Daily Tech News 29 July 2026

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So how are things going a year into the DRAM Apocalypse? (Tom's Hardware)

I'm glad you asked.

Actually, no I'm not.

But anyway, you remember when DDR5 memory was brand new and people preferred DDR4 because it was much cheaper?

Yeah. DDR5 costs twice as much now as it did back then when it was too expensive to be worthwhile.

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Speaking of DDR4, how do Intel CPUs fare when using it? (Tom's Hardware)

Okay-ish. The tricky part is when you see benchmark numbers for older AMD chips like the 5800X3D you know they are using DDR4, because that's all they support. Intel's 12th, 13th, and 14th generation chips all support both DDR4 and DDR5, and using DDR4 can lop off 14% from published benchmarks.
If you send Claude Opus the character sequence - - - it writes a novella about an unnamed architect. (Austin's Nerdy Things)

Sadly only via the API. I tried it in the web interface and it just said "Huh?"
AMD's new Radeon 9050 graphics card is half a 9060. (WCCTech)

It comes in 8GB and 4GB flavours, each with half the compute cores of the 9060, and the 4GB model having half the memory bandwidth as well.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Close enough.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:40 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at July 29, 2026 04:43 AM (faghi)

2 um

Daily News Stuff 28 July 2027

Posted by: m at July 29, 2026 04:44 AM (faghi)

3 G'Day everyone
And forget what I wrote downstairs

Posted by: Skip at July 29, 2026 04:45 AM (Ia/+0)

4 Simple Minds - Alive and Kicking

Would make a nice wakeup call!

Posted by: m at July 29, 2026 04:47 AM (faghi)

5 BOING!

The Bee does time travel:

https://tinyurl.com/3sxcp6bx

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 29, 2026 04:47 AM (07mJd)

6 2nd day at close job, will be nice not driving a hour + home after work

Posted by: Skip at July 29, 2026 04:48 AM (Ia/+0)

7 2 um

Daily News Stuff 28 July 2027
Posted by: m

Close enough.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 29, 2026 04:48 AM (BLOW1)

8 You've seen the meme.

Now you can buy the t-shirt:

https://tinyurl.com/mrkfysd9

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 29, 2026 04:48 AM (07mJd)

9 ONT comment 429 is spam

Posted by: m at July 29, 2026 04:50 AM (faghi)

10 Simple Minds did some great music thirty plus years ago. I haven’t heard much from them lately.

Time to Spotify them up.

Good Morning techsters

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 29, 2026 04:50 AM (Nsbm5)

11 We'll surely have this in J.J.'s excellent report at some point. Michael Goodwin writes on "Class of one" . Mamdani hates NYC and its people:

https://tinyurl.com/5ywcm3pt

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2026 04:51 AM (xPsv8)

12 7 2 um

Daily News Stuff 28 July 2027
Posted by: m

Close enough.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 29, 2026 04:48 AM (BLOW1)

I thought there was, like, some Y2K stuff going on!

Posted by: m at July 29, 2026 04:51 AM (faghi)

13 Posted by: Skip at July 29, 2026 04:48 AM (Ia/+0)

Congratulations, Skip. I hope you have a good and safe day!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2026 04:52 AM (xPsv8)

14 Pete Bog, good morning to you.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 04:52 AM (abScH)

15 Nice music interlude today, forgot about that song

Posted by: Skip at July 29, 2026 04:53 AM (Ia/+0)

16 15 Nice music interlude today, forgot about that song
Posted by: Skip at July 29, 2026 04:53 AM (Ia/+0)

Even after he said, "Don't you forget about me"?

Posted by: m at July 29, 2026 04:53 AM (faghi)

17 Hey Ben Had, you’re up early.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 29, 2026 04:54 AM (Nsbm5)

18 Fauci goes before congress today, besides the Marxists running interference, he will be duckkng and dodging and trying to not answer anything.

Posted by: Skip at July 29, 2026 04:54 AM (Ia/+0)

19
fauci - faghi

coincidence?

Posted by: m at July 29, 2026 04:55 AM (faghi)

20 11 We'll surely have this in J.J.'s excellent report at some point. Michael Goodwin writes on "Class of one" . Mamdani hates NYC and its people:
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
---

Mandami is from the loins of evil he is hate.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 29, 2026 04:55 AM (wljQY)

21 I really liked the background music of the video, as well as the beautiful scenery . Thanks, Pixy. I'm having difficulty understanding the words.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2026 04:57 AM (xPsv8)

22 Pete Bog, normal summer hours just need more coffee this morning. Our mutual friend is bringing me his Bobcat and shredder today.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 04:57 AM (abScH)

23 Guten morgen, horde.

Posted by: clarence at July 29, 2026 04:57 AM (plc2/)

24 This is the type of beautiful flower we saw by the water yesterday during our walk. Cardinal Flower. It made me feel good to see it:

https://tinyurl.com/ydz57xhm

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2026 05:01 AM (xPsv8)

25 >>>Disclaimer: Close enough.

For government work.

Posted by: m at July 29, 2026 05:03 AM (faghi)

26 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at July 29, 2026 05:03 AM (sAmhv)

27 Speaking of which!

25 >>>Disclaimer: Close enough.

For government work.
Posted by: m at July 29, 2026 05:03 AM (faghi)

26 Mornin'
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at July 29, 2026 05:03 AM (sAmhv)

Posted by: m at July 29, 2026 05:04 AM (faghi)

28 When I last visited were going underground. Maybe we can rise above that:

Minneapolis, MN, USA – Skyway System: ~9.5–10+ miles connecting 80+ blocks and 150+ buildings, mostly at the 2nd (sometimes 3rd) floor. Links offices, retail, restaurants, hotels, sports venues, and some residences. One of the largest continuous systems; public during business hours.

Calgary, Canada – +15 (Plus 15) Walkway: 16 km with 86 bridges connecting ~130 buildings. Roughly 15 feet above street level (some +30/+45 levels). Climate-controlled public network linking downtown offices, retail, and services.

KAFD (King Abdullah Financial District), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – KAFD Skyway Network: 15.46 km continuous with 42 skywalks connecting 95 buildings. Elevated, fully climate-controlled mixed-use system (offices, residences, retail, hospitality, entertainment) designed as a compact “city within a city.”

Hong Kong – Central Elevated Walkway + city-wide footbridges: Extensive multi-level network across Central, Admiralty, Sheung Wan and beyond. Typically at podium levels (1st–3rd/4th floors). Dense three-dimensional public realm connecting malls, offices, hotels, MTR stations, ferries, and public spaces.

Posted by: meh at July 29, 2026 05:04 AM (zZxsY)

29 Des Moines, IA, USA – Skywalk System: ~4 miles connecting 55 buildings and ~40 blocks. Climate-controlled elevated pathways linking buildings, parking, and event centers.

Winnipeg, Canada – Notable skywalk/skyway system (smaller scale than Calgary or Minneapolis).
Rochester, MN, USA – Skyway system (notable but smaller).

Cedar Rapids, IA, USA – Skyway system (notable but smaller).

Cincinnati, OH, USA – Skywalk system (notable but smaller).

Raffles City Chongqing, China – “The Crystal” skybridge system: Massive ~300 m horizontal structure connecting multiple towers at high elevation (around the 42nd-floor / ~250 m range). Links residential, commercial, hotel, and public elements; includes ticketed public skywalk/observation experiences.

Petronas Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Two-story skybridge at floors 41–42 (170 m up). Ticketed public access primarily for observation and views.

Posted by: meh at July 29, 2026 05:05 AM (zZxsY)

30 And here is a duckduckgo image search on the Singapore Airport which must be related to the above list...somehow.

https://tinyurl.com/6np2urrk

Posted by: meh at July 29, 2026 05:08 AM (zZxsY)

31 Happy Shredding. A Skidder has remarkable utility but when you get one you’ve signed up for more gizmo acquisitions to follow. Shredder, chipper, post driver.

Good stuff.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 29, 2026 05:09 AM (irAhJ)

32 Man writes on wisdom found in Proverbs 13:14-20. In a devotional entitled, "The company we keep" . Devotional is followed by additional insights and a prayer:

https://tinyurl.com/2ecd2myd

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2026 05:11 AM (xSAlF)

33 I thought I had a mini skidder bought but come to find out they couldn't find a shredder to go on it.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 05:12 AM (abScH)

34 >>>Claud

Would you like to buy an "e"?

Posted by: m at July 29, 2026 05:12 AM (faghi)

35 Foggy outside
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at July 29, 2026 05:13 AM (Ia/+0)

36 35 Foggy
Posted by: Skip at July 29, 2026 05:13 AM (Ia/+0)

foggy - faghi

coincidence?

Posted by: m at July 29, 2026 05:14 AM (faghi)

37
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 29, 2026 05:15 AM (AMvSw)

38 Simple Minds

James Kerr
9 July 1959 (age 67)
Toryglen, Glasgow, Scotland

Posted by: m at July 29, 2026 05:15 AM (faghi)

39 AltonJackson, Good morning, darlin.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 05:16 AM (abScH)

40 Wikipedia

Kerr lives with his Japanese partner Yumi in Taormina, Sicily, where he owns the hotel Villa Angela.

He has Italian citizenship.

Posted by: m at July 29, 2026 05:17 AM (faghi)

41 Strangers in Houston unite to save three people trapped in overturned car:

https://tinyurl.com/2hkdj5nx

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2026 05:18 AM (xPsv8)

42 Ben Had - would that be a ‘Bob’ cat?
I thought you bought one with all the bells and whistles?

Posted by: SnailRacer at July 29, 2026 05:22 AM (Ev5Rw)

43 Wish I could say I feel sorry for the people of New York city. But they done it to themselves. The people that won't work for a living and want free stuff handed to them for their vote are despicable. And there are other cities that are just as bad.

Posted by: Case at July 29, 2026 05:23 AM (bqIVz)

44 "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."

I'm going to put this into thinking today, and no, this is not incompatible with doing things to aid actively in conservative causes.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2026 05:26 AM (xSAlF)

45 Ben Had, what are you shredding? Products going into the stall or coming out?

How are hay prices in your world?

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 29, 2026 05:27 AM (irAhJ)

46
g'mornin', Ben Had

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 29, 2026 05:29 AM (AMvSw)

47 post 44- From Philippians 4:8

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2026 05:29 AM (xSAlF)

48 I’m not fully awake yet. Cofeve hasn’t kicked in yet. The first news headline I read said “Canada condemns Iran continued executions of protesters.”
My first thought was: Oh crap! Canada is executing protesting truck drivers?!

Posted by: Fenderbender at July 29, 2026 05:33 AM (1FEc1)

49 SnailRacer, yes that would be a "Bob" cat. I thought I had one bought but it didn't meet expectations. I was disappointed .

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 05:34 AM (abScH)

50 G'morning Hordelings.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 29, 2026 05:34 AM (O7YUW)

51 hotel Villa Angela. Taormina Sicily

Posted by: m at July 29, 2026 05:17 AM (faghi)

Looks like a cool spot. TripAdvisor says 4.8. Pictures of the setting and surroundings are gorgeous

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 29, 2026 05:36 AM (irAhJ)

52 Pete Bog, I have some weedy growth that the mower can't cut.

I'm not up on baled hay prices because I feed alfalfa cubes. Baled alfalfa is running close to $ 30 per bale

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 05:40 AM (abScH)

53 New Jersey will not share their voting records with the Federal Government.

Well, that tells you New Jersey has things to hide. If everything is on the up and up why hide it from anyone?

Posted by: Case at July 29, 2026 05:40 AM (bqIVz)

54 Evening and morning to all the late toilers and early risers in the AoSHQ-land! (A magical realm where all is snarkers and sprightly prognostications, and the people all have imaginative names.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 29, 2026 05:43 AM (wzUl9)

55 It's Woden's Day again, the last of July this year.

In the story about Claud Opus, one of the responses was a reference to Jorge Luis Borges, "When the Map Becomes the Territory." That sounds familiar, though I have read very little of Borges. He was a proponent of "magical realism," I understand, though I'm not sure what that is when it's at home.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 29, 2026 05:44 AM (wzUl9)

56 Life is like the carnival game where you throw balls at a basket and win a ticket. All the beautiful prizes piled up at the back of the tent require multiple tickets (many many tickets) to win a cheap prize. So you spend lots of money to get a stuffed teddy bear.

Posted by: Colin at July 29, 2026 05:46 AM (CiQE7)

57 Insomnia is the word.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 29, 2026 05:47 AM (wljQY)

58 Insomnia is the word.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 29, 2026

***
And here I thought it was "Grease"!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 29, 2026 05:47 AM (wzUl9)

59 Good morning Wolfus. I listed some cities above.

Posted by: meh at July 29, 2026 05:47 AM (kK7U2)

60 I don't know why I find this funny, but I do. Maybe it's because I'm excessively tired from dealing with a cat who's the human equivalent age wise of a 2 or 3 year old human, but cat is carrying around a fake cloth mouse is his mouth and he's playing with it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2026 05:48 AM (W90Ou)

61 Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 29, 2026 05:47 AM (wljQY)

Sorry to hear that. Hope you get some better sleep later this week.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2026 05:49 AM (W90Ou)

62 Ben Had, sorry your cat didn’t work out. You were so excited to get it with not just one, not two, but three implements!

Posted by: SnailRacer at July 29, 2026 05:51 AM (Ev5Rw)

63 Last night I dreamed about being a Clifton Webb-like college professor with a young female graduate student who seemed to find me fascinating. A college database platform was being phased out. There was a deadline to enter an online contest before the platform vanished to win an all-expenses paid trip to somewhere I didn't find interesting . . . except that said female grad student was encouraging me strongly to enter the contest (it was, conveniently, a trip for two).

The details are blurry, except the college seemed to be located in a 1970s mall, and the graduate student was a blonde. I guess that's enough to go on.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 29, 2026 05:53 AM (wzUl9)

64 34 >>>Claud

Would you like to buy an "e"?
Posted by: m

In this economy?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 29, 2026 05:54 AM (BLOW1)

65 I don't know why I find this funny, but I do. Maybe it's because I'm excessively tired from dealing with a cat who's the human equivalent age wise of a 2 or 3 year old human, but cat is carrying around a fake cloth mouse is his mouth and he's playing with it.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2026

***
Rehearsing for the day when he kills his first real mouse! You should be proud!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 29, 2026 05:54 AM (wzUl9)

66 SnailRacer, oh well. I'll find what I need somewhere .

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 05:55 AM (abScH)

67 You will. After checking at dealers for zero turn mowers DH got one at auction for a fraction of the price and it works like a charm. Unlike the water-sprayer thingie.

Posted by: SnailRacer at July 29, 2026 05:57 AM (Ev5Rw)

68 I'm interested in alternative habitat. I think it's obvious the point of the Boring company is to create underground shelter extra-earth.

A really fascinating idea is balloon habitat on Venus.

There's restaurants here and there that raise diners. I know cranes are involved sometimes, but not fraziers, and also I'm thinking there's a hot air balloon restaurant somewhere too.

Posted by: meh at July 29, 2026 06:00 AM (zZxsY)

69 64 34 >>>Claud

Would you like to buy an "e"?
Posted by: m

In this economy?
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 29, 2026 05:54 AM (BLOW1)

Ok, then, here, you can have this one--*passes Pixy an "e"*.

Posted by: m at July 29, 2026 06:01 AM (faghi)

70 21 I really liked the background music of the video, as well as the beautiful scenery . Thanks, Pixy. I'm having difficulty understanding the words.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2026 04:57 AM (xPsv

Aside from just looking up the lyrics and reading them, there are a couple of options for having them on screen to follow along with. The official video has closed captioning:

Simple Minds - Alive And Kicking (Official Video)
https://youtu.be/ljIQo1OHkTI

However, that's through the YouTube interface. If you prefer to download and watch offline, someone made a lyrics video that is actually legible and pleasant to look at (rarer than you might think):

Simple Minds - Alive And Kicking (Lyrics Fanvid)
https://youtu.be/4MsV45E-P-E

As for the scenery, the general aesthetic reminded me of this one. Slightly different genre, piano-based soft rock. Warning: if you are at all sentimental, it may grab you by the feelz and squeeze:

Five for Fighting - 100 Years
https://youtu.be/tR-qQcNT_fY

Posted by: SciVo at July 29, 2026 06:02 AM (Sy6m/)

71 Posted by: SciVo at July 29, 2026 06:02

Thanks very much.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2026 06:04 AM (W90Ou)

72 The only out of the ordinary restaurant I've ever been in was the rotating one at the top of the International Trade Mart Building at the foot of Canal Street. A posh sort of restaurant, it rotated very slowly so that over an hour or so, you got a 360-degree view of the flatness of the city. The building's been closed since Katrina, more than twenty years now -- though there were once plans to make it into a hotel & apartment complex.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 29, 2026 06:05 AM (wzUl9)

73 - Ben

$30 per bale? Square or big, round ones. If latter, really cheap. If former,,, holy smokes.

Posted by: TeeJ at July 29, 2026 06:06 AM (/XKEa)

74 The video Pixy posted: I know that song from the '80s oldies radio station I listen to, and I think I remember it from way back when. But I never knew the title or the artist's name.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 29, 2026 06:07 AM (wzUl9)

75 Pete Bog, square 3 wire. $22.50 for 2 wire.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 06:07 AM (abScH)

76 "I heard my Savior calling me". Lively version of Hank Williams Sr. Gospel Song:

https://tinyurl.com/d65924sb

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2026 06:08 AM (W90Ou)

77 Time for a walk . May you all have a blessed day and know that you are a blessing to others!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2026 06:09 AM (W90Ou)

78 Oh C'mon man.

You ever met a New Yorker? Everybody hates them.

And they voted for this shit.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 29, 2026 06:12 AM (qFwJc)

79 You can vote your way into Socialism. But you are going to have to shoot your way out.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 29, 2026 06:13 AM (qFwJc)

80 Second cup of coffee downed. My knee is better, but I think I need to take another day off from working out, even walking. I'll get some breakfast and feed the furball monsters soon.

Come to think of it, I don't know where they are. Usually Stirling is out here with me, but he's AWOL just as Dagny is. Well, they'll come racing out when I start preparing their chow.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 29, 2026 06:14 AM (wzUl9)

81 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 29, 2026 06:16 AM (Hbeqj)

82 Wolfus, today is JUly 29. Two more days.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 29, 2026 06:18 AM (qFwJc)

83 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Don't stand so close to me.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 29, 2026 06:19 AM (amcLV)

84 - Simple Minds

Remembered the band name but couldn't remember which song got the radio play back when. It wasn't a 'quick, change the channel' one like so many/most back then.
Just searched utube. Don't You, Forget About Me.

Posted by: TeeJ at July 29, 2026 06:21 AM (/XKEa)

85 Rejoinder: Don't stand so close to me.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 29, 2026

***
I'll be watching you

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 29, 2026 06:22 AM (wzUl9)

86 >>>Disclaimer: Close enough.

Close the door on your way out!

Posted by: m at July 29, 2026 06:23 AM (faghi)

87 I always feel like that.

Posted by: meh at July 29, 2026 06:24 AM (kK7U2)

88
🎶A-live-and-KICK-ing🎵

Posted by: m at July 29, 2026 06:25 AM (faghi)

89 85 Rejoinder: Don't stand so close to me.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 29, 2026

***
I'll be watching you
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 29, 2026 06:22 AM (wzUl9)

Every breath you take

Posted by: Flock Safety, a subsidiary of Flock Group Inc. at July 29, 2026 06:25 AM (Sy6m/)

90 That’s an expensive bale of hay. Trucking cost keeps the hay business pretty local.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 29, 2026 06:27 AM (AyKqk)

91 That is why I feed cubed. $ 20 for a 50lb bag and no waste as with baled. I feed 18 lbs per horse per day with no waste and no other feed needed.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 06:33 AM (abScH)

92 - pardon my farming ignorance.
Does alfalfa have to be replanted every year?

Posted by: TeeJ at July 29, 2026 06:37 AM (/XKEa)

93 Teen, no it doesn't.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 06:39 AM (abScH)

94 Anybody have experience dealing with kidney stones? I think I've got one.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 29, 2026 06:40 AM (l26NL)

95 - Thanks Ben.
Don'tcha just love auto-c?

Posted by: TeeJ at July 29, 2026 06:40 AM (/XKEa)

96 Teej, apologies and it is a pain.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 06:41 AM (abScH)

97 Ben Had, 50#baled alfalfa here is $ 8 a bale and I thought that was expensive. Neighbor sells to a barn in SCarolina, apparently with the trucking fee, his customer thinks it’s still worth it.

Posted by: Jen the original at July 29, 2026 06:42 AM (EiUt/)

98 Come to think of it, I don't know where they are. Usually Stirling is out here with me, but he's AWOL just as Dagny is. Well, they'll come racing out when I start preparing their chow.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 29, 2026 06:14 AM (wzUl9)
---
Cats are very good about that, I've noticed.

Allie disappeared on my this morning, but once I started serving breakfast, there she was, waiting for me.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 29, 2026 06:44 AM (FZ29D)

99 Good morning all, thx Pixy.
That vid of Alive and Kicking was filmed about 30 miles north of me at North and South Lakes in the Catskills . Beautiful area. Kaaterskill Falls is nearby where people hike and frequently fall while hiking suffering serious injuries or sometimes death. Usually dopes out of NYC

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 29, 2026 06:45 AM (BlDDt)

100 100

Posted by: m at July 29, 2026 06:45 AM (faghi)

101 - Blutarski

Ugh, don't remind me. First one was THE stone from hell.
The day it hit, every time it tried to move, felt like Mantle was sending my kidney, line drive over the right field wall.

Posted by: TeeJ at July 29, 2026 06:45 AM (/XKEa)

102 Jen. a 50lb bale is really light. 2 wire bales here are at least 65lbs. Leaf content is important to quality. The down side of that is high leaf count adds to waste.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 06:45 AM (abScH)

103 Actually those falls are Kaaterskill Falls.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 29, 2026 06:46 AM (BlDDt)

104 - Ben, no apologies needed,, please.

Posted by: TeeJ at July 29, 2026 06:48 AM (/XKEa)

105 Here is some bluegrass metal: Appalachian Anarchy. Information and comments don't read like it's AI, but it might be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lluANDBbgIA

And here is some AI I like: It's Du Hast, Dark Country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unGuFsKtTbY

Apparently these days, some people aren't even bothering to create their own AI slop, but just steeling other people's AI slop and posting that.

Posted by: meh at July 29, 2026 06:52 AM (kK7U2)

106 The very best alfalfa comes from New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming .

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 06:52 AM (abScH)

107 Listening to this geneticist from Harvard, Nathaniel Jeanson, who has managed to genetically trace everything (all of us) back to the three sons of Noah and rhyme it with historical events and the Bible.
That's the hiccup he's a creationist and he's so wrapped up in proving the 6000 yr time line that he kills the presentation. He kills the story. He makes what could be a most attractive Bible and plain historical narrative into an irritating jumble. I don't know how he keeps students.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 29, 2026 06:54 AM (wljQY)

108 They say that the hay from Westcliffe Colorado is some of the best. It's fun to sit outside, drink a beer, and watch the sun set behind the Sangre De Cristo mountains. I'd keep an eye out for Walter White though.

Posted by: meh at July 29, 2026 06:55 AM (kK7U2)

109 They're in a couple of differents locations, it looks like: that island at the end can't be the bluff from the beginning.

Posted by: m at July 29, 2026 06:55 AM (faghi)

110 The 65 # is a better value for sure but a weight that a lot of us women struggle with handling. Many of the hay farmers use bale barons to stack hay and straw into 21 bale bundles due to lack of labor and 45-50# create a nice bundle they can pack into closed semi trailers. And are manageable for the older women here who have horses or boarding barns. It’s tough to find strong kids willing to stack hay.

Posted by: Jen the original at July 29, 2026 06:56 AM (EiUt/)

111 - That first one was NOT about the size of a little grain of sand.
4mm. 2D x-ray looked like a shurikan.
The operation to remove it, well, had to cut away part of urater to get past it with net thing to pull it out.
Post op? Well, thank God for percoset.

Posted by: TeeJ at July 29, 2026 06:57 AM (/XKEa)

112 Good morning morons

Is Tehran burning?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2026 06:59 AM (RIvkX)

113 At 2:28 you can see the island from the bluff!

Posted by: m at July 29, 2026 07:01 AM (faghi)

114 2:28-->2:48

Posted by: m at July 29, 2026 07:01 AM (faghi)

115
The very best alfalfa comes from New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming .
Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 06:52 AM (abScH)

A bale of hay is like crack for puppies.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 29, 2026 07:02 AM (O0L8i)

116

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 29, 2026 07:03 AM (AHxhK)

117 You ever met a New Yorker? Everybody hates them.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 29, 2026 06:12 AM (qFwJc)
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I am a New Yorker who's lived in California 40 years. What do I win?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2026 07:03 AM (RIvkX)

118 - Braenyard

I've seen that, and others from him. Doing great work.
As far as pointing out the timeline the data shows, well, when you can't attack the facts, attack the messenger.

Had someone here do the same thing with this one. A study done using publicly available data from the JWST.
He used horrible colors on the graph. I can't see the lines.

Could have been better? Yes. But I'm on the smallest Samsung android and I could make them out. With 71 year old eyes.

https://tinyurl.com/2ssa7352

Posted by: TeeJ at July 29, 2026 07:09 AM (/XKEa)

119 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 29, 2026 07:10 AM (u82oZ)

120 SanFranpsycho, you win the award for longest suffering of living locations.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 07:10 AM (abScH)

121 I live 90 miles north of NYC, do I get a discount on the hate?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 29, 2026 07:11 AM (BlDDt)

122 Hillary Clinton

Please, live another day of frustrated goals and thwarted designs. Marinate in your hatred.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 29, 2026 07:12 AM (u82oZ)

123 SanFranpsycho, you win the award for longest suffering of living locations.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 07:10 AM (abScH)
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*pops champagne*
*takes victory lap*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2026 07:12 AM (RIvkX)

124 When I was a boy my job was to get the bale from the ground up to the stacker. The stacker was always a boss. He was catching bales from all sides the whole time with no break.

Our stacker was Les. He was much more than Les.

Posted by: meh at July 29, 2026 07:12 AM (zZxsY)

125 I live 90 miles north of NYC, do I get a discount on the hate?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 29, 2026 07:11 AM (BlDDt)
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Quiet down, Hayseed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2026 07:12 AM (RIvkX)

126 My days of stacking bales 10 high are long gone.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 07:13 AM (abScH)

127 Just had to interject here that my dear Old Cat (18 1/2 yo) has broken with his lifetime pacifism and presented me with THREE MICE this week. I know there is another mouse here somewhere, so I'm waiting for another gift.

Damn, that old guy will outlive me and is worth every penny of his expensive medications and outrageous food bills, if just for entertainment value alone.

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 29, 2026 07:14 AM (KdNQs)

128 @125 hee-yuck

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 29, 2026 07:15 AM (BlDDt)

129 Gavin Newsom’s bombshell affair decades ago came back to haunt him on Tuesday as his former mistress described their fling in explosive detail — including their steamy hot tub session and the ex-aide’s confession to her husband that it was just about sex.

Ruby Rippey, a former City Hall aide to the then-San Francisco mayor, relived the scandalous tryst in an unsparing tell-all to Vanity Fair published Tuesday.
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Mrs. F. is all over this and I will post highlights later

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2026 07:17 AM (RIvkX)

130 Smell the Glove

My mailing address is Manhattan. Do I win?

Manhattan ... Kansas.
50,000 people surrounded by 100,000 cows. Mostly Angus, but also Jerseys, Holsteins, Texas Long-horns, Charolais, and Shorthorn cattle.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 29, 2026 07:17 AM (u82oZ)

131 A channel here called AceTV (!) is showing episodes of the original Mike Hammer from the late Fifties with Darren McGavin. They seem well made, if on a fairly low budget. The young Robert Vaughn guest-starred on one episode, I know.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 29, 2026 07:19 AM (wzUl9)

132 I really didn't need to know that after Ruby and Gavin had at it she peed the bed. Not exactly Amber Heard , but ewww factor 2

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 29, 2026 07:20 AM (BlDDt)

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

I know you can still kick my ass, so I make it a point to be polite.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 29, 2026 07:20 AM (u82oZ)

134 I really didn't need to know that after Ruby and Gavin had at it she peed the bed. Not exactly Amber Heard , but ewww factor 2
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 29, 2026

***
Ahead of her time, Ruby was.

"Ruby Rippey"? If there was ever a stripper name, that's it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 29, 2026 07:21 AM (wzUl9)

135 - And the hand wave it away, rescue mechanism the billions of years folks had for a response on that one?
Galaxies are smaller the further away they are.

In this one, he not only predicted, and posted his prediction on what the JWST would show us but the rescue mechanism they'd use to boot.

https://tinyurl.com/yt7yn475

Posted by: TeeJ at July 29, 2026 07:21 AM (/XKEa)

136 NaCly, you are the epitome of a gentleman .

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 07:22 AM (abScH)

137 DSA knifing Newsome.

Posted by: davidt at July 29, 2026 07:22 AM (Q+gd/)

138 It's a little personal Mrs. F. knew Alex Tourk when they were growing up they went to the same summer camp for years.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2026 07:23 AM (RIvkX)

139 davidt, or a preemptive Kumala attack?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 07:24 AM (abScH)

140 davidt

May they continue to reveal details of more moral failures of Dem politicians.

Add Thune , Murk, and Mitch to the list as well.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 29, 2026 07:25 AM (u82oZ)

141 128 @125 hee-yuck
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 29, 2026 07:15 AM (BlDDt)

You got some hay stuck between your teeth, there?

Posted by: m at July 29, 2026 07:26 AM (faghi)

142 Ben Had

Took an Act of Congress.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 29, 2026 07:26 AM (u82oZ)

143 129 Gavin Newsom’s bombshell affair decades ago came back to haunt him on Tuesday as his former mistress described their fling in explosive detail — including their steamy hot tub session and the ex-aide’s confession to her husband that it was just about sex.

Ruby Rippey, a former City Hall aide to the then-San Francisco mayor, relived the scandalous tryst in an unsparing tell-all to Vanity Fair published Tuesday.
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Mrs. F. is all over this and I will post highlights later
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2026 07:17 AM (RIvkX)

Yay!

Posted by: m at July 29, 2026 07:27 AM (faghi)

144 Which gang runs Vanity Fair?

Posted by: davidt at July 29, 2026 07:28 AM (Q+gd/)

145 Which camp?

Posted by: Dark Lix at July 29, 2026 07:29 AM (DZ9Lv)

146 This whole story tells you all you need to know about the socipathic character of one Gavin Newsom.

Liar
Cheater
Adulterer
Narcissist
Creep

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2026 07:29 AM (RIvkX)

147 NYT, too

Aide Who Had Affair With Newsom 20 Years Ago Details ...

The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com › 2026/07/28 › gavin-newso...
16 hours ago — In a new essay, Ruby Rippey gives her first detailed account of her affair with Gavin Newsom when he was the mayor of San Francisco.

Posted by: m at July 29, 2026 07:30 AM (faghi)

148 Camp Skylake

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2026 07:30 AM (RIvkX)

149 JJ is nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2026 07:32 AM (ExV1e)

150 150

Posted by: m at July 29, 2026 07:33 AM (faghi)

151 mornin yall. It's no great revelation that Newsom is a slimeball. That woman is just trying to make a buck.

Posted by: fd at July 29, 2026 07:34 AM (MWfyi)

152 I am a New Yorker who's lived in California 40 years. What do I win?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2026 07:03 AM (RIvkX)

The worst of both worlds?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 29, 2026 07:35 AM (1Ff7Z)

153 50,000 people surrounded by 100,000 cows. Mostly Angus, but also Jerseys, Holsteins, Texas Long-horns, Charolais, and Shorthorn cattle.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 29, 2026 07:17 AM (u82oZ)

What, no Guernseys?

Posted by: Nero Wolfe at July 29, 2026 07:39 AM (1Ff7Z)

154 151 mornin yall. It's no great revelation that Newsom is a slimeball. That woman is just trying to make a buck.
Posted by: fd at July 29, 2026 07:34 AM (MWfyi)

And perhaps many more women will follow?

Posted by: m at July 29, 2026 07:42 AM (faghi)

155 New York Post

Newsom is widely expected to launch a 2028 presidential campaign after terming out of the governor’s office next year. In that context, he has sought to fully own his role in the affair, which he recounted in his memoir earlier this year.

But in Rippey’s new piece, she claims that reading those parts of the memoir made her feel unsettled.

Posted by: m at July 29, 2026 07:52 AM (faghi)

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