08:39 – It was 60.7F (16C) when I took Colin out at 0625, clear and calm. The little dog is still hanging around. It was standing at the front door when I opened it. Colin either doesn’t like it or is afraid of it. He refused to go out at first. I waited a while for the little dog to leave and then took Colin out. He did his business hurriedly and then ran back to the front door to be let in.
We got more bottles filled yesterday, with more to do today. Barbara is home all day today, so we should get a lot done.
Ordinarily, this site gets 650 to 750 visitors (unique IP addresses) per day, totaling 2,600 to 3,800 visits (page reads). But over the last couple of months, I’ve had a pest hammering the server periodically, adding 10,000 to 18,000 page reads per day to the total count. (This site doesn’t HAVE 10,000 unique pages, let alone 18,000.) This happens two or three days a week, on average. All I know is that this pest’s IP address is assigned to Amazon Web Services in Dublin, Ireland, and that the user agent is Vegi. It’s very annoying.
Amazon is no help. I would have thought that simply reporting the source and destination IP addresses would have been sufficient, but they want me to go through hoops before they’ll even check it out.
Well, sure. By making it difficult for you to report problems that would require them to do something, they reduce their workload.
There might be a more justifiable explanation, rather than this cynical one. But, in the words of a wise man, the problem with the world today is how often cheap cynicism turns out to be the best explanation for and predictor of events.
Maybe the following helps?:
Vegi bot (we follow your robots.txt settings before crawling, you can slow down the bot by change the Crawl-Delay parameter in the settings.if you have an enquiry, please email to: abuse-report@terrykyleseoagency.com)
From: https://tools.tracemyip.org/lookup/54.171.173.211
“Maybe the following helps?:”
Thanks!
I just assumed that this site was ignoring my robots.txt file, but when I checked it just now I found that robots.txt was missing from my server. I created and SFTP’d that file up onto my server. We’ll see if it helps.
Another bright blood red sun this morning, obscured by heavy smoke.
Forecast for next 10-days varies between 101-degreesF and 108-degreesF.
Heavy smoke started rolling in about 0500 PDT yesterday morning. We are under an Air Quality Alert until noon on Saturday, but I expect it will be extended. The smoke is coming from fires in BC and Montana, upper air flows are pumping it down here. Just about everyones’ eyes are burning and running. It is so bad that all outside recreational activities have been cancelled and the counties (Benton and Franklin) are recommending that those with outside jobs do not do them if possible or at least minimize time outside. Visibility is less than 100-yards. Ground level wind is essentially 0 so the smoke is just hanging and building up.
If you look at this wind map you will see the flow that is pumping and dumping/concentrating smoke in SE WA State:
http://hint.fm/wind/
How much experience has Colin had with other dogs so far? It sounds like the little dog has him spooked.
We had some thunder and a bit of spitting rain for a short time last night and it’s brightly overcast today after some early blue skies. I gotta slide down to the vets group in beeyooteeful Burlap and we’ll probably be running the operation ourselves today, as our psychologist moderator is on vay-cay down the Cape for two weeks. That is one of the last places on earth I’d wanna visit during the summer tourist season; I have the feeling he got goat-roped into it by family/in-laws.
My idea of a summer vay-cay for a couple of weeks would be Newfoundland and Labrador.
Colin hasn’t tried to herd him?
“How much experience has Colin had with other dogs so far? It sounds like the little dog has him spooked.”
Not much, other than with Missy and later Sophie, Kim’s Yorkshire Terriers. Colin is a 6.5 year old unaltered male, so instinctively he’s very cautious about puppies, expecting their mother to be somewhere nearby, waiting to rip his guts out.
Turns out Barbara was right yesterday when she called the general county number, assuming there wasn’t a county animal control department. There was an article about it in the local paper this morning. There is now an animal control department, but until very recently, problem dogs were simply caught or trapped, driven down to the dump, and shot.
A local vet, whom we use, is doing something about it himself. He was responsible for the county commissioners creating the animal control department. Furthermore, he’s organized volunteers to find people to adopt abandoned animals, and shelters them in his own kennel. The article said his kill rate was 25%, which by context is apparently very low. He’s paying all the costs out of his own pocket, to the tune of about $100 PER DAY.
“Colin hasn’t tried to herd him?”
Sure, but dogs in general and puppies in particular don’t cooperate.
When I had Colin out second time this morning, he was sniffing around down in the far SW corner of our property. I was standing 50 yards or so up towards the road when out of the corner of my eye I spotted a small animal heading down the treeline at a dead run towards Colin. Colin didn’t hear him approaching until he was maybe 5 or 8 feet away, at which point he whipped around and showed his fangs. I don’t blame him. Then the two of them ran around in circles, playing. Colin soon had enough of it and headed up to the front door. The little dog followed him, but Colin snarled and it scampered. Dogs don’t generally recognize size differences among dogs, but even so a 70-pound dog with its fangs on display is pretty intimidating.
That was my assumption, too, as so many of them do. What’s the old saw about assumptions?
(Something about fingerpainting Hillary’s ass. Or fingerpainting on her ass. Or something. I don’t like to think about it.)
You don’t want your fingers anywhere near hIllary’s arse, those kooties jump.
Reading “Hillary” and “kooties” in the same sentence *gives* me kooties.
Oh, yeah, HILLARY WILL NEVER BE PRESIDENT!
Oh, yeah, HILLARY WILL NEVER BE PRESIDENT!
The body double will be tan, fit, and rested by 2020.
If the Dems are smart (okay, stop laughing) they will run Gavin Newsom.
I defer to your wisdom and hands-on experience.
Ordinarily, this site gets 650 to 750 visitors (unique IP addresses) per day, totaling 2,600 to 3,800 visits (page reads). But over the last couple of months, I’ve had a pest hammering the server periodically, adding 10,000 to 18,000 page reads per day to the total count. (This site doesn’t HAVE 10,000 unique pages, let alone 18,000.) This happens two or three days a week, on average. All I know is that this pest’s IP address is assigned to Amazon Web Services in Dublin, Ireland, and that the user agent is Vegi. It’s very annoying.
I normally get 500 unique visitors per day on my main website (I’ve got 7 domains). But every 4 to 5 days, it hops up in the 5,000 unique visitor range. But, they don’t receive the material so my over all transfer stays the same. Kind of like a DNS attack.
I am guessing that the Analog log tool is using “distinct visitors” for “unique visitors”
That is weird. My “visitor” count stays more or less the same from day to day,with a slight drop on weekends. It’s the “visits” count that jumps all over the place. One day, it might be 3,100 and the next day 22,000. The days that it’s in the 2,500 to 4,000 visits range are all real visits (less a few for Googlebot and so on). The days when it jumps hugely, the increase is invariably from one distinct IP address with Vegi as the agent.
“IBM and Sony cram up to 330 terabytes into tiny tape cartridge”
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/ibm-and-sony-cram-up-to-330tb-into-tiny-tape-cartridge/
“Sputtered magnetic layer, lubricant, and new heads enable massive 200Gb/inch density.”
I have bought my last tape cartridge but I have to admit, 330 TB on a single tape cartridge is very impressive.
Nowadays, I like using additional internal hard drives and external hard drives for our corporate LAN backup of 3.5 TB.
The last time I used tape was back in the days of SCSI DDS-3/DDS-4 (12 to 20 GB per cartridge). I remember when that seemed incredibly large.
After that, I started using standard hard drives in external chassis, at first with USB connectors and later S-ATA. That had the advantage of allowing cheap 7,200 RPM storage back when external hard drives were low-capacity and expensive relative to standard ATA/S-ATA drives. For the last ten years or so, I’ve been using regular external hard drives.
It occasionally hits me just how far we’ve come. The first hard drive I owned was a Seagate ST-225 20 MB MFM drive installed in an actual IBM PC/XT. I bought that system in 1986 and still have it, Hercules Graphics card and all. Last night while we watching TV streaming off an external hard drive via the Roku, I looked over and noticed that there was a stack of three external hard drives sitting there unobtrusively. Their total capacity is 11 TB. Eleven million megabytyes, or 550,000 times as much as my first hard drive. Geez.
It occasionally hits me just how far we’ve come.
I have a 256 GB flash drive plugged into my work laptop.
Installed software packages keep getting larger, however. The last time I tried it, installation of Visual Studio required 2+ GB, and that was just basic functionality.
486/33, 120 MByte, 1 MByte RAM, 3-1/2 AND 5-1/4. 1992. One of the CORES on my phone exceeds all but the HDD on that old Compaq.
I never touched a computer until I was 25 years old. Now I manage a network of 200+ PCs, plus servers, printers, peripherals, phones, and firewalls. We have come very far.
Installed software packages keep getting larger, however. The last time I tried it, installation of Visual Studio required 2+ GB, and that was just basic functionality.
The sandbox (source code, programs, scripts, test files, etc) for our software program is approaching 20 GB and has 376 subdirectories.
BTW, we had a bit of excitement last night. I was sitting in the den watching “I Want To Believe” about midnight last night. Suddenly, something small flew past me in the corner of my poor peripheral vision. I jumped and and walked over to front hallway. There was a small bat flying around the front hallway to the dining room to the kitchen to the den to the front hallway and so on. I ran around and closed the rest of the house off, yelled at the wife and daughter to stay away (that got them promptly in the den, I need to remember that), and opened the front door. After about 20 to 30 more loops, and much yelling and waving my arms, the bat flew out the front door. I wished a happy eating of his nightly 1,000 mosquitos to him and slammed the front door.
When I was in high school, a bat had invaded my girlfriend’s house while I was there. I was carrying my tennis rackets and backhanded it into the wall. Instantly dead bat, and I didn’t even break a string.
My first was a TI 99/4a. I spent HOURS typing in stuff from magazines. I still have it, no clue if it still works.
At work, I started with a 286. DOS 5 I think. Some WordPerfect and Lotus123. I snagged a set of Win 3.0 (?) floppies and installed Windows. The computer guru said it wouldn’t work but let me try. It worked. Not fast like doing something on the VAX terminal. Not in color. But it let me learn Windows. I built a stand for the CPU box so that I just had two monitors and a mouse pad on my desk. The stand was between desk and wall. That went over well so I built a few more for some of the secretaries. Just some 1×6 and 1×4 lumber, not “fine furniture” by any measure. This was the job where I got to help install the LAN. Thinnet. Ethernet cards. Fun stuff.
My second PC was a state surplus Compaq Totable. 10MB HD, dual floppies, 7 inch or so green screen. That was fun. I bought a modem. 300 baud? Managed to connect to a few BBS’s but that was about it. Moved out to the sticks to get rich raising emu (ha ha) and installed BirdTrak…. and don’t forget Clipper=20 (er, something like that) in either autoexec or config. It’s been a while.
The Compaq was upgraded to a 386. The house got the new Mighty 486/66DX2. Yeah, the mighty PC that farted the 80 Mb hard drive after a few months. The 80 Mb drive that cost $800.
We pulled Ethernet from house to pump house to the EDC. Embryo Development Center. The shed with the incubator and hatcher and a fancy name. ’93 or ’94.
WfW 3.11. The Win95. And then IE4 on top of Win98. (that was cool) Then Win98SE. Along with NT 3.x and NT4 and NT5 Beta. And one machine with WinMe. NT5 Beta was good. Finally XP and now Win7.
Yeah, we have come a long way.
The sandbox (source code, programs, scripts, test files, etc) for our software program is approaching 20 GB.
My new Moto E phone has 16 GB storage, about half of which is consumed by the basic OS and utilities included “out of the box”. Based on my experience with LineageOS and its predecessors, I’m guessing no more than about 2 GB of that is really necessary for the same rev level of Android (Nougat) with browser and email. Who knows what is in the rest of those Gigabytes.
Terrorist material and kiddie porn. The TLAs make the phone vendors put that in so that you can be arrested on any pretext and then a search of your phone is all that’s needed to put you away.
Terrorist material and kiddie porn. The TLAs make the phone vendors put that in so that you can be arrested on any pretext and then a search of your phone is all that’s needed to put you away.
I don’t currently carry the phone beyond occasional testing of the GPS on the morning commute. I’m waiting out the warranty to install LineageOS.
My daily carry phone is my wife’s old iPhone 5. Works great with the new third party battery, and it is a solid piece of engineering when paired with an Otterbox case. Of course Apple will obsolete it shortly for no real reason (okay, I understand the reason).
and then a search of your phone is all that’s needed to put you away.
My phone has a ton of stuff I have no use for. Google apps that imitate Office? I don’t use Office. Certainly not on a phone. I use Notepad and if I want fancy formatting, Wordpad. I did like WordPerfect but WP6 quit working somewhere along the line of various OS changes.
But I can’t un-install the Google stuff. And some other useless to me stuff. I have yet to find a way to unlock/root my phone. So I put all the the trash program icons in one folder.
Ditto on the Kindle Fire.
A resident shooed a bat out of his apartment into the hallway one fine weekend making the beast a problem for me. My broom was ineffective swinging head on to the bat flying back and forth the length of the hall. Great sonar. Accelerating him from the rear into a wall was better. Dropped a bucket on the stunned fellow and slid cardboard underneath. Then it was an uncomfortable journey down the stairs 4 flights to the front door. No elevator building. Senor bat flew an unsteady way up the sidewalk at altitude 24 inches.
My first PC was delivered on Inauguration day for George Bush the elder. The UPS lady was annoyed with me for laying $3600 on her COD. 386-25, 1MB RAM and the extra capacious, size of a brick, 80MB Seagate 4096 HDD. DOS of that era would only address 32MB partitions maximum. That machine eventually was upgraded to a 4MB Desqview multitasker. Fun times.
Thinnet. Ethernet cards. Fun stuff.
Thinnet, 10base2, sucked. Those BNC connectors would randomly stop working if the pc or unix workstation got moved around. And then every computer after that computer was off the ethernet. The transition to the 10baseT was a vast improvement for both the star network and the improved connector.
Our first non phone modem network was Token Ring. Now that was a piece of junk. Just about any of our unix workstations could saturate it.
You’re right Lynn. But still, it was fun. Maybe not sitting in the backyard charring something on the grill while swilling beer fun, but fun never the less.
The biggest problem would be that someone would decide to clean their desk and just disconnnect from the back of the PC instead of from the wall.
It was easy to find the problem.
Our first non phone modem network was Token Ring. Now that was a piece of junk. Just about any of our unix workstations could saturate it.
At Death Star Telephone, I was the last person in our building who used the legacy IBM corporate token ring network when they pulled the plug in 2001. It worked *great* for me as the only user.
Apple II+ here, circa 1981/1982. 48k of ram, 40 column green screen, 2 each 5.25″ floppy drives, and a 9 pin dot matrix printers. I seem to recall that dad paid ~ $3000 for the set up, which included a ledger program whose author should have been hunted down and shot. Any programmer with an ounce of pride would have hanged himself rather than let that piece of crap into the wild. But I did learn to program by re-writing it, and then an inventory control database. The ledger software saved enough from the accountant’s bill over the next two years to pay for the whole setup. Also, it saved dad a huge amount of time every month with payroll, checking, statement reconciliation, etc. And the inventory control became so much easier and more accurate.
WRT IT Memory Lane: I started out with a DEC Rainbow at home which I made last for quite a few years until I gave it away to a fellow grad student, and the VAX and VMS machines at work, running DECnet.
Had a rockin’ vets group meeting today down in Burlap; two guys lost their shit and one stormed out and left. Doesn’t happen very often but it was OK; only place we CAN lose our shit, really. As I had to explain again to several of them after the meeting. I’d rather not lose my shit there but it could happen.
And here’s some food for thought WRT to missiles and and other, near-future military considerations and problems:
http://zerogov.com/?p=5314#more-5314
https://fredoneverything.org/milk-bar-clausewitzes-bean-curd-napoleons-in-the-reign-of-kaiser-daon/
https://fredoneverything.org/milk-bar-clausewitzes-bean-curd-napoleons-in-the-reign-of-kaiser-daon/
“If the war remained conventional, the outcome might boil down to which population could best survive privation–the Chinese, only a generation or so removed from living hard, or America’s squealing millennials, looking for safe spaces. If the Pentagon destroyed the Three Gorges Dam, and killed several million people, China might go nuclear. Note that if a few well-placed nuclear bombs shut down food distribution in the US for even a month, people in the cities would be fighting for food on the third day, and eating each other on the fifth.”
Oh my. I am fairly sure that people would not start eating people in the fifth day of the famine. Maybe the 15th day, after all they do have something in the cupboards, right ?
WRT Fred’s latest:
Yup. It is really scary shit that our overlords and masters are toying with. Again. Every damn generation, I guess.
” The elderly will remember the civil unrest during Vietnam.”
Yup. Sure do. They brought in Airborne troops with machine guns and TANKS. Major cities on fire. Assassinations.
“…people in the cities would be fighting for food on the third day, and eating each other on the fifth.”
Sure, if we get to that level of disaster. The cities will mos def be NO-GO zones. Unless you’re overhead in a B52. Out here or in Sparta, we’ll have to run patrols and lookouts, etc., etc., for any dispersing revenants. Life will suck pretty bad, no matter how much chit we got stored up.
Let’s hope and pray that cooler and smarter heads will somehow prevail; there are prayers for exactly that sort of thing, I happen to know, in both Protestant and Catholic prayer books and missals. As a practicing Roman Catholic, I will be doing that daily from now on. Can’t hurt, amirite?
I sure would hate to be caught up in another civil war here at home after surviving Uncle’s previous escapades half a century ago.
In lighter nooz, here is an aerial shot of the college where I will be presumably working on a master’s degree either this fall or in January:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3337/3657055519_1c6469d925_b.jpg
I’d just as soon start 8/28 but if for some reason I can’t get in until January, no big deal. Plenty to do around here in the meantime. And if I don’t get in at all, again, no big deal; I’ll try one or two other options and then go back to my original plan, which I’m gonna continue with on the side anyway.
“Out here or in Sparta, we’ll have to run patrols and lookouts, etc., etc., for any dispersing revenants.”
We’ve got lots of Good Olde Boys, and so does St. Albans, I’m sure.
We’ve got lots of Good Olde Boys, and so does St. Albans, I’m sure.
“Hank Williams, Jr. – “Country Boys Can Survive””
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cQNkIrg-Tk
Many of my cousins live like this song.
I’d just as soon start 8/28 but if for some reason I can’t get in until January, no big deal. Plenty to do around here in the meantime. And if I don’t get in at all, again, no big deal; I’ll try one or two other options and then go back to my original plan, which I’m gonna continue with on the side anyway.
I can’t believe how anxious you are to go back to school. Me, I’d rather take a beating.
In lighter nooz, here is an aerial shot of the college where I will be presumably working on a master’s degree either this fall or in January
What are you studying?
I’ve been through the modern CS graduate curriculum twice in the last seven years. Second time stuck and I got the diploma.
If you’re doing the thesis route, do “apt-get install texmaker” and play with LaTeX. ShareLatex.com has lots of documentation.
I can’t believe how anxious you are to go back to school. Me, I’d rather take a beating.
With me, school started as something to do to stay sane while I looked for a job in Vantucky. With that first grad school, I was pretty sure a diploma wasn’t happening, but it kept me off the streets.
Oh my. I am fairly sure that people would not start eating people in the fifth day of the famine. Maybe the 15th day, after all they do have something in the cupboards, right?
You’ve been to IKEA and seen the 400 sq ft simulated apartment kitted out for a family of four, right? That’s the living arrangement our betters believe we are supposed to accept, but how much cupboard space do they have?
Anyone interested in OS/2 has probably already checked out Arca Noae, but just in case you aren’t aware, their introductory pricing will end soon.
I installed ArcaOS on my “No Windows None Of The Time” laptop, but the driver support for modern hardware is a bit thin. It would probably run better on systems OS/2 Warp supported.
https://www.arcanoae.com/last-days-introductory-pricing-arcaos-5-0-personal-edition/
You’ve been to IKEA and seen the 400 sq ft simulated apartment kitted out for a family of four, right? That’s the living arrangement our betters believe we are supposed to accept, but how much cupboard space do they have?
I think that I was in Ikea back in the 1990s. Just too freaking weird for me.
My son bought a entertainment center there about a decade ago. It is about 15 ft wide, 6 ft tall and holds his 55 inch tv just fine. And a lot of his books, and …
I use Notepad and if I want fancy formatting, Wordpad
Really should give OneNote a try. I think it is largely free. Versions for the PC, IOS and Android. I use it to keep all my notes syncing them on OneDrive so I have all the notes on my Surface, iPad, iPhone and PC. I don’t enter notes on the Apple devices but it is really nice to have the content available. Odd program but quite useful. One of the best note taking apps available in my opinion.
“I can’t believe how anxious you are to go back to school. Me, I’d rather take a beating.”
Like Mr. Greg said, it keeps me off the street and makes the Spousal Unit happy that I’m outta the house several days a week. Even though she’s not here half the time to notice, anyway; got a bunch of gigs coming up in the next ten weeks, too. Also helps to pay expenses here and taxes (I’ll get a monthly stipend plus school-related expenses from the VA throughout). And at the end, I’ll presumably have a highly portable credential that will let me bring in at least half what I was making in IT, may have med insurance and other bennies (mainly for wife), and I can possibly help some people like I was helped, failing which, I would have been dead these past eight years.
And I can just keep doing various other things on the side, regardless, and the Spousal Unit can’t kick about them.
“What are you studying?”
Counseling: Addictions (M.A.)
Nothing STEM-related, I fear. It would take too long for me to progress from Algebra I (again) through Advanced Calculus and Physics toward a PhD. Or similar programs in Chemistry, Engineering or Computer Science. If I was gonna, I shoulda started in 8th-grade. And I already tried the grad school literature thing; epic fail, thanks to the state of the programs 25 years ago (MUCH worse now) and the paucity of any jobs for someone like me out there (MUCH MUCH worse now). Also thanks to my regular drunkenness, bad temper, PTSD, marriage breaking up, and father dying early.
Boy, I sure can get a rant going and run off at the mouth, can’t I?
Back to chores and errands here tomorrow and then Saturday a little visit to a gun store an hour’s drive southeast of here, hook up with my ex-Army boy who lost his shit today, blow off some rounds at their indoor range. And then drive halfway to Moh-ree-all to get Mrs. OFD., who is being picked up at the airport by Princess and then driven down halfway. Helps the crippled old man out considerably; I HATE dealing with Montreal traffic to the airport, and they’re doing the same thing up there with repairs and construction as has been going on down here all summer.
Here’s something dangerous:
Lena Dunham overhears ‘transphobic’ talk at airport, helps track down attendants who are not woke
Libturdians now think if they overhear you off of liberal talking points, it’s a hate crime. The real danger is to Dunham, who might get her head bashed in next time. What American Airlines should have “tweeted” her is FUCK OFF AND DIE!
Gorgeous young Lena would have made an outstanding Young Pioneer or Red Guard back in the day. Probably report her grandma for badthink and look on smugly as Grandma is pilloried and flogged. My Puritan ancestors would also approve.
What a hateful fugly little troll she is. And apparently, like others of her ilk, never shuts the fuck up.
Good thing she wasn’t waddling past the vets group meeting room this afternoon. She woulda heard stuff to give her fucking libturdian nightmares forever.
“Exclusive: top FBI officials could testify against Trump”
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/3/16084246/mueller-obstruction-case-stronger-trump-surrogates
Never do the King a small harm (a paraphrase of Machiavelli).
http://www.philosophyparadise.com/quotes/machiavelli.html
Like Mr. Greg said, it keeps me off the street and makes the Spousal Unit happy that I’m outta the house several days a week. Even though she’s not here half the time to notice, anyway; got a bunch of gigs coming up in the next ten weeks, too. Also helps to pay expenses here and taxes (I’ll get a monthly stipend plus school-related expenses from the VA throughout). And at the end, I’ll presumably have a highly portable credential that will let me bring in at least half what I was making in IT, may have med insurance and other bennies (mainly for wife), and I can possibly help some people like I was helped, failing which, I would have been dead these past eight years.
Don’t get in a hurry for that VA money. They take their own little sweet time in paying you and your educational bills. And be careful taking a “grant”, i.e. read the fine print. A VA grant can be a “loan” that they will demand that you pay back to them. And if you cannot pay on their schedule then they will turn it over to a outside collection agency and put you on their s*** list. Don’t ask me how I know this but it cost me $7,000 cash out of my pocket.
And I can just keep doing various other things on the side, regardless, and the Spousal Unit can’t kick about them.
Wait, she lets Princess coast but she rides you like a jockey on a horse ?
Safely in Canada after driving here and spending the day at Niagara falls. The US side is an embarrassment. Broken down, filthy, REALLY filthy, shabby, and every thing costs….
Filled with foreigners, mostly Islamic, then Indian or Paki, then Asian, then American a distant last. This is how we show off our wealth? The superiority of ought beliefs? The whole world comes to see one of the wonders of the world, and the filthy toilets reek of piss. The trash lays on the ground, the worn out facilities slouch through another day.
They do have some new buildings. And some new stuff under construction. Over all though, it’s a shithole. In contrast, the Canadian side is all parks and manicured lawns, shuttle buses, and clean. Lotta veils and saris on this side too….
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From the “Oops” Files, “Doh!” Division:
http://www.king5.com/news/local/hanford/tests-show-hanford-workers-inhaled-radioactive-plutonium/461574180
In contrast, the Canadian side is all parks and manicured lawns, shuttle buses, and clean. Lotta veils and saris on this side too….
NO! NO! NO! Cannot be allowed. Only lands in their natural state are permitted by the greenies. (can we turn DC back to swamp?)
“They take their own little sweet time in paying you and your educational bills.”
My VA case manager told me that once accepted and having begun the program, I’d get my first check September 1; this is a stipend, not a loan or a grant. Free and clear. It’s “vocational rehabilitation,” since IT is dead to me (the reverse, actually) and nothing else floats the boat.
“…she lets Princess coast but she rides you like a jockey on a horse ?”
You got it. Money for horses, trips to Hawaii and NZ and Italy, the eight-year BA program at McGill, summers in Europe and gallivanting around New England and the Maritimes and Quebec and Ontario, etc., etc. I buy a couple of books and I’ve committed a war crime.
” The whole world comes to see one of the wonders of the world, and the filthy toilets reek of piss. The trash lays on the ground, the worn out facilities slouch through another day.”
That pretty much says it all. We have no pride. No honor. Let it all burn.
” Lotta veils and saris on this side too….”
Diversity is our Vibrancy. Learn it. Live it. Love it.
“From the “Oops” Files, “Doh!” Division”
Just like an X-Ray, whaddya beefin’ about, ya ingrates!
“(can we turn DC back to swamp?)”
To be devoutly wished for and prayed for. And give Manhattan back to the nearest viable Indian tribe.
Scott Adams discusses “cognitive blindness.” I have no trouble believing it from having already witnessed it here at home numerous times and again today at the vets group. CNN sez tRump is Hitler. Instant unquestioning belief. You then show them actual scientific and historical documentation that proves he’s not Hitler. They won’t fucking see it. Like being in another dimension, another reality. How do we REASON with people like this???
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/08/03/the-turn-to-effective-but-we-dont-like-it/
From the Hypocrite Libturd Department:
http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/02/exclusive-al-gores-home-devours-34-times-more-electricity-than-average-u-s-household/
If this example were just one of an occasional situation, that would be one thing, but it’s been a constant refrain among the Left for a couple of centuries now.
Not even STEM is safe anymore:
https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2017/08/03/this-is-fine-4/
Will no one rid us of these troublesome commie pests?
From the Anything the Neocons (Trotskyites) Want Department:
http://buchanan.org/blog/trumps-russia-policy-hijacked-127432
What could possibly go wrong?
As Patrick asks, just what ARE our strategic interests in “Ukraine?”
A young kid with some bucks comes up to me today and asks me what he or she should invest in? I’m telling them, arms, munitions, robots, uniform manufacturers, and related industries. Can’t go wrong. Blue Chip all the way.
CNN sez tRump is Hitler. Instant unquestioning belief. You then show them actual scientific and historical documentation that proves he’s not Hitler.
Wait, wait, wait ! Is CNN saying that Trump is one of the Boys from Brazil ?
https://www.amazon.com/Boys-Brazil-Blu-ray-Gregory-Peck/dp/B00OAIHJ9S/
My VA case manager told me that once accepted and having begun the program, I’d get my first check September 1; this is a stipend, not a loan or a grant. Free and clear. It’s “vocational rehabilitation,” since IT is dead to me (the reverse, actually) and nothing else floats the boat.
Dude, I really do hope so. My experience is not so much peaches and cream. But, the person involved is not very good about paperwork. And the VA loooooovvvvvvvvvveeeeesssssss its paperwork.
Keeping a promise. Ukraine had a bunch of nukes after the USSR broke up. They turned over the fissionables and that nasty liquid fuel, in exchange for promises of protection from the US et al.
Really should give OneNote a try. I think it is largely free. Versions for the PC, IOS and Android. I use it to keep all my notes syncing them on OneDrive so I have all the notes on my Surface, iPad, iPhone and PC. I don’t enter notes on the Apple devices but it is really nice to have the content available. Odd program but quite useful. One of the best note taking apps available in my opinion.
I’d say the same about Evernote. when I started, OneNote didn’t work on Android, and my Note 7 pen app didn’t go into anything. So Evernote was the right thing at the right time.
Now, OneNote works on Android, and makes a lot of sense. But since it’s difficult to maintain two OneDrive accounts on one device, I simply don’t want to mix my day job stuff with my side business stuff. Evernote STILL fits the bill. Costs are similar (I’m paying for the upgraded version of Evernote, but the base is still free.)
My employer WOULD be using OneNote, but my plan to migrate everyone to Office 365 (instead of 4 different versions of office, bought with each round of machines) has been nixed by a penny pincher that doesn’t see the cost of dealing with 4 different versions of Access (May hellfire rain down upon it.)
when I started, OneNote didn’t work on Android, and my Note 7 pen app didn’t go into anything
Same experience. I was using OneNote on the PC but Notability (paid) on the IOS devices. Once OneNote had a version for IOS I moved everything into OneNote. I like being able to use the product on all my devices and everything just works. Really handy is the syncing between devices.
I still use the IOS calendar and contacts application. If OneNote would add those two features, or at least allow syncing with the IOS calendar and contacts application it would be awesome.
Yeh, I know Google has some of that stuff but I just don’t trust Google with any of my information. Google’s business model is driven by information. I have no issues visioning Google as diving into my information in my personal files to see what it can glean for marketing purposes or to sell the others, anonymised or not.
So even though this is a Hilton hotel in a major city it gets the kind of guest who needs to be taught how to behave in a hotel. there are signs everywhere. no bare feet. hot water is hot. if you steal the towels you will be charged for them. bouncing up and down in the elevator will cause it to stop.
use of the indoor water slide requires a list of rules and if you’re short a training session.
and despite that someone crap in the hot tub yesterday
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Was it Rene des Carte or Frederick Nietzsche said hell is other people and neither had access to the third world tourists.
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Neither one. It was I, just a few days ago.
(For a helpful answer to your question, it was Sartre.)
More on “beautiful” Niagara Falls:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/01/black-water-alarms-visitors-at-niagara-falls.html
The more the eco-weenies, tree-huggers, and libturds cry about global warming, extinctions, and loss of environment the worse things seem to get. The eco-weenies, tree-huggers, and libturds just don’t get it, but what do you expect from an organism with an IQ below that of pond scum (sorry about the micro-aggression pond scum).
“(For a helpful answer to your question, it was Sartre.)”
He stole it from Dorothy Parker.
Yah, but Dorothy Parker stole it from Shakespeare, who got it from Oscar Wilde.
But think of how bad things would be without their tireless and selfless efforts!
Ah J.P. Forgot about him this am. Didn’t notice the discharge, too busy looking up.
Fire alarm this am. Kids got reinforcement of the”this is where the stairs are” lecture last night.
No fire. Of course I had broken my normal policy on hotel floor selection so we could have a view off the falls, light show and fireworks.
Nice conga duo at the bar last night, until the rain chased us inside. Canada never sanctioned Cuba…..
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Nick, when were you planning to go to the Pageant of Steam? I’m trying to shuffle schedules around work, scurrying for more work, my dad’s time constraints, and my daughter’s airline ticket. If I can make that work and we make it there, and it’s when you’re there, we can try to meet up just so we can point at each other and laugh.
WRT computer and phone notes and calendars; I guess I’m just stuck in a time warp. I sorta made a half-assed effort to fool with pixel-based stuff but it never took. So what do I use? Bits of paper, like bank deposit slips, upon which I write my daily and weekly to-do stuff, and printed out NotePad pages for the same thing, upon which I write some more. I recently got a paper desk calendar (big step up for me, an upgrade) and now I’m using that to keep track of a whole month’s activities. I walk around all day with these slips of paper in my shirt pockets and then sometimes reconcile them and cross off stuff I got done and/or delete it in NotePad (LeafPad in Linux).
(I’ve been using NotePad this past month because I’m stuck on the Windows 8.1 box to do TurboTax stuff, and I really gotta take a full day or two and wrap up three years of taxes, while also filling out additional forms the bastards told me to send them on TOP of the actual returns.) Yes, I know this won’t be enough, either. I’ve identified a tax lawyer and as soon as I’ve collected all this paperwork together, I’m making an appointment with him accordingly.
WRT staying in a big-city hotel with foreign tourists? Not gonna do it. My sympathies, and my hopes that Mr. Nick and family can continue to extract what good times and fun they can from the experiences. Bon chance, mes amis!
Safely in Canada after driving here and spending the day at Niagara falls. The US side is an embarrassment. Broken down, filthy, REALLY filthy, shabby, and every thing costs….
I forgot if I posted that last week on the drive back from El Paso, we stopped at the Biosphere 2. We got a discount pass on Groupon. That was a very cool tour. You walk about a mile and a half with 150 steps on stairs. Even MrsAtoz made it. They even take you underground to see how all the recycling equipment works. The sphere is not sealed anymore, but almost all the systems are still functional. The "lung" domes used to equalize pressure while the sphere was sealed still go up and down. The tour guides are mostly old men with white hair that are well versed on the sphere and answered every question asked. Well worth the short diversion drive. We ate ate an out of the way pizza/sandwich place that was great.
http://www.internationalman.com/articles/doug-casey-on-the-end-of-the-nation-state
I’ll be interested in Part II…
“I’ll be interested in Part II…”
Ditto. I simply note that Doug Casey has been around a long time, and his POV is as a libertarian and gold “bug.” I don’t use “bug” pejoratively here; just a simpler way of expressing his advocacy of getting and having gold, problematic on several levels for most of us out here).
I also note that since our corporate and government and media oligarchs have already chosen their common allies and friends outside the FUSA nation-state and clearly have zero loyalty to it or its citizen-subjects, there is not much reason for the rest of us not following suit.
Other than local geography, and the likelihood of an economic collapse and major Grid failure. In which case, those folks down the road in the trailer camp, and I mean this literally here, better become YOUR friends and allies or you better batten down the hatches and prepare to repel boarders.
and despite that someone crap in the hot tub yesterday
Are they sure it was not a Baby Ruth bar ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPxiXGr9nFM
Bits of paper, like bank deposit slips, upon which I write my daily and weekly to-do stuff,
And IRS demand letters ?
Sorry Dude, I could not resist. I will whip myself with a wet noodle later.
“In which case, those folks down the road in the trailer camp, and I mean this literally here, better become YOUR friends and allies or you better batten down the hatches and prepare to repel boarders.”
Sure, if desperation becomes general and everyone is a hammer, best to not look like a nail.
OTOH, things getting scrambled will lead to new arrangements:
https://www.freemansperspective.com/world-will-change-golden-age/
And IRS demand letters ?
I suspect those are being stored along with the other preparations supplies to use to wipe one’s ass in case the shit really hits the fan.
I suspect those are being stored along with the other preparations supplies to use to wipe one’s ass in case the shit really hits the fan.
Note to self, buy more TP at Sam’s Club this weekend.
IRS demand papers are kept in their own folder should we run out of TP here or cat litter box liners.
“… new arrangements…”
I hope Paul Rosenberg is right, but fear he is not. He runs the Crypto-Hippie thing, by the way.
https://secure.cryptohippie.com/
OTOH, things getting scrambled will lead to new arrangements:
https://www.freemansperspective.com/world-will-change-golden-age/
There is always a utopia around the corner … after 6.5 billion deaths.
A bit more than that. 6.5B dead would still leave a billion, and that’s more than is really needed.
Screw the rest of the world; let’s just think about FUSA; how much is the right pop here? I’m gonna just go way out on a limb and figure 60-70 million, tops. About what it was during the decade of my grandparents being born, i.e., 1890s.
Don’t forget: we have two gigantic moats and a friendly country to our north which exists in prosperity largely because we do. For now. And if we were genuinely serious about security, we’d have all the troops back here to secure the southern border, coasts, sea lanes and airspace. Period. We’d sure save a lotta money.
Dream on, I guess; about the only way we’d get to that previous population is mass die-off, and that is not likely to only hit the undesirables. We’d probably have the 70 million with the same percentage of undesirables and assholes. But they’d be easier to identify and cull from the herd.
“There is always a utopia around the corner … after 6.5 billion deaths.”
Bad day today? That seems a hyperbolic assessment.
Not altogether fah-fetched, though; some old, formerly thought to be eradicated disease, maybe out of Afrika, where new chit seems to be mutating anyway and the whole continent devolving rapidly to that Hobbesian state of nature. How about a new variant of smallpox or TB or influenza or ebola?
Something is gonna hit the pop in Afrika sooner or later anyway, despite the best efforts of Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono.
“There is always a utopia around the corner … after 6.5 billion deaths.”
Bad day today? That seems a hyperbolic assessment.
hyperbolic == over the top ?
Getting rid of ALL governments is going to require a massive die-off of the world’s population. Otherwise, that writeup at
https://www.freemansperspective.com/world-will-change-golden-age/
is just a utopian dream. We’ve got way too many people to live in anarchy without extreme conflicts.
In fact, that utopian dream is more about a post-scarcity society. I cannot see any movement forward that gets us into a post-scarcity society. Even distributing all of the Gates and Zucks assets would only get us 2 or 3 days down the road.
Oh. My thought is that the scope and power of government derives to a large extent by their monopoly definition of money, a power that has been grievously abused. Since commerce won’t wait and scarcity isn’t going away, legitimacy, confidence and acceptance of government defined money won’t exist post crash of the current corrupt system.
Maybe it is naive to hope that, post fiat, a new system would organically arise better than today’s without mass death and a kumbaya sing along.
@Steve, not gonna get to the pageant this year. Would have had to hang out 1 extra week and that didn’t happen.
One hour to get thru the border back into the FUsa. Embarrassing. Decaying infrastructure.
The Canadian side of the falls had a beautiful visitor center, modern spacious clean and dry restrooms. We look like a turd world country….
Relaxing today in MI.
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The Canadian side of the falls had a beautiful visitor center, modern spacious clean and dry restrooms
About the same experience that I had regarding the conditions. I stayed on the Canadian side. Some hotel up the hill. Fireworks were cancelled the night we were there due to high winds. Went to stop on the US side and basically just cancelled that option as the environment did not look that great.
We took the grand tour, Maid of the Mist, Behind the Falls, and some foot path. Also took a helicopter ride over the falls, $500 for four of us. Worth it as it is a once in a lifetime experience.
Did a jet boat ride up the river and that was fun. We opted for the closed boat rather than the open boat and that was a good decision. We would have gotten soaked on the open boat.
One hour to get thru the border back into the FUsa. Embarrassing. Decaying infrastructure.
When I went I had two exchange students from Germany. Took about 30 minutes of explaining to Canadian immigration about the situation. When immigration ran their passports it showed they came into the US on different dates. Immigration wanted to know how they knew each other, which we explained a dozen times to three different people. Then immigration wanted to know how we knew them again explaining to three different people multiple times. I guess somewhere red flags were raised.
Going back into the USA was much easier. After going through the long line of traffic on the bridge it only took a couple of minutes in immigration.
Also took a helicopter ride over the falls, $500 for four of us. Worth it as it is a once in a lifetime experience.
I hear helicopter rides are highly overrated. Did the door gunners lock and load?
I, too, am indifferent to tourist rides in 4-seater civilian helicopters. Those who have spent less time in helicopters, and especially in military helicopters where the pilot is trying to make you barf*, would surely find it more exciting.
* One ride in particular there was just one other passenger in a Blackhawk. The pilot asked whether we were up for a fun ride or if we were wimpy little girls. We both said fun rides were good. The pilot said words to the effect of “Challenge accepted!” That was a fun ride, and barf-free.
I think I’ve told this story before here but: I was on my third deployment to SEA and had already been a door gunner on choppers and C-130 gunships. A couple of quiche-eating bus drivers thought they could fuck with me and starting taking sharp turns and juking around at tree-top level. This not only irritated me but could have also attracted unwanted attention from below.
So I swung the M-60 around at them and told them if they did that again I’d blast ’em right out of there; I didn’t give a fuck anymore. And that was the end of that, although they called me a psycho, but did not report the incident. Other pilots told them to smarten the fuck up and not to fuck with door gunners.
I got along good with pilots and aircrew, better, in fact, than with my former fellow security police. They were smarter and better read and liked decent music; several of them played instruments. So you might find this young sergeant sitting around smoking doobies and listening to pilots playing their guitars and harmonicas of a
sultrystultifyingly steamy summer evening.Also I got to zoom around all over SEA, including North Vietnam, Malaysia and Burma. What were we doing there? Classified! O-2’s and OV-10’s, in between the C-130 joy rides.
We had us some monsoon rain in the middle of the day and now it’s sunny with blue skies but there are big puffy cumulus and nimbocumulus clouds hanging around up there so we could get some more rain, which would be good after a whole week without it.
Yah, that’s a nuisance. Most of my good stories, I can’t tell. I hint around at what happened, but need to keep details vague. (Aside from fading memories. I probably couldn’t tell the story straight now, almost 30 years later, if I wanted to. I blame global warming for all difficulties.)
I hear helicopter rides are highly overrated. Did the door gunners lock and load?
The exchange students thought it was awesome. Neither had been in a helicopter before so this was a first. It was a good ride in my opinion, totally different view of the falls.
“…probably couldn’t tell the story straight now, almost 30 years later, if I wanted to. I blame global warming for all difficulties.)”
42-44 years for me and counting…ditto. I blame global warming, the newly Roman Catholic Algore (this slimy toad-fucker sack of decayed skunk shit says he may convert because the Pope (read: anti-Pope) is so solid on environmentalism, and of course the Twelve Years of Reagan-Bush.
I blame a pervasive history of racism and intolerance. My own, of course: as a (mostly) white man I embody all the evil of my putative ancestors and must take responsibility for it all, especially the parts which never happened but are simply part of the commonly-batted narrative.