Will it be nice? Forecast says no, but it was clear last night so who knows. We are supposedly in the T storms possible zone. It’s sure to be moist, and probably warm later in the day. Like yesterday.
I did only a few things around the house in the morning, then headed out later in the afternoon. Scrapped out 2 of the 6 laptop stands I picked up. I need to get the rest broken down today, because I won a few more… As long as I keep making money with them, I don’t see a downside.
So today will be auction stuff in the morning, then breaking down stuff in the afternoon. And maybe I’ll slap up a camera if things look quiet on that side of the house.
We got through another week, so hurray! Don’t start slackin’, keep stackin’.
nick
When your phone alerts with s message that your order is in thirty minutes before your alarm is set to go off…
Dr Williams, Up before the chickens…
68F and brightening. Might even clear…
Kids lunch is made, and everyone is poked, so my morning is done. Time to make some coffee.
n
His chickens, maybe. I woke 0430ish, before the 0500 alarm, and opened the coop at 0505 Eastern time.
I wonder how long it will be before a similar ban happens here.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn08jy6w0l5o
My employer has a radical anti-smoking policy on campus, and I know from my wife that Baylor Scott & White employees are subject to random testing for nicotine. Corporate America definitely has a bullseye on the habit.
Given Labour’s political problems, it is surprising that they would go that far in the UK right now, however.
The canon current DEI hire “Doctor Who” lead is the poster child for the “chav” stereotype.
Off day today, and still up at 0530. I’ve finally learned getting up at the same time every day makes life easier overall.
I used the time to scan the stack of papers piled up on my desk. My desk is now clear again. I am not OCD, or a neat freak, but I am getting more so as I get older.
Son is home from school. We will make one more trip down and back to get the rest of his stuff, clean the apartment, and turn in keys in a couple weeks. I still can’t believe he is a college graduate and getting ready to move out and start work in a month. He was just starting first grade the other day…
Ah, small town drama. Galena Park is a tiny, poor as dirt, and probably completely non-white community on the east side of Houston. I rarely even look at their auctions because the lots are worn out broken garbage.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15799493/Texas-Galena-Park-Mayor-transition.html
There are several small towns adjacent to Houston, or even completely surrounded by Houston. The ones on the industrial east side are generally poor and run down.
Based solely on her statements, I’m pretty sure the exiting mayor is dirty. She didn’t attack the charges, she attacked the guy…
n
People will also be able to continue smoking and vaping in their homes.
– how very generous of the lords and masters to allow the peasants to do what they want in their own homes… or I guess, not their own homes if they live on a housing estate? Council flat?
Talk about watching the slippery slope happen in plain sight, smoking bans. And draconian? Kids lose their DRIVING LICENSE here over tobacco offenses.
Also, the hypocrisy is stunning for nations BUILT on tobacco trade…
And that’s leaving off the very good argument that nicotine and caffeine consumption let to the explosion of intellectual activity and knowledge that drove the rise of the West…
but I’m sure that replacing stimulants with depressants will lead to a new golden age for the west…
n
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/05/07/starmergeddon-n3814681
Early returns last night had UK Labour (Starmer’s party) losing 88% of their seats.
Plenty of time to get the Labout MP’s moved into council estates for the winter, where they can enjoy heating by pilot light.
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2026/05/08/virginia-supreme-court-decision-on-democrat-gerrymander-n2202127
VSP declares unconstitutional referendum “incurably tainted”.
Trump should move to return the northern part of Virginia to Washington DC.
re: smoking bans
I enjoy an occasional cigar or pipe. But not in the house, or even the yard. I’d go walk in the local park, or set up my amateur radio in the park, and enjoy my hobby time with a smoke.
Lesley Briones, the commie-demo latina precinct commissioner, banned all smoking in local parks.
Now if I want to smoke, I have to go further, to the Corps of Engineers park. Which means I can’t go armed, since it’s Federal property, and posted.
OBTW, I never set up within a hundred feet of another human being. When I smoked, occasionally, on my local walks, as many as 5 people, tops, may have walked past me to be offended by my cigar.
Seen on X:
From Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno
“When I hear someone being dismissed as ‘far right’ these days, I think, oh, you mean normal”
I am not concerned about outdoor smells. At all. Not my neighbor’s afternoon cigarette while on a conference call, or my neighbors’ sour dirty ashtrays after sitting out all night. I don’t concern myself with the stink of new mulch, or compost when my neighbor changes their landscape. Nor do I care about the eye watering stink of diapers coming from the trash can across the street.
I don’t complain about the scent of peoples’ dryer exhaust, even when the perfumes used make me sneeze.
Mainly because it’s OUTSIDE, and I don’t have any belief that I can control what’s outside. Lots of stuff stinks or is noisy outside. It’s the nature of nature.
Plus, the older I get the smaller my reserves of ‘giva fuk.’
n
You are literally Hitler!!!!
lpdbw, you should take up another hobby to offend the offendable. I suggest getting a metal wagon, loading it with dry garbage, lighting it on fire, and walking around the park with your wagon pulled behind you. I would suggest simply pulling a cart with signs saying “Lesley Briones takes it up the ass”, but that would not offend the type of people who are offended by someone smoking outside.
I brought my laptop and thermos outside and was working for a while as the chickens wandered around. Sun was kind of bright, making it hard to work because the screen was washed out. But, over the course of half an hour, we went from 10% cloud cover to “sky? is there a sky up there?”. It’s now easier to see the screen but it’s a bit chilly now, between the 50F temperature and the persistent breeze.
Hens are in the partially-turned garden, enthusiastically looking for worms. om-nom-nom
@Nick
“Plus, the older I get the smaller my reserves of ‘giva fuk.’”
Sadly, I too have no fuks to give, much less lend to friends in need.
Can a machine to mine fuks Be patented? Asking for a friend.
I sat outside for a few minutes this morning with my coffee, gazing at my construction debris and weeds whilst being dive bombed by the local hummingbird.
It was nice, actually, 75F and no wind to speak of.
Occasionally I remember why I put work into this place…
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I need to eat, then go get propane, then do a house sitting check in town.
Also need to spray a wasp nest on the front porch- knocking it down with a broom didn’t work, they are already back.
Temperatures are predicted to be 94, 96, 100, and 101. Ugh, time to set up air conditioners I guess.
It’s a great life if you don’t weaken.
Bitcoin, AI and now Fuks? Is there no end to this madness?
Can the same machine make mass quantities of dontgiveafuk? Asking for a friend (he just doesn’t know about it).
I guess you could start another blockchain coin called ‘fuks’. People might buy them just to give as gifts. We could all become crypto millionaires!
n
Alright, time to leave the house. Stuff to do.
Still fairly cool, there was a smattering of moisture from the sky that got some stuff wet, and the overcast is still there.
I think I better do a trash run, auction pickup, and scrap some more of the lappy carts, as long as it’s not actually raining. Maybe I’ll have a tiny little fire while working outside and see if I can get someone to give me the stink eye.
n
I’m thinking a tower configuration with dispensing ports at different levels for:
kinda
Don’t
couldn’t
and various other flavors
Might have to crack the feedstock and synthesize
@Lynn
Does your software have thermo properties for fuks or do we need lab data?
I mowed last Monday. The lawn could stand to be mowed already. Spring annoys me.
You can control your lawn. I know a guy. His name is Herb. You can call him Mr. Herbicide..
I was going to replace the lawn with asphalt but the chickens all looked at me in horror. “No more worms? No more ticks?”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/05/08/indiana-rapist-illegal-alien-n2675753
No breakdown on numbers, but thirty charges so far for an illegal alien‘s 11-year rampage.
I wonder what the Democratic families of rape victims think of open borders and sanctuary cites now.
@SteveF
How do you feel about mutton?
^^ That right there is a strong reason for no elevators in police buildings and courthouses. Just stairs. The metal framed concrete stairs. Like you see for fire exits. No turns half way between the floors. “Oops, he stumbled and we couldn’t catch him”.
No mention of lost revenue in the article. There was a study done in the late ‘80’s in Canada which looked at tobacco revenues versus lifetime health system costs for smokers, which clearly indicated the higher costs for smokers’ healthcare were offset by the shorter lifespans of heavy smokers, leaving various levels of government with a roughly $8 billion dollar net on smokers. Oddly, the study is very difficult to find.
Have me over for a BBQ with baked beans, deviled eggs, and I can change your opinion real quick. 🙂
I randomly read about credit cards that give you 5% cash back. I decided to look. I didn’t find one, exactly.
There’s one that gives 1% at purchase and gives another 1% when you pay your balance.
Discover Card rates high. 1% on purchases. Yep. I get that on my card. And 5% on purchases with quarterly offers, that you have to opt into on-line. A few months ago it was Big River. I used that a lot. This quarter is for places like Home Depot. If I get off of my butt and actually go to buy some window sill wood and caulk and paint, that would be nice.
However, 5% at Home Depot isn’t worth the 15 miles of gas to get there and the time spent going when I can go to Hoover’s, across the street from HEB and yeah, they charge a buck fifty more for some stuff.
Hoover’s is almost never a “special trip” to town. I almost always want something from HEB. Bread, dog cookies, beer, just the usual.
Well? Who else? Chase in various incarnations has some decent looking deals. CitiBank, too. Wells Fargo has a nice deal. Thing is, I don’t want to give any of those a-holes my business. Past interactions were unpleasant.
All of them, no matter what they give for Cash Back, none of it matters if you carry a balance. No annual fee? Nice. 1.5% Cash Back? Nice. Oh, we charge an annual interest rate of 16.6% to 29.998% on your balance. Compounded daily, of course.
The only way to “win” is to pay the card in full every month and /never/ be late.
Hey. Compounded daily. I wish my bank did that on Savings. But no, they compound quarterly.
So I’m going to keep my Discover card and my HEB card, I pay them in full every month so their 29.998% interest compounded hourly doesn’t matter to me.
Doing that on the 16th. Brisket, tortillas, and deviled eggs. Maybe some velveta/rotel dip and chips. Bring the sides you want and what you want to drink.
Maybe the weather will be nice.
Though. I invited folks a month ago. Will they show? More leftovers for me, right?
Wizard of Id: Mental Health Day
https://www.gocomics.com/wizardofid/2026/05/08
Yeah, he probably needs one.
A couple of days ago it rained. Big hail in places. My phone went off with a baseball sized hail warning. It just rained here. Poured a flood for about 10 minutes and that was it.
My phone just rang. A Marble Falls number. Well, let’s see who is calling. A roofing company. Dude knew my name was Paul.
How? I didn’t ask.
Anyway, no thanks, I’m good, it just rained, I don’t need an inspection. Hey, I’m good man, I have a metal roof and the tin came from Metal Mart and we bought the heavy weight stuff.
Ok, well, have a blessed day.
Just some guy trying to drum up business… he wasn’t obnoxious at all. .
“Microsoft CTO confesses that 30-year-old code from the mid-90s still forms the bedrock of Windows 11 — ancient Win32 API still the backbone, but CTO says it’s ‘more relevant than ever in 2026’”
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-cto-confesses-that-30-year-old-code-from-the-mid-90s-still-forms-the-bedrock-of-windows-11-ancient-win32-api-still-the-backbone-but-cto-says-its-more-relevant-than-ever-in-2026
“Instead of ‘flying cars and moon stations’ in 2026, we still have Windows 11 using ’90s code, admits Mark Russinovich.”
“As Russinovich eloquently puts it, those of us invested in the computer scene in the 90s “were thinking flying cars and moon stations by the year 2026, not Win32.” The admission that such old software tech is still the “bedrock” of Windows today may be the CTO strategically sharing a cold, hard truth, providing a ‘let’s be real’ moment as part of Microsoft’s latest charm offensive. Sharing a candid confession indicates that the corporation is actually aware of the issues in its OS.”
“Remember, the firm is currently in the midst of a major transformation, targeting enthusiast hot button areas like Windows performance, overhead, and reliability. This drastic pivot was cautiously welcomed in contrast to Microsoft being widely slammed for boasting about Windows “evolving into an agentic OS” last November. Currently, Microsoft seems to be flailing around, trying to stop folks straying to pastures greener like Mac and Linux.”
“The CTO explains that Win32 has persisted even when facing targeted existential threats from within Microsoft, particularly in the Windows 8 era. “There’s been various times in Microsoft’s history where we thought we’d reboot the Windows API surface, like WinRT, that actually didn’t play out the way a lot of people expected it to.””
“In closing, Russinovich highlights that Win32 was also the bedrock for tools like Sysmon and ZoomIt, which he actually wrote back in 1996. These tools are now “more relevant than ever in 2026,” as parts of Windows 11 and PowerToys, respectively, reckons the CTO.”
Plus he knew the secret internal APIs and told the rest of us about them. I may have used a couple of them in my software to get a backdoor in to some info that I wanted. And I told a lot more people …
https://www.winsim.com/diskid32/diskid32.html
“Another One”
https://areaocho.com/another-one-2/
Oh gosh, that first one hurts and the second one, somebody died.
What he’s really saying is: VAX/VMS was so well written, and so robust, that when we stole it to make Windows NT, we’ve been using it ever since and it really can’t be improved.
“FCC Chair: Starlink Isn’t Enough. We Need at Least 3 Satellite-to-Phone Services”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-chair-starlink-isnt-enough-we-need-at-least-3-satellite-to-phone-services
“At a wireless-industry event, Brendan Carr gives a shout-out to Amazon and AST SpaceMobile.”
Why ? We will have a million satellites whizzing around at a 100 miles up.
Windows 8 and WinRT were going to introduce a tighter integration with the C++ runtime and deprecate pieces of Win32, but Ballmer the Monkey Boy lost his nerve.
Everyone at Microsoft rushed to take C++ classes. I think I was the only person in my certificate program at UW in 2012 who wasn’t a Microsoft employee or contractor.
Win32 will be around for a long time along with WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN, a line from John Hughes script for “Mr. Mom”.
42 years ago.
I have seen stuff, perhaps obscure, not your daily mess with stuff, in Win11 that looks just like what it did in Win3.11.
Best OS was the NT5 Beta. It had the Win98Se shell bolted onto NT3. Solid. NEVER crashed.
And then came Xp. Bleh. A mess of 98Se and the horseshit of WinMe mixed together like a frog in a blender and layered onto NT4.
Win7 cleared a lot of the mess up.
What I saw of Win8, yeah, we gonna make WinMe works this time.
Win11 is just a mess. Control Panel? Settings? What? Where? Is Win11 stable? I don’t know, it re-boots every month after installing updates I said to not install.
I’m off that carousel.
“Could a transfer portal officially be coming for Texas high school athletes?”
https://www.chron.com/sports/highschool/article/texas-high-school-transfer-portal-22247708.php
“Families see opportunity. Coaches see chaos. Texas high school sports may get more professionalized before we know it.”
You have got to be kidding me.
“Houston doctor now selling ivermectin directly to Texans after hantavirus claims”
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/mary-bowden-ivermectin-hantavirus-22249517.php
“”Hantavirus is a RNA virus, and ivermectin should work against it,” she said.”
Sigh. Are we going to do this again ?
@paul – to check for bank cards with the best cash back terms, try this site: https://www.forbes.com/advisor/l/credit-cards-best-reward-credit-cards-v2/
I also took a quick look at ‘NerdWallet’, which has a credit card comparison tool: https://www.nerdwallet.com/m/credit-cards/compare/cash-rewards-credit-cards or this page: https://www.nerdwallet.com/credit-cards/best/cash-back
YMMV.
Ack! 115ºF on my outside sensor. 76ºF in the garage.
The FCC chair is full of sewage. The same sewage that destroyed AT&T and Western Electric.
Sure. Ma Bell was the Phone Company. And to quote Ernestine, “We don’t care, we don’t have to.”
I’m still not sure it needed to be broken. Yes, there were and are good things that happened. Mobile phones top the list. Nationwide calling and no long distance charges are awesome.
But lots of folks, none of us here, made a lot of money on the destruction of Ma Bell.
So now the FCC chair is making the same noise about Starlink?
Hey. Elon already moved out of California. I’m sure he can move it all to somewhere out of FCC jurisdiction…. and then what they gonna do?
“Hack Shuts Down Canvas, an Online System Used by Thousands of Schools”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/hack-shuts-down-canvas-an-online-system-used-by-thousands-of-schools
“As many schools start final exams, the ShinyHunters gang posts an extortion note on Canvas.”
Yup, the internet thieves are doing well and crashing lots of cloud systems still.
Schools might just have to go back to pen and paper.
And the kids are learing a lesson here about pirates and bad people.
Thanks Old Guy. I didn’t look at the Forbes site. Just skated around it. But all in all, what I saw today on several sites is all the same info.
I’m good with the two cards I have. And honestly, I was just looking for more cash back because of greed.
There. I said it.
and like anyone cares, my bank says my credit score is 776 which is suppose to be good.
HEB will fill the prescriptions (or did) if your doctor writes one, but Ivermectin is available over the counter in multiple states, some nearby, including Arkansas, Louisiana, and Tennessee.
A Publix in Tennessee would probably be the easiest place to get a supply if you really wanted the medication.
Is gambling on high school football games available online?
Gambling has done bad things to the college and pro leagues.
Now that the college players have salaries, how long before high school players get similar deals?
Dr. Mary Bowden is one of the few voices who spoke up against the Covid nonsense, from the beginning. Although she is an ENT, she also treats the vaccine-injured, and treated many Covid patients during the scamdemic. She has suffered greatly from government and pseudo-government agencies, and is still embroiled in litigation with Houston Methodist and the Texas Medical Board, a totally partisan and “trust the science” organization.
I use “scamdemic” because of the shenanigans that went on, not to deny there were issues and very real deaths.. I suspect over half the deaths were caused by Remdisivir and the ventilator protocols, not the Chinese gene-altered biological warfare Fauci-funded virus.
Full disclosure: I am a patient of hers, for non-Covid issues. She lives and works in Spring Branch, so is practically local to me.
She is politically active, and is working to get Ivermectin approved for OTC sales in Texas. Currently, it’s legal to prescribe, but most pharmacies won’t fill the prescription. So it’s natural she should source it herself. The price listed in the news article is actually quite cheap. Almost at the level of the veterinary stuff I use, and much cheaper than the OTC version available in Arkansas.
BTW, most pharmacists I see around here are Colonists.
The Colonist pharmacists really get off on sticking it to the Hillbillies, especially the women.
The local HEB pharmacy has two Asian women pharmacists who went to school in Texas, but most of the CVS and Walgreens store pharmacists are Colonists with degrees from God-knows-where.
“1964 Porsche 356C Cabriolet, Lot S101 // Saturday, May 16th// Indy 2026, 1600cc Flat-4, 4-Speed”
https://www.mecum.com/lots/1172710/1964-porsche-356c-cabriolet/
You too can be James Dean for only $200,000 !
“Car Pro Report: Food Stamps & Ferrari’s-What’s The Deal?” By: Jerry Reynolds
https://www.carpro.com/blog/car-pro-report-food-stamps-ferraris-whats-the-deal
“If you’ve been watching the news lately, you’ve probably seen the headlines: people on food stamps driving Lamborghinis, Ferraris, and Bentleys. It’s the kind of story that grabs attention—and let’s be honest, it sounds outrageous at first glance. Personally, when I see headlines like these, it gives me pause. In this world where online clicks mean more than accuracy in the press, I feel an obligation to try to get to the bottom of it.”
If you are on ANY kind of government support, you should be DEAD BROKE.
And Social Security and Medicare are NOT government supports, they are an earned rights.
I guess we’re going to find out if most Americans are still retarded sheep.
And untreatable bacteria picked up when hospitalized for symptoms, as happened to one neighbor. (Went to the doc for a cough in early 2020, rushed into the hospital, got worse, put on ventilator, picked up something which ate his spleen, then his pancreas, then his liver, then he died. Something like that.)
Gotta quibble with you there, Lynn. There should be no government support.
Exception for government employees or former employees who were injured in the line of duty, but that’s not the same thing.
Who wouldn’t want to die stupidly and pointlessly?
“State Board Orders Muslim University in Dallas To Shut Down”
https://texasscorecard.com/state/state-board-orders-muslim-university-in-dallas-to-shut-down/
“State officials say Richardson-based institution was illegally offering degree programs without authorization.”
“The “TexAM University at Dallas” or “Texas American Muslim University” (TexAM) has been marketing itself as a new Islamic-centered university offering STEM degree programs combined with mandatory Islamic studies coursework.”
“According to a letter sent by the coordinating board, TexAM has never received the required Certificate of Authority from the state to operate or grant degrees in Texas under Chapter 61 of the Texas Education Code.”
Yup, looked that way to me too.
And a violation of Texas A&M University’s trademark.
I guess we’re going to find out if most Americans are still retarded sheep.
I would say many Americans will tell the authorities to go to hell with their unconstitutional lockdowns.
Fluffy tells it best (only two weeks !):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4SPhVSGBF4
“Are Tire Repair Kits A Real Replacement For A Spare Tire?” Written By: Jerry Reynolds
https://www.carpro.com/blog/are-tire-repair-kits-a-real-replacement-for-a-spare-tire
In a word, NO freaking way.
The Texas public university system doesn’t want the competition for the OPT diploma mill graduate programs or the residencies at their teaching hospitals that turn overseas MBBS program graduates into MDs.
Presto!
I drove right by the future MBBS school outside Tampa a few weeks ago.
Another place I drove by a few weeks ago was the new Ferrari dealer not far from the house wich I grew up in about an hour from Tampa. I wondered about the demographics that support that kind of dealership since Northern Pinellas county has money but not that kind of money.
Tampa Bay is down to one Fortune 500 HQ, and the unincorporated town in question is only a few decades removed from being dominated by the Klan.
The irony is that the dealership is about 200 yards on a direct line from the spot where the Klan had a major regional headquarters right out in the open along US 19 up until ~ 1980.
I hadn’t been that far west of Tampa in about 20 years. I’m keeping opsec until after the first weekend in June.
Drug traffickers.
Over the course of my career, I’ve seen smoker cabals at the office become significant problems within the tech companies where I’ve worked.
My current job is the only place I don’t see it, and that’s because they are banished by company policy to the sidewalks along the public road running through the campus instead of being allowed to congregate near the door.
Yeah, the boss’s name is on one of the local hospital groups, but I believe the underlying reason for the draconian policies goes beyond concerns about employees’ general health and associated costs.
Welfare Cadillac – Guy Drake (1970)
Everything old is new again!
Somali daycares in Minnesota.
Or hospice agencies managed by indeterminate Eastern European demographics in California.
Individuals from Slavic countries with shortages of vowels for the street signs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kegwwB4RHgA
Even if you don’t see them driving expensive cars, outerwear is generally a dead giveaway.
The hospice “consultant” at the 33:20 mark has a $200 pair of rain boots working in that neighborhood.
Uh huh.
Every “party” city seems to have a Tecovas store these days, especially if a town is known for bachelorette praties.
The manufacturer’s flagship in Austin even has a bar in the store.
Why ? We will have a million satellites whizzing around at a 100 miles up.
– because the regulator wants to cripple innovators and reward cronies. And/or he wants the pie to be sliced so thin that no one can make it go vis. DISH vs DirecTV
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I was going to comment snarkily on the deskside workstation that it probably still blinks and has to redraw the icons on the desktop visibly… because windows is teh sux.
Don’t forget that win7 broke FILE TRANSFER so badly that a third party add in was required.
Or that millions of computers shipped with wind river throttling software installed, and damn hard to uninstall, so they never get more than 100Mbps no matter what card or infrastructure you have…
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Did my pickups. Spoke with my favorite consignment auction and he still can’t get me on the schedule. I will have to try another consignment auction house.
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Spent the late afternoon breaking down the last 4 lappy carts. I’ll do the trash run and scrap run after my non-prepping hobby tomorrow.
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D1 is working, although the mall is on a strict “no unaccompanied minors” protocol because there was social media traffic about a teen ‘takeover’ happening there this weekend.
D2 and W1 are at a school function (dinner) for D2’s activity, so I guess I’m eating leftovers.
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Our district was shut down by the Canvas hack, at least whatever functions are on that platform. They sent email saying no student or parent data was compromised. Our district went online during wuflu and managed to keep our kids’ achievement on track- I think we had less of a hit to student performance than any other district in the state.
I hate all the online stuff. Too many platforms, and no books, homework, or tests for parents to review without jumping thru hoops. I’ve got no idea what they are teaching on a day to day basis. I’d support a move back past where we were to a NO DIGITAL policy like some schools are trying.
n
– yeah, not ICE, Homeland, and they were wrapping up pedos with valid visas, not illegals. Am I too cynical, because I feel like all the manufactured outrage and reporting would have still been there even if the knew from the beginning…
see also Disney Cruise Ship Staffers Among 28 Predators Arrested in Massive Child Porn Sting
n
Gotta quibble with you there, Lynn. There should be no government support.
Exception for government employees or former employees who were injured in the line of duty, but that’s not the same thing.
Lets talk after you get rid of the government NGOs sucking off a trillion dollars a year from the feddies.
Our district was shut down by the Canvas hack, at least whatever functions are on that platform. They sent email saying no student or parent data was compromised. Our district went online during wuflu and managed to keep our kids’ achievement on track- I think we had less of a hit to student performance than any other district in the state.
I hate all the online stuff. Too many platforms, and no books, homework, or tests for parents to review without jumping thru hoops. I’ve got no idea what they are teaching on a day to day basis. I’d support a move back past where we were to a NO DIGITAL policy like some schools are trying.
I want to go offline from the online stuff for schools too. Especially the textbooks. Holding a textbook in your hands means a lot more to people than a PDF file on your tablet.
“Maniac released from psych ward hours before he pushed elderly teacher to his death in subway”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/08/us-news/maniac-just-released-from-psych-ward-fatally-pushes-elderly-man-down-nyc-subway-steps-cops/
Just another deranged amish killing a white man. Nothing to be concerned about. Just ignore the fact that the amish person has been arrested several times this year for violence. Evidently we cannot use jails to separate the violent people from the good people anymore.
If your skin will be your uniform in the coming civil war, then the good amish will have to be protected somehow. And who decide who are the good amish and the bad amish?
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
“Mamdani’s billionaire bashing could cost NYC $12B, data shows, triggering a ‘death spiral’ as jobs disappear, residents flee”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/08/us-news/mamdanis-billionaire-bashing-could-cost-nyc-12-billion-data/
I would leave New York, Illinois, California, and any other liberal states as they are planning on putting in wealth taxes and then exit taxes. They will soon run off the wealthy and have to target their new taxes against the middle class. Because, until they impoverish the middle class, the middle class is where the real money is at.
Middle class need to work. Rich people spend a lot of money, and that feeds a lot of people… when the rich people leave, who’s gonna spend money, the poor people?
n
It’s official.
From an email alert.
2026 Multi-country Hantavirus Cluster Linked to Cruise Ship
Summary
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is issuing this Health Alert Network (HAN) Health Advisory to inform clinicians and health departments about a new cluster of hantavirus disease cases caused by infection with Andes virus. Hantavirus disease can cause severe illness and can be fatal. Clinicians should be aware of the potential for imported cases, although the risk of broad spread to the United States is considered extremely unlikely at this time. As a precaution, this Health Advisory summarizes CDC’s recommendations for U.S. public health departments, clinical laboratories, and healthcare workers about hantavirus disease case identification, testing, and biosafety considerations in clinical laboratories.
https://www.cdc.gov/han/php/notices/han00528.html
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Ok, updated my hobby website. D1 is home and W and D2 are on their way.
Time for me to get ready for bed.
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You know the real problem with the internet is?
Link rot. I estimate that attrition rate of URLs is probably on the order of 10% per year. In fact, it might be 20% per year.
People clean up servers, servers die off, somebody claims copyright on something, etc, etc, etc.