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Tuesday Views: 14 April 2026

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LOCAL: Painting five panels for a mural. This has been going on for a couple of weeks. The cold weather delayed the project by a week. So, I had a pencil sketch, an underlay, and then a week of downtime. I am using three large canvases, oil, and I need ventilation. [Image withheld]

I altered website colors.

So quiet outside I can hear the 3:38 am barge siren in the river valley. I live at the crest of a steep hill a mile away. I mean, I can usually hear it anyways, but the barge siren in the middle of the night is especially noticeable. I can hear the echoes of the sirens cascading up and down the river valley while the barge slides underneath 43 and 40. My kid starts stimming, making floorboards creak. A few birds start singing, and they don’t stop. A few minutes later the louder siren blares. More birds. Heading North. I take the bags under my eyes to Ali and pick up a few things.

YOUGH Kayaking PSA: The Yough River offers Class III-IV rapids. It flows north to the Mon. Unlike the majestical Mon, the Yough draw boaters for its thrilling rapids and decent tubing sections. A few people have died over the years in the rapids. One particular rock has claimed a few lives due to a carveout on its trailing side that traps people underwater up against it. Dimple Rock is in the Dimple Falls area on the Yough. Rapids map.pdf.

Boaters have reported fighting for their lives after being swept underneath it. They are pulled down under the face of the rock on its trailing side. You struggle to swim up but the current overhead and ahead is incredibly powerful. It resists your efforts. Smooth, laminar water overhead, no foam on the surface, weird. Powerful currents sweep overhead as one would look up at the surface just a few feet up. One might be a strong swimmer, but the current is stronger. It is impossible to push out along the bottom. Drowning is followed by difficult extraction of the body due to its location.

Dimple Rock, if floating North up it, is located towards the left bank of the river at Dimple Falls. Approaching the triangular rock, the current splits. The current to the right is frothy: this is safe passage, no carveout of the rock face, you paddle around a wall. The current to the left, however, is clear, almost laminar, and seems to go DOWN pointing under the rock. This is where the water goes down into an area that recesses below and into the rock, creating a pocket. You can get shoved in there, stuck to the rock, tumbled. 39°54.1869’N 79°28.5369’W, go far right around Dimple Rock. Portage available.

DRONE: I flew by a Yough River train and a big step pyramid. Was it a mature landfill, or was it the leftovers of a mountaintop mining job? Using a DJI drone. There is no market replacement. There is no market for a working drone. I’m too busy working on art stuff right now to go join a local flyer’s club and get on a build/repair team.

Oatmeal, no sugar
Old tracks

SCIENCE: Artemis II returned. Artemis III, bet. I have not been reading anything recently of any use. My published medical research still gets the occasional read.

Art: That Drumf/Jesus AI is gut-churning madness. Not sure what the tripe-horned weirdo is hovering overhead, but my money’s on it planning Drumf’s next moves. AI is getting some serious friction. Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto – The Onion

Long-Lost Archimedes Text Resurfaces in French Museum Put that rotini in a ziti, y’all.

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