Clear windy sunny and COLD.
Delicious carnitas last night, maybe the best I’ve ever had. Today more sightseeing and I’ve been threatened with a hike.
Some of the more ‘active’ prepper/3per/militia sites are hammering away at people for physical conditioning. I’d say that you probably don’t need to be able to ruck march a dozen miles, but if you’ve let your condition slide, everything is better when you don’t hurt so damn much. Yoga, Tai Chi, pool workout, chair workout, or just simple walking. The new year is almost a quarter gone. Do some stretching! Get up and move.
Nick
I love carnitas !
If you are 60 and can march a 60 lb ruck a mile, you are doing well.
Carnitas, my ass! I can cook that in minutes (in a pressure cooker) — does really good with chocolate, or molé really well.
Everywhere in the world I’ve been I’ve always asked for sopa de tripa.
Some old mammy has it cooking on a back stove, it’s not on the menu, and they get a real kick out of some crazy white guy asking for peasant soup.
Wow, it was in the 30s F north of Houston this morning. The weather is absolutely awesome today and tomorrow, peaking in the 60s F.
https://spacecityweather.com/yes-probably-early-hurricane-outlook/
And yes, some person is already talking about having a Harvey II this hurricane season. There is a minute chance of Harvey II but the chance is skimming that zero chance line very hard.
Good comment on the website above: “Matt is 100% correct that NOW is the time to take stock of one’s hurricane preparedness — trees near house trimmed back, fresh batteries and flashlights, battery powered radio, emergency plan, first aid kit, important papers in waterproof containers, at least 5 days water and non-perishable food (1 gal per person per day), etc. Clif Bars are a great food item to have around. Taste good, reasonable price, filled with nutritional good stuff.”
I have 60 days of water and food for 3 people, a dog, and a cat. And we now have a high ground bugout place that I am slowly stocking in case the Brazos river comes over our levee some horrible day. But, it is tough to move stuff when your left wrist is screaming at you. I hope this flareup of carpal tunnel heals itself soon.
@Jim
sopa de tripa
Grew up eating fragrant bowls of menudo with homemade tortillas at a friends house.
When we try a new Mexican restaurant I’ll often order it.
It can be transcendentally delicious or absolutely horrid. Not a lot of middle ground in my experience.
But totally worth risking the nasty bowls for the magnificent.
Move, yeah. Finally got back to a workout this morning. I’d been ill with an especially nasty intestinal thing, then I manged a wrist, so I’ve done not-very-much all year. Finally healthy again, so hopefully the year will look up from here.
Hey, the advantage of intestinal crap is that you lose a lot of weight. I hope to keep most of it off – at least something positive will have come out of it…
Hey, the advantage of intestinal crap is that you lose a lot of weight. I hope to keep most of it off – at least something positive will have come out of it…
It is mostly water weight. Your body will store it right back up for the next time.
Wut?
There’s no such thing as totally ‘straight’, new study on sexuality says
Hello fellow fags.
H/T Drudge
And yes, some person is already talking about having a Harvey II this hurricane season. There is a minute chance of Harvey II but the chance is skimming that zero chance line very hard.
Florida had a brutal hurricane season in 2005 and then went storm free until last Summer.
The big downside is that people forget.
Hello fellow fags.
Well, hey there, you sweet thang!
Somedays I think we would be better off without the Internet. Just for the sheer amount of stupidity that spews every single day. Can we somehow dial it back about 20 years?
There’s no such thing as totally ‘straight’, new study on sexuality says
https://www.indy100.com/article/theres-no-such-thing-as-straight-new-study-says-bisexuality-ritch-savin-williams-8251351
That’s not what Kinsey said.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_scale
“Hello fellow fags.
Well, hey there, you sweet thang!”
YUUUP! After reading this, I immediately summoned Uber for a ride up to a Hollyweird bar!
ENOUGH: National School Walkout
No doubt this will be as meaningful as the original children’s crusade.
I’m watching a live broadcast by Hashgraph. They are a Distributed Network Ledger solution for Byzantine Default Tolerant ledgers. I’m going to mortgage my house to invest in the tech.
hashgraph.com
@Jenny
Sweet! Glad to know I’m not alone in mamma’s home made cooking.
Now — if I knew how to make tortillas, I’d be in heaven. I’ve seen the presses, but it seems to me it goes faster the old-fashioned way by slapping them between your palms.
Why should I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google?
Google lost me following their defenestration of James Damore exposed them as the authoritarian nest of SJWs that they are.
Are you ready for a massive CME event?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5494489/Huge-solar-storm-set-slam-Earth-TOMORROW.html
Are you ready for a massive CME event?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5494489/Huge-solar-storm-set-slam-Earth-TOMORROW.html
Eh, it is only a G1 event. Kinda like a cat 1 hurricane. Respect it but don’t let it mess with you too much.
Here is a book series about a G5 CME that fries the entire planet. “36 Hours: A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival Fiction Series (The Blackout Series) (Volume 1)”. I gave it 4 out of 5 stars.
https://www.amazon.com/36-Hours-Post-Apocalyptic-Survival-Blackout/dp/1536964298/
“Trump Permanently Blocks $117 Billion Broadcom Bid For Qualcomm”
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/trump-blocks-broadcom-qualcomm-takeover,36653.html
“President Trump brought Broadcom’s attempted hostile takeover of Qualcomm to a screeching halt Monday evening. Citing national security concerns, Trump signed an order blocking Broadcom’s unsolicited $117 billion bid for Qualcomm, which would have been the largest merger in semiconductor history.”
“Trump’s move isn’t unprecedented, but it is rare. Trump also blocked another attempted acquisition in September 2017 when he stopped the $1.3 billion takeover of U.S.-based Lattice Semiconductor by Canyon Bridge Capital Partners, which was backed by Chinese investment firms. At the time, it was only the fourth time in 27 years that a U.S. President had personally blocked a business takeover by a foreign company.”
Interesting.
Well damn.
Stephen Hawking has died.
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-43396008
It’s Pi Day. Or is that Π day? Or π day? Doesn’t matter – it’s a good day for Σ π.
And remember Τ day in June. Have 2π.
Well damn.
Stephen Hawking has died.
It is sad that he turned into Dr. Doom in his later years. It’s amazing how long he held on to life.
My spouse makes tortillas. The flour tortillas are generally rolled out with a rolling pin, and the tortilla press is used only for the corn tortillas.
“Trump Permanently Blocks $117 Billion Broadcom Bid For Qualcomm”
Broadcom would have strip mined Qualcomm. The deal was only interesting for Wall Street and Qualcomm employees playing the CA real estate game with vesting options.
Will have to try my hand at making tortillas. For me, it’s apple π day.
Frankly, I’m glad old Hawkings is dead. The guy was nuts.
Greg Norton wrote:
“…Qualcomm employees playing the CA real estate game with vesting options.”
Sorry, I don’t understand that…
Greatest since Einstein? Not so sure about that…
“…Qualcomm employees playing the CA real estate game with vesting options.”
Sorry, I don’t understand that…
If Broadcom buys out Qualcomm, under the standard arrangement, all of the employees’ stock options will vest. Anyone with an interest-only loan (or loans) as part of their $1 million mortgage will be able to pay off the bank.
If you don’t have family money to provide the six figure down payment on a house in CA, financing gets creative and heavily dependent on someone having potentially lucrative stock options. I looked at the game once about six years ago; it is probably crazier now.
The best tortillas are homemade. Most likely because the maker will you use lard, as god intended.
“If you don’t have family money to provide the six figure down payment on a house in CA, financing gets creative and heavily dependent on someone having potentially lucrative stock options. I looked at the game once about six years ago; it is probably crazier now.’
I’ve been in the game, my house about 3 towns over, for 50 years. Worked OK for me, or so Zillow states.
Greatest since Einstein? Not so sure about that…
Wheeler might be the greatest in Physics since Einstein. But Hawking was the man in Cosmology.