Thur. Aug. 29, 2024 – time flies… and any landing you walk away from is a good landing.

Supposed to be a chance of rain again today, and slightly cooler temperatures. Yesterday ended up in the high 80s, low 90s, but it stayed cool for a while. There was spotty rain, depending on where you were, but I barely got any here at home.

I didn’t have a very productive day. I fell asleep in the chair after breakfast and that set me back all day. Later I spent some time looking for sneakers to replace the pairs I’m wearing out, and did an online order with in store pickup later in the day. I also ordered a couple of things I needed around the house. Sanded and mudded the ceiling repairs in the bathroom and kitchen. They should have been done a long time ago, but I never wanted to make the mess. A quick sand and they will be ready for paint, and no longer on my list.

Got the kid from school, hit the chiropractor, picked up my shoes, came home and cut the grass. That was kinda productive… One trick, I like to wear shorts when it’s hot, but cutting the grass with the string trimmer is very painful in shorts. I bought a pair of MMA foam shin guards in the auction, and I wear those now to run the string trimmer. I’ve got a pair at the BOL, and one here. Legs stay cool, but almost all of the chips and bits get stopped by the shin guards instead of my shins. It might look silly but I don’t care. No more bloody shins.

Today will be more home work, mostly putting stuff away, and a couple of auction pickups. The shady guy finally has the last three auctions ready for me to pick up, I’ve got a couple of lots at another auction, and a third local auction to pick up later in the day. I only have a couple of lots at each of them, but I do need to get them picked up.

I’ll need to sort out what I’m taking up to the BOL this weekend too. OH, and taking the pickup to the mechanic because the alignment is off… just a little but they supposedly did the alignment after changing the shocks, so I’m miffed that it isn’t right. Of course I really need the truck for the next day, and then all weekend. Grrr. Not pleased. Not at all.

Still trying to improve my readiness. Still stacking. Got lots to do.

nick

82 Comments and discussion on "Thur. Aug. 29, 2024 – time flies… and any landing you walk away from is a good landing."

  1. brad says:

    Off to what is probably my last ever personnel review (or whatever you call it). Talk with the boss about the last year, set goals for the coming year.

    We’ve worked together for so long that it’s mostly a formality. Except this time the big topic will probably be how I hand over the courses and stuff that I’m responsible for. Some of it is clear, other parts…not so much.

    Meanwhile, I guess I’ve decided what I want to do in the next phase. The local trade school is hungry for instructors, and I’ve enjoyed working with the teenagers so far. Hey, even my wife is signing up to teach a course next year. Hope she enjoys it – we’ll see…

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  2. Greg Norton says:

    Almost…stock didn’t ‘blow past’ analysts’ projections by enough. Stock closed down 2.1% for the day and almost 7% in after-hours trading.

    The question now becomes “Where is the growth going to happen?”

    Also of note yesterday was the Geico Gecko crossing the $1 Trillion market cap line.

    I have no idea where the last 50 points came from, mostly since the meeting in May. I doubt even Buffett knows.

  3. Nick Flandrey says:

    77F and some clouds.   Dawn is on the way.  

    Coffee in the cup, bacon soon to be in the pan.

    Kids are moving.  

    The day is grinding to a start.

    n

  4. Nick Flandrey says:

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13790857/Venezuela-migrant-gang-apartment-complex-Aurora-Colorado-Kamala-Harris-Tren-Aragua.html

    Harrowing new footage has captured the moment an alleged Venezuelan gang seized control of an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado

    The heavily-armed mob are seen storming through the residence brandishing guns in the video that emerged on Wednesday. A man in a hoodie lugs a high-powered rifle and pounds on a door in the building, while several others wield pistols.

    ‘A GANG HAS TAKEN OVER several apartment complexes in Aurora!’ local council member Danielle Jurinsky wrote on Twitter.

    The city nonprofits have line up to help the migrants that have come here but nobody is helping the Americans that are trapped in these apartment complexes,’ Jurinsky told Fox.

    Referring to the spate of violent incidents at the apartment complex, the councilmember said that it ‘all started with a gang takeover.’

    Aurora has found itself at the center of a constant cycle of violence ever since the brutal Tren de Aragua gang arrived.

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  5. Greg Norton says:

    Harrowing new footage has captured the moment an alleged Venezuelan gang seized control of an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado

    Venezuelans are not Cubans.

    Republicans in particular need to learn this.

  6. Greg Norton says:

    Almost…stock didn’t ‘blow past’ analysts’ projections by enough. Stock closed down 2.1% for the day and almost 7% in after-hours trading.

    The question now becomes “Where is the growth going to happen?”

    Also, Blackwell, the company’s next big chip architecture for AI, is late.

  7. MrAtoz says:

    Harrowing new footage has captured the moment an alleged Venezuelan gang seized control of an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado

    Yes, Kamel, let’s open our borders to more crimmigrants. They are just peaceful people wanting to make a buck.

    Aurora needs to deputize 1,000 sheriffs and clean house. With extreme prejudice.

  8. MrAtoz says:

    I’m in Vegas. Moving day from the condo to the new house. We hired a small team of Vets to move everything.

    We are putting a doggie door thru the wall at the new house for the beloved canines when they arrive. Handyman husband of our realtor friend here in Vegas. Is doing the install They live in Pahrump and commute every day in her electric Volkswagen. She’s a Buffet drone.

    This is our last move until it is senior living time.

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  9. Ray Thompson says:

    Supreme Court refuses to revive Biden’s latest student loan debt relief plan

    Good for them. I know of two people with significant, as opposed to massive, student loan debt. They had already spent the money they thought they were going to have because of no more student loan payments. They just put themselves deeper in debt. Stupid people make stupid mistakes, especially with money. Apparently their college education did nothing and they are still stupid.

    It might look silly but I don’t care. No more bloody shins.

    I wear shorts all the time. I never experience bloody shins. Just some grass clippings on my shins. I do wear eye protection and every so often I feel a piece of debris hit one of the lens.

    Geico Gecko crossing the $1 Trillion market cap line

    Yes, they got to this goal by high premiums and being really difficult to settle claims. I know a couple of people with Geico and getting the insurance company to pay was very difficult. Geico wanted to repair their vehicles with el-cheapo crap Chinese parts. A visible difference between the OEM and Chinese part. One of the people had Geico replacing parts with stuff from a junk yard.

    Another couple did not renew their coverage and informed Geico. Geico still withdrew the monthly premiums for two additional months. The money was not refunded until three months later.

    Geico is a sleaze ball company. Premiums are different depending on how the policy is purchased making it difficult to compare rates.

    And speaking of insurance. I just got my renewal for my house (full replacement plus 25%), two vehicle (maximum coverage), travel trailer, and liability ($1 Million) policies. My rate jumped from $2500 a year to $3200 a year. Yikes. According my agent that is a good rate as some people had their premiums jump 50%.

  10. Denis says:

    The day is grinding to a start.

    I am so stealing that!

    In other news, on of my saved eBay searches threw up a set of used  top-notch German cookware for a very reasonable price. Only catch is that it needs picking up from Luxembourg. As it happens, I will be passing through the Grand Duchy later in the week, so I hit “Buy it Now”. Interesting to see that eBay has a procedure for authorising/authenticating pick-ups. New to me.

  11. nick flandrey says:

    Ebay is changing a ton of stuff lately.  Not sure where they are headed, but there are significant changes.

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  12. Greg Norton says:

    Another couple did not renew their coverage and informed Geico. Geico still withdrew the monthly premiums for two additional months. The money was not refunded until three months later.

    I don’t let the Gecko have autopay, but the lizard tries various tricks.

    Go back into Buffett’s history with creepy financial insttutions and that will speak volumes, particularly Solomon Brothers, which he had to run as CEO for about a year after the “Liars Poker” antics went too far and attracted the Feds’ attention ~ 1990.

    After Buffett, Solomon continued to be weird until they were bought out in the mid-90s … by Buffett’s arms-length insurance carrier Travelers.

    I saw an article recently about someone rying to revive the Solomon Bros. brand.

  13. Bob Sprowl says:

    Re yesterdays question about alternatives to Amazon.

    I use Newegg.  They don’t have as many items but what they do have is usually as good if not better.  Their service is as good.  

  14. Greg Norton says:

    I use Newegg.  They don’t have as many items but what they do have is usually as good if not better.  Their service is as good.  

    Newegg has a very tricky website in terms of dumping your order onto third party sellers, and a lot of the third party sellers just order the items on Amazon using gift cards, making returns difficult.

    Money laundering?

    If the item doesn’t say “Sold and shipped by Neweggg”, I wouldn’t order it on their site.

  15. drwilliams says:

    “Aurora needs to deputize 1,000 sheriffs and clean house. With extreme prejudice.”

    Probably easier to ring the buildings with razor wire and shut off utilities. 

  16. drwilliams says:

    “Ebay is changing a ton of stuff lately.  Not sure where they are headed, but there are significant changes.”

    inventing excuses for higher fees. 

    Twenty years ago it was 5%. Now it’s 15%. 

    Twenty years ago I had photos hosted for free, and took checks that were mailed for a stamp and cost me nothing to deposit. eBay started by adding PayPal, then requiring PayPal, then selling PayPal and pocketing billions, then requiring their new internal payments system, which was presented as a savings to sellers that turned into a higher cost. Along the way eBay made their expanded photo service “free”, and made external links prohibited. 

  17. lpdbw says:

    Forget it Jake, it’s Colorado.

  18. JimB says:

    I used to buy a lot (for me) of computer parts and related stuff from Newegg, but haven’t needed anything in several years, so I don’t pay much attention to their site. The last time I actually ordered something, I did notice a lot of sources other than Newegg, and some of them turned me off. I would still look at Newegg, but have noticed that Google searches rarely find what I am looking for on their site.

    Newegg used to (still?) have some of the best reviews of anyone, especially for high ticket items. I especially liked reviews from pros who were buying in quantity for their small companies. Many reviewers were very professional and thorough, and would even answer questions occasionally.

    The other thing I liked about Newegg was their warehouse is close to me, and I would occasionally get an item in less than 24 hours, even with their no-extra-charge (free) shipping option.

  19. RickH says:

    >>BTW, there are lots of messages from today on the Tuesday page.

    Always wondered if there was a simple way to, after a certain time, to post “late” comments to ‘tomorrow?’ 

    Yes, there is a ‘simple way’. Read the latest post, then use the comment form at the end of that post.

    Comments ‘belong’ to a post. They are shown in the order they are submitted. 

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  20. Lynn says:

    “Johnny Manziel returning to Texas A&M for College GameDay segment”

       https://www.chron.com/sports/college/article/texas-am-johnny-manziel-college-gameday-19731102.php

    “ESPN selected an Aggies legend for its popular segment before Saturday’s game in College Station.”

    “Saturday evening marks one of the more highly anticipated nights in Texas A&M history as the Aggies host No. 7 Notre Dame at Kyle Field. And with ESPN’s College GameDay on site in College Station that morning, a certain program legend will make his return to the spotlight. ”

    Johnny Football, Notre Dame, and Texas Aggie football in College Station, Texas on Saturday.  That will be a mess.  108,000 die hard fans (both sides) standing in their seats in Kyle Field.

    I am guessing that Dad and I will be watching it on TV.

  21. Lynn says:

    “Aurora needs to deputize 1,000 sheriffs and clean house. With extreme prejudice.”

    Probably easier to ring the buildings with razor wire and shut off utilities. 

    Shoot, then it will just feel like home in Venezuela.

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  22. Lynn says:

    xkcd: Stranded

       https://www.xkcd.com/2978/

    ROTFLMAO.  Well, that is a different way of looking at things.

    Explained at:

       https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2978:_Stranded

  23. paul says:

    I shop around.  If Newegg has the same price as Big River, Newegg gets my money.  I have yet to have a problem.

  24. RickH says:

    Social media has been flooded with allegations that a Venezuelan gang has taken over an Aurora apartment complex. Neither the city nor the Aurora Police Department have confirmed those claims.

    Story here, among other places.

  25. lynn says:

    “Ebay is changing a ton of stuff lately.  Not sure where they are headed, but there are significant changes.”

    inventing excuses for higher fees. 

    Twenty years ago it was 5%. Now it’s 15%. 

    In the excellent “Ready Player One” book and movie, the evil corp trying to take over the gamer network were planning on using 71% of the screen for advertising, leaving 29% for the games.

  26. lynn says:

    Johnny Football, Notre Dame, and Texas Aggie football in College Station, Texas on Saturday.  That will be a mess.  108,000 die hard fans (both sides) standing in their seats in Kyle Field.

    I forgot to mention the 40,000 sunburned people tailgating in the parking lots.  People everywhere !

  27. lynn says:

    And speaking of insurance. I just got my renewal for my house (full replacement plus 25%), two vehicle (maximum coverage), travel trailer, and liability ($1 Million) policies. My rate jumped from $2500 a year to $3200 a year. Yikes. According my agent that is a good rate as some people had their premiums jump 50%.

    You are doing well.  Mine is $6,000 for my house and $3,000 for my two vehicles. I may move down the street from you, cheap place to retire.

  28. Greg Norton says:

    “Saturday evening marks one of the more highly anticipated nights in Texas A&M history as the Aggies host No. 7 Notre Dame at Kyle Field. And with ESPN’s College GameDay on site in College Station that morning, a certain program legend will make his return to the spotlight. ”

    That game was probably scheduled before Jimbo imploded.

    Jimbo is now at Ole Miss, rehabbing his career as the Offensive Coordinator.

  29. lynn says:

    “Telegram CEO’s arrest roils far-right users in US”   https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2024/08/29/pavel-durov-telegram-arrest-extremist-users/74990169007/

    Well this is crazy.  I suspect that is all about getting a back door into the service.

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  30. lynn says:

    “Sean Spicer Flabbergasted When Contributor Says Heels Up Harris Is Showing “Strength” by Bringing Her Emotional Support Animal to an Interview”

        https://thelibertydaily.com/sean-spicer-flabbergasted-when-contributor-says-heels-up/

    Heh.  Tampon Tim is Kamala’s emotional support animal.

  31. drwilliams says:

    “Shoot”

    That would be the next step, if they try to get out. 

  32. lynn says:

    “The ‘J6 Praying Grandma’ Case Is Why I Despise the Government”  https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/08/28/the-j6-praying-grandma-case-is-why-i-despise-the-government-n2178660

    Me too !

  33. paul says:

    I made a great for my tastes batch of spaghetti sauce.  Canned tomatoes, Italian sausage broken down into chunks.  Lazy meatballs.  I cooked it down too much.  But it was good over some ravioli.  I let the pot cool almost to room temp and into the fridge.  My fridge is cold, 34f to 36f.  Stainless steel pot, never removed the lid so the contents are sterile.  Three weeks ago, anyway. 

    Today I looked.  Smells fine.  I started to heat the pot.  Then added a couple of cans of tomato sauce.  Later I added another can of sauce and a sprinkle of Italian herb mix, some red pepper flakes, and a decent wave of garlic powder.  Stir and raise the heat a bit.

    I let it simmer for a while.  Kill cooties, right?  Added a few tablespoons of butter.  The taste is perfect.

    I have some rectangle shaped food storage boxes.  I have lined four with plastic wrap.  Might do one more. Once the sauce is cooled enough to not be a burn hazard I’m going to divide it up and freeze.  Then tomorrow, vac-seal. 

    It’s just me here.  A couple of cups of spag sauce is more than enough.  

    Smells great!  

  34. lynn says:

    It’s just me here.  A couple of cups of spag sauce is more than enough.  

    What, nothing for the dogs ?

  35. paul says:

    No.  Penny is ok.  She leaves any mushroom bits.  Buddy eats anything and gets, not the runs but close. 

    It’s not my spag sauce, the canned or jarred stuff from the grocery store is the same.

    Buddy does the same with a bit of chili mixed into his food. His system does not like tomatoes.

  36. Ray Thompson says:

    You are doing well.  Mine is $6,000 for my house and $3,000 for my two vehicles.

    $1600 for two vehicles, maximum coverage, $1K deductible, $1300 for the house, $193 for the trailer, $160 liability. That is for the entire year.

    I may move down the street from you, cheap place to retire

    Certainly is not as hot as Texas. The power is reliable. Longest outage in 34 years was 8 hours from damaged poles from a tornado. Most outages are one hour or less. We are close to some significant power generation from TVA with hydro, natural gas, and nuclear.

    But you have to break out a taillight and remove two teeth (an additional black rotted tooth is a plus) to really blend in with everyone.

    In seriousness, the people are good and will really help if a person is down on their luck or needs help.

  37. lynn says:

    Jimbo is now at Ole Miss, rehabbing his career as the Offensive Coordinator.

    Well, good for him.  I would take my $90 million and retire at 60+.

  38. Greg Norton says:

    Jimbo is now at Ole Miss, rehabbing his career as the Offensive Coordinator.

    Well, good for him.  I would take my $90 million and retire at 60+.

    Yeah, that’s beyond the personality type.

    Jimbo wants to prove that he didn’t just coast into a championship on St. Bobby’s coattails.

    They’re still tallying the damage in Tallahassee, and a Super Bowl erased memories of the Jameis Winston era in Tampa, when Lovie took Jimbo’s word for it.

    BTW, Lovie is not working this season, but his predecessor failure in Tampa, “Rah” Morris, got another shot in Atlanta.

    Peter King retired. “Rah” won’t get another shot when Atlanta melts down.

  39. Lynn says:

    “Shoot”

    That would be the next step, if they try to get out. 

    Again, just like home in Venezuela.   

    My parents were in Venezuela a little over 20 years ago with Dad trying to stir up some business for us.  Mom was going to walk across the downtown Caracas square from the hotel to a museum that she loved.  The concierge ran after her and brought her back into the hotel.  He then called her a cab.  He made her promise that she would call him and he would get her a cab.  He told her that they were kidnapping Americans and that they could tell she was an American even though she has black hair, black eyes, and dark skin (my mother is Flemish).

    We will be just like Venezuela in less then ten years if Kamala becomes prez. Shoot, maybe two years.  Starvation, kidnappings, running gun battles in the streets, home invasions, hyperinflation, etc, etc, etc.

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  40. Lynn says:

    Jimbo is now at Ole Miss, rehabbing his career as the Offensive Coordinator.

    Well, good for him.  I would take my $90 million and retire at 60+.

    Jimbo is 58.  Younger than I thought.  He still thinks he can conquer the world.

  41. nick flandrey says:

    Wow, just started pouring down.   Thunder and lightning too.    It was off to the east of me but was clearly getting closer the last hour or two. 

    Ranger is back at the mechanic.   They couldn’t get the alignment right, so they looked deeper.   Tie rod ends.   Maybe a castor/camber shim kit.   They’ll do the tie rod fix first as it’s straightforward and (relatively speaking) inexpensive.   Even with only 153K miles, it is 21 years old and stuff wears out.   It breaks when you hit sharp edged potholes on the freeway too.   And a closer look at the front tires shows the bad wear pattern so they rotated them too.

    I should have the truck back by tomorrow afternoon.  I’m hoping for another 10 years and 100K miles.

    n

  42. nick flandrey says:

    I ordered some velcro from big river, and it arrived today.   No envelope or bag.  Just a shipping label on the retail package.   

    They are REALLY cutting back on packaging.

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  43. Lynn says:

    I ordered some velcro from big river, and it arrived today.   No envelope or bag.  Just a shipping label on the retail package.   

    They are REALLY cutting back on packaging.

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    Anything that comes in a box is just now getting a Amazon label thrown on it and reshipped.  Makes perfect sense to me.  Books come in a USPS disposable plastic bag.  

    I would bet that 15 to 20% of Big River’s costs are related to shipping.  They are continuously working to get that down, Bezos needs a new yacht for his squeeze.

  44. Lynn says:

    “Friendly Fire Fiasco: Ukrainian Army Shoots Down Its Own F16 Jet, Pilot Killed”

       https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/first-us-made-f16-jet-downed-ukraine-during-combat-pilot-killed

    Update (5:15pm ET): It appears that the US-made F-16 fighter jet, which was handed over to Ukraine earlier this year, was downed by a Ukrainian Patriot air defense system in a friendly fire incident, Ukrainian lawmaker Maryana Bezuglaya said cited by TASS.”

    “”According to my information, the F-16 of the Ukrainian pilot Alexey ‘Moonfish’ Mes was shot down by the Patriot anti-aircraft missile system due to a lack of coordination between the [military] units,” she wrote on Telegram.”

    War is hell.

  45. Greg Norton says:

    I would bet that 15 to 20% of Big River’s costs are related to shipping.  They are continuously working to get that down, Bezos needs a new yacht for his squeeze.

    Gotta pay for another season of “The Rings of Power”.

  46. Lynn says:

    “Junkyard Bargain” by Faith Hunter
       https://www.amazon.com/Junkyard-Bargain-Faith-Hunter/dp/1622681762?tag=ttgnet-20/

    Book number two of a four book novella science fiction series. I read the well printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback published by Lore Seekers Press in 2023 that I bought on Amazon. I have the other two books in the series.

    The book is set in the not so distant future, probably 2060 or so. In 2043, thousands of Chinese Mamabots advanced into Seattle from the ocean, creating and deploying Warbots to kill the population. The Mama bots self replicated and spread across the USA and then the world, killing off most of the population with their warbots, starting “The Final War”. The Mamabots and the warbots have been mostly taken out, mostly, using antitank weapons and blasters, but there are many still in hiding.

    2060 is highly different from our time. There has been a severe population crash due to the bots and the lack of water. There were dark matter WIMP engines for the space ships that the Bug aliens shot down. There are the Bug aliens that forced The Final War to stop. And Shining has a crashed Bug space ship that the Bugs are looking for.

    Shining Smith is going to Charlottsville to trade metals for other goods. And dig up a rumored Simba tank that was lost in the swamp. The Simba tank has a WIMP power generator with an AGR (antigrav) system that can hold it up to four feet above the ground.

    Shining is one of the few known survivors of a bicolor ant swarm, who infected her with their nanobots. And she is a survivor of The Final War that started when she was 12. There is video of her killing a Mamabot in Seattle by dragging a bomb into it when she was 12.

    BTW, the nanobots are freaking me out. The fact that Shining Smith is infected and shedding nanobots all over the place is a horrifying concept. And she has infected her junkyard cats who use the nanobots to communicate to each other and her. And she has infected the people who work with her but none of them shed nanobots like her since she is a “nanobot queen”.

    BTW, the junkyard cats are motivated by protein. In 2060, protein is short as much of the world has turned into deserts due to WIMP bombs ripping away the stratosphere. Dead humans are protein according to cat rules. Don’t get jumped by five cats, you will end up as protein.

    The author has a website at:
       https://www.faithhunter.net

    My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    Amazon rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (2,475 reviews)

    Lynn

  47. Alan says:

    >> Yes, there is a ‘simple way’. Read the latest post, then use the comment form at the end of that post.

    Comments ‘belong’ to a post. They are shown in the order they are submitted. 

    So, @RickH, please CMIIAM, but if I wanted to enter a comment now for tomorrow’s thread, I can’t yet until @nick makes tomorrow’s post live? 

  48. Lynn says:

    So, @RickH, please CMIIAM, but if I wanted to enter a comment now for tomorrow’s thread, I can’t yet until @nick makes tomorrow’s post live? 

    CMIIAM = ComMent In I??? Advance Morning

  49. RickH says:

    >> Yes, there is a ‘simple way’. Read the latest post, then use the comment form at the end of that post.

    Comments ‘belong’ to a post. They are shown in the order they are submitted. 

    So, @RickH, please CMIIAM, but if I wanted to enter a comment now for tomorrow’s thread, I can’t yet until @nick makes tomorrow’s post live? 

    That is correct, unless you know the URL of the pending post (which only admins and the author can determine from the post’s edit screen (in the admin area). You’d then have to view that post with that URL, and then you’d see the comment form and go from there. The URL is related to the title of the post (at least the title initially assigned to the post entry, although the author  and admin can modify the URL of a post).

    The table row for each comment includes the ID of the post that it belongs to, in addition to a unique comment ID (which you can see if you hover over the individual comment’s date stamp).

     Technically, you could change that ID value for a comment to ‘assign’ it to a different post. But that requires direct access to the database. There might be a plugin that allows for that ability to change a comments’ post ID value. 

  50. RickH says:

    CMIIAM = “Correct Me If I Am Mistaken”, I believe.

  51. Lynn says:

    “Proof Women Are Evil”

       https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m5LdJFrm9sE

    This  is what Kamala Harris sounds like to me.

    My wife is incredibly logical and tolerant, she does not pull off this crap.

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  52. Lynn says:

    “WATCH: CNN Releases First Clip of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz Softball Interview – But Won’t Release Full Transcript of All 18 Minutes… What’s Being Cut Out?”

        https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/watch-cnn-releases-first-clip-kamala-harris-tim/

    Kamala Harris wants to use your children as footstools.

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  53. Alan says:

    >> I ordered some velcro from big river, and it arrived today.   No envelope or bag.  Just a shipping label on the retail package.   

    They are REALLY cutting back on packaging. 

    Unless something has changed, for any item that, by default, ships just in its retail packaging, there is an option during checkout to ‘hide the retail packaging’ and use Amazon packaging. Usually for oversized items has been my experience. 

    Might also occasionally deter a porch pirate not interested in velcro. 

  54. Lynn says:

    “A vivid illustration of our need for a “store of value””

       hhttps://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/08/a-vivid-illustration-of-our-need-for.html

    “Most of us can’t afford to invest a large proportion of our income and/or savings in stores of value, because they aren’t really “investments” at all – they don’t earn interest, they don’t pay dividends, and we lose access to and the daily use of the money we use to buy them.  Nevertheless, it’s prudent to own at least some stores of value, as a hedge against other investments (including cash, in a high-inflation situation) that may lose value rather than retain it.  That’s why many people buy silver or gold, in whatever quantity they can afford.  In South-East Asia, gold jewelry in particular is an investing way of life for many families, even those who are relatively poor.  There have been so many disruptions to society, the economy and stability that they’ve learned the hard way to have some of their savings in things they can scoop up and carry with them as they flee.  Gold jewelry is negotiable for cash almost anywhere.”

    So buy gold and silver jewelry as that is not tracked and can be easily bartered for stuff ?

    How do you tell what is real gold and real silver in the apocalypse ?

  55. Lynn says:

    “Intel’s ‘Raptor Lake’ Bug Patch Is Here: How Much Does It Affect Performance?”

       https://www.pcmag.com/news/intels-raptor-lake-bug-patch-is-here-how-much-does-it-affect-performance

    “The bug biting Intel’s 13th and 14th Gen Core desktop chips is a big deal. We test the effect the first major patch has on CPU speed, power consumption, and operating temperatures.”

    Everything is getting patched now.

  56. Ken Mitchell says:

    How do you tell what is real gold and real silver in the apocalypse ?

    The same way Archimedes did 2400 years ago. Fill a container of water to a precise level. Drop your precious metals into the water, and see how much the water level rises. This gives you the volume of the metal, from the amount of water displaced.  Then weigh it, and calculate the density. Pure precious metals have fixed densities that you can look up in standard reference tables. Compare your calculated density to the tables, and voila! Or, as Archimedes said, in the original Greek, “Eureka!”

    In my case, my “precious metals” are small copper-coated cylindrical ingots of lead, in brass containers. But I have THOUSANDS of them.

    Because you can’t eat gold or silver.

  57. nick flandrey says:

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13792483/migrants-try-boarding-san-diego-school-bus-california.html

    ———

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/texas/article-13793333/Gunshots-ring-Venezuelan-gathering-Target-parking-lot-Aurora-Colorado-cops-warn-ruthless-Tren-Aragua-gang-loose.html

    A gathering of Venezuelan migrants spiraled out of control this week as gunshots rang out in the parking lot of a suburban Colorado town. 

    In yet another sign of trouble inside the Venezuelan community living in the US, chaos unleashed by migrants living in Aurora, Colorado has surfaced in a TikTok video.

    ‘Those Venezuelans is taking over,’ a man can be heard saying in an online video posted to TikTok by user 100packsavvy. 

    The July 29 footage shows bedlam in a Target parking lot in Aurora where Venezuelans had gathered in a weekend demonstration over the elections in their homeland.

    While mostly peaceful, South American swarmed the shopping center, completely taking it over, with cars sardined, bumper-to-bumper.

    Mostly peaceful, except for the shooting…

    n

  58. nick flandrey says:

    Because you can’t eat gold or silver. 

    — but throughout history you could trade it for food…

    n

  59. nick flandrey says:

    Impact of the July 19 CrowdStrike outage on public safety systems

    On July 19, 2024, CrowdStrike, a U.S. cybersecurity firm, released a software update to their customers. The update caused certain systems to crash, disrupting services across several industries, including airlines, banks, hospitals, government agencies, and public safety systems.

    CrowdStrike reported that the incident was caused by “a defect found in a single content update of its software on Microsoft Windows operating systems” and was not a cyberattack. Though the update affected less than 1% of all Windows machines, the impacts were widespread and global.

    The Congressional Research Service (CRS) published an In Focus report shortly after the incident: IT Outage from CrowdStrike’s Update: Impacts to Certain Public Safety Systems and Considerations for Congress.

    The incident affected public safety agencies that use CrowdStrike’s cybersecurity software on their computer systems. This CRS report focuses on the impact of the CrowdStrike incident on U.S. public safety communications systems and services, such as 911 systems, police and fire agency systems, fire alarms, broadcast networks involved in emergency alerting, and some federal agencies that support public safety and emergency response.

    The report discusses how the telecommunications and public safety sectors are attempting to address emerging risks with their evolving technology. These sectors have been migrating to IP-based networks and software-defined networks to enhance network management and performance and enable interconnectivity. This technology migration has enhanced redundancy and resiliency but has introduced new vulnerabilities.

    The report makes recommendations for consideration by Congress, such as providing or prioritize funding for critical infrastructure resiliency, including for public safety backup systems. The report also makes recommendations that Congress could address with directives to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

    Access the report within the CRS’ digital collection at csrreports.congress.gov.

    n

  60. drwilliams says:

    “How do you tell what is real gold and real silver in the apocalypse ?”

    Archimedes method is old and slow.

    Chemical tests are faster. Kits are less than $50.

    Electronic testers are very fast and start at $200 so. If you have gold the investment is well-worth gettng a good one and learning to use it. 

  61. MrAtoz says:

    In my case, my “precious metals” are small copper-coated cylindrical ingots of lead, in brass containers. But I have THOUSANDS of them.

    You can’t eat these either, but, you can make someone else “eat” them.

  62. drwilliams says:

    @Lynn

    “Junkyard Bargain” by Faith Hunter
       https://www.amazon.com/Junkyard-Bargain-Faith-Hunter/dp/1622681762?tag=ttgnet-20/

    Book number two of a four book novella science fiction series. I read the well printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback published by Lore Seekers Press in 2023 that I bought on Amazon. I have the other two books in the series.

    160pp? Throwback to the ‘60’s!

  63. nick flandrey says:

    They are really novellas and priced accordingly.   Or think of how thin an Avon romance is….

    n

  64. Ray Thompson says:

    I just got a text message from the Humper’s campaign asking if I am going to vote for her and a URL in the message to take a small poll and donate. I deleted the message without responding.

    What gives that slime ball the right to invade my private message space with her nonsense? That should be against the law. It is crap like that that makes me despise and loathe politicians.

    I watched a preview of her interview on CNN. One of the questions asked, “Why have you changed your position on major issues?” was never answered. The Humper put together her usual word salad without any substantial information and most certainly no answer to the question. Of course that satisfied the mentally challenged far left bell curve ignorant and uneducated CNN interviewer. But that is a redundant statement.

  65. Ken Mitchell says:

    Because you can’t eat gold or silver. 

    — but throughout history you could trade it for food…

    I do have other “trade goods” that will probably be equally valuable in a TEOTWAWKI situation, including whiskey, rum, and tequila. 

  66. drwilliams says:

    Why Is Cheap Wind Power So Expensive?

    29,826 megawatts divided by 65 months means we’d have to add offshore wind generation to the tune of 465 additional megawatts of generation capacity per month. Every month. Starting now.

    Get real. That’s not remotely possible. The biggest US offshore windfarm just came on line, 132 MW capacity. To reach the White House goal, every month we’d need to build three new windfarms of that size. No way that can happen. It’s just numbers picked out of the air to gain popular support.

    Stop and consider. Some private company is building a six-hundred-million-dollar white elephant in the middle of the ocean, and it’s getting paid four hundred million of taxpayer money to do so.

    So … what does the New York consumer get for all of this more than generous support?

    The consumer gets wind power costing FOUR TIMES AS MUCH as the current cost of power in New York.

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/08/28/why-is-cheap-wind-power-so-expensive/

    200 mpg carburetors would reduce emissions more than offshore wind farms, if not for the Dastardly Davos Plan: when the governments commit to increase the cost of power by 300%, the result is a ruined economy and destitute people dying in the dark. Since dead people don’t emit CO2–at least after the decay process finishes–it’s a win for the Davos Team.

  67. MrAtoz says:

    What gives that slime ball the right to invade my private message space with her nonsense? That should be against the law. It is crap like that that makes me despise and loathe politicians.

    As we all know, the political class in the FUSA have exempted themselves from everything. I’m still getting a dozen texts/emails a day from the Dumbos. Remember the no-call list? The p-class immediately exempted themselves from it. From then, it never worked.

  68. MrAtoz says:

    LOL! Is there an important election coming up:

    The Hill: Summer COVID Surge Threatens Return to 2020 Measures

    I can already hear the sheeple baaahing.

  69. Lynn says:

    “Greg Kelly: “George W. Bush – Is Contemplating an Endorsement of Kamala Harris – What a Disgrace!” (VIDEO)”

        https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/greg-kelly-george-w-bush-is-contemplating-endorsement/

    Really ?  Are you kidding me ?

    George, I have been disappointed in you many times.  But this will top the cake if you do this.

  70. Ray Thompson says:

    I’m still getting a dozen texts/emails a day from the Dumbos

    I got a couple of calls from dumbo’s asking if I will vote for the Humper. My response was “I wouldn’t f*ck her with your d*ck, why would I vote for her?”. The call terminated quickly. That was a couple of weeks ago and I have not gotten a call since.

    I also don’t see the purpose of the rallies. The only people that show up are the ones that are going to vote for the candidate. Regardless of what happens in a rally, it will not change my vote. Only reason I can see is to solicit money and get media coverage. I personally will not send a dime to any political candidate. Most of the money is wasted on silly stupid signs, t-shirts and hats. Along with the travel expenses. The candidates travel like royalty and I am certainly not going to fund that lifestyle while I continue to travel in coach.

  71. Lynn says:

    “Junkyard Bargain” by Faith Hunter
       https://www.amazon.com/Junkyard-Bargain-Faith-Hunter/dp/1622681762?tag=ttgnet-20/

    Book number two of a four book novella science fiction series. I read the well printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback published by Lore Seekers Press in 2023 that I bought on Amazon. I have the other two books in the series.

    160pp? Throwback to the ‘60’s!

    75% (SWAG) of Andre Norton’s books were novellas.  Ace still published them and I still loved them.  All of the Perry Rhodan books (except the doubles) were novellas.  

    Five of the seven Murderbot Diaries books by Martha Wells are novellas.

    Some days you feel like a novella, some days you don’t.

    BTW, mine were printed on demand in Coppell, Texas at the big printing plant there. I want to go see it some day.

  72. nick flandrey says:

    Blocked Any Moment in Brazil – Starlink Accounts in the Country Seized – Musk Lashes Out: ‘The Tyrant, Alexandre, Is Dictator of Brazil. Lula Is His Lapdog’

    by Paul Serran Aug. 29, 2024 5:15 pm

    After months of clashing between Brazilian Judiciary and the X social media platform, it is finally about to happened: X will reportedly blocked in Brazil at any moment.

    X platform was dodging what it (along with most commentators) sees as clearly unconstitutional and illegal requests – not to mention secret – requests by Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes to censor or otherwise disclose private information regarding users that are political enemies of the judge.

    Musk resisted the requests, openly defying the man who has become the real power in the shadows in Brazil – never mind socialist President Lula da Silva.

    – shirt’s gettin real. 

    n

  73. nick flandrey says:

    How Kamala inflated a key part of her resume she’s used repeatedly to attack Trump… as more stories about her past unravel

     

    Vice President Kamala Harris has a history of inflating her record as a California prosecutor, using it to propel her political career.

    –n

  74. Lynn says:

    I just got a text message from the Humper’s campaign asking if I am going to vote for her and a URL in the message to take a small poll and donate. I deleted the message without responding.

    What gives that slime ball the right to invade my private message space with her nonsense? That should be against the law. It is crap like that that makes me despise and loathe politicians.

    I watched a preview of her interview on CNN. One of the questions asked, “Why have you changed your position on major issues?” was never answered. The Humper put together her usual word salad without any substantial information and most certainly no answer to the question. Of course that satisfied the mentally challenged far left bell curve ignorant and uneducated CNN interviewer. But that is a redundant statement.

    “Kamala Harris blurted out this nonsense, “It is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time.””.

    What the frack does that mean ?

    From:

       https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/kamala-stumbles-cnn-interview-bumblehead-blurts-word-salad/

  75. Lynn says:

    I also don’t see the purpose of the rallies. The only people that show up are the ones that are going to vote for the candidate. Regardless of what happens in a rally, it will not change my vote. Only reason I can see is to solicit money and get media coverage. I personally will not send a dime to any political candidate. Most of the money is wasted on silly stupid signs, t-shirts and hats. Along with the travel expenses. The candidates travel like royalty and I am certainly not going to fund that lifestyle while I continue to travel in coach.

    Would you ever vote for a candidate who did nothing but sit in a basement and mumble at you ?

    Biden got 81 million votes with that nonsense and Trump got 74 million votes. Unreal.
    https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/results/president

  76. Nick Flandrey says:

    The rallies serve Trump to show people that they aren’t alone.  The size helps to put the lie to the media…and the steal.

    n

  77. Nick Flandrey says:

    WRT whether a gang has “taken over” a particular apartment building or not, have you ever seen video like that from somewhere else?  Those guys are not worried at all about swarming up the stairs and getting into that apartment, all while carrying openly and ready to shoot…

    and after the time of the video there were multiple shots fired in the complex according to the article. 

    There are some shirty complexes here in Houston, and it’s actually legal for citizens to carry openly, HOLSTERED, but a group armed and carrying bare like that?  Nope.  Add that it’s gun hating colorado, and you’ve got a gang of killers walking around armed in daytime, without repercussions. 

    The ‘rebuttal’ article only says that the cops won’t make an official statement, and that investigations are ongoing, not that it hasn’t happened.

    n

  78. Lynn says:

    “Minnesota grandma jailed for defying Walz COVID lockdown orders: ‘You do not want tyranny at this level’”

       https://www.foxnews.com/politics/minnesota-grandma-jailed-defying-walz-lockdown-warns-americans-you-do-not-want-tyranny-level

    “Lisa Hanson warns Americans against electing Minnesota Gov Tim Walz as VP: ‘He will take your rights away’”

    “Her wine and coffee bistro initially complied with the shutdown ordered that March. However, Hanson said she watched for months afterward as Walz never fully re-opened the state when it came to businesses deemed nonessential, such as the bars, restaurants, gyms, dance studios and hair salons. By contrast, the governor never shut down liquor stores, big-box stores or even strip clubs.”

    “Hanson eventually decided to re-open her business and defied Walz’s renewed shutdown order for bars and restaurants six times between December 2020 and January 2021.”

    I listened to this lady for a little while on Sean Hannity’s radio show today.  Walz put her in jail for 60 days for violating his stay at home order for her coffee business six months AFTER the initial order even though he let the strip clubs stay open !

    Walz is a dictator wannabe !  This guy has some seriously wrong stuff with him.  30 business trips to China.  Left his Guard unit after being notified they were going to Iraq.  Etc, etc, etc.

  79. Lynn says:

    “You Had One Job: Comrade Kamala Blows Pre-Taped Interview Question With Tampon Tim Right Next to Her”

       https://thelibertydaily.com/you-had-one-job-comrade-kamala-blows-pre/

    ““I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed,” she replied. “You mentioned the Green New Deal. I have always believed – and I have worked on it – that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time.””

    “Yes, deadlines around time.”

    Does she talk this normally ? If so, whew !

  80. Greg Norton says:

    “The bug biting Intel’s 13th and 14th Gen Core desktop chips is a big deal. We test the effect the first major patch has on CPU speed, power consumption, and operating temperatures.”

    Everything is getting patched now.

    CPU microcode patching has been a thing for a while.

    My replacement replacement work laptop arrived.

    i7 vPro Ultra, 32 GB RAM, 512 GB storage.

    I wish I could install Linux to see what the machine can really do, but IT keeps these locked down.

  81. paul says:

    Swap the hard drive?

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