Monday, July 11, 2022

I've Fallen and I Don't Want to Get Up


Your love is like   a mercury sandwich


Gas prices have gone down... a whole few cents. They're expected to go down further over the next few weeks. Glory be.


Today I identify as   a lost gas cap



Google's AI is better than humans in distributing wealth.

Why do we need to distribute wealth? What is this crap about killing the rich? They made their money, even if using laws slanted for their benefit. If you want to fix this, end the laws. I am not of the rich class, obviously. I don't feel I deserve their money. By the same token, I am not giving anything up because someone else wants my money. 


Automakers are dropping AM radio from EVs.

The EVs make so much noise, AM is useless. FM is also useless, but because of its content, or lack of thereof.

 

Hackers can unlock and start any model Honda

The Internet of Things continues its very slow, spectacular train wreck...

and police can monitor you via OnStar and similar services.

 

A coffee company just informed me that fresh coffee tastes better.

  • Wow, I needed that. Here I am, drinking any old coffee hanging around, regardless of its age. I like my coffee just before Stuff starts to appear in it. I'm not sure how to get it much fresher than the Keurig machine to my hand.
  • I could roast my own beans, but I could also make my own clothes.


We are adrift in a sea of nothingness.
Things just aren't the same anymore.
The One True Pizza owners sold the business. In spite of assurances nothing would change (aside from the prices), the pizza just isn't the same.
Years and years and years of pizza. We watched their kids grow up.
Nothing makes sense anymore.
People are walking around the area, glassy-eyed, looking for pizza. Sure, there are pizza places, but not this pizza place. We brought in people from many states, who all agreed this was the pizza. It was one of three restaurants we went to.

Sigh. 

2nd place is Woodstock's Pizza, in Davis, CA, but it's always cold by the time it gets halfway across the country.



Honey, they blew up the Georgia Guidestones! 

You know, that huge monument with sayings in a few languages on it, referred to as America's Stonehenge. Some claim it's religious. A local pastor said it was for cult and devil worship. A candidate for governor stated it was good they blew it up because it was Luciferian and he would use executive order to have them destroyed.

First of all, why do people think it's alright to blow things up that aren't theirs?
Second, this is your brain onto you. religion. It creates a Loonie Class, prone to explosions, murder, and other silly ideas. (a minority, of course)



GOOD MORNING. HOW ARE YOU?
uuuuuuuuuhhh.... ooooooohhhhhh
IS SOMETHING WRONG?
head. hurts. sleep.
WHAT HURTS?
head feels... like... drilling. tired.
OH. SORRY.
sssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhh
OH. SORRY. I'M GOING TO A BIRTHDAY PARTY.
mmmmmmm..... please.
SHALL I CALL YOU WHEN I LEAVE?
nooooooooooooo. 
WHERE IS YOUR EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ELEPHANT THIS MORNING?
groannnnnnnnnnnn. drunk. again.
CAN I GET YOU SOME ICE CREAM OR CLAMS FOR BREAKFAST?
ooh. my head......
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WHILE I'M GONE?
thinking about continuing to sleep. can't sleep now.
WHY?
someone keeps talking to me
WHO?   OH.  I'LL BE QUIET.
thank you.
I'LL CALL YOU WHEN I'M COMING HOME.
got any sharp knives?
CAN I PICK YOU UP ANYTHING ON THE WAY BACK?
pills.
OK, I'M LEAVING NOW.
kill me. please.
I'M BACK. I FORGOT MY KEYS.
noise-canceling headphones do not keep your voice out
HAVE A NICE DAY!
have a quiet day. sleep now.
OK, YOU GET SOME SLEEP.
who are we kidding, I'm up now.
GOOD - THEN YOU CAN GO TO THE BIRTHDAY PARTY WITH ME.
you're a lot smarter than you look.
I'D HAVE TO BE.







Friday, July 8, 2022

It Smells Like There's Something Dead in Here


Your love is like  STDs so new, they don't have names yet



  • It was years in the making, but the UK finally got tired of Boris Johnson and he resigned. Rumors state that late at night while he slept, his hair would get up to all sorts of hijinks. This explains a lot.
  • Other rumors are that the opposing party (the Bad Wigs) have pictures of Boris at a sex party, dressed as a lamp post.



Today I identify as  a cigarette.. I'm highly-taxed and no good



DUCK - INCOMING

 You know how, if you put something in the fridge at the wrong angle, the next time you open the door, it will leap out of the fridge?  I just had the freezer lob a wireless phone at me. Using my mastery of temperature, I figured out it was not actually in the freezer. So now I have to wonder if the freezer has reached sentience and has figured out how to throw things at me. Things that weren't in it.

Eventually, somebody here will want to know where the wireless phone is. I'll suggest the freezer. And a Kevlar vest.


Could we hold up on asshole bleaching, at least til it gets cooler?

Thanks.


Mojo Vision has a smart contact lens prototype, that puts a micro-LED display on a contact lens. The whole unit is undetectable, except for the huge SVGA cable going up to your eyes.



Disney is going to lose the copyright to Mickey Mouse. It expires in 2024, almost 95 years from its creation in 1928. It turns out that Disney isn't too worried, as no one would dare use Mickey, for fear of going missing and never seeing their family again. While Florida is a state, Disney is its own nation state, employing more lawyers than Washington DC. If suing you to death fails, they'll simply deploy one of their 'lawsuit reduction specialists' to terminate you with extreme prejudice.


Missing British homing pigeon, Bob, found 4,000 miles away in Alabama.
Experts, who are embarrassed to admit they're pigeon experts, believe he caught a ship for America, as he wouldn't be capable of flying all the way. Other theories include quantum teleportation and aliens. Experts warn there's always a 'Bob', regardless of species. Bob's owners are considering dragging themselves into the 20th century and using the Pony Express. The laugh will be on them, as there are over 1,400 Bobs delivering the mail. Bob is currently being cared for by an animal group, where he is teaching the US Postal Service correct addressing. Bob is worth 1,000 lbs (13 grams), but nobody knows why.

Correction: the above may be a cleverly-disguised July 4th joke from England.


Nancy Pelosi (D-Why?) received communion in the Vatican despite her abortion stance. Her archbishop says her pro-choice views will keep her from receiving communion in the future. The archbishop noted their rules are "kind of bendy."

Asked for comment, the pope said in Pelosi's case, communion would not be denied on the basis of abortion stance; instead it will be denied because she's a very naughty person and she smells like death.

 

BEST HEADLINE 

Florida once again has giant calamitous snails that spew parasitic brain worms (for the third time)


Work is fun. And when I say fun, I mean a trip into the Weird Zone<tm>.

Something inside a server broke. On this, everyone can agree. Unfortunately, no one else can agree on anything else, including UPS, Manglement, the server guys, Ignatz the Wonder Llama, and me. Our service contract states we'll be back in service within 4 hours. What this actually means is that we'll be back up in any number of hours that has a 4 in it, like 444. My extremely complex task is not to fix the server, but to walk the tech in, point to the server, and let him fix it. I've been paid for less, but not recently.

The replacement part came in, signed for by Bob Smith. That was good, except there is no Bob Smith in our (dis)organization. The tech traced things and found out Bob Smith is not with me, but with the carrier. Or something. The tech should have known the box was returned. How he should have known was not apparent.

So they sent a second part. It actually arrived. My second 1 hour trip occurred and I pointed the tech at the server. He replaced the part, the server came up, and Robin's minstrels played. I spent half an hour trying to get hold of the server people to test things. They were nowhere to be found. An hour later, the server people wanted to know why it wasn't tested - the thing was freaking out and randomly rebooting itself. I got a gold star from my boss for never saying the word 'Windows.' So the tech says the second part is broken and ain't nothin we can do til third part comes in.

So that's two 1 hour trips in the same day.

Today they tell me the third part has come in. It was signed for by Jim Smith. I'm not taking the bait this time. There's no Jim Smith. I have to call around to receiving and 17 other departments to find out if it was delivered, or I should have known it was sent back. I refuse to leave the house until I verify it was delivered. I feel like I'm fighting City Hall. 

We locate the errant (third) part and convene in the server room. The poor guy troubleshoots until his head explodes, then calls Dell. Now *I* have to clean the residue of his head off the servers. But wait - it gets better. There are still parts needed! Because I can't trust Bob or Jim Smith, they're getting sent to ME at home, then I have to go back into work. For those of you playing along at home, that's 2 days with 2 trips into work per day. I am not greedy - I asked for ice cream. But I'd rather have a shrubbery. Meanwhile, my stomach was growling in Morse code.. something like "SOS - I haven't eaten since last night." I'm asking for bedding to be installed. With concubines. I am not high-maintenance.


Tonight Tonight! On ABCBS! More Shitty Reality Shows!

Changing Your Car's Oil with the Stars!

Vacuuming with the Stars!

Dancing with Your Car Mechanic!

Survivor - DMV!

Sex with the Dunkin Donuts Counterperson!

Hey - That Girl Has a Penis!

and more....


  • The ticket company seems insistent on letting me know Cardi B is coming. And there are some more tickets available! I plan to stand in line to avoid this show.
  • Speaking of which, MISTER Cardi B is in deep doo-doo for not registering his sex offender status when they moved.


 I just wanted everybody to know we're doing our part for the local economy. We're having the streets repaired. Or something. I say we're doing our part for the economy because we did this last year too. I don't want to be the one who complains about unrepaired roads, so I watch with interest. Or rather, I listen. Even dead people hear this equipment.

Since I was little, all road repairs all over the area were done by one company - ACME Road Repairs. Their mascot is Wile E. Coyote on a rocket. One of the questions I don't ask is why this company does all the work. If I did, I might end up in a landfill somewhere, never asking questions again. I'm married to a very dangerous woman, with stacks of true murder books, so I'm used to not asking too many questions. Another question I dare not ask is why this needs to happen every year. It may not be the frequency of repairs so much as why the repairs don't seem to actually repair anything. There's a hole around the corner that has eaten several cars and at least one house.

Citizen: Excuse me, Mr. Street Repairer, can you tell me why there are yearly repairs but huge potholes?

ACME: Yo, Vinnie, dis guy wants ta know why we're here so much.

Vinnie Soprano: Sir, it's very simple: this is not a repair - it's a refresh. We refresh the existing roads.

Citizen: What about the potholes?

Vinnie Soprano: Dat's a repair, not a refresh. It's a whole different contract that needs to be signed and funded by the state. If the funds aren't available, the president will take care of it in his next $52 trillion spending project.

Citizen: So nothing's getting fixed?

Vinnie: Sir, are you acting wise wid me? That machine over there can disintegrate a body. You will reach immortality, cuz you'll be a foundation of the street refresh project.

Citizen: No, no, just askin'. Can I get you a beer? I know you can drink on the job, being city workers.

So this huge company has equipment you've never seen, including this thing on tracks, that seems to gouge the street, then sent the individual bits up a ramp, onto a truck that runs in front of it. I think this is also where the bodies go. Judging by the tracks, this is also some kind of military vehicle. Since there are so many of them and one company doing the work, I think the company is a front for the Pentagon. While they look like they're doing road work, they're actually protecting us from our enemies.  Should anybody try to invade, the machinery will go into Protection Mode, like a Transformer, but worse, and vanquish all enemies (whoever our enemies are at that particular moment).


While listening to a police scanner the other day, they mentioned information from the UAV. The unmanned aerial vehicle. The drone. Aside from acquisition cost, I'm guessing this runs cheaper and stays in the air longer than the helicopter. It will also fly low and other places a helo can't. Its the first time I heard police using a drone. More from the Surveillance State.

 

With all the agencies looking into anti-competitive proceedings and buyouts, I notice nobody's looking at Microsoft's dominance in the operating system field. Not that it's the government's business...


  • Clerks III is coming, with the original cast.


Another day at the convenience store, another case of many missing products, even in the soda case. It's daily and nobody has satisfactorily explained it or, more importantly, fixed it. It's the same at the grocery store. The Flying AIDS fscked us all.







Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Coffee Flavored Coffee

 

Your love is like  dirty sandpaper soup


The Science on Anal Pleasure Is In (But Not All the Way)

Stop snickering - this is Science! 


Today I identify as  Ru Paul's car mechanic



  • I am not qualified to be awake - please come back tomorrow



As you no doubt remember, the houses on both sides are for sale.
One side was purchased by a couple and we took some cookies over to introduce ourselves. As that happened, I could hear the collective groan of all my ancestors and my hopes and dreams when I was little.

Being welcoming to a new neighbor?
What kinda excrement is that?
I'm the most introverted person on the block. I'm so introverted, some of the neighbors think Mrs. lefty is single.

I think we did it as a precaution.... if we sent cookies, they'll be less likely to get upset at some of the stuff that goes on around here....
  • dog getting lost in the foot-tall grass and barking
  • picking our (neighbors') nails
  • the lynchings
  • blasting talk radio at top volume
  • the upside down crosses tattooed on our eyelids
  • kitten bbq Fridays


It was Saturday morning.... ok, it was Saturday afternoon, but it was morning to me. I was minding my own business reading a book, and trying my best not to fall asleep. If I get over 5 hours of sleep, I can't function. Thinking quickly, I got myself another cup of coffee. Fifteen minutes later, I could feel it: now I was in a hurry to fall asleep.



  • Do mask mandates work? Bay Area COVID data from June says no
  • FDA calls for fall boosters against BA.4/5 as subvariants take over US

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz blasts Sesame Street – again – after Elmo gets the coronavirus vaccine

Even a broken clock is right twice a day, so although we agree with Ted once or twice...   
Elmo had to ask his two daddies if the FDA has OK'd the shot for trans kids his age, and will the side effects keep him out of the Pride Parade.



The other day I heard some woman say another woman had 'fake lips.'
Fake lips?
Did she have no lips at one point, then someone did a Mr. Potato Head on her and gave her lips?

I'm happy being a guy (except for that multiple orgasm thing). I can be ready in 15 minutes after the alarm goes off; Wife needs 60. I don't bleed regularly. I don't require makeup or foundation garments. Never in my life have I had to be pretty. I don't have to maintain my ugliness. I survive with two pairs of shoes; sneakers and the ones I haven't worn since the job interview. My semi-unibrow doesn't get plucked. It's better that my boobs don't precede me by much. I require shaving cream, but not 2 bathrooms full of creams, solvents, and exfoliants. I don't even have to remember not to use certain creams below the equator, if you know what I mean.

Where the hell was I going with this? 



It was 5:30 on my day off and I knew I needed to get things done... to do something.. to make the day feel worth it. I knew then what I needed to do: I jumped up to begin and went right to the sofa for a nap. You can't start things too quickly or haphazardly. You could get hurt or something.



A visitor to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming has become the second person in just three days to be attacked by a wild bison.

The 71-year-old women inadvertently approached the animal as she returned to her car, causing it to charge.

I dunno about you, but I hope I'm bright enough not to screw with very large animals when I'm 71. I saw a few bison once, at a local zoo. I was terrified - those things are the size of railroad cars. What really bothered me was that there was only some sad wire fence keeping them away from us (us away from them). This lady must be fun around sharks.

They say Old Faithful is going to get us. Maybe the bison are sneaking in ahead of it. I'm sure there are many species willing to put an end to the scourge of humans upon the planet.




So how's the lunatic quadruped, you ask. You know, the fur-bearin' critter.
Well, she's still beautiful, but she graduated from barking at me to barking at the fireworks. We need to start flying out of the country on July 4th. 



North Korea claims the Flying AIDS arrived on 'alien things' near the border with South Korea. "No Flying AIDS in Best Korea until South Korea started blowing it across the border to infect us. Much hot air in South Korea."

In other news, North Korean citizens are in turmoil. Not because of the Flying AIDS, but because they all need the exact mask Kim Jong-un has or they'll be shot. The Flying AIDS will look like a head cold in comparison.


The other day in San Francisco, driverless Cruise robotaxis all stopped working simultaneously, blocking streets.

Governor Gavin Newsom said they should WORK, or he shall tell them they should work again.

BLM was seen smashing the taxis to bits and setting them on fire. They were not prosecuted because the cars are white.



Congress had a hearing on making the Venture Capital world less white and male.

Why in the universe is this any of Congress' business? Did they run out of other places to stick their noses? No more special privileges, voting themselves pay raises, or acting outraged about other things?



Happy 4th, friends, countrymen, and everyone else.

We did a great job back then. And now we're fscked again.



stupid Russian antivirus...


Friday, July 1, 2022

Will Biden Ever Run Out of Things to Tax?

 

Your love is like  Plan B souffle


At this point, the answer is NO.


Today I identify as  a failed abortion


  • I can only do one thing at a time and I can't really do that well


Looks like Pride Month is coming up.

I'm gonna be proud of being a straight guy who plays guitar left handed and is the CEO of Sarcasm.

Something tells me I'm going to get a lot of crap. As usual.


People are getting explosive gastroenteritis at the Grand Canyon

Man, I hate when that happens. If nothing else, the environmentalists better get on this, because climate change flatulence damage is significant.

Emergency calls have been put into Fauci, because if the virus can be declared a pandemic, the federal government will send $$$.


Beg-a-Thon

It ain't your fault, but yesterday three people stopped by this blog. All day.

Tell your friends. If you don't like us, tell your enemies. Let them know the blog can be automatically emailed to them. Tell your service elephants and peacocks. Tell your air conditioners, because it's spring and fun to watch people talking to inanimate objects.

I turned off advertising, so I make nothing. I'd just like to soothe my fragile ego by having a few more people coming by.  Thanks! 


Tech Companies Won't Say If They’ll Give Cops Abortion Data

Understand this: data will become available on people at protests [turn your goddamn phone OFF].

Tech companies ready public stances on Roe v. Wade

  • the Ugly has just started...
  • Faceyspaces will offer abortion in their cafeteria
  • Amazon will do abortion, but only on the shipping line, to minimize down time

Facebook Is Banning People Who Say They Will Mail Abortion Pills

Keep dem people in line

 

Congress Wants to Spend $45 Million on Nukes the Navy Said it Doesn’t Need

So long as it comes out of their pockets, I don't see any problem.


Three changes to legislation demanded by ThermionicEmissions
  1. all legislation be vetted for Constitutionality - this will cut down a lot of unnecessary legislation and fighting later on
  2. all legislation be on One Topic only. No inserts, no exceptions, no pork.
  3. Some sort of responsibility for all legislation. If your bill fails and cost the taxpayers $25 billion, you (Congressperson) must be responsible for it in some way, to be determined later. Watch the cockroaches scatter! 



Ukraine war: US to ramp up military presence across Europe

Gotta get in there somehow..... don't short Boeing


 NASA wants nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030

  • NASA wives want shoe store on Moon by 2030
  • Astronauts want Victoria's Secret on Moon by 2030
  • Bernie Sanders wants free education on Moon this week
  • Biden wants 'a nice place to nap' on Moon by 2030
  • Biden wants tax revenue from everything on Moon by 2029


Amtrak derailment: Three killed in Missouri after train hits truck

Some historian, long in the tooth and dressed very strangely, will finally put together the figures on trucks hit by trains and discover the phenomenon he'll call Truckus Blockus. This is the condition that results from complete stupidity, wherein a driver decides to just park his truck on the tracks - what's the worst thing that can happen? Related is Vehicle Idiotus, in which a clearly deranged driver thinks he can speed by the blinking lights and beat the train. This is usually his last thought.


Texas Supreme Court Rules This Train Is a Train

The Texas Supreme Court is on a roll lately, having ruled that this gun is a gun, this washing machine is a washing machine, and George Bush is.. well.. they don't know what George Bush is.



As if Alexa isn't creepy enough, they just announced that they will be able to read stories as your dead grandma. Will this finally be the thing that makes me buy an Alexa? Does the pope shit in the woods?  

I want to hear all of my dead relatives sing "It's a Small World."


Fauci reports COVID rebound, says his is “much worse” than initial illness

God snickers....


Your Tax Dollars at Work

Biden administration launches $1 billion effort to correct racist highway designs of the past

#ImpeachBiden - I don't have to make a single headline up (unfortunately)

 


The mowing situation has gotten even worse, if you can believe it. The constant rain causes the weeds to grow, requiring mowing every 2 weeks. It's gotten so bad that we're now at ONE week. Pretty soon someone will sneeze and we'll have to be out there again, with our environmentally-supportive electric mower.

I tried asking Iqbal, my emotional support elephant, to mow for me. He looked at me in the way he does, with slanted eyes, and said, "Not my yob, mang."









Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Johnny, Don't Stack the Bodies in the Garage, Please

 

Your love is like  antidepressants that make your penis useless


Major tampon makers pledge to tackle US shortages

This is where people can borrow some of the rhetoric of the anti-gunners: There will be blood in the streets! 


Today I identify as  a guy who gets all sorts of wild, kinky sex


Way to go, Supreme Court - you've gone backwards. Women are no longer sovereign over their own bodies.  Flushing America down the toilet, one freedom at a time.

Green Day 'singer' Billie Joe Armstrong is renouncing his US citizenship. While this could be a good things for people who like music, it will no doubt wind up like the people moving to Canada if Trump won. Zero went.



  • NOTICE: you cannot purchase a lawnmower cover if you want one from any place that might rhyme with Bone Depot. It has nothing to do with supply chain issues; they just don't carry them.
  • In related news, going from a 13" to a 17" blade makes the dreaded mowing time shorter for me. Ladies, you're right - size does matter.


I woke up next to a naked lady. 

Looking everything over, she seemed largely to be my wife. This is good, especially given Wife's strict No Dating policy. 

Being a male of the species, my eye went right to a mammalian protuberance. I studied it in depth. I didn't have a lot of depth perception, as I was only using one eye. The other eye was in the pillow, still asleep. This is the closest I get to multitasking. Giving it some thought, worshiping is not the same as studying, so I spent some quality time with it (the closer one, obviously). It was absolutely fascinating, the way each part came together to make the whole. I am obviously going to have to spend more time clinically and artistically appreciating the fun bags. 


  • It's not that I sit around a lot, but we had to get rid of the motion sensors on the lights; they kept turning off while I sat.


Amazon fears it could run out of US warehouse workers by 2024

Here's a fun story: if you think about it, this means people are smarter than they were before the Flying AIDS. There are no more people stupid enough to work for Amazon.

Amazon shows off robot warehouse workers that won't complain, quit, unionize...

BUT, here we have two headlines, a day apart, about Amazon. Amazon is nowhere near as evil as Microsoft, unless you have to work for them. Last year I said that as soon as Amazon got robots, workers had better have their resumes current and out. This also signals greater health in the population, as warehouses will no longer be falling on workers. It also saves billions in insurance and payouts, because robots don't sue (for now). Like with the automation of McDonald's, the only trick will be programming the robots to screw up your order. Maybe they can use AI.

Factoid: the average Amazon worker lasts 8 months, a wacky amount under the average worker anywhere else. 


 

YouTube Runs Ad Offering American Men a Ukrainian Woman

You gotta love this. YouTube, one of the Great Censors of the net, ran an ad pushing Ukranian brides. Apparently one of the attractions is that American men are more ambitious and socially and financially responsible. That says a lot about Ukranian men. English is also spoken.

One doesn't have to watch too much pr0n to know some Eastern European women are gorgeous.  Just think about it.... socially responsible would be hosting a gorgeous woman while her country is being invaded.  Married men should proceed slowly.


Biden sends every signal that he is running again.

He wants to be just like Obama, so the Secret Service runs with him every morning.

Whose brilliant idea was this? The democratic slogan was "this is the best we got" and they're going to run this disaster again? The man is cognitively-impaired, as well as spending-forward.


New monkeypox advice is to have sex with your clothes on and masturbate six feet apart

Unable to give clueless advice on the Flying AIDS anymore, the CDC is onto its next pandemic; Monkeypox. Perhaps they can explain how to have penetrative sex six feet apart.

 

‘I literally lost organs:’ Why detransitioned teens regret changing genders

Just when you were getting used to adding 'transitioned' to your vocabulary, it's time to add 'detransitioned.' These are the unfortunate people who are changing back to their original gender. I have no trouble with anybody doing what they want with their body, but I feel sorry for people with the notion they're in the wrong body, or OOPS, I shouldn't have transitioned.

My understanding was that the transitioning person is given a battery of psychological tests to determine they're healthy and the decision is not coming from some other disorder. In Multiple Personality Disorder, one of the personalities can 'hijack' the body and do things to it. This is checked for. Or maybe not. The article states that the kids were ignored until they found unconditional support on the net. This is so dangerous. Again we have poor parenting and no self-esteem.

Lastly, at what age should kids be allowed to make this decision?


US Senate passes first gun control bill in decades

Yet more unconstitutional law - more abridgment of your rights. Let your senator know.


 

I had many years of Customer Weirdness, in which things went well, so long as I never left the house. If I went to a restaurant, from fast food up, the order would get messed up, if it even arrived. While waiting to be seated, a relative asked me to stand away from the family so they'd get seated. At that restaurant, food arrived for everyone, except me. The waitress stood there, looking confused, "Oh, did you order something?" 

While it was difficult to figure out what would come on top of my burger, you could rest assured it would contain whatever I said it shouldn't. I do not eat mayonnaise or tomatoes on burgers, so they would always be there. How was I supposed to know you had to order them without mayo or tomatoes. And when I figured this out, the burger would still have mayo and tomatoes on it. Tomatoes are easy to remove... just take a bite and they will go rocketing out the other end. Mayo not so much. I guess this was because no one eats mayo on meat where I grew up (Mars).

I went for a while where this stopped happening. Cynics will say it was because I was stuck in the house for two years. It was a great time because I always got exactly what I ordered or what I wanted was in stock.

Unfortunately Customer Weirdness is back.

Just this morning I asked for our favorite frozen treat at Dunkin. What arrived was frozen coffee with insufficient cream and no sugar. It wasn't what we've been getting for the last ten years. My English hasn't changed. The menu hasn't changed.

I once went to a guitar show and couldn't get one of the vendors to wait on me. I stood there and waved a bunch of cash, hoping someone would help. Nope. I'm reasonably certain I'm not invisible, although perhaps I don't know when it happens.

Yesterday we were at a store, checking out. There were exactly two checkout lanes, human-occupied, and a boatload of self checkouts. Since there were already 47 people in the human-occupied line, we sadly used a self checkout. And the first item stopped the entire process, calling for help. Manglement lets us know that they're not using plastic bags, they're using paper, which they switched to plastic years back. In any case, they were charging us for the paper bags. I smiled my best killer sarcasm smile while I told her how happy that made us. Then I told her we must have missed the large sign telling us we had to pay for them. Naturally there was no sign. Then she yells across the store that we have to re-scan the item that caused the problem. Oh, we should have known that too. I guess supply chain issues hurt their brains somehow.



T-Mobile has started selling your app data to advertisers
It was inevitable. You are merely a product, whether you're paying for the service or not.


Don't tell Elon, cuz he's gonna get jealous.
Toyota and Subaru are recalling EVs because the tires might literally fall off.
"Sharp turns and sudden braking" might cause this, so in the meantime, drive your vehicle very slowly to the dealership. Or have it towed and send your dealer the bill. Better yet, drive like a loon, because we like to see the world burn!



Monkeypox is not a global health emergency for now, WHO says
SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY... the CDC fights the WHO in a no holds barred grudge match, over whether Monkeypox is a pandemic or not. If not, when can it BE a pandemic. Special guest referree: Lord Fauci



Joe Walsh  -  BAND PLAYED ON
[Analog Man - buy it]

Look out my window see a world that's on fire
Some people think that we should just let it burn
With all this ignorance the flames just get higher... Higher

All of these people with their misinformation
Must be the truth if it's a blog on the screen...
We got to buy it it's the latest creation

Too many icebergs out on the ocean
Too many chances to sink like a stone
The great titanic about to go under
And the band played on

Guess everybody needs a new pair of glasses
A lot of shit out there nobody can see
Yeah everybody's got their heads up their asses

We're all out here dead in the water
We got a leak in the boat
We're up shit creek without a paddle
Just trying to stay afloat


Joe did his best to send all his brain cells elsewhere, yet many remain.

He makes a good point.








Saturday, June 25, 2022

Giddyup There, Emotional Support Elephant

 

Your love is like  poison ivy


The tiny mites that have sex on our faces have a problem


Quite frankly, if I'm not having sex, the mites won't be either...


Today I identify as  a #3 pencil



HER: I'm thinking of taking some time off .. to find myself.

HIM: I could save you some time.

HER: How?

HIM: Check the shoe stores


Kazakh Govt. Used Spyware Against Protesters

Another way to spy on you, my pretty - it's not just Kazakh...  




TEACHER: Johnny, use 'hankerin' in a sentence
JOHNNY: I got me a hankerin' to use the word hankerin'


US defence contractor in talks to take over NSO Group’s hacking technology

Wow - we're privatizing spying!
fyi, while most government agencies are subject to information requests, private companies aren't.



  • New Documents Detail Harrowing Crisis in Which Workers Were Trapped in Chocolate Sludge
  • this sounds like the way I'd go...



Samsung caught cheating in TV benchmarks, promises software update

Samsung is an early competitor for Corporate Evil, against Microsoft and Google. They are the 5,000lb gorilla in smartphones, throttle some phone apps, require you to sign up to be spied on or you can't watch your tv, and now cheat on benchmarks. I've about had it with them.

Samsung fined $14 million for misleading smartphone water resistance claims
They might as well be Faceyspaces..


  • The FDA has ordered Juul e-cigarettes to be pulled from shelves, over the appeal of its nicotine products to minors.
  • Ummmmm.... alcohol and cigarettes, anybody? What about their appeal to minors (and majors)? Total hypocrisy.  Drink responsibly! 



Tesla has been off the blog lately, so here's some news:
NHTSA data shows Teslas using Autopilot crashed 273 times in less than a year 
--> probably operator error

So a Tesla gets totaled and is sitting in the junkyard for three weeks.
What happens? It spontaneously combusts.
I'm telling you, Musk needs to put a fire extinguisher in each car. He can even charge extra for it.


Impact of reading about climate science goes away almost instantly

Hey, don't blame people, blame climate science. If you talk about climate science's impact on pr0n, people will remember it and be able to talk about it intelligently. This is how your early teachers became your favorites: they made things interesting (hopefully not using pr0n). 

Today we are going to discuss the GPA of the Big 27 colleges.

hold me back 

The Big 27 are Temple, Penn State, Harvard, Yale, Berkeley.......

yawn....

Idaho Community College, Bob's Cooking College...

somebody please wake me when this is over...

 Hollywood School of Pr0n

My parents paid a lot of money for my education. Maybe I should stay awake. 

 The real surprise here is not that this is specific to climate science: it's specific to everything! We have the short-term memory of gnats and the long-term memory of Alzheimer's research.


PANDEMIC(S)

How hiring the wrong medical “expert” derailed US pandemic response

Monkeypox spreading via direct, physical contact, CDC says as US cases hit 45



  • New White House partnership aims to speed construction of offshore wind farms
  • ...which fired off a 16 hour talk with Biden, who thought wind farm was a magical place you grow wind, like at Disneyland... or Congress.


As a man, I'm proud to say I can operate a washer and dryer. All except the washer we have. It's computer-controlled and has a huge LCD display that tells you stuff. Unfortunately, none of the stuff is very interesting to me and Wife does the laundry, so I haven't operated it yet.

Yet.  [suspenseful music]

I have run entire corporate networks that were easier to operate than this washer. First of all, it has a power switch. Second of all, Wife is away and I need to do laundry NOW.

[on phone]

Honey, remember that white load?

Yes.

Have you seen it?

Ooh, sorry, I took it downstairs but haven't gotten around to it yet.

In a week?

Sorry, I got distracted.

Lots of shiny objects?

You know me so well.

Do I have to put in a reservation to get wash done? The socks are starting to talk and the darks have fallen over on the dog and won't let her out. I'll do anything I can to help. Just don't make me use the washer.

I'm really sorry... it's just that this seminar on back pain and nose hair is so interesting.

Is there a causal relationship?

They seem to exist concurrently. More research is needed. I bought you another 11-pack of socks.

Yeah, I wore them after the previous 11-pack. I don't think it's cheaper to buy socks than to wash them. Plus we need a large dump truck to get them from the hamper to the washer.

I have a theory. Normal people lose single socks. We lose them in pairs.

At least we're consistent. About the wash...?

Ok, take the phone to the washer and we'll do Virtual Laundry.

What's Virtual Laundry?

I'll tell you what to do and you do it.

That sounds more like marriage than laundry. Although it's easier on your back.

Ok, put the socks in the washer.

You might not believe this, but I already had that bit figured out.

Did you close the door?

Nah, I figured I'd wash the floor too.

Ok, pull out the drawer.

On my desk?

No, on the washer, silly.

WHAT drawer?

Look for a handle.

Ok, got it.

Now put the laundry detergent in.

[looking at 11 bottles of various laundry stuff on washer] Is it "Bob's Liquid Death?"

No, that's tomorrow's dinner.

Then where's the laundry detergent.

On the dryer.

Ah, I see. I should have looked there automatically.

Put it in the drawer.

There are 4 receptacles - which one would you like me to use?

The big one.

How much?

About a cup.

NO. Tell me how much to fill it. I am not measuring. These are socks.

Ok, fill it most of the way. Then put in the fabric softener.

Is that the blue bottle that says "Retro-Soft - just like yo mama used"?

No, it's on the dryer.

I really should have known that.  What are the other 11 bottles of stuff on the washer?

Oh, that's Special Stuff.

I'm going to suspend disbelief and stop right there. There are 3 more containers for the fabric softener - which one?

It should say on them.

I can't see my hand in front of my face in this room. Bulbs are cheap, you know.

But not if you don't put them up, like I've been asking for the past year. Try the one on the right.

Touche. And damn if'n I haven't made a right mess of pouring that stuff. I guess the socks will be extra soft. Or something.

It's going to ask you what setting.

Well, it had better hurry because I can't see the display. Hey, this looks like a power switch - how about if I push it?

You didn't push it yet?

You didn't tell me to.

It will ask you for a setting. Try.... no... not that one...  just leave it as-is.

But won't it be mad at me for not following directions? It might turn the socks green or something.

No, just push the GO button.

There's no button called GO. Is it on the dryer?

It's on the right.

The right of what?  Oh, it looks like a GO button from an audio player. Even I recognize that.  Will you call me back later so I can put the socks in the dryer?

WASH: easy enough for a man.







Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Episode 86, in Which Biden Goes Nappy


Your love is like   a massive Catholic burial


I tried one of those mind-mapping programs.

I broke it.


Today I identify as  miserable


  • Signs you should jettison a person: when they say OMG or LOL out loud


Russian TV showed video of US veterans captured in Ukraine.

Granted there is a ton of propaganda, but if this is true, why is there a single American boot on the ground? We are not the world's police (yes we are). We can't afford to let the Military Industrial Complex rule (they will anyway). They're the only ones who win. Neither government confirmed the situation. Biden said he was briefed and that's all he said.  #ImpeachBiden  It's just like when Obama said "No boots on the ground."


  • Serena Williams is coming back to tennis. Have you ever really looked at her thighs? Pure muscle. Her husband must have cranial injuries from getting caught between them.


The house is once again holding me prisoner.

The past three weekends, I haven't been allowed out. We all know I ask a lot... one outing per weekend. It's odd that I manage to show up for work, though. There was a traffic jam last week: too many dog toys on the stairs. Sometimes we wonder if the dog is trying to do us in. She hasn't thought this one through though... who would take care of her?

Whether it's the wife who's sick, the service elephant who's sick, or the car which is sick, it's always something. If I were (more) paranoid, I'd say they held meetings to see which one would be sick that weekend. 

As if that weren't bad enough, the owner of the One True Pizza place down the street, sold the business, plus they're now closed on Sunday. The exact day I wanted my pizza. If the pizza changes, there's no reason to stay in PA anymore.

We were off Monday and somehow managed to escape the house with nothing breaking. We visited a 'quaint' little burg, with interesting shops. Every one of them was closed Mondays. I think the burg found out we were coming by for a good time and to spend money, so all the stores closed. It's like when we go food shopping and someone follows us to see what we buy, so the store can stop carrying it.

Ok, there was one store open. Oddly, a guitar store. They even had a few really crappy lefties. We toured the place and on the way out, spotted a Jet City 20 amp. It's a 20 watt amp, heavy enough for a 50 watt amp. I'll review it shortly.

Some of the stores moved since the last time we were there. I don't get out much but I read a lot and stores don't normally change places. I don't know if it's a rent thing or they just want to keep the customers confused. My first job was in retail, which cemented my hatred for people, but even I know you don't want to confuse the customers (further). Some of these people can't tell which store they're in to begin with. I used to get people demanding to return items they bought in a different store. Maybe it was just an excuse to get people to exercise by walking up and down the block, trying to find the new location of the store. The last thing you want is flocks of confused, grumbling consumers.


  • Watch and read the Uvalde news. It gets more and more sad as time progresses, specifically around the police inaction. They sat there over an hour before any action was taken.


Wisdom from Mrs. lefty

Just because leggings come in your size doesn't mean you should wear them.


  • Japan makes 'online insults' punishable by one year in prison in wake of reality TV star's death
  • First England, now Japan criminalizes speech. 
  • In completely unrelated news, Twitter, Reddit, and Faceyspaces banned in Japan


I've seen a few cases of people being prosecuted for 'encouraging' others to commit suicide, online. This bothers me and sits on a slippery slope. I believe that short of stuffing pills or holding the gun, they shouldn't be tried for murder. It kills me (oops) that anyone would take their own life, but they are the ones doing it.

Crisis Text Line
Text HOME to 741741
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
1-800-273-8255



ThermionicEmissions supports Ukraine.

ThermionicEmissions supports Russia.

The people, not their governments.



  • 58% of adults say they use their smartphone too much.
  • So if you're reading this blog on your phone, please don't continue!

According to a Gallup Poll, fewer Americans than ever believe in God.
According to believers, fewer Americans than ever believe in Gallup Polls.


The fitness app Strava leaked location of Israeli officials at a secretive base.
Don't use this crap - Fitbit or whatever else. All of these apps leak your info. 


The neighborhood is dying.
And by that I mean the Crazy Lady has left the building.
She was only 479 years old, which was young for whatever she was. I figured if it was cancer, she'd only scare it away. She wore out several knee implants.
So in honor of her life, here are some of her greatest hits:
  • called the city because our bees 'bit' her
  • called the city about standing water that attracted mosquitoes (the dog's pool)
  • put the 'leaf collection' flyer on my windshield
  • started edging my lawn because 'I don't do it right'
I thought of doing something to get even, but realized simply living next to her was getting even. At some point, the house will sell and we'll have nice neighbors. We miss the lady on the other side terribly.









Sunday, June 19, 2022

Yes, Dear

 

Your love is like  blue, fuzzy fruit


Welcome to the 2022 Nude at Work Day (stats)
  • Construction: 89% overall accident rate, severed limbs, missing genitals, penises nailed to things
  • Music: the usual heavy injuries resulting from guitar players trying to insert themselves into 1/4" jacks, females becoming attached to larger microphones
  • Art: c'mon- those people don't put clothes on 
  • Newsreaders: they're always naked below the waist anyway
  • Firepeople: don't run into a burning building naked, ok?
  • Bloggers: we are happy to report not a single injury, maintaining our perfect record. What else do you expect from a group with a single blogging tab and 47 pr0n tabs?


Today I identify as  the guy with the vasectomy and the pregnant wife



$3,374,629,000,000 in federal taxes collected the first eight months of fiscal 2022.

Of course it's the largest figure: we have the largest taxes. The money goes to everything except the debt. Thank President Taxit for the latest rises.

That's an awful lot of money. It sure as hell ain't going to you. We can start with the Military Industrial Complex and go down from there. Or we could scream and riot and vote libertarian. R and D are what got us in this mess in the first place. Talk to your reps in the meantime - this is not acceptable.

The White House is thinking about a federal tax holiday on gas. Don't forget a state tax holiday too. Talk to your reps..... the taxes are out of hand to begin with.


Here It Comes!

Monkeypox outbreak spurs WHO to consider declaring international emergency
but not before they rename the disease because the current name is discriminatory (to monkeys).


  • Questionable Phrases: Screwed the pooch
  • when I say I'm a dog lover, that's not what I mean 


Ford halts sales of Mustang Mach-Es due to propulsion-loss bug - overheating in the high voltage battery connectors causes inability to start or complete non-propulsion. Asked for comment, Ford said this had absolutely nothing to do with saving millions by firing the Quality Control department.



Author James Patterson:

"I apologise for saying white male writers having trouble finding work is a form of racism," the 75-year-old wrote on Facebook on Tuesday.

"I absolutely do not believe that racism is practiced against white writers.

Black Lives Matter spokespeople said they apologize for saying white people should be shot. They absolutely do not believe that white people should be shot.


  • Who besides me is shocked that Ghislane Maxwell is still alive?
  • I guess she doesn't have enough to truly embarrass Epstein's clients 


So that's it - Internet Explorer is going away.

It only took about 27 years for us to get our wish.  IE: the 'standards compliant' browser that wasn't. They say the good thing about standards is there are so many of them. I remember doing up a web page and seeing what it looked like in different browsers. It was always far off in IE. It earned the nickname Internet Exploder. The end will come via a Windows 'update', that you naturally will have no control over.

MS is putting its considerable muscle behind Echo, another Chrome knockoff. I use it at work, only because it's the default browser for Windows. I prefer regular old Chrome. Let me say something nice: it's not abjectly horrible.


To keep things simple and end all the in-house arguing, I told the dog that for Fathers Day, a guitar will do. She just looked at me with that 'I don't understand English' face and and went looking for tuna. She understands English when we say "Wanna go outside, Wanna go night-night, and Let's adjust your stock portfolio."


Dear lefty 

  • I don't know what to believe: I hear we're in a recession and we have inflation too. Can you help me understand this?
  • Well sure I can. I'm Dear lefty after all. First, you cannot have inflation (making things larger) and recession (making things smaller) at the same time, so dismiss those naysayers. There is plenty of money to go around, and if not, the Fed prints more of it. This has no effect on prices of anything or the national debt.  The Debt is more of a sign or a suggestion, and we like to ignore it whenever we can, which is mostly always.
  • There is plenty of gold in Fort Knox (I think), but who cares, because, as I said, we just print more whenever we want to. Do NOT try this at home.
  • Inflation is when soda costs $5 for a small bottle. This is not to be confused with 'supply chain issues' making a soda cost $5 for a small bottle. Only highly-paid economists, who appear on tv news as 'experts,' can tell the difference. Meanwhile, you're paying $5 for a small bottle of soda, whether you like it or not, regardless of the reason.
  • Recession is like when things go to hell, taking your savings and retirement with them. You have no say over this and no recourse, like when The Masked Furry is on.
  • Avoiding all of this is simple: be very rich.


I'm not a fan of New York City, because it feels like anarchy is waiting to break out at any second, much like Oprah. One of the things about big cities is that you can count on budgeting an hour or two for a cab ride to the next block. It's an accepted condition, and well-tolerated by travelers, like snow in Minnesota. Philadelphia is full of interstates that were under-capacity on the day they were opened. You can regularly find a traffic jam at 2:00, am or pm. I think we have finally reached the point where we have to budget a ridiculous amount of time to simply travel on these crappy roads. There is simply no way you can compare Philly to New York, unless you count the many parking garages that charge like New York. Philly also has more guns and ATV gangs than New York, making its accent much more feared. In fact, New York taxi drivers, formerly the most feared mammal behind any steering wheel, will pull over when they hear a Philly accent cursing at them.  YO- YOUZE GOTTA MOVE DAFUGOUTTA MY WAY!


  • ever wonder who touched themself and thought about you? It's a shame you can't get a report.


Warning! Signs Are Not Enough to Save Beachgoers from Deadly Currents
It's not the signs so much as the people (allegedly) reading them.
  • WARNING - THIS SHIT CAUSES CANCER on cigarette boxes
  • DO NOT STAB YOURSELF IN THE EYE on forks
  • DO NOT STAND ON LAST 2 STEPS on ladder
  • DO NOT ATTEMPT TO FLY DOWN STAIRS
  • DO NOT OPERATE TESLA FROM REAR SEAT, with or without auto-drive
We're doomed.
  1. Some sociologists are going with the theory that this is Darwinism: throwing a little chlorine in the gene pool.
  2. Some average Joes are hoping for a bit of Darwinism, then cheering it on.
  3. Some sociologists are hoping to get paid as a consultant on stories like this, especially on coveted on-air news programs.
  4. Some bloggers, like me, are torn between hysterics and sadness, taking advantage of the headline to show how doomed we are.

Speaking of bloggers, I'm always honest with my readers. I don't consider myself a writer, I don't think I can write the Great American Novel<tm> given a year off and a typewriter. There is no book in me (that would be incredibly painful). I'm barely a blogger. My dog only writes 35% of the content here. I hope you come by/come back because you're entertained. I like Orange Crush but no other orange sodas.


The other day, while driving, I went to put on my sunglasses. They had somehow become way more efficient than before, letting approximately 9% of the light through. A quick visual inspection proved the lenses brown with dirt and crud. It looked like they were tied to the bumper and run through 30 miles of mud from the constant rain here. Curious, I brought them indoors and laid them on a table. Ever considerate, Mrs. lefty moved them so they didn't get broken. I finally made comment about the lenses. She said it was her fault: she attached them to the bumper and ran through 30 miles of mud from the constant rain here. I kept poking at a point, which she failed to get.... if you dragged them through the mud, got chocolate pudding all over them, then wore them for 6 weeks, WHY DIDN'T YOU CLEAN THEM?  We have something of a communication issue in our house.



Researchers believe they have discovered the origins of the Black Death, more than 600 years after it killed tens of millions in Europe, Asia and north Africa.

Lord Fauci has been alerted, resulting in mandates for testing, vaccines, and staying at home. Pharmaceutical companies are working on an incredibly expensive free vaccine that President Taxit will pay for, by shifting the $52 billion he hasn't raised yet to give the semiconductor industry. Small businesses have given up and closed and Jeff Bezos has a hardon that can cut diamonds.





Happy Fathers Day
If this blog is available in the afterlife, you know I'm talking to you (both).















Thursday, June 16, 2022

Tried to Say Nothing and Failed


Your love is like   a significant mustache. On your aunt.


The author of a book on how to murder your husband was found guilty of....

wait for it....

murdering her husband.

Mrs. lefty wrote a book on how to get rid of bodies.

uh-oh 


Today I identify as  something found under an overpass



So it's morning, the condition that affects every day. I managed to avoid it last weekend by getting up at 2pm. But, work being what it is, I must face the dreaded Morning Blues.

I normally do well, but this morning is special: the new neighbors apparently feel their basement is leaky. This is my guess, as the truck in their parking spot says DRY BASEMENT. The occupants of said truck are a delightful parody of construction workers, with YO-ing, high fiving, and General Noise. This just makes me want to kill them brightens up my work morning. I couldn't wait for the Main Noise. The Main Noise is the VERY LOUD machinery that comes with any job, from dry basement, to new windows, to ripping up the street. It only took a little while... there was a noise that sounded like a compressor or a huge hose, being pulled along concrete steps, then it stopped. Then it started again. It only took another minute to discover that the Main Noise would not be constant; it would be intermittent, thus more noticeable. In essence, they were pouring concrete, so it went POUR NOISE vroom, then nothing, then POUR NOISE.... this is actually worse than constant noise. And I thought they couldn't come up with anything more annoying than constant noise. The human spirit lives on...

But I typed too quickly: they just added a noise that sounds like a pneumatic hammer - the kind they use on streets. Since they probably don't need a pneumatic hammer to coat basement walls, I'm going to go with some sort of motor. It's quite nice of them to change things up for me. It's like a symphony in parts. Metal parts.

Silence

BANG BANG BANG BANG

Silence

BANG BANG BANG BANG

Silence

BANG BANG BANG BANG



  • A woman in the US has been charged with murder after she allegedly tracked down her boyfriend using an Apple AirTag and ran him over after seeing him with another lady
  • another iDevice-related death 


Mozilla announced their Thunderbird (email) will be coming to android. It will supplant the existing K9 mail. Can't wait- highly recommended for desktop or mobile. The only thing I'd like to see in K9 is a spam filter. Since desktop Thunderbird has one, perhaps it will make the android version.


You know... this boy toy thing looks interesting. I wonder if Mrs. lefty will be persuaded to treat me as one....  I have to be careful, lest she misunderstand and go find one instead.


  • I'm super excited to go super shopping today. Then I'll be super unpacking the bags and super making dinner. It'll make me feel super good. I'll be making super sandwiches, but I don't know which.


Mick Jagger tested positive for the Flying AIDS. He never knew he had it.
The band's ability to perform, sometimes while dead, is legendary.
The next album, of which we heard a preview, is all about ailments the band has. A deluxe version features the band sitting around discussing their illnesses. The only heathy band member is Keith Richards, who had his entire body replaced after his dalliance with heroin (1968-2019). [The late] Charlie Watts played three shows before his burial. The band now performs with a new bassist and drummer, referred to as "The Black Guys."

Mick (92) is only recently showing his age. This is a grave improvement over last tour, when he showed someone else's age. Experts cannot figure out how a bunch of old geezers have black and brown hair, but no gray. At one point the Stones auditioned Jeff Beck, but weren't able to hire him because Ron Wood and he had the same tall black hair and Ron used to play bass in the Jeff Beck Group. Why this was a problem, nobody knows. Jeff declared himself too talented and left, but there are copies of their jam session out there somewhere.

Little known fact: The Stones are the first totally animatronic band. All live shows are electronic (super-secret alien technology) and all new songs are generated by Artificial Intelligence. On this year's tour, Ron Wood is as tall as the rest of the band.


  • Paul McCartney is about to be 80. What a nice guy...
  • we really need to talk left handed guitars, Paul.


Bad local news: the Crazy Lady, our evil 479 year old neighbor graduated to assisted living. She just got transferred to hospice, meaning The End is Near. She is going to annoy somebody in the afterlife. Ok I'll leave her alone, finally.

This brings up two points
  1. she hasn't lived there in months, yet there is trash every week
  2. one far-flung relative- that's it. She goes, the house sells.  Makes one question life. What was it all for?


The loneliest person in the world is the person running a meeting at work. I have no idea why this is, but it's constant. My boss could ask what 1+1 is and there would be dead silence. I try to help out by giving wildly incorrect answers, but gave up when I couldn't hear anyone laughing. Along those lines, I had to send out an email to my entire group the other day. Like the meeting, total silence. I asked their experience with something, plus a question about ice cream at virtual meetings. Nothing.  Answering the email will make their jobs easier, but no. It got so bad the Boss re-emailed the group, reminding them I asked for input, bless him. Because he knows... the loneliest person in the world is the person running a meeting (or sending an email).


JFC, I do not see that bird, jumping around the living room. It is not there.
Some days the crazy hurts.

Now that I think about it, he probably wants to visit the armadillo in the attic. Maybe they can have tea with the bees in the bedroom. Butterfingers with the butterflies in the basement. Then some cake with the kangaroo in the kitchen. He's a small kangaroo, so we didn't have to do any renovation. 


I love that a Chinese satellite may have picked up signals from an alien civilization. Nobody seems to know what's flying around in our skies and the planet, but it might be easier to start looking there. It's the multi-ton elephant in the room.


Deja Vu All Over Again 

In the beginning, 'computers' were dumb terminals, huge and loud, attached to printers and hooked to a mainframe computer via a modem. The mainframe was where all the computing was done, up til the first personal computers showed up. Now we have THE CLOUD, where everything is processed on someone else's computer. This is a large circle that has come back to its start.


  • A new type of battery under development is the silicon-anode, which can recharge in less than ten minutes.
  • it will not hit the market until they figure out how to make it spontaneously combust.


Twenty-five people have been treated for burns in northern Switzerland after they walked across hot coals as part of a team-building exercise.

Who saw this coming?
Actually it was a great team-building exercise: they all went to the hospital together. Perhaps the organizers will get to stand in the unemployment line together too.

Seriously, how 'unconventional' do you have to be to set something like this up for team-building? Was Mt. Everest closed? Old Faithful off-schedule? No volcanoes available?

Asked for a comment, the company said, "We meant to say SNOW, not hot coals. We apologize for any inconvenience."











Monday, June 13, 2022

Trek Wars 27: Kirk's D2 No Longer Works

 

Your love is like the condensation from a dirty Coke bottle


Alibaba sued for selling a 3D printer that overheated, caught fire, and killed a man
-Does Tesla make printers?


Today I identify as  nothing.


There's a yearly outdoor fair around this time. We have it on the calendar. It's a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, so everyone can attend. And when I say everyone can attend, I mean it's going to be cloudy and rainy for the entire three days.

Now that I think about it, we don't get many fairs or circuses or carnivals. I think this is because they know to avoid the area, unless they need their equipment watered.

Sunday: "Hey, Honey, it looks like there's a break in the clouds. Maybe we can go to the fair. Let me check the hours. Ah, they close in fifteen minutes. Never mind, then. Let's go watch the trash cans instead."


  • US Wants to Use Drones to Kill Coca Plants in Colombia
  • let's put aside the arguments on drugs... isn't this an act of war? 


Feds Forced Travel Firms to Share Surveillance Data on Hacker
It ain't only the travel firms....


  • Why do some people smell their armpits before putting on deodorant?


NASA is assembling a team to gather data on unidentifiable events in the sky
A spokesperson said, "It's finally time to do something more than airbrush out the UFOs." 


Ms Marvel: Critics praise Disney's 'joyful' first Muslim superhero story
This is the fourth picture from the new Woke Disney.
Disney is currently working on: 
  • 101 Dalmatians, with an all African American cast
  • Lady and the Tramp, with a gay Irani actor playing the cocker spaniel
  • Sleeping Beauty, with Rosie O'Donnell. The audience chants "SLEEP SLEEP PLEASE SLEEP!"
  • Cinderella, without the patriarchal society, starring an unknown 8 year old trans actor


Climate change: New Zealand's plan to tax cow and sheep burps
New Zealand, normally a quiet country, wants to finally break free from the bonds of sanity, in the aid of collecting more taxes. The legislators cannot get the citizens to believe they weren't kidding and they have to register all the cows and sheep, plus install the Burpo-Fartometer on each animal. The citizens suggested installing the device on the politicians first.



The White House Backpedaling Staff was busy this weekend, after the president wished everyone a Happy Easter.



27% of Electric Vehicle Fast Chargers in the Bay Area Don’t Work, Study Finds

Many likely received state funding
A week later, still broken
That's nice.



  • Mars helicopter needs patch to fly again after sensor failure
  • Microsoft asks did NASA turn it off and turn it on again...



No more fossil fuel or nukes? In the future we will generate power with magic dust

I got all excited til Wife told me our dust isn't magic 



US can’t afford fall boosters for all—even after cuts to test and PPE spending

Why does every article that has 'Biden' in it also have 'billions'?