Your Mother Sucks YooHoo with a Straw

Bought an HP printer lately? They would like you to approve sending data to them about your device and what you print. And join their Ink Club. Haven't seen this on linux after I bought my new printer. Windows beware.



Our best wishes for the people of Dallas, who just got hit with a tornado.
Remember: for every massive, dangerous event, there will be hundreds who walk into it to take video.



Dear lefty

• Why do people behave so poorly while driving or online?
• Because if you put a windshield or keyboard in front of people, you get Instant Asshole<tm>.

No thank you, I'd rather  wear a MAGA hat to an antifa riot

• In China, knives are registered to a person's ID and must be kept tied down.
• The UK is jealous.
• There are surveillance cameras everywhere.
• The US is jealous.
• Children are looked out for when parents are sent to re-education camps.
• Bill De Blasio is jealous.

• I'm sure it's physics, but I'm not too good with physics. When I pick up one of those tumblers that keep coffee warm and push the button, it goes POP, and sprays coffee in my face. Now I know how Mrs lefty feels.

Today I identify as my wife's bra - I hold them up all day

• True to its idiotic functions, the Senate passed a ransomware law. It will 'protect' Chuck Schumer's district schools from ransomware.
• Schumer is also working on a law to protect schools from bad weather and cancer.

Come for the disaster, stay for the finger-pointing

Councilman "mind-boggled" by Baltimore City IT department ineptitude.

This is irony in its highest form: a councilman being mind-boggled, and referring to a department as inept.

Not that he doesn't have something of a point.... IT audit information was kept on individual computers, not on servers, and not backed up. That's certainly inept. I think the entire process should be audited, from acquisition to education, to actual use. I have a hunch there will be 'irregularities' found at each step.

Meanwhile, the taxpayers are on the hook for $18 million (so far). Because you KNOW no one else is going to pay... the taxpayers will soon be mind-boggled too.




Heroes of the Stupid

A five year autistic old boy has been put on record as a sex offender after hugging a classmate.

Tesla's autopilot has been found partially responsible for a crash on an L.A. freeway. Out of a long ride, the 'driver' had his hands on the wheel for 51 seconds, none of which were close to the crash, when he was looking down at something. The manual repeatedly states not to do this. He had a copy of the manual, but never read it.  Once again, the technology is not ready for prime time.



SJW Ravings

Mattel's newest dolls can be boys, girls, neither, or both.

• Quantum doll: identifies as both, but only when you observe it
• Republican doll: refers to abortion as murder, blames democrat doll, raises taxes and debt
• Democrat doll: criminalizes speech, blames republican doll, raises taxes and debt
• Libertarian doll: leaves the other dolls alone, why are you asking?
• Car Mechanic doll: looks roughly the same, regardless of gender
• Common features: believe they can be anything! (by claiming they are)
• Hollywood doll: identifies as neither gender, identifies as important, blames republican doll

Seattle Public Schools have a K-12 Math Ethnic Studies Framework.
You read that right.
Allow me to give you highlights:

Power and oppression, as defined by ethnic studies, are the ways in which individuals and groups define mathematical knowledge so as to see “Western” mathematics as the only legitimate expression of mathematical identity and intelligence. This definition of legitimacy is then used to disenfranchise people and communities of color. This erases the historical contributions of people and communities of color.

Students will be confident in their ability to construct & decode mathematical knowledge, truth, and beauty so they can contribute to their experiences and the experiences of people in their community 

Mathematical theory and application is rooted in the ancient histories of people and empires of color

​Where does power and oppression show up in our math experiences?

How has math been used to resist and liberate people and communities of color from oppression?

Gravity is culturally oppressive, By accepting the white definition of gravity as 'a law,' it oppresses people of color and people who see gravity as more of a suggestion.   [I made this up]

This can't be real. If it is, I'm even more glad I don't have kids.


New York City attacks the First Amendment with a $250,000 fine for saying "Illegal Alien." This is patently unconstitutional and will fall with the first lawsuit.




This is a 1979 left handed Fender antigua Stratocaster.
Underneath is my well-played 1977, which is my favorite.
I want this guitar very badly.
The guitar store wants $4,000 plus shipping (from Japan). The guitar is worth maybe half that. This is the major problem with being left handed.
I am sad.

1979 lefty Fender antigua Stratocaster

my 1977 lefty Fender antigua Stratocaster