Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Cheese Locker

 Your love is like  slamming a stapler on a finger


I love me a weird band name. The last band had no sense of humor and rejected 154 of my suggestions. My absolute favorite was Male Pattern Baldness. Rejected out of hand. Probably because most of them suffered from it. Still....

The other day one of the wives asked me for something. I didn't hear her right - I heard 'cheese locker.' I immediately thought it was a great band name.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN... PLEASE WELCOME...  CHEESE LOCKER!


Today in Olympic News:  the blue team lost to the red team


  • I spent some quality time with our Microsoft Teams expert at work.
  • As promised, she answered all my questions, usually with "You can't do that."
  • We agreed it's full of major annoyances and not worth the servers needed to run it.



Today I identify as  chocolate pudding   

(eat me)



I have a new theory.   (uh-oh)

I've been a bit snippy lately.

You're asking yourself how this is different.

Ok, a bit more snippy than usual.

Thank you.

I spent some Quality Time<tm> working on this, so you need to spend some quality time reading.

Oh.

At first I thought it was work. I rejected this out of hand because I like my job and it can be done by trained monkeys. So work's out.

Then I asked myself when am I least miserable. The answer was when I am on the couch, at rest.

BINGO: I came up with the answer - it's motion. Motion causes depression and agita. I'm fine when I'm sitting there, but not fine when I have to move. So if we remove annoying things like MOWING from my life, the quality of life cannot help but get better. "Just don't ask me to do anything" may not go over well with the wife, but we're early in the discovery process.

When I finally have it down, I need to publish it in a peer-reviewed journal, then figure out how to make billions off it.

You can rest assured there will be organized pushback, from wives' groups and mower manufacturers and anybody else with a vested interest in the status quo. We must be prepared to fight the opposition (from our couches). 

I want you to know that when I'm a billionaire, I will continue with the blog, continue working, and develop a charitable organization, partially dedicated to removing Bill Gates and his ideas from public view. Maybe animal charities. And lefty's home for wayward women. I can do so much good from my own couch.


  • Happy 30th birthday, linux

Are you a T-Mobile customer? Worried about your data being exposed in the breach?
How to protect yourself.

  • The All-Seeing "i": Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy - by Edward Snowden

Flying AIDS News  

U.S. plans COVID-19 booster shots at six months instead of eight - WSJ

Japan suspends 1.6 million Moderna doses over contamination fears

Coronavirus origins: US intelligence report 'inconclusive'

What to know about the US COVID booster plan—and why WHO hates it

Only 2 people in an elevator? Now they're just making this stuff up.


  • Nirvana sued by the baby from Nevermind's album cover
  • what a load of excrement. Child exploitation? It was a picture of a baby.  Somebody's looking for a payday.

Waymo starts offering autonomous rides in San Francisco
Shuts down after being branded racist within 2 hours 



Google and Microsoft promise billions to help bolster US cybersecurity
because we don't pay enough taxes to the Military Industrial Complex
and they have done such a great job securing your data...


Last night I rode in the new, repaired car.
It performed as expected.
Nobody sprung from nowhere, aiming their car at it.
Nobody stopped short in front of me.
There were no pedestrians to cause me to suddenly accelerate.
Ever have a butter cake? They're really good, especially microwaved til the butter frosting melts.


Samsung can remotely disable their TVs using TV Block.
It's an interesting world when a phone and tv manufacturer can remotely turn off its products.
This is also true with of android and iOS.
Considering Samsung is the major manufacturer of android phones, it's pretty disconcerting. Samsung is also a major privacy violator, especially with their TVs. They were judged to be the worst, from the initial agreement forward.



  • Elon Musk tweeted that he turned on the latest full self-driving beta and says it's "actually not great"
  • We haven't been able to make it crash into trees or spontaneously combust. We hope to do better in the next beta.
In other Tesla news, Elon is working on a new slogan. Tesla: remember, we track your car every time you go to the gentleman's club.



Joe Biden said that, when pulling out of Afghanistan, chaos was inevitable, and you should blame Trump.

I was talking to the president the other day and we were both laughing over America's 20 years in Afghanistan. Now people are upset. He said those Afghans were really sleek-looking dogs and he might adopt one after his vicious German Sheperd died. He said there was a lot less trouble with foreign enemies at the White House since he adopted Major.



I have the gift of being able to say the wrong thing to the wrong person at the wrong time, all unintentionally. Last night I was eclipsed.

My friend was about to get in his car and related something his racist brother used to say.
The punchline was "A dead nig*." As he got to the punchline, I'm trying to shush him. It wasn't working, and we were right in front of a house with black neighbors. So as this comes out of his mouth, I'm ready to crawl under his car. I hope my neighbors are still speaking to us. Or to her, nobody talks to me.

Don't ask me what the joke was. 


The NYPD got into a 12 hour standoff with a graffiti 'artist.' They used drones to eventually persuade the artist to come down.

Next week the NYPD is taking training exercises in how to deal with standoffs with petty thieves, jay walkers, and people using umbrellas in the sun. A spokesperson said that they will not stop shooting people who don't use their turn signals. It also helps with traffic congestion. All of these criminals will be apprehended with drones and intercontinental ballistic missiles.

In other news, police dressed like FedEx drivers are arresting people for drugs. 
Failed experiments involved the police dressing like morticians, werewolves, and Superman to arrest people.


T-Mobile Translation Time

T-Mobile's CEO says he's 'truly sorry' for 50 million users' data hacked.

I am truly sorry I got caught.

the company spends lots of effort to try to stay ahead of criminal hackers

We now have to spend lots of effort in not getting caught 

Knowing that we failed to prevent this exposure is one of the hardest parts of this event.

We are red-faced at getting caught 

We will do what's necessary

to not get caught again 

the company has notified “just about every” current customer who was affected

the company has notified "just about every" current customer that we got caught. By newspaper ad.



  • New Zealand police break up one-person anti-lockdown protest in Auckland
  • it was a tense, 13 hour standoff, with input from the NYPD 



The officer who shot and killed an unarmed protester during the Captiol riot says 'I saved countless lives'

The unarmed protester would have obviously gone on to kill 37 people (and Nancy Pelosi), possibly with her breath. Or her deathly stare.


  • A man is dead after he was beaten with a rock in North Philadelphia
  • ROCK CONTROL! 

The planet of California is considering paying drug addicts to stay sober.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has asked the federal government for permission to use tax dollars to pay for it through Medicaid
also wants to pay people with hangnails, stuffed noses, and and paper cuts 


A Georgia teacher zip-tied a child in class. She has been reassigned to a job without students.
Where she zip-tied her coworkers to chairs.
When asked why, she said, "Oh c'mon, it's fun! How many of you haven't thought of it?" 









Saturday, August 28, 2021

Make Fudge, Not War

 Your love is like   chewing cactus


In guitar news, I put together a bunch of pedals, got them powered up, and made noises through them. This is in the living room - my real pedalboard is in the guitar room. I hope to eventually take over the living room, but the weed wackers, dog toys, and the display of 1970s muscle cars will make it very difficult.

Today in Olympic News:  some country beat some other country in something, maybe chess


  • GM recalls every Chevy Bolt ever made, blames LG for faulty batteries
  • jealous that only Teslas spontaneously combust

In Soccer Football news, a rock concert broke out at the Nice v Marseille game, when a 'fan' threw a bottle onto the pitch and struck Dimitri Payet. Payet sent the bottle back, prompting the fans to storm the pitch. There were no encores.


Today I identify as  Albert Einstein's brain (post slivering and study)


  • This is killing me. Mrs. lefty is watching Cleopatra.
  • I kept getting yelled at for saying "We-weese Wodger" and "Biggus Dickus".

What I learned:

  • they had an Octavia, like Jimi Hendrix
  • the movie is like 9 hours long
  • Caesar had a homie called Brutay
  • Elizabeth Taylor had mondo mammalian protuberances, which were on partial display
  • I am a cultural Philistine  (that's not exactly new)

Hey, you know the brouhaha over Apple scanning your photos for child abuse images?
Apple already scans your mail, and has done so since 2019
Inexcusable. Let Apple know how you feel. And get rid of it.
Get yourself a free, encrypted email account at protonmail


  • So you work at Evin, an Iranian prison, and you discover, with panic, that your system has been hacked....
  • So videos of torturing the inmates has been released... what do you do?
  • if you are Mohammad Mehdi Hajmohammadi, the head of Iran's prison system, you take responsibility. And deny that any of that happened. Obviously the guard repeatedly fell on the inmate's face. With a baton. Or maybe his fists. The inmate repeatedly banged his head on the cell bars. Iran would never Guantanamo their own dogs people.


38 million records exposed online—including contact-tracing info
Misconfigured Power Apps from Microsoft led to exposure.
Yay!


  • A police drone struck and damaged a Cessna aircraft at Toronto Buttonville Municipal Airport earlier this month.
  • this is what happens when you can't own guns and your PM wears a dress and it takes almost a month to report an incident



Keith Moon: The Final 24
I love this guy. He's a 5 year old with drums and drugs. No telling what he would get up to. Naturally he was deeply unhappy.

Speaking of ZZ Top, I've thought about it and I'm not happy with the band going forward, as named, with a different bassist. I felt the same way when ACDC went on without Brian Johnson, in the middle of a tour. They have precious few original members left, largely Angus Young.



Love Means Never Having to Say Anything Nice

Her: Uhhh...  can I tell you something?
Me: Why not?
Her: You look like shit. I don't mean that in a nasty way. You are gray.
Me: Um,,,... ok.. thank you?


Be careful what you ask

I have a Keith Moon documentary on the last 24 hours of his like
Do you mean we have to watch him die? 
I'll just watch it myself, thanks.

Kamala Harris, culturally positive Vice President, was set to go to Vietnam, but the flight got held back, in what is said to be Havana Syndrome (but announced as an 'anomalous health incident). This is where people working in the US Embassy in Cuba started developing symptoms including headaches and nausea. Two Hanoi workers were medevacked out of the country. The vice president is not affected, preferring to be the one who causes headaches and nausea.


  • Two people on an Alaska Air jet were taken to the hospital after a cellphone sparked and caught fire. One person owned the phone, the other worked for Tesla, who wanted the explosive cellphone technology for their explosive cars.


An Oregon hospital has a plate-smashing booth for overstressed employees.

How about a boss-smashing booth?  


  • Her: You probably want what all men want - a threesome
  • Him: are you kidding me? I have enough trouble keeping track of two breasts, no less two women


Windows and I have a reciprocal thing going: I hate it, it hates me.

I thought we could acquire and maintain a peaceful working relationship, but sometimes I find myself a little too positive, or maybe hopeful beyond hope (no, really, me). Sometimes I need to be reminded I ask a lot out of an operating system (to work). 

So I do what every Windows user does: try turning it off and back on again. Even this has become an exercise in futility. I try to allow 15 minutes for a 1 minute work logon. Lately I find this is too pessimistic. Logon...error. Reboot...wait 5 minutes... error. Shut all the way down, turn on.. nothing. It would be much easier to just keep the machine over in a corner to pretend I use it, then use my personal (linux) machine to do my work. I wonder if it works any better if I move it closer to my personal machine.

A statistic we really don't want to see is how many Windows-related suicides (and homicides) there are. There should be a warning on the main screen: WARNING - do not use Windows if you have any type of depression. Death (or worse) may occur. Also applies to bad temper or a bad day in general. Windows can make a mildly bad day worse. Not recommended in pregnant women, non-pregnant women, or women in general. Do not use Windows while driving, eating, walking, or using your computer. Using Windows on the phone is not recommended because it may transfer the aggravation to the other person on the phone. Do not use Windows near your pets, because you love them, right? Windows may cause erectile dysfunction in men, women, and vacuum cleaners. Do not use Windows if you are pregnant, know someone who is pregnant, are thinking about becoming pregnant, or just like sex. 

Windows: it's not an operating system - it's a virus


GOOD NEWS 

OnlyFans has retracted its upcoming ban on nudity.

I'm not a subscriber, but I'm for freedom in every circumstance. Plus this will allow people to continue earning a living in this time of the Flying AIDS. Remember: no one is forcing anybody to pay to view the videos.

Speaking of the Flying AIDS....



Gen. James Dickinson, commander of U.S. Space Command, said that the warfighting force he leads has reached Initial Operational Capability and will need to double the size of its headquarters staff to achieve full operational capability. It also needs a permanent headquarters. Space News reports

If I read this correctly, a branch of the military wants more money. 

Who saw that coming?








Wednesday, August 25, 2021

The Elephant in the Room is my Emotional Support Elephant

 Your love is like  painful hangnails


RIP Charlie Watts (80) Rolling Stones drummer. He had to drop out of this year's tour, on medical advice. He had recently rescued a greyhound.


Today in Olympic News: the Mexican Skiing Team was disqualified when they couldn't correctly  identify snow


  • Today the FDA ruled that Chicago style pizza cannot be called pizza and must be referred to as Chicago Style or Chicago Style pizza-like substance


Today I identify as  escargot


  • Facebook reveals most-seen posts are inane questions, not politics
  • who saw that one coming?

Success Story

Afghanistan's Opium Business Boomed Under U.S. Occupation
Responsible for 82% of the world's opium supply


Amazon, out of the news for 48 hours, announced it will be opening department stores.
  • cashiers have to pee in bottles
  • Intravenous feeding tubes eliminate need for lunch breaks
  • restockers are monitored per-item and don't get paid to talk to customers
  • many items still come from China and customers must wait in the store 4 weeks to get them
  • customers advised that checkout is quicker with the Amazon Chip in their foreheads
  • UPS will not carry your purchases to your car


Famous naked picture and video site Onlyfans is now banning sexually explicit content because banks and payment services demand it. This is a site that allows people to make money by performing acts that people pay to watch. Not anymore, apparently. Visa/MC and banks have been tightening up on what they'll allow, as we saw recently with Pr0nhub. Nudity will be allowed, but there has been  no word on how far things can go.

Looks like Onlyfans is trying to flush itself down the loo. Adult content is what made Onlyfans.

Star feels betrayed

Also interesting is how many sites are affected by the payment/banking industry and why.
It's very sad to note that the government jumped in and stopped people from earning money during the Great Flying AIDS Business Shutdown. Now that some have turned online, that avenue is being shut down too. Why is this? As we know, the banks and credit cards' prohibition is arbitrary and not new. Also participating in the downfall are religious groups, who want pr0n off the internet. 

KEEP YOUR RELIGION OFF MY PRoN. And everything else.


  • sit back and enjoy tonight's movie "A Funny Thing Happened to me on the Way to the Gangbang"


AT&T denies data breach after hacker auctions 70 million user database

Sir, I think we've been hacked!
Nope.
No, really, we've been hacked.
Nope.
Sir, our IT department tells is there is a 70 million users database for sale.
No there isn't.
It's right here on the Dark Web.
I don't see it.
Look again.
Nope.
What do we tell the press? Sir, would you please take those dark glasses off?
Nothing happened.
The FCC is going to crucify us.
No they're not.
We could blame a contractor for not putting a password on a container.
Never happened.
The public is going to eat us alive.
Jenkins, we're AT& friggin T - would we ever lie to customers?


  • Report: Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine may get full FDA approval Monday
  • yes, that's right, it's had an emergency authorization
  • so the billions of you who got a vaccine should know it's now approved



Man, it's great to have our car back.
And when I say have our car back, I mean I haven't actually been allowed to drive it and it's out of town, with the dog. Wife and Dog took off, visiting. Which means I'm at home, not visiting. Mind you, not visiting is its own reward. The problem is I'm starting to get bored AND I miss my dog. Since no babysitter was obtained, it might be time for Hijinks. Now would be the perfect time to get those nasty neighbors back for shoveling their private drive snow onto my car. They'd never see it coming. I'll probably use something other than snow. Or that 240v electrical prank.

Wife gets excited about going visiting, and starts 'getting ready' a few days in advance. Her process of getting ready is unlike anyone else's so it's naturally fair game for the blog. She starts with lists - several of them. Then decides what she's going to buy for the relatives. Then buys it, but shifts the date of her visit, having the expected effect on the bought items. On the Day of the Leaving, it gets a little loud. I ask why. It's because she doesn't know what she's taking. I suggest looking on one of the three lists she prepared. She can't find them. So she randomly starts putting stuff into bags and a few hangers. As I help carry the stuff to the car, I wonder aloud why she needs enough clothes for a month if it's a weekend stay. You're not gonna believe this, but she gets MAD at me when I ask. We purposely buy large cars and by the time the car is packed, there's no room for the dog.

Then there's Leaving. Leaving is also a drawn out process. Whenever she goes somewhere, she returns in five minutes because she forgot something. On larger trips she returns again for a pocketbook or phone. The third time was for a 5lb (2km UK) bag of peanuts. I didn't see the bag come in, which makes me wonder what else is hiding about the place.

Honey, can you get me the tiger?
Uh, the tiger?
Yes THE TIGER (as if it's the most natural thing on Earth)
Where would this tiger be located?
Behind the couch.

Dear, why is there an outdoor patio set in the bathroom?
Oh, that's a birthday present for Aunt Barbara.
We sure are getting generous.

Why is there a terrarium in the kitchen?
We're watching it for the niece.
Couldn't we watch it at her place?
The fish like to be near people.

The dog really likes to go. Anywhere, apparently.
She watched the packing, knowing Mommy was leaving.
When I picked up her leash, she went batshit.
I swear she hovered above the floor for a bit, then ran to the door and back, then made screaming dog noises, then tried to sit so I could put on the leash, then screamed and ran some more. We have to allow five minutes to put her leash on. I'm starting to wish I could get that excited about anything. My leash is in the bedroom, but that's a different matter entirely.




Flying AIDS Updates  

Those Anti-Covid Plastic Barriers Probably Don’t Help and May Make Things Worse

US COVID-19 data has never been good enough

Most face masks won’t stop COVID-19 indoors, study warns



Speaking of women earning money taking their clothes off, the woman interviewed above, Star, had a few safe pictures in the story. She is one of the top percentage of earners on Onlyfans, which is a significant amount of money (and good for her). Sometimes I think I'm in the tiny percentage in preferences. This woman looks large to me. Not fat at all. Just large. The posterior must be outta site. That seems to be a thing these days: a huge bum. And huge silicone boobs.

But that ain't me. I don't like tattoos, butt implants, or bolt-on boobs. We have managed to avoid them in our house. Marshall the cocker wanted buttocks, but we kept that on the back burner.

Butt implants. Seriously? I only recently heard of these things, when a local lady got arrested for doing implants with concrete. I'm thinking heavy cottage cheese. We've gone from 'is my ass too fat' to 'do I have enough booty?'

And who was the first person to come up with Butt Implants?
"All these women feel inferior because their boobs aren't big enough. So I give them breast implants. Now women are complaining their butts aren't huge and round enough. Hey, I know.. I'll invent Butt Implants!"

God: Man, the humans are at it again.
Moses: What is it this time - polluting the air, cutting down the forests, or anal?
God: Butt implants.
Moses: BUTT implants?
God: Yes. Why do people repeat everything I say as a question?
Moses: Oh, sorry, I'm starting to sound like a human.
God: First it was breast implants. They are perverting human nature.
Moses: Oh, that's not good. How?
God: They are wired to reproduce. The cheerleaders will go for the football players because they're large and can provide for the family. The cavemen didn't know this, but that's how it works. By the same token, men are entranced by boobies because they produce milk for his babies. But larger fake boobies do not provide any extra milk.
Moses: I get it.
God: You're slow, but nice. Now it's butt implants. Men look for child-bearing hips in women, not butts the size of a Chevrolet. The whole thing is messed up. Mother Nature's out back, getting rid of her breakfast into the bird fountain. The birds like it, but that's not the point. Everything's gone higgledy piggledy.
Moses: Is this why world reproduction rates are going down?
God: Yes. Well, that and RuPaul.
Moses: Ummm... God?
God: Yes, my son?
Moses: just between us, Mother Nature's weather has gone.... a bit bipolar.
God: Yeah, it's been that way since her vagina implants. Her lips look like they're talking to you.




I recently discovered I was neurotypical.
No, I didn't have to go to the doctor or take tests. I found out the new way: Twitter. 
I follow a person who's 'on the spectrum'. She refers to everyone else as neurotypical. 
Ok, I get it. But there's something funny about it to me. 
It's like I'm being assigned a diagnosis. Moreso, a diagnosis for things running as they're supposed to.
My gay buddies call me a Breeder.
I call everyone who's right handed 'backwards,' even though lefties are only 10% of the populace.

It's only a matter of time...
The person with one leg referring to people with two legs as duo-dexters?
The depressed person who calls people without depression 'Happys'
People with multiple personalities already refer to people without them as 'singletons'
the guy with rebar through his brain refers to the rest of us as 'rebar-less'
the guy missing a testicle says "go ask the Two Balls"



  • Hey, if you're swimming around and are attacked by a sea snake, no worries - it's probably just horny
  • Scientists recommend showing it a picture of Michael Moore 
  • if you are attacked by a swimmer, kick them in the face, unless it's a particularly fetching face











Sunday, August 22, 2021

You're a Very Bad Table Lamp

 Your love is like  a broken tibia


  • Note to tv writers: it is NOT always sunny in Philadelphia. Whoever came up with this has never spent two hours in Philadelphia. 
  • If they're searching for reality, it would be called It's Mostly Cloudy in Philadelphia.


It's been two weeks since I left Work Badge Limbo. After that 3 month, 6 hour trek, I was the proud(?) recipient of something with a picture on it that looks like a prison I.D. God I'm ugly. To be fair, Brad Pitt would look ugly with this system. It learned everything it knows about picture-taking from the DMV, and still manages to beat it for sheer horror of its output.

Speaking of badges and having nothing to do with badges, I have a work presentation next week. I didn't really get it assigned to me so much as heard it mentioned in a large online meeting. So it was just a wee bit of a surprise. Not the shy type, I asked my boss which one of my coworkers that wasn't me was going to do the presentation. He apologized for not mentioning I was doing it yet, for next week. When my team met, the next day, he went over it, as I asked everyone who wanted to do it. Ever hear of deafening silence? I sure did. I'm sure they were all rushing to help me out, but they forgot to let their mouths tell me. I even reminded them what would happen if I had to give the presentation, but no luck. From this incident, I have taken it that all of my antics have been approved by my boss. It's not like he doesn't know what I'm like, therefore he's giving me total leeway.

I used to give a weekly phone meeting for 250 people, that got pretty popular because I'd add stuff here and there that wasn't entirely factual or relevant. People would actually attend the meeting to listen, even if they weren't interested in the topic.I also announced the official new fictional committee: the linux on the desktop committee. The idea was to rid the company of Windows. Sometimes after the meetings, people would come up to my desk and ask how to sign up to the committee. It's always good to make a difference.

So if I identify myself as the CEO of Sarcasm, I have the backing of my boss. 

If I tell everyone we're taking over their departments, my boss ok'd it.

If I order donuts to everyone's houses for meetings, the boss will find the funds.

I guess it could be worse...


Today I identify as  Spam  (Spam Spam Spam)


  • Today's Light Reading: Thermodynamic Analysis for Industrial Refrigeration Systems


Now that we're out of Car Limbo, the feeling is glorious. Driving the car home was a beautiful experience. Yes, I had to remember where all the controls where, but the reasons I bought the car were evident. My absolute favorite feature was the large display that I had to click through, that said not to be distracted by the large display. Never let lawyers into your design process.

Since the picture is so great on the backup camera, I'm going to modify it to show movies while I drive. What's the worst that can happen? 


Today in Olympic news:  isn't this shit over already?


  • As Mrs. lefty prepares to go visiting, everybody is ready. The parents can't wait for Penny to keep the rodents away and the cousin has a corner with all of Penny's toys waiting for her, as well as a special dog run in the yard. Mrs. lefty is an afterthought and I don't even bother going. Imagine coming in second (or third) to your dog.
  • This brings up a long-standing issue: who's going to babysit me while they're gone? Vanessa Hudgens stopped taking my calls, Mila Kunis is off with that husband guy, and I don't have Emelia Clarke's contact info. Oh poor me.

  • the problem here is one of structure. Like most of us, I don't work on the weekend. Without the structure of work, I sometimes don't know what to do. Some of us, lacking proper stimulation, will get up to stuff, creating their own entertainment. 
  • after the last time I was on my own, the city requested a week's notice when Mrs. lefty was planning to leave the house. SWAT and more importantly, the Boom Squad, have to be kept on High Alert<tm>. I don't know what the problem is - I try to restrain my activities so they don't involve human casualties. We've already proven that the Crazy Lady next door cannot die, so I gave up trying.
  • the above-mentioned babysitters cannot be reached, which is a shame, as they keep me busy, and busy is safe. Both neighbors are in their 90s and I don't have that particular kink.
  • the backup car that I am left with cannot do much damage, and cannot hit 60 without 2 weeks' notice, and even then, it's a shaky proposition. The worst I can get up to is annoying people behind me, which is more of an every day activity. Nothing special there.
  • napping is covered, with no distractions. I have absolutely had it with getting comfortable on the couch and having a marching band come though. Self love is also covered, for the same reasons. If I feel really kinky, I'll call the marching band.
  • there will be no dog to sit next to me or on my lap. If there is one, I know I missed my meds that morning.
  • somebody went food shopping and made the mistake of leaving all the cakes and treats out. I hope they weren't intended for anyone specific.

Due to unforeseen complications, Being Nice at Work has been canceled. YOU GOTTA PROBLEM WID DAT, ASSHOLE?


  • Today in foreign news, Algeria is upset that people keep mixing it up with Afghanistan


English football (hockey) team Man United is being pressured to change its name, due to its CIS Hetero White Male Privilege. When pointed out that Man is short for Manchester, the protesters would have none of it, stating that even Manchester had 'man' in it, plus there had to be some male privilege somewhere in its history.


  • the linux list command (ls) has a new competitor, called lsd. Lsd is reported as being very colorful, and you sit there, staring at it for hours


With software like office suites, there is an 80/20 rule: 20% of users use 80% of the functions. Using my great command of math (and tree climbing), this means 80% of the people use 20% of the functions.

Since I use linux, I am free of Microsoft Office. Just the other day I ran Libre Office's (free, also runs on Windows) word processor for the first time. And there it was - BAM - 17 different toolbars and other things I had to uncheck to get more typing real estate. I'm wondering if there should be a 20% preset, with the only toolbar being text (bold, italic, etc). Yes, I can uncheck all the others, but since it's too crowded out of the box, why not a preset? Strangely enough, I type for the words, not the appearance. The controls on this blog are minimal and we all get along fine. I particularly like the strikethtrough function because I can tell you how I really feel, then pretend I didn't say that. If you need a ruler across the top or down the side, turn it on. That said, I don't have any serious complaints about the word processor. Yet.


  • just when I started to relax, I saw what Wife is reading: Encyclopedia of Serial Killers

SO if you think about it, Amazon bulldozed on ahead and killed the name 'Alexa.'

At this point, anyone who names their child Alexa has to be a really pretentious douchnozzle, who may or may not work at Amazon. The parents are also selfish and uncaring enough not to give any thought to how their poor child will be tortured at school*. Children are not the nicest humans.

*Frank Zappa's children are Ahmet, Dweezil, Moon Unit, and Diva because he said those names would fit in perfectly in California at that time.


Blog Noir

  • I met her in some dingy bar, where the odor of stale beer provided the ambiance. She had more ink than a week's worth of the NY Times. We eyed each other hungrily, like a fat chick at Dunkin Donuts. Her outfit was tight, like some sort of dark saran wrap. We pressed against each other, like a coffee table and a rug. Her breasts were like melons, ripe two weeks ago. Her legs were like... legs. She fulled out her short shorts, like a man wearing a bikini. Her bulge was bigger than mine, like a WTF I'm getting out of here like an Olympic sprinter. 
  • I've been back to that bar every night this week, looking for her.

Polish silver medalist in Javelin throw Maria Andrejczyk, who is also a devout Catholic, sold her Olympic  medal in auction to find money for the heart surgery of a Polish boy. Polish store chain Zabka won the auction, but they returned the medal back to her


  • somebody who knows better told me Uranus went into retrograde
  • I can't explain why, but I need a cigarette 


With great sadness, I must inform everyone that the lemon Snapple in the new plastic bottle is NOT as good as the glass bottle, no matter what they say. The only positive here is this will save us $55 a week.


  • a New York policeman rescued a man who fell from a subway train, unconscious.
  • it's a tremendous time for society in that absolutely nothing happens without video anymore


Paleontologists found a 310 million year old horseshoe crab with brain intact and are comparing it to a current one to study its evolution. They also found a 310 million year old news personality, but saved themselves the trouble of looking for a brain because the current one doesn't have a brain either.









Friday, August 20, 2021

Is Flynn, In Fact, In?

 Your love is like  a hammer to the finger


Today's Olympic News:  two countries strongly disagree


  • Philly's Mayor has decreed the zoo will be closed until all the animals have been vaccinated


Today I identify as  a vacuum cleaner bag


  • I need to start smoking at work - I'm missing out on all the smoke breaks


Mercy mercy and Land O' Lakes, my car is ready to be released from the jaws of the collision center.  I don't remember what it looks like, so I'll have to trust that it's the right car. This could get ugly. On the other hand, I always wanted a 1980 Sedan deVille or a Town Car. This would also mean they got their pinstripe painting guy to put on the pinstripes that I didn't know my car had. As usual, thank the heavens for my wife, who did know the car had pinstripes. I remember the car had 4 doors, so they can't get anything past me on that one. 

This means I'm finally out of limbo(s). Wife would tell me never to say such a thing.

If it makes her feel any better, I still can't get RedEx to pick up a next day envelope


  • I have to go - Real Housewives of West Virginia is on


ME: Dear, you have some white... stuff... on the back of that shirt

HER: Oh, it's probably shaving cream

ME: Never mind.


ThermionicEmissions sends its heart out to all Afghanistan vets and families of those that didn't return. Unfortunately, like all wars, it was for the Military Industrial Complex. But that doesn't negate what you put into it. If it hurts too badly, please seek help.

The United States spent $822bn fighting the war and training Afghan forces, only to witness the Taliban's rapid conquest of the country.


  • Discussion is allowed as long as you don’t say the wrong thing.

United Airlines asked its crews not to duct tape passengers to seats.
Also asked not to set them on fire, put them on the wings, or throw them in with luggage 


  • Nabisco workers are striking for normal hours
  • Nabisco workers' jobs are payment enough. Have you ever walked past one of the bakeries? It smells like heaven.


WhatsApp pulls plug on Taliban helpline, shuts down official-looking accounts

Welcome to the Taliban helpline:

  • press 1 to shoot many people with a leftover AR15
  • press 2 to shoot then rape a woman because she's not wearing a hijab
  • press 3 or take over the country to close all blue jeans manufacturers
  • press 4 to close down the shaver and shaving cream industries
  • press 5 to sell some of those nice poppy plants


Ikea will start selling renewable energy to households in Sweden.
The only problem is that they have to put it together first 


  • The (fleeing) acting Afghanistan bank governor says the US left too quickly
  • Because 20 years wasn't long enough to get anything done 


So it's your average day in Australia, shopping in your average supermarket, when your average python pops out from the average shelf. What are the odds the person being greeted by the python is a snake rescuer? Go ahead - do the math.



Letterboxd, the social network for film, will now allow pr0n reviews
  • Butt Bandits of Bavaria: although I found the action decent, none of the actors had anything near a Bavarian accent.  It was unrealistic in that there was no lube in 2 of the scenes. This will never be real life until most women say yes to anal. 4 stars.
  • My Step-Brother Likes my Tranny Cock: the entire premise was off because it would more likely be a step-sister. The instrument in question dwarfed the rest of the instruments in the movie, which made me feel insecure, nervous, and looking forward to the sequel, "My Step-Brother Likes my Tranny Cock 2 - Return of the Monster." Did you know you could dial a number and get a tranny to come 'visit' you? I have to go now...
  • DIAL-A-MILF  Oh No, it's my MOM!: a tired, hackneyed old premise, based upon the MILF trope everybody's doing these days. Although there's no age list in pr0n, actresses are 18-23. 24-28 MILFs. 29-31 Cougars. 32-up grannies. Let's face it - not everybody's mom has DDs. Still fun, I give it 3 stars.

Flying AIDS News 

New studies hint that the coronavirus may be evolving to become more airborne
also to sneak up on you while you sleep 

Pandemic of unvaccinated continues to rage as states set new COVID records
pandemic of unvaccinated? Just last week it was a pandemic of a virus - somebody's playing with words for a certain effect...

Pharmacist faces 120 years in prison for selling vaccination cards on eBay
Mass murderers and fake ID makers have faced less  








Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Penis Migraine

 Your love is like  colon polyps


Today's Olympic News: to save money, teams ordered to use same balls for all sports


  • Ya know those black stripes on the back of your credit cards?
  • Mastercard will be phasing them out. 
  • They plan to go with either a chip on the card or a chip in your forehead


Audi is coming out with a shape-shifting car. It has a self-driving mode and expands 10" in that mode.

Megan Fox not available as an option. 12" not available as an option. Audi should check with Tesla on self-driving mode.


Today I identify as  one of those nifty cups that keep hot liquids hot and cold liquids cold


  • Secret terrorist watchlist with 2 million records exposed online
  • Department of Defense believes it is no longer secret
  • it had no password on it 


Hive ransomware attacks Memorial Health System, steals patient data
They had to go back to paper.
$25 million contract to teach people how to use pencil and paper still cheaper than ransom 


  • everybody's second favorite social media joke, Twitter, found it imperative to hire a design firm to redesign itself. The design was causing headaches. Now the redesign will get a redesign.
  • if they really want Twitter to stop causing headaches, they should take it down several times a week


In Cambridgeshire, England, a sinkhole was reported at The Butts Street
making it The Butts Hole 


  • Faceyspaces continues its ban on Taliban-related content
  • can't read the language 

Updated Flying AIDS booster news  
Prediction: in January, you will need a booster for the booster


It's been days since my last Collision Repair Limbo update. Like two.
Not only is the collision repair in limbo, any updates from collision repair are in limbo.

It turns out that the entire collision repair industry goes on vacation from June to May, or any time I need a collision repair. 

This has been a complete nightmare. Every. Single. Part. The one non-explosive event was that the Backup Car stopped hating Mrs. lefty. This car had it out for her. Every time she took it out, it would make strange noises, which inevitably got her pulled over by the police. After a while, they got used to it and stopped pulling her over. It would cough, spit, and bark, and this was before she started it. She would get warning lights that we didn't know we had. None of them appeared in the manual. One of them looked like a sheep. Then I'd get in the car and it would be fine, except I'd get pulled over just for fun. So anyway, the car has been very nice to her. Except for the hatch thing. None of us can figure out how to get it open. We looked inside for a release, under the plate, hidden under various spots in the body, under the back, and in the basement. Nothing. I remember one night, when my dad was an awful lot more vertical than currently, there were four of us, all trying to get it open. My brother finally succeeded, but no one saw him do it and he can't remember. Dad won't answer our pleas for info. RIP Dad. And by the way, do you remember how to get the hatch up?

Always an enjoyable email from Renterprise, lowest of the low, in where they charged my insurance for whatever some idiot did to the rental. There is a $100 service charge. Renterprise has a service charge for talking to you, handing you the keys, returning the keys, checking to see if you left the correct amount of gas, and seeing that there are at least 4 tires on the vehicle. Judging by the $998 total, there is a $1,000 maximum insurance payout. We know smoke starts to appear when I walk past an Apple store - Renterprise will be added to the list. They're so slimy, you have to shower after dealing with them.



  • the Philly transit agency (SEPTA) installed bench seats at weird angles. Once it got out, people claimed it was to deter the homeless from sleeping on the flat seats or benches. No, no, SEPTA said - it was for COVID spacing. Sure it was. We swear.


I noticed the lady across the street coming home from food shopping. She has 2 bags. She has a family of 5.  When Mrs. lefty comes home from food shopping, I have to surrender my lunch hour to bring the bags in. It must be the Pupperoni, I dunno. I just file it in the humongous accordion file of stuff I don't understand and it's better not to ask. Like her cane. We call it the Attack Cane. It pops out of her hand all the time. If she's not using it, it will attack whoever walks by it, by falling onto them. We bought a bottom piece to keep it stable: it fell over. She puts on the wrist strap: the cane trips her. Fscking thing is deadly.

I had a small bit of sandwich left over from lunch. I figured it was pretty harmless, why not give it to Penny? Wife stopped me and told me to break it up. No, it's processed turkey, she'll have no trouble breaking it up. "But she thinks she's getting more when you break it up." ---> file of stuff I don't understand and it's better not to ask.  Funny, though... she napped the entire day. I thought about this when I was making the sandwich. Then I looked down and BOOM - there she was, my Canine Assistive Device (CAD). She never misses the chance to be of assistance when things are being made in the kitchen. My Canine Assistive Device does not have the prestige of those other dogs that blind or seizure people have. 


  • So Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, no great surprise. But there's one poor dude who just didn't get the memo. A British college student claims he went to Afghanistan for the weekend and got stuck.
  • he was working on a business plan... an Afghanistan travel agency. Come to Afghanistan for vacation, stay for life! Afghanistan: see how the other half lives. Afghanistan: have you ever really MET the Taliban?
  • He never really finished his vacation, which also included Yemen, Iraq, and Syria.

Speaking of Afghanistan, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan documented our failure for 12 years, but nobody listened.
"It's like Vietnam, but more recent"



OnlyFans just put its SFW app on iOS/Android, as it tries to shake its adult image
They expect to get a lot of traffic to both of the non-adult pages.









Monday, August 16, 2021

CSI: New Jersey

 Your love is like  xxx parmesan, left out in the sun for 3 weeks


Amazon’s Plan to Track Worker Keystrokes: A Sign of Controls to Come?

It's been days since the last report of Amazon's somewhat draconian effort to watch their workers. Today's is keystroke logging. This is where every single keystroke is recorded so Amazon can see what you typed. This is more a malware tool than workplace spying. 

Amazon will not stop there, no sir. It's cooking up some more schemes to monitor its workforce

  • bathroom scales and timers, to monitor your input, output, and time spent producing it
  • time spent not typing
  • audio monitors to hear if you're talking to someone too much - AI to figure out who 
  • rabid dobermans to monitor you making sounds and getting up too much
  • urethral and anal catheters, to avoid nasty bathroom breaks....


Today's Olympic News: the Russian ladies ballet team was accused of beating up the Dallas Cowboys, as well as spying on all the other teams.


Apple defends iPhone photo scanning, calls it an “advancement” in privacy

Nazis defend concentration camps, calling them an "advancement" in fighting antisemitism

Biden administration defends multi-billion dollar tax hike as "advancement" in allowing people to keep their own money


Today I identify as  a 767, hijacked to Nebraska


  • We'd just like to say hello to whoever now owns Afghanistan; probably the Taliban
  • in 20 years of American deaths and payments to the Military Industrial Complex, nothing has changed


Collision limbo

I expected this part of the aggravation to be the least aggravating. This just goes to show you that the glass is always half empty, even if you decide to go with the half full explanation. They were in touch weekly, hence my ease with the process. Only now do I realize that they're just like the rest of the people we've dealt with lately, only they hired a very friendly phone representative to call me and tell me things are going well and on time. Only he stopped calling and giving me Finished By dates when we got two weeks beyond them. The last excuse was someone ordered or delivered the wrong parts, and somebody had to learn Swahili to get the parts exchanged.

This only makes me wonder what the next problem will be, because you know everything that happens to us will only become a struggle and wind up in limbo. 

"Oh gee, yah, we're really sorry, but we only have 3 tires on the car right now. We had to reorder the 4th tire because they sent us three car tires and one farm tractor tire, which winds up being a few feet taller than the actual car. We can install it temporarily, if you want, but you'll probably get pulled over by the police, because your tire obstructs 100% of the view on that side of the car. On the positive side, you'll never get caught in mud or snow.

I shiver to think of what would happen if I had to take the car in for a broken heater knob....

Dealer: Well, we fixed the heater knob - it was just a fuse

ME: a fuse for a knob?

Dealer: happens all the time. However....

ME: however?

Dealer: when the heater knob broke, it sent a spike up the electrical system and fried the car's brain.

ME: does that make my car... brainless?

Dealer: so brainless, it could work in DC

ME: and how long is THIS going to take?

Dealer: no prob, mon, we do this all the time. Should be a few weeks to six months maximum.

ME: SIX MONTHS?

Dealer: yeah, your car is special. It takes longer. Plus the chip shortage has hurt us all. Might even push it out to a year.

ME: I've owned the car for 2 years, of which I've driven it 3 months.

Dealer: yeah, that's how it works sometimes.

ME: hey, ya know that large check I'm giving you?

Dealer: yes.

ME: It could take 6 months to a year.

Dealer: Oh, here comes your car now. All done!


  • the Feds seized thousands of fake vaccination cards
  • it's great that the Flying AIDS has created income for so many - first Big Pharma, now fake jab cards

Tropical Storm Henri could be forming in an atmosphere near you. So far 16 countries have come together and refused to participate in storms until they're given proper names.


  • President Giveaway II has boosted the food stamp benefits 25%, the largest increase in history
  • Lovely. High unemployment benefits and nobody works. Will high food stamps cause people to stop eating? 


Couple caught having sex on Bondi beach cliff top in front of shocked sunbathers during Sydney lockdown

Now this is how you celebrate the Flying AIDS! Knowing Australia, they were thrown in jail and will never be seen again.


 The U.S. government has opened a formal investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot partially automated driving system after a series of collisions with parked emergency vehicles.

What could Teslas have against parked emergency vehicles? Are they just flouting authority? When will they start catching fire and exploding? Teslas are good at catching fire and exploding.

Surprisingly enough, Tesla is being demonized for its autopilot; not because of crashes (it's not supposed to be used as a true driverless car), but because it doesn't spank the idiot drivers enough when they treat it like a driverless car.  In other news, the Biden administration has decreed all forks produced from 2021 on must have engraved on them: WARNING - DO NOT STICK IN EYE.


  • The Cure Bassist Simon Gallup Announces Departure From Band
  • took 40 years to realize band's output was ....  bad 


At a certain point in my musical development, I developed a very large, very loud amplifier called a Marshall. It was 50 watts (British watts are louder than American watts) (no they're not) and had four 12" speakers. This was legendary for me and loud for my parents. As soon as I got going, I'd hear TURN IT DOWN. 

But Mom, the Marshall tube amp sounds better the louder you turn it up, due to the even-order harmonic distortion and power sag from the output tubes.

Mom was sympathetic, as she had to put up with me all my life, but it wasn't entirely relevant to her.
It was completely irrelevant to my idiot neighbor, who called the police. What could we expect from someone who painted their concrete steps? The nice policeman also failed to understand my electronic explanation of why the amp sounded better louder, so I explained using his toaster. It turned out he largely didn't care, and told us if he had to come back, he'd be upset.
  *this was a common Philly Police trick - intimidate the victim
Mom asked the policeman if the very large police station had any practice facilities for bands with loud amplifiers, also failing to impress the fine fellow.

Years went by. My brothers grew up. 
I got louder.

Now I pass cars that make my car vibrate with their sound systems. Without thinking, the first thing that comes out of my mouth is, "TURN THAT NOISE DOWN."

G-bus, I have become my parents.
Could be much worse...


  • 80% of Pennsylvanians have received 1st dose of Flying AIDS vaccine.
  • said the CDC, throwing around more random numbers 


So I'm sitting in the lefty office, feeling like Advanced Death, when the dog stops by. I'm impressed that she's sitting with me, trying to guard me. Until her mom walks upstairs, then she's off like a shot. 2nd place is better than last, I guess.





RIP Duane, Berry, Butch, and Greg


Friday, August 13, 2021

Manufactured Mask Mandates Mask Mental Methane

 Your love is like  eating too much spicy Mexican food


Today is Friday the 13th!

Run around and do stuff. More importantly, harass your friends who refuse to go out on the 13th. Leave dead bats on their doorstep.


Flying AIDS News

The masks are back!

Wear them in your house!

The employers who demanded you come back are hearing you won't.

School mask battles rage on as more children fall ill, fill hospitals

Covid booster: US approves third jab for the immunocompromised (I can't wait for the 4th)

Reddit Quarantines AntiMask Antivax Subreddit  (keep that control absolute


In the first example of its kind, a virus has skipped from the IT press to humans.

It's the FUD virus. FUD is Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, initially referring to nonsense stirred up by an entity with something to gain in the IT field. It hopped from IT press to humans in 2020. It makes so much noise that people have no idea what the truth is, and blindly follow an alleged authority. They stop thinking and don't bother to do their homework. Symptoms include mask mandates, compulsory vaccines, social distancing, schooling at home, and repeating the word "science," even if you don't know what that word means.  Also may involve repeating phrases mindlessly, like "mask up." Can also involve vaccine passports.

Recently seen is the FUD-D virus, which has already morphed from the FUD virus, causing the entire symptomatology to return again, from the top.


Today in Olympic News: one country is arguing with another country about uniform colors, a one time final winner-take-all grudge match between the trans and (sadly) not-trans athletes. The winner will make up everybody's Olympic team from here on.


  • didja ever get a snake up your nose?
  • me either


Today I identify as  Napoleon


That's Our President, episode 43


  • Conservative radio host and vaccine critic dies of covid-19 complications
  • oopsie 


An Australian brewery has been banned from promoting one of its beers, after a minor mistook it for chocolate milk.

Not related: all parents in Australia have suddenly disappeared 


  • Oregon Law Allows Students To Graduate Without Proving They Can Write Or Do Math
  • Oregon parents ask "..and this is different how?" 
  • Oregon's graduation rate is nearly the lowest in the country, so this is to raise the rates. 


Looking at my inbox at work, it's pretty damn clean from my coworkers. Unfortunately it's absolutely gummed up from the company. While my group may publish 10 emails per week, all relevant, my company will send 50, mostly irrelevant. And then when it's done sending them out, on Friday it sends out a recap of the week's messages. No one knows why. I wonder if they get a discount for using more space.

You know, highly relevant stuff, like Martian Astronaut History Month. We're also concerned, for no understandable reason, with what other groups in the company are up to. That custodial got a new riding mower should be kept on a Need to Know basis, and I have no Need to Know. If we're changing our phone system in another office, I worked really diligently but couldn't come up with any way it could possibly affect my group. Let's also consider that most of us work remotely, so any phone system news wouldn't be Need to Know. Likely anything about sexual harassment. Not only can't we harass anyone if we're not in the office, I already know all about sexual harassment. It has been mentioned that I should run the courses (but not as a HOW TO).

And there's still that one guy in my group. The guy who's quite a bit more experienced (smarter) than me, who still pronounces 'malware' as 'mallware.' I've never heard of mallware, but I'll bet my wife has.

After forcing my group to read this blog, plus a series of meetings where we point it out and laugh at people, we have the oral noises down to just teeth-sucking. This is a great improvement in meetings over grunting, coughing, whistling, teeth-sucking, pencil tapping on teeth, and belching.

But I like these people. Ok, going out for a beer after work would cost $16,372 in plane fare, but they're good people. Yes, some of them have questionable hobbies that involve livestock, but they're all really nice to each other. As you'd expect, the women are more gross than the men, but we take care of each other.

I just came out of a meeting. A meeting where I work is the sound of one man talking. No matter if it includes 5 or 50 people, only the moderator speaks. It's company culture. Unless there's a wiseass comment to be made, then 2 people will speak up. Today's meeting involved something we work with daily and how to streamline it, so you'd think we all have a vested interest in things working faster. Nope - not a peep. Except for me. I can't decide if my group hates the sound of my voice or is glad I ask questions so they don't have to disturb their vocal cords. If I can get an hour or two cut out of the week, that's kinda important. But no... nobody says a word. I am convinced that if my boss asked how many people want the rest of the week off, there would be silence. I told him the loneliest man in the company is the man leading a meeting. He agreed.


  • A woman in Sydney, Australia, is under investigation for pretending to be a doctor. For eight months. The only reason she was discovered is that her ratings were so good and she saw so many patients, that the real doctors were complaining.


SEVENTY THREE year old Stevie Nicks canceled her remaining performances to 'keep healthy'
Her original face was gorgeous, as is her second(?) one.

Limp Bizkit is also cancelling the remaining dates on their tour due to the Flying AIDS.
Music fans all over the world rejoice.


  • The Senate approved an amendment proposed by Cuban-American Senator Marco Rubio to provide free internet to Cuba
  • WTF? 



As if this blog isn't random enough.....

If you are in a committed relationship, and we're not talking about your goldfish, have some sex.
It would seem a tremendous idea in general, wouldn't it?
What you might be missing (get ready for it) is that sex isn't just the best thing in the world. It's also a means of staying close to your significant other. It's communication. It's releasing all sorts of wonderful 1chemicals into your system, like oxytocin (the love stuff). Sex and touch are actually essential to every relationship: if you're not doing one or the other or both, you're probably drifting apart and not reconfirming your feelings for your significant other. Some people go through their lives not knowing this. It's a big hit with relationship counselors. You will look at your SO differently the next day.

Now RUN over to your SO and show this to them:
"HI HONEY... we're supposed to have sex. It says right here in this very silly blog, so it must be true. Get nekkid and let's non-verbally show our love for each other. Someone told me it means twice as much love if we do Butt Stuff...."


Fun Body Facts
  • there are over 60 sphincters in the human body
  • there are a ton of nerve cells in the butt - the better to feel you, My Pretty
  • there are a ton of nerve cells in the kidney - so kidney stones can hurt so bad you want to die
  • a man's penis can also be used for peeing    -monty python



My friend's dog is terrified of thunder and tries to hide.
My dog barks at it.



Due to unforeseen circumstances, my cable service is down. 
If the cable company can tell me it's down, when it went down, and when it's going to be up, it sounds less unforeseen than the English as a Second Language gentleman in customer service told me. I am not demeaning this person, but his accent sounded like a mixture of Indian and tv westerns.

Earlier, I had gone to their website to check on service. I went to Search and put in Outage Map. For the life of it, it couldn't locate Outage Map. Mind you, on the next page, it told me if I signed in, I could view the outage map. Mind you, if internet is broken, I can't check anyway. I have to use my phone. I don't think it should be a national secret that there is an outage in the area. On the phone, they wanted my phone number. I gave it to them and they told me there's no account with that phone number attached to it. Funny, I pay the bill monthly, so there must be a phone number attached to it. I can't exactly give them my account number, because it has 47 digits, 3 spaces, a couple of Q's, and something that looks like emojis, but this is a 100% emoji-free house.   They wanted to know if it was for a wifi password or email issue. IT'S FOR THE COMPLETE AND TOTAL LACK OF SERVICE, but there was apparently no option for that. Sometimes if you scream, curse, or hit zero, you can get to a human.

The gentleman politely informed me it would be operational by 2am, which is a shame, as it's 11pm and it would be a good idea to sleep at some point. While my team and boss have no way of telling if I'm asleep at the keyboard, I'd feel bad about it. I'd also feel bad about waking up with the imprint of a keyboard on my face. If I think about it, almost anything would be an improvement, or so my family and everyone I went to school with told me. The kind fellow offered to text me when it comes back up. I can tell the future sometimes, and I can tell that a text at 2am will not be welcome by Wife, me, or the dog, who will probably bark at it.

You realize what this means, right?
I am so far behind on my pr0n that there's no catching up.
No sleeping with my step-sister, various MILFs, clown pron, in a taxi, butt specials, or just my regular old hamster pr0n. If my boss notices I'm off tomorrow, how do I explain this? I think he's very religious, which I'm going to go ahead and assume means he's not big on pr0n. So it's down to pr0n or sleep, either of which will affect my ability to do my job tomorrow.



My workplace is so rough
HOW ROUGH IS IT?
Because of an alleged sexual assault, Alibaba is offering its 250,000 employees self-defense training.









Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Lemon Coffee?

 Your love is like  a groin pull


Today's Olympic News: somebody is disputing something


Mrs. lefty sometimes goes into the local convenience store. The wife, a very sweet Indian lady, stops to talk with Mrs. lefty and they compare jewelry. Her husband likes to chat too. Yesterday he asked if she wanted her cigarette packs soft or HARD. I suppose he sees himself as swave and de-boner. I foresee a drop in visits to that store.


Today I identify as  certainly not Judy Garland, I'll tell you that.


Everybody misses Alan Rickman. He was great in movies, but I really loved his voice.

I always wanted to hear him sing I Feel Pretty 


I feel pretty.

Oh so pretty.

I feel pretty.

And witty.


And gay.


C'mon, you hear it too....



Limbo

So the only limbo left is Collision Limbo.

The smashed up almost new car was to be ready on time, last week.

It is now ready on time, this week.

I think they ordered the wrong body, which had to be put together in Korea, in spite of the fact the car is actually made in the US. This is the extent to which this particular collision center goes for their customers. Or at least for me. Because I'm special. Or at least that's what my mom always told me.

ME: You told me Thursday 

COLLISION: I didn't say which Thursday


  • My work pc is annoyingly slow. I tracked it back to McAfee.
  • Do you think it's because he's dead?


My mom makes this Chocolate Cake of Death. The cake is deep, rich, and heavy.
The icing is even heavier. It has some coffee in it.
At any family event, the cake is requested.
Mrs. lefty has spent over 20 years trying to get the recipe. Mom keeps saying she'll give her the recipe.
Now Mom has dementia and we can't get the recipe out of her.
How is this right? 


  • Did Plato and Aristotle have last names?
  • if my name were Plato Schwartz, I'd call myself Plato too 

Google was sued over the Google+ data leak

The case website with full details is at googleplusdatalitigation.com. The case was settled in June 2020, with Google agreeing to pay out $7.5 million. After losing about half of that money to legal and administrative fees, and with 1,720,029 people filling out the right forms by the October 2020 deadline, the payout for each person is a whopping $2.15.

Half of $7.5 million in legal fees. Half.



Fish with 'human' teeth caught in North Carolina

his health insurance doesn't cover dental 














Infrastructure Bill Could Enable Government to Track Drivers’ Travel Data

So they can charge a per-mile TAX.
I didn't vote for him.


  • Have you died lately? I know I haven't. Check out this BBC documentary about near-death experiences. Lots of interesting stuff on this site.


Just when you think Big Brother has finally put another tetanus-covered nail in your coffin, Uber comes along and asked employees to allow cameras in their homes and bedrooms.

Now I'm surprisingly in favor of cameras in the bedroom (but only if I have control of them).
My employer? I'm not enough of an exhibitionist to make this work.
You'd think Uber would only be concerned about having a camera in the car.

Aside from updating your resume, what would you do?
  • move the camera to the bathroom, focus entirely on the bowl, display your success each time
  • frequently dance around the bedroom, sometimes as a family, singing Hava Nagila, and other Swedish folk songs
  • set up your computer to send racy novels through the keylogger
  • make bored sex noises before bed
  • point the camera at someone else, who is actually working. There will be entire websites you can pay to capture someone working. It will become more popular than those naked cam sites!
  • point the camera at Chaturbate or Grindr

My employer would be ok with any video, including adult, except one that in any way demeans minorities. My supervisor wouldn't care... I can't even get him to read my emails.


Along those lines, Apple promises it will reject government demands to use new child abuse image detection system for surveillance.  No, really, we swear.
Apple already checks iCloud files and images sent over email against known child abuse imagery, as do tech giants like Google, Twitter, Microsoft, Facebook, and Dropbox, who employ similar image hashing methods to look for and flag potential abuse material,

Read it again: the other services also 'scan' for child abuse material
Although we don't have any, what else is scanned?
Best assumption is everything. Proceed accordingly.



Ever get anything from a humongous worldwide shipper that rhymes with RedEx?
Of course you have - we all have.
Ever try to ship anything with them?
That was a trick question. The answer is you can't.
In my younger days, you'd call a number and they'd send a truck, post haste.
Those days have gone. They are so far in the rear window that it is easier to see Abraham Lincoln at his desk (with a slave or two underneath).
I got a next day envelope. I went to ship it back, prepaid.
This is when I discovered you can't ship anything with RedEx.
RedEx is cutting their costs by 'allowing' you to drop off your next day prepaid envelope at 'drop off points'. Sorry - it's prepaid, guys. You're coming to my house, even though it might kill at least one of us. And it will.
I went looking for a phone number and POOF, got their web page, which is full of color pictures and all sorts of irrelevant information, but no phone numbers. Eventually I found the contact page, but it was in Spanish. That makes perfect sense. Falling back on my 6 years of high school Spanish, I gave it a try. I got the phone numbers. Unfortunately they were for Spain.
These RedEx guys have it down.
On Fridays, they all get drunk and watch people attempt to use the website.
There's a chat box. But there are no representatives available, because they don't work on days ending in -y. There's an automated help box, where I ask it for a phone number. It silently mocks me. I ask it to just send a motherfscking truck to pick up a tiny prepaid envelope. It suggests I go to Shipping.
Shipping is the page I've been to over and over. It wants me to set up an account. I don't need an account, I need a colorful truck to show up sometime in the next 24 hours. This is not an option.
Finally I discover another option to schedule a pickup (YAY!).
I fill everything in, hit SUBMIT, then it stares at me, subtly giggling. Eventually it tells me not to resubmit and check with Scheduling. There IS no Scheduling.
When I finally hit OK, it tells me the shipping number is wrong. Of course the shipping number is wrong - I copied it directly from the envelope, where it was typed in LARGE BLACK LETTERS. I did not mistype.
Sneaky bunch, these RedEx guys.
I saw a RedEx truck coming up the street. Quickly, I built a roadblock, put out some stop sticks, and stood there, holding my AR-13. The driver said he sympathized with my plight, but he couldn't pick up anything without it being scheduled. I was tempted to have his gas tank schedule itself to drop off the truck, but stupid karma would just catch up with me. Again.
RedEx's business plan counts on people getting frustrated and giving up trying to ship.

If I ever DO get in touch with RedEx, I'm going to ask them why they caused me more aggravation than the last 2 elections. They'll tell me they just want to make sure I'm serious about sending the envelope.

It's a good thing the envelope I'm sending isn't for antidepressants. I'd have shot myself.



This all feeds into my abject failure in all things electronic commerce. I wonder who I killed in a past life to cause this... Whenever I attempt to purchase something on the web, Wife has to take Dog and go on a Three Hour Tour, because she knows there will be screaming, pounding, and pleading (this is just typing in the url).  For a high tech guy, I feel like an abject failure every time. Concert tickets are the worst. And after I fail to get them online, I have to go to the box office, where there's a $25 surcharge for handing money to a human. So that's $325 plus tissues for nosebleed seats. 

I'm ok with Amazon, but that might just be a magic spell Jeff Bezos has put on the planet.
This might point to excrementally bad web design, in addition to my karma for having blown up several small, possibly inhabited planets in a past life. All of this is on large screens - heaven forbid this is tried from a phone! Everyone and their dog is a 'web designer' but, like everyone making music, not everyone should. C'mon - people with telescopes can't read that font size.

I'm good with Ebay too, but I think it's because I used to give them 15% of my income for guitar toys. Disposable income became indisposed. Must be my karma again... you see, I set a couple of nuns on fire... just a few... well I had to... they kept telling me I had sin and it was early in the morning, before sinning hours. If you think about it, the only people guilty of sin in advance are husbands.


  • Some call me a contrarian.  I think not.








Sunday, August 8, 2021

Olympic Couch Wrangling

 Your love is like  things that rhyme with werpees.


  • Olympic news: today is the 14th day of the Olympics


The CDC needs to stop confusing the public


  • Bill Gates admits meetings with Epstein were a 'huge mistake'
  • also apologizes for meetings with Mussolini, Steve Jobs, Henry Kissinger, and Hitler

Massena, a small New York town, has banned new bitcoin mines because they're 'unsightly'
all those damn hard hats, shovels, pickaxes, and explosives  


  • freeze-dried mouse sperm on a postcard

If you need to point out on someone's birthday that they're old, there are a number of ways....
  • coffin
  • walker
  • coke bottle glasses
  • nose hair trimmer
I have a nose hair trimmer, but it spontaneously disappeared. So all that's left is to braid it.


Today I identify as  Greta Thunberg
If more of us identified as Greta Thunberg....
There would be a lot of Greta Thunbergs


Apple is going to start scanning your iPictures for child exploitation images.
They never asked you, did they?
Everybody is against child exploitation (except for the exploiters), right?
This is frequently the reason used to start accessing something someone shouldn't be accessing. It's for the children.
But if they can access your pictures, what else can they scan for? Why is this even an issue? Should they have the right to scan your pictures at all, say, for naked, perfectly legal pictures? And your documents. 
The short (and long) answer is NO. 
The government isn't allowed to do this because of the 4th Amendment (search and seizure). 
Apple, being a commercial entity, can do what it wants, and fervently believes it leads the pack and knows what's best for you. 
This is one of the reasons I don't use Apple devices personally: you don't own your music or data or operating system. While android has more eyes on your device than you think, it's not scanning and not clouding everything.
Think about it.... none of us have these images on our phones, but we have freedom from anybody spying on us. 


The Universal Panacea

I'm talkin about coffee. Go juice. Brown liquid. Instant humanizer. Get movinger. That magic elixir.

You gotta wonder how someone figured out coffee... hmmm... beans.... I'll bet if I crushed them up and poured hot water over them, they'd produce a good-tasting way to get myself going in the morning (and the rest of the day). I also wonder about tobacco... hey, if I picked it, dried it out, put all sorts of chemicals in it, rolled it up and lit it, it would be pleasing (and addictive). Where do these ideas come from? Probably demented minds, one or two short steps from the Happy Place<tm>. The booby hatch. Rubber room. Laughing academy.

I had a friend without benefits once.

So early ways to make coffee involved those huge canisters, with the green plastic valves on them, that served small conventions. Then the one your parents used: the drip. This also described one or two of your friends. Their personalities were such that no one wanted to be around them. They sucked all the air out of the room, like someone with Borderline Personality Disorder. The drip coffee makers are still around, but you have to show proof that you're over 65 to use one. The drip method sometimes evolved to the drop method, depending on how wet your hands were, or your General Klutziness Coefficient. 

Starting in the 70s (or 80s - too lazy to look it up), everybody got a Mr. Coffee. Mr. Coffee? As if some guy, probably dressed as a butler, came to your house and made you coffee - up to 12 cups at a time. And we saw that it was good. Plus 12 cups was almost as much as needed to get through the day. The only problem was that you had to keep it heated all this time, and by the end of the day it turned into some sort of brown sludge that never came off the pot and was only slightly suitable for human consumption. Due to Science, there was always coffee left over, no matter how many pots you made or how many people drank it. Worse was its use at work. No matter how many people drank it, and this includes the ones that didn't pay into the Coffee Fund, NOBODY ever cleaned it out. This either resulted in one person always washing it, or just sludge on top of sluge, until there was no more room for the actual coffee, it had a nice blue fuzzy sheen on the top, and coworkers would regularly vomit upon sight of it. The sheer genius of Mr. Coffee's manufacturer was that they used filters, at one per pot. So you'd have to replace them often (hopefully every pot). 

Variations of Mr. Coffee also appeared, mostly the single and two cup varieties. These were for people who didn't require 12 cups. Single people. Sad little humans, who stopped using them when they discovered they would always have to clean it, regardless of anyone else. The ones that kept it clean you had to strenuously avoid because of grave personality defects and weird genitalia. 

In the 90s (plus or minus 20 years), the Foo Foo stuff started to appear, like the French Press. The Bench Press. The Double Triangle, that used more filters than your car's engine. The Upside Down Triple Press, which was responsible for more burns in a single year than hot water and working on radiators combined. 

These all had one thing in common: they brewed shitty coffee. No matter how you changed around the variables, it wasn't drinkable, except for certain salesmen at work, usually involving used cars and men with checkered suits. 

Round about this time, Dunkin Donuts was going strong, for the people who went out because making coffee was beyond their abilities. They started carrying beans, at which time you discovered that no matter how you played with them, you couldn't make it taste like it did from Dunkin itself, like pizza and cheesesteaks. Then appeared [holy music] Starbucks. Yes, Starbucks: home of the bitter, overroasted, overcharged beans. You could even buy a pastry, for 4 times what Dunkin charged. These stores popped up all over the place, like a Flying AIDS epidemic, only without the masks. They were even in supermarkets and places that did car repairs, as well as fine clothing shops and eyebrow boutiques. They eventually realized they might've overdone it, so they closed the stores that were inside Dunkin Donuts. They had really good ice and cream drinks, but the rule was Don't Drink the Coffee (unless you were a pretentious prick, like some of the people behind that counter who referred to themselves as Baristas). You were not a Hollywood star unless you had a Starbucks cup in your hand whenever you were seen. This was eventually replaced with water bottles filled with vodka.

Then came one of the greatest inventions known to modern man: the Keurig.
For a ridiculously inflated price, you could buy a coffee maker. You'd stick these little plastic pods in them and hit GO. Even if the coffee was shit, YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO CLEAN IT. And believe me, most of the coffee is shit. But the ease of use is through the roof, unless you're still too confused and have to go to Dunkinbucks. You can't make more than a cup at a time, but it will go on forever. By the time your party is over, you'll still be making coffee. I'd still do it - as an introvert, I'm much happier pushing a button to make coffee than talking to people. I have the coffee pods trucked in weekly... it's my only indulgence (unlike SHOES, Dear). Apparently the used coffee grounds are good for plants. Either that or we've been the victim of a cruel and hysterical joke. Because we have the used pods all over the house, including bathrooms, so Wife can pull them apart and put the grounds in plants. She also puts bits of plastic, Drano, and handfuls of dust into plants; not because she heard it was a good thing.. but because she likes to.

This has also created a larger market for creamers, especially the flavored ones. There's coconut, Almond Joy, salted (naturally) caramel, broccoli, and 5W40 motor oil. In fact, the only creamer you have to order specially is the regular old cream.  Don't get me started on pumpkin spice....

I have a cup a day, at least until my face touches the work computer, at which point a second cup is required. The only problem with the pods is that they won't make 2 cups at once. If I could do this, my work would improve greatly, avoiding the time needed to make the second cup.  Maybe a dual-headed Keurig, which would look like some sort of sex toy used by people in Washington, DC, and New Old Swaziland (now called Iraq), where all forms of sex have been prohibited. If I make 2 cups one after the other, my mug has to be the size of a Volkswagen and even then it comes to the top. If I adjust the size of the Keurig's output, I can get two cups down to the size of the couch. This may or may not be sufficient to get my work done, assuming there are no cushions on the couch or loose change inside.





  • If you have to ask "Are you awake?" -they're not.


I have Reverse Body Dysmorphia: I think I have defined arms, a flat stomach, and beautiful hair that doesn't fall out



Renterprise Strikes Again
Just when we thought we were mostly free of the rental debacle, we got notice of a toll fee of $25, which was a toll of $16 and a service fee of $9. In order to come up with a toll of $16, we'd have to do a day's driving to the boondocks of PA. As for a service fee, are you kidding me? I should get a service fee for renting one of their cars. Out of all the slimy stuff they pulled....

Used car salesmen running a car rental agency.



  • Andrew Cuomo's top aide will resign amid sexual harassment scandal
  • Cuomo says "It was her. Now will you all leave me alone?" 


Truly UPSIDE DOWN WORLD

US stock exchange sets diversity rules for listed companies

A lot of times, it's just downright goofy. This is the Stock Exchange, fer chrissake.

Firms on the Nasdaq, which include tech giants such as Apple and Tesla, will have to have at least two diverse directors, or explain why they do not.

The directors should include one person who identifies as female and another as an underrepresented minority or LGBTQ+.

Still no left handed history month.


  • We know that Disney World (the Mouse House) sucks up money like Microsoft sucks up data, so it will not surprise you that at the new Star Wars-themed hotel, a weekend for two costs $4,800.
  • bj from Wookie extra 


Woman sues McDonald's for $14 after its ad for food forced her to break Russian Orthodox Lent.
  • Car crashes into building.
  • Gun kills eight.
  • Pen stabs moron in neck


Check to see if you have one of these routers 
If you do, contact your provider. There's a really serious bug that's being exploited now and things could get ugly.



One of the widely acknowledged Windows pioneers is pissed because while using Microsoft Edge, it spontaneously gave him a popup, advising him of an alternative.

In other words, his browser provided him with an ad

His browser - not a site, gave him an ad.

I wonder why a Windows pioneer is using a Windows browser. Use Firefox.

Remember: neither your operating system nor your browser should provide you with ads. An ad blocker will take care of ads from sites.