Cool again, and clear for the next few days if the weather liars can be trusted. It was partly cloudy/ mostly clear yesterday and very nice. Low 70sF was the best it could do. I’d like a bit more than that today, please.
Lost the whole day yesterday. Morning was more blood sugar monitor weirdness. Then D2 had an appointment in the afternoon that I was pretty sure I’d have to take her to. Because D1 wasn’t home yet. So I had to stay close to home and I did in fact have to take her.
W picked her up. I made dinner, pork loin roast frozen in 2023, and it was delicious. The sides were overdone because no one got home on time, but still tasty. I did apple slices pan fried in bacon fat with bacon bits and brown sugar. It’s a great way to use some apples with bruises or that are getting softer. 1/2 inch thick seems to be just right. Core before slicing. The rings look very nice on a plate. I deglazed the pan with Jack Daniels, so they were ‘bacon bourbon pan fried apple slices’ and they went very well with the pork. Baked potatoes with butter and chopped chives from the garden finished the plate.
Yum.
I did cut my hair, so that was one chore done.
Today, we’ll try again to make some progress. It could happen.
Stack.
nick
That sounds mouthwatering. Those would probably go well on Shrove Tuesday pancakes too!
Good morning. Don’t forget the pancakes on Jif Lemon Day.
“Remember man, you are dust, and unto dust you shall return.”
Stardust, yes, but still dust. Not a bad idea to reflect on that, one day in the year.
Reminder for anyone who needs it: you are always welcome to worship Me.
To borrow from “Grosse Point Blank”, when the opportunity came up, Elon had a psych profile that fit a certain moral flexibility.
So do the stockholders and Show Ya types who bought those cars and still rationalize the grift.
Elon runs a Learing Center on a much bigger scale than any Somali in Minneapolis.
Early voting started in Texas. Those of you contemplating “voting your conscience” in the Republican primaries had better be aware of what is coming with Talarico if he is the Dem nominee facing off against a seriously compromised Paxton.
The shadow Senate office will open in Round Rock the day after the primary election.
https://deadline.com/2026/02/stephen-colbert-cbs-james-talarico-interview-1236726609/
Texas really needs to rethink early March primaries. Beto, Colin Zachary (Allred), and “Doors” (MJ Hegar) all effectively ran shadow government offices for nearly a year after securing their respective nominations for Senate and Governor.
53F this morning.
Glucose level stayed around 100 all night, no alarms. No big spike from the crackers either. I guess I found at least one alternative to Little Debbie Donut Sticks as a bed time snack.
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I see that Jesse Jackson has shuffled off this mortal coil. I’m surprised it hadn’t happened years ago.
BREAKING: Civil Rights Leader Jesse Jackson Dies Aged 84
He was a lot of things, and my view might be skewed by growing up in the same place at the time he was most active, but I wasn’t ever impressed. I did meet him about 20 years ago at an event and he was pleasant enough, and reminded me of my uncle who grew up in the same area and was about the same age. I think that in the end, he traded his people for money and power.
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Time to get these kids out the door.
n
You have to get the “Christian Holidays” calendar.
Navarro Signals Trump May Force Big Tech to Pay Full AI Energy Costs
https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/02/17/navarro-signals-trump-may-force-big-tech-to-pay-full-ai-energy-costs-n2199242
No mention of the elephant: the hidden costs of “green” energy driving costs up.
We could use federal accounting standards and transparency requirements to expose the true costs of electricity. The drive to power data centers may provide the impetus.
Also no mention of the currency debasement which will be involved to create the credit needed to build the infrastructure and pay the power bills until the monkey trick generates a profit.
Americans are clueless about what’s coming for them.
It is all about them jerbs, son.
And the sex robots.
“Letter from London: Twilight outside the desert”
https://www.pemedianetwork.com/petroleum-economist/articles/corporate-finance/2025/letter-from-london-twilight-outside-the-desert
“The dangers of a lack of oil and gas investment will leave the Middle East shouldering an even greater responsibility, with far-reaching implications for the energy landscape”
“Two decades ago, Matthew Simmons published Twilight in the Desert, a critically acclaimed and well-researched book that wrongly warned of an oil shock and peak oil, claiming Saudi Arabia could not sustain production. Since then, there have been more false prophecies—including peak oil demand, countless OPEC obituaries and the saviour of US shale. But the truth is that Saudi Arabia and Middle East will likely be last oilmen standing.”
“Most unconventional sources of oil and gas production generally exhibit much faster decline rates than conventional types. If all investment in tight oil and shale gas production were to stop immediately, production would decline by more than 35% within 12 months and by a further 15% in the year thereafter, the IEA highlighted.”
75% (SWAG) of the natural gas and crude oil in the USA are unconventional. High continuous investment is required and that cost is rapidly rising. It was $45 per barrel in 2020 and may be $60 per barrel now as the search and production are getting harder. This cost is not reflected in today’s retail costs as many of the small players are near bankruptcy and selling out to the big players.
What am I saying ? Get ready for energy costs to rise in the next few years.
I have never voted in a primary, but my hatred for backstabbing RINOs like Cornyn burns white hot. I’ll resurrect a phrase from way back and say you’re asking me to support someone who, on margin, is worse than a syphilitic camel.
Now that Paxton has finally stepped up to support Dr. Bowden against the Texas Medical Board, I almost feel a duty to support him.
It’s almost enough to black-pill me.
BTW, all of the new AI data centers in Texas have placed themselves on locations that generate power directly. This allows the data centers to buy power without paying the ERCOT, Oncor, and Centerpoint fees of up to 5 cents per kwh for distribution and transmission. All very legal.
And plenty of poon.
Ho, hum. Another day and another murderer revealed as a tranny.
Trannies are berserk murderers. Stay away from them. It is posited that “Roberta Esposito” had full bottom surgery.
Jack wagon is gone. Can Sharpless be far behind? Two of the biggest race grifters known to Man.
I have never voted in a primary, but my hatred for backstabbing RINOs like Cornyn burns white hot. I’ll resurrect a phrase from way back and say you’re asking me to support someone who, on margin, is worse than a syphilitic camel.
Now that Paxton has finally stepped up to support Dr. Bowden against the Texas Medical Board, I almost feel a duty to support him.
I totally know wherr you are at with Cornyn. The guy has betrayed conservatives in Texas many times.
I have supported Paxton for quite a while now. I do not care about his personal issues. He is an attack dog and just what we need in the Senate. The good old boys like Cornyn need to go away right now.
Also no mention of the currency debasement which will be involved to create the credit needed to build the infrastructure and pay the power bills until the monkey trick generates a profit.
AI will never generate a profit. The costs are too high for the current software and hardware known as AI.
Will you trust an AI surgeon to do your heart valve replacement ?
Wise Latina Wannabe?
Thats a new one.
“Blame Capitalism”
https://areaocho.com/blame-capitalism/
“This young woman says that she quit her job and doesn’t want to work, then blames capitalism and “this economy” as the reasons why she can’t spend her life in pursuit of things she enjoys.”
And this is how you end up as a drugged out homeless person.
“Western Digital is already sold out of hard drives for all of 2026 — chief says some long-term agreements for 2027 and 2028 already in place”
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/western-digital-is-already-sold-out-of-hard-drives-for-all-of-2026-chief-says-some-long-term-agreements-for-2027-and-2028-already-in-place
“Will HDDs follow RAM and SSDs when it comes to price increases?”
If you want some computer parts over the next couple of years, buy them now.
FIFY.
LOL, covered in tats, piercings (including bull nose ring), weird haircut, etc. Would you hire her?
Benny Crump is right in there with them. It would be a close race to determine actual placement on the race card. Benny is most assuredly the biggest legal leach that I know about.
Just one?
Benny Crump came very close to being de facto Governor of Florida in 2018. He certainly should be on the list.
Just one?
– the one on my shoulder where none were before? Or the one poking out of my ear? or the one the comes from my eyebrow and pokes me in the eye?
Freaking hairs coming out of everywhere.
n
Welcome to Hotel Senior.
You can check out anytime you want. but you can never leave.
“Keep bashing us. But do not wonder why we Go BERSERK.” – Robert(a) Dorgan
Oh, I don’t have to wonder. You’re mentally ill. Quietly getting on with your lives is the unexpected behavior.
“Over 50% of 2025 Netflix original TV releases were non-English”
https://thestreamable.com/netflix-original-releases-majority-non-english-2025
“For the first time, Netflix released more non-English original titles than English ones last year.”
Wow. Sea change there.
Copying stuff to a USB stick is stupid slow. I’m using a blue USB port. But who knows what the heck Windows is doing. Upgrading to 24H2 in the background, over wi-fi would be a good guess.
Of course networking doesn’t work. Not that wi-fi is super fast but I could run a wire from here to the switch in the next room for some GB speed.
I’m sure I have everything that looks like “needing to save” already saved. But another copy is good.
And hey…. suddenly Kiwi sees Emu. And Moa. Faster than the USB stick.
Crazy.
The wild hairs… esp the eyebrows. How is it that a thick pubic hair grows half an inch overnight? And then pokes your eyeball.
I grab them and pull them out.
Maybe I’m suppose to have eyebrows like Brezhnev. But that will happen in my dotage in the nursing home.
Spanish is easy. Korean was the surprise.
The irony is that ”K Pop Demon Hunters” was too far along in production to cancel when Netflix cleaned out the animated releases in their pipeline,
The most anticipated English original release this year, the second season of “One Piece”, is produced in South Africa.
Apple still had the biggest original movie of the streaming services this year, “F1”.
Things that make you say “Hmmm…”: “F1” was a joint effort with Warner Discovery.
@Lynn
“If you want some computer parts over the next couple of years, buy them now.”
What are you currently buying?
I am relieved I am not the only one with those! I blame SteveF, who is surely the patron deity of ingrowing hair as well as chickens.
Tuesday bedtime. I worked from 7 am to nearly 10 pm. Getting to where I really need a rest. If I make it to Friday, it should be over… fingers crossed.
I was too busy today to make pancakes. Disaster! Saturday, for sure…
Goodnight.
I’m a much more important god than that. My domain is good parking at the mall.
“If you want some computer parts over the next couple of years, buy them now.”
What are you currently buying?
Just disk drives for backup. My 8 TB internal on my office PC is maxed out again and I hate reformatting it. I want to get a 16 TB replacement.
I do need to buy another couple of office PCs soon with Windows 11 Pro, 32 GB, and Intel cpu. I will go to Dell this time. Maybe end of this year.
Too late. Tariffs and currency debasement have already decimated the selection available in the US as suppliers withdrew from the market.
The longer the monkey trick plates keep spinning, the less we will be able to obtain after the crash.
“Confirmation” surgery in Thailand is usually a sign of a mentally ill individual.
Does any source indicate where “Roberta” had the final operation?
It looks like tariffs have been rough on Hobby Lobby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6PjQJOypVc
I’ve been Ducking info about transferring Firefox and T-Bird from Windows to Mint. It’s actually nice and mostly useful, no “you are too stupid to be on the internet if you need to ask this” nonsense.
Firefox is a simple copy over of your profile. Sounds just as pissy as moving from Win98 to XP to Win7 and then Win11.
T-Bird is a little more picky. Of course it is. But much the same. As in the current version is 78.x and importing from 2.x is simple. Going from 78 to 2, yeah, duh. not so smooth. Well, who’d of EVER thunk that?
Anyway. It seem it’s all going to be mostly simple. Might be some file permissions on folders, ain’t a genius there by a long way but it’s sort of like permissions on a web site. Sort of like sub-netting, ya know? I got this.
Then it’s just stuff like FileZilla and puTTY passwords. Editing photos ain’t much, crop and resize is all I do. My phone does that. The Kindle program should be available. uTorrent or similar, ditto. Maybe VLC is available but I’ll wait on that, the defaults might be better.
Printers should be easy. And if the Dymo wants to be a bitch, to the trash….. Less clutter here and I can manage to address two Christmas cards a year by hand.
So tomorrow is getting the other PC to boot from the stick and then install Mint.
Hail Asphalta Full of Grace!!!! Help me find a parking place!
I just bumped Kiwi’s mouse. It woke right up. Huh. Felt the PC hanging on the back of the monitor. Rather warm for a machine that went to sleep an hour ago.
Oh! Windows Update. Without asking is up to 72% of upgrading the OS. Shit like this is why I want a floppy drive.
So I can boot to DOS and type format C: \u
I use Transmission on Linux for torrents.
On Mint, if the applicationisn’t pre-installed, open a terminal window and type “apt-get install transmission”.
I put Mint on the OFD laptop over the weekend, part of a rehab project for that machine.
I bought a spinning metal hard drive for that system and installed Windows 7. Then Mint went in the extended partition and boots under Grub as the default.
I’ll check later to see if Transmission was installed by default.
Hey. Stupid question. I get the sudo apt get thing. But if it sucks, how do you un-install?
Yeah, I know, google it dummy.
I’ll try to remember Transmission.
I looked in my folder of “Slimserver on Pi” and there are versions for linux. Which one is good for Mint is not yet clear. But if I put Mint on Moa I still have a PC out there hard wired to the router.
Rescuing a kidnapped girl from her predator captors
They got him by the brick in the photos, correlated with the couch. Amazing.
n
Paul:
This does not do a complete removal – configuration files will remain.
will do the config files, too.
If you’re not quite sure of the exact package name (normally determined after you get an error message when trying to remove)
or
NB: those dashes are two hyphens. I can’t get them to render as two hyphens in this comment editor/displayer.
Ok, thank you Steve. I’ll try to remember this stuff.
I will be asking this again. Because….. hey!!! time for a cookie!!!! time for a walk!!!
The power of weaponized autism.
What The Actual Frack:
AP: Judge Rules US Can’t Take Maryland Man Kilmar Abrego Garcia Back Into Immigration Custody
This ruling means all a crimmigrant has to say is “there is no country on Earth (except the FUSA) that I will feel safe in…” therefore, he just gets to stay. He’s a criminal. The judge just randomly decided the DHS plan “is not viable”. Go f yourself!
I hope tRump is using this to get another SCOTUS ruling and settle the law. I wonder who is funding this turd’s lifestyle? DHS should have never brought him back, instead give the judical system the finger.
Me, too. I wonder if this will be covered in my Linus for Dumbasses book?
I’ll try installing Transmission and then uninstalling it via whatever package manager used by whatever flavor of Linux I try it on. Why are there so many package managers on Linux?
Interesting. I didn’t know that about”remove” vs “purge” with apt.
I’ve been a Red Hat user since release 0.9 so I’m not an expert by any stretch.
My home server and “road” laptop boot to the latest Fedora, and I’ve done some crazy things professionally with RPM packaging, yum, and the Red Hat distro install system.
To paraphrase Dr. Pournelle, Linux is a guru full employment act.
One of the pieces of trivia we learned on our last tour of the Edison-Ford estate complex in Fort Myers was that Haverty’s has records of every piece of furniture sold by the company and to whom going back at least as far as 100 years ago.
Unlike Edison’s winter home, the Ford house in the complex was in private hands until the mid-80s, and Haverty’s records have been key to the ongoing restoration for the last 30 years, attempting to duplicate the interior of the house exactly as it was in the 20s.
Mrs. Ford bought all of the furniture from Haverty’s, based in Miami.
In addition to creating hundreds of federal agencies, and instituting price and wage controls, the social democrats standardized all kinds of things from mattress sizes to brick sizes.
It can make restoration of historic buildings very difficult.
n
Shouldn’t it be areas with increased gravity that pull the sea level down?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15567297/Antarctica-mysterious-gravity-hole.html
I learned about this many years ago when I learned that the Navy hides ships in low spots in the ocean, radar passes right over them.
n
Because no one person or group has authority over Linux distributions. Torvalds and his coterie are autocrats over the kernel, but that’s it.
But aside from apt vs yum vs pacman (vs whatever other distros might use), there’s the issue of Flatpak and Snap. Snap and Flatpak make self-contained applications which don’t depend on any (or hardly any) external dependencies. They’re more like a Docker container (if you know what that means) than a regular application which uses shared libraries. Snap and Flatpak are ok if you have plenty of disk space and RAM and don’t need the apps to work tightly together. Some distros (conspicuously Ubuntu) have jumped in wholeheartedly with Snap for user applications.
I’m currently using the Devuan distribution, a fork of Debian which won’t be switching to Rust for the GNU utilities, provides easy-to-set-up alternatives to increasingly heavy (and heavy-handed) GNOME, and doesn’t prefer Snap or Flatpak as app installation methods. Normal installation of apps as Snaps actually kept me from being able to do some paying work because two Snap applications run in separate containers and can’t readily talk to one another. It took me several (unbillable) hours to figure out the problem. When I needed to wipe and reinstall my machine (for unrelated reasons, involving certain family members of mine being dumbheads) I stepped away from Ubuntu with nary a look back.
Must… Avoid… Your… Mom… Jokes…
Linux Mint 22.3 installs Transmission by default.
Could Dogs Become a Wedge Issue?
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/02/17/could-dogs-be-a-wedge-issue-n3811989
Bless Randy Fine and Nancy Mace.
I’ve said for years that Michael Vick and his father should have been tied to the post and the dogs let out.
Paul, that got a guffaw. SteveF is forevermore the Prince of Parking. All bow down.
Wednesday. Early. Dark. Some synapse in my head fired and woke me with the urgent thought that I have a lunch appointment today. I looked at the calendar, and it turns out I do have a lunch planned. My brain is amazing. Unfathomable, but amazing. May I go back to sleep now, please, brain?
Not only dogs, but bacon and beer too. It will be political carnage.
A whole culture that rejects dogs, man’s best friend, and constant companion, really has something fundamentally wrong with it. But we knew that.
I”m headed to bed. Can’t afford a nap tomorrow, so I need to get some sleep tonight.
Pasta alfredo…
n