Weather should be sunny and clear with a high of 80F. I’m hoping so, but with some breeze to keep it cooler. I did throw a popup canopy in the truck, but dunno if I’ll have time to set it up. I usually don’t.
Did all my running around and dropping off yesterday. Loaded a small trailer and the truck. Truck is a bit less loaded than past years. And as I’m writing this, I’m remembering something I didn’t load. I’ll get it first thing in the morning.
The Hamfest is a good time, and I never even get inside. If there is one in your area, I definitely encourage you to check it out. And if you are in Houston, or technically Rosenburg, see if you can find me in the parking lot swap meet.
It’s pretty unlikely I’ll check the site or update until I’m home, so y’all behave!
Today I’m stacking money and real life connections. Give it a try!
nick
In the United States, it seems that most actual child abuse is committed by hispanics and mohammedans who were not born here. Of the remainder, a sizable fraction appears to be committed by the rich, the powerful, and the connected. None of these are expedient to prosecute or even investigate because they go against The Agenda.
“Actual child abuse” meaning younger than teens. An older person having sex with a teen could be wrong or illegal for many reasons – abuse of power, manipulation, outright rape – but it’s not the same as sex with a prepubertal child.
Next to the rich-and-famous category, there is also the category of “in the family”. Uncles, cousins, etc.. With the kids scared to say anything and/or the parents in denial. Hard to find, hard to prove, hard to prosecute.
Anyway: Your point is that written fiction, or any other sort of portrayal that doesn’t involve actual children, is harmless, and possibly even helpful? Almost certainly true, but…no one wants to hear that.
Raytheon. Tampa freak show command.
Tampa has been anticipating the proverbial enema since 2009, but someone always drops a dime at the right moment with the new Presidents.
On my way. Looks like a good day for it.
n
I’m not asserting that. I’m questioning the revealed truth that the fiction and cartoons are harmful. I’m strongly questioning the laws which punish fiction and cartoons as harshly as photos of the sexual abuse of actual children. Perhaps the fiction and cartoons are indeed as harmful but I don’t know of any evidence or research showing it. Instead, we have ab initio assertions. In other words, religion, demagoguery, and mob action.
Driving out to dinner last night, I noticed one rental house down the street had four flat screen monitors dumped at the curb along with the usual junk I’ve seen tenants leave behind at other rentals.
Grab them. You can make invisibility shields from them.
I don’t need more junk around the house.
Our neighborhood has seen the boom and bust cycles of the big tech employers with offces and/or HQs in Austin for 30 years, particularly the Big Kahuna company in Round Rock. Some of the items which get left at the curb after tenants clear out of rentals are interesting.
A bust cycle is starting now.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/03/01/more-bad-news-for-fani-willis-as-one-final-surprise-twist-drops-in-the-disqualification-matter-n2170821
Have to check the video to see if it shows a suitcase coming in with one party and going out with another.
Hammer Readies to Drop on Sen. Bob Menendez, As Co-Defendant Pleads Guilty
https://redstate.com/benkew/2024/03/01/hammer-readies-to-drop-on-sen-bob-menendez-corruption-case-as-co-defendant-pleas-guilty-n2170817
Wrap it up and give Kamala more time off this summer.
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over ‘betrayal’ of nonprofit AI mission
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/01/elon-musk-openai-sam-altman-court/
Trump’s Powerful New Ad on Laken Riley Will Give You Chills
“Something is completely off-kilter in this country and there’s nothing wrong with pointing that out.”
–Larry O’Connor, Townhall
https://townhall.com/videos/2024/03/01/trumps-powerful-new-ad-on-laken-riley-will-give-you-chills-n2635959
Murderer was “paroled” into the U.S. by the corrupt Biden administration, detained and released from custody in NYFC before ICE could put in a detainer (which they would not cooperate with anyway) .
One of four similar in the last month. One of the victims was a two-year-old boy.
We need to “point this out” relentlessly.
@Lynn
Mechanical Engineering was it?
“Yes. I never took any Civil Engineering courses.”
Never wanted to survey campus?
“the mark of a good cup of coffee is when you are done stirring it, the spoon remains upright in the middle of the coffee, and that’s black coffee”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/02/27/when-the-coffee-addiction-gets-out-of-hand/
link to video of the $20,000 expresso machine.
One commenter claims it’s no different that buying a Rolls Royce or a Faberge egg.
Yeah, right. Use it and try to resell it. Better, don’t use it and try to resell it.
If you took a TVM course (Time Value of Money) in engineering undergrad, chances are it was taught by faculty of the Civil Engineering department.
Another distraction from TSLA losing about a third if its value in a year and the debacle of the Jesus Truck.
Sorry, but you lose the internet today.
Jeez, sometimes it’s like peter is reading here, but not attributing. 5 gallon buckets for water storage this time… although I prefer lids with a built in spout…
His audience is wider, and every person who is prepped is one that isn’t looking to steal my food so it’s all good.
Peter just had a page locked by blogger. He needs to move to a safe place. I suggested DiveMedic.
The switches arrived. I’m kind of happy they run on a power supply with the same rating as the old unit. Fishing wires through the wall is a you know what.
So one is just a swap. The other 5 port critter is different brand, D-Link, I think. So I’ll be crawling around to swap the power supply. All of ten minutes including opening the box.
I think I’ll swap out the D-Link and see what my internet speed does. Everyone seems to count bits and bytes just a little different. wISP says I’m on the 110/110 plan. I’m good with 90 to 70 down and 60 to 80 up.
For grins I’m going to test as I go. If I remember.
For what it is worth, I think Spring has arrived.
The Arizona Ash is always early. I saw a few bluebonnets on this morning’s dog walk. I have a pet/trophy mesquite tree at the end of where the woodpile was. It has quarter inch leaves sprouting. I checked another mesquite and same thing. A few of the elm trees have tiny leaves. The pear tree, well, no flowers yet but it suddenly has leaves.
The Live Oaks have a different schedule this year. They seem to be getting ready to shed off the old leaves a bit late.
We still might have The Easter Freeze, you never know, but the mesquite trees have always been right about it being Spring. So far.
“White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/white-house-to-developers-using-c-plus-plus-invites-cybersecurity-risks
“The Biden administration backs a switch to more memory-safe programming languages. The tech industry sees their point, but it won’t be easy.”
No. The feddies want to regulate software development very much. They have been talking about it for at least 20 years now. This is a very bad thing.
Lawyers Put Final Nails in Fani Willis’s Coffin
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2024/03/02/fani-willis-final-arguments-n2635951
The referenced link prefaced the above heading with “Trump”, but reading it reminded me of a pack of wolves circling a large herbivore and each tearing off a large chunk. Sadow was admirable but the rest did their share.
If you have seen the Edmund Gwenn/Natalie Wood/Maureen O’Hara version of “Miracle on 34th Street” you should recall the courtroom scene where
Uncle CharleyWilliam Frawley signals the judge to go to chambers for a discussion of the political realities.Harry MacDougald’s closing statement for co-defendant Jeffrey Clark:
is the political reality.
Judge McAfee has the merits in front of him, clearly showing the “appearance of impropriety” and probably preponderance of evidence to boot. It’s not his monkey, and keeping Fani’s Circus in business showering poo doesn’t have much upside for him. If there is a political “get Trump” factor in Fulton County, the reality is that finding for the defense shows that Fulton County has some semblance of checks and balances and willingness to clean up their own mess, ahead of the looming inconvenient truth that Fani and ex-paramour Wade are going to face at least two state-wide investigations with a good chance of more scab-ripping drama and possible disbarment, which could take place mid-trial.
It will be interesting to see if Bradley gets any mercy. It will be even more interesting to see if anyone in the Fulton County DA’s office is still standing after the investigations. There is the very large question of who on the staff knew full-well about the trysting of Willis and Wade and somehow forgot the “ethics” part of their own oaths. And then there’s that peripheral evidence of blatant misuse of federal funds and the firing of a staffer who objected.
Wade, who probably is feeling “masculated” by this time, does have one card to play: he can offer full transparency of his coordination with the Biden White House, and light a fire that might give him cover as small fry.
I know! Let’s all switch to Ada! That will solve all our problems!
BTDTHTTS. DoD contractor from 1988 to 2007, and one of my specialties was actually getting Ada programs to work when the language and runtime environment prohibited routine operations. Because it was so overspecified, the libraries couldn’t use normal OS functions and had to simulate/layer them all.
Funny, I had the same job with COBOL a couple years earlier.
The wife’s father’s townhome is finally for sale. 4/3/2 for $429,500.
https://www.har.com/homedetail/1837-brookview-dr-carrollton-tx-75007/8062477
Hopefully it will go quickly.
OG Ada didn’t have the ability to free dynamically allocated memory IIRC.
The fires in north Texas area:
Potential for cattle losses :
And that’s going to affect beef prices and more. And the weather doesn’t look promising for reduced fires.
“Germany Confirms Leaked Audio Of Its Top Generals Discussing Blowing Up The Crimean Bridge”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/germany-confirms-leaked-audio-its-top-generals-discussing-blowing-crimean-bridge
I’ll bet that Putin has known about this for quite a while. And might be a little upset.
OK, really upset big time. At the Nazis he keeps on railing about.
OG Ada didn’t have the ability to free dynamically allocated memory IIRC.
None of the realtime languages allow you to free dynamically allocated memory.
Home. Unloaded. Still have stuff on the truck and trailer to go back to the secondary tomorrow.
Stayed overcast and cool all day which was a blessing.
Talked to and sold to lots of people. Moved a few bins worth of stuff and have three bins for the recycler. I couldn’t give them away, so it’s time.
I am wiped out. So sore from loading, unloading, reloading, and unloading… plus standing on concrete all day.
I’m going to find some tylenol and hit the hay early tonight. I might count out first. It’s very strange how things sell or don’t sell. last year it was all about rack stuff, and cases, this year I didn’t sell any.
I asked on crew guy about attendance and he thought the count was up slightly from last year.
It was nice to see people. One frail looking guy in a mask.
n
Wall Street doesn’t seem to have a problem with writing secure systems in C++.
Ze good old days are back, ja.
I almost forgot. Cue John Barrowman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca7063tXIP4
We saw “Dune Part 2” this afternoon.
The flick isn’t woke for the most part, but if that sort of thing bothers you, the ending will not sit well.
Three hours fly by. The film is very good, but I didn’t like it as much as “Part 1”.
Oscar Isaac and Jason Momoa are sorely missed.
Erlang doesn’t allow variables to be modified.
“”Houthi Rebels Sink British Carrier Rubymar in Red Sea with Anti-Ship Missile Attack”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/houthi-rebels-sink-british-carrier-rubymar-red-sea/
“The British-owned bulk carrier Rubymar was hit by Houthi rebels in the Red Sea on Saturday. The Rubymar has now sunk after it was hit by anti-ship missile 2 weeks ago.”
The Red Sea is going to be a mess when all of that fertilizer starts dissolving.
“And that’s going to affect beef prices and more.”
U.S. cattle were already at lowest levels in 70+ years. Stack beef while it’s cheap.
Also: Price of eggs set to keep going up with latest round of avian flu.
“We saw “Dune Part 2” this afternoon.
The flick isn’t woke for the most part, but if that sort of thing bothers you, the ending will not sit well.”
Frank Herbert wrote Dune. Anyone screwing around with the story line had better have a very convincing theory as to why they can do a better job.
That’s not to say that I believe Herbert was the best writer–read “The Green Brain” and get back to me–but making things fit a popular mentally defective mindset is not a recipe for improvement.
CAIR Angry That Girl Scouts Prohibited Missouri Troop From Fundraising For ‘Gaza Children’ In Violation of Rules
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/03/cair-angry-that-national-girl-scouts-prohibited-missouri-troop-from-fundraising-for-gaza-children-in-violation-of-rules/
I’m going to let the national office and the state office of the GSA know that if they change their rules to accommodate CAIR (a Muslim Brotherhood front) and allow fundraising for mass murderers, torturers, rapists, and terrorists, that I will not only actively picket Girl Scouts selling in public places, I will organize boycotts of any business allowing GSA to sell cookies on their property. The letters will include the copy list to those businesses that are local, and the headquarters if applicable.
Counted in my cash. Grossed $40 more than last year, at $1160.
n
Sh!te. I didn’t know Bobby Caldwell died. I worked with that cat…
Nice guy and a great performer. RIP
n
>> “The Biden administration backs a switch to more memory-safe programming languages. The tech industry sees their point, but it won’t be easy.”
So Joe does code reviews, huh…
>> I am wiped out. So sore from loading, unloading, reloading, and unloading… plus standing on concrete all day.
@nick, still no cushioned mat for when you’re standing all day? Shouldn’t be to hard to find one in the retail /restaurant liquidation auctions.
The story doesn’t change, but the final shot obviously predates “Get woke go broke”.
The “suicide booth” episode of “Star Trek” is on MeTV tonight.
Scotty is a blast in this episode.
What exactly is a “popinjay”?
“The haggis is in the fire for sure.”
@Greg
“The story doesn’t change, but the final shot obviously predates “Get woke go broke”.”
Thanks for the clarification.
Ever seen Gahan Wilson’s cartoon of the “Wild Haggis Romp”?
A lot of material is just flat out missing, and where the book spans three years, the movie only covers six months.
Alia is MIA. Jessica is still pregnant when the film ends.
@alan, I never stopped moving. I was thinking of a soft mat the whole time! I set up over 4 parking spaces and spread out rows of flip top bins. I put about 16ft of table across the front for “featured” items, mainly stuff over $100.
It worked. I sold most of the stuff on the tables. I was SERIOUSLY reducing prices the whole time too. I figured it’s better to sell it for whatever I can get, than let it get a year older in storage before cutting the price next year.
This year I had (and sold) a lot of “traditional” hamfest swapmeet stuff like parts, components, old stuff, and projects.
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Boy that hot shower felt good. Time for an early bed, but first some stretching…
n