AP headline: "Obama’s callout to Black men touches a nerve among Democrats. Is election-year misogyny at play?"
Did it strike anyone else that Obama has decided to talk down to people he used to court? It seems like some of them didn't appreciate it. (Pro tip: He does this a lot.)
As near as I can tell, the condescending preachiness has been his main public-speaking feature as far as his media fan base was concerned. Mainly because they want to preach down to the unwashed conservative or non-lib masses. He’s been their avatar.
Breaking News: headline... IT JUST MAY BE A SLOW NEWS DAY
When the following is what catches one's eye in one's AP Morning Wire news feed, the above may just be possible...
First, I don't know if Jack ever reads any AP news stories, but if he does, he should contact them about their lack of trigger warnings concerning certain subjects. I know whatever the case, he's probably glad he doesn't live in or near this neighborhood...
Next, for those with a thirst for competition and a willing partner: beer and cash for the winners paid out by the pound!! As Jed C of non-Ohio hillbilly fame once said, "Weeeeeeeeaalllldoggies!!"
I wish I were 10 - no - 20... no, scratch that... 50 years younger!!
And finally, a humanoid specimen of great concern and much disdain, Leon Mullosk, has a new contraption that apparently works a lot better than his Cyber Trucks and other Tesla vehicles, which now list "Safety / Product Recall" on the window stickers as standard equipment and "Dependable Performance" as a top end option with limited availability...
>Nota Bene, baseball fans<: It's rumored that a bidding war has just broken out in the talent-starved basement of the AL between the Chicago White Sox and the Los Angeles Angels, along with the Miami Marlins and the Colorado Rockies, similarly depth-challenged in the NL, to try to hire this thing as a free agent catcher, since it appears quite adept at handling the high heat coming in at home. But they'll likely offer it a good deal at short stop if it's not interested in crouching behind the plate all the time.
And in a bit more Mollusk news: a fleet of his completely autonomous AI self-driving "cybercabs" is due to hit city streets sometime in 2026. But it's yet to be determined whether they will be branded as an efficient, economical everyday transportation resource for ordinary folks or a death-defying thrill ride suitable for daredevils and sundry other *Look Ma', no hands!!* adrenalin junkies...
From Wikipedia: Libertarian Party presidential candidate Chase "Oliver supports ending American military aid to Israel and Ukraine. He has labeled the Israeli offensive in Gaza as a genocide."
The Libertarians blew an historic chance in 2016, when many were looking for a good third-party candidate. Instead, they nominated Gary Johnson, who had a very non-libertarian attitude to religious freedom.
Ron Paul was probably the high point of respectability for the party. More recently, the party has featured characters like the late John McAfee, billionaire software company founder, conspiracy theorist and fugitive from US tax evasion charges who committed suicide; and "Vermin Supreme" who runs for the Libertarian nomination wearing a boot on his head.
It’s been the only thing they can really agree on. LP politics is a lot of purity policing: “Your position *isn’t libertarian*! If you want to know what *true libertarian policy* is, *just ask me!*” ad infinitum, but yelled back and forth with increasing belligerence.
I like Reason Magazine a lot, but they had a long-standing drug legalization fetish that crowded out everything else.
It’s interesting that most of their writers have the same problem with the Libertarian Party: that it gets bogged down into the purity debates.
I subscribed to Reason for a long time. I do have a few libertarian tendencies to go along with my larger hodgepodge of liberal and conservative ones, but am also a bit more a pragmatist than idealist or, God forbid a *purist*, in that I like living in at least a somewhat reasonably ordered society with a well-regulated milit... wait, I mean a well-regulated economy, at least regarding the *safety* and availability of food and other consumer products such as energy, and reasonable guard rails to protect against cornered and / or collapsing financial markets.
That said, I ultimately cancelled my sub to that rag because after reading so much of it for so long, that particular group of folks ended up coming off to me as basically a bunch of snooty, self-important whiners who never met a single government reg they didn't want to bitch about, or a market they thought wouldn't self-correct if left virtually unregulated. Which of course any and all of them will. Until they eventually self-correct themselves (and some number of us) right out of existence before otherwise warranted.
Also, I'm anything but pro-drug legalization, which conflicts sharply (and as you noted, often) with that particular bunch of L's views. So, I exercised that time-honored Libertarian and 1A principle and told them they pretty much suck and I was no longer in the suck market.
The LP has always been home to the foreign policy of Taft and Ron Paul. People outside America yearning to remain free of tyranny or extermination have never found any help from them.
The bit about the Israeli offensive being genocide is just the cherry on top for the erstwhile campus-based libertarian fans.
I spent part of my online day reading then commenting on a moral analysis of voting for President in this election. Of course we all know here that the race will be decided by Cynthia's non-vote! 🤣
Been kind of twitchy right here of late, it seems. Are we gonna have to send in the guys with the butterfly nets or are you gonna behave yourself for a while?
What a nice Saturday morning read Cynthia. Thanks!
I made my modified Dave's Cornbread with 505 (strained) Hatch chilis. For Ms. Pinki. Election day is our 47th.
But Saturday is the required Pancake Saturday for me and our Dog Gumbi. He's a big help. Butter Quality control. Pancake sharing. I put some berries or today, a spoonful heaping of Le Comte Raspberry and fruits from Costco in to mix. Gumbi approved
Flying Spatulas? Someone leave the kitchen door open again at Area 51?
Speaking of flying and fiction...
More proof, as if we actually need any more proof, of how screwed up some people are and that my personal view that social media is not necessarily a net good for humankind is not necessarily wrong...
Good or not, social media is here to stay. People need a healthier dose of skepticism, so much naïveté out there. I hadn’t heard of the story but if had, I’d certainly call it into question.
A long concealed crime I would confess! (a line from the HMS Pinafore).
I operate an informal "lost and found" in my office for stuff left on the 2nd floor (official lost and found is in the basement). I set things in front of a window that looks out onto a hallway and classroom. After two weeks I trundle it down to the official lost and found.
I found a pair of Beats Solo pro headphones; no ID information in them. They had fully discharged, so I charged them overnight in the office, thinking if anyone did the "find my" routine, they'd see them bleep in my office. I paired them to ensure they worked (they did), then set them in my lost and found. Two weeks later, nothing.
About that time were news stories about a "2nd gentleman" who, while being promoted as a model of good masculinity, had been credibly accused of slapping an ex-girlfriend in the face at a film festival (there's a photo out there of the two of them, although her face is blanked out). And then the creative muse kissed me.
I have some headphones, as well as some airpods. I rename them, so when they are discovered my first name and cell # appear (so if a responsible person finds them, they can call me; if a nogoodnik finds them they have to work a few minutes to conceal their character). The Beats Solo Pro had not been renamed (had there been a phone # I'd have texted them), so I renamed them.
fun fact: if you have your phone's bluetooth set to "discover", the names of various devices will appear when you're in close range? fun fact: many people on campus have that setting enabled on their phones.
As students congregated outside of the two classrooms adjacent to my office, I saw students grin, then they pointed at their phones and laughed, sharing it with friends. The next day I moved them to the main 2nd floor area, where again, students saw the message. A few days later I set them back in my office, but put them in my purse as I walked to a nearby cafeteria.
While in the cafeteria a woman got irate pointed at her phone and loudly exclaimed "that's not true! who is spreading lies about Kamala Harris". She then uttered some obscenities, set down what she planned to order, and stormed out. Her colleague nodded sadly, paid for her food, then left to commiserate with her friend.
I'm halfway tempted to keep renaming them with amusing (well, amusing to me) messages so they'll appear on people's phones.
I know, I really should grow up someday, awww, who am I kidding? 🙄
Which makes me declare I don't believe it's the Tech Bros and Overlords out in Silicon Valley and elsewhere that we need to be worried about as much as it is this guy. I think he only *sounds* harmless.
"I really should grow up someday, awww, who am I kidding?"
That's just Elon Musk without the emoji talking! And he's in a position to influence so many young people to boot, not just overtly but completely clandestinely as well, as he just owned up to here!
I guess I must've missed class that day. But okay, I'll play along. As long as he doesn't run for president or some other high national office. If he does that, the jig's up!
Yeah, I love it. The single all powerful guy working on his own doing everything never made sense to me. There had to be a woman in there holding the mess together.
Here's a question for the general public: Does anyone know anything about international shipping? Our science group wants to send books to a school on the island of Trinidad in the country of Trinidad and Tobago. (One of the moms is of Trinidadian origin, and the school principal contacted her.)
Collecting children's books is no problem for an association of homeschooling families, but we don't know how to go about trying to get them delivered, hopefully at a non-catastrophic cost. Any suggestions will be welcome.
From past vague experience, it goes by weight or volume, whichever there’s more of. Small island nations are going to be relatively high compared to other possible destinations. There just aren’t likely to be that many almost-full containers (less-than-load bulk freight) you can buy space on. OTOH, the merch isn’t perishable or time-sensitive or fragile. Bulk print matter should be about the cheapest category you can find.
Daughter #1’s baby wasn’t that cute as a newborn but he’s made up for it the past 5 months. Adorable fella at 6 months. Daughter #2’s baby was beautiful at birth and remains so. #partialgrammy
Morning! Now it’s bedtime. Been up half the night trying to install Linux on a refurbished desktop PC I got from Walmart online.
The machine was a bargain, delivered to the house for 114 bucks, including the Dell i5 Optiplex with 16GB ram and 1TB storage, a little old Acer monitor, keyboard, mouse, Win 10 Pro. But I’m a total noob with Linux, so figuring that out was… computer challenging… involving the odd tech tantrum.
As usual with computers, everything you do with them is fantastically easy—once you’ve done it a time or two. Before that, you don’t understand jack: you don’t have words for the things you want to ask questions about, and the words you get as explanations are unintelligible.
If you get stuck, I'd be glad to help if I can. I'm a (mostly) retired Linux/Windows/Mac sysadmin/teacher. I only use Linux on my many devices. I always told my students that the only reason I like Windows is because of the huge amount of money I made fixing it. I'd go broke only working on Linux systems ;)
But there can be a learning curve if you aren't from an IT background.
Ubuntu is a great beginner, as well as a solid professional, distro. Too mainstream for my iconoclastic tastes :)
When my students competed in the Air Force Cyberpatriot competitions, Cisco ran the tutorials and the competition on Ubuntu. Ubuntu powers many, perhaps most, of the computers that run the internet.
Not to brag (OK, to really brag) my students won the WV State Cyberpatriot competition every year they competed. Also, not to brag, but my students won the state SkillsUSA competition for 7 years in a row (maybe 8, I stopped counting), before I retired. A school record. Which sort of irked some of the other teachers at our VoTech ;)
I retired a year ago. Fortunately, our VoTech operated as much as we could outside the dysfunction of the K-12 system. Our administration and staff knew how fortunate we were and steadfastly guarded our independence and cohesion as a school. Our focus was the academic, career and life skill acquisition of our students. As just one example, being in a high poverty, low employment, Opioid ravaged area, we had at least one or two homeless students each year. Quietly, as a school we supported these students, as well as many destitute families. Well over 50% of our students came from tragically dysfunctional families. To see them graduate, with many of them going on to amazing careers, sometimes in metropolitan areas, kept us coming back each year.
yes, the incidents seem to be getting more frequent. He's now at the stage that a friend of mine describes as, "You couldn't get him committed but if he was already in, you couldn't get him out."
Thanks and hats off to Cynthia for this post! MarqueG68 had nothing to do with it, the ingrate! [spits on floor]
She takes to posting like a duck takes to water!
OK, I missed that the first time I saw this.
Just Dean, in this forum I show punsters the 🚪
And yet she remains insoluble!🫠🫠🫠
Misfire.
A complete mystery, in fact.
We know better!
AP headline: "Obama’s callout to Black men touches a nerve among Democrats. Is election-year misogyny at play?"
Did it strike anyone else that Obama has decided to talk down to people he used to court? It seems like some of them didn't appreciate it. (Pro tip: He does this a lot.)
As near as I can tell, the condescending preachiness has been his main public-speaking feature as far as his media fan base was concerned. Mainly because they want to preach down to the unwashed conservative or non-lib masses. He’s been their avatar.
Breaking News: headline... IT JUST MAY BE A SLOW NEWS DAY
When the following is what catches one's eye in one's AP Morning Wire news feed, the above may just be possible...
First, I don't know if Jack ever reads any AP news stories, but if he does, he should contact them about their lack of trigger warnings concerning certain subjects. I know whatever the case, he's probably glad he doesn't live in or near this neighborhood...
https://apnews.com/article/anchorage-alaska-wildlife-camera-bears-wolves-f2c176e65bb90c62f3d7f7a0a1edf5e5
Next, for those with a thirst for competition and a willing partner: beer and cash for the winners paid out by the pound!! As Jed C of non-Ohio hillbilly fame once said, "Weeeeeeeeaalllldoggies!!"
I wish I were 10 - no - 20... no, scratch that... 50 years younger!!
https://apnews.com/article/wife-carrying-contest-maine-finland-cee06d37164e1c3dd7f4f9787500085b
And finally, a humanoid specimen of great concern and much disdain, Leon Mullosk, has a new contraption that apparently works a lot better than his Cyber Trucks and other Tesla vehicles, which now list "Safety / Product Recall" on the window stickers as standard equipment and "Dependable Performance" as a top end option with limited availability...
https://apnews.com/article/spacex-starship-rocket-launch-7af865e987bb4a2aad38759e06013626
>Nota Bene, baseball fans<: It's rumored that a bidding war has just broken out in the talent-starved basement of the AL between the Chicago White Sox and the Los Angeles Angels, along with the Miami Marlins and the Colorado Rockies, similarly depth-challenged in the NL, to try to hire this thing as a free agent catcher, since it appears quite adept at handling the high heat coming in at home. But they'll likely offer it a good deal at short stop if it's not interested in crouching behind the plate all the time.
And in a bit more Mollusk news: a fleet of his completely autonomous AI self-driving "cybercabs" is due to hit city streets sometime in 2026. But it's yet to be determined whether they will be branded as an efficient, economical everyday transportation resource for ordinary folks or a death-defying thrill ride suitable for daredevils and sundry other *Look Ma', no hands!!* adrenalin junkies...
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-tesla-robotaxi-unveiling-a00d063f2ffc67125889a6635a0a607e
Remember: You can’t spell “Schmuck” without “Musk”!
And you can't spell Melonhead without Elon!
From Wikipedia: Libertarian Party presidential candidate Chase "Oliver supports ending American military aid to Israel and Ukraine. He has labeled the Israeli offensive in Gaza as a genocide."
I suppose that's no surprise.
I saw that when he was first nominated. It was a disappointment.
I'm trying to figure out what to do. Nothing seems a decent option.
The Libertarians blew an historic chance in 2016, when many were looking for a good third-party candidate. Instead, they nominated Gary Johnson, who had a very non-libertarian attitude to religious freedom.
Ron Paul was probably the high point of respectability for the party. More recently, the party has featured characters like the late John McAfee, billionaire software company founder, conspiracy theorist and fugitive from US tax evasion charges who committed suicide; and "Vermin Supreme" who runs for the Libertarian nomination wearing a boot on his head.
It might help if the number 1 item on their agenda wasn't
"Drugs." I looked up a Libertarian candidate for state house. He looked good, except for that.
I was prepared to overlook drugs on the ground of "not gonna happen," but I won't vote for a terrorist-supporter.
It’s been the only thing they can really agree on. LP politics is a lot of purity policing: “Your position *isn’t libertarian*! If you want to know what *true libertarian policy* is, *just ask me!*” ad infinitum, but yelled back and forth with increasing belligerence.
I like Reason Magazine a lot, but they had a long-standing drug legalization fetish that crowded out everything else.
It’s interesting that most of their writers have the same problem with the Libertarian Party: that it gets bogged down into the purity debates.
I subscribed to Reason for a long time. I do have a few libertarian tendencies to go along with my larger hodgepodge of liberal and conservative ones, but am also a bit more a pragmatist than idealist or, God forbid a *purist*, in that I like living in at least a somewhat reasonably ordered society with a well-regulated milit... wait, I mean a well-regulated economy, at least regarding the *safety* and availability of food and other consumer products such as energy, and reasonable guard rails to protect against cornered and / or collapsing financial markets.
That said, I ultimately cancelled my sub to that rag because after reading so much of it for so long, that particular group of folks ended up coming off to me as basically a bunch of snooty, self-important whiners who never met a single government reg they didn't want to bitch about, or a market they thought wouldn't self-correct if left virtually unregulated. Which of course any and all of them will. Until they eventually self-correct themselves (and some number of us) right out of existence before otherwise warranted.
Also, I'm anything but pro-drug legalization, which conflicts sharply (and as you noted, often) with that particular bunch of L's views. So, I exercised that time-honored Libertarian and 1A principle and told them they pretty much suck and I was no longer in the suck market.
I voted for Vermin Supreme in the Libertarian primary in 2020.
Nooo!! Say it isn't so, Cynthia!
I want a pony. Would you prefer it if I had voted for Donald Trump in the Republican primary?
My daughter has mentioned him a few times. She wants a pony, too.
On second thought, Vermin Supreme looks pretty good! 😂
The LP has always been home to the foreign policy of Taft and Ron Paul. People outside America yearning to remain free of tyranny or extermination have never found any help from them.
The bit about the Israeli offensive being genocide is just the cherry on top for the erstwhile campus-based libertarian fans.
Good evening. Thanks for the TSAF, Cynthia!
I spent part of my online day reading then commenting on a moral analysis of voting for President in this election. Of course we all know here that the race will be decided by Cynthia's non-vote! 🤣
Good morning, Phil. You nailed it! I'll be like the butterfly twitching its wing that results in a hurricane on the other side of the Atlantic.
Been kind of twitchy right here of late, it seems. Are we gonna have to send in the guys with the butterfly nets or are you gonna behave yourself for a while?
Again, good morning, Cynthia.
Google says the twitching is causing by stress.
Can you hold a bottle and glass steady enough to fill it with some *alcohol-laden* wine? Might help.
You just put the glass on the counter.
Morning! We hope there’s still time for you to switch to decaf.
Never. Next, you'll be saying you want me to drink alcohol-free wine!
The church festival was a success. Whether all the onions were used, I don't know.
I’m sure they will be. Can’t waste good allium root.
Someone will take home anything left. There are plenty of families who can use extra food.
What a nice Saturday morning read Cynthia. Thanks!
I made my modified Dave's Cornbread with 505 (strained) Hatch chilis. For Ms. Pinki. Election day is our 47th.
But Saturday is the required Pancake Saturday for me and our Dog Gumbi. He's a big help. Butter Quality control. Pancake sharing. I put some berries or today, a spoonful heaping of Le Comte Raspberry and fruits from Costco in to mix. Gumbi approved
I just baked a carrot cake. Not from scratch, from a mix.
I love carrot cake. Alas, Ms. Pinki does not. :(.
Is it a mallard? Females are quite similar but smaller.
Mallards are in the Anas genus with the green-winged, not blue-winged, teal. In all of them, though, the color patch on the "speculum" is similar.
Flying Spatulas? Someone leave the kitchen door open again at Area 51?
Speaking of flying and fiction...
More proof, as if we actually need any more proof, of how screwed up some people are and that my personal view that social media is not necessarily a net good for humankind is not necessarily wrong...
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-helicopter-north-carolina-helene-d44fb04825337e8a7ca69e9f616621f7
Good or not, social media is here to stay. People need a healthier dose of skepticism, so much naïveté out there. I hadn’t heard of the story but if had, I’d certainly call it into question.
I think both spatulas and tacos will be flying today at CW's church festival!
Just for fun, back in the day when the NM National Guard flew jets, they were nicknamed the Flying Tacos.
A long concealed crime I would confess! (a line from the HMS Pinafore).
I operate an informal "lost and found" in my office for stuff left on the 2nd floor (official lost and found is in the basement). I set things in front of a window that looks out onto a hallway and classroom. After two weeks I trundle it down to the official lost and found.
I found a pair of Beats Solo pro headphones; no ID information in them. They had fully discharged, so I charged them overnight in the office, thinking if anyone did the "find my" routine, they'd see them bleep in my office. I paired them to ensure they worked (they did), then set them in my lost and found. Two weeks later, nothing.
About that time were news stories about a "2nd gentleman" who, while being promoted as a model of good masculinity, had been credibly accused of slapping an ex-girlfriend in the face at a film festival (there's a photo out there of the two of them, although her face is blanked out). And then the creative muse kissed me.
I have some headphones, as well as some airpods. I rename them, so when they are discovered my first name and cell # appear (so if a responsible person finds them, they can call me; if a nogoodnik finds them they have to work a few minutes to conceal their character). The Beats Solo Pro had not been renamed (had there been a phone # I'd have texted them), so I renamed them.
"𝐃𝐨𝐮𝐠 𝐄𝐦𝐡𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐬 (𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬), 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐨, 𝐏𝐫𝐨!"
fun fact: if you have your phone's bluetooth set to "discover", the names of various devices will appear when you're in close range? fun fact: many people on campus have that setting enabled on their phones.
As students congregated outside of the two classrooms adjacent to my office, I saw students grin, then they pointed at their phones and laughed, sharing it with friends. The next day I moved them to the main 2nd floor area, where again, students saw the message. A few days later I set them back in my office, but put them in my purse as I walked to a nearby cafeteria.
While in the cafeteria a woman got irate pointed at her phone and loudly exclaimed "that's not true! who is spreading lies about Kamala Harris". She then uttered some obscenities, set down what she planned to order, and stormed out. Her colleague nodded sadly, paid for her food, then left to commiserate with her friend.
I'm halfway tempted to keep renaming them with amusing (well, amusing to me) messages so they'll appear on people's phones.
I know, I really should grow up someday, awww, who am I kidding? 🙄
That's amazingly techie, Jay.
Which makes me declare I don't believe it's the Tech Bros and Overlords out in Silicon Valley and elsewhere that we need to be worried about as much as it is this guy. I think he only *sounds* harmless.
"I really should grow up someday, awww, who am I kidding?"
That's just Elon Musk without the emoji talking! And he's in a position to influence so many young people to boot, not just overtly but completely clandestinely as well, as he just owned up to here!
Be afraid. Be very afraid. 😮😲😱
We already agreed that Jay is the villain. We're just supposed to pretend we're fooled for now.
I guess I must've missed class that day. But okay, I'll play along. As long as he doesn't run for president or some other high national office. If he does that, the jig's up!
Mrs. God
by Connie Wanek
Someone had to do the dirty work,
spading the garden, moving mountains,
keeping the darkness out of the light,
and she took every imperfection personally.
Mr. Big Ideas, sure,
but someone had to run the numbers.
Then talk about babies: he never imagined
so many.
That was part of his charm, of course,
his frank amazement at consequences.
The pretty songs he gave the finches:
those spoke to his
innocence, his ability to regard
every moment as fresh. “Let’s give them
free will and see what happens.”
he said, ever the optimist.
That's insightful. I'll share it with my Bible group.
Yeah, I love it. The single all powerful guy working on his own doing everything never made sense to me. There had to be a woman in there holding the mess together.
Or telling the single all-powerful guy to clean up his.
Here's a question for the general public: Does anyone know anything about international shipping? Our science group wants to send books to a school on the island of Trinidad in the country of Trinidad and Tobago. (One of the moms is of Trinidadian origin, and the school principal contacted her.)
Collecting children's books is no problem for an association of homeschooling families, but we don't know how to go about trying to get them delivered, hopefully at a non-catastrophic cost. Any suggestions will be welcome.
All the carriers, USPS, FedEx, UPS, and DHL ship there. Some tips
Customs Declaration: Complete a customs declaration form detailing the contents, value, and purpose of the shipment.
Invoice: Provide a commercial invoice or pro forma invoice if it's a non-commercial shipment.
Duties and Taxes: Be prepared to pay any applicable duties and taxes upon arrival in Trinidad and Tobago.
Educational Material: School books may qualify for duty-free importation under certain conditions, so check with the local customs authority.
Thank you. That's helpful.
Easy to mail by just going to your local post office but will be spendy. Maybe there’s a book rate?
This might give you some ideas.
https://www.ala.org/aboutala/offices/iro/iroactivities/intlbookdonations#:~:text=If%20you%20are%20interested%20in%20donating%20books%20to
Thanks.
From past vague experience, it goes by weight or volume, whichever there’s more of. Small island nations are going to be relatively high compared to other possible destinations. There just aren’t likely to be that many almost-full containers (less-than-load bulk freight) you can buy space on. OTOH, the merch isn’t perishable or time-sensitive or fragile. Bulk print matter should be about the cheapest category you can find.
The cost is going to be high no matter how the package is sent. I use DHL for international shipping.
Is there anything cuter than a gaggle of little ducklings? I don't think so.
Not to deny ducklings' cuteness, but to my mind, a basket of 6-week-old kittens has the edge.
Human baby.
Son A once asked me, "Why are our babies cuter than everyone else's babies?"
"Because they look like you!"
We're programmed to feel more strongly about humans who share our genes.
Guess that explains that whole Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants thing.
Daughter #1’s baby wasn’t that cute as a newborn but he’s made up for it the past 5 months. Adorable fella at 6 months. Daughter #2’s baby was beautiful at birth and remains so. #partialgrammy
Arctic fox kits.
AZ G&F is actively looking for a Red Fox that a bit a lady. About 30 miles west of us.
Arctic foxes come in kits? Are they hard to assemble? Need many tools?
Morning, Cynthia.
The directions are insanely complicated.
Probably doesn't help that they're written in Inuit.
So, making an arctic fox requires one to be Inuitive?
I came for the ducks and stayed for the yucks!
Morning! Now it’s bedtime. Been up half the night trying to install Linux on a refurbished desktop PC I got from Walmart online.
The machine was a bargain, delivered to the house for 114 bucks, including the Dell i5 Optiplex with 16GB ram and 1TB storage, a little old Acer monitor, keyboard, mouse, Win 10 Pro. But I’m a total noob with Linux, so figuring that out was… computer challenging… involving the odd tech tantrum.
As usual with computers, everything you do with them is fantastically easy—once you’ve done it a time or two. Before that, you don’t understand jack: you don’t have words for the things you want to ask questions about, and the words you get as explanations are unintelligible.
Yes, I do really need that nap!
May I ask a silly question, why would you want to do this? Did you need a challenge?
Was looking for small-talk conversation starters for an AI.
Not silly at all. We’ve been fearing this day would come.
Oh geez, Linux. I’m too afraid to touch that, yet.
It’s good protection against bears.
In that case, I might install it whenever I built that gaming PC I keep talking about.
Will bears be fair game on that?
Only on Minecraft.
🙄
If you get stuck, I'd be glad to help if I can. I'm a (mostly) retired Linux/Windows/Mac sysadmin/teacher. I only use Linux on my many devices. I always told my students that the only reason I like Windows is because of the huge amount of money I made fixing it. I'd go broke only working on Linux systems ;)
But there can be a learning curve if you aren't from an IT background.
Gee, thanks! I got the box so I could work my way through “The Linux Command Line” by Schotts.
I can already tell Linux is a lot lighter. The Window initial start was longer—and I haven’t been a Win denizen in at least 20 years, either.
Once I got the right load-to-flash-drive app, rebooting from the thumb drive and installing this version (Ubuntu 24.4) wasn’t all that bad.
Ubuntu is a great beginner, as well as a solid professional, distro. Too mainstream for my iconoclastic tastes :)
When my students competed in the Air Force Cyberpatriot competitions, Cisco ran the tutorials and the competition on Ubuntu. Ubuntu powers many, perhaps most, of the computers that run the internet.
Not to brag (OK, to really brag) my students won the WV State Cyberpatriot competition every year they competed. Also, not to brag, but my students won the state SkillsUSA competition for 7 years in a row (maybe 8, I stopped counting), before I retired. A school record. Which sort of irked some of the other teachers at our VoTech ;)
Hah! When did you retire?
That must have been a slap in the face to the state’s higher ed loci, too. 😂
I retired a year ago. Fortunately, our VoTech operated as much as we could outside the dysfunction of the K-12 system. Our administration and staff knew how fortunate we were and steadfastly guarded our independence and cohesion as a school. Our focus was the academic, career and life skill acquisition of our students. As just one example, being in a high poverty, low employment, Opioid ravaged area, we had at least one or two homeless students each year. Quietly, as a school we supported these students, as well as many destitute families. Well over 50% of our students came from tragically dysfunctional families. To see them graduate, with many of them going on to amazing careers, sometimes in metropolitan areas, kept us coming back each year.
Another West Virginian !! I'm Wood County, class of 72. Left for college.
So cool you manage, I presume, a HS extracurricular activity. We had great ones, albeit 53 years ago!
Incognito/Marquis is also hiding in WV in an undisclosed "mine" :))
Y’all realize that we are all right here….
(not for long, at his rate)
yes, the incidents seem to be getting more frequent. He's now at the stage that a friend of mine describes as, "You couldn't get him committed but if he was already in, you couldn't get him out."
*looks left and right*
Who said that?
No one. Go back to sleep.
Good morning. Best wishes for some sleep. We'll be off to the church festival in a little while. The weather is perfect.
Is this where the onions come into play?
Supposed to be a lovely fall day here, too. Frosty start, though, on the rooftops.
Yes, that's the point of the onions. They will go into the tacos.
That's a lot of onions and a lot of tacos, I'm thinking!
It's going to be thousands of tacos.
Tacos for the range-weary archers, no doubt.
Different event. I'm wearing my music director hat today.
Is this a taco fundraiser for the choir?
Do you have a custom milliner?