Cool and dry? Well, less damp anyway. It is supposed to be clear for the next couple of days and if it’s cool for at least part of the day that will help me enormously.
I got a few things done yesterday. Did my pickups. Stuff for the BOL, the kids, and me. It took up almost my whole afternoon. I see now where all my time was going. I’m working on that, but can’t stop completely.
I did get the grass mowing finished, and I did some electronics troubleshooting. And I cooked dinner. That has to count for something. There was kid taxi service as well.
Today will be more of the same, with some extras thrown in. I’ve still got the list after all.
Stack useful things, not just obligations and tasks you’ll never get to. Just saying…
nick
W’s birthday is coming up, so I better start thinking about that.
Good morning!
Off presently to get measured for new orthopaedic insoles for my shoes. Not cheap, but I highly recommend getting good ones. There is a day and night difference in comfort compared to shoes as-bought, even good quality ones.
Stark self defence food for thought from LawDog: https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/everyone-is-a-lesson
Beat me again. Although I have been up quite awhile. Just did not get around to posting.
Friday I will be going through the BMW Museum. One of the things recommended to see in Munich. Most of the other recommendations I have already seen.
I did watch the Apple presentation yesterday. Came on about 7:00 PM here. About the only item that I am interested in are the AirPods 3. The better noise cancelling is compelling as is the better fit.
The Watch and iPhone have nothing new that I want. In fact, the watch is missing blood oxygen that I currently on my series 9 watch. I need that more than the new blood pressure monitoring.\
The iPhone Air, pfft. I don’t need thin. The iPhone 17, with the exception of the cameras, has nothing that I need or want. Even the cameras are not something that I need. The ProRes video codec is interesting, if I was doing videos.
I have found that my iPhone support six eSims. I have turned off my US eSim while using the European eSim. I will reverse that process when I land in Atlanta. With Xfinity as messed as they are, it may not work. Last time when I swapped physical SIMs it screwed up my Xfinity account.
eSIMs.
W1 and my brother highly recommended using an outfit called Maya Mobile. My phone is too basic to take an eSIM, so I haven’t tested them myself.
In his late teens and early twenties, The Male Child used to call me Old Man in an attempt to annoy me. Each time, I’d suggest we wait thirty years and see which of us was holding up better. Each time, he’d turn away with a disgruntled look. He’s stopped calling me Old Man and has started referring to me as a freak of nature because I’m holding up really well whereas he’s already having to be careful because his knees hurt and he has to watch what he eats because his metabolism is not what it was when he was twenty.
Despite my jokes, I’m not anxious to outlive another child but it’s a real possibility.
Fire ants. Geez, don’t remind me. Nasty buggers, and when I left Texas I was getting increasing allergic to them. The last time, three bites and my foot was swollen like a melon.
I get that judges need some immunity. However, there has to be an exception in the case of blatant malpractice. It will also be interesting to see if people can prove that she was freeing people on the condition that they go to the rehabilitation center that she runs. That would be criminal corruption.
Anyway, whatever happened to “three strikes”?
So tired of hearing crap like that. We get it here too: Immigrant commits crime, but is let off because of psychological problems.
It doesn’t matter. Low-IQ/low-impulse-control? Socially disadvantaged? Mentally ill? It just doesn’t matter. You cannot let violent savages walk around freely.
My cousins in West Texas are making up for that. They tend to have big families – I think one of them had seven children, who are now busily creating the next generation. That said, I’m not sure that West Texas culture is what we really want spreading. :-/
Well, someone has to work late, it might as well be the fox đ
Right before that at about 1:28. Jackman was genuinely nervous about people accepting him as Wolverine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f50BJGMHboo
He owns the part now, but it wasn’t always that way. Contrast Jackman of that era to the antics of Pedro Pascal this summer selling his role in âThe Fantastic Fourâ.
The individuals who built Texas Renaissance Festival and the Central Texas Furry culture have deep roots in TAMU going back at least 40 years. You just weren’t paying attention.
Find the âRenn Fairâ documentary on HBO Max.
Apparently âKing Georgeâ died within the last few months.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW4_pi_xr2I
Using whose designs? Qualcomm’s garbage?
My employer and the other major vendors sell ARM Windows laptops. No one is interested except hardcore CPU nerds who want to play âShow Yaâ games.
Trump was right to preserve Intel, regardless of his motivations at the time. The monkey trick still rides on Intel CPUs/chipsets, and even Nvidia has not been able to offer a viable ARM solution.
Someone was playing a game with INTC stock which would have eventually seen the company become a subsidiary of Broadcom or ⌠Qualcomm! That would have had serious national security concerns.
Ask the VMware customers who bet their futures on the vSphere Hot Skillz how the new licensing terms are working out for them under Broadcom.
Remember, the same decision makers at the institutional investment firms behind the current games manipulating Intel stock were responsible for Taco Julie becoming CEO of Cracker Barrel.
65F and saturated this morning. Looks clear though, so should warm a bit.
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D1 is home today based on fever yesterday. I will still be running errands. They grow up so quickly.
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D2 has a pep rally tonight, so we’ll be doing that for dinner. The school does a recognition thing for seniors and fall sports team members.
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The democrat leadership is following the insurgent handbook. Make things so bad the people will accept any changeâŚ
I don’t think it will work for them as we have a long history of making a different choice– kill everyone, let God sort them out.
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Chip fabs are the ball bearing plants of Hogan’s Heros, and real life WWII strategy in Germany. They’re in everything. So they are vulnerable, but IDK if they are AS important as leadership thinks. I’m pretty sure they are on a personal level, and we need domestic production, and I’d rather not find out if I’m right or wrong.
I’d bet all the stuff you need to set up a chip fab is chinese controlled anyway.
Do we even make filter paper?
n
The description says English. Dubbed in French. Spanish subtitles. Sounds pretty good. It’s in the cart, just need more stuff to get free shipping.
D1 has swollen throat and 101.3F fever this am. Definitely sick.
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n
If you want low budget fun from Scandinavia, see what âSisuâ goes for currently. Iâve passed along the recommendation here before.
Again, if you are concerned, nothing happens to the girls or the little dog.
The dog is back in the sequel coming in November.
YouTube has the trailers for both.
I’ll second Sisu. Free on youtube.
n
Some of us knew this was a disaster in slow motion. The numbers listed for content are stunning to me. Even back in the 80s we used to say it was ânot your hippy kinda dope.â To see how far it’s come from then is scary.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15081421/Dirty-habit-followed-62million-Americans-linked-psychosis.html
Vapes at 95% scares the crap out of me.
n
re: CCW insurance
I researched this a few years ago, and I went with US Lawshield, back when it was Texas Lawshield.
I have no strong arguments that it’s better or worse than any of the others, except I haven’t heard any horror stories about it like I have for some of the others. Hopefully, I’ll never need it.
I carry in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, and Missouri. And due to a quirk in Illinois law, I carry in my truck (but not on my person) in Illinois. I just have to remember not to take any banned firearms along in that wretched state.
I may have occasion to visit Colorado and California some day. That will suck.
I also use US Law Shield, previously TX LawâŚ
They sponsored some really good and useful classes here. The emergency gunshot treatment one was worth that year’s premium almost by itself.
I will carry in Florida and Michigan.
I kept my Cali residency for the first couple of years after I moved here, so that if things didn’t work out, I could still move back with my regulated in Cali gubs. Cali has a strong gub culture, it’s just out shouted by the antis, and hobbled by âmay issueâ.
n
Sisu 2 comes out shortly.
On Apple stuff: Like Mr. Ray, Iâm only peaked about AirPods Pro 3. The claimed 2x better ANC and better fit is attractive. I havenât checked out the Apple Watch Ultra 3 yet. I might be interested.
All the OS â26â updates hit by Monday.
Larry Ellison is batsh*t insane.
Beer money. ORCL should have tanked this morning based on earnings.
This sucker is (eventually) going down.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/10/climate/heat-waves-fossil-fuel-majors
A result that had to find and create a study to collaborate. This is not science. I am certain that the major oil companies were targeted while rejecting other sources. Perhaps that massive concrete island called New York might be part of the problem.
I per-ordered my pair using my VA discount. With tax it still came out to $245.00. They should arrive a week from Friday. I will be back from Europe. Now what to do with the AirPods 2?
No USB-C cable in the box. Cheap-out by Apple but I have enough cables. I suppose most people do at this point. People grumbled about getting rid of the charger. That was not a big deal as I wound up throwing four chargers away, I used Anker chargers with more ports when traveling. The Apple chargers stay in the house.
I have been running OS 26, watch, phone, iPad, MacBook, since the public bets were available. I find nothing significant other than the change in the look. Maybe I am not sophisticated enough like Mr. ATOZ to use all the new features. The icons and interface with the Liquid Glass is sometimes odd, sometimes good, sometimes horrible, depending on the location and what is needed. How much more CPU time that rendering takes I don’t know.
I have no interest in the iPhone 17 and will wait until the iPhone 18. One thing is for certain. I will pay full price and not be locked into a cellular provider. I did it with Xfinity because I got $840.00 for my two year old iPhone 13 Pro. It was a good deal. Being locked in for two years was more annoying than I thought.
Piqued, is my anal grammar police thrill for today.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/piqued
I will let myself out.
I’ll upgrade to the AirPods Pro 3 as well. It will be interesting to see how the translation feature works.
The Ghost of OFD. I said peaked because they sexually aroused me.
I find the Files app makes the iPad more PC like. Apple added more file structure, folders, etc. With Tailscale I can download files from my NAS right to the iPad+ while on the road, through the Files app.
My old iPhone 11 will (supposedly) support iOS 26 but not the AI. I say supposedly because Apple was proven themselves willing to deliberately damage the user experience on older devices to get a few more sales of a new device.
I strongly suspect that the new interface will be unpleasant for people with vision issues such as myself.
For a while I had an android tablet with a beautiful interface that sounds a lot like what Apple is attempting. It was beautiful to look at – but a pain in the butt to use – and I eventually stopped using it.
So to be honest I am not looking forward to replicating that experience with my brand new 13 inch iPad.
It would be cool if my NAS could replace iCloud. There are apps to backup everything, but syncing all devices like iCloud is lacking. Apple isnât giving up that sweet cloud cash.
And that sweet data mining. Even if Apple’s engineers aren’t able to see the content of the files stored on the cloud, a claim which I am skeptical of, the patterns of upload and access would be worth something.
Well, then. As I said, more sophisticated than I.
Wait until IOS 26 arrives on your iPad. It may be an orgasmic experience to go with your peak when realize you can minimize, restore, resize, and move APP windows. I find it annoying as sometimes an app window, becomes a window, with three small dots, just like the MAC.
For the most part it is OK. The MAC works just fine, the watch OK, the iPad OK. Some buttons on the iPhone get difficult to see depending on the background. Maybe the final release version will resolve some of this. The first iteration was terrible with subsequent releases getting better.
Yeh, other options would be nice. But $2.99 (no tax) each month is not too bad. Considering that it syncs all my devices, syncs some items with my wife’s account, and provides more than enough space to backup for my wife’s iPhone/iPad and my systems.
To set up a NAS systems, that can sync outside my home lan, with security, would cost several years of what I pay for iCloud. And I would have to maintain the system. iCloud just works.
Might better check on her swain. It’s probably coincidental timing but it’s best to be sure.
Based on the millions of uploads and downloads from millions of customers I suspect my information gets lost in the shuffle. I am no more concerned than I am with Xfinity and Google looking at my email, the sources, and perhaps even the contents to glean what information they can get. Then sell the information, anonymously of course (chuckle, chuckle).
I trust Apple more than I do the other providers as Apple has a specific policy. Other’s policies are more like âwe do nothing with your data* without a warrantâ.
*Unless money is involved and then we can be bought by anyone with enough cash.
The dirty secret of iCloud is how much of it depends on Azure.
Agreed. Mental handicaps, real or imagined, are a challenge to be overcome, not an excuse to behave like an animal.
Nor are they an excuse for bad parenting. No, your four-year-old isn’t ripping up all of the magazines in the waiting room because he has ADHD, it’s because you’re a blubberina who can’t be bothered to look up from your phone to keep an eye on him, let alone lever your three-foot-wide bottom out of the chair to pull him away from the magazine stack.
Watch out for âterms subject to change without notice at our sole discretionâ in the contract, license agreement, or terms of use.
Well, kid popped for flu and strep. Amoxicillin should be ready for pickup in an hour or two. Soup and bed rest, no school ’til next week. Tylenol as desired for pain.
Her date says he’s feeling fine.
Practitioner said it is sweeping thru local schools. It’s only the second full week, so I’m not surprised. She said âeveryone has been here from every school todayâŚâ
n
Yeh, well, if Apple wants to sell my dick pictures, I will just superimpose your name on all the images. The NCAA has payment for NIL, maybe Apple will do the same for you.
Ok. I found a movie called Sisu on Big River. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C29M3SS4?tag=ttgnet-20
There’s another movie with the same name but Greg recommending a movie about riding bicycles around Maine would be bizarre.
Assume the linked movie is what Greg is talking about. I see nothing about girls or the little dog. But one of the reviews say âJohn Wick meets WW-II.â Oh!
And heyâŚ.. isn’t that how John Wick started? His wife died and while stealing the Mustang some gopnik killed his beagle puppy, Daisy, just for fun?
Does the left WANT to start a civil war?
This is how you start a civil war.
Yup, thatâs the one.
Can I ignore the two new to-do items if I posted them on the wrong day??
No, huh, okay, fineâŚ
>>The list gets longer, and Iâm not making progress. Iâll work on that today.
My tally so far for today is one task completed and two more added â net in the wrong direction. Having a chronic illness doesnât help sometimesâŚ
âPodcasters and OnlyFans Creators Stand to Win Big Under Trumpâs Tax Lawâ
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/podcasters-onlyfans-creators-stand-win-140000479.html?guccounter=1
â(Bloomberg) — Katherine Green, a dominatrix who creates online adult videos, wasnât expecting a windfall from President Donald Trumpâs signature push to make tips tax-free.â
âThe Houston-based OnlyFans Ltd. creator, who goes by the title Mistress professionally, is not a waitress, a rideshare driver or a golf caddy â professions typically associated with tipping. But new Treasury Department guidelines on Trumpâs tax law include digital content creators like Green on the break.â
I need to figure out how get paid in tips.
That makes two in a row on the wrong dateâŚ
>>That does help although having all my eggs in one basket, being carried by a 16yo with an inflated sense of ability is its own kind of nervewracking.
Just being a parentâŚgetting their DL spikes the timeline a bitâŚand the spike ends, well, âturning in their DLâ is an event you (hopefully) get to miss.
In between, we try not to worry too muchâŚ
Okay, now back to WednesdayâŚ
BREAKINGâŚ
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/charlie-kirk-shot-utah-valley-university
Start doing circumcisions.
I am going to get my right eye cataract replaced on Oct 7. I have to decide which lens to get. The list is:
Any advice ?
My wife has distance in her left eye and reading in her right eye. That concept just freaks me out since I currently use my left eye for distance with glasses and for reading without glasses. My right eye is very weak compared to my left eye. I am leaning towards the multifocal lens.
I also have to pay a $1,500 laser fee and a $300 ORA (Optiwave refractive analysis) fee.
Start doing circumcisions.
Dude, not those kind of tips !
âThe backlash grows against crime – and spreads to entire racesâ
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-backlash-grows-against-crime-and.html
âI think President Trump spoke for the majority of Americans in his comments yesterday about the murder of a young Ukrainian woman on a North Carolina transit system. His statement is very brief, but I hope all my readers will take a couple of minutes to listen to it.â
“An equally tragic situation is arising in terms of relations between racial and ethnic groups in this country. More and more people are unequivocally equating criminal violence with black crime and black violence. Eric S. Raymond pointed out yesterday:”
https://x.com/esrtweet/status/1964680074076078188
I have black friends at church. They are unhappy with blacks causing the majority of crimes also. To me there are good people and bad people. For whites, the bad people percentage is (SWAG) 10%. For blacks, the bad people percentage is (SWAG) 50%. SWAG is Scientific Wild Ass Guess. Do not turn your back on a bad person, Iryna Zarutska found that out the hard way.
Stark self defence food for thought from LawDog: https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/everyone-is-a-lesson
Yup, that is the âhave a plan to kill everyone that you meetâ philosophy. Not bad in the low trust society that we are becoming.
Go for the top of the line. Vision is everything. Donât skimp.
Get the multifocal lens, like Mr. Ray says.
My LASIK was mono vision. My right eye is distance, left eye reading. But my vision at the time probably wasnât as desperate as yours. My brain interpolates so I donât close one eye. Interestingly, when I take the DMV vision test, the one where you look in the box, I do have to close one eye to read the second half of the letters. Not looking forward to that when I get my NV license. âSir, you are blind, canât even read the 20/40 correctly.â Texas switched to a guy holding up a piece of paper with letters on it.
As Ray says: Don’t skimp.
A few thousand dollars is nothing in the long run.
But nothing experimental.
On the Charlie Kirk shooting: The PLT LSM are already blaming it on Kirk himself for âhateâ speech.
Is there any doubt the shooter is a tranny? Or at least a PLT freak.
The DM is reporting Charlie Kirk is dead. I hope they find the shooter and kill him in a shoot out.
A guy with a wife and two young kids goes around and debates on college campuses. The PLTs are so threatened they assassinate him.
I am done with PLTs, trannies, lefty Dumbos. Fcuk them. They will get no respect from me. Kirkâs debates were respectful. The screaming libs for commies, trannies, etc. are telling.
And of course, jew them down on the price?
Huh. Astigmatism is not just a lens problem? I guess that makes sense.
Sometimes the fingernail sliver of a Moon that would hold water is just a couple of crescents with my right eye. Other times I’ve counted 15 crescents. Maybe BP makes a difference?
“Vivity / Panoptix multifocal lens, also corrects astigmatism, will correct both distance and reading, may not require glasses, $2,400
I also have to pay a $1,500 laser fee and a $300 ORA (Optiwave refractive analysis) fee.”
So what’s the probelm? Spend the five grand with included taxes and eye drops and get your eye fixed. And spend it again when it is time for your other eye.
BECAUSE why have you busted your butt to make money for your whole life? Surely not for a nicer car or leave lots of money to your heirs.
Get your eyes fixed to the best tech. You’re worth it even if you feel wasteful spending money on you, yourself.
Sheesh. Dude. Just do it. Don’t count the pennies.
@Lynn:
My experience with LAL lenses implant went swimmingly. The surgery was quick, painless and drug free. The first visit after surgery corrected astigmatism, the next two corrected vision better and better. I’d been wearing glasses since first grade and passed my driving license exam a few weeks ago without anything remarkable, glasses free. In theory, Medicare paid for the exams and surgery but I paid $4K per lens out of pocket. My left eye is set for distance, right for close.
Ten for one.
Just to pile on.
Lynn, you have a chunk o’ property with a couple of decent sized buildings and a couple of little buildings, like 14 acres and you want, I forget if 1.4 or 4.1 million bucks. Out of my price range.
Spend the money on your eyes. You can afford it. I can afford it.
I dropped way too much to have carpet replaced with vinyl plank stuff. Then had them back to do the hall way. I grumped about it but paying bill was just âclicky click and doneâ. For flooring.
I believe that they do. Even though we have all the guns, and âtheyâ do not.
What he said. Vision is primordial. Pay for the best option available.
I spent the evening unboxing a high-end Hi-Fi / home cinema system from Teufel, a German company. The amp is a Denon, and the CD player a Yamaha. So far, I am impressed with the quality of manufacture of the speakers, and the fit and finish in general. Even small parts that will never be visible after installation are nicely made. Lots of attention to detail. I think it will be a good setup.
Next step will be to mock it up, with the components in more or less the correct places in the room, then give some thought to routing the cables and locating the subwoofer. Am debating with myself whether to mount the main speakers on rubber feet or on hard spikes with washer-like pucks.
Just listened to the German radio news before bed. I had not heard before of Charlie Kirk. It is no good sign for the state of the polity in the US that a young conservative man is murdered for speaking on a university campus. It looks like the left are becoming increasingly desperate and unhinged.
âFor flooring. â
Almost five grand. for flooring. Oy. But it looks nice.
Within the last year, I watched âBroadcasting Christmasâ without complaint.
We went to Maine as part of our trip to the Boston region last fall. I like to watch the ferry come and go at the live feed from this restaurant.
https://islandlobsterco.com/
Peaks Island was one of the stops on our trip, but everything was closed for the season, including the Island Lobster Co.
Becoming? They’ve been desperate and unhinged for decades.
Lynn, you have a chunk oâ property with a couple of decent sized buildings and a couple of little buildings, like 14 acres and you want, I forget if 1.4 or 4.1 million bucks. Out of my price range.
Spend the money on your eyes. You can afford it. I can afford it.
I dropped way too much to have carpet replaced with vinyl plank stuff. Then had them back to do the hall way. I grumped about it but paying bill was just âclicky click and doneâ. For flooring.
Yeah, I’ve got quite a bit in several banks, makes me worried about a bank failure so I distribute around the place. And quite a bit of properties and shares of companies, almost eight figures. We are not hurting but my wife is very concerned about the long term, 20 years plus. Her Âź Native American grandmother lived to be 94, her ½ Native American grandmother lived to be 86.
But I am concerned about the quality of vision of the multifocal lens for a programmer. I am wondering if you give up some distance vision for the intermediate (computer screen) and close (reading) vision.
This marketing looks promising for a programmer, âThe ClareonÂŽ VivityÂŽ Lens allows you to see clearly at far and intermediate distances with functional near vision,1 so that you can immerse yourself in a full range of activitiesâall while relying less on glassesâ:
https://www.myalcon.com/cataracts/clareon-iols/vivity/
and so does this trifocal lens, âClareonÂŽ PanOptixÂŽ is an advanced type of trifocal lens that uses ENLIGHTENÂŽ technology, to help optimize vision at intermediate and distance, while still maintaining exceptional vision for both near and far distances.â:
https://www.myalcon.com/cataracts/clareon-iols/panoptix/
RIP Charlie Kirk. The guy was legend online.
n
My cousins in West Texas are making up for that. They tend to have big families â I think one of them had seven children, who are now busily creating the next generation. That said, Iâm not sure that West Texas culture is what we really want spreading. :-/
Why not ? Most of my wife’s relatives only have one car up on blocks in the front yard.
There is a very high percentage of Native Americans in west Texas. Her uncle who fought for Patton lived to be 99, he was surprised to make it out of Europe and back to the USA. Apparently staring a Panzer tank directly in the barrel is bad for your health.
Trailer for the first film showing the little dog and the girls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NnPzpuU5ao
Trailer for the sequel showing the dog, alive and riding shotgun in the truck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmStqCXIgio
Amazon had the first film for less than $10 until recently. I sailed the high seas to see it but settled kharma by purchasing a physical copy.
Sick. The political violence has been almost entirely from the left. BLM? Riots. Seattle? Riots and takeovers with kids shot dead. Cameraman’s security shot dead at a rally. Occupy Wallstreet? Rapes and assaults.
And that’s leaving aside the attacks on the Congressional softball game, and the three attempts to kill Trump.
n
The would be Trump assassin in Florida went on trial this week.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/politics/ryan-routh-trial-florida
Even if Routh skates on Federal charges, DeSantis and Ashley Moody have him locked up on a very narrowly crafted set of state charges.
Amazon has been clearing out physical media as of late.
Chip fabs are the ball bearing plants of Hoganâs Heros, and real life WWII strategy in Germany. Theyâre in everything. So they are vulnerable, but IDK if they are AS important as leadership thinks. Iâm pretty sure they are on a personal level, and we need domestic production, and Iâd rather not find out if Iâm right or wrong.
Every car and truck made or sold in the USA has at least 100 cpus in it. Most of those cpus sell for $10 or less. And most of them are made in Taiwan or mainland China.
Trailer for the first film showing the little dog and the girls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NnPzpuU5ao
Trailer for the sequel showing the dog, alive and riding shotgun in the truck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmStqCXIgio
The first Sisu movie was a bloodbath. I loved it.
I don’t know about Denon. Never heard anything bad. Yamaha rocks.
Sony is variable. Optical drives of various kinds from LaserDisc through BlueRay are great. Trinitron TVs are benchmark. Boom boxes are great. Stereo receivers, not so much. Receivers just don’t sound right. Decent stuff but the sound is âoffâ.
But I’m a Yamaha fan.
Oh, yeah,. Turntables. Wanna go there” Dual. The best.
Intel’s US fabs? Yes, they are important to keep on shore.
Trump did the right thing getting a piece of Intel large enough to probably pick up a board seat.
Someone has been playing a game with INTC for about a year.
The dirty secret of the monkey trick is that nothing currently gets made here, including final assembly of the server boxes.
âTrump did the right thing getting a piece of Intel large enough to probably pick up a board seat.â
Could be but my understanding is that it is all non-voting stock. In other word, the Gov didn’t give Intel eleventy billion bucks with nothing in return beyond a pinky swear. Like bailing out GM.
Sure, there will be some ânudge nudge and wink wink â crap. But the US gov has a share of Intel now and wellâŚ.
âAdvanced M9 Plus Compact Desktop PC with 2.1-Inch Display, 1TB NVMe SSD Intel i9-12900HK (14C/20T, 5.0GHz), 32GB DDR4 RAM, Triple 4K Display, WiFi 6, BT 5.2, USB-C/Thunderboltâ
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DMZZ48VL?tag=ttgnet-20
OK, at $500, I am tempted to replace my home pc with this. Very tempted.
But how do I connect a cd-rom to it ? usb external ?
And can I install a second internal drive for backups ?
I think the left believes the right will shout and then grumble and then shut up. Because the left believes they have the monopoly on political violence. Their mistake is not understanding that the right views political violence differently, that while the left imagines a dial, the right imagines a switch. Charlie Kirk, plus Iryna Zarutska, may be enough to flip the switch. I’ll say I hope not, but I will not bet on that.
I think the left believes the right will shout and then grumble and then shut up. Because the left believes they have the monopoly on political violence. Their mistake is not understanding that the right views political violence differently, that while the left imagines a dial, the right imagines a switch. Charlie Kirk, plus Iryna Zarutska, may be enough to flip the switch. Iâll say I hope not, but I will not bet on that.
My brother and I were talking about this earlier. We were wondering how you tell who is on which side ?
My brother lives in Chicago. He does not go outside after dark. Nor does he take the train anywhere after dark.
Lynn,
I had my cataract surgery performed in the fall of 2022 at the tender age of 68. I also have astigmatism and my left eye is significantly weaker than my right eye. I had been using glasses beginning about 10 years prior. My cataracts had been present for at least five years prior to my surgery. One year before my surgery, reading became very difficult and I needed to use a magnifying glass with my glasses on to read a computer screen.
I opted for the Vivity multifocal lens. There were several choices for multifocal, close up and mid-distance or mid-distance and long distance. The doctor warned me that I would probably still need glasses for whichever distance range I did not choose. So I picked the mid-distance and long distance, figuring I was already using glasses anyway. Each eye was done separately, with several weeks between surgeries. In the end, I could drive without glasses and read road signs, etc. I can also read my phone and computer screen without glasses most of the time. Sometimes for finer print, I still need glasses.
One unexpected problem after the surgery was that my eye pressures, which had always been normal, we reading above normal range. To correct this, the doctor put me on a couple of different eye drops for several weeks. I still visit him twice a year for monitoring. There is lots more I can say, but I’ve already rambled on too long. Feel free to ask me anything about the surgery.
My late wife wore coke bottle thick glasses from age 8 until she had cataract surgery at age 68. We opted for the best they had, (details escape me). She never wore glasses again and couldn’t have been more pleased.
I had 20/10 vision until I was in my late 40s. I got to where I needed cataract surgery in my early 70s and my eyes were 20/20. The same doctor did my eyes and I went the cheap route. I need glasses for reading but worse than that, is I have âshadowsâ. Everything is like a shadow font. One eye is slighty down and two the left and the other is to the right. At night instead of seeing two tail lights on the car in front of I see 4 lights. Detail work is very hard. I have to be very careful about taking measurements or marking the spot to cut or drill. The doctor acknowledged my problem but had no suggestions.
Somewhere there may ne someone looking at a list. Someone has to be at the top. I hope it is ILGov.
I don’t THINK that the âswitchâ has been flipped from âpeaceful debateâ to âall-out civil warâ, but it’s clear that a number of lefties are leaning heavily on that switch. And they HAVE BEEN for years now.
Which was one of the MANY reasons why we bailed out of Cacafornia 5 years ago. Because when Texas secedes and becomes the Republic of Texas, I wanted to already BE here.
How about having a service for Charlie Kirk at the National Cathedral? When the Dems onject, they should be told that he is more worthy than Biden will ever be, and ask them to consider âŚ
Put Charlie on a stamp and on a U.S. Quarter.
Civil War: When the left and the right are fighting each other
Massacre: When the left is fighting the right and the right is not fighting back
After due consideration I am going to revise and just make a wish list for the top 5.
Second nominee: Marc Elias
The left wants to push things until a pretty co-ed from a âgoodâ school is shot dead on camera by police or, better, a member of a National Guard unit.
At that point, it will be Game Over for the right for at least a generation.
Faux News and I Heart Radio are already laying the groundwork for such a shift.
@Denis
Agree with your advice to @Lynn: Vision is worth paying for the best.
3rd nominee:
Tie between stale morning joke and staler late-night merkin-face
Because when Texas secedes and becomes the Republic of Texas, I wanted to already BE here.
â This. I figure I’ll have a Texas passport at some point in the future. It’s hard to predict the timeline, but I believe it’s coming. And it will probably come from the lefty cities, which is even better.
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This has been the case through most of modern history
and the right realizes it too lateâŚ
I don’t want a civil war, as the battle lines aren’t geographic. It’ll be guerrilla and terror tactics and everyone will be on the front lines.
But it’s coming. As is a global realignment.
Stack.
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Lynn, IMO, there is no âbestâ option for your cataract lens implants. Allow me to explain.
First, all of us are individuals, with different needs and preferences. What I might like could drive you crazy, and vice versa. Here are some things to ponder.
Multifocal lenses are said to have improved a lot over the last ten or so years. When I chose my distant eye implant 12 years ago, my docâs description of multifocal lenses really turned me off because I value my night vision and driving against oncoming headlights. I instead chose an implant with a hinge that was supposed to allow it to accommodate (focus) using the eyeâs ciliary muscle. It was a gamble, which did not work for me, BUT I now have a fixed focus lens that is a full aperture, single focal length lens. There are no visual artifacts as with the multifocal lens I was offered. Donât worry about the name: it is obsolete, no longer available, and I wouldnât recommend it anyway.
You said you have astigmatism. Definitely get that corrected if you want crisp vision, BUT a small amount of astigmatism can make focus errors seem less annoying. OR, more annoying, depending on axis and other factors. I canât tell. I have been through that, and would definitely correct the astigmatism. I now have some more astigmatism, but it works with my other eye for improved binocular vision. There is no guarantee how you will fare or react. See Bob Sprowlâs comment at 22:13.
You mentioned an eye corrected for distant or near vision. That implies monovision. If you donât already have that, and you donât seem to, DO NOT jump in without testing because it will be hard to replace the implants if you donât like your outcome. Monovision can only be tested by wearing contact lenses, not glasses. In my case, it took me slightly over the maximum of three months for it to start working. That was over 35 years ago, and I love it. I kept it after cataract surgery.
That implies you will get a LASIK, a SMILE, or a PRK touchup after your cataract surgery. I had that on one eye, with excellent results.
-OR-
Consider Light Adjustable Lenses, similar to Nightraker at 17:43. My wife had those done a year ago, and she had excellent results. Wish they had been available for me.
-BUT WAIT-
My wife went to a practice that employs optometrists in addition to ophthalmologists. The optometrists are vision specialists, and the ophthalmologists are the surgeons. They work together to get a superior outcome. I canât emphasize this enough. Her optometrist is one of the best I have ever seen. She had started with a different practice, but quit when the ophthalmologist tried to talk her out of her monovision. She has had it for over 35 years, and wanted to keep it.
Finally, you might want to step back and reconsider your options. Time spent up front could prevent regret later. Although it is possible, removing an implant and replacing it with something different is apparently very rare. Until something changes, consider cataract surgery a once in a lifetime event.
I wish you the best. As someone here said, get the best you can.
@Nick
âwatch is missing blood oxygen that I currently on my series 9 watchâ
Patent dispute. 99% that capability is there and can be turned on in future. Question is whether they can bork older devices if they think it is economically advantageous.
@Nick
âbattle lines arenât geographic.â
Not as pure as WBTS, but looking at county level there are a majority of states where the blue infection is a city disease, and food and energy are mostly not produced there. Ever read Mike Williamson?
List of memes:
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/09/memes-that-made-me-laugh-277.html?m=1
I think cabbage wins. .
11 September.
Never forgive. Never forget.
I won’t forget. We were speaking with colleagues at the WTC when the first plane hit.
That implies you will get a LASIK, a SMILE, or a PRK touchup after your cataract surgery. I had that on one eye, with excellent results.
The laser is used to fry the old lens. Better than him cutting the old lens out.
The eye surgeon has fixed both of my wife’s cataracts (gave her monovision that she loves). No touchup needed. He is 72 and has done about 20,000 cataracts (SWAG). He did one of my dads and both of my mothers.
Thanks to all for the good advice !!!
I’ve noticed recently that my vision has become somewhat better over the last year or so, and I can see better without either my old correction or my more recent one, except that I have more astigmatism (as measured by my eyes reacting to oncoming headlights at night). I now drive in daytime with non-prescription sunglasses, and can see better, including reading road signs. At night, still need the glasses, even though I don’t see as well with them now.