Server Move 4AM Sunday

I'll be moving the entire blog to a new server at 4AM, because as you just saw the old server is having serious problems.

This is expected to take about an hour. The site will stay up throughout, but comments posted starting 4AM until I post an "all clear" may not make it across to the new server.

My apologies to the readers who went without content while the server was taking a dirt nap, and to the bloggers here who couldn't post their content.

Technical details: The virtualisation software we use has gotten corrupted somehow and the automatic startup and monitoring scripts no longer work. The server itself has been up the entire time - it hasn't been rebooted since the datacenter fire was put out three years ago - but things on the server just stop working at random.

The only practical solution is a whole new server - which fortunately I was already in the process of setting up.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 07:45 PM

Comments

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1 4AM which time zone, Pixy? (And thank you for the efforts!)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 18, 2024 06:46 PM (O7YUW)

2 Is it safe?

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 18, 2024 06:46 PM (R/m4+)

3 It must be hell to train the new hamsters.

Posted by: Flyguy at May 18, 2024 06:47 PM (OYxA4)

4 4AM Eastern.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 18, 2024 06:47 PM (BLOW1)

5 Headline: Widespread Panic As AOSHQ Blog Goes Missing

Posted by: Mike hammer, etc., etc. at May 18, 2024 06:48 PM (XeU6L)

6 If a server isn't serving, is it still a server?

Posted by: Not Jaden Smith at May 18, 2024 06:48 PM (MRUXb)

7 I damn near started to go loot the local grocery store.

Posted by: Mike hammer, etc., etc. at May 18, 2024 06:49 PM (XeU6L)

8 Magnets. Every time it's the magnets.

Posted by: look whats not at May 18, 2024 06:49 PM (nakGR)

9 2 Is it safe?
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 18, 2024 06:46 PM (R/m4+)
- - - - - - - - - - - -
*pulls envelope away from head*
*opens envelope*
*reads content of paper within the envelope*
"Things you do not want to hear said by dentist Fadi Kablawi while he is working."

Posted by: Another Anon at May 18, 2024 06:49 PM (QNMaY)

10 Thanks, Pixy.

I thought it was just me!

You don't appreciate how much you rely on the HQ for amusement and edification until it's inaccessible.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 18, 2024 06:49 PM (FkUwd)

11 Headline: Widespread Panic As AOSHQ Blog Goes Missing
Posted by: Mike hammer, etc., etc. at May 18, 2024 06:48 PM (XeU6L)

Dogs and cats living together... MASS HYSTERIA!

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2024 06:49 PM (MRUXb)

12 so there were no specialty threads today? anything?

hope nobody suffered withdrawal

Posted by: Don Black at May 18, 2024 06:50 PM (/7KEl)

13 Hiya Pixy !

Posted by: JT at May 18, 2024 06:50 PM (T4tVD)

14 Pixy - In spite of the occasional cheap-shots, most of us very much appreciate your work with blog.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 18, 2024 06:50 PM (XeU6L)

15 Good work Pixy! Have pint

Posted by: Jamaica at May 18, 2024 06:50 PM (A7Rvw)

16
Migration is becoming a problem across the planet.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 18, 2024 06:50 PM (RKVpM)

17 7 If a server isn't serving, is it still a server?
Posted by: Not Jaden Smith at May 18, 2024 06:48 PM (MRUXb)
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The technical term for it, per the most recent A+ certification exam, is "doorstop".

Posted by: Another Anon at May 18, 2024 06:51 PM (QNMaY)

18 so there were no specialty threads today? anything?

hope nobody suffered withdrawal
Posted by: Don Black at May 18, 2024 06:50 PM (/7KEl)

I got things done.

It was horrible.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2024 06:51 PM (MRUXb)

19 New Sheepscot River hash

Posted by: Jamaica at May 18, 2024 06:51 PM (A7Rvw)

20 Where have you all been?
Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 18, 2024 06:51 PM (fwDg9)

21 (realizes time zone in Oz) What a way to start a weekend.

Posted by: look whats not at May 18, 2024 06:51 PM (nakGR)

22 Don't go!!!

To Serve Morons -- it's a COOKBOOK!!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 18, 2024 06:51 PM (ZdexC)

23 Bless you ten thousand times. Hope it goes smoothly for you and doesn't give you any unexpected headaches.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 18, 2024 06:51 PM (q3u5l)

24 Are the hampsters getting enough protein?

Posted by: Unfamiliar W/Rodents at May 18, 2024 06:52 PM (V5BDR)

25 Migration is becoming a problem across the planet.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 18, 2024 06:50 PM (RKVpM)

Shit... I don't have any papers.

Do we need papers?

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2024 06:52 PM (MRUXb)

26 Appreciate your efforts Pixy.
Thanxs.

It's as if a million voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 18, 2024 06:52 PM (W/lyH)

27 The novice asked the backup master: "Master, now that my backups have good coverage, are taken frequently, are archived, and are distributed to the four corners of the earth, I have supreme confidence in them. Have I achieved enlightenment? Surely now I comprehend the Tao Of Backup?"

The master paused for one minute, then suddenly produced an axe and smashed the novice's disk drive to pieces. Calmly he said: "To believe in one's backups is one thing. To have to use them is another."

The novice looked very worried.

---

The complete Tao of backup here:
http://www.taobackup.com/index.html

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 18, 2024 06:52 PM (O7YUW)

28 Thanks pixy you're a real pal and probably made of AI

Posted by: ... at May 18, 2024 06:52 PM (lX8VI)

29 Crossing fingers.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 18, 2024 06:52 PM (Y6IkP)

30 "Describe things you got done while AoS was down" could be a genuinely good post.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at May 18, 2024 06:53 PM (DTX3h)

31 Have pint -- Will travel.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 18, 2024 06:53 PM (ZdexC)

32 Pixy - In spite of the occasional cheap-shots, most of us very much appreciate your work with blog.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 18, 2024 06:50 PM (XeU6L)

My shots ain't cheap !

Posted by: JT at May 18, 2024 06:53 PM (T4tVD)

33 I volunteer to be a member of Old Server's firing squad.

Pixy, thanks for the new one.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2024 06:53 PM (lCWOD)

34 Was outside but in yard when it crashed , wasn't sure if phone or site. Pixy said other week it was on the fritz

Posted by: Skip at May 18, 2024 06:53 PM (fwDg9)

35 Preparing for the unexpected huh?

Posted by: fd at May 18, 2024 06:53 PM (vFG9F)

36 Oh no!

I forgot what color a green orange is, someone remind me quick!

Posted by: banana Dream at May 18, 2024 06:54 PM (Y6IkP)

37 Shit... I don't have any papers.

Do we need papers?
Posted by: BurtTC

...........

If it's shit, you'll need papers.

Posted by: look whats not at May 18, 2024 06:54 PM (nakGR)

38
[looks askance, softly, innocently, whistles vague tune]

Posted by: Bob, at the NSA at May 18, 2024 06:54 PM (XeU6L)

39 I’ve been panicking!

Posted by: UnkleSteve at May 18, 2024 06:54 PM (t9mSz)

40 So, tell us about your hobbies Pixy.

Posted by: fd at May 18, 2024 06:55 PM (vFG9F)

41 36 Oh no!

I forgot what color a green orange is, someone remind me quick!
Posted by: banana Dream at May 18, 2024 06:54 PM (Y6IkP)

You must choose. But choose wisely. For just as the true Grail gives life, so will the false Grail take it from you.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 18, 2024 06:55 PM (CmpAx)

42 >>>It's as if a million voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Trump's rally attendance went up during the blackout.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2024 06:55 PM (lCWOD)

43 Did anyone try unplugging it, then plugging it back in?

Posted by: Hints From Heloise at May 18, 2024 06:56 PM (V5BDR)

44 "Describe things you got done while AoS was down" could be a genuinely good post.
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I had a second UPS lying "you were out when we tried to deliver" -- this one claiming 12:27 PM attempt that I found on the tracker at 12:35 PM.

No sticker/s left either/both times.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 18, 2024 06:56 PM (ZdexC)

45 So comments that don't make it to the new server might get wiped? Like with a cloth?

Posted by: TRex at May 18, 2024 06:56 PM (IQ6Gq)

46 https://tinyurl.com/mtk82jkr
Painted my AoSHq medallion,

Posted by: Skip at May 18, 2024 06:56 PM (fwDg9)

47 Do we need papers?
Posted by: BurtTC
---------

We can help.

Posted by: Zig-Zag at May 18, 2024 06:57 PM (XeU6L)

48 7 I damn near started to go loot the local grocery store.
Posted by: Mike hammer, etc., etc.
---------------

I broke training and ate some cookies.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2024 06:57 PM (lCWOD)

49 I've done server moves. kudos to you for getting it done in just an hour.

Posted by: JM in illinois, behold the Manchurian President at May 18, 2024 06:57 PM (q7fos)

50 {13} so there were no specialty threads today? anything?

Posted by: Don Black at May 18, 2024 06:50 PM (/7KEl)

https://youtu.be/7jrJNEB9pjU?t=19

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 18, 2024 06:57 PM (O7YUW)

51 hope nobody suffered withdrawal
Posted by: Don Black at May 18, 2024 06:50 PM (/7KEl)
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It was close, but I think I'm gonna be OK.

If all goes well, the Sunday Morning Book Thread should be posted on schedule tomorrow morning...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 18, 2024 06:57 PM (BpYfr)

52 Thank you for the work pixy. Even on a weekend.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 18, 2024 06:57 PM (Y6IkP)

53 33 I volunteer to be a member of Old Server's firing squad.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2024 06:53 PM (lCWOD)

So when y'all fail to work me to death, you then move to have me riddled with bullets?! You people are sadistic.

Posted by: worn-out, grey-haired hamster at May 18, 2024 06:57 PM (DTX3h)

54 https://tinyurl.com/yvuk49vu
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

Posted by: Skip at May 18, 2024 06:58 PM (fwDg9)

55
I want reparations from everyone who voted for Biden.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 18, 2024 06:58 PM (RKVpM)

56 Thank you, Pixy!

Posted by: Emmie at May 18, 2024 06:58 PM (Sf2cq)

57 I read a lot, still didn't finish a long chapter

Posted by: Skip at May 18, 2024 06:59 PM (fwDg9)

58

Needs more boobs...

Posted by: Greta Turdberg at May 18, 2024 06:59 PM (UjLY7)

59 So comments that don't make it to the new server might get wiped? Like with a cloth?
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Or a hammer but we'd get 30 years in the slammer if we did it.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 18, 2024 06:59 PM (ZdexC)

60 The only thing my dad taught me about Windows was "system restore".

Posted by: Jamaica at May 18, 2024 06:59 PM (A7Rvw)

61 I just got back from Costco. The bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs that were $.99/lb a few years ago are now $1.76/lb. A 76% increase. Fuck Joe Biden.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at May 18, 2024 06:59 PM (DTX3h)

62 So when y'all fail to work me to death, you then move to have me riddled with bullets?! You people are sadistic.
Posted by: worn-out, grey-haired hamster at May 18, 2024 06:57 PM (DTX3h)
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And? This is what happens when you try to unionize...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 18, 2024 06:59 PM (BpYfr)

63 Today's scheduled hobby thread will be shelved, given a week to marinate, and presented next week.

Posted by: TRex at May 18, 2024 06:59 PM (IQ6Gq)

64 I'm glad this is working again.

I have also been locked out of powerlineblog.com all day today, which is my usual Saturday reading. Has anyone else had this problem?

We had a weird storm two nights ago, then my Firefox got updated last night, and now I have all these weird problems. I don't know if problems are connected or random bad luck/coincidence.

Posted by: caf at May 18, 2024 07:00 PM (/+mVZ)

65 So comments that don't make it to the new server might get wiped? Like with a cloth?
Posted by: TRex at May 18, 2024 06:56 PM (IQ6Gq)

Like tears. In the rain.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2024 07:00 PM (MRUXb)

66 Thanks Perfessor Squirrel! Appreciate it!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 18, 2024 07:00 PM (BLOW1)

67 Luckily I was out most of the afternoon or I'm not sure I would have made it to this moment.
Have been listening to Trump's speech in the meantime.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 18, 2024 07:01 PM (t/2Uw)

68 {53}So when y'all fail to work me to death, you then move to have me riddled with bullets?! You people are sadistic.

Posted by: worn-out, grey-haired hamster at May 18, 2024 06:57 PM (DTX3h)

21 potato gun salute, and we're all out of potatoes.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 18, 2024 07:01 PM (O7YUW)

69 I lost the ability to read since finding this blog.

Posted by: Mixed Blessing at May 18, 2024 07:01 PM (V5BDR)

70 Movie thread!

There's an IMAX movie on the Blue Falcons -- oops, I mean Blue Angels. Think I'll see it tomorrow.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 18, 2024 07:01 PM (FkUwd)

71 TRex too.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 18, 2024 07:01 PM (BLOW1)

72 The Firefox update also closed hundreds of open threads. I was getting sick of Firefox after about 20 years, but this might be the last aggravation I will put up with from them.

Posted by: caf at May 18, 2024 07:01 PM (/+mVZ)

73 >>>So when y'all fail to work me to death, you then move to have me riddled with bullets?! You people are sadistic.
Posted by: worn-out, grey-haired hamster
---------------------

Up against the wall, hamster.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2024 07:03 PM (lCWOD)

74
Appreciate your efforts too, Pixy. As an early riser I enjoy your Tech Thread despite understanding little except the disclaimer. Often, the best part.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 18, 2024 07:04 PM (RKVpM)

75 Hi Pixy
You are too early in the morning for this not a morning person and also not a techie but really appreciate that you get us.
❤️

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 18, 2024 07:05 PM (t/2Uw)

76 58

Needs more boobs...
Posted by: Greta Turdberg at May 18, 2024 06:59 PM (UjLY7)

https://tinyurl.com/ynaefemk

It is remarkably sparse for busty women working on computers.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 18, 2024 07:06 PM (CmpAx)

77 I felt a great disturbance in the Force as if a million morons had broken wind at the same time

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 18, 2024 07:06 PM (enVpg)

78 Really glad to see this site back up.

Posted by: Sam Adams at May 18, 2024 07:07 PM (KEWDx)

79 Whats a server? Can I have fries with that?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at May 18, 2024 07:07 PM (JQpNg)

80 Thanks Perfessor Squirrel! Appreciate it!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 18, 2024 07:00 PM (BLOW1)
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Thank YOU for everything you do to keep this place running.

I can only imagine how challenging it is...

Also, you put up with our antics. Always a plus!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 18, 2024 07:07 PM (BpYfr)

81 {64} ... I have also been locked out of powerlineblog.com all day today, which is my usual Saturday reading. Has anyone else had this problem?

Posted by: caf at May 18, 2024 07:00 PM (/+mVZ)

Just tested here with Firefox 126.0. Was getting forever-looped by Cloudflare's "Checking to see if you are human" test.

I ran into this one yesterday when my wife couldn't play a game she normally enjoys over at coolmathgames.com.

Turns out it's Cloudflare being snippy about the Canvas Blocker add-on feeding it a false fingerprint. To get past it, you have to go into Canvas Blocker's expert settings and add cloudflare.com to Canvas Blocker's whitelist.

Kinda says something about CloudFlare though if they're that intent on tracking your browser's fingerprint, and their anti-bot/anti-DDOS services are used by so many sites now.

Anyway, now I can get into PowerLineBlog.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 18, 2024 07:08 PM (O7YUW)

82 garrett was so upset about the blog being down he lost it.

https://tinyurl.com/muc3v8cy

Posted by: JackStraw at May 18, 2024 07:08 PM (LkLld)

83 Meme pic of the arrested golfer...

https://tinyurl.com/45r46a2u

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 18, 2024 07:08 PM (ZdexC)

84
I just got back from Costco. The bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs that were $.99/lb a few years ago are now $1.76/lb. A 76% increase. Fuck Joe Biden.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at May 18, 2024 06:59 PM

My usual advice is to shop Aldi's. But they're right around the same price for thighs. Chicken 'quarters' are still around .99/lb. Tastiest part of the chicken to me.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 18, 2024 07:08 PM (RKVpM)

85 Was that a test run of the opposition for November....? I suspect everyone.

Posted by: goatexchange at May 18, 2024 07:08 PM (vHbTv)

86 I've been checking about once an hour as son as the gardening thread went AWOL. Glad it's back.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 18, 2024 07:08 PM (S6gqv)

87 Thanks Skip !

Posted by: JT at May 18, 2024 07:08 PM (T4tVD)

88 83-related:

Dave Shedloski @DaveShedloski
Louisville is the most crime-ridden city in Kentucky at 8,748 crimes per 100,000 population annually, which is 200% higher than the national average. But by God the police have their man this time. Well done, guys. Helluva job.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 18, 2024 07:09 PM (ZdexC)

89 A week is too long to marinate a thread, even a hobby thread. I would freeze it 'til Wednesday, defrost in fridge, add spices on Friday, then repost on schedule.

Posted by: Food Safety Is Paramount at May 18, 2024 07:09 PM (V5BDR)

90 $3.00 a pound for boneless chicken breasts, here.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2024 07:09 PM (lCWOD)

91 Holy Moly! At least it wasn't a pro-Palestinian protest that bombed the server with LGBTQ+ slogans and chanting.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 18, 2024 07:09 PM (3hI7Q)

92 90 $3.00 a pound for boneless chicken breasts, here.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2024 07:09 PM
***
Blending boobs and food in the thread. This is the way.

Posted by: TRex at May 18, 2024 07:10 PM (IQ6Gq)

93 Sadly, it appears as though we missed out on a Pet Thread this week...

Oh, well. There's always more pets next week!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 18, 2024 07:10 PM (BpYfr)

94 Blending boobs and food in the thread. This is the way.

Posted by: TRex at May 18, 2024 07:10 PM (IQ6Gq)

How much are the Boobs.

And 3 2 1.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at May 18, 2024 07:11 PM (JQpNg)

95 Listening to Tucker talking with Aaron Rodgers.

Evidently I haven't been conspiratorial enough.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2024 07:11 PM (MRUXb)

96 Holy Moly! At least it wasn't a pro-Palestinian protest that bombed the server with LGBTQ+ slogans and chanting.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 18, 2024 07:09 PM (3hI7Q)
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Pixy stopped paying attention to the hamsters and that's exactly what they turned into.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 18, 2024 07:11 PM (BpYfr)

97 Holy Moly! At least it wasn't a pro-Palestinian protest that bombed the server with LGBTQ+ slogans and chanting.
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A glitter-bombing.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 18, 2024 07:12 PM (ZdexC)

98 Did the Garden thread actually post?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 18, 2024 07:12 PM (t/2Uw)

99 No. It's not safe, it's... very dangerous, be careful.

Posted by: Gas Pump Guy at May 18, 2024 07:12 PM (R/m4+)

100 95 Listening to Tucker talking with Aaron Rodgers.

Evidently I haven't been conspiratorial enough.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2024 07:11 PM (MRUXb

Link, please?

Posted by: Emmie at May 18, 2024 07:12 PM (Sf2cq)

101 100!

Posted by: TRex at May 18, 2024 07:12 PM (IQ6Gq)

102 Dave Shedloski @DaveShedloski
Louisville is the most crime-ridden city in Kentucky at 8,748 crimes per 100,000 population annually, which is 200% higher than the national average. But by God the police have their man this time. Well done, guys. Helluva job.
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 18, 2024 07:09 PM (ZdexC)

You know the cops are engaging in justice, when the bodycam footage is missing, and the cop is charging you with assault because he tore his pants.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2024 07:12 PM (MRUXb)

103 Drat.

Posted by: TRex at May 18, 2024 07:12 PM (IQ6Gq)

104 Did the Garden thread actually post?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 18, 2024 07:12 PM (t/2Uw)

Yes, but in a different dimension.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at May 18, 2024 07:13 PM (JQpNg)

105 .Thank you for the work pixy. Even on a weekend.
---

No, Australia is on the bottom of the world, Kind of upside down, so it's like a Wednesday there

Posted by: Don Black at May 18, 2024 07:13 PM (/7KEl)

106 4 "Describe things you got done while AoS was down" could be a genuinely good post.

Mowed part of lawn.
Drank beer.
Made sangria.
Drank isame.
Sorted colors and whites. Put gym shorts in wrong pile.
Drafted poison pen letter to Bob from NSA.
Turned on cooking channel.
Watched Giada jiggle.
Drank more beer.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 18, 2024 07:13 PM (W/lyH)

107 Listening to Tucker talking with Aaron Rodgers.

Evidently I haven't been conspiratorial enough.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2024 07:11 PM (MRUXb

Link, please?
Posted by: Emmie at May 18, 2024 07:12 PM (Sf2cq)

https://tinyurl.com/mrtyajnc

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2024 07:13 PM (MRUXb)

108 I waited all day to make some incredibly pithy and insightful comment on KT's thread, but now I forgot what it was. It was really good, though.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 18, 2024 07:14 PM (S6gqv)

109 Glad to see you all made it back safely. It is amazing how integral being here is to my everyday life.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 18, 2024 07:14 PM (t/2Uw)

110 Gee I thought it was me LOL

Hang in there fellow Patriots

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 18, 2024 07:14 PM (SHAib)

111 I waited all day to make some incredibly pithy and insightful comment on KT's thread, but now I forgot what it was. It was really good, though.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 18, 2024 07:14 PM (S6gqv)

Well I was impressed.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at May 18, 2024 07:15 PM (JQpNg)

112 The server must have 19 pieces of flair. I'll be checking.

Posted by: Stan, the Manager at Chotchkies at May 18, 2024 07:15 PM (PiwSw)

113
I wasted two hours listening to Aaron Rodgers and Tucker Carlson. Notice the use of the word 'wasted' as to whether you should do the same.

Tucker is starting down a slippery slope, I fear.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 18, 2024 07:15 PM (RKVpM)

114 98 Did the Garden thread actually post?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 18, 2024 07:12 PM (t/2Uw)

Nothing posted during the unexpected downtime. Strangely, the last post that made it up (at 11:16 AM EDT) before the server fell over was titled "Preparing for the Unexpected".

Oddly prophetic.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 18, 2024 07:15 PM (O7YUW)

115
Willowed by..
The Ode to Joy was beautiful, thank you KT.

I have an ode to joy as well, one $16 capacitor fixed our AC for merely ~$350. I now have 2 of the capacitors in my 'cart' so I can fix it the next time.
The guy said this capacitor is the usual failure and lasts anywhere between 2 and 5 years. We've been in this house 3 years.
At least it failed and was fixed before we got to our stretch of over 100F degree days!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 18, 2024 07:15 PM (LK9/j)

116 Thank you, BurtTC!

Posted by: Emmie at May 18, 2024 07:16 PM (Sf2cq)

117 >>Tucker is starting down a slippery slope, I fear.

Posted by: Divide by Zero

how long until he's Glenn Beck

Posted by: Don Black at May 18, 2024 07:16 PM (/7KEl)

118 Damn. Im all out of peanuts to have with vodka rocks.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at May 18, 2024 07:17 PM (JQpNg)

119 No, Australia is on the bottom of the world, Kind of upside down, so it's like a Wednesday there
Posted by: Don Black at May 18, 2024 07:13 PM (/7KEl)

They have Drop Bears too who will drop out of trees and attack without provocation.

Very vicious critters.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 18, 2024 07:17 PM (R/m4+)

120 I posted on KT's late morning thread, that was it

Posted by: Skip at May 18, 2024 07:17 PM (fwDg9)

121 100 95 Listening to Tucker talking with Aaron Rodgers.

Evidently I haven't been conspiratorial enough.
Posted by: BurtTC
-------------------------

Conspiracy, I'll show you conspiracy. Just found this and he's verified by Lara Logan who works with General Flynn. It's also on her X site.

The link has the full text of the interview and at the bottom is a video of the interview.

Here it is.

https://shorturl.at/SReAS

Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2024 07:17 PM (lCWOD)

122 Wasted, dude!

Party hearty!

Dude. Dooooood. Dooooooooood!

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 18, 2024 07:18 PM (ZdexC)

123 Well since AoSHQ was vacay for a couple of hours I amused myself by watching a couple of movie trailers. Boy there isn't much in the pipeline that looks interesting except maybe the Kevin Costner 2 part western. Anybody seen the latest trailer for "Wicked"? DEI casting to the max. Not sure how they're going to make 2 movies out it either. I saw the show when it traveled to Columbus. It was fun but wasn't that long.

Posted by: Tuna at May 18, 2024 07:18 PM (oaGWv)

124 1. Yay, the site's back up!
2. Will CBD do a First World Problem post about it?

Posted by: GWB at May 18, 2024 07:19 PM (zUT35)

125 I am on my third Kentucky Mule. My wifey is singing in the den. Life is good. Dems suck.

Posted by: goatexchange at May 18, 2024 07:19 PM (vHbTv)

126 Wife paid 12$/lb for some Amish brisket. She thought it a deal.

Posted by: Jamaica at May 18, 2024 07:19 PM (2FEC7)

127 It must be hell to train the new hamsters.
Posted by: Flyguy at May 18, 2024 06:47 PM (OYxA4)

Especially when they keep dying of ebola.

Posted by: GWB at May 18, 2024 07:19 PM (zUT35)

128 2. Will CBD do a First World Problem post about it?
Posted by: GWB

Too late; but, next weeks Pet thread ought to be "lit"!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 18, 2024 07:19 PM (LK9/j)

129 Oh, well. There's always more pets next week!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
------

Not exactly...

Posted by: Retiring hamster at May 18, 2024 07:20 PM (XeU6L)

130 I made fried catfish for supper. Tried a new recipe that required soaking it in milk before dredging in cornmeal. I would normally dip in egg. It turned out a little too bland even though I used some Cajun spice. Would buttermilk have made it more tangy? What is the hack to make milk into buttermilk?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 18, 2024 07:20 PM (t/2Uw)

131 >>Tucker is starting down a slippery slope, I fear.

Posted by: Divide by Zero
------------------

He's got to come out of the woods occasionally and associate with some contrarians. Maybe call up Brit Hume and they go have a steak.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2024 07:21 PM (lCWOD)

132 I wasted two hours listening to Aaron Rodgers and Tucker Carlson. Notice the use of the word 'wasted' as to whether you should do the same.

Tucker is starting down a slippery slope, I fear.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 18, 2024 07:15 PM (RKVpM)

I don't see it.

I don't have to agree with everything he says, to find the exploration of what's going on to be useful. And then pick and choose which of his output I care to hear.

I know people are mad at him for the atomic bomb statement, but there are a lot of people who are now asking the question: Was in necessary.

I don't see it as a thing I have to come down on a side of. It happened. What is the harm of asking the question. We've been conditioned by our current culture to believe asking the question is to condemn. It's not, and it doesn't have to be.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2024 07:21 PM (MRUXb)

133 Thanks for the update, Pixy Misa!

I thought trolls had figured out a way to take the site down. Or Ace's shelves fell and pulled out the extension cord on the way down. Or aliens.

So many thoughts...

Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 18, 2024 07:22 PM (B0kFh)

134 Exciting!

Break a leg? Crash a hd.

Posted by: wodun at May 18, 2024 07:22 PM (kmNtT)

135 Very vicious critters.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy
--------

Pfft.

Posted by: Black Mamba at May 18, 2024 07:23 PM (XeU6L)

136 I am on my third Kentucky Mule. My wifey is singing in the den. Life is good. Dems suck.

Posted by: goatexchange at May 18, 2024 07:19 PM (vHbTv)

I like this comment.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at May 18, 2024 07:23 PM (JQpNg)

137 >>Evidently I haven't been conspiratorial enough.

I doubt any of us have been.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 18, 2024 07:23 PM (LkLld)

138 The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee 23h
4-Year-Old Moron Blows Dandelion Seeds All Over Perfect Lawn
buff.ly/3fcn1Od

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 18, 2024 07:23 PM (ZdexC)

139 So many thoughts...
Posted by: NaughtyPine
---------

Bob

Posted by: Mike hammer, etc., etc. at May 18, 2024 07:24 PM (XeU6L)

140 I am on my third Kentucky Mule. My wifey is singing in the den. Life is good. Dems suck.
Posted by: goatexchange

I made myself a margarita. Finished it. Might make myself another. I'm that bored.

Posted by: Tuna at May 18, 2024 07:24 PM (oaGWv)

141 "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 18, 2024 07:10 PM

Strangely, I think next week's pets will have a lot in common with the pets who did not get to appear this week.

The Gardening Thread was almost ready to post when . . .

Next week's post will probably look quite similar.

Posted by: KT at May 18, 2024 07:24 PM (rrtZS)

142 New Sheepscot River hash
Posted by: Jamaica at May 18, 2024 06:51 PM (A7Rvw)

At first I thought that last word was "rash" and was going to offer up a "TMI". Especially with "sheep" in the name....

Posted by: GWB at May 18, 2024 07:24 PM (zUT35)

143 >>>"Describe things you got done while AoS was down" could be a genuinely good post.

>Made beef noodle soup. Thawed and prepped chicken breasts, thighs and beef steaks for the charcoal grill. Cleaned the charcoal grill. Sorted thru the hard wood for today's flavor.

Looks like pecan may be flavor of the day.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 18, 2024 07:25 PM (3hI7Q)

144 Keep it secret, keep it safe

Posted by: In Exile at May 18, 2024 07:25 PM (kzzyk)

145 Sheep don't get rashes, they are wrapped in lanolin

Posted by: Jamaica at May 18, 2024 07:26 PM (2FEC7)

146 Thanks pixy you're a real pal and probably made of AI
Posted by: ... at May 18, 2024 06:52 PM (lX8VI)

Pixy, unlike many of those AI things is actually intelligent.

Posted by: GWB at May 18, 2024 07:26 PM (zUT35)

147 Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 18, 2024 07:12 PM

No. You'll have to wait for the shiny pollen.

Posted by: KT at May 18, 2024 07:26 PM (rrtZS)

148 123 Well since AoSHQ was vacay for a couple of hours I amused myself by watching a couple of movie trailers. Boy there isn't much in the pipeline that looks interesting except maybe the Kevin Costner 2 part western. Anybody seen the latest trailer for "Wicked"? DEI casting to the max. Not sure how they're going to make 2 movies out it either. I saw the show when it traveled to Columbus. It was fun but wasn't that long.
Posted by: Tuna
------------------------

Open range - Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall, new to me but well worth the watch. Some present property rights dialogue.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2024 07:27 PM (lCWOD)

149 85 Was that a test run of the opposition for November....? I suspect everyone.
Posted by: goatexchange at May 18, 2024 07:08 PM (vHbTv)

NGL For the past four years, every time the blog goes down, I wonder for a second 'Did they finally take ace down?' 'Will it come back up?'

Wasn't always like this.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 18, 2024 07:27 PM (CmpAx)

150 Will CBD do a First World Problem post about it?
Posted by: GWB

Kind of a no brainer.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 18, 2024 07:28 PM (W/lyH)

151 Next week's post will probably look quite similar.
Posted by: KT

Good deal!
Was looking forward to Doomsday Book recommendations.

I got in "Foxfire' before the post got EMP Stomped.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 18, 2024 07:28 PM (cOq4q)

152 Test

Posted by: Outside of Life at May 18, 2024 07:29 PM (89Sog)

153 And I keep checking the blackout blog. Last post 2021.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 18, 2024 07:29 PM (CmpAx)

154 I made myself a margarita. Finished it. Might make myself another. I'm that bored.

Posted by: Tuna at May 18, 2024 07:24 PM (oaGWv)

i like this one also.

*makes vodka, rocks, olives.*

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at May 18, 2024 07:29 PM (JQpNg)

155 The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee May 16
'Harrison Butker Does Not Reflect Our Values,' Says League Of Woman Beaters
buff.ly/3WKGNpX

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 18, 2024 07:29 PM (ZdexC)

156 Server Move sounds like a Red Lobster shift change.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 18, 2024 07:29 PM (ENQN6)

157 Rats

still have the old hash

I want something new!!!

Posted by: Outside of Life at May 18, 2024 07:29 PM (89Sog)

158 Aetius I have thought that before, but as said knew blog server was on borrowed time

Posted by: Skip at May 18, 2024 07:29 PM (fwDg9)

159 Conspiracy, I'll show you conspiracy. Just found this and he's verified by Lara Logan who works with General Flynn. It's also on her X site.

The link has the full text of the interview and at the bottom is a video of the interview.

Here it is.

https://shorturl.at/SReAS

Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2024 07:17 PM (lCWOD)

I guess we'll see. I don't envy those who have to go through the long slow process of unraveling the corruption. We've seen some, obviously, who make claims they can't back up. I have no doubt some who claim to be going after "the Deep State" are Deep Staters themselves.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2024 07:30 PM (iRmeI)

160

While the server was down I was kidnapped by aliens and anal probed! I hope they come back...

Posted by: Greta Turdberg at May 18, 2024 07:30 PM (UjLY7)

161 Sheep don't get rashes, they are wrapped in lanolin
Posted by: Jamaica at May 18, 2024 07:26 PM (2FEC7)

Not according to my friend Akmed.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 18, 2024 07:30 PM (W/lyH)

162 155 The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee May 16
'Harrison Butker Does Not Reflect Our Values,' Says League Of Woman Beaters
buff.ly/3WKGNpX
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 18, 2024 07:29 PM (ZdexC)

Promise Keepers say Fuck It head to TJ.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 18, 2024 07:30 PM (ENQN6)

163 Hi KT
I did get to comment on your post before everything went kablooey. (-:

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 18, 2024 07:30 PM (t/2Uw)

164 So many thoughts...
Posted by: NaughtyPine
---------

Bob
Posted by: Mike hammer, etc., etc. at May 18, 2024 07:24 PM

I thought AoSHQ is essential to Bob's career. He monitors it hourly, every day, except for Sunday when he's attending Latin Mass and Wednesday when he's taking part in a men's Bible study for evangelical preppers.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 18, 2024 07:31 PM (B0kFh)

165 Not according to my friend Akmed.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 18, 2024 07:30 PM (W/lyH)

He was stuck in the fence. He needed help.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 18, 2024 07:31 PM (ENQN6)

166
That's what happens when you pay the power bill with a postdated check.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 18, 2024 07:31 PM (MoZTd)

167 What is the hack to make milk into buttermilk?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)

Vinegar or lemon juice. Not use about the proportions though. Probably somewhere on the internet though.

Open range - Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall, new to me but well worth the watch. Some present property rights dialogue.
Posted by: Braenyard

Yup. Seen it many times. Great movie.

Posted by: Tuna at May 18, 2024 07:31 PM (oaGWv)

168 Checked out blackout blog too

Posted by: Skip at May 18, 2024 07:33 PM (fwDg9)

169 And I keep checking the blackout blog. Last post 2021.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I did too. No one there. Was getting worried.

Posted by: Tuna at May 18, 2024 07:33 PM (oaGWv)

170 I got asked to leave the bar in a very nice hotel for making martintis in my mouth.

I was ordering Tito chilled and then tossing back the entire drink and digging up a few olives.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 18, 2024 07:34 PM (ENQN6)

171 Open range - Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall, new to me but well worth the watch. Some present property rights dialogue.
Posted by: Braenyard

Yup. Seen it many times. Great movie.

Posted by: Tuna at May 18, 2024 07:31 PM (oaGWv)

And Sharon Stone

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 18, 2024 07:34 PM (ENQN6)

172 Worse was from Coffee Break and ear worms started thinking Windmills of Your Mind so not much before blog came back watched video of it

Posted by: Skip at May 18, 2024 07:35 PM (fwDg9)

173 Hmmm. I should have squeezed some lime juice into the milk. Last time, after I took the fish outof the pan, squuezed some lemon and added some capers and butter and poured it over the fish. That was pretty tasty.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 18, 2024 07:36 PM (t/2Uw)

174 89 A week is too long to marinate a thread, even a hobby thread. I would freeze it 'til Wednesday, defrost in fridge, add spices on Friday, then repost on schedule.

Posted by: Food Safety Is Paramount at May 18, 2024 07:09 PM
***
Fair enough. Wouldn't want the hobby thread to go rancid before anyone can get a taste.

Posted by: TRex at May 18, 2024 07:36 PM (IQ6Gq)

175 I made spaghetti topped with a manchego cheese, plum tomato and shrimp sauce - fresh basil of course for dinner tonight.

It was yummy. My lovely wife is baking chocolate chip cookies as an offering to the cook.

Life is good.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 18, 2024 07:36 PM (WXNFJ)

176 No way, really?

>>The raid on Mar-a-Lago was to seize the evidence that was declassified by Donald Trump in the last few hours of his first term, which involved the Crossfire Hurricane details

Posted by: JackStraw at May 18, 2024 07:36 PM (LkLld)

177 And Sharon Stone
Posted by: rhennigantx

Nope it was Annette Benning.

Posted by: Tuna at May 18, 2024 07:36 PM (oaGWv)

178 Watching the original Equalizer.

Posted by: lin-duh at May 18, 2024 07:37 PM (PZo5T)

179 160 While the server was down I was kidnapped by aliens and anal probed! I hope they come back...

Posted by: Greta Turdberg at May 18, 2024 07:30 PM (UjLY7)
***
Been there, done that.

Posted by: Eric Cartman at May 18, 2024 07:38 PM (IQ6Gq)

180 I was getting sick of Firefox after about 20 years
Posted by: caf at May 18, 2024 07:01 PM (/+mVZ)

I do still use them, but my personal computer is transitioned almost entirely to Brave and LibreWolf. And I use Ice Dragon for playing solitaire and Vivaldi for a few things that don't require any sturdiness but that I might want to separate from all my other online activities.

Posted by: GWB at May 18, 2024 07:38 PM (zUT35)

181 I really liked Kevin Costner until I saw him in a Lynn Cheney shirt.
Somehow connecting an actor with real life ruins something. I find it hard to suspend disbelief. It's why I'm really liking some of these shows made in Australia because I don;t know the actors.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 18, 2024 07:39 PM (t/2Uw)

182 >>>
I don't see it as a thing I have to come down on a side of. It happened. What is the harm of asking the question. We've been conditioned by our current culture to believe asking the question is to condemn. It's not, and it doesn't have to be.
Posted by: BurtTC
===============

Basically he brought up the question for ethical war.
It's an illogical question because war is the ultimate
solution to an unethical question. Therefore, war must
be unethical.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2024 07:39 PM (lCWOD)

183 I'm so sure the Chefs (not a typo) will get busy RIGHT AWAY & release kicker Harrison Butker... because a bunch of LGBTQ leftists don't like him! /s

After all, All Pro, future HOF NFL players are easy to find. Who needs Butker anyway? said no-one.

Posted by: KC Wolf (mnw) at May 18, 2024 07:39 PM (NLIak)

184 I felt a great disturbance in the Force as if a million morons had broken wind at the same time
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 18, 2024 07:06 PM (enVpg)

Dang! You heard that?!

Posted by: GWB at May 18, 2024 07:39 PM (zUT35)

185 I hope good homes will be found for the retired hamsters.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 18, 2024 07:40 PM (mH6SG)

186 I shall make the appropriate sacrifices to the tech gods for a smooth transition.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 18, 2024 07:40 PM (lXCUP)

187 still have the old hash

I want something new!!!
Posted by: Outside of Life

Reset or unplug your cable modem should get you a new hash.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 18, 2024 07:41 PM (LK9/j)

188 Basically he brought up the question for ethical war.
It's an illogical question because war is the ultimate
solution to an unethical question. Therefore, war must
be unethical.
Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2024 07:39 PM (lCWOD)

I'm not sure what that means.

Obviously self defense is the basic principle upon which "ethical war" would be founded. From there one can ask "at what point are my actions no longer self defense?"

Not unlike the person who shoots the home invader, and then when he's running away, shoots him in the back.

Did the home owner lose the right to fire that last shot? The law would generally say he did.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2024 07:42 PM (ip5GP)

189 181 I really liked Kevin Costner until I saw him in a Lynn Cheney shirt.
Somehow connecting an actor with real life ruins something. I find it hard to suspend disbelief. It's why I'm really liking some of these shows made in Australia because I don;t know the actors.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)
------------------

They should keep their politics private.
Costner, however, will put money where his mouth is. After the big oil spill, during Obama, he went to the Gulf Coast then put millions of dollars into an enterprise that would, hopefully, remediate the oil. - That was a little salve for me.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2024 07:43 PM (lCWOD)

190 thx, Pixy! all good!

& good luck with all the pesky machinery!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 18, 2024 07:43 PM (tQtDb)

191
I take it I wasn't the only one who thought we had been deplatformed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 18, 2024 07:44 PM (MoZTd)

192 Ok, on to other things. The world's still spinning.

Not that I'm sure, I'm gonna go spin on it.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2024 07:44 PM (ip5GP)

193 I really liked Kevin Costner until I saw him in a Lynn Cheney shirt.
Somehow connecting an actor with real life ruins something. I find it hard to suspend disbelief. It's why I'm really liking some of these shows made in Australia because I don;t know the actors.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)

I was thinking that it's a shame actors can't keep their mouths shut these days. I really don't want to know all the details of their lives. Not interested in your politics and especially not interested in your sexual preferences. Please just stop. It's hard to get involved in a love story if you know the actor or actress is as gay as gay can be. A little mystery is a good thing.

Posted by: Tuna at May 18, 2024 07:44 PM (oaGWv)

194 1 cup whole Milk and 1 Tbsp Vinegar. Let it set about 5 minutes or so.

I’ve used sour Cream where buttermilk is called for, it works great. Pancakes from scratch for example. Acidity for the baking powder.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 18, 2024 07:45 PM (z+vDc)

195 Open range - Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall, new to me but well worth the watch. Some present property rights dialogue.
Posted by: Braenyard
------

Easily my favorite contemporary western.The scene wher Costner is carrying the dog Tig to bury with Mose gets to me every time. Here's the clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAhWWSnAI6U

Also, it's interesting that Costner insisted that Duval receive top billing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 18, 2024 07:46 PM (XeU6L)

196 I was at a prayer gathering but when I returned, I wondered whether the left had permanently disabled ASHQ. Thanks for your hard work, Pixy.

I must be really tired because I found it rather hilarious that Facebook (I don't have an account, but the church does) suggested a group which I might be interested in called: "You park like a fuc*head" I didn't go on to check why this group might be appropriate for my little church.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 18, 2024 07:47 PM (XkYcA)

197 Watching the original Equalizer.
Posted by: lin-duh

Ahh... Edward Woodward. Good actor. That show had a catchy intro theme also.

Posted by: Tuna at May 18, 2024 07:47 PM (oaGWv)

198 Reset or unplug your cable modem should get you a new hash.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 18, 2024 07:41 PM (LK9/j)

Takes 12 hours for my isp to clear their cache. That's a bit too long for my tatse.

Posted by: Outside of Life at May 18, 2024 07:47 PM (89Sog)

199 It's difficult to get involved in a love story if you know the actor is homosexual

Never mind “love story”, if they are a fag I ain’t gonna watch. Done with all that shit.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 18, 2024 07:47 PM (z+vDc)

200 imho, ethical war is one that you win.

losing a war kinda renders it all moot, right?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 18, 2024 07:47 PM (tQtDb)

201 1 cup whole Milk and 1 Tbsp Vinegar. Let it set about 5 minutes or so.

I’ve used sour Cream where buttermilk is called for, it works great. Pancakes from scratch for example. Acidity for the baking powder.

Posted by: Common Tater

Thanks. I could just tell that something was missing even though I had put spices in the dredge.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 18, 2024 07:48 PM (t/2Uw)

202 200!

Posted by: TRex at May 18, 2024 07:48 PM (IQ6Gq)

203 The guy said this capacitor is the usual failure and lasts anywhere between 2 and 5 years. We've been in this house 3 years.
At least it failed and was fixed before we got to our stretch of over 100F degree days!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

One is none.
Two is one...

Get three.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 18, 2024 07:48 PM (cOq4q)

204 Double drat.

Posted by: TRex at May 18, 2024 07:49 PM (IQ6Gq)

205 Odd. CG patrol boat headed upriver.

Posted by: Jamaica at May 18, 2024 07:49 PM (9LnMH)

206 Why Costner wasn’t selected to play Jim Lovell in Apollo 13 is one of those imponderables. Tom Hanks looks nothing like Lovell.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 18, 2024 07:49 PM (z+vDc)

207 *peeks in*
BLAM BLAM BLAM

All clear?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 18, 2024 07:50 PM (cqahf)

208 47' life boat

Posted by: Jamaica at May 18, 2024 07:50 PM (9LnMH)

209 Those of you that liked Open Range might also like Broken Trail

Posted by: Ben Had at May 18, 2024 07:51 PM (EoJ7M)

210 173 Hmmm. I should have squeezed some lime juice into the milk. Last time, after I took the fish outof the pan, squuezed some lemon and added some capers and butter and poured it over the fish. That was pretty tasty.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 18, 2024 07:36 PM (t/2Uw)

put de lime in de coconut and mix it all up
put de lime in de coconut and make it all better

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 18, 2024 07:51 PM (S6gqv)

211 Nice to see ya nurse ratched. How's the recovery coming? You sound like you're in better spirits.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 18, 2024 07:51 PM (O7YUW)

212 I have often used the milk+vinegar thing to substitute for yogurt in a recipe.

"Dilbert looks at eggs and says, "Eggs are basically cheese that comes from chickens." "

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 18, 2024 07:52 PM (tQtDb)

213 Pixy Misa, need him big fella F150 move box way long ?

Posted by: Eromero at May 18, 2024 07:53 PM (NxC5+)

214 207 *peeks in*
BLAM BLAM BLAM

All clear?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 18, 2024 07:50 PM (cqahf)
***
Well, now there's three fewer hamsters running around. Maybe a fitting end to their service.

Posted by: TRex at May 18, 2024 07:53 PM (IQ6Gq)

215 Site has been down all day.

Pixy posts.
10 seconds later first comment.

Someone has spent their Saturday hitting refresh.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 18, 2024 07:54 PM (P9xGM)

216 Looking forward to that new server smell.

Posted by: davidt at May 18, 2024 07:55 PM (SYTee)

217 still prayin' for ya nurse!

you gonna have a 99 percentile recovery!

an' yo, ever'body pray for JJ, ok?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 18, 2024 07:55 PM (tQtDb)

218 A buttermilk brine is superb for chicken, especially the free-range birds

Posted by: mrp at May 18, 2024 07:56 PM (rj6Yv)

219 191 I take it I wasn't the only one who thought we had been deplatformed.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Yeah, a reasonable suspicion. We're hosted at a company that actually cares about free speech, which means not any of the big cloud services.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 18, 2024 07:56 PM (BLOW1)

220
I really liked Kevin Costner until I saw him in a Lynn Cheney shirt.

Could have been worse.
Could have been an Adam Kinzinger shirt.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 18, 2024 07:56 PM (63Dwl)

221 213, LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 18, 2024 07:56 PM (tQtDb)

222 Thank you, Pixy. You don't get enough thanks.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 18, 2024 07:56 PM (CHHv1)

223 211 Nice to see ya nurse ratched. How's the recovery coming? You sound like you're in better spirits.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

It's so nice to feel not awful. I'm about 75%. Should be good to go To work on Monday.

Burned almost all of my pto. That sucks.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 18, 2024 07:58 PM (Bygx0)

224 What is the hack to make milk into buttermilk?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 18, 2024 07:20 PM (t/2Uw)

BUY buttermilk. And do NOT get the "low fat" crap. That's just 2% milk with "butterfat solids" added back into it. Look for real whole milk buttermilk.

It makes for really great cornbread that I make.

Posted by: GWB at May 18, 2024 07:58 PM (zUT35)

225 Those of you that liked Open Range might also like Broken Trail
Posted by: Ben Had

Thanks. I looked it up. Can't believe I missed that one.

Posted by: Tuna at May 18, 2024 07:59 PM (oaGWv)

226 GWB, I have had no luck finding whole buttermilk anymore.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 18, 2024 08:00 PM (EoJ7M)

227 Thanks for giving me a break for a couple of hours you dog faced, fat ass, pony soldiers...........

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 18, 2024 08:01 PM (qpLSv)

228 an' yo, ever'body pray for JJ, ok?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 18, 2024 07:55 PM (tQtDb)

DONE !

Posted by: JT at May 18, 2024 08:01 PM (T4tVD)

229 One is none.
Two is one...

Get three.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Yeah, I see you haven't met my Betterhalf though...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 18, 2024 08:01 PM (LK9/j)

230 213 Pixy Misa, need him big fella F150 move box way long ?

Thanks for the offer, mate, but it's only 60GB. I'll just carry it on my head.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 18, 2024 08:01 PM (BLOW1)

231 Burned almost all of my pto. That sucks.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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I hope that doesn't ruin any of your plans...

Posted by: lin-duh at May 18, 2024 08:02 PM (PZo5T)

232 So one of the doe's in the hood decided to use my front lawn and porch area as her manger, gave birth to three fawns.

Cute little buggers.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 18, 2024 08:02 PM (XV/Pl)

233 Well, KT did post about the unexpected.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 18, 2024 08:03 PM (w6EFb)

234 230 213 Pixy Misa, need him big fella F150 move box way long ?

Thanks for the offer, mate, but it's only 60GB. I'll just carry it on my head.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 18, 2024 08:01 PM (BLOW1)

This place is strange.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 18, 2024 08:03 PM (CmpAx)

235 Butler's coach said, you get rid of him, I'm leaving too. Said he didn't care if he broke his contract.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 18, 2024 08:03 PM (yeEu9)

236 GWB, I have had no luck finding whole buttermilk anymore.
Posted by: Ben Had

Don't know if you have Krogers in your area but they sell it as well as the low fat version.

Posted by: Tuna at May 18, 2024 08:04 PM (oaGWv)

237
Burned almost all of my pto. That sucks.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 18, 2024 07:58 PM (Bygx0)

I hate when that hsppens.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at May 18, 2024 08:04 PM (Av2AN)

238 You can buy powdered buttermilk. Some stores carry it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 18, 2024 08:04 PM (yeEu9)

239 have had no luck finding whole buttermilk anymore.
Posted by: Ben Had
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They carry it at my heb

Posted by: lin-duh at May 18, 2024 08:05 PM (PZo5T)

240 I'll be moving the entire blog to a new server at 4AM, because as you just saw the old server is having serious problems.
........

The AI is getting belligerent.

Posted by: wth at May 18, 2024 08:05 PM (v0R5T)

241 And I think I bought buttermilk culture, which you store in the freezer. Can be used to culture buttermilk

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 18, 2024 08:06 PM (yeEu9)

242 >>Butler's coach said, you get rid of him, I'm leaving too. Said he didn't care if he broke his contract.

If this is true my respect for Reid just went up a few notches.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 18, 2024 08:06 PM (LkLld)

243 Kate's Real Buttermilk is good. I avoid the low/non fat stuff.

Posted by: Jamaica at May 18, 2024 08:06 PM (cIjYM)

244 Ace, don't forget to back everything up on a floppy.

Posted by: wth at May 18, 2024 08:06 PM (v0R5T)

245 {{{Ben Had}}}

🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good evening! ♬♬ ♩ ♪

🥃
🥃
🥃

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 18, 2024 08:06 PM (u82oZ)

246 Did the home owner lose the right to fire that last shot? The law would generally say he did.
Posted by: BurtTC
----------------------------
Not in FL, LA, MS, OK, and TX. Maybe others.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2024 08:06 PM (lCWOD)

247 What's a heb ?

Posted by: JT at May 18, 2024 08:06 PM (T4tVD)

248 Tuna, no Kroger here but since I mostly use it to soak chicken in it isn't a major pain.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 18, 2024 08:07 PM (EoJ7M)

249 65 So comments that don't make it to the new server might get wiped? Like with a cloth?
Posted by: TRex at May 18, 2024 06:56 PM (IQ6Gq)

Like tears. In the rain.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2024 07:00 PM (MRUXb)
----
or that cake in the park!

Posted by: Ciampino - panic at May 18, 2024 08:07 PM (qfLjt)

250 was at a hamfest a few years ago; guy had clearly had dumpster access during decommissioning of a small? server farm ... so many empty racks, so many 8 foot outlet strips with ammeters and RJ45 connections, ... , still have unused stuff from that, lol.

this is Dayton Hamvention weekend, which I am not attending this year; passing memories of impromptu roundtables on 146.52 as we all drove our various highways to Hara Arena ...
got to meet Pietro Begali the first year he was there ... searching through the trash late Sunday morning ... ice cream while the final drawings were going on ... and all of the great stuff I bought, walking in there on Friday morning with three thousand dollars in mixed bills in my pants pockets ...

glory!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 18, 2024 08:07 PM (tQtDb)

251 I hope good homes will be found for the retired hamsters.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 18, 2024 07:40 PM (mH6SG)

They're lined up for the Richard Gere Memorial Old Folks Home.

Posted by: GWB at May 18, 2024 08:07 PM (zUT35)

252 What's a heb ?
Posted by: JT
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HEB is a Texas grocery chain and it is wonderful!

Posted by: lin-duh at May 18, 2024 08:08 PM (PZo5T)

253 Glad this blog is back.

My hands were beginning to tremble.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 18, 2024 08:08 PM (u82oZ)

254 So I'm not banned. 😌

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at May 18, 2024 08:08 PM (NFX2v)

255 JT, in some places it is a vile slur but around here it is the grocery store.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 18, 2024 08:08 PM (EoJ7M)

256 AR too. And they just ruled that anyone fleeing the PoPo can be shot dead. No matter why you are running.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2024 08:08 PM (lCWOD)

257 GWB, I have had no luck finding whole buttermilk anymore.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 18, 2024 08:00 PM (EoJ7M)

Try Amos Miller Organic Farm dot com. Not cheap, but the best there is out there.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 18, 2024 08:08 PM (w6EFb)

258 You can always find buttermilk at groceries that carry Indian (dot) food products.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 18, 2024 08:08 PM (V5eKu)

259 Yay!

Hope everybody did something with their time besides hit F5 over and over.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 18, 2024 08:09 PM (ntk8v)

260 "Server" sounds racist to me.

Posted by: wth at May 18, 2024 08:09 PM (v0R5T)

261 Ace, don't forget to back everything up on a floppy.
Posted by: wth

When I moved last September I cleaned out the computer desk. Found an unopened package of floppies. I know that really dates me.

Posted by: Tuna at May 18, 2024 08:09 PM (oaGWv)

262 Check out Amazon. They will have what you need.

Posted by: Jamaica at May 18, 2024 08:09 PM (cIjYM)

263 247 What's a heb ?
Posted by: JT at May 18, 2024 08:06 PM (T4tVD)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-E-B

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 18, 2024 08:09 PM (CmpAx)

264 127 It must be hell to train the new hamsters.
Posted by: Flyguy at May 18, 2024 06:47 PM (OYxA4)

Especially when they keep dying of ebola.

Posted by: GWB at May 18, 2024 07:19 PM (zUT35)

Maybe he can upgrade to guinea pigs?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 18, 2024 08:09 PM (ynpvh)

265 After determining that it wasn't my network for AceHQ being inaccessible, I had my daughter do Facebook to AceHQ. The message back is too funny not to share:
From Jingle Belle: Tell your dad it could be anything. Someone forgot to feed the hamsters, the Ewok accidentally locked it all up, servers finally died, commies infiltrated, there's no telling. It's happened a few times lately. They might even be trying to bring it into the 21st century with some updates, but that is the least likely scenario.

I LOLed

Posted by: Ciampino - panic I did, I did at May 18, 2024 08:09 PM (qfLjt)

266 Publius has a box of that old feed printer paper.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 18, 2024 08:10 PM (w6EFb)

267 I took the dog out this morning to scout a few camping spots. Found out the state park is really nice. Lots of sites around a big lake. It wasn't crowded. Got back to no blog. Dog discovered a garter snake at the back of the yard so now is obsessive about going back to look for it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 18, 2024 08:10 PM (yeEu9)

268 >>>I have no doubt some who claim to be going after "the Deep State" are Deep Staters themselves.
Posted by: BurtTC
-----------------------

Very interesting, I hadn't thought of that, but of course.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2024 08:10 PM (lCWOD)

269 224. Options:

1 cup buttermilk = 1 Tablespoon white vinegar + enough milk to measure 1 cup
1 cup buttermilk = 1 Tablespoon lemon juice + enough milk to measure 1 cup
1 cup buttermilk = 1 cup plain yogurt
1 cup buttermilk = 1 and ¾ teaspoon cream of tarter + 1 cup of milk

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at May 18, 2024 08:10 PM (NFX2v)

270 261 When I moved last September I cleaned out the computer desk. Found an unopened package of floppies. I know that really dates me.

Posted by: Tuna

Those are worth money now. Nobody makes them anymore.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 18, 2024 08:10 PM (BLOW1)

271 263 247 What's a heb ?
Posted by: JT at May 18, 2024 08:06 PM (T4tVD)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-E-B

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 18, 2024 08:09 PM (CmpAx)

"The company was founded on November 26, 1905, when Florence Butt opened the C.C. Butt Grocery Store on the ground floor of her family home in Kerrville, Texas.[14] In 1919, Howard Edward Butt, Florence's youngest son, took over the store upon his return from World War I. Shortly after becoming owner of his mother's small store, Howard tried four expansions into Central Texas, including one in Junction, all of which failed. Finally, in 1927, Howard launched a successful second store in Del Rio, Texas, followed by the purchase of three grocery stores in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. The initials of Howard E. Butt became the name of the store."

So it's the Butt store...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 18, 2024 08:10 PM (ynpvh)

272 255 JT, in some places it is a vile slur but around here it is the grocery store.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 18, 2024 08:08 PM (EoJ7M)

Wait, it's a slur?

Why doesn't anyone ever tell me these things?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 18, 2024 08:11 PM (CmpAx)

273 I always wonder what happened to the giant hamsters featured in the KIA Soul ads. Hope they are well. I did have a hell of a time cleaning out giant hamster poop when I first got my car.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 18, 2024 08:11 PM (V5eKu)

274 I say we nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

Posted by: Archer at May 18, 2024 08:12 PM (rskKm)

275 When I moved last September I cleaned out the computer desk. Found an unopened package of floppies. I know that really dates me.
Posted by: Tuna

8", 5.25", or 3.5 inch?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 18, 2024 08:12 PM (zFML4)

276 Never mind “love story”, if they are a fag I ain’t gonna watch. Done with all that shit.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 18, 2024 07:47 PM (z+vDc)

Yeah, but there are people who must know everything about the lives of others and feel somehow obligated to let you know that some actor you actually appreciate is gay. And then expect you to not like him because he or she is gay. Some screwed up people in the world. I was much happier not knowing.

Posted by: GWB at May 18, 2024 08:12 PM (zUT35)

277 266 Publius has a box of that old feed printer paper.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 18, 2024 08:10 PM (w6EFb)

Ah, the scratchy whine of a dot matrix printer.

Another things these kids with their iPhones and moby grape will never experience.

The old yellow monochrome monitors.

EVERY keyboard being a variation of an IBM M.

Sad.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 18, 2024 08:13 PM (CmpAx)

278 Snopes say it's not true so who knows.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 18, 2024 08:13 PM (yeEu9)

279 I know that no one will believe me but hear me now and believe me later -

I shopped at a Publix grocery for the first time while out of town. The first cart I selected had wheels that tracked straight and did not wobble. I was so amazed, I selected another cart - same deal. Third one - same same.

Into what universe had I been transported into?

Posted by: Tonypete at May 18, 2024 08:13 PM (WXNFJ)

280 Maybe he can upgrade to guinea pigs?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 18, 2024 08:09 PM (ynpvh)
.......

They're too lazy.
Like us.

Posted by: wth at May 18, 2024 08:14 PM (v0R5T)

281
this is Dayton Hamvention weekend

Several servers at ARRL are down inclucing Logbook of the World.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 18, 2024 08:15 PM (63Dwl)

282 was at a hamfest a few years ago; guy had clearly had dumpster access during decommissioning of a small? server farm ... so many empty racks, so many 8 foot outlet strips with ammeters and RJ45 connections, ... , still have unused stuff from that, lol.
----
[ponders basement shelves]
This is how it happens...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 18, 2024 08:15 PM (XeU6L)

283 It's all my fault. I tried to have Pooky look at last night's ONT and told him it would be easy to find. ><

Posted by: pookysgirl really doesn't try to break the universe at May 18, 2024 08:15 PM (dtlDP)

284 Those are worth money now. Nobody makes them anymore.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

LOL. Now you tell me. They are probably buried deep in the Franklin County, OH dump right now.

Posted by: Tuna at May 18, 2024 08:15 PM (oaGWv)

285
8", 5.25", or 3.5 inch?
Posted by: AZ
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That was my thought also...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 18, 2024 08:16 PM (XeU6L)

286 Movie or music post tonight?

Posted by: davidt at May 18, 2024 08:16 PM (SYTee)

287 I bought two modern typewriters. Both use daisy wheels. One did not come through the shipping in working condition. Not sure I like them but wanted to test one out.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 18, 2024 08:16 PM (yeEu9)

288 GWB, I have had no luck finding whole buttermilk anymore.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 18, 2024 08:00 PM (EoJ7M)

:O
I do have to look for it and start looking well ahead of when I want it, because it goes quick. But I can find it at the Kroger here, and it's from a local-ish dairy.

Might have to go to one of those raw milk dairies.

Posted by: GWB at May 18, 2024 08:16 PM (zUT35)

289 280 Maybe he can upgrade to guinea pigs?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 18, 2024 08:09 PM (ynpvh)
.......

They're too lazy.
Like us.

Posted by: wth at May 18, 2024 08:14 PM (v0R5T)

Not if you heat up the Wheel...
there was a episode of WKRP where they were talking about how Herb Tarlick got ducks to do a little dance every hour...he had a hotplace under their tiny footsies...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 18, 2024 08:16 PM (ynpvh)

290 The one week that I submit something for the Gardening Thread....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at May 18, 2024 08:17 PM (SRRAx)

291 283 It's all my fault. I tried to have Pooky look at last night's ONT and told him it would be easy to find. >
Posted by: pookysgirl really doesn't try to break the universe at May 18, 2024 08:15 PM (dtlDP)

LOL.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 18, 2024 08:17 PM (CmpAx)

292 285
8", 5.25", or 3.5 inch?
Posted by: AZ
-----

That was my thought also...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 18, 2024 08:16 PM (XeU6L)

The bigger they were, the less data they stored...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 18, 2024 08:17 PM (ynpvh)

293 Did the horde resort to cannibalism? Give it time.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 18, 2024 08:17 PM (u73oe)

294 82
Well that has to be one of the most undignified ways to go out of the world.
Still. Funny for the rest of us.

Thank you, Pixy, for fixing the issue. I trust you didn't have to drop something important to work on it?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 18, 2024 08:17 PM (roH4R)

295 >>Very interesting, I hadn't thought of that, but of course.

General Mike Flynn was the Director of the DIA under Obama until he was forced out and then targeted for destruction.

They didn't target him for no reason.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 18, 2024 08:18 PM (LkLld)

296 255 JT, in some places it is a vile slur but around here it is the grocery store.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 18, 2024 08:08 PM (EoJ7M)

So it ain't twunny bucks same as in town ?

Posted by: JT at May 18, 2024 08:18 PM (T4tVD)

297 My guess is this thread is it until tomorrow

Posted by: Skip at May 18, 2024 08:18 PM (fwDg9)

298 I so wish I had kept the 132? character printer and the case of three-bar paper, it would be ever so very retro!

party like 1975!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 18, 2024 08:18 PM (tQtDb)

299 I spent all this 'downtime' listening to music. I came across a 3-person band from Nashville, TN. Band is IMY2. They do really good covers. I've played some and they are good. So far my fav is Blondie "Call Me" (this was the song that tuned me into Blondie). Very good and the singer is VERY nice to look at.

https://youtu.be/G_jJMkanHvg

Posted by: Ciampino - pity the hair color at May 18, 2024 08:18 PM (qfLjt)

300 293 Did the horde resort to cannibalism? Give it time.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 18, 2024 08:17 PM (u73oe)

In Haiti, it's part of their tourist experience.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 18, 2024 08:18 PM (ynpvh)

301 AR too. And they just ruled that anyone fleeing the PoPo can be shot dead. No matter why you are running.
Posted by: Braenyard

Could suck being a deaf guy out on a jog.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 18, 2024 08:18 PM (cOq4q)

302 My additional requests to debate Trump are the following....
Trump's answers must be 2 seconds or less,
I can turn off his mike anytime,
I get the questions 4 weeks in advance,
I can take my Cocaine Cocktail again,
Trump must wear a Face Diaper at all times,
Trump must show up in a orange prison jumpsuit,
KJP can answer questions for me also,
I can wear dark glasses so you cannot see my F**ked Up eyes,
We can have an audience but they can only be Hamas Supporters,
If I Shit my pants we take a 20 minute break,
Dr. Jill can throw rotten eggs at Trump,
There will be 5 minute break every 10 minutes so I can sniff the women there,
Trump must take a drug test,
When I answer questions Trump cannot respond,
When I became POTUS inflation was 9% by Trump,
Angelo from Amtrak gets a front seat,
If I fall asleep during the debate it will be a automatic loss for Trump,
Wet FARTS are allowed,
The Palestine Flag will be present, and
Free College and Fried Chicken for all of BLM Supporters

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 18, 2024 08:19 PM (qpLSv)

303 I shopped at a Publix grocery for the first time while out of town. The first cart I selected had wheels that tracked straight and did not wobble. I was so amazed, I selected another cart - same deal. Third one - same same.

Into what universe had I been transported into?
Posted by: Tonypete

I love Publix. They're a bit more expensive than Krogers so don't shop there as often but when I do it's a pleasure. Their clerks are so nice and pleasant. They even take your groceries out to the car for you. Great company.

Posted by: Tuna at May 18, 2024 08:19 PM (oaGWv)

304 Until recently I had a box of log paper. It was about two feet wide.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2024 08:19 PM (lCWOD)

305 My guess is this thread is it until tomorrow
Posted by: Skip at May 18, 2024 08:18 PM (fwDg9)
===

What will we do all night??

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 18, 2024 08:19 PM (RIvkX)

306 What to know how old I am? I went to a Yankee game at Shea.

Posted by: Jamaica at May 18, 2024 08:20 PM (l8O/+)

307 The bigger they were, the less data they stored...
Posted by: jim

Same for hard drives.
I installed a 5meg full height hard drive that cost a fortune and allowed me to have a single backup of the source code for the program we were selling.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 18, 2024 08:21 PM (zFML4)

308 1 4AM which time zone, Pixy? (And thank you for the efforts!)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 18, 2024 06:46 PM (O7YUW)
====

Time is fleeting...

Posted by: Riff Raff at May 18, 2024 08:21 PM (RIvkX)

309 I think I've mentioned this before but I still have my original CompuServe installation package. Two large boxes packed with floppies. I opened them a while back and felt like I was viewing ancient artifacts.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 18, 2024 08:21 PM (mH6SG)

310
Andy Reid is from Philadelphia, which is in Pennsylvania.

Predicting what happens in this state is extremely unpredictable. That might just be why Air Force Dementia One lands in this state so often.

Key to 2024? It was in 2016.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 18, 2024 08:21 PM (RKVpM)

311 199 It's difficult to get involved in a love story if you know the actor is homosexual

Never mind “love story”, if they are a fag I ain’t gonna watch. Done with all that shit.
Posted by: Common Tater
-----------------------------

Here's a twister: American Beauty with Kevin Spacey and Annette Benning.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2024 08:21 PM (lCWOD)

312
Those are worth money now. Nobody makes them anymore.
Posted by: Pixy Misa
---------

Hmm. You in the market for a DOS machine? A fresh new experience, per your comment last week.

Actually, my most revered vintage piece is a Tandy M102. I use it far more often than most people would imagine.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 18, 2024 08:21 PM (XeU6L)

313 297 My guess is this thread is it until tomorrow

Posted by: Skip at May 18, 2024 08:18 PM (fwDg9)
----
Well someone was pining for the 1000-comments days, and we might achieve it.

Posted by: Ciampino - not the fjords at May 18, 2024 08:21 PM (qfLjt)

314 What will we do all night??

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 18, 2024 08:19 PM (RIvkX)

The same thing we do every night, Pinky...

Posted by: The Brain at May 18, 2024 08:22 PM (O7YUW)

315 304 Until recently I had a box of log paper. It was about two feet wide.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2024 08:19 PM (lCWOD)

nearly splinter-free?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 18, 2024 08:22 PM (ynpvh)

316 My guess is this thread is it until tomorrow
Posted by: Skip at May 18, 2024 08:18 PM (fwDg9)
.......

Just praying it's back up for my work week.

Posted by: wth at May 18, 2024 08:22 PM (v0R5T)

317 Evening.

Thank you for the update, Pixy. Keep up the hard work!

Posted by: Robert at May 18, 2024 08:23 PM (kkzGw)

318 The backup site acedark.wordpress.com is still up but last post is dated 4/20/21.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 18, 2024 08:23 PM (u73oe)

319 So, uh...no movie thread?

Posted by: Robert at May 18, 2024 08:23 PM (kkzGw)

320 I'm off.
Yeah, both ways, okay?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 18, 2024 08:23 PM (ynpvh)

321 Do I need to shop at Amazon more?

Posted by: epador at May 18, 2024 08:23 PM (TRnzq)

322 We have a gold disc we found floating by - lovely music, dialogue, pictures and directions. We're looking forward to seeing you and serving man.

Posted by: The Aliens and we're hungry at May 18, 2024 08:23 PM (rskKm)

323 What to know how old I am? I went to a Yankee game at Shea.
Posted by: Jamaica
.......

Yeah? Well my daughter is turning 40 on Monday.

Posted by: wth at May 18, 2024 08:24 PM (v0R5T)

324 Publix sounds like Brookshires. They have someone go out to unload your groceries for you every trip. The sale rack for meat is amazing. Meats that are one day from sell date are anywhere from 50 to 70% off. The rewards card is great. I have gotten as much as 20 bucks of my bill.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 18, 2024 08:24 PM (EoJ7M)

325 How many people on here are HAM operators? When Dad died, he left a bunch of stuff behind. Daughter #3 moved into his house, so it's all still there. I haven't the foggiest idea what any of it is. I would like it to go to someone who can use it.

Contact me at teresa.hamilton.koch at the Gmail thingie, and we can talk. All of the stuff is in Brevard, North Carolina.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at May 18, 2024 08:24 PM (SRRAx)

326 297 My guess is this thread is it until tomorrow
Posted by: Skip

Until 0400 anyway. That's when the Universe implodes.

Or something.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 18, 2024 08:24 PM (ntk8v)

327 The blueberry pancakes were off-the-hook this morning. I have an in with the cook.

But there are some pets here that would like to speak with Pixy's manager.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 18, 2024 08:25 PM (RIvkX)

328 Worst movie thread ever!

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 18, 2024 08:25 PM (S6gqv)

329 What’s content?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 18, 2024 08:25 PM (u73oe)

330 It's freakin Y2K all over again.

Posted by: wth at May 18, 2024 08:25 PM (v0R5T)

331 SanFranpsycho, have you read Caroline Glick's latest article?

Posted by: Ben Had at May 18, 2024 08:25 PM (EoJ7M)

332 225 ... "Those of you that liked Open Range might also like Broken Trail"

Yep. For a long time with a very few exceptions (LOTR movies, John Carter, Second Hand Lions) the movies I enjoyed most were westerns. The Selleck/Elliott L'Amour TV movies, Silverado, Quigley Down Under, Tombstone, Josey Wales, and so forth. For my taste they are usually better written, better photographed and acted. They also produced the most quotable lines: "slap hot iron to it", "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining", "I'm your Huckleberry".

Honorable mention to Jeremiah Johnson if only because of the muzzleloaders, beautiful scenery and Del Gue's rants.

Posted by: JTB at May 18, 2024 08:26 PM (zudum)

333 Brevard, North Carolina
---------

Arrrrgh! Just down the road...and I don't need any more 'stuff'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 18, 2024 08:27 PM (XeU6L)

334 Band is IMY2.
Posted by: Ciampino - pity the hair color at May 18, 2024 08:18 PM (qfLjt)

Very nice. And the girl is cute - until she raised her arms. Why does an entire generation think tattoos are something that just must be done?

Posted by: GWB at May 18, 2024 08:27 PM (zUT35)

335 SanFranpsycho, have you read Caroline Glick's latest article?
Posted by: Ben Had at May 18, 2024 08:25 PM (EoJ7M)
===

Where is it? jns?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 18, 2024 08:27 PM (RIvkX)

336 I love Publix. They're a bit more expensive than Krogers so don't shop there as often but when I do it's a pleasure. Their clerks are so nice and pleasant. They even take your groceries out to the car for you. Great company.
Posted by: Tuna

Publix is for shelf stable BOGO items.
And the sub sandwich sale of the week.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 18, 2024 08:27 PM (cOq4q)

337 What to know how old I am? I went to a Yankee game at Shea.
Posted by: Jamaica

=====

Was that in the way back time when the original Yankee stadium got remodeled?

Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 18, 2024 08:27 PM (8AONa)

338 SanFranpsycho, Arutz Sheva

Posted by: Ben Had at May 18, 2024 08:27 PM (EoJ7M)

339
I think I've mentioned this before but I still have my original CompuServe installation package.

Rush Limbaugh used to give out his Compuserve address and invite listeners to send him messages.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 18, 2024 08:28 PM (63Dwl)

340 I see on channel 7...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 18, 2024 08:28 PM (RIvkX)

341 I'm so old that I'm going to be 68 this June.

Posted by: Archer at May 18, 2024 08:28 PM (rskKm)

342 Teresa, perhaps hang on to it and see if Daughter #3 might want to study for, and get her Amateur Radio Operator's license?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 18, 2024 08:29 PM (O7YUW)

343 Archer, whippersnapper.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 18, 2024 08:29 PM (EoJ7M)

344 >304 Until recently I had a box of log paper. It was about two feet wide.

Sounds more like log paper cut into wood stove size.

Posted by: davidt at May 18, 2024 08:29 PM (SYTee)

345 Those are worth money now. Nobody makes them anymore.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

LOL. Now you tell me. They are probably buried deep in the Franklin County, OH dump right now.
Posted by: Tuna
----
I just threw out most of a box of 3.5" floppies...

Posted by: lin-duh at May 18, 2024 08:29 PM (PZo5T)

346 319 So, uh...no movie thread?
Posted by: Robert

This is it. Or a music thread, hobby thread, etc. An all encompassing, whatever, thread!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 18, 2024 08:30 PM (ntk8v)

347 333 Brevard, North Carolina
---------

Arrrrgh! Just down the road...and I don't need any more 'stuff'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 18, 2024 08:27 PM (XeU6L)

Pfft - what does "need" have to do with it? My house is filled to the rafters with things I don't need 🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at May 18, 2024 08:30 PM (SRRAx)

348 This the pick a topic and go for it thread.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 18, 2024 08:30 PM (EoJ7M)

349 Worst movie thread ever!
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 18, 2024 08:25 PM (S6gqv)

I listen to idiot YouToobers kvetch about the state of Hollyweird and they'll sometimes talk about old popular geek friendly movies. Ghostbusters, Robocop, etc etc etc.

No one talks about Lethal Weapon. And that film series was HUGE back in the day.

I rewatched the first two and...well, a lot cheesier than I remember but man that's the good shit. It's the kind of fun film that the YouBoob Brigades are insisting they want but they somehow manage to never bring up this series.

And there's the blonde number in the second one with these perky tits with nips that you just want to...uh...uh...nevermind. Gettin' carried away.

Posted by: Robert at May 18, 2024 08:31 PM (BK/H3)

350 Boobs

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 18, 2024 08:31 PM (u73oe)

351 The bigger they were, the less data they stored...
Posted by: jim

Back in the olden times, when the IBM site engineer brought an additional 1M of storage, we'd all bow down in it's magnificent presence and utter incantations.

Dayummm, we be old!

Posted by: Tonypete at May 18, 2024 08:31 PM (WXNFJ)

352 The password is……..magnetism

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at May 18, 2024 08:31 PM (gB2xh)

353 I have gotten as much as 20 bucks of my bill.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 18, 2024 08:24 PM (EoJ7M)

But that 2o bucks doesn't buy what it used to. Oof.

Posted by: GWB at May 18, 2024 08:31 PM (zUT35)

354 Duke, guys in Wranglers with great asses.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 18, 2024 08:32 PM (EoJ7M)

355 I'm so old that I'm going to be 68 this June.
Posted by: Archer
......

Me too. June 27th.
Everyone asks me "when are you gonna retire?"
I say: "I don't wanna die".

Posted by: wth at May 18, 2024 08:32 PM (v0R5T)

356 308 Time is fleeting...

Posted by: Riff Raff at May 18, 2024 08:21 PM (RIvkX)
***
It's just a jump to the left
and then a step to the right.

Posted by: TRex at May 18, 2024 08:32 PM (IQ6Gq)

357 Publix is for shelf stable BOGO items.
And the sub sandwich sale of the week.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Yup. Their BOGOs are great. I get an email from them every week so I know what to look for every week. Their fried chicken tenders are great and the bakeries make beautiful cakes.

Posted by: Tuna at May 18, 2024 08:33 PM (oaGWv)

358 I'm watching the last two Canadian teams in the Stanley Cup playoffs. I bet the entire population of Canada is watching. We should attack now while they're distracted.

Posted by: Archer at May 18, 2024 08:33 PM (rskKm)

359 Thread needs more tunes.

https://tinyurl.com/2ymjtrm4

Posted by: JackStraw at May 18, 2024 08:33 PM (LkLld)

360 GWB, it is just me so it goes pretty far.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 18, 2024 08:33 PM (EoJ7M)

361 Boobs
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 18, 2024 08:31 PM (u73oe)

He gets it!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 18, 2024 08:33 PM (W/lyH)

362 342 Teresa, perhaps hang on to it and see if Daughter #3 might want to study for, and get her Amateur Radio Operator's license?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 18, 2024 08:29 PM (O7YUW)

Well, she and her hubby are trying to start a family right now - honestly, if they are successful with that endeavor, it's gonna be another 20 or so years before they will be able to come up for air!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at May 18, 2024 08:33 PM (SRRAx)

363 314 What will we do all night??

The same thing we do every night, Pinky...

Posted by: The Brain at May 18, 2024 08:22 PM (O7YUW)
***
NARF!

Posted by: TRex at May 18, 2024 08:34 PM (IQ6Gq)

364 This is it. Or a music thread, hobby thread, etc. An all encompassing, whatever, thread!
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 18, 2024 08:30 PM (ntk8v)

Basically the ONT but posted while it's still light out.

An Art Thread sans boobies or dogs playing poker.

A Monkey Thread sans chimp.

PIXY!!!!!!!

I demand you include a pic at the top of a naked female chimp playing poker.

Posted by: Robert at May 18, 2024 08:34 PM (BK/H3)

365 Thanks Ben Had.

Well, if I was to advise Netanyahu you might imagine what I would prescribe for a member of the global junta running a color revolution against his own government.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 18, 2024 08:35 PM (RIvkX)

366 323 What to know how old I am? I went to a Yankee game at Shea.
Posted by: Jamaica
.......

Yeah? Well my daughter is turning 40 on Monday.
Posted by: wth at May 18, 2024 08:24 PM (v0R5T 323 What to know how old I am? I went to a Yankee game at Shea.
Posted by: Jamaica
.......

Yeah? Well my daughter is turning 40 on Monday.
Posted by: wth at May 18, 2024 08:24 PM (v0R5T
I have a 55 year old daughter.

Posted by: Eromero at May 18, 2024 08:35 PM (NxC5+)

367 Ben Had, that used to be me, or so I was told. Then I got old and well… Let’s just say I wear untucked shirts now.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 18, 2024 08:35 PM (u73oe)

368 meh, just throw a another couple hamsters on the wheel that should sort it right out, ;-)

Posted by: Bob in Houston at May 18, 2024 08:36 PM (xOllw)

369 Speaking of conspiracies.......Has anyone watched the Octopus Murders on Netflix? 4 episodes. I will confess I have 30 minutes left to finish it but holy smokes.....

Our government has been crooked for years. It implicates the first Bush as well as Reagan. It's crazy. If you weren't a conspiracy theorist before watching you will be after.

Posted by: Molly k. at May 18, 2024 08:37 PM (j/yko)

370 What to know how old I am? I went to a Yankee game at Shea.
Posted by: Jamaica
.......

Yeah? Well my daughter is turning 40 on Monday.
Posted by: wth at May 18, 2024 08:24 PM (v0R5T
I have a 55 year old daughter.
Posted by: Eromero at May 18, 2024 08:35 PM (NxC5+)

You're a bunch of old farts, aintcha?

Posted by: Robert at May 18, 2024 08:37 PM (BK/H3)

371 So one of the doe's in the hood decided to use my front lawn and porch area as her manger, gave birth to three fawns.

Cute little buggers.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 18, 2024 08:02 PM (XV/Pl)

Oh!
That wasn't a metaphor?
Cool!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 18, 2024 08:37 PM (W/lyH)

372 "Scream Blackula Scream" is on Svengoolie. That's a movie.

Posted by: fd at May 18, 2024 08:37 PM (vFG9F)

373 Ben Had I sent that article to Mrs. F. she keeps very current on the action.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 18, 2024 08:38 PM (RIvkX)

374 As to Publix, they put a sign up at the old FarmFresh down the road, as if they were going to take it over. (It's been empty for some years after FF went under; Kroger took over many of their spots.) Then the sign went away. Then a month or so later, they tore down all of the building except the mini-mall part that still had businesses (a Chinese place, Pizza Hut, a nails place) and are now building a new building there.

I don't hold out hope they're building a new spot for the one gun store/range, nor for Publix. But it will be interesting.

Posted by: GWB at May 18, 2024 08:38 PM (zUT35)

375 Watching the replay of the PGA Championship in Kentucky. The Gangsta Scottie Scheffler played himself out of the tournament today. Damn shame. Would have loved to see him win tomorrow after getting arrested on Friday. Apparently, a misunderstanding and an overzealous cop. Look up milquetoast, squeaky clean, guy in the dictionary and you'll find Scottie Scheffler. Not anymore. He's Gangsta Scottie! The meme's out there about this are hilarious.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 18, 2024 08:38 PM (ntk8v)

376 Yep. Up high. My dad could tell the L10-11 from the DC10.

Posted by: Jamaica at May 18, 2024 08:39 PM (oLx2/)

377 The genius of Jim Acosta.

Alex Christy
@alexchristy17
Jim Acosta: "is there a double standard here? I mean Colin Kaepernick. I mean, he takes a knee to protest police brutality and gets banned from the NFL...Harrison Butker gives this speech, goes wide right to so to speak and the NFL said... no big deal. I'm sorry, what?"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 18, 2024 08:39 PM (L/fGl)

378 Pfft - what does "need" have to do with it? My house is filled to the rafters with things I don't need 🤣🤣🤣
Posted by: Teresa
-------

Would you like some more?
But seriously, sometime this weekend I'll forward email address for local ham club president. He might be able to help . Brevard is only 20-30 mins. away.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 18, 2024 08:39 PM (XeU6L)

379 Thread needs more tunes.

https://tinyurl.com/2ymjtrm4
Posted by: JackStraw
........

YEAH

and maybe some more

https://tinyurl.com/3nu8smcz

not live but whatever

Posted by: wth at May 18, 2024 08:39 PM (v0R5T)

380 I have a 55 year old daughter.
Posted by: Eromero
----
Dad!!!

Posted by: lin-duh at May 18, 2024 08:39 PM (PZo5T)

381 Never saw the movie Collateral. Came across some clips on YouTube.

"Yo, homie..."

Posted by: davidt at May 18, 2024 08:39 PM (SYTee)

382 Can't believe we've gotten this far without anyone suggesting that Pixy slap hot iron to the server.

Posted by: TRex at May 18, 2024 08:40 PM (IQ6Gq)

383 I have a 55 year old daughter.
Posted by: Eromero

She wouldn't happen to own a fishing boat, would she?

Posted by: Tonypete at May 18, 2024 08:41 PM (WXNFJ)

384 369 Corruption starts at the bottom, say city council or county commissioners, and grows. Kinda like an apprenticeship. By the time you work up to Congress, the Five Families would envy your initiative.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 18, 2024 08:41 PM (V5eKu)

385 Female chimps playing poker.

https://tinyurl.com/mryryrsh

Posted by: Robert at May 18, 2024 08:41 PM (KyRUT)

386
You're a bunch of old farts, aintcha?
Posted by: Robert at May 18, 2024 08:37 PM (BK/H3)

_________

You young whippersnapper!

*waves cane angrily*
*sits on bench exhausted*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 18, 2024 08:41 PM (MoZTd)

387 She wouldn't happen to own a fishing boat, would she?
Posted by: Tonypete

Just the punch line: send picture of boat.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 18, 2024 08:41 PM (LK9/j)

388 building a new spot for the one gun store/range
Posted by: GWB at May 18, 2024 08:38 PM (zUT35)

To explain, the range I use for pistol work had a thing up a year or more ago, asking for people to suggest new spots to which they could expand. I sent them 2 different emails about the old FarmFresh location. But I think they had lost interest in expanding at that point.

Posted by: GWB at May 18, 2024 08:42 PM (zUT35)

389 Very nice. And the girl is cute - until she raised her arms. Why does an entire generation think tattoos are something that just must be done?
Posted by: GWB
---------------------

Sheep

Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2024 08:42 PM (lCWOD)

390 You're a bunch of old farts, aintcha?
Posted by: Robert at May 18, 2024 08:37 PM (BK/H3)
......

But we are very wise.

Posted by: wth at May 18, 2024 08:42 PM (v0R5T)

391 Yep. Up high. My dad could tell the L10-11 from the DC10.
Posted by: Jamaica
----

That's easy, the L-1011 still has its cargo door. L-1011 is/was my all-time favorite passenger aircraft. Rugged.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 18, 2024 08:42 PM (XeU6L)

392 CBD recently said live music was worse then studio.

At least he has good taste in food.

https://tinyurl.com/fmt46kx7

Posted by: JackStraw at May 18, 2024 08:43 PM (LkLld)

393 Never saw the movie Collateral. Came across some clips on YouTube.

"Yo, homie..."
Posted by: davidt at May 18, 2024 08:39 PM (SYTee)

Watched it last year. It's really good. Easy to forget that Tom Cruise can actually act.

Posted by: Robert at May 18, 2024 08:43 PM (KyRUT)

394 SanFranpsycho, Galllant and Gantz are scum

Posted by: Ben Had at May 18, 2024 08:43 PM (EoJ7M)

395 "348 This the pick a topic and go for it thread.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 18, 2024 08:30 PM (EoJ7M)"

THIS !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 18, 2024 08:43 PM (tQtDb)

396 377 The genius of Jim Acosta.

Alex Christy
@alexchristy17
Jim Acosta: "is there a double standard here? I mean Colin Kaepernick. I mean, he takes a knee to protest police brutality and gets banned from the NFL...Harrison Butker gives this speech, goes wide right to so to speak and the NFL said... no big deal. I'm sorry, what?"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Jim Acosta, the deep thots of a 13-year-old female retard.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 18, 2024 08:44 PM (ntk8v)

397 I don't know if she has a chance but Kim Klacik won the Republican primary. Don't remember the position she is after

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 18, 2024 08:44 PM (yeEu9)

398 Looks at DVD collection and Collateral is there.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 18, 2024 08:44 PM (EoJ7M)

399 I found my first mayfly aka fishfly today. About the size of my pinky nail. I can't wait for the leave-the-unhooded-floodlight-on neighbors to learn the joy of a fishflies!

Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 18, 2024 08:44 PM (B0kFh)

400 383 I have a 55 year old daughter.
Posted by: Eromero

She wouldn't happen to own a fishing boat, would she?
Posted by: Tonypete at May 18, 2024 08:41 PM (WXNFJ
Runs a salvage yard. Takes care of things people want to be rid of.

Posted by: Eromero at May 18, 2024 08:45 PM (NxC5+)

401 I have a 55 year old daughter.
Posted by: Eromero

Single?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 18, 2024 08:45 PM (ntk8v)

402 I have a 55 year old daughter.
Posted by: Eromero

She wouldn't happen to own a fishing boat, would she?
Posted by: Tonypete at May 18, 2024 08:41 PM (WXNFJ)

And/or a liquor store?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 18, 2024 08:45 PM (W/lyH)

403 Mecum auto auction is on. An Alfa Romeo Giuleitta Spyder just went across the block. The Italians sure can give 'em purty names.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 18, 2024 08:45 PM (V5eKu)

404 Next Saturday's ONT will probably be epic. Good luck Pixy Misa

Posted by: Onlooker at May 18, 2024 08:45 PM (RD5tN)

405 Posted by: Tonypete at May 18, 2024 08:41 PM (WXNFJ
Runs a salvage yard. Takes care of things people want to be rid of.
Posted by: Eromero
------

Does she make house calls?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 18, 2024 08:46 PM (XeU6L)

406 Runs a salvage yard. Takes care of things people want to be rid of.
Posted by: Eromero at May 18, 2024 08:45 PM (NxC5+)

So... perfect for a divorcee, right?

Posted by: GWB at May 18, 2024 08:46 PM (zUT35)

407 I keep hearing a radio commercial with Joe Walsh, the guitar one, saying he is a ham radio operator. He also sounds like a old fart too.

Posted by: fd at May 18, 2024 08:46 PM (vFG9F)

408 Runs a salvage yard. Takes care of things people want to be rid of.
Posted by: Eromero

The theme song for 'Sanford and Son' just popped in my head. Catchy tune!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 18, 2024 08:46 PM (ntk8v)

409 range expansion, lol:
what i want is a 180 degree berm at about 25 feet so i can do multiple targets at tueller drill range with the J-frame

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 18, 2024 08:47 PM (tQtDb)

410 Piss and moan for the day. Can not find green olive that are not stuffed with something and if they are not they are not pitted.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 18, 2024 08:47 PM (EoJ7M)

411 I have a 55 year old daughter.
Posted by: Eromero

Single?
Posted by: Puddleglum at work

lol

Posted by: wth at May 18, 2024 08:47 PM (v0R5T)

412 I have a 55 year old daughter.
Posted by: Eromero

She wouldn't happen to own a fishing boat, would she?
Posted by: Tonypete at May 18, 2024 08:41 PM (WXNFJ
Runs a salvage yard. Takes care of things people want to be rid of.
Posted by: Eromero at May 18, 2024 08:45 PM (NxC5+)
***

*comes up from basement*
*makes Call Me signal*

Posted by: Diogenes at May 18, 2024 08:48 PM (W/lyH)

413 I found my first mayfly aka fishfly today. About the size of my pinky nail. I can't wait for the leave-the-unhooded-floodlight-on neighbors to learn the joy of a fishflies!
Posted by: NaughtyPine
----------

Unless...they are LED lights. I notice that the bugs do not seem attracted to them...not that there's anything unatural about them.

/

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 18, 2024 08:48 PM (XeU6L)

414 {408} ... The theme song for 'Sanford and Son' just popped in my head. Catchy tune!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 18, 2024 08:46 PM (ntk8v)

You asked for it:
https://youtu.be/T5DnqW3F57E

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 18, 2024 08:48 PM (O7YUW)

415 Leah Hextall? Any relation to Ron?

The hockey game is on the work TV.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 18, 2024 08:48 PM (ntk8v)

416 As to Publix, they put a sign up at the old FarmFresh down the road, as if they were going to take it over. (It's been empty for some years after FF went under; Kroger took over many of their spots.) Then the sign went away. Then a month or so later, they tore down all of the building except the mini-mall part that still had businesses (a Chinese place, Pizza Hut, a nails place) and are now building a new building there.

I don't hold out hope they're building a new spot for the one gun store/range, nor for Publix. But it will be interesting.
Posted by: GWB

My closest Publix was middle of a strip mall.

The demo'd the entire store, a couple on either side, and when they rebuilt it it wider and they also bumped it out front and back.

Took about a year...

It's a very good location. The side road goes to a big ass dead end area when it crosses the interstate... with shitloads of possible lots in new sub-divisons and almost the only way out is pass the new/improved Publix. As a whole the area is already built out with residential only from the Publix to the interstate (and there will never be on ramps ther). Captive Customers.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 18, 2024 08:48 PM (cOq4q)

417 Didja see this bridesmaid going above and beyond the call of duty at the wedding?

https://shorturl.at/HDS82

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 18, 2024 08:49 PM (L/fGl)

418 Runs a salvage yard. Takes care of things people want to be rid of.
Posted by: Eromero

Daughter - "Yeah, things didn't work out. He's gone."

Whadda mean!?

Daughter - "You know - gone. And there was nothing anyone could do about it."

Posted by: Tonypete at May 18, 2024 08:49 PM (WXNFJ)

419 Can't imagine what the comment count will be by 4am. Will probably set a new record.
BBL

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 18, 2024 08:50 PM (t/2Uw)

420 >>YEAH

>>and maybe some more

Never enough Clapton. Winwood is every bit as good.

https://tinyurl.com/smdyh98j

Posted by: JackStraw at May 18, 2024 08:50 PM (LkLld)

421 403 An Alfa Romeo Giuleitta Spyder just went across the block. The Italians sure can give 'em purty names.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 18, 2024 08:45 PM
***
And purty shapes. By coincidence, I just happen to be poking through Ferrari 125S and 166MM history on a different browser tab right now for a side project.

Posted by: TRex at May 18, 2024 08:51 PM (IQ6Gq)

422 Corruption starts at the bottom, say city council or county commissioners, and grows. Kinda like an apprenticeship. By the time you work up to Congress, the Five Families would envy your initiative.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 18, 2024 08:41 PM (V5eKu)

This.
Do a FOIA on travel for the local pols. Then dig a bit to see who funded or sponsored the "event."
Funny how those ambulance manufacturers do a lot of conferences in Vegas.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 18, 2024 08:51 PM (W/lyH)

423 The closed captioning for this movie says "groovie music" a lot.

Posted by: fd at May 18, 2024 08:51 PM (vFG9F)

424 384 369 Corruption starts at the bottom, say city council or county commissioners, and grows. Kinda like an apprenticeship. By the time you work up to Congress, the Five Families would envy your initiative.
Posted by: bill in arkansas,
----------------------------

That's what that fellow, Ivan Raiklin was talking about. Said taking authority down to the sheriff's level and the prosecutor. Trial for each conspirator against Trump. Try them in the county they reside in. Take the prosecution away from DC and the DeepState.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2024 08:52 PM (lCWOD)

425 Unless...they are LED lights. I notice that the bugs do not seem attracted to them...not that there's anything unatural about them.

/
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 18, 2024 08:48

Dang it! They probably have LEDs. And I missed my chance to destroy the light because they recently installed cameras. I know because every few seconds, I can hear a beep and rotation of the camera.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 18, 2024 08:52 PM (B0kFh)

426 418 Runs a salvage yard. Takes care of things people want to be rid of.
Posted by: Eromero

Daughter - "Yeah, things didn't work out. He's gone."

Whadda mean!?

Daughter - "You know - gone. And there was nothing anyone could do about it."
Posted by: Tonypete

'Smashes phone inside booth, nearly knocks booth over'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 18, 2024 08:52 PM (ntk8v)

427 130– What is the hack to make milk into buttermilk?
Add lemon juice until it has curds and you have buttermilk.

Posted by: Nan in cool AZ at May 18, 2024 08:52 PM (09WBQ)

428
Mr. Zeus has left us. Her Majesty took him up to Shreveport to deliver him to his new owners, who are on their way back to California from Westminster.

We took him in to the vet on Friday for his health certificate. He got a bath this morning before he left, which he did not enjoy.

This was his first long-distance trip. HM said he was vocal on the way. But he's met his new family and will be spending the night in their RV before they head off on Sunday.

He's a very handsome boy who looks like his great-uncle (and half-brother) Dutch (the Beeg Boy). We hope he has the same success and will do us proud.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 18, 2024 08:53 PM (MoZTd)

429 306 ... "What to know how old I am? I went to a Yankee game at Shea."

I saw Ted Williams hit a home run on his birthday at Fenway. Ike was in the White House.

Damn! Just realized how long ago that was.

Posted by: JTB at May 18, 2024 08:53 PM (zudum)

430 418 Runs a salvage yard. Takes care of things people want to be rid of.
Posted by: Eromero

Daughter - "Yeah, things didn't work out. He's gone."

Whadda mean!?

Daughter - "You know - gone. And there was nothing anyone could do about it."
Posted by: Tonypete at May 18, 2024 08:49 PM (WXNFJ)
Let’s go to breakfast.

Posted by: Eromero at May 18, 2024 08:53 PM (NxC5+)

431 Maybe this thread will run to 1000 until the next one comes up.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 18, 2024 08:53 PM (w6EFb)

432 All that pent-up Horde energy.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 18, 2024 08:54 PM (w6EFb)

433 426 418 Monster Joe's. A Winston Wolf fave.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 18, 2024 08:54 PM (V5eKu)

434 Piss and moan for the day. Can not find green olive that are not stuffed with something and if they are not they are not pitted.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 18, 2024 08:47 PM (EoJ7M)

That's a FWP for sure.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 18, 2024 08:55 PM (w6EFb)

435 Have a good night, ya Morons!

Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 18, 2024 08:56 PM (B0kFh)

436 415 Leah Hextall? Any relation to Ron?

The hockey game is on the work TV.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 18, 2024 08:48 PM (ntk8v)
***
Yes, cousin. She wanted to do more play by play work, but think has ended up doing more bench/sideline work. She went hard to be a "woman" announcer but it didn't go well.

Posted by: TRex at May 18, 2024 08:56 PM (IQ6Gq)

437 Miley, Hi, love. It is a pain when you need them in a recipe.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 18, 2024 08:56 PM (EoJ7M)

438 429 306 Listening to a Pirates Mets game live from the Polo Grounds. Probably on KDKA.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 18, 2024 08:56 PM (V5eKu)

439 >>And purty shapes. By coincidence, I just happen to be poking through Ferrari 125S and 166MM history on a different browser tab right now for a side project.

Friend of mine had an auto restoration business that speciialized in Ferraris. He was a complete fanboy. His shop was pretty spectacular.

They are incredible machines.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 18, 2024 08:57 PM (LkLld)

440 "What to know how old I am? I went to a Yankee game at Shea."

I saw Ted Williams hit a home run on his birthday at Fenway. Ike was in the White House.

Damn! Just realized how long ago that was.
Posted by: JTB at May 18, 2024 08:53 PM (zudum)
***

Dang!
I just realized that the years between me and my old friend growing up who flew fighters in WW1, is now less than my grandson and me, when I was the age.of my grandson.
Where's the whiskey???

Posted by: Diogenes at May 18, 2024 08:57 PM (W/lyH)

441
Listening to a Pirates Mets game live from the Polo Grounds. Probably on KDKA.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door

__________

As announced by the Gunner?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 18, 2024 08:59 PM (MoZTd)

442 Drinking tip - Don't swallow and cough at the same time, especially with scotch.

Posted by: javems at May 18, 2024 08:59 PM (8I4hW)

443 439 Heh. Another mid 60s Alfa Spyder just went across, and it was probably a gift for Daddy's little girl. $32K. Cheap. Robin's Egg Blue. "Daddy, my car has been making funny sounds and smoking for two weeks and I don't know what to do. I've only been driving it in second".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 18, 2024 09:00 PM (V5eKu)

444 Miley, Hi, love. It is a pain when you need them in a recipe.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 18, 2024 08:56 PM (EoJ7M)

I do the lemon juice thing, because I hate to waste good buttermilk.

Publius used to drink it as a kid, until one day his father exclaimed "How do you drink that stuff?" (paraphrased) He never touched it again.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 18, 2024 09:00 PM (w6EFb)

445 Drinking tip - Don't swallow and cough at the same time, especially with scotch.
Posted by: javems
------

Kind of a DIY sinus rinse.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 18, 2024 09:01 PM (XeU6L)

446 Looks like I missed a doozy of a day! I have been crazy busy so I missed the explosion. How everyone is okay!

Posted by: Piper at May 18, 2024 09:01 PM (ZdaMQ)

447 I hear that Klaus Schwab is sending out an urgent communique: "Ze C13-year cicadas are emerging! Let ze bug eating organic begin!"

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at May 18, 2024 09:02 PM (99M5I)

448 Good evening, horde.

I guess I missed the panic today? Glad you're all still here.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 18, 2024 09:03 PM (OX9vb)

449 Thanks Pixy.

I will try to post at 430 EDT so it will go away like Snapchat

Posted by: Scottst at May 18, 2024 09:03 PM (aT8jN)

450 How everyone is okay!
Posted by: Piper
------

Kind of a 'Fall back and regroup'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 18, 2024 09:03 PM (XeU6L)

451 446 Looks like I missed a doozy of a day! I have been crazy busy so I missed the explosion. How everyone is okay!
Posted by: Piper

Most of us died. We got better.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 18, 2024 09:05 PM (ntk8v)

452 >>Heh. Another mid 60s Alfa Spyder just went across, and it was probably a gift for Daddy's little girl. $32K. Cheap. Robin's Egg Blue. "Daddy, my car has been making funny sounds and smoking for two weeks and I don't know what to do. I've only been driving it in second".

Italian sports cars are like beautiful women. Great to look at but the upkeep is a bitch.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 18, 2024 09:05 PM (LkLld)

453 Ben Had, I have a jar of Kroger Private Selection Castelvetrano pitted Sicilian olives... 🤌🏻

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 18, 2024 09:05 PM (FkUwd)

454 Better call it a night
Hopefully all will be right tomorrow
Have a great night everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 18, 2024 09:05 PM (fwDg9)

455
Just got an e-mail from my parish that said the power was still out after Thursday's storm. The church was in the direct path of the straight-line winds. There's still about 400,000 customers without power in Houston.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 18, 2024 09:07 PM (MoZTd)

456 Dang!
I just realized that the years between me and my old friend growing up who flew fighters in WW1, is now less than my grandson and me, when I was the age.of my grandson.
Where's the whiskey???
Posted by: Diogenes at May 18, 2024 08:57 PM (W/lyH)
At 75, I’m older than GrandPappy Eromero was when he died. His GrandPappy fought in TWBTS.

Posted by: Eromero at May 18, 2024 09:07 PM (NxC5+)

457 451 Most of us died. We got better.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 18, 2024 09:05 PM
***
Thank goodness we didn't get turned into newts.

Posted by: TRex at May 18, 2024 09:07 PM (IQ6Gq)

458 Eris, I would call that a goldmine.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 18, 2024 09:08 PM (EoJ7M)

459 much better!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 18, 2024 09:08 PM (tQtDb)

460 'Nite Skip !

Posted by: JT at May 18, 2024 09:09 PM (T4tVD)

461 More Winwood...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_vkKozA8OI

Posted by: davidt at May 18, 2024 09:09 PM (SYTee)

462 I went to Shea Stadium the inaugural season in '64 and saw the first Japanese player in MLB pitch for the Giants.

Posted by: Dee Crepit at May 18, 2024 09:09 PM (V5BDR)

463 I’m having Dripping Springs vodka, made in Texas for old geezers.

Posted by: Eromero at May 18, 2024 09:10 PM (NxC5+)

464 May 17th, 2024 witnessed the passing of the last US triple ace of World War II.

Clarence 'Bud' Anderson passed away at the age of 102.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 18, 2024 09:10 PM (n7JNT)

465

Eagles Guitarist Joe Walsh, WB6ACU, Promotes Amateur Radio in Media Announcements

https://tinyurl.com/4fmt9dv9

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 18, 2024 09:10 PM (63Dwl)

466 g'night everyone; we'l see what we see inna mornin' amirite?

in a nutshell !

g'night!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 18, 2024 09:10 PM (tQtDb)

467 Reset or unplug your cable modem should get you a new hash.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 18, 2024 07:41 PM (LK9/j)

I have had multiple power outages in the last several years, and everything has to be reset, but my hash never changes.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 18, 2024 09:11 PM (OX9vb)

468 At 75, I’m older than GrandPappy Eromero was when he died. His GrandPappy fought in TWBTS.
Posted by: Eromero at May 18, 2024 09:07 PM (NxC5+)

Interesting thought exercise:

Subtract your current age from your birthyear.

Look up the events of that year...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at May 18, 2024 09:12 PM (hOUT3)

469 " " " Where's the whiskey???" " "

amirite? or what?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 18, 2024 09:13 PM (tQtDb)

470 I see the IDF has finally recovered the body of Shani Louk.

Rest in peace bright one. May G-d give your family comfort and support.

Gaza delenda est.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 18, 2024 09:13 PM (n7JNT)

471 Gaza delenda est.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 18, 2024 09:13 PM (n7JNT)

Anna, I like the way you think!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at May 18, 2024 09:14 PM (hOUT3)

472 Interesting thought exercise:

Subtract your current age from your birthyear.

Look up the events of that year...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

Holy Cow!!

Adam was thinking about ribs!

Posted by: Tonypete at May 18, 2024 09:14 PM (WXNFJ)

473
Look up the events of that year...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again!

___________

The Mayerling Incident!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 18, 2024 09:15 PM (MoZTd)

474 Anna

*fistbump*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 18, 2024 09:15 PM (tQtDb)

475 468
'Look up the events of that year...'

Woodrow Wilson elected. Titanic sinks.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 18, 2024 09:17 PM (roH4R)

476
I Survived The Great Ace Shutdown.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 18, 2024 09:18 PM (lCaJd)

477 >>Look up the events of that year...

Huh. So that's what killed the dinosaurs.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 18, 2024 09:18 PM (LkLld)

478
If one of these filthy snow wop teams has to win, I'd prefer it not be the Oilers.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 18, 2024 09:18 PM (MoZTd)

479 Alternate timeline headline:

RMS Titanic sinks after striking iceberg. Woodrow Wilson missing.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 18, 2024 09:18 PM (n7JNT)

480 Interesting thought exercise:

Subtract your current age from your birthyear.

Look up the events of that year...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at May 18, 2024 09:12 PM (hOUT3)

"President Grover Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence."

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 18, 2024 09:18 PM (w6EFb)

481 I don't think we have had any recipes yet. Here's one:

Potage of Frogs.

Having broken their bones and trust them, blanch them, and drain them very well, then lay them into a Dish till you have made some Pease-broth, fry into it a little minced Parsley with Butter; having boiled a while , put the Frogs into your broth, but take them out presently, then allay a little Saffron, and put it into your Pot, having soaked your Bread, garnish it with the Frogs.

Posted by: fd at May 18, 2024 09:19 PM (vFG9F)

482 479
'RMS Titanic sinks after striking iceberg. Woodrow Wilson missing.'

My heart will go on.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 18, 2024 09:20 PM (roH4R)

483 Ellis Island begins receiving immigrants.

Posted by: davidt at May 18, 2024 09:20 PM (SYTee)

484 Oh shit, I did some math.

Posted by: davidt at May 18, 2024 09:21 PM (SYTee)

485 master of the universe rain down your blessings upon the righteous and damnation on conscious bearers of evil

& g'night my jolly Horde O !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 18, 2024 09:22 PM (tQtDb)

486 475 468
'Look up the events of that year...'

Woodrow Wilson elected. Titanic sinks.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 18, 2024 09:17 PM (roH4R)
Back in the late 80s, my ex-wife’s GrandM in upstate NY told me herMama sent her to paper the outhouse with newspaper. The front page was ‘Titanic Sinks!’

Posted by: Eromero at May 18, 2024 09:22 PM (NxC5+)

487 410 Piss and moan for the day. Can not find green olive that are not stuffed with something and if they are not they are not pitted.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 18, 2024 08:47 PM (EoJ7M)
----
If they are whole then they are the pits.
If pitted then there's a hole and it needs to be stuffed.

Rules.

Posted by: Ciampino - not castor berries at May 18, 2024 09:22 PM (qfLjt)

488 1887, really 1887! Damn I'm old.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 18, 2024 09:22 PM (2NHgQ)

489 >To believe in one's backups is one thing. To have to use them is another

Back in the day when I was an enterprise sysadmin, one of my specialties was DRP. You'd be surprised how many organizations, even large, well-known ones, had never run a restore dry run. Ever. The attitude literally never got beyond "well, we have backups, so we're fine"

Posted by: Daniel Ream at May 18, 2024 09:23 PM (0Go0g)

490 >>> 17 7 If a server isn't serving, is it still a server?
Posted by: Not Jaden Smith at May 18, 2024 06:48 PM (MRUXb)
- - - - - - - - - - - -
The technical term for it, per the most recent A+ certification exam, is "doorstop".
Posted by: Another Anon at May 18, 2024 06:51 PM (QNMaY)

We prefer the term "servex", bigot.

Posted by: servers at May 18, 2024 09:23 PM (llON8)

491 >>> Drinking tip - Don't swallow and cough at the same time, especially with scotch.
Posted by: javems at May 18, 2024 08:59 PM (8I4hW)

I've stuck my head in a giant scotch distillery mash vat and breathed in deeply. It was at one stop on a whiskey tour in Scotland. Tiny young girl tour guide said we could try it and I'm a trusting guy. Very exhilarating. You could have probably lit my breath on fire when I exhaled.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 18, 2024 09:23 PM (Y6IkP)

492 485
'master of the universe rain down ...'

This is my kind of prayer.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 18, 2024 09:23 PM (roH4R)

493
Oh shit, I did some math.
Posted by: davidt

_________

Absolution requires genuine remorse and a firm purpose of amendment.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 18, 2024 09:23 PM (MoZTd)

494 1938. Army got its first B-27, Hindenburg blew up and Amelia Earhart was spirited away by aliens from outer space.

Posted by: Robert at May 18, 2024 09:23 PM (hHQo3)

495 Interesting thought exercise:

Subtract your current age from your birthyear.

Look up the events of that year...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

Gavril Princip assassinates Archduke Ferdinand, kicking off a series of unfortunate events and WWI begins. Actually, the whole year was building to this. Still, shitty year.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 18, 2024 09:24 PM (ntk8v)

496 We were out all day at the Special Olympics in Cupertino. Boy F. medaled in all three events two silvers and bronze. Ice cream sodas for everyone tonight!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 18, 2024 09:24 PM (RIvkX)

497 Whoops, that should read 1937.

Posted by: Robert at May 18, 2024 09:24 PM (hHQo3)

498 Interesting thought exercise:

Subtract your current age from your birthyear.

Look up the events of that year...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at May 18, 2024 09:12 PM (hOUT3)

Also, Geronimo surrendered.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 18, 2024 09:24 PM (w6EFb)

499 Robert

You mean the YB-17?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 18, 2024 09:25 PM (n7JNT)

500 500!

Posted by: TRex at May 18, 2024 09:25 PM (IQ6Gq)

501
500 500!
Posted by: TRex

Well done!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at May 18, 2024 09:26 PM (hOUT3)

502 But my age is gonna fluctuate a tad very soon so...

1936.

Spanish Civil War kicks off, King Eddie numero ocho abdicates and the Hoover Dam gets finished.

Posted by: Robert at May 18, 2024 09:26 PM (hHQo3)

503 Woohoo & bravo SFp ... @ youngun' !

and many more!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 18, 2024 09:27 PM (tQtDb)

504 Try 1913 and a little war with Greece that saw Serbia become Czarist Russia's only ally in the region.

That pot had been boiling for a long. Some Serbs would say it started with the Battle of Kosovo.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 18, 2024 09:27 PM (n7JNT)

505 Big meteor over Spain and Portugal:
https://tinyurl.com/4zsmzm32

another view
https://tinyurl.com/ye5k382c

Posted by: Ciampino - not a piece of space junk? at May 18, 2024 09:28 PM (qfLjt)

506 Look up the events of that year...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again!

Carrie Nation began her temperance crusade. Brownie camera introduced. Paris Olympics open.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 18, 2024 09:28 PM (OX9vb)

507
Actually, the whole year was building to this. Still, shitty year.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work

__________

Good alt-history scenario. Austria-Hungary delays sending the ultimatum to Serbia until mid-August. Britain can't send an expeditionary force because civil war has broken out over Ireland.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 18, 2024 09:28 PM (MoZTd)

508 2-1

Vancouver sucks

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 18, 2024 09:28 PM (ZdexC)

509 Clarence 'Bud' Anderson passed away at the age of 102.

A shot of Old Crow is called for.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 18, 2024 09:29 PM (zdLoL)

510 So, the server shelving hasn't held up?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 18, 2024 09:30 PM (a3Q+t)

511 495 Interesting thought exercise:

Subtract your current age from your birthyear.

Look up the events of that year...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

Gavril Princip assassinates Archduke Ferdinand, kicking off a series of unfortunate events and WWI begins. Actually, the whole year was building to this. Still, shitty year.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 18, 2024 09:24 PM (ntk8v)

Kind of boring. PCP was first synthesized.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 18, 2024 09:30 PM (CmpAx)

512 Dabney Coleman was a lot older than I thought he was.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 18, 2024 09:30 PM (S6gqv)

513 General Stand Watie died in 1871.

Posted by: Eromero at May 18, 2024 09:31 PM (NxC5+)

514 Hirohito became emperor.

Some guy declared himself dictator of Greece.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 18, 2024 09:31 PM (CmpAx)

515 Looked it up. 1951-73. 1879, Battle of Rorke's Drift. Everybody sing Men of Harlech!

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 18, 2024 09:31 PM (V5eKu)

516 "But there is a more local cause as well for their refusal to countenance basic realities of military science in their stewardship of Israel’s national security.

Since Israel’s establishment 76 years ago, the IDF General Staff has operated as a closed gentlemen’s club. Only those aligned with the zeitgeist of Israel’s secular, leftist elites have been permitted to enter.

In the initial decades of the state, the social and ideological uniformity of the General Staff wasn’t that significant. Israel had no option other than fighting to win.

But since the United States transformed Israel into a military client in the 1970s, membership in the club involved embracing a doctrine of subservience and dependence on the Pentagon and the American liberal political establishment.
_Caroline Glick

Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2024 09:32 PM (lCWOD)

517 500 500!
Posted by: TRex

Well done!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at May 18, 2024 09:26 PM

That's a bold statement, Commissar Hrothgar. We'll see how it pays off ...

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 18, 2024 09:33 PM (a3Q+t)

518 498 Interesting thought exercise:

Subtract your current age from your birthyear.

Look up the events of that year...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at May 18, 2024 09:12 PM (hOUT3)

Also, Geronimo surrendered.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 18, 2024 09:24 PM (w6EFb)

Heh. Did that for my Aunt who passed away end of March just shy of 101.

Jan 10, 1833: Felix Mendelssohn's cantata "Die erste Walpurgisnacht" premieres in Berlin, Germany
Jun 5, 1833: Ada Lovelace meets mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage
Jul 8, 1833: Russia and Turkey sign defense treaty
Aug 20, 1833: Britain abolishes the Slave Trade (or at least their part in it)
Sep 20, 1833: Darwin Arrives in Buenos Aires

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 18, 2024 09:33 PM (ynpvh)

519 Piss and moan for the day. Can not find green olive that are not stuffed with something and if they are not they are not pitted.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 18, 2024 08:47 PM (EoJ7M)

Just buy the regular stuffed with pimento and suck the pimentos out.

Posted by: GWB at May 18, 2024 09:33 PM (zUT35)

520 I have a feeling May 23rd is going to be something we've never seen before.

https://tinyurl.com/3r6skynw

Posted by: JackStraw at May 18, 2024 09:34 PM (LkLld)

521 ...Just got an e-mail from my parish that said the power was still out after Thursday's storm. The church was in the direct path of the straight-line winds. There's still about 400,000 customers without power in Houston.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 18, 2024 09:07 PM (MoZTd)

I was out on I-45 North, heading for Dallas, when that storm rolled in on my path, at about 3pm. I'd left Galveston at about 1:30 pm, and the storm hit (not the light rain beginnings, but THE STORM), when I was just passing The Woodlands, and coming into the Southernmost beginnings of Conroe. Those two locales have damn near merged, anyway.

Dark as Midnight, well into Huntsville, where I pulled off the freeway, for both food and refuge at a local McDs.

Longest I've ever stayed at a McDs, too. About 90 minutes, till the rain slacked off a bit. Pressed on Northbound. Skies began to lighten a bit, around Centerville. All told, about 100 miles of OMG monsoon, 100 ft. visibility driving. Hell, it became a nice, beautiful sunset evening, by time I made Ennis, TX.

Countin' my blessings, here!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 18, 2024 09:35 PM (e6UQI)

522 505 Big meteor over Spain and Portugal:
https://tinyurl.com/4zsmzm32

another view
https://tinyurl.com/ye5k382c

Posted by: Ciampino - not a piece of space junk? at May 18, 2024 09:28 PM (qfLjt)

Just Lizzo re-entering earth's orbit.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 18, 2024 09:35 PM (ynpvh)

523 511 495 Interesting thought exercise:

Subtract your current age from your birthyear.

Look up the events of that year...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

The Great Columbian Exposition had just finished, and the Devil was still in the White City.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 18, 2024 09:35 PM (S6gqv)

524 478
If one of these filthy snow wop teams has to win, I'd prefer it not be the Oilers.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 18, 2024 09:18 PM (MoZTd)
----
I don't think the Canucks have ever won a Stanley Cup so go Canucks.

Posted by: Ciampino - not a chance? at May 18, 2024 09:35 PM (qfLjt)

525 At the comm. college where I worked (and still put in a little time now and then), I was a new IT hire when we put the first hard drives into the computer lab machines. 20 megs. Cost something like $600 each. Them was the days...

I had a Tandy 102 for a while, and got quite a bit of work done on that sucker. (Notes for the office, cataloging data for the college library.) Useful little machine. If memory serves I think Brit Hume said he used to use one in the field.

Who was it who said the machines don't stop doing what you bought 'em to do -- you get seduced by something faster and better.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 18, 2024 09:35 PM (q3u5l)

526 Piss and moan for the day. Can not find green olive that are not stuffed with something and if they are not they are not pitted.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 18, 2024 08:47 PM

Have you submitted it to CBD for a FWP?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 18, 2024 09:36 PM (a3Q+t)

527 1901 -- Australia becomes a self-ruling federal state; literally nothing important on my birthday date for that year.

Queen-Empress Victoria's funeral.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 18, 2024 09:36 PM (ZdexC)

528 3-1
Vancouver still sucks

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 18, 2024 09:36 PM (ZdexC)

529 Is VM Ware still the thing for virtualization?
I’m a layer 1 guy but have some acquaintance with the layer 2 and up levels.
BTW, if you want to discuss any cabling issues, I would love to help.
RCDD for 25+ years, and doing this stuff since before you were born…(I assume)

Posted by: Gunslinger at May 18, 2024 09:37 PM (cWet5)

530 523 511 495 Interesting thought exercise:

Subtract your current age from your birthyear.

Look up the events of that year...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

When I do this for my mother, who is not only still alive but is doing quite well and still living on her own; Gold had just been discovered at Sutter's Mill.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 18, 2024 09:37 PM (S6gqv)

531 I looked at my -2x age years ago. War in the middle east, Europe causing trouble, feminists screeching about birth control.

So, the ushe.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 18, 2024 09:38 PM (Y6IkP)

532 *ponders going back to playing with AI prompted art*

Nyah.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 18, 2024 09:38 PM (n7JNT)

533 Is VM Ware still the thing for virtualization?
I’m a layer 1 guy but have some acquaintance with the layer 2 and up levels.
BTW, if you want to discuss any cabling issues, I would love to help.
RCDD for 25+ years, and doing this stuff since before you were born…(I assume)

It is, but they got bought and the new owner is seriously jacking up prices for licenses. A lot of customers now looking to hit the exits as soon as they can afford to spin up something new.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 18, 2024 09:39 PM (dZVON)

534 502 But my age is gonna fluctuate a tad very soon so...
1936.
Spanish Civil War kicks off, King Eddie numero ocho abdicates and the Hoover Dam gets finished.
Posted by: Robert
---------------------

You're, you're practically a juvenile delinquent.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2024 09:39 PM (lCWOD)

535 Hey, um, guys...

There's a nood.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 18, 2024 09:42 PM (3Hm/H)

536 53}So when y'all fail to work me to death, you then move to have me riddled with bullets?! You people are sadistic.

Posted by: worn-out, grey-haired hamster at May 18, 2024 06:57 PM (DTX3h)

21 potato gun salute, and we're all out of potatoes.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 18, 2024 07:01 PM (O7YUW)

I hear the new server needs hamsters with a beat for the drums used to keep the younger hamsters in rhythm.

https://youtu.be/P7Tcggo45TQ

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 18, 2024 09:42 PM (VNX3d)

537 Yeah, early [and brief] ONT nood.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 18, 2024 09:43 PM (ZdexC)

538 OSI layers in reverse order (used this in trading classes I led)

All (application)
People (presentation)
Seem (session)
To (transport)
Need ( network)
Dominos (datalink)
Pizza (physical)

Posted by: Gunslinger at May 18, 2024 09:44 PM (cWet5)

539 Subtract your current age from your birthyear.

Look up the events of that year...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at May 18, 2024 09:12 PM (hOUT3)

Holy Moly! They canonized Joan of Arc!

Posted by: GWB at May 18, 2024 09:44 PM (zUT35)

540 518 498 Interesting thought exercise:

Subtract your current age from your birthyear.

Look up the events of that year...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! at May 18, 2024 09:12 PM (hOUT3)

Also, Geronimo surrendered.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 18, 2024 09:24 PM (w6EFb)

Damn, can't math...that would be 1823 not 1833...

Jan 3, 1823: Stephen F. Austin receives a grand of land in Texas from the Gov't of Mex.
May 10, 1823: 1st steamboat to navigate Mississippi arrives at Ft. Snelling
Sep 10, 1823: Simón Bolivár named President of Peru.
Oct 5, 1823: Carl Maria von Weber visits Ludwig van Beethoven
Dec 2, 1823: The Monroe Doctrine

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 18, 2024 09:44 PM (ynpvh)

541 532 *ponders going back to playing with AI prompted art*

Nyah.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 18, 2024 09:38 PM (n7JNT)

Was thinking of asking AI to do art with Joey as a senile superhero who wears diapers and sniffs little girls with his sidekick Kumala who can't keep things out of her mouth and goes around with kneepads and Venn diagrams...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 18, 2024 09:46 PM (ynpvh)

542 468 Interesting thought exercise:

Subtract your current age from your birthyear.

Look up the events of that year...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

Hannibal forced to eat own elephants. Trouble in Iran, Egypt, and the Middle East.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 18, 2024 09:47 PM (BLOW1)

543 yay Jim!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 18, 2024 09:48 PM (tQtDb)

544 "Jun 5, 1833: Ada Lovelace meets mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage"

yay ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 18, 2024 09:49 PM (tQtDb)

545 Jim

You can try to create that. Playing with Tensor Art because it is free.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 18, 2024 09:49 PM (n7JNT)

546 & g'night

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 18, 2024 09:50 PM (tQtDb)

547 I have a feeling May 23rd is going to be something we've never seen before.

https://tinyurl.com/3r6skynw
Posted by: JackStraw

Will they be given space... if they a given a reason to maybe want to riot that is.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 18, 2024 09:50 PM (cOq4q)

548 Damn, can't math

Looks like some of you guys really are 29.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 18, 2024 09:52 PM (zdLoL)

549 Also, Geronimo died that year.

Posted by: GWB at May 18, 2024 09:57 PM (zUT35)

550 I'm going to go out on a limb here, and state that Chicago will, for the second time, simultaneously host riots and the Democrat Party Convention.

I wasn't alive for the last one, but it's nice to see that they're running with that theme again.

The only question in my mind is who will pay to pre-position the pallets of bricks. I won't!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 18, 2024 09:58 PM (VNX3d)

551 ONT Nood

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 18, 2024 09:59 PM (VNX3d)

552 I heard that the Chicago convention was going to be Zoomed.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2024 10:01 PM (lCWOD)

553 1885: John Henry George "Babbacombe" Lee's death sentence was commuted when three attempts to hang him all failed when the trapdoor would not open despite having been tested and working perfectly.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 18, 2024 10:05 PM (L/fGl)

554 Interesting thought exercise:

Subtract your current age from your birthyear.

Look up the events of that year...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at May 18, 2024 09:12 PM (hOUT3)

This was before math

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at May 18, 2024 10:26 PM (U0Sgy)

555 When I do this for my mother, who is not only still alive but is doing quite well and still living on her own; Gold had just been discovered at Sutter's Mill.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 18, 2024 09:37 PM (S6gqv)

My MiL - The Alamo and the Republic of Texas.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 18, 2024 10:45 PM (w6EFb)

556 I'm going to go out on a limb here, and state that Chicago will, for the second time, simultaneously host riots and the Democrat Party Convention.

I wasn't alive for the last one, but it's nice to see that they're running with that theme again.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 18, 2024 09:58 PM (VNX3d)

Yeah the last time this happened was the year I experienced my first kiss. I was very upset because I thought it was horrible. If only he'd kissed better, my life might have been very different.

He aged well and his dimples are still cute. And I never told him that his steady gf and future wife double-dated with me a few years later.

My date that night also aged very well - he was still a good kisser 30 years later. Ah, memories!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 18, 2024 10:54 PM (w6EFb)

557 Interesting thought exercise:

Subtract your current age from your birthyear.

Look up the events of that year...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

Holy Cow!!

Adam was thinking about ribs!
Posted by: Tonypete at May 18, 2024 09:14 PM (WXNFJ)

Alexander Graham Bell hadn't yet invented the telephone. Nor Edison, the electric lightbulb.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at May 18, 2024 11:17 PM (iODuv)

558 This looks like a fun thread!

Posted by: m at May 19, 2024 12:29 AM (hyRRf)

559 Is it now?

Posted by: Scottst at May 19, 2024 01:50 AM (YOHNO)

560 468 At 75, I’m older than GrandPappy Eromero was when he died. His GrandPappy fought in TWBTS.
Posted by: Eromero at May 18, 2024 09:07 PM (NxC5+)

Interesting thought exercise:

Subtract your current age from your birthyear.

Look up the events of that year...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at May 18, 2024 09:12 PM (hOUT3)

YIKES

Posted by: m at May 19, 2024 01:55 AM (hyRRf)

561 Its like you read my mind! You seem to know so much about this, like you wrote
the book in it or something. I think that you can do with
some pics to drive the message home a little bit, but
other than that, this is excellent blog. A fantastic read.
I'll certainly be back.

Posted by: beauty at May 25, 2024 12:03 PM (iigWv)

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