Tues. Mar. 24, 2026 – don’t look Ethyl! But it was too late…

By on March 24th, 2026 in culture, decline and fall, march to war

Another beautiful day. Yesterday. Today. And supposed to be clear for a couple more days too. I’m loving this weather. This is now the 4th? 5th? gorgeous day in a row? Yes please.

Did some stuff. Broke down some of the scrap stuff I wanted to, but only about a third. I’ll be back at it today. Or maybe I’ll do stuff around the house. Client’s TV is supposed to be delivered today, between 3 and 5pm, but I don’t want to miss it if they come early. I better stay close.

So that’ll be me today, hanging out and waiting for a delivery. I can do stuff here, the list is long after all. The list never sleeps.

But I do, as much as I can.

Which is funny, because I also do as much as I can. And stack.

nick

74 Comments and discussion on "Tues. Mar. 24, 2026 – don’t look Ethyl! But it was too late…"

  1. SteveF says:

    Got up early by intent, to work on a paying project which will require some focus. Ability to maintain focus is difficult once everyone’s up and moving. Went to sleep early because I was so tired yesterday. Was woken twice between 2200 and 0250. Bah.

    Another beautiful day.

    Not here. Below freezing most of the morning, just above for the afternoon. Just enough rain and just enough wind to make being outside unpleasant. One chicken escaped the run, not sure how, and was glad when I noticed and let her back in.

    The Child got 58 chocolate chip cookies and a fist-sized lump of dough, one of the multiple dishes I cooked on Sunday. om-nom-nom. They weren’t all eaten, as of yesterday evening. She hadn’t shared any with friends and wasn’t sure she was going to. oink oink oink. She also ate a pancake the size of her head (barely an exaggeration), a good chunk of a pound of bacon, and a big bowl of marmaduke (something like stroganoff, but a casserole) on Sunday. She inherited my metabolism.

  2. Denis says:

    Tuesday. Good morning from the far north.

    This is the final morning of my Iceland trip. The return leg air travel starts at noon.

    Yesterday, we went sightseeing by car, visiting a spectacular waterfall, lava fields, a volcano with active geysers and steaming mud, and a traditional fishing village. The distances between towns are enormous. Hours of driving moved us around only a tiny bit on the map of Iceland.

    The weather started off nice, around freezing, but dry and calm, with the sun trying to poke though. About lunchtime, the temperature dropped fast to -7 C with double that of wind chill in a suddenly stiff breeze. I had good outdoor clothing, hat, gloves and boots, but I was still very glad to get back into the car and out of the wind.

    It became increasingly overcast, and threatening with snow. We had one stop for hot soup for lunch, and another for hot chocolate before heading for home.

    The asphalt roads were mostly clear of snow, but there was a lot of winddrift. One mountain pass where it was actively snowing was borderline for traction, but studded tyres, slow and steady got us through, though there was a moment when it looked like forward motion would be lost altogether. Things might have been easier had someone thought to mention that our loaner car was capable of 4-wheel drive, but I managed ok with just 2wd traction.

    We were lucky that the snow set in in earnest only after we got back to base. We’ve had about six inches overnight, and it is still snowing hard.

    Our dinner invitation was fantastic. Homemade bread, with homemade gravlax, smoked salmon, and a tuna salad, dill-mustard and homemade pickles. Lots of gin, tonic, conversation and laughs. Bed around 2am. Great fun.

    I have enjoyed the visit, and would like to come back and see the difference in the countryside in summer. At the moment, it is hard to imagine the snowy wastes populated with sheep. We did see Iceland ponies out in the snow. They mostly seemed to be in a kind of half-sleep, which is probably how they save energy and warmth. Handsome beasts.

    Time to get up and pack my bag. Have a good Tuesday!

  3. Denis says:

    She inherited my metabolism.

    I need some more sleep. That parsed as “She inherited my cannibalism.”

    Mornin’, SteveF!

  4. SteveF says:

    “She inherited my cannibalism.”

    Coincidentally, when she left on Sunday, she said, “Love you.” I replied “I love you so much that in a famine I’d eat you last” which was unexpected enough that she laughed before she could put on the typical teenage lack of impressedness.

  5. Denis says:

    “I love you so much that in a famine I’d eat you last”.

    Priceless! I knew there was a cannibal vibe.

    In case anyone needs a recipe, here is one for cannibal toast:

    The main components of toast cannibale include:

    Bread: A slice of toasted bread, typically made from a sturdy type like wholemeal or sourdough.
    Raw Beef: Finely minced beef, usually of high quality to ensure safety and flavor.
    Seasonings: Commonly includes shallots, capers, and sometimes gherkins.
    Dressing: Often a mixture of mayonnaise, mustard, and vinegar, which adds flavor and moisture.
    Preparation Steps
    Toast the Bread: Start by toasting the bread until golden brown.
    Prepare the Beef: Finely mince the raw beef and season it with salt, pepper, and olive oil.
    Mix the Garnishes: Chop shallots, capers, and gherkins finely.
    Assemble the Dish: Spread the minced beef on the toasted bread, top with the garnishes, and drizzle with the dressing.

    Or you could just watch the master himself, Pierre Koffmann make steak tartare, and serve it on toast.

  6. Greg Norton says:

    Ze Kampfs will have WiFi. Surrender your weapons at the door.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/fcc-bans-foreign-made-wireless-routers

  7. Greg Norton says:

    I stopped to get gas yesterday using my debit card, and the station put a $1425 hold on my personal checking account, in effect until tomorrow.

    This follows a weekend of activity where I closed out one bond mutual fund and sent work bonus money to other funds. If I hadn’t caught the hold this morning and moved some cash into the account, depending on timing, one of the transfers would have bounced after the markets opened.

  8. Greg Norton says:

    I stopped to get gas yesterday using my debit card, and the station put a $1425 hold on my personal checking account, in effect until tomorrow.

    I usually keep less money in that account than the hold. What would have happened if I didn’t have a high enough balance? No gas?

    That would explain why I’ve stopped in that station before and had the card rejected.

    Now I know where I am not stopping again.

  9. Nick Flandrey says:

    Just another fraud. 

    – who was never made to pay for the lives he destroyed, or the economic damage.   I went to college with a woman who was a “returning student” or older than the usual student.    She believed in overpopulation, signed a pledge to zero population growth, and had her tubes tied.    Of course, she later regretted not being able to have children.  (no microsurgery in the 80s and the calendar caught up to her.)  There were thousands of women like her.

    Now all the western world is worried that our native populations are declining through low birth rate.

    —–

    @stevef, a couple days ago I think you made a comment about my apparent nonchalance regarding plumbing issues that required opening holes in the wall, etc.    I’ve been thinking about it in the back of my brain, and I think it’s not that the issue wasn’t serious, but that I knew there was an issue, and knew I’d be the one to fix it, because OF COURSE I am.  I strive to be one of Heinlein’s ‘competent men’, able to deal with whatever life throws at me.  And since it’s thrown a fair amount, something like a plumbing leak where I find the cause and can solve it, is pretty routine.

    Because it’s always something.   This house is more than 55 years old.   The rent house is almost 100? maybe more years old with poor quality updates.   Even the BOL is 50 years old.   I’m a bit stunned that anything  from the 70s lasted at all, since it was a decade of schlock.  It’s all failing now though.  80s updates are 40 years old now!  

    ————

    Heck, everything around us is failing.  Infrastructure, social structures…   Old and tired.   We patch, build new in places, repair, but also abandon and walk away.   

    The internet was the last bit of infrastructure to be build new and a lot of it was built on top of old phone company.   Thankfully, phones and power were built by old school folks who thought it should last centuries.

    I suppose SpaceX and “Space 2.0” are starting to build new infrastructure, but I won’t really think that until there is a modern habitat in orbit or on the moon.   Orbit is easier and we haven’t done it yet.

    ———–

    67F and clear.

    I’ve had a cherry pop tart (in the name of blood sugar science) and the first coffee.   Kids are out the door.  

    n

  10. Nick Flandrey says:

    the station put a $1425 hold on my personal checking 

    – HEB has a notice on the pump about banks determining the amount of the hold not them, and the length of the hold.  I use a card we pay in full for the points, so it doesn’t affect me, but I was really glad I don’t pay cash when shell got me for over $100 filling the Expy last week.   The “cash price” sign trick had me thinking, who carries hundreds of dollars in cash to pay for gas?

    I think I’m probably in 0.0X % range of ‘well off’  because I’ve got a couple of hundreds folded and hidden in my wallet.   Lately I’m seeing a lot of pumps with $20 on them when I pull up.   That’s the cash buyer, just enough to get to work.

    n

  11. Nick Flandrey says:

    In the name of science… 

    In ½ hour, my blood glucose level went from 100 to 215 and is still increasing.     That is a big, and really steep rise.

    For a comparison, last night’s dinner, beef fajita, black beans, several tortillas, etc took two hours to reach 170 and four hours to return to 100.  The top of the curve was rounded, and the downslope was twice as long as the up.

    Clearly, no protein, no fat, with just sugar and wheat, is not a good thing if you are looking to control blood sugar.   This will be the first time I go out the top of the “good” range on the monitor in a couple of weeks of normal eating.   Good tops at 175.

    I’ll probably be taking a little nap here shortly.

    n

  12. dkreck says:

    Rails might be good for freight but not so much people

    https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2026/03/yet-another-reason-politicians-should.html

    HA! good scheme however.

  13. Nick Flandrey says:

    So the instantaneous reading got as high as 230 and then started to drop.   There seems to be some function in the graphing part of the app that smoothed that out to 216 at the top of the peak, now that I’m past it.

    Gotta admit to feeling a bit ‘off’.    good thing I’m not actually diabetic.   I can’t believe my auctioneer buddy hits 350 eating mexican for lunch.

    Being ‘borged is fascinating.

    n

  14. Nick Flandrey says:

    I wonder if the downslope will be as steep, and if it’ll overshoot 100 and by how much.

    n

  15. Greg Norton says:

    The internet was the last bit of infrastructure to be build new and a lot of it was built on top of old phone company.   Thankfully, phones and power were built by old school folks who thought it should last centuries.

    Older. Railroad easements.

    Southern Pacific Railroad Internal National Telecommunications.

    The new Amazon facility on my way to work sits at the intersection of a major power company transmission line, railroad easement, and toll road going between whats left of the Trans Texas Corridor east of Austin and MoPac, the right of way that connects the tech campus locations near Round Rock with Downtown, where the fiber node run by legacy SW Bell resides.

    BTW, MoPac.

    Missouri Pacific.

  16. SteveF says:

    BTW, Nick, yes, I recognized the post title. Forgot to mention it a few hours ago.

    He’s still alive, which surprised me. I was going to write something like “Ray Stevens was a funny one” but figured that I’d better check that he was dead.

  17. EdH says:

    Well, another lovely morning and a warm day. 

    When I threw out my birdseed this morning just before dawn none of the usual cottontails showed up to munch on the sunflower seed. 

    A few moments later I noticed a coyote about 50′ off, trotting away, that will keep them in their burrows.

  18. Greg Norton says:

    – who was never made to pay for the lives he destroyed, or the economic damage.   I went to college with a woman who was a “returning student” or older than the usual student.    She believed in overpopulation, signed a pledge to zero population growth, and had her tubes tied.    Of course, she later regretted not being able to have children.  (no microsurgery in the 80s and the calendar caught up to her.)  There were thousands of women like her.

    Leader of the cheat club -er- study sesions. These days, the personality type favors yoga wear, particularly Athleta, so they are easy to identify sitting in your class on the first day.

  19. MrAtoz says:

    Ze Kampfs will have WiFi. Surrender your weapons at the door.

    The FCC did the same thing with drones made overseas. DJI is suing the FCC because they didn’t even get a change to present a case that they weren’t a Chinese goverment owned company. Something fishy is going on in our goobermint. Duh.

    Are there any good WiFi routers and drones made in the US? There are some US made commercial drones, but the price is through the roof compared to DJI, and sold only to the goobermint or corporations with a certified use.

  20. lpdbw says:

    I, too, recognized the OP lyric snippet.

    But I did have a refresher recently on YouTube, watching videos about novelty songs.

  21. ITGuy1998 says:

    Just paid a guy $300 to grind out a stump. It was a from a river birch tree – 3 trunks in the clump with a total diameter of 24″. There is no way I could have dug that out. Not even younger me. Money well spent.

    Heck, I would be in around $300 just to rent the stump grinder and tow vehicle. 

  22. Greg Norton says:

    Are there any good WiFi routers and drones made in the US? There are some US made commercial drones, but the price is through the roof compared to DJI, and sold only to the goobermint or corporations with a certified use.
     

    No. I doubt that the chips are even made in this country anymore outside of milspec.

    The Lucent plant in Orlando that made the original consumer grade WiFi chips was a boondoggle supported by Florida taxpayers.

  23. Greg Norton says:

    The FCC did the same thing with drones made overseas. DJI is suing the FCC because they didn’t even get a change to present a case that they weren’t a Chinese goverment owned company. Something fishy is going on in our goobermint. Duh.

    Is a WPA4 in the works?

    WPA3 has an optional 192 bit encryption mode which might be a problem down the road.

    New ASUS routers have a disclaimer at setup regarding provision of communications for third parties while TPLink hardware does not.

  24. Nick Flandrey says:

    The .gov is preparing for WW3.   They’re IDing and rounding up spies.  Foxconn in Austin or Dallas might be able to build the chips.

    ——-

    I’m vertical again.

    Wow.

    It did come down just as steeply, and did overshoot.   Dropped to 72, where 70 is the bottom of the ‘good’ range.  Then it bounced back to 160, either because everything after the sugar started processing, or just “ringing” as it tries to return to normal.  Currently at 111 and falling.   I did wake up at 930 when it hit bottom the first time, but natural sleepiness kept me in bed too long and the next peak got me again.   Had to get back down below 120 for me to wake up again.

    —-

    @greg, I thought about the RR  right of ways, but it’s not being built on top of the RRs, just the bones of where the RRs went.   Yes, the RRs did use telegraphy, but the telegraphy  was still phone system ancestor, not RR ancestor. 

    —–

    There are exceptions.   Texas is building new infrastructure.  We’re already on our second round of power upgrades in my neighborhood.   They’re pushing pipe and burying fiber as fast as they can.   They’re even building refineries and power plants.

    Is it enough to save us?   Maybe.  Not New Jersey or and of the Rust Belt though.

    n

  25. Nick Flandrey says:

    https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/elon-musk-formally-launches-20-billion-terafab-chip-project 

    Elon Musk unveils $20 billion ‘TeraFab’ chip project to make chips, memory, and package processors all under one roof — targets a terawatt of annual compute

    By Luke James published 2 days ago 

    The joint Tesla-SpaceX fab will make both terrestrial inference chips and space-hardened processors.\

    Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, announced Saturday night that his TeraFab semiconductor project will be built on the Tesla campus in eastern Travis County, Austin, Texas, as a joint venture between the two companies.

    There’s your answer.

    n

  26. MrAtoz says:

    Looks like “Reacher” might be off the hook. The neighbor was being an ass and blocking the street. If that is the case, I support a beatdown. It is also alleged that the neighbor pushed the bike over twice. We will have to wait and see.

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  27. EdH says:

    Looks like “Reacher” might be off the hook. The neighbor was being an ass and blocking the street. If that is the case, I support a beatdown. It is also alleged that the neighbor pushed the bike over twice. We will have to wait and see.
     

    As I recall from Cops Adam-12 these neighborhood disputes can get out of hand.

  28. EdH says:

    My mutual funds have started sending me ads to educate me on ETFs….

    Tax season stuff I guess.

  29. Greg Norton says:

    Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, announced Saturday night that his TeraFab semiconductor project will be built on the Tesla campus in eastern Travis County, Austin, Texas, as a joint venture between the two companies.

    There’s your answer.

    Right after the Boring Company digs the tunnel from South Padre Island to Boca Chica.

  30. Greg Norton says:

    The .gov is preparing for WW3.   They’re IDing and rounding up spies.  Foxconn in Austin or Dallas might be able to build the chips.
     

    Foxconn is a contract manufacturer. Chips would need a fab.

    Even with domestic hardware, firmware would still originate overseas or involve Colonist labor.

  31. Greg Norton says:

    My mutual funds have started sending me ads to educate me on ETFs….

    Line up sheeple.

  32. paul says:

    The Dark Herald Recommends: Project Hail Mary

    https://open.substack.com/pub/arkhaven/p/the-dark-herald-recommends-project

    He seems to really like it.

    It sounds interesting.

  33. nick flandrey says:

    He seems to really like it. 

    – he also seems to thing the ‘competent man’ idea might be problematic IRL, and acknowledges that it is DEFINITELY a problem in Hollyweird.   “Competence porn” FFS.

    Almost all of trad classic scifi featured “competent men”.

    n

  34. EdH says:

    Warm & humid again, 33% is a lot for the high desert.

    Did a few chores around the house & yard. Not feeling energetic.

    Scoping things out to put a few more garden pavers down.   
     

    But before that, I called a recommended septic servic to come and do a pump out Thursday.   There are no current issues but I’ve been here seven years.  One old man shouldn’t be overloading it, but best to be on a schedule, and then I can landscape appropriately.

    Ordered some moth/bird proof tenting for my as-yet-unplanted tomato seedlings.  I need to find my irrigation timers & such.

    —–

    Hard to believe it’s getting close to the end of the month.

    —–

    I saw a post on Insty that Trump’s comment that he was “talking” to Iranian leaders has them all pointing fingers and accusing each other of treason. 

    —-

    In other news we have two ARG’s heading for Iran.   Ten thousand men: 5,000 Marines backed up by 5,000 sailors.

    It is generallly considered as not enough to invade Iran.

  35. OldGuy says:

    BREAKING NEWS: 

    Bigfoot spotted for the first time in decades. 

    He was hiding from Chuck Norris.

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  36. Lynn says:

    The “cash price” sign trick had me thinking, who carries hundreds of dollars in cash to pay for gas?

    Me.  I have been gotten hit twice by the credit card readers put on the gas pumps by scumbags.  I always pay cash for gas.

  37. Lynn says:

    This is the final morning of my Iceland trip. The return leg air travel starts at noon.

    Yesterday, we went sightseeing by car, visiting a spectacular waterfall, lava fields, a volcano with active geysers and steaming mud, and a traditional fishing village. The distances between towns are enormous. Hours of driving moved us around only a tiny bit on the map of Iceland.

    I am envious, sounds like a great trip.

    The other trip, besides Iceland, that my parents took in their waning years was they flew to New Zealand on the north side, rented an RV, and took a month to drive to the southern side in the RV.  They had a great time there also.  That trip started out warm and got very cold on the southern tip.

  38. Lynn says:

    There are exceptions.   Texas is building new infrastructure.  We’re already on our second round of power upgrades in my neighborhood.   They’re pushing pipe and burying fiber as fast as they can.   They’re even building refineries and power plants.

    We were on the genny for 4 hours again this morning while the contract linemen crew replaced another wooden power pole with a composite fiberglass metal pole.

  39. Lynn says:

    The Dark Herald Recommends: Project Hail Mary

    https://open.substack.com/pub/arkhaven/p/the-dark-herald-recommends-project

    He seems to really like it.

    It sounds interesting.

    The book is awesome.

        https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GB58KD5?tag=ttgnet-20/

  40. Greg Norton says:

    MrsAtoz has a gig in Omaha this weekend. Gonna be fun at the airport.

    Billionaire Blue Plate at Gorat’s?

    That has been on my dinner bucket list for a while.

    If I had not been lost in Missouri for a few hours in 2010, my plan was to order takeout so I could still stay on schedule and cross off that entry.

  41. Greg Norton says:

    – he also seems to thing the ‘competent man’ idea might be problematic IRL, and acknowledges that it is DEFINITELY a problem in Hollyweird.   “Competence porn” FFS.
     

    “Twisters” suffered from having a competent white male.

    Girl Boss had the right theory but needed help.

  42. Lynn says:

    In other news we have two ARG’s heading for Iran.   Ten thousand men: 5,000 Marines backed up by 5,000 sailors.

    It is generallly considered as not enough to invade Iran.

    Looks like we are going to take and occupy Kargh Island from the Iranians.

       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharg_Island

    Two MEFs (Marine Expeditionary Force) will ruin your day.  Over a hundred F-35Bs and attack / support helicopters.  Many amphibious tanks.  Two huge hydrofoil landing craft (I have stood on one parked in the Wasp bay).  Lots of pissed off Marines.  Lots of pissed off sailors.

    They will be supported by the carrier in the Red Sea.  We own the skies in the Middle East right now.

    We are going to need a few more planes after this adventure as we are wearing them out with over 1,000 hard target hits per day.  The rest of the world is holding their breath at the moment, hoping that we do not get pissed off at them.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphibious_ready_group

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  43. Lynn says:

    “Bills in 3 states would declare COVID mRNA shots ‘weapons of mass destruction’”

       https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bills-in-3-states-would-declare-covid-shots-weapons-of-mass-destruction/

    “Lawmakers in Tennessee, Arizona, and Minnesota have introduced legislation to prohibit the possession and distribution of dangerous mRNA shots, which are linked to thousands of deaths.”

    Huh.  I had two of the shots and am still alive.

    Hat tip to:

       https://thelibertydaily.com/

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  44. Greg Norton says:

    Huh.  I had two of the shots and am still alive.
     

    I remain part of the Control.

    I don’t believe that Control is just 10% of the population.

    We will see who rusts first.

  45. Lynn says:

    Huh.  I had two of the shots and am still alive.
     

    I remain part of the Control.

    I don’t believe that Control is just 10% of the population.

    We will see who rusts first.

    Both of my kids are with you.

  46. SteveF says:

    I had two of the shots and am still alive.

    Did you? There were reports that the first several waves of clot shots had varying dosages of the “vaccine”, all the way down to zero, as part of using the public as the test group for determining the necessary and safe dosage.  That would be a perfectly reasonable set of experiments for them to make and one could even argue that it would be irresponsible for them not to vary the dosage in a blind test. (SFAIK, these reports were never acknowledged by the pharma companies, with the note that I haven’t looked into it in three years or more.)

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  47. nick flandrey says:

    I guess I’m the placebo with the jjj shot instead of the mRNA.

    n

    Yeah, I know placebo isn’t right, but there normally aren’t three states, mRNA, no mRNA, some other thing.

    ———-

    Costco’s contractor delivered.   at the beginning of their window too.   That has happened both times now.   

    Now, do I go back to breaking down scrap?  or stay here and poke at stuff.

    n

  48. nick flandrey says:

    Jeesh.   What was Tim Burton’s deal with Disney?   I just ripped Dumbo and it was a Tim Burton remake.    Yeah, they make money off the merch, but WTF?  It’s really not Disney style.

    n

  49. paul says:

    No shots here.  

    They would push the flu shot at HEB.  One of the women went to training to be taught how to give a shot.  One year she was real persistent. I asked  “Do you get a bonus or something for the shots you give?”  She said No.  Ok, I’ll pass, I’ve never had the flu.

    If she had said yes, I’d let her do the paperwork to get her bonus and  just inject that stuff into the trash can and stick a bandaid on my arm..  Told her that, too.

    Got a puzzled look from her.  

    I had a reputation at HEB of not taking BS from anyone.  But you are welcome to try.   🙂 

  50. Gavin says:

    BREAKING NEWS: 

    Bigfoot spotted for the first time in decades. 

    He was hiding from Chuck Norris.

    Chuck Norris didn’t die; he went dark to let cryptids come in from the cold.

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  51. paul says:

    Every time we get a new PC the routine is to copy My Documents and Profiles and other stuff from the old machine into a folder on  the new machine.  “Sort it all out later” is the theory.

    So I have my PC with stuff going back to ’96.  I copied the stuff from Moa to this Emu.  Then before I installed Mint on this machine, I copied all his stuff from Kiwi to my Win11 PC.  Then copied it all from ole Emu to this Mint box, the new Emu. 

    Makes sense to me.  Uh, my Winn11 box is intact.  It’s just turned off.  I don’t think Mint is going to puke on me, but, ya never know.   I have spinning rust from the days of Win98 and XP sitting on the shelf…. untouched ever. 

    While installing  Mint wiped the drive of everything.  Don’t know what the file system is, don’t care.   Then I copied all of the clutter to the Mint machine.

    I’ve been sorting stuff out.   We saved stuff from each PC to the other two.  Lots of folders within folders.

    I’m trying to flatten the directory tree.  As I find stuff, like, all Music goes into the Mint Music folder.  Same for Pictures and Documents and Videos.  I’m also deleting clutter.  Like Dancing Babies and flv files.  So far, I’ve eliminated 30 GB.  711 GB free on a 1 TB drive is pretty roomy.

    More clutter will go away.  He did a few Jeep Jamborees.  He tossed all the pics into one folder.  I’ll look, maybe save a few.  I have the pics from his Mom’s funeral and from his Dad’s funeral twenty something years ago.  

    No one looks at any of this.  There goes 3 GB of stuff.  I have backups.  I have a photos subdomain on my site.  It’s almost all there.  If anyone is interested.  So far, no interest. 

    One thing I like is when I copy the contents of a folder, when the Skip or Replace option comes up, IT’S INSTANT.  None of that Win11 “preparing to copy” and showing an hour glass before showing a progress bar.  

    The Win11 virus scanner?  Shrug.

    Anyway.  I suspect another 5 GB is going away. 

  52. MrAtoz says:

    The rest of the world is holding their breath at the moment, hoping that we do not get pissed off at them.

    If the rest of the World had any sense, they would join in bombing Iran to dust. It is a terrorist State.

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  53. Lynn says:

    “Windows 11’s next big version is only for new devices — and Microsoft just revealed how long it’ll last”

        https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-version-26h1-support-lifecycle-dates-heres-how-long-your-new-snapdragon-x2-laptop-will-be-supported-on-26h1

    Interesting.  Is Microsoft making a statement here about future cpu support ?

  54. Greg Norton says:

    Jeesh.   What was Tim Burton’s deal with Disney?   I just ripped Dumbo and it was a Tim Burton remake.    Yeah, they make money off the merch, but WTF?  It’s really not Disney style.

    The thinking was that Burton is the specialist in films featuring misfits and outcasts, and Burbank was hoping to catch the director in the “comeback” phase of his career which was in the tank after “Dark Shadows” bombed.

    Disney is Bankrupt creatively, morally, and financially.

  55. MrAtoz says:

    I started my garage door insulation project over the weekend. It started with disaster, of course. I laid out all my tools, and was taking the top off the expanding foam can and managed to shoot a glob on my shirt, pants, and hands. Most of the glue came off my hand since I went to the sink with soapy water right away. I should have put gloves on right away.

    The door has four sections, with the top section a little smaller with windows. The bottom three panels hold a 2″ Foamular, with cracks filled with foam. That’s done. The top panels need more work. I taped black construction paper to black them out. Then I used two layers of “bubble wrap”  space blanket insulation. Cut out the windows so it lays flat in the frame. Then 1″ Foamular worked into the frame. I ran out of spray foam, bubble wrap space blanket, and aluminum tape, so off to Home Depot.

    Once I finish the windows, I’ll foam cracks, let that dry, them aluminum tape any seams and tape the Foamular to the door frame. Then paint the door.

    The Ecoflow Wave2 mini heat pump is keeping the garage around 76ºF. It is in the 90’s during the day already and cools to the high 60’s at night. I still need a mini-split. The temps here hit 90-100ºF 24/7 in the Summer.

  56. Greg Norton says:

    Interesting.  Is Microsoft making a statement here about future cpu support ?

    Any PC vendor trying to go ARM in order to compete with the MacBook NEO on price will be 10 years behind Apple.

    Qualcomm was one of the biggest victims of Apple poaching industry talent to build their CPU design team.

    If you want an ARM Windows laptop, my employer has plenty in the warehouse.

    The company announced today that they will separate the ARM laptop firmware from Windows 11 in an attempt to move some machines to Linux fans.

  57. Greg Norton says:

    I guess I’m the placebo with the jjj shot instead of the mRNA.

    Johnson & Johnson was adenovirus, similar to the Russian shot.

    You are part of the Control for mRNA, but you are part of the test group for adenovirus vaccines in humans.

    The adenovirus jabs were never pulled from the market, but Pfizer and Moderna sewed a lot of fear and doubt over the complications which popped up in females of child bearing age.

  58. SteveF says:

    was taking the top off the expanding foam can and managed to shoot a glob on my shirt, pants, and hands.

    Why were you doing the potentially (and actually) messy step when you have kids? Five of them, even.

  59. Lynn says:

    “NASA plans to build $20 billion base on the Moon”

       https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_49a5f1f2-2b51-4efd-a997-4d21e8dae32b.html

    “(The Center Square) – NASA has abandoned its plans to build a lunar-orbiting space station and will instead use those resources to construct a $20 billion permanent base on the moon, scheduled for completion within seven years.”

    “This major policy shift is outlined in NASA’s new roadmap, which describes a multi-phase approach to establishing a sustained human presence on the moon. The plan relies on international and commercial partnerships, advanced technologies and a $20 billion investment. NASA also aims to fulfill the ambitious space goals set by President Donald Trump.”

    Huh.

  60. Greg Norton says:

    TPLink routers are suddenly unobtainium, even the tri-band WiFi 6E models.

    UPDATE: No. Amazon has some. Of course.

  61. Greg Norton says:

    “This major policy shift is outlined in NASA’s new roadmap, which describes a multi-phase approach to establishing a sustained human presence on the moon. The plan relies on international and commercial partnerships, advanced technologies and a $20 billion investment. NASA also aims to fulfill the ambitious space goals set by President Donald Trump.”

    How about one successful landing first then we’ll talk about a full employment act for Moon geeks.

  62. MrAtoz says:

    Why were you doing the potentially (and actually) messy step when you have kids? Five of them, even.

    That would be like letting the Keystone Kops do the job.

  63. MrAtoz says:

    “Reacher” is off the hook. The cops concluded it was self-defense.

  64. Lynn says:

    “Illegal Immigrant Accused of $90M Medicare Scam Using Thousands of Fake Medical Claims”

       https://www.westernjournal.com/illegal-immigrant-accused-90m-medicare-scam-using-thousands-fake-medical-claims/

    “An illegal immigrant has been accused of running a Medicare scam through a company that submitted $90 million in false claims, per the Department of Justice.”

    “Anar Rustamov’s organization, “Dublin Helping Hand,” was based in the San Francisco Bay Area and allegedly served as the vehicle for fraudulent activity.”

    “U.S. Attorney Craig Missakian announced criminal charges late last week against Rustamov, formerly of Sunnyvale, California, for “perpetrating a large-scale fraud targeting federal health care funds distributed through the Medicare Advantage program,” according to a Friday news release.”

    I have been hearing that California is the true home of the largest scams in the USA for federal benefits.

  65. SteveF says:

    That would be like letting the Keystone Kops do the job.

    Even better! Make sure there’s good lighting, set up a handful of cameras, post content. Mo’ money, mo’ money, mo’ money!

  66. drwilliams says:

    ICE Delivers at Houston Airport – Dem Narrative Takes a Hit

    According to other assessments, the “maximum wait times” at noon on Tuesday were also down in multiple places where ICE has been deployed, including Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (20 mins), Philadelphia International Airport (13 mins), and Houston’s Hobby Airport (9 minutes). Obviously, this may vary by time of day; it’s busier in the morning, so make sure you’re still checking if you have a flight. But it certainly looks like things are getting better, with the possible exception of George Bush Intercontinental Airport, which had maximum wait times of about 240 minutes. 

    But they’re not just helping reduce the wait times. In Houston, where passengers are experiencing the most difficulty, ICE demonstrated other ways they could help out the people having to stand for hours in a crowded, stuffy line. Not only were they helping hand out water, but they were even offering to stand in line for people so they could go to the bathroom

    https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/03/24/ice-is-helping-out-at-houston-airport-n2200574?utm_source=rsafternoonbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=01939af74a3ecfa643146b517b7eb498a55b91927d593b6cb2e2552685c54282&lctg=29743532

    meanwhile…

    Delta Ending Special Services to Congress Until TSA is Funded

    “Due to the impact on resources from the longstanding government shutdown, Delta will temporarily suspend specialty services to members of Congress flying Delta,”

    That perk is just one of a bundle that have made flying a lot easier for the frequent flyers in Congress, who often are on an airplane twice a week or more commuting to Washington and back.

    Along with skipping the lines, some members of Congress also request local police escorts to their gates. And they all get access to major airlines’ dedicated Congressional service desks to book trips, make last-minute changes, and even reserve seats on one, two or three flights on the same day, depending on congressional vote schedules.

    In regular times, these could be seen as prudent security measures for high-profile flyers or simply good customer service for some of the airlines’ best customers. But taken together, they also inoculate Congress from the chaos Washington is causing.

    Delta will treat members of Congress according to their SkyMiles status.

    I don’t recall how routine back-and-forth trips from their districts is paid for, but if it’s on a government credit card the new policy should be that miles accrue to the employer, aka the federal government, aka the taxpayer. Have the airlines dump the miles directly into an account that can then be tapped for general travel.

  67. Greg Norton says:

    I have been hearing that California is the true home of the largest scams in the USA for federal benefits.

    The spotlight is on California this week thanks once again to Nick Shirley.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kegwwB4RHgA

  68. drwilliams says:

    How Dare Trump ‘Politicize’ Illegal Who Thrill Killed Loyola College Student

    Chicago Democrat and 49th Ward Alderwoman Maria Hadden thinks that the students could have ‘startled the person’ with the gun. So, entirely the group’s fault for being in the ‘wrong place at the wrong time.’

    J.B. Pritzker’s office just broke their silence on the murder of 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman in Chicago by a previously arrested illegal alien in which they condemn the Trump admin for “politicizing heinous tragedies.”

    https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/03/24/how-dare-trump-politicize-illegal-who-thrill-killed-loyola-college-student-n3813183

    Here’s hoping the next one targets your families, ashholes.

  69. nick flandrey says:

    The adenovirus jabs were never pulled from the market  

    – the JJJ one was.   A couple of days after I got it in fact.   They might have reversed that at some point though.   The problem was heart issues in otherwise health young males.

    n

  70. Lynn says:

    “Legal experts believe Fort Bend County Judge KP George could avoid prison”

        https://abc13.com/post/legal-experts-believe-fort-bend-county-judge-kp-george-could-avoid-prison/18757804/

    “After posting bond, Judge KP George was released from jail on Friday. Although he was convicted of felony money laundering charges, he won’t be sentenced until this June.”

    “George could go from a felony money laundering conviction at the justice center courthouse last week to the historic courthouse for commissioners court this week. Commissioners will meet on Thursday afternoon.”

    Another dark blot on Fort Bend County.

    See Also:

    https://abc13.com/post/kp-george-guilty-fort-bend-county-judge-found-money-laundering-trial/18741739/

  71. Lynn says:

    “USC cancels California gubernatorial debate because all qualifying candidates are white”

        https://thepostmillennial.com/usc-cancels-california-gubernatorial-debate-because-all-qualifying-candidates-are-white

    “”We recognize that concerns about the selection criteria for the debate have created a significant distraction from the issues that matter to voters.””

    What a farce !  And only the top two vote getters go the runoff even if they are both from the same party.

  72. Nick Flandrey says:

    So many crooks. 

    n

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