I’ve spent almost all my brain power this week trapping a gremlin that lives in one of my tools. I’ve got the little fucker cornered, now I just need to get the approval for the parts to crush it. Which is kind of unfortunate (the expended mental effort, not the long-overdue replacement of a faulty linear encoder) because there is something really interesting going on in the skies this week. To wit:
There is a giant honking arrow pointing at Capricorn. And Saturn is the point of it.
Someone’s gonna die.
Sloop or one of the AM lynxers can generate a list of candidates born under the sign of the sea goat. If I had the time and better maps I might even be able to pin down the exact birthday of our soon to be dearly departed, but that really would be a lot of work and then after I got that right you’d all want me to pick lottery numbers and then where would I be? So have fun setting up some sort of gambling instrument.
Anyway, the Super Bowl will undoubtedly provide enough commenting fodder, so I’ll just draw a few cards and get to drinking.
Aquarius: Knight of Cups – Arrival, approach, messenger, advances, proposition, demeanor, invitation, incitement
Pisces : Page of Coins reversed – Prodigality, dissipation, liberality, luxury, unfavorable news
Aries: King of Cups – Fair man, man of business, law, or divinity; responsible, equity, art and science, creative intelligence.
Taurus: 5 of Cups – Loss but something remains over, inheritance, patrimony, transmission
Gemini: Page of Swords reversed – A weaselly person working against you, unforeseen, unprepared state, sickness
Cancer: 7 of Coins – money, business, barter, altercation, quarrels, innocence, ingenuity, purgation
Leo: Knight of Swords – Skill, bravery, capacity, defense, address, enmity, wrath, war, destruction, opposition, resistance, ruin
Virgo: The Star – Loss, theft, privation, abandonment, hope and bright prospects
Libra: Queen of Wands – A dark woman, countrywoman, friendly, chaste, loving, honorable, Love of money, certain success in business
Scorpio: King of Coins reversed – Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity, corruption, peril
Sagittarius: 8 of Swords – Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny, sickness
Capricorn: 10 of Coins reversed – Chance, fatality, loss, robbery, games of hazard, gift, dowry, pension
Hey Mojeaux, I’ve figured out how to create stretch goals on something like an indiegogo campaign for a book/series.
Using as an example the set of books in my fantasy setting (BtEotM, OUS, PotNT), The base rewards would be something like:
ebook teir (10/15/20ish) – get an ecopy of all the books in mobi and epub format
Paperback teir (30/40/50ish) – get a paperback copy of all the books.
Combined Teir (40/50/60ish) – get both paperback and ebook of all books.
Hardback teir (100+) – Get hardback and ecopies of all books.
Proof teir (150+) – get a signed paperback proof copy before general release day.
Superbacker A – Proof and hardback, get name in acknowledgements
Stretch goals become things like:
10k – Ashcan comic in setting to hardback + supporters.
20K – audiobook narrated by author, superbackers, proof teir, maybe hardback get a copy.
30K – illustrated chapter headers
100K – multi-voice audio book, with additional people voicing other characters’ dialog.
Of course, numbers would be subject to crunching, etc, but that was the idea I had
Not sure why you’d want to do that for *all* your books at the same time. Maybe for folks who have previously bought – give them the option to just “add-on” the ones they still want/need.
Esp if some of your books aren’t yet printed – not sure if that would cover expenses.
Still think patreon is a great – cost-free option for any creative. Free money IMO.
Can’t prove or disprove who bought the first book. And this is a draft idea of how it might work.
And the phrasing might be confusing. ‘all’ being the three in the promotion.
Sounds airtight to me.
And teir is an acronym for….
Tier?
What is a stretch goal?
What I really really want (because for me publishing a book is almost $0) is to illustrate the pirate novel.
The hard part is getting the word out.
A stretch goal became a popular thing during Kickstarter. The base campaign would ask for X to do the project, but at X+Y, would be able to do the project plus an additional thing (in the board game arena, it’s usually thicker cards, better box, “free” expansions, etc.).
Someone’s gonna die.
Science!!!
Leo: Knight of Swords – Skill, bravery, capacity, defense, address, enmity, wrath, war, destruction, opposition, resistance, ruin
Hmm… It doesn’t say if ruin and destruction are directed at me or others. I WANT MY MONEY BACK!
*gestures from throne of skulls*
So let it be written, so let it be done.
“ Libra: Queen of Wands – A dark woman, countrywoman, friendly, chaste, loving, honorable, Love of money, certain success in business”
“ Capricorn: 10 of Coins reversed – Chance, fatality, loss, robbery, games of hazard, gift, dowry, pension”
About time things got back to normal.
“ Capricorn: 10 of Coins reversed – Chance, fatality, loss, robbery, games of hazard, gift, dowry, pension”
Well I will be in Vegas this week.
Sagittarius: 8 of Swords – Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny, sickness
This sounds a bit negative.
You get all of the bad stuff out of the way early in the year!
So you’re saying the Chiefs are going to win.
The science checks out.
Shakira’s ass will win along with the Niners and I will collect. It’s in the stars.
Now, that is sciencing!
Go Niners!!!
And go Shakira’s ass!!!
Aqui hay Shakira en la cueva de la vagina.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7ssrLSheg4
I muted Shakira and played Girls, Girls, Girls in the background. They paired up nicely.
GO NINERS!
Mojeaux biggest winner.
MOTLEY CRUE YAY!!!
MikeS and I agree on TWO topics! Be still my heart.
Yes, be still your heart
That is an excellent album from start to finish.
Actually, I love pretty much everything that Sting does.
I don’t give a shit about American football but I give a shit about Shakira’s ass and other things of hers.
Shakira’s ass is a win win for everybody. It’s win to the infinity power.
I don’t about you guys but some of the hero worshiping by some of the analyst for Patrick Mahones is a little nauseating. Future multiple Super Bowl winner. The Niners defense has no chance of stopping him despite being one of the best defenses in the NFL.
He is good — arguably the best QB in the NFL — but why not let him play a little before saying he is the best player of all time.
$$$$
The national analysts have been sleeping on how good the Niners defense is. Mahomes is gonna get contained today. They have also been sleeping on how good Jimmy G is, because they think all he does is hand it off. He will likely be passing a lot more today as the Chiefs are gonna crowd the box to try and stop the run game.
This is what should make the game interesting – super creative player versus a stifling defense. Also, KC did a great job stopping the run against the Titans, so that should be a good matchup as well.
Polluter in Chief.
https://freebeacon.com/issues/bernie-leads-2020-field-in-private-jet-spending/
Ah, but he’s purchased indulgences.
Has he? Did he buy them from Gore?
How else is Bernie supposed to get from his campaign stops back to his dacha to relax? Come on, he can’t be expected to fly commercial! That’s for the plebes.
Commies prefer transport by rail car. Oh wait, that’s how they move others around.
chartering flights to get him back and forth between his duties in the U.S. Senate and the campaign trail in Iowa
No trips “home” to Vermont? Where’s my shocked face at?
Interesting that Sanders and Biden both use this small charter brokerage company. What are the odds that there’s more to that story? Meet the team
https://www.advancedaviationteam.com/about
A psychopath and 5 kids.
I hate processing the joints in chicken wings. I can see why some are inclined to just take a cleaver to them
And now I’m annoyed. I paid $3.50/lb and they weren’t even pre-processed. What a ripoff.
How are you processing them? Kitchen shears are almost as fast as a cleaver. Unless you’re Martin Yan.
I don’t know where the shears are, I’m stuck with a regular knife.
And I’m done already. I’m just venting. They were packaged to hide the fact that they were full wings instead of processed wings.
For $3.50 /lb they should be processed, cooked, sauced, and served by Q worthy waitresses.
You have many controversial opinions but this is not one of them.
Sagittarius: 8 of Swords – Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny, sickness
Yay.
*goes back to sniffing glue*
What does the science hold for the 2 starting QBs? I need a professional observation before I put Mrs F’s money on the line.
To cast an effective horoscope, I’ll need to know both of their birthdates and locations, along with your bank account numbers and PIN.
Regular Cars on a Volvo S80. I chuckled while watching this because an ex-girlfriend of mine had a Volvo of this vintage. I can’t remember the model so I don’t remember if it was a S80 or not.
The Jacket takes a brave stance over at TOS when he announces that Mini Mike Bloomberg may have lost Nicks vote because of his superbowl ad. Can’t wait to see the mental gymnastics the cocktail libertarians will use to justify who Warren is the most libertarian candidate.
2Chili is probably the only one worth reading over there.
Jacob Sullum is very good.
He is not. Sullum has been dutifully regurgitating the DNC/deep state talking points throughout the entire impeachment farce.
The Evidence That Trump Abused His Powers Is Clear and Convincing
He took a Sullum oath.
Sullum is a supporter of the deep state coup d’état.
If you claim to be a libertarian and simultaneously claim to have considered a vote for Bloomberg, you are what is technically known as a liar.
OBL is becoming less of a parody every day.
I know right?
Beef on the smoker for some Roast Beef Sliders and Jus. Jalepanos are prepped to be stuffed and wrapped in bacon. Chicken wings will go on in a bit. Chili and Cheese dip slowly cooking.
Gonna be a good day to eat some food.
second batch of chicken in the oven. And I forgot to set a time, so I’m going to have to keep going back with a thermometer.
Lol.
I went to co check the temperature of the wings, and found they were still sitting on top of the stove because I hadn’t put them in, thus no timer set.
^clearly not a pet owner.
I would not subject an animal to my care.
Chili is currently simmering, I stopped on the way home from meeting up with a friend for her birthday to get some rauchbier, so that’s in the chili along with bell, jalapeno, poblano, ancho, chipotle, habanero, smoked paprika, and smoked ghost chili. Got a while to wait before grating the cheese that will be set on top of it.
Whatcha gonna stuff in the jalapenos?
Cream cheese, hot italian sausage
*Insert Homer drool gif*
I had a couple of those yesterday. Superb.
Ribs are on the smoker. Guac and chips are ready to go, and we had leftover seafood paella for lunch. Let the good times roll.
Not sure what kind of alignment the stars are in, Spurs just dumped ManCity.
Personally, I think that most bode well for the Chiefs.
Now if Man Shitty can dump enough games to fall out of the Top 4.
Fuck Pep. He couldn’t win CL with a team that even Sloopy or Rhywun could have coached to a runaway Bundesliga title. And they would have been actively coaching for Bayern to lose.
They couldn’t win even after Sterling got away with an obvious red-card offense.
LOLOL
And I wonder if the league will ever figure out VAR. What a shitshow.
I loved the Robbies at the half: “two minutes? it took two minutes for VAR?” Yeah, at least they didn’t get the micrometers out for an offside decision.
And now, Six Nations Rugby – England v. France.
This game had the correct outcome: England losing.
England losing is always and everywhere and in any sport, the correct and righteous result.
LFC’s “magic number” is now 18.
I’m having a (double) Caesar made with Parker’s Hangover Tonic Caesar mix. I can highly recommend this product.
Score: 49 George Kittles
If only tomato juice was palatable to me…
And today, I think I need to cheer for the Chiefs.
? Go Niners! ?
I picked up a sixer of Dogfish Head 75 minute IPA. It will be a first for me.
? Go Niners! ?
Go Chiefs! Says this Bay Area resident.
Despite living here for 35 years now, and having been to a number of Niners games in person, I’ve never been able to like the 49ers. It’s probably because I grew up as a Bears fan in Chicago, and the Niners always seem to have the Bears’ number.
But regarding the Chiefs, the first Super Bowl game I ever really watched was SB IV in January 1970, when I was eight years old. I decided I was a Chiefs fan that day and was thrilled when they beat the Vikings. Who would have thought then that now, 50 years later, they wouldn’t have won one again till maybe today.
My other memory of that day was my mom sending me on my bike during halftime to a little grocery a half mile away. She gave me a written note to give to the checkout that I was authorized to buy two packs of Winstons for her. The storekeeper didn’t even hesitate and sold them to me. What a different world that was.
Everybody hates the Vikings.
Fake news. Many of us pity them.
4 lb boneless USDA prime short rib, rubbed with undiluted Minor’s Beef Base, dry brined (sort of) for 3 days.
24 hours at 145F.
Should be the perfect sandwich beef, but I won’t know until 3pm.
Nice!
Sounds good. I have never cooked short rib.
What else you cooking up?
5pm EST, okay another hour. Then dammit I expect an update.
Day two of being vegetarian for a month. I’m already feeling like it was a mistake. Breakfast without bacon? No lunch meats? Worse of all is that all my favorite super bowl foods are off the menu. No wings. No beef on wecks with au jus sauce. No platter of cured meats and pickles. No pizza logs.
Thanks god beer isn’t made of meat.
Horrible timing. But at least you picked the shortest month.
Day two of being vegetarian for a month.
My condolences. I assume you’re doing this in exchange for sex?
I mean, if I’m not a fat fuck I imagine I’ll get more. Is there any other reason for guys to work out?
I’m just trying to retrain my brain for when I get myself in shape this spring. An experiment in re-wiring the ol’ noggin.
Why do you hate yourself?
I hate myself for, probably, the same reasons why all my exes and most of my family does. I mean, they can’t all be wrong, can they?
Yes, yes they can.
Hmmm, what’s the common thread?
I’m sorry to hear that man. And depending on your definition of vegetarian, some beers may be off the list due to fining agents.
Thoughts and prayers.
I can give up alcohol for a month, but not food.
Give up alcohol? WTF?!?!!?
On a serious note, I almost never drink during the week now. Only on the weekends.
Yeah my major incentive to drink is during the week, if I was only imbibing on the weekends I wouldn’t take a month off.
I’m already feeling like it was a mistake.
You’re not wrong.
You will lose more weight if you give up complex carbs and eat plenty of fats,veggies, nuts and meat.
low-carb has been very, very, good to me.
though last night I did eat 4 of Jugsy’s tater t0ts
I had a piece of cornbread with breakfast.
I saw your hangover post this morning. Have you readjusted your drinking levels since going low carb?
Enjoy the carrot sticks, celery and ranch dressing with the game.
/also known as Buffalo wing garnishes
Brexit deathtoll update
…
You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
“A pet owner hoping to travel on New Year’s Day 2021 would need to start planning on 1 August 2020.”
Skeeter Davis sums up the situation.
https://youtu.be/sonLd-32ns4
Love that song.
Which Brits are taking their pets to Europe? Oh right, the ones with farmhouses in Provence.
The EU will punish the UK with its onerous bureaucracy and regulations… OMG who saw that coming!!
That really cries out for the French knight scene from Holy Grail.
Forgotten Weapons on authenticating a C96 Mauser.
I am actively avoiding all football commentary. All foreplay no penetration.
So I’m working on my client’s ginormous and very expensive project (you wouldn’t know we are broke going by my income this month). ?????
Anyway, lasagne made yesterday. Plenty of chips, Beddar Cheddars and I’mma bout to make funnel cake again. I have no chocolate chips and Mr. Mojeaux doesn’t like lemon sugar cookies but doesn’t want to go get chocolate chips for cookies which is fine because I do not like them Sam I am.
I can’t even comprehend this… of course, I also pick up the pound plus bars of chocolate at Trader Joe’s for baking with.
I am not particularly fond of chocolate. I mean, given the choice between chocolate and bread-ish things and citrusy things (e.g. Skittles before they ruoned my life with green apple) I’ll take citrusy.
Every once in a while, I am in the mood for peppermint chocolate or chocolate with caramel or toffee, but I just get a single Ghirardelli square at QuikTrip or a Heath bar and I’m good.
My wife is not a chocolate person, either. It makes Valentines Day difficult.
Does she like lemon?
If so, see if you can find a bakery that does mini lemon tarts. https://images.app.goo.gl/pSp5858UV4nhJuDy8
Or a pretty box of macarons.
What DOES she like?
A really excellent weekend of shooting. Yesterday I was hitting a 3″ target @ 100 yards with open sights 70% of the time with Gelding, and I discovered that there’s almost no drop between 25 yards and 100 yards with 115gr 9mm through a 16″ barrel.
Today I set new personal bests on all Steel Challenge stages we shot, including a sub-4 second “Smoke and Hope.”
Nicely done! Quite impressive.
Unfortunately, it was only one of the strings — the stage averaged out ~4.2″ Which was still a big improvement for me.
So I am looking at properties for retirement and I saw [online] a nice 40 acre parcel in WY. I was conceiving how I could have a nice 100, 200 and 400 yd range set up.
As much as I like it here, I think I’ll probably have to retire somewhere without ice if I want to not die of exposure and a broken hip.
I would be happy hitting a deer size animal at a 100 yds, using a ‘scope. I’ll stay here and only have to see 40-50 yds, improves my chances.
Good shooting, NA.
I’m sure IDPA practice on Tuesday will stomp my ego back into place.
Congratulations!
The ballistics of the AR15 With iron sites has the same 50 and 100Yard sight in. It’s on the way up at50 and down at 100.
That was my recollection.
Nope, it’s 50/200 yards.
For 5.56×45, it’s supposed to be the same point of impact at 25 and 300 yards, maybe that works out at 50 and 100 also? For the 9mm, I had crappily zeroed it also at 25 yards.
See my response above. It’s 50/200 that share the same point of impact.
I need to re-zero my AR and mini-14. It’s been a bit. My Mini-14 broke the rear peep ant needed to be replaced. I haven’t bench shot with the new one yet.
Football!!!! I don’t have a rooting interest in SB LIV. I’m expecting it to be entertaining though. Plus chicken wings, loaded nachos, bourbon.
As you all know, I have Marty Schottenheimer-induced Chiefs football PTSD. I will be peeking through my fingers.
I expect school will be cancelled one day this coming week. Because be, because my kids will be downtown with Mr
Mojeaux and me.
Better be*
Mojeax… Do I need to point out that I’m in Cleveland? Marty was our pain before he was yours.
Pain? I’ll take the winning seasons and playoff appearances even if they never went all the way. I always liked Marty.
I was going through some keepsakes. In high school, I won lots of medals—almost all 2nd place. It reminds me I either didn’t do my best, didn’t care, wasn’t good enough, or afraid of success. I did win a few first-place ribbons as the state fair, but I was an adult and I was a lot more confident about my skills.
Always being second place is not a good pattern and there’s some deep pathology there.
Go twenty years averaging 4 wins a season and runner up starts looking pretty damn good.
In fact, one reason I like Mahomes is that, compared to Alex Smith, Mahomes doesn’t really seem to have any comprehension of second place. They accused Alex of being a “game manager” instead of a leader. Mahomes has an ego-free confidence that is infectious because he jist doesn’t seem to know second place exists.
The Marty years in San Diego were the best since Coryell.
I guess that’s a pretty sad commentary, isn’t it?
My Dad would be so proud of his Chefs, all those years of Schottenheimer Fucking it all away….
GO CHEFS!!!
Great. Power outage in my neighborhood. Guess I better get a shower and head to the bar.
You can always come down to the (937)
Ill send you to GT’s house.
We have a scheduled power outage for pretty much all of Monday (they’re replacing a power pole and cable).
Sucks because I’m taking Monday off, and was planning to do last minute vacuuming and tidying before the kids come to visit Tuesday.
Now I’m going to have to do it either tonight or late Monday.
I am not sure what I think of this, but seems some decent writing. TLDR Utah wanted more tourism and got it and the place is over ran now. + Republicans are icky. If you have never experienced the Canyon Lands you are missing out. My first trip deep into them was in 1983.
Coronavirus on Tinder.
Ouch.
I read that as “Tinder is Coronavirus”.
2 yellow onions sliced and caramelized (de-glaze pan with sherry)
1 can artichoke hearts
1/2 large can Hatch green chilis pulsed in food processor
1 block cream cheese
1 block sharp cheddar shredded
1 t each S and P
Bake ( I cant my oven broke so it is crocking)
Might need something else but initial taste test is positive.
Tortilla chips. Maybe a hint of cayenne?
I am going with toasted sourdough baguette rounds but you might be right about the cayenne. Perhaps some smoked pap too.
Lime juice?
Naaaa could use some acid though so might add some tobasco after it cooks some.
Split baguette, toasted, with some slices of Playa’s roast beef from above.
Cilantro.
Why would he want it to taste like soap?
? for you:
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/p/6469296.G22WK
On top could work, not sure it would be appropriate mixed in. I did add some oregano de mexicano.
Capricorn checking in after a week of bad luck. If you don’t hear from me next week, I’m the one that died.
Doesn’t being Florida Man pretty much render Capricorn moot?
?. You maybe right.
Welp, if you need me, I’ll be out noodling.
So the guy who stabbed several people in London today – and was subsequently shot by police – had recently been released from prison where he’d been serving a sentence for terror offenses.
I think you have this stabbing confused with one that took place a few weeks ago.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-51349664
Third time will surely be the charm.
So two and half hours until kick off?
The ability of algorithms to combine photographs has become quite impressive.
Here’s an animation combining all the chicks in one of Q’s posts.
THICC?
Would?
https://twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/1223328288870993922
That was unnecessary.
You trying to horn in on HM’s shtick?
No.
Ick.
That was repulsive.
My work is done here.
? for you:
https://www.redbubble.com/people/gtsbubble/works/30329480-certified-asshole-kyz?p=mens-premium-t-shirt&rel=carousel
WTF?
And people complain about my music links.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EPzFypdWkAI_1Hh.png:large
Yes.
Fer fucks sake.
That poor kid.
I tapped out pretty quickly. The author can go fuck himself.
A MAN wrote that?
Yes.
like the stain of disturbing NFL domestic-violence incidents
Snopes ranks that as completely false.
Jimmy Garappolo is a very pretty man.
Down, girl.
He’s not ALL THAT, but I noticed and I don’t generally notice men younger than I.
This cis-het shitlord noticed that, too. Even without fame and fortune, this guy would be beating them off with a stick.
I hate him. ?
Any of our lawyers need some pro bono work? She’s kinda cute
https://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/ex-theranos-ceo-elizabeth-holmes-cant-afford-attorneys-wears-1000-outfit-to-court/
If autistic con artists are your thing.
Is Bradshaw drunk?
If that was his excuse, I’d like him a lot more.
“That is one good lookin’ Eye-talian!”
LOLOL checks out
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/buzzfeed-journo-reportedly-blogged-about-pedo-fantasies-rape-jokes-and-doxing
So that’s why they got banned from twitter.