Nice day here. A bit chilly this am, getting nicer all day. Need to enjoy Spring while it’s here.
Plan is for painting and more painting. Plus some cleaning. And some yard work.
Possibly some time on the water later.
We’ll have to play it by ear.
I’ll feel a lot better after I moved some buckets and cases of food up here. In the mean time, I am kind of nervous.
Need some water and filteration too.
Prep all the things! Stack all the things. Defense in depth. Layers. Fallbacks. Options. All good things.
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Absent all of the fuss from "the slap", "King Richard" would have already been forgotten by today.
Quick — name the "Best Picture" winner last year.
Indeed it would. The Slap will be remembered Ad Infinitum. Smith has serious cucking problems. The media is digging up all kinds of aberrant and racist/sexist/xenophobia behavior.
The Academy should revoke his Oscar and do some damage control.
Oof:
Oberlin must pay record $31M award to bakery it defamed as racist, says appeals court
One of my favorite pundits went to Oberlin, Michelle Malkin. She talks about what an execrable environment exits there.
No one sane is going to move to repeal Reedy Creek in the Florida Legislature, but The Mouse needs to wake up to the fact that the state is not going to allow itself to be ruled by Twitter, especially this Governor.
The Florida parks used to have a more conservative, practical management philosophy until Eisner was fired.
Please. The city and Orange County haven't done anything about International Drive in 40 years, and most of the mess north of "The World's Largest McDonald's" wrapping around to the former Wet-n-Wild location is held by a couple of wealthy immigrant families who scream "racism" any time the city or county try to alter the zoning and old fashioned politics fails.
The most likely opponent Little Marco faces to retain his Senate seat is Val Demings. Supported by The Mouse, Demings is the current Congress woman from the section of Florida that includes Reedy Creek — a special House district created by the courts after redistricting bogged down for six years in Florida — and her husband is the Orange County “executive”, effectively the Mayor of the county.
Anybody home? No posts for three hours… fixed it.
Just BUSY here. Trying to finish taxes and get them to the CPA. Always some glitch. This year, it is a late (as usual) form from an investment. It is promised for next week. We’ll see. Taxes are never fun, but then neither is theft.
For those unfamiliar with the area, ICON Park falls under the jurisdiction of the City of Orlando and Orange County.
Of course Benny Crump is involed. If Disney and many other entities had their way, Crump and his cronies would have run the Executive Branch of the state for the last four years while Andrew Gillum indulged in male hookers and meth at the Governor's Mansion.
https://www.kiiitv.com/article/news/regional/ben-crump-teen-fell-fall-orlando-amusement-park-ride/67-c8cf765f-3cdc-4b77-9b08-bf16b9769440
Surprise! My Jackery 2000 solar *generator* showed up today via Fedex. It took about a week turnaround. Jackery didn't bother to tell me it was shipping. Or if anything was wrong.
I hit the display button and nada. Plugged it into the mains and it came on and clicked off. Unplugged and plugged back in and it came to life. 0% charge on the batteries. It's now taking 860W from AC. I'll give it a solar workout this coming week. Jackery recommends a full charge via mains before using solar panels.
I hope this one survives. It looks like this is my third new Jackery unit. All the screens and lights covered with film and accessories look new, too.
After ten years, my bread machine is wearing out. Waah. (Breadman TR520, used an average of more than twice a week since I got it. If you go back in time, I highly recommend this brand and model.) Does anyone have recommendations for a basic bread machine, based on your having used some model for a couple years? I can go with another Breadman, but what with brands being bought or outsourcing/re-sourcing manufacture and pinching pennies, I don't know if it's still good.
LOL. I'm surprised The Kamel didn't just break down into ebonics:
Kamala Harris’ interview with MSNBC’s Joy Reid was the expected mix of word salad & cringe
Lordy, B'Gordy.
There is no way plugs/KAMEL won fairly.
@Steve just whatever is at the goodwill, if outta has the pan and the paddle. If it is no good, you aren't out much. The bosch is very sought after.
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@nick – re: "site not found" errors.
I haven't had any problems, and haven't seen others here mentioning it. Usually, that message indicates that the DNS lookup for the site failed.
So the issue could be with the DNS servers on the device (phone?) you are using. Perhaps they were offline or having issues.
But don't see the problem from my place – and I look at the site many times a day.
Rick, I'm unable to reach the site every now and then. At least once a day. I'm not sure when it started; maybe a week. Waiting a while and trying again usually fixes it. From where I sit, it could be DNS errors or it could be internal to the site's server.
Regarding site response….the only way to help figure this out is to get the 'HTTP response code' associated with the failed request.
That is not easily done by the visitor, especially with intermittent problems. You can get it with the Developer's interface of your browser (F9 usually), and then look at the Network tab, and look at the first column ("status"). A normal response code is 200. A page not found is 404. Server-side errors are 500. (Explained for those that don't already know.) A list of response codes is here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes .
The issue is that the Network tab in Developer only shows data of a request that already has Developer turned on. Otherwise, you have to Refresh/Reload the page, which will probably work – since the issue is intermittant.
Of course, one could look at the response logs the server keeps, but there are a lot of entries in that log, and a parser always helps (LogParser is a good one).
And looking through the logs is helped by knowing the date/time of the bad response (and the UTC time).
But, I am inclined to think it's a DNS lookup problem. Those that have the issue might report back on who your DNS server is set to. Maybe that would be useful information.
Rick, I switched ISPs a couple days ago, TimeWarner to Verizon. The problem existed both before and after. I haven't noticed whether it happens more or less often after the switch, as it's rare.
I'll try to remember to note and report the time of a failure when it happens.
@Rick, it happened a bunch of times are home yesterday before I left on my main pc. I had it happen several times last night on my phone.
Is a site can't be found error, different from the ise 500 we've been getting.
"Try again" usually works.
Happens in all different places on the site too, posting a comment, logging in to word press, or just hitting reload.
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Wife has primed two rooms and is painting the ceilings.
I removed the old oven and am trying to connect the new. Also unloaded truck, set up grill, trimmed a tree…
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@Greg
I would not bet against it.Disney has stepped in this one and gone in over their head. The facts as perceived by the public are not on Disney's side, and it may be that they are being pushed by a tiny vocal minority just as the Democrat Party is being led off the cliff. There's a lot of people that will be persuaded when asked what else the Mouse is hiding up in Orlando.
Meanwhile, Apple is following Disney's lead:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/04/apple-reportedly-working-with-lobbyists-to-stop-parental-rights-bills-in-multiple-states/
and getting some richly deserved pushback from people noting their use of Chinese slave labor and see-no-evil-for-the-greenbacks approach to selling in the many countries where homosexuality is prohibited, up to and including the death penalty.
The same laws that exposed Chevron to lawsuits in the U.S. over alleged (albeit phony) claims of wrongdoing in the Amazon can be used against Apple. The first lawsuit against Apple pressing the claims of the Uighurs in China is going to spatter ugly.
All this against a background of the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story and the self-serving articles that WaPo and the NYT have published claiming the story for their own as they have finally, 17 months later, "partially confirmed" the authenticity.
As more and more comes out to convince the public that they were lied to by Big Tech, the more likely it is that some real butthurt is going to be dished out post Jan 2023.The GOP are largely weak-kneed fools, but if they are more than marginally intelligent they will have one hell of a First 100 Days of legislation queued up and ready to go.
Myself, I'd like to be the one to talk to The Big Guy:
"Yeah, Joe. Be too bad if these bills get vetoed. They become law and certain people will be too busy to pay much attention to this whole Hunter thing and how so much money seems to have leaked into your pockets."
The Republicans will get the House back, and nothing will change except the Speaker and committee chairs, just like 2010.
If the public wants something done, they need to stop visiting Facecrack, limit what they buy at Amazon, and stop streaming Baby Yoda. Money talks.
I almost didn't catch it today, but the increase in my gas bill over last year was an eye-opening 44% for about the same usage.
>> Kamala Harris’ interview with MSNBC’s Joy Reid was the expected mix of word salad & cringe
Dang, she found her way back from Poland.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/chris-queen/2022/04/02/desantis-nuclear-option-what-would-happen-if-florida-revoked-disneys-special-governing-arrangement-n1586369
Those Disney executives cannot explain their position. Some of the leaders of one of the largest entertainment companies in the world have revealed themselves to be stupid and willfully ignorant. That makes a strong argument right there to put them under the same oversight that every other corporation gets.
Or pedophiles. Or child traffickers.
e) all of the above
Some of the leaders of one of the largest entertainment companies in the world have revealed themselves to be stupid and willfully ignorant.
Or pedophiles. Or child traffickers.
Embrace the healing power of "and"
NaN, it'll be interesting to see if he has any side effects, because day-um that's a lot of jabs.
And naturally the solution is a national registry…. Which I'd think might get some pushback in Germany, given the history.
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Didn't get the oven installed. Needed some plumbing I didn't have here.
Took the dishwasher out. What a kludge. The 4 feet of orange extension cord wire nutted in place was a surprise. The use of copper tube and flange nuts on the waste side was unexpected…And the hose splice with 3 hose clamps and sealant that was still leaking on the supply side was creative… creative and plumbing should not go together.
Like a lot of what the old guy did, it was 99% of what was needed. But that last bit is crucial.
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Took the dishwasher out. What a kludge. The 4 feet of orange extension cord wire nutted in place was a surprise. The use of copper tube and flange nuts on the waste side was unexpected…And the hose splice with 3 hose clamps and sealant that was still leaking on the supply side was creative… creative and plumbing should not go together.
Like a lot of what the old guy did, it was 99% of what was needed. But that last bit is crucial.
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"Use it up… Wear it out… Make it do… Or do without"
A lot of people live by that slogan even when they don’t have to.