Cool to start but warming to “yep it’s Houston hot”. Probably. It certainly has been the pattern for the last few day, storm front not withstanding. IDK about any fronts today, so I’m going with “pretty much like yesterday.”
And yesterday it did get hot. Started the day with D2 getting contact lenses. She’s going through the whole “touching my eyes is hard” stage. I remember it even if it was 40 something years ago… and the tech looks the same but must be quite different. She’s getting one day disposables with astigmatism correction. Which is a lot of tech in something that small and clear. Civilization is awesome and I’m sure going to miss it. Damn dirty apes.
Then I did a couple of pickups. One thing for the house, a new gas can, and a tactical belt… not much in the way of stuff but I haven’t really been bidding much due to being out of town and in disaster recovery mode.
Today I’m going to try to get all my truck stuff sorted out. I might do an auction pickup too, if it works out. Then I’ll head to the BOL to join the rest of the pack. Wife says last night was beautiful, relatively cool, and clear with a nice sky. I’m hoping for a nice weekend.
We’ll go back up for Independence Day, but that is a crazy busy weekend. This should be nice and relaxing.
Other than the work.
but there is always work, so that’s kinda baseline.
There should be some stacks to look at and organize too. Maybe a portable A/C unit to bring up. I should have grabbed one from my secondary location yesterday when I was disposing of the construction debris… but maybe it will be easier to get one out of the attic here. Yeah, probably a lot easier and hopefully I won’t regret it during the busiest hurricane season EVAH!
You can’t have too much stuff stacked. As long as it is the RIGHT stuff. Do your best to stack useful things.
nick
We saw Steve Martin on tour doing the banjo act at The Britt in Oregon.
The town cut Martin off promptly at midnight, just as he was about to do “King Tut” backed by the full bluegrass band with whom he toured.
The song is on the banjo-centric Martin album.
God Forsaken Blue State U is out for the summer.
I’ve seen “Gulf oil rigs are more vulnerable this year” stories in the last few days.
Gas shortage for Juneteenth …. July 4th … Labor Day … whenever!
Other lifestyle changes happened over the last four years as a result of people living off of lots of printing press money and exercising “YOLO” and “FOMO”-inspired choices.
My wife has seen a huge increase in the number of patients seeking ‘T’ therapy, both men and women, and when the VA doesn’t provide it for therapeutic reasons, they seek it from outside providers.
The recent uptick in fast developing prostate cancers like what killed OJ doesn’t surprise her.
Don’t be too quick to jump to any conlclusions. Definitive answers will be tough to get through studies.
I’m still part of the Control, but we’re only 15% or so of the population, and, next time, Ze Kampfs await for a reluctant Skippy und his smart assery.
We’ll see who rusts first.
The PLTs and Deep State will double down on the scare tactics for the next crackdown. The new “virus” will not only cause immense suffering, but will be 100% fatal. Unless you take the special juice, provided for “free”, by the goobermint. The first “vaccine” was a test run to see how gullible the sheeple are.
LMFAO Hunter’s defense is now “nobody is ever charged for this minor infraction.” Yet, let’s pass a bill to retroactively to indict tRump. GET HIM!
The masks were the gullibility test which the sheeple failed miserably.
We still have plenty of Good Germans around Austin showing their party allegiance. And if the symbols of solidarity are not visible, rest assured that the Volk have their adornments within arms reach, ready for the return of Ze Good Old Days, ja.
Never heard of such idiocy. Blue laws?
Ze Good Old Days. Ach! It won’t be long.
Big Smile!
https://nypost.com/2024/06/06/us-news/florida-tire-shop-flies-nazi-flag-to-protest-gaza-holocaust/
https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/anti-mask-protest
Anti Good Germans.
Jacksonville, OR. The town derives much of its livelihood from serving The Britt and its patrons, but that doesn’t mean that they like the festival or the fans very much.
Midnight. Noise ordnance.
The Northwest has a lot of what I call Church Ladies Without Churches.
(And lest anyone think I’m being sexist, the worst Church Ladies I know are men, the poster child being a disgraced Rabbi fired from a couple of congregations for being an a**hat before moving to my neighborhood in Florida, where he “worked” from home consulting for the local Muslims’ efforts to have their school holidays added to the calendar.)
https://nypost.com/2024/06/06/us-news/florida-tire-shop-flies-nazi-flag-to-protest-gaza-holocaust/
“WWII vet firebombs tire shop to protest Nazi flag”
News at 11
Oh. Come to think of it, I worked with a guy from OR a long time ago. Although he didn’t mention that, he did talk about a lot of other nonsense that doesn’t exist in CA. He said he was glad to be free.
Michigan was similar to CA, but just to the south in Windsor, Ontario, they really did have blue laws. Those mainly kept some businesses closed on Sundays. Most restaurants were open, and could serve adult beverages.
It was a different story when I went to Iowa in the mid 60s. The grocery stores were only allowed to sell beer. Everything else was controlled and sold in state liquor stores, including wine. Now, when we visit, the grocery stores have a good selection of wines. Distilled products, too. Don’t know if the state liquor stores still exist.
The upshot of all this was that teens in IA seemed obsessed with getting stuff they weren’t supposed to have, while teens in MI seemed less interested. We haven’t learned from Prohibition.
Wonder how far a guy of that age could throw a Molotov cocktail?
Oregon still has state-run liquor distribution. It isn’t about morality as much as protecting “craft” manufacturers.
WA State had state-run hard liquor stores until right after we moved up there, when Costco finally broke through with their push to deregulate after many years of trying.
Jordan sends letter to Bratt
Reply by June 20th?
Waste of time.
Issue the subpoena next week for June 24th, and note: “If you voluntarily schedule with the committee before the June 20th deadline, we can always withdraw this subpoena. But give the intransigence of the entire DOJ on this matter, we thought this would concentrate your mind.” .
“Blue laws”; In the early 1960’s in Nebraska, my father used to complain that state laws forbade selling alcohol on the Sabbath. So Christian liquor stores were closed on Sundays, but Seventh-Day Adventists closed their stores on Saturday, which was THEIR Sabbath. And he used to say that the Seventh-Day Adventists did booming business on Sundays.
I’ve lived a lot of places with blue laws.
Connecticut. Indiana. Arizona. Texas.
Every state should be able to make the laws their residents want, but we do have a separation of Church and State at the Federal (and most States) level, so if those laws are only based on religious beliefs, then they should also be challenged on that basis.
I’m for getting rid of most of the behavioral laws anyway. (ie laws that seek to regulate peoples’ personal behavior, not their interactions with others or society at large.)
n
>>Never heard of such idiocy. Blue laws?
Karens.
The few Adventists I have known rarely brought up their beliefs with me, and I respect them for that. I do like their dietary guidelines, but don’t have much detailed knowledge. That said, I was surprised that there would be any Adventist-run liquor stores. I looked that up, and found many. Hmm.
I respect most religion’s beliefs, but have an operative belief of my own: I won’t try to convert you, so please don’t try to convert me. This has served me well for a long time. I have had friends of many faiths, predominantly Jewish and some Protestant groups. I have known many agnostics, and maybe some of them were actually atheists. I also know some Buddhists. Funny how Buddhists are seldom mentioned in controversies.
Didn’t mean to stray too much onto religion, and hope I didn’t offend anyone. That is probably the one area I would avoid when ribbing someone. Most else is fair game.
And… for the really stiff-necked, I think it is OK to find some humor in religion. While looking up some of this stuff, I found this:
https://spectrummagazine.org/views/so-adventist-goes-bar/
Here is the first one, which seems apropos:
I glanced down the page, and there are some pretty good ones. Recommended.
>>I’m for getting rid of most of the behavioral laws anyway. (ie laws that seek to regulate peoples’ personal behavior, not their interactions with others or society at large.)
@nick, how far are you willing to go?
Recreational drugs?
Rx drugs?
Presumably behind closed doors.
Bravo. I think families should regulate themselves. Oh, wait, our government has destroyed the family.
I do have a problem with families that go way beyond societal norms, but then our society has already done that. No easy solution.
Alan, you beat me to it. No easy solution. Free will is hard.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13505849/Nashville-school-shooter-Audrey-Hale-trans-kill-puberty-blockers.html
– i’ll add that the DM is moving away from the prog woke language previously used for the LBGT agenda. They refer to the murder as “she” throughout and that’s a big change from the original reporting.
n
I will bet you a buffalo nickel that she was sexually abused as a young girl. Possibly before she was a teenager.
“Yes dear, Mommy will be there in court today
to continue to try to influence the juryto provide you with moral support while all your ex-wives lie under oath.”“France? Yes dear, we’re currently in France, but Daddy called up those nice folks at the USAF and they commandeered a 747 to fly here, take me to Delaware and then back to France. Expensive? Don’t fret, of course we reimburse the government, but only 2 cents on the dollar, tee hee.”
And yesterday it did get hot. Started the day with D2 getting contact lenses. She’s going through the whole “touching my eyes is hard” stage. I remember it even if it was 40 something years ago… and the tech looks the same but must be quite different. She’s getting one day disposables with astigmatism correction. Which is a lot of tech in something that small and clear. Civilization is awesome and I’m sure going to miss it. Damn dirty apes.
I am so amazed at our technology. I am driving a 7,000 lb 4×4 truck that gets 17 – 18 mpg in town and 20 to 22 mpg on the highway. The technology in the engine and transmission is simply amazing. Up to six sparks per combustion cycle using chaos theory developed here at the University of Houston (one of the ME profs is holding the patent). Goes up to 120 mph. My 1978 F-350 (actually Dads) got 6 mpg city and highway. 80 mph max speed downhill with a tailwind.
Those contacts were probably developed in Germany with all of their vision technology.
I am trying to push a release out the door, version 16.20. It is not going willingly. I fixed a long standing bug last week and the reward has been all of the code that depended on that bug’s behavior is now broken too. I tried to get one of my guys to take it a little while ago and he downright refused. The subsequent bugs are somewhere in 300,000 lines of Fortran code.
You can’t have too much stuff stacked. As long as it is the RIGHT stuff. Do your best to stack useful things.
I have been buying more freeze dried food lately. Probably a mistake.
I have been buying more freeze dried food lately. Probably a mistake.
It’s not a good idea to have an overabundance of frozen food during hurricane season.
The masks were the gullibility test which the sheeple failed miserably.
We still have plenty of Good Germans around Austin showing their party allegiance. And if the symbols of solidarity are not visible, rest assured that the Volk have their adornments within arms reach, ready for the return of Ze Good Old Days, ja.
Half of the people wearing masks around here have the mask below their nose. Just a joke.
I have been buying more freeze dried food lately. Probably a mistake.
It’s not a good idea to have an overabundance of frozen food during hurricane season.
Freeze dried food is not frozen at delivery. I even keep some in my truck below the back seat.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084P72LJS?tag=ttgnet-20/
“If You Thought the $2 billion Obamacare Website Was Bad…”
https://www.schiffsovereign.com/trends/if-you-thought-the-2-billion-obamacare-website-was-bad-151021/
“This is where the Biden administration has stepped in, recently mandating that, by 2030, 50% of passenger vehicles sold in the US must be electric or hybrid. Again, that’s more than 6x higher than today’s level.”
“Buttigieg is one of the purest representations of an Inspired Idiot. They don’t even bother trying to understand the problem, let alone the solution. When confronted with a problem, they beat out one of the accepted lines— racism or climate change or Orange Man.”
“With a $7.5 billion budget and just seven charging stations to show the taxpayers, Pete Buttigieg is putting the Obamacare website to shame. And he’s only getting started.”
>>I’m for getting rid of most of the behavioral laws anyway. (ie laws that seek to regulate peoples’ personal behavior, not their interactions with others or society at large.)
@nick, how far are you willing to go?
Recreational drugs?
Rx drugs?
Presumably behind closed doors.
Me too. Any and all drugs. Cigarettes, etc. Alcohol.
Regulating people’s personal behavior leads to police SWAT teams.
Sooner or later, all of us will be SWATted for drinking a beer in our backyard.
Wonder how far a guy of that age could throw a Molotov cocktail?
With or without the potato gun ?
“Yes dear, Mommy will be there in court today
to continue to try to influence the juryto provide you with moral support while all your ex-wives lie under oath.”“France? Yes dear, we’re currently in France, but Daddy called up those nice folks at the USAF and they commandeered a 747 to fly here, take me to Delaware and then back to France. Expensive? Don’t fret, of course we reimburse the government, but only 2 cents on the dollar, tee hee.”
Hunter’s mom died in a car wreck in 1972.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neilia_Hunter_Biden
“Alex Jones must liquidate his assets to pay Sandy Hook families”
https://www.chron.com/news/article/alex-jones-sandy-hook-lawsuit-19503317.php
“Lawyers for the far-right conspiracy theorist and InfoWars host said there was no other way Jones could pay the nearly $1.5 billion in court-ordered damages.”
This is not right.
Why is it that Hollywood types always bring their bimbos here?
If they’re so morally superior why don’t they immigrate?
xkcd: Unsolved Chemistry Problems
https://xkcd.com/2943/
Sounds like a good start to me. I fight with ionic chemistry all the time in my job.
Explained at:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2943:_Unsolved_Chemistry_Problems
“New build-to-rent community is open for leasing in Houston’s Katy area”
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/sunterra-katy-build-to-rent-19503211.php
“The Houston area is experiencing a rapid increase in neighborhoods designed for “renters by choice.””
Nope, not for me.
Some of my friends live in one of these all rental neighborhoods. It is ok for them though. And they do like being able to call in the landlord’s maintenance squad for stuff.
uh-oh…
there might be trouble in Democrat City…
https://redstate.com/beccalower/2024/06/07/breaking-merchan-just-told-prosecutors-trump-legal-team-there-might-be-a-problem-in-manhattan-case-n2175187
“Take humanity out of society, and what’s left?”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/06/take-humanity-out-of-society-and-whats.html
“Yesterday Jeff Childers laid out the growing danger of fully autonomous robotic weapons, which have no conscience and no moral code, and can (and already do) kill without reference to a human operator or a controlling battlefield system. I agree with him that it’s a very disturbing element in warfare, one that threatens not only to make human combat more or less obsolete on the battlefront, but also pass an automated death sentence on anybody – combatant or civilian – in or near that battlefront.”
“Most folks now agree the Russians’ pragmatic, entrepreneurial approach in Ukraine has decisively proven its battlefield superiority over our fancy, high-tech, acronymized weapons that took decades to develop: our top-tier M1 Abrams tanks, our PATRIOT air defense systems, our HIMARS and ATACMS missiles, our JDAMS flying bombs, and our networked cluster munitions.”
“Unfortunately, the Russians — those ‘incompetent,’ slipshod, gas-station-with-nukes ice jockeys — somehow overtook us in electronic jamming technology. And then kept going, without looking back. The Russians are jamming all our toys!”
“Ignatius also assured us that the Air Force is, right now, building robotic fighter jets labeled with the grim euphemism “uncrewed.” The robots can keep on fighting, long after the human crews are gone.”
“Similarly, last month, the Navy formed a new squadron of hundreds of fully autonomous, uncrewed boats, a water swarm with the unwieldy name, “Global Autonomous Reconnaissance Craft.” GARC doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, but maybe it echoes the last thing dying sailors say.”
One word: Terminators.
@nick, how far are you willing to go?
Recreational drugs?
Rx drugs?
Presumably behind closed doors.
– yes, yes, yes
Swing your fist all you want, but if it threatens my nose or hits my nose, then we have a problem that laws can address. (re:canonical example) in practice I would certainly want to return to the attitude “don’t make a federal case out of it”. And 99% of every law since 1965 exists to further infringe, or to give greater powers to people who shouldn’t have the powers. Most of them are hair splitting, or a way to stack charges both of which are anathema to justice and freedom.
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I have been buying more freeze dried food lately. Probably a mistake.
– I don’t think so, it has a place in your preps. It’s neither the only nor the best answer, but it is an answer. I’ve got several shelves of it, bulk and meals.
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Half of the people wearing masks around here have the mask below their nose. Just a joke.
– there were people at the County Tax office wearing masks today, both employees and petitioners. None of them were N95.
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I have plates and current registration for both trucks. Took about 1 ½ hours. About 20 minutes was standing at the counter while she did the computer stuff. Somehow I didn’t end up paying any fines. Dunno what happened, but I think switching both vehicles to the same ham radio plate did something. We’ll see if the plates arrive with a bill attached. In the mean time, I have installed the temps, which are a facsimile of the final metal plate, not temp randomness… if the plates arrive without an invoice, I’ll make a donation to an appropriate charity.
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The relief is intense. Now I just need to phone the judge next week and make sure I’m good.
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Time to load the truck and head out.
n
The actual intent here is so obvious to anyone we can only assume evil.
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/06/07/big-brother-in-the-rockies-colorado-passes-law-to-create-state-ministry-of-truth-n2175192
In UK, plates are unique to a vehicle, issued at first registration, and stay with the vehicle for its entire life. The registration has to be in a prescribed format – currently 2 letter registration district, 2 digit 6 month period of first registration, 3 letter unique string (chosen randomly from an incomplete alphabet – no I,O or Z, because those letters can be confused with numbers). Older formats may be retained for historical registrations. Two plates are fitted, white background at the front, yellow background at the rear, with black characters.
It is permissible to have personal plates, provided they conform to one of the historical formats. Some ham radio licences do – UK licences begin with G, 2, or M, so 2 (Intermediate) is out of luck, as are G0 and M0. I am G8KBZ, so I could have my callsign on a personal plate, but it would cost me £450 or more for the privilege.
If, that is, I still had a car. I’ve just scrapped my SEAT, due to a recurrent problem with the printed circuit that provides all the functions in the dash – it blows something which means replacement, at £600 a time. It’s happened 3 times now, and that’s not affordable, so I’ve got rid of the car – it was 22 years old, and I’ve had it for almost 12. I regret this, but lately I’ve driven less than 1,000 miles a year, and I have access to W’s Peugeot 5008 at need.
G.
I have been buying more freeze dried food lately. Probably a mistake.
– I don’t think so, it has a place in your preps. It’s neither the only nor the best answer, but it is an answer. I’ve got several shelves of it, bulk and meals.
I got quite a few Augason #10 cans and not so much Mountain House freeze dried food. The thing is, the freeze dried food is expensive but it does have a 30 year shelf life. Some of my Augason’s have a ten year shelf life and are aging out. I need to inventory the entire mess.
https://www.amazon.com/Augason-Farms-Vegetable-Stew-Blend/dp/B0096I9H7E?tag=ttgnet-20/
I left faking out a FRU parser with a bogus set of component data massaged by nasty byte level manipulation until Monday to see Shatner and Adam Savage in Dallas today.
@Greg Norton
“see Shatner and Adam Savage in Dallas today.”
Good choice.
If you haven’t seen the unboxing of the new Wand Company Tricorder replica:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX_-yrJgpH4
Fit and finish remind me of the original Polaroid SX-70 and the 1940’s/50’s Zenith Transoceanic.
@Geoff Powell
“In UK, plates are unique to a vehicle”
KAR120C
http://sandsmuseum.com/cars/seven/description/history/prisoner/prisoner.html
more background:
https://stason.org/TULARC/tv/the-prisoner/7-What-kind-of-car-is-KAR120C-The-Prisoner.html
I need a sugar brother.
Both needed more than an hour, but the show has a full schedule.
Outrage!
We’re coming for all you Devils after we take care of your Orange King.
uh-oh…
there might be trouble in Democrat City…
https://redstate.com/beccalower/2024/06/07/breaking-merchan-just-told-prosecutors-trump-legal-team-there-might-be-a-problem-in-manhattan-case-n2175187
The unethical and immoral judge just got told do not put Trump in jail no matter what.
“The Car Pro Jerry Reynolds’ Advice To Automakers: Listen To My Dad”
https://www.carpro.com/blog/the-car-pro-jerry-reynolds-advice-to-automakers-listen-to-my-dad
“However, most are looking at Toyota that has tiptoed into the world of EVs, but has continued to produce more and more hybrids and plug-in hybrids. Ford went speeding into electrics but is backing off and has publicly said they were making big bucks on hybrids today. Of course, as I reported here and on the air, the Blue Oval company said it lost $100,000 PER ELECTRIC VEHICLE SOLD earlier this year.”
“A smart man taught me this lesson”
“It was my dad actually. He was not college educated, hell he didn’t get past the 8th grade when his dad died, and he had a Mother and five sisters to be the man of the house for. He once told me these words:”
“YOUR FIRST LOSS IS YOUR BEST LOSS”
“To paraphrase him “Son, if you’ve got an ass-kicking coming, take it and get it over with.” My old man was pretty smart and if the CEOs of major car companies were smart, they’d heed that advice, especially the Detroit 3 that jumped in feet first into electric cars. The Detroit 3 are touting record profits for 2024, but I would suggest putting the majority of that money into reserve accounts to write-off the losses from the unwise speculation about electric vehicles, not doing your due-diligence, and for trying to force a market that simply isn’t there.”
“Continuing Coverage: Is Your Car Spying On You?”
https://www.carpro.com/blog/continuing-coverage-is-your-car-spying-on-you
“We’ve been bringing information to you for a while now, warning you about the information car companies are selling about your driving habits. I find it to be deplorable, frankly. ”
“An article published by the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation caught my eye and I reached out to them to see if they would give permission to share the info with you, and they happily agreed. It is titled: It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy.”
“”Car makers have been bragging about their cars being “computers on wheels” for years to promote their advanced features. However, the conversation about what driving a computer means for its occupants’ privacy hasn’t really caught up. While we worried that our doorbells and watches that connect to the internet might be spying on us, car brands quietly entered the data business by turning their vehicles into powerful data-gobbling machines. Machines that, because of all those brag-worthy bells and whistles, have an unmatched power to watch, listen, and collect information about what you do and where you go in your car.”
I am shocked, shocked I tell you.
Students Who Occupied Stanford President’s Office Face Felony Charges
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/06/07/students-who-occupied-stanford-presidents-office-face-felony-charges-n3789873
Photos of the damage and graffiti (which the occupying students deny) are not yet available.
Recommend the Friday Overnight Thread (FONT) at
https://ace.mu.nu/
for some outstanding memes.
Meowdy and Good Night.
>>Two plates are fitted, white background at the front, yellow background at the rear, with black characters.
@Geoff, why the different background colors, do you know? Not something that I’ve seen here in the States.
My dog would be so jealous. She loves squeaky toys.
https://x.com/OntWtf/status/1799214441428599007
Stolen from:
https://ace.mu.nu/
“Trump reveals what he thinks happened when Biden bizarrely bent down during his speech in France: ‘Something happened and it’s not good’”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13506341/donald-trump-joe-biden-bent-speech-france.html
One hopes that Biden’s Depends are industrial strength.
I will bet you a buffalo nickel that she was sexually abused as a young girl. Possibly before she was a teenager.
– the cops have repeatedly said they couldn’t release her “manifesto” because it would interfere with an ongoing investigation. Since the murderer is dead, the only think I can think of that they’d still be investigating is if her manifesto talks about abuse, especially while she was a minor. And the most likely suspect is the pastor.
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Really nice night. 74F on the water, mostly clear sky with no moon. Best sky we’ve had in months. Tiny little fire and some radio. A good night.
n
And dang it, you guys let me fail to mention RBT’s birthday yesterday. I had made a note to remember, and then I missed it anyway.
Absent friends.
nick
I read the reference to The Prisoner, open jaw, jajajaj, someone remembers it!
As far I remember, it was made on Hobsbawn village in Wales, something non speakable, lots of consonants words and narrow gauge track
j