I had almost three months of her with a clean coat.
Like the title said, it’s not going to be as bad as last week, because Saturn isn’t a part of it. MERCURY RETROGRADE and Venus retrograde are still crapping things up though. The 3rd will be an odd day with the moon actually stabilizing things a bit. That’s extremely unusual, and where astrology is concerned, unusual is usually unusually bad. So be safe out there this week, and try not to aggravate your loved ones.
Lots of Majors this week.
Aries: Queen of Coins – Opulence, generosity, magnificence, security, liberty.
Taurus: The Hermit Reversed – Concealment, disguise, policy, fear, unreasoned caution.
Gemini: The Hierophant – Marriage, alliance, captivity, servitude, mercy and goodness; inspiration.
Cancer: King of Swords – Judgment, power, command, authority law.
Leo: The Moon Reversed – Instability, inconstancy, silence, lesser degrees of deception and error.
Virgo: 10 of Swords – Pain, affliction, tears, sadness, desolation.
Libra: The Lovers reversed – Failure, foolish designs.
Scorpio: 4 of Coins reversed – Suspense, delay, opposition.
Sagittarius: Page of Coins – Application, study, scholarship, management.
Capricorn: 3 of Wands reversed – The end of troubles; suspension or cessation of adversity, toil and disappointment.
Aquarius: King of Cups – Fair man, man of business, law, divinity, art or science.
Pisces: The Empress reversed – Light, truth, the unravelling of involved matters, public rejoicings, vacillation.
Opulence, generosity, magnificence, security, liberty.
The end of troubles; suspension or cessation of adversity, toil and disappointment.
Yeah, definitely not as bad as last week.
“Suspense, delay, opposition.”
I didnt need the stars to tell me that.
Speaking of stars, I dozed off earlier and did not follow up on my Chamberlain claim.
Mid-teenage years I had my hundredth “What? Him too? Who is left….oh shit, none of them.” on finding out male actor X is gay. I accepted they are all gay to a man, shrugged my shoulders and went on with my life. Finding out a male actor is gay is as surprising as finding out that dolphins swim.
By and large, wanting to be an actor is gay. Wanting to be a politician (I mean, “public servant”) is, by and large, for straights.
You misspelled ‘sociopath’. I dont think pols care about man, woman or child. Their standard is ‘do I get something out of it’.
There is some kind of Chuck Norris joke in there, I just know it.
“unreasoned caution”
Is this to say I need to leap off the edge of the cliff yelling “Geronimo?!”
Aquarius: King of Cups – Fair man, man of business, law, divinity, art or science.
Appropriate, for a DOKTOR of Brain Science!
Sagittarius: Page of Coins – Application, study, scholarship, management.
That sounds like work.
It’s nice to see Lilly is safe.
When I was a kid in Italy (military dependent) there was a calico kitten that decided to climb to the top of a very tall Lombardy poplar in the middle of a major windstorm (a thousand feet high in my memory, but probably more like 50-60′). It mewled and mewled in terror as everybody watched helplessly down below. It finally got blown out of the tree but landed safely in a neighboring bush. The Italian granny who was its owner grabbed it by the scruff of its neck and tossed it onto the ground.
It promptly began to climb another tree.
I remember the cat because we ended up adopting it and keeping it for two years until Dad got transferred.
Sounds like it was running away from the mean old lady.
Wife watching ‘Heartland’ now. Super silly hallmarky story and characters but the photography is fan-fuckin-tastic in the first season. Most of it is standard good but this guy is great. The difference between the kid’s portrait that comes with the frame and Sally Mann.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0152954/
My wife found that on the Roku channel. I call it “the Horse Soap Opera”. 17 seasons and counting.
A guy goes to the doctor to complain that he doesnt feel well (this joke may have been told ’round here before). Doc runs some tests and then informs the guy….
“I have some bad news Fred. You only have two weeks to live. There is nothing we can do.”
Alarmed Fred asks the doc “Really? Nothing at all? Surely there is something. Cant we do something to give me more time?”
Doc tugs his chin for a moment and then says “Well, I am hesitant to suggest this but it is at least something. Go out and find a horse girl and marry her.”
Puzzled, Fred asks “How would that help?”
Doc says “You would still only have two weeks but it will seem like an eternity.”
“ Cancer: King of Swords – Judgment, power, command, authority law.”
And I’m gonna be sure to film it…
All the modern conveniences
In our notification-heavy world, there is still one activity where you might just miss that buzz on your phone or ping on your smartwatch – while you’re vacuuming. Thankfully, Samsung has a solution.
Its newest cordless stick vac, the new Bespoke AI Jet Ultra ($1,099), now has an LCD display control panel that, along with standard features such as power level and battery life, can notify you when you have an incoming phone call or text message. The vacuum, which works with an auto-empty charging station, also features 400AW suction and 100-minute battery life.
Even better, if you’re doing the wash and left your phone in the other room, Samsung’s added touchscreens to its washers and dryers, including the new Bespoke AI Laundry Vented Combo washer / dryer ($3,099). This lets you answer a call directly on the built-in 7-inch LCD screen. The Combo can also (perhaps more usefully) put detergent in for you automatically and then, when the cycle is done, open its door.
I got nothin’.
AI Home is a new terminology Samsung uses to refer to the 7- or 9-inch LCD screens on its products and the screens built into its flagship Family Hub smart fridge. The fridge now has the option of a slimmed-down screen that — like the other AI Home screens — includes music, weather, and cooking apps, and smart home controls.
Of course, you can still get the fridge with a giant 21.5-inch or 32-inch screen that can run even more apps, including Samsung TV and TikTok. These screens all also work as controls for the appliance and integrate with other Samsung appliances and services, sometimes using AI.
No more missing that game winning touchdown while you’re grabbing another beer.
They still can’t develop an AI that can First more frequently or vigorously than The Bro.
That said, they are calling shit “AI” that is not even remotely AI. It’s just to jump onto the fad.
Aries is fairly promising this week. Doesn’t jive with my plans of filing my taxes (I owe this year) but maybe something good happens later.
I did my taxes last week, since I owed too. I had a $2 credit for foreign tax paid (from some of the mutual funds I have that have foreign investments), and the tax software I used last year wanted me to move up to the next level of their software to claim that credit, at a $40 charge. Worse, that software was no longer on New York’s list of free services for state providers.
Thankfully this isn’t the Friday Stoic Post, so I can complain about what a racket the tax software/filing system is.
I’ve got a tax guy.
The cost of regulatory compliance is a bad tax being indirect and amorphous in that you can’t really know how much it’s going to cost to comply.
But worst of all are taxes on time. In theory you can make more marginal dollars. You can’t make more marginal time.
I didn’t know there was such a thing.
I’ve been paying around $15 each for two states for many years. 😠
I thought I had planned that we’d be close, but I did poorly, we got a considerable sum back.
inorite??
If you’re ready to move on from casual racism, here is competitive racism!
Actually a pretty fun way to learn about phenotypes all over the world.
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I guess the link helps.
https://hbd.gg/
That could be mildly amusing to play but my browser wont load the map.
I am not sure what the point of that is. Yeah, ok, there are phenotypes dominant in any given region and the same for genotypes. Extending that to culture or individual character is nonsense.
I think the people who conflate race and culture are akin to the simplistic, childish notions of white hat, black hat or handsome and ugly as some kind of metric of character. In more scientific terms racism is stupid.
The site isn’t racist at all. For each phenotype given, once you’ve placed your guess and the answer is revealed, it gives a short summary of the ethnic group, sometimes along with some information on migration.
The racism joke is because, since the game is trending on X, while most people are saying “wow, this is cool. I didn’t know that!” there are of course others crying RaYciSS!
The map failed is a bug and they acknowledge it. Interesting little game. I nalied the Mayan but others i was adjacent or way off
Doesn’t load at all for me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The media has been playing for a while. Every time they spotted a Russian soldier from Siberia, it was proof that North Koreans were in the Ukraine.
XY informs Husband that Microsoft 11 has a future build coming where you can’t install locally to bypass installing with a Microsoft account (presumably to force you to not only tie your computer to their servers, but also to force you to use Office 365) (but at some point, they’ll stop supporting Office and no more upgrades will be forthcoming) (joke’s on them though; I never upgrade anything).
Anyway, so I told him that by the time that happens, SOMEONE will have coded a workaround, and as I was saying that, he was texting XY that by the time that happens, SOMEONE will have coded a workaround.
Sometimes it’s scary how attached at the brainstem Husband and I are.
There have been two workarounds to the Microsfot account installation restriction that they have deliberately patched out as people have found them
Yes, and somebody else will figure out how to get around THAT.
And they’ll keep patching them out. One would hope that Linux would finally show up somewhere, but it seems like Steam is the only ones really pushing anything in that direction (which is another reason I like Valve).
Running Linux is a good workaround.
Meh. I don’t give a shit anymore. If it becomes something more nefarious than attempting to push ads at me, I’ll get concerned.
If you don’t want your data mined, also stay away from Google, Amazon, your bank, your supermarket, etc. ad infinitum.
Actually the only way is to just not use modern technology.
It’s not data mining I’m concerned about. That ship has sailed.
It’s the (probably) forced yearly subscription for Office and not having control over my own computer.
I can’t do my job on Linux or with other word processors. I can’t even use Apple for medical transcription. Or I would’ve been on a Linux box decades ago.
Virgo: 10 of Swords – Pain, affliction, tears, sadness, desolation.
Really? 2 weeks of this shit is enough.
Pain? I pulled a calf muscle last night, much pain.
Tall Cans anyway
I’m about to do my painful weekly 3-hour commute.
HEY YUFUS!
I have just been introduced to the poster child for purging academia of evil: Gad Saad. Never heard of the guy before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2gZ0G6vhp4
See him on the twitter from time to time.
He is something. He is saying everyone gets a free unicorn and gets laid any time they want with anyone they want but what he is really selling are chains.
Unfucking believable. I used to hear exactly that kind of shit from mental patients. Looking at his academic credentials and research he has spent his life in search of the new soviet man.
At first I thought it was a parody.
I only watched the first few minutes but it appears he’s criticizing some woman who wrote the dreck about not owning shit or having any privacy, not advocating for it.
Suthen – I can’t tell, but it seems you have sort of misinterpreted Gad Saad’s positions. The video he linked is him reading from some WEF tarts 14-year old girl fantasies. He is subtly making fun of it. He is about as far from ‘everyone gets a free unicorn and gets laid any time’ kind of guy you will find. He does very dry sarcastic ‘humor’ sometimes, so if you drop in a short out-take, perhaps it’s confusing. But he is most assuredly NOT what you seem to thinking of him!
He’s (Saad) been on Rogan a couple of times. You can get a longer introduction to him in the linked interview if so inclined. An arrogant ass with a slight stench of the smarmy condescension of the academy? Yes. Anything close to a wokester/WEFer? No.
You failed Poe’s law. Gad Saad is the biggest opponent of the crap you oppose in Academia
Taurus: The Hermit Reversed – Concealment, disguise, policy, fear, unreasoned caution.
So the reversal of myself, indeed a hermit, is to remain the same? (Except for the caution part. I need more caution, and my lack of it is unreasonable.)
For some reason I am seeing you pop out of a bucket of strawberries.
He’s wondering who took a second helping of strawberries?
Uh.. why? Why me and strawberries, or a bucket, and popping out(!) combined?
Do I… lurk near your Walmart? I’m just your friendly neighborhood grocer… *squint hidden in shadow*
From the Gad Saad video, in the background:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku
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Tsundoku (積ん読) is the phenomenon of acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one’s home without reading them.[1][2][3][4] The term is also used to refer to unread books on a bookshelf meant for reading later.
The term originated in the Meiji era (1868–1912) as Japanese slang.[4] It combines elements of the terms tsunde-oku (積んでおく, “to pile things up ready for later and leave”), and dokusho (読書, “reading books”).
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My collection is compact. I downsized from 2 yards to 1 when I moved. No one is truly educated unless they’ve read at least a yard of books.
Never had a desire for an anti-library.
Sheee-it, I have hundreds of books here that I haven’t read. I never know what I want to read next, so I make sure to have many things available.
I have a wall of carefully curated print books, but I also have about a terabyte’s worth of ebooks.
#metoo
Besides the two books I’m currently reading I have no other unread books in my home, well I never finished the Bible and I haven’t read the entire dictionary but you get the idea.
The girlfriend and I just both got a (signed) copy of Michael Symon’s new book. We went to a talk he did today. Some fun was had, stories were told, but flipping through the book it’s just a bunch of recipes, which is the last thing I want in a book about cooking.
Damn we were thinking of going to that Neph!
OBE:
The one up here? It sold out a 450 seat auditorium at the library. He had another local chef (Rocco Whalen) do the first longer section of Q&A, and had the writer for his cookbooks (8 out of 9 of them) do the second shorter section. The writer also works for the local rags, so there was quite a bit of focus on the local scene, changes, and culture.
There was a nice bit where Michael went on about marketing being just as important as the menu at times. Specifically around his beef cheek pierogi. He mentioned that when he initially put it on his menu back in the 90’s, they sold one dish in the first couple of weeks. He changed the name to pot roast pierogi, and the sold like mad. After a couple months, he changed the name back, and the staff had to keep explaining to people that the beef cheek perogi were the same thing as the pot roast pierogi.
I wonder if there are additional terms for video and audio media that pile up.
On Gad Saad…..Yes, at first I thought he was criticizing but lost patience half-way through waiting for him to be clear so I skipped to the end to catch his conclusion. I musta missed the reveal and only caught more tongue in cheek.
Ok, I will take y’all’s word and allow him to have an opinion. The trouble these days is that it is hard to tell because there are so many people advocating that in earnest. Academia is rotten to the core with them.
He reminded me of a school board president from my youth who was a full blown commie rat bastard. Saad strongly resembles him both in appearance and mannerism. *groan* I just looked him up. They named the school board headquarters after him.
“Leo: The Moon Reversed – Instability, inconstancy, silence, lesser degrees of deception and error.”
Dude, I’ve retired. I’m not a practicing lawyer any more.
Rhy, I hope you’re watching the Sabers game.