Moderate temps today with some chance of light rain. So someone in Houston will be getting rain, I hope it’s not me. Saturday was humid but otherwise very nice. I am glad for the extra bit of Spring before the heat of Summer kicks in.
Did my dad duties, did some shopping for the garden and to close the wall where there water heater used to be. Did some cleanup around the house, but really should have done more.
Wife and D1 will be home late this morning. I’m planning to sleep in as long as possible.
Then I’ll do some more household chores and cleanup. I should have a few minutes to dump the bags of dirt onto the raised beds and get the potted plants into the ground. I’m going with a minimum here this spring as it’s already a bit late. Peppers, zukes, cukes, small watermelons, and some beans if I can remember correctly. The small pots that were $3.83 each last year are almost $5 this year. Even the cashier at Home Depot asked me if I was sure I wanted that many plants… But I use AMEX rewards for the garden expenses, so I was sure. My wife already put in a couple of tomato plants, the collards are from last year, and the herbs are either new or from last year too. Gardening work is predicated on no or little rain of course.
I really need to get up to the lake and get the garden going. I’ve got other stuff I need to do up there, and there are at least two pickups full of stuff waiting to go up. The latest load includes an armchair, and a wheelbarrow, along with some long term storage food. On the one hand, since we have a ton of work to do, we don’t want a ton of stuff in the way. On the other, it’s piling up here, and needs to move. On the gripping hand, I’m much more comfortable getting some back up stuff up there.
Diversification of location. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Supply chain is getting worse. The shutdowns in Shanghai should start showing up in delays pretty soon. Don’t get caught flat footed. Stack what you need.
nick
Read on. Serving as Moochelle’s spokesman is impressive, depending on your point of view.
A Jesus candidate is coming for 2024. DeSantis is winning the campaign in Florida so far.
He wasn’t looking forward to “Ms. Marvel”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9EX0f6V11Y
That will start running the same week as “Obi Wan”.
So you did read on.
The faction of shareholders who would like to see Sheryl Sandberg installed as CEO still lurks out there.
I always figured that casting my proxy ballot against Sandberg wouldn’t matter, but then, one day, her name was gone from the board.
Of course, even my miniscule amount of influence on the direction of the company departed with my shares.
Svengoolie had the Tobe Hooper remake of “Invaders From Mars” last night from the same era. Movie channel fodder for pre-8 PM audiences in the 80s – lots of PG-ish flicks got made for ~ $20-30 million.
A lot of people who are considered huge talents now got breaks working on those B flicks, however. “batteries not included” is early Brad Bird.
Interestingly, Svengoolie noted that he cannot get the 1953 “Invaders From Mars”, and the 1986 remake was their only option. He can’t get “I Was A Teenage Warewolf” or “I Was A Teenage Frankenstein” either, but he has run the sister film from the same studio “How To Make A Monster”.
B film movie rights get complicated.
“House of Wax” is up next week on “Svengoolie”.
3D is impossible on TV, but I have seen the film in that format. It is still a classic without 3D, featuring Vincent Price and pre “Addams Family” Carolyn Jones severely corseted up as, arguably, the film’s most impressive visual effect.
I used to reference “House of Wax” when I would explain how the new optical systems work for toll roads at the previous previous job. Essentially, the systems watch a 3D movie of the road all day and “duck” the paddleball – trigger plate cameras – at the right moments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFndIrfEJl8
Optical saves a lot of digging for electromagnetic loops or trenching for treadles, but the biggest problem with the loop tech is that the people who know how to design and install it are dying off.
Your father is a man who respects his own principles. I admire that.
That was such a sweet little movie! I had forgotten about it. Thanks for mentioning it, I’ll put it on my list of dvds for the little grands.
*Cookie is gone again, and I have to reenter my credentials. I wonder… does WordPress push updates to their code for sites like this? Also, I got the “Site Unavailable” error the first time I tried to load it. It was a looooooooong, slow, attempt to load before the error. Could the host server’s doings, or something like Cloudflare, be causing some of this by interfering with the site’s ability to read/respond to the cookie?
I know nothing about it, but it just seems as though for the past several weeks that “something” is getting in the way between our computers/devices and the Daynotes site.
The credentials are there now, following the above post. Could the expiration time have changed on them, where they are only recognized for a few hours instead of indefinitely like they used to be?
Morning cookie retention test
Home Depot gift cards have always been the best value for AMEX points. I noticed the high prices on plants, too. Also, every garden center has fewer little pots, and more plants in bigger pots: hardly any of the inexpensive little 6-packs that used to be the mainstay. The 6-packs usually sell for less than $2, as they are basically seedlings. The pint pots have gone up, as you note, to $5, and many things were available only in quarts, anywhere from $8 to $12, or gallons at $19 to $25.
And neither Home Depot nor Lone Oak (independent) had any vegetable plants: all ornamentals. Walmart had a few veg, but only the Bonnie’s in pint pots, no 6-packs. My guess is they got the plants in early, and the locusts swarmed them and haven’t restocked. I had to go out to Hardwick’s, an independent, to get my tomato plants, and they were nearly sold out… only had small ones and little variety.
I really miss having a plant nursery that grows their own… the business model today is truckloads coming from far-off wholesale nurseries, and when those are gone, to stay empty until the next big “everybody garden” weekend. Very much like Christmas decor. And, the garden centers cannot order any special requests, and don’t know what they are getting until it arrives. They force us to buy through mail order, then complain that mail order competes with them.
I bought two rose bushes in gallons for $23 each. One of the roses is named Miranda Lambert. It is an old-fashioned big rose with lots of petals, sort of a cabbage rose, in a true rose-pink color, and has a beautiful fragrance. My grandmother had one much like this and I have been looking for something like hers for many years.
The garden centers haven’t had much arrive this Spring or last. I still have a lot of plants to replace in my back yard from the freeze over a year ago and I’m in the Home Depot near us at least once a week.
(BTW, those of you wearing masks “indoors” at Austin Home Depot, even in the garden center: Just stop. Get a clue from the birds nesting in the rafters above the BBQ displays.)
Last Spring, everyone was still living on stimulus checks and rent/foreclosure moratoriums. This Spring, everyone wants a six figure “work” from home job doing what Dr. Pournelle used to term “manipulating symbols”.
The case for a return to productivity hasn’t been made to the 90% of the population incapable of doing the “manipulating symbols” work. Why work in a nursery even if the jobs are paying $20-30/hour?
Eight years of begging and pleading for a little reduction in the cr*p in our Master Closet fell on deaf ears so, this morning, the entire overloaded shelf/hanging system collapsed off the wall.
I guess I know what my project for today will involve.
Time for some (over) engineering.
In Vantucky, the Master Closet system collapsed within the first week of me living in the house with my son alone, with just the weight of the clothes I stashed in the trunk of my car and costume pieces too valuable to entrust to movers. None of the support pieces were drilled into studs or had drywall anchors, and obvious patching had been done by the landlords who lived there for four years until we rented the place.
I overengineered that system rebuilding it myself and the thanks for my trouble was half of my $1600 deposit kept by the landlords over water spots on their faux marble backsplash.
Never rent a divorced woman’s settlement house. The male half of the landlord couple was the boy toy “homewrecker” who knew better having run rentals in the past, but he was just the enforcer when dealing with me.
Author recommendation: Sam Kean
https://samkean.com/books/
I’m currently “rereading” the audiobook for Caesar’s Last Breath (2017).
I read it when it first came out, and bought a copy for the shelf when the price came down. I need to check to see if I have all of his books other than the latest. His books follow the typical timeline for a popular author: the current book but one has plenty of used copies available, and the hardcover has been remaindered since the softcover came out, so copies are inexpensive.
It’s useful if you have a previous exposure to the history of 18-19th century chemistry and physics, but the book is not very technical and accessible if you don’t. The unabridged audio is well-done by Blackstone Audio and nicely read.
BTW, I reported the landlords pocketing the deposit money to the IRS. I’m sure it got some attention since the female half whose name was on the title worked as a VP at a Portland bank – living in Vantucky, of course … cough – and the himbo was an accountant in taxes at KinderCare.
I imagine that $800 would get a lot more attention today.
Woke at 7, went back to bed.
Up and moving now. 81F and rising, with 82%RH. I think “hot” will describe today. That level of humidity is pretty good for Houston summer.
Thought for the day, “diminishing sphere of influence and concern.”*
It’s what I woke up thinking about, describes both macro and micro behaviour (countries to people) and is, I think, a pretty sure route to the collapse of western civ as we know it today.
n
*I chose sphere, and I’m the only one. Google says ‘circle’ is much more common.
FWIW, I’ve never read Steven Covey. Don’t know why the phrase was in my head.
But one of the things I chatted with someone about lately was peoples’ poor driving, and how they think every thing they touch is theirs alone. That got some thoughts going about why, what it might mean going forward, and if there was anything to be done about it.
n
You chose wisely. Sphere is appropriate for intelligent conversation. Circle is for 3rd grade reading level. Google is not the arbiter of good English, nor is the hoi polloi, no matter how much some want them to be.
Sphere is three dimensional, circle is a flat plane, two dimensional. Big difference. You can call me a jerk later.
A great many of the wholesale nurseries in Texas and Oklahoma lost everything in the 2020 freeze, and are determined to make up for it. Despite increased sales from millions of homeowners who had to replant their yards, they still haven’t recouped all the lost profit from that year. I don’t begrudge them that, but wish they had better offerings. Like everything else, it seems the larger the market, the fewer choices we are given.
I found this year’s strategy of moving cheaper plants to larger containers to increase profit without increasing investment interesting. Whereas most food products keep the same packaging size and reduce the weight/volume within, since plants are visible, increased pot size makes consumers think they are getting a larger plant. Nearly all the pints I saw contained plants about the same size as would be in the 6-packs, perhaps slightly larger, but not as lush as what would have been in those pots 3 years ago.
Agreed, and you’re not a jerk for pointing it out, as that’s exactly why I say sphere is the proper word when discussing complex human relationships such as extent of influence, while a circle of people connotes a few doing one thing, such as an elementary school reading circle.
There’s always the hypersphere for advanced nerds. Like most of us here.
Added: My info is gone again. I did nothing since my last post. This is happening to too many people using diverse OS and browsers to be our fault.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10772665/Bill-Gates-warns-weve-NOT-seen-worst-COVID.html
Anything to help sell his new book…
He doesn’t need the money, so is he trying to salvage his reputation?
ITguy, he’s used to having a voice, and just can’t shut up.
The odd thing in the plant section this year at Home Depot was the HUGE variety of pepper plants. Usually there are about 4-8 varieties, from the bells, to the jalapenos… this year there were different colored bells, many different hot peppers, and even ghost peppers…
They had a few varieties of zuke other than the usual too. No ‘dark leafy veg’ though at all.
Could be it’s like this every year and I just never got there the right week. But I don’t think so.
n
added- the size pot I bought looks like a clear solo cup, not even the black pots of old. Someone a couple of months ago was looking for pots on the neighborhood group, there was a shortage, so maybe that’s why all my veg is in beer cups.
Flat thinkers!
Gates desperately wants a singular intellectual achievement to his name, placing him in the ranks of a Feynman or Dyson rather than just Edison-level.
My wife’s theory is that Gates has something bad and terminal wrong with his health driving the urgency right now. The widely held theory among the Berkshire Hathaway faithful is that Gates was on track to become figurehead CEO when Warren Buffett died until BillG suddenly resigned from the board a few years ago.
Yeah, his name appears on the passenger manifests for the Lolita Express, but something else is going on with that guy.
The Lolita Express manifests simply reinforced what a lot of people in the industry have believed about BillG going back to the 80s and documented in a limited way in his marriage “agreement”. No big news there.
Pelosi made a surprise trip to Kyiv. What a pile of horse excrement. Political grandstanding. What are the chances she gets surprised by a missile strike removing her from the gene pool?
Of course if that happened the U.S. would be drawn in the conflict and the results would be catastrophic. She should never have made the trip and such trip should never have been authorized by the state department. She is proving herself a bigger idiot with each stunt. Or perhaps this was a well orchestrated move to attempt to bolster her political position?
Gunning for the VP position when Biden is declared incompetent and the Kamel takes over and picks her own vice president.
And in a side note my information is being saved. It was not before on Safari, Edge and Chrome, iPhone, iPad, desktop and Macbook. The cookies are the issue and something changed in the cookies. Perhaps the expiration time or even the type of cookie so that the cookies did not get saved. Too many browsers and platforms for the issue to be on the part of the user. I believe Rick when he says he changed nothing. Perhaps some configuration change was made on the shared server that globally affected all the sites on the server.
BillyG looks bloated lately. Something is definitely wrong.
Home Depot is probably bringing in more plants from Florida, which has been “reopened” for business longer than many other states and stayed free of serious freeze conditions on the peninsula since the pandemic started. Contrary to popular belief, the big agricultural driver in Florida is not citrus anymore but, instead, houseplants, both indoor and outdoor.
Peppers are ridiculously easy to cultivate in Florida from about I-4 south. The big problem for the wholesale growers in the state right now is the demand for industrial space on the peninsula for warehouses to service Amazon and other stores in the Brown Truck Mall and Food Court.
Beyond Amazon plowing under the most productive tomato fields on the planet to build their first facility in Florida, outside Tampa (cough), the last time we made the trip down I-4 to I-75 and south, it was somewhat alarming to see areas convenient to the freeways which used to be dominated by wholesale nurseries and tropical fish farms turned over to warehouse space and paved over.
Another possibility is Home Depot importing from Colombia, which has agricultural industries beyond cocaine, believe it or not.
If Biden assumes room temperature or is declared incompetent, Pelosi’s best play before January is to simply not schedule a vote for VP in the House. She gets to be that “heartbeat away” without the acrimony of a confirmation process while keeping the powers of Speaker, and absent the tie breaker in the Senate, even Mittens wouldn’t get a hall pass from the Elders in Salt Lake City to vote for Pelosi.
After January, assuming a House leadership change, a VP has to be a compromise with the Republicans.
Complex systems are hard to debug. Since Rick says there are no significant changes (and I believe him), there are still a bunch of potential culprits. Adblockers that automatically update, man-in-the-middle (not malicious, simply “optimized” transfers), borked browser upgrades, and things I can’t think of.
The cynical side of me says that the monitoring software the NSA inserted in the middle sometimes forgets to pass cookies.
I believe Mr. Rick, too. My info is back again. Something weird is going on. I blame the Ministry of Truth.
@Nick
You can pick up a copy of Covey’s famous 7 Habits CD audiobook for less than 5 bucks on eBay.
NOTE: name and email not retained since last post
Digging further into the mess in our Master Closet, I see that the collapse happened before under the watch of Gidget-n-Geezer, the previous owners.
Pulling the shelf frame off of the wall to get a better look at the hole the shelf made in the drywall during the collapse, I noticed that the previous hole the shelf made was just thinset rather than fixed properly.
Geezer liked shortcuts, and he was a friggin’ architect who worked with local custom builders.
Again, I’ll overengineer and fix the drywall properly. The shelf/rod won’t come down again.
With the exception of the main brace beam on the back closet wall, most of the wood and hardware can be salvaged/reused. I’ll add a few more metal braces, one on each stud behind the wall with plenty of hefty screws.
The cynical side of me says that the monitoring software the NSA inserted in the middle sometimes forgets to pass cookies.
–you’re not paranoid if they really are after you.
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Gates is more a Tom Clancy–one ability, but without the grace to recognize it.
And they’re too arrogant to be paranoid enough.
NOTE: Info retained after last post. What’s the half-life of an electron again?
The Blue Coat proxy software installed on most corporate drone laptops these days by employers looking to see inside the “SSL Everywhere” activity of their employees is pretty decent about being HTTP spec compliant.
Gates knows. His problem is that even an accomplishment like Phillipe Khan’s camera phone – Gates considered Khan a poser so that one probably grates – created long after Khan exited Borland wouldn’t be enough to satisfy his competitive drive.
Clancy went to Loyola and earned a living selling insurance before the books hit big. He proved he could do something else beyond write.
Gates dropped out of Harvard, and many in the industry are skeptical of his ability to code beyond assembly.
Again, if rand()/srand() in Visual Studio are Gates’ work, he definitely shouldn’t be allowed behind a keyboard again simply because his legend status combined with lack of ability may yet kill us all.
@Greg
Should have said: outstanding ability. Clancy and Cussler both had merely successful careers before becoming wildly successful authors, but it was the latter achievement that made them household names.
Clancy bought his grandfather’s insurance agency and ran it competently for the better part of the 70s.
Among the tech titans of his generation, Gates is fairly unique in that he started from a position of serious wealth. Most of the others were the “bored suburban kids from good but not wealthy homes” as descirbed in the core thesis of Robert Cringely (the one of cringely.com fame) “Accidental Empires” and continued in the PBS series “Triumph of the Nerds”.
Michael Dell came from money but is arguably a half generation behind Gates. I’ve been inside the famed “dorm room”, a corner penthouse suite in the Dobie Center, a private residence hall, food court, and mall at the edge of UT Austin.
Gates benefited most from having early access to a remote computer terminal and the OCD infatuation to abuse it.
(Or maybe that was second to Gary Kildall’s mishandling of negotiations with IBM.)
A few years later a young student at one of the premiere tech universities did the same thing with the unlimited timeshare account given to all freshmen. He flunked most of his classes, then had the temerity to set up an interview with a major financial institution. They laughed at his lack of qualifications, but were intrigued enough to let him show them that he could not only gain access to their computers, he could rob them blind. Outrageous salary accepted, corporate capture complete, and one of the potentially legendary computer pirate careers died aborning.
Timing is everything.
(or maybe second to location)
Gates was interviewed on the CBC’s Sunday Magazine this morning. He took up most of the first hour.
Complex systems are hard to debug. Since Rick says there are no significant changes (and I believe him), there are still a bunch of potential culprits. Adblockers that automatically update, man-in-the-middle (not malicious, simply “optimized” transfers), borked browser upgrades, and things I can’t think of.
My software checks with the internet time servers to make sure that the user has not rolled their clock backwards. One user got their clock rolled forward a 100 years last week. Something may be going on out there.
Again, a position of wealth benefited BillG when Kildall dropped the ball because Mary Gates sat on the national United Way/Red Cross advisory board with John Akers, then CEO of IBM.
Per legend, Akers already had Jack Sams headed to Seattle that week to discuss compilers with Microsoft at Mother Gates urging.
Went with my girlfriend to buy a new car yesterday.
She’s 2-for-2 on: getting to the signing stage and noticing a huge line item (in this case, labeled “Market Price Adjustment”, $4500) and objecting, and eventually walking out of the office. And then having the business manager come out to the parking lot to bring us back in and make a deal.
We were committed to walking out; I had already started the engine. They dropped the entire $4500.
Proud of her.
Some of the GPS-based rack mount time servers go bonkers as they age. It might be an in house server at that company.
Another possibility is the time server is located in an area where the military is playing games with GPS.
I thought Microsoft’s NTP client was decent enough not to make a time jump like that, however.
ADM of $4500 on how much sticker? Brand?
Toyota dealers are getting a mint for TRD, which is mostly cosmetic.
Some they just won’t budge on however. The sky is the limit on Rav4 Prime right now.
$23,000 sticker on an Elantra. 20% just added on because they think they can.
They made their profit without the bump; I’m not crying for them.
(name and email present, and I had closed the window and came back. FWIW.)
Read the entire contract. Every time.
I had an izuzu dealer try to double the cost of the used vehicle with a mandatory service plan, unmentioned, but in the agreement. I did the math on the payments, and it was WAY too high. He called me a dirtbag with bad credit so what did I expect?
Yeah, not a fan of that dealership.
n
Pop Quiz:
Biden is circling:
A) the stage, trying to find the way out
B) the Super Mario track
C) closer to a student loan forgiveness executive order
D) the drain
According to news headlines today, it’s C (see HotAir) but everyone knows it’s really D
@Nick
I commend your ability to resist temptation.
Yeah, was a long time ago, and I was so stunned that I didn’t really react until later.
Not the first time I’ve come across the “you can’t afford this thing I’m trying to sell you” technique. Had a timeshare salesman try it. Wife and I laughed, because between us we were probably wearing more value in jewelry than the guy’s monthly take home. He REALLY didn’t like being laughed at. Nor did he like when I loudly announced I’d call the Attorney General’s office if he didn’t stop pushing. And we laughed when he shouted that we wouldn’t get our “reward” because we already HAD it in hand.
Mom got us the discounted hotel and park passes with the time share attendance as a gift before we were married. I’d been to one before with my folks so I knew what to expect, and we were just saying “no” anyway. The incentive was REALLY good, multiple days at Universal Studios, crazy discounted resort stay, etc. and we needed a couple of cheap days during out wedding scouting trip to WDW.
My dad loved messing with the time share people and getting “free” stuff. Me, well, I’m not bothering with that again. I still get calls from that place, and I get mail from the ‘cancel your timeshare’ guys because my name is the same as my dad’s.
The timeshare guys are worse than herpes, you can get rid of herpes now.
n
When orange man was president he was on the news several times a week. Saying something or being interviewed. Generally unscripted. It is telling that sponge brain is rarely on the news speaking. When he does appear the appearance is carefully scripted with a teleprompter. His dementia is being carefully hidden.
In 2023 the doors will fly open, Pelosi will invoke the 25th, sponge brain tossed, the camel installed, Pelosi chosen for VP, social media censorship will run rampant, private 401k all converted to social security funds.
And my information is no longer being saved. iPad, Safari.
$10,000 might get a pass, but that’s still dictatorial level via EO so there will be lawsuits.
Why not try forgiveness for the whole kit-n-kaboodle with reconciliation?
(Realize that is a rhetorical question.)
Timeshare salesmen aren’t as bad as the “We can get you out of your timeshare agreement, and get money back” guys. Most of which are on the shadier side, since they’re using call centres who don’t check TPS (your “Do Not Call”) and when you mention this, they either just hang up, or claim that they’re not subject to restrictions, because oversea. Or else try to claim that you need to renew your TPS registration regularly.
Trouble is, neither one is true.
If I inadvertently answer such a call (and they comprise over 90% of landline calls) they try all sorts of things to get me to accept their service – which is claimed to be “free”. Yeah? TANSTAAFL – somebody’s paying. Who is it?
Not me – I’m out.
G.
Had to set name, and click “Save my details”, since the cookies had gone away. They stayed between these 2 posts, from Brave on WIN 7 Home Premium 64-bit.
Last time this happened, the browser remembered for an indeterminate, but relatively short, time,before forgetting. This may be due to the fact that I use Vanilla Cookie Manager, although I did not delete cookies, even though this site is white-listed.
That said, other sites that are white-listed in Vanilla have not suffered the same problem.
G.
All of the legitimate timeshare “exit” firms were sued out of business by the major players in the industry.
Most timeshares have deeds recorded in the county where the timeshare was purchased. To get out go to county courthouse where the deed is registered and sign the deed back to the original owner. Since the timeshare is no longer owned by the user, the owner has no claim to file for anything against the user. That is how I got out of my timeshare.
I used it for 25 years, only paid $4,500. Exchanged many times including overseas. When the system started going to a points system it was no longer possible to exchange without a significant cost. RCI, the exchange company got greedy. I would not use them for a couple of years and would just use my week at my resort. When I wanted to exchange RCI wanted me to pay membership for the missing years plus the exchange fees.
I don’t feel like I lost any money, certainly did not make any money. We did enjoy the timeshare While we had the timeshare. We tried to sell it for $1.00 back to resort. They refused. So I had a lawyer draw up a simple deed transfer, recorded it at the courthouse, then sent the resort a copy. I informed the resort I was no longer an owner and cannot be assessed maintenance fees on what I did not own.
The resort was run by an elected board of owners, not a big corporation.
Re car salesmen (never saw a female one, but I have very limited experience,) I was preparing to sell my pristine 68 Chrysler 300 after 10 months of fun ownership. Really beautiful car, but a two door. I had already bought a 4 door hardtop 69 Chrysler New Yorker, both purchased directly from the company as a family member of an employee. These were great deals back in the day. The accepted and most convenient way to set an asking price in that small town in Iowa was to visit a couple used car dealers and ask for an informal quote. They understood that the car would be sold to a private party, and looked it up in their sooper secret blue or other book.
The second place I went didn’t understand the game, and offered to trade me down to a less expensive car. I told him I wasn’t interested, but when he got insistent I told him I had already bought another car, and just wanted an informal quote to determine a fair price to ask for the 68. I was 24YO, and probably looked 18, so he make a wrong assumption. He asked me what I had bought, and then he got very sheepish. I had never seen a salesman embarrassed, and thought that was impossible.
Iowa had its share of well-meaning but clueless people. It also had some very nice people. Sometimes hard to tell which at first meeting. WC Fields would have had fun. (See, I avoided saying he would have had a field day.)
I get calls from the dealer where I purchased my F-150. They ask if I am interested in trading. I tell them I paid $54K new. If they will give me $50K in trade we can talk. They respond that is a crazy amount. I respond, yes it is. But if someone is wants to trade that is my bottom line as that is what the truck is worth to me. They say thanks and hang up.
Do you have the V8 or the EcoBoost 6-cyl?
All factory paint? No “surface” rust on the frame?
V6, Ecoboost, red metallic factory paint, tan interior, crew cab, Platinum Edition, towing package, no rust.
>> Gates dropped out of Harvard, and many in the industry are skeptical of his ability to code beyond assembly.
And Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford and…well, we know how that turned out. Hopefully her cellmate is named Bertha and weighs 300 pounds.
Now I’m getting ISE 500 on page reloads, not even comment posts.
Something is definitely going on.
n
NaN – still waiting for an answer to my question.
>> the camel installed
Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it.
Over The Hedge: Technology
https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2022/05/01
Oh yeah, technology is gonna make things great !
“Disney’s writer wage theft, a year on”
https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/30/disney-still-must-pay/#pay-the-writer
“In November 2020, SFWA came forward with a stunning accusation: Disney had told the beloved writer Alan Dean Foster (author of the original, bestselling Star Wars novelization) that they would not ever pay him the royalties he was owed.”
Shameful.
“Electric Bus Catches Fire After Battery Explosion”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/05/01/electric-bus-catches-fire-after-battery-explosion/
Now that is impressive !
Speaking of Bill Gates, if this isn’t a “left handed compliment” I don’t know what is…
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