September 14, 2025

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I have again shamed my ancestors. Last week I wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was published in 1846. WRONG! Fortunately, sharp-eyed commenter James Braden caught and corrected my error near the end of the comments.
I don't know if this correction was already made in the nearly 400 previous comments, but Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain published "Tom Sawyer" in 1876, not 1846. Clemens was only eleven years old in 1846. Posted by: James Braden at September 07, 2025 01:42 PM (dKpV9)Thanks James Braden! Before posting I recall thinking that 1846 seemed sort of early for publication, but didn't bother to follow up. Appreciate it! Anyhoo, feel free to discuss reading and books in general and share your thoughts on this week's selection if you're so inclined. I know you're just as excited as I am, so just jump below the fold to get started!
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- China's Great Firewall turns out not to be watertight: It sprang a leak involving 500GB of code and documentation relating to the firewall itself. (Tom's Hardware)
That's a lot of data to sift through but it spells years of trouble for the maintainers of the firewall, whether in China itself of in it client states Myanmar, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, and Ethiopia, all of which run versions of the same totalitarian control software.
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September 13, 2025

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1) I only saw three movies in the last three weeks
2) They were all French: The classic war-orphan story from 1952, "Forbidden Games"; The "last of the French New Wave" 1981 film "Diva", and; from 1991, "The Lovers on the Bridge"
3) You guys aren't really into French films
4) Nobody's gonna talk movies, are they?
Rhinoceros
Imagine, if you will, Night of the Living Dead but with rhinoceroses. That would be a pretty good summary of Eugene Ionesco's play Rhinoceros, if you added in that the play is meant, at some level, to be a comedy. It was a movie I had always wanted to see, despite not knowing of its existence until a week ago. (I did know of the play, though.)
I stole this from a site called "Not Coming To A Theater Near You."
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Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. A spin of the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies (TM) landed on surfing and waves.
I have faith that you can either find something in the content that resonates or contribute your own hobbying interests. You might be tempted to say "I have no hobbies or interests." Bah. Dig around in the content and soak in the comments. Be curious. Glad you're here.Posted by: Open Blogger at 05:30 PM | Comments (174) | Trackbacks (Suck)

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Hi KT, Very nice landscaping at the NY Mets baseball academy/complex in Boca Chica, Dominican Republic. They really do very nice work and take pride in manicuring the facility. Thanks again for all the posts you do! -scampydogThanks, scampydog! You described that landscaping perfectly!
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The far-right activist, who was fatally shot this week in Utah, galvanized young conservatives through online antics and inflammatory viewsOf course, none of his ideological opponents' views were inflammatory. Nor their debating techniques. Fortunately, some on the left have been coming around.
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[Yes Tommy, pray for Mis. Hum.]
Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. What a trying week it has been. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to take care of. (Rulz for those of you in Whitefish Bay) 1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate within the AoSHQ guidelines.
2) Be kind, be nice.
3) No running with sharp objects.
4) Have a great weekend.
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- Intel has announced two new desktop CPUs. Do not buy them. (Tom's Hardware)
The first is the i5 120, a six core part that has the exact same specs as the Core i5 12400 from 2022, mostly because that's what it is. Admittedly not an awful part, particularly if you didn't run a workload that would make good use of the "efficiency" cores, because it didn't have any of those.
The second is the i5 110, a six core part that has the exact same specs as the Core i5 10400 from 2020, mostly because... Yeah. The 10th generation chips didn't even have "efficiency" cores yet, so you're safe there. But you will need to find a five year old motherboard and DDR4 RAM for it, because none of this modern stuff will work.
Oh, and it's 14nm.
- Arm has introduced four new CPUs. (Notebook Check)
The C1 Ultra replaces the X925 (which replaced the X4) as Arm's new flagship mobile core.
The C1 Premium replaces the A725 (latest in the same line as the A78, for example) as a sub-flagship core.
The C1 Pro also replaces the A725 which is a bit confusing, but is optimised for smaller size and lower power.
And the C1 Nano replaces the A520 (latest in the same line as the good old A53) as a core that also exists and powers your budget tablet probably.
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September 12, 2025
Howdy to all my gray box friends. Boy, it's been quite a week, huh? It seems that we are living in interesting times.
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The Taiwanese Blue Magpie
Lovely plumage

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"You have no idea of the fire you have ignited in this wife. The cries of this widow will echo around this world like a battle cry."
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Some words from ExpressWriters.com:
Bumfuzzle. To confuse. Probably derived from the Old English dumfoozle, which is even better. Cattywampus. I know this word as catty-corner, others say kitty-corner, and others, catawampus. Gardyloo. Apparently this was the warning people in Edinburough would shout to passers-by in the street when they were about to dump their latrines (piss-pots, I guess) on to their heads. A toilet in a castle was called a garderobe. It was just a closet of a room (a robe, I guess, like a wardobe) with a seat and a hole. The hole went down to a cesspit or else right down outside the wall, perhaps to fill the moat with brown trout. So I think "gardeloo" must be something like "Look out, I'm using the garderobe." Taradiddle. Nonsense, either twaddle or just a lie. Snickersnee. A long cut-and-thrust knife of the 1700s. Widdershins. Counter-clockwise. Lollygag. To waste time, to lie around lazily. Flibbertigibbet. Someone who can't stop talking, or who is flighty. I know this one from Erg's favorite movie, Joe vs. The Volcano. Some words from Mental Floss:
Quakebuttock: A coward. Usage: David French is a quakebuttock, though if that is from cowardice or sexual anticipation, I cannot say for certain. Humdudgeon: an imaginary illness or pain; a loud complaint about nothing. This is interesting to me because I've been watching British detective shows and keep hearing the word "humbug," but used in the sense of "a kind of hard candy" rather than "nonsense." Maybe the original word used to say "nonsense" was "humdudgeon," but then people started using the shorter "humbug." Cuggermugger: whispered gossiping. Is that related to "hugger-mugger," meaning jumbled confusion or secrecy? It must. Another few from Mental Floss: Bumfodder: toilet paper. Well that makes sense. Betweenity. Indecision, being of two minds. Clinchpoop. Someone lacking the social graces and gentlemanly bearing that we all share.
Scarebabe. Something that scares a baby. Not sure why you need a word for that. Everything scares a baby, except a boob.
Ventoseness.Windy, as in full of empty talk, or full of flatulence.
Yex. An archaic word for a hiccup or burb. More from RD.com: Pronk. A weak or foolish person Fubsy. Squat or portly. Usage: Jonah Goldberg is a fubsy fellow, and also likes kahhk. Firkin: I just recently found out that "barrel" is a specific size/shape of cask -- a middle sort of size -- and that different casks have different names. "Firkin" is the smallest of these.

A few very old words this I picked up from this very, very old dictionary. Cheaping. A market. I think I sort of knew that: "Cheap Street" in old towns means "Market Street." Not "Low Quality Goods Street." Update: I realized recently that all of the towns in Agatha Christie books named "Chipping something," like "Chipping Cleghorn," mean "the market at Cleghorn."
Clutch. Apparently this means "claw." Aha! So "in his fiendish clutches" means "in his fiendish claws." Compass. "To compass" as a verb means to "search for something." Copener. A lover. Like a copulator. Couth. Known. The past participle of the Old English cunnan, to know, which survives in the word ken. Beyond my ken = beyond my knowledge. I guess "uncouth" might mean uneducated? Or it can just mean "unknown" as in "a stranger," or "a foreigner," maybe. Dayrim. Dawn, break of day. Frippet. This is a good one: a pretty, frivolous young woman. Almost like flibbertigibbet. Sozzled. Drunk. Swive. To copulate. H/T commenter: bafflegab, meaning gobblygook. Actually I know who said that, it was weft-cut loop. (Most of this post was written almost a year ago. I don't know when weft-cut loop said that. He probably doesn't even remember.) I just came across this word, searching for a synonym for "ramble:" pootle: to move somewhere slowly and with no real purpose. Banana Dream added this one today:
unbosom intransitive verb
1. To confide (one's thoughts or feelings).
2. To relieve (oneself) of troublesome thoughts or feelings.
3. To reveal one's thoughts or feelings.
4. to make known, disclose (as information previously kept secret)
| ...unbosomed his fear of dying only to his closest friends.. I'm going to use this in an engineering report somewhere. Just watch me. I'll sneak it in somehow.
I shelled out $15 (American) for a book called The Indispensable Dictionary of Unusual Words and I'm not eating that kind of outlay as a pure loss so here are some from the M's:
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Some nice posts about normie liberals waking up to the absolute cesspool of murder ideation and mental illness of their fellow lefties, and declaring they're walking away.
Also, some various less-political normies who now feel the courage to say enough is enough. 1. 2. (Though she doesn't say she's a Democrat and might not be. But she's a nurse calling out the Murder Nurses who are praising the murder.) 3. A Christian who's always been afraid to speak up, speaks up. 4. As Kyle Becker remarks someone in management had "The Talk" with Katy Tur and told this braindead Tit Model that she was not allowed to advocate for murder on TV. I guess it's a rule this Keith-Olbermann Dick-Riding Whore wasn't aware of. 5. "I can't be a liberal no more." 6. The liberal who asked the last question of Charlie Kirk, about transgenders, was trying to prove that the left wasn't violent. Now he confesses that he sees that they are. 7. A guy who is almost certainly a member of the Rainbow Coalition says he's quitting the left. 8. Another gay man says "I'm out." 9. 10. Left-leaning woman with rainbow-colored hair and a nosering says "I'm done." 11. "I'm leaving the Democrat Party. 12. TikTok male says he's disgusted by the videos laughing at murder. 13. Gay guy goes off. 14. "Left-leaning moderate" woman walks away. 15. Black man is donzo. 16. Older normie Democrat male is out. 17. Chinese national says "People who celebrate murder is asshoe." 18. Lifelong Democrat and Asian immigrant says "I just registered Republican."
Plus: Some brain-damaged Assassination Inciters Find Out.
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Glenn GreenwaldNo, Gleen, it's not the same. We are not attacking the left for having differences of political opinion. We are not attacking them for having weird beliefs. We are attacking them for celebrating assassination and murder. We are attacking them for calling for the next "pew pew" against the President Donald Trump. If Trump goes down -- we are at war. You are right that most words are not violence. But some words are: Specifically those calling for someone to be killed, or praising an assassin for killing someone, with hopes that additional assassins will emerge. That is what we are condemning. I do grant that some people are making the mistake of attempting to criminalize mere strong political invective -- but what we're really incensed by is that Taylor Lorenz continues to praise Luigi Mangione for his assassination and absolutely zero people in the supposedly "Respectable" media have even so much as chastised her for it. Indeed, CNN had her on to giggle about it. Either the left stops openly glorifying violence and calling for Trump or other Republicans to be "pew pewed" -- their puerile, cutesy way of saying "shot" -- or the right is going to start publishing our own Pew Pew Lists. This is not a difference of political opinion. We on the right will not have a "debate" about whether leftwing assassins are allowed to murder us, our friends, or our leaders. That will be a civil war situation. It's not up for debate. Leftwingers arguing that it is justified to murder me, my friends, and my family, and my president, are not offering a political position. They are openly conspiring to commit murder, and we don't debate murderers. We arrest them and, if necessary, we kill them. The left cannot put itself above the social compact. The basline, rock-bottom social compact is just "you and I are in the same tribe, the same nation, and I agree to not murder you if you agree not not murder me. And we also agree not to incite our more dangerous, mentally-unstable members to kill each other, either." If we do not have that, we do not have a country, and we are in state of war. The rules of society do not apply, only the rules of war and violence do.
@ggreenwald The attempt to blame left-liberals for Kirk's murder relies on the same dangerous theory liberals invoked to blame conservatives for the white supremacist slaughters in Buffalo, Charleston and the El Paso Walmart (e.g., those who accuse Dems of "replacing" Americans with immigration inspired those massacres). Everyone says bad things about the other side in politics. The left calls MAGA fascist and the right calls the left deranged commies. You're not responsible for psychopaths who murder in the name of your cause (it'd be like blaming pro-life advocates for the murders of abortion doctors, which liberals also do). As Kirk himself said: "WORDS ARE NOT VIOLENCE. ONLY VIOLENCE IS VIOLENCE." Stop trying to convert words and the expression of views into criminal violence.
We are not going to have a debate over whether we are legitimate targets for leftwing murderers. If the left continues to cover up for its murderers, to celebrate murderers, to call for additional murders -- then we will too. If it's the rule for one, it's the rule for all.
Larry Correia
@monsterhunter45 These poor fools are missing the big picture.
When there's a killing the left always tries to assign the killer to the right. We're used to it. And the vast majority of the right always overwhelmingly condemns the killer. Only this time all the moderate normie republicans out there saw MILLIONS of liberals celebrate and justify the brutal murder of a man... all because that man held beliefs similar to theirs. Beliefs that regular Americans consider completely normal and common sense. These normal folks were going about their day, then they saw some shocking brutality, and before they could even process it all their liberal friends were dancing in the blood and gleefully justifying it. "He deserved it for believing X and Y." And that normal person realized that they also believe X and Y, so them getting murdered would be just as celebrated too. At best they saw a "Murder is bad, BUT... he deserved it for believing X and Y." And the lights go on. It doesn't matter how hard the left scrambles to put the shooter in some particular ideological bucket to cover their asses and take no blame (as usual), because regular America saw how fucking gleeful libs were when somebody just like them dies horribly, and they realized that the left wants them dead. Not metaphorically. They want you to die. Some of us have known this for a long time because we pissed off the left somehow previously, but for the regular folks coming to that understanding is a life changing moment. You ain't brushing this one off, Glenn.
Tim HannanFirst of all: He didn't act alone. He had accomplices, who all thought this was a nice antifa lark. Second of all:
@TimHannan 1 guy acted alone and they want to go to war? It's like they just were looking for any reason.
ShoeThis is what takes this from being "one man's crime" to a crime supported by, encouraged by, and covered up half the nation. Either murder is forbidden for all or it is permitted for all. We will no longer permit the left's asymmetry of privilege to commit "glorious revolutionary murder" because they think they're on the right side of history.
@shoe0nhead one guy acted alone. then we saw the reaction of millions. some posting with their full names and faces. teachers, childcare workers, healthcare workers, hr professionals, game developers. hundreds of thousands of people that walk amongst every day, who live next door to us, people i thought were friends, people i thought were normal people celebrating the gruesome public execution of a father shot in the fucking throat in front of his young children, celebrating because he politically does not agree with them. we saw their real beliefs when the " in this house believe" shitlib mask was ripped off. sociopathic freaks.
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