NASA always has a good sense of the dramatic. The countdown was an integral part of that. I mean, why not count forward? Or not count but use a checklist? They were clever in blowing up a few Space Shuttles, just to increase the dramatic suspense of what was basically a high tech delivery van. Anyway, I’ve adopted their methods and am now calling each day by its “T-minus” count. Hey, small things amuse me (insert obvious joke here).
Birthdays today include a guy with ethereal interests; a guy whose name is synonymous with horrible TV and movies; a piece of shit who stuck us with even more pieces of shit; a cartoonist whose motto was, “What, me funny?”; the first victim of Godwin’s Law; the Private Pyle who didn’t shoot his sergeant; a sportscaster known for his biting commentary; a pretty decent composer and pianist; and a guy who always used a stunt double.
We have reached zero. Time for Links.
“Well, for one thing, he’s considerably more senile.” Wait, wasn’t Trump supposed to be his puppet?
A tragic loss of one of America’s treasures.
Speaking of which, here’s the white supremacist take.
This seems a bit extreme, but maybe San Franciscans can learn something here.
Did this fall out of someone’s ass?
Old Guy Music stretches back to when we looked really stupid but we were having major fun.
She went on to dispute the idea that CRT was “racial sensitivity or simply teaching unfavorable American history or teaching Jim Crow history.”
“CRT,” she said, “is deeper and more dangerous than that. CRT and its outworking today is a teaching that there’s a hierarchy in society where White male, heterosexual, able-bodied people are deemed the oppressor and anyone else outside of that status is oppressed.”
Pfffft. What does she know? Does she have a phd in sociology, or a degree from the Columbia School of Journalism?
It’s more than even that. It’s teaching that oppression narrative and then teaching that the oppressed women, queer, PoCs should be treated more favorably than straight white men. It’s an ideology that ends, at best, in Jim Crow style segregationism and, at worst, in attempted extermination of the “white parasites” (a term I saw linked to yesterday)
Philosophical question: would Flea be considered a white parasite?
Mike Balzry is an above-average bass player, but Ive heard from people that have met him that’s he’s a contemptible asshole.
He’s also part aussie, so I’d have to say “yes”.
He’s no Bootsy Collins.
Doesn’t “contemptible asshole” describe most professional musicians?
“…extermination of the “white parasites”
Good luck with that.
Yeah, convincing 70% of the population, many of them gun owners, that you want to exterminate them is probably a bad idea.
CRTs are obviously deeper and more dangerous then other displays. They’re also heavier, and require more electricity.
Wait… are we not talking about Cathode Ray Tubes?
/wonders off to get caffeine.
That’s some real non-biased journalisming there.
Andrew Spar, who serves as president of Florida’s teachers’ union, argued that “students deserve the best education we can provide, and that means giving them a true picture of their world and our shared history as Americans. Hiding facts doesn’t change them.”
That might actually mean something, if it came from somebody not speaking on behalf of the teachers’ union.
Watching politicians debate whether CRT should be taught is like watching a 6th grade class debate whether to change the school’s computers over to Linux.
Most of them can say the words, almost none of them know what the words mean, and everyone makes shit up to suit themselves. And after 3 minutes you say, “wait, why are these people in charge of making any such decisions in the first place?”
Most of them can say the words, almost none of them know what the words mean
Relevant
And after 3 minutes you say, “wait, why are these people in charge of making any such decisions in the first place?”
Gell-Mann Amnesia effect in action.
Don Martin > Dave Berg
#SHTOINK!!!
The mouse pic is LOL funny.
“HOUSTON – A man has died Thursday night after a heated confrontation with north Houston residents when authorities say he was seen urinating in the middle of the street. ”
Better to be pissed-on than pissed-off ?
It’s an ideology that ends, at best, in Jim Crow style segregationism and, at worst, in attempted extermination of the “white parasites” (a term I saw linked to yesterday)
Where is Diana Moon Glampers when you need her?
Working at every school board.
To the Glibs having sleep issues – how old is your mattress?
We bought a Tempur-pedic a couple (5?) years ago. Dramatically better sleep for me. I’m never going back to a regular mattress. YMMV.
Isn’t a giant sponge likely to retain DNA evidence tho’ ?
Get a rubber sheet if that’s a concern…
It came with a mattress protector of some sort.
But does the mattress mask protect you or the mattress??
I think this one actually works.
We should probably get a new one. I sleep pretty well, but it helps that at bedtime I take 20mg melatonin, 75mg diphenhydramine, and an ambien.
Jesus….are you out of roofies and propofol ?
I am…hook a brother up?
Once during a traffic stop, the cop said “are you in possession of any weapons? Guns, knives, bombs, rocket launchers?” (He was trying to be funny)
I said, “why? Are you out?”
“I sleep really well. My personal anesthetist has the cocktail dialed right in!”
About 13 years. And cheap. I threw one of those foam pads on it a few months ago which helps.
I’ve been debating a new one for years. I wonder if those mattresses-in-a-box are any good.
We had one for the guest room, and it was comfortable. Can’t say much about how it holds up over time, though. We didn’t get enough use out of it to know. I think it’s sitting in the garage now because we don’t have a guest room anymore
I love my Saatva mattress, and not (just) because Mr. Mojeaux won it. Thing’s heavenly. The only problem is that it’s not one you can flip over and sleep on the other side.
I might buy one of those white nationalist pillows. The one I have just isn’t working out.
My sister gave me one. I like it
I bought a pair of knock-offs. They’re great. I had to pull some of the stuffing out of each one.
…and his asshole tastes just like strawberry ice cream!
Three years ago in Canada, Trump famously stormed out of a meeting of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful nations, a moment enshrined in a photo of him sitting with his arms crossed triumphantly as other leaders stood around him, either exasperated or appearing to implore him to act.
So many leaders at the latest G-7 meeting, including those from Germany, France and Canada, seemed simply eager to move past Trump this week; so much so that they greeted Biden like an old friend even when he wasn’t.
As the world leaders walked along St. Ives Bay just before the summit began, French President Emmanuel Macron, who had never met Biden before, put his arm around him and the two walked arm and arm. They engaged in a brief but animated conversation that included talking about ways to make democracies more effective for the middle class, one of Biden’s favorite topics.
“Being able to meet Joe Biden is obviously important because he stands for the commitment to multilateralism, which we were missing in recent years.” said German Chancellor Angela Merkel, one of Trump’s favorite targets, just after she arrived at the summit Friday.
Even British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, closer to Trump than any other G-7 leader, declared that everyone is “absolutely thrilled” to see Biden and called their meeting “a breath of fresh air.” Later when reporters asked if that comment was a criticism of Trump, the prime minister’s spokesperson said it was simply a reflection of their shared interests of security and climate change.
Keep licking, Politico.
Keep licking.
I love that they lead with “…stormed out of a meeting of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful nations,”
CANT YOU SEE HOW IMPORTANT THEY ARE ?
Do you know who I am?
^^^
Does anybody know this man? He doesn’t seem to know who he is.
Nope. No idea.
How’s the network?
After some tinkering on the network, it’s looking like it’s back to stable. Of course, there was also street work being done which may have been impacting the network as well. The webcam is still D-E-D though, on the plus side it appears it’s under warranty, so I’ve got that going for me.
Speaking of the G7 meeting….
“Prop me up, Frenchie.”
Yeah, world leaders are totally not winking at each other and jumping at the chance to take advantage of the old guy.
YMMV.
My girlfriend had a tempurpedic mattress. I always felt as if I were being engulfed by the la Brea Tar Pit.
They have different degrees of firmness. We spent hours picking out the one we wanted.
That’s what she said.
“for erections lasting longer than 4 hours, doctors recommend you focus on a picture of Elena Kagan.”
“My outie became an innie!”
“There’s no way of describing our friends’ relief at the change of administration. And not just because it isn’t Donald Trump anymore,” said Stephen Sestanovich, a former National Security Council and State Department official. “It’s that the alliance has a backlog of real problems to address. The Biden administration wants to talk about how to develop cooperative responses to them in a way that the Trump administration couldn’t ever be serious about.”
The adults are back in charge!
“Cooperative responses” = “sell Americans down the river”.
a guy with ethereal interests
Not this guy?
Re: Old Man Music, that bass player is tight. How’d they get Johnny Depp into that video?
His final stop will be in Geneva, where he will speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a meeting for which Biden has already received criticism.
He couldn’t very well go to Russia. Putin would have put a bag over his head and held him for ransom.
From the end of last night’s thread:
How I remember Mairzy Doats.
And Mike Royko’s take on it.
I just let The Dozer™ out, and heard the surrounding area abuzz not with cicada, but lawnmowers and other 2-stroke implements.
Consideration for my neighbors (and the 6-pack I’ve had) be damned-Im gonna mow before SW Ohio becomes a total sauna.
If Im not back later, see you in the afterlife.
70-ish and no rain this weekend. I’ll take it!
In encouraging (to me, anyway) news, my electronic fly swatter might be powerful enough to take out a cicada, IF I catch the bug on its underside. Caught one on the ground nearby. Applying the swatter to the bug’s top side seemed to have little effect, but slowed it enough that when I flipped the bug over and pressed the grid to the bug’s “soft underbelly,” bug stopped moving.
I need that power now. They’re starting to emerge.
Talstar; I swear they put DDT in it
https://www.amazon.com/Talstar-Pro-Gal-Multi-Insecticide/dp/B004TY89YM/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=talstar&qid=1623502253&sr=8-3
Ah, yes, Talstar.
I did start in on your story before deciding I wanted to take my walk during the cool of the morning. I’m at the lower third of page 14. Contractor just arrived at house.
Thanks! You were smart to do your walking early.
I tried using one of those on a roach the other day with a similar result.
Morning again.
4.8 miles <1hr 50m (Don’t know what time I left but my clock read 7am at some point prior to that and the same clock has just struck 8:50. It’s off by about 3 minutes)
Great going
Thanks. My feet are complaining because it’s a new long distance within the past decade (I’ve hiked 7+ miles before, once unintentionally But that was all more than a decade ago)
I should also be looking at new shoes. These are starting to wear out.
Nice work. All it takes is 1 step to get moving.
When I started getting off my ass more after years of being sedentary (and 50 lbs heavier), if I could get myself dressed and take enough steps to the end of the driveway.
My control mechanism was “you can walk as much or as little as you want”. Freeing myself of an obligation made it more enjoyable.
My mental key was to pic a route where there was no easy way to short-circuit to a shorter distance. While this has a great potential to come back to bite me (And believe me, the thought has occured to me), I’m taking the risk for the ake of getting the activity.
Good distance and time!
::adds “Get
assfeet back on treadmill” to weekend oughta-do list::I wish I could stay on a treadmill. I’ve fallen off every one I’ve ever tried.
Cruise craigslist or w/e used-goods outlet you have handy for an elliptical.
Mine is currently a dust-exhibition (since I tend to walk around 3-6 miles a night @ work, in metatarsal boots), but I actually didnt mind it.
“Novel”
A new federal program created by the Biden administration to reverse years of economic discrimination against U.S. farmers of color has ground to a halt.
On Thursday, a federal judge in Wisconsin ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to stop forgiving loans on the basis of race under a novel effort included in the American Rescue Plan relief package.
The ruling was a blow to the nascent USDA program but a victory for the conservative law firm behind the case and the 12 white farmers it represents, who say they are ineligible for the debt forgiveness because of their race.
Reparations lite?
What is apparent is that neither the media nor the executive branch give a single shit about legality.
Uh huh, sure.
“There’s no such thing as an original sin.”
Morning old man.
I guess the Skye reached her limit. IYKWIMAITTYD.
In some of her more recent “acting” roles she seemed to somewhat out of it at least in the beginning and her face appeared bloated. She used to be cute.
“The fact is that there was discrimination in the ’70s and ’80s and into the ’90s at USDA that made it very difficult for socially disadvantaged producers to access fully and completely the programs at USDA,” Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack told NPR in March.
Are you referring to “programs” which should never have been created in the first place?
From the AZ article –
OFFS!
No, asshole, critics “conflate” it with teaching racism and training blacks and whites to stay in their lane.
“training blacks and whites to stay in their lane.”
So, what you’re saying is that there is no point in trying to train the asians?
FTFY
They’re whites for K-12 purposes.
critics often conflate it with culturally responsive teaching or any diversity and inclusion efforts in K-12 schools.
I prefer to conflate it with teaching Whitey’s innate evil, original sin and blood guilt.
“‘I was focused on the pandemic’: New Mexico governor defends her decision to settle sexual mistreatment claim for $62,500 – after she was accused of pouring water on an ex-staffer’s crotch and then grabbing it”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9678637/Governor-settled-harassment-claim-focus-pandemic.html
To think I had an entire year to use that excuse…
The Pandemic is an odd nickname for her ex-staffer’s crotch.
“Even Thanksgiving is canceled! New Jersey school district yanks ALL holiday names off the calendar to avoid ‘hurt feelings’ as students can now get ready to gather with the family to celebrate … ‘Day Off'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9677805/New-Jersey-school-district-removes-holiday-names-calendar-backlash-changes.html
OFFS!
They demonstrated their contempt for you. What else did you expect?
Public schooling is child abuse. This in and of itself isn’t abusive, but it’s an example of the type of thing they see as a compromise between CRT Marxist bullshit and us normies. The best you can hope for is a compromise between child abuse and not abusing your children.
I was honestly expecting to read that as a link to The Bee.
reality strikes again!
I’ve got hurt feelings, I’ve got hurt feelings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuJzSTNDUGI
Propaganda machine clanks and whirrs relentlessly on
There are only three Covid-19 patients at Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital at North Shore University Hospital, on Long Island, New York — a far cry from when the hospital, which is part of Northwell Health, had as many as 600 patients during the peak of the pandemic.
All three patients, who are in the intensive care unit, have one thing in common, said Dr. Hugh Cassiere, director of the hospital’s critical care services: They’re unvaccinated.
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Unvaccinated children, too, seem to be at increased risk for severe illness.
“In our local hospitals, the kids that are getting sick are the ones that are not vaccinated,” said Dr. Natasha Burgert, a pediatrician in Overland Park, Kansas, and a national spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Thanks to the Covid-19 vaccines, the number of patients hospitalized has plummeted, from more than 125,000 on average in early January to just over 15,000 on average this week, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“The vaccines are working really well,” Denson said. “It’s just ridiculous not to get it.”
VACCINATE OR DIE!
All three patients, who are in the intensive care unit, have one thing in common, said Dr. Hugh Cassiere, director of the hospital’s critical care services: They’re unvaccinated.
No shit?
I wonder what else they have in common. You know, things that might be relevant.
Oh GFY.
Its not Paulie Shore.
Move west Day 0:
6 hour drive from Mt Pleasant, SC to Knoxville took 7.5 hours. Not bad with 5 year old.
House closed, money wired into bank. I am rich! Until our house finishes in Dec and it becomes down payment.
In Knoxville until tomorrow visiting in-laws.
Holy Crap, Old man! That Irwin Allen link brought forth some 50 year old suppressed memories – https://youtu.be/aDuNvZw8Gr4
I really dig the menacing turkey and the dude toting the giant carrot!
“Don’t krill me! Lobster diver is SWALLOWED whole by humpback and survives 30 seconds inside whale’s mouth – before it spits him out in a jet of water”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9678057/Lobster-diver-injured-caught-whales-mouth.html
I didn’t even know lobster diving was a thing.
Not sure if this was posted last night (I’m so behind on things this week) – but this thread is a helluva nut punch for movie folks: https://twitter.com/rebeccaludavis/status/1403227684885434374
TLDR – looks like Chinese censorship is all up in HK now – worse than before – but the big question for me is will they go retroactive/stalin on existing flicks?
https://twitter.com/rebeccaludavis/status/1403237772010344448
Went ahead and ordered 6 flicks from yesasia – combination of some older dvds that will probably never get remastered and some newer ones – including a few that I could see Beijing wanting to squelch.
Not sure if increasing stuff like this could lead to a diaspora like Billy Wilder, Dietrich, Fritz Lang, etc leaving Germany in the 30s – but maybe they’d only go as far as Taiwan or Singapore vice the US in this case…guess we’ll see.
If you live in HK and you’re not making plans to GTFO ASAP…. I dunno what to say.
https://youtu.be/n4QSYx4wVQg
Dammit. I’ll just go back to the links…
All three patients, who are in the intensive care unit, have one thing in common, said Dr. Hugh Cassiere, director of the hospital’s critical care services: They’re unvaccinated.
No shit?
The millions of unvaccinated people NOT currently in intensive care?
Irrelevant. Pay them no heed.
They’re all dead in the fourth wave.
An interesting article on the pirating of science research papers.
Elbakyan is my hero, a total goddess.
Speaking of Original Sin
To close the racial gap in the U.S. there needs to be “wealth redistribution,” not “income transfer,” said Ohio State economics professor Trevon Logan.
“We have to have a wealth redistribution policy for the descendants particularly of American slavery,” Logan told Yahoo Finance. “Given the wealth disparities that we have today, a large-scale income transfer to African-Americans would actually widen racial wealth inequality because the people who hold wealth would see their wealth holdings increase in value even more.”
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“And so again, this country faces a really stark decision of wanting race-neutral solutions to racial-specific problems. To address a racial-specific problem, such as the racial wealth gap, which is astounding in its magnitude, we need to have a racially-specific solution,” said Logan, adding that all racial neutral policies will “chip away” at the racial wealth gap because they are “correlated,” but will not “directly address it.”
One such racial specific solution is reparations.
“You know, it is an odd thing to leave reparations off the table and talk about closing the racial wealth gap,” Logan said.
The Biden administration has announced new actions to close the racial wealth gap, but the initiatives fall short of reparations.
Zimbabwe, here we come.
Hyperinflation will close the wealth gap quite nicely.
Good God what a steaming pile of gibberish.
The best I can get out of it is that it is not enough to enrich black Americans, we must impoverish white Americans.
The racial wealth gap was closing until LBJ decided to solidify the black voting bloc for two centuried.
You’ve got to admit his strategy was highly effective. A disaster for black folks (really all folks) though.
It’s not even original sin. People whose ancestors never committed those acts will pay for it and people whose ancestors never were harmed will benefit.
Reposting for the morning people:
“My 7 part video on Transgender Treatments is finally out!”
https://twitter.com/Lauren_Southern/status/1403169196419080194
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byhqM_p83z8
The part about data analysis is a bit long, but definitely worth watching.
Rhetorical jiu jitsu
It’s not just sports stadiums and arenas. The retail industry is also seeing an uptick in bad behavior, often targeted toward employees. According to Emily May, co-founder and executive director of the nonprofit Hollaback!, retailers are seeing an alarming rise in discrimination where floor staff are being targeted for who they are when enforcing safety measures.
“Given the rise in hate violence — which is at an all-time high — frontline workers are more vulnerable than ever,” she said in a statement.
It’s gotten so bad that at least a dozen retailers including Gap, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Sephora have teamed up to collaborate on a campaign with the nonprofit Open to All.
“We are trying to create a movement where everyone comes together around the values of inclusion and safety, where we all can be safe and accepted and belong for who we are,” said director Calla Devlin Rongerude.
“We haven’t been in crowds, we haven’t negotiated spaces with a lot of other people for quite a while. I think we’re out of practice with how to be human with each other,” she added.
Nasty ill-tempered bigots are seeking out vulnerable store clerks and attacking them for no reason! Literally hunting them down!
It’s a shame how some people refuse to knuckle under to the paranoiac hypochondria of others. What’s wrong with them? Why don’t they accept the narrative as written?
Emily May, co-founder and executive director of the nonprofit Hollaback!,
Fuck off! Why should I care what you have to say?
A good 10 min video on the lady who got PIT maneuvered in Arkansas completely unnecessarily:
https://youtu.be/Dv0UTE9pNhM
This kind of stuff along with the outright refusal to admit obvious wrongdoing is why people lose their shit with the police.
Especially with the “I’m trying to save your ass by pulling off at a safe location” “NOPE! RAGE!” shit.
Most cops I know are thankful when people do that. A certain percentage are massive assholes about it.
Just a thought…maybe they could turn their lights on when there is a safe place to pull over. I dunno, it just came to me.
?
Nope, can’t do that. Can’t have the tax cattle seeing them laying in wait, even if it’s safer for all involved.
I pretty much did what that lady did once upon a time, except it was on a freeway on-ramp where the asshole in blue lit me up. Put on my blinker and drove slowly till the next off ramp that was about a minute and a half drive where there was a decent shoulder. Truth be told I was younger and trying to fuck with him a bit as I was getting pulled over for 41 in a 35 (that was later changed to 40 as no one did 35 on it). Cop was livid when he came up to my window. I calmly explained that I didn’t think there was enough shoulder there and it might be dangerous for both of us to stop there. By the time he got back to my car with my license he had calmed down and I ended up not getting a ticket.
“Honestly, I don’t know how to stress this enough.
The GOP’s assault on education and history is a fascist attack based in Nazi ideology and is obsessed with power, control, and the protection of murderous white supremacy.
We’re in incredible danger.
1/”
https://twitter.com/JYSexton/status/1403388186911555588
CWAA
Pushing back against the forcible inculcation of Marxist ideology is white supremacy by definition, it is known.
Well, that made my day. In the end we are going to have to…do something.
Submit, Disengage from society, or Fight. Those are the choices. It’s not a ternary choice, you can mix and match, but either you choose or they’ll choose submission for you.
It’s walkways progjection.
Or always.
“We are trying to create a movement where everyone comes together around the values of inclusion and safety, where we all can be safe and accepted and belong for who we are,” said director Calla Devlin Rongerude.
Except them white supremacist SCIENCE-denying rednecks. We fucking hate those guys.
Funny how instead they’re creating an environment of exclusion and hatred. Push harder, I guess.
Reddit wisdom, from “deathbed confessions”:
I think I’ll have that engraved on my headstone.
Well, shit.
The guys from Home Depot are here to install our new (clothes) washing machine and new dishwasher.
No problem with the clothes washer.
But the dishwasher, they say is too tall for the installation location. It’s 33.63” high.
I measure 33 and 7/8” from the floor to the underside of the granite countertop. There is some sort of metal insert between the dishwasher and the granite that seems to serve no purpose other than as a spacer to the existing dishwasher. But it’s outside these guys’ purview.
They aren’t allowed to remove it or even to remove the dishwasher if it’s in any way atypical.
I don’t know what it is! Now I have to choose between letting them leave the dishwasher here for a third party to look at or taking it back and ordering a shorter one.
What to do, what to do….
Get used to getting your hands wet.
I understand why they are not allowed to touch it, especially if you have granite tops. They will end up cracking the granite. Order a pizza for them and while it is delivered and they are eating take the damned thing out yourself.
Pssst….. Dishwashers dont wash dishes. They spray water on them.
This is the best dishwasher: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Scotch-Brite-Heavy-Duty-Scour-Pads-20-ct/189719313
I know…you arent even on my lawn.
I was expecting a picture of an attractive woman wearing nothing but an apron at the sink.
Damned! What an opportunity missed. I am kicking myself.
I’ve lived that with Home Depot on several jobs they sub out. Lesson learned. I don’t get anything installed by HD.
We’ve since found a local appliance place that does its own installs that is exactly the same price. Sorry that’s not going to help you here, however.
We elected for them to leave the dishwasher called our regular plumber and he had the thing installed within 10 minutes.
Is it possible for you to get under there and remove whatever it is yourself?
I had that happen when we were siding the house. Dude was going to side AROUND a deck post (a nonweightbearing portion) and I’m like, no, this is the Cadillac of sidings (Hardyboard). I don’t want it looking like vinyl or aluminum. He said, “I can’t cut that post.” Fine. I’ll do it. I got out my saw and cut that fucking post.
You put up Hardlyboard?
Never heard a word against it and believe me, we tried to find some.
Still a better love story than Twilight.
I am teasing you. My brother had it on his house and that was his term for it. The only drawback is that it is brittle and stuff happens, then you have broken hardly board.
It doesnt rot, repels water…etc. You are good.
What really sold me was that it could be painted if I ever changed my mind about the supreme dominance of yellow.
I have cement fiber board on the house. It has been a disaster.
The paint is peeling off after 16 years. It’s peeling down to the fiber boards, so the primer is failing.
I have no idea how is can be repaired. I expect that it will be pulled off and replaced with vinyl in the next couple of years.
Lessee….we got ours installed in bits and pieces as we could afford it, so the last bit we got installed was….6 years ago? Still lovely. My neighbor’s Virginia creeper is creeping up under it, however, so I need to get at that.
We’ve only ever put Hardiplanks on one house, I should swing by and see how it’s holding up, it’s been at least twenty years. It looks nice, but I didn’t like installing it, hard on saw blades and heavy and noodle-ly.
Speaking of weird noodle-ly siding, I installed some pre-primed faux wood grain OSB siding on a Habitat house. I had never seen such a thing before. I can’t say that I loved installing it, but it looked much better than vinyl. Being OSB, it was super easy to cut.
*remembers GP composite siding lawsuits*
I like Suthen’s suggestion. If they ain’t hungry then a 20 each should do the trick. Likely it is just screwed in, you can get it out yourself. Hopefully they didn’t use adhesive on it. If they did get your Stanley knife out and a paint scraper.
I have found that workmen never turn down fried chicken, hamburgers or pizza and you get a much better job. I always get food for tile setters, roofers, mechanics etc.
In fact I recently brought sausage biscuits to everyone in my local pharmacy. It went over really well and now I never have to wait in line. They always take care of me, what is a few biscuits?
Oh hell yes, I can’t imagine you’d get many refusals with offering that triumvirate. I work in somewhere about 1200 homes and apartments per year. It’s actually surprising how little I’m offered anything and I don’t really mind, but I do note that almost all the best customers offer me water or coffee or something. Offering a drink or coffee to anyone working at your house just seems like good manners to me.
Coffee or water/soda is pretty normal, I don’t often get offered food and when I do it’s donuts or homemade cookies or some such stuff and I have whatever the opposite of a sweet tooth is, but I don’t want to seem rude so I’ll nibble on one until I get a chance to toss it unnoticed. The nicest one was the lady I was doing a week-long remodel for that got me gift cards to five different local eateries for my lunch, very thoughtful since I was an out-of-towner and it gave me a reason to try some place I probably wouldn’t have.
I’ve offered water, because I wouldn’t eat food some stranger offered me so I don’t offer any, but I can’t think of one instance where they accepted the offer of water. They all had their own bottles.
Chances are, I wouldn’t like the food itself or I’d be on a diet. I’d rather be offered nothing than have to refuse and make them feel bad, especially when they’re looking at you, expecting you to eat it and be nom nom nom.
I always do the “drink fridge is over here. Feel free to take anything you want. I mean it.” thing. Besides a bottle of water or the occasional soda, nobody partook. Can’t say that I would either, if I was in their shoes.
One of the things that I want to get better at is hospitality and thankfulness in my daily interactions with service providers. I’m thankful in my words, but I want to be better at foreseeing opportunities to express my thanks otherwise. I’m bad at that. For example, I didn’t even think to bring some cash to the car wash yesterday to tip the hand dry guys or the detail guys.
I’ll drink an end of the day beer with a client if offered, never while working.
Yeah, I’ve never offered food myself, just coffee and water. I’ve taken a few slices of pizza over my time working though. Hard to resist a slice of fresh delivery.
I’d volunteer to install if you were in Spotsyltucky.
Is this metal spacer attached to the granite and does it have a bunch of holes ion it, if so it is to attach the diswashers top mounting tabs to, so it doesn’t walk around or pull forward when you open the door, however your new dishwasher should also have places along the side that you can screw into the cabinet frame instead of using the top mounting taps. In other words the metal strip is nice but not necessary.
That is EXACTLY the visual I got in my head when I read her comment.
Yes!! That is exactly what we have! Thank you.
I’m going in!
The front legs can be raised up and down for leveling so you should be able to adjust the to give you enough clearance in the front. The wheels at the back are harder to raise up and down, but it is sometimes possible to reposition them for more clearance.
I currently have an appointment for tomorrow with local dudes who say they can do anything.
However, if I can figure it out myself, I’ll call and cancel it.
The guys did a fine job with the clothes washer; it’s a freaking BEAST and it’s all attached nicely to its pedestal. They both admired it and said they’d never seen that “large expensive one” mounted on a pedestal before. It looks like I could wash half my closet in there at once.
Maybe in a month or 2 we will get the matching dryer.
I really enjoy my Tesla, but sometimes they really are change for change sakes.
Here they are literally reinventing the wheel in case you were nostalgic for Knight Rider:
Overview of steering yoke buttons
And while they were out it gear selection. Although in this case the other manufacturers are doing the same as there is no longer a physical connection between the transmission and the gear selection process.
Shifting gears using the center console as a fail-safe on the new Model S
In this case the car shifts for you. I expect since this will have less than 100% accuracy in typical Tesla fashion (see it’s crappy vision base automatic wipers) I will expect it to drive anybody over 40 nuts.
It’s not all on the touch screen?
So they have an “intelligent” shift. It figures if you need to be in P R or D automatically – i,e, it knows you are face forward in the garage, so when you get in put your foot on the brake it goes to R after that you back down the drive, hit the street cock the wheel get within the lane and it kicks to D.
All done without touching the shifter. I’m sure it will work just enough to annoy you when it doesn’t.
You can disable it and shift by stabbing in typical tesla fashion at the screen. And because the UX designers are all in their 30s every single fucking icon is microscopic.
I hate this concept with a passion.
Fuck automation. I am in charge.
/engineer-for-35-years-building-automated-systems
Gear shifting is such a burden. Too much of my life has been wasted by such activities when I could be doing something else.
Did Tesla set up a design group staffed by ex-Audi 5000 alumni?
In that case Americans couldn’t understand why a pedal box designed for heel toe shifting needed to have such tiny pedals so close together in their automatic transmission cars.
Toyota and both its ignition and flor mat teams would like a word too.
Yeah, I know the debunking but Audi foot has always lived in my mind since it made the news.
Speaking unintended acceleration, wife was driving the UTV the other day in an unfamiliar steep location and couldn’t find the brake pedal. As we were careening towards the trees, I mashed down on the brake. Which turned out to be the accelerator. I must say, both the Mule and my wife have good steering, it’s more durable than I expected, no one got hurt, and no damage to the utv. Did knock down some bushes and small saplings.
I don’t mind the idea of putting more on the steering wheel. I do mind a bunch of buttons that feel the same doing vastly different things. I certainly don’t trust the car to shift by itself. I’ve seen how bad auto-high beams are. I can’t imagine leaving the transmission to the same tech.
I should be able to configure my car by touch. If I have to look down, you have failed at designing the user interface.
I don’t like the look of the new yoke at all.
I am comfy with my 2018 model 3; just enough “real” stalks and buttons to be intuitive.
“A coronavirus reporter for Nature falsely claimed she had never met Peter Daszak. She even falsely claimed someone had photoshopped a picture of them together. An early tweet of hers exposed this hoax.”
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1403538394123169793
Who you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?
Cold busted right there. Ouch.
How many scientific periodicals have been co-opted by commie shitbirds now? All of them?
Wish me luck all. The girlfriend’s aunt is in town, so I get to head over with the girlfriend to hang out with some Branch Covidians.
I’ve been reminded no less then three times this morning not to forget a mask.
“oops, I forgot a mask”
Maybe a Friday the 13th style hockey mask? You could pair it with a nice flannel shirt and a brooding silent demenour.
Case study of an unaware asshole
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2021/06/rural-oregonians-who-want-to-move-border-with-idaho-say-they-no-longer-recognize-their-own-state.html
The guy is a lifelong government employee and now taxpayer parasite retiree able to live in relatively luxurious lifestyle, benefiting from a not insane local community. “It’s no problem”, yet that same level of tolerance isn’t present in Portland or Salem, nor are they willing to leave the rest of the state alone. It’s all the internet’s fault. If those people in Easter Oregon just quit paying attention to what’s going on, it’ll all be fine.
Wow, the level of unintentional condescension is off the scales. Like you said, it’s clear he’s merely oblivious, but it amazes me how many people have a completely inoperable smug condescension detector.
Maybe, just maybe, you oblivious dolt, people HAVE taken a step back from their computers and they recognized the degeneration of the culture around them, especially in their state. Maybe, just maybe, the positives in their lives are IN SPITE OF Portland, and they want to preserve those positives before you half-wit fucks destroy that which allows you to survive being half-wits without starving to death.
What’s important to the Legislature, based on passed legislation
Juneteenth state holiday, renaming Columbus Day
gun control
Enabling and encouraging homelessness
Setting up race based handouts
Letting Native Americans put a feather in their high school mortar boards for graduation (no shit)
Kicking the eviction moratorium further down the road
What’s not
Fixing the broken state pension scheme that’s sucking up budgets of every government org in the state
Reigning in the unaccountable Oregon Health Authority, OrOSHA, and the governor’s unilateral mandate of over a year
Repealing the failed statewide landuse planning and onerous building codes (except for exceptions to cram through planner’s high density which drive up the cost of housing
Fixing failing school districts
Building a new Columbia River bridge
letting people pump their own gas
There was a brief period last year where the fire marshal’s office suspended that ban and nothing else happened. They quickly came to their senses and reinstated it before the masses started waking up.
What we’re doing is obviously wonderful, it’s your perception that’s the problem. Oh, and try being a guy with a Trump sticker just going to Portland much less breaking down there.
Yup, it’s all about tolerance and since progressives have largely supplanted liberals in the Dem party and power structure there is a whole lot less of it.
I’d rather see those Oregon counties join up with parts of Nor Cal and make a State of Jefferson personally, but I know that is an extreme long shot. Although really any reordering of borders is a long shot. Really the only way it might happen is if Puerto Rico somehow became a state, as we are never going to have 51 stars, it would have to be 52 for symmetry.
We’ve had the 51st state for twenty years now.
(Good lord, has it been that long really?)
34 years.
Samuel L Jackson and Meat Loaf? how have I not seen this.
And this way the State of Jefferson proponents can add another X to their flag for the Greater Idaho movement.
That’s a good looking cast and premise there, somehow never seen it. Worth a watch?
Yes, I would also be totally fine with NorCal becoming part of Greater Idaho. Every time I am up there I see more and more Jefferson flags, signs and stickers. I’d buy land up there in a heartbeat if they could ditch California, it is just one of the most stunning parts of the world I think and it’s been fucked by being a part of this state. It’s culturally way closer to Idaho and Montana than the Bay Area and LaLa. The only exception would be the towns of Arcata and Eureka which are lefty hippie central.
I’m a big fan of the second best creation of John Mortimer, so bias. Average movie, not terrible but not great either? It’s been a while since I saw it.
Gee, how come he didn’t move to Portland when he retired?
https://twitter.com/JFrankensteiner/status/1403199582134284288
Need a fact check on this one from Pie
there is no longer a physical connection between the transmission and the gear selection process.
No
fucking
way.
drive by wire
The throttle on my 350Z is drive by wire.
I look forward to drive by wire + internet connection + standard lack of separation of duties and security.
Electrics are brake by wire with a mechanical backup.
drive by wire
Nope.