Cool, clear, and beautiful. Great day yesterday, hopefully another today. Mild, mid 70sF, warm in the sun, cool in the shade. Couldn’t ask for better. MAYBE 10% less RH. But I quibble. More of this please.
I did get outside and did some work around the house yesterday. Cut the grass, blew the leaves, moved some stuff on the patio, looked at the driveway… and rested afterward.
Today, I’ll do more of the same. I might even add in some work on the truck. Trying to get my house in order, because I feel like change is coming, and probably not in a good way. Some of the stuff here happened for the lockdown, and never got undone. Time to refresh that.
And, spring cleaning is a thing. New beginnings and all that.
Plus, more room to stack.
nick
Sunday. Time to get up. Good morning!
Congratulations to SteveF for being awesome, and able to read too.
Nick, thanks for explaining the big river hack. Will try to remember to use it. I don’t know if it works when I order from a European subsidiary, but we’ll find out.
The radio morning news says Iran confirmed the Ayatollah is dead. I very much hope the ordinary people of Iran seize the opportunity to free themselves from the evil regime. No doubt that will be a dangerous and dirty job.
Watching the PLTs and Dumbos simp for the Ayatollah is interesting. That is not going to help them during the midterms. They don’t give a s*** for the Ayatollah.
tRump, tho.
Why do we conservatives have to keep on cleaning up the messes left by the liberals ?
And Trump will get zero attaboys for cleaning up Jimmah’s mess.
63 F and very overcast here on the west side of the Brazos River.
Where is my fusion reactor in the sky ? Is it angry with us today ?
I like my newest Ilona Andrews book so much that I am reading it again. I really like the characters and set in Houston.
My wife setup my mum for a cardiologist appt in the morning. Mum is retaining a lot of fluids in her legs. Mum and I have a common diagnosis, CHF. Congestive heart failure and hers is getting far worse. Now I have to go persuade her to go with me in the morning, it wont be easy as she has decided all doctors are incompetent.
How did it get to be March already ? Where can I complain about this ?
What, you like nine hours of daylight?
The Guardian view on Trump’s war on science: Europe should pick up talent fleeing the US
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/27/the-guardian-view-on-trumps-war-on-science-europe-should-pick-up-talent-fleeing-the-us
Sounds like a great opportunity for the U.S. to shuck off a bunch of useless leeches. The “climate crisis” researchers in particular would be great to have gone. I’m sure they would be welcomed by the soon-to-be Islamic majority countries of Europe, accept their dhimmitude as the humble savants that they are, and learn to work in a net-zero environment powered by wind and solar, even if that means lack of heat in the winter and walking or bicycling to work.
I beg to differ. There are at least 1% of doctors who are not incompetent.
At least 50% of doctors are competent enough to write a prescription to address symptoms, such as water retention. And some of them will even check for drug interaction and side effects first.
Gee, did you ever wonder where Iran gets all of those “suicide” drones? Now that FCC is banning new DJI drones, ya gotta wonder.
Until the MBBS start showing up in large numbers.
Texas allows them to use the MD label.
76F and sunny here in the swamp.
Coffee is in the cup, waffle with bacon is in my belly, and it’s time to face the day.
I took one of the “slow down the carbs” pills. It’s called Acarbose ,
I’ll be joining the Mr Ray of sunshine club… although I didn’t notice anything in particular last time.
It’s all an experiment for science.
Note that I don’t actually have the diabetes… but a ‘glucose intolerance’ according to the doc.
n
What, under the circumstances, would lead someone to believe this was something OTHER than a terror* attack?
*I’m almost giving up trying to stick to the actual definition of terrorism. This guy and this attack probably don’t meet the definition, unless he’s part of a broader organization with actual goals outside of “make them pay.”
n
Holy cr@p, I thought the meme about the NY Slimes was fiction.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15603809/iran-war-strike-new-york-times-headline-ayatollah-ali-khamenei.html
“Unemployed house painter, who rose to power and fame in German ‘rags to riches’ story, found deceased in country house..”
It boggles the mind.
n
Austin PD. Plus San Antonio FBI.
San Antonio proper is a blue sh*t hole.
Behr, Hays, and Travis Counties have been leftist for a while. Williamson began its turn in the last election.
And I forgot James Talarico running for the Dem US Senate nomination from Round Rock.
The new Chosen One if he wins on Tuesday.
The Austin attack was most probably another case of Sudden Jihad Syndrome. A peaceful Muslim who snapped upon learning that the assahola and 30 of his closest advisers had assumed room temperature.
And my younger brother sent me a link to a suddenly relevant musical classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcoFQ5rDWUg
“Let’s not jump to conclu ……. Aaaand it’s Muslims. ”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/01/us-news/austin-mass-shooter-possibly-motivated-by-iran-attacks-quran-found-in-car-as-fbi-eyes-terrorism/
Most excellent!
The religion of pieces.
I did something to my Recipes folder and I don’t know how to un-do it the easy way. I somehow made it require a password to open.
No big deal. Just make a new folder on the desktop and copy everything. Delete the old folder and move the new folder and rename it.
I’m sure this is just the first time of many more to come.
I shut up and did it. I made meatballs using corned beef hash. Short story, tasty but not quite as planned.
Two cans of hash. Two eggs. About a cup of store bought bread crumbs. Bake at 350f for 20 ,minutes. Check and bake 10 more minutes. Nice and golden brown. Not greasy.
To improve? Bake longer. Potatoes have a lot of moisture.. Maybe Bisquick or flour instead of bread crumbs. Maybe deep fry in the Fry Daddy…. get a crust.
Do something similar again? Yeah! But with canned corned beef. Not hash.
How about hundreds of thousands of Indian “work”ers here under H-1B visas for their “technical expertise”? Plus their families, of course. We’ve had quite enough of their expertise and cultural enrichment, so it’s time for someone else to benefit from their presence.
Moving lights in the dark sky, Patriot missile defense battery …
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iUcgpuD80QI?feature=share
n
F117s were probably also involved yesterday.
See one in person along with the ordnance, and you can’t shake the feeling that the airplane was designed to kill the Ayatollah.
Maybe Khadafy too, but definitely the Ayatollah.
The Air Force still had ~ 30 in hangars at Tonopah ready to go when I saw the exhibit at the Palm Springs Air Museum last year.
I don’t use the term “Colonist” lightly. That’s exactly what’s happening in Austin.
They’re even running for Congress. This putz is hopeless, a fake Republican, but give it a decade and the candidates will get better handlers.
https://www.garapatifortexas.com/
The district covers Williamson County, where the colonization activity is currently concentrated.
I’ve been watching this guy’s shorts. Doing real work, that can’t be cheaply or easily outsourced, using skill and knowledge. And the job is kinda like magic if you’ve ever worked with motors.
https://www.youtube.com/@motorfixin/videos
n
I filled a 4 cup ZipLoc tub with hashballs. Had three left and a couple of balls worth of crumbs.
Ate one. Divvied the crumbs between the dog food pots and buried a hashball in the middle of their chow. BEST FOOD EVER!!!!!
Perhaps I need to get out more. To, like, deal with people and not just my dogs? Nah.
Dogs are people. And are better than a lot of people.
n
I ordered some repair parts from a small company, Vibroplex. Been in business since 1905. Obviously with some turnover in ownership. My semi-automatic telegraph key was made in 1949.
I did it via email, and they said they’d send me a PayPal request.
Which they did. I owe them $26.08
I logged into my PayPal account, and their request is there. I have a wallet in the account, and a credit card, and it’s my preferred payment method. I did that because I have certain vendors who use PayPal, not because it’s my choice.
When I pull up the request, and click “send money” or “pay”, depending on which screen I get, it shows me the payee, the amount, and has no idea about my credit card or preferred payment. It asks me to link a payment method.
If I go through the dialog, and relink my credit card, it takes me back to the “Link a payment method” screen. As if I had done nothing.
I tried their help link, and I get yet another generative AI that is certain it answered my question, even though it never came close.
I hate bad websites. I hate AI. I’ll phone them tomorrow and see if they can take my credit card over the phone.
Just whining. I got this key last weekend at the Hamfest, and I want to actually use it.
I think “Disk Usage Analyzer” is the tool I’m looking for. It says I’m using 246.5 GB. Of a 1TB drive. The rings of files structure are really really interesting.
Well, it said 380 GB the other day. I’ve been deleting Windows stuff. From this drive. It’s all on the old drive, ain’t losing anything.
I have 30 GB of Michael Jackson music? For real? I need to investigate that. I mean, Thriller is about the only album of his I can name.
I found the movies I bought from Microsoft. That would not play in VLC on Win11. Well, they don’t play in Celluloid or VLC on Mint. I get some scrambled static for video. at the top of the screen. No audio. But it’s playing…. Kind of like the old days when the cable TV folks required a box to descramble HBO and Showtime.
So what exactly is going on with Ted O’Baxter these days?
Some kind of cancer?
https://x.com/overton_news/status/2027095619739824398
“What, under the circumstances, would lead someone to believe this was something OTHER than a terror* attack?”
Well, duh.
Obviously it’s not a right-wing Christian MAGA terrorist, so it must simply be an innocent immigrant with indigestion.
“How about hundreds of thousands of Indian “work”ers here under H-1B visas for their “technical expertise”? Plus their families, of course. We’ve had quite enough of their expertise and cultural enrichment, so it’s time for someone else to benefit from their presence.”
No need for carrot-and-rectoscope: cancel the visas and charge Air India exorbitant landing fees for high-demand volume.
“Perhaps I need to get out more. To, like, deal with people and not just my dogs? Nah. ”
Nah. Dogs are better people than people.
I read somewhere the attacker in Austin was from Senegal. And had a koran in his car. Stopped his car on the street, turned on the hazard lights, as one should, and went shooting.
And that “had a koran in his car” is just a WTF? to me. I know lots of folks and no one is ever driving around with a bible in their car except on Sunday.
So what is this? A twofer of islam and negro low impulse control? Gotta go shoot a bunch of white folks? For fun?
Makes no sense.
“Makes no sense. ”
It makes sense if it is admitted that non-whites can be racist, and that one of the prime tenets of Islam is the inferiority of non-Islamics.
How about hundreds of thousands of Indian “work”ers here under H-1B visas for their “technical expertise”? Plus their families, of course. We’ve had quite enough of their expertise and cultural enrichment, so it’s time for someone else to benefit from their presence.
You are off by an order of magnitude. Maybe two orders. I’ve got at least 100,000 Indian H1-Bs in Fort Bend County. Plus another 100,000 that have already gotten their green cards or citizenship. Maybe 40% of the 900,000 people in the county.
Phrasing!
Sixth Street is disgusting, and the signage for Buford’s implies that it is essentially a 21st century pickup bar.
My first impulse is just to avoid the area, but I wasn’t raised in a culture steeped in a religious doctrine from the 8th century that includes honor killings.
The military action in Iran is just an excuse.
Who is the big employer hiring all of the H1Bs in that county?
“There is an ongoing rumor that the new Iranian navy will be putting glass bottoms on its ships, so it can see the old Iranian navy.”
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/03/01/new-nine-iranian-navy-ships-now-on-the-bottom-of-the-ocean-n2199717
Declare a 1000-meters from the high-tide line to the center of the Strait a no-go zone 160 km on either side of Bandar Abbas, and give civilians 24-hours to evacuate, while hitting any military movements that attempt to remove any supplies or equipment. Then have the GCC divvy up the beach and offer a prize for the first country that turns their portion into a burning hell free of life.
Who is the big employer hiring all of the H1Bs in that county?
All over Houston. Many of them work in the Patch.
They don’t seem to have any compunction about selling gas station heroin or bath salts to the hillbillys.
They seem to be in all the sketchymarts around here.
n
A Texas gunman, identified by sources as Ndiaga Diagne, 53, opened fire on a bar in Austin and killed two people. He was seen in a hoodie reading ‘Property of Allah’ as an Iranian flag and photos of Iranian leaders were discovered at his home, sources say.
Kinda hard to deny now.
n
“Whack-A-Mullah”
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/whack-a-mullah
“Can I add a name to the list?”
“I’d like to introduce everyone to Aziz al-Abub, also known from his birth name of Ibrahim al-Nadhir.”
“We’re not exactly sure where Izzy was born — I’ve seen evidence for both Lebanon and Iran — but his main claim to fame comes from his training at the KGB-founded Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow in “medicine” and “psychiatry”.”
“Izzy then shows up in Lebanon, happily ensconced in the various Iranian-backed and funded terror groups — particularly Hezbollah — where he refined his KGB-provided training in “medicine” and “psychiatry” to torture hostages.”
“While William Francis Buckley (CIA Station Chief in Beirut) was his most famous victim — Izzy managed to keep him alive for four hundred and forty-four (444) days, before his heart gave out under torture — the sadistic little bugsnipe had a prolific career under Iranian-sponsored terror groups in Lebanon.”
“Climate Scientists Demand “A Global Assessment” of Risks”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/03/01/climate-scientists-demand-a-global-assessment-of-climate-risks/
“It’s kind of sad seeing scientists in this situation.”
“Before I read the Climategate emails, I thought they were all frauds, but after reading Climategate I came to realise many, possibly all of them actually believe the nonsense they are peddling. Climategate is full of activist scientists acting to suppress contrary evidence, not as part of a conspiracy to deceive, but because they believe their mission to save the world is so important, nothing can be allowed into the public domain which might create doubt.”
“Now the world has moved on, and climate action is no longer a priority, climate scientists are still trying to fight a battle which has been lost, a cause which other people increasingly find irrelevant and implausible. If it wasn’t for all the damage their nonsense climate warnings did to the world economy, all the lives blighted or cut short by soaring energy prices, I would feel a little sorry for them.”
Raise your own funds, you ass hats.
“Glaciers Worldwide Are Suddenly Surging, Experts Blame Warming!”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/03/01/glaciers-worldwide-are-suddenly-surging-experts-blame-warming/
“While glaciers worldwide are said to be shrinking due to global warming, there are a number of exceptions. Some are growing suddenly at extreme speeds, extending up to 100 times faster than usual.”
“The reported sudden advances are said to be triggered by unstable mechanical conditions inside or at the base of the glacier. For example, meltwater can act as a lubricant, causing the ice to slide. The rapid movement can cause massive amounts of ice to become unstable and break off.”
“Moreover, the advancing ice masses can block valleys, causing lakes to form behind them. If these natural dams burst later, devastating flood waves hit lower-lying regions.”
We are all going to die.
But not soon enough.
n
I should be in bed, but I’m watching youtube shorts by the ‘bad design’ fat lady and the fat irish guy who says “follow me, I”m delicious.”
Ok, now I’m going.
n
>>Cool, clear, and beautiful. Great day yesterday, hopefully another today. Mild, mid 70sF, warm in the sun, cool in the shade. Couldn’t ask for better. MAYBE 10% less RH. But I quibble. More of this please.
What’s the email address again for those requests?
Or if you want some shite and giggles, play around a bit with Alexa+ (if you have the access already. More interactive “conversations” and most times she’ll interact if you ask for personal info or point out bugs.
The longer listening timeout can catch you off-guard at times. Gotta keep feeding the monkeys so they keep spinning the plates.
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>>Or if you want some shite and giggles, play around a bit with Alexa+ (if you have the access already.) More interactive “conversations” and most times she’ll interact if you ask for personal info or point out bugs.
The longer listening timeout can catch you off-guard at times. Gotta keep feeding the monkeys so they keep spinning the plates.
As the saying goes, Mr Turing would be spinning…