Lazy early spring day here. Gonna take advantage of it and hang on the patio for a bit.
How about some links?
Who needs insulated power lines?
Dear gawd this is a crappy news day.
Yeah, your helicopters are laying in a Ukrainian battlefield.
That’s it, I’m done. The patio awaits.
I assume that it is supply chain issues as much as destruction in the Ukraine.
Yes, I’ll lighten the mood. This was a bit of a shock when I first heard it. Most will know the original, the original Japanese version came from a Ghibli film that wasn’t released here for decades, but was very popular in its home market.
https://youtu.be/Asp75Yb5Da8
Fuck tornadoes
I’m having flashbacks to my college girlfriend.
Yeah, it’s the concentrated destruction.
I’m used to hurricanes which have similar or greater fatalities, but over a much greater area.
But yes, fuck them both.
Tough to find a perfect place to live. Seems like the climate change people will fix that but it’s gonna take, I dunno, 10-20 years, if we get on it right away…
First they came for the leaded gas. Then smaller cars to get higher mileage, then added corn syrup. We’re just one decision by important sciencey people and we’ll lick this tornado/drought/flood, etc. problem.
Braggart.
Monkey thuggery. What’s the world coming to?
Which one is the heir to the “white out” fortune?
Pay it no mind, it’s just a dog and pony show.
Well, you’re on their turf, and they outnumber you.
Negotiations are necessarily going to involve a lot of gibbon take.
Bribe them with Rhesus Pieces?
Corporate and personal taxes are done,
There’s a bottle of wine with my name on it somewhere.
Congratulations. I’m a bit jealous.
This one? :-p
*passes glass of Tullamore Dew over*
Gracias, that’ll dew
I’m doing the Dew as well watching “Patton” on TCM.
Svengoolie over here.
*squints at calendar* Is it September already?
Lazy early spring day here. Gonna take advantage of it and hang on the patio for a bit.
I don’t think the temperature here has cracked 45, yet.
60F here but my patio furniture has no cushions.
Can’t you just make your own?
*cheese eating grin*
I could (and have), but it’s far more expensive, on top of being a ton of work.
We made 44 today but the forecast is some below zero mornings next week. More wet snow predicted but yet I told Mrs F in spite of all that we rarely see a tornado. Cold, snow, yep and occasional straight line winds in the summer but those can be dealt with.
44 with hale on this side of the Cascades.
My ADHD and nostalgia boner very much like Feinberg’s house, so long as the floors are terrazzo and the stairs are aggregate. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/24/la-mansion-for-sale-faces-april-1-tax-deadline.html
Bearing in mind the average home price in L.A. (use the full stops btw you fucking retards, LA is the state abbreviation for Louisiana, not Los Angeles) is $950k, you don’t need to be some kind of Bond supervillain to be selling an “ultra luxury” property at $5M
Unconstitutional? Not that it matters in Los Angeles.
I refer to LA Fitness as Lousiana Fitness just to irritate my nephew.
N.Y.T. style guide.
I like it but don’t follow it as much as I should.
My dislike of Feinberg’s house is related much more to scale than style. I just can’t get past how ostentatiously big and useless it is. An 1800 sq ft home in that style would be fine.
Agreed.
Too local good Samaritans in action.
https://www.wzzm13.com/amp/article/news/local/ottawa-county/good-samaritans-use-jon-boat-to-get-to-man-trapped-in-truck/69-2e96038c-4b69-4aa4-8d8b-99bac6efe4c8
ALLENDALE CHARTER TOWNSHIP, Mich. — An 83-year-old Coopersville man is lucky to be alive after his truck appeared to veer off the road right into a pond in Ottawa County Friday afternoon.
Temperature was in the 30s around here today. That water will kill you.
Dumbass
Merrill said he’s dislodged cars from snow banks before, and enlisted another vehicle to help pull him out. While he was sitting in the driver’s seat, unbuckled, rocking the R1S out of the snow bank, he said he accidentally triggered a safety feature that got the car stuck between the park and drive gears.
His Rivian was bricked, rendering it completely useless.
The brand new Rivian ultimately had to be loaded onto a flatbed and driven to a service center in Chelsea, Massachusetts, hundreds of miles away. The towing fee was $2,100.
The ordeal now has Merrill considering trading the R1S for a Toyota Tacoma or a similar gas-powered pickup truck, he said.
Idiot buys a Rivian, gets it stuck on purpose, then breaks it trying to get out. Sounds like he needs a
chauffeurbabysitter more than anything.Which reminds me of a question I have:
What happens when you back your electric truck into the water to launch your boat? Sometimes you have to get pretty far in on a shallow launch ramp.
The Tesla is designed for the pack to be briefly submerged.
Yes, this idiot decides to intentionally get his truck stuck, but he did find an edge case on a safety feature.
That never has happened to a new model ICE car from an established manufacturer….
24 year old buys an $85,000 car, fucks it up, and has a $2,100 towing bill. Sympathy level = 0.
The most excellent Neph has asked me to post a linky to tonight’s GlibZoom which will kick off at 20:00 Eastern tonight.
Just remember to turn off all your lights from 2030 to 2130 local time tonight to save Gaia.
It’s already still light up here until around 2130, so…
The wind is taking care of that for far too many local folks.
And thanks for enacting my labor Tonio. I was out and running around, finding out that some assholes scheduled the NCAA tournament to have games during the night of Orval day.
Orval day?!
*perks up*
“Waiting for host to start the meeting”
Needy bitch. It’s started.
*raclette eating grin*
What a fun song, Spud. Great choice. I haven’t heard it in some time.
Too much cowbell.
I intended to get some writing done today, but I ended up straightening the entire garage, and now I am having this excellent scotch Manhattan.
This Batch and Bottle premixed Glenfidditch Scotch Manhattan is good. I pay $4.99 for a single “perfect Manhattan.” This bottle is $8.99 for at least 4.
I assume the $5 is for your home mix costs? I still am working to adjust my internal cost estimates away from the $5 a beer mindset that has held in my mind for decades.
I do home mixes too. But it is handy to have pre mixes around for travel. I took these to Tall Thin Spaniard’s house for convenience. To me, it’s very affordable and easy to transport. Gives me a ton of pre mix for cheap. The Old Fashioned is really good too, uses Monkey Shoulder.
Oh, the $4 Perfect Manhattan is also a premix.!it’s a little packet that travels well in a backpack. It is literally called “The Perfect Manhattan.”
Ok, those are the little mix packs that are in small tins (about the size of a deck of cards)? I’ve seen those around. I mean, for me to make a perfect Manhattan at home, it’s just time. But the ingredient costs can get pricey (good bourbon/rye, sweet vermouth, dry vermouth, and cherries). In fairness, it’s not like I’m going to use a full bottle of each at once.
That sounds like an economy of scale srticle right there.
Solid!
I’m seeing more like fifteen bucks here for 375 ml (which is probably three R C pours). Still not bad.
Nephs post earlier got me thinking, so I’m drinking a leftover Mad Elf before I head to the brewery for lunch tomorrow. Think I’ll rewatch the John Wick series in preps for catching the new one next weekend.
I’m glad I’m a good influence LCDR_Fish. I do have one more bottle of that Strength in Numbers, but I plan to share that with someone.
Look at you assholes with all of this free time.
Shouldn’t you be working?
Caulking, Painting, Cleaning, Organizing, Taxes.
What’s a weekend?
It’s a problem retirees have.
It’s finally gotten warm enough for me to get to the garage and start doing some exercises. Things got heavier over the winter so I’m starting lighter. Got a 1/2 mile on the treadmill. Every day now I want to walk a little farther, tomorrow aim for .6-.7 mile and crank the speed up another.1 MPH.
That is a good song.
The shortage will have a significant impact on India’s plans to continue modernizing its forces: Officials said they had to slash projected spending for the next financial year by a third compared to the previous one.
Senators Raytheon, General Dynamics, Boeing, and Lockheed-Martin smell a business opportunity.
WOO HOO! Moved in to my “permanent” apartment and out of the Marriott today.
Challenging because not only did I have my stuff I brought in three suitcases on the Midnight Run from Las Vegas last month, but I had the crap I’d stuffed into the Tesla to hitch as delivery ride PLUS all the crap I bought since then.
Fortunately a couple of weeks ago my colleague and partner in crime helped me go to Target and buy all the necessaries like dishes, skillet sets, flatware, microwave, sheets, towels, etc. Had to make two trips to the target desk to get it done! He was my loyal pack mule because my foot was still in an orthopedic boot.
What a great attitude he had. So upbeat and not at all complaining about going back for another round. Quite the contrary. Can’t wait to see him again on April 16.
Pics of the new digs and furniture here. Haven’t decided where to hang the WW2 prints yet.
https://imgur.com/a/qv1mOz0
Nice GlibStation setup.
I need to move.
Yes, yes you do.
What a great attitude he had. So upbeat and not at all complaining about going back for another round. Quite the contrary. Can’t wait to see him again on April 16.
That’s because he has an orthopedic boot fetish.
In similar good news, we were finally able to get the house sold and Dad and I moved into a place closer to civilization about a week ago. Its nice having 21st century conveniences like real high-speed internet and an automatic dishwasher.
In less good news, we moved from a house built in 1974 to a house built in 1948. It’s got more than its share of quirks, like a lack of truly level floors and heat registers that aren’t quite parallel to the floors.
Huzzah!
Congrats on the new digs.
Interesting pics. What’s the story?
Reminds me of the book “The Cruel See”
Is that the book about being forced to watch Pelosi in a bikini?
I sea what you meen.
It is a great book and very good movie as well.
I think an article about the WW2 prints might be a good idea…
Some stories involved, to be sure.
👍 👍
So if you care, pool your money and take care of it.
Oh, and ugh.
One human’s “paradise” is another primate’s charnel house of endless slaughter and fighting for all the females.
Given what I think of monkeys, I’d pay them to leave my transformer uninsulated.
So you’re saying you would shock the monkeys?
Those little shits are smart. They will figure it out. No need to change anything.
Yeah, I thought that too.
The monkeys will start using the wires to execute the bad monkeys.
It’s difficult to hit them with a sledgehammer.
I know, but don’t give up!
If narrowed gazes could kill they probably will.
Meanwhile in 80s band news, I’m off to see Gene Loves Jezebel and Bow Wow Wow.
I’m kind of going in cold on GLJ. I’m sure I’ve heard some of their songs, but I can’t actually think of them. Bow Wow Wow is cool, though.
Bow Wow Wow-C30 C60 C90 Go!
https://youtu.be/1KFrSXhXRzQ
Millennial: C30?
Oooh you’re in for a treat if GLJ is up to form. They have some gorgeous material.
OTOH, I heard there are two versions of the band and who knows which one you will get or if they will even play any classics.
My mind goes straight to this for GLJ
Definitely that or this: https://youtube.com/watch?v=sUSOlhhE_1Y&feature=shares
So Yesterday and Today the sheep told me about the gaps in the fence that needed mending.
Alpha ram was trying to tag me when i was splicing a piece of fence.
Wife thinks he likes me, I think he wants to crush my hips.
First nice day of spring, and I am sore again.
Q: What’s the difference between the Rolling Stones and the Scottish?
A: The Rolling Stones sang “Hey, you, get off of my cloud” and the Scottish say “Hey, MacLeod, get off of my ewe”.
My brother and I hated the sheep when we were growing up. We had a little game were we would kick the buck in the nuts and then run for the fences before he could ram us.
I was able to run faster than my brother…
NPR has a piece about how great UD’s “sheep management” class is.
That’s it, I’m done. The patio awaits.
What, you don’t have wi-fi on your patio?
I’m dropping off for a week or so. I’ll see you all when I get back and hope all have an enjoyable week.
Hope your time off goes well.
Enjoy!
Spudz salacious Silicone Saturday slootz.
https://archive.ph/EGUHT/49a0cddae86f6ffbefe269b71d5fb08b8eb75c14.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/dgZlv/375dc912f832bf0b88eb1d38e3efbb44d28e469d.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/wElGH/d098ac2d4804fa10ce862e5902970a859d9156b9.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/9xyaI/f9b6ef556d5549cd2fd29662106b48070fdc66bb.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/j8pyn/10133f3bf7b0f8ab151262b94cd12309f00cec13.webp
NSFW.
So I’ve recently gotten into a record label that produces only electronic ambient music. But their releases are very limited, and are quirky in lots of ways, as o e might expect from some Millennial artsy shit. For one, many of their releases are in mini-CD format. I’ve always known about mini-CDs, and I’m pretty sure I was given a mini-CD business card sometime in the late 90s, but I don’t ever really recall seeing them in any sort of regular use, and thought it a very peculiar choice for a modern release. I mean CDs are practically dead. I’m not sure mini-CDs we’re ever really even alive. So I went to the wiki to get a bit of background.
Apparently they were used in the late 80s-early 90s as CD singles, and they were used to have ultra-portable data through the 90s until the paltry 210MB limit was no longer tenable as files started becoming bigger and bigger.
But then I ran in to this nugget….
It’s almost like they didn’t want the format to succeed at all.
I’ve never heard of mini CDs, but I do have a minidisc recorder that ended up not being a much used format. If you dig electronic music you should definitely check out SomaFM. 24/7 commercial free music with over 20 channels, many different genres. It’s been my go to for over 15 years now.
https://somafm.com/
Also the plethora of podcasts, such as:
Headphone Commute
Ambient Atomic Orbitals
Hypnagogue Podcast
Low Light Podcast
And many others. The first two are the most eclectic and adventurous. Low Light is basically a man setting a coffee cup on a mellotron while the refrigerator hums for 30 minutes. Depends on what you are into.
It’s almost like the label doesn’t want to sell any albums.
Their releases are only done in very small runs. Most of the time less than 50, which sounds about right for niche music + dead format.
Painting is done for the day, groceries have been retrieved, and dinner eaten. Old Forester has been poured and watching Colonel Effingham’s Raid. Movie plot: mayor scheming to rename Confederate Monument Square and replace the courthouse because they’ll get fed money for a new one instead of fixing the current one.
I am drinking La Rita Loca.
Margarita beer basically. It’s quite pleasant.
First her? I barely met her!
*seriously doubt*
Fuck microfiber and the assholes who thought it would be a great sofa fabric.
Dude, those cum stains will come out with 1 part Dawn dish soap and 2 parts peroxide.
Firsts never come out of any fabric. They are forever.
Dude, try eating something else.
leather
end of story
Facebook tells me that the Corvette SUV is coming to market soon.
Those fuckers can’t stop fucking things up.
Will it be electric?
What?
FFS why?
I used my walker to get beer from the fridge. Wondered to Judi “Did you see this happening a year ago?” Nope. It happens fast, Friends. In answer to Chafed, yes, my friends are electric.
You know who else had an ‘electric friend’ ?
Yes
I was hoping for “Mello Yello” but Gary works, too.
Good morning
https://twitter.com/dodo/status/1637846468013985794
Mornin.
Good morning, Ssccrruuffyy, Sean, ‘bodru, NA, and homey!
Still using the 3/24 dated milk for my chai latte. The chai mix has “less sugar,” but I’m still counting on it to hide at least a few sins, if not a multitude.
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/explosion-fire-rm-palmer-company-chocolate-candy-factory-west-reading-pennsylvania-berks-county/
One person found alive in the rubble so far.
You hate to see this stories. When people are missing, that usually means they are dead.
Glad someone survived.
Chocolate factory explosion…Do any of those words belong together?
I know nothing about candy making, but surely this was a natgas explosion?
I mean, maybe there are big silos of sugar and corn starch, but I would think those have long since been decommissioned.
Last of the corned beef is in my tummy.
suh’ fam
yo whats goody yo
TALL SABBATH CANS!