Cool and windy in Houston? Maybe. It was at the BOL. Blowing 7mph all day long got to be a bit tedious. It was clear and in the 60sF, but the wind… oy.
I did get some more wiring done, and discovered some flaws in my plan. We’ll have to figure out what to do to work around, or maybe just do something different. And I put a bunch more stuff away, while digging through stuff looking for things I knew I had. I’ve got a few too many Automatic Transfer Switches, for example. On the other hand, shopping in my closet/shed is a thing.
Today I’m home, doing catchup on things here. Domestic bliss awaits. Like rust, dust never sleeps. And I’ve got all my normal things to do. Getting some sleep and some meds for my aches and pains will be good. My hands are torn up. I could tell I was getting too tired to work when I started getting clumsy. Time to switch to low consequence work at that point. No electrical…
If I didn’t get my whole goal list done, I did get some of it done and that is progress.
Now to get my momentum back here at home.
Stack, because if the cartels decide to bring the war to us here at home, you might want to stay in for a while.
nick
Wednesday. Good morning!
Sunny and spring-like outside. The neighbours are mowing their lawn. I will give ours a few more days to dry out after the torrential rain we had last week.
Back from the fang doctor, who replaced a crown – the one that broke in November, to SteveF’s Schadenfreude.
The lady was generous with the anaesthesia, so I am going to sleep it off for a couple of hours until I can consume breakfast without incident.
Today is local market day, and my pal the rotisserie chicken man was there. He also roasts ribs, and I was still in time to get a rack for my lunch. I got a crusty baguette too, so that will be a good test for the new tooth.
Cackle among yourselves…
Jumps and screams like an ape, throws poop like an ape… Draw your own conclusion.
Here’s a tidbit to drop into conversations: Chimps and bonobos are about 98% genetically similar to humans, specifically to subsaharan Africans. Caucasians average about 3% Neanderthal DNA and 97% subsaharan African. That means that blacks are closer to chimps than they are to Whites.
(Don’t bother me with the logical, scientific, or mathematical errors in the above. I already know. But it’s fun to drop it on people and watch them flounder and splutter.)
I haven’t noticed any problems in the month or so that I’ve had this setup. The machine has gotten some updates but I didn’t notice if any of them were for the video drivers.
Ubuntu 24.04 installed fine on the same hardware but about once a month the automatic updates broke video and I had to play with picking which version of the nvidia driver to use. And it wasn’t the same one each time, which was the really annoying part. Plus, every other kernel update (literally every other one) broke networking, so the machine had no wifi. It got annoying.
What happens, at least to me, is that at some random point XFCE only recognizes one screen. My go-to solution is to select the Nouveau drivers, reboot, then re-select the Nvidia driver. That’s been happening maybe 2-3 times per year.
The last time I did that, something went wrong with the compositing, so that terminal windows, dropdown menus, etc. would sometimes be invisible. I didn’t dig into that, just followed the ChatGPT recommendation to turn off XFCE compositing. That’s no loss – it just means I can’t have half-transparent windows, or some other useless goodies. Who knows, maybe that will accidentally fix the other problem…
That sounds unpleasant. Never had that sort of problem, but I’m on 22.04, so YMMV.
Kabuki. The Dems are biding their time until the Midterms return control of the House and the power of Impeachment.
The early voting turnout is strong here in Williamson County, James Talarico’s home base. If he wins the nomination, I expect the shadow US Senate office to open in Round Rock on Wednesday morning.
Go look at where MJ “Doors” Hegar “worked” before she first tried for a Congressional seat in 2018 and Senate in 2020.
Uh-huh. It is a big club.
Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him Horatio.
Glad to see I am not the only one who sometimes get his quotes from the classics wrong. Also glad I noticed it before SteveF got his pedant out. Hi Steve!
The anaesthesia is wearing off, and the tooth is tender, so I took an Ibuprofen. I hope it will calm things enough that I can have some breakfast soon, since it is almost 2 pm.
@denis, I think I’m quoting a film or tv version, maybe even Blackadder, as I have a clear picture of the scene in my head… I know I missed the significance of finding the skull when we studied the play in class.
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Apparently XFCE has a few known and long-standing issues with Nvidia drivers.
– 20 years ago when I was still working with computers, and specifically multi-monitor setups, the nvidia drivers were always broken. It was especially bad on the *nix boxen. It was as if their devs only had single monitors, and none had 3d displays. They’d break overlap, or 3d, or how the taskbar worked, or something else, and it was very frustrating to keep systems working. Glad to see that nothing has really changed.
Oops, did I say glad? I meant sad.
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Fitful sleep last night. Probably too much caffeine late in the day. Ever notice ‘caffeine’ breaks the i before e rule? Gets me every time.
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61F and 97%RH this morning, with a lot of sunrise. White sky so maybe it will clear soon.
I’m trying a cup of tea, then napping, with breakfast a bit later, to see what that does to my blood sugar levels today.
Time to poke at the kids.
n
Interesting. Someone asked on Quora where the misquote comes from, and 30 people respond that it’s wrong, and quote the original play, WITHOUT answering the question. One guy claims it’s the three stooges getting it wrong, one guy suggests 18th century “paraphrase culture”.
A perfect example of when people on the interwebs provide wrong, non-answers, just to share their smug or don’t have the critical skills to read accurately, and answer correctly.
I much prefer here for my crowdsourcing… a lot less smug, a lot more actual info.
n
Maybe a “Treehouse of Horror” episode of “The Simpsons”.
Or old school “Futurama”.
“Gilligan’s Island”?
Caffeine doesn’t strictly break the
“I before E except after C”
rule, as it is after C.
I suspect caffeine is probably an anglicised version of the German word Coffein / Koffein, whence the funky spelling. Remember that at the time the substance was isolated, German was the language of international science, and the discoverer was a German, Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge.
If the AI requires the source code corresponding to what’s currently running in production, good luck with that. In my experience, source code control back in the day was at best hit or miss; worst case scenario, the source may no longer exist.
If the source has vanished, can the AI reverse engineer the executable? The results would be . . . interesting, especially if attempted on an industrial scale.
I transferred T-Bird to the new machine yesterday. Just the usual hangups. Like, “show hidden files”. And my USB stick seems to be shirt(-r) with “you need to format this” to Mint not even seeing it and the back to the Win11 box, “you need to format this”. Annoying. So I used an external hard drive, lots faster anyway.
Things are moved around a bit from T-Bird 2 but not too bad. What I haven’t found is the setting so pressing Delete deletes the mail I just read and opens the next message. Right now it deletes and I have to grab the mouse to click on the next message to open it.
News groups copied over. Sort of. The saved content is there but none of the RSS addresses. That’s not hard to fix, just tedious.
I’ll play more later. And moved FF over. But first to the Tractor Supply for a bag of dog chow and then to go vote and HEB on the way home.
I looked at the sample ballots. The Dem ballot looks to have a lot of folks with Starwars Names. But I’m voting on the other ballot.
I decided at an early age that I would be a Chemical Engineer. So when entering high school, my counselor told me I needed to study German, since all the papers I’d need to get my degree and to work were written in German.
We were both wrong. I switched to EE when I matriculated to UIUC, and to Computer Science a year later. And English became the language of science.
Disassemblers have existed for a long time, translating machine code to assembler source.
I imagine that AI could back-translate the assembler into any language you want.
How useful would it be, with no comments, no variable names, and hallucinations tossed in for free?
To further expound on the disassembler stuff, I relate it to my first professional programming job. I worked for a CPA firm that owned a computer service bureau, back in the day when our office had 2 PDP-11 computers and a bank of modems. Each client had a modem, a dumb terminal, and a printer. The printer was attached to the terminal. We had over 100 clients, mostly big mining and real estate development companies, running a complete set of financial software.
The language was BASIC-PLUS, the operating system was RSTS/E, and the source code was also the sort-of executable. There was a very minor compression phase when you ran an executable.
Memory was limited; you only had 16k for your source/executable, 16k for your data, and 32 k for the interpreter. All your variable names and function names were stored in your executable, so you were charged for that storage.
Really complicated programs needed economy, so programmers often shortened function names and variable names to the point of ridiculousness. Also, some programmers used GOTO statements (to a line number) instead of function calls to reduce the number of functions.
My job was maintenance of this horrid code. When we got an upgraded semi-compiled BASIC-PLUS interpreter, all of the variable names and function names were not kept in the executable, so I was free to rename the binary search function from BS() to BinarySearch() with no penalty in space or time. Same for A$, B$, X1!, etc.
I wrote a suite of tools to help me identify and update source files, which let me refactor code, which helped identify where a lot of our problems came from, and made testing easier.
The problem an AI would face in a disassembler situation is it wouldn’t even have the BS() name, or even A$, B$.
Ah, BillyG:
Bill Gates admits he had affairs with two Russian women but insists they were not ‘Epstein victims’ and he ‘did nothing illicit’ in apology to his employees
More “reading” weeks? This seems like damage control for more forth coming dirt. “I did nothing illicit, except screw two Russian whores. Please love me and call me William Feynman from now on”. I wonder what Melissa thinks as she swims through her vault of gold coins.
Nothing Illicit. Right. Bill Gates will also sell you a bridge.
Gates wife has her own weirdness. She was the product manager on “Microsoft Bob”.
She signed the prenup that let “Trey” screw around with Ann Winblad for a week every year.
And Winblad wasn’t the only one.
I don’t believe Gates got involved with underage girls, however. He has serious Mommy issues.
Or a nuclear reactor.
The “You Only Move Twice” episode of ”The Simpsons” is eerily prescient.
And that was made 30 years ago.
Plus BG & company started off sketchy from the very beginning with how they got DOS… so liar and con artist from the start.
Not that I care about russian whores or who gets the drip, except as a law and order type and knowing that most of them are trafficked under the pretense of ‘modelling’. Someone my LA roommate knew took a “modelling” gig in russia in the 90s and the deal looked sketchy AF to me. She went anyway. There’s an endless stream of young women who want to believe.
And when I was in Abu Dhabi our Dutch national sales lead described the females in the bar as ‘worn out russian whores’ saying ‘when they get too worn out for everyone else, they send them to the middle east.’ I was not interested.
n
This little “gem” on the ballot was “cute”:
What is this? Eighth grade? “You’re a poopy head!” I voted no.
There was one I liked. Ain’t happening, but.
I don’t know how this works. If you buy a place your taxes are phased out over six years? What if you already own? Simplest way would be current value phased out over six years.
Yeah. I know they won’t allow me what we paid for this place and tax it at 60 Grand. Because I’m sure probate to put it in my name reset the purchase price. But the phase out entirely over the next six years work for me.
How to make up the money? Sales tax? They don’t say.
The Dem ballot has a few doozies, too.
Hmm. One of my normally good auctioneers had an auction close this morning (unusual time) and I won several things I wanted.
I just saw the same auction with 6 hours left, and my items marked “winning” but not won.
Looks like they had 7AM start closing instead of 7PM and when someone figured it out, they just reset the auction. Not really cool with me, since I won. I suppose I’d be on the other side if I didn’t get a chance to bid this evening.
Still, looks shady except that their auctions are normally at night, and they’ve run hundreds.
n
Dang. Just got served for jury duty. Mar. 31 in a court I’ve never been to.
Ah well, civic duty and all that.
n
Warm, about 50F, overnight. Currently 75, with a 25mph wind.
It is supposed to hit 80F in the next few days and to continue that way for at least a week – I didn’t bother to use the diesel heater overnight, I wonder if I will use up the 10gal of diesel I bought on Friday by the end of spring?
The backup diesel heater arrived, I need to
stashstack it away.Income tax.
And for the nay sayers, they said “never” in WA State too.
Heinous Deficiencies
A Statement from The Decaffeinated Protein Surveillance Society
(Atheist Branch)
I before E except after C
is one of those weird and ancient rules
to which beige obeisance gets paid
when you’re at school
but it’s time it reigned no longer;
the rule being of little use –
it’s counterfeit, a sleight of hand,
and only serves to veil the truth.
The phrase makes us feel all ogreish,
a different species altogether,
for its heinous deficiencies
forfeit a life of leisure.
Surely a rule that’s conscientious
should therein bear its weight.
Yes, a few exceptions can reinforce
but not eight hundred and eight.
Sorry to inveigh so feistily
and deign to perpetrate this heist
but let’s seize the day (and cease this phrase) –
it’s time to get with the zeitgeist.
— Brian Bilston
https://mastodon.online/@brianbilston/110372201376386196
It’s been a long time since I wrote Fortran, but: isn’t it also the case that multidimensional arrays are indexed differently? Row-major vs. column-major? Or does your code not need multidimensional arrays?
Yes. All of my code will eventually be C++ so the array indexing and row major versus column major will not matter.
I use five dimensions in one of my arrays. It is little monster.
We hit 1 megaword of virtual memory usage in 1981. That killed the Univac 1108 for us.
My largest Win32 DLL currently is 31 MB in debug form and 12 MB in shipping (stripped) form. I am not sure how much virtual memory that we use now, probably 50 or 60 MB in the smallest form. In a large model, I have seen 1.3 GB.
“Promises Made”
https://areaocho.com/promises-made/
“Susan Rice, President Biden’s domestic policy chief, is promising revenge against the voters, business executives, and appointees who support President Donald Trump.”
“They hate you and want you dead. Don’t forget that, as they compare you to NAZIs, Fascists, and call you deplorable, once they regain power as they eventually will, they will begin hunting down, killing, and imprisoning those with whom they disagree.”
“It’s coming, and all the election of Trump has done is create a small, temporary speed bump in their plans.”
I use to think highly of Susan Rice. Now, I see that she is just another wannabe dictator.
And this is not a promise, this is a threat. She is trying to poison the electorate for the fall election by making people scared to vote. Many countries would imprison her for this threat.
Arrays. Bah. What you want is to grab a big chunk of memory, keep a list of dimension sizes, and perform pointer arithmetic to figure out where the value you want is. It’s fast, easy to understand, and implementation-independent.
Eh? Why? Are you mixing her up with Condoleezza Rice?
“The danger of unrealized tax gain”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-danger-of-unrealized-tax-gain.html
“Fellow blogger Mr. Garabaldi, writing at My Daily Kona, warns of the real dangers of so-called “unrealized tax gains”. We’re seeing this pop up in almost every progressive, left-wing-oriented government and political party. They want to tax you on any gain in value of any property you own, whether or not you’ve cashed in that value by selling it.”
“What this is, of course, is an all-out drive to reduce or even eliminate private property, by forcing us to rent what we use, or rely on government to provide it, because it’s no longer affordable to buy it. It’s a growing movement, particularly in Europe, but also in progressive-left states in the USA like California. Essentially, it embodies the World Economic Forum’s oft-repeated mantra that “You’ll own nothing and be happy”. Personally, I can’t think of many things that would make me more unhappy than that!”
This is scary stuff. And the real target is the middle class because that is where the money is in the USA. They want an excuse to loot our 401Ks and our IRAs.
Eh? Why? Are you mixing her up with Condoleezza Rice?
Dadgumit ! Yes, I am. I screw up on all days ending in y now.
Understandable. It’s been all downhill since your age went into double digits.
As for Susan Rice, I haven’t followed her career obsessively, but the impression I get is that she’s nothing but a bacon strip on the drawers of the republic.
The anaesthesia is wearing off, and the tooth is tender, so I took an Ibuprofen. I hope it will calm things enough that I can have some breakfast soon, since it is almost 2 pm.
I had a molar crown replaced last year with a titanium tooth. It is still cold sensitive but that is slowly fading away. Just ice cream now, maybe that is a clue that I should give up ice cream.
I am taking my 84 year old wheelchair bound mother to Port Lavaca on Thursday to get some more “precious stuff” from her house. But, I suspect that all of the precious stuff that she wants has been thrown away or snatched. I expect the screaming will be loud and long.
Mom maintains that she has a bag of silver coins that her grandfather would pay his ranch employees with back in the late 1800s and early 1900s. They would then use the silver coins to buy stuff at his store in Iago, Texas. Yup, a company store.
Three of us have looked for the bag of silver coins but it is not where she says it should be. I did find a bag of two hundred silver half dollars but they are from 2022. In fact, I am not sure that they are even silver.
I am taking her in my 2008 Highlander that made a weird noise yesterday. There is no way she can get in my 2019 F-150 4×4 with the four inch lift kit.
Pray for me.
“Melania Trump presents Medal of Honor to 100-year-old Navy veteran at State of the Union address”
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/melania-trump-presents-medal-of-honor-to-100-year-old-navy-veteran-at-state-of-the-union-address/
“During his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump presented the highest military honor, the Medal of Honor, to 100-year-old retired Navy Captain Royce Williams for his service in the Korean War.”
Cool.
Arrays. Bah. What you want is to grab a big chunk of memory, keep a list of dimension sizes, and perform pointer arithmetic to figure out where the value you want is. It’s fast, easy to understand, and implementation-independent.
That is the way we use to do it. When you have several hundred memory suballocations, the upkeep is massive. And then the grabbed huge chuck gets fragmented and is difficult to suballocate new memory in it.
I prefer to use malloc, realloc, and free. Those work great until the process memory itself gets fragmented and then nothing can help you. Other than moving to 64 bit which is my ultimate goal here.
Half dollar coins stopped being actual silver in 1964. Pretty sure. Of course they still do mint silver coins, proofs and un-circ for collectors. Look at the edges, the copper or bronze core almost always shows.
Rice sits on the board of Netflix, which may kill the company’s chances of getting the Warner deal past the White House.
Hopefully, you vote your proxy appropriately.
I used to think it didn’t matter when I voted against Sheryl Sandburg on the Disney board, but then I saw her name disappear from the proxy ballot one year.
Rice was ”Domestic Policy Advisor” under Plugs which means she was probably one of the people really in charge.
Prior to that, she had Tulsi’s job under Obama and is widely believed to have helped cook up “Russia Russia Russia”.
@Lynn
“I had a molar crown replaced last year with a titanium tooth. It is still cold sensitive but that is slowly fading away. Just ice cream now, maybe that is a clue that I should give up ice cream.”
Not at all, any more than finding a hole in your pocket is a clue that you should give up wearing pants.
Just dish it up and let it soften a bit rather than spoon it out of the container straight from the deep freeze.
“WBD board says new Paramount offer may be better deal than Netflix”
https://thestreamable.com/wbd-board-new-paramount-offer-better-deal-netflix
“The new bid sent by Paramount to WBD improves over the old in several facets, but it’s still not guaranteed that it will be accepted.”
The stock market does not want Netflix to buy WBD, that is very clear as the stock dropped from $91 to $76. But it is back up to $82 today on the news that the WBD might fall through.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NFLX/
We gonna hang all you Devils, starting with your Orange King.
Three of us have looked for the bag of silver coins but it is not where she says it should be. I did find a bag of two hundred silver half dollars but they are from 2022. In fact, I am not sure that they are even silver.
Half dollar coins stopped being actual silver in 1964. Pretty sure. Of course they still do mint silver coins, proofs and un-circ for collectors. Look at the edges, the copper or bronze core almost always shows.
Yeah, I suspect that. But the edge is not clearly copper. We were arguing about them the other day. All 200 of the coins are in an old coin bag that the Mint used to deliver coins in to the banks.
eBay Sellers:
There has been some recent criticism of eBay’s changes in fees associated with Promoted Listings. (see YouTube)
I do not use promoted listings.
I just had an offer on a somewhat pricey item (near $1000) and in replying noted a line that the offer came from a Promoted Listing.
A chat with their ai elicited the information that it may have been an eBay promotion. After several messages where I stated that I did not sign up to promote the listing (and incur a fee for doing so) and would not pay a fee for promotion that eBay did for their own purposes, I finally got this:
Stay tuned.
“Sen. Chris Murphy Joins Pledge to Throw Trump Figures in Jail After Taking Power”
https://jonathanturley.org/2026/02/25/sen-chris-murphy-joins-pledge-to-throw-trump-figures-in-jail-after-taking-power/
Isn’t there a federal law about threatening federal employees ?
We are getting closer and closer to a civil war here in the USA. People are making lists of people to kill.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
Three of us have looked for the bag of silver coins but it is not where she says it should be. I did find a bag of two hundred silver half dollars but they are from 2022. In fact, I am not sure that they are even silver.
There is about a gram difference in weight, older12.5g vs 11.5g newer, per coin, should be a pretty straightforward measure.
Wednesday bedtime. Tooth is a bit sensitive, so I took another ibuprofen for the night. Heavens forfend that I become unable to enjoy ice cream!
This guy is making new reproduction Irish Skean daggers. I ordered a pair out of patriotic curiosity. He tells me the blades are 1060 carbon steel, so they ought to take and hold a decent edge, but will tarnish.
Don’t forget to wear your jury nullification t-shirt.
“We are getting closer and closer to a civil war here in the USA. People are making lists of people to kill.”
No need to make a list. People like Susan Rice and Chris Murphy are putting their own names on it.
And the real target is the middle class because that is where the money is in the USA
– but they’ll sell it like clinton did as a tax on the rich. Those rich bastards. Then re-define rich to be $30K gross income, like they did to me in ’90??. I had roommates and couldn’t afford car insurance but I was “rich” to the IRS.
n
The Atlantic Says Dressing Sharply Makes You A Nazi, Just Like The Nazis Wanted You To Think
https://thefederalist.com/2026/02/25/the-atlantic-says-dressing-sharply-makes-you-a-nazi-just-like-the-nazis-wanted-you-to-think/
I didn’t know that Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Zohran Mamdani, among others, were Nazis.
Took me almost 2 hours to fill out the passport renewal form I needed online. WTAF? I have one, and you have that info. It didn’t change because the passport expired.
Oh, and if you don’t have the old one to surrender, you need to do a “lost or stolen” declaration, unless it’s expired, and then you don’t. BUT the online form logic won’t let you NOT fill out the lost or stolen paperwork.
I have my expired passport somewhere in the house, but IDK where. I’ve looked in the normal spots, but I must have taken it out to renew, but then misplaced it.
Do you guys know the town your parents were born in? I had to call mom, and if she wasn’t still with us, I’d have no idea.
n
Did not get to messing with moving FF to Mint. I was distracted. Yeah, that’s the ticket!
T-Bird is a work in progress. Open a message and it’s blank. Right-click the folder and yabba dabba do and tell it to rebuild the folder. The msf file, I think. That fixes it. Time consuming to go through every folder….
Mail filters work. Seem to. Mostly. I need to get more mail. For example, a filter says mail from Frost Bank is moved to the Frost folder. It moves but a copy stays in the Inbox. It looks like editing the filter and saving with no changes fixes that. Kind of like the msf whatever files for mail.
Time will tell. I’m not complaining. I didn’t expect a seamless transition. I’m going from T-Bird 2.0023 to the current 76.whatever. I expect things to change a bit over 20 years. On top of changing the operating system.
The Mint screensaver stuff is wonky. No screen saver and the screen goes dark for about 5 minutes and then wakes for about five minutes then goes dark and the machine sleeps about 10 minutes later.
Add on the screensaver set to start after 5 minutes. I’m getting 5 minutes of screensaver, 5 minutes of screen on, 5 minutes of dark and then sleep after 10 minutes. I have no clue. But the machine goes to sleep and it wakes almost instantly when I press a key. Maybe after a re-boot it will fix itself.
Once I get FF transferred I can swap monitors. Part of that is moving the vesa bracket that lets you hang the pc on the back of the monitor, from one pc to the other. And I’ll take one of the 16 Gb ram sticks out of this Win11 box and put in the Mint box. Don’t know if Mint needs 32 Gb RAM but I have the parts and might as well use them.
Swapping the machines might be interesting. The Win11 box has always been wired. The now Mint box has always been on wi-fi. Mostly because it seemed good enough and I was too lazy to run wire in the attic from the switch.
I expect the Win11 box to complain about a lack of Internet. Woe! Think of the Windows Update children you beast!
But it’s going to be hanging in the back of a spare monitor and turned off.
I need to check on Moa. It has a 1TB SSD. Pretty sure I made two partitions. I think Mint will just wipe and install on one partition…. and leave the partition with my music alone. That’s for next month. Though at the speed I’m moving next month will be April.
Then again. make sure I have a back-up of Music. Diskpart to oh, maybe 200 GB for Mint? Maybe 100 GB. Need to look that number up. And the rest for Music. Mint won’t need T-Bird or any of the Office like stuff. Just FF and SlimServer.
Hey. This is boring but it’s more interesting than dusting furniture.
My Thunderbird version is 140.8.0 esr (64 bit).
“BREAKING: Vance, Oz to withhold Medicaid funds from Minnesota in ‘war on fraud’”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-vance-oz-to-withhold-medicaid-funds-from-minnesota-in-war-on-fraud
“Funds are being halted “to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards of the American people’s tax money.””
“During the State of the Union on Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced that Vance would lead the administration’s “war on fraud.” The president accused some Minnesota Somalians of having “pillaged” billions of dollars from American taxpayers.”
I foresee another lawsuit and another crooked federal judge.
Go buy a tube of Sensodyne (sp) toothpaste. Use it at your bedtime tooth brushing. It’s not good tasting but it works after a few days.
My root canal and crown ached and that’s what the dentist said to use. “your nerves are re-routing” Way back in 1984.
Oh, hey, am the only weirdo that watched while having a root canal? It was pretty cool. Dentist had a barbed tooth pick thing. I’m totally numb. He pulled the nerves out and they looked like little earthworms wiggling. On a fish hook.
And yeah, this was back when it was about 5 miles each way for me on a bicycle. He let me make payments because way back then when making $5 an hour, after rent and such…. so yeah, I did the weekly ride to the dentist’s office on payday to pay $50 for almost two months. The tooth has never bothered me.
@Lynn
“Mom maintains that she has a bag of silver coins that her grandfather would pay his ranch employees with back in the late 1800s and early 1900s. They would then use the silver coins to buy stuff at his store in Iago, Texas. Yup, a company store.
Three of us have looked for the bag of silver coins but it is not where she says it should be. I did find a bag of two hundred silver half dollars but they are from 2022. In fact, I am not sure that they are even silver.”
U.S. dimes, quarters, and half dollars minted in 1964 or before were 90% silver. Starting in 1965 dimes and quarters were made out of a “clad” composite with copper-nickel on the outside and a copper core. Kennedy halves from 1965-1970 were clad composites of a different alloy comprised of 40% silver; from 1971 onward they contained no silver. Some of the Eisenhower dollars also contained 40% silver.
If you drop a silver coin and a clad coin of the same denomination on a concrete floor, the sound differentiates them immediately–silver “rings”. Silver dollars were sometimes added to bell bronze to improve the tone.
Late 1800s and early 1900s silver coins would have been primarily Barber dimes, quarters and halves:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber_coinage
Before 1892 the design was “seated Liberty” and included half dimes in silver:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Seated_Liberty_coinage
After 1916 the design of the silver coins diverged. The half dollars became “Walking Libery”, widely regarded as the most beautiful of any of the general circulation designs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_Liberty_half_dollar
Quarters became “Walking Liberty”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_Liberty_quarter
and dimes became “Winged Liberty” aka “Mercury”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_Liberty_quarter
Aside from economic castration, the saddest part of the debasement of U.S. coinage is the removal of older coins from circulation, contributing to the general historical ignorance of young people.
The high today was 90f. Down to 88f now. Thin hazy clouds. Nice, warm, I’m feeling the tanning from Big Red but it’s cool enough socks feel good. Because the humidity is 20%.
Now to light the grill. I have some sausage that needs cooking.
Minnesota needs a full-blown IRS
auditproctological exam. The easy place to start would be with a list of the Somalis that came to this country with nothing, cross-referenced with real estate, vehicle registrations, Health care firms, lerning centers, ambulance companies and banking records. Then pull the tax returns. Don’t forget records of funds transferred outside the country.First civil suit dropped on Lemon:
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/02/25/pass-the-popcorn-guess-which-journalist-is-getting-sued-for-emotional-distress-n3812267
The thought of serious dental work gives me the heebee jeebees. No thanks.
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I recently installed t-bird to backup my aol accounts. It took a while but it pulled 14K or more messages down. Over 12K in my inbox. I’m very bad at organizing… it’s 115.18.0 (64-bit) I used it for a while a few years/ 2 decades ago… I’m not really ‘using’ it, just letting it run and sync.
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Filled the truck bed with stuff to break down tomorrow for a scrap run. Need some folding money, and it’s been piling up. Can’t really even tell.
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Dug thru one of the freezers this afternoon and I’m pulling some stuff up to the top. Time to rotate some of that out.
Some of it you can’t even get anymore like the microwaveable cheeseburgers that costco used to sell. Really good and easy to make.
There is more stuff deep in the other freezer I should probably rotate too.
n
WRT junk silver coins. When I was buying before the chinkyflu, it was selling at about 12- 16x face value, iirc. It’s currently 55- 65 x face value. So a $1 silver coin is selling for $55-65 bux. That is crazy.
Even not that long ago, $1 liberties were selling for low $30s.
Money printer go ‘brrrrrrr’.
n
Peppermint Patty says wut:
Jen Psaki Criticizes the ‘Gross, Violent Pornography’ Part of the SOTU and the Circus Entertainer Part
These morons don’t realize that THEY are the ones who will be lined up against the wall during CWII.
It is amazing that MS NOW (lol) pays these two million dollars. They can’t possibly be making money for them.
I held Comcast when the divestiture happened. The Versant (parent company of MS Now, MSNBC, etc) stock I received a few months ago has lost half of its value.
Fortunately, I only received two shares. Comcast is a beer money play.
WRT junk silver coins. When I was buying before the chinkyflu, it was selling at about 12- 16x face value, iirc. It’s currently 55- 65 x face value. So a $1 silver coin is selling for $55-65 bux. That is crazy.
Even not that long ago, $1 liberties were selling for low $30s.
Money printer go ‘brrrrrrr’.
What sound does a spreadsheet make when you up the money supply 10% by changing a single entry ?
Mint’s screensaver situation is odd in Cinnamon due to the desktop’s … compositor?
I don’t know much about Cinnamon since I generally install Mate, and the screen saver just works.
I think MATE is X based and not Wayland like Cinnamon.
“cha ching”
n
Yeah, after that weird brownout, my Mint desktop had changed theme, and now I get the screen turning off after about 30 sec no matter what settings I put in the graphical tool.
n
One of the things that frustrates me about linux is the deprecated old method of configuring and setting up is still there and is probably taking precedence over the gui tool which is really just layered on top.
At least that’s what I think is happening. Why the theme changed, I have no idea.
n
I set the screen saver timeout to two hours and now I get the monitor to stay on for 10 minutes…
Sleep and all power saving set to ‘never’.
n
A [not tough at all] tough immigration case
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/4468147/tough-immigration-case-kelly-yu/
Anyone with a final order of removal should be deported, regardless of their continuing to file court cases. The rule should be deportation is carried out, but they are free to continue litigation from outside the U.S.
This woman and thousands like her have pissed in the faces of U.S. Citizens and legal immigrants with the help of PLT’s and dark money from commies all over the world.
As far as her husband in the last-minute marriage of convenience, the litmus test will be whether he chooses to leave with her when she gets forcibly removed.
Nick, make a boot stick with the same Mint version as is on your system and do a reinstall. There should be an option for “cleanup install” or similar and it should preserve your user data. Of course, you’ll want to do a good backup beforehand.
NB: I don’t use Mint myself but I helped with a problematic install required multiple reinstall attempts, and Mint is based on Ubuntu, which I’ve used for a couple decades.
@stevef, maybe I”ll give it a try but it is pretty far down the list.
n
@denis, I can absolutely recommend stuff made by Todds Workshop, I have a beautiful West Saxon seax and an awesome medieval ‘daily use’ knife based on an example found in the Thames, it’s the most perfectly shaped knife I own, it sits in the hand like it was born there.
Btw Tod’s YouTube channel is also well worth a watch.