Meet and greet
Getting there
Even at 15+G, it still takes 6 weeks to get to the Cloud, and then we make the final burn in, so there was time. Angelique and I “practiced our form” for much of the journey, but I noticed she was very erratic and willful, so I kept the relationship at a distance, I did have an operation to conduct after all. Elon’s systems performed flawlessly, and we were a day out when I got a call from Sensors.
“Cat, we are picking up a small constellation of something, we aren’t sure what they are yet, but they are circling Titania” Oh Shit. Seamus was on it by the time I contacted him, so we decelerated to a “safe” distance to observe and listen. I asked him to join me for dinner once we settled, he was amenable.
Dinner and a plan
Angelique joined me, dressed in a Blue Velvet gown that matched her eyes, and we greeted Seamus and his gal Rose in my Stateroom, not much, but very comfortable, and settled in with drinks before dinner. I was surprised to see Rose and asked what the hell? “I wanted another adventure, my staff is strong back at the Cantina, why not go play with Seamus?” and she was Moria’s cook, I’m jealous.(as I’m swatted aside my head by my chef Killick)
“Cat there are 1024 of them, in a perfect spherical orbit and they chatter, oh my, we are running AI to make sense of it all, but there’s a large amount of back EMI, that’s kinda cloggin’ the pipes you might say”
So we aren’t getting to the rock, let alone retrieving it without dealing with that? As I pointed out the glass to what looked like a miniature Dyson sphere, Fine Seamus, you are to set up your Rails for action. I’m moving forward at 06:00 tomorrow to make contact, we didn’t come here for nothing.
Hello, why are you here?
That was the first thing we heard from them, at 7:12 TBP, that transmission alone opened up an entire set of questions? We are from the Sol system, yonder star over there, as I thumbed over my shoulder. We know where you are from, we have been watching you for 1000 years, we are the Tuyani, Nice to finally meet you Human, may I call you Cat? I was getting nervous and pissed, who were they? 1k years? I told Seamus to be ready, he laughed…
So, OK Tuyani, or whoever you are, is this your homeworld? Do you have a claim? We came a long way for this rock and really want to bring it home. The short answer is no and No. We found the Anomalies, then found You, and as a curious species, we followed you, tracked you, even mated with enough of you, that you have transcended Humanity, without even knowing it yet.
Brain clouds and money
Anomalies? There are more than one titania object out there? And who’s stopping us from claiming the rock, so I asked for a meeting. Certainly, approach with whatever vessel you choose, and hold at 10k above the surface, we await you, and keep gravity assist on, you will need it. And there it was, a chance to meet Aliens, and another potential loss, we could handle the money, but the Boys want Riches and glory, not just a paycheck, that’s why we are here, let’s see how this plays out,
to be continued,
I hate Word Press,
I feel your pain.
fun story
Redhedz 4 Yusef.
https://archive.is/6n2A3
Alabaster and curls, Yum!
Proof that God loves us
Still better than NJ.
New Jersey was the only state in the country that prohibited culinary entrepreneurs from making and selling cakes, brownies and other delectables from home.
https://www.nj.com/business/2021/10/sweet-success-at-last-nj-residents-can-now-legally-sell-their-home-baked-goods.html
But… we don’t have enough kitchen inspectors to inspect them all! And those meanie republikkkans won’t let us hire enough!
Interesting twist there about the aliens.
There are more,
Keep ‘‘em combing Yusuf.
Big fire still burning on the other side of the mountains between us and Butte. Makes a nice sunset.
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0BKpEjIF2Z-fViDb1nYmxqFGA.
Very Mordor,
A little hazy here, we’ve had a good bit of rain recently, I figured the fires were a way away.
Beautiful sunset but you don’t need any more.
Cool stuff mike. Hey, do you use a dropper post on your mountain bike? I frigging love mine (even though the internal cable routine was a bit of a pain in the ass to do). It is a game changer on the bike I think.
Best invention ever. I go down some pretty steep and rough trails. Without dropper I would be afraid to go down some of them. Getting low and back makes all the difference. Also, for this old man it makes getting on and off the bike a lot easier. It’s also great for maintaining control on steep, technical climbs, and the only way to restart a failed climb…’Course my bike is electric assist so I worry more about control on a technical climb – making the front wheel go where you want is as important as power output. Lowering it every time I stop is now second nature. I’ve put one on my road bike for ease of mounting and dismounting.
Nice! I figured you likely had one, but they didn’t exist when I was in my mountain biking prime twenty years back. I put one on the new bike a month back and love it. I’m trying to get myself trained up to do the Great Divide Route in 2030. Canada to Mexico completely off road through the Rockies. By that point I may need the electric assist bike too.
Let me know when you do. The Helena to Boulder section is a neighborhood ride for me. The fire in the picture is not too far from the route.
Absolutely will do! Happy trails.
I’m expecting an intergalactic money shot.
We haven’t even loaded our ships yet….
(as I’m swatted aside my head by my chef Killick)
From caring for Aubrey to cooking for this captain. Given that stretch of time, the guy is well-Preserved.
I see what you did, and I love it! well done Sir!
Twenty years ago I would’ve made a wisecrack about the captain getting Angelique into fighting trim via multiple drillings of Master and Commander roleplay, but I’ve been Maturin since then.
I’m just slightly terrified that future humans can bang in 15g.
Don’t humans pass out at 4g and die around 8g?
Just found a woman’s designer wallet laying on the side of the street. I didn’t rifle through it, but it clearly wasn’t just tossed there. Filled with ¥10K notes and gold credit cards. Turned it in to the hospital across the street and they checked the name on one of the cards. One of their nurses. Hope I get a finders fee IYKWIMAITYD.
Love you long time?
Honestly, I’m just hoping there isn’t any problem for me. “Hey, half the money is missing!” No good deed goes unpunished, right?
I went searching for hot Asian nurse pictures…what were we talking about again?
I forgot. Nurse porn maybe?
Do they pull that crap in Japan?
It goes against the narrative. OTH if this was a bicycle…
Most likely it’s legit she just dropped it and no shenanigans.
Good luck. If you happen to meet her hopefully she’s cute.
But expect an obasan. At least that would be my luck.
Nurse in Japan. Better than 50/50 she’s a Pinay or some other country rather than a generic obasan.
Speaking of obasans… https://youtu.be/ZJuBy2_nlBU
Turns out she was Japanese or at least her family name was.
GL, had a feeling that was going to be the video.
I seem to recall an AKB cover I saw at some point too.
Of course! But despite her fears, now that she’s in her obasan years, I still wouldn’t kick her out of the futon for eating senbei. And she still looks good in a miniskirt.
Also, the lyrics are a bit dark.
https://www.jpopasia.com/meg/lyrics/119911/trap/watashi-ga-obasan-ni-natte-mo-私がオバさんになっても/
I lost a house key in Germany once and the next day I found it at the village Lost and Found.
Even as a naïve teenager I couldn’t believe it.
Oh, and there are plenty of scams here. The “You groped me on the train” chicks that demand money or they’ll call the cops. Luckily, they offer insurance just for these incidents.
https://www.japan-insurance.co.jp/lawyer/025215000/8
So if you are a chikan you just buy insurance. Bilingual pun there.
The whole hands up on the train thing is ridiculous. But you have the advantage of the gaijin shield at least.
LOL the very little text that was available for translation does not disappoint:
lolwut
“I’m interested in your molestation. Shall I come by this afternoon?”
That actually makes sense in Japanese.
*takes notes for future plans in a world isn’t batshit insane*
Welcome to the hell of Japanese web design. Lots of pictures of characters that won’t machine translate.
Helllloooooo nurse!
That was my very first thought as well. #yakkoforever
“But rubber chafes me so,”
“are you thinking what I’m thinking?”
Vaguely related: I just watched Squid Game because of the hype. Pretty interesting, I have to say, but they could have cut at least an hour out of the series, maybe even 2. However, all the prize money was awarded in Korean Won so I was constantly pulling a currency converter to know what we were talking about. The grand prize was 46.5 billion Won, which turns out to be just shy of 40 million US dollars. Not too shabby….
Neat little read, Yusef. If you guys wanna see a massacre, check out the Kristol vs Horton debate. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QMuUmirBiAM
Thanks Straff, I want to see some more walking tours of your drinking spots, that shit cracks me upi!
Summary: Imagine how much worse it would’ve been if all those people HADN’T been killed. Kristol never disappoints.
2:42;00? are you nuts? i need sleep at some point,
Tweet of the day :
https://mobile.twitter.com/BigBoyler/status/1445175352863690754
Turns out, they needed to save all their work and reboot. Go figure.
Wut? Us Belters don’t get your lingo to well,
Prays for #twitterdown next.
https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/twitter.com.html
I don’t get it. Twitter is obviously not down. Maybe my sarcasmeter is.
I know, I just happened to notice that site is reporting Twitter down and dovetailed nicely into the comment.
In case it’s not the same for you, it’s incorrectly reporting Twitter down when I pull it up and has been down for more than 230 days.
Hey, I can dream, can’t I?
I love Elon, but i’m not a fan of EVs in general, so here’s me schadenfreud,
https://www.cfact.org/2021/09/30/ev-buyers-beware-fires-scarce-charging-times-and-parking-restrictions/
on the whole, the article is a Karens dream of EV doom, I noticed the lack of a grid to charge them all, didn’t anyone else?
No problem. Joey is gonna build a zillion charging stations for us. Oh. You meant a grid to supply all those stations? He thinks electricity comes from plugs.
My local congresscritter (D) has said over and over again that the $3.5 trillion bill includes “critical infrastructure to improve America’s electrical grid.”
Who really knows what rainbows and unicorn farts are in the bill? It’s like Santa’s toy bag and they’ll whip out anything that secures the child-voter’s vote.
Since it’s not my circus, I’ve been enjoying the popcorn while FB burns
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/q181fv/comment/hffad8f/
It’s Raptors all the way Down! and they all have Zuckerbergs face!
MUahahahhah ahhahahaha
Sometimes that wretched hive of scum and villainy that is Reddit can still bring a chuckle.
Below that:
I was canned in August 2018 and had no intention of ever dealing with that company again… until they rehired me in September 2020.
My account was still in the system.
Damn. Accounts aren’t deleted right away but access is disabled on the last day. Even for those on medical leave, after 3 or 6 months, their badges and accounts are suspended.
Is anyone else watching “Matt” roll over his nightly opponents on “Jeopardy?” He up to about $1.3 million in winnings and hardly breaks a sweat. Don’t know what it will take for someone to beat him.
I lost interest a couple decades ago when the questions got too cutesy and more so when the show got taken over by professional Jeopardy contestants.
JFC… the propaganda is getting more insane. Some asshole “chief equity officer” is telling me that children six months or older need to get the flu shot. I’ve been around long enough to know that this has never been a recommendation, ever.
Fuck.
You.
Garland declares federal war on parents:
https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1445167453105897475?s=20
Holy shit. This is real.
Yeah, apparently so. Threats against public servants are wrong because they’re a special class. Those same public servants using the power of the state to indoctrinate and brainwash children, and forcibly enact policies that parents and taxpayers oppose is a-ok. Those fuckers should seriously fear for their personal safety for what they’re doing.
Worst part is, there are no **ACTUAL** threats cited. The whole “disagreement with my politics is literal violence” BS that used to be confined to college campuses, has now made its way to the Attorney General’s office. God help us.
Maybe not cited, but I’m sure there’s some knucklehead or frustrated powerless parent who has made threats out there somewhere. Or refused to obey a school board to wear masks during a meeting or such.
Oh well hell yeah, there is that, in droves. I’ve seen the videos. If that’s all it takes now to incur the wrath and vengeance of the Fed, well, then this is where we are. Again I say, God help us.
obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7Y699aQvJk
Years and years ago (probably 2012 or so) most Lefties were telling me that the college SJW stuff was just “a small group of very loud activists” who would eventually sober up their viewpoints after settling down into the 9-to-5 life. How fucking wrong they were.
Dr. Gad Saad wrote a book called “The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense”. Good explanation of how this shit originates and spreads and how to stop it.
Mostly agree with Rufo, but he’s talking about these things like they’re in progress and unfolding right now. They happened years ago, we’re just now seeing the fruits of it.
But yeah, this memo kicks it up a notch. I’m pretty sure there won’t be much enforcement, but it’s specifically designed to intimidate. And it will work, unfortunately.
Grown kids, no problem, let’s play,
\Sick of it all
Don’t give up—- we need the creatives and the dreamers and the workers to carry on after it seems to be over.
#bookofeli
Don’t give up (Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush) https://youtu.be/l9vWBWEGEnM
I still love that song.
And it still rings true to this day.
Intriguing and playful tale as always Yusef.
May it ever be thus.
We need some sparks of creativity to get us out of the rut of reacting to idiotic pronouncements and decrees of the self-proclaimed elites.
I’m not ready to give up on mankind yet.
Y
Btw, go watch Countdown on Netflix if you have access. 5 episodes on the civilian mission on board SpaceX.
Good morning/wee wee hours, Glibs.
Hiya, limey.
I’ve been asleep for a while , then got up again due to thunderstorms and also excitement about signing on the new house.
Lightning is still flashing through through the windows, and I love it. Growing up in Oklahoma I took thunderstorms for granted. Now they are a gift from God.
Howya doing across the pond?
We’ve had a deluge of rain recently, especially during a thunderstorm, which was not a lot in the grand scheme of things but a lot all at once. Not ideal. The fields can’t cope. Horrible driving weather. Congrats on the new place 🙂
I’m gearing up for another week at terrible job starting early tomorrow. Moves made to start ball rolling in new direction. I may have to quite and try finding an intermediate job to give me the time for any necessary training and development, though. Not the end of the world.
Best of luck in finding a better job.
I mean, I’m still hiring, but the commute might be a bit much for ya.
Thanks dude. I have thought about trying a relocation to the good ol’ US of A. I don’t make the cut for priority skills.
Define “skills” (US citizen, batting eyelashes…)
Whelp, sorry Pie. We got one number plus the Powerball. $4.
Covers ticket costs and nothing more. ?
Some asshole won big, but it wasn’t us.
You should have paid for the Power Play, I won $8.
I won $8 by winning twice.
Well i have not been able to sleep at all, even with 1/2 an ambien.
Torn up cause its finally my tern to be told to get the shot.
DOD implies a deadline of the 11th, but has not published instructions on how to file a religous/medical exemption.
Wife is convinced a “bubba” who works on base will go postal.
Only think i can think of is to get everyone to file an exemption.
Have you been following Ozy’s beat on this?
https://www.theabjectlesson.com/2021/09/17/dod-vax-mandate-4-fda-nonsense-and-why-it-doesnt-matter/
Also I don’t know if this is still current or any help: https://news.gab.com/2021/07/29/important-download-covid-vaccine-religious-exemption-documents-here/
I have, and am planning to use trashies doc as well.
So, I have two office co-workers who have been coughing and generally sounding ill. Neither one is particularly healthy, but they are both fully vaxxed. I’ve been accusing them of trying to give me covid. Sort of sarcasm, but I’m actually worried for their health.
I hope the side effects of the clot shots are exaggerated, for their sakes, as well as some my close family who chose to get it.
Hold out, if you can.
https://pix11.com/news/local-news/her-order-of-protection-didnt-help-nyc-woman-brutally-beaten-during-domestic-violence-incident/
Wait, his name is “Sincere” ?
Also, should have been a defensive gun use…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/double-vaccinated-emmy-winner-dies-covid-19-two-weeks-attending-award-ceremony-unmasked-celebrities/
Masks don’t work. Neither does the “vaccine.”
I do not recognize this man’s name or face. Rest in piece, some-letter-of-the-alphabet list celebrity.
*peas
Seven of my moms friends went down to Florida, all in their 60s and 70s. All fully vaxxed. Six of them caught the virus, one was hospitalized. The only one who tested negative had already had the virus plus the vax.
The vax doesn’t work that well for transmission. It’s a little better for severity but still not that great if you’re already in bad shape.
Therapeutics. Therapeutics. Therapeutics.
Now that Merck has apparently produced something that can be sold at a huge profit we are on the road to recovery. Never mind the pile of bodies sacrificed at the altar of Big Pharma.
…and they’ll figure out you have to take it daily like a multivitamin.
Or with every meal, just to be on the safe side…
Mornin’ GT. Every meal? Think big. Tap water is fluoridated to prevent tooth decay, why not add molnupiravir for COVID?
Flintstones Multivitamins just like this one kid I knew took. Of course his Mom was a souse and used to cook a weekly ration of spaghetti soup.
I prefer the days when mother’s little helper was a Valium.
For her or the children?
And you will still need every booster shot.
https://www.fox29.com/news/police-investigating-drag-racing-incident-near-city-hall
Lol, how is this story still in the news? OMG, skid marks are still on the road!
🙄
Sigh… behavior like that is what saw our beloved Shorefront Parkway (an 8 mile stretch that parallels the beach) go from 2 lanes in each direction separated by a wide planted median, with a 40mph limit in 2011 to our current 1 lane in each direction, giant bike lanes, 25mph limit, and speed cameras.
Break the cameras. Clobber anyone trying to cycle down the road. Arrest any cops attempting to stop you and throw them in the sea.
Did they do a burnout on a political mural?
Mornin’. I usually read the space opera in the evening, but was busy last night so read it this morning. Going to be tough rewiring my brain for work now. Thanks, Yusef.
Mornin’ Friends! If what I’m seeing at the Plant is any indication, the consumer panic is on. We’re at pre-Xmas levels of packages and it is the very first days of October. Not good. Not good at all.
So the boxes got off the container ships stuck off the coast?
I tried to explain that situation to someone last night but it just didn’t work.
They are already bringing aboard the casuals to work the line. Hope they hire some new ones with nice bums :-)!
A very polite panhandler?
nice bums
How very British of you.
Great British.
Spousal unit’s 90 year old aunt schedules colonoscopy, goes to Dr. for pre-certification. All good, negative covid test, fully vaccinated. 3 days later has a fever, cough (not covid), cancels procedure.
Mrs. Patzer notes that auntie seems to come down with something every time she goes out. I wonder what’s up with her immune system? Maybe the warnings about a severe flu season are not overblown. Who knows?
Maybe the Old’un is playing you and doesn’t wish to be violated? I’d try every excuse.
So one of the scummier non-union sawmills is hiring again. Tempted but I’m an old fuck and they probably expect you to actually work 8 hours a day. I’m nearly 57. The last time that I slung boards was 25 years ago. Decisions, decisions….
Not sure how things work in Canuckistan, but hereabouts you find a good doctor. By which I mean one that will pass you on your pre-employment physical, then after you’ve been on the job for a week or two certifies you for permanent disability for a work-related back issue. Profit!
Get out of my brain, Patzie!
Kidding! I’ve leaped those hurdles before. Stole two years of my life before things were made right. I might not have that much left.
Beer wars.
https://nypost.com/2021/10/02/two-craft-breweries-battle-for-yuppie-biz-in-catskills-town/
I think everyone in this story sucks, but I will defer to Glib expertise.
I hope the owner with the man-bun loses.