So, it’s Spring, and I want a new tool chest. That necessitates cleaning the garage, including unloading the ammo shelves and moving them, after I’ve moved other stuff, and thrown away even more stuff, which necessitates getting a new battery for the lawn tractor, and new tires for the trailer……..you get it.
Links?
Biden has more egg on his face.
This is straight up ghoulish. And what orphans are for.
A stern letter to follow. Trump is going to ram this down Denmark’s throat.
Erdogan needs to go, but these protests are being ignored by the West.
Okay, that’s it for me. If you don’t here from me next Saturday, I was eaten by something in the garage.
Apropos.
Finnegan should be more careful when she feeds him.
And… I just arrived in NYC where everything costs 237% more.
I guess that’s what six bucks a dozen is.
I haven’t seen a drop in egg prices in the past two months.
They keep the clicks going but it’s actually wholesale prices every time.
Which, beyond all reason, seem to bear no relation to retail prices whatsoever.
Prices – Up like a rocket, down like a feather.
Retail prices, that is.
GT: our magnolia bloomed this week. It really is a pretty tree. Blossoms usually don’t last long with plains spring storms, but we’ll get a few days out of it at least.
Our old one was magnificent, but right beside our driveway. When the petals dropped, we’d have to shovel them to keep from tracking them, thick and sticky, into the house. I sure miss it. 😔
The 4mm machine screws I bought are too big. Apparently I need 3.5 mm screws. Surprise. I also discovered the batteries in both of my digital calipers are stone dead.
I really need to force myself to go out in the shop every day. Eventually, I’ll get tired of standing there feeling depressed and do something.
I gave up. on the digital ones.
Protip; get a dial Starrett, or learn vernier. Digital calipers are only good for people who use them every day, not us.
I had the same issue, but got much better life if you lock the set screw and after that turn them off.
My theory is any vibration turns them on if they aren’t locked.
Where are my stem cell eye drops?
The ones with the nanobots that repair you on the molecular level back to your prime? Mine are laying around here somewhere….
Speaking of protests, I saw 20-30 boomers on one street corner in Eugene today, protesting Musk. Man, that was pathetic.
I saw some of those on the tv yesterday. The Mrs. Joked that the Walz speech was at a nursing home….see those are the residents, those are the staff…
I looked again and thought ‘Holy Shit, she is right’. That is a thing apparently.
Also these on the street Musk protesters have the whiff of Code Pink about them.
Our local Musk protest was led by a failed city council jerkoff.
Egg prices – a week ago the dems were claiming Trump had not brought down the price of eggs so he should be impeached and beheaded blah blah. Now, like they always do, they will pretend they never told an absurd, transparent lie so we should just move on to their next absurd transparent lie. I have moved on alright, moved on from giving them any credibility whatsoever or listening to anything they have to say.
I think Trump is right about Greenland, we could easily make an offer the Greenlanders would enthusiastically accept and Denmark could….well, do whatever they want.
England is lost. Ireland is lost. I dont want them. They shit in their own nest and that is their problem.
I don’t want Canada either.
This. We already have too many pinkos. The good Canadians have mostly all come here already anyway.
Fuck Canada. Greenland is a different story.
Greenland is three times the size of Texas and has had zero extraction for minerals or oil. Then there is the strategic importance. If Trump can make a deal for it I believe it may go down as one of the high points of his second term.
It would be a highpoint in the country’s history and will always be considered so. It may be, like Jefferson’s acquisition of the Louisiana purchase the primary thing he will be remembered for.
That is absolutely a possibility Suth. Hopefully the Greenlanders can be persuaded and not even deal with Denmark at all about it. They are irrelevant.
Sadly I do have to think that Denmark gets a say.
Proceeding otherwise would be unseemly.
Minerals a plenty in Greenland, if you can get to them. Oil I am more skeptical about since the predominant geology is cratonic and Precambrian. There is some Triassic sedimentary along the east coast but nowhere (in open publication) about oil bearing and trapping formations.
It is also important in keeping Russian submarines from reaching into the open Atlantic basin.
As I said above, I haven’t seen a drop in egg prices, let alone a 63% drop.
I was in the grocery store today and a half dozen large store-brand eggs were going for $3.75.
They’ve dropped about a third here in the last couple of weeks.
78 degrees and I decided to turn on the oven. 🙄
“we are going to have to go back to reminding people what the fundamentals of their obligations as citizens [are] and their obligation to monitor public representatives.”
Your obligation as a citizen is to unquestioningly obey the government while having your future mortgaged for every hare brained politically motivated handout we come up with.
Digital calipers are only good for people who use them every day, not us.
There was a time I used them every day. And jumping back and forth between metric and thousandths with the push of a button is a very handy feature.
Man up, and stop using that commie crap.
SAE! SAE!
Whitworth Or GTFO.
(Sadly, I much prefer working with metric fasteners. Not that I don’t have a full set of SAE.)
I have been downsizing my metric tools, as I just don’t use much of it anymore. I don’t do real work on my daily, and no have any sort of project car as it is too hard on my body to work on them anymore. That said, I find SAE or USS to be much more aestheticly pleasing, as I loath top down solutions like metric. Although I still have a Peugeot UO8 bicycle.
I do, however, have a full set of Whitworth, as I owned a BSA motor cycle at one time, and also a couple English bicycles, which used it up through the seventies. 55* thread pitch is so much stronger, too boot!
This whole conversation makes me feel kind of low-T.
Are you sure it’s the conversation?
Orphans are also for doing that stuff you listed in your monologue.
AP: Protestors Swarm Tesla Showrooms
I doubt it.
There are only 57K Greenlanders. Offer each one some percentage of ownership in the minerals of the entire island, undivided and inheritable. The families would all be richer than God until the end of time. Who would say no to that?
Plus they would all instantly become strong private ownership and free market enthusiasts.
For each 1T, if my math is right, at 1% divided by the population each Greenlander would receive $175,438. And sixty cents.
How long before 1T is obtained, then the next…and the next….?
Their average income now is 33K dollars per year.
I would say 10% would be fair. Which would make each citizen’s share $1.75MM. Honestly, I would make it adults as of X date, which would run up the value per share even more, probably in excess of $2MM per $1TT. Now the market value (assuming they are saleable), who knows?
Not in my back yard!
Extraction in Greenland is going to be way expensive. Let the Chinese/Russians go broke trying to haul in enough oil to keep warm and dig holes.
Can I… hold on to… your ammo for you? Just until you finish remodeling your garage. Looks like a big job.
I wouldn’t want to burden you with all that fun.
That’s not egg on Bidens face, it’s ice cream. He’s forgotten how to eat.
“Hey Margaret- it looks like my grandfather eating ice cream”
/Cheech and Chong bit
And the Penguin said to the mechanic, “I did no such thing! This is ice cream”
STEVE SMITH PEG IRONY METER WITH POTATO HOOMAN.
AND BY PEG MEAN…
Groups of furious protesters have pitched up around the grounds with hope of the resort returning to its normal function. Signs have been spotted saying “Make Ireland Great Again”, a nod to Donald Trump’s mission for America, as well as “Stand With Us Together” and “Save Our Hotel”.
Call the IRA out of retirement.
I would bet good money that they are already out there, feeling out the situation.
MIGA, please.
Music is good. Especially since you need a new TOOL box.
+1 🤘
I believe these may be the best value in inexpensive IEMs going.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D5R1KZ9W?th=1
Just bought them after an instrumented review on a site that OMWC and I frequent. Very low distortion, good sensitivity and very close to the Harman Headphone Curve with no EQ.
All for under $20 delivered. They crush my $400 Shure IEMs. Not even close.
And in local news…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/pennsylvania-man-caught-camera-carving-swastika-tesla-makes/
What a fucking retard.
Leave Off the Last D for Dumb
The double D is for a double dose of dumb.
I leave the double D’s to other posters.
Planet Fitness? Off with his head.
There are way better gyms near Doylestown.
What’s it like to have police that prosecute crimes like that?
Such things don’t exist in either my town or NYC. OTH, misgender somebody…
My hometown mayor and police chief will throw a cop under the bus if he gets uppity.
(Sorry for the MSN link)
They failed to respect his authority!
Do they offer sanctuary from NYS’s gun laws?
You dont fuck with another man’s vehicle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO48Vr4KIc8
Ooops…..Brooks’d it. Or it is Gilmored? Or SF’d ?
Meant to go to Sean’s comment.
IMO do unto his what he did to another’s.
He signed his art work?
Another example of NYC lawlessness. It reads like the person with the suspended license is to blame and not the Uber. We shall see.
Mom, her two kids mowed down in gruesome NYC collision by motorist with suspended license
I blame Tesla.
Ugh, awful.
NYT has exactly the story you’d expect about what’s happening to Gen X in creative fields. Besides the pity party this line stuck out in just how true it is:
https://archive.fo/Qirda
The Gen X Career Meltdown
“Gen X-ers grew up as the younger siblings of the baby boomers”
No, they grew up as the children of the Boomers.
I guess I am an old X-er because my (rather) older brothers seem like from another world. I believe the Boomers officially ended at 1965 which fits my bias.
I’m GenX (68) and when I get together with my brothers (74 and 76), I feel like a Boomer.
“I’m GenX (68) ”
SERIOUSLY?! I would have guessed mid-40s.
Age 68, you are a boomer.
My brother, aged 62, is the first GenX.
She was born in ’68. Your brother, like me, is a cusp baby between the generations. I’m 61, but because my family is older, I’ve always identified with the boomer generation.
I’m 61,
that unhallowed spot between the younger siblings of late boomers and the children of early boomers.
You have my sympathies.
No, I’m not 68. I was born in 1968.
I’m 57.
Happily, I slacked my way through my twenties. Then I chose a career with more promise. Still doing it ~25 years later.
I do find it interesting that we are the ones with feet in both the old and the new.
Yeah, no shit.
The idea of finding out tomorrow’s weather via the newspaper, the special weather radio, or making a point to tune into the TV news or radio at a specific time isn’t strange to me or a Boomer.
OTH, my son would look at me like WTF do you mean you couldn’t check the weather at any time?
The wife and I would joke (we are in our fifties also) that commercials were directed to us for about two weeks, and then it was over.
Yeah, I’m nowhere near retirement but on the channels I watch every commercial is for medicare and diapers and dick pills and shit. It’s maddening.
Don’t trivialize dick pills.
Even Babe Ruth hit with a corked bat.
I hesitated with that one, but that’s not a problem *I* have so I figure I never will.
Right?
Wow. The poor guy. He should try generating competitive bids against, you know….competitors. Thats how I get jobs and still have to make a profit.
“Now it’s a knife fight for every job,” he said. “The cruel irony is, the thing I perceived as the sellout move is in free-fall.”
Cause when my life is shit I really want to talk to the guy that’s focused on what happened in the office today, or what deadlines he has tomorrow for his real job.
“He went back to school and earned a master’s degree in clinical psychology. For the past three years, Mr. Kandell has continued at the tech company while practicing as a therapist on nights and weekends to earn his state license.”
This. As one of their peers, even I knew their cool jobs likely didn’t have much job security.
I really need to clean my garage but was taught a very counter-intuitive lesson just 2 months ago. I had a part fail on my 2001 Audi S4. Luckily enough, the part is still available – for $1,100. I had saved some used ones years ago from another project I was doing on the car thinking “…you never know.” Now I’m afraid to throw anything.
My 2000 S4/was a beast and a warranty nightmare. GIAC made a phenomenal chip, but thats a young man’s game.
I have the GIAC chip, AWE downpipes w/o cats along with bigger cartridges in my turbos. And I have the original computer in a box somewhere. I bought the car (it’s a wagon, with a 6 speed man trans) in 2002 as a “certified” car so made the decision early on for 2 computers, one for warranty and one for daily driving. The second computer more than paid for itself. The car just turned 250k and while it’s been paid off for ages, consumes a car payments worth of parts per month.
If I wasn’t a mechanic I couldn’t own this car (or the Jaguar XJ-S my dad gifted me 2 years ago).
Any thoughts on the newer Audi Allroads? On my short list to look at, along with the Volvo V60; just about the only small wagons other than the Outback.
“ The car just turned 250k and while it’s been paid off for ages, consumes a car payments worth of parts per month.”
😳🤯
@slumbrew
No, sorry. I think I’m done with the Audi brand. 6 new and one used, it’s time to move on.
Found my next day trip adventure:
https://www.crocodilechris.com/tours
Some places have shark cage diving. Guess what Florida has.
I also want to do this:
https://floridaairtours.com/aerobatics
On the one hand, I want to be a father. On the other hand, I remember how my rock tumbler project turned out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3zMJ4LCB3E
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Most vibratory tumblers are run for 12 to 24 hours with a medium grit. Then the spent grit and mud are washed from the rocks. This step is repeated until the rocks are nicely smoothed. This usually takes between three and seven days depending upon the type of rock and their starting condition. The rocks are then processed two or three days in fine grit (also called pre-polish), and two or three days with polish. So, vibratory tumbling generally takes between one and two weeks.
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Yeah, my parents and siblings were not going to put up with 336 hours of noise. Even my patience was wearing thin around hour 48.
How’s that for geologic time?
I’m not a father either, but I’m mostly sure you aren’t supposed to put children in a rock tumbler.
Unplugging my rock tumbler? That’s a paddlin’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKiLfH3DVGc
The Baby Boomer Generation – born 1946-1964
it’s hard to fucking type when you’ve been drinking wine all night.
The “boomers” as a social construct are the first half of the boom, and they represent everything the media talks about when they mention the boomers.
As a child of 57, I spent my life following a horde of locusts (the first half of the boom). But it doesn’t change the fact that I am a boomer.
GenX doesn’t start until the middle sixties.
My poor baby brother (born in 63) lives in no man’s land between the boomers and the Xers.
I have bros born in 61, 62, and 63 and I am definitely most sympatico with the 63 one. (I am 69.) The other two are more boomery to me.
Trying to stereotype people by age is just as dumb as astrology.
One of the aspects of personality is that it stays the same through life.
Yeah, people change as they age, but the leopard does not change its spots.
In Poland they say those born round don’t die square.
there are definite generational differences.
I work with engineers from Gen X, Gen Y, and Gen Z.
Their view of the world and their behavior is clearly different.
How much of that depends on the education that they suffered is up for debate.
This question could be answered scientifically by taking random, statistically significant sample sizes of each generation and testing whether there were any differences in IQ or Myers-Briggs personality type proportions.
I have no doubt that people who grew up during the Great Depression are different and see the world differently than those who grew up playing video games. The question is: how much?
Were Stone Age people that much different from Bronze Age people? Probably not as the Stone Age represents about 99% of the existence of the human race.
I think of the Boomers as those who had the shadow of Vietnam falling on them.
The shadow hasn’t gone away.
4score lived it.
I feared it.
It’s a dividing line between us.
Boomers are the cowards who escaped Vietnam and who became the entitled self-important jackasses who mostly run the country. Those who went and fought are the ones are the forgotten underclass that has mostly been sidelined as that generation’s story has been told…and told…and told again.
Counterexample: John McCain, though he was still a jackass. Very brave and very dumb.
All hail America’s best known reverse ace:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-oct-06-na-aviator6-story.html
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The crash was one of three early in McCain’s aviation career in which his flying skills and judgment were faulted or questioned by Navy officials.
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[Kif sigh]
Son of an admiral and a son of a bitch.
Other counterexamples: John Kerry and Al Gore
Also shitbags, yet I still respect them more than chickenhawks like W or Cheney.
Powell and Schwarzkopf seemed decent and so are counterexamples of a different sort.
John Kerry is one of those guys who got into the war business as an elite, privileged little shit because he thought it would further his political career. He came home, realized that wasn’t the way the wind was blowing and decided to sell out his fellow soldiers.
I think I am sober enough to take a shower and go to bed.
Chat with you all tomorrow.
So I wake up in the middle of the night and see a story about a 55 year old man caught on camera vandalizing a stranger’s Tesla in the parking lot of a Planet Fatness. He drives a Lexus. He works in a hotel. His name is Chad. That ‘about’ description is a steaming pile of shit that can be summed up in a single word: zero.
Did he also eat the complimentary doughnuts at the Planet Fatness or did he go home and eat the tootsie rolls out of the catbox?
What can you do to someone like that? There is nothing you can do to that moron that is worse than leaving him to suffer just being Chad. He should go to prison for life just to keep him away from intelligent, sentient beings but he will probably get a judge that has about ten IQ points lower than his own.
Goddammit. I look around at my fellow men and it makes me want to take up drinking again.
THAT is how you Leave Off the Last D for Dumb.
Though to be fair, everyone’s LinkedIn summary is gibberish.
suh’ fam
yo whats goody yo
TALL SABBATH CANS!
/Ive been up since 0400- the melatonin didnt work
I fell asleep early and woke up in the middle of the night, too.
I fell asleep later and woke up (for the last time) earlier than I needed.
Sean is very late.
I was. 🖖
Morning Glibsters!
🧊🫖🗣️💵🚗🛡️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWxJEIz7sSA
🎶🎶
Ha I just watched Donnie Darko again the other day.
Wonderful placement of that tune there.
😄👍
Good morning, Sean, rhy, Sensei, 4(20), Ted’S., Teh Hype, and homey!
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/road-design-montgomery-township-grays-lane/
More local news.
🏳️🌈
OFFS.
Maybe they shouldn’t have designed it in the first place to make speeding more likely.
JFC.
Woke up to a an inch or two of the white stuff. Blizzard O’ the Winter for Tuesday-Wednesday, 8 ” forecast, subject to change.
Cocaine Bear fell from the sky?