Cool, then warm. Maybe even hot! And the forecast calls for clear, which is very nice. I was sweating in the sun yesterday, but that was only in the sun. In mixed light or shade it was the perfect temperature. SOOOoooo nice. I just want to sit on the porch…
But the list is like rust and never sleeps.
Yesterday I mostly worked on getting the natgas gennie connected to the house. Well, really, putting the connectors in place and doing the wiring for real to connect it. Of course it wasn’t anywhere near as simple and straightforward as it should have been. But that’s my life.
I did manage to get my laundry done and folded. Dinner was made and eaten. And the whole family was at the table. That is increasingly rare with the kids’ school activities. A few more years and we’ll be empty-nesters. Time flies.
Today I’ll finish up the gennie so I can get that off my list. I’ve got at least one pickup to do too, and maybe some grocery shopping if the time works out. If not, tomorrow will be ok too.
I should stop in and see my buddy at the gub store too. It’s been a while since I dropped in. I’m always happy to see him and his wife and chat for a bit. And maybe he has some fantastic plastic in 22LR to use as a trainer…
The list is long, and my focus is short, but maybe I’ll get a couple of things done, while I … … … keep stacking.
nick
I used to have quite a pile of spare everything. Mostly, this happened, because computers (or phone, or whatever) got replaced every 3-4 years. That doesn’t seem to happen so much anymore. My “new” computer is already 3 years old. My “old” computer is still doing duty as the guest computer in our office. Meanwhile, peripherals like keyboards and mice do break, so I’ve used up almost all of the reserve.
I have had a couple of duds over the years, but mostly I’m really happy with the wireless mice from Logitech. A battery generally lasts several months. The one I use with my laptop, well, Icarry spare batteries anyway, for things like flashlights.
Deficit spending on the scale of the US is insane. The price will be paid through inflation: the dollar will become internationally worthless. The next downgrade by the credit agencies will accelerate this. Of course, it will be great for US exports. But imports, travel, or anything the US needs from abroad will become prohibitively expensive.
Never thought about that! ChatGPT reports that carbon is also very scarce, and carbon is pretty important for things like growing food.
Pretty insane. People who hate him either have no concept of what the man has contributed, or they are secretly jealous and embarrassed at their own complete lack of meaningful contribution to…well, to anything.
You mean FLASHLIGHTS (or FLASHLIGHTs). Do try to uphold community standards.
Good dog!
Tuesday. Good morning. It’s lunchtime, so I am having breakfast. Logic.
There is a very happy-looking red squirrel enjoying the peanuts I put out for the birds. Odd how squirrels use their front paws to hold nuts while they nibble them, but not to pick the nuts up. Opposable thumbs, lads, it’s the way to go…
Lots to do today, and little motivation to do it. Ah well. It’s a great life.
Is Artemis worth the read? Reviews seem mixed. I did enjoy the Martian.
Hey, chicken boy! Up before me today.
Aha, squirrel is replete. It has switched to hiding the nuts!
Musk didn’t build Twitter. Twitter didn’t even create the app that made it “Twitter”.
Musk did found the original X.com which merged with Confinity to become Paypal, but Confinity’s principals, Peter Thiel and Max Levchin, got rid of him as fast as they could.
OpenAI was a group effort from the tech billionares, the key component to keep the financial circle jerk behind the monkey trick running.
I’ve seen Max Levchin speak in person. Five minutes listening to that guy, and you quickly realize who was the brains behind PayPal.
Levchin went on to build Affirm. Whatever I think of BNPL ethically, the concept is genius.
The currency debasement required to build the sex robots for the elites will be beyond what any other society on Earth is willing to take out of fear of the population unrest and return of the guillotine to the public square.
A large segment of the US population wants to see Trump swinging from gallows built on the very spot where he was Inaugurated in 2017, but that is a separate issue, having nothing to do with economics.
A large segment of the US population is easily led to believe and act in ways counter to their own interests.
Trump is objectively no worse than most of the past Presidents, and probably better if by better you mean “less beholden to the military industrial complex” and the web of self interest that makes up politicians. He was a social democrat until he got enough personal power to denounce them. HE WAS ONE OF THEIRS BUT LEFT, and that probably fuels a lot of the hate at least subconsciously.
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I didn’t put up the link, but was amused by this…
She probably got invited to the function and thought, “OH, squirrel people. I’ve got just the dress…”
I grew up with red squirrels who were friendly, intelligent, and everywhere, until the greys moved in and drove them out. Now the squirrels at my childhood home are bigger than greys but smaller than reds, and not very friendly.
I have a soft spot for the antics of the little tree rats, who’d rather work hard to steal than eat what’s in front of them.
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64F and coffee is ready.
n
Um…what’s the problem? It is precisely the invasive gray squirrels that are pushing the red squirrels out of their native habitat.
It seems likely that she offended some clueless greeny. She needs a spine.
Never heard of it, but: after visiting the site, isn’t this just another way to encourage irresponsible spending, and charge people interest for the privilege? Buy-now-pay-later is fundamentally a predatory practice.
When the ‘consumer protection’ laws about fees and interest rates went into effect, all the lenders found other ways to charge high interest and to target the ‘broke and desperate’ market.
They bought Payday Loan companies, Title loan companies, and created all the ‘buy now pay later’ options for ecommerce. There may not be a conspiracy, but the world is structured to keep the poor poor and the rich rich.
n
Another one going, going, …almost gone.
Eddie Bauer files for bankruptcy with 200 stores at risk of closure
This marks the third bankruptcy in just over two decades for the storied – but increasingly struggling – brand, which began as a Seattle fishing shop in 1920.
n
MDACC is under full mask protocols. I hate masks due to breathing used air. And the mask is smushing my longish beard which is sticking out in all directions.
All of my wife’s winter coats come from Eddie Bauer.
i knew something was up when their Sun Valley parkas were not restocked for Fall, when we looked for one for my daughter.
Good Germans all.
Is Artemis worth the read? Reviews seem mixed. I did enjoy the Martian.
Artemis is a 400 page look at the problems of running a Lunar city with 100,000 people. Since nitrogen is so scarse, they are running 5 psia atmosphere of 90% oxygen. Yes, very fire prone.
From an engineering viewpoint, the book is a masterpiece.
What’s the excuse? I imagine that the real reason is that a Republican is President and there’s an election later this year, but what did they say was the reason?
Koalas would agree.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/lawmaker-calls-fcc-take-action-after-bad-bunnys/
– shouldn’t be a surprise. Every year some school gets in trouble for a DJ playing obscene songs in spanish that none of the white peeple understood.
n
I got only a few chapters into The Martian. It seemed good enough but the little brat, AKA my darling beloved daughter, picked up my Kindle when she was in my office and I was working, read a paragraph or two, liked, it, and went back to read from the beginning. This lost my place, of course, and I just never got back to starting over.
The little brat did that repeatedly, from ages maybe 8 though 12. Even after I got her a Kindle of her own. Most likely this is because I didn’t beat her enough as a small child, an omission I shall attempt to retroactively rectify next time I see her.
And cats. Several times over the years a cat has watched me manipulate* something, tried to do it himself, fail, watch my hand, try again, look at its paw, and look at my hand again. There obviously something ticking between their ears.**
* Literally!
** Not orange cats, of course. They have only one brain cell. Shared among them.
Maybe a school teacher was secretly ‘transitioning’ her to read voluntarily?
A stretch, I know, but I once heard a middle school teacher say “it’s a victory if I can get a kid to steal a book to take home”.
Reading: the gateway drug to seeing the world and thinking on your own!
Stamp it out now!!
Nor would I; I had the concept and a connection with Harry Harrison, who published it (not for the first time) in an anthology. Google FTW.
Musk didn’t invent/create Tesla, either. But, it would be a historical blip without him.
Jeff knows the furthest point read in the book across all Kindle devices and apps. There should be an option to move to that point unless you have a very old Kindle.
I keep an old Kindle around which I manage with Calibre and dragging/dropping files to/from the USB mounted file system.
Guano-psychosis
And the mask is smushing my longish beard which is sticking out in all directions.
Which reinforces the ridiculousness of forcing you to wear one. It protects no one unless you expectorate sputum. A virus won’t care.
Musk brought the carbon credit grift.
V8 saloons were sacrificed so a small number of propeller heads could cruise to work at “Ludicrous Speed”.
Then came the Jesus Truck. Paying for that disaster will end Chrysler at a minimum.
What’s the excuse? I imagine that the real reason is that a Republican is President and there’s an election later this year, but what did they say was the reason?
They keep on saying there are sick people here, really sick, not fake sick. This is a cancer center after all.
V8 saloons were sacrificed so a small number of propeller heads could cruise to work at “Ludicrous Speed”.
V8 station wagons were killed by moms buying suvs so they could drive in a Suburban from the kid soccer fields with muddy shoes.
Which reinforces the ridiculousness of forcing you to wear one. It protects no one unless you expectorate sputum. A virus won’t care.
Please do not examine my various computer monitors that I have sneezed and coughed all over them. Every couple of years, I clean the worst of the nasty spots off. Usually using spit and a kleenex.
No, that’s not it. I read to her from infancy. When she was about 4 ½ we were reading the Magic Tree House series, a chapter before bed. One night she got mad that I had stopped at the end of the chapter, turned the light back on, and started reading the next chapter by herself. She asked what a few words were but otherwise read the whole thing without help and was able to tell me what the chapter was about.
The thing with stealing my Kindle was that I had better, more interesting books than she had. It mostly wouldn’t even have bothered me if the little brat had set a bookmark, as I showed her, before going back to the start, but she seldom if ever did so.
Greg, yes, I know that Kindles can go to “farthest point read” but that’s no help when she’s already gone past where I’d been, by the time I noticed.
@Denis
Is Artemis worth the read?
IMHO, Yes. Really enjoyable engineering bits, sassy main character who develops and grows, fun creative problem solving. Lighter than Martian however equally enjoyable in different ways. I grew up on a steady diet of the classic sci-fi authors – Mr. Weir scratches that sci-fi itch.
I also enjoyed his “Hail Mary”, though that one I’d try to get an edition before the screenplay was developed in case the original gets monkeyed with.
Musk brought the carbon credit grift.
V8 saloons were sacrificed so a small number of propeller heads could cruise to work at “Ludicrous Speed”.
Then came the Jesus Truck. Paying for that disaster will end Chrysler at a minimum. -greg
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V8 station wagons were killed by moms buying suvs so they could drive in a Suburban from the kid soccer fields with muddy shoes. –lynn
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guys, you are getting cause and effect mixed up.
V8s in cars were sacrificed on the alter of AGW and the eco grift of the EPA and mandated mileage and emissions requirements. (which were caused in part by the arab oil embargo and the sudden realization that letting foreigners control our ability to move around was bad. But instead of drilling and refining, and saying F U to importing oil, they took the cowardly route that had the benefit for them of increasing their power and control.)
Station wagons were killed by the same standards, that allowed different mileage targets for trucks, and the brand new category of SUV. Auto makers build SUVs because people WANT them.
People wanted them because they still needed big vehicles to move kids, gear, and teammates, but couldn’t buy them in the “car” category anymore because of mileage rules. So they bought SUVs. Have you actually LOOKED at how small SUVs have become? And they invented the “crossover” to get more car-like features and styling into SUVs.
Squint and the Cadillac SRX is a slightly taller station wagon. Most of the ‘mid’ sized SUVs are just tall station wagons, or short minivans.
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Sure, there are people that buy big trucks just because they are big. So what? It’s their money. The “ludicrous” appeals to the same sort of impulse that having a BIG truck does, the desire to thumb the nose.
“I’ve got an EV, but it’s the fastest EV and if I’m gonna drive a wuss mobile (all the previous EVs) I want one that isn’t for wussies.”
btw,
A normally aspirated V8 289cu.in. Mustang could get 22mpg on the highway IN 1966! It got what my Ranger gets in town too.
n
also, RLTS didn’t invent the carbon credit. A bunch of rentier middle men invented that market from scratch and made a shite ton of money doing it. Taking carbon credits for building EVs is morally superior to telling africans they can’t use mechanised farming, so that you can create carbon credits to sell, in my opinion anyway. There are other schemes that are almost as offensive.
Musk didn’t invent/create Tesla, either. But, it would be a historical blip without him.
Tesla was literally bankrupt when Musk showed up. He brought a few billion friends (USA dollars) and fixed their engineering and manufacturing.
Twitter would be bankrupt on the side of the road without Musk. Might have been better to make it easier to get rid of entitled peoples.
Forgot
Paying for that disaster will end Chrysler at a minimum.
– Chrysler hasn’t made cars people wanted in a long time, and should die if they can’t. As for buying carbon credits from tony, well, they are free to buy them elsewhere, or pay the fines, or buy a politician and get the law changed. But they won’t change the law, because laws are almost never relaxed or made simpler, or even repealed if someone can make money off of them.
n
And don’t forget that Bidden’s DOJ which was Bammy’s DOJ stepped in a forced Musk to buy twitter when he couldn’t get a look at the books and got cold feet.
Lots of dem propagandists saw an exit path and took it.
n
I miss Mopar.
But the Mopar I miss was 1960’s and 70’s Plymouth and Dodge. I owned a 1969 318 cu. in. V8 Barracuda.
A friend of mine told me, in about 1975, that MIT did a study showing that you could address the air pollution issues from autos by mandating tuning unaltered ICE engines for maximum efficiency without additional hardware like catalytic converters, and adding large air scrubbers in cities, to capture the pollutants and scrub the air. It would increase fuel mileage, reducing imported oil, and cost less overall.
He was an undergrad at MIT at the time, and he said the study was suppressed.
Vanguard, Blackrock, and State Street wanted an exit from TWTR.
Station wagons and SUVs; Station wagons were cars, and the gummint decided to suppress cars using Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards to require smaller cars with smaller engines. That, coupled with mandatory car safety seats for children, meant that a family with two adults and 3 children COULD NOT find a car that could accommodate them.
SUVs were built on TRUCK chassis and were subject to different, LOWER, CAFE standards, and had more ROOM, enough for a family. So the older truck-like SUVs became more luxurious and comfortable, because you save a LOT of money when you can get by with one vehicle instead of needing two cars.
Chrysler? I LOVED my PT Cruisers. Chrysler tried to market them as the “hip new thing”, and encouraged young folks to think of them as the new woody station wagons of the Beach Boys days. They even offered Cruisers with wood-grain side decals. The “problem” with the PT Cruiser was that it was COMFORTABLE. It was easy to just SIT DOWN in it, instead of having to fold yourself down and slither into the car. So my disabled wife was able easily sit down and get in and, even more importantly, easily stand up and get out. So the kids heard that the Cruiser was a good car for old disabled people, and stopped buying them. And THAT was what killed the Cruiser. She still has hers; a 2003 with just under 70K miles, and in almost perfect condition. Mine was wrecked in 2016 when an Asian woman in a Mercedes ran a stop sign and drove right in front of me. And by then, they weren’t available.
@ken, wasn’t the PT Cruzer like the HHR, designed and built by a boutique house and not Chrysler proper?
n
Ah, same designer. And the AI official line is ‘built by GM’ but the sticker in the car said otherwise.
n
even wiki acknowledges the dodge…
n
The cr*p Hecho en Mexico build quality killed the PT Cruiser,
If you have one still in running condition then you lucked out.
Yes, I had read that the PT Cruiser and the HHR had had the same designer, but aside from vague similarities, they could not have been more different. The Cruiser was comfortable to drive in, and to ride in, even for 400 mile trips from Sacramento to Los Angeles. The HHR became vaguely unpleasant after 50 miles, and a positive pain in the back, literally, after 150 miles. The rear seats of the Cruiser would fold up to reveal a cargo area almost as big as the bed of my F150 pickup. The HHR’s rear seats folded, yes, but even folded they were big and bulky and in the way. Driving, the “A” pillar of the Cruiser seemed petite, while the HHR’s “A” pillar and outside mirror were an actual hazard to vision.
Greg: MY wife’s 2003 Cruiser has been a garage queen; I don’t think it has been left outside for more than 60 days total in the 23 years she has owned it. And yes, it is in pristine condition. She would not sell it for love or money.
Conservatives need to give it a rest about Bad Bunny.
To an extent, I agree. Quit ragging on NFL, Bad Bunny, and Jay-Z. Do our best to let all of them wither and die. I’m doing my part; I haven’t watched the NFL or Superbowl in 15 years, and I didn’t even know who was playing until game day.
But I think conservatives should take note of who hates them, and hates America. Puerto Rico needs to be spun off into its own sh*thole country, and any ethnic Peurto Ricans need to be denaturalized and repatriated.
It was reported that the entire half-time show was in Spanish, except the “beautiful” message on the billboard at the end. Their hypocrisy is deserving of pointing out. It not being in Spanish invalidates the whole thing.
The obvious is to just ignore something one does not like. Turn off the TV, change the station, take a nap. All viable options. I watched some of the half-time show. I thought it sucked. So what.
Tuesday bedtime. I had a break from work this evening, and spent a couple of hours turning money into noise with friends. That was nice.
Thanks for the reviews of Artemis. Sounds like one I will buy, as long as I can get the e-book to download. I will no longer purchase (actually rent) e-books from Big River since they turned off the option to download the book as a file.
The grey squirrel fur coat would have been a fantastic conservation gesture, had the wearer known to stand up for it. The whole point is to eradicate the greys and protect the reds. If the fur of greys became fashionable to wear and therefore valuable, market forces would do the job. Some supermarkets in the UK sell the meat of greys, but I don’t think it ever became really popular, or ever will.
I like watching our reds. If I ever see a grey here, it will be time for JSB Diablo, Esq.
It is rainy and miserable out. A good time to go to the land of Nod. Goodnight!
I could be wrong and not for the first time.
Remember “cab forward”? It was a real big deal. The Chrysler Concord? The Dodge Intrepid (my choice visually)(in red, please)? The Eagle whatever? Decent sized cars. Front wheel drive but not much smaller than say, a Dodge Diplomat, but still roomy. With a trunk big enough to hold at least five bodies. Laying flat on their backs.
And that Diplomat…. that was sort of based on the Volare. Like the Mustang is based on the Falcon.
Cab Forward continued with the smaller Chrysler Cirrus and the Dodge Stratus and the Plymouth Breeze. I forget the name of the Eagle version. I don’t think it was the Eagle Freebird, but, But all “cab forward”. Just room for three bodies in the trunk If you bend the knees.
Some where along about ’96 the Neon happened. Smaller than a Stratus. Cute car, like a Beetle. I still have the VHS tape promo for the Neon.
And that’s about when the PT Cruiser happened. Sort of a stretched Neon or shrunken Stratus but turned into a sort of a station wagon. A runty short wagon. Not as roomy as my ’78 Volare wagon. Kind of like using a Jeep Cherokee as a station wagon. The wood grain stuff was pretty cool in an Olds Vista Cruiser way.
I miss my ‘96 Stratus. It had the 2.4 ? DOHC engine and yeah, it would go 118 MPH and was still pulling when I chickened out. Because I wasn’t sure about the tire’s speed rating. And 34 mpg highway cruising at 75 on pure gasoline.
I’ve always been Mopar. The first car I remember is a ’57 Chrysler Windsor.
Bad Bunny as a superbowl halftime show is a salvo in the larger culture war. Someone decided that not singing in English was OK for the most watched event of the year, an event that is iconic America, as part of the global extravaganza that the Superbowl has become.
Further, it’s an attack on decency and western values with the obscene lyrics and degeneracy.
If we surrender the public spaces we’ll lose the culture war and become outcasts in our own country.
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It got as hot as 81F earlier but it’s back down to 75F and the cloud cover is solid overcast. I was pretty sure I heard thunder in the distance too.
I got the gennie buttoned up and as ready to go as can be right now. The battery I bought is too big for the inside space, so unless I buy another, I’ll just take it off the charger and connect manually if needed. And since there isn’t a battery in the enclosure, I am not worried about the standby AC battery charger. I did disconnect it and clean up some bad wiring.
That ate the afternoon.
I’m going to make a quick run to the shop to check on a toilet. I sold one to my neighbor at the BOL. I’ve got several TOTO toilets in the shop, new in the box. They bring good money so I pick them up when I can.
n
Chrysler made the last of the V8 saloons with the pre-EV Dodge Charger/Chrysler 300, and they were fairly popular.
Pollice departments not wanting to pay for the heroes to have codpiece Exploders had no other option left than buying Chargers once Ford dropped plans to reintroduce the Crown Vic.
The Charger wasn’t as easy to maintain as the Panther platform, but it was much cheaper than the Exploder.
The “Chrysler” designs which were in the pipeline when the Germans left town went with the Germans except for the minivan and the 300.
Twitter would have been kept on life support by the institutional investors, but Musk offered them a huge pile of cash which he thought they would decline in the interest of the agenda.
Larry Fink of Blackrock is the defacto leader of the WEF now that Klaus Schwab’s sins have been aired in public.
I’m updating my Kali Linux VM. I’m using instructions from the Kali.org website since I know little about Linux. Three command-line instructions are needed. A shit-load of information is scrolling by with an occasional Y/N to update a package I have no idea about.
This is not for Gram and Gramps, but I’m learning.
It finished, so I restarted, and it is working.
The ParrotOS Linux VM has an update available prompt and installs it without using the cli.
And that is how they win.
Like, voting for the lesser of two evils. You’re still voting for evil.
I’m on the stool now. So much for a comfy chair. But Penny precious puppy wanted the chair.
Hey, she turned 14 in October. it’s all good.</p
A new life awaits you in the Off-world colonies!
Yeah, if you like sleeping in a dog crate.
also, RLTS didn’t invent the carbon credit. A bunch of rentier middle men invented that market from scratch and made a shite ton of money doing it. Taking carbon credits for building EVs is morally superior to telling africans they can’t use mechanised farming, so that you can create carbon credits to sell, in my opinion anyway. There are other schemes that are almost as offensive.
Yeah, go talk to Al Gore about the carbon credits, that was his real baby, not the intertubes.
Oh wait, Al Gore is too busy swimming in his gold coin vaults to talk with you peons.
LOL, I tried setting up a printer on the Kali VM. Forget about it. The Windows11 VM just has the printer on the Mac. I did get CUPS set up on Kali, but I cannot add myself as an admin to add a printer through the CUPS web interface. I’m sure I’m doing something wrong to get admin access.
Twitter would have been kept on life support by the institutional investors, but Musk offered them a huge pile of cash which he thought they would decline in the interest of the agenda.
Plus a kitchen sink.
Musk got rooked for Twitter. If he had waited for the bankruptcy then he would have paid 1/10th of the price.
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe…”
That line has been going through my head a lot at work lately.
Oh, wait. I can sit in the other chair. Duh.
Nice chair. Just sits an inch or so higher. As in from my knees to the floor. Feels almost like sitting in a highchair.
But hey, the lighting is good.
I had an eventful day and a uneventful day at MDACC, MD Anderson Cancer Center. First, I do not have lung cancer. Probably. The odds are lower than 1 in 10,000 that any of the nodules in my lungs are cancerous or precancerous.
What I do have is five smooth spherical nodules in my lungs. The largest is 5 mm. Not a big deal as long as they are not fast growers. Smooth is good, non spherical nodules with uneven surfaces are bad. Also more than one nodule is good, only one nodule is bad.
The nodules have to be 10 mm before they can even do an biopsy on them. We talked it over given the very low odds and decided to look at them again in 12 months. In fact, the pulminologist in the “Suspicion of Lung Cancer” department (one of the five specialized docs) would be ok if I just skipped the 12 month picture taking. He thinks that the seven millisieverts, equivalent to 150 chest xrays, from the $10 million dollar ??? low dosage CT machine are just as dangerous given the low odds.
Now if I start coughing up blood and I do not have bronchitis then all bets are off.
Squeezebox tonight making up for the disco I listened to last night.
Much hillbilly stuff. Ah, but just now, The Cars. Drive.
Nice.
And now some Little River Band. Even better.
The VM’s network interface probably needs to be bridged to the WiFi network in order to receive the Bonjour packets.
Apple owns CUPS, and most of the modern distributions automatically detect and configure printers using Bonjour. The network interface has to be on the same LAN as the printer, however.
I have a mid-priced Brother laser printer which uses their version of PostScript. I’ve never had a problem printing to it from any machine in the house, and we run a mix of just about everything.
Win what?
MSNBC and CBS News are being gutted right now, and CNN is next on the chopping block. ABC News and ESPN won’t be far behind as Disney circles the drain.
And now, nat king Cole crooning Unforgettable. Nice. Very nice.
Not if the ratings drop. I am certain the cable providers had statistics on how many were viewing what.
The LSM is the point. They aren’t going to die before the midterms. The lies are sucked up by the sheeple. Why, because the new generation (and a lot of the old) are too illiterate and lazy to read behind the scenes of the lies the LSM tells. All the Dumbocrats have to do is get an app on sheeple’s phones that gives them free game coins by watching a hit piece on tRump. Game over.
If tRump at least keeps what he has in the House and Senate, the Dumbos will be done for at least 10 years.
Oh, and Bad Bunny is a disgusting piece of shit just like most Amish rappers. Anybody that dates a BigAssian sucks.
Edison didn’t invent the light bulb.
Ford didn’t invent the automobile.
IBM didn’t invent the digital computer (and neither did Sperry-Rand or Eckert–Mauchly)
Bell Labs didn’t invent the laser.
Al Gore didn’t invent the internet (or the global warming scam, but he got rich off the latter)
Somalis didn’t invent government fraud (they’re just the latest and most successful of the Democrat scam groups)
Eddie Murphy didn’t invent the word “m*therf*cker” (but Axel Foley did wear it out in Beverly Hills Cop)
Sears didn’t invent the push-button release ratchet (they just stole it from an employee)
Ron Popeil DID invent the Pocket Fisherman.
An example of LSM lies:
NBC News: Lawyer Says Toddler Returned to ICE Detention and Denied Prescription Medication
As Andy Ngo says, illegal aliens get free and better healthcare than American Citizens.
I’m composing a short letter to each of the football teams that I grew up watching, but haven’t much since the they decided that kneeling was their ting.
The gist of it is that I will not be watching professional football at all until Roger Goodell is gone.
In addition I will comb through their advertiser list, identify products that I use, change to alternatives, and write to them explaining that I will not support companies that make such poor choices.
Note that the list will not include Ford or Budweiser, because as fa as I’m concerned they already suck it and I wish them dead.
Chrysler, btw, only exists because the Obama did not allow them to fail as they should have and allowed them to shaft proper creditors to save the UAW’s ass.
Rayhunter update:
The Verizon SIM came today, and the Orbic hotspot (with Rayhunter mod) gets 4G in my garage.
Yay, now to find a likely Stingray operation. I’ll just take it when I need to travel around Vegas and other States for gigs.
Breaking: The Evidence is in: Endangerment Finding was Pre-cooked
The EF was the product of a sham regulatory process and violated the Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution, the Administrative Procedure Act, and D.C. Circuit precedent.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/02/09/the-evidence-is-in-endangerment-finding-was-pre-cooked/
Well. Interesting. I dont know the answer. Yet.
But from my Kindle http://192.168.0.2 goes off to some search engine thing.
http://192.168.0.2:9000/ goes to slimserver. NICE.
So…. If adding :9000 to the address for moa works, whats the number for the desktop folder?
Microsoft bought DOS.
The TV manufacturers have stats too these days.
They audio fingerprint programming coming from an AV source other than the tuner.
I mean, if adding :9000 to moa’s address works….. to connect to slimserver. Well.
I don’t what to Google .
And if it’s just a port number and I can toss files over. Good.
I mean, Explorer was supposed to be a web browser
“Phone Company Executives Reveal Why They Complied With Jack Smith’s Secret Subpoenas”
https://dailycaller.com/2026/02/10/phone-company-executives-explain-why-they-complied-with-secret-subpoenas/
“Three phone company executives testified Tuesday about why they supplied Republican members of Congress’ records in response to former special counsel Jack Smith’s secret subpoenas.”
“The companies received at least 84 subpoenas during the Arctic Frost probe that became Smith’s case against President Donald Trump, including at least 10 associated with 20 current or former Republican members, according to Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley.”
Amazing.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
William Barr was General Counsel of GTE and helped put together the “merger of equals” deal to form Verizon.
Regardless, everything except the voice call is maintenance data not protected by a warrant requirement and the phone companies will generally supply the records if asked nicely by a government official.
Trump had Fanni Willis records even before being sworn in for the second time.
As for Rafael Edward’s records, AT&T has plenty of libs in management, but a Texas-based company would have hell to pay releasing data of a campaign phone belonging to the most prominent Republican in the state.
Cruz’s name was on the ballot before Abbott’s in 2018.
Cornyn’s is before Abbott’s on my sample ballot for Williamson County in the upcoming primary, but he’s in trouble.
I received another poor POD reprint of a book sold as “new” on Amazon.
The crazy thing is that the book is the first edition of Ousterhout’s Tcl text, not exactly a best seller even when it was truly new.
Fortunately, the UPS Store is on my way home from work. Dropping off the return is painless … for now.
I think I’ll sit out with a tiny little fire tonight. I need some time to just sit and read.
n
Marconi did not invent radio.
Morse did not invent the telegraph or Morse code.
I had a little social event tonight with some fellow hobbyists, and I’ll probably be skipping all future incarnations of this particular event.
Turns out they are raving lunatic PLTs who believe every lie the LSM feeds them.
We normally manage to skip the politics stuff, but they edged into it and did the whole “I assume you think just as I and all right-thinking people do” schtick.
My favorite was how they believe the rest of the world is in shock and horror at the US and actions here. A couple commies get killed by ICE, and the world is appalled and won’t trade with us. Meanwhile, in those countries, Muslims are hacking, slashing, and raping left and right, and they don’t care.
As if we care what other countries think.
That got a chuckle. Nice of you to give Penny the comfy chair. Let’s hope Buddy doesn’t need the almost-comfy one.
Insomnia. Ah,well. At least I can catch up on my reading…
Lynn, your news sounds a lot like good news, or at the very least, it sounds a lot better than it might have been. I am relieved for you, and I hope you will be relieved too, and you can get back to your normal life free of unnecessary worrying.
That is propaganda, and can safely be ignored. Most people everywhere are too wrapped up in their daily lives to think much even about the country in which they live, let alone about parts foreign.
I am probably the most Amerophile person I know, and even I think about the USA only occasionally, and that is usually because something I read here prompted me to.
What is happening is that the leftist media here regurgitate the same TDS hyperbole as their brethren in the US, then the US media report on that as being representative of public opinion here. It is no more representative than what your leftist media are telling you about US public opinion.
After release of the Ring doorbell footage comes news of an FBI arrest in the Guthrie kidnapping case.
Hand the suspect off to an independent team for waterboarding to determine if she is still alive.
If she has died in captivity round up the whole crew, wrap them in duct tape, and leave them in the same facility. Cap it with concrete.
>>Lynn, your news sounds a lot like good news, or at the very least, it sounds a lot better than it might have been. I am relieved for you, and I hope you will be relieved too, and you can get back to your normal life free of unnecessary worrying.
Good news @lynn!
Now if we could just get rid of the necessary worrying.
As I have tattooed on my left forearm: Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans…
Tucker Carlson’s and Candace Owens’s Terrifying Descent Into Madness
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/02/tucker_carlson_s_and_candace_owens_s_terrifying_descent_into_madness.html
Sickness? Disease? Drugs? MRA virus from a secret lab? Mutated toejam? Ergot? Pod people? Replaced by robots? Demonic possession? Aliens?
Nine Reported Dead After British Columbia School Shooting
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/02/10/british-columbia-school-shooting-reported-dead/
TheyThe British should study the gun control successes around the world: NYC, Australia, Canada …A storm blowing through, winds at 45mph, 52F at 10pm, no rain on the valley floor.
The ex-stray cat is generally calm, but is currently resting on my shoulder: he doesn’t like storms, bad memories I imagine.
Today’s read was the 2nd Hugo winner, The Forever Machine, by Clifton & Riley, 1955 (a 1981 mmpb reprint). Meh.
Bed time.
A plate full of chicken and pasta in pesto and a couple of cookies and my blood glucose went up to 160 which is still in the green range.
Sat out with my tiny little fire and a book until I started feeling poorly and a very light misty drizzle started.
IDK if dinner poisoned me or something else, but it’s time for a shower and bed.
n
Su-prize, su-prize, su-prize…