Currently 46F and 88%RH in Houston, and my hands are stiff like paddles.
Cold and damp is not a combination for old people, and as I’ve just admitted I need to occasionally put on ‘cheater’ glasses for close up, I’m now officially ‘old.’
Dang.
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Mon. April 16 – not quite tax day
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We are predicted to be in low ’60’s, breezy and dry today, so I should be OK.
Cold and damp is not a combination for old people, and as I’ve just admitted I need to occasionally put on ‘cheater’ glasses for close up, I’m now officially ‘old.’
Spring returned to Austin yesterday afternoon, and it should be headed your way this morning.
Enjoy the 70s and low 80s highs. 90s and 100s are coming soon.
“90s and 100s are coming soon.”
Got that right. I def shouldn’t be complaining when I have lots of outdoor work and attic work to do.
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I filed my taxes Friday by calling my CPA and asking when they will be done. Around Aug as usual. I always get an extension. Never been audited.
Now, off to the local “Free The Nipple” protest. 😉
38º and cloudy/rainy here, and looks to be like that for a couple of days. The weekend started out so promising.
I feel bad for the runners doing the Boston Marathon today. Several friends are set to run for 3-6 hours in 100% chance of rain and temps in the upper 30s/low forties. Add in 25mph headwinds and it’s just going to SUCK. It won’t be much better for the timers. They don’t get to run and they’ll be out in this for hours.
So at lunchtime I’ll put in a couple of miles and be thankful I’m not doing Boston this year.
Got that right. I def shouldn’t be complaining when I have lots of outdoor work and attic work to do.
That reminds me — I meant to get into my attic and aim my secondary HDTV antenna properly while the temperatures were tolerable.
I want to pull the AntennaTV signal from the NBC affiliate in Temple/Waco. I didn’t count on starting over on establishing the job routine this Spring, but I’m not going to complain that I’m out of CGI. I was ready to call it a career if nothing better came along before I hit the year mark at the beginning of June.
When LED and CF bulb packaging say not to use them with dimmer switches are they really serious? Why?
Driver circuits don’t like pulses from dimmers.
Giveaway of the Day
This has a 91% user rating, quite high. Any comments?
It’s snowing outside Nashville.
I mailed tax check to the Arkansas nd quarterly payments to Ark and the IRS today.
Working on my third GetHomeBag. Gave my last one to Granddaughter so I need to build out another. Gives me a chance to upgrade some of the kit and try new things. Any and all suggestions will be entertained.
Looks like a neat product, didn’t know you could make a bootable windows stick.
download doesn’t work for me though.
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Barbara (Robert’s wife) asked me about printers for Linux. I don’t speak that variation, so am unsure of what to recommend.
I figured that the name-brand guys (HP, Canon, etc) would have Linux drivers for their printers. But perhaps the ‘hive mind’ here could pop over to Barbara’s journal (here) and add comments about printer recommendations for her Linux system.
From an e-mail list, this worked for me:
https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/download/?c=5dba5f80314780f71b4a7a07cb63af5e
@harold,
Make it modular so you can keep dumping stuff until you get to the core…
Ie, fanny pack, in or attached to the bag with essentials, and mini-kit inside there.
If you really need it, and you’re getting tired, you might want to dump stuff that’s heavy or luxury. Organize so you can do that.
And there are a million lists, just identify your goal with the bag and build to that.
Do you have bushcraft skills and expect to grab the bag and survive in a national wilderness? Gonna need a hatchet.
Just want to walk out of Manhattan after the next big attack? – no hatchet, no fishhooks, but extra water, energy bars, footwear, and DUST MASKS.
Carry in the vehicle in case of EMP and walking home? Different stuff again.
Basics are water/or treatment, calories, shelter, comms, medical, defense.
Funny that I just commented on my air travel carry on bag over at Aesop’s —
http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2018/04/travel-kitproblem-solving.html
which I’ve talked about here also.
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Remember, the TSA has changed it’s carry-on policy again for pre-Check. Electronics larger than a cell phone have to come out. You can’t layer them in a bin, so a lappy takes a whole bin. Tablet and Kindle usually take another. I carry a radar detector, it has to come out now. You can’t lay your belt on top of anything. Or jacket. So more bins. If they don’t have a separate pre-Check line (WTF!) you get a plastic chit so you can keep your shoes on. Thanks a lot jerks! Can I get my money back?
I would also check every airport you are departing from to see if they have a USPS drop or shipping area. I recently forgot I had my Leatherman Charge and got caught. They wanted to keep it, I said Hell No! They at least pointed out McCarran has a shipping area. $20 for a “3-4 week delivery”. Hell No! I know McCarran has USPS so I went there and First Class with a pouch was under $5 and it was home in two days.
Forgot I carry an Osmo camera. ANOTHER BIN!!!
Had to open the D/L link in IE to get it to do anything other than reload the page. Turned on all scripts, etc. and still no luck in FF.
Oh well, more projects I don’t need.
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Apparently, we dodged another close-asteroid yesterday:
https://www.space.com/40315-asteroid-2018-ge3-surprise-flyby.html .
Only had one-day notice on that one.
Thanks Nick. Good ideas there.
I generally pack heavy so I can decide what to leave behind depending on the situation. A couple of things I always carry are a multi-key to turn on the knobless water faucets at gas stations and comercial buildings, and a pair of FRS radios.
I don’t use a standard backpack because I like to hang things off it for easy access like flashlight, folding knife, or radio. I like to have SEVERAL flashlights, small & cheap, big and powerful, and a lantern. I also carry a folding solar panel and power bank to keep my stuff running. Putting these things together is more fun than it should be.
This link will work:
http://remsset.com/files/WinToUSB39-db38su.zip
The Readme does say ”
You have to install and activate it before the Giveaway offer for the software is over.”
Added: WinToUSB Professional 3.9
done and done.
Bootable win-stick is a useful thing if it works….
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Leatherman charge or any other leatherman or gerber or SOG full size tool, only $20 at the TX State Surplus Store…..
Some even come with the pouch.
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There are LED and CF bulbs that will work with dimmers. They cost more, but they are available. I have a ceiling fan in my home office, which has an enclosed light below it. Anyone have suggestions for something that will work better than a 60 watt incandescent bulb in an enclosed fixture? Every CF or LED bulb I”ve tried has a shorter life expectancy than a 60 watt incandescent. I’m running low on my stash of 60 watt incandescent bulbs.
I have a Phillips “SlimStyle” 75w equiv in my bedroom ceiling fan. Base-up, porcelain socket… no problem at all. It’s on perhaps an hour a day. Dimmable, too.
Oh, duh. It’s coming up on 3 years of use.
@dave, 60w incans are still available as “rough service” lamps. Our local habitat for humanity has them for $1 each? I think. I’ve put them in all my ceiling fans, but not enclosed.
Don’t know why the LED wouldn’t last longer, unless it gets VERY hot in the enclosure. Heat kills LEDs just like any electronic device.
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Costco online is going to have Coleman solar panels and charge controllers on sale in a couple of days. Real good looking price too.
Coleman 100W Solar Panel With 8.5 AMP Charge Controller
Item # 1206179
Online Price 159.99 $
Less 40.00 $ –
Your Price
$ 119.99
$119.99 After $40 OFF
$40 manufacturer’s savings** is valid 4/1/18 through 4/30/18. While supplies last. Limit 5 per member.
This may get me to actually buy one.
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“Driver circuits don’t like pulses from dimmers.”
Dangerous? Or does it just reduce service life? I’m sick of using incands because they don’t last long.
I have a CF in the light fixed to my bedroom ceiling fan – has lasted about three years so far.
If I don’t use the dimmer, i.e. I keep it at 100% would that be okay? I Googled, and apparently there are some dimmers made to work with CFs and LEDs.
Leatherman charge or any other leatherman or gerber or SOG full size tool, only $20 at the TX State Surplus Store…..
Some even come with the pouch.
My new company is planning a move to a building near the airport in September. I’ll drive by the surplus store every day.
So that SCO box that’s 14 years old (we checked) finally spit out a hard drive failure. 4 times in just over 2 weeks the stupid thing went down.
Does anyone have any experience getting SCO to run on any virtualization platform? I can’t get it go to on HyperV, VirtualBox (by Oracle) won’t run it. I just downloaded VMWare because there’s a hint that it might work.
Once I get it installed & licensed, I can copy all the software over (I hope). Just found the SCO disks today. IT guy twice removed put them in a folder that was “Easy” to find.
My toolbox is open and I’m re-organizing my tools. I need a break.
Has something to do with most dimmers actually produce a square wave and vary the duty cycle to control the illumination of the bulb. Works OK for incandescent bulbs but no so with CFL and LED which have driver circuits. The exact reason is beyond my skill set.
Should be as there is the square wave is continuous, no cutoffs in the current and voltage delivered to the LED bulb. Personally I would not risk it and just get a bulb rated for dimming. They are not that much more expensive. Forget CFL as they never last as long as the manufacturer says the bulb will last.
LEDs hate hit and will quickly lose performance or even fail suddenly. High end flashlights control the heat with good heat sinking or monitoring the temperature of the LED and dropping the current in the case of excessive heat. You do not find heat regulation on cheap lights. The upside is the lights are so cheap you just throw them away and get another. But you should always have a high end, properly constructed, light available along with the cheap. The ability to rely on a light might make a difference in getting along or being in a bad situation.
Do you have to use the dimmer? My 9-5 has a bunch of LED panels, and they have to run cat5 (or better) cable from the light to the dimmer to make them work. My understanding is that LEDs and CFLs simply do not get along with dimmers.
At home, we never did much with the dimmers, so I really don’t worry about it. If I want it to be lighter in a room, I put a brighter lamp (or more lamps) in the room. A Luddite, I am.
Norton does not like the SETUP.EXE file so no go for me (used the email link provided). May be a false positive but I am going to sit on the edge of caution. Plus any software that wants me to log in with FB credentials so they can steal my information cannot be trusted. Nobody gives away something with some nefarious reason. Too much crap going on with information getting stolen. No thanks.
Does anyone have any experience getting SCO to run on any virtualization platform? I can’t get it go to on HyperV, VirtualBox (by Oracle) won’t run it. I just downloaded VMWare because there’s a hint that it might work.
SCO was one of the most hated entities on the planet in the mid-2000s. Virtualization isn’t going to happen for the OS dating to that time since Darl McBride’s hobby was suing companies over the Unix IP.
The double whammy is that hardware from that time just isn’t available from surplus vendors. Too many bad Chinese capacitors killed a lot of equipment prematurely, including my primary work desktop at the time.
Greg – yeah, I get that. But as was pointed out in one of the (many) forums I’ve checked – the people USING SCO aren’t the bad guys. We’re stuck using something we inherited from somebody who bought from SCO when they were the good guys. In fact, the ONLY *nix available on PCs when this package was developed.
I hate what McBride did. But that doesn’t change the fact that I’m stuck, and anything that will keep that 20-year-old software running is better than the alternative.
On a similar level, I hate what my employer is doing. But I’m not looking to screw the 60-odd people that come to work every day that depend on that software to run.
The Progturdians are now protesting “all” Starbucks ’cause a manager called the cops on two Black guys. Not because they were Black. Not because they didn’t order anything. Because they refused to leave when they didn’t order anything. Why wouldn’t you call the cops. Blacks are now privileged, so even a profuse apology from the Starbucks CEO make no difference. I love the guy in a photo yelling through a bullhorn right in an employee’s face. That deserve return fire with lead. I also love the WHITEY! virtue signaling. Especially from WHITEY! soy boys.
I didn’t even order coffee at some Starbucks in CA. When I walked in, every seat was taken by bums and thugs. They should just change to a drive-thru. The shops were mostly filthy and the restrooms locked. To keep out the bums, I guess.
I bet the big liberal Starbucks CEO is shitting bricks right now. Wondering what he can do to save his cred.
And they know it. Many push the limits of any situation just to cause an issue. The know everyone, especially the media, will paint them as wronged and due compensation for their stress. I have seen this personally where some black kids refused to pay for entrance to a high school football game. Rather than the school be sued it was easier to just let them in without paying. Typical black trash, shuffle walk, low pants, swagger, speaking what sounded like a foreign language, high school students with a second grade education level.
Roger that! The retail site that hosts my Kroger store also has a Starbucks with an outdoor sitting area at which the local homeless congregate. I do not use Starbucks, but I do use some other nearby stores.
I hate what McBride did. But that doesn’t change the fact that I’m stuck, and anything that will keep that 20-year-old software running is better than the alternative.
Yeah, sorry. The word SCO invokes strong emotions.
I also understand purchasing decisions at that time often were made for reasons other than technical merit. As I mentioned the other day, a sales manager at RSA tried to have me fired from the Death Star for holding the company to their 10 year support contract instead of buying a new library package which would have required completely redesigning our crypto.
And don’t even get me started on the continuing fallout from the asinine “Learn Powerbuilder or Lose Your Job” ads in PC Magazine in the late 90s. A lot of poor purchasing decisions started with those, mostly because the ads were just inside the front cover, perfect for airport browsing by execs with time to kill at DFW or ATL.
IBM made some pretty solid Pentium III systems prior to giving up and selling PCs to Lenvo. You might find some of those available on the surplus market, and SCO of that vintage would probably install on those.
If you think you can run your SCO release on early Core2, I just pulled a super-stable Intel-made circa 2008 board out of my kids PC, completely maxed out with 8 GB RAM. Take my disposal problem off my hands, and the board is yours for the cost of shipping. The board is built like a tank, and I put a Zalman “salad plate” cooler on the CPU.
Yes, and hopping the turnstile to get on public transportation train or not dropping the fare in the receptacle for a bus ride. I do accept it as the responsibility of my antecedents
who came from the British Isles and Scandinavia. What I am not sure of is it the result of what they did before of after coming here?
I do accept it as the responsibility of my antecedents who came from the British Isles and Scandinavia.
Which is exactly the thesis of the title essay of Thomas Sowell’s Black Rednecks and White Liberals, i.e., that the thuggish behavior of today’s lower-class blacks is a reflection of similar behavior of white, Colonial-era immigrants from certain regions in their native Britain.
Sowell makes a compelling case. Highly recommended.
Seconded, although so far I’ve only read the ongoing review over at Sarah Hoyt’s blog, and the first chapter or two in the Kindle “free sample.”
very much food for thought.
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Are any of you using a dash cam?
Recommendations?
My Daughter had an incident while driving home today in heavy bumper-to-bumper traffic on the highway between Richland and Kennewick. A piece of metal came out of nowhere and struck her bumper. Only bent the license plate, there does not appear to be any other obvious damage. She is unable to describe what happened or even what the piece of metal looked like, which is typical of most of us.
I think it is time I put dash cams in all the cars, after all it seems that everyone in Russia has one.
I’d intended to include a link to Hoyt’s site, but forgot: When Facts Fail and Knees Jerk An Introduction to Thomas Sowell’s “Black Rednecks & White Liberals” – By Amanda S. Green (The first of several parts.)
Thanks, Nick.
@dadcooks, I have one still sitting in the box, uninstalled. Costco has them on sale periodically and in the absence of any other recommendation, I’d go with that. Any is better than none.
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Time to binge-watch some “Night Court” …. Harry Anderson passed away today.
Not too thrilled when I read about people my same age passing….
Time to binge-watch some “Night Court” …. Harry Anderson passed away today.
Wow, only 65 of natural causes. I alway loved him in Night Court.
Too many dead people lately.
Starting to get nervous….
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@Mediumwave — Sowell has always made a lot of sense. I look forward to reading that onecifvthese days.
@Slim — Gad, how the years go by. I wonder if my old hack will work at giveawayoftheday.com anymore? Looks like a nifty utility.
@Nick, please add a tag ‘eBay’ to
http://www.ttgnet.com/journal/2017/07/17/nick-post-quick-response-to-article-becomes-a-post-about-selling-stuff-online/
On a more general note, I think I’ve figured out how to keep ink-jet printer cartridges alive if you don’t use them much. My brand new cartridges dried out after only a couple months of non use. $35 down the drain…
Take them out and seal the porous ink jet heads with … wait for it … Silly Putty!
Lol, it’s silicone based, so can’t hurt a fly but will keep them from drying out.
Can’t wait to test the idea.
More surveillance state —
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5623187/Police-track-drug-dealer-figuring-fingerprint-WhatsApp-PHOTO-hand.html
Yep, they got him by searching his fingerprint in a PHOTO on a seized phone.
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Tour of Virginia class submaine
That sub makes an RV look spacious. There appears to be zero wasted space.
Austin has been interesting. And expensive. I parked close to jw Marriott today to have brochures close. Good thing, I pulled all of them out of truck as people are picking them up. The parking was $48. I uber tomorrow.
All I did today was stand around and talk to people. I only attended one seminar. And I left that one early as someone wanted to talk. There is more networking going on this time than I have ever seen. Good thing, the industry appears to be recovering. Lots of talk about the crude oil and natural gas production in Permian Basin up by 3x in last year. Almost 3 million barrels per day now. And another natural gas pipeline is going to be built from Odessa to Dallas as the current 3 pipelines are full.
It’s almost summery here. Still cold at night, but temps expected to approach 25C this week. Sadly, I can’t make much use of it: we are shutting down my wife’s whisky business by the end of the month, which is generating (a) a lot of work and (b) even more stress. We have a lot of loyal customers, who are pretty shocked, and taking the opportunity for “one last visit”.
Which is to say that we are absolutely swarmed on the evenings we are open, the web shop is very busy, and the warehouse is getting emptier and emptier. All of which is more-or-less what we expected, but now we have to live through it. Lots of emotions as well, especially for my wife, who has run this business and gotten to know many customers personally over more than 20 years.
Even as a non-American, I need to file taxes, because I have some laughably trivial amount of income from some exhausted oil fields in Oklahoma. Thankfully, I have until June, so it can wait until the business shutdown is complete. Oklahoma actually withholds tax until you reclaim it. The amount I reclaim is just about enought to pay for the web service that does the e-filing.
Anyhow, being so busy, I’ve been lurking, and have accumulated a few comments I want to be rid of. Here they come…
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@Rick: Printers for Linux. To keep it simple, buy HP, because their printer library (hplip) is a standard part of any major Linux distro. Otherwise, if there’s a printer one is interested in, visit the manufacturer’s site and see if they offer a download.
FWIW I’ve never had a printer I couldn’t use under Linux, and my wife’s business has gone through a *lot* of printers over the years.
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I have a stupid problem I haven’t solved yet: not enough pockets. I usually carry a backpack, which has plenty of carrying space. But when I’m without it, I’d still like to have a pocketknife and another small item or two. Since the advent of mobile phones, the pocket I used to use for a knife, etc, carries the phone. Can’t put them both in there, or the screen gets scratched.
I’ve been looking for some sort of belt attachment that doesn’t look either (a) dorky or (b) like a wannabe SWAT member. Haven’t found anything I like yet. Anyone have suggestions?
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Dimmers and LEDs – if they aren’t certified for dimmers, you should be able to just run the dimmer at 100% with no problem. Run it lower and the lights will flicker. AFAIK it’s a question of whether or not the light manufacturer has invested money in circuits to smooth the power input.
That said, I installed “dimmable” LED panels and a dimmer in one room here, and they still do not like each other. I get flicker regardless. Probably low quality electronics in the panels – they were the cheapest I could find at the time.
@brad, I’ve looked at or used a variety of clip on “pockets” from Nite ize
search amazon for “nite ize pock” no quotes, and look at the CLC pockets at the bottom of the page too.
Nite ize has tons of clever little gadgets.
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I’m 53 and find the depressing thing about social media is all the people younger than me dying. Then I realized that reading about people younger than me dying is better than having something on social media about my death.
@Dave: The great disadvantage of an interconnected world, and the fact that media always write about bad things happening. We hear about every death, every bicycle accident, every stubbed toe in the whole world. Worse, because people are really lousy at putting things in context, it always sounds like the world is going down the crapper.
Just as an example, last night’s news program had a segment about toe and foot amputations. Thousands of them! And they are all so unnecessary! As it happens, they’re talking about diabetics who don’t keep their blood sugar under control, which does – in fact – lead to toe and foot amputations. And when you put the numbers into the context of millions of people, suddenly it’s a non-problem. But it takes a deliberate effort to put the gruesome pictures out of mind, and find that context.
So, yep, people younger than us, dropping like flies. Getting run over by trucks. Dying in avalanches. But…actually…most of them are doing just fine. And so are we 🙂
@Nightraker – Those photos of a Virginia Class brought back memories of my Los Angeles Class. There is not much difference in layout, however the Virginia Class has a little more space in some areas., some of it gained by having LCD panels instead of the CRTs and other bulky instruments we started out with (each time we came into the yard something new electronic was being added.
Seeing rapid fire torpedo operations is a sight to behold. You would be surprised how fast a torpedo tube can be loaded, fired, and reloaded. The Torpedomen have to be on the ball as the racks and rams are in motion all over the place. Stand in the wrong place and you’ll be squashed like a bug.
Yes @Nick, I’ll be checking out Costco. One feature I have on the necessary list is that the dash cam needs to be able to download via WiFi to an App. It still needs to have a microSD card, but too much can go wrong if a person is not experienced in removing a microSD card.
Added: The table in the Officers’ Mess converts into to an operating table, there are operating lamps in the overhead. That ice cream machine is considered a vital piece of equipment and is treated with tender loving care.
Some while ago I read a review of dashcams. I don’t remember which one it was, but one manufacturer had a combined device that did both navigation and dashcam. Which seemed like a nice idea: only one thing stuck to your windshield instead of two.
Also worth considering: some dashcams also include a rear-facing camera. This is attached to the dashcam via a cable (so installation is a lot more work). Anyhow, you get fore and aft recordings, which is an obvious advantage.
Re: Pockets
Scottevest has a variety of jackets and vests with more pockets than sense. Larger phablets won’t fit in the designated phone pocket, but something else will work.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01KADOYU8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Helikon-Tex (above) or Vertx “Phantom” are not particularly tacticool cargo pants that might be suitable. Propper “District” pants might be even better. Duluth trousers are oriented towards tradesmen, but certainly have the storage space.
All available at Amazon or their own websites.
You may want to consider the Garmin 55. Expensive but has excellent reviews. Records your location and thus your speed. Locks the video when an impact is detected.
This Garmin unit does both. Garmin makes good GPS units and their cameras are highly rated.
Scottevest CEO is a major douchebag.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/25/scottevest-ceo-advertise-fox-news-viewers-fking-idiots/
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I amazed that any manager of any company would denigrate any potential customer.
Penzey’s spice – https://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2016/11/21/penzeys-ceo-comments-ignite-backlash-praise-and.html
Penzeys Spices, a Wauwatosa-based spice retailer that operates stores around the Milwaukee area, is continuing to elicit both dissension and commendation for spicy remarks made by the company’s CEO implying that voters who cast a ballot for President-elect Donald Trump were racist.
just the first one off the top o my noggin…
in his own words:
I used to be a big purchaser of Penzeys Spices, operative phrase “used to be”.
Years ago I sensed their left leanings, as unfortunately are many companies in Wisconsin now, and stopped purchasing anything from them. I am a heavy user of spices so Penzeys lost several-hundreds of dollars of my business and even more from friends that I have some influence over.
Wisconsin has been circling the drain for years. It’s full of RINOs.
As a point of reference, I lived and worked in Ripon, Wisconsin for 3 years, 1969 to 1972. The college there is like Berkeley East, full of spoiled privileged rich kids. My Sister got a full-free-ride scholarship there that my Dad got as a perk when he was hired by the bank in Ripon to get them out of financial trouble. She got fully indoctrinated in the ways of the left. Ripon is considered the birthplace of the Republican Party. It is also where the Republican Party started its demise.
When I was working on designs for a Mars base mockup to be built at JSC, we looked to submarines for inspiration. One of the designers had been enlisted on a boomer.
One of my bosses was on an attack sub/special ops sub (USS Lapon) as logistics officer. They were on a cruise in the Med and acquired a Soviet missile sub. They stayed on it until they were nearly out of food. One of the things they ran out of was the cinnamon bun mix. This was a problem, as the captain wanted a hot cinnamon roll with his morning coffee. My boss conferred with the cook and they looked over what stores they still had. They improvised a mix out of flour and ice cream makings. The captain pronounced it excellent and the recipe was circulated around the Navy.
Starbucks to close all company-owned stores on the afternoon of May 29 for racial-bias education day
Reaction #1: Wait–Starbucks has been hiring racist baristas all this time?
Reaction #2: If it’ll take a whole day to re-educate Starbucks’ presumably
already-“woke” workforce, what hope is there for the enlightenment of us deplorables?
Edit: Just noticed that it’s not the whole day, just a Sunday afternoon. Does that mean only a third of the workers, or perhaps just the weekenders, will “benefit” from the “education?” Will two-thirds of Starbucks’ customers still run the risk of racial profiling? Inquiring minds want to know!
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Be sure to update HPLIP for newer printer models.
On Starbucks and “Racism”
Please ignore my earlier, feeble attempt at humor at Starbucks’ expense.
Too many people are expressing butt-hurt over too many things, and too many people are responding.
Very often, the BEST response to something like that is *nothing*. Starbucks (corporate) has nothing to do with what happened in Philly. Local managers are the ones that should handle that.
Sheesh. Not every conservative loves Trump. Not every liberal supported Obama. Not every Starbuck’s employee is a racist. We are individuals, and individually is how we should be judged.