Here in Houston it’s still hot and humid. Plenty hot during the day, but now we are getting some cooler temps in the late afternoon/early evening. It almost felt nice when I went out to get some stuff from the truck around 6pm.
Spent most of the day doing auction stuff. I took a bunch of stuff to my auctioneer in the afternoon. He’s recovering from his surgery but still slow and tires quickly. Quad bypass will do that to a guy. Unlike in the past, he hasn’t shut me down after a delivery or two, so I’ll keep bringing stuff. I’ve got a lot. I’ve also got a huge pile of stuff that won’t sell well locally, but will do ok on ebay. As I’m sorting and pulling, that pile keeps getting bigger. Don’t know what I’ll do about it, most of the stuff is ‘smalls’ that have great margin, but low overall profit. Ie. cheap to get but also selling cheaply.
I stocked up on smalls when my bigger stuff stopped selling. It’s a grind to sell smalls though, so it’s not what I want to do right now. If I can’t get the kids to do it, I might have to get serious about clearing my slush pile (sometimes called a ‘death pile’ because you’d rather kill yourself than list the stuff.) That won’t make me happy but it might be the only thing that sells. Everyone is concerned that buyers have run out of money.
Time will tell if that’s the case. It’s certainly causing me to change my habits. I’m just not buying stuff that I’d like to have, unless I really need to have it. There is always something to buy in the auctions but now I’m asking “how does it move me closer to my goals” and “is it worth the time and gas to go get it”? Lots I’d have bought without question a year ago, I’m letting go by now. Part of that is that I’ve got most of what I need and want. But part is definitely the changing economic landscape.
It’s time to internalize the ideas we’ve been thinking were coming in the future, as they are here now. Prices are higher. Goods are scarcer. Trouble is brewing. Once again we need to move from prepping for something into living with that thing, while prepping for the next thing.
Oh, and mom nature will still be kicking us in the nuts every once in a while too. Gotta be ready for that.
So there is still reason to stack it up… and make hay while the sun shines. I’m afraid these are ‘the good old days.’
nick
Great Scott! Well, if we have trouble with Riff Raff, we can do the time warp to undo rocky decisions.
T-plus almost two days. The riff raff is busy until Thanksgiving unless they use ChatGPT to grade the papers just like the students use to write the papers.
Keep clicking on the monkey trick. Every use of ChatGPT is more money in my pocket.
Up and moving, kids are reluctant. They are staying up too late.
Got some coffee in me and bacon in the pan…. oohhh shoot! Bacon…
n
… Magenta will doubtless not be far away.
While there is still technically a chance for poor weather, the Space Coast is unaffected by Idalia. Landfall was far north of the original projection. Weather liars hyped the storm totally, but most of us understand hurricanes here.
I was supposed to get a new roof today, but that was postponed. The supplies are still on my roof, however. I do wonder how long asphalt shingles can be left out in the sun before they are installed.
Well, I ate the bacon. Not to eat it would be to layer a crime on top of a crime…
It was a LITTLE bit overcooked.
It’s cooler today and the air is clearer than it has been in a long time. Hurry cane is sucking all the moisture out of the Gulf coast. Very pleasant outside at the moment.
Breakfast is eaten, coffee is working its magic, and here I am!
n
Glad to hear that our confederates in FL are all right. My mom says it was nothing where she is too.
n
Subbing again today.
Sort a new school for the high school. The district expanded the middle school and modified some classroom areas that were not being used by the middle school. The place is now called Oliver Springs Academy as both middle school and high school are in the same building, but separate areas. New bathrooms, or rather remodeled bathrooms.
The place has been open four weeks. Already they have had to close all but one set of the bathrooms because the students are trashing the bathrooms. Students must now sign in to an app on their Chromebooks before they can use the bathroom.
I do not understand the mindset of a few students that will destroy something that is not theirs. Then complain the bathrooms are restricted or the school is trash. Hello, you little sponge brained cretins. You did it to yourself.
Trashing a bathroom and capturing the vandalism in a video is Tik Tok gold.
It is the big vandalism problem at our high school.
The American dream is now to become an “influencer”.
Right now, not much exists between Crystal River and Tallahassee on US 19 except tree farms and pulp mills.
The toll road expansion north out of Tampa to the GA border and westward creep of The Villages will eventually turn all of that into exurbs.
Looks like not everyone got a miss.
Eyewall of monster CAT-3 Hurricane Idalia batters Florida’s Big Bend as 16ft storm surge floods homes and leaves more than 100,000 without power: Thousands flee north
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Here in central FL, with the storm turning toward Big Bend, we’ve just gotten a nice, consistent light rain. We really need that. The wind chimes are more active than usual, but that’s really the only indication of anything out of the ordinary. Yeah, once the track changed, I didn’t even bother taking them down.
I want to send a “Thank You” to MrAtoz.
I ordered and received my Jase Case in May. Yesterday I received an e-mail that they are now including Ivermectin in the Jase Case. I was able to order Ivermectin as an add-on.
an odd story about an odd incident. State agencies are barred from collecting intelligence??
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12459709/Texas-National-Guard-SCRAPS-intelligence-wing-migrants-operation-lone-star.html
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“I do not understand the mindset of a few students that will destroy something that is not theirs. Then complain the bathrooms are restricted or the school is trash. Hello, you little sponge brained cretins. You did it to yourself.”
Things were sure to go straight downhill when we did away with flogging.
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That appears on its face to be a violation of the 9th and 10th Amendments.
Silly you. Since when have governments of late been concerned with constitutional rights? Even though federal congress critters, and spongey, swore an oath to uphold the constitution. Most have probably never even read the document.
Hurricane Idalia – Response
National Watch Center
Current Situation: The National Hurricane Center reports Idalia has intensified and is forecast to reach the Big Bend coast of FL this morning. After landfall, Idalia is expected to travel northeast
along the coasts of GA, SC, and NC late tonight into Thursday.
Lifeline Impacts: (NRCC SLB Aug 30, 6:00 a.m. ET)
Safety and Security:
FL: US&R activated the Red IST & 6 task forces
GA: US&R activated 1 Type-3 staged in Atlanta
Food, Hydration, Shelter: (ARC open shelter report 8/29)
FL: 94 shelters open / 4,907 occupants
GA: 1 shelter open / 4 occupants
GA: ARC has prepositioned resources for up to 20k survivors
Health and Medical:
FL: Full evacuations of 72 medical facilities
Ground ambulances arrived & staging in Havana, FL;
additional ambulances in transit
Energy:
Personnel staged to respond to power outages
Communications:
FL: MERS assets providing comms support, additional
assets staged in Lake Mary
GA: 4 MCOVs staged in Thomasville; 5 inbound 8/30
Transportation:
FL: 10 ports and waterways closed; remaining ports are
open and monitoring
FL: Tallahassee International Airport (TLH) &
Sarasota/Bradenton International Airport (SRQ) closed,
partially open for emergency response; Gainesville Regional
airport (GNV) scheduled to close today
FL: SunRail service suspended UFN
GA: 2 ports closed, all remaining ports open with restrictions
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Obfuscation ?
and speaking of bathroom destruction
https://theferalirishman.blogspot.com/2023/08/last-time-there-was-toilet-paper.html
The 24 hour McDonalds outside Animal Kingdom. Once the storm passes, the trucks hit the turnpike at the Pedo Central (Western Way) entrance to the Disney Property.
You are welcome! I added Ivermectin to my second allowed Jase Case.
The Jase Case is a great idea. A little pricey, but easy to get TWO JCs per person.
LOL, in the “shit you can’t make up” department:
Report: Canada issues a 2SLGBTQI+ travel advisory for the United States
“2S” for two-spirit, or indigenous people. For maximum virtue signaling.
I like the comment, “We should liberate Canada instead of Ukraine.”
Please, please, 2SLGBTQI+ creatures, DON’T come to the FUSA!
The “Wheel of Victimhood”:
Here’s the ‘Wheel of Privilege’ they’re using in schools to identify the marginalized
Just unbelievable this exists in a school. Kids don’t have a chance. You are 2SLGBTQI+ or you are scum.
I’m part of the LGB/FJB community.
Let’s Go Brandon / For Joe Biden?
“I like the comment, “We should liberate Canada instead of Ukraine.””
Ahhh, no.
Pick and choose the provinces we want after it falls apart. No way we want the poncey French.
LGBTQIIAC = Let’s Go Brandon To Quash Incompetence In America’s Capital
F*ck Joe Biden. Hit Google or The Duck for the origins of “Let’s Go Brandon”.
When you find the original video, listen to the crowd carefully.
IIRC, Canada is somewhere in the top three in terms of sources of foreign investment in Florida.
The UK is #1.
Wee Pierre is probably grumpy that he can’t set foot in some places in the state without serious concerns for his safety.
I don’t buy the “Fidel Junior” theory, but it is widely held in Little Havana among the oldsters.
Looks like poor life choices to me.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12458503/idaho-teacher-monthly-paycheck-expenses.html
no explanation why she moved from $875/month to $1300/month or why she is still paying the rent at her old place.
That $875 would go a long way… or the $425 if she’d stayed there.
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Well, I ate the bacon. Not to eat it would be to layer a crime on top of a crime…
It was a LITTLE bit overcooked.
Crunchy !
Crunchy bacon is the best. Especially on BLT’s. Lots of crunchy bacon. Toasted bread. Mayo. Thick tomato slices. Crunchy lettuce. Sprinkle some salt and pepper on the tomatoes.
Which I think will be on the dinner menu tonight. One pound of bacon = two sandwiches.
What landlord rents $1300/month to $2500/month take home and not expect to eventually evict.
I smell parental largess and probably co-signing on the leases. Plural.
Food too.
She has mad money for cons where she probably bought the sweatshirt. I’m not sure of the IP, but it must be a streaming show. Who has basic cable or … gasp … broadcast TV only these days?
We watch METV or H&I every night, but we are old and weird.
“”Don’t go to stupid places. Don’t associate with stupid people. Don’t do stupid things.””
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/08/dont-go-to-stupid-places-dont-associate.html
“New details have emerged after a shooting injured two women at Guaranteed Rate Field during a Chicago White Sox game on Friday night.
On Tuesday, ESPN Chicago reporter Peggy Kusinski said that the gun was snuck into the stadium by one of the women who was hit. The shooting was “an accidental discharge” by the woman whose injury was previously identified as “a graze wound.”
“She reportedly snuck the gun in past metal detectors hiding it in the folds of her belly fat,” Kusinski said in a post on X.”
I thought it was a joke the first time I heard it.
@RickH
“Which I think will be on the dinner menu tonight. One pound of bacon = two sandwiches.”
should I bring some tomato wine?
“Cocaine” Mitch McConnell froze up again.
He is toast. He should retire immediately. Please don’t let his handlers roll him out, drooling in a wheelchair. The Redumlicans are just as bad as the Dumbocrats.
Back in college, a friend-of-a-friend was that fat. He was something of a craftsman, and kept tools in his belly rolls. Practical, maybe, but gross.
Wow, I just got a cracked version user of our software in Donetsk, Ukraine. Dodging bullets and missiles while designing a natural gas processing plant ?
“Maersk’s methanol ship makes maiden refueling in Rotterdam”
https://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2023/08/maersks-methanol-ship-makes-maiden-refueling-in-rotterdam/
“(Reuters) – The port of Rotterdam has for the first time refueled a methanol-powered container ship as the shipping industry turns to the technology to cut its emissions, methanol producer OCI Global said on Tuesday.”
“The Maersk-owned ship began its 21,500 km (13,359 mile) journey to Copenhagen from South Korea’s Hyundai Mipo Dockyard on July 10.”
“It also refueled in Singapore, another major shipping hub before its stop-over on Tuesday in Rotterdam, Europe’s largest port and ship-refueling hub, as the entire voyage is powered by green methanol.”
“A low carbon fuel, green methanol is produced from renewable feedstocks, including hydrogen and biomethane and the shipping industry hopes it will help it to achieve a goal of net zero emissions by 2050.”
Ah, another solution looking for a problem. I see that they have backed their bets.
“It has ordered another 24 of the vessels that can run on conventional fuel oil as well as methanol.”
Right now, you would get Minority Leader Rick Scott (RINO-FL), the poster child for “unindicted co-conspirator”, who would be much, much worse.
Scott would be gone next year if Florida’s Dem party hadn’t committed suicide.
Disclaimer: Yes, I have a personal connection to Rick Scott and almost ended up working for him at one point in my career.
She’s not a rocket scientist.
She teaches 8th grade English and most all of my 8th grade teachers were, uh, not that bright.
She moved from an apt that was $875/month to $1300/month house. Now she has to pay for the water and sewer and trash collection from her pocket.
She’s 23, so actually, if she’s like I was at 23, she’s still really stupid about how things work.
If her take-home after taxes and health insurance and all the rest is $2500 a month, my handy calculator says that’s $576 a week. That’s $14.40 an hour on a 40 hour week. AFTER taxes and deductions.
Shoot. When I quit HEB I was up to princely sum of $13.25 an hour before taxes. Almost High Cotton. Yeah, sure, I was feeding the credit union $50 per check and I was feeding the 401k a few bucks more than the company match. Both totaled up to abut $120 a week. After all deductions take home was about $320. I could have taken home $440 a week.
One day in the break-room one of the bosses asked why I drove that old ugly Dodge truck and didn’t get something newer. I said I can’t afford the payments. “What do you mean? Lead Cash Controller is good pay.” I said yeah, compared to being a checker, getting $8 an hour, $12 an hour is great with the extra bonus of having to be here at 6am every day. But after deductions I’m getting about $320 a week and I’m not going to give half of my pay for a car and the higher insurance bill.
Dude seemed stunned. But from what one could read around about on the company intranet, he was getting $45 grand a year. Just $20 grand a year gross more than me. He did not seem to appreciate me saying so in a room of people.
Anyway. Zero sympathy for the 23 year old homely school marm.
Tomato wine is a thing? What does it taste like? A bloody mary?
Shoot. When I quit HEB I was up to princely sum of $13.25 an hour before taxes. Almost High Cotton. Yeah, sure, I was feeding the credit union $50 per check and I was feeding the 401k a few bucks more than the company match. Both totaled up to abut $120 a week. After all deductions take home was about $320. I could have taken home $440 a week.
Dude, you are frugal. I started working for my Dad in 1974 at $2.00/hour until I graduated from high school in 1978. He then bumped me to $8.00/hour. When I graduated from TAMU in 1982, I got a job at TESCO (Texas Electric Service Company) for $9.00/hour as junior engineer but no overtime since I was exempt. That $9.00 was really $4.50/hour many weeks as I was working 80 hours per week. When I left there in 1989, was making $22/hour as a senior engineer in downtown Dallas (an expensive place to work).
“Drought in Texas uncovers big dinosaur tracks dating back 110 million years”
https://www.chron.com/life/wildlife/article/texas-drought-dinosaur-tracks-18336009.php
“The tracks are believed to belong to an Acrocanthosaurus and a Sauropodseiden.”
Cool ! Meat eater and very high leaf eater.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrocanthosaurus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauroposeidon
Store management made $45k/year?!? Within the last decade?
I know HEB is privately held, but do the employees own the stock or the family?
Or Whoopie Goldberg.
I started at GTE in 1993 at $22k/year after three months of “if you fail a test, you’re fired” corporate training, where the instructors never stopped trying to make sure I was washed out of the program.
I survived, but I faced the “no win” scenario the same way Kirk did — I cheated when the moment was right. Maybe that was the lesson. Who knows.
In Tampa, in the early 90s, with all of the DoD contractors canning people and shutting operations, it was more about the job security than tne money.
The alternative who paid cash was Home Shopping Channel’s development arm, Precision Systems Inc., who built the first Interactive Voice Response systems (“Press ‘1’ for .., Press ‘2’ for …”). After PSI rolled in the cots, productivity still hadn’t improved to the management’s satisfaction so they cut the meals from three to two daily.
He was a manger trainee. So he got extra for graduating from college. He was actually a decent guy
I honestly don’t know. Or care. Stocks suck.
“Katy ISD adopts new policy requiring teachers to out transgender students”
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/katy-isd-transgender-policy-18336412.php
“The policy passed in a 4-3 vote Monday night, with many community speakers saying the measure would do more harm than good to transgender and queer students.”
Good, parents need to know something is going on with their kids.
But benefiting the normal majority, who will want to at least know if a boy in a dress is going into the girls’ bathrooms.
“The Western World Is About To Deliver Some Very Bad News To Its Young Adults”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/western-world-about-deliver-some-very-bad-news-its-young-adults
“Nobody likes bad news, but telling young people that they need to pay a higher proportion of their stagnant incomes to fund the pensions of people who are wealthier than they are ever likely to be is sure to go down like a lead balloon, especially when pop culture is already communicating the sense that a Dollar doesn’t buy what it used to, and is taxed to the hilt.”
Yup, the Mandibles book went into this in depth. Chipped humans, no cash, all transactions taxed daily via satellite internet.
https://www.amazon.com/Mandibles-Family-2029-2047-Lionel-Shriver/dp/006232828X?tag=ttgnet-20/
I suppose. It’s how I was raised.
After a couple of years+ on my own and getting by on ramen and mac and cheese and tuna and hamburger helper plus making KoolAid by the gallon instead of buying (even store brand) sodas, yeah. making that Buffalo Nickle bellow turned into a thing to do. A fun thing to do.
Hey. Remember the mid-70’s? HEB had aisles of white label “generic” canned goods. They also had ground beef that was diluted by a third with soybeans. Which was sorta ok freshly cooked, leftovers tasted like old refried beans.
So, uh. I don’t know how much money dad was getting on his Marine pension. He was as high as he could go without a college degree. He retired in ‘66 when he got back from ’Nam.
We made it. Never went hungry. Never had to go to Goodwill or the ropa usada place in McAllen to buy clothes.
And mom and dad feeding four starving teenagers? In the days before free lunch at school? They made it work somehow. I look back and yeah. wow.
Well, for manger trainees back in 2014. yes.
Checkers were getting about $8 an hour.
I’d like to see who they polled.
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AI is being used in drone racing. Interesting video in the article here.
However, I am one.
I always figured HEB was the Texas version of Publix, which is 100% employee owned.
Employees hold shares but cannot trade the stock on the open market. Capital spending is all cash, no debt.
Well, for manger trainees back in 2014. yes.
Checkers were getting about $8 an hour.
Now they are all making double that.
And mom and dad feeding four starving teenagers? In the days before free lunch at school? They made it work somehow. I look back and yeah. wow.
Wait, I thought you just had two sisters.
And yes, food was cheap back in the 1960s and 1970s. Food and housing have gone up 10X since then salaries only 5X. That is not a good ratio.
The sudden housecleanings at the two children’s hospitals in town after the ban on gender “affirmation” treatments went into effect in Texas made me wonder exactly where things were headed before the Legislature passed the bill.
“Tucker Carlson Apologizes To Hungary On Behalf Of America, Slams ‘Disgusting’ US Ambassador Over Lack Of Diplomacy”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tucker-carlson-apologizes-hungary-behalf-america-slams-disgusting-us-ambassador-over-lack
“Tucker Carlson flew to Hungary last week where he gave two powerful speeches – apologizing for the United States’ lack of diplomacy and its “cultural imperialism.””
“Carlson started by apologizing on behalf of the United States after US Ambassador David Pressman, a gay activist, lectured the Hungarian government over LGBTQ rights.”
“”The point of diplomacy is not to hector other nations for its own sake,” said Carlson. “To show up in someone else’s country and scream at them because they’re different from you.””
“He also warned NATO… “The world is reseting completely. The post-war order is collapsing. NATO is going to collapse. NATO cannot stand long term.””
Tucker is right, the USA will not be in NATO much longer, ten years at absolute most. I give us being in NATO four or five years. The financial apocalypse of the USA will reset everything.
Both my father and my son think that the financial apocalypse of the USA will occur in the next year or two.
Apparently Mitch missed his swiss spa treatment, or whatever good stuff only politicians get…
He vapor locked again.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/mcconnell-malfunctions-senate-minority-leader-glitches-hard-shocking-second-incident
If the first one was the mini stroke it looked like, and the second has happened, or if that other one WASN’T the first, he’s in trouble and should be receiving care, not giving speeches. It’s elder abuse if people around him know.
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added- if I’d been in the room with him or any other person that old that went unresponsive like that I’d be calling 911 and asking for the stroke ambulance.
Now do taxes.
Thanks but we’ll pass. We don’t need any more liberation. While Québec is pain in our collective backside, it has also been very effective in keeping the federal government from usurping provincial rights. It appears that the US could use a little bit of Québec, a very little I would think.
I’m afraid that Justin is very much his father’s son. He has all his arrogance but none of his intelligence or style. On the other hand he also his mother’s son and he has demonstrated again and again that he has his mother’s brains.
Free speech. Except for some specific cases my speech is as free as yours. I’m not happy about the limits but under the Westminster system, parliament always has the last word we’re stuck with what the government decides. In any event, re-education is not one of the legal remedies available if convicted.
“The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) released an urgent consumer notification that Citgo fuel services from the Port of Tampa accidentally mixed Diesel Fuel into gasoline tanker trucks that offloaded product at gas pumps in Tampa, Fort Myers, Cape Coral and other areas.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/08/30/evacuation-transportation-issue-citgo-fuel-depot-in-port-of-tampa-accidentally-shipped-diesel-fuel-as-unleaded-gasoline-to-stations-in-tampa-sarasota-fort-myers-cape-coral-daytona-and-more/
Oops. I’ve mixed unleaded gasoline into diesel (1 gallon to 10 gallons) in the winter time converting the summer diesel in Texas to winter Diesel. I’ve never mixed diesel into gasoline though.
Free speech. Except for some specific cases my speech is as free as yours. I’m not happy about the limits but under the Westminster system, parliament always has the last word we’re stuck with what the government decides. In any event, re-education is not one of the legal remedies available if convicted.
Apparently Jordan Peterson has been ordered to re-education camp.
https://dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com/canadian-court-orders-jordan-peterson-to-take-re-education-program/
“Peterson responded to the ruling by saying, “Bring it on” in a social media post, telling his fellow citizens, “If you think you have a right to free speech in Canada, you’re delusional.””
I wonder about any incidents that have happened off camera. The number and frequency that his staff is hiding. Mitch should be in assisted living, not serving in congress. There are several people in the senate and congress that are well beyond their prime, and even sub-prime.
Delbert Cox was a student in high school with me. Diesel was cheaper than gas in 1968-69, I think about $0.10 a gallon, gas about $0.19 a gallon. Delbert could not afford much gas so he used 25-75 diesel to gas mix in his truck. Lot of blue smoke that would get you stopped and impounded today. He did say the engine was sometimes hard to start. No fancy fuel delivery systems or computers back then.
McConnell’s “mini-strokes” – Could be “Transient Ischemic Attacks”, or TIAs. A MOMENTARY blockage of blood in the brain, POSSIBLY caused by a very small blood clot in the brain. It normally resolves within a couple of minutes. Brain damage in an actual stroke doesn’t happen unless the blockage is extended, to several minutes or more.
With McConnell how would a person know?
He would act against his normal nature. You know, stand up for conservative values, defend the constitution. That sort of stuff.
A Perfect 10 on the Biden Babble Scale
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/08/a-perfect-10-on-the-biden-babble-scale.php
How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could FJB?
In high school I dissected smarter things than FJB.
“If it takes a chicken and a half a day and a half to lay an egg and a half, how long does it take a boxcar to get to Milwaukee?”
Sounds a little like a mathematical induction problem.
>> That has got to be a joke / hat-tip by someone at S&W. The FN 5.7 cartridge is basically a souped-up .22WMR: 22 .22mags in the mag.
S&W .22 WMR with 30+1 capacity.
“50 Fictional Writers, Ranked”
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/50-fictional-writers-ranked
“Everyone knows that writers love to write about writers. In fact, if an alien had to guess which profession was most common on earth based on our media alone—well, honestly it would probably be Detective, or Cop or something, but Writer would be up there too. So which fictional writers should we most avidly promote to our future alien overlords? I have no idea, but here I’ve taken a look at 50 favorite writers from film, literature and TV (and their many intersections). I’ve limited the list to fictional writers of literature—that is, I have excluded both journalists (yes, even Rory) and screenwriters. This is really only because I had to draw the line somewhere or wind up writing this list for the rest of time, and no one wants that, least of all my family. I also excluded biopics and other works in which real-world authors appear with their real-world names, though if a fictional character is simply based on a real writer, I found that to be admissible. As far as the rankings go, well, it’s not always easy to tell who is a good writer and who isn’t, especially when we’re talking about imaginary abilities. Besides, most fictional writers are either extremely bad or extremely good—at least according to their creators. Let’s just say I’ve gone with my gut.”
George McFly was ranked much higher than I thought he would be. Castle was appropriate.
Gabrielle, Xena: Warrior Princess was an author ?
>> Things were sure to go straight downhill when we did away with flogging.
Still available if you know where to look…ohh, you mean the kids…
>> Silly you. Since when have governments of late been concerned with constitutional rights? Even though federal congress critters, and spongey, swore an oath to uphold the constitution. Most have probably never even read the document.
Grab Plugs, Mitch, The Aye Lady and Hoodie Man and lock ’em in a room and see if they can pass the US Citizenship Exam.
>> No way we want the poncey French.
Because…poutine.
>> “She reportedly snuck the gun in past metal detectors hiding it in the folds of her belly fat,” Kusinski said in a post on X.”
Seriously? What are they, Acme brand? Or a ‘ghost gub?’
>> “Cocaine” Mitch McConnell froze up again.
Ironically, he froze when the question asked was “Do you plan to run for reelection in 2026?”
>> AI is being used in drone racing. Interesting video in the article here
Note though that it took the equivalent of 23 days of flight time to program the drone for this specific course.
>> McConnell’s “mini-strokes” – Could be “Transient Ischemic Attacks”, or TIAs. A MOMENTARY blockage of blood in the brain, POSSIBLY caused by a very small blood clot in the brain. It normally resolves within a couple of minutes. Brain damage in an actual stroke doesn’t happen unless the blockage is extended, to several minutes or more.
I thought they replaced his blood with ice water long ago??
Huh, turns out it’s Tom Straw.
I really enjoy the Nikki Heat audio books, but then I’m a fan of the TV shows, at least the first and second season. That he’s a TV writer explains a lot.
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I thought they replaced his blood with ice water long ago??
– He sold his soul at some point, and had his personality removed, along with his integrity and conscience…
Do lizard people use blood as anything other than food?
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Wasn’t aware of this rifle.
https://www.henryusa.com/rifles/homesteader-9mm/
9mm carbine, uses glock, S&W, or SIG magazines (with adapters). Optics ready, and threaded barrel.
Wonder what sort of aftermarket accessories are available?
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my speech is as free as yours.
– and ours is less free every day.
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>> AI is being used in drone racing. Interesting video in the article here
Note though that it took the equivalent of 23 days of flight time to program the drone for this specific course.
This is Rev 0. Rev 1 will work better then Rev 2, etc.
I really enjoy the Nikki Heat audio books, but then I’m a fan of the TV shows, at least the first and second season. That he’s a TV writer explains a lot.
Yeah, I thought those were by James Patterson. I guess he was too busy selling books for real.