Hot and humid. Yup. Same as yesterday with maybe some rain, like yesterday. Some parts of Houston got rain. Some didn’t.
I did feel better yesterday, and got up and ran a couple of errands, but I felt wiped out afterwards. I’m planning to do the same today. Go slow, take it easy, but get some things done.
And I’ll try not to cough all over everyone.
The plan to hit the cold hard with supplements and sleep seems to have worked. I can move and breath and mostly function after only three days. Not feeling 100% but feeling better.
As long as I don’t overdo it I should be good.
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(time to stack some rest.)
Chaotic week this week. Lots of meetings, lots of projects to grade. Exams next week. Then…some serious “staycation” time, much needed.
Good luck for the continuing recovery, Nick.
Brad, enjoy your break. I will be having a hard week or two at work. In other joyous news, W1’s father seems to be approaching the end of his days, so might end up dropping the work on someone else and racing off to take leave.
Some good news, however; it looks like my brother in law will be released from neurological rehabilitation this week, following his head injury. I spoke to him this weekend and he sounds like he will come out of therapy with his faculties, mental and physical, intact. If so, he was unfathomably fortunate, and your prayers worked. Many thanks all!
“Mobland” also has Laura Pulver as a regular, who was on my short list of female leads for “Doctor Who” when the rumors started swirling.
Pulver was Irene Adler, “The Woman”, in the BBC’s “Sherlock” episode “Scandal in Belgravia”, one of the best 90 minutes of TV I’ve seen in the last 20 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV8WXcfArxU
Plus “Mobland” has Guy Ritchie involved.
Good movie. Bad movie. Ritchie is never boring.
“Snatch” is one of my favorite flicks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jar2XkBboo
“Hispanic” is not a single political thought process, something which both sides fail to understand.
“Mobland” requires Paramount Plus until DVD sets appear, and I can’t justify feeding the beast at this point.
I’ll “sail the high seas” for one episode, but, in the end, I think people need to be paid.
Even if it is Alex Kurtzman and Jar Jar Abrams.
Picked up a screw in the left rear tire of the Highlander. It has been there awhile because the top of the screw shows significant wear. When I first found it a month ago I wanted to pull it out, but did not because the tire was not leaking any air.
The screw is too close to the edge of the tire to patch the tire. A new tire is required, $345.00, mounted and balanced. Tires are getting expensive.
I gave serious thought to just leaving the screw in the tire. But Murphy, being the optimist that the law is, would have had the tire fail in the most inconvenient time, in the most inconvenient location. So I am opting to replace the tire.
I suspect I know where the screw came from. The wife, while doing one of her projects in the garage, dropped a screw, and did not bother to find it, or sweep out the garage. She does that a lot as I have found other screws in various locations.
Back from a long weekend out of town for a memorial service, up near Carson City. A beautiful drive, tho a bit warm, 95F.
Visited my brother, and an old friend in his new off-grid house.
Start with some known crimmigrants and you will see the riots wither. It wouldn’t lead to CWII since vastly more people want the crimmigrants gone.
Or, get rid of Grusome. Reading about him throwing guzzaline on the fire must infuriate plenty of people.
“Hispanic” is not a single political thought process
– it is unfortunately the best word we have for a cluster of beliefs and behaviors held by people with a similar ethnicity and culture.
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85F and partly sunny. Coffee is ready. Time for some breakfast.
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PAID-FOR “bionic shields” are being trucked in for the Los Angeles rioters.
I feel a little bit better. If I’m sitting still I feel almost normal. Moving around I feel a little lightheaded, I think because of the stuff sloshing around in my head. Don’t feel normally strong either.
Coffee is in the mug, and partly in me, and so is breakfast, so I need to start planning my day.
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How L.A. Dies
Replacing Newsom may have involved voting for … gasp … a Republican, something CA hasn’t done since Pete Wilson in the 90s.
Real Republican not the Governator,
Instead, the Californians will come here and turn Texas blue. Problem solved.
My county voted Trump, but the Wine/Weed Moms went for Collin Zachary over Rafael Edward in large enough numbers that I consider Williamson to be part of the growing Blue cancer spreading up and down I35 from Austin.
Austin had Rent-a-Mob protests yesterday, but, unlike CA, the APD and Texas DPS were out in force to make sure that nothing burned.
The screw is too close to the edge of the tire to patch the tire. A new tire is required, $345.00, mounted and balanced. Tires are getting expensive.
You have to replace two tires on that axle. Is that a Discount Tires price ?
If any house within 20 miles was recently sheetrocked, they seem to spread screws over all creation. It is their gift to us.
I was told I did not have to replace two tires. I specifically asked about handling and wear and was told it was not an issue.
“Texas Tech projected to spend $55M on student athletes, rivaling pro franchise”
https://www.chron.com/sports/college/article/texas-school-55-million-payroll-revenue-sharing-20370244.php
“Under the new House v NCAA settlement terms, which allow all Division I schools to pay their players directly, any third-party deals between athletes and businesses, brands, or collectives that exceed $600 are now subject to the new Deloitte-run NIL clearinghouse called “NIL Go.””
“Since schools can now pay athletes directly, a collective is not necessarily needed. In fact, the ambiguity of the clearinghouse’s procedures to oversee deals has prompted some schools, like CU Boulder, to take matters into their own hands. The school abandoned its NIL collective entirely, encouraging fans to donate to the university directly.”
Unreal. TAMU and ut will be up there also.
I have updated all my Apple devices to IOS 26, the developer beta. I am not impressed with the liquid glass and fail to see the hype. Some stuff is a significant step backwards. The Launcher is horrible on MacOS.
“Houston solar company files for bankruptcy after months of financial strain”
https://www.chron.com/business/article/houston-sunnova-solar-company-bankruptcy-20368457.php
“The Houston-based company Sunnova Energy, which specializes in residential solar panel installations, has filed for bankruptcy after months of mounting pressure to stay afloat amid layoffs, shifts in leadership and financial burdens.”
“The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States. Sunnova Energy has about $10 billion to $50 billion in estimated assets and liabilities, according to court filings.”
Being held alive by government handouts.
“Donald Trump says Los Angeles ‘would be on fire’ if troops had not been deployed”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pete-hegseth-heated-exchange-over-170658778.html
Yup.
CU Boulder. Coach Prime.
Want a Heisman? Go play in Boulder.
The Alamo Bowl had the biggest ratings in its history thanks to Sanders.
Newsom and the Dems wanted the troops deployed.
UT wants the championship season before Arch Manning is eligible for the NFL draft.
No championship, and the Manning family pulls out the SEC Rolodex this Spring.
Florida is out as long as Spurrier is alive, but everyone else is welcome to bid.
I’m guessing Georgia for Archie to stick it to Spurrier one more time.
My number one lifetime source of objects piercing tyres is, by a long shot, having contractors at the house doing construction and renovation work. Trips to the recycling park come in second. There are always a few screws or nails lurking there. Third is driving on military bases. Either the reinforcing metal in the tank proof concrete gets one, or the bits of pointy bullet jackets and other projectiles do.
Past midnight here, and I have just finished work for the “day”. Back to it at 08:30, so time for milk, cookies and bed.
“Walmart picks Houston for expanded drone delivery service”
https://houston.culturemap.com/news/innovation/walmart-drone-delivery-houston/
“Coming soon to Houston-area skies: drones delivering Walmart purchases to customers.”
“The retailer is expanding its drone delivery service to five markets: Houston; Atlanta; Charlotte, North Carolina; Orlando, Florida; and Tampa, Florida.”
Incoming ! ! ! ! !
Is MacOS 26 final?
I’m wondering how long they continue to support the M1 with MacOS.
They announced the end of support for Intel with MacOS 27.
MacOS 26 won’t support Intel Mac Mini or MacBook Air.
Intel Macs have very good Linux support, however.
“ChatGPT ‘got absolutely wrecked’ by Atari 2600 in beginner’s chess match — OpenAI’s newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic”
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-got-absolutely-wrecked-by-atari-2600-in-beginners-chess-match-openais-newest-model-bamboozled-by-1970s-logic
“OpenAI’s latest and greatest AI model was outclassed by the 1.19 MHz near 50-year-old console gaming legend.”
The Atari probably used some sort of fancy opening move.
I have updated all my Apple devices to IOS 26, the developer beta. I am not impressed with the liquid glass and fail to see the hype. Some stuff is a significant step backwards. The Launcher is horrible on MacOS.
The company snake-oil salesmen want their soup bowls filled too.
“Tesla stock jumps on robotaxi momentum, Musk-Trump feud cooling”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-stock-jumps-on-robotaxi-momentum-musk-trump-feud-cooling-200418079.html
“Tesla is now officially listed as an autonomous vehicle operator in Austin, Texas — days ahead of a possible June 12 start date.”
I wonder if the demonstrators in Austin will torch the Tesla Robotaxis like the LA demonstrators are doing to the Google Waymo robotaxis ?
“The Remaining: Allegiance (The Remaining, 5)” by D. J. Molles
https://www.amazon.com/Remaining-Allegiance-D-J-Molles/dp/0316404268?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number five of a six book apocalyptic science fiction series. There is another series in the same universe with the main character. I read the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Orbit in 2015 that I purchased new in 2025 from Amazon. I have the sixth book in the series.
Captain Lee Harden of the US Army is a member of the US Special Forces. His duty is to live in his remote US Army built home with a steel and lead concrete bunker underneath it. Any time the US government gets nervous, he goes down into his bunker with his dog and locks the vault door. He then talks with his supervisor daily over the internet until released by his supervisor to leave the bunker. His duty is to stay in the bunker during any event and come out thirty days after he has zero contact with his supervisor. Then it is his duty to find groups of people to restore order in his portion of the USA.
Then one day, Captain Harden has been sitting in his bunker for a couple of weeks and his supervisor does not call. A plague has been sweeping the planet and things are getting more dire by the day. Apparently the infected do not die but their brains are mostly wiped out. Zombies. A month later, Captain Harden and his dog emerge from their bunker to find a total disaster with infected roaming the countryside.
Captain Harden’s home and bunker were burned out after everything to eat or shoot was stolen by a gang of bad guys. But he has a secret, he has ten bunkers built by the U.S. Army strategically located around the state. And only he can open the bunkers. But the bad guys are chasing Captain Harden to get the rest of the food and ammo from him. And nobody trusts anybody.
Captain Harden and his many allies have set out to blow the bridges between North Carolina and South Carolina to keep the infected hordes from the north from advancing into South Carolina. But, the hirdes are moving south quickly and blowing the bridges takes a day for each bridge. And a traitor tried to assassinate Captain Harden and did steal his GPS code key to the arms and food caches. And his allies are running into The Followers who are taking out survivors in South Carolina. Camp Rider Hub has been freed from the people who do not agree with Captain Harden about taking out the infected. And the Marines from Camp Legume has shown up but they are confused about the coming hordes of infected.
The author has a website at:
https://djmolles.com/blog/the-remaining-universe-reading-order
My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (3,283 reviews)
Lynn
I tried developer beta’s once. That was enough. Too buggy and unpolished.
Production versions will be out around September is my guess.
128 bytes of RAM. 4K ROM max absent bank switching, but “Chess” was an early title so figure 4K.
That is a fiendish device to program. The system is essentially a graphics card with a 1 pixel buffer.
Those would be the has-bean Marines?
Oh, not even close. I am running the developer beta because beating myself with a club did not satisfy my self-abuse cravings.
Those would be the has-bean Marines?
Sigh. I should have checked the name spelling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Corps_Base_Camp_Lejeune
I suspect support for the M series of chips will exist for a long time. A M1 machine will wear out long before support is dropped.
I don’t know what changes Apple makes between the M1, M2, M3 and M4 chips. I do know that Parallels version 19 would no longer run when I upgraded from the M2 to the M4. So something is changing internally between versions. I suspect that MacOS will accommodate those differences while independent developers won’t. Or Parallels were just being jerks to extract more money. If’n I twere a bettin’ man, that latter options gets my money, and they did.
“Masked Dude Threw Rocks at ICE, So ICE Threw the Masked Dude Down”
https://rumble.com/v6ukglx-masked-dude-threw-rocks-at-ice-so-ice-threw-the-masked-dude-down.html
FAFO.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
BTW, there were 2 lb hammers distributed to the crowds and they are breaking the street curbs into rocks. Lovely, just lovely.
Yeh, but none of my use is critical. If the basics work I can deal with any issues. I can always fall back. If I was using my machine for a living I would avoid the developer betas and the public betas. I would even hold off updating until about XX.1 release.
“Steve Bannon: This Isn’t Civil War; It’s Part of WWIII”
https://rumble.com/v6uk46d-steve-bannon-this-isnt-civil-war-its-part-of-wwiii.html
“What should happen immediately is go full Andrew Jackson.”
Cannons for all !
Did my driving around and pickups. Both kids were out doing stuff with friends. D1, drove herself. D2 I dropped at a friend’s house on my way out. Wife came home to just me. Empty nest preview…
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I was in LA for the Rodney King riots and conflagration. LA is no where close to that yet, but it doesn’t take long once it gets going.
Monkey see, monkey do.
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Empty nest preview…
Don’t jinx it ! I thought that we were going to be empty nesters too.
“Dead Body Found in L.A. Riot Zone”
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/06/10/breaking-dead-body-found-in-la-riot-zone-n4940657
It is all fun and games until somebody gets killed …
I have proof of concept code for a Mac port of our VPN client at the Death Star which was compiled on Snow Leopard 15 years ago. Every time I get a new release of MacOS on my M1 MacBook Pro, I verify that the code still runs without recompilation, the Intel CPU emulated with Rosetta 2.
Apple set the default for MacOS be a walled garden with an app approval process similar to iOS. As a commercial product, Parallels probably plays their game in order to allow the application installer to run without loosening the security restrictions.
My NCIS binging was interrupted by a sneaky, underhanded development.
There was an episode called “Sister Cities” which had 2 parts. I watched part one, and then discovered that part two was not on NCIS, but on NCIS: New Orleans. So I can’t watch it on Netflix, or any other streaming service I have subscribed to.
I’ll survive, but it would have been nice to know how it all came out.
“NCIS: New Orleans” is on Paramount Plus IIRC.
Something similar happened later with a crossover between “NCIS” and “NCIS: Hawaii” a couple of years ago.
We loathed “Hawaii” so we didn’t have a Season Pass on the TiVo to see Part Two.
We haven’t watched “NCIS” in first run since the show acknowledged David McCallum’s passing with Ducky’s funeral.
And don’t complain about spoilers. You knew that was going to happen after McCallum died.
I didn’t tell you who showed up for the funeral.
Gavin the Chimp wants to be President.
LA Mayor Karen Bass is a communist who trained in Cuba in the 70s as a member of Venceremos Brigade.
Bass let the city burn earlier this year. She would let it burn again.
Californians, I can understand electing Gavin Newsom Governor and even Kamala Harris as his potential successor, but, c’mon, Karen Bass? A real-life communist?
The millisecond Biden announced that Bass was on the short list for VP in 2020, he lost the election in Dade County. Wee Pierre would probably be safer walking down Calle Ocho in Little Havana because at least there is doubt about him being Castro Jr.
Castro had an eidetic memory. Wee Pierre barely managed an education degree.
Gavin the Chimp wants to be President.
That want of Newscums went up in smoke yesterday. He is dirty now, too dirty for the dumbrocrats even.
https://rumble.com/v6ujus7-vdh-destroys-gavin-newscum-and-the-biggest-meltdown-in-political-history.html
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/06/10/tarred-feathered-johnson-talks-consequences-newsom-la-riots/
I did, several weeks ago.
The usual PLTs, including Kankles, are screeching we are all gonna die since tRump sent in Marines.
To put a cherry on top, tRump announced he’s changing back all the Army Fort names plugs The Last pussified.
That looks like a 2 lb hammer at work at the 0:40 second mark in this video with what looks like chunks of curb being thrown at cars nearby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBeNV929zSk
Whether it is Fort Hood or Fort … well, whatever they call it now, the base outside Killeen needs an enema more than a name change.
Castro had an eidetic memory. Wee Pierre barely managed an education degree.
My dad with the PhD in Chemical Engineering from Princeton has a eidetic memory. I do not. He got his PhD in three years, starting two months after I was born. His PhD thesis with working software at Shell Oil was “Chaos Theory in Catalytic Cracker Control Extension of Tube Replacement” using an IBM 360 running Algol. He extended the cracker tube life from 9 months to a year using his control software. Big bucks.
For some reason, some pop culture numbers caught my eye.
Random.
According to a youtube musician I like to watch, Mary Spender, she needs 8000 spotify streams to make the same money she makes selling ONE CD from her website. She’s also pointed out that she makes more money using her own music as background for a youtube video (in music rights revenue sharing) than she does from adsense, the youtube ad platform.
Also random, onlyfans “creators” mostly don’t make any money.
$100 a month for getting naked for the whole world to see, forever.
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and then there is this, which I didn’t even know was a thing.
https://hibid.com/lot/250094775/-125-gaolei-fake-pussy-pants-silicone-crossdresser?ref=catalog
My mind boggles.
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“Default open anus.” FFS.
In college I had a girlfriend who had a photographic memory. We were working on lines for an acting class I had to take, (she was in the acting program) and I figured out that she never had to learn her lines, because she could just ‘read’ them off the page she’d looked at in the past. She had no idea that it didn’t work that way for everyone.
She couldn’t figure out why a smart guy like me had trouble learning lines, when I had the script right there… 21 years old, and no one had ever told her she had something special.
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