Your love is like extra math classes
Driverless cars could force other road users to drive more efficiently
also more carefully, because they don't want the driverless cars to hit them...
Today I identify as 25 year old classic dust
- Headbutts hurt the brain, even for a musk ox
- Who could have seen this coming?
- NFL chooses to ignore, lawyers celebrate
New Zoom Flaws Could Let Attackers Hack Victims Just by Sending them a Message
Stop using Zoom - it's a piece of donkey dung. There are many alternatives, some secure. Try Wire.
Flying AIDS News
Kids 5 to 11 get FDA OK for COVID-19 booster dosesTop Biden health officials sound warning on rising coronavirus infectionsWhat the public wants in COVID news vs. what the press providesPfizer warns of “constant waves” of Covid as complacency growsPfizer says 3-dose COVID vaccine for under 5s produces strong immune responsetrials begin in-the-womb
Somebody wake Fauci - we need another PANIC!!!
Don't worry - Pfizer's already on it
The Biden administration announced it is sending $24 billion to Ukraine this week and more next week. When asked how it's going to pay for that, Biden brought up his new Bathroom Tax. Whenever you go to the bathroom, you pay a tax on it. To be fair to lower wage earners, the tax will be a flat fee of $5. So if you go four times a day, just mail $20 to Good Ole Joe, c/o White House, DC.
Little Feat's Waiting for Columbus, their 1978 live album, is being released, with a whole bunch of new shows added. With or without the extra material and tweaking, Waiting for Columbus is a great live album. The latest version of Little Feat is missing 3 (dead) numbers and I'm not too sure I want to listen to this version. But buy the album - if you aren't up and playing invisible percussion, you are probably deceased.
I notice it almost daily: all emails must be on one topic only. If you send an email like this:
1. I need your hours
2. I'm going to touch your wife inappropriately
Response: 40
People don't read or can't deal with more than one thing at a time.
1. hey - nice shirt today!
2. the boss wants to see you before you leave. He's pissed.
Response: Thanks! I got it a long time ago.
Try it.
The Continuing Saga of Mowing
It never stops.
The rain.
And because the rain never stops, the grass weeds continue to grow.
And because the weeds continue to grow, I have to mow them.
And I have PTSD because a lawn mower did something to me when I was little. Or something. I hate mowing. And grass.
We have an electric mower that has done a great job for years. And now the battery is not taking a charge. No problem, go to the manufacturer's site and find it. Oops. Can't find.
Look elsewhere. Can't find. Because when you search for a battery, all you get is battery chargers. Even using the part number.
Back to the manufacturer and there it is: only $85. Out of stock and discontinued.
So to pile on the aggravation, we need a new mower. The similar ones start at $300 and ramp up rapidly. I paid less for cars than some of these mowers. It just has to cut the grass.. I'm not looking for Bluetooth, baggers, body-shredders, or DNA cleaning. The idea of self-mowers is good, but it would just try to mow then commit suicide (like the dehumidifiers).
When we visited Arizona, many of the 'lawns' were dirt and rocks. I fell in love. I wanted to concrete the rear, but was officially told no. Something about being harder to find the bodies, but I stopped listening after No. If you watch the grass and concentrate, you can see it fscking grow. The dead mower is sitting there and you can watch the grass growing past it and trying to eat the mower. The dog has to be watched because sometimes she disappears in the weeds.
Looking at goog maps and driving around the block, I notice there are a lot of houses. Therefore, a lot of homeowners. How do these people do it? Our house-buying experience was like falling down a recently-sharpened set of metal steps. Each one a deep wound and another problem. Our home ownership experience has been like the buying experience, with a couple more floors of steps added, just for fun. It would have been nice if one of the many homeowners on the planet would have told us something. Anything. Just a little tip. Stuff about mowing. Interest rates. Teaching the dog not to bark at the neighbors. Something.
My guitar fund is actually in negative numbers.
RIP Alan White, who played the drums on John Lennon's Imagine, as well as being a member of Yes, since 1972.
- If you want a fast, accurate market reading, ask a stripper
- it makes sense - read the article
I don't know if it was a state thing or a federal thing or just plain old weather modification, but we only have two seasons; winter and summer. We just went from the 50s to the 90s. Summer is upon us. It seems to be really late this year, like falling gas prices. $70 to fill the car. Given the choice, I'd take summer. I could deal with never wearing a coat.
We went out of state to a Mem
orial Day hamfest. As you no doubt remember, a hamfest is a flea market for radios, electronics, and Various Other Stuff<tm>. We thought it would be mobbed, because people are springing forth from their state-mandated Flying AIDS lockdowns, but alas, it wasn't so great. The amount of crap being sold is always mesmerizing, as well as the sheer variety. Anything from ancient parts removed from ancient tube equipment to DVDs. Mrs. lefty loves DVDs like I love sleeping late. Really bad old movies. Really bad black and white old movies from before anyone was born. There was computer equipment too, but I gave up when the computer's sticker said WINDOWS XP (although linux would run fine). It was more for the experience than the purchasing, although I've made some great purchases. We made our customary stop at Waffle House. You need to stop laughing when I say that. We don't have Waffle House anywhere near us. Their waffles are just like.... waffles. I think we go for the show. Which is definitely preferable to going for the coffee, which may be made using old, used ashtrays. The internal children love it to death. I just want to warn you... if you have PTSD, you really shouldn't go in there. The screaming, plate smashing, and cooking noises are really too much and could trigger an episode in the most well-appearing veteran. It sent me right back to Nam, in a sweetened cereal paddy....
SO hamfest has no porcine relevance. Radio amateurs are 'hams'.
This is not to be confused with CBs, which are operated by loud inbreds, who feel the need to add echo to their radios. I don't want to paint with too broad a brush.. I'm only referring to 95% of them.
- According to Gene Simmons, Kiss are retiring out of pride and self-respect.
- Sorry Gene, that ship sailed over 20 years ago...
It was dark and the rain had been falling all day. Few were gathered at graveside to support the widow. After everyone got done lobbing stuff into the grave, they proceeded to the party. The main question on everybody's mind was what happened?
Since it's not polite to ask this sort of thing of the widow, Mrs. lefty, people lined up to ask.
She looked at the small assemblage and said, "He walked into his office Monday, and everything just worked. He had a heart attack and died."
Lately it's been printers, although it's not limited to them. Since we only print once a month or less, issues aren't common. One would think you plug the printer's USB into the laptop and hit PRINT. But you silly mortals don't understand the finer points of operating computers, networks, and printers.
- Turn on the printer: this is where it can all go wrong immediately.
- Plug in the printer cable: it's hard for even my coworkers to mess this up
- Hit PRINT
- Wait for an error. There's always an error.
In order to keep printer prices low, manufacturers build in the Intermittent Invisible Fault option. When this activates, you can plug it in, reboot the pc, reboot the printer, and hang upside down from the ceiling, but it's not going to work. If you're a Level 11 Masochist, you may call Support, which cannot even begin to diagnose the problem because it's intermittent and won't act up for them.
If you've plugged in more than 3 printers, you tell the computer to print a test page. This will fail miserably. This morning the error was "Out of Paper." Folks, even our president could tell there was paper in the printer, but I tried to look perfesshionel and reseated the paper. I even added more paper to confuse things. Of course the printer won: it had PRE-confused things.
Then you bring up the printer queue. This tells you what the printer has to print, if it hasn't already. So I printed a test page, watched it zip through the queue and completely failed to print. So as far as the computer was concerned, the printer printed. This means the printer is stupid. But how can the printer be stupid if it deliberately fails to print? The only one upset here is me.
It is at this point that you need to go back to #2: Plug in the printer cable. I can't tell you how many times this has saved me hours of work.
It's not like there's any particular brand of printer I have problems with, although I prefer HP because they play well with linux. Perhaps the printer is female and throws up errors because I don't pay enough attention to it. I don't care: there's a female wife and a female dog in the house... I don't need any additional agita.
The printer itself is located out of the way, so it doesn't produce more clutter, making it very difficult to launch across the room or the house. Perhaps I can get the dog to bark at it.
The only sensible action is to state "I ask too much" and go on to something else. Cuz you know the thing will start spitting out pages at 4 tomorrow morning.
The only acceptable for ThermionicEmissions Depp news: Johnny flew across the pond and appeared onstage with the one and only Jeff Beck, Thermionic's favorite guitar player and one of the world's best. But let's face it - Depp is not in Mr. Beck's league and doesn't really belong onstage with him. It's nice to have friends.
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