Turning And Turning In The Widening ONT

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Jewel-Box Ballparks

The Comiskey effect: Can MLB revive what it lost in the retro building boom?

The architecture firm HOK, later named Populous, designed Guaranteed Rate Field. The firm also created Camden Yards, which opened in 1992 in Baltimore. Populous has designed or renovated 20 MLB parks.
Camden Yards was viewed as a revelation in design, harkening back to a bygone era because it featured the B&O Warehouse beyond right field, asymmetric dimensions, and wrought-iron flourishes. Camden Yards ushered in the greatest stadium construction boom since the jewel-box era.
In contrast, it made Comiskey's replacement appear to be a massive error: it was generic, gigantic, and soulless. (HOK gave White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf a Camden-like option, but he turned it down.)
But in many ways, at least from foul pole to foul pole, the two new parks were similar.
While it wasn't quite as tall, it still towered over classic, jewel-box parks. And to eliminate obstructed seating caused by beams needed to support the upper deck, both stadiums pushed the upper deck back from the playing surface. Layers of skyboxes and club seats were added between the upper and lower decks. This became the template. The retro generation of ballparks, for all their amenities and wider concourses, have done one great disservice to the fan experience: they've pushed fans further from the playing field.
"Why do we keep building the same park with different window dressing?" Flesch said.

This is real (heh) inside baseball stuff, but it's interesting nonetheless. Look, I love Camden Yards, it's a great place to take in a game, and it did set the standard in ballpark construction, but it's 30 years old now. I'd love to see a new revolution in ballpark design with a modern take on the old jewel-box stadiums. Smaller parks with the seats on top of the field like you're at a play, not a soccer match, yet all modern amenities? Lemmie get a big hell yeah from the baseball fans out there, HELL ,YEAH!

Tunnel Jews

This story is kind of odd, but it's been bouncing around the internet for the past week, mostly in the wrong places (more on that in a sec)

Tunnel Found Burrowed Under Women’s Section of 770, Possibly Destabilizing The Building

Now the story is likely as simple as it seems: Wanting to expand, the Jews dug tunnels when they couldn't get permits for above ground expansion. Simple enough, but this is where I mean it's being discussed in all the wrong places. The anti-Semites have their teeth in this thing and they're going to town. Try to find out more factual information and * Poof! *, like Alice, you're down the rabbi hole. Here is a very long thread on Twitter that, as far as I can tell, does an excellent job at explaining the situation, including background information on the Chabad.

Alright I'll explain the whole "Jewish tunnel in Brooklyn" thing to you with the proper context ?
— ? the fool (@kilovh) January 10, 2024

What's wild is that the people digging were...teenagers. Does that mean they're Teenage Jewish Ninj....nevermind.

Reason To Carry Concealed # 15,295

30 Years Later: Massacre at Luby’s Cafeteria in Killeen

I remember when this happened. I wasn't in Texas then, but it was national news. I doubt it could happen again down here, at least not the same way. Too many people carry today. And that's a good thing.

This Is Amazing

Click through and read the entire thing. An absolutely fascinating bit of guerrilla archaeology.

Some have asked for pics of the Revolutionary War fort we discovered inside an old plantation house in West Virginia. Almost none of the original Rev War frontier log forts survive. Historians believed an old log fort know as Byrnside’s Fort was still there, inside the walls of… pic.twitter.com/qYa2k1iTuq
— The Civil Rights Lawyer (@johnbryanesq) January 7, 2024

TRUST ME on this, it's worth the read.

Here's A Neat Bit Of History

The South End “Reservation” Red-Light District — ca. 1907

That seemed odd. Three single women occupying three separate houses, all next-door to one other. There weren’t a lot of single women living in houses alone in 1907. Hmm. I checked all the directories between 1905 and 1910 to see who was living in that block. Every year, each of those houses showed a new occupant, and, with one exception, all were single woman (the exception was a man who owned a saloon across the street and who had faced charges at one point for “keeping a disorderly house” ). …Okay. I got the picture.
I checked the Sanborn map from 1905 for this block and saw something I’d never seen before: the designation of a building with the letters “F.B.” What did that mean? Turns out, it means “Female Boarding House.” Or, less euphemistically… a brothel. Look at the map here (more maps are linked at the bottom of this post) to see the frankly ASTRONOMICAL number of “F.B.” buildings in this one small area. (There weren’t as many saloons — designated with “Sal.” — as I expected, but I’m pretty sure a lot of saloons in this area were operating illegally.)

Yes Dallas had legalized prostitution in the first part of the 20th century. Fascinating stuff.

I Found This When Researching The Tunnel Story

I had been told what an eruv was years ago, but had since forgotten. It's pretty interesting.

A Fishing Line Encircles Manhattan, Protecting Sanctity Of Sabbath

The concept of the eruv was first established almost 2,000 years ago to allow Jews to more realistically follow the laws of Sabbath rest, particularly one — no carrying on the Sabbath.
According to the laws of Sabbath rest, nothing can be carried from the domestic zone into the public zone on Saturday. That means no carrying house keys or a wallet. It also means no pushing a baby stroller. For parents of young children, no carrying would mean not leaving the house on Saturday.
The eruv symbolically extends the domestic zone into the public zone, permitting activities within it that would normally be forbidden to observant Jews on the Sabbath.

Pretty neat.

News Of The Weird

Inmate's organs, including brain, missing from decomposing body; second case revealed in last month

ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Ala. — ABC 33/40 News has obtained court documents revealing another case of a deceased Alabama inmate's body found missing organs. The body of Charles Edward Singleton was returned to his family missing all organs including his brain.
Singleton died on November 2, 2021 in the custody of the Alabama Department of Corrections. He had been housed at the Hamilton Aged and Infirmed before he was sent to an outside hospital for care prior to his death.

The brain was later found in a jar labeled “Abby Normal”.

Crisis Of Competence

Complex Systems Won’t Survive the Competence Crisis

While disasters like these are often front-page news, the broader connection between the disasters barely elicits any mention. America must be understood as a system of interwoven systems; the healthcare system sends a bill to a patient using the postal system, and that patient uses the mobile phone system to pay the bill with a credit card issued by the banking system. All these systems must be assumed to work for anyone to make even simple decisions. But the failure of one system has cascading consequences for all of the adjacent systems. As a consequence of escalating rates of failure, America’s complex systems are slowly collapsing.
The core issue is that changing political mores have established the systematic promotion of the unqualified and sidelining of the competent. This has continually weakened our society’s ability to manage modern systems. At its inception, it represented a break from the trend of the 1920s to the 1960s, when the direct meritocratic evaluation of competence became the norm across vast swaths of American society.

Scary stuff. What say you, Mr. Yeats?

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

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1 Howdy!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 11, 2024 09:53 PM (u73oe)

2 You're early with the ONT, Weirddave!
You must have survived the crud you had last week.
Maybe top 10?

Posted by: TecumsehTea at January 11, 2024 09:53 PM (JrYM1)

3 No way! Ok, I’ll fetch the otters.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 11, 2024 09:53 PM (u73oe)

4 Good evening everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 11, 2024 09:53 PM (J47y1)

5 On the Illinois gun grab thing, the case that was "rejected" by SCOTUS was not the ISRA case.

"SCOTUS traditionally has not interfered with the procedures, rules, and workings of State Legislative bodies. This is the likely cause why this case was turned down. We would like to remind everyone that the ISRA is NOT involved in any way with the Caulkins v. JB Pritzker case.
Our lawsuit is Harrel v. Raoul, and we are presently working on an appeal for SCOTUS to review our case. That appeal must be presented to the Supreme Court by March 10, 2024. Based on recent rulings by SCOTUS, we have a good chance of winning our case."

Posted by: illiniwek at January 11, 2024 09:53 PM (Cus5s)

6 Yay, National Human Trafficking Awareness Day ONT!

BTW, I think Biden may be getting his 10% from the cartels, which might explain a few things.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 11, 2024 09:55 PM (dZVON)

7 Caught ya!

Posted by: GWB at January 11, 2024 09:56 PM (32nmx)

8 Willowed from upstairs:

It's 2022 and you are in Chicago and in the same house as 10-year-old Isabella Rodriguez who has just come home with the new iMac laptop given her by the Chicago Public Schools, to enable her "remote learning," made necessary because the teachers want to work from home.

How do you get the laptop into your possession so it can be sold on the black market and be truly operable by the new owner? Bella's been using it since an hour after it came in the door.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at January 11, 2024 09:57 PM (KiBMU)

9 Early ONT? Unpossible. WeirdDave never posts early. That's MisHum's privilege!

Hi, y'all..

Posted by: mindful webworker - halloo at January 11, 2024 09:57 PM (20yEG)

10 Earlier in 1991, Hennard had filed a bogus complaint with the FBI against America’s Caucasian women, because he said they had formed a coalition to not date him.

That guy was insane in the membrane...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 11, 2024 09:57 PM (ibTVg)

11 BTW, I think Biden may be getting his 10% from the cartels, which might explain a few things.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 11, 2024 09:55 PM (dZVON)

He's getting it in merchandise. Every day a fresh little girl to sniff. Then it's off to Epstein's Island.

Posted by: GWB at January 11, 2024 09:58 PM (32nmx)

12 And whatever it takes to get Bella's laptop, you are gonna do it 76,999 more times.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at January 11, 2024 09:58 PM (KiBMU)

13 Current temp is 9° F

Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2024 09:58 PM (geLO8)

14 Re: the Crisis of Competence, I think we are in the first stages of a worldwide cascade failure. Certainly a national one. Half of it is losing the institutional knowledge to retirement, and death. The other half is the intentional starving of the system of energy by TPTB. The "magic" isn't dying, it's being *murdered*.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 11, 2024 09:59 PM (nC+QA)

15 Early ONT? Unpossible. WeirdDave never posts early. That's MisHum's privilege!

The ONT is never late, nor is it early, it arrives precisely when it means to.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 11, 2024 10:00 PM (dZVON)

16
A low number!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 11, 2024 10:00 PM (xG4kz)

17 I love Wrigley Field for the intimacy you feel by being so close to the field. The car jackings, robberies, murders and rapes do offset the benefits unfortunately.

Posted by: Chicago Red at January 11, 2024 10:00 PM (KThJc)

18 Caught up in content, well done ONT there, WD!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 11, 2024 10:01 PM (hOUT3)

19 The ONT is never late, nor is it early, it arrives precisely when it means to.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 11, 2024 10:00 PM (dZVON)
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Black sorcery, that is!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 11, 2024 10:01 PM (BpYfr)

20 The Green Monster.

Posted by: davidt at January 11, 2024 10:01 PM (SYTee)

21 BTW, I think Biden may be getting his 10% from the cartels, which might explain a few things.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 11, 2024 09:55 PM (dZVON)

Somebody certainly is. No trafficking scheme can work long without official support. The more extensive it is the higher up the food chain that support has to come from.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 11, 2024 10:02 PM (nC+QA)

22 The Civil Rights Lawyer @johnbryanesq Jan 7 archaeological dig thread as a Nitter thread readable without having to have an Xtwitter account:

http://tinyurl.com/29cuc956

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 11, 2024 10:02 PM (2yu8s)

23 "Camden Yards was viewed as a revelation in design...."

The four basemen of the Apocalypse....

Posted by: mindful webworker - halloo at January 11, 2024 10:02 PM (20yEG)

24 Half of it is losing the institutional knowledge to retirement, and death

In the DIE session I had to watch today the spokedrone said something to the effect of, "One type of racism is looking to straight middle aged white men to fix everything when they've been causing the problems".

Posted by: 18-1 at January 11, 2024 10:02 PM (ibTVg)

25 >Re: the Crisis of Competence, I think we are in the first stages of a worldwide cascade failure.

America was built by guys with crew-cuts and pocket protectors
and tools and machines

those generations are fading away
the next generation brings Mommy to the job interview

Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2024 10:03 PM (geLO8)

26 "The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."

Boy, if that doesn't describe the current day.

Posted by: 496 at January 11, 2024 10:03 PM (VvMZN)

27 Premature ONT!

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at January 11, 2024 10:03 PM (MvATi)

28 Camden Yards opened in 1992 and already, people say "it's old".

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 11, 2024 10:04 PM (8sMut)

29 BTW, I think Biden may be getting his 10% from the cartels, which might explain a few things.

They are trafficking workers for the GOPe and voters for the Dems...and children for the elite Dems.

Hell, Liam Neeson recently did a movie where he is a hit man working for the cartels that decides he can't take doing their dirty work anymore but the government isn't interested because they've all got their hands in the underaged cookie jar...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 11, 2024 10:04 PM (ibTVg)

30 >One type of racism is looking to straight middle aged white men to fix everything

straight middle aged white men took down Hitler and landed on the moon, FFS

Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2024 10:05 PM (geLO8)

31 That "Brought to you by" makes me wonder if CBD is sponsoring WeirdDave's ONT.

Posted by: GWB at January 11, 2024 10:06 PM (32nmx)

32 >>The Green Monster.

I've been to Fenway many times and I've also seen games in a lot of other parks around the country. Fenway is old, the seats are cramped and some of them are obstructed. Getting to bathrooms and food is a pain. And there isn't a better place to watch a game.

It's perfect.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 11, 2024 10:06 PM (ZLI7S)

33 Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 11, 2024 10:06 PM (+YRf1)

34 For the tunneling Hebrews, Reddit posts seem to indicate that:
- it wasn't the women's section, but the men's ritual bathhouse (and a closed one) they were tunneling to
- The reasoning was due to a messianic rabbi, one who is no longer of the earth
- Other members of the temple disapproved of their brethren's underground activities, and were the ones to actually call in the government about it.

Definitely bizarre, though hopefully less Jonestown-y in their piousness.

Posted by: Another Anon at January 11, 2024 10:06 PM (hwP7U)

35 In the DIE session I had to watch today the spokedrone said something to the effect of, "One type of racism is looking to straight middle aged white men to fix everything when they've been causing the problems".

Posted by: 18-1 at January 11, 2024 10:02 PM (ibTVg)

By the time they realize they've booted those guys out the door without training a replacement it's often too late to do more than freak out cause the guy is dead.

There's a family friend who wasn't *allowed* to retire from NASA for over an extra year, but that's not an option in a lot of places and, once again, death is final and non-negotiable.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 11, 2024 10:07 PM (nC+QA)

36 still 32 here, and forecast over next few days now only -8 for three nights, much better than the previous -14. And in WC Illinois, only another 2" snow ... so that is nice. Further norther is colder and more snow ... good luck to yous guys.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 11, 2024 10:07 PM (Cus5s)

37 Camden Yards opened in 1992 and already, people say "it's old".
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

I will sniff none created before 2015.
- The Pedo in Chief

Posted by: Tonypete at January 11, 2024 10:08 PM (J47y1)

38 America was built by guys with crew-cuts and pocket protectors
and tools and machines

those generations are fading away
the next generation brings Mommy to the job interview
Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2024 10:03 PM (geLO

And those guys built on the progress made by guys using slide rules and the CRC book of mathematical tables.

But since math is racist, and reading "Be tough, yo!", we shall not see their like again!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 11, 2024 10:09 PM (hOUT3)

39
Our power was restored today after being out for nearly forty hours.

Here's the thing -- it was a dead tree trunk that stall had a couple of major arms on it that crashed through the power line. It clearly was rotten and bad been for some years now.

And here's the next thing -- I can walk along the power line right of way in the back of our yard and the neighbors' yard and find another six to eight remnants of trees that are in roughly the same state as this week's rotted actor. So we'll be treated to another six to eight outages sponsored by each of those trees.

When I point out the situation to power company reps or their hired tree removers all I get are indifferent shrugs. "You're right, they're bad, but we're not here to tear out every potential problem." Commercial services won't touch them because, "Like, power lines, dude."

It is an insidious form of planned obsolescence.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 11, 2024 10:10 PM (xG4kz)

40 Both the tunnel Jews and the eruv sound fishy as all get out.

The eruv is easily dealt with: Do you imagine that God, the Creator, is dumb? If you do, this sounds clever. If you don't, this sounds like giving the finger to the Almighty while smirking to oneself how clever one was because you did it behind a pillow so He could not see.

The mental ability of those who think 'I'm going to trick an omniscient Being' is obviously low. They probably should stay in on Sabbath just so they don't trip on a blade of grass.

As to the tunnel Jews, well, I saw a pic of small beds, child size ones, soiled. That's not good if the obvious interpretation is applied. Secondly, I saw a bunch of Jews in a room engage in mob behavior with cops. That is not as bad, but its also clearer, and not acceptable. When the cops are legit arresting someone, you don't get to try to mob the cops to rescue them. It was interesting watching a bunch of pale people acting much like Blacks.

Posted by: Eric2 at January 11, 2024 10:10 PM (q7Vou)

41 And in WC Illinois
Posted by: illiniwek at January 11, 2024 10:07 PM (Cus5s)

There's a Water Closet, Illinois? Does Chicago know they have competition?

Posted by: GWB at January 11, 2024 10:10 PM (32nmx)

42 There's over 10 million dollars worth of beef in here...

How you say... you are not... worthy...

Posted by: The Paulo at January 11, 2024 10:10 PM (xaFKb)

43 That beef storage clip brought a smile to my face and a note of joy to my heart. I thank you, good and discerning sir, for bringing us that wonder.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez at January 11, 2024 10:11 PM (Px5D+)

44 Current temp is 72 F.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 11, 2024 10:11 PM (C2nn9)

45 Beef - he said beef, right? Had to play it twice to figure out what I was looking at.

That guy had a classic accent, too.

Posted by: mindful webworker - halloo at January 11, 2024 10:11 PM (20yEG)

46 30 Years Later: Massacre at Luby’s Cafeteria in Killeen

I remember when this happened. I wasn't in Texas then, but it was national news. I doubt it could happen again down here, at least not the same way. Too many people carry today. And that's a good thing.

I, too, remember when it happened. I also remember a Senate gun hearing where Chuck the Shmuck Schumer made an ass out of himself haughtily denigrating a survivor's testimony. So slimy, that prick.

Posted by: RickZ at January 11, 2024 10:11 PM (emlEe)

47 It is an insidious form of planned obsolescence.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 11, 2024 10:10 PM (xG4kz)

Go out one night and knock them all down at one time. You'll save yourself the grief and aggravation of 7 of those 8 times.

Posted by: GWB at January 11, 2024 10:12 PM (32nmx)

48 30 >One type of racism is looking to straight middle aged white men to fix everything

straight middle aged white men took down Hitler and landed on the moon, FFS
Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2024 10:05 PM (geLO

But that was back when society actually appreciated us... not denigrated us.

F You at this point.

Posted by: The Paulo at January 11, 2024 10:12 PM (xaFKb)

49 But that was back when society actually appreciated us... not denigrated us.

F You at this point.
Posted by: The Paulo at January 11, 2024 10:12 PM (xaFKb)

Sock failage...

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 11, 2024 10:13 PM (xaFKb)

50 I have always felt that the 19th century dealt with the issue of prostitution for better than we have. It was discouraged, but also allowed in certain areas where it was relatively controlled. By trying to ban it all at all times, we have created a system where it takes place in all places at all times.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2024 10:13 PM (S6gqv)

51 Schumer made an ass out of himself haughtily denigrating a survivor's testimony
Posted by: RickZ at January 11, 2024 10:11 PM (emlEe)

And that testimony was that if she had only been allowed to have her gun on her - which she left in her vehicle IAW the law - she could have kept her parents alive.

Posted by: GWB at January 11, 2024 10:14 PM (32nmx)

52
One type of racism is looking to straight middle aged white men to fix everything when they've been causing the problems

Another type of racism is standing around, slack-jawed and sporting a dumb look because your vaunted "studies" degree prepared you to accomplish nothing while pumping up your illusory self-esteem.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 11, 2024 10:14 PM (xG4kz)

53 "Pretty neat."

No, it's pretty stupid (and I'm Jewish). The idea of the Sabbath is to not toil, to relax, to enjoy the fruits of the 6-day work week. When the Sabbath becomes substantially less enjoyable than the work week, something's wrong. Imagine having electricity in the Negev desert (where it gets kinda hot) 3,000 years ago but on Shabbat you couldn't turn it on simply by pushing a button. All the contrivances these super-"observant" Jews do to justify sitting around doing absolutely nothing (including having fun) is stupefying. It's probably "illegal" to push out a turd -- if it doesn't come out on it's own you just have to let it plug you up until sundown Saturday. WTF? And if it does come out, you can't flush and have to leave the lid up. Wait, get a goyim to flush for you. I'd rather have a 7-day work week.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 11, 2024 10:15 PM (KAi1n)

54 In the DIE session I had to watch today the spokedrone said something to the effect of, "One type of racism is looking to straight middle aged white men to fix everything when they've been causing the problems".

Posted by: 18-1 at January 11, 2024 10:02 PM (ibTVg)

The only way this is going to stop, is when White Men hear this... stand up... and walk out of the 'presentation' because it is clearly racist.

And insist their employers distance themselves from this crap... or... we walk.

Which is of course, why both the Government and Leftists will do their damndest so we can't organize.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 11, 2024 10:16 PM (xaFKb)

55 U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit recently ruled that it is not a violation of privacy for a car to store text and call data from your cell phone automatically.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 11, 2024 10:16 PM (C2nn9)

56 @14

>>Half of it is losing the institutional knowledge to retirement, and death.

My fiber termination and structured cabling teams look Santa Clause and his older brother.

There are very few young buck, hour eater, Fiber Technicians in the NE.

It's a big problem.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 11, 2024 10:16 PM (XV/Pl)

57 I'll never see another MLB game, but did go to see the playoffs when the Norfolk Tides won the AAA championship in September. Harbor Park is now 30 years old and is a nice place to see a game. 11,000 seats on the water in Norfolk. I'm in the lottery to get Savannah Bananas tickets in Norfolk in August. Have seen the Bananas twice at their home ballpark in Savannah, which is nearly 100 years old.

Posted by: Play Ball! at January 11, 2024 10:17 PM (V5BDR)

58 straight middle aged white men took down Hitler and landed on the moon, FFS
Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2024 10:05 PM (geLO

Tugs nervously at collar …

Posted by: zombie Werner von Braun at January 11, 2024 10:18 PM (TTAGa)

59 I, too, remember when it happened. I also remember a Senate gun hearing where Chuck the Shmuck Schumer made an ass out of himself haughtily denigrating a survivor's testimony. So slimy, that prick.
Posted by: RickZ at January 11, 2024 10:11 PM (emlEe)

I saw a clip of that testimony - at my TX CHL class. That woman (name escapes me) wound up being elected to the TX HR. And TX legalized concealed carry starting in 1995.

Yeah, what a prick. And Schumer is repeatedly elected to office in NY.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 11, 2024 10:19 PM (8sMut)

60 Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 11, 2024 10:16 PM (XV/Pl)

I was doing IT support for a bunch of Doctor's Offices around the Central Valley of Calif. Quit when the boss reneged on some promises he had made when I helped build his business.

He has asked me three times, to come back because his clients don't really like the 'young' techs he now sends...

Uh... no... you broke your word to me once... done.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 11, 2024 10:20 PM (xaFKb)

61 BTW, I think Biden may be getting his 10% from the cartels, which might explain a few things.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 11, 2024 09:55 PM (dZVON)

In 1989 the estimated annual take by the cartels was $200 billion. God only knows what it is today. Thinking 1989 money, assume 5% for overhead protection, buying judges, politicians, DEA, etc. That's ten billion dollars to spread around...every year. 30 years ago.
Its insidious.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 11, 2024 10:20 PM (W/lyH)

62 Regarding the Complex Systems, two thoughts:

1) It sounds like this is just about computer systems, but the same can be said about maintenance in general. We grouse about the constant potholes that don't get filled properly, but what about the bridges, the buildings, the utilities? Maintaining and fixing problems is a hard job that only requires one missed sign to be catastrophic. Worse, there might not be any noticeable sign before the failure.

2) Software-wise, Joel Spolsky had an article about "Leaky Abstractions"; we put layers of design above other layers to abstract out and make things easy - Read File and Write File instead of having to handle a floppy disc versus hard drive versus USB. But if something fails at the low level, or doesn't fit the paradigm as expected, it breaks in weird ways. Without the underlying knowledge, you don't know what to look for, or how to fix it. Something that "just works" suddenly doesn't. And they're putting layers and layers upon things nowadays, not always stable themselves.

Posted by: Another Anon at January 11, 2024 10:20 PM (hwP7U)

63 Posted by: Play Ball! at January 11, 2024 10:17 PM (V5BDR)

Does No Fuck still have 'Dogs and Sailors keep off the grass' signs?

Yeah... was there in the early 80s.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 11, 2024 10:21 PM (xaFKb)

64 When I point out the situation to power company reps or their hired tree removers all I get are indifferent shrugs. "You're right, they're bad, but we're not here to tear out every potential problem."

A serious program begun several years ago for clearing away threatening trees has made a huge difference in our area.

Posted by: mindful webworker - halloo at January 11, 2024 10:21 PM (20yEG)

65 9 degrees here, and breezy. But not much of a chance of snow. If it is going to be this cold we might as well have some snow.

Weird winter so far.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, 3/12 FA at January 11, 2024 10:22 PM (T/Lqj)

66 Posted by: Another Anon at January 11, 2024 10:20 PM (hwP7U)

Modern programming is just slapping another layer on top of existing layers of code...

I started programming in 1s and 0s.... Ring 0 to Ring 1 stuff.... Now its layers of code to correct errors... that other layers of code put in.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 11, 2024 10:23 PM (xaFKb)

67 There are very few young buck, hour eater, Fiber Technicians in the NE.

I work with Fiber occasionally but I'm not a fiber tech by any stretch. It's one of those skills that would seem useful.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 11, 2024 10:24 PM (+YRf1)

68 "nd in WC Illinois
There's a Water Closet, Illinois? Does Chicago know they have competition?" Posted by: GWB

We are actually the belly button of Illinois, not the water closet.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 11, 2024 10:25 PM (Cus5s)

69 Harbor Park is now 30 years old and is a nice place to see a game. 11,000 seats on the water in Norfolk. I'm in the lottery to get Savannah Bananas tickets in Norfolk in August. Have seen the Bananas twice at their home ballpark in Savannah, which is nearly 100 years old.

Posted by: Play Ball! at January 11, 2024 10:17 PM (V5BDR)

Never went to the new stadium when I visited my parents, only Tides Park near the airport when I was growing up. Saw Little Feat and Dusty Baker there, too, though not at the same time. Baker with the Braves against the AAA All-Stars ('71-72?). Nailed a homer down the left field line. Little Feat was the only non-baseball game event I saw there, with Bonnie Raitt the opener.

Posted by: RickZ at January 11, 2024 10:26 PM (emlEe)

70 67 There are very few young buck, hour eater, Fiber Technicians in the NE.

I work with Fiber occasionally but I'm not a fiber tech by any stretch. It's one of those skills that would seem useful.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 11, 2024 10:24 PM (+YRf1)

Mid 80s Hawaii... I was working on maintaining Microwave links for the Navy... reallllllllyyyy old equiptmen (Ford Philco 40s... ie... 1940s...)...

So they decided, without bothering to train us, that we could suddenly do support for the new fibre lines and multiplexors.

Hilarity ensued until we figured how the hell this stuff worked.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 11, 2024 10:26 PM (xaFKb)

71 53

As a Rabbi said two thousand years ago--the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

Posted by: Eric2 at January 11, 2024 10:28 PM (q7Vou)

72 Modern programming is just slapping another layer on top of existing layers of code...

I started programming in 1s and 0s.... Ring 0 to Ring 1 stuff.... Now its layers of code to correct errors... that other layers of code put in.
Posted by: Romeo13

Even back in the 70's, in my shop there were plenty of examples of source code (COBOL) having been lost and no hardcopy of it anywhere. I'd wager some of the executable is still there buried deeply.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 11, 2024 10:28 PM (J47y1)

73 nothing like the beautiful trimming jobs for da power lines.

Posted by: a dude in MI at January 11, 2024 10:29 PM (+I6Y/)

74 Who's got the beef? I guess it's this guy.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 11, 2024 10:30 PM (MZ+PY)

75 Wonderful. So US prisons are harvesting organs like the freaking Chicoms, now? Just dandy. It's like Death Warrant, starring JCVD.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 11, 2024 10:30 PM (0FoWg)

76 24 Half of it is losing the institutional knowledge to retirement, and death

In the DIE session I had to watch today the spokedrone said something to the effect of, "One type of racism is looking to straight middle aged white men to fix everything when they've been causing the problems".

Posted by: 18-1 at January 11, 2024 10:02 PM (ibTVg)

When the system-cratering catastrophe occurs, the youngsters will blame the old white male designers for not making systems and hardware self-maintaining, self-updating, and capable of changing as verbally commanded by self-same youngsters. A new religion will spring-up, based on cursing and damning everything ever designed by straight white men. This religion will die-out as its members die, incapable of feeding, clothing, sheltering, and defending themselves. A new Rome will eventually arise, and civilization will be rebuilt.

Posted by: Gref at January 11, 2024 10:30 PM (5fDan)

77 @60

>>Uh... no... you broke your word to me once... done.

Can you splice ribbon fiber? can you splice mtp fiber? Do you know what a LISA Cabinet is? Do you know how to use an OTDR? Do you live in the tri-state area? Do you got a brother or son that can do the same?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 11, 2024 10:31 PM (XV/Pl)

78 If only they could meme the Wheres the beef lady into that beef warehouse and heavenly choir music as the doors opened

Posted by: a dude in MI at January 11, 2024 10:31 PM (+I6Y/)

79 "Try to find out more factual information and * Poof! *, like Alice, you're down the rabbi hole."

/slow clap

/stands up clapping faster

/full standing ovation, nodding head

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 11, 2024 10:32 PM (z+89e)

80 Captain of the beef hearts.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 11, 2024 10:32 PM (63Dwl)

81 the Wheres the beef lady

Posted by: a dude in MI at January 11, 2024 10:31 PM (+I6Y/)

Clara Peller.

Posted by: RickZ at January 11, 2024 10:32 PM (emlEe)

82 Good evening morons and thanks wd

One summer I worked as a lifeguard at a kosher resort in the Catskills there was an eruv around the whole place.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 11, 2024 10:33 PM (RIvkX)

83 "While disasters like these are often front-page news, the broader connection between the disasters barely elicits any mention."

I am told the connection is global warming. Thee isn't anything is can't screw up.

Posted by: Ripley at January 11, 2024 10:34 PM (PTDkx)

84 73 nothing like the beautiful trimming jobs for da power lines.
Posted by: a dude in MI

NOVEC/Verizon/Comcast hired contractors that trimmed privacy shrubs to the ground that couldn't possibly threaten a power or cable line for another decade in one location and damaged fencing, and in another location did significant damage to privacy fencing. Never gave me warning they were coming through, never acknowledged the damage, and never offered restitution.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 11, 2024 10:35 PM (hOUT3)

85 Can you splice ribbon fiber? can you splice mtp fiber? Do you know what a LISA Cabinet is? Do you know how to use an OTDR? Do you live in the tri-state area? Do you got a brother or son that can do the same?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 11, 2024 10:31 PM (XV/Pl)

LOL.... Yes, never tried, yes, yes, no.... no...

Sorry... retired.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 11, 2024 10:36 PM (xaFKb)

86 75 Wonderful. So US prisons are harvesting organs like the freaking Chicoms, now? Just dandy. It's like Death Warrant, starring JCVD.
-----
Governor Clinton was selling prisoners' blood to Canada. [I don't know elsewhere.] It was linked to AIDS cases here.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 11, 2024 10:37 PM (2yu8s)

87 Clara Peller was the Nedra Volz of Margaret Hamiltons.

Posted by: Well-seasoned Wenches at January 11, 2024 10:37 PM (V5BDR)

88 Are beef-hearts like fish-sticks??

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 11, 2024 10:37 PM (2yu8s)

89 55 U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit recently ruled that it is not a violation of privacy for a car to store text and call data from your cell phone automatically.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 11, 2024 10:16 PM (C2nn9)

... except if you're a porch pirate

Posted by: Emmie at January 11, 2024 10:37 PM (N5qKs)

90 75 Wonderful. So US prisons are harvesting organs like the freaking Chicoms, now? Just dandy. It's like Death Warrant, starring JCVD.
-----
Governor Clinton was selling prisoners' blood to Canada. [I don't know elsewhere.] It was linked to AIDS cases here.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 11, 2024 10:37 PM (2yu8s)

soo many empty lampposts

Posted by: a dude in MI at January 11, 2024 10:38 PM (+I6Y/)

91 @67

>>It's one of those skills that would seem useful.

Broadcast Systems and Data Integration has largely moved to Fiber Optic Structured Cabling, facilities and headends, there is very little coax or category cable any more.

So quality fiber technicians are worth their weight in gold.

$150.00 per hour is baseline salary.

Annnd, I have a hard time finding people.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 11, 2024 10:39 PM (XV/Pl)

92 70: Romeo13 fibre lines and multiplexors

This is a LOT of my current job. Add ethernet lines too.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 11, 2024 10:39 PM (+YRf1)

93 The anti-Israel protesters are out in Times Square tonight protesting against the US air strikes in Yemen. Biden has managed to piss off everyone.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 11, 2024 10:39 PM (ZLI7S)

94
FIRST LAUNCH
Japan Launch - IGS Optical 8
Launch time: 1:44 p.m. JST (0444 UTC),
11:44 p.m. EST on Jan. 11

https://t.ly/E2JXR

SECOND LAUNCH
SpaceX Launch
Falcon 9 - Starlink Group 7-10 -
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB
Launch time: January 12 at 12:59 a.m. PST
(3:59 a.m. EST, 0859 UTC)

https://t.ly/3orVp

Posted by: Ciampino - gen-z are the mummy people?. at January 11, 2024 10:39 PM (qfLjt)

95 86 75 Wonderful. So US prisons are harvesting organs like the freaking Chicoms, now? Just dandy. It's like Death Warrant, starring JCVD."

I just hope they didn't end up at the local Michoacan meat market.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2024 10:40 PM (S6gqv)

96 @85

>>Sorry... retired.

Damn it. I tried.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 11, 2024 10:40 PM (XV/Pl)

97 93 The anti-Israel protesters are out in Times Square tonight protesting against the US air strikes in Yemen. Biden has managed to piss off everyone.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 11, 2024 10:39 PM (ZLI7S)

Hes down to 96% of the ballots?

Posted by: a dude in MI at January 11, 2024 10:40 PM (+I6Y/)

98 NOVEC/Verizon/Comcast hired contractors that trimmed privacy shrubs to the ground that couldn't possibly threaten a power or cable line for another decade in one location and damaged fencing, and in another location did significant damage to privacy fencing. Never gave me warning they were coming through, never acknowledged the damage, and never offered restitution.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 11, 2024 10:35 PM

Having a Grendel as a pet would have a few upsides!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 11, 2024 10:40 PM (HlyYF)

99 Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 11, 2024 10:37 PM (2yu8s

Jeebus. That figures. I knew about their drug dealing and child murder in Arkansas, but not the blood smuggling and AIDS infections. The fucking greed of the Clintons is just a hole with no bottom. Always has been... They're from Hell.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 11, 2024 10:41 PM (0FoWg)

100 Broadcast Systems and Data Integration has largely moved to Fiber Optic Structured Cabling, facilities and headends, there is very little coax or category cable any more.

So quality fiber technicians are worth their weight in gold.

$150.00 per hour is baseline salary.

Annnd, I have a hard time finding people.

That's more than twice what I'm pulling down after over 20 years in IT. If it didn't involve relocation I'd be asking if you had a training program about now.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 11, 2024 10:41 PM (dZVON)

101 73 nothing like the beautiful trimming jobs for da power lines.
Posted by: a dude in MI

Heard a clip to day where the RCMP was warning the Quebecois that taking and/or posting pictures of porch pirates with your own camera on your own property was potentially an invasion of the porch pirate's privacy since everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 11, 2024 10:42 PM (hOUT3)

102 Having a Grendel as a pet would have a few upsides!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot

Methinks, feed would NOT be a problem!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 11, 2024 10:43 PM (hOUT3)

103 Thomas Bender

You mentioned 'Tri-state area'. Do you mind mentioning which one?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 11, 2024 10:44 PM (+YRf1)

104 Even back in the 70's, in my shop there were plenty of examples of source code (COBOL) having been lost and no hardcopy of it anywhere. I'd wager some of the executable is still there buried deeply.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 11, 2024 10:28 PM (J47y1)

Scariest thing I've ever come across in my life... working at COMSUBPAC, on the computers that talked to his submarines, including those dealing with FailSafe. We had update code, and it didn't work right, so we are punching through Machine code... and suddenly realize there is a section of code, that is 'jump to' 'd around...

That would enter the beginning of the failsafe code, but had been just Rem'd out... not taken out.

But.... as you could go to any instruction from the maintenance panel... and start it running from there?

Yeah... only time I ever had to wake up the Admiral.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 11, 2024 10:44 PM (xaFKb)

105 nothing like the beautiful trimming jobs for da power lines.
Posted by: a dude in MI

The tree-pruning mangled a lot of long-neglected trees and looked bad for years. The 'lectric flowed. A good trade-off.

Enjoyed 60° & sunny this afternoon. Gonna be 17° at dog-walking time tomorrow morning. And worse days ahead. But only a few. Lived 14 winters in Chicago, but that was 30 years ago. I am spoiled.

Sayonara, mis amigoes!

💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - Okie by birth and choice at January 11, 2024 10:45 PM (20yEG)

106 How does one learn to be a fiber technician??

Posted by: lin-duh at January 11, 2024 10:46 PM (QBwwm)

107 @103

>>You mentioned 'Tri-state area'. Do you mind mentioning which one?

NY/NJ/CT/PA.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 11, 2024 10:46 PM (XV/Pl)

108 NY/NJ/CT/PA.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
----
That's more than tri....

Posted by: lin-duh at January 11, 2024 10:48 PM (QBwwm)

109 106 How does one learn to be a fiber technician??

Posted by: lin-duh at January 11, 2024 10:46 PM

Read the manual ... while eating a lot of Raisin Bran?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 11, 2024 10:49 PM (HlyYF)

110 If some guy asked me if I wanted to see his beef warehouse, I'm just gonna pass. Maybe I've been missing out on fun and excitement.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 11, 2024 10:49 PM (z+89e)

111 No way! Ok, I’ll fetch the otters.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

Don't gimme no lines
And keep your hands to yourself

Posted by: Otter 841 at January 11, 2024 10:50 PM (tjZg/)

112 @106

>>How does one learn to be a fiber technician??

Trade School, Technical School, Courses, on-the-job, etc.

There are many ways to acquire the skills, it's like any other schooling.

It's just that a lot of people are not getting into the business.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 11, 2024 10:50 PM (XV/Pl)

113 Are beef-hearts like fish-sticks??
Posted by: andycanuck
-----

Never heard of a Captain Fish-stick.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 11, 2024 10:51 PM (XeU6L)

114 Update on GnuBreed.

Had the blessings to yack with the man himself on the phone, this afternoon. He officially goes "into" Hospice, tomorrow.

Hell of a rough ride, not only is his liver not livering much, anymore, but it's taking his kidneys along with it on the ride.

Drs say "days, weeks, maybe some months." That's a helluva spread. They're "controlling" it, as much with balancing nutrition, as the are drugs. Lots of daily tracking of "numbers", enough blood draws to make a pin-cushion smile.

He's still got the humor, though. An "intake" nurse gave him a quizzical look when he jumbled an answer to the endless list of questions. Says, he told her: "...hey, cut me some slack, this is my first time dying, I've never done this before!"

Good news though, is this. He DOES have family and friends there, tending to his needs, and making sure he'll want for nothing.

Finally, this. He is MASSIVLY GRATEFUL for all the Horde Prayers, and would be most pleased, should they continue.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 11, 2024 10:51 PM (e6UQI)

115 107 @103

NY/NJ/CT/PA.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Well, right timezone. I'm in DC. Not sure about career change, just yet. I'm doing what the military used to call Technical Control Maintenance. That career field is long gone from the military, but the job still exists. (My military days are a couple of decades behind me now and I was not a tech controller.).

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 11, 2024 10:51 PM (+YRf1)

116 @108

>>That's more than tri.

Well, it's more like upper/lower/mid Atlantic Region.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 11, 2024 10:51 PM (XV/Pl)

117 NY/NJ/CT/PA.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
----
That's more than tri....
Posted by: lin-duh

Dangerously close to math Sister.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 11, 2024 10:52 PM (J47y1)

118 Texas seizes control of park, blocks Border Patrol from entering

The Border Patrol union confirmed to Fox News that agents were being blocked from entering by Texas soldiers, and praised Abbott for taking matters into his own hands.

emphasis mine

Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2024 10:52 PM (geLO8)

119 There are several Fiber Technician certifications out there. I looked some up out of curiousity. I'm slowly making my way through CCNA. Maybe when I'm done.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 11, 2024 10:53 PM (+YRf1)

120 It's just that a lot of people are not getting into the business.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
----
Asking because I have one son in HS who says he do want to go to college but he's going to have to learn a trade so he can eat.

Posted by: lin-duh at January 11, 2024 10:53 PM (QBwwm)

121 Finally, this. He is MASSIVLY GRATEFUL for all the Horde Prayers, and would be most pleased, should they continue.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 11, 2024 10:51 PM (e6UQI)

Thank you for the update

Posted by: a dude in MI at January 11, 2024 10:53 PM (+I6Y/)

122 This religion will die-out as its members die, incapable of feeding, clothing, sheltering, and defending themselves. A new Rome will eventually arise, and civilization will be rebuilt.
Posted by: Gref at January 11, 2024 10:30 PM (5fDan)

Or they will mutate into giant evil-smelling birds and never walk again.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2024 10:54 PM (D7oie)

123 Connecticut barely counts as a state. Literally every single person I've ever met who's "from Connecticut" turned out to actually be from NY or Massachusetts. I think it's just a giant bedroom community.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 11, 2024 10:54 PM (0FoWg)

124 Never heard of a Captain Fish-stick.
--------
A close call but if forced, I'd rather suck beef-hearts than fish-sticks!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 11, 2024 10:56 PM (2yu8s)

125 Posted by: Jim at January 11, 2024 10:51 PM (e6UQI)

Thank you so much for the update.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 11, 2024 10:56 PM (nC+QA)

126 I don't care how aesthetically pleasing the architecture is, soaking the tax payers to build a playground for a billionaire company owner to give his millionaire employees a place to play a child's game is utter crap.

Posted by: Build youown damn stadium!!! at January 11, 2024 10:56 PM (M1YRs)

127 93 The anti-Israel protesters are out in Times Square tonight protesting against the US air strikes in Yemen. Biden has managed to piss off everyone.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 11, 2024 10:39 PM (ZLI7S)

It's comical, really; the Left set up this entire environment of permanent protest groups in order to gain power; but now they're in charge, faced with the same old problems that require hard decisions, and they can't get rid of their old friends, who now bedevil them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2024 10:57 PM (S6gqv)

128 How does one learn to be a fiber technician??
Posted by: lin-duh at January 11, 2024 10:46 PM (QBwwm)

In Oregon it is one of the apprenticeship programs that are administered through the Bureau of Labor and Industry, though you might call the local cable company to ask in your area.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2024 10:58 PM (D7oie)

129 114

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

So sad to find out about GnuBreed. He is in my prayers. So glad that his family is with him. Great blessings to all.

Posted by: Floridachick at January 11, 2024 10:58 PM (YGgwq)

130 White males will keep things limping along for the next twenty or so years. Then it will be Yeats. The center cannot hold.

Posted by: Tally at January 11, 2024 10:58 PM (+kjrH)

131 Posted by: Jim at January 11, 2024 10:51 PM (e6UQI)

JSND: Good on you for making that call and posting it here!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 11, 2024 10:59 PM (hOUT3)

132 The Border Patrol union confirmed to Fox News that agents were being blocked from entering by Texas soldiers, and praised Abbott for taking matters into his own hands.
emphasis mine
Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2024 10:52 PM (geLO

how I would love it if Abbott hired some of the 1836 re-enactors to take part in this.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2024 11:00 PM (S6gqv)

133 I don't care how aesthetically pleasing the architecture is, soaking the tax payers to build a playground for a billionaire company owner to give his millionaire employees a place to play a child's game is utter crap.
Posted by: Build youown damn stadium!!!

But think of the 10%...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 11, 2024 11:00 PM (hOUT3)

134 Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2024 10:57 PM (S6gqv)

That's why as soon as Hitler won protesting was abolished. It's interesting that our pols don't feel like their position is strong enough for that. Which means they're definitely not strong enough to pull Mao's eradication of the Red Guard once they became a threat. Today's students should be grateful, not that they know enough history to realize that.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 11, 2024 11:01 PM (nC+QA)

135 54 In the DIE session I had to watch today the spokedrone said something to the effect of, "One type of racism is looking to straight middle aged white men to fix everything when they've been causing the problems".
Posted by: 18-1

So, never again have a white man work on your car? No more surgery by white men? If I need open heart surgery I'm supposed to wait until I can find an African American woman who can do it?

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 11, 2024 11:02 PM (0Htd1)

136 >>It's comical, really; the Left set up this entire environment of permanent protest groups in order to gain power; but now they're in charge, faced with the same old problems that require hard decisions, and they can't get rid of their old friends, who now bedevil them.

I've got a very bad feeling it might become more than just a protest problem soon.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 11, 2024 11:02 PM (ZLI7S)

137 >blocked from entering by Texas soldiers

is this how it starts?

Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2024 11:03 PM (geLO8)

138 About 40 minutes to Japan launch

Posted by: Ciampino - gen-z are the mummy people?. at January 11, 2024 11:03 PM (qfLjt)

139 We're unlikely to ever find out. But I think if some state just said "fuck it, YOLO, we're seceding," it's a 50/50 chance the Chesapeake Bay shitstains would have a catastrophic failure of nerve.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 11, 2024 11:04 PM (0FoWg)

140 Scary stuff. What say you, Mr. Yeats?

I'm already seeing the inability of gen Z to comprehend complex concepts, let alone design and or maintain complex systems. Hell, i got a double shite load of gen Z that have the same issue. I asked for a level 3 computer science engineer to do some spherical trig MatLab sceipting for me given the recipe equations i wanted him to work with to transfom lat/lon from a geograohic spot to a 0° x 0° lat lon with geometry maintained for the laydown of a group of points. To disguise where i was look___ at something. Kid didn't have a clue how to begin, even when i demonstrated an example of some stuff in europe.

We're fucked as a country. This is junior undergraduate work, not rocket science. And it's not even engineering, just some simple spherical trigonometry.

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 11, 2024 11:04 PM (c2rrQ)

141 I love Wrigley Field for the intimacy you feel by being so close to the field. The car jackings, robberies, murders and rapes do offset the benefits unfortunately.
Posted by: Chicago Red

Tiger stadium at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull was unbelievably intimate. I was lucky enough to take my kids there for one of the last games before they moved to Comerica Park. As I'm walking through and thinking of Babe Ruth, Micky Mantle, Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb, Al Kaline.... the history was palpable. They all played there. You could smell a hundred years of history. It was a moving experience. I'd been there many times but it was different when I knew it was going to close after 4 or 5 more games.

Posted by: Admiral spinebender at January 11, 2024 11:04 PM (duT0u)

142 About 40 minutes to Japan launch

Had to look up thread. For a moment I thought Japan was launching itself into space to go look for a better planet.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 11, 2024 11:05 PM (dZVON)

143 Glad GnuBreed has family and friends in his AO to be there for him.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 11, 2024 11:05 PM (R4t5M)

144 What weapon do you fence, Wierd Dave?

My primary weapon is the black card.

Posted by: Otto Zilch at January 11, 2024 11:05 PM (fqcoF)

145 >>En garde! Prêts? Allez!
You know your s#!†

Posted by: Otto Zilch at January 11, 2024 11:06 PM (fqcoF)

146 I've got a very bad feeling it might become more than just a protest problem soon.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 11, 2024 11:02 PM

If Trump wins, then I think there will be "block the streets" protests ALL of the time.

In red areas they will eventually get thrown in jail with sentences of escalating length. In blue areas everything will grind to a halt.

If have no clue what blue denizens will do at that point, but it ain't going to be pretty.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 11, 2024 11:06 PM (HlyYF)

147 “Scarf Lady” Dr. Deborah Birx Compares Long COVID to HIV: “Just Like HIV was Destroying Our Immune System”
- Gateway Headline.

... Brinx, knowing the vax causes 'Long COVID'.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 11, 2024 11:08 PM (cOq4q)

148 >If Trump wins, then I think there will be "block the streets" protests ALL of the time.

an insurrection maybe

Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2024 11:09 PM (geLO8)

149 If have no clue what blue denizens will do at that point, but it ain't going to be pretty.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 11, 2024 11:06 PM (HlyYF)

I've made lists.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 11, 2024 11:09 PM (R4t5M)

150 >>If Trump wins, then I think there will be "block the streets" protests ALL of the time.

I don't doubt it but I'm not sure we are going to get that far. Biden has let in 10 million people from all over the world and good number of them are military age single men from places like China and the Middle East. BP routinely reports catching known terrorists and those are just the ones they catch. We have no idea who these people are or where they are now.

I'll be very surprised if we don't see terrorist attacks inside this country before the election. Hope I'm wrong.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 11, 2024 11:12 PM (ZLI7S)

151 Peacock channel is planning to reboot Battlestar Galactica.

The guy spearheading this effort says he admires the 2004 Ron Moore version and its allegory on 9/11.

*danger danger*

And then he doubles down and calls this show 'hard science fiction.'

A very hard pass as this dweeb is a tourist to what is science fiction. Much less hard science fiction.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 11, 2024 11:13 PM (dYYCy)

152 The only fencing I do is shit the neighbors forget to lock up at night.

Posted by: Weirddave at January 11, 2024 11:13 PM (GAeCz)

153 I've got a very bad feeling it might become more than just a protest problem soon.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 11, 2024 11:02 PM (ZLI7S)

Like after Yugoslavia's breakup, with all the ethnic wars released. We're so blessed with such ethnic diversity now, too, thanks to literally no border control at all. I can see Chinese soldiers, cartel members, gangs here, cops/government and pretty much everybody else in between all battling it out. Breakdown of social services. No running water, no fuel, sniping, the whole bit. It'll be a blast thanks to all the jihadis let in.

Posted by: RickZ at January 11, 2024 11:13 PM (emlEe)

154 When I moved from NY in 1994 I stopped in a DC area hotel that was close to the train station. Decided to take it to Camden Yards for a game specifically because I wanted to see the new stadium.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 11, 2024 11:14 PM (/2Hy+)

155 an insurrection maybe

Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2024 11:09 PM

The Left already ran an insurrection, and not one Democrat in power gave the slightest crap.

When the BLM warlords set up the CHAZ/CHOP zone in Seattle, they were sovereign over that territory for several weeks. NOT the city of Seattle, the state of Washington, or the federal government.

They were running around brandishing AR-15s, no Democrats cared. They raped a bunch of women, no Democrats cared. They murdered two young black men, no Democrats cared because there was no political benefit.

Finally, when they murdered another black kid, the Democrats stepped in because it was starting to make them look bad.

Guess how many people the feds have arrested from THAT insurrection?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 11, 2024 11:14 PM (HlyYF)

156 I'll be very surprised if we don't see terrorist attacks inside this country before the election. Hope I'm wrong.

What do you call the droog who is threatening the judge on Trump's NYC trial? Besides a Leftist who is probably mad the judge isn't more harsh on Trump.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 11, 2024 11:14 PM (dYYCy)

157 Secession is going to be on the ballot in Texas.
Not actual secession but planning on secession if things of south.
Idea is, unlike Brandon's domain, they are saying it will take
three to five years to organize an orderly secession.
Therefore when the need for transition arises it will be ducks in a row.
Not the the was we transitioned out of Afghanistan.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 11, 2024 11:15 PM (C2nn9)

158 The weird thing is that terrorists are most likely to target a blue area. If that happens again, I hope the rest of the country has the sense to not get too fired up about it, this time around. Not our circus, not our monkeys.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 11, 2024 11:15 PM (0FoWg)

159 Posted by: Play Ball! at January 11, 2024 10:17 PM (V5BDR)

I've been to the park a couple of times, mostly for Boy Scout nights back in the day. It is a very enjoyable experience (or was).

Posted by: GWB at January 11, 2024 11:16 PM (32nmx)

160 Luby's is the main reason Texas got concealed carry passed.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 11, 2024 11:17 PM (/2Hy+)

161 Greg Abbott:
The Next Jefferson Davis or:
The Next George Washington.

Posted by: MATT GRAVER at January 11, 2024 11:17 PM (2Kesc)

162 Not the the was we transitioned out of Afghanistan.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 11, 2024 11:15 PM

Dark Brandon had plenty of time to manage that transition.

He and the political generals still managed to f*ck it up royally.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 11, 2024 11:17 PM (HlyYF)

163 Wind chill down to 17 here on the beach. Just took out the recycling. It's kinda chilly. May walk out to the beach.

Or not. It's cold!

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 11, 2024 11:18 PM (bWDwv)

164 151 Peacock channel is planning to reboot Battlestar Galactica.

The guy spearheading this effort says he admires the 2004 Ron Moore version and its allegory on 9/11.

*danger danger*

And then he doubles down and calls this show 'hard science fiction.'

A very hard pass as this dweeb is a tourist to what is science fiction. Much less hard science fiction.
Posted by: Anna Puma

My interest level in BG (2004) quickly evaporated. Tried to like it but meh. Hell of a cast on that show too. I'll skip this new one.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 11, 2024 11:19 PM (+YRf1)

165
Greg Abbott:
The Next Jefferson Davis or:
The Next George Washington.
Posted by: MATT GRAVER

George Jefferson

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 11, 2024 11:20 PM (63Dwl)

166 139 We're unlikely to ever find out. But I think if some state just said "fuck it, YOLO, we're seceding," it's a 50/50 chance the Chesapeake Bay shitstains would have a catastrophic failure of nerve.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 11, 2024 11:04 PM (0FoWg)

sad thing is that no state can secede, because we're all now way too dependent on the support system. The instant anyone tried, the howling would start - No More Social Security! No more Medicare! and it would fall apart.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2024 11:20 PM (S6gqv)

167 George Jefferson

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 11, 2024 11:20 PM

Good.

In that case, Texas will be movin' on up!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 11, 2024 11:21 PM (HlyYF)

168 Greg Abbott:
The Next Jefferson Davis or:
The Next George Washington.
Posted by: MATT GRAVER at January 11, 2024 11:17 PM (2Kesc)

Lefty Pols Mouthing Off About J-6 and 'history':

George Washington: Insurrection good.
Donald Trump: Insurrection Very Much Orange Man BAD.

Bonus Irony: Trump was insurrecting against himself.

Posted by: RickZ at January 11, 2024 11:22 PM (emlEe)

169 My interest level in BG (2004) quickly evaporated. Tried to like it but meh. Hell of a cast on that show too. I'll skip this new one.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 11, 2024 11:19 PM (+YRf1)

I loved the first two seasons, third started going sideways, and then the ending sucked so bad it made me regret the time I had spent on it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2024 11:22 PM (S6gqv)

170 Having a Grendel as a pet would have a few upsides!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 11, 2024 10:40 PM (HlyYF)

I have a Beowulf.
Assuming you think a rifle can be a pet.

Posted by: GWB at January 11, 2024 11:23 PM (32nmx)

171 And then he doubles down and calls this show 'hard science fiction.'

To him it means he gets hard every time he thinks about how much money he can make off crappy science fiction shows.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 11, 2024 11:23 PM (dZVON)

172 Approx T-20 to Japan launch

https://t.ly/E2JXR

Posted by: Ciampino - It's tomorrow there at January 11, 2024 11:23 PM (qfLjt)

173 Evening all. I'll have to get a pic of the new pup, he's crazy looking. A Gordon Setter his fringe is starting to grow. He was smooth when we got him at 9 weeks but now he looks like a lunatic, new fringe growing all over.

He will be a beautiful dog when grown. Jules said she would take care of him but some how I'm conned into a lot. Flash is the most cuddley dog I've ever known.

Posted by: Farmer at January 11, 2024 11:25 PM (55Qr6)

174 Vietcong had tunnels. And now the Hasidim are getting in on the tunnel game. Perilous times. You know who else probably has tunnels: Mennonites.

Posted by: Effin' Mennonites at January 11, 2024 11:26 PM (pjs7m)

175 I have a Beowulf.
Assuming you think a rifle can be a pet.

Posted by: GWB at January 11, 2024 11:23 PM

Assuming you feed it good ammo, then I think a rifle can make an excellent pet!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 11, 2024 11:26 PM (HlyYF)

176 Great ONT, WeirdDave. I particularly enjoyed the long thread about the tunnel in NYC. And that $10M in beef. Magnificent!

Winter has finally arrived in Omaha. I'm sitting here, waiting for the 6"-10" of snow we're supposed to get tonight on top of the 6" or so we got a couple days ago. Not to mention the -15° we're supposed to enjoy for the weekend into about Tuesday. I've got to admit -- this is one of those few occasions I'm glad we sold the house and moved into an apartment. The house was built in 1900. Insulation? Never heard about it. Window frames that actually fit the windows? Who are you kidding? No matter how high you kick the thermoset, it never gets above 60°

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I stand with Israel and all Jews everywhere at January 11, 2024 11:27 PM (6TzTY)

177 Moore's version went off the rails from the get go because he removed the ALIEN Cylons and then in the third act of the mini-series he revealed who the Human Toaster was.

And then he had to produce a series.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 11, 2024 11:29 PM (dYYCy)

178 Having a Grendel as a pet would have a few upsides!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot
------

That's not funny.

Posted by: Michelle Fields at January 11, 2024 11:29 PM (XeU6L)

179 Kurt Schlichter has a new book out called The Attack. I just read it. It's not long, but it's pretty scary. It basically postulates an October 7 type terrorist attack on the United States perpetrated by tens of thousands of the jihadis who came over the open border. I recommend it, meant to talk about it in the OP.

Posted by: Weirddave at January 11, 2024 11:29 PM (GAeCz)

180 Biden will cruise to reelection with 90M+ "votes." And the G0P will do nothing about it.

Posted by: Tally at January 11, 2024 11:30 PM (+kjrH)

181 Dean Ing. Soft Targets. 1984ish.

One Palestinian terrorist slipping into the US from Canada by swimming manages to bring the country to its knees.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 11, 2024 11:31 PM (dYYCy)

182 For a moment I thought Japan was launching itself into space to go look for a better planet.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 11, 2024 11:05 PM (dZVON)

Which would be very manga.

Posted by: GWB at January 11, 2024 11:32 PM (32nmx)

183 No matter how high you kick the thermoset, it never gets above 60°
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin
-------

It's the frost forming on the inside of the windows that's most charmingly quaint about my 75 year-old house.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 11, 2024 11:32 PM (XeU6L)

184 I liked BS, at least parts of it. The pivot where Cylons decided they needed pets instead of annihilating everyone made no sense, and the final four plot more or less made a mockery of everything. But the initial parts and the basic thrust of the tension between freedom/democracy and survival was interesting and produced some interesting plots/episodes. I particularly liked Razor in this regard.

Posted by: It may have sucked in the end but it sucked thoughtfully sometimes at January 11, 2024 11:33 PM (pjs7m)

185 Gordon Setter breed info with a few cute photos.
http://tinyurl.com/etk6vx3n

Young puppeh!
http://tinyurl.com/vj7dbxnx

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 11, 2024 11:33 PM (2yu8s)

186 For a moment I thought Japan was launching itself into space to go look for a better planet.

For hard science fiction may I suggest the manga 2001 Nights or its anime OVA for one story arc about a slow ship colonizing a new Earth.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 11, 2024 11:34 PM (dYYCy)

187 Luby's is the main reason Texas got concealed carry passed.

I was living in California at the time. I remember Luby’s as a real turning point in the restoration of self defense rights.

Can’t imagine what it would be like seeing your parents killed knowing you could have saved them if you’d just ignored the law and not left your firearm in your vehicle.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 11, 2024 11:36 PM (EXyHK)

188 >>Kurt Schlichter has a new book out called The Attack. I just read it. It's not long, but it's pretty scary. It basically postulates an October 7 type terrorist attack on the United States perpetrated by tens of thousands of the jihadis who came over the open border. I recommend it, meant to talk about it in the OP.

That might make voting in person very problematic and calls for mass mail in voting might be heard, like if there was a pandemic.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 11, 2024 11:36 PM (ZLI7S)

189 There's a lot of sammiches there, boys!

Posted by: Sandra Flook at January 11, 2024 11:37 PM (V8he0)

190 Tom Clancy's 'Red Storm Rising' (his best novel), had WWIII start after an Islamic terrorist attack on an oil field in the Soviet Union. The Islamic terrorist was a supposed ally and co-worker.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 11, 2024 11:37 PM (+YRf1)

191 BG started off strong.

The cylons had a plan...and then...in season 3 or so the show because Battlestar Iraq and the plan went out the window.

I don't know if Moore actually had a long term plot and threw it out the window to make a dumb 9/11 analogy or he always wanted to do something stupid but boy did he throw that away.

And looking at his post BG work it seems everyone noticed...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 11, 2024 11:38 PM (ibTVg)

192 Therefore when the need for transition arises it will be ducks in a row.

This is something I’ve been advocating for a couple of years now. Not because I want Texas to leave the Union, but because I want the Union to be something worth remaining in.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 11, 2024 11:38 PM (EXyHK)

193 T-5 minutes for Japan launch

Posted by: Ciampino - It's tomorrow there at January 11, 2024 11:39 PM (qfLjt)

194 Weirddave at January 11, 2024 11:29 PM (GAeCz)

While not discounting a mass casualty event …

A competing theory is that the Chinese, etc hopping the fence are here as workers and enforcers for drug cartels. Small, out of the way, pot farms that produce things actually much deadlier.

Why kill your customers?

Posted by: Adriane the Cynical Critic . . . at January 11, 2024 11:39 PM (4Winp)

195 The house was built in 1900. Insulation? Never heard about it. Window frames that actually fit the windows? Who are you kidding? No matter how high you kick the thermoset, it never gets above 60°
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I stand with Israel and all Jews everywhere at January 11, 2024 11:27 PM (6TzTY)

LOL I had an uncle lived in Omaha for a long time. That was his house exactly!

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2024 11:40 PM (S6gqv)

196 And one complaint with Moore's BG.

The tech elite in the form of Gaius gets seduced into working for the enemy by a hot, willing, adult woman. I mean she's a robot...but she's in the body of Tricia Helfer.

In reality it appears our Gates...sorry...Gauis got seduced with...kids.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 11, 2024 11:40 PM (ibTVg)

197 I will restate the way Ron Moore wrote his version in the mini-series was very disappointing.

Because everything is the Humans fault for creating the Cylons. Hence the Humans must be expunged from the universe by their creations.

Once I realized that, V'GER didn't seem so bad.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 11, 2024 11:42 PM (dYYCy)

198 The oily scheming Baltar got replaced by a neurotic tech nerd who had never gotten laid apparently.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 11, 2024 11:43 PM (dYYCy)

199 A man; a plan; a Cylon!

Something like that anyway.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 11, 2024 11:46 PM (2yu8s)

200 [looks at time]

Well, Japan should be on its way...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 11, 2024 11:47 PM (XeU6L)

201 Japan is building it's first Side?

Seig Zeon!

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 11, 2024 11:48 PM (dYYCy)

202 http://tinyurl.com/ymtdp87m
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

Posted by: Skip at January 11, 2024 11:49 PM (fwDg9)

203 Glad GnuBreed has family and friends in his AO to be there for him.

Anything we can do?

Cards, letters, comic books, DVDs???

Posted by: Adriane the Cynical Critic . . . at January 11, 2024 11:50 PM (4Winp)

204 Glad GnuBreed has family and friends in his AO to be there for him.

Anything we can do?

Cards, letters, comic books, DVDs???
Posted by: Adriane the Cynical Critic . .

A question for Jim SND.

We need to take care of our own. I;ll help whenever I can.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 11, 2024 11:54 PM (R4t5M)

205 We need to take care of our own. I;ll help whenever I can.

Yes.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 11, 2024 11:55 PM (EXyHK)

206

Rand Paul
@RandPaul
I’ve stayed out of the Republican Presidential Primary so far - but I’ve seen enough.

That’s why tomorrow morning I will have something important to say.

Don’t miss it!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 11, 2024 11:55 PM (63Dwl)

207 ...A question for Jim SND.

We need to take care of our own. I;ll help whenever I can. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 11, 2024 11:54 PM (R4t5M)

I will relay the question to him, directly. Great idea, but I have no idea what his fields of interest might be.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 11, 2024 11:56 PM (e6UQI)

208 Well launch went well.

Second launch is postponed: Due to unfavorable recovery weather conditions, team is resetting Falcon 9’s launch of
@Starlink from California for Saturday, January 13

Posted by: Ciampino - It's the other tomorrow again at January 11, 2024 11:58 PM (qfLjt)

209 Boker Tov Patriots from Israel
Just getting past the time change and 11 hour flight

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 11, 2024 11:59 PM (dNiu/)

210 Boker Tov Patriots from Israel
Just getting past the time change and 11 hour flight
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 11, 2024 11:59 PM (dNiu/)

Good Morning.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 12, 2024 12:00 AM (R4t5M)

211 That might make voting in person very problematic and calls for mass mail in voting might be heard, like if there was a pandemic.

Actually, the exact opposite happened as there was massive popular revolt against the policies that had led to the slaughter of 175,000 Americans by terrorists

Posted by: Weirddave at January 12, 2024 12:02 AM (GAeCz)

212 Holy crap it's cold out there.

The tide is low, so I walked out to the water and since it's more exposed, the northerly wind bites harder.

That will wake you up! It's lovely though. And the air is fresh and cold and invigorates the lungs.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 12, 2024 12:04 AM (Av3al)

213 The "Byrnside’s Fort" story is reminiscent of a story from Rush Limbaugh's home town: https://1795logcabin.com.

Posted by: Marooned at January 12, 2024 12:07 AM (kt8QE)

214 I will have something important to say.

IT'S BETTER TO BURN OUT, THAN TO FADE AWAY!!!

https://youtu.be/VEJ8lpCQbyw?si=DiOd2rOtpHe4-lke

Posted by: Rand Paul, Wants to Live Forever at January 12, 2024 12:09 AM (+YRf1)

215 Well, Japan should be on its way...

Galactic sushi, for everyone.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 12, 2024 12:11 AM (V8he0)

216 Jim SND, Thanks for the GnuBreed update, I too would love to send a card or a prayer, do let us know if he is receptive to this. I have not been able to get him out of my mind.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 12, 2024 12:11 AM (Sgq8y)

217 About the brain being missing. I'm a forensic pathologist. Depending on the degree of decomposition, there may not be recognizable brain tissue. As the brain decomposes, it liquefies and in some cases just flows onto the table when the skull is opened. There may be no brain to return. Again, depending on the degree of decomposition, other organs may not be easily identified unless you have significant experience with decomps.

Posted by: Hh465 at January 12, 2024 12:14 AM (dSuZq)

218 I'm 75 percent into Attack and finding it boring.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at January 12, 2024 12:14 AM (wkw1t)

219 Was just zipping through the comments in the Cafe and had these thoughts:

A circular saw is just a very small table saw that isn’t very stable.

A table saw is a very large circular saw that is difficult to maneuver.

Discuss.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at January 12, 2024 12:17 AM (wu87C)

220 Someone who's name rhymes with Bates had sex with Trafficked KIDS.
Rather than subject this POS to tying a Mill Stone around his Disgusting Neck and throwing him into the sea:
Maybe as 2021st enlightened folks we should just treat him as we do Prince Jared of Subway.
F this POS

Posted by: MATT GRAVER at January 12, 2024 12:18 AM (ZfvV/)

221 ...There may be no brain to return. Hh465 at January 12, 2024 12:14 AM (wkw1t)

Look, I'm sitting RIGHT HERE. D'ya gotta talk about me in front of everyone, like that?

/s

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 12, 2024 12:19 AM (e6UQI)

222 We’ve replaced Jim’s brain with sawdust and recycled coffee grounds. Let’s see if anyone notices …

Posted by: Adriane the Cynical Critic . . . at January 12, 2024 12:22 AM (4Winp)

223 Each chapter of Shlichter's book is an intro bio and then a first person narrative of what he or she experienced in either the attack or the aftermath.

I'm finding too many gun-totin' ex-Marine types and not enough libs.

The campus idiots that are doing all the marching actually try to aid the jihadis by fucking up the response calling in thousands of fake 911s trying to drive the cops into ambushes. There are plenty caught, tried hyper-quickly in military courts, sentenced, and capped with a 9 to the back of the head.

Tattoo removals become really big after. If I'd contributed with a chapter, I'd have guys removing the face studs and rings from captured wokesters using pliers.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at January 12, 2024 12:22 AM (KiBMU)

224 What was the Cylon phrase equivalent to aye aye Sir?

Posted by: Ciampino - It's the other other tomorrow again at January 12, 2024 12:24 AM (qfLjt)

225 Friday is Ladies’ Night at the shooting range.

Might as well edumacate the self.

Posted by: Adriane the Cynical Critic . . . at January 12, 2024 12:25 AM (4Winp)

226 ...A circular saw is just a very small table saw that isn’t very stable. A table saw is a very large circular saw that is difficult to maneuver. Discuss. Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at January 12, 2024 12:17 AM (wu87C)

Back in the '80s, Porter-Cable sold a hand held circular saw... with a 12" diameter blade.

Uses were such as Railroad Ties used in landscaping, large Roof Beams, such as the laminated one's you'll see in many a church roof's interior aspect.

Thing was a beast. The sheer torque it would produce when you first hit the switch, made it a dangerous tool, indeed. 1.5 hp motor, it would CUT.

There *are* still 12" circular saws on the market, if you can find 'em. But, don't, please. I prefer no sawn apart Horde, m'kay?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 12, 2024 12:26 AM (e6UQI)

227 Original - By your command -

Reboot - unknown.

Posted by: Adriane the Cynical Critic . . . at January 12, 2024 12:26 AM (4Winp)

228 I asked way early upthread how those theft rings in Chicago unlocked the 77,000 iPads and MacBooks so they could be resold into the black market.

They were given by the city to the schoolkids during the lockdown so they could get remotely "taught" by the "teachers."

I'm presuming each needed to be unlocked by the kid who "owned" it, then the crook writes the passcode on a piece of tape affixed to the keyboard.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at January 12, 2024 12:28 AM (KiBMU)

229 Limbaugh was a net loss for conservatives. 20m preaching to the choir vs all the rest, 100m or more soaking up the mainstream media. They won.

Posted by: Tally at January 12, 2024 12:29 AM (+kjrH)

230 227 Original - By your command -

Reboot - unknown.

Posted by: Adriane the Cynical Critic . . . at January 12, 2024 12:26 AM (4Winp)
----
Thank you - memory leaks after 29+29+..... you know.

Posted by: Ciampino - Alright, it's Saturday at January 12, 2024 12:31 AM (qfLjt)

231 Is it FUD troll season again already? I just put away my poll troll decorations!

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 12, 2024 12:32 AM (nC+QA)

232 Seem to have insomnia

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2024 12:33 AM (fwDg9)

233 All this talk of bench saws, missing fingers, etc. reminded me of:

Achtung!
Das machine ist nix fur Gerfingerpokin Und mittengrabben. Ist easy fur the snappen dur springenverks, fusenblowen, unst Poppencorken und spizensparken. Is nixt fur der verken mit Dumbkoffen. Das rubbernekken SightseeinKeepen das hands in der poxketsen. Relaxen und vatchen das lighten der blinken.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 25, 2023 10:54 PM (e4fEA)
===

Posted by: Ciampino - I saved it for a bloody day at January 12, 2024 12:35 AM (qfLjt)

234 Wonderful. So US prisons are harvesting organs like the freaking Chicoms, now? Just dandy. It's like Death Warrant, starring JCVD.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 11, 2024 10:30 PM (0FoWg)

Who knows but it wouldn't shock me. Let's face it, the law enforcement, judicial, and corrections apparatuses view the American people as something less than human and with utter contempt.

Posted by: We aren't citizens anymore at January 12, 2024 12:37 AM (atdF6)

235 Current temp is 72 F.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 11, 2024 10:11 PM (C2nn9)

It's something like 44 here, and falling, in Apache Junction. As a snowbird from the Great White North, I feel like I am being ripped off.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2024 12:37 AM (tkR6S)

236 233
That's authentic Austrian right there!

Posted by: Body H Odor - dog eater extraordinaire at January 12, 2024 12:38 AM (qfLjt)

237 There *are* still 12" circular saws on the market, if you can find 'em. But, don't, please. I prefer no sawn apart Horde, m'kay?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Big spinning blades are basically gyroscopes, and they can become a real life Physics 101 demonstration if you swing them around while they are still running. I once made the mistake of picking up a rotary planer while it was still spinning. It started squirming around in my hands like a big dog objecting to getting a bath. I didn't get hurt, but it was a near thing.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 12, 2024 12:39 AM (yWvc2)

238 Old company had a 12 in circular saw , it was a handful
We did lots of wood framing when I started.

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2024 12:43 AM (fwDg9)

239 fwiw if I were going to write a book about 101 ways to enrage God I would begin with encircling manhattan with an eruv.

Posted by: N at January 12, 2024 12:46 AM (RjBju)

240 Schlichter has a new book out called The Attack. I just read it. It's not long, but it's pretty scary. It basically postulates an October 7 type terrorist attack on the United States perpetrated by tens of thousands of the jihadis who came over the open border. I recommend it, meant to talk about it in the OP.

That might make voting in person very problematic and calls for mass mail in voting might be heard, like if there was a pandemic.
Posted by: J

fwiw, it is an important distinction that israel, which is apparently a wannabe uro country, has outlawed guns and ammo, so they have to just sit there and eabod when hamas comes to the door.

in America, in free Amearica, we do not

Posted by: N at January 12, 2024 12:49 AM (RjBju)

241 7 1/4" blade works for me, thanks.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 12, 2024 12:50 AM (R4t5M)

242 Idaho one time I clipped my left index finger with a planer. Noone can see it but I can.

Posted by: Tally at January 12, 2024 12:50 AM (+kjrH)

243 Seem to have insomnia
Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2024 12:33

Indeed me too. I'm pouring a glass of water, turning off a light and hope folks are quiet!

Posted by: Farmer at January 12, 2024 12:51 AM (55Qr6)

244
Big blade a keep on toinin'
Proud Gary keep on bleedin'
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the flo screamin'

Posted by: SFGoth at January 12, 2024 12:53 AM (KAi1n)

245 Let's be clear: Donald Trump does not have the authority to take us into war with Iran without Congressional approval. A president should never take this nation to war without the informed consent of the American people.

Posted by: Zombie Joe Biden, Jan 6, 2020! at January 12, 2024 12:55 AM (YAtuc)

246 Indeed me too. I'm pouring a glass of water, turning off a light and hope folks are quiet!
Posted by: Far

the thread does not seem to have insomnia

Posted by: N at January 12, 2024 12:55 AM (RjBju)

247 Big blade a keep on toinin'
Proud Gary keep on bleedin'
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the flo screamin'
Posted by: SFGoth at January 12, 2024 12:53 AM (KAi1n)

Damn funny job site humor there!

I see Makita still makes the 16 inch circular saw. Yours at Max Tool for only $1100.00.

Posted by: Rex B at January 12, 2024 12:58 AM (cDxgU)

248 I have seen theory or predictions of mass Jihadi attacks here, but Europe is way ahead of us in Muslim invasion and hasn't happened there. The Jihadis still go out in 1 to a few in attack mode, getting even a company size ( over 100) at once is a major undertaking and would be destroyed quickly even bu the Marxists.

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2024 12:58 AM (fwDg9)

249 As per last night, I still advocate traffic laws should be mear suggestions after 2am

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2024 01:00 AM (fwDg9)

250 I have seen theory or predictions of mass Jihadi attacks here, but Europe is way ahead of us in Muslim invasion and hasn't happened there. The Jihadis still go out in 1 to a few in attack mode, getting even a company size ( over 100) at once is a major undertaking and would be destroyed quickly even bu the Marxists.
Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2024 12:58 AM (fwDg9)\

Still, it would not hurt to accumulate material that could be put to use as weapons to be used against mobs.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2024 01:01 AM (tkR6S)

251 Network on TCM

Faye Dunaway…mmmmmmm….

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 12, 2024 01:02 AM (9yWhg)

252 Why would Jihadis attack Europe..pretty much have the run of the place already

Posted by: a dude in MI at January 12, 2024 01:03 AM (+I6Y/)

253 As per last night, I still advocate traffic laws should be mear suggestions after 2am
Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2024 01:00 AM (fwDg9)

After 2 A.M., one should be permitted to treat a red traffic light as though it were a stop sign: come to a stop, then proceed if safe to do so, and yield to traffic that has the green.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2024 01:04 AM (tkR6S)

254
Still, it would not hurt to accumulate material that could be put to use as weapons to be used against mobs.
Posted by: Alb

boiling oil

Posted by: N at January 12, 2024 01:04 AM (RjBju)

255 Not that Muslims don't get into larger groups and commit crimes, it just isn't Murdering Jihadi ones. The British Muslims had dozens in their grooming gangs

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2024 01:04 AM (fwDg9)

256 195 - Tom Servo -- Let me guess: your uncle's house was built east of 24th Srreet. By the time they started building west of
24th, the idea of insulation was slowly trickling through the construction industry. Good fitting windows had to wait until after the War.

We had an electrical problem. Our neighbor was a journey man electrician. He was practically rolling on the floor laughing. "They haven't done this way of setting up since before the War!" We had to call a plumber. He looked around, then remarked that his grandfather had probably installed it originally.

Oh well, everybody knew everybody and who you could call in a pinch. My one neighbor occasionally babysat the twins when I had to take #2 son to kindergarden. Poor Jim came trotting in one really crappy day and started to pour himself a cup of coffee. Within seconds, he was cursing like a stevedore. My elderly white cat liked to curl up around the carafe. That day, she lifted her head and opened her eyes before falling back t sleep. He'd always assumed she was just one of the lids' toy. " It's alive! That damn thing is alive!"

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I stand with Israel and all Jews everywhere at January 12, 2024 01:05 AM (6TzTY)

257 Thanks Skip !

Posted by: JT at January 12, 2024 01:05 AM (T4tVD)

258 The old rev house.

He needs to find the midden where all the used medicine/booze/perfume bottles etc. got dumped.

After WW2 there was a popular glass collecting boom and ghost-town dumps got tossed for old glass items. Pretty good money in that.

Posted by: 13times at January 12, 2024 01:06 AM (q+8oS)

259 boiling oil
Posted by: N at January 12, 2024 01:04 AM (RjBju)

Has its uses, but not readily portable.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2024 01:06 AM (tkR6S)

260 Hiya Cap'n !

Stay safe !

Posted by: JT at January 12, 2024 01:06 AM (T4tVD)

261 After 2 A.M., one should be permitted to treat a red traffic light as though it were a stop sign: come to a stop, then proceed if safe to do so, and yield to traffic that has the green.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2024 01:04 AM (tkR6S)

Ive been tempted to do this..sitting at a red light with not another vehicle around.

Posted by: a dude in MI at January 12, 2024 01:07 AM (+I6Y/)

262
Evening, all.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 12, 2024 01:07 AM (PoRhL)

263 Ive been tempted to do this..sitting at a red light with not another vehicle around.
Posted by: a dude in MI at January 12, 2024 01:07 AM (+I6Y/)

I used to do that, quite routinely, at one particular red light in Calgary that plagued my existence. Never did get a ticket for it. If I had, I would have asked the cop, "Exactly how long am I expected to wait before reaching the conclusion that the light programmer has become stuck?"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2024 01:10 AM (tkR6S)

264 I guess I missed the whole GnuBreed story - can someone direct me to the original post? So sorry to hear of his plight; happy that he has friends and family with him.

Thank you, Jim, for speaking with him. I have always enjoyed his commentary on matters.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at January 12, 2024 01:11 AM (SRRAx)

265 Ive been tempted to do this..sitting at a red light with not another vehicle around.
Posted by: a dude in MI at January 12, 2024 01:07 AM (+I6Y/)

I know I have a sinus infection (and need to get home immediately) when I treat a left turn on red like a *right* on red. Only happened a couple of times and I've been lucky enough to not get a ticket.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 12, 2024 01:12 AM (nC+QA)

266 After 2 A.M., one should be permitted to treat a red traffic light as though it were a stop sign: come to a stop, then proceed if safe to do so, and yield to traffic that has the green.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Glendale used to have minor intersections become flashing yellow from say 2am - 6 am …

Not sure if they still do.

Posted by: Adriane the Cynical Critic . . . at January 12, 2024 01:13 AM (4Winp)

267 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2024 01:10 AM (tkR6S)

Three minutes. At least that was the longest cycle length recommended in the US 25 years ago. For exactly the reason you mentioned. Any longer and people assumed it was broken. Especially because for some reason three minutes feels like an eternity when at a light.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 12, 2024 01:15 AM (nC+QA)

268 Glendale used to have minor intersections become flashing yellow from say 2am - 6 am …

Not sure if they still do.
Posted by: Adriane the Cynical Critic . . . at January 12, 2024 01:13 AM (4Winp)

I know of some intersections that got put on "flash" for that time frame, but usually the main drag got a flashing green, and the cross street got a flashing red. So the rule was to treat it like a 2-way stop.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2024 01:17 AM (tkR6S)

269 Evening, Blonde Morticia.

13 times, lots of old barns around here had trapdoors where they tossed all the glass bottles, there was a friend of my brother's who explored these treasure troves and I accompanied him on one of his expeditions. The old bottles that I acquired with him now sit proudly on the beam over my fireplace.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 12, 2024 01:17 AM (Sgq8y)

270 Polling, did it Tuesday in a very large magor 3 ways each way intersection, wasn't a car in sight in middle of Wilmington, I could have stayed there a hour and sure it wasn't changing.

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2024 01:17 AM (fwDg9)

271 I'm presuming each needed to be unlocked by the kid who "owned" it, then the crook writes the passcode on a piece of tape affixed to the keyboard.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at January 12, 2024 12:28 AM

----------------------

I'd wager the locking and tracking systems were never activated or the thieves had inside accomplices who circumvented them.. The CPS administration is so incredibly inept and corrupt.

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 12, 2024 01:18 AM (EEoJD)

272 4 I guess I missed the whole GnuBreed story - can someone direct me to the original post? So sorry to hear of his plight; happy that he has friends and family with him.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief

99.99 It was on Tuesday’s ONT. Beautiful pic of Bryce Canyon art the top.

Posted by: Adriane the Cynical Critic . . . at January 12, 2024 01:18 AM (4Winp)

273 Theresa my days are running together but think on ONT 2 nights ago

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2024 01:19 AM (fwDg9)

274 in cities such as detroit, after business hours the lights are usually flashing red or yellow, since theres not traffic which needs lights and having somebody sitting there means they are going to get robbed.

Posted by: N at January 12, 2024 01:20 AM (RjBju)

275 I still have 3 hours until time to get up.
Turning this off if I just lay here for that time.

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2024 01:21 AM (fwDg9)

276 In Texas, at least our part of it, they've started putting flashing yellows for left turns in less busy areas. It means the left turn lanes don't need to be as long since cars are less likely to get backed up.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 12, 2024 01:23 AM (nC+QA)

277 Blonde Morticia!

Good evening, good lady.

It is chilly and windy out here on the beach. I took a walk out to the water, the tide is out, and it is downright COLD. I bet the wildlife is hunkered down and doing its thing. Damn. Critters can figure out the survival thing. Why is it so hard for us?

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 12, 2024 01:27 AM (b7MbH)

278 In Texas, at least our part of it, they've started putting flashing yellows for left turns in less busy areas. It means the left turn lanes don't need to be as long since cars are less likely to get backed up.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 12, 2024 01:23 AM (nC+QA)

I hit one of those this evening in East Mesa. University Drive westbound, turning south onto Ellsworth. Missed the advance green to to turn south, but the arrow was flashing yellow, and after oncoming traffic cleared, I was able to make the turn in complete safety. This is smart traffic control, and it's "green", too. Less time spent idling at a light, the fewer the emissions.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2024 01:27 AM (tkR6S)

279 251 Network on TCM

Faye Dunaway…mmmmmmm….
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

"You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it!!"

http://tinyurl.com/yc5azn9c

Still relevant.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 12, 2024 01:29 AM (+YRf1)

280 'Nite Skip !

Posted by: JT at January 12, 2024 01:29 AM (T4tVD)

281 Well, 2330 here, time for me to hit the sack. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2024 01:30 AM (tkR6S)

282 'Nite AOP !

Posted by: JT at January 12, 2024 01:31 AM (T4tVD)

283
Jim, where can we send a card or whatever GnuBreed or his family needs? Maybe his family would like something for the next few weeks. Gift cards for Amazon Fresh or Instacart or McDonalds or whatever?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 12, 2024 01:31 AM (PoRhL)

284 Good evening, good lady.

It is chilly and windy out here on the beach. I took a walk out to the water, the tide is out, and it is downright COLD. I bet the wildlife is hunkered down and doing its thing. Damn. Critters can figure out the survival thing. Why is it so hard for us?
Posted by: nurse ratched

=============

Good evening! Isn't it odd? Why did we lose all our fur?I have to admire you for going out in the cold like that.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 12, 2024 01:36 AM (PoRhL)

285 Gosh Nurse, I didn't know that you were still up. How are you? Sorry about your Huskies. I used to live near the beach and I would love to get back there.

Hey Polliwog the 'Ette, how are you and the Inspector doing?

Skip, get some rest, Auntie Miklos is not here to scold you. I am also very glad that you did not get a ticket last night or early this morning.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 12, 2024 01:38 AM (Sgq8y)

286 Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 12, 2024 01:38 AM (Sgq8y)

Finally over a three week cold. So glad to be able to breathe again! How is it going for you?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 12, 2024 01:41 AM (nC+QA)

287 An NYU sabre fencer (I know a guy) says it's actually:
En garde! Preparez? Allez!

Posted by: Browncoat formerly known as Mike at January 12, 2024 01:42 AM (9Afsw)

288 That's a mess of beef there, fella.

I bowled a 497 tonight, best in a very long time. Yay me! Pick up even one silly spare and I would have made it to a cool 500. Next time, I think.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at January 12, 2024 01:47 AM (sRfrW)

289 ..Jim, where can we send a card or whatever GnuBreed or his family needs? Maybe his family would like something for the next few weeks. Gift cards for Amazon Fresh or Instacart or McDonalds or whatever?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 12, 2024 01:31 AM (PoRhL)

At present, I do not possess that information. I'll ask for it, tomorrow, and we shall see what we shall see.

His and my comms has always been email and fone.

Herself New Dawn and me, are the ONLY horde with whom he has met, IRL.

I will attest. He's indeed, a Very Good Man. A MORON. You should all be proud of him. He's taken care of his ageing mom, even till this day. His family now, will take over that doing.

Fucking hell. There comes a day when each of us might hope that similar words are said of us, as we trudge onwards to our own Rainbow Bridge.

And I'd better have a shitton of cats waiting for me there, or I'm gonna be pissed.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 12, 2024 01:53 AM (e6UQI)

290
It is chilly and windy out here on the beach. I took a walk out to the water, the tide is out, and it is downright COLD. I bet the wildlife is hunkered down and doing its thing. Damn. Critters can figure out the survival thing. Why is it so hard for us?

fwiw, we are eating the wildlife so

Posted by: N at January 12, 2024 01:53 AM (RjBju)

291 Polli, I have been battling something for well over three weeks. That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger, yes? I will be okay, thanks for asking.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 12, 2024 01:55 AM (Sgq8y)

292 After 2 A.M., one should be permitted to treat a red traffic light as though it were a stop sign: come to a stop, then proceed if safe to do so, and yield to traffic that has the green.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2024 01:04 AM (tkR6S)

I do it all the time. Nothing will make you question authority like sitting at a red light at 3am with no one else around.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 12, 2024 01:55 AM (MNhXM)

293 ..I bowled a 497 tonight, best in a very long time. Yay me! Pick up even one silly spare and I would have made it to a cool 500. Next time, I think. Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at January 12, 2024 01:47 AM (sRfrW)

Rolling a set of barbells down the gutters, is cheating, you know.

(best I've ever bowled is a 147, so I'll politely shuddup about bowling, now)

Golf? Don't ask. Best I ever did, is I broke 100 once.

And then they wouldn't let me play the 2nd nine.

Damn Windmill.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 12, 2024 01:55 AM (e6UQI)

294 I miss bowling. I grew up right next to a bowling alley /pool hall. Saturday Jr Leagues, pinball and pool. But the best thing in the world are bowling alley burgers and fries.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 12, 2024 02:01 AM (MNhXM)

295 I miss bowling. I grew up right next to a bowling alley /pool hall. Saturday Jr Leagues, pinball and pool. But the best thing in the world are bowling alley burgers and fries.

and gas station sushi?

Posted by: N at January 12, 2024 02:02 AM (RjBju)

296 Old Comiskey Park was ... old, but i had good times. I wonder what the locker rooms were like. But my first game at the new park, I sat in the upper deck. It was so steep that I felt like I would fall over my feet. And yes, too far from the field. Other parts were great: wide walkways for concessions. But, oh, that upper deck.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 12, 2024 02:04 AM (vUfI+)

297 Herself New Dawn and me, are the ONLY horde with whom he has met, IRL.

Then he has indeed met the best of us. *I* keep meeting Horde, and they keep dong great things for me for some reason, like sending me Windows keys or Ivermectin or flying halfway across the country to drive an RV towing a truck towing a motorcycle 1500 miles simply to keep me from having to do it, but why do none of y'all ever talk about the midget? He's always RIGHT THERE, at the MoMes or at the dinners or when I'm writing the ONT. With his ugly little Ak-kalpak hat, and that silly capped pipe and the smirk. My God, the smirk. WHY DOESN'T ANYONE TALK ABOUT HIM??

That smile. That FUCKING smile! He's thinking about hairspray, I just know it.

Posted by: Weirddave at January 12, 2024 02:05 AM (CLfFk)

298
It's something like 44 here, and falling, in Apache Junction. As a snowbird from the Great White North, I feel like I am being ripped off.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
-------

29 deg. and dropping here. Every year I feel compelled to ask you if you are certain that you closed the door behind you as you left The Great Frozen North.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2024 02:08 AM (XeU6L)

299 Look at your watch some time. 30 seconds seems an eternity at a deserted intersection. After 30 seconds, I'm driving through, I would make an argument to a judge that the controller was malfunctioning.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2024 02:13 AM (XeU6L)

300 Good night, Horde, getting cold here too, I need my blankie.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 12, 2024 02:14 AM (Sgq8y)

301 ...That smile. That FUCKING smile! He's thinking about hairspray, I just know it. Posted by: Weirddave at January 12, 2024 02:05 AM (CLfFk)

Put. Down. The. BONG!.

Told you that before. A good bottle of Jim Beam will do ya, and without the Woodstock Brown Acid effects of the alternatives.

Brown Liquor > brown acid.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 12, 2024 02:20 AM (e6UQI)

302 It's supposed to get down to 7°F in Fort Worth this weekend.

7.°.F.

In Fort Worth.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at January 12, 2024 02:20 AM (SRRAx)

303 Don't forget it can freeze as far south as Orlando. I've driven south in Florida and didn't feel any warmth until I passed by Ocala. You need heat in the Tampa area for some of the winter. A reporter was marveling that Las Vegas might get snow....Not usual to see snow on the strip. Go north on Nevada SR93 and you will see lots of snow as you climb in elevation. Some reporters just haven't been around long enough, or think all of the south is toasty year around.

Posted by: Colin at January 12, 2024 02:20 AM (oOhuO)

304 I miss bowling.

I'm tired, and read this as "I miss howling."

And I said to myself, "Yeah, man. Keep on werewolfing."

Posted by: It's been a long day at January 12, 2024 02:21 AM (pjs7m)

305 14 Re: the Crisis of Competence, I think we are in the first stages of a worldwide cascade failure

There have been a few close calls on the aviation world lately. That nobody wants to talk about. Airliner lands so hard that it's wrecked. Plane dives thousands of feet due to misunderstanding in the cockpit, worsened by inattention and failure to "Fly the f*king airplane." Puled out just 750 feet above the water.

DEI is our new religion. It has a false God.

Primary rule: Aviate, Navigate, Communicate.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 12, 2024 02:23 AM (A02Jo)

306 Look at your watch some time. 30 seconds seems an eternity at a deserted intersection. After 30 seconds, I'm driving through, I would make an argument to a judge that the controller was malfunctioning.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

I’m telling ya, man. Every 3rd blink is slower …

Posted by: Fillmore Car at January 12, 2024 02:25 AM (4Winp)

307 I remember in my Traffic Engineering class in college (one of the required courses for a Civil Engineering degree) - they actually figured out the maximum amount of time most people would patiently wait for a light to turn green. And they asked everyone how long they THOUGHT they had been waiting (always longer than the actual time).

Then they figured out the optimum time for a light to cycle given the traffic flow at any given time.

Yes, there are actually equations, and no, I don't remember any of them - all I do know is that was one of the most FUN classes I took. Oh, the stories!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at January 12, 2024 02:28 AM (SRRAx)

308 The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 11, 2024 10:06 PM (+YRf1

It's so easy to forget that in all of human history, America is such an anomaly -- with its Constitution, its freedoms -- that our elites are pushing back to living in misery.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 12, 2024 02:30 AM (lWecs)

309 But, oh, that upper deck.
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 12, 2024 02:04 AM (vUfI+)

Nosebleed seats are a real thing.

Posted by: Tally at January 12, 2024 02:33 AM (+kjrH)

310 For some reason, I can't access the comments from Tuesday night's ONT - would someone please send me a link to GnuBreed's comment where he tells everyone what is going on?

Thanks in advance!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at January 12, 2024 02:35 AM (SRRAx)

311 Teresa in Fort Worth...

Yeah, and every cop out there even remotely worth his salt, is VERY well educated as to the Northwest Institute of Traffic Technology studies.

Their data, graphs and calculations as to skid marks alone, on various surfaces, are the Bible as to computing Minimum Speeds required as to have left those skids, and are vital to accident investigators, everywhere.

On that, they're great. On "trafficing" up the flow with too many red lights, and not synchronizing the damn things to move the most, more smoothly, across the grid and boulevard. On that, they suck.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 12, 2024 02:36 AM (e6UQI)

312 72 Modern programming is just slapping another layer on top of existing layers of code...

A lot of good, old code was swept away over concerns about a Y2K meltdown. Except it used two digit years.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 12, 2024 02:40 AM (FPoVT)

313 For some reason, I can't access the comments from Tuesday night's ONT

Oy! Neither could I. Are you an Apple / Safari person.

The gist: he needs a liver transplant but after review, was denied.

Not blaming the doctors. Is grateful for the life he has had.

He is entering hospice.

Posted by: Adriane the iThingy Critic . . . at January 12, 2024 02:43 AM (4Winp)

314 Mmmmmm. Beef.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 12, 2024 02:43 AM (di6C2)

315 Interesting reading on college and how useless some degrees are. The top ten worthless degrees are what you think they are.

My neighbor is graduating from a tech college in engineering, and already has been offered multiple jobs from various companies. Sort of like a bidding war for him, and he has accepted the best one from a company I never have heard of.
Starts work right after graduation in May.

Posted by: Colin at January 12, 2024 02:44 AM (oOhuO)

316 Mix different driving cultures adds to traffic woes. The natives in Boise apparently learned to drive on John Deere tractors. The influx of refugees from California drive like, well, Californians. Add the aliens from south of the border and things tend to get interesting at times.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 12, 2024 02:48 AM (yWvc2)

317 fwiw, that is not because she's a good engineer its because shes a woman so

Posted by: N at January 12, 2024 02:51 AM (RjBju)

318 My neighbor is graduating from a tech college in engineering, and already has been offered multiple jobs from various companies. Sort of like a bidding war for him, and he has accepted the best one from a company I never have heard of.
Starts work right after graduation in May.

fwiw, that is not because she's a good engineer its because shes a woman so

Posted by: N at January 12, 2024 02:51 AM (RjBju)

319 the clock is sloooow

Posted by: a dude in MI at January 12, 2024 02:56 AM (+I6Y/)

320 My neighbor is graduating from a tech college in engineering, and already has been offered multiple jobs from various companies. Sort of like a bidding war for him, and he has accepted the best one from a company I never have heard of.
Starts work right after graduation in May.
Posted by: Colin at January 12, 2024 02:44 AM (oOhuO)

Good for him.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 12, 2024 03:00 AM (di6C2)

321 319 the clock is sloooow
Posted by: a dude in MI at January 12, 2024 02:56 AM (+I6Y/)

Heh. For me it is always too fast in the morning.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 12, 2024 03:00 AM (di6C2)

322 And good luck to Gnubreed.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 12, 2024 03:01 AM (di6C2)

323
Re: the Crisis of Competence, I think we are in the first stages of a worldwide cascade failure

There have been a few close calls on the aviation world lately. That nobody wants to talk about. Airliner lands so hard that it's wrecked. Plane dives thousands of feet due to misunderstanding in the cockpit, worsened by inattention and failure to "Fly the f*king airplane." Puled out just 750 feet above the water.

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It might be turning around. Schools are rethinking the dropping of standardized tests to the point that the NY Times writes favorably of this reversal. And it's safe to say out loud that DEI is a crock. Listen good, and you may hear lefties claiming that DEI was a conservative trap all along.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 12, 2024 03:12 AM (PoRhL)

324 Gnubreed is now in same position my husband was in, 3 years ago.

Failing liver & kidneys. No transplant (at least, not until he'd had ZERO alcohol for a year.) and looking at hospice.

Hubby's legs were so swollen, he could barely walk. He fell a few times and couldn't get himself off the floor. Had ascites (fluid buildup in abdomen) and esophageal varices. Was weak, nauseated, ate very little and slept very much.

Dr. said: "You need to get your affairs in order. Now. Come back in one month, if you're still alive."

Posted by: JQ at January 12, 2024 03:25 AM (njWTi)

325 Testing is not the issue- it never was. It is the method of teaching and holding people accountable. The testing is just a measure of how they are doing their jobs- you would still have to close the loop and fire the ones who suck.

Commies are fucking lazy idiots. They are fetishistic in their thinking as well as being cowards. You can bring back all the testing you want and it will change absolutely nothing except show you how full of shit these 'teaching' methods are. And they are not even teaching methods. Classrooms/slam poetry sessions are not pedagogy. And they will never willingly go back to the old ways- because that involves actual fucking work. And stress. And responsibility.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 12, 2024 03:31 AM (di6C2)

326 (cont'd)

We went thru hell and lots of Dr visits, blood tests *all the time* and lots of meds and plenty of scares, ER visits... UGH! He'd get the fluid drained monthly (he refused the permanent drain), often as much as 10 liters. Then, he went through TIPS surgery. It was successful, and he's had no more ascites. Oh, but then more meds-- due to blood non-filtration & the encephalopathy that caused.

It's been a long road. We've both fought very hard. Hubby always said he never wanted the transplant anyway. Everyone we knew (and some here!) were praying for him.

Every day is a gift. I'm rambling now.

So very sorry, Gnubreed. I hope you're able to make the most of the time you have left.

Posted by: JQ at January 12, 2024 03:37 AM (njWTi)

327 Just now reading about Gnubreed. Adding names to the left side of the blog is a very unpleasant and sad thing.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 12, 2024 03:38 AM (KAi1n)

328 (last one)

Hubby's still here, is back to his normal 180lbs (was down to 128 at the worst) and full of pee & vinegar. We don't know how long this will last, but are grateful to God for this extra time!

Just this week, at follow up visit, Dr shook his hand & said hubby is doing wonderfully... and that Dr could count on one hand, the number of patients what made it this long after the original dire prognosis.

A miracle, indeed!

Posted by: JQ at January 12, 2024 03:44 AM (njWTi)

329 Some years ago i cut my alcohol intake down to about a beer a week. I don't drink at home and just don't enjoy feeling inebriated anymore (i drink the NA stuff while socializing when i'm out). I'm sure my liver and kidneys thank me. How they feel about my enthusiatic marijuana consumption i don't know but i have no symptoms of anything. I do have several close friends who are drinking themselves to death. One stopped drinking nearly a year ago but it may be too late. The other one is full speed ahead despite my efforts. Really sad.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 12, 2024 03:45 AM (KAi1n)

330 The Dr's always blame alcohol, if it's consumption is known to them. Kinda like cigarettes.

Now, do not misunderstand-- I *am not saying* that either are good for a body.

First: Hubby didn't drink much. In fact, neither of us drank at all for many years. I'd bet that 90% of our cow-orkers drink more than we ever did.

Second: Hubby *did* take Tylenol-- all the time. His job was very physically demanding and as he aged, would get more aches & pains. So, he'd take more ~~poison~~ Tylenol. Too much. You know, if the label says "take 2" he'd take 4, because pain.

When he was so nauseated, not eating enough, and losing too much weight-- some friends brought him some Yummy Gummies to help appetite & reduce nausea.

Yay! It worked!

Posted by: JQ at January 12, 2024 03:54 AM (njWTi)

331 Morning, all you insomaniacals! 'Tis all of 67 degrees here and humid (of course). This is ahead of showers predicted for today and falling temps tonight; we'll have a chilly Saturday, a slightly warmer Sunday, and a cold Monday. So the weather mavens say.

I actually slept almost seven hours last night! Amazing. Now to decide if I want to clock a fourth workout this week, or take it easy until Sunday. Hmmmm . . .

Sorry to hear about Gnubreed's difficulties.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 12, 2024 03:57 AM (omVj0)

332 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at January 12, 2024 04:00 AM (mn2bz)

333 Tylenol and other nsaids are hell on the liver. AFAIK, opiates are easier. Not that i'm advocating that but stuff people assume isn't so bad is. That weed is schedule 1 while Tylenol is OTC shows the corruption of gubmint.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 12, 2024 04:02 AM (KAi1n)

334 Trade weather with ya (for only a couple days, of course) Wolfus!

We got several inches of snow yesterday afternoon/evening. Looks like 4 or 5 inches deep now, but expecting more before sun up...

Temp is currently 23F, falling, and high of 18F this afternoon.

Posted by: JQ at January 12, 2024 04:04 AM (njWTi)

335 Tylenol is GARBAGE and should be taken entirely off the market, IMO.

Posted by: JQ at January 12, 2024 04:05 AM (njWTi)

336 310 For some reason, I can't access the comments from Tuesday night's ONT - would someone please send me a link to GnuBreed's comment where he tells everyone what is going on?
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at January 12, 2024 02:35 AM (SRRAx)

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=407765

156 Evening, fellow Hordelings. I've been mostly absent from the comments this last year as I strove to get a liver transplant.

And failed, due to a wore out body. I will be entering hospice soon, and my end is near. The transplant team made a fair judgement, and I'm damn sure I wouldn't want to be in their shoes.

As to y'all, an old western saying applies --

I rode with them, and I've got no complaints.
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 09, 2024 10:55 PM (zHuJr)

Posted by: m at January 12, 2024 04:10 AM (mn2bz)

337 Hubby got his prognosis horribilus at age 67, just a bit after retirement.

Yay, "Golden Years" or something....

Posted by: JQ at January 12, 2024 04:21 AM (njWTi)

338 Thank you, m!

How awful for GnuBreed....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at January 12, 2024 05:10 AM (SRRAx)

339 338 Thank you, m!

How awful for GnuBreed....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at January 12, 2024 05:10 AM (SRRAx)

O.k.!

Posted by: m at January 12, 2024 05:18 AM (mn2bz)

340 EMMAUS, Pa. — As the area prepares for its first presidential visit since Joe Biden's 2021 tour of the Mack Trucks plant, Emmaus is getting ready for a mysterious "special event" that same morning.

East Penn schools are dismissing early Friday. And signs on streets near Triangle Park and Borough Hall are calling for no parking, stopping or standing along these areas, beginning from 7 to 8 a.m. and ending 4 p.m. or 5 p.m., depending on the specific street.

Borough police officials say there is no further information available — but rumors are swirling online and among local folks that Biden could be visiting at least one small business in town.

Posted by: SMOD at January 12, 2024 07:17 AM (RovqD)

341 Two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Jeff Beck died at age 78 on Wednesday after a short bout with bacterial meningitis.

Posted by: SMOD at January 12, 2024 07:50 AM (iA26U)

342 >>287 An NYU sabre fencer (I know a guy) says it's actually:
En garde! Preparez? Allez!

No. "Prets" is correct. And we don't use French unless we referee international events.

Posted by: Otto Zilch at January 12, 2024 09:04 AM (xeh/U)

343 WeirdDave!!!

Posted by: Candidus at January 12, 2024 09:06 AM (+B0EC)

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Posted by: sergeant at January 12, 2024 11:13 AM (Gev9T)

345 I was in Chicago when the old Comiskey Park held its last couple of games. I remember seeing a story about the new park to come where the writer explained they didn’t really have anything against the new park, except DiMaggio had never hit a home run there. The writer went on to encapsulate the history that old Comiskey Park had seen, and no matter what they did for the new park all that was going to be lost in the shuffle. I recall going there to see a game featuring a break-out year for a young Roger Clemens (who was ejected early in the game during a close play at first base).

It was a very touching and thought provoking article. It made me wish I could get tickets to one of the last few games.

Posted by: Advo at January 12, 2024 11:15 AM (VHN21)

346 WHERE is that Beef Ageing warehouse?? Does it belong to a restaurant? A meat wholesaler?
That Fort? About 1 mile from our old family farm, in the middle of nowhere(upstate NY) there is a homestead settled about the same time my family did, 1st Europeans. It's squared logs as well..and there are lead balls and arrowheads embedded in the outer walls. Apparently it got a little "Sporty" around there, whether it was the earliest days, founding of Cooperstown times, or from part of the Cherry Valley Massacre period...who knows. The exact story seems to have been lost.
RE: BIG circular saws, I've built several Log Homes and Post/beam structures, there isn't anything other than a hand saw that will take the place of a 16" Circular, you can use a chainsaw, but then have to clean up the rough ends with either a porta band, planer or sander. Yeah, they throw a LOT of twisting torque at start up, but that same effect holds them straight/balanced once they are up to speed.And unless you do something REALLY stupid they don't kickback. They are NOT a saw you want to pin the guard back on, and it takes a bit of file/grinder work to adjust the leading lip of the guard so it doesn't bind at first.

Posted by: birdog at January 12, 2024 02:19 PM (sYlnp)

347 "Lemmie get a big hell yeah from the baseball fans out there, HELL ,YEAH!"

Would this be the same baseball league that shit Black Lives Matter all over their pitchers' mounds in 2020?

HELL, YEAH!

MLB can FOAD.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at January 12, 2024 06:59 PM (Qt4kF)

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