78F and wet this am….
Possible hurricane headed my way, at least a nasty storm. Lots of things can still happen this year, lots of weather.
Time to top up your preps! (Um, it’s always time, right?)
“It’s comin’ right for us!”
nick
Tues. Sept. 4, 2018 – short week, so work harder!
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Think the “elites” have any idea what ‘normals’ are like anymore??
“Nike’s Kaepernick Ad Has Cost The Company Over $4 Billion So Far”
Get Woke, Go Broke.
Think the “elites” have any idea what ‘normals’ are like anymore??
Nike isn’t the brand they used to be. They were smart to buy Converse — I see lots of pairs of Chucks on kids when I drop my daughter off at school every day.
If only chucks weren’t so dang uncomfortable…
n
Any fashion brand will go in and out of fashion.
Any fashion brand will go in and out of fashion.
But how many brands commit suicide?
The one that comes immediately to mind is “New Coke”, but the Coca-Cola Co. reversed course on that one PDQ.
The one that comes immediately to mind is “New Coke”, but the Coca-Cola Co. reversed course on that one PDQ.
My father distributed Coke syrup in Tampa in the 70s, between his two long gigs at Ford. When “New Coke” premiered in the mid-80s, he told me that it was a long-planned strategy to hide the conversion to corn syrup as the sweetener. He accurately predicted the timing of “Classic Coke” hitting shelves later that year.
Ironically, corn syrup was probably the taste issue with New Coke, which was essentially a sugared version of the new, wildly popular (at that time) Diet Coke taste.
My father’s more recent prediction, that Ford would be done when the Crown Vic went away, hasn’t come true … yet.
Nike – I didn’t buy them in the past because they didn’t fit right. Now I won’t try them on.
They made a profound statement with the Kaepernick deal. I wonder how well it will work for them? Chik-fil-a well? Or otherwise?
I’m waiting, played tennis wearing LACOSTE last Thursday. After wearing for 50 years, I’ll be OK with anything but Nike.
Oh yeah, watching C&W band last Sat., I had on a Wrangler shirt that said “George Strait” inside of collar.
They made a profound statement with the Kaepernick deal. I wonder how well it will work for them? Chik-fil-a well? Or otherwise?
At some point, the shareholders will go after the management. Not the little shareholders like you and me, the institutional shareholders like Harvard and CALPERS. These people have fiduciary responsibilities and do not like playing games with the value of their investments.
There is an In-N-Out near my house. Haven’t been there in a while, need to get back.
Alas, no In-N-Out in my area. When I went to Texas (Houston) several years ago I stopped at one of the local places and was pleased. Haven’t needed to go back, so I haven’t. Shame, really.
Any fashion brand will go in and out of fashion.
Adidas seemed to fade for a while in the US, but they’ve come back.
The right product placement in a movie or TV show goes a long way. I was reminded of this recently when screening “Risky Business” for my son.
The look on Cruise’s face delivering the “University of Illinois!” line seemed to make Ray Ban hip again overnight.
Alas, no In-N-Out in my area. When I went to Texas (Houston) several years ago I stopped at one of the local places and was pleased. Haven’t needed to go back, so I haven’t. Shame, really.
IIRC, the limitation on In-n-Out expansion is the infrastructure for the fresh meat purchasing, processing and delivery. Houston is probably too far east of I-35 for now.
I had a moment of clarity this morning when I woke up. I have been trying to reconcile the two wake up memories from the operating room. One was about ten seconds long and very confused with someone fighting with me. The other was a normal wake up with two nurses painfully holding my incisions together.
The first memory was me waking up in the operating room. There is a man laying on top of me, holding me down. There is a voice yelling “Mr. McGuire, Mr. McGuire, Mr. McGuire, please stop”. I am flailing about. This is why the right side of my body is so bruised. Apparently, I was trying to get up while the catheters were in my body. Not good.
I am betting that the o/r people are having nightmares. It was apparently a first for my doctor and he has performed thousands of surgeries.
The second wakeup memory is much more detailed and normal. And not as traumatic.
Yikes! I’ve read that some people are conscious throughout surgery…. that seems like a horror show to me.
n
Yikes! I’ve read that some people are conscious throughout surgery…. that seems like a horror show to me.
I was more conscious than I should have been during my colonoscopy. Fortunately, I was hyper focused on my watch, looking at the stopwatch function tick off the 20 minutes they told me the procudure would take.
Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad criticizes the NFL for keeping Colin Kaepernick out of the league even though ‘he is one of the best Quarterbacks’
Well, there you go, then. 😉
The problem with “don’t be there” as your strategy to avoid bad things is that sometimes bad things find you.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6130443/Northwestern-grad-student-25-one-six-people-killed-Chicago-Labor-Day-weekend.html
“Shane Colombo, 25, was caught in the crossfire of two men who were shooting at each other at 8:25 p.m. on Sunday night. ”
On the other hand, these def fall into that category:
“Anderson, 41, was in a home playing [craps] when an argument broke out at around 4am on Sunday. He was shot multiple times in the chest ”
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“He was shot by a masked gunman who fled the scene after opening fire on Johnson and his group of friends in the street at 3:50am on Saturday. ”
-yeah, just a group of friends hanging out on the street at 4 am…..
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n
Does anything good happen on the street at 4 am when a bunch of friends are just “hanging out”?
Yikes! I’ve read that some people are conscious throughout surgery…. that seems like a horror show to me.
Of course, this could nothing but a manufactured memory on my part.
Any fashion brand will go in and out of fashion.
Back in the late 80’s I worked for the Fashion Sneaker company LA Gear designing and building warehouse automation and inventory management systems for them in Riverside CA.
LA Gear made a killing selling second rate sneakers as “fashion” items at $100+ a pair. Management told me that their shoes were made in the same factories in Asia that made Nike, same workers, same quality. I was there when they brought Michael Jackson in to design a line of shoes based on his upcoming album. They paid him $10 million up front, gave him and his monkey (and 3 bodyguards) a suite of offices in their Santa Monica HQ. Then sat around and waited for the $$ to roll in. But Michael took more than a year to release his “Greatest Hits” and the “MJ” line was a disaster. Many stores reported NO SALES at all. The single commercial LA Gear ran for the line cost almost ¾ million and didn’t even have music. The beginning of the end. I moved on to do security consulting at Oracle. At least I can say I got to meet MJ.
I have never paid more than $30 for a pair of sneakers. Never owned anything by Nike so I can’t boycott them LOL.
Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad criticizes the NFL for keeping Colin Kaepernick out of the league even though ‘he is one of the best Quarterbacks’
A couple of weeks ago, he commented on the Serena Williams catsuit “controversy”.
Maybe he’s quietly on the Nike payroll. Next he’ll be in Instagram, showing off the sneakers he wore storming the embassy in Tehran. “The innovative sole was crucial to scaling the walls of the compound.”
A good friend of mine was a VP at LA Gear, and I worked on some of their trade show booths and displays. “It’s not just a shoe, it’s a machine…”
Friend took it in the shorts from the IRS on his [worthless] stock options.
Remember British Knights? The gangbangers in Chicongo would white out part of the B so their shoes said LK for Latin Kings…. Only people I ever saw wearing the shoes.
n
Friend took it in the shorts from the IRS on his [worthless] stock options.
I have always thought that stock options should not be considered a taxable event for people. Only actual cash transactions should be taxed.
Remember British Knights? The gangbangers in Chicongo would white out part of the B so their shoes said LK for Latin Kings…. Only people I ever saw wearing the shoes.
Gangbangers … and MC Hammer.
I think my father-in-law bought a pair of BKs to go with his Hammer pants, and I clearly remember that he bought my wife a pair of the shoes at some point.
I had to ship a bunch of books today. OTW to UPS I was listening to the Senate hearings on Kavanaugh. They are not even on the day of asking questions and the World must be asking “When do the shoes start flying?” What a joke. Cory “Commie Dooshnozzle” Booker is currently on. He’s made it clear “Dump Kavanaugh for *our* pick Garland, or we’re going full commie on your ass.” He brought up Russian attacks, the *right* to health care, farmers commiting suicide over tRump, etc. I don’t see how tRump doesn’t win by a landslide in 2020.
“Chuck Schumer on Impeaching Trump: ‘The Sooner the Better’”
https://freebeacon.com/politics/chuck-schumer-on-impeaching-trump-the-sooner-the-better/
This is not healthy. We have a duly elected President and a significant minority is trying very hard to unseat him, possibly to replace him with their chosen candidate. This is how civil wars are started.
Hat tip to:
https://drudgereport.com/
Apparently a bunch of women showed up to protest dressed like “The Handmaid’s Tale.” More idiots with no life except TeeeeeVeeeee. Next we’ll have Wakanda Forever ’cause Kavanaugh is going to single handedly enslave all Blacks. Not to mention reverse Obolacare, Roe v. Wade, etc. All unilateral. How can people be this stupid in 2018? Oh, yeah, “The Commies took over without firing a shot.” Miss you OFD.
I always visited In-N-Out when I was in the Victorville area of CA visiting family. Brother has now moved to Idaho. I don’t know if there is a franchise in that area. If I can find one in the San Antonio area of Texas I will stop on my next visit.
Last one I had about 11 years ago I remember nothing of the procedure. They gave me three drugs, one to knock me out, one to cause amnesia, the other I have no idea. I remember the doc saying, put him unde…. with the next memory the doctor coming in and saying everything is OK, see you in 10 years.
I have the memory of putting on my clothes with the help of my wife. I have no memory of leaving the building, stopping at McDonalds, or getting home. Wife says I was alert and talking but I sure have no memory of any of the events.
Now the TMI part. I was surprised at the amount of fluid leakage that occurred from the exterior posterior orifice while I was napping on the couch. I really should have been wearing a diaper.
I am in the process of getting scheduled for the procedure again. The doctor says they use a different knock out drug, propofol, same stuff that killed Michael Jackson. You go out immediately and wake up almost immediately when the stuff wears off. You feel like you have just had eight hours of great sleep with no ill effects. Should be interesting. Outcome should be better than Mr. Jackson as there will be adults involved in my procedure.
Apparently a bunch of women showed up to protest dressed like “The Handmaid’s Tale.” More idiots with no life except TeeeeeVeeeee. Next we’ll have Wakanda Forever ’cause Kavanaugh is going to single handedly enslave all Blacks. Not to mention reverse Obolacare, Roe v. Wade, etc. All unilateral. How can people be this stupid in 2018? Oh, yeah, “The Commies took over without firing a shot.”
This is what a rich banana republic looks like.
Miss you OFD.
Yes.
Next we’ll have Wakanda Forever ’cause Kavanaugh is going to single handedly enslave all Blacks.
“Black Panther” has been somewhat forgotten since the DVD release hit flyover country and the Deplorables said “meh” to what is just another well made comic book flick from the Disney/Marvel machine. Correcting that injustice is the whole point of the new Academy award, “Outstanding Achivement in
Black PantherPopular Film”.Melting in California. Working hard to rid the house of cigarette smell and complete minor repairs before mom is released from skilled nursing tomorrow. Two rooms painted, carpets in process of being professionally cleaned and deodorized. I think I have run every single thing that could go in the clothes washer or dish washer that I could. Hand washed a number of things, and hung outside to air out for everything else.
Years of neglectful house keeping and smoking indoors has taken its toll.
Her health is precarious but most of her problems are self inflicted. If she chooses to return to the drinking and smoking I won’t be investing the same amount of personal time and energy to her care.
Have a plan. We are mortal creatures. “I hope to drop dead of a heart attack” isn’t a reasonable plan and places a selfish and cruel burden on your friends and family.
About six of the siding boards are delaminated. I’m going to shoot some of the stuff Nick suggested in there this week. Long term it’s got to be pulled off and redone. Working in installing safety bars. That’s fun. Her concrete porch may need to be shortened to its original depth to allow a ramp. Jack hammers may be involved. I’d like to operate a jack hammer.
Working in installing safety bars.
I bought this toilet guardrail for my mother. She praises it highly. It is independent of the toilet and allow you to fall because the the toilet breaks.
https://www.amazon.com/Stand-Alone-Toilet-Rail-Vive/dp/B015789VQI/?tag=ttgnet-20
Never understood the magazine rack. I am never in that position long enough to read a magazine let along the table of contents. Although I have known some people that could read a short novel. Slow readers too.
I’d like to operate a jack hammer.
Me too. About two minutes.
I bought this toilet guardrail for my mother. She praises it highly. It is independent of the toilet and allow you to fall because the the toilet breaks.
https://www.amazon.com/Stand-Alone-Toilet-Rail-Vive/dp/B015789VQI/?tag=ttgnet-20
Sigh, I was not clear. This toilet guardrail is independent of the toilet and does not allow you to fall if the the toilet breaks.
https://www.amazon.com/Stand-Alone-Toilet-Rail-Vive/dp/B015789VQI/?tag=ttgnet-20
Well, tried to sign up at minds.com. It’s suppose to be an alternative to Facebook. The operative word here is “tried”.
It didn’t complain about “paul” as a user name. It doesn’t like my password… Cap letter, the rest of the word and a couple of numbers. No…. has to be more than eight characters and numbers. Ok, add a number.
Then the captcha thing. Pick the street signs… through four screens and then pick the cars through three screens.
And all that to be told my password is still too short.
Fine. My life is too short to screw with jumping through their circus hoops.
My apologies ….. I was incorrect stating that RINO was terminating the USAF contract with Boeing to produce the KC-135 tanker replacements so that Airbus, Lockheed Martin consortium could produce them. I now see that the RINO buddy-buddy was actually Airbus, Northrup Grumman as noted in Wikipedia.
“In their bid to supply the EADS/Northrop Grumman KC-45 aerial refueling tankers for the USAF, Airbus planned to assemble the aircraft in Mobile, Alabama, after which they would have been modified by Northrop Grumman. EADS had also announced plans to shift A330 commercial freighter assembly to Alabama.[8] As the winner of the Air Force contract, Northrop Grumman and EADS (the airframe subcontractor) were expected to invest approximately US$600 million in new assembly plants in the United States adjacent to one another in the Brookley Complex in Mobile. EADS’s failure to win the contract meant that the Alabama production line for the Airbus A330 was never set up.”
No matter, in contrast to RINO’s initial criticisms that Boeing was ripping off the taxpayers for excessively greedy profits, it was finally impossible to hide the far greater costs of the Airbus option.
I had to mix anti freeze today. Half anti freeze, half distilled water.
I found the jug of water. Divvied the anti freeze between two jugs, picked up and dusted off the water and it started leaking from the bottom. What? Now? It’s been sitting there for a couple of years.
The truck needed a bit in the reservoir. They filled it up when the heater core was replaced but I suppose there was an air pocket. It’s been steady at a couple of inches below the “full at cold” line. I don’t smell anti freeze so I’ll see what happens.
Yep, I’m going to use the truck tomorrow! The hood release for the safety latch broke, I ordered the part, that took a week to arrive, wrong part, threaded the end of the rod and forced on a couple of bolts. And…. haven’t had a need to go anywhere since.
Of course since I need to go to the feed store and Tractor Supply, the weather will decide to rain like hell all day. No worry, the truck is a quad cab. Just flip up the back seats and fold out the fake floor. 🙂
Just went to the mailbox. Nice! A 10% off postcard from Tractor Supply.
“A 10% off postcard from Tractor Supply. ”
Home Depot for farmers! IV meds and hydraulic cylinders, and justin boots, and kid toys all in the same store. I love tractor supply.
n
They see a white guy walking along minding his own business and they say “Hey you cracker motherfucker, what are you doing here?” and then they pull out weapons and then they all die. Everyone else lives happily ever after. The end.
I know, right? There are so many businesses I don’t patronize and therefore can’t boycott. It’s an outrage!
Kavenaugh should have gone full Madison: I cannot undertake to lay my finger upon that article of the Constitution which guarantees an individual the right to health care.
According to the ER doc blog I used to read, the two most dangerous places in America are “SOCMOB” (standing on corner, minding own business), and going to church… (in the ‘hood of course.)
“Aspiring Rapper” is a deadly occupation, especially if you are also “starting to get your life together.”
n
No matter, in contrast to RINO’s initial criticisms that Boeing was ripping off the taxpayers for excessively greedy profits, it was finally impossible to hide the far greater costs of the Airbus option.
Once the Air Force reopened the contract, Boeing underbid to keep the 767 line running. If the 797 ends up as delayed as the 787, the airlines will need a stopgap replacement as they retire the remaining passenger 767s, especially Delta.
Anytime I rode Delta to Atlanta from Tampa, it was always on a 767.
The whole tanker drama played out in the newspapers during our time in Vantucky. I’m not a big Airbus fan, but Boeing and the union need to get real about the viability of production in Renton.
Home Depot for farmers! IV meds and hydraulic cylinders, and justin boots, and kid toys all in the same store. I love tractor supply.
Near Portland, Wilco stores are also fun. Live baby chicks!
“A 10% off postcard from Tractor Supply. ”
Home Depot for farmers! IV meds and hydraulic cylinders, and justin boots, and kid toys all in the same store. I love tractor supply.
Dadgum, a friend of mine built a Tractor Supply out in Rosenberg about 2 or 3 years ago. I keep on meaning to visit it, now it sounds mandatory.
Junior Programmer had his uber-team leader infrastructure software interview with Google today. He thinks that he did well. They used sort of whiteboard online software and junior programmer had to implement map-reduce and a few other subjects in detail.
Shoot, I am going to need to find me another junior programmer who can program in C++ and F77 and works for cheap.
Been cracking away on a little lappy for my 9yo. Picked up a Dell inspiron mini for <$9, no charger. It uses the same charger as my Dell fliptop, so that was sorted, and it booted at the store with a generic charger. Haven't been able to get to boot since. Planned to swap out the spinning drive for SSD anyway, so 'screwdrivers at the ready' and "GO!" It's an atom chip, winXP (currently), ram not upgradable (on same board as the atom chip) and 160GB spinning disk. Pretty easy to get into, given the small size. Drive mounts and spins on my USB SATA adapter, and I can do file operations... hmm. Scanning the drive for errors. I'd like to see it all run before I try upgrading to SSD and a newer os. But now it's bed time. n
May be doable. The problem is, those are old-school languages and the cool kids want Lua or Go or Angular jobs. C++ and FORTRAN are more likely to be known by older guys, who are almost by definition not junior programmers.
Aye, there’s the rub.
I know! Put your ad out and you’ll get lots of responses by people with six-syllable names. They won’t actually know C++ or FORTRAN, beyond maybe Hello World, but they’ll have it on their resumes and if you call their job references you’ll hear glowing tributes to their skill and dedication. Everyone wins!
(Yes, I’ve been on the hiring side of the desk. Aside from the constant fights with the recruiting or HR people, I found that 90% of candidates for programming jobs are, shall we say, exaggerating their qualifications.)
Shoot, I am going to need to find me another junior programmer who can program in C++ and F77 and works for cheap.
CGI in Belton started probies at $52k last year. Dunno what it is now, but consider that number to be the minimum number to keep someone from disappearing. For reference, I made $60k, but my job was essentially knocking down file permission problems on fresh Linux installs enough for a new install of a complex JBoss server to run — call it advanced QA, no coding skill required.
I assume Junior Programmer was working under some kind of understanding about an equity position in the business.
F77 *and* C++03 (I’m guessing based on your use of vector) will be tough. Fortran classes stopped in the mid-90s, and C++ didn’t really become usable for a first undergrad language until the 2003 standard.
And you will want someone reasonably familiar with C++11, at least enough to talk closures, auto variables, and shared pointers. Microsoft is finally starting to get their act together about being compliant with modern C++.
Unfortunately, your best bet is someone who is in a similar position to mine four years ago when we first arrived in Texas after nuking my career in Vantucky.
I know! Put your ad out and you’ll get lots of responses by people with six-syllable names. They won’t actually know C++ or FORTRAN, beyond maybe Hello World, but they’ll have it on their resumes and if you call their job references you’ll hear glowing tributes to their skill and dedication. Everyone wins!
Don’t forget the Masters CS degree with the 3.1 GPA from a mid-tier state school here in the US. Those are increasingly common as the schools get more desperate for the foreign tuition money and the OPT rules get more relaxed.
Six syllable name with a Masters in CS from the Texas school which granted LBJ his undergrad degree? (Google is your friend) Assume the worst.
Better to look for someone semi or actually retired, who wants to come in part time. After all, time in the seat isn’t the important metric, working code is….
n
Instead Mork calling Mindy will be lynn and long overseas conferences, cheap Fortran? this is an oxymoron.
I assume Junior Programmer was working under some kind of understanding about an equity position in the business.
I would not assume anything.
F77 *and* C++03 (I’m guessing based on your use of vector) will be tough. Fortran classes stopped in the mid-90s, and C++ didn’t really become usable for a first undergrad language until the 2003 standard.
Junior Programmer has never taken any computer classes that I know of. He has degrees in Chemistry and Physics. He started working with me in 1998 when he was 15. He taught me C++ back in 1999 when we started converting our Smalltalk Windows user interface to C++. He learned F77 on the job as needed. Shoot, he programs in many languages, Perl, Python, html, etc. Just like me.
Ideally, I would like to find someone like Junior Programmer. Self taught. Capable. Independent thinker. Loves to work on real software.
Ideally, I would like to find someone like Junior Programmer. Self taught. Capable. Independent thinker. Loves to work on real software.
Corporate America declared war on that type 25 years ago. The developers tended to want things like adequate compensation for the skills in relation to how much the work improved the company’s bottom line.
The campaign dragged on through the 90s, but then management went nuclear (Indian outsourcing).
Corporate America declared war on that type 25 years ago. The developers tended to want things like adequate compensation for the skills in relation to how much the work improved the company’s bottom line.
Employee compensation is an incredibly difficult issue. There are many facets involved in it.
In fact, employee supervision is horribly difficult. I am very bad at it.