Cold and damp again, mid 40s to start. Overcast continuing today. Maybe some rain in the forecast. I hope not, but I know better than to plan.
It got to be a very nice day in Houston. I enjoyed working outdoors on my ghost pirate ship. I’m about 75% done. I’ll be tweaking it right up until sunset on the 31st, but I’ve got the bones mostly in place and I’ll have the structure there by the end of the day today. It’s shaping up nicely.
I also managed to find a dress for D1, who is having some sort of period dinner at school and requires a dress to match. It will need a bustle, and some sleeves (or a blouse underneath), but the main part of the outfit is here. Wish I was doing as well on the ‘pirate queen’ costume for D2. Still lacking the coat and hat, critical elements. She has a backup plan to recycle last year’s costume if we can’t pull it off. It’s always good to have backups. I got a couple of other decor items out and set up, and fixed up if needed. Clear FlexSeal does indeed work to help seal up an inflatable that isn’t holding air as well as it should.
Back still isn’t right, but I’m working around it. Gotta keep going.
Late night rain might have put a damper on today’s plan, I guess we’ll see as we go. Rain started around 11pm. Don’t know when it finished.
I have to stretch to call yesterday and today “prepping” but Life is more than prepping. Sometimes you gotta live it.
Stack something.
nick
Ok, cool not cold. 62F and wet. My rain gauge says we got .38 inches.
n
On the advice of Steve Jobs, Zuckerberg has carefully maintained at least 51% ownership of Facebook.
What will end the company is the realization among the advertisers that ads on the service don’t work.
The founding of Myspace was never covered by an Aaron Sorkin script, “The Social Network”, so good that even a prime time soap retread like David Selby looked like an acting genius in a supporting role.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKnNUYknsuQ
People in my generation (X-er, “Ferris Bueller” class of 86) were very self conscious about possibly having missed out on something big, the Internet coming along not until we were pushing 30, and jumped on board the bandwagon, p*ssing away a bunch of time on the site as we entered our peak earnings and parenting years.
I never visit the Facebook URL without purging cookies in the browser before and after, and I haven’t been out there in … six months.
He has to distract from the tanking TSLA stock price and the continued absence Jesus Truck.
Going through with the purchase of Twitter will cost everyone involved a lot of money but not as much as a serious collapse in the TSLA stock price in a serious price discovery move, worse than what has been seen over the last year.
Whether or not Zuckerberg ever gets fitted for an orange suit, Cramer needed a visit to a Federal prison tailor a long time ago.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/topstocks/meta-e2-80-99s-stock-meltdown-is-so-bad-even-jim-cramer-is-crying/ar-AA13s7Hp
Amazon too? Way too much entertainment in the market for me the past few days.
AWS is fading as a Hot Skillz since the toys from Hashicorp are more desirable on a resume as of late, particularly since Terraform, etc. aren’t tied to a particular vendor in “The Cloud” and are a lot better quality user experience than the Big River web tools since Amazon started hemorrhaging talent.
My division at the new job is the only one expanding and making decent money right now since we sell the big hardware that “The Cloud” was supposed to replace.
https://news.yahoo.com/amazon-stock-plummets-14-course-091216484.html
I wonder if Bob Chapek will be fired from Disney before or after DeSantis is sworn in for his second term. I’m guessing before since friends in Florida say the discounts are flying.
Maybe “Black Panther 2” will work to get people into the theater for one weekend. “Top Gun” hits home video Nov. 1.
“Red Wedding”. The comedy continues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoKntjmbGYI
I already supported Kneon and Geeky’s book project for coining the name “Space Daddy” for Musk.
– “stretched the truth”
n
What’s the frequency, Kenneth?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/pelosis-husband-violently-assaulted-assailant-broke-san-francisco-home-rcna54510
I have vague memories of fundue from the 70’s, but I was young. We had a Melting Pot here, and was actually one of our favorite restaurants, especially for my son. It was the desert, of course. Dipping anything in chocolate is great. Sadly, the owners decided not to renew their franchise. They were a father/son team. The son wanted to go do something else, and the father’s health was declining. He would always be at the restaurant and go around to all the tables. The last few visits he was looking particularly frail. This was pre-pandemic. Supposedly there was a new franchisee that was on board and was going to reopen, but I think the pandemic killed that plan.
In my opinion most ads don’t work. I block as many as I can on my browser. Sites that choose to not let me in because I run an ad blocker don’t get visited. If they want me to see their content, let me. Block me because of a blocker? Then the content never gets viewed.
TV ads are skipped as much as possible on the DVR. Shows being watched live the commercials provide an opportunity for a bathroom visit or retrieval of a snack. If I don’t feel like getting out of the chair then the opportunity is used to browse other sites.
The amount of advertising at sporting events is out of control. Signs every where possible. At the Atlanta Braves game I attended the sponsorship was hard to ignore with huge lit signs in the outfield. Such signs never turned off during the fireworks show at the end. Cretins.
What is popular here during daytime shows are the lawyers, “Turn Your Wreck into a Check” type stuff. Or injured on the job. Catering to the losers who were in a minor fender bender into winning the lottery. Except the lawyer gets 35% of the award. The injuries on the job are mostly fakers who injured their back lifting a jar of Ketchup. Basically people who don’t want to work.
What the lawyers fail to mention is that awards for vehicle injuries are fairly well established by legal precedence. All the lawyer are doing is keeping the insurance companies from scamming the victim. In such cases I support the bottom feeding scum lawyers which are only slightly above the insurance companies on the food chain.
Sadly Spongey probably believes all of that. His brain is missing segments and parts are misaligned. One of his handlers probably fed Spongey that nonsense and he believes the nonsense.
It is also required that any career politician never tell the truth. After all of Spongey’s years feeding on the public dole, contributing nothing, I doubt Spongey can really separate the truth from lies.
The principal at the local high school suddenly quit. Never came back from fall break. Sent in a small note to the school secretary stating he was quitting due to health reasons. Never gathered the staff together for the announcement, no warning, nothing. The teachers are really not happy with how he did his resignation.
Rumors are flying. Some say he is moving to Georgia, others say he found another job, someone started a rumor he was being investigated. The guy graduated with my son in 2001. He is generally a nice person. Got his wife pregnant on prom night in 2001. Still married. Couple of really good kids. Irritating that people are starting rumors. People whose own life is a waste feel the need to put down others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality
My understanding is that all they do is settle – they almost never go to trial. Easy money from a system rigged to their benefit.
A couple of letters to the insurance company is about all the effort required.
The compensation rates are fairly well set for loss of limb, death, disability, etc. The maximum the insurance company will pay is the policy maximum. Any amount awarded by a court that exceeds the policy max is generally never seen. Liens may be placed on property with the losing party never selling the assets. Retirement funds and 401Ks cannot be attached.
Years ago my wife rear ended a guy. $750 dollars damage to my vehicle, mostly busted plastic grill. His vehicle had a small scratch on the bumper. His lawyer sent me a letter stating the lawyer had determined that I must pay $25K. I wrote back and told the lawyer to pound sand as only courts can determine compensation. The lawyer wrote a nasty gram back stating their were going to take it to court and the damages would be much higher. Basically a threat.
I told the lawyer to cease contacting me and deal with the insurance company and their lawyers. Any further contact would be considered harassment and I would press charges.
I found out later the insurance company paid $2K in medical bills. When I asked why that much the insurance company said they never argue over medical bills as that protects them from further charges. Any further award was denied. If the lawyer wanted more court was the next option. The insurance company told the lawyer based on the damage the insurance company would win the case and the lawyer would be sued for several thousand in legal fees. The lawyer backed down.
Also plugs:
Biden pisses EVERYONE off claiming Americans have MORE net worth now than before the pandemic
Pure and simple out of Rules for Radicals. Just keep saying it and everyone to the left of the curve will believe it. Total and utter imbecile. I think plugs has a USB port and they just plug in the daily lies.
I noticed that raywenderlich.com has rename themselves Kodeco. A useful site for some things, never really had the urge to subscribe.
Regardless of who wins and loses in the NCAA games this weekend, a quality performance by Sam Ehlinger starting for the Colts on Sunday could be the trigger for the SEC musical coaching chairs game to begin, John Denver on repeat until after the bowl games in January.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/colts-mailbag-can-sam-ehlinger-be-the-future-can-matt-ryan-be-traded/ar-AA13o1df
Country roads … take me home …
It’s back, the fungus
iswas among us.Aw, cr*p, Pelosi’s husband is undergoing emergency brain surgery. It is serious … unlike the referenced event with Dan Rather from the 80s.
I can do without the fungus. Keep the hammer going. Bang, bang, Maxwell’s silver hammer came down on his head…
Trolls gotta troll but not here. Hammered.
From SRW in the Fort Bend Journal:
“Big Numbers”
“To help folks grasp the difference between 1 million, 1 billion, and 1 trillion, mathematicians explain 1 million seconds is 12 days, 1 billion seconds is 32 years, and 1 trillion seconds is 31.7 thousand years. Looks like I am closing in on 2 billion seconds.”
And I am right there with SRW.
Some of us are on our third billion.
I don’t wish even Pelosi ill will but it looks like his attacker may be someone they will really demonize, along with all the other deplorables. At least it wasn’t a gun.
Yup.
Took down the sun screens on the east side of the house, took down 50% of them on the west side, and pulled one window a/c unit. We will probably have a few warm days in early November, then I will pull the rest.
But it is going to be 86,400 seconds – or maybe double that, until I do more manual labor. My aching back…
Mountain Mama……..
As much as I don’t like Pelosi, this is not good. I find no sane reason to attack any legislator or their family. I hope they chap that did the nefarious act is charged to the maximum possible. A small cell, isolated, with recordings of Nancy’s speeches 24 hours a day, six days a week.
In light of recent events, hhhmmmm.
2.27 billion seconds for me, and counting. So I guess I am a quarter of the way through my third billion.
Soon Nancy will introduce legislation that all hammers must now have serial numbers, be registered, require a background check, and not available to minors. Especially the HD16 (Home Depot 16-ounce hammer) assault hammer.
“Records Reveal Judge Lina Hidalgo’s $11 Million No-Bid Contract Was Aimed at Political Data Mining Operation to Help Democrat Campaigns – Masquerading as Covid Outreach”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/records-reveal-judge-lina-hidalgos-11-million-no-bid-contract-aimed-political-data-mining-operation-help-democrat-campaigns-masquerading-covid-outreach/
“Texas – Far-left Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo not only got busted trying to award a one-person firm an $11 million no-bid ‘Covid outreach’ contract, it turns out the real intent of the contract was to pay for a political data mining operation to help Democrat campaigns.”
“Recall, Lina Hidalgo is currently under investigation for awarding one of her political cronies an $11 million no-bid vaccine outreach contract.”
“Hidalgo’s top three staffers were indicted in April after prosecutors expanded the investigation into an $11 million ‘vaccine outreach contract’ awarded to one of the judge’s political cronies.”
I am shocked, shocked I tell you.
And now the county is having money problems. Sooprize !
BTW, people are voting in Fort Bend County. We started early voting last Monday. By the end of Tuesday, over 38,000 of our 550,000 registered voters had already voted.
There is a early voting station on the commute to my office, an old Baptist church. Their parking lot has been full of voters all week. It has been amazing so far.
The Dems don’t expect to win big state-wide elections this year, but they are data mining heavily.
The big target right now is probably Rafael Edward in two years.
They will need a candidate, however. Robert Francis is done as are the Castros.
“All right, all right, all right” is a one issue campaign.
>> I have vague memories of fundue from the 70’s, but I was young.
The one thing I remember about fondue was burning my lip on the hot fork
Driving back from New Orleans last weekend, somewhere just inside the Texas side of the TX-LA border, I saw a billboard, “Robert Francis O’Rourke will take your guns.” followed by his “Hell, yes …” quote.
Someone else has realized that the “B” word just perpetuates the myth that the fourth generation pure Irish-American is somehow Hispanic.
Pure. Mostly TX, with a side branch in GA, but nothing else in the mix.
Driving back from New Orleans last weekend, somewhere just inside the Texas side of the TX-LA border, I saw a billboard, “Robert Francis O’Rourke will take your guns.” followed by his “Hell, yes …” quote.
Someone else has realized that the “B” word just perpetuates the myth that the fourth generation pure Irish-American is somehow Hispanic.
I call him Bozo O’Rourke.
I am beginning to think that the feddies will start building PRCs (public residential complexes) in his home town of El Paso, TX soon. Things are so bad in his home town that the city council has hired buses and is shipping illegals to NYC and Chicago themselves. Yet, Bozo keeps on encouraging people to wade the river and come on in.
Newsome has promised to server his full term if reelected. Sure.
That was just a preview of things to come.
Mountain Mama……..
Take Me Home, Country Roads (John Denver) | Playing For Change | Song Around The World
A triumph of the recording engineer’s art.
I call him Beto Burito. White on the outside and full of brown stuff.
But hey, it’s all good, right? Campaign and collect a ton of money and oh, you lost? Pay the various bills and stuff the rest in your pocket…. because it’s just way to hard to keep track of who gave what…. computers and such are hard.
William Sanders, Robert Francis’ father-in-law, is a real estate developer. Whether he is a billionare or hundred-millionare is debatable, but the point is that he’s stinkin’ rich from property development.
Robert Francis hasn’t had a real job since working as a proofreader for a publisher in New York.
I meant that the Dems will need a respectable candidate in Texas for the Senate seat currently held by Cruz.
Their bench is empty. Maybe Royce West out of Dallas, but he has zero name recognition.
More noise about new PC.
I pulled the SSD from the old machine and why buy an eternal DVD burner when I have one right here? Cheated Big River out $30 I reckon. The Buffalo Nickle is happy.
Copied the SSD to the new machine. Cleaned out most of it today. About all I wanted from the Windows directory was the HOSTS file. I still have a couple of GBs to sort through.
Win11 upgraded to the latest while I was putzing around exploring and created another Recovery Partition. Ah, so much for deleting D:\ and expanding C:\. Perhaps for the best? I have now folders for Documents and Pictures and Videos and Music. On the D:\ drive and not buried 18 levels of colonoscopy deep in window/users/where are my effing files/ etc. Perhaps it will make backing up easier because I can actually find my stuff…. right there on D:\ .
What I don’t know is if I can delete the original Recovery Partition since I have an digital license. Meh, it’s not even a GB of space.
Anyway. PaintShopPro 7 installed with no problems. The Lexmark printer was a bit of a turd. And the oh so sophisticated Dymo Label Printer went as crappy as I expected.
I’m almost done. I do like the new PC. It seems pretty snappy. The new monitor is just crazy huge.
Oh. You know how you can press ctrl and roll the mouse wheel to change the font size on a web page? You can do the same for the size of the icons on your Win11 desktop. Seems to work in Explorer, too.
The housecleaning at Twitter has begun. What is a “data engineer”?
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586108809772089345?s=20&t=_NR3zz0txgJs9hxvu149Xg
Moochelle’s book as an office accessory. Yeah, Tony is right, they had it coming.
@Greg – re the Twitter ‘housecleaning’ and those two guys in front of the building with boxes … there are some reports that they were not ever Twitter employees.
Severance agreements usually have anti-disparagement clauses these days so I was a bit surprised that fired employees would go downstairs and make a scene if they had to make San Francisco rent.
Not that many people actually worked at that place.
During my tenure at Digital Equipment Corporation, rumor has it Ken Olsen was showing some reporters around the headquarters building in The Mill, and the reporter saw all the hustle and bustle, and asked “How many people work at DEC?”.
Ken is reputed to have answered “About half”.
That’s an OLD joke.
Whew, been out in the world, just finally sitting down again.
Before I forget, Lina Hidalgo is our “judge” who handles Harris County Emergency Management. A job she got just before wuflu struck, and for which she had ZERO education or experience. She replaced the eminently capable and experienced Ed Emmett in the last ballot that allowed straight party voting. A lot of people were caught off guard that their vote got rid of Ed, who I never heard anything bad about. She’s the one who illegally seized the masks from one of my auctioneers at the beginning of covid crackdowns. Last time I asked, she still hadn’t paid for the masks, as she grudgingly said she would.
She is the only candidate who’s signs I see being vandalized, and I only see them placed in empty lots and right of ways, no yards. She needs to go.
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we got more rain during the day today, so I didn’t get any work done on my display. I shopped for costume stuff instead, had a long visit with my gun store buddy, and took the kids to their school Halloween dance. While they were there I helped the drama teacher in the theater.;
So that’s why I just got to sit down and catch up. Thanks for taking out the trash while I was away.
n
And…? I believe you, but it was the first time I heard it. That would have been between 1987 and 1992, when he was forced out and replaced by the axe-man, Robert Palmer. Who, as it turns out, was neither simply irresistible nor addicted to love. I left the company in 1996 before its implosion and subsequent sale to Compaq, which was then consumed by HP. So, oddly, I’m receiving a small pension from HP and I never worked a day for the company.
I will receive a Verizon pension even though I left GTE before Bell Atlantic completed the buyout.
Ironically, my friends who remained “loyal” ended up in a spinoff and had their pension balancess cashed out by upper management for 30 cents on the dollar so they will get nothing beyond whatever went into the Vanguard IRA accounts the company established 20 years ago.
So that’s why I just got to sit down and catch up. Thanks for taking out the trash while I was away.
They were fairly trashy. But not like the other day.
Now Musk has a very hard task, how to automatically separate the wheat from the chaff at Twitter. He has Tesla software engineers looking at the Twitter code today. It is probably the same level of software as driving down the road on autopilot.
The housecleaning at Twitter has begun. What is a “data engineer”?
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586108809772089345?s=20&t=_NR3zz0txgJs9hxvu149Xg
Moochelle’s book as an office accessory. Yeah, Tony is right, they had it coming.
Bike shorts, really ? You wear bike shorts to work an office job ?
“By Buying Twitter, Elon Musk Has Created His Own Hilarious Nightmare”
https://theintercept.com/2022/10/28/elon-musk-twitter/
“Elon Musk (and his consortium of much smaller investors) now owns Twitter. We need to take seriously the possibility that this will end up being one of the funniest things that’s ever happened.”
“That’s because as of this moment, it looks like Musk dug a big hole in the forest, carefully filled it with punji sticks and crocodiles, and then jumped in.”
Yeek.
One wonders if Musk will clean house at Twitter and flip it next summer.
Hat tip to:
https://www.drudgereport.com/
Prayers for Paul Pelosi.
Later I will have some insightful cynical comments on the ironies.
>> had a long visit with my gun store buddy
Caught half a story getting in the car today about the big increase of women amongst first-time gub buyers.
San Francisco. That doesn’t mean the person bikes to work, but that possibility provides cover.
Greg Norton:
The two people interviewed were not Twitter employees, and were cosplaying as having been fired. Never believe the “news” about ANYTHING for the first 24 hours at least.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/10/who-is-rahul-ligma.php