With the world turning itself into a pride flag draped version of the Book of Revelation, why not look at something fun?
This is my review of Prairie Artisan Ales Watermelon Girlfriend:
As you are likely aware, NASA recently began backpedaling after a small blunder resulting in two astronauts stuck on the ISS. The Boeing-made capsule apparently is built to a build quality on par with a 1995 Kia Sephia. I should apologize to Kia for that, maybe later.* While astronauts being “stuck” in space might not draw a lot of complaints from the astronauts themselves (boo hoo, more time in space) it certainly is a bad look.
Unfortunately, it would take a while even for SpaceX to get a lift up there so for now we have to live with the irony that in the event of an emergency the only option is the onboard Soyuz. Boeing can’t even compete with a 1950’s Soviet design let alone Kia.
That might suck for now, but pretty soon the race for a private space station will be underway:
The group’s Starlab Space LLC is a global joint venture between Voyager Space, Airbus, Mitsubishi Corporation, and MDA Space. It’s a “no assembly required” venture to be hurled into orbit via a SpaceX Starship.
Manber told Space.com that the motivating factor for Starlab is the end of the International Space Station (ISS), due to be de-orbited in 2030.
“The ISS has already been in orbit for over two decades, well past its expected life-time,” Manber said. “As wonderful an orbiting station as it has been, it is well past its prime and like an old house, in increasing need of repairs.”
That dawn of private station stations has been bolstered by NASA and the U.S. Congress, said Manber, creating a pathway to assure a robust and cost-efficient space program in low-Earth orbit.
Plus, financial analysts credit the “space sector’s” growth to be part of the reason it seems to be moving independently from the overall market. Granted, most of that is growth from government customers, but the private sector will certainly get in on it. If nothing else to build a set of gas stations between here and Mars or even someone like Sloopy collecting space junk to flip at his orbiting auction house. The future doesn’t have to suck.
Prairie Artisan Ales certainly are made to a higher standard than the 1995 Kia Sephia.** The trouble is, sometimes their creativity can be a little intimidating or at least off-putting. Watermelon Girlfriend? Is this some kind of communist agitprop? Maybe. So the reason I like this, is not because it tastes like beer. No, it tastes like a Jolly Rancher. Not one of the weird ones they make now that are chewy and get stuck in your teeth, the actual hard candy that gets stuck in your teeth. Its exactly like that, except nothing is stuck in your teeth. Prairie Artisan Ales Watermelon Girlfriend: 3.8/5
*Not sorry.
**Still not sorry
JOLLY RANCHER is the hard candy you suck for long lasting, bold fruit flavor…
They make gummies now.
The Boeing-made capsule apparently is built to a build quality on par with a 1995 Kia Sephia.
More like a Subaru 360, maybe
That’s being mean to Fuji Heavy.
I would drive a 360 before a few… other… Japanese cars.
White girl promised, white girl delivered. ***
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*** Not sorry either.
The future doesn’t have to suck.
Here’s hoping.
I like Jolly Rancher sour apple, but not in my beer.
Best Jolly Rancher flavor, followed by Watermelon.
Cinnamon.
My Sephia still runs great,
My Sedona runs very well even with 190k on it.
Blow me MS
The beer is pretty good, I found it in OKC last may
I own no Kia that Runs.
‘runs with KIA’ would be a great name for a native car salesman
Ha! I knew that was coming.
My Sephia still runs great,
So did my uncle’s, until it didn’t. Then my cousin and I pushed it the rest of the way back to his house.
Just the name of the beer makes me shudder. MS takes one for the team.
I was thinking the same thing until the rating. Looks like MS had a decent week.
🙁
Why do so many little things break all at the same time?
It would be charitable to say – well this is because of his cancer. Except that he has always been this stupid. Raskin calls Maduro “right-wing”.
Not stupid. Lying. He easily makes the top ten liars in a swamp full of liars.
He may be the unusual case of both. He strikes me as truly stupid. But he is also a ridiculous partisan who may know better.
I’d let her jolly my rancher.
Yeah, something candy something something hard. . . .
Why are they still alive?
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has dramatically revoked a proposed plea deal for the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.
Austin said Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two accomplices were no longer eligible for life sentences in prison without the prospect of the death penalty in return for a guilty plea.
They were offered the deal just two days ago, on Wednesday, triggering widespread outrage.
Yeah, that decision ain’t gonna fly.
Holy fuck what a pain in the ass. two computers and four browsers later, My AmEx bill is paid (I hope).
The bill pay feature on my bank acct suddenly decided to freak out about my antediluvian linux computer’s browser. Undoubtedly a “security” issue. Fine. I set up the windows desktop which hasn’t been turned on since 2001, with my medium sized teevee as monitor. The screen’s so big I can’t find the cursor. Up and running, I try Brave; not supported. I try Chrome; also not supported, for some unknown reason. I end up with a fresh download of Firefox; it works.
You know what? I do not feel the least bit more “secure” than I did before.
Speaking of Thing Computer, is any body using the duck duck go browser? I looked recently but I didn’t see a linux version.
Most of the security is back end things that you wouldn’t notice, but are large improvements. Such as knowing that the login screen in a frame on that webpage is actually only going to your bank, instead of a dozen people between you and your bank. That’s not going into remote code installation and escalation.
That does make me feel better.
I use DDG on the desktop. It seems OK, but I know squatso about browsers and security/privacy other than Google Bad, Edge Bad, Firefox less bad.
Somebody summon Pat!
Brave browser FTW
I use DDG as well. Don’t know enough to know if it’s good or bad but works for me. I’m satisfied. Please don’t have anyone help me, I’d never figure out what was going on anyway.
Why not update your Linux disto?
Mmmm, Jolly Rancher. I’d risk losing a filling for that.
If you suck em, you won’t lose a filing. You know who else liked to suck?
Dyson ?
The NY Jets?
People elected to political offices?
I went to the supermarket today to pick up one or two things, so this isn’t a gripe about inflation.
In the section of the parking lot where I normally park, there were four shopping carts left, three of them blocking multiple parking spaces.
And don’t get me started on people abusing the express self checkout to ring up a week’s worth of stuff with a bunch of fruit and veg to weigh.
Leaving a cart in a parking spot should be harshly punished.
By crucifixion in a parking spot. Who crucifies the crucifiers?
I should add that this section of the lot doesn’t have a corral, but at least everybody could have put their carts in the same parking spot, especially if they could have put it in one of the spots against the side wall of the supermarket.
I like the way you think GL.
If there are one or fewer cashiers, and 12 self checks I assume they want me to use the self check.
Four self-checks; I think there were more than four cashiers.
They’re keeping people employed. Cheerfully withdrawn.
And if there were 12 self-checks there wouldn’t be much of a line.
We went into town to shop as well: Feed store for 16% Chicken Mash, haircutting place (she chewed her gum loudly in my ear), picked up Cobalt Blue Fiesta ware from FaceDerp Marketplace, Aldi, SuperOne Grocery, Targay, and
BestWorst Buy.I needed to go to Me Nards! (upper mid-west hardware/lumber store) but I was SICK OF PEOPLE. People who block the aisles with their cart. People who drive slowly. People who don’t use their turn signals. People who inspect all the poblano peppers thoroughly before picking one. The toddler screaming bloody murder in the condiments aisle.
While unloading the groceries, I ran into a black bear only 25 feet away from me. I was halfway from the car to the front door of my house. I considered dropping the groceries and running back to the car. Lucky for me, she turned to look at me and ran off into the woods.
I’ll take the black bear over fetid humanity any day
Maybe the bear was sick of people, too.
What’s the other 84% of the Mash made of?
How would you like your hair cut?
In silence!
I gotta figure out how to cut my own hair.
The 16% refers to the percentage of protein. The other 84% would be non-protein ingredients (mostly carbs).
I have lost one of my client’s folders. I am now going to have to do a deep dive into the hard drive. *sigh*
I have the issue where an errant mouse click shoves a folder into an adjacent folder. I usually start checking there first.
Found it in a different folder, all right, but nowhere near an adjacent one.
That darn Trump
Many of them are uncomfortable over the direction Trump is taking the race and fear it could get a lot uglier before Election Day.
“They’re uncomfortable but they don’t want to say anything,” one Republican senator said of GOP colleagues who are hoping that Trump will stop talking about Harris’s race.
He should say, “Kamala Harris is black? I had no idea. Nobody mentioned it.”
This seemed worth sharing.
Sounds familiar.
Yup. One of the motivations to share the link.
A lot of the pathologies we see in the US seem to be shared across “The West”.
Fear. They have looted and enslaved their own population to the point where there is unrest. So, they want to replace that population with one more amenable to being looted and enslaved. This has caused even more unrest. The ruling thugs are now thinking they may have pushed things to the point where the people are going to kill them. They are probably right, or at least I hope so.
Finally back online. We had a monsoon storm come over yesterday evening, and lightning either hit the house (I swear it sounded like metal scraping or pinging) or nearby. I couldn’t see any damage to the house, so 🤷. Not even a flicker for power, but the internet died. We have cable internet, and it looks like it fried the router and the Apple TV box daisychained to the modem with Ethernet cables, but everything else is fine.
Except the modem, which has an orange light for the Ethernet connection it didn’t use to have, and our speed is down from 400+ Mbps to 80 – 95 Mbps. I replaced the router today, and it’s working fine. I’ll get a new cable modem tomorrow. The new Apple TV box comes next week. All told, this lightning strike cost us nearly $500. Which on the one hand kinda pisses me off, but on the other hand, we kinda got off easy.
Were they on surge protectors?
Yup. The same surge protector as the big TV and the AV receiver, both of which are fine. The common denominator is the direct connection to the cable. Everything on that daisy chain is borked, nothing else is. And the power never blipped, so 🤷.
ISTR some surge protectors have a cable connection.
Never used one, maybe I should.
Orange (amber) link light, depending on the vendor, indicates it’s at 100M instead of 1G. Which would explain why you’re seeing only 80-95M.
Maybe so. Can’t get anything helpful from NetGear on that online. Doesn’t really matter, though – the modem ain’t doing what it did, so it’s getting replaced. I figure it’s a matter of time before it dies completely.
Personally, I don’t know that 80 – 95 Mpbs isn’t plenty for us, but Mrs. Dean thinks it gives her problems on Zoom, so . . . . And anyway, like I said, it’s a matter of time . . . .
Sounds like lightning if it took down sensitive electronics.
Thanks to Tubi and my ad-blocker, Ive been binging on 1977 commercial-free episodes of Match Game. They really couldn’t run that today.
Gene Rayburn- “Fat Frieda went to cannibal country. The cannibal chef took one look at her and said _______ .”
Bon appetit!
That show was a ton of fun. You’re right. It couldn’t be made today.
I moght drink that. I used to love Jolly Ranchers.
What’s up, bitches?
Limeade and tonic.
Is this your Tik Tok office chant?
🎶Limeade and tonic 🎶
🎶Limeade and tonic 🎶
🎶Limeade and tonic 🎶
🎶Limeade and tonic 🎶
I know interest in the Olympics is not great around here. I’ve just been watching some highlights on youtube (mostly Australian swimming). But that led me to the video of the 4x400m mixed relay (which I didn’t even know was a thing; race order is MFMF). The US took silver, but IMHO, it’s worth watching the last leg. The Dutch anchor tracked down the race leader from more than ten yards back with less than 150 to go:
https://youtu.be/OFnhTDr0qQQ?si=ybWu8AzGYdisvq7k&t=143
OT… I was cheered this morning to catch the last five minutes of Sydney losing by more than 100 points to PA.
Sadly I think that is the only match I will get to see in August.
You would have been even more cheered by the C’wood/Carlton game. The last month have seen CFC collapse from a Top 2 to struggling to make the finals.
I saw that scheduled on another channel that I don’t get anymore.
I’ve heard of a Dutch rudder, but what’s a Dutch anchor?
I’ve been watching and enjoying a fair amount of the games, and I was especially amused at the friendly (I think) rivalry between US and Aussie swimmers – especially the Aussie woman swimmer complaining about how obnoxious US swimmers can be before a race with their cowbells and “USA! USA!” chants. Based on her description, I can certainly see why she finds it annoying. 😄
I was on until 2am last night, and there were still at least 4 other folks when I left. Can we make it 3am?
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
Skyward Sword is winning a strange award – It is the first game where making progress is causing me to rage quit.
There is no fucking reason for Fi to interrupt me evey five steps to tell em I’m on the right track. Makes me want to throw the sword away and use the practice sword just to stop the interruptions.
The Southport killer was just expressing his protected cultural practice of using edged weapons on people. Have they no respected for his lived traditions?
Potluck after church tomorrow. I’m going to bring my spicy tuna dip. I’m a little hesitant because tuna, but damn, that shit’s good.
Whats the spicy from?
white onion, paprika, chili powder, cayenne pepper, black pepper
Ah, so not Sean Spicy.
The best thing to take to a potluck is something others may not find appealing but which you adore. More to bring home for yourself. 😁😋
Got one computer problem fixed. Now I have to head over to my website and start tinkering with SQL, which I REALLY do not want to do.
Oof, my bread and butter.
It’s a phpBB. I exported the database into a CSV just fine and I can read the entries, but I can’t find the post dates ANYWHERE. I’m making it give me a PDF format, but that’s taking forever.