Cool and clear to start, warming later. Absolutely gorgeous run of several spring days. Couldn’t ask for better weather. I want MORE MOAR !!!1!!!111! might get it, might not.
Spent most of yesterday morning doing auction stuff, then all afternoon and evening at my client’s house. Got some of his issues fixed, identified what needs more work, and have a sorta plan for how to continue.
Got home late and gorged on pizza. So good.
Today I’ve got some office stuff to do and a bunch of pickups. Good stuff for the kids and the BOL, as well as everyday life stuff. I’d like to hit Costco and HEB too, before the weekend. Generally life maintenance and domestic bliss…
The short week means it flew by for me. I should be at the BOL this weekend but I think I better spend some time here. We’ll see how today goes, but I expect I’ll have a lot to do on Saturday and Sunday.
I’m feeling pretty much over the snotty crud. I’m still occasionally coughing, but only a couple of times a day.
I have some un-stacking to do, and some organizing so I have room for more stacking. It’s a constant battle between putting stuff away, and just piling it up for later. I’m a wee little tiny bit behind on the “putting away” part, and that has to change.
It’s always something…
Use the time we have to stack, organize, improve. These are the good old days.
nick
We went to a concert last night: Wintershome. Hard to characterize the music, but I suppose light rock with a very light touch of Swiss folk music. Good singers, great drummer, they even gave the bass player a couple of songs to shine. Altogether enjoyable.
Although they are all Swiss, native to the region where we live, the lyrics are English. Given that they name Zermatt as home, I expect a lot of their gigs are for tourists.
Look back to the 2020 election, in which Republican-aligned poll watchers were thrown out at the request of Democrat-aligned site chiefs, enforced by deputies or other police forces.
Or the poll watchers were sent home because of a “water leak” after which “counting” continued.
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up and moving. Kids need food and a kick in the arse…
n
Lawyers on speed-dial
They shouldn’t have left, when the clerks didn’t. IIRC that one was caught on video, which is why video is important.
There absolutely will be shenanigans. One must have plans in place to deal with them, and volunteers with the will and stubbornness to see them through. I also fully expect the Trump fans to try to pull some fast ones, if only in revenge for the last time. Both sides need to ensure that the rules are followed.
It’s going to be an ugly election…
Vote-o-matic is history.
Ironically, the system was very resistant to cheating but only offered three digits of precision in the percentages.
Plus Broward County. Even marking ‘X’ on a paper ballot might be beyond the capability of certain demographics living there to completely understand.
What? Mark ‘X’ next to my choice? What is this fakakta ballot layout? How do I know I’m not voting for a Nazi? The party approved the ballot? I still think I could end up voting for a Nazi. Jeb Bush is a Nazi. I’ll call Debbie Wasserman-Schultz after this.
Glad to hear you are feeling better, Nick!
My crud is persisting, to the extent that I went to see my ENT/ORL doctor yesterday at short notice. He did an ultrasound, and said my sinuses are no longer infected, but they are still inflamed and weeping after the infection. That post-nasal drip is irritating my larynx and lungs, giving me a spastic, dry, non-productive cough. Now I’m on codeine to control the cough.
Thank goodness for modern medicine. Still feeling rotten, though… and pretty sorry for myself, as I had big plans to do BOL “stuff” today. Ah well, now I’m on the couch watching YouTube, the advert-to-video ratio of which has kicked installing a Pi-Hole at the BOL away up the to-do list.
Last time I cot the crud I told my doctor my ribs hurt. Apparently the opioid rules have gotten so bad they no longer prescribe codeine cough syrup. Suck it up, buttercup. 🙁
they no longer prescribe codeine cough syrup. Suck it up, buttercup.
– he who pays the piper calls the tune… and .gov wants you to suffer and die.
For years I would periodically get a cough that only responded to codeine, none of the wonders of modern medicine worked. Last time they wouldn’t give me the syrup, so I tried the newest wonder and it actually helped.
I’m willing to TRY the latest wonder, but if my Doctor wants or needs to give me codeine I want the option. F-ing bureaucrats and their F-ing war on people.
n
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13272937/chemical-drums-toxins-New-York-park-North-Grumman.html
– they knew it was nasty stuff as they put it in concrete vaults.
n
I have/had a relative that worked for a major aerospace/military contractor outside of LA. The contractor had occupied the same property since WWII. He said they were absolutely terrified to dig anywhere on the property. When they had to, they went VERY SLOWLY and expected to find really dangerous stuff.
Not just buried waste, although that was how you got rid of the stuff back in the day, but one time they came across a 480V buried line, really huge conductors, that was live. Problem was that no one knew where it came from or where it went, so they just worked around it.
Just thinking about my little BOL property, and there is a ton of stuff buried all over the property.
Which brings to mind one of the youtubers I’ve recommended before, Cole the Corn Star. When he “cleans up” the family farm, they bury an acre of broken farm equipment and other stuff. Someone will find that in the future and be glad, but will probably draw the wrong conclusions from it. 🙂
n
Fair elections…
Neither side wants that; they want to outcheat their rivals. If all sides could agree to not cheat, it would be simple to design a system to count votes accurately. Just like swindles, we have a long history of election fraud. Shame on us.
When the Dems replace Biden at the top of the ticket, they will pull out all the stops to win and prevent a backlash in Virginia in 2025 and the 2026 midterms.
We may even see the KKKlansman return to the Governor’s Mansion in Virginia.
Big Mike is coming.
Big project. In the mean time, why not install the Brave browser, if it is available in your country. I see ZERO YT ads.
I have a TV that shows YT ads, and probably can’t support a different browser, so I just cast from my phone. As a bonus, the UI is more familiar.
Does anyone have a pi-hole setup that is free, fuss-free, and can be set up in five minutes? Like Brave?
Oh, forgot. Brave can’t eliminate ads that are part of the video. Of course.
Setting up a PiHole: just follow the guide on the website. The hardest parts for non-tech folks are: (a) it needs to run all the time, so ideally not on a normal PC, and (b) you need to tell your router to send DNS requests to the PiHole, which is a process different for every router.
If only my TV could provide all-ad-free programming, like I had with my hardware DirecTV DVR. I now have YT TV, but it doesn’t have all the programming I want, and some of that is not free of ads. I need to look into a Tablo, except I have no over the air TV at my site. It is supposed to work with streaming, however. Why does everything have to be complicated?
God save us.
Proof by repeated assertion is not as convincing as some other approaches.
The dems have it rigged so you can’t video in a polling place, at least here in Harris County.
Ballots in 17 different languages, so the non-Americans can vote, but don’t you dare try to keep them honest.
I used to believe that. But as I approach 70 years of experience on this planet, I’ve only seen successful Dem cheating. The Repubs are too stupid to cheat well, and when they get caught, they take a dive. When a Dem gets caught, they sacrifice a pawn and reinforce the cheat for the next go-round.
In the last week, the weird Lizzo PR move and the aggressive way the Black Girl Gamers consulting group is going after critics in social media both in court and on the platforms contribute towards what I believe is the building central meme which will propel the campaign – It is time to settle the score.
I just saw one YouTube pop culture channel host speculate that roasting Black Girl Gamers and Disney has been too easy after the streaming platform pulled his most recent panel show.
There it is in a nutshell. The RNC is a bunch of broken, spineless, RINOs. tRump can’t do their job. The Dumbos function in lockstep to cheat. I wonder what they plan for Uncle Festerman now that he is spouting off for Israel. Another “stroke” might be coming.
I say bring on a “Big Mike”. The gridlock will be glorious. Even better if it is the Kamel. She is dumb.
Hmmmm:
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s Biden Endorsement: How It Started vs. How It’s Going
I wonder how the Hollyweird cabal of pedos is reacting to this announcement. How much power does Johnson wield in HW? Accidental death by steroids, perhaps. Gotta keep ‘em on the plantation.
MrAtoz: link was paywalled. I can’t read it.
Yeah, my usual trick of pasting a copied block of the text into a search engine didn’t work either. The google just gives me fraud debunking articles, and ddg says ‘nothing found’, which is the more accurate result.
Looks like twitchy doesn’t allow search engines, or they haven’t caught up yet.
n
There won’t be gridlock with Big Mike. The Dems will pick up enough House seats and the two vulnerable Senate seats in Texas and Florida so that they can pass the election “reforms” and pack The Court.
Hakeem Jeffries getting the title of Speaker will just be a formality. He’s wielding that power now except he’s not officially third in line for the Presidency.
Turning off javascript and reloading does the trick
n
I just went to twitter and got the gist from stories about The Rock.
Twitchy links usually work. It still works for me on the iPad.
And thus the end of the Republican Party. The name will remain, but the Party is already a fractured shell.
Is there any remaining doubt Universities are a sham:
Stupefy! Baylor Professor’s Post About His Harry Potter Class (Yes, That’s a Thing) Gets Obliviated
The liberal arts credits I had to take at Uni were useless and served no purpose in my life. I graduated with a BS in Maths in 1978.
Sorry, another Twitchy post.
Until Borrower Defense starts gaining traction and guts the reputations of the so-called “good” schools as the deeply in debt students realize they have been had by both their alma matters and Corn Pop.
Not that it will change how they vote at this point.
There is an article on the DM about “Is China building a bridge in Panama to help crimmigrants get to the FUSA?” Probably. What do think China would do if millions of Afrikin’ crimmigrants started flooding their border?
Report to the disintegration chamber, criminal.
Oh… I like some of the reporting the Daily Mail does, but I do wish they were less inclined to clickbait…
Hey, the Daily Mail has become the Newspaper Of Record for the USA.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/
“New Fort Bend development aims to take cars out of the picture”
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/fort-bend-homes-development-19385446.php
“The new community in Richmond now under construction will emphasize pedestrian-focused living and include a 42-acre community farm.”
I can hardly wait until it is 105 F and 60% humidity outside. I will drive by in my air conditioned TRUCK and laugh at the sweating fools on their tricycles.
Only 105f and 60% humidity? I’m near Burnet at almost 1300 feet and that’s “warm” compared to 110f to 113f (highest I’ve seen at my house) in mid-August.
>> Fair elections…
Neither side wants that; they want to outcheat their rivals. If all sides could agree to not cheat, it would be simple to design a system to count votes accurately. Just like swindles, we have a long history of election fraud. Shame on us.
“…If all sides could agree to not cheat…”
Oh ‘Sweet Summer Child’ – I can only imagine that discreet operatives from one, if not both sides, are lurking on the dark web looking for ex-TLA agency computer whiz kids ready to plan the next cheats. Look how easy it was to ransomware UHC for $22M.
My experiment on my phone to save battery life seems to have had good results. Ten days, 230 hrs 7 minutes, from 100% charge to 7%.
Zero wi-fi use.
The Google “this day in pictures” happened a couple of time. A few phone calls, some e-mail and some texts. Normal usage for me.
Ten days vs seven. I’ll see if this repeats to know for sure.
>> Just thinking about my little BOL property, and there is a ton of stuff buried all over the property.
Hoffa? Judge Crater??
>> >> Just thinking about my little BOL property, and there is a ton of stuff buried all over the property.
Hoffa? Judge Crater??
Does TX real estate law require ‘full disclosure’ by the seller of any known adverse conditions of the property? I recall having to fill out that information when we sold our house in FL.
>> Twitchy links usually work. It still works for me on the iPad.
I believe the issue with this Twitchy page is that the ‘paywall’ starts half-way down the page.
12ft.io/ removes the block.
“Dwayne Johnson Says He Regrets Endorsing Sleepy Joe in 2020 and Will Not Endorse Him in 2024”
https://rumble.com/v4nmubi-dwayne-johnson-says-he-regrets-endorsing-sleepy-joe-in-2020-and-will-not-en.html
Huh. About 35 here, radar says snow on the mountains.
Astronomy club cancelled our dark sky trip for tomorrow because of snow at the site, weaklings!
NYFC “terrorized”… folks in Cali have a good laugh …
https://nypost.com/2024/04/05/us-news/earthquake-rocks-nyc-tri-state-area/
@Paul: Burnet eh? it was one of the sites for viewing the solar eclipse that I considered, before I came down sick this week.
Out of curiousity, what does the weather look like? (Don’t worry, won’t show, still sick.)
Only 105f and 60% humidity? I’m near Burnet at almost 1300 feet and that’s “warm” compared to 110f to 113f (highest I’ve seen at my house) in mid-August.
Yeah, but your humidity probably tops out at 20% in the summer time.
When I lived in Sweetwater, Texas and worked in Colorado City, Texas, we would hit 115 F regularly but the humidity never was above 15%. The wife would sleep in the living room when she was pregnant where we had a window a/c unit because our bedroom was 10+ F warmer. I wanted to put a window a/c unit in our bedroom but I could not afford it when I was making $9/hour as a junior engineer and only getting paid for 40 hours per week when I was working 60+ hours per week.
Schtick. Dwayne Johnson’s career looked a lot different four years ago when he died his fortunes to Disney and Woke.
Now that The Weatherman prevailed at the shareholder meeting, the axe is swinging at Disney, with release of the live action “Moana” starring Johnson postponed until 2026 and the animated sequel, hastily cobbled together from footage originally intended to be used for a TV series, widely expected to bomb.
NYFS at its finest…
https://nypost.com/2024/04/05/us-news/ny-agrees-to-let-six-prisoners-watch-solar-eclipse-for-religious-reasons/
I’m going to grill some “HEB Hill Country Fare beef seasoned for fajitas” today. Dang, 5.49 a pound for fake skirt steak.
I was too lazy to go to the store for a bottle of Kraft Zesty Italian dressing so I faked it with the store brand Italian dressing mix you make in the bottle. I added some red pepper flakes. Shook it up and let it sit. Hmm, not quite right. Added a little water, a good shake of cayenne, a scant teaspoon of McCormick Italian herbs, and half a teaspoon of sugar. Nailed it!
The meat is in a roasting pan and soused with my mix. Covered and sitting on the stove to get happy for a couple of hours. Buddy the Beagle knows there is something on the stove that belongs to him. Penny doesn’t care, she knows she will get a bite or two.
85f and 20% humidity out my kitchen window. NWS site says 84 and 15%. It does feel dry.
The forecast is “A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 81. South southeast wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.”
Who knows, it could be different tomorrow. Odds are it will be sorta cloudy and no rain beyond a light mist. Plus “after 1pm” is a well, waffle. The eclipse is about 1:30 or so.
I honestly do not know about the humidity. It does get miserable in the Summer…. but never like living two blocks away from Mobile Bay miserable. Or Edinburg with no a/c.
News that makes me laugh: (via one of many links):
Republican in Congress introduce bill to rename Dulles International Airport after Donald Trump. (“a bill proposed by several House Republicans to rename Dulles Airport in D.C. after the ex-president and presumptive GOP presidential nominee.”)
Democrats in Congress introduce bill to rename Miami prison after Donald Trump. (‘The two-page measure would redesignate the Miami Federal Correctional Institution in Florida as the “Donald J. Trump Federal Correctional Institution.” ‘)
No, not a late April Fool’s joke. Let the memes begin!
January 2025 we’ll have the FJB Pedophile Retraining Institute
BLS finds new employment numbers i opium smoke, again:
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/04/05/about-those-unemployment-numbers-n3785992
Speaking of retraining, the entire BLS staff should be sent to Butte, MT for a half-year course.
Our April Fool’s gift from our generous benefactor Justin was an increase in the Carbon Tax Fraud. I’m now getting very good at Loyalty Card math, and I have a set of rules to maximize discounts / loyalty points / cashback for all the gas chains in my local areas.
My most recent fuel purchase worked out to US$4.36/gallon
TIED his fortunes.
OTOH, it still works despite being a grammatical nightmare.
The Rock’s career is toast at this point.
Does Canada have the ethanol added to the gas nonsense?
That’s roughly what I pay for ethanol-free gas in Austin.
I pulled 47 MPG with the last tank on a long distance drive in the Camry this week.
“US Energy Department stops crude purchases to refill strategic oil stockpile”
https://www.ogj.com/general-interest/government/article/55002566/us-energy-department-stops-crude-purchases-to-refill-strategic-oil-stockpile
“The Department of Energy (DOE) halted purchases to replenish the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in August and September, even though the emergency oil stockpile is still only about half full.”
My crystal ball really sucks but I suspect that crude oil is going to cost more in the future. Especially if Israel nukes Iran over the weekend.
“Transgender Attorney Shocks Social Media With Bizarre Courtroom Attire While Defending Far Left Activist”
https://resistthemainstream.com/trans-identifying-attorney-shocks-social-media-as-he-defends-far-left-activist/
Can you imagine having to look at that nasty mess everyday ?
I do not know any ladies who dress like that in public or for their jobs.
Yah, I was thinking that was a thoroughly appropriate Freudian slip.
Cooked three steaks this evening because my daughter’s friend who lived with us for a while came over to stay for a couple days. As good as ever, and accompanied by fresh-out-of-the-oven rolls.
Tomorrow I’m making chili with a couple pounds of the stew meat from that chuck roll. Honestly it’s a waste to use such good beef that way but I really don’t have a better use for it.
The friend’s family came up from where they moved to, in large part to see the eclipse. The place they’re staying is too crowded for them (two parents and five kids) so the parents encouraged all but the youngest to find friends to stay with for a few days. Oh, that’s right, that’s why she lived with us a few years ago. Parenting at its finest. (The friend was calling me Dad after not very long. It started out joking but then wasn’t. And she was trying to persuade her parents to let her stay with us when the family moved away. Christ on a crutch. I always made an effort to spend time with the kids and to do the parenting things that need to be done, but it’s a sad state of affairs when a homicidal psychopath is a better father figure than a kid’s real father.)
Ladies of the evening, maybe.
“it’s a sad state of affairs when a homicidal psychopath is a better father figure than a kid’s real father.)”
not a vegan, tho
On Wednesday I wisecracked that well, at least we’re not having an earthquake.
Less than 48 hours later we had an earthquake.
I wonder if it’s possible to harness this power for fun and profit. “Nice building you have here. Sure would be a pity if an earthquake pulled it down.”
“Time Enough for Love” by Robert A. Heinlein
https://www.amazon.com/Time-Enough-Love-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0441810764?tag=ttgnet-20/
The second book in a very loose series of science fiction books. I read the well printed and well bound MMPB for the third of fourth time published by Ace in 1988 that I bought new in 1990. The book was first published in 1973 by Putnam that I have a copy of, in very bad shape (the spine is unglued and half of back cover is ripped off), that I may have stolen from my father. I plan to reread the other four books in the series eventually plus “The Pursuit Of The Pankera” for the first time.
It has been 25 years or more since I read this book and I could not remember much so I read it again. The book is mainly a group of novelettes tied together as a biography with huge sections missing. The book starts out when Lazarus Long is over 2,000 years old and in a Howard Rejuvenation clinic against his will. He wants to die and tried to do so but was found by his great*something grandson and moved into the rejuvenation clinic. BTW, the rejuvenation process is never explained but it sounds like a compete body and brain replacement with a clone.
If you are offended by sex, and I mean lots of sex, in a book then I would advise you to stay away from this book and series. Except for the first book in the series, “Methusalah’s Children”. All of the books, except the first book, have group marriages in them which was first expounded by Heinlein in “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress” book.
The book series is
1. Methuselah’s Children
2. Time Enough For Love
3. The Number Of The Beast
4. The Pursuit Of The Pankera
5. The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
6. To Sail Beyond The Sunset
Jo Walton says that “Time Enough For Love” is not Heinlein’s worst novel by far, but, it is too long.
https://reactormag.com/heinleins-worst-novel/
There is a very long Wikipedia entry at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_for_Love
There is a much better review by James Nicoll at:
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/not-the-worst-heinlein-novel
My rating: 6 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.6 of out 5 stars (2,345 reviews)
Lynn
@lynn, is that the one where he keeps looping back and forth and has group sex with the various out of time versions of himself?
I remember thinking while reading a bunch of his stuff that there is almost always a point where the main character says “well, when in Rome….” and joins in some sexual shenannigans.
n
– best economy ever.
n
n
@Greg Norton
Yes, ethanol included in many but not all blends depending on the chain. I buy the premium / ethanol free for my small engine stuff, even though it’s not supposed to make a difference in them.
@Lynn
I’m also a huge Heinlein fan, but I read some of his adult books before I was mature enough for them. Left some odd impressions which were not substantiated by the real world. I was a bit disappointed by reality, but got over it.
As for rejuvenation, across the various Lazarus Long books, there are various descriptions which vary from breeding long-lived people to full clone-replacement, with cloning new blood described as the simplest and most effective (in general).
Especially at 70 years old.
That’s out there even by Seattle standards.
I’m surprised that the judge didn’t hold the attorney in contempt.
The courtroom procedure in “My Cousin Vinny” is the real deal.
RIP Fred Gwynne.
Marisa Tomei will be at the con in Dallas in June, but she wants $100 for an autograph.
The Rock is being roasted for his hypocrisy on YouTube this weekend.
I did not see the Biden endorsement video from four years ago, but, apparently it was cringe-worthy.
@lynn, is that the one where he keeps looping back and forth and has group sex with the various out of time versions of himself?
I remember thinking while reading a bunch of his stuff that there is almost always a point where the main character says “well, when in Rome….” and joins in some sexual shenannigans.
n
That kinda sounds like the book but it may be “The Cat Who Walks Through Walls” or “To Sail Beyond The Sunset” as I have not read those in a LONG time.
In “TEFL”, Lazarus has sex with his two clone sisters and then goes back in time to 1916 and ends up having sex with his mother who has eight kids.
Lynn’s six star list (or top ten list) in April 2024:
1. “Mutineer’s Moon” by David Weber
2. “Citizen Of The Galaxy” by Robert Heinlein
3. “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress” by Robert Heinlein
4. “The Star Beast” by Robert Heinlein
5. “Shards Of Honor” and “Barrayar” by Lois McMaster Bujold
6. “Jumper”, “Reflex”, “Impulse”, and “Exo” by Steven Gould
7. “Dies The Fire” by S. M. Stirling
8. “Emergence” by David Palmer
9. “The Tar-Aiym Krang” by Alan Dean Foster
10. “Under A Graveyard Sky” by John Ringo
11. “Live Free Or Die” by John Ringo
12. “Footfall” by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
13. “Lucifer’s Hammer” by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
14. “The Zero Stone” by Andre Norton
15. “Going Home” by A. American
16. “Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card
17. “Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline
18. “The Martian” by Andy Weir
19. “The Postman” by David Brin
20. “We Are Legion” by Dennis E. Taylor
21. “Bitten” by Kelley Armstrong
22. “Moon Called” by Patrica Briggs
23. “Red Thunder” by John Varley
24. “Lightning” by Dean Koontz
25. “The Murderbot Diaries” by Martha Wells
26. “Friday” by Robert Heinlein
27. “Agent Of Change” by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
28. “Monster Hunter International” by Larry Correia
29. “Among Others” by Jo Walton
30. “Skinwalker” and “Blood Of The Earth” By Faith Hunter
31. “Time Enough For Love” by Robert Heinlein
I shop (shopped, past tense now I suppose) at the 99 Cents Store.
The fresh food section was quite decent, and they occasionally had other decent specialized stuff, and the best prices on soda in town (back when I drank a lot of the stuff).
TBH it won’t affect me much, other than having to find a new veggie source, but a lot of the customers really looked like they were struggling to make ends meet.
And the staff were nice people.
—
The amount of sheer misery and destruction being visited on people by politicians deliberately exceeds anything since the Civil War.
“New Emails Show Peter Daszak, Ralph Baric Developed COVID-19 Under DARPA Grant”
https://www.infowars.com/posts/new-emails-show-peter-daszak-ralph-baric-developed-covid-19-under-darpa-grant/
“A new document sheds light on EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak and researcher Ralph Baric’s work on COVID-19 gain-of-function research, as well as ties to a DARPA research grant funding the work.”
“Published by journalist Jimmy Tobias this week, a damning email chain appears to implicate Daszak and the UNC-Chapel Hill coronavirus expert as integral to researching the disease’s capabilities as far back as 2018.”
I wonder, if this person has a heart, how he feels about killing millions of people across the planet.
I also wonder, if anyone else is working on gain of function research for other minor diseases that could potentially be made more terrible.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
If you use the small engines sporadically, you’ll want to either drain the tanks or run them dry after each use. The ethanol will attract water out of the air and running with the resulting contaminated gas will start to gum up the carburetor even if sitting for just a few weeks.
99 Cents Only Store to shutter ALL 371 shops in ‘extremely difficult decision’
I shop (shopped, past tense now I suppose) at the 99 Cents Store.
I wonder why they did not try moving to the $1.99 Store.
However, the theft thing seems to be growing and most of their stores are located in poor neighborhoods.
We are getting a Trader Joes’s in Sugar Land very soon. One wonders if they will make it.
I wonder, if this person has a heart, how he feels about killing millions of people across the planet.
– if he thinks about it at all, he probably has a list of people to blame that doesn’t include himself.
I also wonder, if anyone else is working on gain of function research for other minor diseases that could potentially be made more terrible.
– you can be SURE they are as they tell themselves that they are doing God’s work, trying to get out ahead of the enemy…
n
What I want to know is where all the good cuts of meat are going. The stores are full of cheaper cuts, but all the cuts come from the same cow, so who is getting the good cuts?
n
They held the line on prices for a while, $1.49, then $1.99, then $2.99, and so on.
And yeah, theft, but there is no penalty for that in California, so once again: political malfeasance.
What I want to know is where all the good cuts of meat are going. The stores are full of cheaper cuts, but all the cuts come from the same cow, so who is getting the good cuts?
n
Saltgrass Steak House and other high end Steak Houses.
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus: Identification of Human Infection and Recommendations for Investigations and Response
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is issuing this Health Alert Network (HAN) Health Advisory to inform clinicians, state health departments, and the public of a recently confirmed human infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N1) virus in the United States following exposure to presumably infected dairy cattle. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently reported detections of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus in U.S. dairy cattle in multiple states. This Health Advisory also includes a summary of interim CDC recommendations for preventing, monitoring, and conducting public health investigations of potential human infections with HPAI A(H5N1) virus.
A Trader Joe’s is generally a positive sign about the economic health of an area.
We’ve been in New Orleans all week, and the Walgreens in Louisiana are grim, with many every day items like body wash under lock and key even in rural areas.
I have observations to share later.
@Nick
– you can be SURE they are as they tell themselves that they are
doing God’s workmen of superior minds not to be judged by their inferiors, trying to get out ahead of the enemy…FIFY
What I want to know is where all the good cuts of meat are going. The stores are full of cheaper cuts, but all the cuts come from the same cow, so who is getting the good cuts?
n
Saltgrass Steak House and other high end Steak Houses.
BTW, there are reputedly less cows being butchered right now. The dairy cow herd cullings were finished earlier this year.
A Trader Joe’s is generally a positive sign about the economic health of an area.
It is replacing a grocery store called “Sprouts” that failed in an 80% Asian area of Sugar Land. Not a good sign.
@Lynn
Nicholl’s first conceit is in presuming to review a book more than forty years after publication without making a nod to that salient fact or being able to place it into the author’s own body of work, much less the genre. His second is sneering when he doesn’t have the stature or the chops to pull it off. meh.
Better review:
https://www.curtisweyant.com/blog/time-enough-for-love-review/
Heinlein is not perfect by any means. “Buddy Boy” in particular became too precious and too self-caricaturing. There was too much “comedy of manners” in The Cat, and even more in later books.
But from half a century remove it’s seldom acknowledged –and never by the babies in the room–that RAH largely drove the roads through the wilderness for others to follow.
from the above review:
“Patterson sees the novel as being an example of Menippean satire, a literary form that Northrop Frye distinguishes from other forms (in particular, the novel) in his “Theory of Genres,” the fourth essay of Anatomy of Criticism. According to Patterson, this status puts Time Enough For Love in the league of such works as Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, John Barth’s Giles Goat-Boy and even Heinlein’s own Stranger in a Strange Land.”
Bite that, Nicholls.
earlier today at ace.mu.nu
A New Documentary Makes the Case That It Was the Tyrannical, Obsessive Incompetent Deborah Birx Who Pushed the Hardest For Shutdowns and Lockdowns
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Look it up. Read it. Watch it. Weep.
I forgot one thing out of the book that made an impression to me. Lazarus Long tells his great*something grandson that when a planet hits a population of a billion, it is time to move on to a new planet. By that measure, it is WAY past time to move on to new planets from Earth.
But from half a century remove it’s seldom acknowledged –and never by the babies in the room–that RAH largely drove the roads through the wilderness for others to follow.
More than that, Jerry Pournelle frequently noted that if one could not find a subject to write a SF story about, Heinlein was a ready fount of SF subjects. Apparently at a CON, Poul Anderson was complaining that he had run out things to write about, Heinlein immediately gave him 5 or 6 new ones. Poul was yelling, wait, wait, wait, as he was struggling to write them down.
Elon’s doing his part… out of the gravity well.
When I fall asleep in the chair I end up awake far too late…
n