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Coming to you live! From Glibs Gulch. Hangin’ with OMWC, WebDom and l0b0t. I’m here on one of my regular trips, and was informed ahead of time that February is much better than March. So far, I’ve been enjoying the same unseasonable warm weather that I left. Works for me.
Links anyone?
Hey! Did you know the President is senile? When you’ve lost Maureen…
Hey! Did you know that Kanye is a bipolar Jew hater?
Herself smells an opportunity.
There are bad flights, and then there are bad flights.
Can we just get it over with and get our SMOD now, please?
Fani got more splainin’ to do. If she’s disqualified, her whole office is disqualified and the case is done.
That’s good enough for today.
On this day in 1940, “In The Mood” hit the top of the charts. War was waging and people were looking for some happiness. We could use Glenn today as far as I’m concerned.
February is much better than March.
Really? Not so soggy? The dog shit hasn’t thawed?
On this day in 1940, “In The Mood” hit the top of the charts. War was waging and people were looking for some happiness. We could use Glenn today as far as I’m concerned.
I watched A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court last night. Bing Crosby. Good escapist entertainment.
Watch James Stewart in The Glenn Miller Story.
Last summer, on my trip to Yinzerland, I stumbled on the James Stewart in Indiana, Pennsylvania. I highly recommend it if you are in the area. He was quite a person.
Yep. Here we go with replacing Ol’ Puddin Cup.
Welcome, Presidente Newsom!
California Uber Alles!
Jesus. I wouldn’t let that piece of cheese be in charge of policing the dogshit in my back yard.
I guess they have figured out they have no credibility left to squander so why bother worrying about it.
I’m leaning Hillary/Harris.
Because we think it can’t get any worse.
Nah, it will be Kamalamadingdong so, even if she loses, they can say the First Female Black President, at least for a few months.
Michelle would like a word.
I can’t see that: I’m pretty sure the hatred between the Clinton and non-Clinton pieces of the Ds won’t allow that to happen.
I could see something like Harris/Buttigieg
Vote Harris/Buttigieg! We make Biden look competent!
It was a mistake for Merrick Garland to make a Trump appointee the special counsel for Biden. Like James Comey, Garland is a man so in love with his own virtue that he bends over backward to show it off. I am so fair that I am going to be unfair. Democrats often fall into this way of thinking, to their own detriment. That’s how Biden blew the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings, trying to be so fair to the win-at-all-costs Republicans on the committee that he threw the game to Judge Thomas, who is now staining the Supreme Court.
A glimpse into an alternate universe.
Som never play fair and always win is the way? I never would have guessed.
Ray Stevens did it better:
https://youtu.be/0AvNNMwXH38?si=6I9zzf1AiZa5a-dy
It was a mistake for Merrick Garland to make a Trump appointee the special counsel for Biden. Like James Comey, Garland is a man so in love with his own virtue that he bends over backward to show it off. I am so fair that I am going to be unfair. Democrats often fall into this way of thinking, to their own detriment. That’s how Biden blew the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings, trying to be so fair to the win-at-all-costs Republicans on the committee that he threw the game to Judge Thomas, who is now staining the Supreme Court.
Egad.
The guy did give biden a “no reasonable prosecutor” out. That is the important legal point for the Dems. The report is pretty damaging.
https://www.justice.gov/storage/report-from-special-counsel-robert-k-hur-february-2024.pdf
The EXSUM alone shows that the DoJ broke itself open like a shotgun to help biden.
A cell in the “rape his ass” for a big name GOPer, “sorry for disturbing your day” for any Dem, “stand beside the ditch” for the rest of us.
Dbleagle: did you contribute the egg nog recipe to the holiday drinks? I mixed it up for people at Christmas and it went over well. I cut back on the amount of sugar though.
I am glad you enjoyed it. Every chef must prepare for their own. How much did you cut back? I may try it that way.
recipe was a pound, I think the wife suggested a third of a pound and I went with that. Seemed to work well. The theory was we could add more if needed but couldn’t take it out if too sweet.
Is “liters of blood” a lot?
It depends on the context.
Should we start preparing for hemorrhagic fever? Pretty sure a cloth mask and 6 feet of separation will save us.
No, this particular little nasty can be warded off by wearing a chicken’s foot around your neck and rubbing eye of newt on your gums.
Like eight gills?
Zoom Zoom Room: Hangover Edition
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
‘Terra Cotta’ What a perfectly pedestrian name for a coffee house, sad, very sad.
I donno, it strikes me as down to (baked) earth.
I rate it zero hyenas.
*polite applause*
My girlfriend thought the coffee was good. I’m not a coffee drinker…
I was happy they had sausage for my breakfast sandwich. Most of the people there seem to be vegans and vegetarians.
They also had a lot of metal in and around their faces.
Awww, lots of kids that age have orthodontic appliances. 😉
I had breakfast there on my way out for FreedomFest 2022. It was great. I stopped in on the way back for SP’s memorial service.
OMG someone was flying a drone by Tay Tay’s alleged jet on approach to LAX
Alleged jet?
I don’t think it’s confirmed that was her flight…could be wrong.
30k people tracking on Flight Radar 24, though
I see. I thought maybe it could be some other type of vehicle and that would be pretty badass.
I thought she has a concert tonight in Asia…
She had a concert Saturday night in Tokyo
Yeah they exist in a timeline ahead of ours. She has plenty of time. Could fly commercially even.
If that is her flight, she has a good 18 hours in LA (probably doing bidness). Interestingly, the flight is still on radar, so maybe taking off for Vegas later https://www.flightradar24.com/VJT993/33f1c5ed
Concert started at 5pm, flight departed HND at 11:30pm – more than enough time
Well, shit – had intended to watch the LAS live cam, but missed it. She evidently took a 2nd plane to LAS after landing in LA. Very sneaky, sis.
Her logistics team is good – the live cam at LAS wasn’t even able to catch her ground transportation.
… we are going to make laws because of one person and not the hundreds/thousands of others that have.beem impacted aren’t we?
No one cried put for laws when others were deep faked into a bukake or gangbang.
No one cried out at all the other instances of drones near airports…Vegas has a famous one.
Fuck we are so broken
Aren’t drones already verboten in Class B airspace?
They are…
Grrr…hit post too soon.
I mean there will be calls for specials laws and shit
No reasonable prosecutor…
It turns out people who do shady shit to affect an election have poor moral character and are themselves shady. Huh.
No YOU’RE shady for not being thankful for all the effort they put in to preserving democracy! I fucking hate this world.
Airplane dude: Poor fella died of insanguination, textbook case of bleeding ulcers.
Looks like nobody on the flight had the… *dons sunglasses* stomach for it.
*strongly narrows gaze*
Quitter
House Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wi., chairman of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, announced on Saturday that he would not seek re-election this year, leaving a seat open in a key swing state as the 2024 race kicks into high gear.
The former Marine Corps officer joins an exodus of more than a dozen Republican congress members planning to leave their posts, each one widening the path for Democrats to attempt to win back the House majority. His seat in Wisconsin’s 8th congressional district is particularly valuable, given the state’s battleground status and House Republicans’ current rail-thin majority.
“Electoral politics was never supposed to be a career and, trust me, Congress is no place to grow old,” Gallagher said in a statement announcing his departure.
It’s too bad more of his colleagues don’t have the good sense to admit this.
I hope he does his classic watermelon smashing bit on the way out.
+1 Sledge-o-Matic
LOL how quaint.
He might be leaving millions of dollars on the table.
I love this bit from the Dowd column: “Counting on Trump’s vileness to secure the win”
let me note that I think Trump is a pretty vile human being (clearly treats a lot of women like shit; screws over subcontractors). But, I’ve yet to get a coherent answer to the question I put to Trump haters, “what is it that makes him especially vile when compared with other politicians?” There’s very, very, very few of them, especially at the federal level that are close to being decent people.
Hate really doesn’t operate on a rational basis. [Notes irony of comment just a few minutes ago]
It’s mental illness at this point.
Trump is unredeemable not for being a vile human being, because ALL politicians are vile and only grow more so as they slither up the pyramid. Trump forever must wear the mark of Caine for beating HRC- she was the appointed one.
Every book that I have read about the 2016 campaign, even books that were clearly hagiographies that had the last chapter quickly changed post-election, were about how poorly the Clinton campaign was run in each and every aspect. But it doesn’t matter to the authors since Hillary was the anointed 3d term of Obama.
This sums it up. HRC had no political acumen, and her campaign showed it. She hadn’t spent a lifetime working her way up the political ladder and learning all the skills it takes to get people to think you give a crap about them and all the other things that Pols learn. Trump didn’t either, but, somehow, he connected to a huge amount of people. Either through their hatred of the powers that be, or actually liking him, I have no idea.
When all is said and done, I don’t trust a single word said about him, either positive or negative. Each and every person reporting on him, if that is the word for what they have done, has either inflated him or denigrated him. I don’t trust the reporting on him at all. So, I am going to take him from what I saw him do as president. And that seemed…OK. Not what I would love to have, but certainly not the worst.
So much “reporting” where they act like us proles don’t know exactly what we would get if we voted for Biden or Trump. Four years apiece, people. Not a fucking mystery.
Yeah, that one does crack me up.
We know, based on his record, that Trump will not leave office in 2028.
You mean his record of leaving office in 2020?
Silence
It’s like the Russian conversations. Smart people I know are absolutely convinced that Trump cut a deal with Putin whereby Putin agreed to invade Ukraine after Trump left office.
Narrator: They are not as smart as RN imagines they are.
LOL!
So we can blame the people who voted for Biden for the attack on Ukraine? “Even you agree that another Trump term would have saved lives in Ukraine!”
Trump didn’t either, but, somehow, he connected to a huge amount of people.
A) he’s been a showman most of his life
B) he’s not a career politician, and he truly believes in traditional stated American culture and values instead of the sneering insider cynicism. Or is a good enough showman to fake it.
C) he has an outsider’s view of what a president should be like and tries to play the role
D) he has decades of experience smoozing people he can’t stand
All of this of course is something we are to pretend isn’t reality. Any more, I want the brick of reality to smash into these peoples’ faces.
I wouldn’t mind wearing the mark of Michael Caine.
🧚♀️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-5yn3v3N8A
Right. I honestly think he is ahuge piece of shit, but I feel the same way about Biden so it evens out.
Me too.
It’s driven entirely by relentless pressure from the MSM to make it so. I’m sure it’s really that simple.
LOL. Less than few, Mo.
If Cackles was not standing in the wings, the 25th probably would be invoked before the Dem convention. I wonder which Dem heavy hitter made the decision back in 2020 to put her on the ticket instead of, say, Klobuchar? Maybe Cackles will be a tragic victim of an attempted mugging, but the Dem string-pullers are going to have to work overtime to conjure up magic and get her off the 2024 ticket where it would be obvious they are virtually (if not literally) asking the voters to vote for President Harris.
Heh. Cackles and Cankles for 2024!
Eh. Their opponent is Trump. They have an excellent chance to win everything still.
I had a much longer post with the relevant portions quoted, but the server squirrels are capricious, and would not let it through.
What a pity.
Those interest should see Abby Hoffman’s blog post about Juneteenth as well as the British army’s push to lower security clearance requirements in order to boost minority representation in the officer ranks.
The president has resigned
On this day in 1940, “In The Mood” hit the top of the charts. War was waging and people were looking for some happiness. We could use Glenn today as far as I’m concerned.
🙂
I skipped going to a swing dance tonight because I have stuff to do. I was away last weekend, so got nothing done last weekend.
Last weekend I drove to PA for a swing dance with a rockabilly band. it was great.
The UN is such a useless organization part 1,001.
Directly beneath UNRWA’s Gaza headquarters, IDF uncovers top secret Hamas data center
The UN was giving them power. The UN spin is we left 4 months ago is hysterical given the size and scope of the facility.
‘Oh, you knew’: Israel says UNRWA ‘chose to ignore facts’ after Hamas top secret center found under Gaza HQ
*shrug* Nobody will believe it because politics.
Did… did they install the cabinets sideways on the racks? WTF. I’ve been in a lot of data centers and server rooms and that’s a new one.
Also those cable managers should be facing out, not up.
I can’t even with any of this.
I’ve seen it like those for horizontal runs.
That’s such a lame excuse. As though Hamas dug the tunnels and built the room after the shooting started.
If I put 4.6v DC into an LED said to be happy at 2.2v DC, is that enough to kill it?
I couldn’t immediately figure out what happened, because the 3.2v LEDs were tolerant of the higher voltage and lit up.
Tolerant had its limits as one of those just gave up the ghost.
Looks like my next project is understanding voltage-adjustment
Diodes after the led, and resistors before, there are tables available to figure the numbers,
I’m more interested in how to come up with the values, and what to do for bigger, more complicated devices where turning voltage to heat isn’t ideal.
I’m somewhat saddened. This is regarded as such a ‘solved’ problem that a $3 part cleans up the power.
“There are bad flights, and then there are bad flights.”
Esophageal hemorrhage?
Ebola?
Yeah, sounds like it’s too late for chamomile at that point. Probably should have gone with some rooibos.
I’ve always been taught that a liter of blood shooting out of your face is more of an Earl Gray situation.
Huh, I thought Earl Gray was for blood shooting out of your ass.
I don’t know if it will help, but it couldn’t hurt.
Oh hmmm.. Episcopalian?
How does one make a life size Taylor Swift cake for the Super Bowl?
Also luckily, she doesn’t have a teenage son.
American Pie 4: The Taking of Tay Tay
With spin-offs, I’m certain they have surpassed AP4, and I think there was probably a merger with the Vacation franchise at some point with a cousin Eddie/Stifler tie-in.
You know what pisses me off about this site lately? The constant doom and gloom from the Black-Pillers. Jesus Christ, talk about the apocalypse some more, please. It’s like ten to one.
then get on the zoom!
Everything’s sunny in zoom. If you’ve ever wondered what I look and sound like, drop on by!
Drinking more Evan Williams BiB. This is good.
Good choice at a value price!
My Bourbons rated:
Evan Williams BIB – 100 proof and under $20, I’ve got $20. (Buys a McDouble w/change)
Old Grand Dad 114 – same mash bill as Basil Hayden, just a little younger (if it were pountang, you’re looking at jail). Look, I’ve got $20 and change in my pocket.
Woodford Reserve – I just bonused out, why not? Lays out 2 $20 Bill’s and change.
Col E.H. Taylor – when I can find it for under $75 per 750ml, I buy it (this is my favorite).
Garrison Bros. – it’s expensive and I have a customer who works there, and gives it to me so I save it for company who is easily impressed by price or when I run out of other bourbon and the Listerine is running low.
Here is something cheerful for you.
https://youtu.be/diYS8jyOcFc?si=6jhaoDiqpMkZ_lg2
Crap. Meant as a reply to Festus.
🙁 Trying to get my project running on an external crystal, but I can’t tell if it’s even using that signal source. I do know that my timer is running at 4x realtime. If it were using the crystal, it should be 1x realtime.
https://youtu.be/k9T8GJyA71c
I’m drunk, it’s late, I’m calling it – good night!
One more before I go – I have a neighbor who was flying from India to Germany and had a passenger die in flight. Apparently, those are not fun flights and expect a little tarmac time as they determine cause of death. Once they clear the body though, it’s all good.
I’ve been up all night, but I think I’ve got the project timing off the crystal, since jostling the thing changes the blink rate of the seconds indicator. Unmolested 1 min ~= 1min.
Now I can focus on code for button interrupts.
In hindsight, perhaps I shouldn’t have had that Mello Yello at Burger King yesterday afternoon. On the bright side, there’s mediocre coffee here in the state park lodge room, and I was only about twenty minutes late for my favorite now-scheduled-ridiculously-early Sunday morning choral music show on the satellite radio. (And thank you, SiriusXM, for restoring the “Restart” function in the online streaming controls!)
Hey, hey, hey! Mornin.
🍩🌞
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6oqJ0JpMj6I
🎶🎶
Good morning, Sean!
Mornin’ all.
More rain….puttering around in the house today…and napping. Lots of napping.
My timer interrupts work correctly, but I can’t get the button press interrupts to trigger properly. I’ve decoupled them from the timer’s variables so I can test the interrupt code, all they are supposed to do is toggle an LED – and they can’t, despite the code not having any obvious bugs. I checked the hardware, and it’s doing what I’d expect with the microcontroller out of the loop.