Wasteland Wrap-up #19

Fall weather, disaster media, Enlightenment monuments, Sputnik...

Somehow we continue to travel through time at what feels like an accelerated pace, closing in on Thanksgiving and the end of November. The weather has taken a turn for the cold and wet up here, and I’m suddenly reminded that while being able to walk to work has its definite perks, it also has its annoyances…!

We got thoroughly soaked on our walk home from work last Thursday.

The only nice thing about November is that for one brief moment, the trees sometimes burst into radiant color, and the one outside my building was a fiery red for approximately one minute:

Lyndon is highly-motivated by new stimulus, which for him mostly means new or unusual things to smell. We came across a dead wasp nest in the street on one of our walks this week, and he absolutely insisted, nay demanded, that we check it out. Of course, I indulged him (I figured if it had any live wasps in it, they would have made themselves apparent well before he investigated it).

POV: you are being dragged by a small but determined dog towards a dead wasp nest.

“Fascinating.”

Anyway — this week on Doomsday Machines I put up a post about the transformation of the Louis Slotin criticality accident with the “Demon Core” into an Internet meme: The meme-ification of the “Demon Core.” I have another post just about ready to go, but that one was quicker to get together and I’m still in a work crunch. I’m reasonably happy with how it turned out.