Mumble mumble mumble— weather is goofy all over. Nice here though. Sunny, humid, and hot. I can only hope my house and the BOL came through any storms without damage. We’ll get home when we get home.
Spent the morning shopping in the tourist trap. Kid bought a necklace she’s very happy with. I passed on everything. No cerveza sin alcohol to be had either. 10 years ago no one here had heard of it, now they know it but don’t stock it. Change.
Today it’s a bit more fun in the sun with a snorkeling trip involving small boats and getting in the water. We’ll see how that goes for me this time.
Then it will be more good food and maybe some more time talking with my mom. We did play a card game with W and D2 yesterday after dinner. Memories….
Stack up the good times. I’ve a feeling we’ll need them.
nick
Sometimes I think voodoo must be a more predicable science than computers. I’m trying to grade some network-oriented projects while in the school. Something in the schools network just doesn’t like me – the projects work about 1 time in 10. At home, no problem. It can’t be a firewall rule or anything, because that 1 time in 10 they do work. Weird.
So no useful work to be done until I get home…
The interface and the data models should be isolated as much as possible, however. Apple enforces Model-View-Controller on their platforms which works really well provided the developers can make the conceptual leap.</p
NeXT was a hit on Wall Street in the 90s in part because they provided the “Yellow Box” which was a set of APIs which allowed porting to Windows with a simple recompile of NeXT Step MVC application source.
Apple promised the Yellow Box would be delivered with Mac OS X 1.0, but my guess is that keeping the technology off the market was part of the deal with Microsoft to save the company.
I prefer not doing the UI at all. I just have no ability to make it pretty. Functional? Yes, but ugly is my byword. Let me do the backend stuff…
Back home, back to grading projects…
Tuesday lunchtime. Eating a dürum, watching the rain, and waiting for the big work project to drop.
While waiting for my meal, I read the news. I see there has been a cultural enrichment stabbing murder in Belfast. National news is reporting a person from the horn of Africa as the alleged perpetrator. Perhaps he felt stabby because he didn’t get his fair share of the Minnesota learing center fraud money?
Mood: grim.
Stabbing? Zero Hedge has a story describing the incident as an attempted beheading.
In Northern Ireland. Forget the Germans and the Scots — what happened to the boyos defending the homes from the occupying army?
And, make no mistake, it is an invasion.
An Irishman (whose name I forget) recently claimed that the IRA has been completely subsumed by communist ideology and the organization is no longer patriotic. I have made no effort to investigate the truth of the claim.
Patriotism has nothing to do with it. If an animal with a room temperature IQ is attempting to behead your neighbor, you put down the animal.
Unless your own IQ is lower than room temperature.
See also: American leftards
If the IRA leadership has been captured by the communists, either ideologically or financially, they’ll be on board with the internationalist agenda.
Yeah, I had another round where I suggested that Islam is a problem – and was promptly accused of racism. Islam isn’t a race, how hard is that to understand?
Islam isn’t a religion, either, at least in the sense our founders thought of it.
I sincerely believe that Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, and Madison never thought of Mohammedans as religious, rather than cultural or national. They were a heathen “other”, totally foreign and with no common basis to our civilization.
They would be appalled to know we accord them the same freedom of religion we honor for civilized people. Even the Hindoos and Buddhists are closer then muslims, and I bet the founders didn’t give them 2 thoughts either.
This. It really is time to stop handling these people with kid gloves. Here, the usual defense is “psychological problems, unable to stand trial”. Of course they have psychological problems, otherwise they wouldn’t be out attacking people.
It doesn’t matter. They cannot be allowed to be in a free society. In cases like this – zero doubt of guilt – they just need to be put down. Quick trial – at latest next week – where the judge reviews the video and says “yep, guilty”. It’s not about punishment, it’s just that these are animals who have no place in civilization.
If you can’t understand the problematic aspect of what you said, you are obviously a racist and probably a warmening denialist, too!
As you say, it’s not about punishment. When you’re facing a mad dog, there is no chance of training or rehabilitation. You put down the animal so that it will never bite anyone ever again. The same is true when the mad animal has 2 legs and is of vaguely human shape; you put it down to protect others.
Faggot, don’t forget faggot.
Poor Ireland.
They spent centuries getting the British boot off their neck – and then the elites talked them into putting the EU boot back on it.
My younger brother was just diagnosed with prostate cancer. It is confined entirely to his prostate so removal is scheduled for September. My older brother has also had his prostate removed for the same reason. According to both of their surgeons, it is hereditary. Bummer.
I have the yearly PSA test, twice. Once by the VA, once by a private urologist. Also once a year the “bend over and get that smile off your face” examination. My PSA is slightly elevated, always has been a little high. The VA, nor the urologist seem concerned.
Both my brothers are bald, I still have most of my hair. Is there a connection? Inquiring minds want to know.
Well, finally got a chance to sit down. Did a fun activity this morning, enjoyed being out on and in the water.
Showered, dressed, ate, now it’s time for some iced coffee and a book by the pool until it’s time to eat again.
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People are used to the diversity causing problems. The time to overreact was with the first one, and every additional one. It’ll be hard to work up the outrage now that they are becoming common.
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Day is warm, but mostly cloudy which is helping to keep it pleasant. There is a breeze too. It’s stifling without the air movement.
n
“Kneel Or Die (The Kurtherian Gambit #7)” by Michael Anderle
https://www.amazon.com/Kneel-Kurtherian-Gambit-Michael-Anderle/dp/B0CHL7R1DM?tag=ttgnet-20
Book number seven of a twenty-one science fiction and paranormal fantasy series. There is also an eleven book follow on series and several other books related to the The Kurtherian Gambit Universe, over 200 books in total. I read the well printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback self published by the author in 2016 that I bought new on Amazon in 2026. I own the next book in the series already. The related series are listed at:
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?46598
The series is a cross between science fiction and paranormal fantasy. A thousand plus years ago, an alien space ship crash landed in the Baltics. A man, Michael, found the space ship, went inside, and was forever changed into the first vampire using alien nanocytes. However, there were werewolves and werebears already existing on Earth and they still exist.
Michael has sired vampires and they have sired vampires. But only one of the vampire “children” is a daywalker like Michael. And Michael enforces strict rules among the vampires and the weres, no blood drinking, no letting humans know of them, etc. Violators of Michael’s rules face swift termination.
But it has been thousand years since Michael was changed and he now sleeps for years at a time. Michael’s helpers found a young woman named Bethany Anne working for the USA government who is dying of a rare blood disease. Michael took her to the alien space ship to become the second first generation vampire on Earth. Bethany Anne’s people have duplicated the anti-gravity drive from the alien space ship and built many small space ships. Now Bethany Anne is cleaning Earth of terrorists and getting ready to launch her Moon base.
This series is real pulp like old science fiction with lots of action and dialogue. I love it !
Warning: this series might be damaging to your savings account since there are so many books.
The author has a website at:
https://lmbpn.com/
My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (4,489 reviews)
Lynn
Well, speaking of doctors, Kaiser Permanente is scheduling an MRI for my heart apparently, they just called to ask if I had any bits of metal in me (no).
Took about 3 business days after I messaged them, not bad. Waiting on a date.
Queuing is supposedly NP hard as I recall. I wonder if like the traveling salesman problem there are very fast approximations for small numbers (thousands or millions)?
“Did 47 Just Admit That Iran Already Has Nuclear Weapons?”
https://www.alexjoneslive.com/2026/06/09/%EF%B8%8Fdid-47-just-admit-that-iran-already-has-nuclear-weapons/
“Did 47 Just Admit That Iran Already Has Nuclear Weapons? VIDEO: President Trump Says He’s Gonna Get Rid Of Iran’s Nuclear Weapon! This Is One Week After High-Level CIA Analysts/Sources Confirmed Iran Had At Least 5 Nukes”
Uh oh. Crazy people and nuclear weapons do not mix well.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
ATTENTION! Murderbot Spoiler Alert! Skip if you haven;’t read/listened.
I listened to the latest Murderbot on a 1300-mile drive last weekend.
I didn’t expect much based on the leakage around the fingers I placed in my ears every time a spoiler was discussed.
It was entertaining enough for a car ride, and credibly continued the humanization of Murderbot and the emancipation of the SecUnits. I hope it is well-received by Martha Wells’ fans, that it is financially successful, and her battle with cancer concludes in her favor.
That said…
The length was more a couple chapters or novella than book. I haven’t inspected the 256-page hardcover, but I suspect it is not lacking in white space.
There is too much resistance by the humans to Murderbot’s efforts to save their lives–STFU and get rescued.
The space station is a puzzle. A human civilization advanced enough to build it was not in evidence in the story–they would have been primary players and likely bosses of the galaxy we have seen so far. And such would not have made the mistake of leaving it in orbit around a devastated mined-out planet with all the control problems that would attend.
Somewhere I caught the gist that the torid shaped space station around the severely mined planet was abandoned by the previous space going races that do not exist any more.
Sometimes I think voodoo must be a more predicable science than computers. I’m trying to grade some network-oriented projects while in the school. Something in the schools network just doesn’t like me – the projects work about 1 time in 10. At home, no problem. It can’t be a firewall rule or anything, because that 1 time in 10 they do work. Weird.
Permissions. We fight the overly secure IT admins all the time. They shut everything down in the networks and on the PCs. Of course, in a school environment, they may not be overly cautious here.
The interface and the data models should be isolated as much as possible, however. Apple enforces Model-View-Controller on their platforms which works really well provided the developers can make the conceptual leap.</p
NeXT was a hit on Wall Street in the 90s in part because they provided the “Yellow Box” which was a set of APIs which allowed porting to Windows with a simple recompile of NeXT Step MVC application source.
Apple promised the Yellow Box would be delivered with Mac OS X 1.0, but my guess is that keeping the technology off the market was part of the deal with Microsoft to save the company.
My Windows user interface uses MVC but it is overly tied to the concepts of the Rich Win32 API. Many other user interface APIs are lacking some some of the nice features and you have to code them yourself.
I have been thinking about moving us to WX Widgets for a decade now as our dialog sizing has problems on ultra high res monitors.
https://wxwidgets.org/
Speaking of putting an animal down, “BREAKING: Jury Reaches Verdict in Karmelo Anthony Murder Trial – GUILTY OF MURDER – Karmelo Sobs in Court”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/breaking-jury-reaches-verdict-karmelo-anthony-murder-trial/
“The jury in the Karmelo Anthony murder case reached a swift verdict after deliberating for more than two hours on Tuesday.”
“BREAKING UPDATE: The jury found Karmelo Anthony guilty of murder. He faces life in prison.”
“I’m writing again…”
https://www.cringely.com/2026/05/21/im-writing-again/
The Cringe is back… and writing about his AI company that he and two other guys started three years ago.
““BREAKING UPDATE: The jury found Karmelo Anthony guilty of murder. He faces life in prison.”
The jury didn’t believe a brother should be able to take a knife to a track meet and kill someone.
Thinking back more than fifty years, I don’t remember any team pussy enough to take a tent to a track meet to get out of the rain. (Coach might have had an umbrella to keep his clipboard dry.) Maybe the solution going forward is ban tents and let anyone who is concerned about staying dry just quit the team?
“Both my brothers are bald, I still have most of my hair. Is there a connection? Inquiring minds want to know.”
Is that because you are so concerned with your prostate that you take frequent looks, keeping your pate out of the sunshine and air?
The IRA became useful idiots for the USSR and communism during the cold war. The political wing, Sinn Fein, is still acting to destabilise Ireland, and is doing alarmingly well politically, because of the number of young low-information voters who don’t remember the troubles or understand that Marxism is not a viable future. I suspect that SF is taking Putin’s coin.
I am also an inquiring mind, for the same reason. Well, father rather than brothers, but still worth asking.
Mr Ray, best wishes for a good outcome for your brother.
EdH, good luck with your scan.
“More Shocking Revelations Emerge In Henry Nowak Case…”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/more-shocking-revelations-emerge-henry-nowak-case
“The brutal murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak by Vickrum Digwa has exposed a pattern of ignored warnings, police inaction, and institutional failures that stretch back years.”
What is wrong with the UK?
I don’t feel safe to go there anymore.
“Has Trump Opened Pandora’s Box?”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/has-trump-opened-pandoras-box
No, Pandora’s Box was already open. If Iran had a delivery system, they would have used a nuke on Israel. And then the Middle East would have been awash in nuclear weapons fire as Israel slaughtered their neighbors. What would people say then?
Trump is guilty of not letting our military go all out on Iran and sending them back to the stone age.
Short answer: Yes
Longer answer: Finding optimal (really optimal) solutions is hard. For practical problems, they’ve already been solved for “good enough” solutions.
I was involved with a project for the USAF AMC, using ILOG optimization software. We matched official business travel requests with passenger carrying airframes and aircrews that needed training flights to maintain currency. Each passenger we placed saved real dollars that would have been spent on commercial travel. The GS’s and SES’s and O6’s didn’t like it, but who cares?
For hard problems, you don’t have resources to find the one-and-only optimal solution. But you can come surprisingly close.
The standard approach goes like this:
It works. Frankly, it worked about 80 to 90% as well as the human experts we would have “replaced”. The goal was not to actually replace them, it was to allow them to tweak the results to handle all the edge cases and last-minute changes.
Alas, it was not to be. We took our million dollars, fielded the system, and the end users refused to use it at all.
Supplying the tents to the school is someone’s rice/soup bowl.
To be clear, “SF” does not mean me.
Not saying that I’m not open to bribery, just that Putin’s never offered me a bribe.
Being the tech industry’s premiere gossip columnist is over with everyone signing non-disparagement clauses in employment and/or separation agreements.
@Lynn
Somewhere I caught the gist that the torid shaped space station around the severely mined planet was abandoned by the previous space going races that do not exist any more.
Could have missed that if it were very brief, but I’d expect the “old ones” would have left tech that would elicit comments along the way.
And if those old ones were extinct I would not expect the toroid to survive– it would be subject to the same orbital forces that made the Ringworld unstable and required Niven to write attitude jets into a later book.
One of the nitpicking bothers with the story was my suspicion that the planet-station “system” would be unstable and better off if the two had been separated, if not by propulsion then by mining the planet to the last dust mote.
But why worry about physics when we fancy up “warp” drives to spread the stories about the galaxy?
“Marxism is not a viable future.”
Young communists need to be punched in the face and left naked in a snowbank with a note that says “I needed your clothes, money, and car more than you.”
There isn’t a point to that as long as the uranium is turned over.
The last thing the Middle East needs is another failed state.
“The last thing the Middle East needs is another failed state.”
Failed states and genocide is all the Mohammedans are capable of at this point. The Brits destroyed the Ottoman empire, JEC destroyed Iran, Lebanon was destroyed by it’s neighbors when they tried to make it a catspaw in the war against Israel, Iraq invited it’s own destruction, Barry and Hillary destoyed Libya, and the military restraints on the religious leaders of Turkey are no longer operative.
I think it would be nice if the Persians were empowered in Iran, rather than the Muslim conquerors who enslaved them.
It will be hard for that to happen what with them being all disarmed and the Muslims killing them just for protesting (or not having their hair covered).
Oh, and in light of the verdict in the trial of Austin Metcalf’s cold-blooded killer, I suggest making sure you are armed with appropriate self-defense weapons as you go out and about for the next few days. Or years.
https://freebeacon.com/media/scott-pelley-isnt-a-serious-journalist/
The link has the capsule summary of Pelley’s fawning 60 Minutes tribute to Steven Donziger’s fraudulent pursuit of Chevron in Ecuador.
We could say tha Pelly is not just a talking head, he is a head talking up his backside.
A few links.
https://www.woes.blog/p/nowak-and-the-regime-police
https://barsoom.substack.com/p/i-dont-think-you-have-been-mate
https://substack.com/home/post/p-200377228
New Murderbot? I don’t recognize the brief comments about any of them that I’ve read and can’t find any new book…
The murderbot universe was settled in waves by humans who had collapses in between, so there can be stations and tech from earlier expansion attempts. The mining of “exotic materials” ie alien tech or residue is mentioned and a prominent plot point, so abandoned alien facilities aren’t exactly rare, but are still a big deal.
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Time to get ready for dinner.
n
Maybe a rice bowl. But shade. And all the school buses have ac now
New Murderbot? I don’t recognize the brief comments about any of them that I’ve read and can’t find any new book…
The murderbot universe was settled in waves by humans who had collapses in between, so there can be stations and tech from earlier expansion attempts. The mining of “exotic materials” ie alien tech or residue is mentioned and a prominent plot point, so abandoned alien facilities aren’t exactly rare, but are still a big deal.
DrW was talking about Murderbot #8, “Platform Decay” that just came out in May.
https://www.amazon.com/Platform-Decay-Murderbot-Diaries-8/dp/1250827000?tag=ttgnet-20
In fact, exotic materials from prior space travelers have been outlawed due to the unnatural way that they work. And that they have bio connections that transform human bodies.
I did not realize that the previous space travelers were humans. Dadgumit, I need to read the Murderbot series again.
Maybe a rice bowl. But shade. And all the school buses have ac now
The tents at athletic events are mostly for contestants who have a problem so they can be treated in private without having to leave the arena. HIPAA.
“US launches military strikes against Iran after downing of helicopter”
https://justthenews.com/government/security/centcom-says-us-launching-self-defense-strikes-against-iran
“The U.S. military launched “self defense” attacks against Iran on Tuesday evening in response to the downing of an American helicopter, officials said.”
“”U.S. Central Command forces began launching self-defense strikes against Iran at 5 p.m. ET today at the Commander in Chief’s direction, in response to yesterday’s downing of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter,” CENTCOM posted on X. “The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression.””
And here we go again. The current Iranian leadership, the IRGC, will not lie down until they are all dead to the last man.
And we should be air dropping tens of millions of AK-47s with 200 rounds each in Iran. Plus two grenades. Let the populace sort it out.
Amish murderer Anthony gets 35 years.
“Amish murderer Anthony gets 35 years.”
on Townhall:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/josephchalfant/2026/06/09/karmelo-anthony-has-just-been-handed-his-sentence-n2677510
Idiot. He will be required to serve 17.5 years of his 35 year sentence, after which he will be eligible for parole.
And as noted by a commenter, he will probably get his sentence commuted as soon as Texas elects a Democrat governor.
Or George P. (Diddly) Bush.
We’ll see about “MAGA” Mays Middleton. He has a disturbing track record which really didn’t see a lot of play in the runoff.
Lovely dinner followed by a comedy show. Who knew there were still prop comics working? Wife says everything old is new again….
Lot of wind at the moment, and maybe some rain later tonight. No tiny little fire for me with the wind howling thru. Might as well get an early night. Got a pretty good workout this morning so I could use the sleep. Turns out I got some sun too, so I’ll be slathering on the aloe before bed.
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I liked MB-8 but didn’t love it. It’s good, but doesn’t really break new ground in the story or with snarkiness.
Most of the series is shorter forms, short story, novella… she’s not writing goat chokers like the other guys.
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Yes, I think I will turn in early.
n
Gallagher is my undergrad alma matter’s most famous student. His graduation status and exact degree vary depending on source, but the alumni magazine lists him as Class of 70 with Chemical Engineering.
I’ve been trying to watch the Snyder cut of Justice League. It’s really bad. I think that my brain would have to be even more oxygen starved to deal with the slow pace. The alien villains seem to be designed to appeal to self-important, melodramatic teens, which might well be the case.
And whoever told Gal Gadot that she can act is a big, fat liar.
Yeah, I just assumed aliens.
As Nick said, MB8 was OK but not exceptional.
I once pointed out to a female intern that I didn’t think Christopher Reeve was a good actor.
Her answer? “So what?”
Note: I have never seen Gal Gadot in a movie or on TV. I couldn’t pick her out of a lineup. But I still think I got the sense of it here.
Re: Gal Gadot.
Linda Carter was the only WW I ever followed and she had the thespian range of a cigar store Indian … but she had other assets that made up for it.