Warm and moist again. Unpleasant in the sun, ok in the shade. Partly cloudy to actual rain is possible if the national forecast is true. Yesterday it ended up being partly cloudy, and the clouds were low and dark. All over town it was similar, low dark clouds, no rain, and humid.
I lost most of my morning to sugar. I really need to figure out a ‘breakfast-y’ snack that I can eat instead of a donut or some other sugar. Now that I know for sure what’s happening, and I can see the graph, I’m less interested in continuing my bad habits.
In the afternoon I did my pickups and I dropped stuff off at the shop. I didn’t make it to my rent house to see why the garage door is jamming. Just as well because when I rescheduled, she told me about several other things I should take a look at. I really need to schedule a few hours there. That’s not much, since it will be the first time since the storm cleanup…
Today I’ve got a couple of pickups. One is right by the house, one, not so close. And there is an estate sale that has some stuff for my hobby that I’d like to pick up if the price is right. All this is mostly work avoidance if I’m honest with myself. Yesterday took far too long, and it felt like a couple of months ago, before I realized I was spending all my time doing pickups.
I’m bidding on less, in fewer auctions, and winning fewer items because I’m less aggressive on price. It’s a noticeable difference. Just because I’m not using the extra time effectively, doesn’t mean I don’t have more.
And I need to be better about that. Meantime, stack. It’s easy!
nick
Hard-boiled egg? Microwavable taquitos? Depends on what you consider ‘breakfast-y’.
Good morning, chicken boy! Up early, or still up?
Breakfast-y (snack) foods. How about porridge? 2 x 1.5 minutes in the microwave with a stir in-between. Soluble fibre and complex carbohydrates, which should give a low and slow curve, if you don’t go overboard with the sugar on top. Honey, molasses, or maple syrup might be better, and tastier. The key to good porridge is to add enough salt to the dry oats before the liquids (water and milk); you need a surprising amount of salt.
For really good porridge, order an “O’Sullivan” handmade porridge bowl from Helen Ennis at https://dunbeaconpottery.com/ Serve with cream and Demerara sugar. A splash of Whiskey for special occasions.
For convenience and portability – an individual dried sausage: Salametti, Kaminwürzen, Landjäger, Käsekrainer, Pipes d’Ardenne, etc… Lots of regional variants and versions, with and without cheese, nuts, berries, venison, etc.. No cooking required, and it gives an umami wake-up kick without a load of sugar. It’s not super difficult to make your own dried sausage if you like to cook.
Maybe go “continental”: a boiled egg with a couple of slices of ham or salami and cheese. Bread or crispbread optional.
Kippers, if you like fish. Grill them outdoors, though, for family olfactory tolerance. Not as convenient as porridge or an egg. Make Kedgeree with the leftovers.
Making myself hungry, now.
Sunny and nice at the BOL today. Would be even nicer if I were free to dawdle and enjoy it, but places to go and things to do…
One more breakfast snack… smoked salmon or gravlax. Nice on its own with black pepper and lemon juice, on bread or toast with horseradish, on a bagel with cream cheese if you’re a Noo Yawker, or on top of an avocado if you are a yuppie.
Management tracks our AI model credits monthly, and some of the members of my group have opted to create busy work for themselves and earn brownie points by using Claude Code and other services to convert pieces of my stable library module C code into C++. I’m not sure how that will work out since they don’t seem to be doing a lot of testing, but it may be something worth exploring for your conversion project if you have a small piece of the application where it would be readily apparent if something went awry in the translation.
I’ve raised my objections, but it falls on deaf ears. I’m spending today unwinding a bunch of changes another group made to my code’s logic using the AI that they didn’t test at all before putting up the pull request.
I know.
Young minds. Fresh Ideas. Be tolerant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-igbPoFhcw
That “Star Trek” movie gets an unfair amount of cr*p.
It is the only one with the original cast that I own on physical media.
UP. Briefly. Trying an Epic meat bar as early snack. They still have a little sugar in them, but not much.
I was up late reading, so will be napping as soon as I can get D1 out the door. Dang book.
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When I was in Norway for work, there were like 12 different fish things at breakfast, mostly pickled, and they were delicious. Best with a chunk of fresh bread and loads of butter though. Other than smoked salmon, I’m not sure I could eat a jar plain on the plate.
I do have smoked salmon in my stacks.
n
WRT estate auctions– silver is crazy high. Last week, no one seemed to know that pieces labeled “Sterling Silver, Weighted” would be worth anything. I missed a couple of lots because they closed at dinner and I hadn’t managed my max bid well. They went for $18 and $26, one bid higher than me. So me and another guy bidding.
This week, similar items went for $120 and $140, and that’s still probably less than the melt value. The risk is you don’t really know the metal weight until you peal the foil. Still, my small candlesticks yielded $350 worth of silver. I’m pretty sure these lots would be similar.
n
(in the past, silver wasn’t worth enough to make breaking and peeling the weighted silver objects worthwhile.)
Yes, but…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15620321/Prepping-WWIII-scientists-need-emergency-kit.html
–a chainsaw in the top 20? And someone misunderstands “gas powered” I think. For most people, two 200W solar panels, and a car battery with a charger/inverter is probably a better choice.
–lotta trees falling on houses in London? and Self defence? Seriously? Where’s the wink emojii?
Gah.
n
What – you expect them to be able to afford to pay someone to take down their fence?
Chainsaws aren’t for self defense? Ash Williams would like to have a word with you.
The PC didn’t want to sleep last night. So I shut it down. Turned it on this morning and there was a flash of text before the splash screen. Audio and Video didn’t work. I tried turning on the DVD drive, it seemed to work last time. Not this time. So I said a couple of bad works and took the trash to the street.
The PC went to standby while I was gone. Woke it up and audio and video work.
Beats me.
Bruce Campbell went public about his cancer diagnosis this week.
Incurable but manageable.
Paul, is it possible that your house has pixies, fairies, leprochauns, whatever? And they’re messing with your stuff because your offerings have been inadequate?
I love the Bison & Cranberry. Try “Chomps”, they carry them at Costco and a lot of grocery stores these days. They are becoming a fav of the carnivore crowd.
I enjoyed Norwegian breakfasts. Lots of herring, as you noticed, and surprisingly good cheese!
We can get “fresh” herring preparations in the chiller cabinet here: maatjes, rollmops, with cream and herbs, curry, pickled, etc. etc.
In Frankfurt this evening for a symphony concert. Dvořák 7. For anyone who is interested, the concert is being live streamed on YouTube at 20:00 CET (2pm EST, I think) https://www.youtube.com/live/xnOqAVhCPDc
Not entirely coincidentally, there is an excellent Chinese restaurant not far from the concert venue. My mouth is watering already…
Er, that sounds like a dog treat.
@stevef, looks like one too, and is priced like yuppy dog mom treat… nothing is too good for my furbaby.
I didn’t try them because it is a lot of money if I don’t like the taste.
Costco never gives taste test of the truly different stuff, you have to buy it to find out.
n
@MrAtoz: I am giving serious thought to getting the MacBook NEO, in Blush, 512GB with the Touch ID. I can get it for $629, plus about $62.00 in tax. This would augment my M4 Pro and would become my travel machine. Memory is limited to 8GB which is enough for my uses. I don’t need the storage space but would like the Touch ID. A travel machine that if stolen, lost or damaged, is not a big financial loss. What you think Kemosabe?
Butter should have no effect on your blood sugar. Bread, not so much.
I am, for the moment anyway, carnivore. I don’t like Chomps, and they’re expensive. I do eat a lot of the little Slim Jim sausages that come in boxes of 14 or 26. They’re lower in carbs than the Aldi Simms ones, but those will do in a pinch.
Jerky is easy to make if you have a dehydrator. Easy in a convection oven, though you’ll want to do it when the weather is cold. I’ve never tried it in an air fryer but that should be easy, too.
Pemmican is not quite as easy to make because you want to get the pieces of meat ground fine, which usually involves grinding fairly course or starting with ground meat, then partially drying, then grinding again, then getting them bone-dry. I always use lard rather than tallow because of the extra vitamins stored in lard. I’ve never seasoned the pemmican when preparing it; instead, I have garlic, red pepper, and such available when I eat it, and that makes it perfectly edible. (But note that I am conspicuously unchoosy about what I eat and don’t get queasy from hardly anything*. Son, ditto. YMMV.)
* Except for the thought of Hillary Clinton nudes. -shudder-
If I needed a travel laptop, that would be the one. I assume that’s the veteran discount. I ran mine, and the NV tax is $10 less than TN.
“Malcolm” by The Arrogant Worms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrGNarwxl6o
I prefer Chomps to other meat sticks and jerky. But I’m a rich old white man and can afford them. Sniff.
JK, I like Chomps for cleaner eating. At 70, my body can’t tolerate certain foods anymore. I can’t eat bread or pasta without heartburn, but I’ll suffer through it for MrsAtoz’s sketti. Grassfed beef (probably the minimum, Chomps) and salt, plus only one ingredient I don’t recognize.
I think I’ll have a Bison&Cranberry Epic, my fav, instead of a Chomps in a bit.
I just gave the chickens some spinach and lettuce leftovers – I do buy romaine lettuce specifically for the chickens, but for the past few days have been giving them leftovers because my wife bought too much for herself and her mom; eyes bigger than belly, most likely. All got some. I gave the last pinch to Brown Hen, who is not as relentlessly gluttonous as the younger birds and tends not to get her share of treats. Brown Hen took it and started to run away to put her head in a corner so others couldn’t steal it … but one of the greedy guts ran up and stole the whole thing right out of her mouth. Kind of impressive, actually.
Current plan: develop a Cluck Fu style of fighting and teach Brown Hen how to stand up to bullies.
Yes. Annoying that the discount cannot be done in the store and must be done online in the Apple veteran website. I have been to the Apple store, found something I wanted, could not get the discount, used the store computer iMac, log on to the veteran site, ordered, then waited for an hour for the product to be available in the store. I am not certain it was worth it for the $4.90 discount. Lesson learned, order before heading to the store.
The iPad I ordered will be at the store next Thursday. I will do my trade-in at the store. I had a really bad experience when I traded in my M2 MB Air. The lights in the ceiling of the facility were reflecting off the screen, and the trade-in partner said the screen was damaged and reduced the trade-in to $30.00 from $650.00. I had to fight Apple for that. I suspect the trade-in partner does this activity to increase their profit. That is not happening to me again.
Apple is still sending me the shipping container to send in my old iPad. What a waste of money. There is no option when ordering online to specify that the trade-in will be done at the store and avoid the cost of the shipping container and shipping the container via FedEx.
In retrospect maybe I should have kept the M2 Air, but I wanted the Pro for the extra USB-C, Thunderbolt 5, and the high speed SDXC slot for my camera cards. I could have saved some money by just getting the M4 MacBook Pro instead of the M4 Pro MacBook Pro. I did get 24GB of memory and the 1TB SSD. Which is probably overkill. But I had just gotten a 5 figure VA back pay, and it was burning a hole in my pocket. I wanted to treat myself, a victory purchase after fighting the VA for seven years.
Oh, and this time I had my iPad ordered with engraving. The order was placed Tuesday; the iPad was on its way to the store by Thursday. The engraving:
Starship Enterprise NCC-1701
Live Long and Prosper
Yeh, well, korney for certain. But nothing else really came to mind.
“1.3 Million Californians Just Forced a Voter ID Fight — and Gavin Newsom Can’t Stop It This Time”
https://americafirstreport.com/1-3-million-californians-just-forced-a-voter-id-fight-and-gavin-newsom-cant-stop-it-this-time/
“Something remarkable happened in California this week, and it deserves more attention than it has gotten. A grassroots petition effort to require voter identification in the nation’s most populous state didn’t just limp past its legal threshold — it blew past it.”
“Reform California submitted more than 1.3 million signatures to county officials, nearly 50 percent above the 875,000 required to qualify the “California Voter ID Initiative” for the November 2026 ballot. In a state where Democrats hold a legislative supermajority and have spent years insulating their election policies from voter scrutiny, this is not a minor development.”
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
“BREAKING: Trump demands ‘UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER’ from Iran”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-trump-demands-unconditional-surrender-from-iran
“Trump demanded on Friday morning an “unconditional surrender” from Iran, saying that there would be “no deal” except for that. This comes amid the United States’ Operation Epic Fury in Iran, in which the Ayatollah and other top officials have been killed by US strikes.”
“Trump wrote, “There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER! After that, and the selection of a GREAT & ACCEPTABLE Leader(s), we, and many of our wonderful and very brave allies and partners, will work tirelessly to bring Iran back from the brink of destruction, making it economically bigger, better, and stronger than ever before. IRAN WILL HAVE A GREAT FUTURE. ‘MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN (MIGA!).’””
MIGA !
I have had several Iranian friends over the years. They would all agree heartily with this.
“Boeing Close to 500-Jet Order With Trump-Xi Summit”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/boeing-close-500-jet-order-193024784.html
“(Bloomberg) — Boeing Co. is closing in on one of the largest sales in its history, a 500-aircraft order for 737 Max jets set to be unveiled when President Donald Trump travels to Beijing for his first state visit to China since 2017, people familiar with the matter said.”
“The two sides also are in talks for a widebody sale that includes about 100 Boeing 787 Dreamliner and 777X jets, said the people, who asked not to be identified as the talks are confidential. A deal for the twin-aisle aircraft would likely be announced at a later date and isn’t expected to feature in the upcoming summit, one of the people said.”
I have heard that China is demanding that the wings be made in China. I do not know if Boeing has agreed to that.
Despite his (many!) shortcomings, Trump can be forgiven just about everything for the way he makes libtards’ heads explode.
Pearls Before Swine: Beach Living
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2026/03/06
More Dad jokes !
Monty: That Ain’t No White Dove !
https://www.gocomics.com/monty/2026/02/25
No Monty, No !
Wow, WTI (West Texas Intermediate) crude oil is up to $91 per US Barrel.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CL%3DF/
My local Shell gas station was $2.99 for regular unleaded this morning.
This will piss off the electorate. Trump needs to finish this Iran thing now.
I am, for the moment anyway, carnivore. I don’t like Chomps, and they’re expensive. I do eat a lot of the little Slim Jim sausages that come in boxes of 14 or 26. They’re lower in carbs than the Aldi Simms ones, but those will do in a pinch.
I love this stuff: “Prasek’s Peppered Smoked Dried Beef, 3 oz” for $7.67 at HEB.
https://www.heb.com/product-detail/prasek-s-peppered-nbsp-smoked-dried-beef-3-oz/4384531
On hangry days at the office I will chew down, and I mean CHEW, an entire package at 210 calories (70 calories per ounce) and 1 g of carbs. Zero sugar and zero fat.
I’ve got about 20 of the packages in my left credenza drawer at the moment.
Despite his (many!) shortcomings, Trump can be forgiven just about everything for the way he makes libtards’ heads explode.
This.
There has been only one perfect man in history and we nailed him to a cross.
“No, an AI-focused “Windows 12″ is not coming this year — false report gets the facts completely wrong”
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/no-an-ai-focused-windows-12-is-not-coming-this-year-false-report-gets-the-facts-completely-wrong
“A new report has caught the internet’s attention, claiming that Windows 12 is coming this year and will be a modular, AI-powered OS. Here’s why that’s wrong.”
“The good news is the report is false. According to contacts that are familiar with the Windows roadmap, there is no plan to ship a Windows 12 this year. In fact, I understand that the Windows roadmap for 2026 is all about fixing Windows 11 and attempting to improve its reputation by addressing top feedback such as reducing AI bloat across the OS, bringing back the movable Taskbar, and more.”
Yeah, that is so not happening. Even the dot Indians would not ship a piece of crap like that.
@MrAtoz: I am giving serious thought to getting the MacBook NEO, in Blush, 512GB with the Touch ID. I can get it for $629, plus about $62.00 in tax. This would augment my M4 Pro and would become my travel machine. Memory is limited to 8GB which is enough for my uses. I don’t need the storage space but would like the Touch ID. A travel machine that if stolen, lost or damaged, is not a big financial loss. What you think Kemosabe?
Have you tried a Macbook with only 8 GB of ram recently ?
My travel lightweight laptop is a 4 GB ram machine running the 32 bit version of Windows 7. It does not have much free ram but my wife uses it all the time while watching tv in a recliner. But she only uses it as an internet terminal.
No, but I will be OK. I used 8GB 1.5 years ago and ran Parallels with a W11 Pro VM without issues. I also ran Photoshop and Lightroom and they seemed to run OK. Importing was slow and it always is, even on my Intel I9 with 64GB of memory.
On the road generally only read email, some website, run Parallels to update my financial information, small spreadsheets using Numbers, and some documents using Pages. I am not doing any software development (I don’t anymore, period), or other high resource intensive stuff.
Almost all of what I do, with the exception of Quicken, could easily be done on my iPad. It is just easier with a keyboard. And the Mac Quicken version sucks and is missing a couple of crucial features.
“Texas Senate Primary, Already Record-Breaking, Heads to Cornyn / Paxton Runoff”
https://texasscorecard.com/federal/texas-senate-primary-already-record-breaking-heads-to-cornyn-paxton-runoff/
“According to advertising data compiled by AdImpact, more than $122 million had already been spent on the 2026 Texas Senate primary as of February 27, making it the most expensive Senate primary on record.”
Gonna be another $100 million. Paxton has been keeping his powder dry and is ready to fire (spend) it.
“State Lawmakers Launch ‘Sharia Free Texas Caucus’ to Counter Islamization”
https://texasscorecard.com/state/state-lawmakers-launch-sharia-free-texas-caucus-to-counter-islamization/
“State Rep. Brent Money says the caucus will focus on examining how Sharia law conflicts with American constitutional protections.”
Good. We don’t need this Sharia nonsense in Texas or the USA.
Obola is trashing tRump at Jackwagon’s funeral.
Pay attention, Redumblicans, Obola is setting the stage for the mid-terms by telling the sheeple Dumbo’s are better at destroying the country than tRump. That’s what you want right? Keep voting Dumbo and get what you voted for.
Obola is trashing tRump at Jackwagon’s funeral.
Pay attention, Redumblicans, Obola is setting the stage for the mid-terms by telling the sheeple Dumbo’s are better at destroying the country than tRump. That’s what you want right? Keep voting Dumbo and get what you voted for.
We are going to end up with reeducation camps. Who will be running them and who will be interned in them is still up for grabs. Very much like Pol Pot’s labor camps and Stalin’s Ukrainian collective farms. In both cases, half of the internees died due to starvation and disease.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot
“US Armored Vehicles Head Toward Iranian Border – Alex Jones Said The Ground Invasion Is Coming”
https://www.infowars.com/posts/us-armored-vehicles-head-toward-iranian-border-alex-jones-said-the-ground-invasion-is-coming/
Oh, crap.
For Iran. If the government does not play games like they did in Vietnam and Korea.
Maybe.
If the US (or others) feint or display in one place then the IRGC and Artesh have to consider countering, moving and reserving forces and arms for that counter.
Moving forces are subject to airstrike and attrition, reserved missiles are not hitting the enemy *now*.
Those reserved forces are also unavailable for fighting any uprisings.
“Spring Forward”
“Don’t forget to set your clocks ahead one hour. Spring Time Change is the second Sunday in March”
Oh no, not again this Sunday !
What did we do to deserve this national nightmare ?
Friday bedtime.
Succulent Chinese meal was succulent. Symphony concert was symphonic, and very good.
Unsuk Chin | subito con forza
Max Bruch | Violin Concerto No. 1
Antonín Dvořák | 7th Symphony
The opening number (Chin) was a modern homage to Beethoven. Maybe 5 minutes long, and totally spectacular. Recommended.
Nick, I neglected to suggest Biltong. Here is the late great Ben Kruger showing how to make it:
https://youtu.be/a1y7FcBLnuc
Goodnight!
The nation (of idiots) elected that scumbag Johnson and a coterie of Democrat assclowns in 1964.
“Greatest Generation”. Riiiiiiiiiiight.
And also, Hillary Clinton will never be President.
I just leared something. I highlighted some text in FF and dragged it to the Desktop. I don’t know why. But Mint made a “droppedtext.txt” file.
Slick!
“USPS Could Run Out Of Funds Within A Year Without Congressional Action: Postmaster General”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/usps-could-run-out-funds-1-year-without-congressional-action-postmaster-general
“He proposed raising the cost of a first-class stamp from 78 cents to 95 cents, saying it could solve the fiscal issues. A decade ago, stamps cost 47 cents. USPS officials stress that U.S. rates are among the lowest among industrialized nations.”
I am convinced that Congress could not run anything, much less a complex place like USPS that has real costs and thousands of rules that Congress continually adds to.
Could USPS be cheaper to run ? Sure, only deliver mail on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Get rid of all of the complex rules like forcing USPS to buy electric only vehicles that fail in the first year of usage and have to constantly towed into the Post Office.
“Oracle & OpenAI Scrap Texas Data Center Expansion Plan, Sending AI Stocks Lower”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/oracle-openai-scrap-texas-data-center-expansion-plan-sending-ai-stocks-lower
“AI-related stocks are sliding late in the New York cash session after Bloomberg News reported that Oracle and OpenAI have scrapped plans to expand the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, from about 1.2 GW to 2.0 GW. Sources said the expansion was canceled after talks stalled over financing issues and OpenAI’s changing demand forecasts.”
“However, the collapse of the Oracle-OpenAI plans has opened the door for Meta, which is now in talks to lease the space instead. Nvidia is reportedly helping to broker that deal and has put down a $150 million deposit with developer Crusoe.”
Real companies with real costs making adjustments to business plans. Happens every day of the week.
Furlough half of the mail delivery carriers. Alternate day delivery; half the route gets mail MWF, the remainder of the route gets mail, Tuesday, Thursday, & Saturday.
We went grocery shopping, and I grabbed a bag of Chomps.
When I tried them before, I was not impressed. This time around, not bad.
My MacBook Pro M1 only has 8 GB. It is fine for general use, but, as I’ve noted before, Xcode with the AI tools installed is not usable.
Crusoe. No comment.
You’ve never lived north of the 45th parallel.
After six weeks from first contact, the spray foam insulation guys came today. The bill was more than the estimate.
No matter. This is the last improvement project. It’s too soon to know what the electric bill will do. But, if the floor feels warmer when it’s cold outside, I’m good. I mean, sprayed on R16 or 18, whatever, is going to be an improvement over zero insulation.
The foam makes heat as it cures. I can walk around and feel where they sprayed. Pretty neat. The house sounds the same but… I have a lot of windows open.
When we had the roof done, Jeff screwed down treated 1x4s to the existing roof. About four feet apart. Then sheets of R-5 or R-7, I forget, foil covered foam board. Then the metal roof on top. That was noticeable.
Then I replaced the central air with a heatpump system. Got offered a job, too.
Next project replaced the budget price 1980 windows with double hung double pane low-e windows and that made a huge difference.
So, yeah, whatever. The electric bill averages $100 a month. $32 or so is just for having a meter. But I remember $280 bills when it was $12 just to have a meter.
I think I’m done. The kitchen sucks with cheap cabinets but it’s worked fine for 32 years so let it stay the same. Might get a wild hair to replace the Armstrong vinyl tile in the kitchen. It has yellowed with age. Then again, “patina”.
On one side of town. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday on the other side of town. Simple.
I keep copies of stuff. Lots of copies. Got the win11 machine to replace Moa. Copied all the stuff from the Win7 machine to the new PC. Just like I did when going from 3.11 to Win95/98 to XP to 7. I have stuff dating to 1997.
Yeah. There is some duplication.
I had Moa up and running on w11. Then did the Acronis thing to clone the factory 500Gb drive to a 1Tb drive.
Hey…. I want to use a Pi to run Slimserver. All of my music is on the 500Gb drive. So let us clean it up. I did. I’ll got rid of a lot of stuff but the rest is on my PC now. And I’m deleted files after copying. And the used vs free numbers did not change.
Ok. Open as Root. Show hidden files. Yeah, interesting. It took about 20 minutes, because USB ain’t super fast, to analyze and then delete the deleted files. I now have a 500Gb drive that is only a third full, not two thirds.
Crazy.
Big River delivered the Pi today. Idiot driver. Didn’t have spider hair but could have. Electric van and he peeled out on my gravel driveway. Thanks for the ditch dude.
(missed posting this from earlier this week – Wednesday IIRC)
>>Just had an Epson Ecotank go south because the used ink catch tank electronics did not recognize the new tank. Tried two new ones and they both showed full, whereas the old one showed almost full.
Fixing a full Epson EcoTank waste ink tank requires two steps: replacing/cleaning the physical pads (or installing an external tank) and resetting the internal software counter using a tool like WIC Reset Utility or Inkchip. The process involves removing a rear screw, replacing the maintenance box, and using a purchased reset key via a USB-connected computer.
Steps to “Hack” or Reset Your EcoTank
Important Notes
Now that’s a wheel gub for ya…
https://americanguncraft.com/product/roto-12-cs-compact-shotgun-no-ffl-required-copy/?SUM25
When I r-click on the desktop I have the option to “create a new launcher here”.
What is this? Some sort of way to run a batch file like in DOS? Make a link to run a program? It must be sort of a big deal.
Though , Change Desktop Background is in the same menu and how often do you change your wallpaper? Like once, from the OS default.
I guess I need to Duck what a launcher is. Is it a shortcut link to something? And if so, why not just put the link from whatever program on the taskbar? The panel.
I’ll figure it out.
I don’t have any thoughts that the people that will purchase the NEO are going to be running Xcode or any software development tools.
It might be a way to create an icon to run a command without opening a shell, similar to the command prompt opened by Alt-F2.
Run a command from a shell, and the program ends when you close the shell window.
It is probably similar to creating a shortcut in Windows.
@SteveF
“Current plan: develop a Cluck Fu style of fighting and teach Brown Hen how to stand up to bullies.”
How about Strap-on spurs?
Might be a 3_D print out there, or if not, make one.
RE MaiL:
With every other day delivery the carier will have to stop at more boxes each day taking more time; the reduction in carriers will be probably be closer to one-third. I still think it is a great idea. Proposed this many years ago.
Gah! I want it!
Technically can afford it. Can’t justify it, not when expenses are higher than income every quarter. (If it were just me, I’d be fine. But I have a daughter in college and an idiot wife, plus other relatives whom I’m helping when they really need it.)
Ah, not quite sure how to put this, but if your mind immediately goes to strap-ons, it says more about you than about my chickens.
The Non-Ejaculatory Orgasm by Apple. The perfect descriptor of the cult.
The command line tools actually work fine. I imagine even VS Code would be tolerable. The AI in Xcode is the big problem.
With the ability to drive DisplayPort at 60 Hz to a 4k display, the Neo’s killer app is writing a science/math thesis with editors like Texmaker.
A couple of grad students in my program in WA State bought the first 40 inch 4k TVs to hit under $1000 back ~ 2012, FedEx from China. Even at 30 Hz, the ability to see a couple of full size thesis pages simultaneously with the markup was a Godsend to them.
@SteveF
“Ah, not quite sure how to put this, but if your mind immediately goes to strap-ons, it says more about you than about my chickens.”
Just a variation of this:
https://www.amazon.com/rooster-spur-covers/s?k=rooster+spur+covers&tag=ttgnet-20
@paul, wrt the kitchen floor, you can try cleaning it with denatured alcohol. I’d try a 1 ft square off to the side but where it’s yellow. I had to do this after getting white appliance paint overspray on the floor in a rental house, and it stripped everything down to the original surface. IIRC I would soak it, then wipe up the goo with paper towel. Move to the next square foot. It goes pretty quickly and the difference was considerable.
@denis, I have had biltong and like it ok, although one of the spices is ‘weird’ to my palate.
The Praesiks smoked jerky is pretty good, but I damaged my jawbone pulling strips off. I am eating the Tillamook sugar free jerky as my afternoon, driving in the truck, snack. HEB puts it on sale a dollar or two off every couple of months and I restock.
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I think I’ll hard boil some eggs this weekend. They are a quick snack. Apple slices and peanut butter also don’t spike my glucose level, so I might do more of that. I’ve got some celery to eat with peanut butter too, but it doesn’t fill my need for “breakfast-y” stuff.
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Did my pickups, hit an estate sale in the neighborhood. Very poorly run by a couple of late middle aged women. Pricing was all over the place, but mostly set at ebay ‘ask’ price and not ebay ‘sold’ price. There was a kerosene lantern from germany that was priced at $195, which was literally the same as the first ebay listing. Check of sold had it in poor condition selling at $20, and good condition at $80. All the vintage stereo equipment was similarly high, and the box for the amp was there, but they had found it and thrown it away. FFS, the box adds $50 to the value.
The owner of the stuff was there and was P!SSED that he’d hired these clowns. He told me he absolutely wouldn’t let them sell the guns as he thought they’d give them away out of ignorance.
They must have priced a bunch of stuff at givaway prices because a lot of the advertised items were gone and they said they were slammed Friday. Only overpriced stuff was left.
Bad estate sellers make me mad as they make the industry look like scammers or dilettantes.
n
I was in the post office Tuesday after lunch. One window open. Little old lady tried to use her bank card and made an error entering the PIN. Borked the whole system–they had to reboot it. I walked out after tenminutes and came back half an hour later. Was told it’s not the first time.
USPS currently delivers regular mail once a day. But their trucks come through the neighborhood more, usually three times, taking care of the last-mile contracts with Amazon, UPS, FedEx, etc. If regular mail service is limited to every-other-day, then transit times will be extended a half-day on average.
Uh-huh. On the day you are expecting the birthday check from your grandma you don’t get a delivery, but you see the carriers pass 2-3 times.
And then there’s Express Mail. Are they going to charge less if it’s held up for a day, or put it on the truck with the shampoo from Amazon? Speaking of which: WTAF? It costs $4-5 to mail a 4-oz “package”*, so what exactly is the last-mile rate?
I sent a small package last week that got scanned three times, the last of which was 1000 miles away, where it disappeared, escaped, evaporated, or did something that USPS does not admit responsibility for.
Last week I got a Priority Mail envelope addressed to someone ¼ mile away. I needed the exercise, so I walked it over about 5:30. Nice lady was glad to get her passport. If it was scanned at delivery the p.o. could figure out where it was mis-delivered–I have no expectation.
*Thicker than ¼”–it’s a package. Old-time 9×12 manilla envelope–it’s a package. Isn’t bendy enough–it’s a package.
They “simplified” the flat rate charges too, doing away with regional rates. Which sux for ebay sellers as the two shapes for each regional a and regional b, would often accomodate something that would otherwise have to go Large flat rate.
They drop their trousers for commercial mail, but bend over the retail consumer. Backwards in my book.
n
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/03/06/ghostwriters-for-the-courts-the-climate-litigation-network-behind-a-withdrawn-judicial-manual/
They got caught stacking the deck but will never be revealed or pay any price for it.
Hoax after hoax after hoax–trillions sucked from the U.S. economy.
Let’s install a magic box in every court where climate is discussed, with a big red button on the top that says “Emergency Toxic CO2 Removal”. Anyone who feels there is too much CO2 in the courtroom can hit the button to activate filters to drop the level to zero. Don’t want our courts poisoning the populace with CO2, now do we?
“They “simplified” the flat rate charges too, doing away with regional rates. Which sux for ebay sellers as the two shapes for each regional a and regional b, would often accomodate something that would otherwise have to go Large flat rate.”
Regional C got little use and was discontinued. The Regional A was a nice box for eBay sellers. USPS hatted it, they did not make the boxes available at the post office (you had to order them) and you could not buy the postage at the post office, you had to do it on line.
I used the snot out of that service and when they discontinued it I tossed between 50 and 100 boxes.
Mailed a chain hoist at that rate that just scraped in under the 15-lb limit. I glued all the flaps and used strapping tape three ways.
They used to play games every year with packages. First Class was only available up to 13 ounces, then you had to buy Priority Mail, which theoretically started at 16-ounces. Then they introduced Ground Advantage and made anything much thicker than a dime a “package”.
If you walked into a grocery and the butcher charged you 2-lbs for a 17-ounce package of chicken breasts there would be loud, angry words. Now do Priority Mail.
I think I’ll have a small bit of cobbler and icecream, then a shower and bed. W and D1 are watching GoT. No interest in that.
n
I think I’ll have a small bit of cobbler and icecream, then a shower and bed. W and D1 are watching GoT. No interest in that.
n
Does half a pint of HEB Cherry and Chocolate qualify as a small bit ?
https://www.heb.com/product-detail/h-e-b-creamy-creations-cherry-chocolate-ice-cream-1-pt/3114568
I wolfed that down half Wednesday night and half Thursday night. Only 360 calories each night. And 14 carbs each night.
Sweet, Unicomp is again making their PC122 mechanical keyboards with the function keys on the left side where God intended them to be.
https://www.pckeyboard.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=40L5A
So if my 1991 Northgate OnmiKey/102 Gold dies, I have a supplier. I wonder if I should buy one now.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/03/06/ghostwriters-for-the-courts-the-climate-litigation-network-behind-a-withdrawn-judicial-manual/
They got caught stacking the deck but will never be revealed or pay any price for it.
Hoax after hoax after hoax–trillions sucked from the U.S. economy.
Can you imagine one third of our electric bills going to various lawyers across the USA, just like the cigarette settlements 30 years ago ?
Line forms to the right…
https://www.theblaze.com/news/want-a-machine-gun-these-states-might-soon-make-acquisition-easier?
>>So if my 1991 Northgate OnmiKey/102 Gold dies, I have a supplier. I wonder if I should buy one now.
No time like today…oh, my bad…I see now that was a rhetorical question.
Line forms to the right…
https://www.theblaze.com/news/want-a-machine-gun-these-states-might-soon-make-acquisition-easier
My son says that you have never lived until you load a dozen or two dozen magazines a day. He even thinks that the three shot burst should be cut to two shots.
Now, the M-2, he will load all day long to shoot that beast.
>>So if my 1991 Northgate OnmiKey/102 Gold dies, I have a supplier. I wonder if I should buy one now.
No time like today…oh, my bad…I see now that was a rhetorical question.
My Northgate is only 35 years old. It should last another 35 years, right ?
And my customers are slow paying me again. My accounts receivable is almost a quarter million. I wonder how much of it is bad. So I am getting cautious about spending money.
>>I lost most of my morning to sugar. I really need to figure out a ‘breakfast-y’ snack that I can eat instead of a donut or some other sugar. Now that I know for sure what’s happening, and I can see the graph, I’m less interested in continuing my bad habits.
@nick, how many grams of sugar are you looking for?
Something like this? https://www.albertsons.com/shop/product-details.960097673.html
Apply that logic to your knees and see how well it works.
I hear ya.
To expand one of my catch-phrases, self-employment and running a small business is not for the faint of heart.
@nick, is it just me or is the link text that says “Previous Post … ” and “Next Post … ” barely readable when displayed using the current colors displayed against the blue background?
Let me know if you need me to send a screenshot?
N.B. iirc this started with your most recent WordPress updates.
Hmm, why am I doing this at 1:15 in the morning?
And I need to brush up on my touch typing…or order some additional synapses. Any suggestions (for a TT trainer? )
>>My Northgate is only 35 years old. It should last another 35 years, right ?
TIO and OIN
Then again, if it’s TEOTWAWKI, other than playing Minecraft, what ya gonna use the keyboard for?