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I have to face a giant, disembodied, hirsute visage and I have to eat acorns? Bloody Hell, man!
Yes, what on earth is that? Besides proto-Sendak, that is.
ZARDOZ, back when he was an Oak Ridge Boys fan.
+ Elvira
STEVE NOT MAKE YOU FACE HIM, IF YOU CATCH WHAT STEVE AM SAYING
So… afternoon links and late night post or it cryptid RAPE until tomorrow morning? Asking for a friend’s butthole.
That one time @ band camp….
PREPARE. YOUR. ANUS!
BECAUSE. THIS. IS. SPARTA! ?
You know how those ancient Greeks were, after all…
Q: Whats the difference between a greek and a suppository ?
A: nothing
Stinky finger vs stinky penis.
Your friend is lucky if only one orifice is involved.
…AND BY “GIVE OPEN POST,” MEAN…
“hello…hello…helloooo”
“Flying Head Put to Flight by a Woman Parching Acorns”
Micropenis mile high club euphemism?
Free?
So who was that I paid for admission?
THAT STEVE SMITH PROTECTION MONEY. RAPE ANYWAY.
When I first started thinking about writing pulp-inspired stories (or at least get one done) I had not actually studied what the content was like to see if there was a style common to them.
Now that I’ve read more, I can say that there isn’t. They’d buy any voice in their genre as long as it met their standards – which varied by magazine. Those who paid less had lower standards because the better paying rags scooped up the best stuff. More than a little was absolute shit.
A lot of it is also in the public domain because no one ever renewed the copyright.
No point in throwing good money after bad.
In a lot of cases it was also “We’d gone out of business.”
So as I’m out of work since I refuse to wear the COVID-proof googles I spend most of my days wasting time on the internet.
Got to this from Mark Rober today : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybPgmjTRvMo
It hit home, as all of my brother’s 4 kids are on the spectrum. And I like the guy’s way of popularizing science and engineering.
But of course at the end, there is the usual crew of late night narcissists and grifters, which had me look at the organization that he’s collecting money for.
1.5 millions in salaries in 2019, out of 2,7 millions in. 13 people on staff. That’s around 100k a head.
My brother with his 4 autistic kids doesn’t even come close to that.
I don’t even want to know what is their cachet and how much the people behind the camera are making.
To hell with woodchippers, we need to bring back crucifixion.
(This is of course an hyperbolic overstatement and a form of free expression, not an actual threat, far from it, as I would rather like those people to change their opinions and ways of doing things as I do think they can be valuable asset to our society. It’s more a statement of my own despair than of actual malice towards any other human being.)
Nah. Lamposts.
À la lanterne !
Something about Mark Rober sets off my bullshit detector.
*looks at videos*
Oh, that’s the guy YouTube has been pushing on me over the past couple months. I don’t know if it’s the BS detector for me as much as the patronization detector. There’s a cottage industry growing up on YouTube that thrives on that style, and it can be done right (lockpicking lawyer) or it can be done wrong (so many examples to point at). I don’t think the patronizing tone is intentional, but when done wrong it seems they’re targeting an intersection between the IFLS crowd and the ELI5 crowd.
It’s something about the tone and cadence of the narration plus the very simplistic step by step formulation that makes it feel like it’s targeted at 12 year olds.
Grr, hit post by accident. Oh well, y’all will have to live with my partially edited comment ?
I think there is a rather large subset of Science promoters who, and maybe not even consciously, treat teaching science concepts like they are teaching a junior high school class. Maybe that’s their target demographic, or maybe they are just mirroring what they see others do, but it is annoying.
ELI5 might explain why drunken me likes his videos.
I got to him for the glitterbomb traps. It’s really well done.
I think that’s why I’m a bit conflicted. Such a beautiful mind wasted on stupid ideas (he’s also a branch covidian).
Does he have a choice? His lively hood is preaching science to the masses. If he came out and made some nuanced argument against Fauci et.al, he would be deemed not of the body and thrown out.
Sure he might have some right wing sites and people to fall on after being ‘canceled’ but does he want to take that risk? Especially when he has long basked in the warmth of popular approval?
Coming out against COVID would be signing his on career’s death warrant.
I have no idea who you’re talking about, and in general don’t watch a lot of Youtube beyond music or the occasional documentary, but what would be wrong with, say, *not mentioning COVID at all*?
Would the simple act of neglecting to discuss be equivalent to failing to go to Mass on Sunday and Holy Days of Obligation? Is talking about COVID a sacrament? I’m getting pretty damn tired of talking about it myself, and when people bring it up with me in person, I usually just grunt or give a dismissive reply to indicate I’m not interested in talking about it.
That’s fair. I’m sick of it too.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to come down on *you* for discussing it. I meant only to express my displeasure with people wanting to discuss it all the time, even in forums that have little to do with it. Like, I don’t need to hear about COVID if I’m watching a show about car restoration, or archaeology, or something like that. The perceived need to tie in popular current events with unrelated topics is really tedious for me.
Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against people protecting their jobs by not taking a statement about covid.
Like I pretty much did, until they forced me to wear the googles. I was even asking people to wait outside when we had more than the state approved number of people in (3).
But he went out of his way, to include in his shark week video, back in late august, that he was quarantining himself because covid. There is even a shot of him playing cards with his kid thru a patio door window. How smart and stupid can you be at the same time!
https://youtu.be/vePc5V4h_kg?t=120
I honestly wouldn’t care about the guy, but I think youtube is forcing it on me too, so here it is on my front page.
I have issues with him too. One of the first videos that i watched of his, was his debunking a youtuber who put up “plans” and affiliate links to Amazon for parts on how to build a series of things including a thing to helicopter your cell-phone. The stuff was just a fraud to get you to buy things from this guy’s affiliate links. Cool. Mark’s doing his part to keep down lies.
Then a year or so later i find out that one of his most popular videos (Glitterbomb for package thieves) was fillmed using a large amount of his friends pretending to be package thieves. I think he apologized, but it put a bad taste in my mouth.
Do you think people go into this type of thing as a scam, or when the money rolls in, do they justify to themselves how they “deserve” it?
I think it’s more of an echo chamber.
People go in there with really good intentions. But then, once they get on to it, they start making the big bucks and see it as a payment for all their efforts. And soon get used to it. And everybody else is making that much money in the NGO fields so yeah it’s standard. That’s what their work is worth, to them.
And then the bar is set, and it attracts a lot of people with not so noble intentions. Grifters.
In my finance career, the biggest paycheck for the least work I did was working for a labor union fund. None of those selfless people would think that the private banking sector people were making at least 25-50% less for the same job.
I think it’s the same here. I mean, seriously, who makes under 100k a year in the US ?
Depending where they are located, that may be a reasonable median salary. That said, you don’t get a reasonable median salary when you’re a non-profit still getting off the ground. Those are supposed to be lean years.
Won’t be a problem for long as they will soon have a fundraising event with the A-celebs that will bring tons of donations.
”See? We got Kimmel and Silverman on, it’s worth a raise!”
I think its a bit of both. I don’t doubt there are people who go into charity as a scam (Clinton Foundation, Biden Foundation etc). There are some who get into it for the idealistic reasons, and then get enculcated in the culture of charity and make a lot of money off of it. And i’m not going to entirely blame them, as the allure of making more money as you go on and getting raises is a natural one, and one that an employee at any other industry would do without questions of impropriety being raised.
I’m not saying it’s right, but i can see how people can end up justifying themselves.
I snuck out early. Wife knocked off early. So we’re off to the Margarita Deck that we’ve been saying we should try for the last 4 years. Then, shopping for garden stuff…. Man, my life is sooooo sexy.
Ugh I have to do a code release in… 2 minutes.
FML.
In the middle of the day?
Emergency change.
But most stuff I work on doesn’t require off-hours releases anyway.
Must be an Emergency if they are going to push it on a Friday Afternoon.
We have unwritten rules in manufacturing and one of the most important is: Do not, ever, make a significant change to operating parameters after 0900 on Friday. Preferably, keep all changes to Thursday, so any problems created can be dealt with fully before the weekend. A corollary is never schedule a production trial on Friday.
I can’t push anything during the day, not possible. I mostly push on Wed after 8pm, but this week, I’ve pushed on several nights, but always after 8pm.
I work on things like data feeds, data warehousing. I can push any time I want.
It’s kind of sweet. I’ve done the late night release thing most of my career. Don’t miss it.
THERE IS NO SEX
IN THE CHAMPAGNE ROOMON THE MARGARITA DECK !Going to go check out the new local Farm & Garden store. I’m in need of T-posts and wire fencing.
New orphan enclosure?
I got to work at Deer thirty, now its almost Beer thirty, thank God, what a long week,
Up the workers!
You could try to unionize, see how CA likes it. 😉
(Uh, the shroom workers, pacifically.)
Very appropriate in a STEVE SMITH post.
For the workers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdOCWUgwiWs
Never going away.
I can hear public health officials cheering across the country as their budget coffers are instantly filled.
. . . and they fantasize about becoming the eternal Priesthood of Public Health.
“centers of excellence” are rarely centered and are never excellent.
Stated from Ft Knox, the Army Human Resources Center of Excellence (PBUH).
As old Chief Elizabeth Warren once reminded us, “money is the metric”.
“Parching” acorns?
I thought I knew every cooking-related word in the English language. Huh. The Spousal Unit will haz a disappoint with me. :-(
I’d never heard of it so I looked it up.
https://blindpigandtheacorn.com/parched-corn/
Pass.
Wait… you weren’t familiar with the word ‘parch’? Get off my lawn, millennial!
“Parched” as in “I’m so parched, I could drink a bucket of water,” sure. ”Parch” as a type of food prep op, not so much. It was a surprise. (I kinda like surprises like that.)
OK, millennial. I knew what parched corn is when I was 5.
Unfamiliar term in Canada. We’d probably use “roasted” or “dried.” The use of “parch” as a verb is interesting.
You guys don’t even parch no maple syrup? Weird…
When I first started at my new position in July 2020, we had six people on our Revenue and Inventory accounting team. Within the past 4 weeks, my senior manager left, the senior for inventory has left and now today, my direct manager is has put in his two weeks. It’s just the three of us now and it looks as though they won’t backfill for those positions for a while.
I don’t mind doing more work and learning more shit but the new upper management (we got bought out a week or two after I started) seems to be in the “squeeze as much as you can out of them,” mode while not offering any significant raises or promotions.
I don’t expect a promotion or raise right away because that’s dumb as hell and I need to prove to them and myself that I can handle the increased work load. I didn’t want to sound entitled.
I didn’t read any entitlement out of it.
What’s causing all the separations?
I’m not sure at all. Some of it is by coincidence but others are most likely due to a change in culture.
It sounds like they are downsizing.
That’s exactly how I lost my job – only it took 4 years to squeeze me out. By that time most of my coworkers were gone.
Then they hired me back 2 years later 🙂
UCS,
I heard from the maskless groups and Reopen NH group that some NH municipalities are considering mask ordinances now that Sununu let the statewide mask order expire. So far, all the ones I’ve heard about are in the southern part of the state. I did a little digging, and I see Claremont considered an ordinance but tabled it when Sununu issued his mask order. I see no new information about that ordinance.
Also note, the snow is winding down here in NH. I didn’t get all that much, but I think the mountains and Upper Connecticut Valley were supposed to get a decent amount. Given the forecast temps, unless you get into Claremont early in the morning, there should be significant melting tomorrow.
Thanks for the info.
You’re welcome!
At the very least, it will take the municpal council time to even decide to act, so this weekend should be a good opening for normalcy.
I hadn’t even thought about snow, since it’s been gone a while here. But I’m no stranger to it.
Have you heard anything about Pelham? I could find this page. It’s 4 months old but doesn’t look good.
I usually don’t feel sorry for any of the student loan sob stories, but apparently, I feel even less sorry for people who got the exact same law degree I did a few years later.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/08/older-millennials-with-student-debt-say-their-loans-werent-worth-it.html
I mean, if you thought normal job prospects were bad in 2009, you apparently didn’t look at the legal job prospects before going to law school on the other side of the country.
I always tell the youngin’s that they should go to community college first then go to state school. At worst you’ll graduate with probably 10-15 grand in loans which you can easily pay off with some discipline.
Include ‘learn to code’ in that and you’ve taught them well. Plenty of coders with a 2 year degree from that community college earn more than their PhD co-workers.
I told someone who is going to major in accounting to also learn C+++ and SQL. If you know basic accounting principles and can code, you’re fucking set for life. A lot of accounting is done with the help of ERP’s Microsoft Dynamics AX, SAP, and Oracle NetSuite.
I’d pass on C++ in favor of Python but otherwise that sounds like good advice.
I did a double-concentration – finance & M.I.S. (as it was at the time); even at the time various advisors told me that was an excellent combo.
They weren’t wrong, even if I don’t use the finance end of things much.
To add to my ability to instantly spot any typos as I’m hitting ‘Post Comment’, I will spot my tendency to repeat some phrase (‘at the time’) when I’m hitting the button.
I’m getting slow in my dotage.
C# is where it’s at. C++ is mostly really low level stuff these days.
All of my furen comrades in code, program in horrible awful stuff like Java. Blech!
Cackles maniacally at “C++ being low level stuff”.
Low level stuff is assembly, good sir. C gets you in the door. 🙂 C++ is user-space stuff and network drivers I avoid looking at as much as possible….
All the fun is when you have no thread management / memory management / etc… because you’re bringing up the system to set up the resources to bring up fancy services like that.
Oh fer fuck’s sake, no one has programmed in assembler for decades. They make higher level languages for everything these days.
Biggest pain in the ass I deal with these days is debugging lots of Javascript. No fun at all.
Guess I and my coworkers are no one.
You do realize there are still people who do OS/kernel programming, right? 😉
I was just bullshitting. Of course I know people still do that, just not as much as they did decades ago. When I first started teaching myself to code, I did assembler. I am way too spoiled for that now. Which is why I love .NET, code behind, and skipping through code a line at a time.
Oh fer fuck’s sake, no one has programmed in assembler for decades. They make higher level languages for everything these days.
I programmed in assembly.
Wait, I haven’t written code since ’94. I guess that checks out.
Student loan forgiveness is actually corporate welfare for colleges and universities. They sell you a crappy piece of paper for 60 grand and figure you’ll never pay it back. But no worries, the government pays their loan and pays you back and takes it from the tax payers.
People complain about the cost of tuition but don’t ever look at the fancy dorms and other amenities, not to mention all of the administration positions that are at any school. I got in on the wrong grift.
Oh, I missed the grift too. If I knew what I know today, I would right now be making forecasts. About something, climate, viruses, whatever. You never have to be right, ever, and can actually be wrong every time forever. And you’ll get a job and keep it.
“not to mention all of the administration positions”
Yeah, as HM has pointed out, if you want to get rich in academia, you go into administration. Because (and I’m not whining here), when tuition goes up, the money sure doesn’t go to the academic positions at a university or college.
I read a story a few years back where the University of California system had reached a 1:1 administrator:academic ratio.
The U of AZ seems to spend most of its capital on sports facilities, “student life” facilities, and very nice dorms (back in the day, my dorm had painted cinder block walls, and was probably 1roud 12″ x 12″ for two students, with the bathroom down the hall). They are constantly announcing the expansion of various admin functions, mostly D & I crap. I certainly don’t hear much about new libraries, classrooms, labs, etc., or expanded academic programs, although they have a big engineering/aerospace/optics thing going, so I imagine some money goes there.
In isolation, student loan forgiveness is mostly irrelevant to the colleges and universities because they already got paid. The student loan program itself is already the corporate welfare.
“As millennials begin to turn 40 in 2021, CNBC Make It has launched Middle-Aged Millennials, a series exploring how the oldest members of this generation have grown into adulthood amid the backdrop of the Great Recession and the Covid-19 pandemic, student loans, stagnant wages and rising costs of living.”
With the benchmarks listed, I’m having a tough time figuring out when adulthood begins. If these millennials grew into adulthood during the Great Recession, I guess adulthood begins in the 28-30 range. If they grew into adulthood during the pandemic it’s 39, which is rough because a year later they’re middle-aged based on the article.
“Millennials, a series exploring how the oldest members of this generation have grown into adulthood”
Millennials that have grown into adults? Those are more rare than albino pygmies.
I’ll be honest, I graduated in 2009 with over 80k of private ”education” debts.
I was dumb and full of myself. Declared bankruptcy in 2012.
Of course I majored in accounting, why do you ask?
But at least I spent most of it on myself and fun times.
I just don’t get anyone that would be willing to spent that much in tuition.
They’re doing it and a lot of them on bullshit degrees which will not get them employed. Which is why they now want their money back.
A great piece.
Why Canon Matters
Critical Drinker is awesome
Pup is eleven weeks old. I’m not planning on using her as anything else other than a companion animal.
Should I take her to the steel match on Sunday so she’s not automatically scared of gunshots? If so, should I leave her in the car or take her carrier out where the people are? Obviously, I’m not going to let her run around where there are bullets going downrange.
Get the pitch out of the fur?
Most of it, still some on her legs and butt. And the worst/most solid is between her toes.
Ick. Yesh. Silly pups!
Phone the range and ask. I’m willing to bet it’s not the first time they’ve heard the question.
I don’t know dogs, but I’d be wary of taking her to where lots of folks are shooting, especially if you’re committed to staying for the duration. Lots of dogs are stressed by loud noises, and I’d be afraid she might be traumatized.
Maybe just take her to your regular range on a normal day to see how she tolerates it?
The wife of a friend of mine raises German Shepherds as service dogs and brings them to our USPSA matches and practice sessions to familiarize them with gunfire. She brings them young, at first keeps them in crates in the van, then lets them out with a leash, and as they get better and better trained, allows them free range. They seem to take to it well, and it gets them used to crowds of strange people as well.
I’d think twice about taking her to a match, even to leave in the car, until you have acclimated her to gunshots a little more gradually in a less stimulating setting.
Gotta give them props I guess.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/16/house-will-vote-make-washington-state-tuesday/
They truly want to burn the country to the ground and start with something new.
I find it so funny that they are so in the world of making this all theatre that they make sure the bill numbers are even theatrical. What, i pray, will H.R. 666 be?
Vaxports.
Well, at least if they make Washington a state, they can have their own National Guard and they won’t have to keep borrowing everyone else’s.
DC does have their on Natl. Guard.
Well there went my joke.
Oof. Sorry.
No problem; my joke, as I originally meant it, was based on my incorrect understanding. However, I guess you could take it as a wry comment on how the denizens of DC are happy to send the NG from far flung states anywhere they please to do lots of unpleasant things (of course understanding that people sign up for the Guard knowing well that these things happen).
As long as they leave a federal district, and it looks like they are, I think its Constitutional. I’m not even sure you would need the President to sign off.
AND NOW MOAR CLIMATE CHANGE!
Well we never fucking saw that coming did we!?
Actually, didn’t someone the other day post something about CNN/other news orgs discussing internally a “shift” in focus to climate change to come in the next few weeks?
If that doesn’t work, we’ll be getting another pandemic soon enough.
Yup, that was part of the whole Project Veritas stuff. Does seem awfully timely, doesn’t it?
Things are going to get so monopolized pretty soon, with the help of government, who were oddly supposed to protect us from monopolies… and then we will get the regulating big tech like public utility, that the GOP are not calling for.
Which is exactly what big tech wants. Then the government will use that to appoint those companies as sole arbiters of the internet. Then any possibility of avoiding censorship will be over.
We can always count on the 2 party duopoly to fuck everything up.
Just had a little excitement. Wife seen the county PD, we live in the city though, walking down the street with a shotgun. Obviously we went to door to look. Seen three other cops, one with dog, looking for a suspect on foot who has ran.
We’ll see what the next few minutes brings. Dum -dum -dum
They find the suspect, unarmed, shoot him in front of several witnesses. Then the riots…