Warmer, and damp, but I’m still just Oggg and Thoggg, since I haven’t dragged out the ladder and replaced the batteries in the outdoor part of the weather station… National map says we could get rain or worse, lots of rain. The yard could use it, but I have stuff to pick up.
Spent most of the day doing auction and computer stuff. Also some cleaning the house, and it was haircut day. I’ve been cutting my hair since tyrant codependency started and I’m ok at it. It does save me $20 every 3 weeks. When times get tough, people cut back on haircuts, either going somewhere cheaper, or lengthening the time between cuts. I”ve been doing mine for convenience at this point, but the savings add up. I do miss chatting with my barber, and getting a read on the world from his point of view.
Today should be more of the same. Housecleaning (wife will return on Wednesday), auction stuff (hopefully a dropoff), and maybe a pickup… All while staying close enough and aware enough to pick up the kids from theater rehearsal after school. It’s not a huge burden, but it does break up my day.
Dinner last night had both kids asking to learn to cook, and specifically to make the side dish. I thought that was a huge score on my part. And it’s easy. Fresh asparagus cut into 1 inch pieces (with diagonal ends if you want to be fancy). Some thin sliced red onion for color and taste (not a lot, about 1:10 proportion). Saute’ the onion and asparagus in a tablespoon or two of bacon fat until ‘blanched’ ie. darker green but still a bit crunchy, with the onions softening, or even caramelizing. Add a couple of drops of vietnamese fish sauce and a few dashes of soy sauce. Toss the mix to coat with flavor. Saute’ briefly to thicken the sauce. Turn off heat and let settle to soften the spears a bit more. Takes about 10 minutes total, including prep. It is a little bit sweet, mostly salty, with good savory taste (umami). Spear chunks should still have a little crunch, onion should be transparent and soft. It’s a tasty colorful side, with a good smell and nice mouthfeel.
Anyway both kids liked it enough to want to learn to cook it.
It went well with frozen costco panko breaded shrimp from the oven, and a microwave tray of jasmine rice. Not a bad meal to pull together in 1/2 an hour. Call it “asian fusion”.
Dinner was followed by a long and frank discussion of racism especially as the kids see it every day. They are getting tired of being punching bags for being white. Did I mention that our district is about 85% non-white? Or that D1 dyed her blond hair black for this school year? I tried to give them advice about walking the tightrope- using facts, staying calm so the other guy looks bad, and using the language of the oppressed to flip the script. I’m dismayed that neither could tell me approximately when the Civil War ended, or how many years the slaves have been free without a LOT of prompting. D2 knew a bunch about lincoln the usurper and how he didn’t actually “free the slaves” at first, anyway, so that was nice. It’s a tough world these kids are living in, and going to get tougher.
Stack some knowledge and techniques to use against those that would demonize and other us. Stack some food too.
nick
That difficult, especially for kids.
The CDC has to justify its existence beyond being a bio weapons lab. Even if Fauci skates on his crimes and the mainstream press in the US continues looking the other way, the institution has serious damage control to do.
CDC’s obsolescence became obvious when they attempted to classify gun violence as an epidemic coming under their purview.
And anti-muslim sentiment. Something NASA felt compelled to insert themselves into.
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slightly cooler, with a decent breeze coming in off the Gulf. Quick moving low clouds. We might get the rain we were forecast, at least in local areas.
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n
Bill Nelson’s brain cells are even more fossilized than Biden’s.
NASA had a huge booth at the comic book convention in Orlando this weekend, promoting the announcement of the first woman and African American astronauts who will walk on the moon … in theory.
Again, abandoning pop culture to the Progs is a decision which the right will regret even as “woke” falls apart and Disney circles the drain. The damage has been done.
I don’t think it’s abandonment as much as being forced out.
n
Idle curiosity: If you objectively rank all astronauts and candidates by ability to perform a lunar landing and walkabout, where would the top woman come in that list? The first black?
I am available for the moon walk. Today, I identify as a black female. Where do I report for astronaut training? I’m a helicopter pilot, too, so fully qualified.
LOL to the max:
Kid Rock Has the Best Response to Bud Light After Its Partnership With Trans Activist
Lock and load one…
@greg:
Please define Two Percenter. Thank you.
Objectivity is racist. And sexist. And in this case, able-ist.
I’m waiting for the first mentally retarded spastic non-binary dwarf amputee deaf-mute autistic astronaut; there’s no justice until that happens.
Conservatives are only now realizing the power of their purchasing decisions with regard to media.
lpdbw says:
A dwarf amputee (of the legs) would have a great advantage in freefall repairing things. Those other attributes are definitely DIS-abilities.
The criminals -er- advisors who will manage your investments for two percent of the value annually.
Reentry optional.
My Surface Laptop 3 has ceased to operate properly. I made a bad situation a really bad situation.
It would boot, but I would get an error message. Startup was also strange in that the screen would flash a couple of times, then background image, icons, blank taskbar, then finally the taskbar. I figured I probably should do a complete reset.
I created the restore thumb drive on my main system. Downloaded the recovery drive for the Surface (W10) and copied the files to the thumb drive per the instructions from Microsoft.
I then booted the Surface from the thumb drive and did the recovery option to wipe the system. The system trundled for a while, then said it failed to properly recover. I have tried everything on the WEB from multiple sites. I have had no luck. The laptop will no longer boot as it cannot find an OS on the internal SSD. Multiple attempts with different options produce the same result.
I am guessing something is wrong with the SSD that is preventing the system from booting and operating properly. I could send it in for repair. The repair cost is $650.00, and Microsoft just replaces the device. The Surface Laptop is not repairable due to the way it is constructed and glued. A new laptop, twice the memory and space on the SSD is $1,400.00 (plus tax).
At this point I think I am just going to abandon the device and not replace the device. I primarily used the device when traveling. The trip to Texas confirmed that everything I need to do I can do on my MacBook Air. I am running Parallels with Windows 11 Arm to run some programs that require windows.
As a Propulsion System Engineer having worked on rocket launches, I also am qualified for moon walking. However, I won’t go if they refuse to let me take this laptop so I can Starlink back to our forum.
You left out “furry” and “Muslim”. Why are you such a bigot?
If I write and release bridge design software that designs bridges that fall down, I would get sued out of existence.
If I write and release AI software that falsely accuses someone of sexual harassment, no problem?
A dwarf amputee (of the legs) would have a great advantage in freefall
–This idea featured in a number of SF stories in the past. Less mass to boost too.
n
Hello to all Redumblicans that voted for this:
Janet Yellen admits Inflation Reduction Act, ‘at its core,’ isn’t about reducing inflation at all
The “climate crisis”, right. This is soft tyranny at its’ finest. The sheeple are too dumb to even care.
I don’t have any attention to waste on the Fed! I have to help stir up opposition to JK Rowling for being a TERF!
Speaking of the queen TERF:
Warner Bros. Discovery is close to finalizing deal with J.K. Rowling to stream TV series based on the Harry Potter books but author will not be credited as series’ creator
I’m sure this will be woke as fork.
“Series creator”.
Sure.
A towering pile of steaming … imagination.
I notice this alert from the Internet Storm Center:
Rowlings has kept very tight control of the Potterverse. I can’t see her giving that up now.
n
Ah wokesters, thanks for just increasing the collector value of every little mermaid media out there….
n
Right now, Warner Discovery needs Rowling more than Rowling needs Warner Discovery.
Universal would be the obvious alternative, but one of the factoids which surfaced in the DeSantis/Disney p*ssing match this Spring is that The Mouse retains the right to build a fifth gated attraction on the property in Florida, and they have two EPCOT sized pieces of land available on the north side of Western Way available to accommodate future projects.
The Mouse is even hungrier than Universal or Warner Discovery. Woke or not, Burbank would likely give her anything she wanted at this point in terms of control for a Disney+ show, regretting having passed on her control of the IP when they were offered Harry Potter theme park rights twenty years ago.
Theme park rights were just renewed at Universal, but they are subject to periodic review by Rowling and her heirs.
Who cares what the credits say. The title credits of “Picard” listing all of the Executive Producers got moved to the end of the show this season.
Among other signals of cheapness and desperation, Iger announced a live action reboot of “Moana” starring The Rock at the shareholder meeting on Monday.
A big chunk of Communicore at EPCOT got torn down over the last few years to build a *walkthrough* “Moana” attraction which will open in the next year. Yeah, I can see kids begging their parents to go see that instead of the “Donkey Kong Country” mine train roller coaster in 2025.
My *wife* wants to ride the Donkey Kong coaster and Mario Kart VR racing more than my kids.
The 7 Dwarfs mine train ride was eagerly anticipated and is a big underwhelm… Especially considering wait times.
n
Which suggests that the complainers viewed the animated movie through such a distorted lens that funhouse mirror manufacturers would depart the business in despair. If you recall the Disney original, Ariel was desperate for Eric to kiss her.
Among other signals of cheapness and desperation, Iger announced a live action reboot of “Moana” starring The Rock at the shareholder meeting on Monday.
@Greg, today is April 4, not April 1.
Pearls Before Swine: Rat Stops Judging Others
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2023/04/04
Uh wait, that is a total judgement !
Gold is just over $2,000 per ounce. Thanks Slow Joe !
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GC%3DF?p=GC%3DF
Paper gold.
One ounce uncirculated gold Eagles are $2820 each today at USMint.gov.
My wife downloaded the app to make reservations at Raglan Road one night last week, and she noted that the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train had a wait time of 88 minutes at park closing time.
Our one splurge of the trip. We had a great waitress, which made the whole night.
Morimoto, home of $37/ounce Waygu, three ounce minimum, was out.
The other new (to us) place in Orlando was Portillo’s. Sadly, we did not have the energy on the last night to make the run to the world’s largest White Castle, which was right next door.
Speaking of the queen TERF:
Warner Bros. Discovery is close to finalizing deal with J.K. Rowling to stream TV series based on the Harry Potter books but author will not be credited as series’ creator
I’m sure this will be woke as fork.
“‘Harry Potter’ TV Series For HBO Max Inching Closer To Reality With JK Rowling In Talks To Produce”
https://deadline.com/2023/04/harry-potter-tv-series-hbo-max-jk-rowling-produce-1235317141/?fbclid=IwAR1G6MSoWsz5ZjjM-_mdsERF-XFnPRAT-aUmYK-Z9MIAam6X8eht8syPTs4
Looks like JKR’s name will be all over this.
WBD is DESPERATE for a winner right now. Especially since Amazon is getting ready to buy AMC theaters so they can have an outlet for their inhouse and purchased movies.
I’ve been on Dell Chat for over two hours now while “Sheeresa” tries to get the Alienware Command Center to work. I allowed “Dell Remote Assist” access.
After about 10 reboots and just now a “Registry Restore” we are still at nada. She’s(?) researching something for the next step.
Sheeresa set up and administrator account. The app runs but still hangs. Couldn’t she just allowed the app to run as admin?
“More data vindicate Sweden’s hands-off pandemic approach”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/more-data-vindicate-swedens-hands-off-pandemic-approach
“The New York Times famously decried Sweden’s hands-off approach to the pandemic as “the world’s cautionary tale.” But more data just vindicated the Scandinavian nation’s approach, which kept schools open and largely rejected government lockdowns of the economy.
To compare how different countries with different policies fared, we must look at more than just COVID-19 deaths — because policymaking is inherently about trade-offs. While the actual efficacy of coronavirus lockdowns is dubious at best, they were at least intended to reduce deaths from COVID-19. Yet honest commentators and policymakers alike always acknowledged they would have other, possibly life-threatening consequences.”
As someone who took his niece 12 times in a row through “It‘s a Small World” I am wondering how bad it can really be?
Because it is now twenty years later and the 88m wait still sounds like a blessing.
I can’t say I care much about Warner Bros. Discovery. What channel are they on? What do they show?
I care about Warner Bros. Discovery because AT&T spun them off and that dropped what dividend I get in half. And so far Warner Bros. Discovery ain’t paying dividends to me via a check in the mail. So, basically, in my pointy little head, half of my AT&T stock went up in smoke.
I need to buy a picture frame. The paper stock certificates are pretty. Just put them all in one frame, in the hallway.
I can’t say I care much about Warner Bros. Discovery. What channel are they on? What do they show?
https://wbd.com/our-brands/
HBO channels
Discovery channels
TNT, TBS, CNN, HGTV, etc,
Cinemax channels
etc, etc, etc
I have a time groking the whole Disney thing. Yes, I know a lot of folks like it a lot. That’s cool.
When I was a kid living in Mobile and Orlando was being built a lot of folks were excited. The last I heard of about a couple of friends from the time is they got a job working there. Doing what, no clue. Shrug. I’d been to Disney Land in California and it was ok, no complaints other than feeling like I was starving to death on the bus home. Knott’s Berry Farm was funner.
I rather go out to the lake and float around on an air mattress between water skiing around. Then char something on the grill for supper. But that’s me.
I have none of that stuff. Haven’t had HBO since, oh, 1990, if that late. Dumped DirecTV back in ‘17 or ’18 and don’t miss it.
I have none of that stuff. Haven’t had HBO since, oh, 1990, if that late. Dumped DirecTV back in ‘17 or ’18 and don’t miss it.
You ain’t the only one. That is why WBD is not doing well and why AT&T spun it off to a separate company. Netflix is killing HBO.
The pundits are claiming that there will only be three streaming services in a couple of years. Netflix will be one. Amazon will be one. Who will be the third service ? Hulu ? Disney ?
My wife had a conference at one of the cheaper on-property hotels last week. We didn’t go near the parks and ate mostly on the cheap at places we’ve known forever.
Texas needs an Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza. The local coal pizza place doesn’t get their oven hot enough.
BTW, what the heck is Sixt? That’s where we rented the car in Tampa. My wife reserved a Charger but we ended up with an oil-burning (!) 2023 Camaro.
“Trump Now Selling T-Shirts With His Own Mugshot For $47”
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-isnt-getting-a-mug-shot-but-his-campaign-made-one-anyway-and-is-selling-t-shirts-for-47/
Tempting but … no. For now.
“‘Wow’: Lesley Stahl Left Nearly Speechless By Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Remark on Biden and Pedophiles”
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/wow-lesley-stahl-left-nearly-speechless-by-marjorie-taylor-greenes-remark-on-biden-and-pedophiles/
“One example of the commentary described by such critics was when, almost exactly a year ago, Greene called Democrats “the party of pedophiles” in a Real America’s Voice interview. Stahl brought that up in Sunday’s interview. “The Democrats are ‘a party of pedophiles,’” she prompted.”
““I would definitely say so,” Greene replied. “They support grooming children.” Stahl objected, saying “They are not pedophiles. Why would you say that?” “Democrats support– even Joe Biden, the President himself, supports children being sexualized and having transgender surgeries,” said Greene. “Sexualizing children is what pedophiles do to children.””
MTG gets it.
I don’t have and have never had Netflix.
Amazon Prime, I had that but $X per year for “next day delivery” that does not happen for me and that, other than watching “Victoria”, even paid for a season, there’s not much else I want to spend time on.
Anyway. I have Sling on the Roku. Roku is pretty cool. Sling Orange and Blue and some sports package that gives you college football. It’s all a PITA to me, digging through the Roku menu to then digging into the Sling menus. Oh, and it’s crept up to about $80 a month. I would drop it right now but someone else lives here and they get a vote.
Me? Over the air for the local news/weather and Wheel of Fortune. Then surf around the locals and end up on Mayberry or Green Acres. Watch some, maybe, the dogs want to go on their bedtime patrol and then it’s bed time.
Dunno. I like to watch TV but it’s all crap. It’s probably been crap a long time, mid-90s for sure, but it’s even crappier now. The commercials annoy the f$)#^ out of me.
Texas needs an Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza. The local coal pizza place doesn’t get their oven hot enough.
Have you tried Mod Pizza ? There are 110 stores in Texas. They do not have a coal oven but they use a natural gas fired oven. Just ask them to “extra crispy” your pizza.
https://locations.modpizza.com/usa
While I’m waiting for Dell support, I tried my VR headset. No go under W11. It should work fine. I got the Alienware specifically for VR. I’m trying some reinstalling, but am disappointed. I’ll throw that in when support contacts me.
Yeah. It isn’t the same.
Coal fired pizza is a Connecticut thing which Anthony’s imported to Florida.
The restaurants are a partnership between Dan Marino and Anthony Bruno, owner of the landmark old school Italian restaurant Runway 84 in Fort Lauderdale.
Legend is that Marino and Bruno took delivery of the first oven on a tight schedule and had to figure out the cooking process from zero in a hurry.
The first restaurant is around the corner from the cruise docks at Port Everglades. I’ve never seen that area not busy.
Uh. Why is Ma Bell messing with WBD in the first place? Other than to launder money? TV channels/networks have exactly what to do with phone service?
Current upper management at The Death Star is a lot of the legacy Pac Bell middle management who inspired “Dilbert” when Scott Adams worked there in the 90s. PHBs. The problem is that they won and Adams is cancelled.
Go look at the CEO’s name. I’ll wait.
Life is way stranger than art. Even Scott Adams didn’t go that far.
I worked for that guy in his org chart on a dashed line out of Labs. He is the poster child for PHB thinking.
I have what is a retard level question. I have W11. I can r-click on the desktop and Open in Terminal. What is this Powershell stuff? It looks like some kind of of cmd window, a little “do DOS things” place where I can poke around sort of.
I should google around. I might find a use for this. Like a super duper xcopy thing…..
I don’t know. I do know SouthWesternBell bought Ma Bell, aka AT&T in some kind of merger. HQ moved from SA to Dallas.
When I decided to rent a car in Germany in 2016, Sixt is the company that came up. Until that day I had never heard of them, and it’s only recently I see they’re in the USA too.
It was a 5-speed manual diesel Peugot. They never bothered to ask me if I drove a stick. Fortunately, I’ve owned several over my liftime. I drove all over the Black Forest in it, and it was the only part of our 2 week trip when we didn’t use trains.
Trains weren’t very good in the area of Mad King Ludwid’s castles.
re: Powershell
Yep. Yet Another Command Shell. Supposedly more robust and powerful and standardized than cmd. I never had need to learn how it works, beyond the fact that you can use it to run cmd.exe …
Yep. It’s more capable than a DOS window but less capable than a typical *NIX shell.
@brad
Update, please.
Shame we don’t have a way to peel of the ones that get serious–some early, some later–and get them away from the losers.
SBC merged with PacBell in the late 90s before folding in Ameritech in 1999 and what was left of AT&T along with BellSouth in 2006. The combined companies were a unwieldy mess until management broke the unions in the 2009 strike year, arguably with Steve Jobs help.
The Dallas decision was the result of the city, county, and state throwing all kinds of incentives at the company. One of the key gripes of the unions heading into 2009 was the sweet relo packages a lot of the California and New Jersey execs got to overcome spousal reluctance about Texas while the rank-and-file faced bleaker healthcare options heading towards the inevitability of Obamacare.
@paul
Or a dispenser you can stack for the next t.p. shortage.
BTW, Sams has Quilted Northern on sale for another week.
There used to be this thing called “failing”, in which the simpletons and the troublemakers would not proceed to the next grade in school, or even might be kicked out of high school or the vocational program. There was also this thing called “work”, in which teens who were not academically inclined would leave school and start earning money. Alas, this wisdom is only a historical curiosity by this point.
@Greg Norton
Got a gastro report?
Mel’s in Tampa is very similar, probably an attempt to replicate Portillo’s.
Chicago hot dogs. We also tried the chili. Everything was tasty.
If you are on Disney property and don’t want to drive, the Portillo’s and White Castle are at a stop on the 350 Lynx bus leaving the transfer station on the other side of Cirque du Soleil at the edge of Disney Springs.
Buy the day pass bus ticket in advance through the Lynx app. Show the driver the activated ticket on the phone when you board. Easy.
The State of Florida gave Disney a huge gift eliminating the Crossroads plaza restaurants, a few of which, including Pizzeria Uno, were among the busiest in their respective chains. The restaurants which couldn’t find space at Palm Parkway were forced to go as far as the mall area for new accomodations.
BTW, Portillo’s opened its first location in Texas in The Colony in January.
Round Rock had a decent place for Chicago dogs until the Pandemic. Now it is a Thai takeout restaurant.
Powershell replaces the old Cmd environment.
Yep. It’s more capable than a DOS window but less capable than a typical *NIX shell.
DOS hater.
Stormy Daniels squeezed for another $122,000 by Trump lawyers, bringing total over $600,000.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2023/04/04/trump-wins-six-figure-attorney-fee-claim-against-stormy-daniels-n2621543
A brutal rapist sentenced to…community service
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/04/04/a-brutal-rapist-sentenced-to-community-service-n541692
The solution is obvious: Since ComProgLeftLibTurds don’t consider genitals valuable, rapists should have theirs removed.
I’m pretty sure that a few others would vote with me to take the next steps: Hormone therapy, lace, makeup, and stake them out in a park to catch the next group.
Next Up: How to tell if you’re really an animal rights activist.
“The Skin I Live In”. A recent Pedro Almodovar and Anotnio Banderas freak show dishing it up like the old days.
Banderas is very good as the “mad scientist”, but, remember, a film cannot be unseen.
Portillo’s is one of the small/regional chains that gets Chicago style right. I think it must be because they bring in the actual ingredients from the same Chi-town suppliers. Their sliced beef sandwich with “sport” and sweet peppers is REALLY GOOD.
And the “LL” is not the spanish sound, but simple “L” sound.
n
Ripping The Jerk to the server.
“I was born a poor black child…”
n
Don’t forget “Roxanne” and “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”.
such is permitted in daze of woke?
Trump Attorney Joseph Tacopino was asked if he was surprised by anything in the indictment..
His response..
“Yeah, I was surprised there weren’t any facts in it..”
such is permitted in daze of woke?
– that’s why I own physical media.
n
Yup.
Why do I suspect we are going to be subjected to more and more offensive edits in all media?
How many movies have scenes where girls get grabbed and kissed? How many where women and men are slapped or worse? How many portrayals of ethnic characters are going to be deemed “too offensive” and edited out, or the work just no longer available? Will any John Wayne movies survive? “Dong suey chow”, sucker. Sayonara, Pink Panther.
How are authors, writers, actors and others going to react as their words and portrayals are changed into something they did not intend, and perhaps do not agree with? If their works are changed or memory-holed and they lose income, is there a contract breach?
Fact is, we’ve been subjected to this censoring crap for years. When was the last time you saw Bugs Bunny in “Herr Meets Hare” broadcast? Or a classic Tom and Jerry Cartoon? How much stealth bowdlerization has gone on?
Still a lot of good things left…
https://twitter.com/_B___S/status/1643041498114433025
I have been grabbing all the DVD copies of Scooby Do, Tom And Jerry, anything with richard pryor, mel brooks, gene wilder…
I rarely pass up a dvd at the outlet store if I recognize it or it’s something I think will be retconned.
Besides The Jerk, tonight I ripped Stir Crazy, and Coming to America is in the machine right now (“The royal penis is clean, sire…”)
At some point, I’ll be caught up with the dvds I already have, but only if I quit picking up new ones. And that seems unlikely.
n
I miss my dog.
n
>> Coal fired pizza is a Connecticut thing which Anthony’s imported to Florida.
Where did it start in CT? One of the best is Totonno’s in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, NYFC, open since 1921. Park where you can keep an eye on your car.
Go early (for lunch), when they finish the day’s availability of fresh dough they close for the day – at least they did going back, oh 12, 14 years ago.
There were a few Anthony’s in the Tampa area, and while it was very good, it didn’t compare to the old-time coal-fired places in NYFC.
>> I am available for the moon walk.
Hey, maybe we can defrost Michael Jackson…or is that Walt? Too much Disney talk today.
>> The criminals -er- advisors who will manage your investments for two percent of the value annually.
If you’re paying more than one percent then you’re getting scr3wed worse that Orange Hair Bad Man got today.
>> Still a lot of good things left…
https://twitter.com/_B___S/status/1643041498114433025
Not that tweet…
>> Trump Attorney Joseph Tacopino was asked if he was surprised by anything in the indictment..
His response..
“Yeah, I was surprised there weren’t any facts in it..”
More laughs were had all around…
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2023/04/04/legal-experts-across-the-political-spectrum-are-laughing-at-alvin-braggs-indictment-of-donald-trump-n726570
>> My Surface Laptop 3 has ceased to operate properly. I made a bad situation a really bad situation.
It would boot, but I would get an error message. Startup was also strange in that the screen would flash a couple of times, then background image, icons, blank taskbar, then finally the taskbar. I figured I probably should do a complete reset.
I created the restore thumb drive on my main system. Downloaded the recovery drive for the Surface (W10) and copied the files to the thumb drive per the instructions from Microsoft.
I then booted the Surface from the thumb drive and did the recovery option to wipe the system. The system trundled for a while, then said it failed to properly recover. I have tried everything on the WEB from multiple sites. I have had no luck. The laptop will no longer boot as it cannot find an OS on the internal SSD. Multiple attempts with different options produce the same result.
I am guessing something is wrong with the SSD that is preventing the system from booting and operating properly. I could send it in for repair. The repair cost is $650.00, and Microsoft just replaces the device. The Surface Laptop is not repairable due to the way it is constructed and glued. A new laptop, twice the memory and space on the SSD is $1,400.00 (plus tax).
At this point I think I am just going to abandon the device and not replace the device. I primarily used the device when traveling. The trip to Texas confirmed that everything I need to do I can do on my MacBook Air. I am running Parallels with Windows 11 Arm to run some programs that require windows.
@Ray, can you get to the BIOS config page to change the boot device order and boot from a flash drive or external DVD drive?
Once Surface has turned off, press and hold the volume-up button. With the volume-up button held down, press and release the power button.
@nick
I miss my dog.
Yeah. I know what you mean. My old boy has been gone a couple years. My hand still reaches to ruffle his ears.
PowerShell handled my crazy 3000+ column csv. I basically chopped it up and then used SSIS to bring in what was necessary. Hitting different problems with commas that are strings not delimiters. That’s fun.
Shell quoting rules and regular expressions. Icky.
One of my wife’s patients in FL who originally came Waterbury claimed that CT invented it.
I imagine that it is a similar debate to breakfast tacos here or Cuban sandwiches in Florida.