Daily Tech News 3 March 2025

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Qualcomm's next-generation Snapdragon X2 laptop chips are expected to offer 50% more multi-threaded performance than the current generation Snapdragon X chips. (Tom's Hardware)

Coincidentally, Qualcomm's next-generation Snapdragon X2 laptop chips are expected to offer 50% more cores than the current generation Snapdragon X chips.

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We don't really know anything about AMD's next-generation Zen 6 CPU cores, much less what graphics cores they will use. (WCCFTech)

Anyone who knows isn't telling, and anyone who is telling doesn't know.

Wait for the details to show up in a leaked shipping manifest to the consumer electronics regulator in India. Either that or a Linux driver.
The Steam hardware survey results are frankly garbage. (Tom's Hardware)

Yeah, I don't think the proportion of Steam users primarily speaking Chinese grew by 60% in the space of a month. Or any of the other strange results.
Intel has announced new 10Gb and 200Gb Ethernet cards. (Serve the Home)

The 10Gb cards are interesting, claiming to use half the power of previous models. And they're downwards compatible with 5Gb, 2.5Gb, 1Gb, and for the masochists or people whose bedrooms are half a mile from the router, 100Mb.
Mark Cuban has offered to fund 18F, the unofficial name for a group of whiny tech gerbils at the GSA. (Tech Crunch)
Waldo Jaquith, a former 18F technologist, said that the federal government has been a good, reliable employer for generations. "What the jobs lack in salary are made up for in stability. Untold millions have been lifted into the middle class or kept out of poverty by having a single family member in a federal job. Now that's gone."
Good.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Do not.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Mornin' Pixy and Horde...

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 03, 2025 04:00 AM (O7YUW)

2 st

Posted by: a dude in MI at March 03, 2025 04:01 AM (+I6Y/)

3 Grumpy and Recalcitrant for the win!

Posted by: m at March 03, 2025 04:01 AM (v0TzN)

4 Aussie, Aussie, Aussie?

Posted by: m at March 03, 2025 04:03 AM (v0TzN)

5 ae

Posted by: Ciampino - Meanwhile at St Peter's house on Friday: Sardines!? Again? at March 03, 2025 04:03 AM (g4sLG)

6 Good morning from Vietnam, where it is late afternoon.

Posted by: Ann at March 03, 2025 04:07 AM (PC0Gu)

7 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 03, 2025 04:07 AM (sAmhv)

8 4 Aussie, Aussie, Aussie?

Posted by: m

Oi, oi, oi!

Oh, sorry.

Don't know why the video has that overlay.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 03, 2025 04:07 AM (BLOW1)

9 Thanks, m. Just happened to be up a few minutes earlier today. Okay, going through the content here and on the ONT now as the rest of the neurons try to reach full wakefulness.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 03, 2025 04:08 AM (O7YUW)

10 Disclaimer: Do not.

Warning: Yellow flag.

Posted by: Rev Wishbone at March 03, 2025 04:10 AM (fY84s)

11 >>>Disclaimer: Do not.

Do not ... wut.

Posted by: m at March 03, 2025 04:11 AM (v0TzN)

12 I'm a Beltway Bandit but I grew up in the rust belt (70s-80s). There is no such thing as a forever job. The people I work with in Babylon DC can't seem to wrap there brain around that.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 03, 2025 04:12 AM (sAmhv)

13 12 I'm a Beltway Bandit but I grew up in the rust belt (70s-80s). There is no such thing as a forever job. The people I work with in Babylon DC can't seem to wrap there brain around that.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 03, 2025 04:12 AM (sAmhv)

Because many of them had sinecures?

sinecure
noun
a position requiring little or no work but giving the holder status or financial benefit
mid 17th century: from Latin sine cura ‘without care’.

Posted by: m at March 03, 2025 04:15 AM (v0TzN)

14 So many protest groups out there this weekend. From Tesla/Musk groups (200) to Ukraine (another small group) and others parading in the streets. Everyone has a cause, and the police try and keep them from meeting. Most people ignore them except the environment people who get in you face and scream.
So I feel lonely, its to cold to parade for anything.

Posted by: Colin at March 03, 2025 04:21 AM (wlQdF)

15 Cuban is a dork who lucked out like Musk.

At least Musk has the balls to step up like a fucking man.

You’re not geniuses, you’re facilitators, step up and do your job!

Posted by: Rev Wishbone at March 03, 2025 04:22 AM (fY84s)

16 In my working career I was always under the impression that I could be called into the directors office and fired. Never happened, but I saw so many, many given a box and a security guard visit to their ex office. One company layed off 20 K and not of a peep from the local media. So I never had a forever job, but hung in there.

Posted by: Colin at March 03, 2025 04:28 AM (wlQdF)

17 Okay, back from reading backwards in the ONT comments.

There's a Shrek 5 coming out? I wasn't aware there was anything beyond the first two.

I need to get out more.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 03, 2025 04:34 AM (O7YUW)

18 G'mornin all y'all .
I've had a few jobs with the state. Always got po'd and quit.
Lol
Managed to get 18 years from all that coming & going.
So I get a tiny retirement.

Posted by: OkJohn at March 03, 2025 04:36 AM (NC/it)

19 Qualcomm's next-generation Snapdragon X2 laptop chips are expected to offer 50% more multi-threaded performance than the current generation Snapdragon X chips. - Pixy

But there is more!

"Specifically, the SC8480XP features 18 cores, 48GB of SK hynix RAM, and a 1TB SSD onboard."

Wut? An SSD too? WTH? I don't get this at all.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 03, 2025 04:42 AM (tazkY)

20 O.K People are talking about songs on the ONT. I always thought "Only the good die young" by Billy Joel was silly, the persona of the character singing it was irritating ( He wants to get into her pants so her mocks her RC religion?) who had a too high opinion of himself ( "you didn't count on me while you were counting on your rosary") with an abysmal knowledge of Catholic Saints/ quite a number of whom were quite joyful and actually were known for their humor. This is aside from the fact that it's stupid to say "Only the good die young" when goodness and the age of death are not necessarily connected. I suppose it rather a catchy tune, however and yes, I probably have thought too much about music lyrics.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2025 04:50 AM (vocDY)

21 Aside from the fact that when are RC girls confirmed anyway-12 or 13? Even if her parents had "locked her away" for a few years that would make her about 15? Great age for a teen girl to have sex./s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2025 05:01 AM (xu7wT)

22 20: It was hip to kick the Catholic church around. Still is I suppose but it's now meh. You can only be Avant Guarde once. After that, you're just Guarde.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 03, 2025 05:06 AM (sAmhv)

23 And here are some joyful RC Saints:

https://tinyurl.com/5n8cx9v8

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2025 05:06 AM (xu7wT)

24 Allentown is a great song from Billy Joel though.

youtu.be/BopLuwJJEkY

Rust Belt kid here so this song hits different.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 03, 2025 05:08 AM (sAmhv)

25 Billy Joel did have some good songs, but I was listening to "Dire Straits".

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2025 05:14 AM (hBP6r)

26 G'morning, all.

28 degrees out, and lots to do this morning.

Maybe will walk this afternoon instead.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 03, 2025 05:15 AM (a1415)

27 "Allentown is a great song from Billy Joel though."

Growing up and spending my formative years in Allentown, it as pretty spot on.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 03, 2025 05:16 AM (a1415)

28 Rust Belt kid here so this song hits different.
Posted by: Puddleglum

Songs are like that. I wonder what Rust Belt type label will be used to describe the DC implosion? And will the exiled end up going, "DC? Never heard of it."

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 03, 2025 05:21 AM (tazkY)

29 25 Billy Joel did have some good songs, but I was listening to "Dire Straits".
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

youtu.be/EX2n2ftbdZU

Dire Straits-Telegraph Road

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 03, 2025 05:24 AM (sAmhv)

30 Time to get some stuff done.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 03, 2025 05:26 AM (a1415)

31 Speaking of Billy Joel...on Spotify...

Uptown Girl - 1.1 billion plays
Piano Man - 966 million plays
Vienna - 733 million plays
We Didn't Start the Fire - 565 million plays
She's Always a Woman to Me - 434 million plays
Only the Good Die Young - 217 million plays
Allentown - 33 million plays

I think he might do OK in the music business.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 03, 2025 05:29 AM (tazkY)

32 Posted by: Puddleglum

Thanks for the song.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2025 05:33 AM (8JBl9)

33 Its a bit long, Fen. Give it about 13 minutes!

:-)

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 03, 2025 05:36 AM (sAmhv)

34 Almost forgot, an interesting article from yesterday at Insty's place about Christianity.

https://tinyurl.com/38s4u5s6

Now I really gotta go for a bit.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 03, 2025 05:36 AM (a1415)

35 Waldo Jaquith, a former 18F technologist, said that the federal government has been a good, reliable employer for generations. "What the jobs lack in salary are made up for in stability. Untold millions have been lifted into the middle class or kept out of poverty by having a single family member in a federal job. Now that's gone."

This is an interesting statement. A completely 'reliable' job is one that does not mean anything.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 03, 2025 05:38 AM (bss/y)

36 Meanwhile back in Australia

Wendy Matthews on Spotify
The Day You Went Away - 9.3 million plays
Let's Kiss Like Angles Do - 1.2 million plays
Token Angel - 1.2 million plays

AC/DC
Highway to Hell - 1.87 billion plays
Back in Black - 1.79 billion plays
Thunderstruck - 1.75 billion plays
You Shook Me All Night Long - 1.3 9 billion plays
T.N.T - 811 million plays
Hell's Bells - 466 million plays
Shoot to Thrill - 435 million plays
Dirty Deeds Done Dirty Cheap - 405 million plays
Its a Long Way to the Top - 304 million plays

On second thought Billy Joel should just quit and start driving a semi.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 03, 2025 05:39 AM (tazkY)

37 My favorite song from Billy Joel would be The Stranger with Pressure coming in at a close second.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 03, 2025 05:40 AM (99eI0)

38 36 Let's Kiss Like Angles Do
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 03, 2025 05:39 AM (tazkY)

Math!

Posted by: m at March 03, 2025 05:41 AM (v0TzN)

39 Billy Joel to me is bubblegum pop. Brittany Spears with a penis. IMO YMMV

Posted by: New nick time! Certified dangerous radical that puts ketchup on hotdogs plus, imma wannabe ratfink a at March 03, 2025 05:42 AM (89Sog)

40 39 Billy Joel to me is bubblegum pop. Brittany Spears with a penis. IMO YMMV
Posted by: New nick time! Certified dangerous radical that puts ketchup on hotdogs plus, imma wannabe ratfink a at March 03, 2025 05:42 AM (89Sog)

He does not seem quite as insane. Although he did break up with Christy Brinkley. So nevermind.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 03, 2025 05:44 AM (bss/y)

41 I looked up on Spotify the number of plays for The Beatles, The Stones, Led Zeppelin, and Pink Floyd. None of them come close to AC/DC.

AC/DC is the biggest thing to come out of Australia since...there is no second choice.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 03, 2025 05:44 AM (tazkY)

42 - Sing us a song, you're the piano man

Posted by: TeeJ at March 03, 2025 05:45 AM (LajFB)

43 Celtic singer and choir " Guiding Light"- From the "Faithpot" site:

https://tinyurl.com/bds3x4cd

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2025 05:46 AM (zNwlr)

44 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 03, 2025 05:46 AM (hoCmQ)

45 42 - Sing us a song, you're the piano man
Posted by: TeeJ

Saw a rather humorous thread about that song yesterday. Someone had the hypothesis that the bar is a gay bar and the piano man is the only one not aware of it.

Billy Joel had been told about it and he found the idea funny while conceding how people could view it that way.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 03, 2025 05:49 AM (99eI0)

46 42 - Sing us a song, you're the piano man
Posted by: TeeJ at March 03, 2025 05:45 AM (LajFB)

Mr. Bojangles, dance.

Posted by: m at March 03, 2025 05:49 AM (v0TzN)

47 Triplets sing a cover of "Blessed Assurance":

https://tinyurl.com/4hs333d4

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2025 05:52 AM (zNwlr)

48 - and not a single one of those AD/DC songs on my car radio any longer than it takes me to punch a different channel button on the radio.

I blame them and black sabbath for being the beginning of the end of hard rock, the lead-ins to that unlistenable 80's metal.

Posted by: TeeJ at March 03, 2025 05:53 AM (LajFB)

49 "Extending God's love". A devotional on Luke 10:27-37:

https://tinyurl.com/yuf5kpdf

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2025 05:55 AM (zNwlr)

50 @29/Puddleglum: "Dire Straits-Telegraph Road"

One of my favourites of theirs off their '82 "Love Over Gold" album. I also love the third track, "Industrial Disease":

https://youtu.be/CiT0mUDCRMU

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 03, 2025 05:56 AM (O7YUW)

51 youtu.be/YTbRsGRWZW0

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 03, 2025 05:57 AM (sAmhv)

52 @48. I blame them and black sabbath for being the beginning of the end of hard rock, the lead-ins to that unlistenable 80's metal.

Well, at least you had Rap to fall back on.

Posted by: Case at March 03, 2025 05:58 AM (NMZGW)

53 - @46 m

Great tune. If I'm remembering correctly, Jerry Jeff Walker tune that the Dirt Band turned into a hit.
The trio I was in would cover it sometimes. As well as Dance Little Jean.

Posted by: TeeJ at March 03, 2025 05:58 AM (LajFB)

54 I am now reminded of how many Billy Joel songs I loathed. LOL. Music was o.k. Lyrics stank.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2025 06:02 AM (Ecw+G)

55 I think Cuban is a bit put out that Musk is basking in the limelight of his accomplishments with Doge. Last week Cuban claimed he would be fighting big pharma and now he's helping out people let go by Doge. He's trying way too hard to be relevant.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 03, 2025 06:03 AM (2NHgQ)

56 48: Black Sabbath has been around since 1969. AC/DC was early 70s. The hair bands of the glorious 80s was not there fault.

youtu.be/juhBVAnLkHk
youtu.be/l2q_-xN2N54

I APOLOGIZE FOR NOTHING!!!!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 03, 2025 06:03 AM (sAmhv)

57 mornin yall.

"Mark Hamill Calls Trump and Vance ‘Putin Puppets’"

And then his pants fell down.

Fking Hollyweird. What a collection of simple minded anti-American root-hugging narcissists.

Posted by: fd at March 03, 2025 06:04 AM (vFG9F)

58 - rap? Riiiight.

If I was in a hard rock mood, which became more rare as I grew older, I just went with the old reliables.
Zep, Hendrix, Jeff Airplane, The Doors, Deep Purple....

Posted by: TeeJ at March 03, 2025 06:04 AM (LajFB)

59 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: There is no try.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 03, 2025 06:07 AM (6K6Eu)

60 Mr. Bojangles
Jerry Jeff Walker
https://youtu.be/fM6x5WG0DWw

Mr. Bojangles
Steve Earle
https://youtu.be/uPQy-JjCwnY

Mr. Bojangles
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
https://youtu.be/KKm_EgDI_-E

And because why the heck not.
Mr. Bojangles
Harry Belafonte
https://youtu.be/D-qEUmwOs5c

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 03, 2025 06:08 AM (tazkY)

61 So Cuban is putting in a shift to prove the argument that it's not the end of the world if the government fires you because there will always be someone in the private sector who will hire you to do something.

Thanks, Cubes. Mighty MAGA of ya.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 03, 2025 06:09 AM (KtIIi)

62 "Mark Hamill Calls Trump and Vance ‘Putin Puppets’"

And then his pants fell down.
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Obi-Wan has taught you well. You have controlled your fear. Now, release your pants!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 03, 2025 06:11 AM (6K6Eu)

63 - I didn't like em then either, puddleglum.
Thankfully, the classic rock station I listened to from say '81' - '88' knew the definition of the word classic, mostly.

Posted by: TeeJ at March 03, 2025 06:11 AM (LajFB)

64
Mr. Bojangles
Sammy Davis Jr.!

Posted by: m at March 03, 2025 06:12 AM (v0TzN)

65 Mr. Bojangles
Sammy Davis Jr.!
Posted by: m at March 03, 2025 06:12 AM (v0TzN)
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I remember him singing that on the Flip Wilson Show.

I'm older than I like to think.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 03, 2025 06:13 AM (6K6Eu)

66 54 I am now reminded of how many Billy Joel songs I loathed. LOL. Music was o.k. Lyrics stank.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2025 06:02 AM (Ecw+G)

Had a music teacher who irrationally loved Billy Joel. We had to "analyze" his lyrics almost every damn class. Springsteen too. I kept getting crummy grades because i would write about what ghastly people they had to be, with a depressing hatred of humanity, to write the kind of crap they did.

I thought they'd be mad, but my parents just laughed.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 03, 2025 06:13 AM (KtIIi)

67 Sammy Davis Jr. also sang Mr. Bojangles.

Posted by: Case at March 03, 2025 06:15 AM (NMZGW)

68 ....

Why are all these people singing about the chicken guy?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 03, 2025 06:16 AM (KtIIi)

69 Mr. Bojangles
Sammy Davis Jr.
https://youtu.be/roNCodl4Wng

It is a toss up between Sammy and Harry as to who as the best DMV waiting room version. Both just missed that this song tells a tragic story.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 03, 2025 06:17 AM (tazkY)

70 The "Barack is gay" conspiracy theory is going to be proven true when Barky finally comes out and dumps Moochelle for Reggie. At least we will get "the first gay president" thing out of the way.

Posted by: fd at March 03, 2025 06:17 AM (vFG9F)

71 If I was in a hard rock mood, which became more rare as I grew older, I just went with the old reliables.
Zep, Hendrix, Jeff Airplane, The Doors, Deep Purple....
Posted by: TeeJ at March 03, 2025 06:04 AM (LajFB)

Okay, Grandpa, drink your prune juice, it's time for your nap.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 03, 2025 06:19 AM (ExV1e)

72 - @71 tidepod? Naw.
More likely meth and pound your head on the wall.

Posted by: TeeJ at March 03, 2025 06:23 AM (LajFB)

73 Evening and morning to all the late toilers and early risers! Yes, yes, it's Monday . . . but remember: Compared to being on the wrong side of the ground, even a bad Monday is pretty small kumquats, nicht wahr?

I have today and tomorrow off for the Annual Insanity. So I slept about enough last night. And conditions are good for a workout . . . which I might be lazy and skip. How're things in your zone?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 03, 2025 06:24 AM (omVj0)

74 @62/Captain Obvious: "Obi-Wan has taught you well. You have controlled your fear. Now, release your pants!"

Thank you for sending me off to my workday with a really good laugh!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 03, 2025 06:24 AM (O7YUW)

75 It is a toss up between Sammy and Harry as to who as the best DMV waiting room version. Both just missed that this song tells a tragic story.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 03, 2025 06:17 AM (tazkY)

Poor little dog.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 03, 2025 06:28 AM (SSRw1)

76 I have today and tomorrow off for the Annual Insanity. So I slept about enough last night. And conditions are good for a workout . . . which I might be lazy and skip. How're things in your zone?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Spring has hit Las Cruces. The weather is lovely when it isn't windy. For the next few weeks the wind and dust is a thing.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 03, 2025 06:28 AM (tazkY)

77 Re: "Only the Good Die Young": the ex-Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 used to say, if that were true, we'd both live forever.

Since she died at age 52, I dunno what to think.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 03, 2025 06:28 AM (omVj0)

78 This is aside from the fact that it's stupid to say "Only the good die young" when goodness and the age of death are not necessarily connected. I suppose it rather a catchy tune, however and yes, I probably have thought too much about music lyrics.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2025 04:50 AM (vocDY)

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He's willing to say anything to get into her pants.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 03, 2025 06:28 AM (Vh9CX)

79 Thank you for sending me off to my workday with a really good laugh!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 03, 2025 06:24 AM (O7YUW)
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Somes from an old SW game/goof where you take SW quotes and replace a critical word with "pants." Proved prophetic.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 03, 2025 06:28 AM (6K6Eu)

80 Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 03, 2025 06:13 AM (KtIIi

I like your parents, and you as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2025 06:30 AM (f1aPg)

81 Mr Bojangles moved to Hawaii where his uptown girl lives across the compound and Captain Jack starts the fire and gives him a big shot every night.

Posted by: fd at March 03, 2025 06:30 AM (vFG9F)

82 Trump thug meme drop:

https://tinyurl.com/4hv8sjk6

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 03, 2025 06:30 AM (T3vgT)

83 75 It is a toss up between Sammy and Harry as to who as the best DMV waiting room version. Both just missed that this song tells a tragic story.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 03, 2025 06:17 AM (tazkY)

Poor little dog.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 03, 2025 06:28 AM (SSRw1)

Indeed!

Posted by: m at March 03, 2025 06:34 AM (v0TzN)

84 I remember liking a lot of Billy Joel's lyrics. "Only the Good Die Young," his nostalgic-for-the-Fifties "Keepin' the Faith," and his classic, "Piano Man." The latter is like a small modern short story -- no plot, but beautifully etched portraits of the patrons he observed at the lounge when he played piano there.

Oh, and "We Didn't Start the Fire" -- a trip through fifty years of American (and some world) history in, what, four and half minutes?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 03, 2025 06:34 AM (omVj0)

85 Morning peeps. I've been playing musical keyboards and mice with the computers this morning. Discovered the new, wireless pair are not to my liking.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 03, 2025 06:36 AM (Q4IgG)

86 “Miami 2017” by Billy Joel is one of the most eerily prophetic songs ever. Writing in the 70’s Joel (who is a New York guy, loves New York) forecast its future perfectly.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 03, 2025 06:36 AM (SSRw1)

87 Saw a rather humorous thread about that song yesterday. Someone had the hypothesis that the bar is a gay bar and the piano man is the only one not aware of it.

Billy Joel had been told about it and he found the idea funny while conceding how people could view it that way.
Posted by: NR Pax at March 03, 2025

***
"Paul is a real estate novelist, who never had time for a wife;
He's talking with Davy, who's still in the Navy, and probably will be for life. . . ."

Yeah, that couplet suggests the two guys might be gay. But I've never gotten that from the other portraits.

Funny, but the last time I heard that song on the oldies station here, it was edited to *remove* that couplet! Neatly; if you didn't know the song you'd never have noticed. But I did.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 03, 2025 06:38 AM (omVj0)

88 Morning peeps. I've been playing musical keyboards and mice with the computers this morning. Discovered the new, wireless pair are not to my liking.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 03, 2025 06:36 AM (Q4IgG)
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I like my wireless trackball.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 03, 2025 06:38 AM (6K6Eu)

89 Off to zzzz for a time. Then? I dunno. Do I care. Not really. That happens when you haven't had a job in 9 years.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 03, 2025 06:39 AM (tazkY)

90 Spring has hit Las Cruces. The weather is lovely when it isn't windy. For the next few weeks the wind and dust is a thing.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 03, 2025 06:28 AM (tazkY)

Hey, how about driving up to Santa Fe and telling us what’s up with that Gene Hackman death house scene? Even weirder than the condition of the bodies is the way no one official wants to say anything about it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 03, 2025 06:40 AM (SSRw1)

91 "Paul is a real estate novelist, who never had time for a wife;
He's talking with Davy, who's still in the Navy, and probably will be for life. . . ."
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I liked the comedy bit where the characters come back to remonstrate with Billy that they're happy with their choices.

Davy: I *like* being in the Navy!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 03, 2025 06:40 AM (6K6Eu)

92 Byeee...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 03, 2025 06:40 AM (6K6Eu)

93 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 03, 2025 06:40 AM (u82oZ)

94 The lyrics to "Keeping the Faith" are preferable- to me- than "Only the good die young."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2025 06:41 AM (f1aPg)

95 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

I can see spring from my house. It's way to the West, but getting closer.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 03, 2025 06:41 AM (u82oZ)

96 I thought it was "Paul is a real estate analyst"

We've had some funny bits on ASHQ on misheard lyrics

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2025 06:43 AM (f1aPg)

97 Poison was the ultimate hair band. I didn't hate them. But they were hated. Still, sold a crap ton of albums and toured a lot. Filled a lot of arenas.

youtu.be/juhBVAnLkHk

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 03, 2025 06:43 AM (sAmhv)

98 Saw Billy Joel in concert, but he was not as memorable as his songs on the radio.

He managed to have a number of teenage anthems. I think of him as a ballad rocker.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 03, 2025 06:44 AM (u82oZ)

99 Paul is a real estate novelist

Should have been Tom Clancy was a real estate novelist,

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 03, 2025 06:45 AM (u82oZ)

100 100

Posted by: m at March 03, 2025 06:45 AM (v0TzN)

101 m

He types, he scores. WTG, m.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 03, 2025 06:46 AM (u82oZ)

102 Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 03, 2025 06:40 AM

I'm happy. I have a day off today.

May you all know that you are a blessing to others
May those who want to /have God show them something nice today - whether that's a kind person or a beautiful sunrise or a colorful bird or evidence of God's love.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2025 06:46 AM (vIniL)

103 "Paul is a real estate novelist, who never had time for a wife;
He's talking with Davy, who's still in the Navy, and probably will be for life. . . ."
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I liked the comedy bit where the characters come back to remonstrate with Billy that they're happy with their choices.

Davy: I *like* being in the Navy!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 03, 2025

***
Where was that, on SNL or SCTV?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 03, 2025 06:47 AM (omVj0)

104 91 "Paul is a real estate novelist, who never had time for a wife;
He's talking with Davy, who's still in the Navy, and probably will be for life. . . ."
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I liked the comedy bit where the characters come back to remonstrate with Billy that they're happy with their choices.

Davy: I *like* being in the Navy!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 03, 2025 06:40 AM (6K6Eu)

In the navy
Yes, you can sail the seven seas
In the navy
Yes, you can put your mind at ease
In the navy
Come on now, people, make a stand
In the navy, in the navy

Posted by: m at March 03, 2025 06:47 AM (v0TzN)

105 He managed to have a number of teenage anthems. I think of him as a ballad rocker.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 03, 2025 06:44

That’s what I was thinking, he writes mainly ballads which not many musicians can do anymore, well I like ballads. Contrast to whatever that was at the Super Bowl halftime show.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 03, 2025 06:48 AM (SSRw1)

106 105 he writes mainly ballads which not many musicians can do anymore
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 03, 2025 06:48 AM (SSRw1)

Simon and Garfunkel, too.

Posted by: m at March 03, 2025 06:50 AM (v0TzN)

107
Last night it was Karen Carpenter
this morning it's Billy Joel

we can do better
we have the technology

Posted by: Don Black. Message: I drink your milkshake at March 03, 2025 06:50 AM (AOsQT)

108 Hey, how about driving up to Santa Fe and telling us what’s up with that Gene Hackman death house scene? Even weirder than the condition of the bodies is the way no one official wants to say anything about it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 03, 2025

***
I keep hearing conflicting reports, about standard for our media. First it seems fairly straightforward, then not, then "no carbon monoxide poisoning," etc. My hope is for a really surreal murder scene with both of the Hackmans tied to totem posts in the living room and with strange, ancient symbols smeared in soot on their foreheads.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 03, 2025 06:52 AM (omVj0)

109 Tom Servo

Exactly. I poled my students about the half time show. Thumbs down, except for that one guy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 03, 2025 06:54 AM (u82oZ)

110 109 I poled my students
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 03, 2025 06:54 AM (u82oZ)

Phrasing?

Posted by: m at March 03, 2025 06:55 AM (v0TzN)

111 What was the discussion about Karen Carpenter?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 03, 2025 06:56 AM (omVj0)

112 "105 He managed to have a number of teenage anthems. I think of him as a ballad rocker.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 03, 2025 06:44

That’s what I was thinking, he writes mainly ballads which not many musicians can do anymore, well I like ballads. Contrast to whatever that was at the Super Bowl halftime show.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 03, 2025 06:48 AM (SSRw1) "

He was just a musician of his times, as are all for the most part.

Being around then, he had no "teenage anthems", just songs for the times he sang them in.

He was just singing for a living, just looking to keep living.

Posted by: somejoe at March 03, 2025 06:56 AM (RCAte)

113 Billy Joel was no Liberace. BOOM!

Posted by: Rev Wishbone at March 03, 2025 06:57 AM (fY84s)

114 m

I keep order with fear, surprise, and this quarterstaff.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 03, 2025 06:57 AM (u82oZ)

115 My wife thinks the Hackman death thing is a mob hit. For some definition of "mob." ----> cartel

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 03, 2025 06:58 AM (Q4IgG)

116 somejoe

He was above the usual standard of the time. Lots of musicians did not do as well as he did. He even was successful enough to marry a supermodel for a time.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 03, 2025 06:59 AM (u82oZ)

117 I completely forgot about/ignored the Oscars last night. As I have ever since they boosted the number of Best Picture nominees to ten. Was there any of these pics worth seeing, or were they all woke?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 03, 2025 07:00 AM (omVj0)

118 I keep hearing conflicting reports, about standard for our media. First it seems fairly straightforward, then not, then "no carbon monoxide poisoning," etc. My hope is for a really surreal murder scene with both of the Hackmans tied to totem posts in the living room and with strange, ancient symbols smeared in soot on their foreheads.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 03, 2025 06:52 AM (omVj0)
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Their house was built over an ancient Indian burial ground?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 03, 2025 07:00 AM (BpYfr)

119 Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Oscars? What are those?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 03, 2025 07:01 AM (u82oZ)

120
The same people who are crying "Slava Ukrainia!" and "On, on to victory" are the same ones who would say that World War I was a stupid, pointless slaughter and asked during Iraq what the end game was.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 03, 2025 07:02 AM (dxSpM)

121 The first two episodes of Have Gun -- Will Travel will be on Heroes & Icons this morning.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 03, 2025 07:02 AM (omVj0)

122 Bezos is going to launch his girlfriend and some lesbians into space on his dildo rocket. Depending on the outcome, I may have to modify my opinion about Dr Evil.

Posted by: fd at March 03, 2025 07:03 AM (vFG9F)

123 Hadrian the Seventh

They prize emotional outbursts over intellectual consistency.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 03, 2025 07:03 AM (u82oZ)

124 >What was the discussion about Karen Carpenter?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
----

her contributions to Western civilization

Posted by: Don Black. Message: I drink your milkshake at March 03, 2025 07:04 AM (AOsQT)

125 fd

If they come back, he is evil, or the other way around?

What a way to get out of a commitment. Pretty expensive, but very hands-off.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 03, 2025 07:04 AM (u82oZ)

126 119 Oscars? What are those?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 03, 2025 07:01 AM (u82oZ)

a South American cichlid fish with velvety brown young and multicolored adults, popular in aquariums

Posted by: m at March 03, 2025 07:04 AM (v0TzN)

127 He was above the usual standard of the time. Lots of musicians did not do as well as he did. He even was successful enough to marry a supermodel for a time.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 03, 2025

***
His "The Stranger," about the private self each of us holds inside, was solid stuff too. "He is not always evil, and he is not always wrong."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 03, 2025 07:05 AM (omVj0)

128 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at March 03, 2025 07:05 AM (dg+HA)

129 m

To me Oscar is the life-jacketed dummy we throw overboard to practice man-overboard drills.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 03, 2025 07:06 AM (u82oZ)

130 Billy Joel is Billy Joel, he's no Meatloaf

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 03, 2025 07:06 AM (EG7Bp)

131
Oscars? What are those?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 03, 2025 07:01 AM (u82oZ)

A class of Soviet nuclear subs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 03, 2025 07:06 AM (dxSpM)

132 119 Oscars? What are those?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 03, 2025 07:01 AM (u82oZ)

also:

a code word representing the letter O, used in radio communication

Posted by: m at March 03, 2025 07:07 AM (v0TzN)

133 - Ballad writers?
Spent 11 years total behind a frontman that wrote some great ones. All their utube links are really long but if you feel like doing some typing in the utube search box I'll type out what to put in it for ya.

Posted by: TeeJ at March 03, 2025 07:07 AM (LajFB)

134 "If they come back, he is evil, or the other way around?"

He's always
Dr Evil
To me

Posted by: Billy Joke at March 03, 2025 07:08 AM (vFG9F)

135 Youse guys!

Pure quill AoSHQ. At least it was not pyramid puns.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 03, 2025 07:08 AM (u82oZ)

136 119 Oscars? What are those?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 03, 2025 07:01 AM (u82oZ)

Oh, wait!

***Australian*** and New Zealand English informal, dated
money
ORIGIN
early 20th century: from the name Oscar Asche (1871–1936), Australian actor, used as rhyming slang for ‘cash’.

Posted by: m at March 03, 2025 07:08 AM (v0TzN)

137 Have a fabulous day, everyone.

However, head on a swivel and have a plan.

Deranged bitter-enders are getting froggy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 03, 2025 07:09 AM (u82oZ)

138 Last night I watched most of Open Range, that terrific Western with Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall, and Annette Bening. Some have compared it to Eastwood's Unforgiven, but the two are nothing alike -- except that you can't forget either one. Eastwood's movie is dark, dark. Costner's is hopeful and bright.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 03, 2025 07:10 AM (omVj0)

139 "
He was above the usual standard of the time. Lots of musicians did not do as well as he did. He even was successful enough to marry a supermodel for a time.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 03, 2025 06:59 AM (u82oZ) "

He was actually only just one of the standards of the time.

There were so many musicians and groups that were talented and prolific that challenged and on many occasions bested him musically.

He had a gift, he had it in the right time.

In a hundred years will it matter? Will anyone know?

I always like his songs, maybe that will be enough.

Posted by: somejoe at March 03, 2025 07:11 AM (RCAte)

140

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 03, 2025 07:11 AM (5hfjS)

141 Eastwood's movie is dark, dark. Costner's is hopeful and bright.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 03, 2025 07:10 AM (omVj0)

———

Also Costner had the rare Colt 20 shooter.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 03, 2025 07:16 AM (Vh9CX)

142 Yeah, the federal government IS NOT a jobs program

Posted by: deadrody at March 03, 2025 07:16 AM (qf6NU)

143 Bezos is going to launch his girlfriend and some lesbians into space on his dildo rocket. Depending on the outcome, I may have to modify my opinion about Dr Evil.
Posted by: fd at March 03, 2025 07:03 AM (vFG9F)

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.....

Posted by: Zombie Gus Grissom, All But Forgotten at March 03, 2025 07:16 AM (EEZHI)

144 a code word representing the letter O, used in radio communication
Posted by: m at March 03, 2025 07:07 AM (v0TzN)

We always used opossum.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 03, 2025 07:17 AM (ExV1e)

145 Go ahead Teej.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 03, 2025 07:17 AM (SSRw1)

146
Also Costner had the rare Colt 20 shooter.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 03, 2025

***
I wondered about that, but last night I saw it's made clear that Charley, his character, and Boss, Duvall's, have stashed other loaded guns in preparation for the fight. And we see them both reload several times.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 03, 2025 07:19 AM (omVj0)

147 Best ballad ever is “The road goes on forever and the party never ends.” It’s like a Miami Vice episode set to music.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 03, 2025 07:19 AM (SSRw1)

148 - Tom

Put in True North before these...

Buy for you the moon
For a woman
Near Mrs

That'll get ya started. Have their own channel with I think 5 CD's.

And guess who got to sit in for their drummer on late notice a couple times.

Gotta go

Posted by: TeeJ at March 03, 2025 07:21 AM (LajFB)

149 My hope is for a really surreal murder scene with both of the Hackmans tied to totem posts in the living room and with strange, ancient symbols smeared in soot on their foreheads.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 03, 2025
---
Their house was built over an ancient Indian burial ground?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 03, 2025

***
Now that's an interesting idea. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 03, 2025 07:22 AM (omVj0)

150 Suggested upcoming Blue Origin flight names:

Wigs In Space
Mission Matriarchy
Star Bores

Posted by: Billy Joke at March 03, 2025 07:22 AM (vFG9F)

151 Suggested upcoming Blue Origin flight names:

Wigs In Space
Mission Matriarchy
Star Bores
Posted by: Billy Joke at March 03, 2025 07:22 AM (vFG9F)

Silicone in Space

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 03, 2025 07:24 AM (ExV1e)

152 > Bezos is going to launch his girlfriend and some lesbians into space on his dildo rocket. Depending on the outcome, I may have to modify my opinion about Dr Evil.
Posted by: fd
--------
Probably the most dick any of those broads will ever see.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 03, 2025 07:24 AM (Q4IgG)

153 In space, no one can hear you bitch.

Posted by: Billy Joke at March 03, 2025 07:24 AM (vFG9F)

154 We always used opossum.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 03, 2025 07:17 AM (ExV1e)

Oscar was the standard I knew, did they use LGQWWER+YJ+KL-SLMTBIASS for what we knew as Lima ?

Posted by: somejoe at March 03, 2025 07:25 AM (RCAte)

155 " In space, no one can hear you bitch.
Posted by: Billy Joke"

Space Bitch was my favorite Asimov novel.

Posted by: eleven at March 03, 2025 07:28 AM (0HaGk)

156 What an odd thing for Cuban to come forward so very quickly to offer to fully fund 18F operations working within the federal service.

Was it always his group or is he covering that it's a contractor operation "created" under O's administration and centered in GSA, though working for various executive branch agencies & the House of Representatives?

Reportedly, it also had a checkered past so why will it NEED to be back on the inside?

• GSA: 18F is a digital consultancy in an independent agency (GSA) and provides products and services to federal entities on a fee-for-service basis.

• 18F MOS in the US Army gathers intelligence.

🤫

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 03, 2025 07:29 AM (NFX2v)

157 Oscar was the standard I knew, did they use LGQWWER+YJ+KL-SLMTBIASS for what we knew as Lima ?
Posted by: somejoe at March 03, 2025 07:25 AM (RCAte)

No, don't be silly, we used beans.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 03, 2025 07:30 AM (ExV1e)

158 JJ is nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 03, 2025 07:31 AM (ExV1e)

159
SEF
TON

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 03, 2025 07:31 AM (gbOdA)

160 150 Suggested upcoming Blue Origin flight names:

Blues involuntarily disicated.

Posted by: somejoe at March 03, 2025 07:34 AM (RCAte)

161 "158 JJ is nood."

He used to be more of a gentleman and kept that stuff to the more "in frequented" sections of this most disreputable web thingy place.

Posted by: somejoe at March 03, 2025 07:37 AM (RCAte)

162 Reuters — Exclusive-Nvidia and Broadcom testing chips on Intel manufacturing process, sources say

Posted by: SMOD at March 03, 2025 11:35 AM (RHGPo)

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