09:36 – Barbara said Bonnie had a great time yesterday on their trip up to Galax. Bonnie spent a couple of hours driving the scooter around the Walmart aisles, shopping for food, clothing, and household items. Just getting out of the house was a treat for Bonnie. Barbara said they could do it again after Christmas.
Barbara is off to the gym this morning and then to the Friends of the Library bookstore to volunteer this afternoon. Tomorrow morning, she’s driving down to Winston to spend Thanksgiving with Frances and Al. They’re going to the craft show in Greensboro on Friday, doing a couple things Saturday morning, and then she’ll head back here. That means two full days of wild women and parties for Colin and me. We have peanut butter and jelly sandwiches planned for our Thanksgiving feast.
The Lowe’s delivery truck showed up yesterday afternoon with our gas cooktop. It’s currently sitting in our foyer bathroom, awaiting Blue Ridge Co-op to install the propane tank and piping on December 9th. Once it’s all installed, we’ll be able to cook off-grid for a year or two if worse comes to worst. Barbara is looking forward to cooking with gas again. She did that until she went away to college, and has been using an electric cooktop ever since.
I see that Trump has a lot of conservatives worried because of his back-pedaling on promises he made during the campaign, such as exporting only illegal aliens who have committed serious crimes rather than exporting all of them and building a wall. I’m not too worried about it. What Trump says varies from moment to moment according to his audience. What he actually does won’t necessarily bear any relation to what he says he’s going to do. My take on Trump is that he’ll probably turn out to be a pretty decent President, far better than Obama, Bush, or Clinton were. No one is going to get everything they want, but on balance I think Trump will satisfy most conservatives and libertarians. They may get only 50% of what they wanted, but that’s far more than they’d have gotten under a new Clinton administration. There’ll be a lot of bitching and moaning from all sides, but overall he should be at least okay if not better than okay.
I’ll be happy with 10-20% of what I want: no more wars and leave our guns alone. Otherwise, sod off.
Overcast w/drizzle today; a few errands and a bit of cooking to do. Both of us are crippled; wife slipped and fell on the ice last night and twisted her hip. Fun times just never end here.
We’re gonna do the minimal over the next several days; she’s leaving Sunday for two lovely weeks in Queens and Hackensack.
So I’ll be having wild parties up here with the dog and cats, no doubt. Wild women lining up in the street with cases of craft beer and vodka, kilos of Thai sticks, etc. Shazzam!
No president ever has gotten his 100 day agenda in place.
No one has ever fulfilled all their promises.
Over promise and under deliver is the way it works.
I’m just bothered by the number of politics as usual, same old bunch of crooks, that he’s appointing. Maybe he thinks they’ll all be beholden to him now, but I don’t think that’s how it will work.
Meanwhile the window for Putin to act in Europe is open. EU might be waking up. The US may not come galloping to the rescue. We know they despise us. We know it better than ever in history. And we see them causing their own problems. So why should we fight for them if they aren’t willing to fight for themselves? Other than maintaining our forward air bases so we can continue to go where ever we want, there isn’t much to defend on the continent. They’ve actively sought a conqueror for years, and now they got one.
nick
I’ll throw this out there too.
WRT the move to ban “hate speech” and “fake news”. It’s not far from “don’t listen to what they say, those are bad words” to “don’t listen to them, those are bad people” to “we need to shut those animals up permanently.”
With desperate failing central governments and social structures on the edge of collapse, politicians always look for scapegoats to distract the masses and to focus the anger away from themselves. Anyone think they’ll change their minds and blame islam? or the islamic invaders they’ve welcomed so fervently?
n
Things have come to a parlous state when a lot of us are happy that we have an incoming President that may or may not actually do any of the things that he’s promised to do.
I voted for the individual whom I thought would be the adult about the Russians. I have no doubt that the US-Putin relationship will improve since it would be hard for anyone but Cankles to make it worse.
Beyond that, I’d like to see Doh-bamacare repealed completely, but I doubt that is possible with the current media environment. Trump might get away with ending the individual mandate, however, and that might just be enough to bring down the rest of the law.
Available today for 99 cents on Kindle: Moonshining as a Fine Art: The Foxfire Americana Library (1) . This may help you happier after TSHTF.
Indeed. Like I say, even just a smidgeon of the right thing would be a friggin’ improvement over the last twenty years. I’m gonna start using the meme of “Sixteen Years of Clinton-Obama” every chance I get now. Let the blame land where it belongs for the most part, and I can always go back to “Twelve Years of Reagan-Bush” or is it “Sixteen Years” of that crime family, too?
WRT to Continental Europe, yup, they made their bed and they can lie in it; the only hopeful signs come from Marine LePen and the guys in Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, maybe Poland. Although let it be noted that more and more French and German peeps are becoming aroused and in fighting mood lately. Unfortunately, they’ll be facing the barbarians their governments let in through the ‘gates of Greece and Italy and Turkey’ instead of Vienna this time, AND a resurgent Russian threat, which is mainly in response to Murkan and NATO provocations for quite some time now.
And Mr. Nick is also correct on the slippery slope involving the restrictions increasing on free speech; like that old Nat Hentoff book title goes…”Free Speech for Me But Not for Thee.”
And no, they don’t have to send around NKVD squads with vans in the middle of the night anymore and guys running up the stairs with truncheons and Makarovs; they simply screw up your credit and bank accounts, foreclose on your house, repossess your vehicles, and put you on the street. And they can escalate to accusations of national security breaches or child molestation and plant evidence galore on your computers and mobile devices. Gee whiz, look what the courts do now, and have been doing, with divorce law brutally punishing the husbands, and the asset forfeiture scams. Not to mention carte blanche, mostly, for police officers accused of brutality and civil rights violations.
I figure we’ve got the next two months to keep our eyes and ears REALLY wide open all the time and otherwise it’s too early to see what the new National Administrator will actually do or get away with in the face of constant MSM and Dem hostility and incitement to riot and violence.
I did that recipe as a science fair project in the 7th grade. It sure stinks and looks just like a barrel of chunky vomit. I can still smell it in my head just typing this.
I built the still, the condensing coil, and charcoal filter. I did every step except actually distillation as that would have been a crime in Illinois at the time.
Don’t remember what I got at the fair, but at home I had weeks of stinky vomit in the downstairs bathroom.
n
The only hope for America with Il Duce Trump is if he ends the same way as the first Il Duce.
Guiding Allen Carpentier out of hell?
JimL: great Pournell aside
OFD is puzzled, befuddled and confounded; hopelessly trying to see a connection between Il Duce, Trump and a heart valve surgeon being in Hell. WTF, over?
This seems to make a fair amount of sense on our prospects ahead with Trump:
http://christianmerc.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-last-betrayal.html
And I agree with the comments here advising Trump to tell the WSJ to shove it, along with their shysters:
http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/54290.html
Especially after the financial chiseling and theft concocted by the Clinton Crime Family and their “Foundation.” Not to mention the decades of graft, theft, grifting, drug dealing, whoring, rape, murder, war crimes and treason.
WRT to Continental Europe, yup, they made their bed and they can lie in it; the only hopeful signs come from Marine LePen and the guys in Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, maybe Poland. Although let it be noted that more and more French and German peeps are becoming aroused and in fighting mood lately. Unfortunately, they’ll be facing the barbarians their governments let in through the ‘gates of Greece and Italy and Turkey’ instead of Vienna this time, AND a resurgent Russian threat, which is mainly in response to Murkan and NATO provocations for quite some time now.
Don’t forget that Russians have no love for the muslims. They are semi-surrounded by muslims and have occasional disagreements with them. Ok, many disagreements.
Which would you prefer Europe run by, Russians or muslims ?
R U kidding, hermano? Russia by a yuuuuuuuuugggge margin. Mostly Russian Orthodox Christians, and yes, they have had major problems with musloid scum murdering bastards. And dealt with them accordingly many times since the 1980s, which we seem to have a bitch of a time doing, along with the Euros. Perhaps we could learn a thing or two from the Russians and the Israelis, eh wot?
https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2016/11/23/schindler-why-putin-hates-the-west/
That’s a trick question, right?
Perhaps we could learn a thing or two from the Russians and the Israelis, eh wot?
Given that statement, Trump’s desire to be friends with Putin seems make Trump smarter than the average bear.
“Let’s Encrypt Everything”
https://blog.codinghorror.com/lets-encrypt-everything/
“But post Snowden, and particularly after the result of the last election here in the US, it’s clear that everything on the web should be encrypted by default.”
“Why?”
“1. You have an unalienable right to privacy, both in the real world and online. And without HTTPS you have zero online privacy – from anyone else on your WiFi, from your network provider, from website operators, from large companies, from the government.”
“2. The performance penalty of HTTPS is gone, in fact, HTTPS arguably performs better than HTTP on modern devices.”
“3. Using HTTPS means nobody can tamper with the content in your web browser.”
I am a big fan of number 3. I encrypted my main website quite a while back. I will do the other six when I get around to it.
https://www.winsim.com/
“OFD is puzzled, befuddled and confounded; hopelessly trying to see a connection between Il Duce, Trump and a heart valve surgeon being in Hell. WTF, over?”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Niven_and_Pournelle_novel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_Hell_(novel)
Well, I might not have been clear enough; NATO and the Euro gummints and ours perceive the Russians as a major threat. I and others see them as, yes, playing cat-and-mouse games with everyone, but in response to Western provocations, mainly. We’ve been poking them in the eyes with a sharp stick for a long time, and Prince Vlad is profoundly tired of it and I don’t blame him. We ought to be cooperating with them in fighting the musloid war, and that enemy has been at our gates or inside them now for a very long time.
However the Euro governments and our own are and have been ecstatically welcoming hordes of musloids into their countries and this one and evidently willing for us all to kneel in dhimmi-hood beneath the scimitars (or dull kitchen butcher knives) in orange jumpsuits or die. They apparently think they’ll somehow be exempt, which I don’t understand, other than knowing their abject unfamiliarity with and profound disinterest in history.
RE: HTTPS – beware that the most common “secure” encryption protocols implemented over HTTPS are now vulnerable. SSL and TLS v1.o & v1.1 are compromised. Your servers SHOULD refuse to accept these. But many servers still support these – an open invitation to attack. Make sure that YOUR server is patched and that your browser ONLY uses TLS v1.2 (or higher)
“https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Niven_and_Pournelle_novel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_Hell_(novel)
OFD will stick with Dante’s “Inferno,” in facing medieval Italian and English pages, thank you very much, with a fair amount of medieval Latin. The recovering English major had three out of five chapters of an MA thesis done on representations of fatherhood with Dante and Virgil. Then his first wife got a law clerk job for a superior court judge in NJ and we hadda move down there for 3.5 years and my PhD program conked out for me after just one year in Medieval Studies for various reasons, as did that first marriage. All just wotta under the bridge…but there does Il Duce vis-a -vis Trump come in, and the evident desire to see him and his wife hanging upside down from a lamppost?
RE: HTTPS – beware that the most common “secure” encryption protocols implemented over HTTPS are now vulnerable. SSL and TLS v1.o & v1.1 are compromised. Your servers SHOULD refuse to accept these. But many servers still support these – an open invitation to attack. Make sure that YOUR server is patched and that your browser ONLY uses TLS v1.2 (or higher)
I have a 100% managed and dedicated server at http://www.pair.com . They update security all the time and I do not have the root password. I like it this way as I do not have to keep up on all this stuff. It was tough enough converting my main website to HTTPS.
@Mr. H. Combs:
Your thoughts, if you get a minute, please, on this laptop config:
http://combatstudiesgroup.blogspot.com/2016/10/sepio-laptop-details.html
I’ve mostly been using Tails w/persistence on a 64GB stick but am looking closely at the Qubes setup.
Some cultural chit in Brooklyn:
http://thefederalist.com/2016/11/23/brooklyn-grocery-store-played-sweet-home-alabama-everyone-lost-minds/
Mrs. OFD lived in Brooklyn with her first (late) husband back in the 1980s, and not in the chic and ritzy section, either. She was working as an admitting nurse at Bellevue and eventually pregnant with our son, while her husband was bopping around to various teaching-type jobs, he, like our daughter, was amazingly gifted with languages.
I bopped around to various teaching jobs in MA and NJ from 1989-93 and there it ended, mostly instructing in freshman English, writing and composition, and introductory de Vere. Worked at New Jersey Monthly Magazine for a year and then got back into IT, where I’ve been, on and off, and mostly off, since 1995.
Part of my next revenue-producing attempt will involve making many more meatspace connections for potential further teaching gigs, maybe tutoring in English, Latin and history (although the big market is for STEM skillz now). And more potential part-time or consulting IT gigs in the AO. I’ll have three different biz cards to stick up around the area and hand out, too.
OFD’s Guerrilla Revenue Producing Strategy, we’ll see how it pans out. Makes wife beaucoups happy to see me working and producing revenue again, so that’s where I’m heading.
The turkey is cooked, hopefully. A still very cold bird onto the grill at Noon. Over a pan of water. Temp reached 165F at 5PM. Grill turned off. Temp is up to 174 after 45 minutes in a closed grill.
Interesting. We’ve never left the probe in to watch the temperature rise.
In a while I’ll take the bird apart and generally sort into white and dark bowls. Bones and “ick” into the stockpot.
The dogs eat well tonight.
Got our two organic free-range turkeys this afternoon at the Healthy Living Market down in Burlap; I like to roll through these places, because almost all the other customers are obvious lefties, aging hippies, SJW types and progs, and on the face of it I might fit right in, with a long ponytail and goatee, but I tower over everyone, pretty much and have the cop walk and cop eyeballs, so they clearly know I ain’t one of them, hahaha. Very polite and friendly, though. Especially the girls. Shazammmm!
Anyway, I’ll do a bit of cooking here and there tomorrow during the NFL binge and the rest on Friday, when I’ll brine one of them and grill it; last year the grilled turkey came out a gorgeous bronze color and was outstanding. I’ll keep basting it with butter and herbs and lemon zest throughout. Sides will include some form of mashed spuds, baked squash, cranberry w/pears and ginger sauce, biscuit stuffing, gravy, and an apple tart and pumpkin pie for dessert. Wife will be up in Moh-ree-all with Princess on Friday so that’s when I’ll do the bulk of the chores and we’ll have our T-Day dinner on Saturday and then she’ll be gone Sunday afternoon for two weeks.
I’ll probably just snack on stuff tomorrow and make sandwiches with something or other, probably tuna salad cheese melts and maybe skillet peach upside-down cake.
Back seems much better so fah, knock on wood; able to move around and walk for a while inside the stores and stand in line w/o too much discomfort, ditto with the shower this morning, usually a painful series of jolts. Now it just seems to be muscle fatigue from walking and standing a lot today. I’ll rest it up today and tomorrow and take drugs and try to get eight continuous hours of sleep, which has helped tremendously in the past. That got screwed up this morning thanks to pesky and persistent Sikh recruiter from Toronto calling my cell, the landline and sending emails to two of my email accounts. For a gig in Moh-ree-all with a page-long alphabet soup of IT acronyms and responsibilities more suited to a TEAM of at least three IT drones, not just one lonely drone. And a 75-mile commute each way, plus a mixed Winblows and Linux infrastructure, almost always a nightmare in my experience. No thanks, and I immediately thought of Michael Caine tossing the guy out of his train carriage with the watermelon in “The Man Who Would Be King.”
So multiple phone calls from him, the VA, and Princess, all before 09:00. Princess got a ten-minute video from her bicycle of a major downtown building fire in Moh-ree-all this morning, columns of smoke and flame into the sky, with the wind blowing the smoke toward and throughout downtown. 150 firefighters on the scene. Some old building that had had an ink press business and adjacent to a Chinese restaurant. So you can imagine all the fluids, grease and chemicals in there. Naturally the vid is on FaceCrack with hundreds of views now. One smartass posted “Holy Smoke!”
So there went my eight, or preferably nine or ten hours of sleep that I’d hoped for after all of yesterday’s activities and the vivisection at the VA.
We’ll be dining at a casino buffet for Thanksgiving this year. Nice and bright and cheery. Everybody came to our house last year, so a break this year.
I knew that Paul Ryan was a RINO but I did not know that he was an idiot. His plan to privatize Medicare and replace it with private insurance is such a piece of crap. After all, Obolacare has been such a success !
http://paulryan.house.gov/issues/issue/?IssueID=9969
Does anyone have any experience with a dog stroller ? The wife has declared that I need to cut the dog’s daily two mile walk with me by half since she will be 14 next week. Something like this but way cheaper for my 33 lb cocker spaniel.
https://www.amazon.com/Pet-Gear-Roadster-Stroller-Black/dp/B003SZR49E/
I hope to heck Ryan is somehow frozen out of any genuine power position in the new National Administrator regime; what a friggin’ tool. I’m wondering again who our real friends and allies are in the U.S. Congress now, if any.
Local nooz today; the city/town is on track to lay down more sidewalks, thanks to several state grants they got; already got a nice one on the bay shore here which they’re gonna expand around the town park in back of us, and a dozen more fairly extensive projects for city downtown and and extending into the town surrounding the city. (when I say “city” I mean about 6k for the pop, and roughly the same for the surrounding town.) (the village here has a couple of hundred.)
A year-long perusal of the scanners and police log nooz illustrates that it is still by far the low-level property and violence crap that you might see on any old episode of “Cops,” and involves mostly underclass white scumbags, the usual dope dealing, dope possession, DUIs, family fights/domestics, car accidents, noise complaints, B&E’s and the occasional body turning up somewhere. Most of it stupid and unnecessary. Same old, same old, that I did thirty-plus years ago down in MA.
Here in the village we’ve had noise complaints, the corner gas station/store busted into twice in the past two years, and car burglaries/vandalization, including our own. And I’ve witnessed and overhead a couple of wild-ass domestics that did not escalate to violence. And that’s been it.
The stuff that goes on in Montpeculiar and Mordor barely touch us here; but I really gotta get to the town committee meetings and learn who people are and what they’re up to locally. Plus the gun range, damn it; gotta get up there at least monthly from now on, if not weekly. Three miles up the road.
Like Mr. Nick mentioned yesterday or the other day; it behooves us to stop and take a look at ourselves and who we are and what we’re doing on a regular basis, what our plans are, if any, and how we intend to continue living our lives. We both (wife and I) seem to be on the track now, too, and we’ll have to get cracking on a whole bunch of stuff this next year.
“Something like this but way cheaper for my 33 lb cocker spaniel.”
Yikes.
Count me out.
The day our mutt can’t hack the mission on walking and running around, I’ll have the cats drown him in the lake.
More on libturd tool Ryan:
http://freedomoutpost.com/paul-ryan-continues-to-show-his-true-colors-wont-support-cuts-to-muslim-immigration/
And is the National Administrator-Elect aware that the Toob is owned and run by Google, notorious Cankles supporters and enablers:
http://freedomoutpost.com/the-president-elect-had-to-start-a-youtube-channel-so-his-message-isnt-censored-by-the-msm/
Yeah, just ’cause our Repub savior has ostensibly been “elected,” don’t mean we can sit back and cruise now…
http://freedomoutpost.com/james-wesley-rawles-double-up-on-your-prepping-they-cant-hold-back-collapse-much-longer/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7hwvWIK1eM
I ate some of the Keystone canned beef. It reminded me of my mother’s over-cooked stringy roasts, so, yeah, I’ll stock up on some for long term and for the occasional ordinary meal. I’d prefer my own sort of medium-rare pressure-cooked roast, but I don’t have to be all that hungry to consider the Keystone beef as a basis for a decent meal or as an exceptionally good survival ration. Local Walmart price for the Keystone 28-ounce cans of various meats comes to $4 or $5 a pound for cooked meat: not bad!
Label shelf life of 5 years (thus at least 10 years in the real world) is a plus.
Second day, I just stirred in some minute rice, which worked nicely with simmer in the broth.
Up here we can just knock over a bovine and get it real fresh. Just a short walk up the road, too.
I gotta look into canned meats, but have generally preferred tuna and salmon so fah. My best bet for inexpensive varieties is up at our local Price Chopper. Real down-to-earth peeps there, too. Best seafood in town that we’ve found. Wife is big on shrimp and mussels and other shellfish; if we get fish it has to be pretty much right off the boat or she won’t eat it; extremely sensitive nose. Also likes chicken more than I do; I prefer turkey. And won’t eat corned-beef hash, which I can gobble down by the pound with poached eggs on top and Frank’s Hot Sauce and a side of buttered grits.
And we both like chili, so there’s that common ground at least.
Scanning the unit pricing on supermarket shelf, I found that canned mackerel is the cheapest meat, per ounce, by far. I happen to like mackerel (and the various herrings, too) but that’s some nasty stuff to many people.
You can make up patties (croquets?) with cracker crumbs and maybe some spice, to tone it down for those who don’t like maximum fishiness.
For price and for long term storage (even if you stick with the label expiration dates), it’s hard to beat canned fish, particularly mackerel. For quality (still at a pretty good price), try the King Oscar brand sardines and kippers, but generic mackerel is hard to beat.
I’m not refusing to eat quality salmon and tuna, of course, and local fresh seafood is always best, a real treat.
Barbara doesn’t much like tuna, so we have only a couple dozen cans of it in LTS. She does like canned salmon, so I should probably order a case or two of it.
Various brands and types of salmon (and tuna and other fishies) are quite different. I have had canned salmon that made me wish for the funk of canned mackerel…
I’ve mostly been using Tails w/persistence on a 64GB stick but am looking closely at the Qubes setup.
If you are really paranoid, any Intel CPU produced after Core2 will have the Intel Management Engine.
http://hackaday.com/2016/01/22/the-trouble-with-intels-management-engine/
Wife won’t eat any canned fish besides tuna. Mackerel? Not after she and MIL were spoiled by grilling it fresh off the boats up in Pigeon Hill, NB.
Has Barbara tried/had Fancy Albacore canned tuna, solid pack in water? Canned salmon is among the best protein sources for a prepper pantry and for that matter, a regular diet. Wife hates salmon.
“If you are really paranoid, any Intel CPU produced after Core2 will have the Intel Management Engine.”
Yes, problematic. I’m researching ways of making the hardware and BIOS and kernels more secure but it’s a part-time thing for me. Like many other of my things. Encryption is another area, plus I’m behind an offshore VPN.
For real paranoia I’m looking at old-skool manual typewriters, carbon paper, and sneakernet. Like one of the comments said, disconnect your pooter from the net and lock it up and you’re pretty well set.
I’m thinking I’ll be fairly happy with Qubes and Tails, though. If that doesn’t cut it forever, then I’ll look at something else. Just wanna make things harder for the nosy bastards and their snooping. I’m already all over their Feebie and mils-spec files anyway, but do they need to know everything I type and say and think ALL the time? And I’m just very, very small potatoes anyway. I would like to move all our financial and political and prepping stuff to a more secure platform, however, and will work to that end this next year.
The CSG laptop looks good but I don’t have a couple of grand lying around to get the top-shelf unit right now; also like the idea of the phone but can’t spring $700 for that, either. I do have, however, the Libertas tablet and like it a lot. Learning curve for all the apps, though. Wanna use an SDR dongle with it. New alternative currencies are interesting, too.
I once grilled fresh spanish mackerel, grey trout, uh… and two other species…
that I caught. Various good flavors, which of course my companions refused to try.
Food is food, and if it’s fresh, just get over it.
Of course, supposedly better alternatives can win out, but why not at least taste?
Yeah, just ’cause our Repub savior has ostensibly been “elected,” don’t mean we can sit back and cruise now…
http://freedomoutpost.com/james-wesley-rawles-double-up-on-your-prepping-they-cant-hold-back-collapse-much-longer/
Nah, we’ve got a long slide into dystopia, “The world ends with a whimper, not a bang…”:
https://www.amazon.com/Soft-Apocalypse-Will-McIntosh/dp/159780276X/
It’s safest to cook the turkey directly from a frozen state.
Heat a large kettle of oil on a large gas flame (indoors is fine)
and drop the frozen turkey directly into the hot oil.
Your turkey will be cooked, real quick-like…
@spook, man we really need a /sarc tag……
n
“…Your turkey will be cooked, real quick-like…”
And so might you be.
We do have a turkey deep-fryer around here somewhere, in the attic, I think. I’ll probably find it when I get to really rockin’ on creating my spiffy work space up there. Never used it but willing to try.
Off to Recliner-Ville again, just to play it safe at least one more night down there. Loaded on OTC drug and two prescription drugs so hopefully I can sleep straight through; what Sikh recruiters will call from O Kanada on our T-Day….oh wait…better shut off the damn phones, too.
Old school typewriters. Check! I have a nice Underwood in this room. My typewriter. I really like the font. The left side of A is a bit weak. I’m smart enough to not eff with it. Another Underwood in the feed shed for the last 20 years. Carbon paper… no, none. Gone the way of ink pads and rubber stamps. And that purple stuff. Never mind mimeograph machines with the stencils and all.
The turkey is ok. We are not grilling another. Well cooked but stuck to the bones, not a lot of meat from an 18# bird. Might have been an odd bird, damn thing was almost all breast. Back to the tried and true treblinka (1) method. Which is…
Thaw the bird. Rub it down with lots of salt and pepper and butter. Put a couple of quartered onions inside. Along with oh, “officially” four cloves of garlic. More like 4 entire garlics. Then wrap in heavy duty foil. Cross wrap in foil. Repeat. Fold and tuck. Repeat. Repeat. Seven layers is good. Pop that sucker into the oven. Breast down. Do use a roaster pan to collect what leaks. Set the timer so it turns the oven on at midnight for 3 hours. Set the temp to 500F. If the the bird is big, set the timer for 4 hours. Go to bed. Don’t open the oven until about 10AM.
Might want to think about cleaning the oven….. just saying.
If you do it correctly, you wake up to the smell of a wonderful turkey.
If you screw up the timer settings, where turkey is doing 500F until 6AM, well, the wings will be sort of like overcooked jerky. Ditto for the end of the legs.
If you get it right you have a bird where you can pull the breasts off in one piece. Just jiggle the breast bone out… Drumsticks? Twist the bone and put it in the stock pot.
(1) I have a crazy friend and he came up with the Treblinka name. We are crazy enough that the name stuck.
“Trump to Push Designation of Muslim Brotherhood as Terror Group: “Sharia Incompatible with Constitution””
http://freedomoutpost.com/trump-to-push-designation-of-muslim-brotherhood-as-terror-group-sharia-incompatible-with-constitution/
I am good with this. Sharia is not compatible with the American culture.
. That got screwed up this morning thanks to pesky and persistent Sikh recruiter from Toronto calling my cell, the landline and sending emails to two of my email accounts. For a gig in Moh-ree-all with a page-long alphabet soup of IT acronyms and responsibilities more suited to a TEAM of at least three IT drones, not just one lonely drone. And a 75-mile commute each way, plus a mixed Winblows and Linux infrastructure, almost always a nightmare in my experience.
You could live with Princess in her apartment during the work week and head back to Vermont for the weekend.
You could live with Princess in her apartment during the work week and head back to Vermont for the weekend.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wanna use an SDR dongle with it.
The low end HDTV dongles which can receive ADS-B “Out” broadcasts are a cheap place to start with Gnuradio. I have a few as part of a long-simmering thesis idea about the integrity of the ADS-B system in an environment where the general public has access to cheap SDR.
Use an IPSec VPN if you can. I don’t trust SSL-based VPNs, and I’m the developer who invented the SSL-T protocol used in IBM Netclient.
“I am good with this. Sharia is not compatible with the American culture.”
Ditto. And they’d have to declare Huma one of their associates or operators and lock her up!
@Mr. Greg Norton; thanks. Roger that. Using IPSec VPN accordingly with 4.096 bit public key encryption for the key exchange and AES-256 bit for encryption of the traffic data.. Will look into those dongles.
So what is it with IT infrastructure folks. I teachon three different campus sites for our school, each with its own team. The people where my “home base” is are super nice, but…nothing, and I mean nothing ever gets done. I’ve gone straight to the boss, we sat down and worked through a list of stuff that needed dealt with, and…six months and a couple of reminders later…nada.
On another site, I never see the IT people. They’re invisible or something. On the other hand, I never need to see them, because there’s never an issue, never a problem, stuff just works.
Uh-huh. And there’s a good chance the team will be sacked, or at least have budget and headcount cut, because there’s no need to waste money on an IT team when there’s never any problems they’re needed for. I’ve watched that happen, more than once.
More recently and personally, there’s a good chance my current contract will not be renewed in a couple months. The project “owner” looks over the task assignments every afternoon and sees that I very seldom have anything in there. No sense in paying my contract when I never have anything to do, right? And the fact that several of the other developers are bozos and always have a backlog of work because they take days to get one thing done, whereas I am very good at what I do and don’t sit around half the day chatting and therefore knock off all of my assignments every day, has no bearing on the matter. Bah, not a problem. I’m not partial to the current gig and have already started to look for the next.
I was doing a project with a major oil company in Canadia a few years ago. The project owner was always writing down every little thing that went wrong during the install. We’re talking about all the normal things that happen when trying to fit one set of physical objects into an existing space.
It was really starting to bug me that she kept recording all these minor and absolutely ordinary things as problems. When I raised the issue with her finally, she told me that she understood these were the little things that always need attention (she was a veteran of MANY similar projects), but part of her team’s evaluation was how many issues they addressed and how many were ‘closed.’ More issues, more reason for her team to keep getting paid, more closed, more pats on the back for a job well done.
Once I understood, I started feeding her issues and resolutions every day.
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