That’s right I’m letting you down again. No puzzle this week and I don’t even have a book related topic to send you people off with.
I could steal Cyto’s “What are your favorite fanfics?” from Mojo’s Friday night post, but that would be really lazy. So I’ll just declare Open Post and be done with it.
Boring. I’m going to go weld stuff. Poorly.
I’m watching this, then I’m going to mow the lawn.
I started with the grass, got lucky, it started raining. Whew!
No luck (rain) here.
You won’t weld well without welding poorly first.
I’m actually making a tiny bit of headway. Made some not horrible looking welds. Now, consistency.
A grinder and paint make me the welder I ain’t.
Yep. Grinder is my best friend.
“Grind to fit; paint to match” was the shop motto at a previous job.
Ah, prototyping.
Spoken like a true Firster.
/tips hat
The White Sox/Cleveland brawl was interesting. Don’t think I’ve seen a baseball player get punched and immediately fall on his back without bracing anything. Clearly got his bell rung. He got up but he was wobbly on ‘his’ walk to the clubhouse.
There is blood in the water that will eventually be paid back. Just time of when/how, not of if.
Just watched the video – Sox player got clipped right in the chin by that second haymaker. Down he went.
Gillbooks? Something fishy about that title…
It’s not quite to scale.
As always, I got in on the tale of it
I think this thread is floundering.
What do you expect when there is no hook?
Yeah, it’s a sinker.
Hey, that was my line!
Oh, carp, sorry dude.
This thread is bobbing around now. Might be time to get reel.
Need more time to lure them in.
Well, I have today off. Then a medical/therapeutic/etc appointments on Mon, Tues, Wed and Fri. I already have two scheduled for next week, I think Mon and Wed follow-ups to those. Goal is to convince the substance abuse folk, where this location focuses on, that I should be at the other location for intensive outpatient to focus on depression. It’s also MUCH closer to my parents’ place.
My week in DETOX was powerful and I haven’t thought of going back down that dumb road, flanked with the corpses of my past defeats.
Depression is to a point where just nothing happens. I suppose this is what my version of it looks like. Still ever-cheerful and chipper. A rock gathering himself unwelcome moss.
Well. Should be another fairly pointless day. Cubs are tied with Atlanta 2-2 in the fourth. About to go over everyone’s complicated calendar for this week. Ya.
Then I will get stoned and eat for the first time in too long. Yay.
Stoned? Won’t they test for that?
Doesn’t getting stoned defeat the whole purpose?
From what I’ve gleaned, you should be trying to stay clean of everything.
Someone here knows a song about that. MikeS? Tundra? Anyone?
Tried twice to post Afroman. It was a fail.
Success?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vW0dV-TmmM
Here you go
Here you go
Here you go.
That was my thought but who knows. Maybe he’s not abusing it. 🙂
@ All: Meh. I don’t go out and do things high. It’ll show up in my system for ~a couple weeks regardless. I left Korea with the plan to stop Slow Motion Suicide and go sober and just smoke weed again.
It worked perfectly…when I had a job and eyes on me. Accountability, I respond to well. I’ve done detox and cleared that challenge. Powerful message sent and received, loud and crystal.
Just a part-time gig, Kroger looking like a good idea, to get stability and structure. Connections, interest and legit experience in the Indy zoo. Can expand from a simple gig to a serious job. Editing is what I really want to do. The freelance structure is there and I’ve done it before, but now something more orderly.
Steps continue. Onward, upward, always.
Okay, didn’t sound like a particularly upward trajectory, which is what was concerning me.
California sober, eh?
Hella.
Hecka.
I hope things work out for you. An old friend told of his experiences on what he called “The Marijuana Plan”. Didn’t work out so well for him.
What am I reading…
Some old mysteries written by S.S. Van Dine. Good for the vocabulary. Like/dislike the hero character, Philo Vance.
Looked up some of the books I don’t have on Amazon. Yikes.
In the words of Ogden Nash,
Philo Vance
Needs a kick in the pance.
I did see a movie on Amazon Prime once, maybe a couple of years ago, with the character Philo Vance. Maybe I can find it.
The Kennel Murder Case. 1933, starring William Powell. It was ok. Picture quality was poor, that version hadn’t been restored.
I don’t recall who played him on the old timey radio shows but they were pretty good, no Johnny Dollar sure, but far better than some, Richard Diamond I’m looking at you.
I’ve been listening to some Philo Vance radio shows on an old-time radio podcast. Haven’t read any Vance books, though, so don’t know how close they are to the originals.
I received my book on the Federalist/Anit-Federalist papers.
Nice book.
It is a collection of Paine’s ‘Common Sense’, The Federalist Papers, the Anti-Federalist Papers, The Articles of Federation, the US Constitution, The Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence.
This will keep me busy for some time. As I suspected I am getting a great deal more out of them this go around as I was in the summer between 7th and 8th grade the last time I had selective readings from it. I am a bit more than half-way through ‘Common Sense’. So far it looks like we are eyeballs-deep in everything Paine warned us about.
I might have to bang out some articles on these. What I miss someone here can no doubt point out.
Is that the Hackett Publishing one? I bought that on Kindle years ago, never got around to reading it. Hackett is always good for philosophy. My Critique of Pure Reason (paperback) is well worn.
https://www.amazon.com/Documents-Revolution-Anti-Federalist-Confederation-Constitution/dp/B09MYRCT9Q/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?crid=RYNX49J9NDJ2&keywords=documents+of+revolution&qid=1691352574&sprefix=documents+of+revoluti%2Caps%2C494&sr=8-2-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1
Ooo! I am getting that. Thanks!
Keep in mind you can get all those for free.
Just saying.
Physical books are pretty, and cannot be erased from your device by government funded commies.
FEE or IHS may offer them as physical copies.
Thank you Suthen! Very happy to see you, too.
Hello Gustave. It is good to see you….well, everyone actually. I am still kickin’.
It’s good to see you back.
Seconded!
Thank you Chafed. It is good to be back in the land of the living.
The Hackett reference led me down the rabbit hole of their offerings. Did find this in their 2 vol Classics of American Political thought
🤦♂️
but did keep Joseph R. Biden, Jr.’s “Learned Hand Dinner Address Before the American Jewish Committee” (2005)
🤦♂️ 🤦♂️
But who really wrote Biden’s piece?
One of Hunter’s hookers?
Wait, my tax bill went down? Property values must be slipping.
Careful, if you sell they might go up.
That’s why my neighbors like me, I keep their property values low.
What am I reading? The three posts I just wrote up. August posts are done.
I’m reading about MS-DRGs and the case mix index, neither of which I understand, and about the CCS exam, which I will not be taking.
Microsoft now makes drugs?
Why am I not really surprised?
They did buy Bethesda Softworks.
Should I ask my doctor if their games are right for me?
Not that kind of drug…
CCS? Central Coast Surfboards?
Good luck Mojo!
Thanks, but I’m not dropping another penny on this fucking learning experience/profession unless/until I get a job with the certification I already paid for.
Shout out to TO’G: just got notice yesterday that a copy of your recommended book McCarthy’s Bar, which I requested be sent to my neighborhood library from one in an adjacent county, is ready for me to pick it up. Looking forward to it!
McCarthy’s Bar is melting in the dark,
All that sweet green icing flowing down.
Traveling through spectacular landscapes, but at all times obeying the rule, “never pass a bar that has your name on it,”…
That sounds great – added to my list.
Sadly, I don’t think there’s a single bar with my family name on it (it’s unusual). Though there is a local-ish restaurant, albeit one that just announced they’re closing; fairly certain the owner is a distant relative.
What about your first name?
A number of Jewish delis. Which isn’t so bad.
Carnegie ?
Slumbrew was named after a wrestler, Goldberg.
👍 🥔 🥃
One of those wee free library finds.
Speaking of McCarthys, I hear Andrew’s (yes, that one) travel books are good. His memoir wasn’t bad. I usually manage to finish celebrity auto-bios.
One of those in which I was sorely disappointed was Chrissie Hynde’s. It’s been a while since I failed to finish reading it, but I think I found it horribly disjointed.
I was always puzzled by her marriage to Jim Kerr from Simple Minds.
Roger Daltrey’s is surprisingly excellent. Pete Townsend’s, not so much.
Similarly, Eric Idle’s, not John Cleese’s.
Idle’s seemed to me like just a list of famous friends and their shared vacations.
Bruce Dickinson’s autobiography was a disappointment. I didn’t finish it.
Andrew was on Corolla’s podcast not long ago, talking about his latest book. Good interview and he seems like a solid dude.
https://adamcarolla.com/andrew-mccarthy/
I used to be a regular at a bar called McCarthys.
I downloaded from Gutenberg Project a few of Nietzsche’s books.
Y’all know I’m an Elon Musk/Tesla/SpaceX fan girl.
But I gotta admit that being a Tesla driver who lives in an apartment is lame. I can’t plug my car in to charge at nought, and I can’t have the car automatically connect to my home WiFI to get the latest software updates.
Sure, the car still drives without the updates, but the updates are fun and safe and enhance the driving experience.
So I’m sitting in my 5 year old Tesla Model 3 with my T-Mobile phone hot spot attempting to update my software.
So very silly.
My iPad Pro 12.9 has internet issues. Can you fix that, nerd girl ?
What’s it worth to you?
::bats eyelashes::
If you were here, Id let plug in your Tesla.
(hows THAT for a euphemism ?)
Both my iPads & my old (6s) iPhone have started disconnecting fron WiFi when not in active use. I suspect one of Apple’s recent “security updates” is responsible. One of these days I’ll hit the local Apple Tore to see if the “Genius Zbar” has any in stock who know anything about this,
It can’t connect to a WiFi network? Is that a security thing?
Good gravy.
Coming back from town this afternoon we noticed a smoke plume. I’m not surprised, we missed our annual monsoons and it’s windy today. Nothing on the local news yet but it appears to be about 10 miles NW of here.
It’s tourist season; some bozo probably left a smoldering fire.
Not smoldering for long, it appears.
The fire that forced our evacuation last year was from a hot spot left over from a controlled burn over a month earlier. Today is the first real wind that we’ve had for a while so that’s probably what set it off.
Burn ban here. It is hotter than hell, dry dry dry, and walking in grass or leaves sounds like walking in corn flakes.
Who would be dumb enough to light a fire?
Idiot tourists from the city.
Lots of people. Especially creepy city kids who get a kick from it. Witness California and Canada.
People are Dumb.
It is universal that people will do stupid things.
City folk?
The dipshits here, who are happy to let the state burn, are using it to ban gas powered OPE and BBQs.
Yes. And claim it’s caused by ‘Climate Change.’
Well obviously those unrelated Items are responsible because FYTW.
The answer appears to be “city people”.
Because we are dumb and stuff. Hurr durr.
Well, no dumber than average, but maybe some aren’t as aware of how the countryside/wildfire thing works.
The whole “dry wood” thing seems pretty darn obvious to me.
My damn neighbors from California.
Surrounded by storms this morning. It just sprinkled for a few minutes.
It’s been a hundred plus the last few days. So, these idjits think it’s time to burn.
The dreaded ‘internal server error’ as I attempt to post an apology for missing you and the Mrs. when you came through Lansing.
Rey sorry indeed. Hopefully another time.
Dangit — Very sorry…
No sweat. Daughter #2 lives near Greenville (Sheridan) so we are in your state often. Will try to catch you sometime.
So today marks twenty-nine years since Mrs. Shpip, against her better judgment, managed to squeak out an “I do” in front of God and everybody.
We just concluded a trip to the north Georgia mountains, so tonight it’s just a quiet dinner at home for us.
She asked me if, nearly three decades later, if I would marry her all over again, and I said “And how! Wanna know why?”
I made a point not to ask her if she would marry me again, knowing what she knows now.
Congrats! Obligatory.
I was thinking this.
Cool link, bro!
Grrr. This, based on where they went on their trip.
Congrats! Celebrating with a nice cigar?
When is a cigar just a cigar?
-Freud
When it’s a cigar?
-Robbie who works at the QT Mart.
Well, I did visit Ybor City back in June, and picked up a couple of these, which would pair right nicely with a double pour of Johnny Blue or Buffalo Trace Kosher Rye.
I need to try one of those with a local farm-to-bottle Rye that I really like.
Congrats! We celebrated #51 yesterday.
Fantastic! Happy anniversary to both couples!
And congrats to you, too!
Congratulations, sir! That is a goal worth celebrating!
Congrats! 1994 was a very good year for the Patzers as well.
Some marriages are made in heaven, some are made in hell. Important to get them in the right order.
Took me 2 tries .
Congrats to all the long married Glibs and those in between and the lucky singles.
Congratulations!
Nice! 18 years is next month for us.
Congratulations! 12 years for us back in June, which makes me realize we’re now more legal than not and despite my enormous fuckups.
I watched the first episode of The Witcher Season 3. Everything the Critical Drinker said and worse. Like a Star Trek episode written by a kid who doesn’t like Star Trek. The characters are still there, but they are saying and doing things completely out of character. Like listening to music being played in the wrong key with out-of-tune instruments.
Netflix fucked this up by the numbers. Not sure if I’ll finish the season – had such high hopes after season 1.
I felt that way about Good Omens 2 as well.
Why hire back these writers when they all suck so bad? End the strike by firing them all. Fan fiction writers could do better.
Well, you see, Fan fiction writers have one major handicap – they are fans of the property. They won’t deliver The Message with blunt force.
Correct. They will make money for shareholders instead.
Oh no – I was thinking of trying that one instead…
The problem is that Hollywood writers suck. The Witcher Season 1 was basically the first book. They made it more complicated with the scenes going back and forth in time, but otherwise it was mostly the source material except the Yennifer stuff. By Season 3 they’ve ditched the source material completely and are writing terrible stories for characters they hate. The last couple of seasons of Game of Thrones had the same problem because Martin was too lazy to finish the series.
If Gaiman wasn’t in on writing Good Omens 2, I shudder to think how bad it could be.
The old Reagan approach to striking ATC workers.
I like it.
I mean, as propagandists, they’re essentially gov’t employees anyhow.
42 years ago yesterday.
The only politics I recall from my mom is: she voted for Carter, she voted for Reagan, and she vocally approved of this action.
I watched the series today.
It’s quite lightweight. It lacks the off kilter social perspective that Pratchett brought to the original.
The only real reason to watch it is to see David Tennant chewing up the scenery as Crowley. Martin Sheen is always wonderful.
The plot is scatterbrained with lots of filler subplots that do nothing but provide another set piece for Tennant and Sheen to do what they do.
Woke is everywhere — to the point of distraction in many cases. Gaiman has gone all-in on woke.
I enjoyed it. I had nothing better to do on a rainy day today. But I certainly would not give it a must-watch recommendation.
Woke is everywhere — to the point of distraction
You lost me. What made it enjoyable despite all those negatives?
David Tennant chewing up the scenery
This was one of the best parts of the show for me anyway.
Not unlike Al Pacino in The Devil’s Advocate. Roger Ebert once said that Pacino had many times been accused of overacting, but had never been accused of bad acting.
I’m not a fan of his work. He just gets on my nerves.
Fair enough.
He’s not the kind of actor that disappears into a role.
A prerequisite for working on any Major Intellectual Property these days is to vehemently hate the source material and want to push the narrative over any pretense of quality.
Like this?
I felt that way about Good Omens 2 as well.
I might have enjoyed it more if I had gone into it had I known it would be a parody of completely predictable by the numbers sjw character stereotyping. An angel in a wheelchair? Give me a fucking break. Oh,look, lesbians (a white one and a black one) finding each other against all odds.
How… ordenawwy.
A prerequisite for working on any Major Intellectual Property these days is to vehemently hate the source material and want to push the narrative over any pretense of quality.
Or you just jack up the title and slide something completely unrelated to the original content under it. Hollywood was been doing that for decades.
Exhibit A: Starship Troopers
I really need to read the original.
I love the movie even though I have heard it’s only barely related. I’m convinced the director deliberately made it ridiculous and I can appreciate that.
The ST movie becomes obviously a parody when Dougy Houser comes out dressed as a Nazi.
Well it is Verhoeven.
The script was originally written as a new property, but the studio owned the rights to Star Ship Troopers, so they slapped the name on it. Fanboys blame Verhoven for fucking up the story from the book, but when he signed on it had no connection to the book. It would be akin to after he signed on for Robocop if Orion Pictures said, hey, we own the rights to Iron Man, this movie is now called Iron Man.
Ehhibit B: The Puppet Masters.
Exhibit III: Halloween III
That’s unfair. The series was originally intended to be an anthology, and entry 3 was in keeping with that. The mistake was making 2 as a continuation of 1.
Okay then.
Exhibit III: Halloween II
Fucking installers and engineers. So we have three lines that rather then a straight pull up three floors or utilizing the fiber between the floors…punched down on 66 blocks. So I have additional points of failures. Also they thought they didn’t have to punch down as per industry standard so I had split pairs on my runs.
“You’re everything we’ve come to expect from years of government training”
You know what I really like? When I try to research something and the vendor websites are carefully crafted to provide no useful information whatsoever. That gives me confidence.
With all the wedding anniversaries mentioned above, I suppose I’ll mention that my daughter got engaged yesterday.
Time marches on.
Mazel tov!
🙂
Good luck to your daughter and the MikeS’.
Hope your new to be SIL has his own tools and some youcan borrow.
I read SIL at first as sister-in-law. 😐
He’s a South African who’s been working here on a farm labor program. I look forward to getting first hand info about what is happening in SA.
Boar? Anglo? Zulu? Xhosa? Indian?
*Boer.
Dammit, I hate typing distracted.
??? He looks more like Elon Musk than that guy the other day saying they aren’t going to kill White people…yet.
I was trying to get a better picture of the guy. “South African” is about as descriptive as “American” in painting a picture.
I know. Not sure of the difference between Boer and Anglo, but he is White.
Also, his family are not farmers, so I don’t believe they are in the crosshairs. I look forward to talking to him about all of it.
Boers are descended from the Dutch, Anglos from the English.
Big beards vs. mutton chops. That’s about the difference.
Anglos are English.
Boers are very dull and uninteresting.
Woot! Grandchirren to come!
Yeah. It’s a weird feeling knowing that is likely going to happen sooner than later.
It’s a good thing. Congrats Mile!
Yeah, I look forward to spoiling a grandkid!
Or Mike. Spellcheck is balls.
Vera, Chuck, and Dave 🎵
🍾 to all the recent good news.
Congrats, buddy!
Feel old yet?
Ugh. Yes.
Tell me. I spent the day trying to keep up with my kids in the mountainGot some good pics, though.s. Ded.
Looks like those two Sikh guys who beat that shoplifter in Stockton are being investigated for assault:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/clown-world-stockton-police-open-investigation-7-eleven/
Stand down and let them steal your shit or you go to prison. What a crock of horseshit.
You knew it was going to happen. It’s Commie land. You have no rights there.
They should get medals.
Guess: They’ll make a show out of it just like the recent case in NYC where a shopkeeper fought back and they had to back down because of public disgust.
Fuck. My dad grew up in Stockton. Shithole, but back in the day that would not have happened.
Step one: Take the cameraphone away.
Step two: Unleash whoop ass.
Weekends are too damn short. 😟
Whenever I see talk of 32 (or whatever) hour work weeks, part of me wants to see it happen.
I am not interested in taking a 20% pay cut.
You can have it with a 20% pay cut and loss of all benefits.
It was a throw away comment about weekends being too short. Forty hour week is just fine with me. Especially since mine usually ends around noon on Friday.
They won’t pay me for any hours worked past 37.5
I am salaried. I would love to only work 40 hours a week.
I wish I were salaried. I’m “Overtime Exempt” which is the worst of both worlds. I don’t get paid past my contract hours, but they can dock me if I go under.
I took an extra long weekend due to recent previous weekends. My Monday starts Tuesday.
Also…..Glibfit update: I have ate like shit for the past three weeks due to convenience and laziness. That ends tomorrow. Tomorrow I also need to rework the bunks on my boat trailer since it won’t easily work for some boat takeouts on my river.
Mrs. Dean and I celebrated our 25th in June.
This fact alone is sufficient proof that we are in a simulation, and not only that, it’s being run for my personal benefit.
To what end?
It seems like a waste of resources, lets switch it off.
Dang, I gotta remember that line for our thirtieth.
I suspect my wife would attempt to murder me for posting the (hilarious) image you did.
Imma go with R C Dean’s line as well.
People down belolw are celebrating their slavery to the matriarchy. I’m all the way up here celebrating Firsting.
¿Que?
Down below where?
I am out here questing…neigh! SOLVING the Riddle Of First. How inconsequential could your slave-status to the matriarchy be by comparison?
First isn’t strong, boy. Flesh is stronger!
That is strength, boy! That is power! What is a first compared to the hand that wields it? Look at the strength in your body, the desire in your heart. I gave you this! Such a waste.
Contemplate this on The Tree Of Woe.
I go away for a while. I come back. Bro’s still off his meds.
He’s not even first on my little list of commenters I wouldn’t miss.
He admits to being a little tetched in the head, seriously.
“God’s Battalions” has been getting some discussion here.
This link will get you to a free pdf of the book. (No registration required.)
https://oceanofpdf.com/authors/rodney-stark/pdf-gods-battalions-the-case-for-the-crusades-download/
Footage from the Pac12 bunker
https://www.captiongenerator.com/v/2291308/pac-12-media-negotiations
They should just merge with the MWC, that way the remnants of the Pac-12 can go undefeated, and they gain Vegas, which can bring in the Bucs, er Bucks, er money.
Undefeated? Is Boise State leaving already?
UNLV went from LEGEND coach John Robinson to some guy who had been a high school coach, to someone even worse once the Al Davis Memorial Dome For Guys That Run Fast opened. Even the Blew Fielders could win.
That time Terry Gilliam made a movie based on a book by Hunter S Thompson, but since other writers had been hired previously and wrote shitty scripts but got the credit after Gilliam and his writing partner re-wrote the script, because the WGA said they used the same scenes, because they were working with the same source material. I fucking hate unions. Let AI write the shit scripts, better than letting the vampires win. OR, someone could hire a 40ish writer who writes scripts on the cheap that are good.
Get up and put on some clean underwear, ya weirdos!
🌞☕
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nqLd_MBqt0w
🎶🎶
I. have been going Indian for 40 years….does that mean I dont have to get up?
Sooner or later your bladder will force you to,
Good morning, Sean and Suthen!
I shower at night (and put on my clean undies* after) so I can spend my early morning hanging out with the early morning Glibs!
*And FRESHLY clean today because Sunday was laundry day!
Mornin’ GT!
Good morning, Shirley! 😃
Mornin’, reprobates!
I’ve always had this weird feeling that something important was missing here. Now that we are discussing underwear I feel much better. Nice clean polka-dotted briefs today.
Good morning, ‘patzie! Just wait until the battle lines are drawn over the Correct Style of underwear! ::adds ‘patzie’s name to “Briefs” side of Official Vote Tally::
Plaid boxers or GTFO.
You may leave and take your uncomfortable underwear with you. If it doesn’t prevent adhesion to the inner thigh, it’s no good.
::updates tally sheet::
Looks as if today I’m FINALLY going to get the swimsuit top whose matching bottom (ordered at the same time but inexplicably shipped separately) was delivered this past Wednesday. Took it almost six days to reappear when UPS handed it off to the USPS in suburban Columbus. 🙄 Ah, well – First World problem solved!
Woohoo! I won the lottery!
What should I do with my $25?
Invest in llama futures.
Good advice. With sea level rise, llamas are going to be the main livestock left in existence.
How many more tickets can you buy with that? Let it ride, baby! 🤑
Buy more tickets of course.
Scratch-offs so you don’t have to wait to lose your money
Buy a new pair of driving gloves?
*checks prices*
OK, maybe a new pair of socks?
Underwear!
But which kind?
Starting to cool off, beginning of the end of summer. A little rain yesterday.
Send some of that down here. Jeebus, I see half grown trees dying all around here.