After all these decades, I’ve just found out that it’s ‘ArtemUs Gordon’, not ‘ArtemIs Gordon’.
Give us some context for what it is.
Artemus Gordon was a character played by Ross Martin in The Wild Wild West TV series. For decades I thought he was named after Artemis, the Greek goddess of the hunt and the Moon. I thought it was weird that he had a girl’s name. Today The Wild Wild West came on, and it’s the first time I’ve seen it in forever. That’s when I noticed that his name is not the same as the goddess’s.
Please, not on my account! I did find one of the movies mentioned, and will play it when I get a chance.
Please ignore Mr. Johnson’s comment and the inaccurate inclusion of Once a Thief.
According to YouTube’s 2024 Culture and Trends Report, 65% of Gen Z self-identify as content creators.
Carefully planning my escape, I found myself scanning maps for US/Canada border crossings. I find that Maine has about the same number as Washington and Montana, a dozen or so (defining a crossing such that you could start at a random city on one side and drive an ordinary car to some random city on the other side). New Hampshire has just one, Idaho two, Michgan four, Minnesota eight. New York and North Dakota have the most, seventeen each. But what surprised me was Vermont, which has fifteen crossings in its 90 short miles of border.
Yes, Alaska has a long border with Canada – longer than the 49th parallel border run – with only four crossings, but you cannot drive there directly from just any random city in the US.
The name might have been inspired by the nom de plume of the famous western humorist Artemus Ward. Artemus Gordon was the sidekick of Captain James West, or as we liked to call him, Captain Tight Pants, played by Robert Conrad. The show was a staple of my youth.
Interesting. That’s a lot. And they are all staffed by American and Canadian customs/immigration 24-7?
I know of at least one in Washington, on the eastern flanks of the Cascades, that is not open at night.
Also, there are about half a dozen places in northwest NY where there is no real monitoring of the crossings because the Quebec side is a quasi-exclave called Akwesasne 15, which considers itself essentially a reservation in combination with the New York side (none of its roads cross the rivers that divide it from Quebec).
Houston is slowly sinking, and so are several other cities. None of which are in Louisiana.*
Houston is the fastest sinking city with “more than 40% of its area subsiding more than 5 millimeters (about 1/5 inch) per year, and 12% sinking at twice that rate,” according to the study.
*Parts of the New Orleans area were built on reclaimed swampland but I guess their sinking has slowed. I remember riding my Schwinn around Metairie and seeing at least one driveway significantly lower than the corresponding garage. Had to have been a foot or so.
Mexico city is sinking also. Maybe some areas of land the size and shape of Houston and Mexico city are rising up out of the ground on the opposite side of the earth somewhere in Asia.
Wasn’t it literally built on a lake?
I wouldn’t worry about it. The South will rise again.
Seems to be aquifers which have been depleted.
I don’t know what happened to the water after the Spanish took over, but the Aztec predecessor city of Tenochtitlan was.
Good Lord! It turn out a market in Beverly is selling boxes of Carolina Reaper peppers in the fresh produce section! This pepper is not found in nature. It was genetically bred by a guy in South Carolina and was the hottest pepper in the world before the development of Pepper X. Reapers should only be eaten in minute amounts in solution (sauce), NEVER directly. With all the stupid people in the world, I can fully imagine someone torching their mouth/throat/esophagus with one of those things. They’re also selling Scorpion peppers.
I have to stop in and take a look.
Not to mention organs further along the alimentary canal.
People complain about “Frankenfoods” without realizing that those peppers are a prime example. Something that nature never intended for a human being to eat.
I wonder if they are just using the name for marketing. Because even with warning labels, if the pepper was able to cause major pain or distress, let alone permanent damage, that’s a lawsuit.