Sourced at Gatwaypundit or not, it certainly seems odd that, so far, more than 800 references to “Pizza” have been found in the Epstein files (remember how “Pizzagate” was derided, in the MSM and elsewhere, as just one of those nutty, nonsensical “conspiracy theories”).*
Given all of those things we were told were “conspiracy theories” which have turned out to be true, perhaps it’s time to take a lot closer look at the possible coded language used in the Epstein files.
So one of my top students in 40 years was a classics and physics double major…I know strange combination. Sophomore year she got interested in engineering, so I sent her across the street to the Coast Guard Academy to start some engineering courses. Junior year she wanted to do a senior thesis but something that combined both majors. After some work on both our our parts she decided to reconstruct a Roman amphitheater at Fidenea which collapsed and killed 10s of thousands. Working from original Latin texts (there’s the classics major) and using proxies shes was able to reconstruct the building and then discovered how it collapsed: the foundation pillars were not dug down to bedrock. A tour de force of a thesis…got her into the Princeton Architectural/Historic engineering program; and now an associate prof at Penn State doing very similar work on historic structures. Here’s a link to her thesis if anyone is interested; it’s quite a read:
I had about 20 very superior students who worked in my lab over the years, out of over 140. The really good ones are amazing. I can even claim the Senior Director for Research at Bose. I get good discounts on Bose stuff. 🙂
But none will top the Library of the Lightbringer; the god of the Creased Pants, Transformer of the Fundament.
Om,
You forgot ” Lord of Creation” and “Tingles”.
How awesome he truly is.
Dr. Zaius again, guys?
On a brighter (albeit non sequitur) note: End all teachers’ unions.
Sdferr “On a brighter (albeit non sequitur) note: End all teachers’ unions.”
The big news here in the Frisco Bay area is a teacher union strike in Frisco. I’m sure the school district bureaucrats would be happy to give the union all the pay and benefit increases they want but as Margaret Thatcher observed, socialism is great until you run out of other people’s money. Proposition 13 limits how much taxes they can extract from the public. The Democrats are fighting furiously to overturn it, but it remains hugely popular. Frisco is so expensive that both husband and wife have to have jobs so the strike is really inconveniencing the Frisco leftists.
Many school districts in California have the same problem. Let’s hope this motivates parents to pull their children out of government schools.
physicsguy:
Shirley she is smarter than your average bear!
physicsguy:
How interesting!
om,
Brilliant is the best descriptive word. And add to that a bubbly personality. Though after working closely together for 4 years, her ginger side came out occasionally when I would get her death stare. 🙂
The best part of these students is that they always stay in contact with me.
You have been blessed!
The world is moving right. Now, if we can get the Republican voters to get off their ass and vote in the midterms, we can defeat the Democrats.
Grok had to add that Brazil and Mexico have leftist governments. /smile
OM:
Anent Lightbringer Library, I have not seen anyone note the similarity to a Mesopotamian ziggurat, particularly the Great Ziggurat of Ur, but it sure strikes me that way. Isn’t it fitting that our Lightbringer President would build himself a ziggurat? Solid mud brick. Yep. How apt.
@physicsguy
You done good. Sending the student to engineering reminded me of the head of the engineering department telling Mary Cleave (astronaut) that she didn’t have the patience to be a good scientist, she should be an engineer. And he was right!
I was happy to see she was using some software I was involved in developing, although the most used seems to be scikit-learn, which is somewhat downstream.
A sitrep. Alas, I have been struck by a new malady. Giant Cell Arteritis it’s called. It has rendered my good eye blind. My bad eye leaves me with about 1/4 vision and that’s garbled. I’m typing this with great difficulty.
So, no more comments from me until this gets resolved for the better. Recovery is possible I’m told. We’ll see. So long for now. Not dead yet, just blind. : -( J.J.
J.J.:
So sorry to hear of your affliction, but pray that you quickly regain sight in your good eye
Not dead yet, just blind
Hope it goes well. Going blind is one of my worries. I, too, have only one eye, if I lose it …
J.J., I will pray for your recovery! God bless you.
My cataract surgery was a miracle. Still my left eye to do. But I did realize that in a different time and place, I would have been effectively blind in another five years or so.
Godbless you, J.J.! I hope you are cured soon!
physicsguy,
Thanks for sharing that about your former student. There are some very bright lights in this world. Sounds like she lucked out and got a great mentor!
J.J.:
Prayers go out for your recovery.
New 5-6-minute video (2/9/26) of VD Hanson being interviewed re: politics. He looks good. Looks like he is in his bookshelf room (home? office?). Positive comments.
J.J., I am praying for restoration of your eyesight.
Hello from Hong Kong. Headed to Tiawan tonight.
Ship was free WiFi. But if I want watch Amazon I have to pay $15 a day. Just found out that I can’t watch the YouTube videos posted here. What a drag. When we leave HK, internet provider is StarLink.
Hey, SHIREHOME—
Thanks for your South China Seas update. Bon voyage!
In weird US news, the REAL conservatives at National Review have decided to oppose criminal alien deportations. It seems that questionable polling results have driven them from their past support.
Old is better. Even when the old is in ruins.
Yes, that’s a metaphor.
Sourced at Gatwaypundit or not, it certainly seems odd that, so far, more than 800 references to “Pizza” have been found in the Epstein files (remember how “Pizzagate” was derided, in the MSM and elsewhere, as just one of those nutty, nonsensical “conspiracy theories”).*
Given all of those things we were told were “conspiracy theories” which have turned out to be true, perhaps it’s time to take a lot closer look at the possible coded language used in the Epstein files.
* See https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/hundreds-bizarre-references-pizza-new-epstein-documents-raise/
So one of my top students in 40 years was a classics and physics double major…I know strange combination. Sophomore year she got interested in engineering, so I sent her across the street to the Coast Guard Academy to start some engineering courses. Junior year she wanted to do a senior thesis but something that combined both majors. After some work on both our our parts she decided to reconstruct a Roman amphitheater at Fidenea which collapsed and killed 10s of thousands. Working from original Latin texts (there’s the classics major) and using proxies shes was able to reconstruct the building and then discovered how it collapsed: the foundation pillars were not dug down to bedrock. A tour de force of a thesis…got her into the Princeton Architectural/Historic engineering program; and now an associate prof at Penn State doing very similar work on historic structures. Here’s a link to her thesis if anyone is interested; it’s quite a read:
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/physicshp/7/
Her faculty profile:
https://www.matse.psu.edu/directory/rebecca-napolitano
and a link to her lab:
https://rkn2.github.io/heritage3d-lab/
I had about 20 very superior students who worked in my lab over the years, out of over 140. The really good ones are amazing. I can even claim the Senior Director for Research at Bose. I get good discounts on Bose stuff. 🙂
But none will top the Library of the Lightbringer; the god of the Creased Pants, Transformer of the Fundament.
Om,
You forgot ” Lord of Creation” and “Tingles”.
How awesome he truly is.
Dr. Zaius again, guys?
On a brighter (albeit non sequitur) note: End all teachers’ unions.
Sdferr “On a brighter (albeit non sequitur) note: End all teachers’ unions.”
The big news here in the Frisco Bay area is a teacher union strike in Frisco. I’m sure the school district bureaucrats would be happy to give the union all the pay and benefit increases they want but as Margaret Thatcher observed, socialism is great until you run out of other people’s money. Proposition 13 limits how much taxes they can extract from the public. The Democrats are fighting furiously to overturn it, but it remains hugely popular. Frisco is so expensive that both husband and wife have to have jobs so the strike is really inconveniencing the Frisco leftists.
Many school districts in California have the same problem. Let’s hope this motivates parents to pull their children out of government schools.
physicsguy:
Shirley she is smarter than your average bear!
physicsguy:
How interesting!
om,
Brilliant is the best descriptive word. And add to that a bubbly personality. Though after working closely together for 4 years, her ginger side came out occasionally when I would get her death stare. 🙂
The best part of these students is that they always stay in contact with me.
You have been blessed!
The world is moving right. Now, if we can get the Republican voters to get off their ass and vote in the midterms, we can defeat the Democrats.
See this article on the conservative Japanese Prime Minister and her gamble with the snap election.Â
https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2026/02/09/japans-iron-lady-took-a-risk-and-won-big-n4949287
The article mentions the Taiwanese government as well as the Italian Prime Minister and her party.
I asked Grok about conservatives winning recent elections in Latin America and here’s what it says.
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Here are some key recent examples of conservative/right-wing victories in presidential or major elections:
• Costa Rica (2026): Conservative populist Laura Fernández (of the Sovereign People’s Party) won the presidential election in a landslide in February 2026, continuing the tough-on-crime policies of outgoing President Rodrigo Chaves. She secured victory in the first round without a runoff.
• Chile (2025): Ultra-conservative/far-right José Antonio Kast won the presidential runoff in December 2025, marking the country’s most right-wing government since the end of the Pinochet dictatorship in 1990. His campaign focused heavily on security and immigration.
• Bolivia (2025): Conservative/center-right Rodrigo Paz Pereira was elected president, ending nearly two decades of socialist rule by the MAS party.
• Honduras (2025): Right-wing candidate Nasry Asfura won the presidential election.
• Ecuador (2023/2025): Center-right businessman Daniel Noboa won in 2023 and secured re-election in 2025 for a second term.
• Argentina (2023, with ongoing momentum): Right-wing libertarian Javier Milei won the presidency in 2023, and his party gained strength in subsequent midterm elections (e.g., 2025).
• Panama (2024): Right-wing politician José Raúl Mulino won the general election.
Other countries with established right-leaning or conservative leadership in recent contexts include El Salvador (Nayib Bukele, re-elected in 2024 on a hardline security platform) and Paraguay (Santiago Peña
Grok had to add that Brazil and Mexico have leftist governments. /smile
OM:
Anent Lightbringer Library, I have not seen anyone note the similarity to a Mesopotamian ziggurat, particularly the Great Ziggurat of Ur, but it sure strikes me that way. Isn’t it fitting that our Lightbringer President would build himself a ziggurat? Solid mud brick. Yep. How apt.
@physicsguy
You done good. Sending the student to engineering reminded me of the head of the engineering department telling Mary Cleave (astronaut) that she didn’t have the patience to be a good scientist, she should be an engineer. And he was right!
I was happy to see she was using some software I was involved in developing, although the most used seems to be scikit-learn, which is somewhat downstream.
A sitrep. Alas, I have been struck by a new malady. Giant Cell Arteritis it’s called. It has rendered my good eye blind. My bad eye leaves me with about 1/4 vision and that’s garbled. I’m typing this with great difficulty.
So, no more comments from me until this gets resolved for the better. Recovery is possible I’m told. We’ll see. So long for now. Not dead yet, just blind. : -( J.J.
J.J.:
So sorry to hear of your affliction, but pray that you quickly regain sight in your good eye
Not dead yet, just blind
Hope it goes well. Going blind is one of my worries. I, too, have only one eye, if I lose it …
J.J., I will pray for your recovery! God bless you.
The BEST Super Bowl XL Commercials – Videos
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J.J.:
Best of luck on your eye condition!
My cataract surgery was a miracle. Still my left eye to do. But I did realize that in a different time and place, I would have been effectively blind in another five years or so.
Godbless you, J.J.! I hope you are cured soon!
physicsguy,
Thanks for sharing that about your former student. There are some very bright lights in this world. Sounds like she lucked out and got a great mentor!
J.J.:
Prayers go out for your recovery.
New 5-6-minute video (2/9/26) of VD Hanson being interviewed re: politics. He looks good. Looks like he is in his bookshelf room (home? office?). Positive comments.
Well, it must be late. I forgot the VDH link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWkSwWQhK6A.
I just searched for the video again and got a different link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtPuIhJjlx8
The second link is 51 minutes long, FYI.
J.J., I am praying for restoration of your eyesight.
Hello from Hong Kong. Headed to Tiawan tonight.
Ship was free WiFi. But if I want watch Amazon I have to pay $15 a day. Just found out that I can’t watch the YouTube videos posted here. What a drag. When we leave HK, internet provider is StarLink.
Hey, SHIREHOME—
Thanks for your South China Seas update. Bon voyage!
In weird US news, the REAL conservatives at National Review have decided to oppose criminal alien deportations. It seems that questionable polling results have driven them from their past support.
CRAZY. https://x.com/chriswithans/status/2020909387934810455
So the REAL conservatives at Not Relevant (NR) or is it Not Read(NR)?
Nope, they are both, NRNR, for at least a decade.
So the REAL conservatives at Not Relevant (NR) or is it Not Read(NR) said something?
Nope, they are both, NRNR, for at least a decade.
Comment edit tool is AWOL. Off to work!
Hippodrome=Nike