Sunny, clear, and hot. Humid too. Beautiful day at the BOL. I hope. Yesterday was. Today should be too. Could be just a tad less humid.
Yesterday I got out of the house and did my pickup in Sugar Land, then loaded the truck and headed to the BOL. Grabbed another pickup on the way, which was good because some of the stuff was for here anyway. Got here and had just enough daylight to mow, and even got to throw a line in the water. Tried three baits but nothing was biting.
Some kids came down to the neighborhood dock and went swimming while I was fishing at dusk. Kinda the perfect country life moment. Wish it was my kids.
Today I’ve got to trim and clean up, then head home. I don’t want to be home late as I’ve got a ton of stuff to do Monday as well, so I can’t sleep in. We’ll see how the plan works out.
And I have to say, a freezer full of Hungry Man ™ dinners is a pretty good prep. They are inexpensive, conveniently packaged, and will keep a long time. There are tons of alternatives, but they are super easy if you are at your BOL alone, just doing some work or a quick ‘check up’ visit. They’d be good in a weather emergency too.
Anyway, stack something, and always be working.
nick
Sunday. Good morning!
Glad to hear you were up to pickups, travel and fishing, Nick. Sounds like your recovery has turned the corner.
Dragging a bit this morning, as W1 and I were at the birthday do of a friend last night, and we didn’t get to bed until 2am. I will try to knock out a few not very demanding chores at the BOL today before we head back to base this evening.
The thunderstorms and heavy rain of yesterday and last night seem to have passed. There was an orange warning of violent wind squalls overnight.
There was indeed a lot of minor tree debris on the roads as we were driving home late in the night, but the big wind seemed to have been before our travel window, so the drive was wet, but otherwise uneventful.
The local soccer club is hosting a youth tournament this weekend. They were pretty much washed out yesterday, but it seems to be taking place OK today. They certainly started early, which is probably what woke me, despite the short night. If the wind is from that side, we can hear the tannoy at the pitches.
Jeff will have Andy goose the AWS rates again.
That side hustle should have been put under an antitrust microscope years ago, but now it is too late.
What happens now happens. The die is cast.
Amazon just opened a new warehouse for their UPS competitor delivery service on my way to work.
I still believe the ultimate purpose for the building is a sex robot factory given the prime transportation infrastructure, but Jeff won’t let the real estate go to waste.
AI is another possiblity. The building sits between a railroad easement (fiber) and one of the major high voltage power lines going into Austin from points north. Plus my employer’s campus with Switch.com data centers sits just across the freeway.
The really crazy thing about the location is that the farmhouse from “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” used to sit nearby.
74 F and 100 percent humidity. I am not sure if we have caught up on our rain but the mosqitoes have plenty of stagnant water to lay their eggs in. The wife and I are getting bit alive on our daily walks.
The wife gets her 12 week hard cast on Tuesday from her two week soft cast for her broken left hand and wrist. She is going into the ortho clinic in the morning to check on why her thumb keeps going to sleep. I have a feeling that this is going to take a long time to heal since her wrist broke off where the thumb attaches to it.
Getting old sucks.
@Nick – I have another TP Link router which I purchased to experiment with the 6 GHz bandwidth since the AXE5400 currently at our house may end up at my wife’s crash pad in San Antonio within the next few weeks.
BE9700/B600, v1.0 hardware. It seems decent so far, but, again, I don’t let TP Link act as the primary router.
The latest hardware rev of the AXE5400 went right back to Newegg because the DHCP server did not truly turn off in WAP mode even with an firmware update. This wreaked havoc on my network, especially the Bonjour printers.
Cooking breakfast with Batman reruns on the telly, I savored the appearance of James (Mrs Streisand) Brolin as the humorless uptight rookie beat cop wanting to write Batman up for grievous violations, like leaving his address off the registration.
What? This again?
Unless things have changed dramatically, certain three letter agencies will soon get involved and squash talk about removing x32 support from the Kernel, especially now that an increasing number of desktop class CPUs with 65W TDP have 16 or more cores, allowing effective monitoring of 10 Gb network connections for about the cost of running an old school light bulb.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-x32-ABI-2026
I think the push is to co-locate a data center with the power plant to avoid paying line transport charges like us peons. I suppose there are only so many of those to go around right now.
For the future of AI, I believe I saw somewhere that the subscription price would have to increase by 10X – or more – to come anywhere near break even.
I wonder what will happen? For much of tech development you could just depend on a trickle down theory of market penetration; the ultra wealthy & corporations taking it up, then the wealthy, then the well off, then the bourgeois masses. But the upfront cost is so huge right now…
If you’re into that sort of thing, “Capricorn One”, available on Tubi, features not just one but two Streisand ex-husbands, Brolin and Elliott Gould.
“Capricorn One” also includes OJ Simpson in his first significant movie role, playing off James Brolin as a fellow Mars mission astronaut.
The flick’s core plot points are arguably more relevant now than when it was released more than 45 years ago.
The problem is that freezers are kind of unreliable because they depend on electricity staying up. I used to have a stash of Stouffer’s shelf storeable meals for that reason. At some point they disappeared…
Which reminds me, I saw someone castigate BO online for not having a backup launch complex ready with the “Two is one, one is none!” meme. Ouch! In their defense I think that they, like SpaceX, were in the process of building a second facility.
Water and communication lines quickly become limiting factors when evaluating potential data center sites. At this point, every active and/or recently decommissioned power plant location has been evaluated by the major players for use in the glorious all AI future, and alternatives are being explored by the upstarts.
In Texas, the regulatory environment is extremely pliant and distribution handled by a single privately held entity, Oncor, with limited out-of-state interconnects. The datacenter players pretty much get what they want because it is all about the jerbs, son, no matter how limited in number.
The major focus in the state right now is getting the energy resources currently going mostly unused in the oil patch to the closest locations where water, communications, and serious construction infrastructure are more readily available such as Abilene, Lubbock, and Austin.
Austin also has the bacchanalia on 6th Street and a ready supply of shot girls recruited from UT coeds nearby.
Keep that Pappy Reserve flowing, honey!
I just noticed the mistake from the other day when I had to shift to my ThinkPad and Friday’s page was still up in a window.
Fred Korth, Robert Francis’ step-grandfather, was Secretary of the Navy under Kennedy.
@lpdbw
“I just watched “Zero Hour!” on YouTube a few minutes ago.
It’s the 1957 drama staring Dana Andrews and Sterling Hayden, based on an Arthur Hailey story, that the movie “Airplane” was based on.
I laughed at many inappropriate points in the movie where the significant overlap with “Airplane!” brought joke lines into my head.
“I picked a bad week to quit smoking”. “That’s not important right now” The fact that a pro athlete, photogenic but not really an actor, played the pilot. “Ever been in a cockpit, Joey?””
In the official record it’s a bit more convoluted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Hailey
Hailey went on the write Hotel (1965), which was made into a very good movie and then a tv series starring James Brolin.
His next novel was the breakout Airport (1968) which was made into a blockbuster disaster movie–starting the 1970’s trend–in 1970 and was followed by three sequels. Airport 1975, the first sequel, is credited as a source for much material in Airplane!.
I would recommend all of Hailey’s books as well as the films Hotel and Airport. I watched and enjoyed The Hotel television series in it’s original broadcast on an irregular basis, although I never watched the lead-in show in the earlier time slot, Dynasty.
@lpdbw
I don’t recall ever watching “Zero Hour!” . It might be worth watching along with Airport 1975 and Airplane! and following the common elements. It’s not unreasonable to suspect that the screenwriters of the 1970’s films might have mined Hailey’s earlier work a bit, and the “!” may be an homage.
@Greg Norton
Capricorn One is on my mental list of films o grab on DVD if I ever chance across it in the thrift bins.
I found “Capricorn One” on the $2 clearance table at McKay’s last year so it is out there on DVD. I think there was even a BluRay.
The director, Peter Hyams, went on to make really significant and successful films including “Outland”, “2010”, and “Running Scared” among others.
While it wasn’t received well 40 years ago, time has been kind to “2010”. I think that film’s effects scenes were a significant influence on “Project Hail Mary”.
“Capricorn One” bombed on initial release since it was an ‘R’ flick with “production value” added at the studio’s insistance. Recut very easily for afternoon airing on HBO with a PG rating, the film found a new life on cable and home video.
My electrical trade magazine had a couple of good articles about AI and data centers with some interesting and real numbers included, almost as an aside. I was going to link it here but it’s paywalled for at least a month.
The newest trend seems to be building your own power plant using gas turbines.
It’s also clear to everyone that whoever actually gets their project built, locking up those scarce resources, will win and the rest will fail. Whether the whole thing collapses at that point is a question still to be answered. There is a HUGE first mover advantage if there are only a few marbles to grab.
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82F, clear and sunny. A beautiful day. Probably humid AF though.
still getting my breakfast ready and just started on the coffee.
My head feels a bit better today, and body too, less of a ‘I’m sick’ feeling. Still coughing though.
n
Maybe.
Like NASCAR that first 90% is easy, the next 9% is 10 times as hard, the next 9/10 of percent is 10 times as hard as that. And so on.
A lot of people want you to believe in the takeoff, but people want you to believe commercial fusion as well, I’ve never seen any actual evidence for it.
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Strange, half my post is invisible. I blame AI.
The downside of being a “first mover” is getting stuck with a pile of obsolete hardware.
Location (dirt) water and power rarely go obsolete.
They’re building the data centers, not filling them with gear. The power density increase for AI is crazy high btw, multiples higher than a regular data center.
n
Most of the major players do both because not buying the gear risks it being unobtainium. I know SpaceX/Ai did because they are well known to be a “partner” of my current employer.
I’ve been inside the “AI factory” Musk touts on X/Twitter.
Except in NASCAR if you are not cheating, you are not trying. I noticed during The Masters the advertisements primarily Mercedes and Rolex. Watching NASCAR, the advertisements are primarily RAM pickups and beer.
BTW, late in the third season of “Batman” is the episode featuring guest stars Dina Merrill and her then husband Cliff Robertson.
Merrill, daughter of Marjorie Merriweather Post and EF Hutton, was one of the Post heirs who sold Mar-A-Lago to Trump.
Everyone wanted to be on “Batman” back in the day.
Despite weather (for the past several days) and lack of interest (this morning), I got most of my lawn mowed. Only “most” because I left a patch of uncut grass where I plan to move the chicken run. Normally I let the hens out and move the run before mowing, but a hen was laying. No problem, I’ll mow the right-front yard and then move the run. When I checked, a different hen was laying. No problem, I’ll mow the left-front yard and then move then run. When I checked, a different hen was laying. No problem… You see the problem. So all but a few hundred square feet is mowed. Depending on motivation and the cooperation of the birds I’ll move the run and mow where it had been later today or tomorrow. Weather should be fine for the next several days so there’s no real hurry.
Hens take anywhere from a few minutes to an hour to lay an egg. (Off the cuff estimate based on casual observation rather than on any kind of study.) It depends on the size of the hen, the size of the egg, and at what point the hen responds to the “I gotta do this” sensation. That last depends at least in part on whether someone else is laying and what else is going on. If the birds are out and chowing down on the kitchen scraps that I just dumped out for them, she’ll probably keep eating as long as she can and then run to the coop.
I probably ought to work (for money) this afternoon but that whole lack of motivation thing is kind of a hurdle. I was working past midnight last night and past 0130 the night before that, and still getting up at 0440. Even assuming I wasn’t woken in the middle of the night by yelling or thumping, not a safe assumption. Alternatively, there’s endless chores and upkeep and repairs to do. I need to take a look at one of the garage doors and see about adjusting or straightening things because someone-who-isn’t-me damaged them again. The only saving grace there is that the garage doors use the long “stretch” springs on each side rather than the single “twist it tighter” spring. The former I can replace or repair by myself. The latter I would be hesitant to work on.
One of my neighbors has the “twist it tighter” spring (I’m sure there’s a proper name for it) and it broke, as they do. He and his wife are surgeons and normally leave for work a little after 0500, so by luck I was out opening up the chickens when I saw his garage door repeatedly go up a few inches and stop. Helped him get it open (just pull the release cord to detach the door from the “rabbit” and lift the door, neither task which he could have done because he’s not tall enough to reach the cord over the car and not strong enough to lift the double-wide door, even if he’d known what to do, which he didn’t) and then kept an eye on the house until the service man came. The guy confirmed what I thought, that those springs are really dangerous if you’re not experienced with them.
My PC just crapped. I went to check mail and Tbird said that account doesn’t have write permission. So restart Tbird. Nope reboot system. No I get a menu in very tiny text. Starting Mint is first choice. I get the logo and then something called BusyBox.
So, it sees my hard drive. I did nothing but reboot. No messing in settings, not even to look.
Torsion spring.
Bios shows I have 32768 mb memory.
those springs are really dangerous if you’re not experienced with them.
– yeah I called the extortionate repair guy for the one at the rent house.
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90F and rising.
Time to sweat.
n
Skynet doesn’t like the mention of the word “fusion” online, since that is how its Terminators are powered.
I think I fixed my PC. I typed fsdck /dev/sda2
Maybe sda2. WHY take notes?
So it did stuff. Fixed errors. I had to press y a dozen times or so. And then typed exit. It went to simple gui and first choice was “exit recovery mode”. So I clicked that.
Darn if I know what I did. I suppose after I send this I’ll re-boot. For “good luck”.
I found directions at https://linuxhandbook.com/fsck-command/ It was the first search result on my Kindle.
Sam Altman fits your thesis.
I think you mis-spelled Smokey Yunik. He of “let’s use the roll bar as an extra gas tank” fame.
“Torsion spring.” Under a Chrysler it’s called a torsion bar. I never had a fear of cranking on a torsion bar to reset the ride height of a car. They sort of sag with age.
But a garage door torsion bar? No way.
My head feels a bit better today, and body too, less of a ‘I’m sick’ feeling. Still coughing though.
Take a long hot shower in the steam twice a day.
Many things are dangerous, all the time. Your knowledge and experience can mitigate the danger.
But not completely.
Redheads come to mind.
Moved the chicken run and finished mowing. It started raining shortly after I started, grr, but just a sprinkle so I ignored it. So did the birds as they relished their freedom. It had been forever since they’d been able to run around, or at least an hour.
Before I was done putting their roosting rail and dust bath and such in place and had finished making minor repairs to the coop, another bird came into the run and started fussing at me. Fine, go up and lay, you fussbudget.
When I led the rest of the birds back to the run, one went straight for the feeder where I put scratch grains, just seeds of different types rather than cracked corn, presumably lured by the smell. This hen for whatever reason has gotten it into her head that those grains are hers and, though she’s the mellowest and shyest chicken I’ve ever had, she’ll peck the others away until she’s eaten her fill. One of the other birds has claimed the wild bird seed around the feeder near the fruit trees. Before that, one hen thought that all raisins were hers. It was sometimes challenging to give raisins to the others because this hen would zip in and take it out of the other’s mouth right after it was taken from my hand. When I or my daughter took extra steps, like cupping the raisin hand tightly and placing the other hand (holding the bag of raisins) between the thief and the other bird, there was a good chance that the thief would do her best to climb into the bag. It was kind of annoying but too funny to be really annoying.
“BTW, late in the third season of “Batman” is the episode featuring guest stars Dina Merrill and her then husband Cliff Robertson.”
Robertson played the same character in the Season 2 episode “Come Back, Shame”/”It’s How You Play the Game”, but with Joan Staley as “Okie Annie”.
Merrill played “Calamity Jan” in the 3 Season, and also had a brief uncredited part in “Penguin’s Clean Sweep”, which aired directly before “The Great Escape”/”The Great Train Robbery”.
I wonder how difficult it would be to AI a final episode of Batman where Catwoman (Julie Newmar) finally gets him in a lip lock, they disappear for three days and when he resurfaces Bruce Wayne sends Aunt Harriet to a home, returns Dick Grayson to the orphanage, pensions Alfred off and moves Catwoman into stately Wayne Manor. Dick could get sprung by Batgirl and go riding off on her motorcycle. In the final scene the Green Hornet and Kato, tired of being considered villains, take over as the new Batman and Robin.
I just rebooted. A huge flood of tiny text on the screen. Maybe flushing out the recovery process? I have no idea. It goes by too fast to read.
Audio is still wacky. The machine has to go to Suspend after a Boot for audio to play. Something something order of driver loading I suppose. Not a big deal
The Dems put up a lying Nazi scumbag as their candidate to run against Susan Collins in Maine, and now that people are finding out more about his past behavior as a lying Nazi scumbag they are getting nervous as the “I made some bad decisions in my youth” excuse doesn’t look good on behavior from a couple weeks ago. None of the new revelations are from GOP oppo research, it’s all Dems unloading their own caches, which proves once again that they would drink the nightly emissions of a syphilitic rat if it would give them another vote. )someone calling your name, Schumma?)
The nuts and bolts bottom line is that if Von Totenburg quits by the end of June, the Dems get to pull a Kamel Harris Especial and replace him.
Here’s hoping he hangs on, gets lot’s of high-profile air time in running against Collins so the entire U.S. can see what kind of filth represents the Democrats, then loses spectacularly in November, hatches the total psycho inside, and goes on a rampage seeking revenge for the Democratic support that he didn’t get. So much more satisfying than a quiet end in a bunker.
“I just rebooted”
I felt a disturbance in The Force.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/05/31/spencer-pratt-dog-plan-n2202889
I would like to see that in the national GOP platform. People convicted of abusing animals should be spayed and neutered immediately. They could convert a rest room off the court rooms to get it done soonest.
Truck is unloaded. Ants are poisoned.
I’m gonna eat something, then I might mow the park. Might not.
n
A Grand Solar Minimum Has Arrived…Global Cooling Of At Least 1°C Is Expected by The 2030s, 2040s
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/30/a-grand-solar-minimum-has-arrivedglobal-cooling-of-at-least-1c-is-expected-by-the-2030s-2040s/
I propose that the biggest global warming zealots (AlGore, BillG, MikeMann, Gavin Schlitz, all the suspects outed by the ClimateGate files, etc.), all the self-appointed climate activists, all of the Democratic senators and representatives, the entire Democratic parties of California, Oregon, and Washington, and many others too numerous to list be outfitted with transponders not to be removed upon pain of immediate death, so as to simplify locating them and converting them to fuel during the “unprecedented” cold waves of the next twenty years.
The best solution would be a painful in situ rendering of body fat into tallow, making a candle burning on their noses so they could finally “see the light”.
Note: Some may call me extreme but fair, others may call me the “Doctor Phibes of Climate Change”. History will tell.
The NPCs will just swap one chip for another and continue on, while those of us that called it a scam from the beginning will be eliminated so that no one will have to face the fact they were wrong. They were just ‘differently right’ after all.
n
Note that the form of syphilis which rats catch is not the same as the form which humans catch.
Telling you in case you didn’t know but needed to.
Here’s a campaign slogan for Collins: She’s a lying scumbag, but at least she isn’t a lying Nazi scumbag.
“but at least she isn’t a lying Nazi scumbag.”
But but but, what about the good things Mustache Man did?
Esp compared to the guys in Russia.
Can we throw away our Covid Passport (vaccination record card) yet ?
Something that today’s libtards refuse to acknowledge even when shown evidence is that the American (and I think English) libtards of the 1930s were in favor of Small Mustache Man and the turn-around he caused in Germany’s economy. They even supported, or at least justified, the German invasions of Czechoslovakia and Poland and Denmark and the Low Countries. They only turned against Small Mustache Man when he invaded Large Mustache Man’s country.
Are you running an SSD for the main drive on the PC?
I don’t remember ever having to recover a drive like that, but I run spinning metal on my main Linux server with a 20 year old file system. Ext2?
I do run an SSD on my “road” laptop with a relatively new file system.
If you have an SSD, every now and then do the relevant housekeeping on the root partion with fstrim:
# fstrim /
I never had one, though I may or may not have created fakes for my daughter and myself in case we ever needed them.
You’re serious.
Abbott banned the use of the vaccine passports to enter restaurants in Texas at the beginning of 2022.
The “Judge” in Travis County was getting ready to mandate passports for restaurants and bars when the Governor intervened.
A restaurant was free to chose to enforce the passports, but they would lose their state liquor license.
Well, I did mow the park. Changed the blades and lubed the spindles first. It’s not the full ‘spring’ service but it’s better than to keep putting it off until I can do the whole thing.
Time to shower and head home.
n
“”Are you running an SSD for the main drive on the PC? “
Yes. A WD Blue 1TB stick. Totally wiped of Win11and all partitions by Mint.
File system? The default. I could go with FAT32 or NTFS or something else. I went with the first choice at install because I figured that was “the native” file format. Don’t know or care what it is, if the OS is happy….
I’ll look into fstrim.
Anyway. My PC would not boot to desktop. But the full screen “dos box” (because I don’t know the proper name) said to run fsck on /dev/ etc…. Right there, it told me where to direct the linux version of CHKDSK
Can’t say I recall Windows ever telling me that.
fsck is file system check. I didn’t know that a few hours ago.
fsck looks like a misspelling of word that means stuff has gone bad. Which, well, sure.
Oh. And re-reading the directions, for an external drive you have to use sudo.
Internal boot drive, just fsck aimed at your boot drive.
I’m really impressed. Windows does a lot of stuff. Easy. Linux does a lot of stuff too but you gotta have a brain.
I fought the horrendous crowd at our 75,000 ft2 HEB this afternoon and bought a $4.97 rotisserie chicken now. My dog and I just stripped it and ate a quarter of it in the process.
Do you make stock with the carcass? Even a bit to dribble on dog’s dry food?
I’m sure the naming of the utility was not an accident.
The legend is that Bill Joy created vi in an overnight drug-fueled hacking session, which explains much about the keystroke command selection.
A lot of people want you to believe in the takeoff, but people want you to believe commercial fusion as well, I’ve never seen any actual evidence for it.
I would not call it commercial but the huge nuclear fusion reactor at the center of the Solar System is proof that fusion does work. Sol’s efficiency is only about 2% but it was fueled for billions of years, an amazing feat.
Yes, of course the sun shows that fusion releases energy. Scientists and engineers here on Earth haven’t managed to replicate the pressure needed to enable this.
But here’s where I come in.
Get at least two dozen fat women to stand on a platform which is the flat part of a downward-facing cone. If it’s done right, the tip of the cone will be compressed into neutronium. Repeat as many times as needed to make a high-gravity core for a fusion chamber.
Try not to be jealous of the degree of genius I demonstrate on a daily basis.
“I fought the horrendous crowd at our 75,000 ft2 HEB this afternoon and bought a $4.97 rotisserie chicken now. My dog and I just stripped it and ate a quarter of it in the process.”
Did your roti-chick come with legs?
Mine never come with legs.
The Al Bundy Fusion Theory.
Thawed burger, made 3/8-lb patties, tiled twelve of them on the grill, dodged a few raindrops, and ate two on pretzel buns with x-cheddar and bacon. Leftover burgers is a prep, even if they won’t last out the week.
Pro-tip: If you’re going to have a full day, having a bacon cheeseburger for breakfast wil get you through.
I can recommend the Hormel Microwave Bacon. 12-oz, 4 x 4 slices, so you can literally pull a package out and have bacon read in 5-6 minutes. The package is sealed and puffs up during cooking, with all the mess absorbed on a glorified paper towel. I cooked the entire package and made a fried egg sandwich this morning and then the BLT tonight. Had a dinner salad with chicken for lunch, and should have thrown some bacon on that, too.
“Try not to be jealous of the degree of genius I demonstrate on a daily basis.”
Your definition of genius is in my dictionary under a different word.
Small Nation Cut A Deal With China, And Now The Cost Is Becoming All Too Real
https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/05/31/small-nation-cut-a-deal-with-china-and-now-the-cost-is-becoming-all-too-real-n3815458
Two things:
Santa Monica on Lockdown as Mountain Lion Naps in Backyard
There’s a term for this: enpussification.
It is what happens when low-T soyboys and feminazis in the cities think mountain lions are just big kitties.
If I were in Mr. Murin’s shoes the problem would go away. I’m not sure I would have the patience to make it go away to the big city, but it’s an excellent idea. Drop one off in the park with a sign: “Play dates for children and dogs–all breeds.”
Do you make stock with the carcass? Even a bit to dribble on dog’s dry food?
Nah, no interest. I was just fascinated that it was a regular sized bird for $4.97 in the blue and white plastic bag. When I shop at my normal time of 9:30pm, all of the birds are gone and the remainders are converted into chicken salad.
Good:
https://www.americanthinker.com/cartoons/
but do away with the wall and add massive piles in the courtyard and multiple yellow stains on each wall.
Doing a little research I could not find Arthur Hailey’s Hotel (movie) on DVD, until I went to Warner Brothers website and got the link to the Amazon page:
https://www.amazon.com/Hotel-Rod-Taylor/dp/B004DSCPRQ?tag=ttgnet-20
The complete 5-season 114 episode TV series is on DVD. Used copies are just under $60, meeting my typical strike price of fitty cents per episode.
Isn’t Arthur Hailey the guy that did the mini-series called Roots ?
Oh wait, Hailey vs Haley.
Argh. Another paying task came in this evening. Needs to be done by very early morning (Eastern time, not California time). I’m already tired because of working into the night lately, plus the usual mid-night noises. But the pay on offer is enough to get me to stay up all night, so I just put on a pot of coffee.
Linux Mint? I like it – but as I think I’ve mentioned before – every install I have ever done has eventually ended with some sort of weird hard disk error. Every time.
@paul, there is some world class synchronicity going on tonight. On my way home I spent at least 10 minutes thinking about Roots, and why no one ever talks about it or watches it anymore. It was a cultural moment when it came out, but now, gone.
I even made a mental note to ask Greg if he had an idea. Beyond the plagiarism.
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Made it home but the last part of the trip was harrowing. Sunday night is normally pretty calm, but not tonight. People were up my azz, flashing at me to get me to move over so they could rush past into the next jam up. Simultaneous lane changes into the same lane, and one guy kept turning short on the ramp and I was sure he would bounce off the wall right in front of me. I had to sit and calm down for a while when I got here.
n
“I fought the horrendous crowd at our 75,000 ft2 HEB this afternoon and bought a $4.97 rotisserie chicken now. My dog and I just stripped it and ate a quarter of it in the process.”
Did your roti-chick come with legs?
Mine never come with legs.
Two legs, two wings.
Is there something I should know about roti-chicks?
And a hacker in Serbia is trying to crack the security on my software tonight but he is running into a time out. He has been playing with version 16.24a all day. He just emailed me and asked for the latest download password for version 16.27. I don’t think so.
Now he just asked his buddy in Sweden to get the download password from us. Not gonna happen.