Hot and humid, chance of rain. Some places got rain yesterday, and some might get some today. It’s pretty rare that the whole of Houston gets rain at the same time. I’m pretty sure it will all be hot though.
Woke up yesterday at the BOL, did my wrap out, and headed home. Got chased by a storm front, and then when I got to the east side of Houston, I got chased west by a different front. Black sky and high wind, with a 10-20 degree temperature drops is a pretty good indicator that some serious weather is coming. In this case, I either outran it, or it was a no show…
Didn’t get a lot done, with all the driving around.
Today I’ve got pickups, and other stuff to do. I have a friend who asked to borrow a tool, so I’ll try to get that to him, and I’ll try to see my local auctioneer about putting more stuff in the auction. I’ve been out of my normal routine for most of the last month and I’m feeling it.
There is a sort of rhythm to prepping for the normal stuff, mixed with the rhythm of the school year. That got disrupted by the early storms. I need to get back on track.
Today probably isn’t the day for that, but it is a day to start moving in that direction.
Baby steps and small preps.
Get started stacking.
nick
Winco? EBT cards are for use at Whole Foods.
As long as the presses can roll in the basement of the Eccles Building, the direct deposits to checking accounts will continue.
The commonly held misconception is that any of those benefits are some kind of right and guaranteed to continue. However, every member of Congress knows what would happen the moment the deposits stopped.
Yup. I don’t think any of those programs will go away. The government will just let inflation make them worth less and less. Which is already happening, of course.
My wife is getting bored, and thinking about trying to find a part-time job somewhere. Of course, it’s a small problem when you are (a) old and (b) overqualified for anything you’re likely to apply for. You’d think companies would be glad to have someone with lots of experience and education willing to take a job they could do in their sleep. Turns out that’s not the case…
Exactly. Nothing in the constitution authorizing a national police force, ergo, unconstitutional. Papering it over with legislation does not alter the facts.
And as we have seen, a national police force inevitably becomes politicized.
If the constitutional convention had put national police force in the document it’s unlikely that they would have signed it themselves, and their reception upon returning home would have been chilly: “We didn’t just throw out a tyrant so we could establish another.”
The Adams presidency was rife with political prosecutions. Worth a bit of historical reading.
That is nuts! (You knew I had to say it.)
I was not told that having my knee replaced would result in permanent numbness on the outside part of my knee. During the operation it is necessary to cut a nerve.
I had the “classic” operation about 40 years ago. My memory is that there was little discomfort involved. I had much more discomfort when I got poison oak on the “one eyed wonder worm”.
I get bird seed blocks that have some type of “hot sauce” coating that squirrels cannot tolerate but does not affect birds. I handled it a couple of times with my bare hands. Even washing with soap, more than once, does not fully remove the stuff, whatever it is, completely from the hands. Most of you could guess how I found out.
Brad, our compost bin is plastic, squarish, about 4′ high and about 2′ at the bottom. It has slide-up doors at the bottom for pulling out the oldest stuff. Works well, with the note that it is not deer-proof and the stinkin’ antlered forest rats have several times knocked it apart during Winter to get at the newest vegetable trimmings. It’s easy enough to put it back together and shovel the partially-composted mulch back in, just a PITA.
Ray, I think that the pepper should come off if you rub your hands with lanolin, lard, or cooking oil and then scrape it off.
Wow. It didn’t take long for the LSM to move in lock-step on the plugs’ “Deep Fake” video lie. The “Spew” and Rachel Madcow think tRump will cancel their shows and lock them up if elected. Madcow says CJ Roberts must get rid of Thomas and Alito for impropriety. The PLTs are pushing tRump will be a dictator. He never gave up power, etc. Yet, it is plugs who is actively doing these things. Projectionist Maximus.
I’ve been getting over 10 texts a day from Redumblican groups begging for money and praising tRump. If that’s the best the RNC can do, tRump is doomed. Maybe things will pick up after the national conventions, but if I don’t see a mobilization of RNC surrogates, I’m going to have to drop the probability of a tRump re-election even lower. Again, accumulating a $billion war chest is useless if it isn’t managed effectively.
The only way tRump could stay in power is if the military backed him (cause the military has figther jets and the sheeple only have muskets). After the complete pussification of the military, heh, there only concern is getting money to cut men’s balls off.
Game over, man, game over.
I now wear disposable rubber gloves and wash my hands twice with different soap for each wash. The first experience was enough to teach me a lesson. The Home Depot HDX gloves, which have two layers (orange and black), seem to work very well. I have to be very careful to not touch anything with the gloves other than the bird seed block.
I don’t believe for a second all the polls saying tRump is capturing more of the minority vote. Or tRump is up 18 points over plugs in Iowa. The LSM said the same thing four years ago, and plugs still won, from his basement, while tRump was filling stadiums. The real disinformation out there is the LSM.
In the 4th or 5th grade I found out about peeing in the woods and poison ivy. That was VERY disconcerting as well as uncomfortable.
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Garage fridge is the same temp as when I went to bed. I’m going to clean out some of it later and hope that it goes back to “cold”.
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76F and light drizzle, proving I’m at least as inaccurate as the weather liars.
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oh coffee, you are sooo good…
n
My younger brother found out about peeing on an electric fence. Not as long lasting as poison ivy but certainly more shocking.
Ray, a subject you have discussed: The LAUSD is going to ban cellphones in schools.
Just did a bank transfer online. Juneteenth banks are closed – bah! (going through but pending)
So why wasn’t this observed on Monday?
Because it is special, it gets its own date. /s
@Ray Thompson
Gloves are fine, but you might want to put a raincoat on Little Willie just in case.
I just realized as I was reading my daily FEMA status report, that I have stopped caring what happens outside of Texas. I also realized I don’t expect help for Texas from the fedgov, and that I assume they are an adversary.
I recognize that this is not a good thing.
I previously observed that people will be shrinking their ‘circle’ of a lot of things, friends, area of influence, area of concern (physical and metaphorical) and it’s happened to me.
That despite the connection this blog gives me to you all… and the need to look at ‘bigger picture’ things.
So if it’s happened to me, it must be happening a LOT.
The voice I hear countering that is coming from a strange place – Aesop at Raconteur Report. He’s making the very valid and not so obvious point that the blue hives are so big that even though fewer than half the people there are “red” that still means millions of people who are “red” who (among other things) won’t like to be starved by their red state cousins in the countryside.
I need to think about this a bit.
n
Then it would have been called black Monday.
I think a complete ban is inadvisable.
Students should be allowed to have their phones in school. However, that use needs to be severely restricted. No phones in the class or in the hallways at all. Anytime a phone appears the teacher or staff immediately confiscates the phone. First offense the phone is kept at the school for 5 school days. Second offense the phone is kept for 30 school days. Third offense the phone is not returned to the student.
The reason I say allowed to have the phones in school has to do with the rash of school shootings. I think students need to have phones to either call emergency services or to contact their parents.
Do they make raincoats that small?
Oh and whitey, go to work and pay reparations.
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2024/06/19/some-blacks-on-social-media-dont-want-white-people-celebrating-juneteenth-n4929992
Randall Munroe appears to believe that electricity comes from pixie dust, or unicorn farts, or something equally magical.
https://xkcd.com/2948/
Munroe is also a big fan of the theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming, too.
Which fact, by itself, made me critically examine everything else he does.
Texas is fast becoming a blue hive.
Income tax will be on the ballot in 2027.
I think the first time a parent can’t go and pickup their punk’s phone at the end of the day, they will sue, and win, for theft. A better option is: no phones allowed. The punk gets caught with a phone, they are suspended for the day. Or use a phone in class, even if it just rings, suspended for the day. Right out the front door. Three times and you are expelled.
How about mandatory Faraday cages? Decent RF blocking pouches are available from Amazon for under $15. The little monsters can keep the phones on their persons, in the pouch, but if they take it out of the pouch, they’re suspended for the week.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=rf+blocking+pouch&crid=3JK169NDZUY4B&sprefix=rf+blocking+%2Caps%2C144&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_8_12&tag=ttgnet-20
None of the phones ever ring. They are all on silent mode. 99.9999% of the time they are texting, Snapchat, whatever. As for confiscating the phones permanently that little nugget should be in the forms the parent, and student, sign before they are allowed to attend school. It effectively becomes a contract.
I am fairly lenient when I sub. If a student asks to use the phone I generally let them. It is the being sneaky that I really don’t like. When they use a phone without asking I am ruthless.
Some of the classes require cell phones. Those classes in media arts use the phone to take pictures and video. The chrome books suck at doing that process. One of the math classes used a calculator app on the cell phone. Why the TI graphing calculators provided would not suffice, I don’t know.
The local school system has a no cell phones visible and must remain in backpacks. That is reasonable. A complete ban is going too far because how is it enforced? Searching backpacks is allowed, and legal, but not all can be searched everyday.
Of course our local school system is not loaded with welfare thugs like Los Angeles. That may be a big difference.
Randall Munroe appears to believe that electricity comes from pixie dust, or unicorn farts, or something equally magical.
https://xkcd.com/2948/
Randall Munroe is a wordsmith. He very carefully compared the motors. He did not compare the entire vehicle with the massive battery problems that the populace is seeing.
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2948:_Electric_vs_Gas
“Brazil’s CBMM starts testing ultra-fast charging batteries in Volkswagen bus”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/brazils-cbmm-starts-testing-ultra-193545542.html
Yup, more unobtanium using a very rare metal, niobium.
“Relatives of people killed in 2 Boeing Max crashes ask the US to fine the company $24.8 billion”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/relatives-people-killed-2-boeing-195912733.html
“Families of some of the people who died in two Boeing 737 Max crashes are asking federal officials to fine Boeing $24.8 billion and move quickly to prosecute the company on a criminal charge that was set aside three years ago.”
Both of the crashes were outside the USA so the USA is not involved. One of the crashes was caused by pilot error leaving the engine throttles in takeoff mode for the entire flight.
The computer system should never have allowed that to happen. Once the flaps are fully retracted, engines in takeoff mode, should have been an alarm annunciation to the pilot at a minimum. The computers should have restricted the throttles unless specifically overridden by the pilot. The pilot would have had to make deliberate choice.
“MNPD Review of Vanderbilt University Medical Center Records: Covenant Killer Audrey Hale Had ‘Thoughts of Killing Dad . . . Struggles with Mental Health. Recent Thoughts of Going into a School and Shooting a Bunch of People.’”
https://tennesseestar.com/covenant-school-shooting/mnpd-review-of-vanderbilt-university-medical-center-records-covenant-killer-audrey-hale-had-thoughts-of-killing-dad-struggles-with-mental-health-recent-thoughts-of-going-into-a-school-and-s/tpappert/2024/06/19/
This just keeps on getting worse and worse. Look at those drugs she was on.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
“Tesla CEO Elon Musk admits ‘two homicidal maniacs tried to kill him’ in past seven months”
https://www.the-express.com/lifestyle/cars/140840/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-homicidal-maniacs-kill
I am surprised it is just two in the last seven months.
Hat tip to:
https://www.drudgereport.com/
I am getting rain fade on the Starlink right now from the heavy rain and wind.
Musk has stepped into the culture wars which has a lot of nuts on both sides, especially on the Disney front.
We left the comic book event in Dallas before a loon showed up and disrupted the event to the point that the venue was forced to call the police.
I’m guessing that the Volkswagen bus is too light weight to be approved for sale in the US.
The company learned its lesson with the “cheating” scandal.
“19-Year-Old Arrested After Stabbing Homeless Man Who Allegedly Threatened Him and Broke Into His Car in California”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/19-year-old-arrested-after-stabbing-homeless-man/
California again blaming the victim.
At this point, I am not even going to visit California ever again.
“Jeep Breaks Promise, Brings Back the Hemi Wrangler”
https://www.motor1.com/news/723777/2025-jeep-wrangler-v8-returns/
“The V-8-powered 2024 Final Edition wasn’t so final after all…”
If I wanted to blow $100+K on a vehicle, I might do this.
Future garage queens, like my neighbor’s Bronco.
Just Stop Oil Paints Stonehenge Orange, and for Some Reason Nobody Killed Them
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/06/19/just-stop-oil-paints-stonehenge-orange-and-for-some-reason-nobody-killed-them-n3790572
Too bad a bunch of pagans didn’t grab them and sacrifice them on the stones to cleanse the desecration of their ancient religious site.
Well, technically, if the victim had not been there, they would not have been a victim. /S
pool is open for filing date on the first class action for false advertising, breach of contract, and general tomphuquery.
@Nick
So what is keeping them there? Paying taxes and adding to the census headcount both cede more power to the blue crazies.
Note that if a city has 49% conservatives and devises their political districts carefully, keeping each at 49%, the districts can all elect PLT’s and tell the conservatives to pound sand.
No try it with a skin color minority and see how long the DOJ and the courts take over to create “safe” districts.
So what is keeping them there?
– dunno. Could be lots of reasons. Family. Aging parents. No Job not portable. Upside down on a house, and it’s not Dust Bowl levels of desperation yet, plus conservatives are least likely to walk away from an obligation. No money saved and no buyers for the house..
Could be any of those things or all of them, and for most people they would trump politics.
There have been several articles about people self sorting so it is happening.
n
Juneteenthed again. I was halfway across the street to check the cluster boxes when I came to and knew I was wasting my time.
>> I just realized as I was reading my daily FEMA status report, that I have stopped caring what happens outside of Texas. I also realized I don’t expect help for Texas from the fedgov, and that I assume they are an adversary.
When it’s TEOTWAWKI, don’t you want some level of intel as to possible threats outside of TX (Mexico e.g.) that aren’t “We’re from the fedgov and we’re here to help. Plenty of seats on the umm, next train. Yeah, the windows don’t open, keeps the uhh, A/C inside.”
@alan, you misunderstood. I still monitor what’s going on, it’s that I don’t CARE about it like I used to. My circle of “give a sh!t” got smaller.
n
I follow Aesop, and he has some valid points.
But the rural-minded people he’s arguing against also have points.
If you don’t see any trouble coming, and choose to stay in the city, how much of an ally are you? You may be a Trump voter or true conservative at heart, but you choose to keep yourself in a vulnerable position.
I bet most of them are unarmed, and don’t have more than a week of food and water. They are the types that hope their vote will save the country, and it’s someone else’s job to make sure there’s groceries and utilities available.
If I’m wrong and the Red city people are armed and prepared, and things get sporky, there will be many factions.
Hood rat vs. hood rat. As it has always been, and always will be. Just more desparate with no EBT or air conditioning, and probably no stores to rob.
Commie vs. Commie vs. gibmedats. (BLM, antifa, PLTs).
Red city person vs. commies, PLTs, and hood rats.
Red city person vs. Red country person because they cut off the food and power, as Aesop contends.
In one sense, it would be nice if Aesop were right, and the Red city people were true allies, and they’d be in the forefront of the fighting, since the vast majority of the enemies of America live in the cities. They’d take most of the casualties, but they’d inflict a bunch too. That would be worthy of supporting them, if only you knew who to trust.
At least it would serve to cut down the “golden horde” heading to the country.
Yeah, I agree with him about not using the enemy’s maps, and about not forgetting about those people. I don’t think they’ll stay put if things get sporty. I think they’ll bail to the country.
Selco says the city is a better place in the long running conflict because the aid goes there, any remaining services are there, and in the woods, no one can hear you scream.
I voted with my money and time…
n
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Exactly. Nothing in the constitution authorizing a national police force, ergo, unconstitutional. Papering it over with legislation does not alter the facts.
IANAL so this may not be right, but I thought what would be needed is someone with the same case with standing in each Federal court district (Hunter for DE e.g. /s) with at least one conflicting decision rendered, which should require the attention of SCOTUS. Then, should things get that far, do at least 5 of the Supremes (no, not those) have the brass kahunas to do the “right” thing and vacate a good portion of FedGov DC?
@Nick
“the aid goes there”
And how does it get there? Big convoys rolling through flyover country? Or is the military going to preform exceedly and use one of those patented piers like Biden personally constructed to deliver aid to the poor littul chillums in Gaza?
Aid convoy comes rolling into Chi-town by highway or water. Who do you think is going to welcome it with open arms and distribute the largess fairly and equitably?
Sorry to be sarcy but Dwight E.’s concept of an interstate highway system to move the military envisioned a population that was DFD, not one torn by internecine disagreements and steeped in fifty years of free speech, the Anarchists Cookbooks, and a million webpages discussing Timothy McV.’s recipe for AMFO, not to mention twenty years of YouTube making things go boom.
Any convoys dispatched from secret goobermint warehouses in the hinterlands are going to find every overpass down and the locals very interested in persuading those supplies to stay local.
There’s also the little problem of the Guardsman tasked with moving those convoys being the rurals, inasmuch as the city boys are going to be in the cities.
Alas, Babylon.
Since my fridge was making cold, just not enough of it, I went looking. Sorry to say that the coils were completely covered with grey fur. SO I cleaned that, broke out about 2 inches of ice and it is slowly cooling down.
The frozen stuff is mostly still frozen, and it’s cold enough, and will refreeze, but It’s all going in the “use me first ” pile.
Check your coils, and fan. Make sure they are good.
It’s hot out there.
n
“the aid goes there”
– that was his experience in his war. The aid was international in source, and promptly stolen and sold by rival factions but his point was that you could get it in the city, and not in the country, if you had the balls and any resources at all.
He found that people who had initially left found their way back.
n
On the one hand, the last place I want to be is in the Third Precinct (or similar) standing in line for gov’t aid. My pasty white skin would make me a target.
OTOH, you don’t want to be conspicuously absent from the breadline, because people will suspect you’re a hoarder.
On the gripping hand, just being out and about is a huge risk. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
Selco assumes aid will be coming in. Who is going to send aid to America? No one.
I really need to find a BOL.
The good news is, when people flee downtown Houston, they’ll gridlock the highways and stop I-10 , so the majority won’t make it as far as Katy. I hope. That’s how it happened with Hurricane Ike, at least.
While we are sleeping, End-to-End Encryption (E2E) is being killed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c52pKpYeZ74
He’s at it again! Rob Braxman explains what will be forced on us. As I said a few days ago, this will be incorporated into the hardware, making it difficult to defeat.
I ask the hive mind if we are facing the end of an era in personal computing.
>> @alan, you misunderstood. I still monitor what’s going on, it’s that I don’t CARE about it like I used to. My circle of “give a sh!t” got smaller.
@nick, gotcha…so are you ‘running’ with the premise that when the SHTF you/family (car for D1 and some covert driving lessons for D2 move up the list?) make it to the BOL. and with your prepped (with defenses at least) neighbors you ‘circle the wagons’ and try to maintain some semblance of survival?
I know no one can predict what North America(?) v2 looks like but if you suspend disbelief things like The Walking Dead, The Last of Us, Station 11, The Leftovers, Jericho portend a bleak future.
Maybe any speculation is time better spent prepping and save the post-apocalyptic reading for ‘after.’
But hey, we’ve gotta survive Nov 5 first 😉
Good fiction takes a lot of thought, and a real understanding of humans and their behavior. I think there are lots of lessons to be learned from PA fiction. Sometimes the lesson is what NOT to do. If nothing else, every story is a thought experiment, and is sure to contain stuff you didn’t consider.
In any disaster that hits Houston, and we get more than our share, having somewhere to go that is far enough away to be out of the affected zone and yet close enough to A) get there, and B) use during the 99% of the time that isn’t a disaster, is a good thing ™. It’s already worked when W and the DDs went there while the power was out here.
I’m working the garden aspect, as I have help up there. Gotta climb that curve. And the meat aspect, doing what I can to contribute (ie the meat bandsaw) and vac sealers.
If it comes to real sh!t, I’ve got some water purification stuff I want to cobble together, and the solar, maybe combining RBT’s idea of being the village wizard with being a scrounger, and enabler… we disagreed about the need to establish oneself in the community and how to do that, but having stuff and the knowledge to use it goes a long way past “hey I’m hungry, got any food??”
n
>> “Tesla CEO Elon Musk admits ‘two homicidal maniacs tried to kill him’ in past seven months”
https://www.the-express.com/lifestyle/cars/140840/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-homicidal-maniacs-kill
I am surprised it is just two in the last seven months.
I suppose that was one of the more credible ones and that his security team filters out the chaff.
Nick, you probably already know this, but… your refrigerator is in your garage, and the ambient temperature is probably way above its design environment. This will affect its performance. It is not uncommon for ice to build up on the evaporator (cold) coil under these circumstances. The primary thermostat is often in the refrigerator section, and high ambient temperatures will cause the compressor to run more than usual. With your high humidity, this can cause the evaporator to ice up more than the self-defrost can handle. Once you eliminate the ice, either by mechanical cleaning, or by shutting the power off for an hour or more, it might help to set the refrigerator compartment to a slightly higher temperature. If this eliminates the ice buildup, but results in higher than desired refrigerator temperature, you have discovered the problem, which is an ambient higher than the refrigerator can cope with.
Try another of your refrigerators. Some have better controls, including independent temperature settings for the refrigerator and freezer sections. This might help.
@jimb, I think the garage temps and the crazy high humidity contributed, but it’s supposed to be specifically designed for use in a garage. I’ve been running the window a/c unit and the attic fan, which helps keep the temp down, but it is still VERY warm.
The thick layer of grey fuzz on the coils were the worst I’ve ever seen on a fridge. I really dropped the ball on that.
It’s still cooling down, so “fingers crossed”.
BTW, it’s always been finicky for holding temps. As the ambient changes, the ratio of freezer to fridge compartment changes and the fridge can either be warm or frozen. I have to monitor it and tweak settings to keep it where I want it. I wouldn’t buy it again.
nick
Yeah, he’s a smart cookie, and XKCD is a treasure. But he is definitely way left.
It’s like the Pirate Party. On tech, they are right and the only party that really emphasizes tech issues. However, they felt like they just *had* to have a position on everything else, and the positions they took were extreme leftist. Why? Why cannot a party say “this is what is important to us” leave it at that? I was a member for a few years, but ultimately I just couldn’t justify supporting their leftist extremism.
What I found really odd, is how embedded they were in their little bubble. It was obvious to them that their positions were right. People with other opinions? How unbelievably weird! They were absolutely not interested in discussion, I was just nuts not to agree with them. And these people want to run a political party that deals with other political parties?
I am old enough that the first time I visited Stone Henge, it was not fence off. You could walk among the stones and touch them. An amazing experience! When I went back a couple of decades later, you could only see them from afar, from behind a fence.
It’s a pretty damned sad commentary on modern society, that people cannot be trusted near such amazing historical artifacts.
As for these two nitwits: Don’t lock them up. I would prefer public service, so that they become actually useful. Something like scrubbing public toilets for the next 10 years.
That makes a lot of sense, actually. The headlines tell of bus accidents in Asia, flooding in South America, wars in Africa, etc, etc.. It’s been this way for a long time, of course, but the Internet has removed most local content. The continual drumbeat of disaster, specifically disaster that you cannot do anything about? This cannot be good for people.
Focusing on the local area is a good thing, and something that I try to do as well.
I am old enough that the first time I visited Stone Henge, it was not fence off. You could walk among the stones and touch them. An amazing experience! When I went back a couple of decades later, you could only see them from afar, from behind a fence.
It’s a pretty damned sad commentary on modern society, that people cannot be trusted near such amazing historical artifacts.
As for these two nitwits: Don’t lock them up. I would prefer public service, so that they become actually useful. Something like scrubbing public toilets for the next 10 years.
My brothers and I climbed on the Stonehenge rocks and read the names carved into them all over the place back in 1973. It is a great place for kids to experience real history. Too bad they walled it off.
I would put the miscreants into the Tower Of London for a year or two. No heat, no a/c, moldy bread, and water from the Thames in a bucket that they haul up themselves.
Or else feed them to the ravens inhabiting the Tower premises. Those birds always looked hungry for meat.
I am rewatching the Battlestar Galactica 2004 on Amazon Prime. I am simply amazed at how good it is. Yes, I know that the ending sucked. At least there was a real ending.
The human Cylons are totally cool. The mechanical Cylons are even cooler.
The thick layer of grey fuzz on the coils were the worst I’ve ever seen on a fridge. I really dropped the ball on that.
Sooner or later we get consumed by our things as we accumulate more and more. I’ve got four refrigerators and one freezer at the house. I have yet to clean a single one of them.
Yeah, he’s a smart cookie, and XKCD is a treasure. But he is definitely way left.
At least he finally figured out that BLM was a scam and he took it off his website.
I wish that he would figure out that Climate Change was a scam but he seems to be enthralled with it.
I think I have mentioned in the past that I had migrated the hosting of my domains to ibrave.io. The deal, which I took ‘advantage’ of in July 2021 was for ‘lifetime’ hosting for an up front fee of USD99.99. Clearly, when a deal is ‘too good to be true’ then invariably it is too good to be true. But for the price, I thought I would give it a go.
Today I received an email from ibrave.io advising me that they were ceasing operation 1 November 2024.
Overall, the service I have had over three years has met my requirements and at a very reasonable per annum cost; and I did go into the deal with my eyes open. It sounded like a ponzi scheme, and turns out to have all the characteristics.
This goes into the ‘experiences’ file.