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Do not drop a computer on your feet, or if you must, do not drop a computer on your feet and then complain about the pain. Pain is just a signal that everything is working, including your feet and your computer.

Ow.

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There is a great deal of silliness about. But as I mentioned, my feet hurt.

(The doctor did check them, but concluded that I would live if my feet hurt, but potentially not if she didn't get my blood pressure under control. So, for now, I hurt. Next appointment is Tuesday.)

Something But I'm Not Sure What Interlude

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Sing, sang, sung.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 Oink!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 29, 2025 04:35 AM (aJQjq)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 04:35 AM (aURVT)

3 Good morning!

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at August 29, 2025 04:36 AM (oEIWf)

4 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 29, 2025 04:38 AM (3447G)

5 Many early-morning yays!

Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 04:39 AM (aURVT)

6 Ow.
-

This is in addition to your feet already hurting?

Maybe it's just time to amputate them.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 29, 2025 04:39 AM (3447G)

7 How much is YouTube paying you, Pixy?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 29, 2025 04:41 AM (3447G)

8 (willowed, if there's any sense in the world):

I'm going to start a collection so I'll be able to equip the _next_ expedition I send out past the Antarctic Icewall with a Starlink Mini.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at August 29, 2025 04:41 AM (oEIWf)

9 ... or elevate them, while they are still attached to your ankles?

Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 04:41 AM (aURVT)

10 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2025 04:41 AM (+qU29)

11 8 (willowed, if there's any sense in the world):

I'm going to start a collection so I'll be able to equip the _next_ expedition I send out past the Antarctic Icewall with a Starlink Mini.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at August 29, 2025 04:41 AM (oEIWf)

I was just reading that earlier comment:

527 I'm starting a collection to fund a Starlink Mini on my expedition to the antarctic icewall. This one's not going to fall out of contact or get lost like the last one!
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at August 29, 2025 04:34 AM (oEIWf)

Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 04:42 AM (aURVT)

12 6 This is in addition to your feet already hurting?

Posted by: Biden's Dog

I admit that it did not improve upon my pre-existing condition.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 29, 2025 04:42 AM (BLOW1)

13 >>>Do not drop a computer on your feet, or if you must, do not drop a computer on your feet and then complain about the pain. Pain is just a signal that everything is working, including your feet and your computer.

Pain is a signal that your computer is working?

Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 04:44 AM (aURVT)

14 Mornin'

I'm going to assume that Pixy isn't '29' either.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2025 04:46 AM (ohOaC)

15
Some of the flat-earther's believe there are forbidden lands beyond the ice wall. Why, Admiral Byrd knew all about them.....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2025 04:47 AM (w6EFb)

16 I have confessed previously to being Gen X, so definitely enjoying my post-29 years at this point.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 29, 2025 04:48 AM (BLOW1)

17 So, is Hahn 'Super Dry' any good?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2025 04:50 AM (ohOaC)

18 15 Some of the flat-earther's believe there are forbidden lands beyond the ice wall. Why, Admiral Byrd knew all about them.....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2025 04:47 AM (w6EFb)

No flat-earthers are pilots, amirite?

Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 04:50 AM (aURVT)

19 I was too late for the ONT but I'd need to add the following to the no soliciting sign:

I already have solar panels.
I've already replaced my windows.
There hasn't been a hailstorm since the last time I replaced my roof.
I'm not interested in replacing my home security, or exterminator, or lawn care.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 29, 2025 04:52 AM (ExV1e)

20 17 So, is Hahn 'Super Dry' any good?
Posted by: Puddleglum

As I recall, only okay. Don't really drink alcohol much, and beer not at all these days.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 29, 2025 04:52 AM (BLOW1)

21
Here's an X account of one the leading lights of Flat-Earth "theory":

https://tinyurl.com/273g75r6

I'm warning you, you'll be banging your head in frustration reading this stuff -- how can anybody be this stup---this craz --- there's no word for it!

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2025 04:53 AM (w6EFb)

22 The Memes of Thursday... on Friday:

https://tinyurl.com/4xjcc8rx+

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 29, 2025 04:53 AM (ExV1e)

23 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 29, 2025 04:38 AM (3447G)

Boing? The sound of a Houthi being blown out of a building?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 29, 2025 04:54 AM (L5An7)

24 16 I have confessed previously to being Gen X, so definitely enjoying my post-29 years at this point.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 29, 2025 04:48 AM (BLOW1)

Boomer here. Hello, young'un!

Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 04:54 AM (aURVT)

25 Some of the flat-earther's believe there are forbidden lands beyond the ice wall. Why, Admiral Byrd knew all about them.....

And with a Starlink Mini we'll be able to find out all about them for ourselves!

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at August 29, 2025 04:54 AM (oEIWf)

26 @Biden's Dog: Carried the "BOING!" into yesterday's tech thread, as you requested.

@m: I see you got the 200 yesterday. Gentlemen, I have found our sniper. ;-)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 29, 2025 04:54 AM (O7YUW)

27 >> No flat-earthers are pilots, amirite?

Why, every pilot knows you don't dip your nose to follow the curvature......

Airline routes are a big part of their conspiracy ideas. All the pilots know the earth is flat, but they're part of "They" who lie to us.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2025 04:55 AM (w6EFb)

28 Whatta team!

Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 04:55 AM (aURVT)

29 Pain is a signal that your computer is working?
Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 04:44 AM (aURVT)

Australia has some odd computer features.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 29, 2025 04:55 AM (ExV1e)

30 Don't really drink alcohol much, and beer not at all these days.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 29, 2025 04:52 AM (BLOW1)

My impression is that Australian beer is made for volume consumption more than quality.

But there's nothing wrong with that!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 29, 2025 04:56 AM (L5An7)

31 That specific version of Benny Goodman "Sing Sing Sing" video is just magnificent. One of my favorite all time performances. It helps that Gene Krupa plays like a man possessed.

And then there is Buddy Rich. Oh my. Check out his Mercy, Mercy album from 1968. His big band was one of the finest. An example.

Channel 1 Suite
Mercy, Mercy (196

https://youtu.be/SB3mI6lMpuw

Gene Krupa & Buddy Rich Famous Drum Battle. Two of the greatest drummers having some fun.
https://youtu.be/Nu1teeixmpw

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 29, 2025 04:57 AM (aJQjq)

32 27 >> No flat-earthers are pilots, amirite?

Why, every pilot knows you don't dip your nose to follow the curvature......

Airline routes are a big part of their conspiracy ideas. All the pilots know the earth is flat, but they're part of "They" who lie to us.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2025 04:55 AM (w6EFb)

In all seriousness, if the flat-earthers took some intro flying classes, like, sat there at a desk, learning ....

Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 04:58 AM (aURVT)

33 @13/m: "Pain is a signal that your computer is working?"

After a long career in tech, I'd have to say that's pretty accurate.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 29, 2025 04:58 AM (O7YUW)

34 but they're part of "They" who lie to us.
Posted by: publius,

Next, on Tucker Carlson.....

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2025 04:59 AM (ohOaC)

35 34 but they're part of "They" who lie to us.
Posted by: publius,

Next, on Tucker Carlson.....
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 29, 2025 04:59 AM (ohOaC)

Nice one!

Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 05:02 AM (aURVT)

36
If you want a laugh, look up the "Final Experiment", an "expedition" to one of the bases in Antarctica where the 24-hour sun was possible. Somebody financed a trip for a group of the biggest flat-earthers to go down there. They got them to admit that, yep, a 24-hour sun circling the horizon would rule out the "ice wall" stuff, and yep, the earth was spherical.

Some refused to go (for reasons), but a few of them went.

They went down, and saw the midnight sun. The rest of the flat-earthers turned on them as selling out to the globe conspiracy. It's a hoot, and you can find some Youtube excerpts of all that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2025 05:04 AM (w6EFb)

37 I picked up a bottle of Balvenie 12 year DoubleWood Scotch. It will do. Really. Pretty excellent.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 29, 2025 05:05 AM (aJQjq)

38 @Biden's Dog: Carried the "BOING!" into yesterday's tech thread, as you requested.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 29, 2025 04:54 AM (O7YUW)
-

I saw. Thanks.

Anyhoo... lunchtime!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 29, 2025 05:09 AM (3447G)

39 All joking about the hollow earth aside, my eyes are still bugging me, I have to see an opthamologist again about this, but in the meantime I'm going to bed.

Good night guys.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at August 29, 2025 05:10 AM (fdzyR)

40 Ashli Babbitt was offered a full military funeral by the Air Force.

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 29, 2025 05:13 AM (rc8Nj)

41 I've dropped a computer on my foot, I've also stuck my hand in a wood chipper.

Wood chipper hurt more, so if a person has their druthers about such things, choose the computer.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 29, 2025 05:13 AM (XV/Pl)

42 I really wonder if people ho think the earth was flat really did. It would have to be a disk and other objects in space rotate so obviously a ball

Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2025 05:13 AM (+qU29)

43 36
If you want a laugh, look up the "Final Experiment", an "expedition" to one of the bases in Antarctica where the 24-hour sun was possible. Somebody financed a trip for a group of the biggest flat-earthers to go down there. They got them to admit that, yep, a 24-hour sun circling the horizon would rule out the "ice wall" stuff, and yep, the earth was spherical.

Some refused to go (for reasons), but a few of them went.

They went down, and saw the midnight sun. The rest of the flat-earthers turned on them as selling out to the globe conspiracy. It's a hoot, and you can find some Youtube excerpts of all that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2025 05:04 AM (w6EFb)

Aagghh.

Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 05:16 AM (aURVT)

44 Lots to do today at work
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2025 05:23 AM (+qU29)

45 41 I've dropped a computer on my foot, I've also stuck my hand in a wood chipper.

Wood chipper hurt more, so if a person has their druthers about such things, choose the computer.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 29, 2025 05:13 AM (XV/Pl)

Maybe we've seen you in some Far Side cartoons?

Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 05:23 AM (aURVT)

46 @42

>>I really wonder if people ho think the earth was flat really did. It would have to be a disk and other objects in space rotate so obviously a ball

Are their writings on how they perceived the earth as flat?

I think the whole flat earth thing is simply a misconception of viewpoints.

I'm convinced modern flat earthers are simply taking the piss and aren't serious.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 29, 2025 05:24 AM (XV/Pl)

47 46 @42

>>I really wonder if people ho think the earth was flat really did. It would have to be a disk and other objects in space rotate so obviously a ball

Are their writings on how they perceived the earth as flat?

I think the whole flat earth thing is simply a misconception of viewpoints.

I'm convinced modern flat earthers are simply taking the piss and aren't serious.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 29, 2025 05:24 AM (XV/Pl)

from the ONT:

512
Something seemed familiar about the arguments that "Truthache" guy with the 13 month calendar. That bit about the calendar is a deception to keep us out of sync with nature.

So, I went to his X page and got to scrolling through his posts. Yep, he's a flat-earther. Thinks space is fake and NASA is Satanic conspiracy and all that stuff.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 29, 2025 03:27 AM (w6EFb)

Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 05:26 AM (aURVT)

48 G'mornin all y'all
Life is good tday.
Great music - thanks Pixy.
Sorry bout yer feet. Owieee.

Carry on.

Posted by: OkJohn at August 29, 2025 05:26 AM (NC/it)

49
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 29, 2025 05:29 AM (tljrc)

50
https://nitter.net/truthache68

Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 05:30 AM (aURVT)

51 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at August 29, 2025 05:35 AM (AN2gy)

52 Urk! To all the monosyllabic folk

Swingin' musical interlude

Posted by: fluffy at August 29, 2025 05:37 AM (AN2gy)

53 Evening and morning to all the late toilers and early risers across the vast AoSHQ Empire! 'Tis Friday, the consummation devoutly to be wished.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2025 05:41 AM (omVj0)

54 Saint Motel - Benny Goodman is kind of endlessly entertaining.

Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 05:46 AM (aURVT)

55 Today is the twentieth anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Katrina, and the local Fox outlet (among, I suspect, all the local stations) is babbling away about memorials and showing retrospectives. Yes, I was here for it. Miss Linda and I, and our cats, crawled out of town on Sunday morning, taking *twelve solid hours* to get only a little west of Baton Rouge. We spent the night on the floor of a community center in Erwinville, listening to weird people talk to themselves. The next day we made it to College Station in TX, where we stayed -- happily, for me -- for about six weeks. My employer paid me right along. Our places here were fine when we got back in early October and I was back at my desk at work in early November.

My view at the time, and still: If you had the sense, and resources, to leave for good, you should have. It's crazy to return to the ruins of Pompeii after Vesuvius has erupted -- and you know it will happen again.

I had the sense, but not the resources, to leave then.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2025 05:47 AM (omVj0)

56 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 29, 2025 05:51 AM (hoCmQ)

57 Lisa Cook is done.

Put a fork in her:

https://tinyurl.com/mtj25rsp

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 29, 2025 05:52 AM (3447G)

58 RE: NOLA and Hurricane Katrina. About 2 years after that, I drove through NOLA on the way to visit a customer's aircraft operation in MS. It was astounding to see the debris, wreckage and trash still visible from the highway. I remember telling my wife that you couldn't dig a big enough pit to toss all that into. Then as we crossed into MS it was if a switch had been thrown and stuff was cleaned up, trees were cleared and houses were rebuilt.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 29, 2025 05:54 AM (3Ope8)

59 54 Saint Motel - Benny Goodman is kind of endlessly entertaining.
Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 05:46 AM (aURVT)

... (the video), and the tune is very catchy.

Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 05:55 AM (aURVT)

60 Lisa Cook is done.

Put a fork in her:

https://tinyurl.com/mtj25rsp
Posted by: Biden's Dog

Apparently Cook is saying that this whole matter is due to a clerical error. Hell of a clerical I would say.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 29, 2025 06:00 AM (aJQjq)

61 NOLA and Hurricane Katrina. About 2 years after that, I drove through NOLA on the way to visit a customer's aircraft operation in MS. It was astounding to see the debris, wreckage and trash still visible from the highway. I remember telling my wife that you couldn't dig a big enough pit to toss all that into. Then as we crossed into MS it was if a switch had been thrown and stuff was cleaned up, trees were cleared and houses were rebuilt.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 29, 2025

***
Exactly . . . and the MS Gulf Coast got the direct strike of the winds and storm surge, not Da Swamp. Here it was the failure of the levees that caused the lingering horror.

Far be it from me to suggest that the, uh, quality of the inhabitants that made the difference in the after-storm response in MS. (But it was.)

On TV I watched the chaos, the looting, the learned helplessness of the locals who couldn't evacuate (or didn't bother), and I changed a lot of my perspective on the world that weekend. In contrast, with Hurricane Betsy in '65, I know the power was back on in less than two weeks.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2025 06:03 AM (omVj0)

62 Hold back a tear here. Clip from the Minn. church. No gore:

https://tinyurl.com/6ftb45yz

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 29, 2025 06:11 AM (3447G)

63 Unreal level of hypocrisy:

https://tinyurl.com/27y56jvz

They're unhumans, just like the name of the book.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 29, 2025 06:14 AM (3447G)

64 the truthache68 guy

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/
48642668.Mike_Jeffries

https://tinyurl.com/mrysmenb

Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 06:15 AM (aURVT)

65 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Pennsylvania 6-5000.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 29, 2025 06:16 AM (WvZaB)

66 All CDC offices need to be gutted:

https://tinyurl.com/3dc3744t

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 29, 2025 06:17 AM (3447G)

67 Exactly . . . and the MS Gulf Coast got the direct strike of the winds and storm surge, not Da Swamp. Here it was the failure of the levees that caused the lingering horror.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2025 06:03 AM (omVj0)

And why did the levees fail? Corruption in the orgs responsible for maintaining them.

Posted by: Farquad at August 29, 2025 06:18 AM (NtFTC)

68 66 All CDC offices need to be gutted:

https://tinyurl.com/3dc3744t
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 29, 2025 06:17 AM (3447G)

Lotta AWFLs in that crowd!

Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 06:18 AM (aURVT)

69 From the Babylon Bee, there's a new board game edition out:

https://tinyurl.com/cpnueddf

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 29, 2025 06:20 AM (3447G)

70 >>> Apparently Cook is saying that this whole matter is due to a clerical error.

Bump it to a felony and make 34 copies.

Posted by: fluffy at August 29, 2025 06:22 AM (AN2gy)

71 Alteria. I used to have a different nic introduced me to Balvenie and I have been thanking him ever since.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2025 06:27 AM (dxWFK)

72 Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
7h
They really don't see how calling a biological male who committed a mass shooting a woman might be insulting to women.
Maybe another landslide election loss will do the trick.

Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 06:32 AM (aURVT)

73 Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2025 06:27 AM (dxWFK)

Yup! Balvenie is lovely. Try Oban next!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 29, 2025 06:34 AM (L5An7)

74 Try Aberlour

Posted by: Dark Litigator at August 29, 2025 06:35 AM (KAi1n)

75
The problem, of course, is guns. Your guns. Not the wackos and gangbangers. It would be hard to get guns away from them. But you're easier. So that's what they mean.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 29, 2025 06:37 AM (kkTda)

76 Laphroaig.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 29, 2025 06:37 AM (WvZaB)

77 Stephen L. Miller retweeted
David Hazony
@davidhazony
17h
Israel may have just beepered the Houthis.

Looks like their entire leadership gathered in a number of secret locations to watch their leader’s speech. Israel struck them all simultaneously during the speech.

Stay tuned for assessment. This may be big.

Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 06:37 AM (aURVT)

78 I recently had a slug of Insomnia. Long finish. Stays with you.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at August 29, 2025 06:38 AM (KAi1n)

79
You shouldn't be drinking Intoxicating beverages anyway.

*ducks*
*runs*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 29, 2025 06:39 AM (kkTda)

80 Laphroaig.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 29, 2025 06:37 AM (WvZaB)

Probably Lagavulin before you go for the serious stuff.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 29, 2025 06:41 AM (ExV1e)

81 Lagavulin is vile

Posted by: Dark Litigator at August 29, 2025 06:43 AM (KAi1n)

82 Probably Lagavulin before you go for the serious stuff.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 29, 2025 06:41 AM (ExV1e)

I like the younger ones. I think the 16 is too woody.

But try Caol Ila if you really enjoy licking ashtrays!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 29, 2025 06:45 AM (L5An7)

83 I always thought "The Flat Earth Society" was just a bunch of stoners making fun.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 29, 2025 06:45 AM (ZmEVT)

84 See what happens if you take you eyes off the enemy.

Posted by: Eromero at August 29, 2025 06:46 AM (jgmnb)

85 Working my way through Balvenie Carribean Cask and Frenck Oak 16

Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2025 06:47 AM (dxWFK)

86 G'morning all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 29, 2025 06:48 AM (a1415)

87 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at August 29, 2025 06:50 AM (XQo4F)

88 Lagavulin is vile
Posted by: Dark Litigator at August 29, 2025 06:43 AM (KAi1n)

I assume you drink Appletinis while listening to your Taylor Swift vinyls.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 29, 2025 06:51 AM (ExV1e)

89 83 I always thought "The Flat Earth Society" was just a bunch of stoners making fun.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 29, 2025 06:45 AM (ZmEVT)

Some of these groups have spent a pretty penny trying to disprove something that was proven ages ago and found to their dismay that the expensive testing equipment they bought was "faulty" aka didn't give them the readings they wanted. Really it's just a form of Gnosticism.

Posted by: Farquad at August 29, 2025 06:51 AM (NtFTC)

90 77 Stephen L. Miller retweeted
David Hazony
@davidhazony
17h
Israel may have just beepered the Houthis.

Looks like their entire leadership gathered in a number of secret locations to watch their leader’s speech. Israel struck them all simultaneously during the speech.

Stay tuned for assessment. This may be big.
Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 06:37 AM
Every Day With You
-Atlanta Rhythm Section

Posted by: Eromero at August 29, 2025 06:51 AM (jgmnb)

91 Went to see the Charleston Riverdogs play last night.

And while we were there, we ran into the Drop bears, who were apparently visiting the game.

https://tinyurl.com/22jxxvy8

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 29, 2025 06:52 AM (a1415)

92 There is a excellent restaurant in the town adjacent to Las Cruces, Mesilla, that has a decent scotch menu. A number of the ones mentioned are available. I will be busy.

If you ever find yourself in Tucson go immediately to the Batch. It is outstanding.

https://www.batchtucson.com/

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 29, 2025 06:52 AM (aJQjq)

93 But try Caol Ila if you really enjoy licking ashtrays!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 29, 2025 06:45 AM (L5An7)

Did you ever get to try the original Balcones Brimstone? That was literally like drinking a campfire.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 29, 2025 06:52 AM (ExV1e)

94 The company I worked for sold a lot of attachments for construction/demolition equipment (excavator thumbs, bulldozer rakes, etc.) and 2005 was a very busy year due to all the hurricanes.

I was told by a customer who worked cleanup in New Orleans that the odor was atrocious and it looked like a bomb had gone off in the 9th Ward.

I remember being at work listening to Ray Nagin do a radio interview early the morning the storm was coming in and before the extent of the flooding after the levees broke.

He didn’t know exactly how bad it was because it was still dark out, but you could tell he knew it was the worst N.O. had ever been hit.

It’s a big bowl, so I knew before it happened they were going to be in big trouble if a levee was topped and broke open.

Then to watch for days the looting and chaos and the dysfunction of it all was really one of the worst things to see after a hurricane.

I lived through Hurricane Hugo and the aftermath here in 1989, so I’ve got a little experience under my belt.

Nagin and the governor really screwed the pooch and made the disaster worse because of no emergency plans as far as I can tell.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 29, 2025 06:53 AM (6ydKt)

95 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Benny Goodman's Sing ing, Sing is also a happy dance for me.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 29, 2025 06:53 AM (u82oZ)

96 Did you ever get to try the original Balcones Brimstone? That was literally like drinking a campfire.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 29, 2025 06:52 AM (ExV1e)

Nope... I have a limited tolerance for that much smoke!

But Balcones makes some good stuff!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 29, 2025 06:55 AM (L5An7)

97 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 29, 2025 06:55 AM (u82oZ)

98 Salty!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 29, 2025 06:55 AM (a1415)

99 NaCly, dearest. Good morning.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2025 06:56 AM (dxWFK)

100 Nope... I have a limited tolerance for that much smoke!

But Balcones makes some good stuff!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 29, 2025 06:55 AM (L5An7)

Supposedly they changed it to be less but I was so traumatized by the first bottle I bought that I've been afraid to try it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 29, 2025 06:57 AM (ExV1e)

101 Balcones Baby Blue. Watershed is my favorite.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2025 06:58 AM (dxWFK)

102 m & eromeo

The Houthis middle management does not want to people of Yemen to get civilization. They will become the new rulers to crush the people, and feel themselves virtuous for being barbarians.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 29, 2025 06:59 AM (u82oZ)

103 I am blocked in France from seeing the Balcones website!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 29, 2025 06:59 AM (L5An7)

104 "Cycle of Grace" Man who had been in the Navy and afterwards faced some serious setbacks reflects on God's grace in his life: Scripture is Romans 7:14-25:

https://tinyurl.com/9yrt7ph4

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2025 06:59 AM (2GCMq)

105
hunnert!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 29, 2025 06:59 AM (Tv15w)

106 I am sorry about your foot Pixy-the pain from whatever is going on as well dropping a computer on it. I see your humor is unimpaired but I hope and pray you get some relief soon.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2025 07:01 AM (2GCMq)

107 I am blocked in France from seeing the Balcones website!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

If this was the 1500s a war would have broke out by now. And just like that you a 1st world problem.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 29, 2025 07:01 AM (aJQjq)

108 105
hunnert!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 29, 2025 06:59 AM (Tv15w)

heh

Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 07:02 AM (aURVT)

109 {{{Ben Had}}}
🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪

Thank you for being you. Got so many good memories, from the pig roast to that street vender meal with pomegranates, to you dancing up a storm.

Say Hi to all your friends for me.

Soon.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 29, 2025 07:02 AM (u82oZ)

110 The Houthi's do indeed seem to be having a spot of 'Bad Luck'

https://tinyurl.com/55x9ruk9

and

https://tinyurl.com/3fnb59y4

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 29, 2025 07:04 AM (a1415)

111 Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 29, 2025 06:59 AM (Tv15w)

+-5

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 29, 2025 07:04 AM (VDgiz)

112 I had a wonderful Aussie lager beer decades ago from a Harris Teeter that had quite the international selection in their beer cave section.

I wish I could remember the name.
It started with an S and had Hill or Hills in the name.

Spring Hill or something.
I looked it up earlier to see if I could find the name but it’s been 20 years since I tried it and the company might be out of business by now.

Anyway I loved it.
Great taste, much better than an oil can of Fosters.

Only ever had two bottles, though.

So I know the Aussies can make a great beer.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 29, 2025 07:04 AM (6ydKt)

113 Good morning good people.

Coffee - Ahhhhhhhhhhh. . . . . . . . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at August 29, 2025 07:05 AM (cYBz/)

114 I am blocked in France from seeing the Balcones website!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 29, 2025 06:59 AM (L5An7)

The French government doesn't want their people being exposed to good hooch.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 29, 2025 07:06 AM (ExV1e)

115 Rita Heyworth and Fred Astaire dance to Led Zeppelin's Rock and Roll. It is totally worth a click. The editing is fantastic.

https://youtu.be/YbuFLUJ89Kw

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 29, 2025 07:06 AM (aJQjq)

116 I enjoyed Castlemaine XXXX Aussie beer.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 29, 2025 07:08 AM (OapKh)

117
Oh, well.

Anyway ... our math class during junior year had one of those Olivetti Programma beasties. Programmed it to compute square roots, I did. Tried to do cube roots, but no such luck. The following year we got to write, compile and run Fortran programs on an IBM mainframe at NMU, the college in town. You fed your Fortran card deck to be compiled, which generated a compiled card deck. Those, in turn, were run with another deck and voila! ran your program. Lotsa chad involved.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 29, 2025 07:08 AM (Tv15w)

118 Pixy try not to drop anything else until Tuesday, please.
Prayers for your health.

Drink hibiscus tea.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 29, 2025 07:10 AM (IMKWe)

119 Yeah they love their XXXXs in Aussie beer.
I wonder what that’s all about.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 29, 2025 07:11 AM (6ydKt)

120 The French government doesn't want their people being exposed to good hooch.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 29, 2025 07:06 AM (ExV1e)

They used to drink a lot of bourbon, but that seems to have been replaced by Scotch and Gin. Too bad, because there is no secondary market for booze here! I would have loved to get some bourbon at retail that I can't find in my neck of the woods.

I did score a Weller 12-Year-Old, which is delicious. But what I really want is an Antique 107!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 29, 2025 07:12 AM (VDgiz)

121 Sorry you're having trouble getting your BP under control Pixy. Same thing happened to me. Eventually my doc found the right combination of drugs. Hopefully yours will too.

Posted by: Tuna at August 29, 2025 07:13 AM (lJ0H4)

122 115 Rita Heyworth and Fred Astaire dance to Led Zeppelin's Rock and Roll. It is totally worth a click. The editing is fantastic.

https://youtu.be/YbuFLUJ89Kw
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 29, 2025 07:06 AM (aJQjq)

And it got better and better and better! I completely suspended disbelief about halfway through.

Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 07:13 AM (aURVT)

123 Pity, try the RICE protocol. Rest, ice, compression elevation.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2025 07:13 AM (dxWFK)

124 91 Went to see the Charleston Riverdogs play last night.

And while we were there, we ran into the Drop bears, who were apparently visiting the game.

https://tinyurl.com/22jxxvy8
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 29, 2025 06:52 AM (a1415)

Aussie Dropbears ... Pixy dropping stuff ... hmm ...

Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 07:17 AM (aURVT)

125 120 The French government doesn't want their people being exposed to good hooch.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 29, 2025 07:06 AM (ExV1e)

They used to drink a lot of bourbon, but that seems to have been replaced by Scotch and Gin. Too bad, because there is no secondary market for booze here! I would have loved to get some bourbon at retail that I can't find in my neck of the woods.

I did score a Weller 12-Year-Old, which is delicious. But what I really want is an Antique 107!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 29, 2025 07:12 AM (VDgiz)

Mello Corn was good enough for Jesus, and it's good enough for you too.

Posted by: Otto Pen at August 29, 2025 07:17 AM (z5QST)

126 I am blocked in France from seeing the Balcones website!

I was blocked up once in frogland. Ate at Le Crackpipe Barrel and things started working right away. Like shit through a goose.

Posted by: Zombie Heinz Guderian at August 29, 2025 07:18 AM (OU3xT)

127 I am starting to believe that "flat earth" stuff is mostly nonsense but a few things they trot out really are legitimate, and arise from the fact that we really don't know how the universe itself is constructed. Curvature, as a concept, is probably not what we think it is, and the Earth is both "round" and "flat" at the same time in some strange way that we don't even have the mental framework to approach yet.

We do know that space and time are not some celestial invariant blank canvas that reality is smeared upon, but are active and changing because "space" and "time" are really simplified representations of a far more complicated topology. We don't live in up/down, left/right, front/back, and before/after. We live in x1, x2, x3, x4, and who the hell knows what else, with some x's more timey or spacey than others. But that mess collapses into the familiar on any scale we would ever directly experience.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 29, 2025 07:18 AM (06Hmj)

128
Another Labour Day weekend coming up. Where will Kier be simping out this year?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 29, 2025 07:19 AM (Tv15w)

129
They used to drink a lot of bourbon,

__________

They used to execute a lot of Bourbons.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 29, 2025 07:21 AM (kkTda)

130 102 m & eromeo

The Houthis middle management does not want to people of Yemen to get civilization. They will become the new rulers to crush the people, and feel themselves virtuous for being barbarians.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 29, 2025 06:59 AM (u82oZ
Yessir, that is the way of it. I seem to remember something goes ‘to the shores of Tripoli,’

Posted by: Eromero at August 29, 2025 07:22 AM (jgmnb)

131 Aussie Crawl!!! What’s next - Cold Chisel???

Posted by: ChuckinTX at August 29, 2025 07:22 AM (Bi7qU)

132 Mello Corn was good enough for Jesus, and it's good enough for you too.
Posted by: Otto Pen at August 29, 2025 07:17 AM (z5QST)
I got a bottle of that under the sink.

Posted by: Eromero at August 29, 2025 07:24 AM (jgmnb)

133 My YouTube feed has be generous tonight.

Chattanooga Choo Choo
Glenn Miller Orchestra

This is so solid. It looks like it is from a movie. Tacked on to end is the dance part for this scene.

https://youtu.be/QDgwsMqF-6k

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 29, 2025 07:24 AM (aJQjq)

134 Hadrian, I have the date you specified marked on my calendar.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2025 07:25 AM (dxWFK)

135
Warai-otoko

Chew on this -- guy (Gunther Kletetschka) posits that time itself has three dimensions

https://www.worldscientific.com/
doi/epdf/10.1142/S2424942425500045

This may have been posted here in some context during the summer.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 29, 2025 07:27 AM (Tv15w)

136
JJS

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 29, 2025 07:32 AM (gbOdA)

137 90 77 Stephen L. Miller retweeted
David Hazony
@davidhazony
17h
Israel may have just beepered the Houthis.

Looks like their entire leadership gathered in a number of secret locations to watch their leader’s speech. Israel struck them all simultaneously during the speech.

Stay tuned for assessment. This may be big.
Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 06:37 AM
Every Day With You
-Atlanta Rhythm Section
Posted by: Eromero at August 29, 2025 06:51 AM (jgmnb)

I don't understand your comment, Eromero. Halp!

Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 07:32 AM (aURVT)

138 Noodus seftonia

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2025 07:33 AM (omVj0)

139 mornin yall. I guess global warming is done. Experts say:

"Key Atlantic current is on the brink of COLLAPSING - plunging Europe and the US into a never-ending winter"

Just when my tan is getting good.

Posted by: fd at August 29, 2025 07:33 AM (vFG9F)

140 127 I am starting to believe that "flat earth" stuff is mostly nonsense but a few things they trot out really are legitimate, and arise from the fact that we really don't know how the universe itself is constructed. Curvature, as a concept, is probably not what we think it is, and the Earth is both "round" and "flat" at the same time in some strange way that we don't even have the mental framework to approach yet.

We do know that space and time are not some celestial invariant blank canvas that reality is smeared upon, but are active and changing because "space" and "time" are really simplified representations of a far more complicated topology. We don't live in up/down, left/right, front/back, and before/after. We live in x1, x2, x3, x4, and who the hell knows what else, with some x's more timey or spacey than others. But that mess collapses into the familiar on any scale we would ever directly experience.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 29, 2025 07:18 AM (06Hmj)

Earth is a oblate spheroid. It can't be a perfect sphere because its spin flattens it out a bit towards poles and puffs it out towards the equator. There's no mystery here.

Posted by: Farquad at August 29, 2025 07:37 AM (NtFTC)

141 G'mornin' everyone!

46 degrees! a few clouds, maybe rain on the way!

Woohoo! Friday!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 29, 2025 07:40 AM (ppG5b)

142 The weather folks can't even agree on what the weather will be like this weekend and now they are making predictions for the year 2300.

Posted by: fd at August 29, 2025 07:43 AM (vFG9F)

143 141 G'mornin' everyone!

46 degrees! a few clouds, maybe rain on the way!

Woohoo! Friday!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 29, 2025 07:40 AM (ppG5b)

No Rosasharn (yet)!

Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 07:43 AM (aURVT)

144 All of us at Pet Cemetery really like your posts. So work on that high blood pressure.

As an alternative, we could fit you in here. Re-animate you right up. Results vary.

Posted by: Pet Cemetary Receptionist at August 29, 2025 10:22 AM (S/6Ju)

145 Sorry you are having health issues. That sucks. I will pray for your healing (pretty sure you won't diss them) Take care and use your tremendous brain with the Dr.'s advice and drugs. I no longer trust them AT ALL.

Posted by: Pamazon at August 29, 2025 10:49 AM (b5MGU)

146 PM, I hope you're feeling better soon. And thanks for the Benny Goodman link. Goodman and his drummer, Gene Krupa, went to Austin High in Chicago, which is where my mother graduated from, a few years after Goodman did. I see that that video is from 1937; the 1938 Carnegie Hall version of "Sing Sing Sing" is 13 minutes long, and has marvelous solos by Harry James on trumpet, Goodman on clarinet, and Jess Stacy on piano. (Stacy was the pianist on Goodman's big band; Teddy Wilson played piano in his trio and quartet.) Stacy's solo is especially lovely; you can hear him channeling Debussy and Edward MacDowell: https://tinyurl.com/6k2j6257

Posted by: Nemo at August 29, 2025 01:43 PM (4RPgu)

147 146 PM, I hope you're feeling better soon. And thanks for the Benny Goodman link. Goodman and his drummer, Gene Krupa, went to Austin High in Chicago, which is where my mother graduated from, a few years after Goodman did. I see that that video is from 1937; the 1938 Carnegie Hall version of "Sing Sing Sing" is 13 minutes long, and has marvelous solos by Harry James on trumpet, Goodman on clarinet, and Jess Stacy on piano. (Stacy was the pianist on Goodman's big band; Teddy Wilson played piano in his trio and quartet.) Stacy's solo is especially lovely; you can hear him channeling Debussy and Edward MacDowell:
https://tinyurl.com/6k2j6257
Posted by: Nemo at August 29, 2025 01:43 PM (4RPgu)

How great! Thirteen minutes that flew by.

Posted by: m at August 29, 2025 02:38 PM (aURVT)

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