Cold again. And damp. And there is a chance that it won’t be clear. Clear and sunny really helps. It helped yesterday. I had a few hours of nice enough weather to do some outside work.
I was able to cut the grass in the back yard. I’ve been slowly cleaning up the patio so I can get back to using the shelves and cabinets to store food and supplies. I did a bit more of that before the sun went down. That was followed by some computer time. Not a lot of stuff got done, but I had some gastric issues and didn’t want to be far from home.
Sometimes it be that way.
Today though, I need to get some stuff done. Even if I’m only poking at little things, I have been making slow progress. I just need to keep moving.
Just keep swimming, just keep swimming…
Just keep stacking, just keep stacking… but … remember the reasons why.
nick
Graphics files don’t zip well, and moving things around on the SD card makes the flash memory wear out faster.
Gonna need a bigger boat -er- flash drive. What is the maximum the phone supports?
Another possibility is jpegoptim, but that is a command line tool on Linux. I think Cygwin has a port.
Do you set the SD card as internal storage of the phone or can you eject the drive and use another card?
Most of the Landman locations are in and around Fort Worth, including the Patch Cafe.
If you make a pilgrimage, the landlords are working to turn the cafe building into an actual bar/restaurant, but I don’t think they are done yet.
If you’re going down the Taylor Sheridan rabbit hole, try “Tulsa King”.
I don’t remember if you were a fan of HBO’s “Silicon Valley”. Martin Starr is part of the main cast of “Tulsa King”, and his character is not unfamiliar.
Instead of Pappy Reserve, this iteration of Guilfoyle is into weed.
@greg, I’m seeing errors on some photos too. I think it is time for a new card. Assuming the errors are on the card, and not internal memory. I have the camera app set to the card normally. In theory, everything is backed up on google, but in practice, the corrupted photos are backed up to google along with the uncorrupted. I think it was a good quality card, but a phone is a harsh environment.
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39F this morning. Coffee is brewing.
Kid2 was sluggabed this am, kid1 is moving like she’s been up for an hour.
n
“First Blood”, like a lot of 80s classics, was a bomb until it hit home video and, more importantly, HBO, where most people saw it for the first time. The DVD release came relatively late, and you’ll probably have better luck finding it as part of a Stallone collection or “Rambo” box set.
IIRC, the home video rights for the first movie were complicated whereas the later films were made with post-theatrical release in mind.
Whenever Stallone gets asked about “Party at Kitty and Studs”, the Swedish soft porn … classic … which gave him the “Italian Stallion” nickname, his response is usually about his never being paid for the off-the-books screenings which established the flick’s reputation and put money in the director’s pocket in the wake of Stallone’s “Rocky” success but no one else’s.
If it looks like a duck, but, more importantly, quacks like a duck …
I don’t know. I don’t care.
The sleep specialist I saw was lousy. I resisted the impulse to walk out when I walked into the lobby of the office and saw a shelf unit stacked with weight loss supplements.
Number One Daughter who disappointed father by not being born boy but, okay, she go to med school. She still a girl. Make money, though, selling tubby redneck useless weight loss powders.
My wife gets the same cr*p from her Chinese relations, especially Number One (boy) Cousin.
Number One Cousin is Number One Son and family boss. He didn’t go to med school because he bombed the MCATs despite the many beatings in his youth.
Study harder!
BTW, the sleep clinic went out of business last month. God only knows where my records ended up.
the sleep clinic went out of business last month. God only knows where my records ended up.
— if it’s like gub stores, the G sweeps them all up and scans them into a database.
n
Ah, Asian culture at it’s best. With variations, of course: India ≠ China. The parents get really shocked when kids grew up in the West and say “no”. Not being the parents’ retirement plan, etc..
We’ve had less of that in Europe, but more of the Islamic flavor. However, now that the EU has basically handed India unlimited immigration rights, well…it’s coming. Does the EU not know how to read population numbers? Population of India: 1.5 billion. Population of the EU: 450,000. Do EU countries really want to commit cultural suicide? I mean, on top of what they have already done with the Islamic immigrants?
Switzerland is voting next month on an initiative to restrict population growth. It would ultimately require us to cancel the free-movement agreement with the EU. Well, if certain conditions are met, which inevitably will be. Here’s hoping it passes…
FWIW: It’s not only the Islamic immigrants and (soon) Indian immigrants. With apologies to Denis: there are also too many Germans here. I just met a couple of tourists in our town. They spoke purest “Hannover”, and had trouble understanding Swiss German. Talking to them, it turns out that they’ve lived and worked in Switzerland for 25 years, but in a bubble of other Germans.
EU immigrants also need to integrate into the local culture, and it just doesn’t happen when you have too many from the same place.
Mr. ATOZ, VA disability pay CAN be included on the form that computes state tax deduction. There is a line (for TurboTax) where untaxed income can be input.
Evidence suggests that the self-proclaimed elites want to destroy European society and arguably the people. Either that or they’re morons.
Dense fog in the lowlands. Two hour or more school delays. Sunny parts of California are having a heat wave, highs in the 80. Afternoon here gets sunny and into the 60s.
The Artemis II “wet dress rehearsal” is starting today.
Sadly, for the teenage-boys-at-heart out there, it is nowhere near as risqué as it sounds.
“He’s in the Guards, and his father uses him as a waste paper basket.”
Do EU countries really want to commit cultural suicide? I mean, on top of what they have already done with the Islamic immigrants?
—Their actions say “yes”. John Wilder is timely…
https://wilderwealthywise.com/great-replacement/
n
Embrace the power of “and”.
Haha. There are arguably too many Germans everywhere!
No need to apologise, I can actually manage Schwiizerdütsch reasonably well, at least passively. Actively speaking a dialect one did not learn at home takes some immersion time, and I have sadly not had the opportunity to spend enough quality time in CH, despite having family there. I do imagine my K-31s whisper to me sometimes, though, but at least one of them is a French-speaker.
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Both the kitchen hob and the central water-heating are propane-fuelled, so I am without running hot water at present, although I can heat water electrically in moderate quantities. I will, however, take a shower at work in the morning, as that is rather more convenient.
Our use of propane depends on (a) having enough in the tank and (b) electricity, because there is a fail-safe solenoid valve in the input pipe from the tank to the house. Without mains power, it shuts off the supply outdoors. That is a hold-over from the days of boilers with pilot lights, which were potentially dangerous if the pilot went out and the gas stayed connected. Modern boilers have no pilot, and include a number of failsafes of their own, so the need for the solenoid is questionable, but it is a building-code requirement. The solenoid needs 12V DC to stay open, so I could jury-rig it with batteries and solar to stay on in a pinch, or run it off one of the cars, so at least the hob would be usable for cooking. The central heating requires mains power in any case for the electronics and the pumps.
Without the propane, but with electricity, I can still cook in the microwave and the ovens, or I could get out a portable electric hob from the “camping” gear. Without power, there is a portable gas “camping” cooker, or I could cook on the wood fire in the living room or on one of the two outdoor grills. I won’t starve, at least not quickly. For this evening, I will probably just eat out.
I think the propane truck didn’t come today, despite what the provider’s website had indicated as the intended delivery date, so they will be getting a call first thing tomorrow; I want to avoid being rescheduled onto the “Monday” run next week, which is what they tend to do.
Current space heating is a portable 1500/3000W blower arrangement, which is doing a good job, as least in smaller rooms. It is insufficient to keep the living room (which is a big room with a high ceiling) cosy, but I could light the wood fire there if more warmth were necessary.
This experience has prompted me to consider asking the plumber if he can plumb in a backup feed-in port for bottled propane. It would be easy to keep a couple of bottles on hand, and would avoid unpleasantness if the tanker delivery is late, as now. Fortunately, W1 is not here, as I am not so sensitive to the cold as she.
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Very glad to see Jenny posting again from the far north!
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SteveF, hang in there, chicken-boy! There is a lot of BS going around, but we – including you – will surely prevail! If you need someone to talk to, I tend to be up at (for you) odd hours.
I don’t receive disability pay and NV/TX have no State income tax.
The EU doesn’t have Austin.
I don’t know what fascinates the Colonists about this area, but they seem to be obsessed, to the point that they are building their own real estate developments.
Maybe they want to settle Mars and they see being close to RLTS as a way?
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Gateway pundit has a calm and reasonable article on claims of US citizens being deported, but I’m sure anyone convinced of that wouldn’t read it or accept the author’s arguments.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/arrested-deported-u-s-citizens-permanent-residents-how/
There is one interesting (to me) detail.
n
OK. I just knew you were once a green suited government property and thought I would pass the information along.
I posted the information on reddit and got slammed by a bunch of people about how wrong I was. I posted links from Intuit and the IRS and those clowns still don’t get it. The ones that do suddenly become silent after reinforcing their position on the left side of the bell curve.
Those people probably never prepared their own taxes. I got tired of doing it and have our CPA do them.
I’m fully retired from the Army with no known disabilities. Thank God. I’m one of the lucky ones.
Speaking of taxes, I’m thinking of starting to do our personal taxes again. Once we sell the house in SA, prep will probably be worth it to save the CPA expense. But our company pays for it, so there’s that.
Nick, if you want to experiment with your glucose monitor’s response to eating various foods, I recommend you try some of Nathan Pririkin’s food suggestions*. Unfortunately, it might be hard to find his recommendations. DO NOT go to the Pritikin web site, Pritikin DOT com. It looks like the family has watered down his original diet to appeal to more people. I recommend his book, [The] Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise. Unfortunately, I can’t find my copy. This is the only one of his books I have read; there have been several others, but they seem to be for narrow situations.
*From memory, and for experimental purposes, try garbanzo beans, lentils, oatmeal, or maybe brown rice. Start with dry versions of these, because canned might contain added simple carbs. These should be lightly cooked or steamed, and should not have anything added that would raise their simple carb content. It will be bland, but this is an experiment, not for general consumption. Also, I am not a cook. You should see a very slow rise in blood sugar, and it should last several hours, or at least that is the theory.
You will not want to try Pritikin’s diet, as it goes against just about everything I have seen you advocate. Just try some isolated foods, those high in complex carbs and low in sugars and fats. Eat them in isolation from your other foods, and watch the monitor. You might be surprised.
I followed his diet for several months way back in the 1980s. I had never been on a diet before, and found it to be interesting. I was working out at the time, resistance training with added mild aerobic exercise. I had a noticeable increase in energy and measurable performance. A bonus was that I loved most of the foods. I had to stop because I traveled a lot then, and could eat only out of a grocery store. His diet is hard to follow when eating in restaurants. I also became tired of eating large quantities of low caloric density foods.
His diet was originally designed to reduce the incidence of common western afflictions such as vascular disease and adult onset diabetes. It was successful in that regard. It is too bad that some regarded it as a fad diet. IMO, it was difficult, but not unfounded.
I have been looking for a diet for my wife, and have been disappointed by most. She does not like most diets, especially those that emphasize a subset of a high variety diet. That leaves out so many options. This is a work in progress.
Sorry I have not posted in a while. Life is busy and filled with challenges. I do read this site, but sometimes I get behind, and can’t comment in a timely manner. It is the best collection of … ahem … personalities of any site I have ever found. I like the richness. Thanks to all who make it possible.
We had a big fire in my neighborhood yesterday. A squirrel chewed the insulation off some power line and caught fire. He raced across three backyards, across a street, and across three more yards before succumbing to his fire injuries. We are really dry and about a dozen fire engines showed up to put out the grass fires in people’s ¾ acre backyards. And about five acres of the 10 acre horse ranch in our neighborhood. Luckily, no ones houses caught fire somehow.
I wish that we had a video of him racing on fire. That would have been wild.
We had our generator running for quite a while this morning. Centerpoint changed my neighbor’s power pole out for the new firberglass composite pole and his transformer failed. So they had to unpower the distribution line and have a few more trucks show up with more equipment.
I love my whole house generator. We had no idea it was running except my wife complaining that the xfinity internet was down. I need to get a Starlink backup for the house.
I’m glad no houses caught fire, but man, I’m laughing way too hard at the thought of a flaming squirrel running through the yards!
@lynn, get the add on starlink mini and set it up at your house. You’ve got the starlink at the office, so you should be able to get the mini for $75 and the minimal monthly charge.
n
“ESPN blackout on YouTube TV cost Disney $110 million”
https://thestreamable.com/disney-lost-110-million-espn-youtube-tv-blackout
“The blackout was far more costly for Disney than initial estimates calculated.”
Play stupid games, get stupid results. Disney stock is down 7.4% today.
@lynn, get the add on starlink mini and set it up at your house. You’ve got the starlink at the office, so you should be able to get the mini for $75 and the minimal monthly charge.
n
I might do that. And get WinSim to pay for it since my wife works from home.
Did anyone have the headline “Arsonist squirrel immolated!” on their news bingo card for February? Neither did I.
Monday bedtime. I was too lazy to go out for dinner, so I nuked a can of bean soup in the microwave. Nice and warming, and no preparation required, other than adding salt and pepper. Not awful.
Still no heat in the house, but it is, fortunately, not particularly cold out, around 8C (46F). The electric blower/heater has the bedroom at a comfortable coolish level, without needing to be run a whole lot. I prefer to sleep in a warm bed in a cool room anyway, so that is sufficient.
I have a few busy work days in the offing. I prefer to deal with workload peaks by working from home, as I have big screens and a comfortable chair, plus the amenities of home if I have to work late or early. It would be nice if the propane people would deliver tomorrow morning, so I can have some temperate telework time…
Goodnight, all.
Do EU countries really want to commit cultural suicide? I mean, on top of what they have already done with the Islamic immigrants?
—Their actions say “yes”. John Wilder is timely…
https://wilderwealthywise.com/great-replacement/
n
Ugh.
Was it OFD who advocated reading the 1973 book “The Camp Of The Saints” ?
https://www.amazon.com/Camp-Saints-Jean-Raspail/dp/B0FG4MJS8K?tag=ttgnet-20
“’We Need to Improve.’ Microsoft Admits Windows 11 Has Too Many Annoying Bugs”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/we-need-to-improve-microsoft-admits-windows-11-has-too-many-annoying-bugs
“In 2026, the company says it will focus on addressing Windows 11’s pain points, such as system performance and reliability.”
Sigh. Move your software development out of India for a start.
And for a second step, send all your H1-B’s back home.
I was bored the other night so I snapped some pictures with my phone. Then I got lazy and nah, ain’t gonna tether the phone to the PC so I e-mailed them. I told the phone to re-size to 50%. Still, not tiny pictures at about 800Kb each. Just five pictures.
The track lights are about 50% brightness. 50% as in “the dimmers are sliders and they are about halfway”. I have a light meter somewhere around here. I had plain Phillips 75w equiv LED floods. They dimmed as in “made less light” but I replaced them with new versions that dim like incandescent floods. That is, the color gets warmer/redder. Real nice. Pretty sure Nick knows what I mean.
First pic is from behind the pellet stove. Then we see Buddy the Beagle on the sofa. That is not his “why do you hate me” look. Third pic is from the corner opposite the pellet stove. Then a pic from the hallway to show the leather lazy-boy chair. It has a fleece throw in it for dust and the yellow thing is a folded in half round table cloth? my Mom knitted. I haven’t found a place for it yet so on the chair. And finally, Penny….. who is in The Chair.
Yeah. I watch most movies sitting on that stool next to The Chair. I don’t fall asleep, that’s for sure. The little table is my portable coffee table and it’s handy there as a place for remotes and whatever I’m drinking.
I know, I know, I have a couple of jackets and sweaters draped on the back of the sofa. It’s clutter but the dogs don’t seem to care. And the counter between the living room and the kitchen, we tried, I try, to keep it cleared off but it’s a mighty handy flat surface to put things. On the plus side, I did clear all the stuff off of the dining room table (and the chair seats) a couple of months ago and so far nothing has touched the table except dust.
Well, if you are interested, here you go: http://photos.remsset.com/Feb-26/
yes
“I wish that we had a video of him racing on fire. That would have been wild.”
Wild would be how many times AI turned it into pols on fire.
Nick has a catapult which might be of some use.
I don’t want AI slop videos of politicians on fire.
@paul
“Well, if you are interested, here you go”
Nice to put fur faces to the names.
System Performance. Would that include carp like automatically downloading updates and rebooting the system in the middle of the night? Or just waking the system in the middle of the night to do WTF?
Oh, yeah, and I don’t want the nagging to have an MS account to use my PC. I’m NOT going to store my stuff “in the cloud”.
I didn’t really like XP. Because they bungled adding the Win98Se shell onto NT. NT5 Beta was really nice. Win7 made it prettier but there were some settings I never did find.
Win11 doesn’t crash. For me. But deleting WordPad / Write? I suppose Notepad is next.
I need to get off of Windows. Folks say Mint is good. I’ll try that first and hope there are drivers for silly things like audio and video and my Lexmark printer. And maybe networking will work again.
https://x.com/BuckThrockmort/status/2016631027586809859
Target, Best Buy, 3M, Red Wing Shoes, U.S. Bank, General Mills are mentioned.
How about Medtonic? Why shouldn’t the Chines be allowed to sell Medtronic pacemakers? Particularly in the D.C. area.
And why limit the policy to Minnesota? Lot’s of low-hanging fruit in Cali. Immigrant wants to give his restaurant a boost and name it “French Laundry”, why should he be held back by some hoity-toity place no one can afford?
But I think they’re missing a win-win here. All those sports teams that have been sucking up to the left for years. Stick your trademarks where your illegal immigrant peanut vendors shine. Let anyone made football and baseball jerseys that wants to. Pro and college, bro.
Better let the lefty beer brands in on the fun, too.
I’ve been using Devuan Linux for a couple weeks, having used Ubuntu for over ten years and Debian for years before that. So far, I’m happy with it. The only glitch is with Bluetooth, Wifi networking, and Wifi headset interfering with each other. It’s a known issue because the BT software is not automatically and some configuration needs to be experimented with. In progress.
For me as a developer, I like Devuan because I was able to get away from GNOME and its bloat. My machine with “only” 16GB RAM only seldom needs to use virtual memory even when I have multiple browser tabs open, some of which have very large, complex pages, an MP3 playing, and a compiler or large spreadsheet or whatever I’m working on. By contrast, Ubuntu with GNOME desktop was constantly dipping into virtual memory.
For me as a non-woketard, I’m glad to get away from Ubuntu/Canonical and GNOME because they have been emphasizing Cause of the Moment over technical ability for years and have been banning long-time contributors for being insufficiently supportive of Current Thing. Buh-bye! Devuan is also sticking with SysVInit rather than SystemD, concerning which I don’t have an opinion, and with the traditional GNU utils rather than rusting to Rust replacements, concerning which I do.
“Detransitioner wins $2 million against New York docs who pushed double mastectomy”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/31/us-news/detransitioner-wins-2-million-against-new-york-docs-who-pushed-double-mastectomy/
“A 22-year-old woman who identified as a boy in her teen years won a $2 million decision in a landmark lawsuit against New York doctors accused of pushing a double mastectomy on her when she was a minor.”
“Fox Varian had the life-altering surgery when she was just 16-years-old — getting approval from a psychologist and a surgeon — both of whom a jury found liable of medical malpractice on Jan. 30, The Epoch Times reported.”
“Varian, now 22 and considered a “detransitioner,” was awarded $1.6 million for past and future pain and suffering, and an additional $400,000 for future medical expenses — in the first detransitioner malpractice lawsuit in the nation to go to trial and win.”
“The Mutilated” are now starting to fight back against their torturers.
“SpaceX Eyes 1 Million Satellites for Orbital Data Center Push”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-eyes-1-million-satellites-for-orbital-data-center-push
“In a late Friday FCC filing, the company mentions deploying a staggering ‘one million satellites’ in orbits ranging from 500 kilometers to 2,000km.”
“The plan is shocking in its scope, and would dwarf the existing Starlink constellation, which currently spans over 9,600 satellites in Earth’s orbit.”
Oh my goodness ! We will be able to walk from NEO to GEO on satellites.
No more “vibe” coding or other monkey trick nonsense.
I’d also suggest shutting down Visual Studio Code on Linux, but I know that isn’t going to happen.
I just saw an update on the progress rewriting GNU Coreutils in Rust.
Hot Skillz!
I know people who work at Canonical. The Snap package emphasis and other antics aren’t sitting well internally either.
That reminds me – I have a co-worker rewriting all of my libcurl code for our product in bad C++ using our AI “assist”.
The speed of that code handling an important task is roughly twice the competition’s implementation, something I learned helping sales put together a few slides for a potential big customer.
Total disgrace:
Democrats Recreate Battle of Iwo Jima Flag Raising With Somali-Looking Minnesota Flag
tRump should send a MEF to Minnesota and show them how to really raise a flag. The US flag.
Ok, assuming Mint works on my hardware and is not full of socially correct shit…. I had Ubuntu on a PC several years ago. It worked well. Then there was a thunderstorm and things were zapped. Including the on-board NIC in that PC. Hey, I have a 3-Com 905 whatever common as dirt NIC. Ubuntu would not find it. I shoved the XP cd into the drive and ran set-up and it simply worked. That PC worked with only a a re-boot every 18 months or so for another six years.
I use to use Outlook98 for e-mail. I guess my PST file was getting too large, it was pushing a GB, and the corruption messages were worrying. So I switched to Thunderbird. Sure, it might puke but my saved mail is in plain text. I tried a few other programs, like, The Bat, but T-Bird works for me. The only Outlook98 feature I still miss is Ctrl-D to delete a message. Yeah, lefty here… scroll with the right hand and delete with the left.
I’m still using Thunderbird. I think the latest version is 76 or so. I’m happy with version 2.0.0.24. Yes, I tried version 3 and hell no, this crap looks like Hotmail.
So for fancy text, like with colors and fonts, Wordpad/Write is enough. I mostly use Notepad. The last time I messed with my resume I used Dreamweaver2 because WordPerfect6 wouldn’t install.
Editing pictures? Ah, there is a little mess. I have PaintShopPro. 7. Pre Novell. But the Windows Photos thing is pretty good. I guess Mint has similar.
Things like Putty and Filezilla should be easy to replace. I figure my Firefox profile will move over with no problem.
I just gotta do it.
Gimp.
I’m not kidding about the name. GNU Image Manipulation Program.
If it isn’t part of the default install, open a shell and issue the command “sudo apt-get install gimp”.
Yeah. Ok. I messed with the Gimp when I had Ubuntu and it was, well. complicated. But I’ll give it a try.
The Gimp’s legal team should have put in a clause about wearing a leather mask with a zipper over the mouth. Alas, they did not consult me on the license terms.
Paul, my understanding from skilled image editors who have used both Photoshop and The Gimp is that neither is better, more feature-full, or easier to use than the other. They’re different, with different workflows and different tools, but you can do what you need with either. People say that The Gimp is difficult to use because they’re used to Photoshop. It’s not a matter of intrinsic difficulty or inadequate documentation.
The Gimp is the only “Pulp Fiction” action figure that I don’t own.
Yes, that was the point. And also, hey, we talked about TV stands. There it is. My IKEA TV stand. And now you can see how getting a larger screen will fit, just push the the laser and the yamaha closer together and lay the speakers on their sides. And I replaced the living room carpet with vinyl plank last summer. There, a picture. And curtains last month.. A cornucopia of “there it is” in one link.
But 98% it’s about the pictures of Penny Princess Puppy and Buddy the Beagle. 🙂
WordPerfect vs Word.
The leather mask with a zipper is real funny.
“The Gimp is the only “Pulp Fiction” action figure that I don’t own.”
Probably not one you’d want to rent.
Cut out the ads and spyware and you eliminate most of the “updating” and get rid of crap no one wants or asked for.
n
Dropped the rent for my shop in the mail. Ran one small load from storage to the shop.
Kids are at a school activity and w is still at work, so I can bid on stuff in auctions…
no dinner yet.
n
Just Crazy Enough It Might Work: ONLY Americans Need Apply for HUD and Sec 8 Housing
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/02/02/just-crazy-enough-it-might-work-only-americans-need-apply-for-hud-and-sec-8-housing-n3811463
FFS
How about we put a 50% surtax on PLT’s until all the illegal shiite that they’ve been supporting but not paying for is paid off?
“The rules were in place for Americans and non-citizens who have ‘eligible immigration status’ to have first crack at public housing.”
Not just no.
You don’t get to come to this country as an immigrant and lay claim to taxpayer money. Get a sponsor who commits hard cash to assist.
Lenin was right but it’s not just the rope.
but then we already knew this.
n
Feds Seize 1000 Samples From Illegal CCP Biolab in Las Vegas Owned by Defendant in Reedley Case
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2026/02/02/feds-raid-suspected-biolab-in-las-vegas-connected-to-ccp-linked-owner-of-reedley-lab-n2198762
Who refused?
Can we hang Fauci, revive him, hang him again, revive him again, then break for lunch?
Disagree with Trump: We don’t need 600,000 more Chinese students, we need 600,000 less. And deep background checks of every naturalized Chinese to find reasons and excuses to strip them of citizenship and deport them.
The Oh So Satisfying End to a Dramatic High-Speed Charlotte Police Chase Is Caught on Video
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2026/02/02/wild-high-speed-chase-in-charlotte-cmpd-n2198766
Coffee and apple pie all around to the determined officers.
Putty is available on Fedora. I assume it would be on Mint as well.
Try “sudo apt-get install putty” from the command line.
@paul, good pictures of a nice living room. I agree that putting furry faces to names is great. I had an entirely different imagined image of Buddy. He seems big for a beagle. Penny looks like a good ole farm dog.
Your comment about the Gimp echoes my experience. I used it for a few things my regular edit software couldn’t do. It always required me to have a Google search window open to figure out how to use a tool. I have never used Photoshop, but your comments about Word vs WordPerfect brings back memories. I have used a lot of word processors, but Word the most. I used to do a lot of writing.
I have used Showfoto, https://apps.kde.org/showfoto/, since discovering it on Linux. It does all I usually need, and I like it. Note that Showfoto is part of the image management application digiKam, which runs under the Linux KDE window manager and Microsoft Windows. I decided that I don’t like or need digiKam, so just use Showfoto.
In grade school, I started in still (film) photography, and later did some professional photography and darkroom work, black and white only. As such, I have wanted to try Picture Window Pro, https://www.dl-c.com/index.html because it was claimed to be a bit like a darkroom. That was in my Linux days, and PWP is Windows only. I still want to try it now that I am back on Windows.
All major applications require some learning, devotion, and practice, and that takes time. I just don’t have the time or need anymore.
“Friends Indeed (Star Kingdom (Weber))” by David Weber and Jane Lindskold
https://www.amazon.com/Friends-Indeed-Star-Kingdom-Weber/dp/1668073102?tag=ttgnet-20
Book number five of a five book young adult science fiction series. I read the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Baen in 2025 that I bought in 2025 from Amazon. This series is a prequel to the very popular Honorverse series of over 30 books now. I expect to purchase and read any future books in the series.
Several treecats have now adopted humans on the frontier planet Sphinx and people are starting to notice. Whats more, the treecats and humans are still purposefully understating the treecats intelligence and lethality. And the adopted humans are starting to note the weak mental connections to their treecats and realizing that it is a life bond.
The royal crown of Manticore is starting to take note of the treecats and their intelligence. Battle lines are being formed in the arguments about their intelligence versus copycat behavior. And a noted exobiologist is considering rating the treecats as a 1.0 on the scale of sapience with human beings being a 1.0.
My rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (811 reviews)
Lynn
“With ‘Stargaze,’ SpaceX Aims to Prevent Orbital Starlink Satellite Collisions”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/with-stargaze-spacex-aims-to-prevent-orbital-starlink-satellite-collisions
“Stargaze is basically a space traffic control platform, and comes about a month after a satellite deployed from a Chinese rocket came within 200 feet of a Starlink craft.”
“Stargaze takes real-time data from Starlink satellites, which currently number over 9,600 in orbit. To navigate, the satellites have been outfitted with “star trackers,” or sensors that continuously survey the surrounding stars to help determine a satellite’s location, altitude, and orientation.”
“Those star trackers—which number nearly 30,000—can also detect other orbiting objects, giving SpaceX a way to plot out and predict the “position and velocity for all detected objects in near real-time,” it wrote in the announcement.”
Everyone and their dog is launching stuff into orbit nowdays. Using an open data program to keep track might be a good idea.
All major applications require some learning, devotion, and practice, and that takes time. I just don’t have the time or need anymore.
Anything takes time to learn and practice. I was trying to figure out how to show the odometer on my Dad’s (now Mom’s) 2024 Mercedes E350 4WD with the digital dash. I finally gave up and read the stupid book. And I gave the book up and went back to playing with buttons on the steering wheel. I still do not know how I got the odometer up but I got a picture for the guy that I am selling it to.
I’m the king of poking at it until it works. I made a career of it.
n
The evil flip side is that I can break almost anything in a new way.
Bed time. No time for naps tomorrow.
n
Tuesday. Good morning!
Time to get up. I was awake much too early, but turning on the radio (BR-Klassik) and rolling over got me back to sleep. Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast, indeed.
Glad to see Penny, Buddy and Paul’s cosy home. Looks really nice.
I switched my main personal PC to Linux from Windows a long time ago, not long after RBT had his “independence day”.
The only Windows-based program I really miss is Paint Shop Pro. I keep it around on W1’s Windows machines and resort to it from time to time, especially for resizing images and batch processing. It also has the ability to create .wmf files (Windows metafiles), which are scalable vector graphics. That came in very handy when W1’s “helper” had to create a fancy poster for some coursework – scale up clipart to any size you like without pixelation.
I know there is GIMP, but I find it far too complex for my simple needs, and the learning curve is too steep for the few times I use it.
If I ever get a round tuit, I will investigate running PSP in a Windows emulator under Linux. Probably using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.