Cool and damp. Getting warmer later. It was fairly nice all day, but the humidity was high. Sweat running down my back just standing around… yuck. And likely more of the same today.
Did some of my stuff. Got some Halloween stuff done, but first thing on the list today is getting a bunch of stuff out and set up. I’m well known in the neighborhood for my decorations and that is a good thing. I’m the guy with the great Halloween display and the cool Christmas stuff, not the weirdo waiting for the end of civilization. I’m the guy who helped everyone out with plumbing parts after the freeze… meatspace baby.
We’ll probably get around 150 kids if the weather is ok. And I’m dressing up this year. Been growing facial hair to help sell the costume. It itches. I don’t have a lot, and some of the facial scarring keeps hair from growing on one cheek, so it’s not symmetrical, but it’s the first time I’ve ever had sideburns. My indian friends think it looks good. Some of the younger guys think it looks good. Everyone else thinks it looks silly. I’m undecided. Change is sometimes a good thing. Hard to try something completely new at my age. And I’ve been growing it for a couple of months, because it’s so thin and slow growing, so it looked even worse than it does now, as it finally looks intentional. My oh my, don’t it make ya wanna cry.
Did some weeding in the raised beds. The collards continue to do well, so I pruned them and weeded that bed. And surprise, surprise, the watermelon started to grow! It’s got vines and flowers. Also, one pepper plant and one cabbage survived, and are growing now. I weeded that bed too. The biggest bed, that has the herb garden, is really only growing chives and the grape vines this season, but they are doing ok now. Both vines had frozen back to the dirt, but they are climbing the trellis… and even better, one of my potted citrus, that I thought was completely dead, is sprouting leaves and they are not growing just from the root stock but from the tree. The other herbs are doing ok, other than the rosemary. I can’t keep a rosemary bush alive for more than 2 seasons. So it looks like I might have more garden than I thought. Hooray.
Anyway, plan for today is more Halloween, some shopping at Lowes, maybe a dumpster run on the way out of town, and finally back up to the BOL. Crew will be there around 9am to start the actual foundation support work with the helical piles. That should be interesting to watch. If I get the plumbing parts I need at Lowes, I should have stuff to do all week while they work on the foundation. If not, the list of other jobs is long and varied. I’m sure I’ll stay occupied.
And I’ll be stacking more canned goods up there. That will let me increase the stacks here too. Stack it up fellow ants. Don’t be a grasshopper.
nick
Keye Luke. Number One Son himself! He’s walking Hollywood history by the time he appeared in “Gremlins”, including working on some of the murals at the Chinese Theatre. And Master Po, of course.
And Robbie the Robot in the toy convention. I think “Gremlins” inspired the revived interest in his collectibles.
Phoebe Cates? Dianne Franklin in “Better Off Dead”.
Except for a “Law and Order” episode, Franklin has dropped off the Hollywood radar. I like to think she escaped the trap so many of them fall into with drugs/alcohol. Maybe had a kid or two and lives a normal life.
If you need another 80s flick at your house, get “Real Genius” for the kids before you rent “Top Gun”. We took an 11 year-old to “Real Genius” in 1985, and he emerged unscarred.
Which reminds me – Jennifer Connolly looks great in “Top Gun”, but her car in the movie steals those scenes. Somebody loved an 80s Porsche.
I tried that. Once. Made me look like someone you wanted to cross the road to avoid. I shaved it off bit by bit, to see variations. All of them were pretty awful. Guess you have to have the right kind of face, and that ain’t me. FWIW, the itching goes away after you get a certain length. Somewhere around the two week mark, iirc.
We had our Texas BBQ yesterday. The weather cooperated, clearing up around noon. Bunch of beerbarians: I have lots of different kinds of (self-brewed) beer, but only the most ordinary ones were consumed. No IPAs, no dark beers, not even the wheat beer.
Speaking of beer, my supply of light IPA is getting low, so I’ll start brewing a batch today.
“Star Trek III” also hit that Summer. I think the flick has aged well, but I’m biased – my whole career is “The word is no”, including cheating my way out of the “no win” scenario in GTE corporate training, which could have cut short my software developer path if I had not done so. Is there a statute of limitations on that sort of thing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCgWzlxnqhc
II, III, and IV are kid safe and II features the first Pixar work in the animation about the Genesis effect.
And III has “Stealing the Enterprise”, one of the great sci fi scenes of that period.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkJ3–2K7yo
And, yes, Doogie Howser’s dad.
Hopefully the brisket turned out.
I’ve been to several of the places featured in this movie. Yes, the brisket really does taste like that, but skip the sausage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhponDi-ez4
@Nick — “Chef” has a *lot” of the word that got me fired two years ago, but it is otherwise a really good “coming of age” flick which would be otherwise be kid safe food porn. And Iron Man!
I’ll bet not as itchy as when waxed chest hair grows back.
Also done to sell a costume at a con once.
Ok. Twice. I was Elvira the Halloween she retired.
The pandemic cut short a planned third waxing to meet John Cleese in the con costume. My goal was to make a Python laugh and get an autograph for my book of the TV show scripts.
I think I stood a good chance with getting the laugh. The autograph was $100.
God, we’ve lost a lot over the last three years. Fauci is going to burn in effigy — and it will be a lively effigy — if the vaccines really are dangerous.
Still part of the control group. Now that I’ve had it and recovered, I don’t see the point. What? Relapse? I think that is about as likely as true “asymptomatic” cases, but those of you who buy into the narrative can say “I told you so, Skippy” if I’m wrong.
70 F outside here at five miles west of the Brazos River. Not a cloud in the sky.
It is suppose to be 44 F Tuesday morning. I will believe it when I see it, that is a radical change.
The large office building ten foundation piers went well, I can now open and close the back door without effort. Before it was nigh unto impossible.
The wife wants a dozen piers in the front of the house now to fix the doors and sheetrock cracks here. And the huge crack in the foyer tiled. This summer was bad.
I cut an inch off the van dyke the other day. Still have an inch. Was retaining too much food and water in the shower.
I don’t know how my son stands his foot long beard but shaves his head every week. He cut six inches off his beard a month ago and has already got another couple of inches back
I watched the Astros in Spanish last night since I do not get TBS. Was a good chance to work on my TexMex. Jeremy Pennnnnnnnna ! Even Fluffy makes fun of the Latino announcers stretching everything out.
The house around the corner has so many Halloween inflatables that the only clear space in the yard is where the owners put the “B*TO!” sign.
I’m not sure what the message is there. Unlike the house around the corner, they didn’t add the Mothers Against Greg Abbot sign the morning after Darth Biden’s speech … like it was planned (no, never).
Sadly, their Mister Staypuft looks like he is missing in action after several years of appearances, including Christmas after “Ghostbusters: Afterlife”.
@Nick – another kid safe flick which channels “Gremlins”-era Amblin to create something really unique and more than another sequel.
TN beat Alabama for the first time in 15 years. One of the TV stations had the graphic wrong showing Alabama winning. Obviously created before Alabama missed the field goal. Someone forgot to change the graphic. Rookies at the TV stations.
Around here you would have thought that WWIII was won. Goal posts torn down at $22K each. Fans stormed the field with a massive sea of orange. SEC will fine TN $50K for that stunt. Stadium security was unable to stop the mass of people. Better to let them go and rampage the field.
The goal posts were thrown into the TN river which will incur another TN expense as the metal has to be recovered. Every fan would be willing to donate a dollar each to offset the expense.
It was a good game came down to the final 30 seconds. Tied game. Alabama missed a field goal. TN has the ball on downs. Pass to move the ball down the field. Clock stops at 9 seconds. Another pass down the field, TN times out with 2 seconds left. Game still tied. TN kicker kicks a bungled kick that looked horrible but it made it through the goal posts. TN wins by 3. Now 6-0 on the season.
Downtown was a mad house, the stadium was a mad house. Enjoyable game. Mistakes on both sides. Alabama got eaten alive with penalties. Thugs will be thugs. May have cost them the game. And TN was not immune to some really stupid stuff and fumbles.
Oh Christmas Tree. Oh Christmas Tree.
Another upset in the SEC.
The weekend after the SEC championship will be more interesting than any on-field action. Coaching Musical Chairs — everyone better have a seat when the John Denver song stops.
I still believe the Texas coach is Fired Coach Walking, but winning that shiny metal hat at the Cotton Bowl last weekend made everyone here believe “Coach Sark” is the second coming … at least for now.
Really, folks, a hat?
The last coach was fired after 7-5, a respectable bowl win, and developing a since-proven pro-level QB … but he lost the hat game three years in a row.
I guess the wealthy alumni got turns wearing the hat at some bacchanalia on 6th street afterwards.
When you help people in their time of need, they’ll remember you … the next time they need something.
Yah, I’m a cynic. But it’s a well-earned cynicism.
@NIck
Nice buy on the doors.
Auction is a real crapshoot with no recourse. You need a really good inspection if the bidding gets serious, and in a metro area that means making the trip–usually diagonally across with road construction in between at a crappy time of the day and bad day of the week–or throttling your bids if you can’t.
Alabama-UT – great game, old loyalties to TN but a converted Bama supporter. I wouldn’t have been upset with a win from either side.
Bama still isn’t out of it. With some help from out of conference losses, a TN win over Georgia, and an SEC championship win, they still have hope.
@Greg
I don’t know the backstory but it seems that Dr. Pepper is putting out some decent tv commercials for football season. Have you seen the one where the search committee (?) gets taken to the carousel of available coaches, and gets presented with a soccer coach that insists he coaches “futball”?
Yeah, watched half of the TN/’Bama game yesterday–missed the middle. Great ending.
follow up:
Score One for True the Vote
But the story doesn’t end there. If you wonder why the information on poll workers might be of interest to the Chinese government, the answer seems to have been answered in the warrant for Yu’s arrest.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/10/score_one_for_true_the_vote.html
Already up to 88F in the sun. A lot nicer than that in the shade, and my front yard is mostly shade. Not quite working my list yet, but I am caffeinated and moving. I did pick up the kitchen, so there is that.
WRT auctions getting expensive, I wouldn’t even go near the ebay price if my wife hadn’t expressed herself very clearly on her birthday regarding wanting a big ‘scope. Suddenly after a year without ‘scopes, several appeared in the auctions. I don’t have the scratch for a new one or even a legit used one at normal prices. Got too many things to pay for up north. Of course, that’s why the auctions are supposed to be cheaper, you don’t know for certain, and you don’t have much recourse (normally). For normal everyday stuff, I either need it cheap enough it doesn’t matter if it’s rotten, or I’m willing to bet I can fix whatever is wrong, or replace whatever is missing.
For example, I bought this https://www.amazon.com/BASEMENT-WATCHDOG-CITS-50-Monitoring-Controller/dp/B08BX6H22H?tag=ttgnet-20 for $25 bid, $32 out the door. I figured that the parts were worth $200 to $300 on ebay, whether I could fix whatever was wrong or not, and worst case, I got a battery charger… Turns out that a plumbing fitting was broken. I’ll replace that and ask $250. They sell for around that pretty easily. Even if I end up eating the shipping, it’ll still net over $150 for a few minutes work. Or I could keep the submersible big pump, sell the small one, and keep the battery charger… lots of options, for little risk.
@greg, Real Genius is one of my favorite movies from that era. There are a couple of risque’ lines but it’s generally pretty wholesome. No full frontal that I recall. Same cannot be said for Revenge of the Nerds… My kids loved Better Off Dead. “He put his testicles all over me!” “I want my two dollars!” D1 liked Buckaroo Banzai. We haven’t watched Repo Man yet -“find one in every car”- but my wife is working her thru the chick movies of that era too. One of my first thoughts while watching the opening of Gremlins was OMG, it’s a period piece! When did my childhood become a period piece?
n
Brownells has the M&P Shield with a laser, onsale for a very good looking price.
https://www.brownells.com/firearms/rifles/semi-auto/m-p9-shield-2-0-9mm-safety-ct-red-laser-sku100026154-110536-210915.aspx?sku=100026154
n
I am a somewhat dispassionate observer of college football and the SEC. The football high point of my alma matter was beating Saint Bobby in Tallahassee with a freshman quarterback, when the team was brought in to serve as “patsy” fodder during a rebuilding year at Florida State. This in turn led to the first Jimbo Power 5 coaching debacle, for which the accountants are still tallying the losses.
Kanye West says ‘the Jewish media locked me out’ for claiming ‘white’ Louis Vuitton caused Virgil Abloh’s deadly cancer as he launches into fresh anti-Semitic rant: Troubled star also claims fentanyl killed George Floyd and not Minneapolis cops
– I recommend reading the whole article. There are a number of ‘meta’ things going on in there. Lots of manipulation. I’ve got friends who worked for Kanye, and they describe him as a ‘blamer’ who periodically fires his staff instead of accepting that he was an issue or the cause of a problem. Keeping that in mind, and that the media (who loved him previous to his support of Trump) is now painting him as a crazy person who can safely be ignored…. it’s worth the time it takes to read.
n
“Revenge of the Nerds”? Not appropriate. Neither is “Risky Business”, particularly the money line which does not come from Tom Cruise.
“Repo Man” isn’t appropriate for kids. When you do watch it, make it a double Nez feature with “Tapeheads”, and hopefully you get discs with Nesmith commentary tracks for both – the only two Pacific Arts movies he did that with IIRC.
“Tapeheads” ends with the best 80s reference ever.
Go to the National Videogame Museum north of Dallas. Your childhood bedroom is on display.
Your childhood bedroom might also be on display at Cooter’s in Nashville. Oh, Lord, was that a nostalgia trip … and a reminder of the power of cancel culture – revival of interest in that series just five years ago was HUGE prior to the “fine people” antics played by CNN as yet another tool to use to beat Trump.
Fortunately, no one is spared as the Discovery Media meataxe is swinging everywhere at Time-Warner. At this rate, CNN will be back in the old plantation house at the abandoned country club where they started operations.
Have they seen the seen the other two flicks in the sacred trilogy, “One Crazy Summer” and “How I Got Into College”?
One … million … dollars. The voice on the radio is one of the best Easter Eggs of the 80s.
Cusack was out of the picture by the time of the third flick. The lead is one of the lesser Coreys. Parker?
The Baby Murray was in “One Crazy Summer” with Cusack and pre-implants Demi Moore, however. The poster hangs in the “Caddyshack” restaurant in St. Augustine.
yup. The blond was wearing something in the “I guess you’ll have to hammer later…” scene.
@EdH, I was thinking about that line… well, the question that preceded it….
n
Repo Man has a LOT of ‘melonfarmer’ as the bowlderized version on TV said it… but I don’t remember what else would be NSFW. Or middle school.
“Shut up Archie, you’re nothing but a white suburban punk.” is one of my favorite lines.
n
That and “maybe not” involving the same character later in the film.
I was in middle school the first time I saw Jackie Gleason’s uncensored performance in “Smokey and the Bandit”. The VHS was ‘R’ back in the day, and I’m no worse for the experience.
These days, however, even a lot of adults are softer and at least feign to have led more sheltered lives.
And one of the great comic performances in all of film was censored down to PG. “Scum Bum”. Even before seeing the ‘R’ tape, we knew what the Sheriff was saying in the “movie of the week” version on network TV. Though, I don’t believe the censorship was about adjusting for more culturally sensitive times than it was Burt Reynold’s notorious pettiness over Gleason effectively stealing that movie at least on the comedy side.
Wizard of Id: Male Pattern Baldness
https://www.gocomics.com/wizardofid/2022/10/16
It is an age old problem.
Pearls Before Swine: Too Many TV Networks
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2022/10/16
We are subscribed to six streaming services at the moment. Probably one or two too many.
You are old, Father Flandrey.
Rosemary (like its relative lavender) needs to be cut back hard annually to promote young growth. It generally thrives in relatively arid, poor soil.
I reallyike David Attenborough. We’ve Bern watching his Frozen Planet II. But geez, the climate propaganda is getting crazier with each episode. It’s all carefully scripted to be speculation and not fact, but every second sentence is “could be” “may be” “might be” the end of the world. Tiresome as hell.
Cueently on screen: polar bears, of course. It “would be a disaster if” they disappeared. The actual fact that polar bear populations are generally increasing. Conveniently never mentioned.
Ah, now they’re in the Antarctic, where ice cover is doing just fine. And, of course “it’s sad” how the penguins are dying. Huh?
What’s sad, is the way science reporting has given way to…whatever this is.
!!Words fail me!! I just can’t imagine…
…pause…
Better now. Whew!
Wow, I haven’t commented in a while. Haven’t missed a day of lurking, though. Just busy, and didn’t have much to say. Sure is nice with occasional posts from the missing ones. Also nice that one/two are missing… but not missed.
Also nice that one/two are missing… but not missed.
Nobody misses the internet gibbons. Nobody.
https://areaocho.com/cisg/
Money.
“The Penetration Problem. Part II: Will the Inflation Reduction Act Cause a Blackout?”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/13/the-penetration-problem-part-ii-will-the-inflation-reduction-act-cause-a-blackout/
“In this post I discussed responsibility for the Texas winter blackout. Many things went wrong that day in Texas. But often many things do go wrong – the real problem was that the Texas market did not provide incentives for standby resources. In Texas there were not enough committed resources to provide for the system load levels and potential contingencies. Texas relied on an energy market designed to favor wind and solar resources and it failed them. However, many analyses of the Texas blackout focused on the proximate conditions (problems of the sort that are common) ignoring or denying the major underlying problem.”
“We are seeing blackouts and system problems all over the world now, unlike in the past. There is a common factor for most – high penetration of intermittent asynchronous wind and solar generation. This commonality is generally ignored when evaluating the individual outages as vested interests focus on the triggering conditions. There are always going to be potential triggering conditions. No one anywhere will eliminate triggering conditions so absolving green resources of blame because such things exist in the real world only makes sense as theater. When faced with “green” outages, focusing on the proximate triggers serves to protect “green” interests and helps mask the emerging greater problems to come.”
The only way to fix this is to add more nuclear power plants with natural gas peakers.
And in real football, the Yucs are upset by Pittsburgh. I guess maybe Tom isn’t 100% focused, thinking about how big the divorce settlement will be.
“Green Academics Blame “Climate Injustice” for Energy Price Hardship”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/16/green-academics-blame-climate-injustice-for-rising-energy-prices/
“You couldn’t make this up – the very groups whose renewable energy advocacy helped create skyrocketing prices are now blaming the hardship they caused on “climate injustice”.”
I think I’ll go for that 31″ monitor. Same price on Big River or Newegg. I’ll check their returns policy. I’ve never bought a dud from Newegg.
I can wait. Maybe Black Friday will have a better price. Then again, the price may be jacked up and marked down to the current price. Why play the game, the current price seems fair. Just buy it…. tomorrow or Tuesday.
New PC is irking me. Networking is being a bitch. It sees the Roku, which is useless. It sees Moa as a media server and that’s fine and dandy. Moa has two shares. Desktop with read and write and Music as read only.
I’m missing the checkbox so the new machine can see the Desktop shares on other machines. Win7 was just as retarded six or seven years ago.
All I share is the Desktop, full control, on the various machines. And on Moa, the Music folder as read only.
I miss NetBEUI.
And in real football, the Yucs are upset by Pittsburgh. I guess maybe Tom isn’t 100% focused, thinking about how big the divorce settlement will be.
His wife is worth over a billion. Tom is not.
>> I recommend reading the whole article. There are a number of ‘meta’ things going on in there. Lots of manipulation. I’ve got friends who worked for Kanye, and they describe him as a ‘blamer’ who periodically fires his staff instead of accepting that he was an issue or the cause of a problem. Keeping that in mind, and that the media (who loved him previous to his support of Trump) is now painting him as a crazy person who can safely be ignored…. it’s worth the time it takes to read.
Gotta stay current…
Name change
On August 24, 2021, West applied to have his legal name changed from Kanye Omari West to Ye, with no middle or last name;[563] he cited “personal reasons” for the change.[564] The request was granted on October 18.[565] West had alluded to wishing to change his name since 2018 and had used Ye as a nickname for several years prior.[564] In a June 2018 interview, he explained:
“I believe ‘ye’ is the most commonly used word in the Bible. In the Bible it means you. So, I’m you. I’m us. It’s us. It went from being Kanye, which means the only one, to just Ye.”[565][g]
fentanyl killed George Floyd and not Minneapolis cops
Kanye got one right.
Pictures from the local October Sky Festival are located at:
https://www.raymondthompsonphotography.com/Sky2022
Another time sink for a Sunday afternoon.
>> “In this post I discussed responsibility for the Texas winter blackout. Many things went wrong that day in Texas. But often many things do go wrong – the real problem was that the Texas market did not provide incentives for standby resources. In Texas there were not enough committed resources to provide for the system load levels and potential contingencies. Texas relied on an energy market designed to favor wind and solar resources and it failed them. However, many analyses of the Texas blackout focused on the proximate conditions (problems of the sort that are common) ignoring or denying the major underlying problem.”
“We are seeing blackouts and system problems all over the world now, unlike in the past. There is a common factor for most – high penetration of intermittent asynchronous wind and solar generation. This commonality is generally ignored when evaluating the individual outages as vested interests focus on the triggering conditions. There are always going to be potential triggering conditions. No one anywhere will eliminate triggering conditions so absolving green resources of blame because such things exist in the real world only makes sense as theater. When faced with “green” outages, focusing on the proximate triggers serves to protect “green” interests and helps mask the emerging greater problems to come.”
The only way to fix this is to add more nuclear power plants with natural gas peakers.
“I need more power Scotty”
Anyway. I’ll get it figured out. File sharing, that is. This PC wakes with a mouse bump. What is does is a coin toss.
Wake up normally? Wake up with the monitor saying “no input”? Then next, after pulling the power, wake up with Resume looking normal but with no mouse or keyboard? Might be a mouse cursor on the screen… Pull the power cord again and Windows does the black screen and I select “start up normally”.
Machine works fine. Ok, the USB ports are dead. But otherwise….
If you want to see how far Scientific American has fallen since you cancelled your subscription, this should do…
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/george-floyds-autopsy-and-the-structural-gaslighting-of-america/
Yes, it’s an opinion piece, and they disclaimer it, but they published it. And it isn’t a regular column that they publish no matter what the columnist says- then a disclaimer makes sense and doesn’t look like a lie or a$$-covering.
Just the language used… DRIPS with SJW and intersectionalist dogma.
n
added- and I LOVED the mis-use of the word ‘incense’. Gives me a lot of confidence in their mental ability.
From AOSHQ:
The Saturday Night Joke
Cheers!
Ok, finished setting up the possum traps. Fed the kid. D2 is back home. Broke down 17 pounds of pork loin and vac sealed it, now in the freezer.
Cleared enough of the garage to get to the Halloween stuff…
now to get some stuff out, and do the REST of my stuff before I can leave.
n
Oh yeah, fixed a cooler, sorted some auction stuff, and fed self, along with running a load of laundry.
FBI is running a big active shooter drill here in November, multi agency, and they are calling for role players. I’m interested in doing it, suspect I might be “triggered” by the situation, but would definitely like them to get the training, and to see what it looks like.
Wife MIGHT be out of town for work that day though, so I haven’t signed up yet.
To Alex Jones and the people online who think it’s all ‘crisis actors’ and make believe*, I have encouraged you to get out in the community and get involved with law enforcement so that you can see for yourself how they train and what their doctrine is.
When I suggested that on another forum, where someone was going on and on about the use of “real world” in a PA announcement during the attack on the US airbase and how that was a clear indicator of something nefarious, I met scoffing resistance. Never mind that I’ve BEEN a role player, and that phrase is used to let participants know that the issue is real and not part of the training scenario. Armchair troll knew better…
The best way to see what “they” are up to and capable of, is to put your own eyes on it.
n
*note that I’ve previously talked about the issue of ‘how do we really know what is being reported is true, when we know they lie, and have an agenda to push’. And I don’t discount the possibility of engineering a situation to benefit them, or of false flags. But there isn’t any way to KNOW so you either ignore it, or assume it could all be false, or some mix of the two, but you can’t TRUST it. For that matter, you can’t always trust your own eyes. I worked for a professional magician and the techniques WORK.
h/t to WUWT:
Two Words Explain California’s Wildfire Woes: Spotted Owl
The owl became a cause célèbre for people who had never seen one and never would
By Kevin Nelson, October 13, 2022 10:41 am
https://californiaglobe.com/articles/two-words-explain-californias-wildfire-woes-spotted-owl/
Most “environmentalists” are clueless melon farmers and sock darners.
My reply would be simple:
“The forests have no need of your ”management”. The fires are the very natural environment that you said you wanted. Well, you’re getting it good and hard. Pull up a chair and cut a couple sticks for roasting weinies and marshmallows, but make sure they’re from downed wood.”
Please. Elvira is such a cliche that she sold a “Manvira” outfit for a while.
I used to organise a lot of crisis-management role play for serious people. The phrase we used to indicate that a real crisis had intervened during the exercises was “no play”. Different organisations use different phrases. Important is only that the exercise participants be briefed upon and can recognise the appropriate code phrase.
The Super Bowl story will be Gronk unretiring so he and Brady can go on one last run.
Another game of Warren Sapp football, except Brady isn’t Trent Dilfer and got the defense their “17 points”.
Well, 18, but who is counting.
. Important is only that the exercise participants be briefed upon and can recognise the appropriate code phrase.
yep, my CERT class used “cactus” and we had to use it when one of the older participants had a breathing or heartrate issue during our final exercise. During one of my times role playing for the H ouston PD rio t cops we had a guy not follow instructions and fall, breaking an arm. I wasn’t involved, but I’m sure they used “real world” for the people attending to him. He was not asked back for the next session…
n
Even the Benevolent Dictator isn’t immune to bad memory issues.
I had the DIMM in one of my kids’ machines go bad after a few months. I did the obligatory Memtest burn-in overnight as well.
At least Micron is serious about that guarantee, which I’m guessing is where Linus bought the memory for the Threadripper.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/10/linus_torvalds_ecc_memory_fail/
I buy Macs.
They just work.
Until they don’t.
Sniff, LOL. Sniff.
Linus has an M1 MacBook, but a Threadripper makes life much easier for certain applications … like building the Linux Kernel.
With properly written Makefiles, GNU Make will parallelize the process.
make -j (n+1)
where n is your CPU’s core count.
Another application area is network intrusion detection. Don’t even think about monitoring 10 Gbps networks without 32 cores. Minimum. More is better.
Well I arrived safely.
Had to get gas in town, $2.99 at HEB. It was $3.19 pretty much everywhere else, and as high as $3.69 in the boonies. Diesel was $5 in the countryside too.
Then I walked into Lowe’s 2 minutes before closing. Grabbed the most important stuff (plumbing) and made it to check out before the doors got locked. Went by my secondary, dumped the scrap, and picked up a toilet tank. I think it’s the match for the toilet I have up here. Toto Drake…the only thing puzzling me is why I didn’t think I had a matching tank. I’ve got too many stacks to keep track, maybe.
I was surprised by the heavy traffic getting thru and out of town. It was as heavy as afternoon weekday traffic all the way to Conroe. And as an observation, the only cars passing me, in general, were Mustangs, Chargers, and Challengers. So if you drive one, and get stopped more frequently than most people it’s because your fellow owners have little regard for speed limits, and the odds are good that you feel the same.
After eating biltong and beef jerky on the drive, I’m dining on the finest generic cheese like whipped product, and deviled ham from a can, on crackers. Living the dream.
No fire tonight. Sky is dark, but hazy, and I’ve got an early start in the morning.
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