Hot and humid, although it will start cooler. Yesterday was a mix of sunny and hot, crashing downpours, high winds, and gentle rain. What kind of weather? Yes. Today shouldn’t have rain, but we’ll see. Still very wet out so the humidity will likely be high. Joy.
I did indoor things yesterday. Fixed some cables for the school, and for me. Did some troubleshooting on other tech that’s been stacked up waiting to be fixed. Nothing complete, but some small progress made.
Did a bunch of auction stuff. Won a very nice new bed for the BOL. The mattress we’ve been using is small (queen vs the cal king we have at home) and not very comfortable. I won a split king Tempur Pedic. Picking it up and moving it will be the hardest part. Everything about the Tempur Pedic is heavy. At least it’s 2 mattresses. Moving the cal king was almost too much for me and the wife. Being able to sleep for more than a couple of days without causing crippling neck and back pain will be nice. I’ll probably rent a trailer and a drywall dolly. That’s about the easiest way I can think to handle it.
Today I’m starting back at the kid’s school. I hope to get a couple more problems resolved so the kids can start actually working during the rehearsals. They have two weeks (a bit less actually) before opening night. Then I’ll be getting some auction dropoff stuff together, even if I don’t hear back from my auctioneer. I want it ready to go and all in one place. Well, I can dream, right?
Then there will be kid taxi service in the afternoon, and the rest of the domestic bliss…
Dunno when I’ll stack anything, but I’ll try. After all, we have an extra hour in the day, right?? ;-P
Stack while you can.
nick
So many possible jokes. But I will just leave it as a first post.
@ray, you are the very soul of restraint!
——–
I for one welcome our new solar photon overlords! It’s nice to not stand in the dark waiting for the bus.
——–
Still looks a bit drippy out, and the forecast says “could rain anytime” nationally. I don’t usually bother with the local weather liars. Sun is peaking through though.
Coffee is in the cup, bacon is in the pan, and as of this moment, everyone else in the house is in their bed. I’ll have to remedy that…
n
“Godzilla Raids Again”, the first sequel in the “Godzilla” franchise, is interesting because the US dub cast list includes George Takei doing an Asian Stepen Fetchit bit, something I’m sure he would like to forget these days as the “woke” surviving cast member from “Star Trek”.
“Godzilla Raids Again” also features Keye Luke in the dubbing lead. Number One Son!
“Mothra” introduced the Japanese twins meme to geek culture, and I think the priestesses appear in all of those films. They are definitely in the first three, played by a pop duo, The Peanuts.
I believe “Svengoolie” has an interview with The Peanuts sisters from the 90s in one of his “Mothra” shows.
Cue the Wizard of Id…
WATCH: Spanish King Booed, Pelted with Mud and Bricks by Revolting Villagers Affected by Deadly Flood
n
Oh, and 74F this fine day.
n
We Finally Know Why Ancient Roman Concrete Was Able to Last Thousands of Years
It wasn’t the lowest cost bid from I Know A Guy, Inc.
I’ve mentioned before I met the King when he was the Prince, at the White House. He seemed like a decent fellow. However, the mob rules.
Monty: Robot Oil Change
https://www.gocomics.com/monty/2024/11/04
What is funny is that people think that robots will be our servants. Nope, robots will be like everything else, just one more thing to continuously take care of.
And everything is tightening up for a photo finish !
Election 2024 Trump Harris Spread
RCP National Average 48.5 48.5 Tie
Top Battlegrounds 48.5 47.7 Trump +0.8
RCP Betting Average 56.0 42.9
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/
Fixed it.
Cue the Nirvana.
NBC Forced to Give Trump Two Minutes of Airtime and Boy Does He Deliver: ‘Kamala Broke It, I’ll Fix It’
https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2024/11/04/nbc-forced-to-give-trump-2-minutes-of-airtime-and-boy-does-he-deliver-kamala-broke-it-ill-fix-it-n2181481
A very powerful add put together in a few hours.
Wonder how long they spent trying to make the Kackling Kamala appearance on SNL better than it was.
SNL has “dress rehearsal” with a full audience earlier in the evening. Sketches are culled and tweaked from that point ahead of the live broadcast at 11:30.
“German raccoon sausage???”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/11/german-raccoon-sausage.html
No, no, no, no, no. But they are pests.
I was living with my grandparents in 1970 (I was 10) when a raccoon family was eating the outside cat food on their back porch. We were sitting in the den when the raccoon mom and dad brought up their four babies. So cute and so dangerous.
Why Veterans Really Hate Liz Cheney, Kamala Harris, And The Architects Of The War On Terror
https://thefederalist.com/2024/11/04/why-veterans-really-hate-liz-cheney-kamala-harris-and-the-architects-of-the-war-on-terror/
A very good piece of writing from a veteran calling out the odious actions of three groups.
Consider also:
which makes a good case for the unique betrayal of the Cheney’s.
Bush 43 was the focus of continual slanderous lies and an attempted kneecapping by Dan Rather and CBS news with totally false allegations about his National Guard service. Since leaving the office he has passed every opportunity to use his position as an ex-president to defend the republic from bad policy, unconstitutional excess, and enemies within. Give him a tiny bit of credit now for refusing to get pushed into the cesspool.
Dick Cheney got a series of deferments that kept him out of the draft. One of those deferments was due to his wife’s pregnancy with the daughter they would name Lynn. I remember the “slanderous lies” that were directed against Dick Cheney and the accusations that he planned the expansion of his family in response to changes in the deferral rules. It boggles the mind that either Cheney would be cozying up to those same people. They must have torn out their moral compass and mounted an edibles dispenser.
Despite bearing multiple wounds from the feckless and traitorous leftists, Dick and his daughter Liz have spent years splashing in the cesspool with them. Dick has demonstrated bad judgement, whereas Liz has also demonstrated a willingness to violate her oath of office, the laws of the United States, and probably much more in her conduct. Contemptible liars and worse, they will be cited by history as examples of hate twisted beyond all reason, and the conclusion is that they hate themselves more than anything.
“Constellation Energy, nuclear stocks plummet after regulators block Amazon power deal”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/constellation-energy-nuclear-stocks-plummet-after-regulators-block-amazon-power-deal-151109123.html
“The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) rejected a proposal from a grid operator, PJM, to ramp up the amount of power supplied through the grid from Talen Energy (TLN) to an Amazon (AMZN) artificial intelligence data center. Talen said in a statement on Sunday it believes the FERC “erred” in its ruling, adding the company is “evaluating our options, with a focus on commercial solutions.””
FERC exists to slow down the USA economy, just a bunch of mostly useless bureaucrats.
Shrub deserves nothing. He’s not wading in because the cabal still wants to advance George P. (Diddly) Bush to the Texas Governor’s Mansion and, eventually, the White House.
Bush→Compassionate Conservative→TARP→RINO
I had high hopes for Shrub. Then he went full RINO. Good riddance to him and the family cabal.
And Darth Cheney endorsing the Kamel Humper? He can go f himself. These power hungry bastards need to go.
Apparently someone found some rare form of bees that live in the area proposed for the facility. Or placed the bees in the area. Just about anything can be blocked by looking at life forms hard enough. This will quickly become the new form of blocking any expansion or project that is good for the people, and yes, even for the environment.
The people that don’t want something are very good at finding some judge they can
bribeconvince that the project should be blocked.Locally a developer wants to put in a housing development. Adding more homes would seem to be good when just two weeks ago Knoxville was complaining there was not enough housing. When a developer wants to help with the problem, the locals balk. Especially people living in the area. NIMBY’s all the way.
In this case the site proposed was used for some type of munitions, or explosive manufacturing. People are concerned something will explode. Well hello fungus breath, that is the problem of the developer and people working on the site, not the homeowners that live a mile away.
The Oregon logging industry was almost destroyed by the Spotted Owl with the area being its only habitat. Turns out someone lied. The Spotted Owl has a large range. Now the roads that were maintained by the logging companies are useless. When a fire starts there is no easy access and people complain it is the fault of the logging companies for not maintaining the roads into an area the logging companies were refused access.
The bell curve is starting to look like a ski slope.
“Tropical Storm Rafael is headed toward the Gulf of Mexico: Here’s what to expect”
https://spacecityweather.com/tropical-storm-rafael-is-headed-toward-the-gulf-of-mexico-heres-what-to-expect/
“In brief: Tropical Storm Rafael formed in the Caribbean Sea on Monday, and it could well become a hurricane before moving into the Gulf of Mexico later this weekend. Although we don’t have any major concerns here in Texas, we are sharing this post from our sister site, The Eyewall, so readers can be informed about the situation. We’ll continue to monitor things, of course.”
“Android malware FakeCall intercepts your calls to the bank”
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/10/android-malware-fakecall-intercepts-your-calls-to-the-bank
“An Android banking Trojan called FakeCall is capable of hijacking the phone calls you make to your bank. Instead of reaching your bank, your call will be redirected to the cybercriminals.”
“The Trojan accomplishes this by installing itself as the default call handler on the infected device. The default call handler app is responsible for managing incoming and outgoing calls, allowing users to answer or reject calls, as well as initiate calls.”
You have got to be freaking kidding me. This is nasty. And will probably get nastier.
The app installing the malware is either pr0n-related or gambling.
I dread the day Apple is forced to open their platform to “side loading”.
The typical iPhone is more powerful than a 90s Sun or SGI workstation, running a far superior Unix OS with full Posix support for the compiled binary applications. Lots of mischief will be enabled.
Gas shortage for Thanksgiving!
FBI has been busy growing terrorists again.
– They didn’t “find” him, he was ratted out by an informant, and then groomed by the FBI. You can’t “blow up a … power plant” with explosives carried by a hobby drone. And a pipe bomb isn’t a pipe bomb if it’s “inert”. It’s a prop for the photo op. Don’t even get me started on the ‘enhancement’ that “weapons of mass destruction” gets the DA. For a device that can affect one or two people, or about 100 ft max.
Where’s the Epstein client list? Where are the men (and high ranking female .gov employee) that used the trafficked girls? Why aren’t they doing time? (I know, rhetorical.)
Clean sweep. Probably never happen.
n
Yeah, that’s what the world needs–
Lily James fearlessly scales a mountain as she takes over Sylvester Stallone’s Cliffhanger role in reboot
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14035831/Lily-James-Sylvester-Stallones-Cliffhanger-role-reboot.html
Girl boss remake of a forgettable movie… yikes. I hope they get good shots of the scenery.
n
Is Hung Cao’s Surge the Reason ‘Saturday Night Live’ Felt the Need to Try and Save Tim Kaine?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2024/11/04/hung-cao-has-a-real-shot-of-winning-virginia-snl-coverage-n2647233
20 million viewers.
And there is a huge non-time component of SNL that has not been addressed: What would NBC charge to write and produce a 5-minute campaign commercial?
The remedy for Mr. Cao cannot be timely, but it can be costly. Tell NBC they need to supply the same resources to Mr. Cao, and produce a 5-minute sketch to air on SNL soonest.
In addition to a formal notice requiring records retention in anticipation of an FCC investigation.
Kids are home from school tomorrow as the schools will be polling places. I don’t remember closing the schools for previous elections. Hmm.
Odd.
n
Um, here’s a thought.
How “movie plot evil villain” would you have to be to roll up P Diddler now in order to use the threat of exposure to coerce big name celebs to endorse your impossible candidate?
They let him get away with it for a decade or more, why now?
n
and completely unrelated…
no, really…
I think I just had a piece of road debris pass out of my shoulder from my motorcycle accident in 1986. Scratched at an itchy bump and a grain of sugar sized piece of something hard like glass came out. More scapula than shoulder, it was deeply abraded in the accident. Been a while since I had a chunk of something come out of one of the road rash sites.
For years I had small chunks of dirt, rock, and glass coming out of my face and shoulder every once in a while.
Just weird after all this time that there might still be crep inside trying to get out.
n
Ah… didn’t think they’d admit it. Also, what makes this year special??
https://www.axios.com/local/houston/2022/11/01/security-election-day-school-closings
Too much caffeine this afternoon and I am not sleepy. I think I’ll eat some cookies and try reading for a while.
Get away from the screens.
I’m really hoping that concerns about violence at polling places is severely overblown, because that is some third world bullshite right there…
n