014. That year, three wolf-hunting measures got enough signatures to appear on the ballot. Two proposed banning hunting wolves and a third allowing the wolf hunt to continue. The state legislature, which was apportioned at the time so more seats represeented rural areas, small towns, and conservative suburbs, approved the pro-hunting measure, which also made the first wolf ban measure moot, effectively overturning it in advance. The measures banning wolf hunting went before the voters, and both passed on the strength of urban and liberal suburban voters. The second wolf hunting ban superceded the pro-hunting measure passed by the state legislature. After that, the U.S. federal government put Michigan's wolves back on the Endangered Species List, ending the wolf hunt regardless of the will of the either Michigan's legislature or the state's voters. What a divisive issue!
My comment on Talk like a Straw Hat Pirate — 'One Piece' for Talk Like A Pirate Day.
Welcome to Crazy Eddie's Motie News and thanks for the comment and recommendation! Now I'll have to actually watch it.
My comment on Cheap Shots: Schadenfreude at No More Mr. Nice Blog.
For a couple years, I've been trying to get my nickname for McCarthy to catch on — Pickled Tongue. I came up with that when Mystery Solvent asked on X when it was still Twitter "if you are what you eat, then what's Kevin McCarthy?" It's the funniest sounding dish at a popular Bakersfield restaurant.
My comment on Cheap Shots: Schadenfreude at The Rectification of Names.
They were always gamblers, but they were sports gamblers who couldn't bet on games during the pandemic and discovered meme stocks as a substitute.
My comments on Five, now six, days of the UAW strike.
Thanks to Steve in Manhattan for linking to this post in Mike's Blog Round-Up at Crooks and Liars and welcome to all of you who came here from that link! Also, welcome to all my Singaporean, Canadian, Dutch, Ukrainian, and other international readers. I appreciate all of you, especially my Singaporean readers, who have contributed about 33,500 page views this week, about 24 times as many as my American readers! Wow! Thanks to you, September 2023 is already the second-best month for page views in the history of the blog and is on track to break 100,000 again! Keep it up!
Thanks to Infidel753 for linking to this post at Link round-up for 24 September 2023 and welcome to all of you who came here from that link! Also, thanks again to all my international readers, including the Israelis, who I forgot to mention in yesterday's comment above and provided 300+ page views today, nearly twice as much as my American readers, and my Chinese readers, who I haven't seen in a while. Welcome back!
