Warmer, and wet. Forecast has us in the rain zone for the next two days at least. BOL got major thunderstorms yesterday and we got rain around 11pm… It would be helpful if it wasn’t raining… but if wishes were horses, we’d all be eating steak.
Didn’t get much done yesterday. Fell asleep. Threw off my whole day. Did get the kitchen cleaned up after all the frying. Need to change the air filters in the AC to get rid of the fry smell. Not fish, just oil. Did some auction stuff. Messed about. Did some stuff for D2’s birthday celebration.
Today I need to get out of the house and do one pickup. Then it’s off to Costco to get supplies for D2’s special dinner. And there will be preparation and cooking later. Then eating. One of my siblings will be joining us too, and that will involve some coordination.
So today will be family focused…
Stacking up family time. Just as important as buckets of rice.
nick
DeSantis gave The Mouse a year to come to the table and negotiate over maintaining Reedy Creek. Cheapek and Iger chose to play hardball and now it is going to bite them.
Just as the market could have decided (and is deciding) the fate of The Mouse, the voters in Florida had their chance to express dissatisfaction over how DeSantis and the Legislature handled the situation.
70-30..
DeSantis plays well in The Villages. That’s what matters.
Raining this am. Wife has chosen to drive the kids to school today so I won’t be standing in the rain waiting for the bus. hooray.
I’ll be drinking coffee and eating my breakfast.
n
I am under no illusions that there is something shady about the offer and the activation keys. The keys delivered do indeed work. I had an issue with one purchase where I did not receive the key I paid for. I was sent another key without much hassle involved. The last purchase for the MAC I got an invoice email for $0.00 from Microsoft with the activation key. Somehow even Microsoft is involved in the process. Strange.
I have purchased MSOffice 2021 keys, two of them, from the same place and the keys worked. I purchased a key for the Mac version, and it worked. I have little reason to doubt that the keys will continue to work in the future. My lack of doubt does not 100% guarantee future activation. This is based on my many dealings with MS keys in the past.
My Action Pack keys from years ago, such keys supposedly not supposed to be used anymore, continue to work without issue. Once Microsoft issues a key, I don’t think they really have a process to clean out old activation keys. Probably in the most egregious cases of piracy MS might clean up the keys.
Stacksocial seems to work. It has for me.
My experience mirrors that of Ray. MS Office keys either worked or were replaced with keys that worked. Stacksocial also came good on a “lifetime vpn” offer: when one VPN provider ceased, they provided access to another without additional costs. Uncomplicated, responsive customer service too. So far, so good.
In other news, my cracked car windscreen was replaced, and I am 1000 bucks poorer. Mrs Denis and I had a pizza lunch while the car glass guy was busy, which was nice. She had parmigiana, and I had “Della casa”: tomato, mozzarella, Speck, goat’s cheese and honey. Delicious, and I kept a quarter of the enormous portion for later. Eating smaller portions works: I am down 5kg (10lbs) since January.
The rear window defrost on my truck ceased to work a couple of years ago. It is connected in series to the rear-view mirror defrost. $1,000 to replace that window. It is bolted to the cab on the inside which requires the rear seat to be removed. Eight months later the replacement quit. It was replaced under warranty. The work was done by an independent garage which Ford honors the warranty on parts and labor. The second cost me nothing.
According to the shop owner at the independent place, all the F-150s with the same model rear window, the defrost does not work. There is a flaw in the wiring in the sliding part of the window. Ford refuses to acknowledge or provide a fix.
Eating smaller portions works
– I’ve found this to be true too. Just push away from the plate…
n
(a large part of the Atkins plan is portion control, actually measuring the food on the plate. I was surprised by our constant up-sizing.)
Be sure to file a complaint with the NHTSB about the problem. Sometimes, that works.
People are starting to notice that Chile nationalized their lithium mines last week.
I’d like to see Elon Musk’s strategic plan.
WRT sexual criminality in the Roman Catholic Clergy, the Pope could stop it totally. When he receives the names of the guilty clergy members, he should call St. Peter at the Pearly Gates and tell him not to let them enter Heaven. He should then tell St. Peter to send them to the fires in Hell and tell the Devil to let them in and never let them out.
How simple is that?
The flaw is not a safety problem or a drivability problem. The NTHSB is not interested as it is a consumer problem. Now if the window were to fall out it would be a different story.
Not being able to see out of the window isn’t a safety issue?
Rear window. Not required by law. As witnessed by cargo and utility vans.
Someone’s finally catching on.
plugs’ handlers are starting to sweat. People are going to catch on they keep Veggie-POTUS on a continual drip of Adderall.
“E. Jean Carroll testifies Trump raped her, then ‘shattered my reputation’”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/e-jean-carroll-testifies-trump-raped-her-then-shattered-my-reputation/ar-AA1aosYA
She has a story. But I have a problem with she said, he said, accusations. She has no other corroborating witness. And her story is strange, what woman would go into a store dressing room with a unrelated man other than to, you know.
Hat tip to:
https://drudgereport.com/
“Fire Sale: $300 Million San Francisco Office Tower, Mostly Empty. Open to Offers.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/san-francisco-commercial-real-estate-office-buildings-471742ea
“350 California Street was worth $300 million four years ago. It might sell for 80% less now, brokers say, in a market where office vacancy rates have soared.”
How many homeless are camped in its nook and crannies ?
Any other politician or public figure subjected to the scrutiny and animosity that trump has been would have confessed to raping corpses by now.
FFS, the list of actual crimes committed by sitting and former members of Congress could fill the Library of Congress. Let’s see some attention paid to digging up accusers and witnesses to some of those crimes…
n
and yeah, for some of the **COUGH** pols, you’d have to dig up the witnesses.
How many homeless are camped in its nook and crannies ?
–what was the dystopian SF that had people sleeping on steps in high rises? They rented an individual step, iirc.
n
Does it come in suppository form?
You mean the ones they don’t crap and piss in?
“.38 Special vs 9mm In Snub Nosed Revolvers”
https://www.shootingillustrated.com/content/38-special-vs-9mm-in-snub-nosed-revolvers/
“Sure, 9mm is a popular semi-automatic cartridge. But how does it work in a revolver?”
.38 special. If it was good enough for Johnny Carson, it is good enough for me. For those who don’t know, Johnny Carson always carried a .38 special S&W Chief’s Special with him. He was worried about being assassinated for the notoriety of the act, especially after John Lennon was murdered in 1980.
There was a study a while back on the efficacy’s of different rounds in the real world. The results were about what you would expect.
The takeaway, though, was really that anything 22LR and above worked well at stopping assailants – they backed off, ran away, fell down, whatever. Say 90%. A second shot gave another 9%. And so on.
A “5 shot mouse gun” in your pocket is better that a 15 round 10mm Glock at home.
The best camera is the one you have with you, and the same goes for gubs.
n
Anyone know the current track record for Glaser Safety Slugs?
@nick:
Pohl and Kornbluth’s “The Space Merchants”, I think. Definitely a dystopia – the biggest corps in the world are advertisers, who aren’t above advertising addictive drugs – in the form of coffee (with additives.)
G.
>> DeSantis plays well in The Villages. That’s what matters.
Unfortunately just The Villages leaves him a few electoral college votes shy of ‘new drapes for the Oval Office.’
Let’s see how his ‘attack mode’ plays in the other 49 states.
>> If it was good enough for Johnny Carson, it is good enough for me.
I’m liking mine. Still need a better holster though.
>> The takeaway, though, was really that anything 22LR and above worked well at stopping assailants
I considered a 22 for the light recoil but with the right loads a 38 is manageable.
>> FFS, the list of actual crimes committed by sitting and former members of Congress could fill the Library of Congress. Let’s see some attention paid to digging up accusers and witnesses to some of those crimes…
How about we start with Hunter? Convicting him for falsifying his Form 4473 should be a slam dunk.
I can’t wait for court coverage of his child support hearing for the daughter none of the Biden’s will acknowledge. She’s four and plugs has never met her. Can you imagine: your grandfather is the President of the United States and all you get is stink eye. Disgrace.
He’s not my President.
That’s a sentence they should teach the little girl to say.
>> If it was good enough for Johnny Carson, it is good enough for me.
I’m liking mine. Still need a better holster though.
I throw mine in a Sticky Holster and into the pocket of whatever, jeans, shorts, walking shorts, etc.
https://www.amazon.com/Sticky-Holsters-858426004061-MD-4-Medium/dp/B009DJCQIS?tag=ttgnet-20/
A “5 shot mouse gun” in your pocket is better that a 15 round 10mm Glock at home.
A friend of mine carries an eight shot .22LR snubbie wheel gub. It is very small and very potent.
“What climate emergency?”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/04/what-climate-emergency.html
“Armstrong Economics reminds us that the much-ballyhooed “climate emergency” is no such thing. It’s a cynical ploy designed to grab more and more power over us in the name of a non-existent crisis.”
“It’s official: Kelly-Moore Paint Co. to move headquarters from California to North Texas”
https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2023/04/24/kelly-moore-headquarters-move.html
“Irving City Council has given an economic incentives package for Kelly-Moore Paint Co. the green light, spurring forward the independent paint retailer and manufacturer’s headquarters move from California to Dallas-Fort Worth.”
Article after article about businesses moving out of California. Where are people going to work in California ?
New York and California are having a competition for the most business unfriendly states as far as I can see.
They all “work” from home. That’s the problem.
Unfortunately, the C-suite employees get the sweet relocation packages and bring the CA politics with them.
Plus, the suburbs where the CA transplants live outside Dallas are beyond sterile.
When Texas goes Blue, it will happen faster than it did in California.
Think about it for a minute: She’s four and gets to meet FJB with all the cameras rolling as he sniffs her hair and forgets her name. That sticks with her for the rest of her life, but is particularly embarrassing in a few years when she’s old enough to understand how he was found incompetent to stand trial even though he headed a crime family that sold out to foreign interests at every opportunity.
Daddy Hunter at that point will probably still be in jail if he wasn’t Epsteined-out before the drug withdrawal caused him to cut a deal and implicate anyone he could. Either way the entire photo album on his laptop will be immortalized forever–the drug use, the meth-rotten teeth, cavorting with hookers–and be reminded daily by the public school bullies that she can’t escape because the whole family is bankrupt.
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2023/04/27/gabby-giffords-says-n69918
First Question: So does this mean that hubby Mark Kelly no longer owns guns?
Second Question: How do you justify the exceptions for the security details of special people like yourself?
Third Question: Are you going to go door-to-door personally in one of the blue shiitehole cities and explain to the residents why they should become criminals for wanting to keep the means to defend their families?
“The Renewable Capital Cost Green Trick”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/26/the-renewable-capital-cost-green-trick/
“In her excellent and clarifying article in WUWT, Linnea Lueken states: “…renewables advocates frequently cite the claim that wind power (…) is cheaper than fossil fuels, but the reality is different.” Then she continues explaining the cost of backup generation or the need of a thermal generation source forced to operate inefficiently to ensure grid stability, using an increasing fraction of its capacity to keep pace with weather-dependent renewables at all times, and even doing nothing but to burn fuel at rotating reserve without generating electricity, waiting there to wake up (ramp up) when the sun or wind decide to go away.”
Yup, when considering installing the so-called renewable power generation, one must also consider the cost of the backup power generators for when the so-called power generators can not generate power at the times that the customers are demanding electric power.
And then one must consider that the so-called renewable power generators cannot generate power at the 85% capacity factor like conventional power generators. No, the so-called renewable power generators generate power at the 15% to 25% capacity factor with zero time guarantees to boot making the so-called renewable power generators almost worthless.
>> First Question: So does this mean that hubby Mark Kelly no longer owns guns?
Second Question: How do you justify the exceptions for the security details of special people like yourself?
Third Question: Are you going to go door-to-door personally in one of the blue shiitehole cities and explain to the residents why they should become criminals for wanting to keep the means to defend their families?
It’s sad that she got shot and probably has never fully recovered. Hindsight is 20/20 but perhaps if more concerned citizens were armed that day things might have turned out differently.
With regard to your questions, good luck getting any answers from her, him or their respective handlers.
Stack the important things while you still can.
FWIW I think everyone should have some wooden stock, beat up old gubs. Preferably in .mil calibers, but looking like grandpa’s hunting rifle. Ideally in the same caliber as your black rifles…
And scoped. For ‘reach out and touch someone’ if there ever comes the day.
Because the black rifles will be gone.
n
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12017939/Record-one-FOUR-high-school-students-gay-bisexual.html
– or the horrifying possibility, something in the environment caused this and it’s real.
n
Um, ya think?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12019819/I-got-heavily-inked-twenties-Im-36-regret-it.html
Lotta trend followers really gonna be hating life when they find out the laser doesn’t work on most of the tats…
“Gramma, why do you have ”sweet” and “sour” tattooed on your chest?”*
n
*knew a girl in high school that had that exact tat. I don’t think anyone in the line to try them out could tell any difference…
My wife deals with the misconceptions about removal all the time.
A “special cream” does not exist to gradually fade the ink, and laser is not 100% like you see on TV.
Blame “The Simpsons”.
Both years that I worked Downtown, right before SxSW, the big billboard just before the UT campus would change to advertising a removal clinic. Even the “After” image had faint ink visible.
Of course, it didn’t help that the next billboard before the LBJ Library exit was “America’s Favorite Day Sipping Whiskey”.
What’s a “Day Sipping Whiskey”?
And it isn’t just the youngsters. “Ink” is the new midlife crisis outlet for the German Grocery Getter drivers around here.
Cat friend of 14+ years probably passing in the next day or so.
We survived moving Vantucky together then she was sitting next to me in the carrier when I took that one last look at Baker City, OR receding in my rear view mirror on the night we escaped for good.
If she makes it tonight, we’ll let her spend the day at the vet’s on fluids tomorrow and see what happens.
No euthanasia. The associate Dr. at the vet’s office has been pushing that for two years.
I feel bad enough that we drugged her today to tolerate the trip to the vet for blood draws. She hasn’t recovered.
Cat friend of 14+ years probably passing in the next day or so.
We survived moving Vantucky together then she was sitting next to me in the carrier when I took that one last look at Baker City, OR receding in my rear view mirror on the night we escaped for good.
If she makes it tonight, we’ll let her spend the day at the vet’s on fluids tomorrow and see what happens.
No euthanasia. The associate Dr. at the vet’s office has been pushing that for two years.
I feel bad enough that we drugged her today to tolerate the trip to the vet for blood draws. She hasn’t recovered.
Sorry to hear that. Is she 14 or just living with you for 14 years ?
Our male Siamese is 14 and acting old all of a sudden. But he is still 15 lbs and can run like the wind when he wants to. I put two inches of fresh litter in his litter box last after cleaning it. He immediately went in, did his business, and then came out at 30 mph. I am guessing that he was happy.
Our previous cat was 16 or 17 and got brain cancer. That was freaky and very sad.
So I was just debugging some new code on my Windows 7 x64 Pro box and could not get it work right. I was trying to get a new warning to activate but no joy. So I gave up, fixed the bug that the new warning is suppose to warn about, and rebuilt. Voila, my code now worked just fine. The new warning, not at all. I am running the 550 benchmarks now and I will look at them Monday, I am taking my Dad to the movies tomorrow in Victoria to see Covenant.
I hate software. Debugging iterative software with 300,000+ variables rarely goes the way you think it should.
Rescue cat. She came to us at less than a year old after being found living behind a dumpster at Wendy’s with a litter of kittens.
We figure she was someone’s pet who got knocked up and abandoned.
Still, she was always a little wild. The vets wouldn’t have her in the office without a pill.
I’m happy and sad she’s still under the effects from today’s trip.
@nick:
Pohl and Kornbluth’s “The Space Merchants”, I think. Definitely a dystopia – the biggest corps in the world are advertisers, who aren’t above advertising addictive drugs – in the form of coffee (with additives.)
G.
From another place, I put up the YASID (yet another story ID) and got this response, “This was shown in the movie _Soylent Green_. I don’t recall if it was in the source novel, _Make Room! Make Room!_ by Harry Harrison. He has a very interesting article about his experiences working on the film.”
I’m watching the cat and committing a patch to resolve a communication issue which would have customers on the phone as soon as they saw the erroneous “Unavailable” status for their six figure hardware investment.
Global conference all at 7 AM.
“Microsoft: Windows 10 22H2 is the final version of Windows 10”
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-windows-10-22h2-is-the-final-version-of-windows-10/
“Microsoft says Windows 10, version 22H2 will be the last feature update to be released for the Windows 10 operating system. Windows 10 22H2 reached general availability in October 2022 and entered broad deployment on November 18, 2022. All editions of Windows 10 22H2 (Home, Pro, Enterprise, Education, Pro Education, Pro for Workstations, and IoT Enterprise editions) will reach their end of servicing in October 2025.”
I guess that it is time to start moving my shop to Windows 11. Only three of our 14 PCs are even Windows 11 capable.
Microsoft does not screw around. When they say end of life, they mean it.
The film is an important slice of cinema history and worth the time if you haen’t seen it.
I’m sure working on the film was a trip. Go look at the cast.
Yeah, Burt Lancaster, Edward G. Robinson, and Joseph Cotten, but, look, kids, it’s Whit Bissell!
That guy was in everything.
Windows 10 is the end of the contractual obligation Microsoft has to support VB6 applications on the desktop “out of the box”. The big corporate shops who can afford to write Redmond checks will have to keep doing so if their subject matter expertise behind the apps retired or, worse, died.
A spinning metal drive imaged from my now retired desktop now sits inside the new system with a paid license of Windows 10 Professional used to activate the old file system. It seems to work. At some point, that machine will get Windows 11 on a solid state drive.
I still haven’t figured out the “why” for Windows 11 other than making Hollywood happy.
I haven’t tried booting the Windows 7 Enterprise partition. I didn’t want to push my luck and risk the partition ending up in a state where I can’t mount it in Linux. I still haven’t scoured the directories clean yet. I found grading stuff from grad school in WA State the other day, and that adventure was 11 years ago.
I saw this pop up on YouTube when I hit the web page today. Dave Ramsey, almost 30 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etlfww58m2M
“First Look: New Firearms From Henry Repeating Arms”
https://www.shootingillustrated.com/content/first-look-new-firearms-from-henry-repeating-arms/
“Henry rolls out a wheelgun with two choices of grips and new rifles as well.”
Cool. I love wheelguns. And I like grippy grips.
FWIW I think everyone should have some wooden stock, beat up old gubs. Preferably in .mil calibers, but looking like grandpa’s hunting rifle. Ideally in the same caliber as your black rifles…
And scoped. For ‘reach out and touch someone’ if there ever comes the day.
Because the black rifles will be gone.
n
I don’t own any scopes. Bare metal sights on everything including my AR and carbine.
Are you thinking that the black rifles will be taken off the market ? Or actually seized from our homes ?
@lynn, they’ll be ‘incentivized’ to the point you will give them up or pretend you did. Positive and negative reinforcement. The frog is truly boiled and I don’t think TPTB are as dumb as Sarah Hoyt thinks they are. They won’t allow a flashpoint issue that kicks off the shooting in a general way.
People will be able to continue mostly getting by, if they play along, and most will. We’ve got governments forcing boys into girls locker rooms and showers, telling us that child porn in our schools is OK, a guy who dressed up as a dog to have sex in high government office dealing with nuclear issues (and he’d still be there if not for the thieving.) We’ve got freaks running the government and the military, political prisoners, corrupt crime families in power, enforced speech codes, and the return of segregation. All while being invaded by violent criminal gangs, drug manufacturers and sellers, agents of foreign powers, and know terrorists, with the sanction and help of the Executive Office.
What would it take to start the shooting, if not the stuff that’s already happening?
People will be broken by the coming depression, their resources eaten away by inflation, their security and ‘goods of wealth in moderation’ taken by the criminals. What little they have left and what they need to survive will come at a trickle that can be shut off at any time. Like the end result of the civil rights movement, it will come just enough to survive, and not enough to get ahead, while every stabilizing aspect of the culture is destroyed and reshaped. All the while we’ll be told how it’s good for us, making us better. Look to the ACTUAL outcomes from .gov’s policies – use the civil rights movement as a template.
Broken families. Dependence. Ignorance. By almost any measure the people the government helps the most are far worse off than they were. That will be all of us in a couple decades.
Or not. I’m tired and pessimistic at the moment.
n
Skate.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/19/sam-brinton-to-undergo-mental-health-evaluation/