Cool and clear, probably mid 70s by afternoon. Like Friday. And Thursday. Which is good. I like having some Fall to enjoy.
I did my pickups. Got the stuff in the back of the truck, and would normally be running to the BOL this weekend to deliver it. That’s not happening though, so it will either sit there, or I’ll have to clear a space for it somewhere…
Had kid driving duties in the middle of the afternoon, so that cut my day short. I cleaned up around the house instead, putting away a lot of the decor I got out. Also managed to sort some stuff for auction.
Had to get D2 to and from her last night of theater performance which ate my evening too.
Today I’ve got one more pickup, down in Dickenson, which is a heck of a drive. I like to include it on a big loop with some other pickups but the timing didn’t work out this time. The savings were significant so I’m still good after making a special trip, but it’s getting closer and the time has to count for something.
D1 has a Homecoming Dance tonight, so that should fill the air with angst and beauty products. And maybe a few extra kids as they get ready. I’m going to be in my office.
As normal as possible, until it isn’t. That’s the goal.
Meanwhile, I’ll stack.
nick
Looks like the first big snow is incoming in a couple of hours. Sometimes that doesn’t happen until late December or even early January. This is on the early side. I’m on my way home (train and bus), should arrive shortly after it starts snowing.
62℉ by me around the SA airport. Winter is over.
No, we just had a brief 1 week “Preview of Winter”. Now we’re back into “normal” autumn temps, and THEN winter will return. Hopefully, not too soon!
Cool and clear, and sunny here. Bit of a breeze.
D1 and wife are doing a GS first aid refresher course, I’m headed out shortly.
Coffee. So good.
n
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-12708549/Abducted-bought-melons-shocking-story-kidnapping-Luis-Diazs-parents-gun-toting-Colombian-terrorists.html
– the writing is bizarre, maybe translation issues? and there is more to it than just lawlessness (politics) but yeah, civilization was nice while it lasted.
n
Horrifying moment female field hockey player has two TEETH knocked out by male on girls’ team – leaving her hospitalized with ‘severe dental and facial injuries’
trans insanity.
————–
Coming to a city street near you.
n
Elections Tuesday and 90% of NYFC residents are yellow-dog Democrat voters.
They deserve what they’re getting, and they’re going to get a lot more.
12 months to an election that might have meaning. What are the odds that they will do more than complain, and then pull the same lever Nov 2024?
Heh. Let’s call it “First Winter”. I hope we skip another “big freeze”.
Also:
Next pandemic deemed the ‘Big One’ could be the most contagious and deadliest disease known to humanity, scientists warn
We’re all gonna die!
Best selling vehicles by state:
https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2023/11/im-driving-dodge-ram-in-california-im.html
Apparently I should drive a Tesla Model Y, not a Ram Bighorn.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/11/the_8th_dirty_secret_of_solar.html
The article is about solar in Germany.
The above two lines are a synopsis of the Biden economy.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” –George Santayana
The left has controlled public education for more than two generations, and ensured that those generations not only do not understand history, they do not have the basic tools to understand their world.
But they know.
They know their rights–because their politicians tell them what they are.
They know that they deserve more, and it’s not fair that others have it.
They know they deserve fair, on their terms.
They know they deserve equal, even if they have no idea how to work for it.
They know what other people should think, and that they have a right to force them.
They know, and they are sure.
The idiots gave up nuck-lar. That’s the future.
I don’t have a Ram PU but I do have the 5.7L Hemi in my Jeep Grand Cherokee.
BTW, got to take it to a body repair shop to get that name changed and replaced. If we can’t have Washington Redskins and Cleveland Indians, how can I have a Cherokee?
WTF?
Too bad for her, but on a societal basis this sort of thing needs to continue if there’s to be any chance of making the idiots step back from their religion.
Alternative view: We’re building a better society and this girl’s face was a necessary sacrifice.
Well, when you can’t even define what a woman is, how can you possibly keep “men” off of a “women’s” team?
Speaking of idiots, haven’t these idiots heard the story of the boy who cried wolf?
This was reposted at WUWT:
In Denial about the Science – Part 2, ARC in London
https://jennifermarohasy.com/2023/11/in-denial-about-the-science-part-2-arc-in-london/
I use this link because Part I is conveniently in the right-hand column.
https://jennifermarohasy.com/2023/10/reconciling-with-nature-god-and-qantas-part-1-arriving-london/
and I recommend starting there.
Note that Mike Johnson, now Speaker of the House, is one of the founding members of ARC.
Ms. Marohasy has clarity of insight and clarity of writing.
Part I includes:
Bold is mine.
Running around the internet:
Checking the accuracy of the quote from George Santayana that I used above reminded me that JEP quoted him regularly and probably recommended specific works. A quick trip to the new JEP website did not yield a readily apparent means of searching old post. A look at the works on Santayana’s wiki page didn’t ring any bells, but skimming down I came to the section marked “Legacy” and noted the curious omission of a footnote for John Lach’s “On Santayana”. Following the link to Lach’s page revealed that no such work is listed for him. Interesting. skip to The River of Darkness and find a listing page giving a date of 2005 for a short work of 96pp., and exactly one copy offered for $1300.
Amazon and their bots are a piece of carp.
Found on on eBay for less than ten bucks. Hate buying tattered copies, though, so I will check the local library and interlibrary loan as needed.
Closing about twenty tabs. People wonder how I get 200-300 open.
https://www.wired.com/story/23andme-credential-stuffing-data-stolen/
Hackers steal a login and take the user’s info, it’s the user’s fault.
Hackers steal a login and take the 1,000,000 user’s info it’s a system breach and the company’s fault. It’s like a pickpocket in a bank lobby lifting a customer’s wallet and then making off with a wheelbarrow on money from the safe.
Make theft of DNA records a misdemeanor with a mandatory day in jail. For each record.
Ace has posted a useful guide to Know Nuts November:
https://ace.mu.nu/headlines/archives/know%20nut%20november.jpg
“Be the Serpent (October Daye)” by Seanan McGuire
https://www.amazon.com/Serpent-October-Daye-Seanan-McGuire/dp/0756416876?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number sixteen of an eighteen book dark fantasy series. I read the well printed and well bound MMPB published by DAW in 2023. I will buy books seventeen and eighteen when the MMPBs are released.
Many hundreds of years ago, the many of the fae left a far off land and landed on what would become the west coast of the United States. There they built their realms and fought their wars, both on the land and the sea. The humans do not know of their realms and their travels but, humans do not see everything. This is their story.
In the beginning there was the Three of the fae. Oberon, the King of the fae and his two Queen sister wives: Maeve and Titania. All of the fae are descended from them, both together and singly. They are the most powerful, way more powerful than their children, the Firstborn. All three of the first are missing and have not been seen in hundreds of years. But Luidaeg, the Firstborn sea witch, has been dragging an old man around everywhere she goes.
Before Oberon disappeared, he put a gaes on Titania to stop killing their descendants. Titania had grown jealous and heartless, and was encouraging her children and their children to kill Maeve’s children and their children. Titania had succeeded in genociding entire races like the Luidaeg’s Roane.
Now that Sir October Daye and King Tybalt are married, there are a few details to clean up. But there has been a tragedy at October’s best friend’s house. A horrible tragedy.
Please note that although the author and I share the same middle and last names, I do not know if we are related. We are McGuire’s, there are many of us. I paid for my book and all of the books that I own written by her.
There is a wiki for the October Daye books at:
https://october-daye.fandom.com/wiki/October_Daye_Wiki
The author has a website at:
https://www.seananmcguire.com/
My rating: 5.0 of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (1,972 reviews)
drwilliams – re searching on JEP’s site – the googles/bings/ducks is probably your best choice.
Just add the ‘site:domain-name’ parameter to get just JEP’s results.
Minimal action on that site. The only thing that I do is apply updates to plugins and themes. JEP’s family pays for the hosting and domain registrations.
Brave search, you heretic!
A commenter at Instapundit mentioned that DDG relied heavily on Bing & that the MS AI stuff was contaminating (in a bad way) the results.
Anyone have an opinion on that?
Didn’t Pournelle’sTMIGE feature handheld computers, but the users found contents were untrustworthy? I need to reread that.
Spent longer than I wanted or expected doing my pickup. Hit an estate sale that was near my pickup. . . Better to do two or three things, instead of just the one, right?
Lots of tools. Small stuff, that is very expensive but doesn’t look it… and it was 50% off day. I filled a flip top crate for 100USD. For another 80USD I got a Yaesu FT-60 dual band handheld, some batteries, charger, batt eliminator, several antennas, and some misc adapters. Guy had his call sign taped to the handy so I know he was using it. I can always use another radio.
Hit another estate on the way back that was mostly a bust, so I hit the Goodwill outlet in the ‘hood too. Grabbed a couple of things for resale, and a milk crate’s worth of bits and pieces for me. That store is my least favorite as it is dirty and dis-organized, staff doesn’t GAF, and the people are not nice. But I occasionally find good stuff there, as most of the shoppers are looking for clothing.
D1 is at her Homecoming dance, and looks beautiful. I’m so in trouble. Shotgun, shovel, and an alibi, I’m told that’s all I really need…
n
D1 is at her Homecoming dance, and looks beautiful. I’m so in trouble. Shotgun, shovel, and an alibi, I’m told that’s all I really need…
Just remind her on a constant basis, girls get pregnant, guys don’t.
“Pielke Jr.: Going All in with Peak Fossil Fuels by 2030”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/10/28/pielke-jr-going-all-in-with-peak-fossil-fuels-by-2030/
“The International Energy Agency (IEA), headquartered in Paris and overseen by the OECD, issued a bold prediction in its 2023 World Energy Outlook (emphasis added): The combination of growing momentum behind clean energy technologies and structural economic shifts around the world has major implications for fossil fuels, with peaks in global demand for coal, oil and natural gas all visible this decade – the first time this has happened in a WEO scenario based on today’s policy settings.”
Here we go again with peak oil.
That is just…so…un-woke.
Venezuelans are not Cubans.
The quote from “Clueless” is “Anything happens to my daughter, I got a .45 and a shovel, I doubt anybody would miss you.”
As was discussed here before, I have no doubt Mel knew that his daughter’s date was gay.
Venezuelans are not Cubans.
– so we won’t even get a delicious sandwich, or coffee along with the diversite’?
n
MMmmm, testing both my new Moka pot, and a new single burner propane camp stove. It’s decaf but still good with some Laurna Doone cookies.
n
Genetic testing. Before the customer walked into the bank, he placed his wallet on the ground and walked away.
“One Day After Congress Fails to Censure Rashida Tlaib She Calls for the Elimination of Israel on Twitter”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/one-day-after-congress-fails-censure-rashida-tlaib/
This woman needs to be expelled from the USA.
Why is she not wearing a burka ?
I’m in Yukon, OK which is just west Oklahoma City. 835 miles in 12 hours with two gas stops two dog walks, and one sit down meal. This is much further than I thought I’d get.
@RickH
“drwilliams – re searching on JEP’s site – the googles/bings/ducks is probably your best choice. ”
I did–looked through the first two pages of 992 hits. Dr. Pournelle was fond of quoting …
I quit when I clicked past one hit and got to this page from May 17, 2014:
https://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/a-troublesome-inheritance-jim-bludso/
The man was a genius.
If I ever meet The Egregious Frum…
@Nick
“D1 is at her Homecoming dance, and looks beautiful. I’m so in trouble. Shotgun, shovel, and an alibi, I’m told that’s all I really need…”
Friends help you move.
Good friends help you move bodies.
A friend of mine used to say it was legal to bury bodies in the back yard in Tennessee…
Having “fall back” in the middle of the night is useless.
I’m not going to do it*.
This year, I get up, fix coffee, make a fried egg sandwich with cheese, bacon, ham, and tomato on Dave’s Killer Bread, and eat it with my second cup of coffee.
Then, when I’m darned good and ready, I’m going to turn the clocks back and have another cup while I watch Superman on H&I.
*It’s flippin’ impossible anyway. The cat can tell time, and knows when I have to get my backside up and top up his dish.
@Lynn
“This woman needs to be expelled from the USA and dropped in Gaza in the middle of the night after being suitably limited in communication ability.”
FIFY
Be a shame for the plane to be mostly empty…
>>D1 is at her Homecoming dance, and looks beautiful. I’m so in trouble. Shotgun, shovel, and an alibi, I’m told that’s all I really need…
I’m tellin’ you, keep pushing the Convent option.
DST/Standard time? I’m retired. I haven’t worn a watch in almost 4 years. The only clocks that matter are on my computer and my cell phone, and those reset themselves automagically.
“Why Do Young Americans Support Hamas? Look at TikTok.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/tik-tok-young-americans-hamas-mike-gallag
“The app is digital fentanyl made by China. And it is brainwashing our youth against the country and our allies, argues Rep. Mike Gallagher.”
We could easily block it. Easily.
>>Just remind her on a constant basis, girls get pregnant, guys don’t.
Some words of wisdom I got when my two kids started dating…
When you have a boy, you only have to worry about one pen!s.
When you have a girl, you have to worry about all of them.
Btw, we had all boys.
Regarding the Santayana quote:
You will find it on page 284 in the second edition of his “Life of Reason”. That’s page 284 of the book, it’s page 308 of the PDF.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
It’s up at the Internet Archive.
Or: “The advantage of experience is that I recognize my mistakes, when I repeat them.”
Which is the human race repeating its mistakes…
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This having been inspired by Israel/Gaza: Israel needs to move faster, to utterly crush Hamas and all their works in Gaza. If they don’t hurry, international pressure will eventually force them to stop. Leaving a kicked hornet’s nest instead of a dead one.
How about “History may not repeat, but it certainly rhymes.”
n
>> who ya gonna call?
The too obvious response is “Ghostbusters.”