The Outer Statistical Limit Of The Past

Curiously enough this is how I refer to Trinity, the code name for the first atomic bomb test in Alamogordo, New Mexico in one of my books. In Progeny (ISBN 1418499455) it's also a limit I place on the time travel that the Empress who becomes the main antagonist of that series uses -- or should I say will use since it's set in her alternate Earth's 2055? -- due to, though I don't directly state this, the immense expenditure of energy from the first atomic bomb. And that was only a test.


5 most persuasive words in the English language: discover, easy, guarantee, health, and results. (312)


The one thing atomic bombs seem to have not guaranteed is that people and nations won't want to build them (and use them). As one passage from Jonathan Fetter-Vorm's Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb (ISBN 9780809093557) states: "This is why there is always a fear whenever a country wants to build its first nuclear power plant: once the infrastructure is in place, it's relatively cheap and easy to start producing weapons-grade plutonium."


Ucalegon: A neighbor whose house is burning down. (45)

Among the many things I have learned we see between paragraphs here -- some of which are pretty mind-blowing! -- in Uncle John's Legendary Lost Bathroom Reader (ISBN 1879682745) which compiles the fifth, sixth, and seventh volumes that have been out of print since the early 1990s. From the title of the book that I DID occasionally take into the bathroom, our daughter Sarah was saying there ought to be a book you can only read when you're on the toilet! Not this one, though.


The screwdriver was first used to help knights put on their armor. (38)


Four days of school this week, and this third day of school Martha and I both got to drop Sarah and Jeffrey off at school because of an errand we both needed to run this morning! It's a small thing, but it will make an incredible difference in our lives ... now if only we'll also become the responsible and upstanding citizens we want to see them become. Besides, I do object to nuclear weapons, poison gas, and anything else that might upset them.


Flamingo' knees don't really bend backward. But their legs are so long that the joint you see where it seems the knee ought to be is really the flamingo's ankle, and it bends the same way yours does. The knee is hidden, high up inside the body. (59)


May the rest of our Holy Week ... be holy!


David