And it’s a chilly morning but warmer later kinda Friday the Thirteenth. I hope. It did get pretty nice yesterday despite the forecast for rain. I’ve gotten used to the nice days and missed them. I know it is just setting me up for disappointment later, but I still like them now.
Spent the morning messing around. Spent the afternoon running around. Pickups in The Woodlands and then on the east side of town. Visit to my secondary to get some things and dump some trash. Then site visit for my hobby club finding a new space, then over to the shop to get the stuff I’m selling (toilets) together. (found that two more pieces were broken, so that sucked.) Then Home Depot, the chiropractor, and finally home for dinner. It was a busy day.
Oh, and I started by pulling my old sensor off (it left a ring of adhesive I can’t get to come off, and a mosquito bite where the needle was) and attaching the new sensor. Unfortunately, I seem to have stuck it right on a nerve. The first one didn’t hurt at all, but this one did. And does sometimes when I move my arm. At $150 each, I’m gonna try living with it rather than pulling it off and trying again with a new one. There is a down side to being a cyborg.
Of course the upside is that I get real feedback and can learn to moderate my behavior to get better outcomes.
Plus, it’s kinda cool.
Today I’ve got to meet my neighbors who are buying the toilets in the morning. Then I’ll probably work at the shop for a while since I’ll be there anyway. I should get some stuff together for my non-prepping hobby meeting on Saturday too, as that’s our quarterly ‘swapmeet’ day. The rest of the list calls to me too. It calls collect and in the middle of dinner. B@stard list.
But turning stuff into money is a good thing, so I should leverage that momentum and get some more stuff sold… so I can buy more stacks…
nick
I dunno how it is there, but here politicians are allowed to send out spam (real mail, email, whatever) regardless of your choices. It doesn’t count as advertising, because what they have to say is just soooo important.
Most of my spam is phishing, pretending to be from my bank, my insurance, whatever. Second most common are mails claiming to be from a delivery service that just needs 0.90 in order to send me my package, i.e., phishing for credit cards.
That’s pretty much the plan. Actually, the current president is a busy lawyer with young kids, and he wants out. He’s already indicated that he wants me to take over as the new President. Which I will happily do, but only after being on the board for a year, to see what’s really going on (if anything).
And, yeah: That radical concept is part of what we want to accomplish.
Does anyone under the age of 60 even know that series ever existed? It was a pretty dumb show when I watched it as a kid. In retrospect, I reckon it was really just soft-porn for dads.
>>Does anyone under the age of 60 even know that series ever existed? It was a pretty dumb show when I watched it as a kid. In retrospect, I reckon it was really just soft-porn for dads.
Yeah, was one of my Dad’s favorite shows back in the day.
Tubi has the series, but I remember “I Dream of Jeannie” being on MeTV before Larry Hagman died.
Antenna TV currently broadcasts episodes weekdays in the US multiple times per day.
Someone watches. “Dallas” is still huge around the world in syndication, and “Jeannie” rides those coat tails. Barbara Eden even had a long guest run in the last season of “Dallas”, and the writers tosed in “Jeannie” references.
Calling the show “dumb” and “soft porn for dads” is a bit unfair.
I remember the show as being fun. Lot of playing with the idea it would be great to have a geni/woman to order around but that the reality isn’t what you’d want…
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63F and probably getting nicer.
Coffee is made, kids poked. Wife still snoring. I had another fitful night. Maybe too much caffeine late in the day? I’ll have to watch that more carefully as I don’t like the result.
I’m trying to see if cutting back my coffee by a third in the morning helps even out the day. It has gradually become more over time. Didn’t start out with two cups… but it’s so good.
n
We’re all gonna … something.
n
The show made money which Americans will have to relearn how to do as retail gets rebuilt.
Pontiac had important product placement on “I Dream of Jeannie” IIRC.
Remember Pontiac? The GTO?
Major Nelson had a GTO and an early Firebird, long before The Bandit.
For all of his faults, Larry Hagman was rabidly anti-smoking, and that may have limited the syndication opportunities compared to, say, “Bewitched” in the 80s and 90s as society got aggressive about putting a lid on the tobacco companies.
@nick
Call your doctor office or pharmacy and ask what they use for sensor adhesive residue. Probably towelette form. They should have been included.
Am I wrong to lament the death of science literacy and common sense in light of this?
It’s for a real company, and is the kind of language you used to see in textbooks as “example companies” for the book’s made up case studies or problems.
It’s an aerator. All the ad copy, the name, the marketing, it all implies that it’s the added oxygen that is beneficial in some way. Some ‘healthful’ way.
FFS
n
We have seen peak sneaker:
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/02/13/hmmm-as-welfare-money-dries-up-luxury-goods-prices-suddenly-drop-n3811841
and it‘s a long ways down.
The sale price on Pepsi and Coke products is about 50% off. They may as well run up the “Price Gouging Here!” Flag.
Peak sneaker (along with a lot of other arbitrage hustles) was the moment the Supreme Court published the decision ending the EO covering partial student loan amnesty.
FW Woolworth aka Foot Locker ended its storied run of retailing and accepted a buyout from Dick’s Sporting Goods last year.
The party has been over for a while.
Ask Nintendo.
Well, maybe not. From the article:
Seriously, WTF? Nearly half of sneakers can be flipped for more than they cost new? I mean, that’s just weird.
LOL3:
Scientists are baffled to discover 3,100 glaciers SURGING – as they warn it could be even more ‘troublesome’ than glacial retreat
Money shot:
I thought the science was settled!
And? Jeannie’s evil twin sister was my favorite.
Brady Bunch anybody?
Martha? Hubba hubba!
How do they separate the nitogen?
There might be a class action for undisclosed nitogen exposure!
Worse than toxic carbon!!!
After all, excess nitrogen can be a factor in decompression sickness (the bends). Very dangerous!
What if the teams playing in the the Orange Bowl decided to pass?
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/02/13/when-compensated-college-athletes-get-a-state-tax-bill-next-year-they-can-blame-california-n3811873
Game in January. Student athlete already has a pro contract. Accountant says he will owe Cali $10,000 for the privilege, plus millions more on his NFL contract even though he won’t play another game in Cali that year. At what point does the athlete say no?
Jeebus:
WHOA. Bad Timing?! Pramila Jayapal Shares Her Shiny New Trans Bill of Rights on the WORST Day Possible
So, Rainbow Alphabet QWERTY people need more rights than us dirt people? How do these nutroots stay in office?
Not only NOOOO, but shut yer piehole, idiot.
I love Goracle and Obola freaking out over tRump gutting the EPA. The grift is ending, my friends, better line up for one last feast at the goobermint trough.
Friday the 13th falls on Friday this year, and the anniversary of another orbital journey around the nuclear powered golden orb for me. 3/4 of a century worth of orbits.
Congrats Ray. Like John Travolta, you’re “Stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive, stayin’ allliiiiiivvvvvveeeeeee….”
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Sold my toilets and got paid. Did some sorting. Scrapped out a pair of “weighted silver” candlesticks. Not even big ones, but if I could sell the result at spot, they’d be worth about $350. Given the discount to spot, I’ll be happy with whatever I get. I wouldn’t have paid more than $10 and might have found them at the bins for $2.19/lb.
That skin of sterling is razor sharp…
n
drwilliams: Orange Bowl is played in Florida which has no state income tax. If you use the Rose bowl then your comment is vary timely.
Very true. California may figure out a way to tax the athletes because the Orange Bowl was broadcast on TV, and the internet. If a game is shown in California, they would like to tax the event. I would not be surprised if some low-life cretin politician (but then I repeat myself) has not already formulated plans for such a money grab.
Thanks, Mr Sprowl.
Kettle chips BOGO. Parmesan and garlic. Happy Friday.
The Orange Bowl is held at the Dolphins stadium north of Miami.
Florida will be the last state to adopt an income tax.
I’m starting my garage door insulation project today. Thin reflective “bubble” insulation stuffed in section, followed by 1.5″ block of Dow-Corning Foamular. I got a sheet of 1″ because the top row of the door has actual windows.
I’m running my Ecoflow2 portable heat pump in the garage. The garage has two vent holes close to each other so I can run the intake duct to one and the exhaust to the other with the ducting that came with the EF2. This Summer will be the test if it can make the garage livable until I can get a mini-split installed.
After the insulation, I’m putting down Vevor ½” plastic garage floor tiles. It’s a compromise between fancy and completely flat. I want some insulation from the concrete, room for evaporation, and no slots for small shit to fall through.
I’m also starting “Linux for Beginners”.
Chapter One: “Give up, n00b, and go back to your Mac, loser.”
Ok, this isn’t the first of this type of video youtube showed me but it is the most insane. I was filled with anxiety watching it.
Urban Downhill, speed run on a bike.
https://youtube.com/shorts/OJSQFUjUBVQ?si=e76WclYr87IJFM4U
Insane.
n
I was waiting for them to wipe out. That bike did not look too sturdy either. I suspect that they dropped at least 2,000 feet in elevation in that two minutes, going 30 to 60 mph.
GoPro has really changed the perspective of athletic events like this.
Chapter Two: RTFM
Chapter Three: Where is the manual?
Chapter Four: If you don’t know how to do that, you are too stupid to use Linux.
I see we’ve all dealt with the Linux community before.
Ok, small nap out of the way. Now to get back at it. Weather is nice anyway.
n
I sort of scored at the grocery store this morning. I wanted some chicken breasts. I have a couple of lemons so buy chicken and some wine to make Chicken Picatta.
The wine is a four pack of little bottles of merlot. Easier to store for future cooking events.
Siily chicken breasts are huge. Two are sealed and in the freezer. The other two are on a plate in the fridge and plastic wrapped. They’ll keep.
Clearance Meats! 25% off. A couple of packages of “mild Italian sausage” links. Good stuff on the grill. One packaged was stabbed (to open the package so the vac sealer can pull the air) and shoved into a vac bag and sealed. The other is in the fridge. Plus a two plus pound package of ground in store 80/20 hamburger. Half vac sealed and half on a plate in the fridge.
Tomorrow? Use chicken or beef? Who knows? Perhaps The Shadow knows.
And a box of dog cookies. Because they need their cookies.
I’m thinking (ouch!) I’ll do the usual Hamburger Helper sort of thing. Brown the meat, add a can of diced tomatoes, maybe a can of tomato sauce. Chili Mac or Italian? Why not both? A bit of red pepper flakes for spice. Spin the spice rack and see where it stops. The last batch was made with macaroni. Mushy the next day. I guess pasta gets old. Tasted fine. I’m thinking I’ll use rice. Maybe barley.
Oh, and I started by pulling my old sensor off (it left a ring of adhesive I can’t get to come off, and a mosquito bite where the needle was) and attaching the new sensor. Unfortunately, I seem to have stuck it right on a nerve. The first one didn’t hurt at all, but this one did. And does sometimes when I move my arm. At $150 each, I’m gonna try living with it rather than pulling it off and trying again with a new one. There is a down side to being a cyborg.
Of course the upside is that I get real feedback and can learn to moderate my behavior to get better outcomes.
Plus, it’s kinda cool.
Just hope that the sensor does not upload a package into your brain matter.
it left a ring of adhesive I can’t get to come off, and a mosquito bite where the needle was
That is probably surgical tape. Get in the shower with really hot water and soak the area for at least ten minutes.
I had surgical tape all over my groin the last time that I had a heart surgery in 2018. It was a bear to get off my very sensitive skin.
Hey. Isn’t this about where someone asks “what brain matter?”. Grin.
Florida will be the last state to adopt an income tax.
Washington state is getting a “millionaire” tax in 2029.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/wa-millionaires-tax-advances-in-senate-with-some-changes/
I’ve had five calls from unknown numbers today. No messages I don’t want to miss a call from the insulation folks but we’ve texted a few times.
I had a text message a few days ago. “I would like to buy (redacted address)”. I’ve thought about it. So, yeah, you want to buy this place. A house on one acre in the middle of 25 acres? Four miles by road and two miles by air from the Post Office and the HEB? Five million in my bank account at closing and it’s yours. Tractors and all.
Heck, you’ll have a furnished house, too.
Sure. I’m taking my kitchen stuff like dishes and cookware. And my clothes and books and computers. And the grandfather clock I built. And of course, The Chair goes with me.
The plan has always been “the kids get this place”. Hey, five million, this can be mathed out so the boys and my brother get real close to a million bucks and I have almost 2 million. After taxes.
They all have their own houses. Ain’t any of them ever going to move out here.
So why not respond the text scammer? They might bite.
“Total Shocker: 2027 Toyota Highlander Is Only Electric”
https://www.carpro.com/blog/total-shocker-2027-toyota-highlander-is-only-electric
“Shock is a strong word that I don’t use often. If you do what I do long enough, not much surprises you, much less shocks you-but the news that the 2027 Toyota Highlander was going electric-without a gas or hybrid alternative, blew me away. I should have probably seen this coming when they debuted the Grand Highlander, and I questioned at the time why they would add another 3-row SUV to the lineup. Now we know. And it makes sense, sort of.”
“The car company that I call “the smartest in the world” sat back and waited until everybody else gave up on EVs, and now they’ll swoop in and show the world how to sell a 3-row all-electric SUV. They will not put all their eggs in one basket, nope. They are too smart for that. They’ll price it right, and since they didn’t jump in too soon, they have it perfected when it hits the dealer’s lots. And because it’s Toyota, people will trust it. For those not ready to make the transition, the Grand Highlander will work great, and I suspect they’ll realign the trim levels so current Highlander customers will have a short price walk up to the Grand Highlander.”
“Highlander sales peaked in 2021 at 264,000 units but have waned since then. In 2025, only 56,000 were sold while the Grand Highlander topped 136,000 units. So without anyone knowing, Toyota began quietly moving their loyal customers from the Highlander ever so gently to the Grand Highlander.”
“Two Grades, Limited or XLE, with Available Front- or All-Wheel Drive”
“XLE AWD and Limited AWD Models Equipped with 95.8-kWh Battery Have 320-Mile Manufacturer Estimated Total Driving Range Rating”
“Equipped with North American Charging System (NACS) Port for Wide Access to Thousands of DC Fast Charging Stations in the U.S.”
“Powerful Drive with up to 338 Combined System Horsepower and 323 lb.-ft. of Torque”
Nope, not me. And I own a 2019 and 2008 at the moment.
WA State has state, county, city, and neighborhood sales taxes.
The article has a dog whistle for the Progs with the quotes from the R-Centralia state senator.
Centralia is the home town not only of my wife’s family but the McCaw family as well.
Craig McCaw built Cellular One which eventually became what is now AT&T Wireless.
Think they might be opposed to a millionare tax
WA State has state, county, city, and neighborhood sales taxes.
The article has a dog whistle for the Progs with the quotes from the R-Centralia state senator.
Centralia is the home town not only of my wife’s family but the McCaw family as well.
Craig McCaw built Cellular One which eventually became what is now AT&T Wireless.
Think they might be opposed to a millionare tax
Bill Gates, the Costco people, etc. will be fighting this too.
Bill Gates is a prog until it comes to paying taxes.
That probably went into the pipeline in 2022, when the assumption was that Biden was going to coast into a second term after the weak Republican showing in the midterms.
Jerry knows.
Ok, Jerry is still a shameless shill. Who sponsors Laura Reynolds’ segments these days?
Costco management are hardcore leftists. I’m not kidding when I say that they owned the last Governor. Jay Inslee may as well have “Kirkland” stamped on his forehead.
Inslee didn’t do anything without Issaquah’s approval, and Costco lobbyists literally wrote the liquor deregulation which ended the state-run hard spirits stores.
I lived around the corner from the HQ, and I could drive you to the main door of the building and you still wouldn’t believe it was the home of the Costco C-suite until you went into the lobby.
Boeing left 25 years ago for Chicago, and the aircraft manufacturer is moving HQ again to Virginia.
Once the last 747 rolls out of Everett, everything rolling out of that building could just as easily get built in South Carolina.
Amazon is all that’s left in WA State, and Bezos moved back to Florida.
“Microsoft AI CEO Warns Most White Collar Jobs Fully Automated “Within Next 12-18 Months”; Anthropic Fears Potential For ‘Heinous Crimes'”
https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/microsoft-ai-ceo-warns-most-white-collar-jobs-will-be-fully-automated-within-next-12-18-months
“The man leading Microsoft’s AI sprawling efforts is sounding the alarm over imminent mass labor disruptions, warning that the overwhelming majority of white-collar professional work could vanish to automation far sooner than most business and policy leaders are willing to admit – something we’ve been concerned about since early 2023.”
I ain’t buying it.
“The speed with which AI is evolving is startling”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-speed-with-which-ai-is-evolving-is.html
“I’m obliged to the anonymous reader who sent me the link to Matt Shumer’s latest blog article about the current state of artificial intelligence (AI). It’s a remarkable article – so much so that I can’t begin to cover all its points in a short post like this. Here’s a small sample to whet your appetite.”
I still ain’t buying it.
Friday bedtime, although it is already Saturday. Bedtime.
Happy Birthday, Mr Ray!
Friday the 13th was indeed an accursed day, work-wise.
Fortunately, I am at the BOL, and my pal dropped in for an after-work beer, and that turned into a bit of a session, but it was a very welcome counterbalance to the working day. Friends are good to have, whether online or in meatspace…
Goodnight!
Perhaps. Cellular One and AT&T wireless were totally separate. There was Sprint and a couple of others in the mix.
Going up i-35 to Dallas cell coverage was spotty in places. This is in the days of candy bar phones. My Cellular One phone mostly had signal all the way north from Waco. His AT&T phone was dead for about 30 miles each way from Carl’s Corner.
Anyway. Cellular One and AT&T wireless is just another example of what I said when Ma Bell was broken up. Ma Bell is going to heal and fix herself.
Microsoft is cooked if they have to back track on AI.
The rumor for several years is that Gates is back in charge in Redmond, and he’s still looking for a way to be the next Feynman.
I doubt Verizon and AT&T would be allowed to merge unless a stronger fourth wireless carrier had emerged from the spectrum given to Dish as part of the Sprint-TMobile merger.
Last night was funny. We, being me and Penny the Precious Puppy Princess and Buddy the Beagle, we have a routine.
Potty walk. Back into the house. Penny goes and plops on the rug in the living room. Meanwhile I’m taking Buddy’s collar off and locking the back door. Turning off the kitchen lights. All that stuff.
So. After all that, turn off one circuit of track lights and Penny is going to bed. I hoist her up and she’s happy. Then I go sit in The Chair to play with the Kindle and Buddy gets on the sofa.
Not last night. Buddy got on the sofa for a couple of minutes and hopped off to go to bed. I peeked around the corner. Then he came back into the living room…. with the look of “it’s bed time!”
Sheesh. All of 8PM.
The dog is telling me it’s bedtime.
Well, it was. But still.
Ok. I fixed it myself.
I was watching a couple of videos by a mathematician testing some AI programs.
He was impressed that they were able to derive a complicated result in his masters thesis (⅔ times) in minutes rather than weeks, but wasn’t as impressed when he tried it against his doctorate using Prism. I think he suspected that it was going out and finding stuff rather than deriving.
The same as apparently true of the ‘unsolved’ Erdos problems that made a splash when it seemed like the AI had solved them: it turns out that someone else had solved them years ago and that the person listing them as unsolved and the person claiming that AI had done it simply wasn’t aware of those results being out there in print.
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That said, I have Raschka’s book sitting next to me, I might just see if I can actually make that little Mac Mini 4 sweat a little.
Though I don’t really like Python.
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My nephew says he used 288M tokens last week at work, ~$700 of electricity if he had to personally pay for it. (And no, he didn’t say what he, formerly an officer in the nuclear side of the navy, was doing – and I didn’t ask.)
Nah. They ain’t gonna merge. Officially. Simply because they can play fuck fuck games with billing for service.
One costs less in this area? The other cost less in that area? But both have 4gLTE and now the 5G stuff.. No roaming charges anymore. Ma Bell has almost reassembled. And it’s just (to me) how it has to be make the phone system work.
T-Mobile is a distraction. A way for the last bit of Sprint to screw the idiot and greedy Germans.
Fifth Circuit Greenlights Mandatory Detention for All Illegal Entrants
https://cis.org/Arthur/Fifth-Circuit-Greenlights-Mandatory-Detention-All-Illegal-Entrants
Mandatory detention has been the law since 1996, but not enforced by Clinton, Obama, or Biden–go figure. Neither was it enforced by Bush–you know, “BushHitler”? Now we have district judges granting habeus petitions to virtually every scumbag with a lawyer.
Get this through SCOTUS ASAP, and the game changes. Put 3,000 ICE agents back in Minneapolis a month later and watch I-35 going south gridlock.
“I ain’t buying it.”
I’m waiting until we have an AI that is good enough to take Windows XP, rewrite it for optimization, and strip out all the Big Brother crap.
I had a 14.5 ounce frozen pizza tonight. Sale price $5.99 on a regular price of $10.99. Another deep discount indicating that the “regular” price is under pressure.
I ain’t buying it.
– me either if only for the real world consideration that the C suite and HR dept can’t move that fast.
n
I ain’t buying it.
The current issues with Win11 suggest some serious issues.
And Apple’s dramatic AI rollout this spring is now being scaled down and delayed.
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So how much is believing your own hype, and how much is trying to keep the monkey trick going for one more round of stock vesting?
So how much is believing your own hype, and how much is trying to keep the monkey trick going for one more round of stock vesting?
– someone’s trying to move markets. MS is the king of preemptive vaporware to stifle competition.
Or was, when they had competition.
n
“BREAKING: Sen. Susan Collins Backs SAVE Act With ONE CONDITION — GOP Now Secures 51 Senate Votes with JD Vance On Board to Enforce Voter ID Nationwide”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/breaking-sen-susan-collins-backs-save-america-act/
“Collins had previously expressed reservations about earlier iterations of the legislation, particularly provisions that would have required voters to present proof of citizenship, such as passports or birth certificates, each time they cast a ballot.”
“However, according to reporting from The Maine Wire, the current House-passed version of the SAVE America Act has removed that requirement, instead allowing state-issued identification to suffice, an adjustment Collins says was critical in securing her support.”
““Requiring voters to produce passports or birth certificates on election day — as opposed to just a state-issued ID — would have placed an unnecessary burden on the voters. That provision is no longer in the bill and dropping this requirement was key to getting my support,” Collins said.”
““The law is clear that in this country only American citizens are eligible to vote in federal elections,” Collins added.”
I wonder how many federal judges will immediately vacate the SAVE Act upon passage by the House and Senate and signed by Trump ?
I figure 10 to 20 within the first week.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
I ain’t buying it.
– me either if only for the real world consideration that the C suite and HR dept can’t move that fast.
n
My only worry is that corporations will stop hiring kids with fresh new business, accounting, and engineering degrees in the thought that they will use AI for those positions.
How about make sure it is a REAL ID.
How about a provision for requiring passport or birth certificate in those states that have compromised their ID’s by issuing to illegal aliens and other non-citizens without clearly identifying them as “Not Valid ID for Federal Elections”?
I have been trying ti submit my taxes forthree days but I can’t get logged in to do so.
ID.ME accepts my ID and password but then wants me to provide photos of my Driver’s license. They reject my photos and then want me to do do a video call on my computer which does not have a camera. Their Chat help does not understand “do not have a computer camera” and sets me up for a live call (and requests my phone number and email address) – which never happens.
This is getting tiresome. I can’t log, so I can’t submit my taxes, because my login is incomplete, because I can’t provide a copy of my Driver’s License, because my computer dosn’t have a camera. Apparently they don’t accept Apple photos (.heic file formats).
missed this yesteday:
Federal Judge to BBC: Get Ready for Trump’s Defamation Trial
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/02/12/federal-judge-to-bbc-get-ready-for-trumps-defamation-trial-n3811834
Three years after the fact, they edited three quotes from Trump’s speech that were 50+ minutes apart into a single fake quote that misrepresented what he said, then dropped it on the telly just before the 2024 election.
Is there a level on the “malice scale” that is slightly lower? Can they claim they get to be “pretty darn malicious” because it’s Trump? Will a U.S. jury use one finger or two for the salute?
The BBC has pretty much destroyed the Doctor Who franchise, but I would still advise settling in part for the ownership of rights to Doctors 1-10, and then promptly locking all the episodes of Sylvester McCoy into a lead box and dropping it into the Marianas Trench. (Colin Baker’s should go too–but Peri… Too bad JNT is gone or he could have another lead box drop–maybe just find all his videotaped appearances for BBC and PBS and drop them in lieu.)
Super Bowl Flop: Ring Now Ending Surveillance Deal With Flock Safety
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/02/13/super-bowl-flop-ring-now-ending-surveillance-deal-with-flock-safety-n2199132
I wonder if Ring db cams have any problem with particular laser wavelengths?
@Bob Sprowl
“Apparently they don’t accept Apple photos (.heic file formats). ”
Look under Settings>Camera for “Camera Capture”.
High Efficiency is .heic and Most Compatible is .jpg
I didn’t know I could change away from .heic … Thanks I seldom take pictures because I never can down load them and use them. This will solve that problem.
There’s a Small Problem With That List of Names a Dem Lawmaker Connected to Epstein
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/02/13/khanna-and-massie-list-of-names-n2199141
He hides behind the debate clause.
One solution is to beat him bloody , throw him in the trash, and claim it’s just part of the debate as a response to his violation of the Fifth Amendment (“nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”).
Restricted Stock Units vest in the Spring at my employer.
At least, that’s when the new Teslas, a high end Kia SUV, and a Jeep 4×4 showed up in my work group last year.
The #1 rule of RSUs is don’t talk about getting RSUs with other employees.
Only 10% of the workforce get the grants.
Apple may not be able to get the fab capacity. They are no longer TSMC’s largest customer.
Apple may not be able to get the fab capacity. They are no longer TSMC’s largest customer.
And who is now ?
Dang dog was barking at the possum on the power line behind the house. 15 ft up in the air. I had to get a stick and move Mr Possum along…
I want to get to bed early but kid isn’t back from babysitting yet.
Got my non-prepping hobby meeting tomorrow and I need to get there on time. Lord knows I need my beauty rest.
n
Baker and McCoy are class acts and did whatever was asked of them to keep the series in fans’ memories during the “dark” years from the cancellation through the Fox movie one-off and on to the reboot in 2005.
All of the actors who held that job were class acts offscreen up until the last two.
Besides, Trump is a “Star Trek” fan. A rumor that doesn’t die is that the Ellisons were told to fix the franchise as part of the deal to get the Presidential seal of approval for the Skydance-Paramount merger.
Nvidia.
It isn’t a question of getting fab capacity for the next quarter. Nvidia and, to a lesser extent, AMD have reserved capacity for years.
Similarly the RAM and flash manfacturers’ future outputs are booked anticipating actual orders in the hundreds of billions if not trillions.
Compuers, like cars, are going away for most people. Your next laptop could very well be a rental.
My next laptop will be some used hardware from somewhere. I’ve got a stack of lesser machines that work just fine and do pretty much everything I need even if I couldn’t get another one in the future.
Other than gaming or engineering work, or video editing, I think a chromebook, or win7 era pc/lappy would meet the needs of most people. Especially since fewer people do anything on a pc or lappy nowadays. Tablets and phones are gaining primacy in the first world, and have had it for years in the third.
It’s the needs of the OS that drive the upgrade cycle, once we had a config that handled a couple of streams of video at the same time.
The idea of not owning anything repulses me but in actual fact few people own anything now. They essentially rent to own their phone, car, and if they can manage it, their home. GMAC/Ally owns their car, Wells Fargo owns their house, Verizon owns their phone. Amazon owns their books, they just license the content. They stream video and music, no ownership there. No textbooks to keep after they graduate. And if they stop paying property taxes, .gov shows up to let them know that they REALLY don’t own their property.
90% of them don’t even own the thoughts inside their heads. They were put there by puppet masters, they’ll be replaced by the same.
Jeez that’s dark, I’m going to read and sleep.
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>>It’s an aerator. All the ad copy, the name, the marketing, it all implies that it’s the added oxygen that is beneficial in some way. Some ‘healthful’ way.
“Beneficial” to whomever owns the company.
Need I say more?
Yeah, it took a lot of effort for me to get accepted by id.me. I think the video call is pretty central to their process: they want to compare the live “you” to the picture on your ID.
Once I finally got that far, the process was pretty painless. The person on the other end of the video call had obviously done this a million times.