Meme Dump, Spy Balloon Edition

by | Feb 8, 2023 | WebDom’s Browser History | 102 comments

For my beloved

I can’t believe I’m in a serious relationship with a Florida Man.

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WebDom

WebDom

WebDom grows Peyote buttons in the vast desert of her mind.

102 Comments

  1. Sensei

    Perfect. Thanks for these.

    • juris imprudent

      Joe Tzu – a true man of genius.

    • R.J.

      “I CLAIM ASYLUM!”

    • Rat on a train

      Oh, 17 year old Uma Thurman.

      • LCDR_Fish

        17yr old Uma Thurman as “Venus emerging from the waves” ;p

      • Chafed

        Rowr

  2. The Bearded Hobbit

    Peyote button

    Someone gave a friend and me some “peyote” and we were determined that we weren’t going to vomit them back up, so we diluted them down to where they were palatable. Unfortunately, we diluted them down until they were ineffective. (Shrug), I liked mushrooms better anyway.

    • hayeksplosives

      LOL

  3. Grosspatzer

    Nice.

    Need some reinforcement for your paranoia? I was vaguely aware of this technology, which came up in a corporate meeting today.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_tracking

    Eye tracking is the process of measuring either the point of gaze (where one is looking) or the motion of an eye relative to the head.

    Swiss hardest hit, I suppose.

    What got me a bit rattled was the context. Eye tracking is going to be the next big thing in digital advertising analytics, apparently. This means your browser, your mobile phone, your “smart” TV – any internet-connected device with a camera – is capable of recording your eye movements while you stare stupidly at the ad while waiting for that indispensible YouTube video to load. And advertisers are eager to use this data, which we will gladly supply for a small fee, to optimize their digital ad spend.

    – Turn on your ad blocker
    – Turn off your camera
    Blow up your TV

    • R.J.

      That is why you leave the camera covered. Don’t trust it to be off. Or make a pc that doesn’t have a camera built in.

      • rhywun

        Yup. My camera is an attachment that sticks to my monitor.

        Used it once for a zoomie, otherwise it’s sitting in a cabinet somewhere.

      • MikeS

        Our IT nerd at work told me about a new feature coming out on Dell laptops: The camera will now be able to uncover itself if you start a video call and “forget” to do so yourself. I’ll stick with post-it notes.

      • R.J.

        Two layers of post it notes blocks completely.

      • hayeksplosives

        Ugh. Turkey/Syria death toll now at 16,000.

        Tragedy. Also, Turkey apparently lost 10 feet of territorial boundary as it slid under the adjoining plate. Yikes. No wonder it was a 7+ earthquake, a 7+ aftershock, and a 5+ aftershock to seal the deal.

        Earth continues to remind us that we’re just her bitches.

      • hayeksplosives

        Snowden has a good video on this. 8:30 in total. But at 7 min in, he shows what to do with your phone to make it back into a PHONE!!

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dGqR4ue8dg

      • Grosspatzer

        Wow, that was different.

        When I was a wee patzer in the ’50s, our family TV was a 12″ (I think) B&W Magnavox. Fucker weighed about 50 lbs, had vacuum tubes and an exterior made of what felt like concrete, and reliably got NYC channels 2, 4, 7, and 11; 5, 9 and 13 were problematic (although if the weather was just right you could pull in channel 8 from New Haven, Conn.) You’d break you hand trying to smash that unit.

    • Michael Malaise

      Eh. I mean, they’re already tracking what you’re seeing, I’m not sure the additional specific data makes that any worse.

      • Grosspatzer

        *narrows gaze*

    • pistoffnick

      Blow up your TV

      John Prine! I knew you were a good guy, ‘patzer

    • Rat on a train

      Swiss hardest hit, I suppose.
      Swiss can send a narrowed gaze easier.

      • MikeS

        Get out of my head!

        🤘🏻🤘🏻

    • WebDom

      I’ve been hired by many clients over the years to install eye tracking and heat mapping software on their websites. It’s incredibly easy nowadays. Like…incredibly easy. And it’s absurdly cheap. A few simple scripts is enough to make the software work.

  4. Fourscore

    Good show, Webdom, I stole some of them and sent them off to some other Art Appreciators

  5. rhywun

    JOE TZU lol

  6. juris imprudent

    Kyle, with a K – you know like in KKK.

    Kyle Seraphin, who was a special agent at the bureau for six years before he was indefinitely suspended without pay in June 2022, published the document

    Hopefully he’ll be fully separated by this June.

    • Rat on a train

      “They would have had to either change the guidelines since I left that you can now use the SPLC or the author and their supervisor who approved the final document knowingly violated the Directorate of Intelligence guidelines,” Hill added, explaining that the directorate previously excluded the SPLC from reports because “there was no analytical rigor or basis for the majority of their assertions that they would write about on their website.”

      I would go with Biden has changed the guidelines to allow any source that reinforces the narrative.

    • rhywun

      Mel Gibson hardest hit.

      rejection of the Second Vatican Council

      Seriously… WTF?

  7. kinnath

    Daily Quordle 380
    5️⃣4️⃣
    7️⃣3️⃣

    Saw a bunch of good scores this morning.

    Finally got around to playing it.

    • rhywun

      Usually skip weekdays.

      For good reason.

      Daily Quordle 380
      6️⃣4️⃣
      8️⃣5️⃣

  8. one true athena

    My husband got really sick of me pointing at the full moon and saying “look Chinese spy balloon!” idk I thought it was funny.

    • MikeS

      It gave me a sensible chuckle if that helps.

      • rhywun

        #metoo

    • Fourscore

      I tried that with the Missus, she took a look and quickly corrected me. I don’t think she got the joke.

      I did talk to a friend in Myrtle Beach and he claims he saw the balloon. I’m taking credit for that, it’s almost like seeing it myself

  9. MikeS

    Excellent memes, Webdom.

  10. kinnath

    I had to travel into the office to test shit that was badly broken. So, I missed SF day. I feel empty inside.

    • dbleagle

      Huzzah! Well done.

    • Chafed

      Awesome!

    • hayeksplosives

      That’s pretty sad. I hope he will resign and recover as best he can for his remaining years.

  11. Sean

    Mornin’ folks.

    😋

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, Sean, hayek, Stinky, and U!

      • Sean

        🙂

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      No transgenders involved, no underage, no weird occult rituals…I have a high bar for salaciousness and this don’t meet it.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Or if you have to do all of that shit shit maybe don’t do it.

    • Gender Traitor

      When I saw “waste management” in the URL, I thought maybe the “sketchy hookups” were a type of waste disposal for RVs.

  12. UnCivilServant

    Me: “I’m sick of this GPS Sliding Around on the dash”
    Me: “Well, just get out the gaffer tape and tape it down. Do I have to think of everything?”
    Me: “You realize you are talking to yourself, right?”
    Me: “So, yes, yes I do have to think of everything.”

    • Gender Traitor

      You don’t have to worry until the GPS starts arguing with you.

      • hayeksplosives

        Indeed.

        I routinely talk to circuits I’m building (am especially fond of wire-wrapping CD4000 real time combinational logic controls circuits, Old School) but so far I have yet to hear them talk back to me.

      • UnCivilServant

        “Take the next U-Turn”

      • Rat on a train

        My GPS argues with me when it wants to take me on a route I know is bad.

      • UnCivilServant

        “Turn Right into Canal.”

  13. hayeksplosives

    Morning, Peeps!

    RC Dean graced us with his presence here in SW Nevada last evening. We had a very nice chat.

    Verdict: RC Dean=Good people.

      • hayeksplosives

        Greetings, UCS!

        I woke up hungry, had some leftovers (a skillet combo of green cabbage, onion, potato, and pork sausage, seasoned with nutmeg and other Eastern delights). That’s some good Depression Era food practice.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m having a breakfast salad.

      • Grosspatzer

        I will have mine later. Bacon and eggs is the best salad.

      • UnCivilServant

        There is bacon on the salad, but no eggs.

      • hayeksplosives

        Yesterday I had salad at the winery.

        Imagine, if you will, a bed of spring mix and baby spinach, topped with generous slices of cold beets (pickled in their native sweetness), mandarin orange segments, small grapefruit (I think? Not sure) segments, candied walnuts, sliced fresh mozzarella cheese, all topped with a raspberry vinaigrette dressing that features real whole raspberries falling out of the little cup that you, the customer, drizzle over the dish to your liking.

      • UnCivilServant

        My ideal salad contains less sugar, more dairy and pork.

      • Grosspatzer

        Sounds terrific, save for the beets. Can’t stand ’em.

      • UnCivilServant

        Sorry for the short response, I’m still eating.

        🥗

    • Gender Traitor

      Isn’t it great to meet Glibs in real life? 😃

      • hayeksplosives

        For sure!

        The first bunch I met were in greater Minneapolis: Tundra, Pope Jimbo, and even MikeS was passing through town.

        Then I met up with dbleagle on one of his trips to San Diego. Also when in San Diego, met with Yusef.

        Here in Pahurmp have met with Hobbit and his lovely bride, and now RC Dean.

        Haven’t yet managed a Greater Las Vegas Glibs meetup, but it would be a worthy cause. We could even talk about that mass shooting that never happened here.

    • Grosspatzer

      Excellent! I am glad o had the opportunity to meet some glibs IRL before we became immobile, and hope to do so again when mobility is restored.

      • hayeksplosives

        Fingers crossed for the big hip surgery! Wishing you guys all the best, and by that I mainly mean excellent nurses during recovery. They can make or break it.

      • Grosspatzer

        Thanks, HE! Looking forward to getting about again. The immediate goal is to be able to attend the youngest Patzer’s graduation in May.

  14. Grosspatzer

    Mornin’, reprobates!

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, ‘patzie! 😃

      • Gender Traitor

        A mostly forgotten moldy oldie from the Wayback Machine, recalled from the days when my oldest sister was listening to the local Top 40 station nonstop waiting for the next Bobby Sherman song. 🎶😄

      • Grosspatzer

        I do not remember that one. I will try to forget it. 🤣

      • UnCivilServant

        Have you thought about storing them somewhere with less moisture so they don’t grow mold?

  15. slumbrew

    Birthday celebrations for the wife went later than planned last night, so packing did not happen. Definitely hitting the road to ME later than planned. Ah, well, no real plans until dinner anyway.

    • slumbrew

      (You know I’m groggy when I end up using the same word in every sentence)

    • Grosspatzer

      packing did not happen

      Sorry to hear that. Hope all goes well today.

  16. hayeksplosives

    WordPress hates me.

    Hoping 3rd time’s a charm for this comment.

    Turkey/Syria earthquake toll (official; could get worse) is at 16,000.

    Turkey also lost territory; the Anatolian plate slipped under the Arabian plate and lost 10 feet of boundary in the process.

    Gaia continues to remind humans that we are her bitch.

    • Gender Traitor

      Sobering indeed.

      (FYI, your comment did appear earlier, but way upthread inexplicably appearing to be a response to a comment from R.J.)

    • Grosspatzer

      Terrible. The world is not a safe place. The world will never be a safe place. The best we can do is to prepare for the worst, hope for the best, and step up when the shit hits the fan.

    • Sean

      *falls out of chair*

      • robodruid

        A sign of the end times.

    • rhywun

      Whipped-up racial hysteria. Imagine my surprise.

      The sign she’s holding… I can’t even.

  17. Grosspatzer

    Early morning ray of sunshine.

    https://nypost.com/2023/02/09/kansas-family-dog-missing-for-8-years-found-1000-miles-away-from-home-in-idaho/

    A beagle named Roscoe who was missing from his home in Wichita, Kansas, for eight long years was reunited with his family last month after he was located more than 1,000 miles away.

    “When he got out of the van the morning he came home, he came wagging his tail right to me,” his owner Nicolle Leon, 41, told Fox News Digital.