You know what really burns my ass? When I remember some storyline but can’t recall the name of the book it was in or the author that wrote about it. I started keeping a ‘reading log’ in 2018 to help me keep track of shit like that, I wish I had done it decades ago. Do you keep a ‘reading log’ or is your memory good enough that you don’t need one. Enjoy this Glibcrostic and let us know in the comments or just whinge about some shit on the twitters, whatever, just try not to first.
Music to solve Glibcrostics to
- This is a horrible clue and I am truly sorry, I should have tried harder but sometimes you just gotta say fuck it.
Reminder: The last Sunday of each month is “What Are We Reading” Day so if you want to participate get your reports in to HeyBuddyStopDoingThat@protonmail.com by the second to last Sunday.
Doesn’t ring a bell.
Pretty sure I saw the movie.
Music to solve Glibcrostics to
Straight into my veins.
I don’t keep a reading log, but I do have a shit ton of books in my Kindle. I do really like the highlighting feature.
Are you enjoying the forced, ghost editing of your books?
Most of them I’ll rarely ever look at again. The important ones I have physical copies. I just don’t need hard copies of every book I read. Also, we recently discussed some ways to protect digital versions. Mo, as usual, was very helpful.
I mean, if Ian Rankin or Larry Correia want to edit their books, I really don’t give a fuck.
A lot of us are just correcting typos or putting on a new cover.
Also, you can opt out of the “automatically update books when there’s a new version” feature/bug.
Meant to reply to Chafed.
So, like, I re-edited my first book, but it changed so much I just said fuck it, and put a new ISBN on it and released it as a new book, then took my old one out of circulation.
I believe Amazon learned their lesson with 1984 (the way Apple learned its lesson with U2). Don’t fuck around in people’s libraries.
You are honest. They are not. I’m skeptical any lessons were learned.
Glibcrostic: 7 minutes 4 seconds.
No
Also no, I can barely remember what’s going on in a book while I’m reading it.
Glibcrostic: 7 minutes 4 seconds.
Huh, I thought this one was going to be a tough one because all the answers (except the gimmie) were long words/phrases. I may have overcorrected and made the clues too easy.
Took me about 30 minutes. Guessing the words in the quote seemed easier than usual.
I keep forgetting to use the timer.
GlibBooks.
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I’m telling you doc, it was a one in a million chance.
Obligatory.
Lol
I love to read.
Just for you!
https://mangadex.org/title/2da0b883-10cb-42ca-aa10-d4af85f82cbf/ateya-no-tsubaki
I’m trying to read the original, but it has lots of archaic usage.
Protagonist likely modeled in part by
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokusai
And avoiding a third link his shunga works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunga
Thanks!
Doing taxes on Sunday afternoon sucks.
That is my tomorrow project.
First pass on mine is done.
Somehow I screwed up my withholding as I have a Federal refund.
I have to pay a small amount to NH. That NH tax can’t go away fast enough. It’s phasing out over the next several years.
Got refunds coming from state and fed – dunno if it’s actually possible to adjust withholdings down in the future if I anticipate a certain amount of additional deductions….
I got my refunds on both fed and state already. Turbo for the win! Now I can coast and point but not laugh.
I have to coordinate with my daughter because she’s in that twilight area of 19, but still at home, but not being a major contributor to her upkeep—the IRS has taken notice of adult children moving back in with their parents. I have to do my son’s, as he is also a special case AND he made quite a bit of money last year. So I can’t get away with an extension this year because I’m essentially doing 3 people’s taxes.
I’m glad those days are history. Good luck, Moj.
Trying to insure all the W2s from a few different places that kids often have, were available, etc
I did mine a few weeks back and already got my federal refund.
I owe the state, so that money is coming out of the bank account at the end of March.
I did mine a couple weeks back. Federal refund came pretty quick. Still waiting on State refund.
I wish they’d stop taking my fucking money to begin with. I’m essentially a creditor being forced to loan them money interest free, while in return my money is sent to the Ukraine. It’s a shit deal. No one in their right mind would ever willingly agree to what the fucki we’ve got going.
Do you keep a ‘reading log’
No.
or is your memory good enough that you don’t need one.
No. I just don’t give a shit.
I wish I’d kept a reading log. I’m seeing titles that sound familiar and at least once I reordered a book I’d read and have skipped buying because I wasn’t sure if I’d read or not.
I used to put books I read into goodreads, but I dropped the goodreads account. I lost interest in their site after they removed the ability for anyone to enter new books into their master database.
Unless things have changed, if you are a “librarian,” you can still do that.
Yes, that’s correct.
I was a regular user.
When I remember some storyline but can’t recall the name of the book it was in or the author that wrote about it.
Books are rarely a problem, but occasionally I can’t remember the title or author for a short story and it drives me a little crazy. They’re a lot harder to find, too. Most books have a synopsis somewhere on the internet, but that’s often not the case with stories, unless they’re somewhat famous.
I had one somewhere but now I can’t find it. There was a period a few years ago where I read so many SF books in a row they all started to blend together and I couldn’t recall the ones I wanted to read again. *sigh*
How’s Babylon 5 going?
+2 episodes since last time you asked
I hope you are enjoying it.
🤘🏻
🤘🤘
I’m glad I have the DVDs so that they can’t be retroactively edited.
I have them too. I can’t imagine what would get changed, but who knows?
The Clark administration in the show is kind of similar to the Biden administration. OTOH, the show has kind of a low profile, so it might sneak through.
No log, as my memory is good enough. In fact, my wife is constantly
annoyedimpressed that I can quote lines decades later.Song lyrics is my useless superpower.
Same. Recommended for studying language I’ve found.
I’ll forget why I walked into a room, when I walked in for exactly 1 reason, yet I can recall song lyrics I haven’t heard in 35 years as if they’d been on repeat since release.
It doesn’t get any easier either. I sometimes make a list of what I plan to do, even if it’s just 3-4 things, same when I go to the store for 3 things, what the hell was that third thing? Oh yeah, put gas in the truck and I’ve already done that.
I’m not much on lyrics but often if I hear a tune I’ll know immediately what it is, that’s going back 60-70 years in some cases. Can’t remember what I had for lunch.
Muzzled, this is known as the Rule of Open Doorways; you will always forget the reason for passing through an open doorway immediately upon passing through. And, this is followed by the Rule of Flat Surfaces; you will immediately put down whatever is in your hand upon noticing a flat surface.
These are rules to be wary of, and act accordingly!
So that’s what it’s called.
Finished the acrostic, but didn’t keep track of my time – I’m sure it was much longer than 7 minutes. Thanks, Teh Hype!
No proper reading log, but I have the probably-bad habit of not deleting from my laptop the e-book files I borrow from the library. (I download them there before I load them onto my Nook.) That serves as a bit of a de facto log, at least of what books I’ve read (or borrowed and never finished reading,) even though I obviously can’t open the files after the borrowing period is over. When it starts to get out of hand, I’ll go in and delete a bunch. I don’t really have anything similar for the e-books I’ve bought, but I haven’t found it to be an issue.
The main problem I have with which-plot-element-was-in-which-book is when I’m reading an extended series. That can be where Goodreads comes in handy if the “blurb” for one volume clues me in to the event I’m trying to place.
Just browsing and noticed that NEC 2023 books are already coming out. But since it isn’t automatically adopted, it won’t go into effect until next year or the following. And then it will be time for NEC 2025. What a fucking racket.
OT. South Park’s latest on Japanese washlet toilets is awesome.
Amazing. I think I got a hernia from laughing.
Nothing better than pretentious Randy.
+1 Kennedy family
https://youtu.be/uRL4l2GOqXk
Completely true
LOL
I’m not sold on the concept TBH.
Just more points of failure.
Well definitely. Also more to clean.
Some of.my former colleagues based in Cali are flying up tonight for a week at new company HQ. Yay! I get a dinner date.
Woohoo!
Aphids suck.
Can you buy some ladybugs to get ‘em?
Indoor plants right now. Lady bugs will be used when they go outdoors.
I had an infestation in my daughter’s aerogarden. They lost the battle. The mint, basil, and thyme won. I helped a bit by pitching every one I could find into the fish tank.
Neem oil is your friend, trust me on this.
Currently using.
Mosquitoes say “Howdy”
Too early for either but sure as god makes little green apples…
Well, yeah… that’s what they do
I am amazed at how many words fit the answer above in both meaning and length, but are not the correct word.
I made ‘sesquipadalian’ fit.
influenced and rationalize I think work but the definitions aren’t quite right.
I tried to apologize for that clue but WP turned my asterisk into a bullet point so maybe that wasn’t clear.
I knew what you meant.
If I’m short on time, I’ll jam my favorite words in there and declare victory.
I’m trying the old “deny reality, insert delusion” routine.
My goto solution for everything
Down to the nitty and the gritty
The Supreme Court heard arguments this week on the Biden administration’s plan to provide student debt relief and called into question the survival of a proposal that has far-reaching impacts.
The executive action, which the administration announced in August before the 2022 fall election (in part to fire up younger voters), could offer debt relief for tens of millions of Americans and cost more than $400 billion.
But judging by this week’s court session, there is a very real possibility that the justices strike the proposal down later this year when they offer their opinion.
And if that happens, there are going to be a lot of unhappy voters across the country in 2024, including some in important battleground states.
Over the past few decades, student debt has exploded as a problem for many who go to college, in large part because college costs keep rising.
/em>
It used to be politicians would just ply the voters with alcohol on election day.
It’s too bad nobody knows why college is so dadgum expensive. The government should fund a study or something.
Never mind the unhappy voters who will have to foot the bill for someone else’s loan TO WHICH THEY SIGNED THEIR OWN NAME.
This is waaaay outside the President’s “pen and phone” powers. Such a spending bill has to go through the House.
BUT PANDEMIC!
Plan Dem ish.
Say it with me, Plan DEM ish.
It’s the failure of capitalism to handsomely reward all of those “__________ studies” majors. A real shame too because they know everything.
Arguably a First World Problem, but just found out a friend has multiple classic/collectible cars in this storage facility impacted (literally) by the latest Norfolk Southern train derailment. He says his cars aren’t in the unit clobbered by one of the railroad cars, but he may not be able to get at his “babies” for a while. 🤦🏼♂️
D’oh!
That does look like quite a mess! Hopefully there won’t be any damage to his collection.
Im finally playing in a PDGA saction tournament, very difficult but fun. I managed 4th place afyer 5 rounds with 5 weeks to go, the competition is tough but I play in the 60+ division so I hold my own pretty well.
Cali is where to be if you want to play with the big boys,
Wheee haaa!
Sanctioned
The show The food that built America on the History channel is fucking fascinating.
Yep. Husband and I watched that.
Just about to watch the new episode!
This week: Buffalo wings and Hooters restaurants!
I don’t get The History Channel, what food built America?
Chocolate and ketchup, for two.
Sounds fairly racist.
Right?!
Lots of them. https://play.history.com/shows/the-food-that-built-america/season-1
I read that as the flood that built America.
Music for a slow Sunday evening.
Maybe OMWC will appreciate.
Music for a fast Sunday night.
You must have been trying for this one.
Maybe it was this one?.
How’d you know it was fast Sunday? *squints*
“mostly peaceful”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11824357/Gunshots-ring-protesters-throw-Molotov-cocktails-Cop-City-site-Atlanta.html
Whee. This is productive.
Still no fucking power. About 6 hours into day 4.
It came on last night about 10.30, but was out by 11.05 again. But I’m a little angry. Everywhere around us has power. Our 1-street neighborhood in the country is like a little islet of darkness.
We had that during Hurricane Sandy.
No power for like 10 days and everybody else in the neighborhood had power on day 9, but it took us another 24 hours.
You have my sympathies.
I was just thinking about Superduperstorm Sandy today, as I was emptying some moving bins that I hadn’t opened since the day I moved in here 10 years ago. I want to move later this year, so prepping.
The reason I still have the moving bins is because the bin company was wiped out by Superduperstorm Sandy the day after I moved in. I never lost power, at least. 😀
My commute was fucked up for 18 months, though. 😠
Same. Commute was a disaster. I also changed jobs in the middle of it too.
Yikes. Where are you, MW?
Just below Sugarfree country (about 20 minutes SW of Lexington, KY).
Be safe, brother.
Tired of the Ukraine
Nice analysis. It’s written in the Bible that road to hell is paved by good intentions. At the basis of the current war are few basic and very wrong notions.
Cold war ended(It’s very wrong to say that the West won it. No! It was a natural death of Soviet experiment because of internal disagreement among nations there and not because of external influence). But, instead of dismantling NATO and integrating Russia in the West, diametrically opposite option was taken with extending obsolete and unneccesary NATO to Russian borders which made a new cold war and current hot war possible. It was intentional and potentially disastrous blunder of historic proportion.
Western diplomacy or its absence was intended to portray natural facts of history and national interests as “aggression” and attempts to re-create collapsed USSR or Russian Empire. One cannot help but see that all events were intended to make formerly closely related nations anemies . That culminated in 2014, the coup in Ukraine with installing of extremist regime there which was countered by Russia’s actions there…
Fact: Crimea was won by Russian empire in 1783 and was its part for 200+ years until the USSR collapsed. It was gifted to Ukraine during Soviet time. Ukraine cannot seriously claim it as its part based on history. But such claim is supported by the West in order to make peaceful resolution more difficult.
Let me know when Russia returns Königsberg since they’re concerned with historical ownership.
Or the art that was at the Hermitage….
True story, we went there say some wonderful art with windows that had blowing air and rotting casements.
That’s totally different because it became part of Russia. It’s the Lysenkoism of foreign affairs.
The original justification for Crimea wasn’t historic ownership but infringement of treaty rights and harassment of Russian military. Pretty much the same as Just Cause.
Look back a thousand years, then you will know,
It’s seems like empire is the operative word. Crimea got transferred in the 50’s by the then soviet government. Crimea hasn’t been part of Russia for over 70 years. They don’t have a right to roll over a sovereign border.
Crimea has been contested far longer than that
Eh, 90%+ of the Crimeans want to be part of Russia.
Or is self-determination not a thing anymore?
They voted the other way not that long ago, when the Soviet Union broke up.
Dunno how clean that vote was, but I don’t give any credence at all to the recent one done under Russian guns.
It’s worth taking a look at public opinion polls taken before the 2014 coup.
The Crimeans were far more enthusiastic for better relations with Russia than they were with the EU and only 15% identified themselves as “Ukrainian.”
https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/pnaec705.pdf
Give Crimea back to the Tatars.
*Greeks
Or at least Genoa.
Make slave markets great again.
More Mies van der Rohe. Yes, I am a squeeing fangurl.
His style works better for quirky residences than the bland skyscrapers it puked up everywhere in the world.
This is true. I don’t like the skyscrapers.
Reminds me of 60’s office park buildings.
I’ll be glad when whatever that retarded mustache retro look is the host is doing goes by the wayside.
ugh.
Soulless white on white buildings with lots of glass? Hard pass.
‘I’ll be glad when whatever that retarded mustache retro look is the host is doing goes by the wayside.’
Heh, I’ve seen about 3 different youtubers with the same look, kind of dirty, fat mustachioed, casual clothes.
It’s a fad. I was in the city this weekend and some beefy dude was jogging in short shorts and had the fat moustache going.
I wanted to ask him where the Village People convention was.
Hey, hey, hey.
Morning y’all.
😉☕
/waves
😴☕
How goes?
It goes. Another day in the life of a semi-content wage slave. You?
I seem to be self-sabotaging.
My stated goal was to wake up earlier ahead of the clock change, which necessitates going to sleep earlier, yet over the weekend I went to sleep at 2, 4, and 1am, waking up after noon on both saturday and sunday, and dragging myself out of bed at my normal time today because I have work.
What are the odds this will be the last time?
From past experience, I doubt I’ll break the habit of acting against my own interests.
Morning it is.
G’Morning, Sean!
G’morning, Sean, Rat, Tardis, UCS.
Hope you are all feeling fabulous.
I’m tired. 🙁
Hope you’re doing well.
Poor, tired Civ. Doing way more work than our far more highly paid “servants” like Feinstein, Biden, AOC, McConnell, etc…
Hope your life clock syncs up soon. I hadn’t realized it’s happening THIS WEEKEND.
🕐😒💤
‘Fraid So
Good morning, HE, U, TO’G, Roat, TARDy, and Sean!
Hoping for a quiet work week this week – I only have to suffer through nine more minutes listening to the Zoom recording of last month’s Board meeting in order to finish drafting the minutes. Got that close Friday afternoon, but then the headset I was listening through start beeping that it needed to be charged. “Oh, darn! I guess I have to stop for now!” 😁
The estranged Mr Splosives sent me an 11PM text that consisted of a photo of a paper left in his mailbox stating “I have important court documents for you. Please contact me at….” left by the process server.
The spousal unit sent me the photo with the caption “Really this soon?”
I can only assume that I am going to have an AWESOME day dealing with this at work today.
🙁
I gather you’ve retained someone?
Yes, a good and not cheap firm.
Is he shocked that you are not trying resolution?
I thought you got a new phone number/life restart?
Hope you have an awesome day.
My wifes niece just did a quick orientation at OSU, rather excited.
I do have a new phone number but am temporarily keeping the old phone until this is all done.
Yay for niece! The Georgian style buildings on campus are beautiful. Good luck!
Damn. And I thought I was having a rough time. Hang in there.
I’ll be surrounded by my coworkers and meaningful work today, one of whom knows the whole story.
I’ll make it.
Yes, because the Attorney General of the United States is supposed to be conducting foreign policy.
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/03/05/attorney-general-merrick-garland-makes-unannounced-visit-to-ukraine/
I feel safer with him out of the country, so I’m not complaining.
Well, thank goodness there’s no need for him to look into whether all the money poured into Ukraine from the US is going for the stated purposes, nor look into all the Bidens’ business dealings with Ukraine in recent years. It’s obvious all that is on the up and up, 🙄
There’s not even the pretense of making the position appear apolitical anymore.
It would be a shame if something were to happen to one these traitorous war tourists.
Has Biden started mentioning in his speeches how he came under sniper AND machine gun fire while he was there?
“The nukes were falling all around…”
And then out of nowhere stepped Corn Popovov. He was a bad comrade.
*sensible chuckle*
Sniping comments and machine gun questioning?
Brian Williams has an upcoming Special Report on that.
Mornin’, reprobates!
Good morning, ‘patzie! How’s everyone at Chez ‘Patzie doing?
Mornin’, GT. Enjoying a morning smoke with my covfefe for the thirst time in over a week. Mrs. Patzer is ever so slowly getting better, I am back to work today (from hpme), should be fun. As far as I can tell, the world continues to be full of dark comedy, so we can all laugh until we cry, or cry until we laugh. Free entertainment, I can’t complain.
🙂👍🏼
Here’s what they really think of you.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/matt-hancocks-plan-deploy-new-variant-frighten-pants-everyone
Those Brits sure are a nasty lot. I’m glad I am here in the land of the free where such things cannot happen.
And if they tried it, you can always kidnap your governor!*
*Not actual advice.
I can only imagine the glee which the cat ladies in our government had when devising their tyrannical proclamations.
The lesson here is, ‘Stop being afraid, and stop feeling guilty.’