Cold again, and probably nice later. Which is what yesterday turned into. I was in shirtsleeves by the middle of the day. Since today is supposed to be clear and sunny, I’m betting on the same weather striking twice.
Did my pickup in the morning. It was a bargain*, but it was also 2 hours of driving. Then I met with a neighbor about a place for my non-prepping hobby to meet. I’m hoping that works out as it’s closer to my house.
Didn’t get to my storage unit or my shop. Kid was supposed to need a ride at a specific time, and that just wouldn’t work with shop time, so I went home and waited. I did get a good nap, which mollified me slightly when I found out 2 hours later that she didn’t need the ride.
Everyone but me had stuff to do last night, so I ate leftovers and fell asleep from the carbs.
Today, well, I’ll try once again to make some progress. Sisyphus. Some days I’m Spartacus, but most days I’m Sisyphus. NOT syphilis. Sisyphus… Or maybe liver-pecked dood. Dood is good food**. Now I won’t be able to convince anyone that my brain isn’t rotten from syphilis.
Stack! There you go, classic me.
nick
*bargain is a weird way to spell that word, and just looking at the letters, it doesn’t even seem like a real word. Do I need a tag for silliness? Or Sisyphus? Or syphilis? and really, who decides when it’s a y and when it’s an i? or an -is or an -us?
**three different sounds for the same ‘oo’ WTF?
Ah, the joys of English…
I need to work today, but motivation is lacking. Maybe another cup of coffee?
Another cup of coffee…
okay!
49F and coffee in hand. I grind enough beans to fill my countertop container, usually about 2 weeks worth, and since the container is airtight, the coffee is still pretty good when I get to the end of the container.
It’s better when I’ve just ground the beans and the container is full. I ground beans yesterday. Coffee so good!
Even the frozen sausage/egg/biscuit tasted extra good today.
n
Not since the Geico Gecko bought Clayton and Shaw.
Shaw was the last non EV-related factory I saw rolling through Dalton in the Fall.
“Where’s formaldehyde?”
And where’s that deadly pollutant: carbon dioxide?
The Gecko also owns NFM and other retail furniture outlets.
Lots of outgassing from the merchandise sold in those places.
NFM recently announced a new Austin megastore complex, complete with hotels and Scheels, just like in Dallas.
Was this the promotion of the HSR or just an unbelievable promotion of dumping $12B to political causes and more to come. Plenty of overpaid, gov project, union workers in attendance. A lot of cement poured but no tracks, no trains.
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/02/06/gavin-newsom-mocked-into-next-week-as-he-holds-ceremony-honoring-invisible-high-speed-train-n2198888?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=4aaf4431776c5e6761a7db3f9426b4dc8ff471a9859564a10622b1b420654521&lctg=29692074
I despise thieves. My CC was used last night for two transactions. The first was declined, resubmitted for the same amount and approved. I get a fraud alert email. Why decline the first transaction, then let the second go through? Then get a fraud alert. Both transactions should have been declined. Some online store for clothing.
I have blocked both cards on the account. I called this morning to start a dispute on the charge that went through and have requested new cards.
How did the thieves even get the card information? Those cards (mine and my wife’s) sit in the desk in my office. The last time I used the card was nine months ago. Neither card is my everyday use card. Something, somewhere, where I used the card before, where the card information was stored, has been hacked would be my guess. No merchant should be storing any card information unencrypted.
Speaking of outgassing……………………………..
I won’t.
The AI systems detecting fraud are nondeterministic. The same inputs don’t always produce the same outputs.
I know two DEI hire management type females working in AI fraud detection. One of the Chinese Number One Son relations does as well.
Those companies will be the first put against the wall when the monkey trick runs out of steam.
Even if the monkey trick continues, the domestic companies won’t last against Chinese competition now that the mainland will be approved for something more than H200 chips.
Credit cards are ancient technology. A 16 digit number, openly displayed, and partially predictable. The expiry date doesn’t really help, because the month generally stays the same, and the year guessable. The CVV is only three digits, and also easily compromised.
I try to use my Apple Card as much as possible. No visible data. Apple Pay is everywhere these days and that is even better. I’m sure there are other cards like it. Alas, many gas stations want you to “stick it in” yet.
I use privacy.com for buying anything “overseas” with a credit card. I set it for $10 over what I buy and one time use. Then I delete it in the account. They have a free tier that is worth checking out. Yes, you do have to link a bank account, but I’ve never had a problem.
@brad, our gas pumps request the zip code for the billing address of the card as the secret number. That’s with the chip card inserted, and a physical card present. The losses must have been pretty high to add the extra layer.
I had my AMEX number stolen so many times while traveling for work, I figured out the algorithm so the number was entirely predictable to me. I know there used to be CC number generators that could generate a list of numbers that met the requirements but might not have been issued. Online merchants w/out a constant connection to the card companies used to just check if the number could be a real number.
The main issue holding back better card security is who pays for the fraud. It’s not the card companies, so they only care so much.
And merchants only care to the point where additional security would cost them money in lost business or higher costs.
n
I’ve had my card number stolen by – employees at a video rental store, employees at a restaurant, employees at a hotel. Those are the ones we could pinpoint by time or opportunity.
A couple other times, notably with my chase mc for an airline loyalty program, we couldn’t determine where the number came from.
I’ve had them stolen in the real world far more often than online.
n
Yeah, devices like fobs with rolling codes have been around for decades now, 100x as secure.
It would require the cc companies invest in new tech when the old tech has been an investment free 3% cash cow for decades.
I’m virtually certain that me getting with my second cousin would have been frowned upon by family. By her mother, if no one else, quite reasonably watching out for a minor daughter.
Besides that, this occurred in the middle of my “busy and exciting” Army times; it was just dumb luck that the family reunion happened during one of the brief periods that I was “home” at my assigned duty station rather than gallivanting around the US or the sandy places. And there was a non-negligible chance that I’d be killed in any given month. Any hookups would just be short-term fun, no chance of anything long-term and serious, which gets us back to disapproving glares from the mother of a teenage daughter.
Aside from all that, bullet dodged. When we first met, she was cute and looked good in snug jeans and was nicely flirty. When I saw her at a funeral ten or so years later, she was a bitter unmarried mother and close to my weight.
Some years ago I was helping a Chinese coworker with her English. She could read and write pretty well but had a thick accent when speaking and had trouble understanding a lot of words.
I said “what, watt, wait, wet, wheat, wit, white, woot”, and similar sets. She could distinguish less than half of the vowel sounds. Well, that there’s your problem right there.
And then there’s the verb tenses…
English for the win! Most impenetrable language, 84 years running! In your face, Japan!
The original Square reader output analog sound without any encryption, and an app on a smart phone could decode the audio into the numbers from the “swipe”.
The hack was popular among restaurant employees in particular.
The iPod Touch had a 3.5 mm jack required by the Square reader until the very last model. Xcode still supports the iOS 15 devices with the latest release.
Turning off iOS 15 support in Xcode means orphaning the last iPhone form factor personally approved by Steve Jobs, the iPhone 4/5/SE. That will be hard for Cupertino.
In your face, Japan!
– and that’s a language that uses different words for numbers depending on WHAT you’re counting.
I’m surprised that chinese speakers can’t hear the vowels when they can hear the “five tones” in their tonal language. “ma” one of the first words you learn means mom, horse, and three more I can’t remember…
n
Could It Be That the 2020 Election Fraud Will Be Exposed?
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/02/06/could-it-be-that-the-2020-election-fraud-will-be-exposed-n3811632
I’m going to say “yes” and go on to the next question:
What should be the consequences for election fraud.
Look at it this way:
One p*do loose in the population can only prey on so many kids.
Let the Dems get away with election fraud and they will find every excuse to keep every p*do out there preying on kids, while at the same time destroying societal norms and foster the creation of more p*dos.
Now rinse and repeat with crimes of all kinds, every form of fraud you care to imagine, etc., etc.
The only clear and moral thing to do is put to death anyone convicted of election fraud. Screaming painful agony in a public forum would be appropriate, but bound, gagged, fitted with a plastic bag over the head and tossed in a garbage bag o die in the dark would be efficient and contain the mess.
Seems like a waste. It’s better to round up all of the traitors, paedos, and Democrats (some category overlap may be observed) and feed them to pigs. Butcher the pigs to feed the starving Africans or migrants or whoever the paedo traitor Democrat scum are holding up as the victim group of the day.
Marines Remind the WHO You Don’t Keep What Doesn’t Belong to You
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/02/06/marines-remind-the-who-you-dont-keep-what-doesnt-belong-to-you-n3811610
Is there any reason that any WHO official should ever be allowed to set foot in the United States again.
Not just no.
I see that some widdle snowfwake has come by and zir’s widdle feewings were hurted by drwilliams and me. Boo-hoo, widdle snowfwake!
Did a ‘New’ Arrest Just Puncture Lemon’s ‘Journalism’ Defense?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/02/06/did-a-new-arrest-just-puncture-lemons-journalism-defense-n3811629
Lemon does not live in Minneapolis, and there is no indication that he did anything else while there even to provide a fig leaf of deniability.
He was recruited to make propaganda, jumped at the chance to pretend to be a journalist, flew in for that purpose, and took part in the planning and conspiracy to violate innocent churchgoers First Amendment rights.
@SteveF
“I see that some widdle snowfwake has come by and zir’s widdle feewings were hurted by drwilliams and me. Boo-hoo, widdle snowfwake!”
Must have hit a p*do-lover’s nerve.
@SteveF
“Butcher the pigs to feed the starving Africans or migrants or whoever the paedo traitor Democrat scum are holding up as the victim group of the day.”
Customs and Border Patrol should put up a welcoming feast consisting entirel;y of pork products. “This is how we eat in the U.S.!” Anyone who doesn’t chow down gets turned around and sent back where they came from, or offered alternative asylum.
Actually, the policy should be to deny entry to asylum seekers and send them to the South American countries that are getting remittances from the illegal alien invaders they send us. How about if we relocate 50,000 Somalis to Ecuador to start, giving them the benefit of that clan of hard-working folks?
Maybe the CIA should fund an Ecuadoran newspaper with poll results showing the Somali candidate for Ecuadoran president is statistically tied with the native candidate?
The spray foam insulation guy came today. He took pictures and thinks access to under the house is easy and good..
The area to spray is about 24 by 36 feet. To spray foam under the master bedroom would involve removing and disposing of the wall batts supported with chicken wire. Ah, $2 a square foot that’s an extra $600.
Let’s look at this again. The bedroom is not perfect but the floor isn’t real cold, either. How about leaving what insulation there is, and shove and fold the insulation back and up a foot or so to make a wall to fill the gap, an air gap, between floor and chicken wire and spray it all down, like glue. It saves a lot of work, too.
I had a good idea. He liked it.
So I’m on the schedule. No, not next week, a couple or three weeks. His rough estimate by square footage is $4200 w/o removing the bedroom insulation. He seemed sort of embarrassed about the number.
That’s a grand more than I expected. Whatever. Do it.
The Boss is going to look at the pictures and probably come see for himself.
The livingroom and hall flooring cost more than I expected. But is nice. It’s just money, I can’t take it with me. I think warm feet is a good thing.
No, they all get turned back, but those who chowed down at least have a full belly.
No. Use the olde English way. Give them a decent and old fashioned look at their intestines hanging out as they are hanged dead and then quartered by horses. Pick-up trucks can substitute for horses. Throw the chunks into a wood chipper and feed the slurry to the pigs.
Mix in some corn and soybeans as thickener to make the pigs extra fat.
Soylent Sausage, if you will…..
I ordered this:
https://www.vevor.com/diesel-heater-c_44649/diesel-air-heater-5kw-12v-lcd-display-all-in-one-for-truck-rvs-car-motorhomes-p_010633661202
It was the cheapest model at the time. $84 delivered.
I figure I can give it a try and perhaps figure how to have it blow hot air into the house. Running on 12v off a car battery seems like a great feature.
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/02/06/marines-remind-the-who-you-dont-keep-what-doesnt-belong-to-you-n3811610
Is there any reason that any WHO official should ever be allowed to set foot in the United States again.
Not just no.
Can we extend that to the UN officials too ? They are all corrupt too.
No. Use the olde English way. Give them a decent and old fashioned look at their intestines hanging out as they are hanged dead and then quartered by horses. Pick-up trucks can substitute for horses. Throw the chunks into a wood chipper and feed the slurry to the pigs.
Mix in some corn and soybeans as thickener to make the pigs extra fat.
Soylent Sausage, if you will…..
One of the last episodes of The Walking Dead had them throwing zombies in the pig pens for feed. And then they gave the pigs to the local warlord for tribute.
Paul, that looks very similar to the unit I have, with a different LCD controller.
(My firmware is dated 2020, for a unit bought last year…)
Looking at the pictures, the LCD controller wire may be longer than the useless 15 inches that I have.
I have mine seated outside the house on a couple of cinderblocks and blowing through a plank and through-duct & louver in the window. This avoids
anymost chance of fire inside, or of spilled diesel inside the house, and is quieter.Safety: The diesel into the combustor is a 5 mm line made of plastic feeding into a small pipe about an inch and a half away from the extremely hot exhaust on the bottom. In some of the pictures you’ll see people just running it with literally no insulation between the two, which is insane.
First start up it will spend some time priming the system, in regular use it doesn’t heat instantly but it takes a minute or two, and when you turn it off it also takes a few seconds for the fan to cool off the unit and then shut down.
You can certainly use a car battery in a pinch, but generally you should have a house battery so that you don’t end up with a dead car that you can’t start. In general use you don’t want to drain that lead acid battery down past more than ½ anyways. That said, overnight for 8-10hr is probably fine. Power draw is maybe 140w at startup/ignition, then down into the 10s of watts.
For Measuring Obesity, The Tape Measure Replaces the Scale
https://www.acsh.org/news/2026/02/03/measuring-obesity-tape-measure-replaces-scale-49941
Yet another f*ckup by MSM (mainstream medical).
Anyone involved in athletics has known this for years, but the continued use of a metric not designed for individuals is simply medical malpractice.
Take your cheeseburgers back.
I called the spray foam insulation guy a few minutes ago. Nice guy. I get zero scam feel here.
Anyway, two inches of foam under the house is about R-14. An extra inch, I mean, just spray more right? is like R-26. He’s gonna let me know the extra cost.
In an attic they cover everything. Open cell foam can breath. Under a house, just the floor. Not the joists. Closed cell. Vapor barrier. And you might feel cold spots in your floor.
Anyway.
I’m learing stuff.
Sanctuary city economy
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/02/sanctuary-city-economy.php
Sales taxes flow every week. The Somali Scam money flows slower, but a lot of that is shutting down, too.
$20 million a week over a year is $1 Billion. That will leave a mark. Add the Somali Scam throttling, and the federal dollar spigot being shut off, rental vacancies up and prices down, property values at risk, and maybe at some point we have a tipping point that really arrives.
@nick
Thanks for the earwig. Heard that song often…
Turned leftovers into fried rice (piece of beef, rice, bin full of aged veg) and bao (chicken from a couple nights ago, dough from scratch). Judging by the locusts it was pretty good.
The bao dough recipe came from the Firefly cookbook. the filling I faked it (pulsed together the leftover cooked chicken with spices, soy, hoisin, dash of fish sauce)
The weight thing… Karl at the Market Ticker summed it up pretty good a few years ago.
Stand against a wall, look down. Can’t see your dick because your belly is in the way? You are fat. Change your diet.
I just flashed an Ebay Verizon $25 Orbic hot spot with the Rayhunter software from the EFF. It is supposed to detect cop Stingray setups. I’m doing this as part of learning Linux from the command line.
I followed the tutorial by Talking Sasquatch on YT. I used Kali Linux on a Parallels VM on Mac. I kept getting a format invalid error trying to flash the Orbic. Duh, I realized I was using the 64×86 Linux installer instead of the ARM version. After getting the ARM64 Linux installer, everything worked.
It isn’t clear wheter you need a SIM card for it to work, but the interface says no Stingray incidents. I can connect to the Orbic adhoc and access the interface from my phone. Bookmarked. Further research.
@paul, that heater is similar to the one I have been trying out. Despite what the pictures show, DON”T USE IT INDOORS unless you plumb the exhaust out.
Probably easier to plumb the heat in… although the duct would be a smaller size than dryer vent or any other easy to get flex pipe. It looks the same size as my RV sewer hose…
I’ve been using a car battery, out of the car. It starts, with a fairly hefty draw, showing as little as 10v on the old battery, but then it heats up and get’s going. The old battery lasted several hours, and was still running fine. It’s just the glow plug,or whatever the big draw at the beginning is that stresses the battery.
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UN out. WHO out. Anyone we’re paying to be here, out.
n
@mratoz, please keep us informed.
I’d like to see an open source Shot Spotter project. Get the hams in the neighborhood to put it on their antenna mast. Echos at street level from other brick houses make it hard for me to tell which direction the shots are coming from, and I’d like to know.
Shotspotter ™ should be feeding a live online map that anyone can see, if they ‘re going to use it.
n
the continued use of a metric not designed for individuals is simply medical malpractice.
–this. I told the white coat to shut up when she started in with BMI and my little girl, who was in no way fat but tall and muscular. It says RIGHT ON THE CHART not to use it.
My dad’s work “wellness” office labeled him “obese” based on BMI. 6ft 8in, and strong. A little beer belly his whole life, but no fat hanging anywhere. They wanted him to do special things to correct his obesity. F that. Which is what he said too.
n
Browsing in a comic shop in Dallas a few weeks ago, I was surprised at how many geek interest properties had a cookbook.
https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Galaxys-Official-Cookbook/dp/1683837983?tag=ttgnet-20/
WILCO on the Stingray.
I’m making a cheeseburger Hamburger Helper to finish binging S04 of The Lincoln Lawyer. I like that show.
Ordered a pizza tonight. We’ll see what my blood sugar does…
It was soooo good. Just right and delicious.
n
For Measuring Obesity, The Tape Measure Replaces the Scale
https://www.acsh.org/news/2026/02/03/measuring-obesity-tape-measure-replaces-scale-49941
I am in the middle of “Consider Action”.
The weight thing… Karl at the Market Ticker summed it up pretty good a few years ago.
Stand against a wall, look down. Can’t see your dick because your belly is in the way? You are fat. Change your diet.
Wait, what if you are … blessed ? XXL ?
“Wait, what if you are … blessed ? XXL ?”
Check the label on the side of the ruler you use.
If you are using a standard foot-long wood ruler, make sure that you point the “12” marking away from your body when measuring.
OLIGHT IMINI 2 EDC Rechargeable Keychain FLASHLIGHT, 50 Lumens Compact and Portable Mini LED Keyring Lights with Built-in Battery Ideal for Everyday Carry and Emergencies (Black) available for $13.99 on Amazon for Prime members.
Sez BGR: “With a 55-millimeter length and weighing in at 0.69 ounces, this LED flashlight easily goes on a keychain, and one is even included should you need it. Producing a balanced and wide output of 50 lumens, the Olight Imini 2 can activate its light by removing the magnetic cap from its body. The tail of the flashlight includes a USB-A plug that allows the device to fully charge within an hour. Additionally, a magnetic base is included with the flashlight for sticking to an iron surface for easy visibility while you work or complete a task.”
Product page sez it has a 60-minute runtime, and will illuminate objects up to 21 meters. Slightly over 2 inches in length. Pops off the keyring/charging end so you can uB0FCF15XZVse it separately from your keyring.
Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C54ZH8WW Available in several different body colors. Small to put on your keyring. Also available in a 2-pack for $26.59.
Which way was the ruler held?
Trump Administration Adds the Forbidden ‘Citizenship Question’ to the 2030 Census
https://redstate.com/streiff/2026/02/06/trump-administration-adds-the-forbidden-citizenship-question-to-the-2030-census-n2198912
The methods used to enable voter fraud in 2020 were used in much simplified form to cook the books of the 2020 census, which had much fewer checks and balances, the first rollout of paperless enumerators (after the 2010 census spend nearly $200 million that they admitted to) and zero transparency of operations to the public. This resulted in the highest error rate of any modern census, which mysteriously tilted the board in favor of blue states.
It is not possible to correct the 2020 election. But the reapportionment based on the 2020 U.S. Census was fatally flawed and has been known to be such for years. The same type of statistical analysis that the DOJ has used for decades to show discriminatory intent in lending and other endeavors shows that the 2020 census errors were not happenstance, but conspiracy.
As the saying goes “The Constitution is not a mutual suicide pact.” and there is no reason to accept the results of a demonstrable fraud for five full election cycles before trying to make a correction. The affected red states should file suit and demand a corrected reapportionment process, which can take place before the 2028 and 2030 elections. A DOJ forensic investigation would expose the methods used to diddle the results and expose the diddlers.
My dad’s work “wellness” office labeled him “obese” based on BMI. 6ft 8in, and strong.
That is head knocker territory as most modern door frames are around 6’8″. I have a friend at church who is 6’8″. He always ducks going through every doorway as some frames are 6’7″. Of course, my 6’11” cousin always ducks for everything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh5X4cGXltI
At some point in the mid-90s, I went through the O’Reilly Korn Shell book cover to cover.
The updated version would be the book covering Bash. I don’t know if they are still publishing those, but used copies are readily available.
Understanding the shell and how to write scripts is an important part of using the Unix command line.
Once you master the shell, work on a scripting language such as Python or Perl.
Illegal Immigrant Allegedly Used Stolen Identity to Vote and Collect $400K in Federal Benefits
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2026/02/06/illegal-immigrant-used-stolen-identity-to-vote-in-2024-election-and-collect-400k-in-federal-benefits-n2670839
The article is lacking in details as to whether she has family or whether this was a solo criminal enterprise or whether she had assistance. She should be given the maximum sentence for each crime, with terms to run consecutively as one crime enabled the next. Then offer her a deal in exchange for full details, most importantly the help of any accomplices: One year in prison followed by deportation. There’s no reason to spend 50 or 100,000 a year (or whatever the current number is).
Or maybe we can cut a deal with Columbia to get a cut-rate price per year on their scumiest hellhole, saving a few bucks and enhancing her experience.
At some point in the mid-90s, I went through the O’Reilly Korn Shell book cover to cover.
The updated version would be the book covering Bash. I don’t know if they are still publishing those, but used copies are readily available.
Understanding the shell and how to write scripts is an important part of using the Unix command line.
I have used the Thompson Automation Toolkit since 1990 on DOS and Windows. It is a port of the Unix C Shell to DOS then Win32 command line. It runs about 10X faster than the cygwin port. Sadly, the Thompson guy shut down the product after he ported to Win32 in the early 1990s. I easily ported all of my shell scripts from our IBM RS/6000 workstations to our IBM PCs using their shell.
“C:\dii\CHM\CHMTRN>sh
Thompson Toolkit Version 4.2a for the Windows/NT operating system
Copyright 1996 Thompson Automation, Inc.
All Rights Reserved
sh: warning: No SHHOME or HOME variable: cd has no default directory; aliases are temporary
[C:/dii/CHM/CHMTRN]% exit”
http://www.tasoft.com/
Illegal Immigrant Allegedly Used Stolen Identity to Vote and Collect $400K in Federal Benefits
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2026/02/06/illegal-immigrant-used-stolen-identity-to-vote-in-2024-election-and-collect-400k-in-federal-benefits-n2670839
Social Security has never told me who is using my SS number and caused all of the problems when I signed up for Medicare. My baseball bat and I would like to go express my dislike in their trying to steal my benefits and rights.
I have never had a problem with the IRS so obviously the thief is not filing income tax returns. However, just my taking two months and having to deal with a human fixer when I signed up for Medicare was a pain. The fixer ended up deleting my SS records and restoring them from scratch.
I’ve been doing site updates and content on my hobby website for the past couple of hours.
The most frustrating thing is that I’ve somehow got my log in permanently tied to the old guy who did the job’s name and that can’t be changed. And that there are users for the host as well as the wordpress based site, and ALSO for the blog embedded in the site. I can’t get a simple list to make corrections and assign access and authorities.
And somehow this identity got attached to my IRL email for one of the plug in site monitoring tools. No idea how to fix that one.
n
On top of that, I finally figured out what I was banging my head against HERE. The /journal pages are a blog, using wordpress, which is embedded in the larger site, TTGnet.com.
At my hobby site, I also used wordpress to build the static pages. Here, those pages are not built by or managed by the wordpress CMS… and I was mentally missing that. There’s a bunch of php and CSS that make up the site, with a wordpress blog inserted into it. It makes the stuff surrounding the daily post and the comments much harder to manage and change.
Or at least that’s my current limited understanding.
n
added– ok, none of this is strictly true. I’m still missing something in my mental model, but almost all the pages are actually part of the wordpress CMS. I’m taking a break now. Maybe a tiny little fire.
I was sentenced to 6 months of Perl programming once.
As most all of you are aware, you can write really bad code in any language. But my impression of Perl is that it actively encourages bad, confusing, highly aliased and cryptic code. Part of that is that Perl gives you 3 ways to perform any basic task. And no 2 Perl programmers do it the same way, which makes maintenance (my task at the time) impossible.
Add into that the fact that the project lead and team lead were obnoxious egotists who thought their code was obvious and self-documenting.
The good news is I transferred to an R&D project in C++ (or was it C#?) after that. The bad news is that the R&D budget went away, and I was laid off. That’s when I transitioned from DOD technical programming to Epic and healthcare, in 2007.
@Nick – regarding WP users and access levels – the user list is in the wp_users table in the WP database. There are myriad instructions that can be found on how to assign access levels to users, delete them, change their passwords, etc via the phpmyadmin access to the database. Look at the wp_users table for any user names that aren’t supposed to be there. Assign them a ‘subscriber’ access level (tutorials and the WP Codex has info on those values) just to keep them around.
Some hacks add entries to wp_users as part of their hack. Rather than delete those user accounts, just give them ‘subscriber’ access (lowest authority) so that the hacker doesn’t try to re-establish admin-level accounts.
As for plugins that have your email account, a search through the wp_options table for that email address should find the entry that is being used by the plugin. It’s possible that the plugin might create/use it’s own table, so if you don’t find it in the wp_options table, use phpmyadmin to find it in the plugin tables. Lots of tutorials on how to search all fields in a table for a value.
@Nick – you can (generally) tell the difference between WP CMS -based pages and non-WP pages by looking at the page name specified by the requested URL.
WP pages usually don’t have an extension. Static pages (example: PHP-language pages) generally have a ‘.php’ extension.
This place appears to have a WP-based site whose ‘root’ is in the ‘journal’ folder. The other pages appear to be PHP/HTML-based pages outside of the ‘journal’ folder structure. WP ‘gains’ control via the .htaccess directives in the ‘journal’ folder (when the requested URL starts with https://www.ttgnet.com/journal ). Those directives usually include a redirect when the ‘index.php’ (or the default specified in htaccess) is the requested page, and the redirect sends that page request to the WP ‘engine.
Although you can have static (non-WP) pages in the same folder as the WP CMS pages. That is done by an htaccess directive that checks if the requested URL is accessing a file that exists. If so, that non-WP page is shown. If there is not a file that is requested, (as in the URLs for posts here), then the WP engine takes over and uses the URL’s ‘page’ to get to the WP page name that is requested.
So, there could be a file called ‘stuff.php’ in the ‘journal’ folder (requested by https://www.ttgnet.com/journal/stuff.php ), and that could be an HTML/PHP page that would be processed – not by the WP engine, but the PHP engine (effectively).
“‘Schedule F’ is NUKE against Deep State and Trump’s finger is on the button…”
https://revolver.news/2026/02/schedule-f-is-nuke-against-deep-state-and-trumps-finger-is-on-the-button/
“While everyone is glued to AI stocks and crypto charts, the real power move just quietly unfolded in Washington.”
“The Office of Personnel Management finalized the rules that will allow President Trump to reclassify up to 50,000 federal employees as “at-will” workers.”
“Do you know what that means?”
“That means if the Supreme Court upholds this move, Trump can fire tens of thousands of entrenched bureaucrats (Deep State) who shape federal policy.”
“This is a direct nuclear strike right at the heart of the permanent administrative state.”
Do you think that Trump has a list of deep state baddies that is 50,000 troublemakers long ? I do.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
“Grenade Tossed Into French Beauty Salon, Injures 6 [VIDEO]”
https://thelibertydaily.com/grenade-tossed-french-beauty-salon-injures-6-video/
“Grenades thrown into barber shops, beauty salons and kebabs are becoming so prevalent in Western Europe that they barely make the news.”
Unreal. There is even a video by an apparent co-conspirator.
@oldguy, thanks, I’m bookmarking this post so I can refer back if needed. I only need it if I make changes…
n
My Starlink right now in congested Fort Bend County, Texas:
Download Mbps 47.30
Upload Mbps 14.97
I used
https://www.speedtest.net/
Interesting to watch my blood glucose levels.
Breakfast caused a slow rise, because I went back to bed (sleep slows the rise), and I crashed, ignoring my alarms until it started sloping down again. Once it was on the downslope, I woke up and got out of bed without the second alarm ringing.
I ate half of an extra large cheese, pepperoni, and onion pizza for dinner and expected to crash like normal. My glucose only rose to 150, same as when I eat a donut or bowl of Capn Crunch cereal, but it stayed near there for 2 hours before dropping back to normal. My peaks seem to be much narrower than that normally, only about 1 ½ to 2 hours wide. this one is more than 3 hours wide.
My lunch, 3 ounces of sliced ham, and a couple ounces of cheese, resulted in a little pointy equilateral triangle, that peaked at 130 and was 2 hours wide. Then I stayed a little lower than usual until dinner.
No idea if any of it means anything or is significant, but it’s interesting to watch.
n
@jenny, it sounds like an interesting way to use up some chicken and to break out of any routine.
Judging by the locusts it was pretty good.
I complained the other day that despite literally licking the plates clean, no one said the dinner was good or said thank you. Eldest daughter stuck her head in my office and told me it was good and she really liked it. So there is that. I’ll take it.
n
Time for a shower and early bed.
If I can resist the call of new books…
n
“That means if the Supreme Court upholds this move, Trump can fire tens of thousands of entrenched bureaucrats (Deep State) who shape federal policy.”
“Trump v. Slaughter: an explainer”
https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/12/trump-v-slaughter-an-explainer/
“On Monday, Dec. 8, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Trump v. Slaughter, a battle that has been brewing, on one hand, since soon after President Donald Trump took office in January and, on the other hand, for years. At the center of the battle are laws that limit the president’s ability to fire the heads of independent, multi-member federal agencies like the Federal Trade Commission. The president and his supporters are proponents of a doctrine known as the “unitary executive” theory – the idea that the president should have complete control over the executive branch. Under this theory, the president should be able to fire any member of the executive branch, and laws – like the one at the center of this case – that restrict his ability to do so violate the constitutional separation of powers between the three branches of government.”
I totally agree. If you work for the executive, the executive should be able to fire you for any reason at any time. You do not have a right to sit in a job in perpetuity.
Time for a shower and early bed.
If I can resist the call of new books…
n
I have already bought over a dozen new books this year. My momma gave me Christmas money and told me to have fun with it. So I am.
I’ve been up for an hour, dealing with a problem and am now at the computer, before the next day’s post goes up. In your face, Denis and anyone else who uses times zones to cheat!
(The problem: furnace stopped working. Mildly inconvenient, given the location and the time of year. But outside temp is 20ish, so it’s a “get a tech today” problem rather than a “get a tech out of bed” problem, which it would be if it were -10F as it was a week ago. I’m pretty sure I know what the problem is but I don’t have and probably can’t get the parts to fix it.)