WDBH: Last Minute Links

by | Jun 9, 2021 | WebDom’s Browser History | 217 comments

I’ve bene running around like a headless chicken these last few weeks, so these links are going to be sparse, and mostly memes.

It’s been three years since Tony Bourdain died. He’s the one celebrity death that has ever bothered me. I never knew him, but I felt like I lost a friend, and that was his gift. That sentiment is being echoed by a lot of people, apparently.

Here’s what Bourdain and Doctor Strange have in common.

The NY Post asks: was mask wearing pointless?

Square waves are neat. “According to the European Space Agency, cross seas are also thought to have caused a large number of shipwrecks over the years, with waves that can reach nearly 10 feet high.”

Very, very cool paintings of animals and with plants. (Way cooler than it sounds)

I was disappointed to discover that working myself to the bone pulling weeds in my garden does not, in fact, count as exercise minutes on the Apple Watch. Here’s what does.

Until its closure a decade ago, this prison housed men convicted of drug offenses. Now it will grow weed?

Dog Happy

Fucks don't grow around here no more

Yes

Edgar Yoda

Stepford Folks

Yeah.

Simplicity is necessary for mass market adoption

Perf

Please? Anyone?

Everyone hates California

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217 Comments

  1. Brochettaward

    I’m competing against delta thirders around here. A bunch of slack jawed delta thirders.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Only Deltas worry about firsts, we Alphas just laugh and make comments,
      Have fun!

  2. westernsloper

    The hate map seems pretty accurate.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Indeed. Florida fits, although I’m not sure of why SC hates Ohio. Too many space memes?

      • The Hyperbole

        I think in the last decade or so SC displaced Fla as the go-to state for old Ohioans to retire to.

      • Annoyed Nomad

        I believe it’s an error in the map. It was supposed to be NORTH Carolina hates Ohio. It’s due to the “First in Flight” vs “Birthplace of Aviation” claims.

    • Chafed

      I think so.

  3. Shpip

    Was mask-wearing pointless after all?

    Of course it was. Virus gonna virus, after all.

    But the simpletons needed a symbol that they were “doing their part” to control the uncontrollable, and politicians needed to be seen as “doing something” (insert Yes, Minister clip here), so we got mask mandates.

    Whenever I was asked “Where’s your mask?,” I just reached into my pocket and showed my interrogator my nifty COVID-repelling rock.

    • Fourscore

      We knew this from the beginning, add social distancing, quarantines, rate of deaths, etc. Even now some are still adding Covid deaths as an addition to the normal rate of death and get pretty much the same figures as a ‘normal’ year.

      It’s sad that some many old people in nursing homes died but that’s why they are there. It’s not a spa, it’s an elephant grave yard, a one way trip.

      • zwak

        Oh hell, we have known masks don’t do anything since the Spanish Flu. But, when push came to shove, people needed to show that they were doing something. At least some of them did.

      • C. Anacreon

        When push comes to shove,
        You’re afraid of love.

        /Robert Hunter

      • Not Adahn

        You might as well face it, you’re addicted to love

        /Robert Palmer

      • Gustave Lytton

        Speaking of masks, my prediction of Gov Kunt putting the screws to the small players came true. Again.

        $8900 fine from OrOSHA for Country Bakery over on Peoria Rd for failing to require customers to wear masks and failing to display a covid hazards poster. It’s a fucking bakery out of a lady’s house. I think maybe she’s had a family member help out from time to time but it’s mostly just her. And OrOSHA is stepping in to protect her from the evil owner (herself)? Effing ridiculous.

      • zwak

        I know that place, this is just fucking ridiculus. I hope they sue Brownshirt to the wall, what with it coming out that the masks do nothing in Fauci’s emails, but I think we are too far down the path.

      • Chafed

        This is a job for IJ.

    • blackjack

      I think it’s hilarious that people are buying this “evolving” knowledge thing. Just no. We have studied masks and their effectiveness for respiratory viruses ad nauseum. We knew exactly how good they would work ( not very, if at all) and how to use them (not the way we were forced to.) Anybody who doubts this is so fucking dumb, there’s just no getting trough to them. In fact, it’s looking like the vaccine was pretty close to ready even before the virus started to spread.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        I think it’s hilarious that people are buying this “evolving” knowledge thing.

        but but but there were some peer reviewed scientific studies published in late spring/early summer last year that showed masks were effective, right? There must have been. They wouldn’t have just changed the narrative for no reason.

  4. EvilSheldon

    My local is a Dogfish Head brewpub. They have an interview with Anthony Bourdain (in which he mentions Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA) framed over the urinal in the men’s room, so taking a leak always gets me a little weepy.

    Bourdain always seemed to have an interesting life over and above the vapid narcissism of ‘celebrity’. I miss him for that alone.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Dogfish Head SeaQuench, Love it, or I will kill you!
      /JK

      • EvilSheldon

        You ever had the Dogfish Head Perfect Disguise? It’s so fucking good…

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        No, I will find it, thanks!

    • DEG

      The Dogfish Head brewery tour was interesting. They also have a distillery. I picked up some good stuff from the gift shop at the brewery.

      • EvilSheldon

        Ayo, the distillery is worth the trip. I get a bottle of Solar Archaeology every year, and it’s usually gone too soon…

    • J. Frank Parnell

      My local is a Dogfish Head brewpub

      Nice.

  5. Yusef drives a Kia

    Weird ass map, I can’t tell how we are hated, something about holes? we have a lot,

  6. juris imprudent

    I’ve bene running…

    Bene Gesserit one would presume.

  7. DEG

    Did we ever need masks?

    No.

    There also were people who were ticketed and publicly humiliated for not wearing a mask; businesses that didn’t enforce mask-wearing faced fines.

    The people who didn’t wear masks and the businesses that didn’t enforce mask wearing did the right thing.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      We still adhere to the stupid policy at work, and even there people are giving it up, like fuck this, and it’s the only place I wear one, fucking sad,

    • LJW

      Social Distancing was a lie
      Masks were a lie
      Vaccinated + mask was a lie
      The bat was a lie
      People who got the virus still need to be vaccinated was a lie

      Lesson is don’t trust any science coming from the left or government.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I’ll minimally comply, I like my job, and they put up with me,

      • rhywun

        Yeah, there are places I have to comply in order to support myself.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Lesson is don’t trust any science coming from the left or government.

        Quite frankly, this episode casts doubt on the entire public health/infectious disease industry. In fact, it calls into question a lot of the methods we use to do science in this country.

      • C. Anacreon

        My problem isn’t with science, it’s with “Science!”

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Even the actual science used in furtherance of “Science!” deserves a hard look. There was a study to support just about everything. It felt a lot like the nutrition industry. “Eggs are good!” “No, eggs are bad!” “No, eggs are only good if you remove half the yolk and hard boil them!”

      • PudPaisley

        What % of doctors that you work with are all in on the Covid / mask stuff?

        I’ve been disappointed in my sister who’s a doctor regarding this issue. She’s a hard core mask person, but thankfully she doesn’t try to preach it to others. She just has some strict rules to be around her and her family.

      • C. Anacreon

        Since our group is mostly ER docs, many of whom saw a lot of covid deaths, they have been understandably sensitive and not making any waves. Tbh I haven’t really tried to find out privately what most other docs think. I know our Chief Medical Officer was publicly disdainful about Hydroxychloroquine, I have wondered what he thinks now that more supportive data have come out. I do have some good friend colleagues who have told me on the down low how ridiculous they thought all the lockdowns and mask nazism has been, especially the school closures, but they keep their heads down. Because we’ve all seen the public condemnation of any doc who questions things out loud.

      • PudPaisley

        Thanks. I haven’t asked her, but I wonder if some of her outward talk and precautions are based on not making waves. In fairness to her, the hospital she works at had a lot of covid cases last year.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        At least the cake was true.

  8. UnCivilServant

    That hate maps is off.

    Far more people than Massholes hate New York.

    And we really don’t care about New Jersey, we just pick on them.

    • blackjack

      Yeah, they missed the major in state one we have. The bay area hates L.A. L.A. doesn’t really care one way or the other, though. Similarly, in city, the westside hates the valley, and the valley could care less.

      • rhywun

        I think the map can be summed up as “smaller media markets hate bigger media markets”.

      • egould310

        The map is strongly aligned with traditional college football rivalries.

      • rhywun

        No doubt, esp. in the Midwest.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Same here. People in TX don’t hate Oklahoma. Oklahoma is that neighbor down the street with a mullet and all his windows covered up with duct tape. Texans pity Oklahoma. Texas hates California right now.

      • Not Adahn

        The OK/TX border is the South bank of the Red River, because TX lost a war. With OK.

    • blackjack

      The lie is a streaker, no pants or nothing. Apparently they burned off somewhere along the line.

  9. Spudalicious

    I understand that suicide is the last act of a desperately ill person, but I was pretty pissed when Bourdain left his daughter behind.

    • The Hyperbole

      Never heard of this and google led me to…

      Ariane is 12 years old. She has long brown hair and blue eyes, is 4ft 11ins (1.25m) tall and weighs around 70lbs (32kgs). Her vital statistics are 29-24-30, and she wears shoes size four. Her father Anthony’s net worth was over $16 million at the time of his death, from which she will eventually benefit.

      Creepy As Fuck, but OMWC might want to look into it.

      • rhywun

        eew

      • Spudalicious

        Vital statistics on a 12 year old? Holy fuck.

        One of the rumors is that a payoff to an accuser of his girlfriend for statutory rape is what pushed him over the edge.

        “Asia Argento on Tuesday issued a statement, denying she ever had an inappropriate sexual relationship with former child co-star Jimmy Bennett but explaining her late boyfriend Anthony Bourdain, afraid of “negative publicity,” personally paid out $380,000 to this “dangerous” person to make him leave them alone.”

      • slumbrew

        It wasn’t just the payoff, it was Argento publicly stepping out on him that allegedly pushed him over the edge.

        Still, with a 12 year old, it’s an incredibly selfish act.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Yeah, I’m not against suicide in principle but I think it’s wildy irresponsible and selfish to burden your still developing child with such an action.

    • slumbrew

      Bourdain was a troubled dude and, while I liked his work, leaving his daughter like deeply tarnishes my memory of him. He kills himself over a woman, leaving his tween daughter behind. Just horrible, horrible judgement – if anything is bigger than yourself, it has to be your children.

      • Chafed

        The childless guy gets it.

      • slumbrew

        Shit, I’d worry about my dog too much to top myself…

      • slumbrew

        Also – you’re in your 50’s and you’re killing yourself over a girlfriend like a love-sick teenager? WTF, man (though I do wonder what prescription drugs he was on).

      • J. Frank Parnell

        He hung himself, right?

        When people hang themselves, I just assume they were jackin’ it.

      • slumbrew

        That theory has also been brought up.

        RIP, David Carradine.

  10. Trigger Hippie

    The Missouri vs Kansas hate always tickles me. I understand why it exists due to the Missouri Compromise/Civil War/Quantrill. However, it’s been over 150 years since then and our state schools are no longer in the same conference…culturally speaking, people outside the area couldn’t accurately separate us with a gun to their heads. Let it go, you silly pricks.

    • rhywun

      I’m just going to come out and say it.

      I don’t care for that movie. I mean, I’ve watched portions of it here and there over the years with others but it’s not something I’m going to spool up and watch myself.

      Wake me up when Deckard is a pedo and I’ll give a shit.

      • rhywun

        Touché 🙂

      • egould310

        Deckard was probably under 4 years old, too.

      • UnCivilServant

        That would make no narrative sense. Either from a storytelling or in-universe perspective. The story immediatly loses all weight and meaning if he is not human.

      • EvilSheldon

        Blade Runner was lousy sci-fi.

      • EvilSheldon

        Also, Phillip K. Dick never wrote anything better than mediocre.

      • l0b0t

        I seem to recall really enjoying the book where the people are all hooked on playing with dolls action figures (the Perky Pat Playsets).

      • zwak

        Ubik and VALIS are two of the greatest post-war novels, SF or not.

      • rhywun

        I haven’t read a lot of Dick but Ubik is one I did, and I remember enjoying it & wanting to read it again.

    • KSuellington

      One of the best jazz stations around. Love me some 91.1 FM.

      • Spudalicious

        Used to listen to it all the time.

  11. Grumbletarian

    JFC, Bruins are shitting the bed.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Well, it is Golf, oh nevermind…

    • slumbrew

      I think the writing was on the wall when Carlo went out. Follow that up with constantly mugging Coyle and it’s a recipe for success.

    • rhywun

      Excellent.

      /Mr. Burns

      • slumbrew

        Meh, not like it was the Capitals again. Or the hated Habs.

      • grrizzly

        I hate Tampa. Am I supposed to root for the Islanders now? At least I’ll have free time every other day. I had to apply for a new Amex card after the second period to cheer myself up.

      • slumbrew

        Last 5 years of exits: 1st round, 2nd round, finals, Game 7, 2nd round, 2nd round

        It’s been a bit rough.

        New York fans being the very worst (yes, yes you are – way to celebrate a player getting seriously injured), I can’t actually root for the Islanders.

  12. UnCivilServant

    Got a question.

    Assume a stock where one entity holds a large portion of the outstanding shares, but there’s a decent number circulating among other investors. There’s a rumor that one of the larger brokerages plans to short the stock. Copycat investors jump on a shorting bandwagon. Holding entity immediately starts loaning its shares to the short-sellers, then turns around and starts buying all the shares it can get ahold of on the market, causing the prise to rise, and leaving the short sellers with insufficient options to buy the shares from to return the loan than the large player, meaning they get both the higher price and the ‘rental fees’ from loaning shares to the shorters, as well as the shares in the end.

    Did the large player violate any securities laws?

    • rhywun

      I dunno but my eyes glazed over just trying to read that.

      /not a money whiz

    • slumbrew

      No idea, what does the SEC say? A lot of it comes down to that.

      Actually, my buddy is a forensic accountant for the SEC – I can ask him, if you like.

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s up to you. It’s mostly an odd thought I had.

      • slumbrew

        I’ve asked, we’ll see.

      • l0b0t

        Isn’t that similar to what happened with Gamestop?

      • slumbrew

        AFAIK, the short-squeeze (not enough shares to cover the shorts) was initiated by the apes on /r/wallstreetbets – only after that did institutional investors jump on that bandwagon.

        As I think about it, in UnCiv’s example it will only become an issue with naked shorts – more shares are shorted than actually exist – but that’s (now) illegal. Otherwise every short position must have a corresponding share associated with it – in theory. In practice it still happends

        That is what kicked off the GME frenzy – an analysis that pointed to more short sales than existing shares. It’s all still a bit murky.

      • slumbrew

        I did ask:

        Usually folks taking a short position will be through a broker/dealer who borrows shares from a custodian. There shouldn’t be a situation where the shares run out or someone is acting like a BD without registering as a BD & following rules. It’s possible that no one wants to take your trade at the price you want, but when taking a short position through a BD, you will get a margin call when price is certain percentage out-of-the-money.
        Does that make sense? if a non BD is attempting to manipulate prices, it could be illegal. But people get “short squeezed” all the time.

        As I thought, unless there are shenanigans, there shouldn’t be a position where “there are no shares available” – there will always be shares to cover, albeit maybe not at a price you’d like.

    • Suthenboy

      In your scenario my first thought is that the large player initiated to rumors. I dont know what the law is regarding that but it looks like upside-down insider trading.

  13. commodious spittoon

    “Socialism is antisemitism for intellectuals.” Theodore Dalrymple

    Thought this for awhile, never heard it put that succinctly. Whenever I hear kneejerk anticapitalists inveigh against employers or landlords or bankers or investors or whatever, what I hear in my head is “JOOOOOOS.” Simplistic, one-size-fits-all, convenient excuse, and you know what, I bet a good lot of them do, in fact, despise Jewish people. It’s just gauche to hate on Jews directly, so they disguise it in what they imagine is a more studied sort of derision.

  14. db

    Did a Zoom actually happen? I tried the links I could find, but no dice.

    • deadhead

      Here’s mine. It’s free, so I think it’ll kick people off after an hour, but perhaps it’s better than nothing.

  15. Tundra

    I’m fucking sick of the constant supply chain conversations I have for many hours every day. I’ve got this amazing situation with a shit-ton of orders and no way to fill them.

    Fuck.

    You People® really make things better.

    So thanks.

    • db

      That sucks. We’re having a shitty week at work this week too. Our commercial folks can’t get their heads out of their asses, but they keep finding promotions up there, so…misaligned incentives, I guess.

    • egould310

      “ supply chain conversations”

      Key finding in every audit I’ve done for the last three months. It’s a thing.

    • pistoffnick

      Yep. I can’t find straight legged aluminum I-beams anywhere. And steel prices, especially high strength steel, are just ridiculous.

      Who would have thunk that shutting down society for a year would have poor consequences?

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Did we ever need masks?

    It’s a touchy, complex question. People may not want to learn that millions of us covered our faces for 15 months for no good reason after all. But asking the questions is exactly what we must do

    It’s not complicated at all.

    Superstitious mumbo jumbo. Talismans. Fairy stories.

  17. KSuellington

    I am the Science!!!

    I mean, I absolutely loathe this fucker, so maybe that is coloring my opinion here. But this is some outrageous shit to say. I don’t know how you hear this clown say shit like this and hold anything but utter contempt for him. He is a master at bureaucracy I will give him that, but this can’t be a good look, even to those that put him on a pedestal.

    “Attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science,” Fauci told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd. “If you are trying to, you know, get at me as a public health official and a scientist, you’re really attacking not only Dr. Anthony Fauci, you’re attacking science, and anybody that looks at what is going on clearly sees that. You have to be asleep not to see that.”

      • KSuellington

        Thanks zwak! That will go on the playlist tonite once the kids finish their Lego show and get on to bed.

    • rhywun

      That’s a real quote?!

    • slumbrew

      That’s an infuriating quote.

      • slumbrew

        That was a great race – shocked nobody went out on 15 after all the excitement during qualy.

        I gave an out loud “oh no!” when Max blew that tire and then a minor cackle when Lewis screwed up – not that I hate him, he’s just the world’s most boring champion.

        I read that article earlier – straight-up screw up by Hamilton.

      • KSuellington

        Yeah, I don’t hate him either, he irks me more than anything and it gets boring to watch him win all time. He is one of the all time best drivers, he just very very rarely makes much of a mistake. And on those times he can usually recover. Hope he keeps it close for the top spot this season, I think he may ultimately come out on top, hard to bet against Mercedes. He drives like Floyd Mayweather fights.

      • slumbrew

        He drives like Floyd Mayweather fights.

        Very well put. You have to respect the skill, but it doesn’t make for an exciting race.

      • KSuellington

        That’s why I’m partial to Verstappen, he takes those risks. There has been some great races so far, excited as to how the season plays out.

    • Mad Scientist

      Nice stolen base, doc. Be a shame if something were to happen to it.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    You People® really make things better.

    So thanks.

    Wait- I’m not crazy?

    • Tundra

      Your aren’t

      You might be the sanest dude I know.

      Sorry about that.

      • Mad Scientist

        Chopped liver over here!

  19. The Late P Brooks

    “Attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science,” Fauci told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd. “If you are trying to, you know, get at me as a public health official and a scientist, you’re really attacking not only Dr. Anthony Fauci, you’re attacking science, and anybody that looks at what is going on clearly sees that. You have to be asleep not to see that.”

    Guess what, Fucko. I would beat you into a bloody pulp with an axe handle if the opportunity arose. I would gladly do a science experiment on you.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      But Fauci is Science! He said so, Heathen!
      /Heathen

    • Akira

      Yet another sign that the COVID hysteria is behaving like a religion. And Doctor lying fuckwad Fauci is the aspiring pope.

      • Chafed

        That’s Pope Fauci to you.

      • one true athena

        DOCTOR Pope Fauci.

      • slumbrew

        Herr Professor Docktor Pope Fauci

      • Chafed

        It would be great if one of his hands had a mind of its own.

    • KSuellington

      Jeff Tucker, laying down some truth. He has been on his game in the last year with the Vid reaction. AIER has been a voice of dissent from the orthodoxy of the wisdom of Science! since this started.

      “Lockdowns shattered the social contract at the expense of the working class and the poor, all to the wild celebration of the mainstream media and people who mostly identify as politically left wing (and this was likely for political reasons).

      This is the true story of lockdowns. We must deal with it, and allow our understanding of ideological categories to adapt in light of it. The champions of the lockdowns, who are still with us, are not friends of the poor, minorities, or the working class but elite intellectuals and professional-class elites who tagged others to be their sandbags to protect themselves against the floods of pathogenic exposure which the ruling class neither wanted nor believed that they deserved.”

      • Ownbestenemy

        That last part sounds like a good description of my brother.

      • KSuellington

        The biggest supporters of lockdowns were certainly the class that could afford it.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yep..architect, so no impact to him there. Secondary job was the only thing that was affected and that is a professor.

        A year ago while we were drinking and getting at each others’ throats like we usually do, his solution was that the military should be used to enforce a two-week nationwide stay at home order. Odd coming from someone who told me Trump was a dictator.

      • Chafed

        That is excellent. Phil Magness has written some great pieces at AIER too.

  20. Ownbestenemy

    Hello late night Glibbies. In for the long haul pushing software so people don’t put two planes in the same place at the same time.

    • Chafed

      As former, and hopefully future, frequent flyer thanks for doing it.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Watching and listening to a tracon is really boring until a pilot doesn’t do what was asked of them or a controller doesn’t pay attention. Over the past 10 years I have seen what happens and what doesn’t get reported in the news and sometimes even though it is little software generated graphics on a screen that represent planes I cringe at some of the missteps people do.

        Automation of course makes it better, in and out of an aircraft.

        I think worst, beside an accident, was a controller that put a departing 737 through the jump zone for parachuting just outside of Vegas. Luckily no one was hit but still…crazy.

      • Chafed

        I’m picturing the worst case scenario. Yuck.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      Have you considered that not putting two planes in the same place at the same time may be a sign of white supremacy? Or at the very least a symptom of whiteness.

      Do better.

      • one true athena

        it’s certainly Biplanophobic!

        Here, I made a new flag.

        upload

      • Chafed

        That’s great.

      • rhywun

        I saw that flag IRL yesterday (minus the plane) – I hadn’t realized that the trannies had inserted themselves into it because of course they have.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I have every day. But I will do better.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Just remember! Vitaly Kaloyev isn’t the only one out there.

      • Chafed

        I had to look him up. I have no idea how you knew he existed.

        8 year sentence but only served 2 years. I guess life is cheaper in Europe.

    • Ownbestenemy

      So Derpy is running around the country, sneaking into positions and submitting statements. That is my only explanation.

  21. Ownbestenemy

    When I attempted this software maintenance last week it took me 3 hours to get a quarter of the system done and I had to fallback to previous versions. Today, reattempting it I am done with half the system in 2 hours. What the hell man….now I gotta milk out the last half of the system since I am scheduled through the night.

    • hayeksplosives

      Just spend time pontificating on sundry topics here on Glibs. That should pad it out nicely!

      • Ownbestenemy

        I could spend my time in worse ways.

  22. hayeksplosives

    I got up at the ass crack of dawn today (4:30 PDT) to finish up a presentation I have to give tomorrow to a DOD customer. I should have had it complete by yesterday but the problem with being back in person at work is that it’s a non-stop parade through my door.

    The folks dropping by aren’t looking to waste time and shoot the breeze (for the most part); they want my opinion on technical and non technical issues. So of course I want to help even though I don’t have a charge code for staff psychologist.

    My long- held belief that men and women don’t necessarily have inherently different thinking / brain processes has been shattered by the reality of managing teams of male engineers. Some of these guys really do need a social/ emotional interpreter.

    Three of them that report to me now have openly told me that they will quit if they get assigned to a manager other than me. It will be interesting to see what the genius senior leadership team rolls out for a restructuring….if they put me into the Specialty Engineering pool and take away my direct reports, a lot of talent will potentially walk out the door.

    May wiser heads prevail…

    • Ownbestenemy

      Since we are basically down to one technician per group in our building, any time someone sees that I am in my office, it becomes a moth to a flame. Like you, most are relevant conversations but I get the feeling that people are just glad to see someone other than their spouse.

  23. Ownbestenemy

    Well, at least my application for a detail promotion was accepted and I am on a referral list. Next up, stupid phone interviews. I have been on both sides of those in the agency and they are terrible.

    • hayeksplosives

      Good luck, man,

      Stay positive.

  24. Yusef drives a Kia

    Howdy Glibbies, another sticky day begins, how goes it?

    • Sean

      Meh.

      *waves*

    • Ownbestenemy

      Howdy. Tired but my software did what it was supposed to so, I’m happy

    • TARDis

      I made it to work on time despite the dude laying face down in the middle of the interstate. 4 lanes blocked, couldn’t tell what happened. So, doing better than some I’d say.

      *also waves*

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        My commute is a 2 lane highway, with almost no traffic, some days I’m the only car on the road for 20 miles, pretty cool compared to Cali.

      • TARDis

        That is pretty cool. The most I can make is about 5 miles, and that’s at 4:15 in morning. I sometimes imagine I’m in an episode of Life After People.

    • Not Adahn

      Cooler than yesterday, and it’s supposed to de-stickify.

    • TARDis

      I love roller coasters (and water slides), but fuck NJ.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      that’s a whole lotta bugs,

    • TARDis

      I blame Trump; Paris Accords, etc.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Fake news, I’m going to blame Big Oil (for no reason at all).

  25. Tres Cool

    They really need to stop giving me d̶a̶y̶s̶ nights off. It IS Thursday, right?

    suh’ cuh ?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Thursday morning, sounds like you could use some TALL CANS!
      Sup Tres?

  26. Tres Cool

    The crib is littered with them, thats the issue.

    HEY YUFUS!

  27. Tres Cool

    And WRT the upside-down table saw guy from the previous article- I shared the link with a wood-working friend of mine. He remarked “there could be some genius to his idiocy. Depending on the blade length/depth, he could be cutting 6-7 boards at once. Of course that efficiency is offset by the time spent in the ER.”

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      File this under things that seem like a good idea until you lose a hand. Points for ingenuity though.

      • Gender Traitor

        IIRC, one of Tom T’s friends was cutting his grass once when he thought he’d pick up the mower to trim one of his bushes. I think he may have made a mess of a fingertip or two, which is especially bad for a bass player.

      • Tres Cool

        Did you hear about the bass player that locked himself in the van? Took the drummer an hour to get him out.

      • Gender Traitor

        ::pulls the usual out of her pocket::

      • Tres Cool

        Oh, I got jokes. Wait till Jugsy gets home and we hang-out.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Booooo!!
        *throws rotten cabbage*

      • l0b0t

        Q – “What does a stripper do when she finishes shaving her asshole?”

        A – “She drives him to band practice.”

      • Festus

        I always heard that one as A – ” She takes him to the Therapist.”

      • Tres Cool

        HEY l0b0t- Jugsy is in Far Rockaway.
        Can I trust you to show her around and NOT send her home pregnant ?

      • Not Adahn

        Lived with stripper. Can confirm.

    • The Hyperbole

      It’s a 10″ jobsite Dewalt table saw cuts just over 3 1/4″ a full depth, a standard 7 1/4″ circular saw will cut almost 2 1/2″ at best he’s cutting one or two extra sheets, also if that was the plan he could just by a 10″ circular saw. My guess is someone forgot /broke the company circular saw and this was improvisation. Always have a back up circular saw.

      • Tres Cool

        Bout how many board-feet is that ?

      • Festus

        Shrugs. He found a way. Reminds me of me.

      • The Hyperbole

        Agreed, I’m just saying it was most likely more necessity than inspiration.

      • Festus

        I clamped boards to the patio and ran 30 degree offset on 8 foot 2×4 when I built daughters green house. I had been drinking but it worked. That greenhouse frame still stands today, even after a move to another Daughter’s property. Sharp blade is the key.

      • Festus

        Meaning to say that I did the opposite of “table-saw guy”. I didn’t have a table saw.

    • Festus

      Mornin’!

      • Gender Traitor

        Good morning, U & Fes (and all the rest of you lot!)

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Howdy

    • Ownbestenemy

      Morning.

      • Festus

        4:00 AM and it’s getting light out. I love this time of year.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I came to work when the sun was setting and now I will be here when it rises. I am beat.

      • Festus

        Sorry, Friend.

      • Tres Cool

        It’s OK. You’re like us.

      • Festus

        We live by night.

      • Not Adahn

        Blah. I can’t sleep in daylight.

      • Not Adahn

        On the plus side, I’ve never been snuck up on by an army either.

    • Tres Cool

      present and accounted for….ignore my BAC

      • Festus

        No drivin’, time for thrivin’!

    • Sean

      Yes, yes it is.

  28. Tres Cool

    This one time I was driving home and got pulled-over by a dyslexic cop.
    He tried to give me an IUD.

    • Festus

      Was it safe?

  29. Festus

    So one of the idler wheels for the belt on beloved Tacoma is whinging. I looked up a few ways to try diagnosing which one was problematic. Everyone of them was stupid and dangerous. Attach a cut off gallon jug to your longest screwdriver and start poking about while the engine is running. Tomorrow I am going to cut a piece of heavy garden hose, stuff one of my funnels into it and listen to each one in turn, Ear horn. This way, I don’t get a 20″ screwdriver through the skull and the worst that will happen is maybe a welt across the face or I need to cut another length of hose. Sometimes those “self-help” videos aren’t helpful…

    • Sean

      Can you live stream it?

      • Festus

        They’ve been begging me to do “Night Of The Janitor” for quite some time.

    • blackjack

      All you gotta do is get a spray can of lube like wd40 and, using the tube, spray a squirt right at the bearings of each pulley. It’ll shut right up with a spritz. Personally, I’d change the idler and the tensioner and the belt all at once. They’re not crazy expensive and the labor is almost the same.

      • Festus

        Aww, I sorta liked when the truck sounded turbo-charged… I’ve no interest in changing that all out because physical limitations. I’ve got something going on nerve-wise.

      • Festus

        I’ll do that today. Thanks, Friend!

  30. Sean

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/09/health/myocarditis-covid-vaccination-link-clearer/index.html

    Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say there has been a higher-than-expected number of cases of a heart ailment among young people, most often males, who’ve recently received their second doses of the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines. The CDC says the reports of the ailment are “rare” and that “most patients who received care responded well to medicine and rest and quickly felt better.”

    • blackjack

      It’s a good thing they can sue the manufacturer if they get messed up by it, right?

  31. The Late P Brooks

    I’ve no interest in changing that all out because physical limitations. I’ve got something going on nerve-wise./em>

    “Can I get it put back together?” is a serious question.

    • Festus

      I’m fit as a fiddle but sometimes my legs stop working. Especially when I tire or drink too much. It’s troubling.

      • Suthenboy

        If I drink too much everything stops working.

        *You are suffering from neuropathy. You need to see a doc and find out the cause of it. There are lots of causes and many of them are treatable.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    I’m off to a good start.