Still hot and wet. Only 80F when I went to bed, but the day was pretty warm. If it hadn’t rained buckets, it would have been even hotter. My personal weather stations said 0.62″ of rain, but it sure felt like more. Even the BOL got some rain. Today should be more of the same.
Did my dentist appointment. Got a cleaning and fluoride treatment. Kid had two small soft spots we’ll be addressing in a couple of weeks. Then I came home, ate, and crashed out for a while. I’ll have to do the pickups today instead. Fortunately, all my pickups today are near each other.
Then I really should go by the shop and get another load ready for auction. If I head to the BOL for the long weekend, I’ll need stuff to be ready and waiting as the auctioneer only takes new stuff in on Tuesdays. I’ve got stuff, just not in bins ready to deliver.
And I will need to get stuff together for the BOL too. There is always stuff to take up there to facilitate whatever work I’m doing. And to upgrade the BOL.
Always be working. Or at least able to arm wave whatever you’re doing to had SOME relationship to working… and sssttttaaaacccckkkk…..
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Busy day today: long hike this morning, then bottling beer, then fetching wood for a neighbor, then…lots more stuff…
Insightful!
I have taught a lot of CS students over the years, and worked with a lot of them as well. I specifically recall a pair of women who were both: students and working on a paid project for me. They were quite good, and we got to talking. They knew they were good, but when they went home, they did other things.
The guys I’ve worked with, who were at the same level, went home and programmed for fun.
You can guess who will be the better, more skilled programmer in 5 or 10 years. There is a reason that men dominate engineering fields: because guys who choose these fields tend to be obsessive.
That’s not to say that no women should be engineers – those women I mentioned really were talented. It’s just that not that many women have the interest to start with, and – lacking obsession – they are likely to fall behind on their skills over time.
Ok, ok, I need to try their next series. Right after I finish re-reading the Honor Harrington series, which is going to take a while…
You say that in an age where SpaceX exists? I think that’s a field with a fine future.
Shockingly, I was not woken by the mother-in-law yelling, by the aides clomping their big, stupid feet or dropping things on the wood floor, by buttmunchers drag racing on the bypass road a half mile from the house, by feral dogs and coyotes in the woods, or by thunder crack.
Nevertheless, I was woken early by bladder pressure. Yesterday involved more physical labor and much more driving than I prefer, the preferred amount of each being zero as I prefer to be a lazy slug, and I didn’t drink enough during the day so I drank a couple quarts once I got back.
Obviously what I need to do is surround myself with people to take care of all of my chores and such. Preferably hot babes because why wouldn’t I want to surround myself with hot babes? Except that hot babes are by definition women and women tend to talk constantly. And some of my tasks involve quite heavy labor. So where am I going to find enough muscular, deaf-mute hot babes? It’s a real puzzlement.
Oh, I am banned from Reddit again. This time for 7 days. Why? Because I mentioned that transsexualism is listed as a mental disorder in ICD-10, which is the version in current European use. That was picked up by some automated filter, and I assume “transsexual” and “mental disorder” in the same post add up to hate speech.
I’ve appealed, but I expect it to be denied. IIRC, if I screw up again, I will be permanently banned.
I suppose I should know better. Some information on Reddit is simply not allowed. I would regret a permanent ban, only because I do enjoy participating in the local Swiss subreddits. Which is where I made the comment, in response to an article where the government is considering making certain psychotherapies illegal – which makes little sense, when the condition being treated is, in fact, a mental illness.
Limited number of potential employers, I mean.
It’s like getting a doctorate in nuclear physics. If you want to work in your field in the US, you have an extremely small number of potential employers. I used to work alongside a handful of PhD nukes and it came up in discussion that they had IIRC eight possible employers which would let them fully use their degrees and experience: the US govt, a handful of nuke plant operators, and a handful of R&D facilities, all of which were government contractors. I might be omitting significant details which had limited the pool but the basic point remains. An industrial engineer, eg my brother, can find work practically anywhere, as can a generalist programmer, eg myself.
Fun game to play with the ICD-10: Look for a code which amounts to “death due to medical screw-up”. Considering that medical error is a leading cause of death in the US and that ICD-10 has separate codes for “bitten by goose, initial encounter” and “bitten by goose, subsequent encounter”, one would think that “nurse administered the wrong medicine” or “anaesthesiologist didn’t catch the vitals crash quick enough” would feature prominently in the codes. But of course, considering that the ICDs are compiled mainly by medical professionals, the omissions are not at all surprising.
I stand corrected, somewhat: ICD-10 code Z98.890 can be used for “incorrect operative procedure performed”. Other Z codes can be used for injury caused by medication error, disease picked up in hospital, and so on. “Can be”. The Zs are kind of catch-all and bulk medical records can’t easily be scanned to identify medical error. Note that the ICD-10 codes are not the primary way that medical errors are reported. However, the ICD is standardized across hospitals and across nations and is widely used in studies and summaries.
Bad Brad, for not self-censoring.
I had an argument today with an otherwise moderately intelligent family member who can’t comprehend why I do not automatically and vociferously share their opinions on world politics.
In this particular case, if I were indeed to espouse the opinions in question, I would be very careful not to out myself in public as a moron by repeating them, but that was not at issue.
Some people have difficulty with the concept of individual opinions and thinking for oneself. Even more so with the idea that someone might have an opinion, yet choose to keep it to themselves.
Friday. Doing lots of silly admin stuff at work, like planning absences for the next semester. Roll on the weekend.
From what I understand, the Broadway play opened with a pair black actresses portraying Hermione, but the books were mostly vague about her race.
Black Snape will require serious rewrites, however.
The added problem for HBO is that that the actor has a strong resemblance to Jason Arday, the disgraced Cambridge professor.
Rowling is hardcore left wing except on one issue.
Try VPN developer.
Or Tcl programmer who can understand the event driven IO features. The strangest interview experience in my career was related to that skillset.
Right now, it is libcurl experience paying my mortgage, but that skill is a little more in demand as of late.
Fixed it.
Linux ate the world because it was a clean sheet implementation of the Posix API which started with the standards manual and built code around the system calls working exactly as specified.
Examples from Stevens texts just worked, and writing low level Unix code no longer required a proprietary workstation which cost $10k, ran a backwards implementation of Posix, and featured C compilers which were gross and closed source.
How important was that? Watch the clip and look at the book the girl has in her hand. That’s the Stevens text most of my generation used to learn how to write socket code when client-server and then the Internet exploded in the early 90s. Most of the examples still work on Linux.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjjydz40rNI
Oh, yeah, Video Toaster. Dana Carvey’s brother developed the hardware/software.
“Wayne’s World 2” is a mixed bag of brilliance and studio notes.
Thought I might make a career out of the video toaster… it was gonna eat the world for a while.
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Getting the kids ready. Snack is packed. Debating the desireability of napping 2 hours more. With only 3 ½ hours sleep, it’s only a question of “in my chair” or “in my bed” as one will happen. I usually wake naturally at about 5 hours if it’s a CONSISTENT 5 hours. Body wants at least 7 long term, and best if it’s the same 7. Not getting even 5 in a row under the current schedule, which really is on me.
Cleaning company today too, which means I have to be up for that.
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Ding dong…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/feminist-organizer-honorary-chair-democratic-socialists-america-gloria/
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Too much Video Toaster relegated a lot of 90s TV production to the discount bins at WalMart 20 years ago once the HDTV switchover began, especially basic cable programs produced during that era.
The product line is dead for a reason. Better software tools and general PC hardware exist now.
I had a fascinating conversation about 16 years ago with a former Playboy Bunny who worked in the Chicago club during Gloria Steinem’s “undercover” research which was her initial claim to fame.
Another one of those “The Legend Of …” stories that make for great media but which gloss over a lot of facts such as Steinem being a very obvious almost 30 when she walked into that club.
BTW, another part of the conversation touched on the Patent issues regarding the Bunny costume and how it related to the Ker’s Wing House vs. Hooters legal case.
The original Ker’s Wing House in Florida closed recently, around the time that most of the Hooters on I-35 between Austin and San Antonio closed.
“Breastaurants” are dying, but, based on my observations of the parking lot at The Rowdy Cowboy at the edge of my employer’s campus, “Buttsteraunts” are the next big thing.
I’m full of insights! And wisdom! And good advice! Also cheap insults, wordplay which isn’t always caught, and outright nonsense. The reader or listener may not always know how to categorize a given statement.
Trademark, surely.
And to think I thought the leading cause of death was old age. Silly me.
Reddit has become a cesspool of idiots. The same thing that happened on Ars Technica. A bunch of liberal jerks who think their opinion is the only correct opinion. I got a 24-hour ban on Reddit, by a moderator, because I argued with some fool who said that living on $4K a month is impossible. I countered with I can live on $3K a month. He then countered with amounts, including a $2,500.00 a month mortgage. Well, duh, you’re an idiot. Boom, banned. I hurt his wittle feelings and I guess he complained.
I have been banned from Ars Technica by simply countering a post with an alternative view, butthurt some sniffling wimp. Maybe banning you they might be doing you a favor.
I have also had temporary bans on MacRumors for posting a countering argument. How dare I call someone out for their misguided mental state with their assertion that MacOS is flawless and is the perfect design.
RBT once banned me here sometime around 1999. By mistake he admitted. Yeh, I have been around a long time. Lot of disagreements with me over time but I never got offended or butthurt, just snotty.
MacOS is BSD Unix with a GUI shell and API inherited from NeXT which was simple enough for a Wall Street type to understand how the apps and system utilities worked.
Linux is playing catch up, but, until System 76 came along, no one in that community could duplicate the deep pockets of Ross Perot, who funded NeXT.
I don’t get offended, butthurt, or snotty. I get even.
There is an aphorism in German: “Mann sieht sich zweimal im Leben”. Literally, “you see everyone in your life at least twice”. Idiomatically, “my time will come”.
Leaving one’s interlocutors looking even more vacant after a conversation than they were when they arrived to it is one of life’s little pleasures.
The problem with System 76 is what is wrong with a lot of the open source community these days – an unhealthy obsession with rewriting everything and reinventing the wheel in Rust in order to pad resumes in the hope of slipping a CV by a desperate HR droid who has to hire someone to actually do some work.
Age discrimination still comes first, however, and that’s where Rust comes in with HR droids.
I’m the reason that IBM didn’t switch their workforce to MacBooks as promised when they made the big splashy announcement about the change 14 years ago.
An Apple employee badge went on the table, but that would have meant Weed Head, my former partner at the Death Star making Distinguished Member of Technical Staff based on my work.
No f*cking way.
I never thought that someone else wouldn’t be able to eventually come up with the piece of VPN software necessary to make it work and pay for Weed Head’s promotion, but here we are.
Palo Alto Networks dominates the corporate LAN VPN market instead of the Death Star as was the case 20 years ago.
BTW, my former partner is a talented developer, but, at the end of the day, he’s still Weed Head, and that stuff makes people stupid.
I’ve never visited reddit except by accident or as a search result for “how do I fix error F3 on a samsung washing machine.” And the search results rarely resulted in usable info.
Ars, I never saw the point. Don’t think I’ve been there in … well, ever.
On the other hand, I managed to spend enough time on a general lifestyle forum to get the SuperMod title. FWIW. Which was nothing.
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Ars has some nice articles. Eric Berger writes about space, for example. The comments sections, well…non-lefty opinions are not welcome.
I really do not understand people who cannot tolerate opposing viewpoints. We have a regular Friday evening beer event (“Stammtisch”). Tonight two of us are hard-right, and two are hard-left. We get along just fine, even when we discuss politics. People are allowed to have opposing views.
That’s the kind of opinion that’ll get you sent to the reeducation camps, you sicko!
The dishwasher is occasionally leaving a small puddle of water on the kitchen floor. It is a KitchenAid, top of the line when we bought it 20 years ago. I ordered a new door seal and a cabinet seal. I have no idea which one is the issue, so replace them both. $160.00 from an online source. Easy to replace. Pull out the old gasket, insert the new gasket in the groove. I am hoping that solves the issue.
I want to keep the machine because it is high quality, still works quite well, and replacing with a comparable unit is about $1K. For probably lesser quality and a unit that will not last 10 years.
At some point I need to replace the control panel as the writing on the two main buttons is worn off. I don’t really feel like paying $300.00 for a new panel as the wife has the buttons she uses memorize.
@ray, you can use some hobby sign vinyl to cover any worn spots in the flexible part.
Like for a cricut hobby cutter.
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88F partly cloudy and rumbling out there..
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Or a P-Touch label. Looks hillbilly, but this is TN.
To be fair, the gardners aren’t into the small trucks anymore either. Papi wants a “man’s” truck.
Mami and Papi have cost us a lot of money over the years. They came across the border back in the late 1970s, settled in Texas. Papi worked construction for cash, he retired last year and gets social security, still does lawn maintenance for cash, Mami cleans homes for cash. They have five children, all born here and citizens. Medicaid and the County paid for the births, $10,000 to $100,000 (one of the kids spent two months in NICU), Mami and Papi did not pay anything.
Mami had a small breast cancer that was detected ten years ago at one of those free exams, Medicaid and the County paid for the $30,000 of treatment.
Papi had chest pains last year, the doctors put in a stent and Papi takes a blood thinner now. Papi got it all free at the County hospital who paid the $40,000.
Mami and Papi live in the home that they bought in 1980s that their church helped them to buy after the housing crash. They cannot believe the cost of property taxes so they don’t pay. Their property taxes are rolling forward and will be collected when they sell the house or pass away.
Are they worth the cost to our society? I don’t know.
I am going to drop my Medicare supplement next year and Medicare part B. I am planning on going on a Medicare Part C plan. A Medicare Advantage plan. The plan from Humana I am looking at reduces my Medicare premiums by $150.00 a month. I will get some dental, cleanings and such, at no, or reduced cost.
My logic in this decision has to do with the VA. My healthcare is covered 100% by the VA as are all my prescriptions. Even over the counter medicines. I have not used Medicare for the last two years. I can save almost $400.00 a month in Medicare and supplemental premiums. My CPAP supplies are not covered but one month of savings is about all I spend a year on supplies. And I think Medicare advantage covers those with a small deductible. I can use CPAP.com and beat the Medicare supplier price by almost 50% but cpap.com is not a Medicare provider.
That would leave me with Medicare Part A (required) and Part C, with a monthly premium of about $60.00 and no premium to Humana, the insurance company. $60, rather than $550.00, a month seems like a good price each month for 100% coverage of almost everything. I would be in the “loser on welfare category”.
The spouse would need to maintain her Medicare premiums, prescription and supplemental premiums which total about $500.00 a month.
@Ray, that sounds like a good plan for you, as long as the VA care is as good as or better than the commercial Medicare care.
And if your investments make money for you or you draw big taxable income from tax-deferred investments, this lets you avoid IRMAA uplifts, at least on your premiums. Not your spouse, though.
“Texas A&M-Galveston marks major milestone as new training vessel heads home”
https://www.chron.com/gulf-coast/article/sea-aggies-galveston-training-ship-22417628.php
“The training ship Lone Star State is well on its way to the actual Lone Star State, where next week it will become the in-house training vessel for Texas A&M-Galveston‘s Maritime Academy, the only institution of its kind on the Gulf Coast.”
“Classified as a National Security Multi-Mission Vessel, the Lone Star State is the fourth such ship built for the U.S. Maritime Administration, joining other training vessels affiliated with maritime academies in Massachusetts, New York, and Maine. (A fifth, for California, is a few more months away.)”
“Measuring 524 feet long and nearly 90 feet wide, the new ship can simultaneously train up to 600 cadets and has a total berthing capacity of 760 for humanitarian missions. Both the government and the university want to shore up the nation’s current shortage of merchant marine officers, who operate an array of watercraft. That includes oil tankers, container ships, ferries and tugboats. If needed, merchant marine officers also serve as an auxiliary to naval operations, such as delivering troops, supplies, or equipment.”
That is a big girl! Good, we need more merchant marine officers. I knew one that my daughter dated for a while. He really liked getting on the open seas, going from port to port.
“FBI busts 3 India-based call centers posing as Social Security staff, tied to $50M ripped from Americans. How it worked”
https://finance.yahoo.com/small-business/articles/fbi-busts-3-india-based-125500696.html
“A joint effort by the FBI, local police and Indian authorities has shut down a huge scam call center operation in India that saw Americans lose nearly $50 million.”
“The FBI Baltimore Field Office, Montgomery County Police Department and Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office announced that they had traced scams reported by residents in Montgomery County, Maryland, to “extensive international scam call center operations in India that had been targeting Americans since 2022,” according to a FBI Baltimore news release (1).”
That is just one county in the USA. There are thousands more counties getting scammed too.
“Are they worth the cost to our society?”
No. If enough people believe otherwise, they can pay out of pocket to subsidize the parasites and prevent other taxpayers from doing so. Otherwise, deport them—without a dime. Take the house and sell it now.
But on the way out they get a procto exam to extract information on who paid them cash for all that work. Then those people get indicted, arrested, charged and made to pay back FICA, and income taxes with penalties, ACA, and whatever else we can think of. And a full forensic business audit. RICO charges.
Cash doesn’t come out of thin air. Go after the employees who handled it. Go after the banks dispensing it. Horrible examples all around.
Insightful!
I have taught a lot of CS students over the years, and worked with a lot of them as well. I specifically recall a pair of women who were both: students and working on a paid project for me. They were quite good, and we got to talking. They knew they were good, but when they went home, they did other things.
The guys I’ve worked with, who were at the same level, went home and programmed for fun.
You can guess who will be the better, more skilled programmer in 5 or 10 years. There is a reason that men dominate engineering fields: because guys who choose these fields tend to be obsessive.
That’s not to say that no women should be engineers – those women I mentioned really were talented. It’s just that not that many women have the interest to start with, and – lacking obsession – they are likely to fall behind on their skills over time.
I have worked with several women design and plant engineers over the years using my software. They need more hand holding and that is all that I am going to say. However, once you gave them a step by step procedure, they followed it faithfully.
I worked with three programmer women back in the 1980s-1990s. Only one of them was any good and she was a ^$#@&^$( to work with. I fixed her C code once and she came into my office and screamed at me while I was explaining why I had to fix their code. They had dozens of mallocs and not a single free, the DEC Windows boxen that we were working with only had 4 MB of ram, exhaust it and the machine locked up. I got tired of the 15 minute machine reboot and fixed the problem. She had no idea that they did not have any frees.
One of the other women reported me to our “HR” for being “aggressive”. All I did was ask her when she was going to commit her code that she said was done. She never committed her code. I had to write the needful code myself in a day. My boss told me to never talk to her again, I was ok with that.
“No steering wheel, no problem: Can Tesla speed by Cybercab probe?”
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/no-steering-wheel-no-problem-201602999.html
“Federal investigators have opened an investigation into whether Tesla’s (TSLA) new Cybercabs comply with federal safety standards, just as the company begins testing its service in Austin, Texas.”
“Market Domination host Josh Lipton is joined by Tom Narayan, RBC Capital Markets lead equity analyst for global autos, to discuss if the investigation jeopardizes the rollout and how Tesla is also trying to avoid an “Apple Maps moment.””
No brake pedal, no steering wheel. Sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Ah! Say Hello to the Betty Crocker Cook Book.
Yeah, I know not all women are like that. For everything. In theory. I’ve yet to me her.
And if your investments make money for you or you draw big taxable income from tax-deferred investments, this lets you avoid IRMAA uplifts, at least on your premiums. Not your spouse, though.
I am very tempted to withdraw a large portion of one of my IRAs out to cash. I think that the next president after Trump will raise tax rates significantly. I have yet to think this through.
Ah! Say Hello to the Betty Crocker Cook Book.
Yeah, I know not all women are like that. For everything. In theory. I’ve yet to me her.
I do know that the new plants are prettier and better laid out since women design engineers showed up. That is actually fairly nicer than the old way of just throwing equipment around.
Man, I am getting 2,000 visits a day to my main website. I have no idea what is going on but the Looky Lous are checking out a page on my site and moving on somewhere else. It is weird.
Actually, I am wondering if it is all of these new AI machines cataloging the intertubes.
I am getting the eastern Europeans (Czech and Russian) and Chinese trying to break the security in my software this week. I have been watching them work. My latest security keeps on performing as designed, crash, crash, crash. It must be infuriating to them.
“SCOTUS Overturns Blockade On GOP Access To Low-Cost Ad Rates”
https://thefederalist.com/2026/09/04/scotus-overturns-blockade-on-gop-access-to-low-cost-ad-rates/
“In a win for Republicans, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned a lower court blockade that limited the most favorable broadcast advertising rates to solely political candidates. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the lone dissenter in the case.”
Again, Jackson is almost worthless in SCOTUS.
Hat tip to:
https://thefederalist.com/2026/09/04/scotus-overturns-blockade-on-gop-access-to-low-cost-ad-rates/
Megan McArdle had a post to that effect, many years ago, when she was doing tech stuff.
One Monday around the lunch table people in her work group were talking about what everybody did on the weekend. She said she went out with her boyfriend but they had a fight and they might be breaking up. The next guy said he had built a fiber optic ring network in his basement. She realized then that she wasn’t going to be able to compete…
Man, I am getting 2,000 visits a day to my main website. I have no idea what is going on but the Looky Lous are checking out a page on my site and moving on somewhere else. It is weird.
Actually, I am wondering if it is all of these new AI machines cataloging the intertubes.
You know, now I am wondering if they are using my website as the top of “The Bad Website List” and people go see it just to see how sucky it is.
VA quality depends on the district.
Some districts need an enema, maybe literally.
“Climate Regulations Crushed Western Oil Refineries. Now Goldman Sachs Predicts a Diesel Crisis”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/09/04/climate-regulations-crushed-western-oil-refinery-capacity-now-goldman-sachs-predicts-a-diesel-crisis/
““… EU climate regulations forced energy companies to shut down refining capacity in anticipation of demand destruction that has yet to materialize. …””
“The Iran war and Ukraine conflict might have interrupted Western access to Middle Eastern and Russian refining capacity, but our lack of resilience to handle such an interruption, the lack of Western refinery capacity, is a self inflicted failure.”
“Fuel shortages couldn’t have come at a worse time. Diesel prices are strongly tied to food prices, or in the worst cases, food availability.”
“A friend who runs a farm in NSW has told me that lots of people he knows cut back on planting because with elevated diesel and fertiliser prices, they couldn’t see a path to making a profit. How many other farmers throughout the world are making similar choices?”
“President Trump’s efforts to revive the USA’s fossil fuel industry may help to buffer the USA from the worst of the coming diesel supply shock, except in places like California which are still doing everything in their power to wreck their own economies with European style climate regulations. But Europe, whose economies are already stretched to the brink by the Ukraine war, skyrocketing government debt and crippling regulations on farming and industry, they could be in for some real hardship.”
Yup, Refineries are the nastiest places on the planet. Yet, they produce clean fuels for the rest of us by removing metals, sulfur, salt, and other crap by using distillation, acids, organic chain breakers, etc. They vaporize gasoline and treat it, one of the most dangerous activities on the planet. Only nuclear breeder reactors and sulfuric acid plants are more dangerous. Oh wait, refineries use sulfuric acid to regenerate cleaning mixtures and equipment.
I haven’t ridden in the Zoox driverless taxi on the Strip, but I believe it only has seats. It’s the one with the sliding doors that can move forward or backward during the trip.
A real “Johnny Cab” has a wheel, pedals, and a robot. I hear you can rip the driver out and take over. );
Friday bedtime, now Saturday. Got a lot of small stuff done and off my plate today. Feeling good to start the weekend with some of the list cleared.
“Scheherazade”, by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov is playing on the radio. Sublime.
Goodnight.
Explained at the end (1:15) of this. You may have seen it before.
I don’t know about that. Have you ever had to clean a women’s restroom?
I’ve never visited reddit except by accident or as a search result for “how do I fix error F3 on a samsung washing machine.” And the search results rarely resulted in usable info.
I hang out in two of the reddit science fiction and fantasy forums. And yes, they are liberal beyond belief. And there are people there who have never heard of Robert Heinlein, much less read one of his books.
“Babin Establishes I-47 in Honor of President Trump”
https://texasinsider.org/articles/babin-establishes-i-47-in-honor-of-president-trump
“Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Congressman Brian Babin (R-TX), Chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee and senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, introduced the I-47 Future Interstate Act of 2026, to designate U.S. Route 287 as Interstate Route I-47.”
Now establish hwy 6 and hwy 36 as interstates and watch the traffic get way safer. And finish I-69 and I-14 damgumit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_287
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_State_Highway_6
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_State_Highway_36
Johnny Cab retired and went to work for Starfleet Medical. The last time I saw him on screen, he was misquoting Picard’s line from “The Drumhead” in a lecture at Starfleet Academy.
BTW, I’ve been meaning to ask if Eugene Bradford showed up on the “Days of Our Lives” themed episode of “Strange New Worlds” this week.
Just yes or no. If yes, I may sail the high seas.
Yes.
Mens rooms are much easier to deal with if you keep your floors clean.
Urine leaves the tap sterile. A clean floor means that misses mop up easily.
I passed on studying CS/CE as my undergraduate degree since our school sold its soul to the DoD and used Ada in all of the 3000 and 4000 level courses in return for a large grant to construct a new CS/CE/EE building.
Milspec Ada didn’t have a free. Maybe their schools sold their souls as well.
Another reason Linux ate the world was Valgrind dynamic analysis to find memory leaks. That is especially useful in C++ development with chains of dynamic destructors.
Playboy’s web site lists the Patent number as 762,883, but that doesn’t bring up the right document in the USPTO.
A club spec costume is a serious piece of hardware both in terms of the bodice restrictions and the mechanism to attach and secure the tail from handsy customers, but I believe the novelty behind the Patent grant was an individual dressing in the costume to serve drinks in a nightclub setting.
Hef stole the costume from the Gaslight Club in Chicago, and he didn’t want someone doing the same thing to him.
“The climate doomsayers promised a hell that never arose”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/4712177/climate-doomsayers-promised-hell-never-arose/
“Democrats have run away from climate change as an issue, but some folks maintain that the doomsayers were proven right.”
“”But “one- or two-degree increase in temperature” wasn’t the climate prediction people cared about. What mattered to the public were all the promised effects of this warming.”
““The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change,” promised Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) recently, in a typical instance of insane, demagoguing hyperbole. But the world is not going to end, and everyone knows it. Everyone especially knows it because of the long record of bad predictions about the results of warming.”
““Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Will ‘Disappear’ Within Two Decades With No Intervention,” Agence France-Presse promised in 2014.”
“Coral now covers much more of the reef than it did in 2014, including three times as much on the northern portion.”
Liars are going to lie. Once somebody lies, never trust them. In fact, take them outside and stone them was God’s approach.
Measurable and Stunning 18-Month Decline in Number of Foreign Born Living in the US
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/09/04/measurable-and-stunning-18-month-decline-in-number-of-foreign-born-living-in-the-us-n3818694
Yeah, it’s behind a paywall.
Here’s the most important part:
https://x.com/CIS_org/status/2095501385236156504
and here are the numbers:
Growth in Foreign Born in U.S.
Obama 1st Term: 2.9 million
Obama Second Term: 3.4 million
Trump 1st Term: 1.6 million
Biden: 8.2 million
Trump 2nd Term: -2.9 million (first 18 months)
Biden, Mayorkas, and the other Democrat traitors opened the borders to wholesale illegal immigration and in four years 8.2 million streamed in compared to 7.9 million in the 12 years previous.
It would be useful to sort out the legal vs. illegal, but the estimate is -2.3 million illegals.
Stunning. A stunning accomplishment in 18 months, and a stunning act of betrayal by Democrats.
“Only 44 percent of the decline in the foreign-born are workers; the rest are children, the elderly, and other non-workers.”
So 1.3 million fewer workers–mostly illegals–competing with citizens for jobs, and 1.6 million parasites sucking up taxpayer-funded resources. It’s no wonder that legal private sector jobs are growing, and government jobs–many doubtless facilitating the r*pe of the American taxpayer–are declining.
“Making the same adjustment for undercount in the data as we did in our earlier analysis puts the total illegal immigrant population at 13.5 million in July 2026. If correct, this would represent an extraordinary decline of 2.3 million, or 14.6 percent in the illegal immigrant population since January 2025”
Census Bureau Survey Shows Total Foreign-Born Down 2.9 Million
Illegal immigrant population has fallen 2.3 million under Trump
https://cis.org/Report/Census-Bureau-Survey-Shows-Total-ForeignBorn-Down-29-Million
Every alien entering this country without authorization overstaying a visa or vioating the terms of their visa is a criminal. Get them all out. Confiscate their money and goods on the way out, unless they can show them legally attained with all taxes paid. Shut off funding for Catolic Charities and all NGO’s that conspire to violate the immigration laws of the United States, and prosecute them under RICO. Use RICO and all other available laws to criminally prosecute companies, banks, and local and state governments that conspire against the immigration laws, and criminally prosecute everyone involved. Scorch the earth, salt it, cover it with concrete, and use flamethrowers to clean off any re-emergence of cancerous growths.
And can anyone explain how Mayorkas has not assumed room temperature?
ADDED:
I’ve seen credible estimates that the illegal population is over 20 million.
Tonight’s cinematic delight was unexpected.
I bought Deadpool from the $5 bin at the grocery store. Looked like some kind of Spider Man movie. Turned out to be REALLY good. No Spider man.
I’ve had tonight’s movie in the “to watch” stack and it just keeps shuffling down.
Kingsman. The DVD case looks like it’s some kind of Buddy Holly and Happy Days crap. And who wants to watch that dreck?
And yeah, I never read the description o the back of the case. What is that? A 3 point font? Sure, 22 year old me could read that easy. I can still read it. Like reading the date in tiny print on a postage stamp. Not that DVDs existed back then.
So I put the disc in the player and started watching.
Kingsman is a pretty decent movie. An action hero movie sort of kind of. Fun to watch.
Coming down cats and dogs here at the house. 4 blocks away, nothing. The run off is half way up the curbs here. Lots of thunder and lightning too.
Did my pickups. Some stuff for the house, some for the BOL, some for me. Spent a couple of hours sorting stuff at the shop for delivery to the auction house on Tues. I have far too much ebay stuff and not enough auction stuff sorted. And I got distracted by vintage vinyl. Some nice valuable records to list. Eventually.
Not heading out tonight. I have stuff that needs to ride on the rack or in the back of the truck and don’t want to drive up in the rain. I could use some sleep too. D2 has an activity tomorrow that W was going to stay home for and come up later anyway. Three day weekend means we’ll still have two days there.
Thunder is dying down, I guess the storm is moving…
n
Leslie Ugghams as Blind Al is unbelievably funny.
Find a way to watch “Logan” before you get to the third film, “Deadpool & Wolverine”
“Deadpool & Wolverine” is kinda-sorta a sequel, but “Logan” is a tough watch.
The credits sequence in “Deadpool & Wolverine” is also a tough watch if you believe as I do that the culture which made the movies featured is dying.
“Playboy’s web site lists the Patent number as 762,883, but that doesn’t bring up the right document in the USPTO.”
Number slightly wrong.
U.S. patents have numbers:
U.S. design patents have numbers preceded by “D”.
Trademark registrations also have numbers, but there are far fewer, so the numbers are lower.
Current patent numbers are 12,xxx,xxx. ca 1965 3,xxx,xxx.
A design patent ca 1965 would be D200,xxx.
Trademark registration number ca 1965 would be 7xx,xxx.
The USPTO Official Gazette for Patents used to be published weekly, but is now electronic.
I used to read the sections pertinent to my areas of expertise and it always surprised me that a significant number of patents were issued for things that were obvious to those skilled in the art.
I looked at one example a couple years ago where the historical record clearly showed that the “invention” was within the scope of prior art. Newbies often think they are hot stuff and patent attorneys get higher fees for filing, not telling them that they don’t have an invention. In that case the examiner didn’t look deep enough. I could have defended an infringement case with a prior patent number, a line reference, and a dictionary citation.
No.
Just 20 years ago …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f50BJGMHboo
Listen to Hugh Jackman *carefully*.
I want to believe that isn’t an epitath, but …
@Nick
“Some nice valuable records to list. Eventually.”
Two principles:
Get objects without intrinsic value listed first.
Higher value items are easier to list and may pay the bills, but the bread-and-butter items represent most of your profit. And also most of your cubic and other storage problems.
I’ve recently tried keeping lots together until all the items are individually listed, and only them taking the higher value items out and putting them with other “good stuff”.
Drat. Even a Delancie cameo as Papa Trelane would get me to watch.
But very good.
After watching Logan – not before – watch Critical Drinker’s review of the movie. Love note.
“Gen-Z Music Producer Listens to Eagles “Greatest Hits 1971-1975″ for the first time”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COb5HBudlsE
I love this album.
Tonight’s cinematic delight was unexpected.
I bought Deadpool from the $5 bin at the grocery store. Looked like some kind of Spider Man movie. Turned out to be REALLY good. No Spider man.
The ten ??? minute long gag at the beginning of the movie where he sits on the freeway overpass and then drops in the Suburban sets the entire movie up. The action just goes and goes.
Although, I would have dropped the Brony scene, that was nasty.
BTW, Spiderman is owned by Sony. There are negotiations ongoing to bring Spiderman back to Marvel / Disney full time (see Avengers Civil War movie) but they are going nowhere with the success of the latest Spiderman movie. My son and I went to see it a couple of weeks ago, highly recommended.
W and D2 are still out. Their thing got rain delayed so it’s still going on. I’m headed to the shower and my bed.
Did all my personal maintenance today, haircut and shaving, so I’ll do my nails and be a gnu man.
n
Apparently WDW is supposed to somehow avoid inflation.
https://www.dailymail.com/lifestyle/article-16105525/disney-world-slammed-price-increase-hotels-2027.html
EVERYTHING has gone up in the last year.
The beef rib roast I made, that was $3.77/pound in 2020 is $15/pound this year. Dinner cost <$20 instead of ~$75.
Also a perfect example of how buying when something is cheap is a good prep. I can keep a freezer cold for a long time for $55 on one dinner.
n
“China’s three biggest airlines post heavy first-half losses as fuel shock bites”
https://www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2026/08/chinas-three-biggest-airlines-post-heavy-first-half-losses-as-fuel-shock-bites/
The Iran conflict is bankrupting China. I just realized this. I wonder if this was a planned side of the Iran conflict? War covers many things: conflict, economics, missed opportunities, etc.
I don’t know what is going on here but I have lived this picture.
https://www.reddit.com/r/f150/comments/1w750wk/we_know_youre_in_here/
Oh yeah, any one with a recent F-150 is scared of living this picture.
Mamdani talks using islamobonics!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05Uu6OtZtHc
Growth in Foreign Born in U.S.
Obama 1st Term: 2.9 million
Obama Second Term: 3.4 million
Trump 1st Term: 1.6 million
Biden: 8.2 million
Trump 2nd Term: -2.9 million (first 18 months)
I approve of this. It is why I voted for Trump a third time.