August 16, 2018
Finally!
After three months of trying, I was able to secure an appointment with my department head/ advisor.
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Image is maliciously, ruthlessly and shamelessly stolen from SMBC thus callously depriving the creators of any ability to sell you stuff and line their greedy philosopher pockets.
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August 15, 2018
Brave New World
The linked article is dated August 14th.
That date is the demarcation between the past and the now that extends into the future.
That date will go down in history as the day the very manner in which we communicate was forever changed.
August 14th, 2018 was the day irony died.
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492 Dollars Worth of Ants.
THAT'S what was wrong with my van.
There was a nest/hive/warren/condominium of the industrious little fiends inside the firewall.
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August 12, 2018
A Quick Overview of Happenings In the Brickmuppet Bungalow
Nothing but banality is below the fold, so here, as partial compensation, is someone who, to my astonishment is not a cgi rendered bot, but is instead an Aussie named Duckie Thot.
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And yes, because the world is stupid, there are people angry about this.
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August 08, 2018
A Note on the Previous Post
Note that while Alex Jones is rarely correct about anything...it does happen on occasion. However, these ephemeral moments tend to be better with editing, and better still if one doesn't have to look at Mr. Jones.
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On the Spectrum of Lothsomeness
Alex Jones is a jerk, a creep, a lunatic, deeply offensive, societally corrosive, and an affront to all decency.
He also, to the best of my knowledge, is not advocating anyone get banned for saying things that he finds disgracious to his demented world view.
This makes him vastly less loathsome to me than the people who advocate de-platforming him, and somewhat less loathsome than those who think that this is 'not the hill to dies on' .
More in depth thoughts on this here, here, and here. A less current but more succinct take on this issue has been making the rounds as well.
UPDATE:
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August 02, 2018
In Partial Compensation for the Limited Blogging
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Never Rains
Yesterday morning I received word that my folks had just gotten back from the hospital. My dad had been working on an outboard motor and got his hand caught in it.
Last night my mom fell down the stairs and broke her arm. Both are in their 70s.
I'll be leaving here in a few minutes. There are no computers down there and blogging from the Blackberry is quite difficult so we'll be off-line for a bit.
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August 01, 2018
Well, this is Interesting
Calexit, the campaign to have California secede from the U.S.A. and build utopia unfettered by the likes of U.S. has added a new dimension to their proposal.
The idea is to give all the federally owned land in the state to the Native Americans.
If one were to commit the disgraciousness of comparing that map to the actual federal land in California one might note some discrepancies...
..and in so doing reveal oneself to a troublemaker.
A good swath of the federal lands are not actually included, but they hardly count because they are prime coastal real estate or associated with Tony zip codes. A fair ammount of the federal lands are actually overseen by BLM which is not always the actual owner. Instead a good bit of that land is privately owned but tightly regulated. Finally there is a good deal of land in the allotted area that is NOT federally owned or administered.
Fear not my Jacobin friends, those areas voted for Trump.
Because their's no greater expression of charity than forcing other people to sacrifice.
I do note that the Native American country would be almost landlocked and its only access to the sea would be Crescent City and possibly Eureka, neither capable of handling deep draft vessels.
UPDATE: Oh look! It's up already.
The money quote is at the 04:50 mark.
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The Video is So-So, but the Cover Actually Works
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July 30, 2018
Meta Blogging
It's been 12 hours and our crackerjack team of antipodean IT pixies thinks the issue is resolved.
Lets see if images post.
Smug Catgirl being smug is by Sayori.
Update: We seem to be up and running.
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Banality Below Fold
As compensation, Here is something pleasant:
(Cute Girl in Coversomes Goes Here)
Ah. One of THOSE days.
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July 28, 2018
Holy CRAP
While most of us weren't looking, Redding burned. This was happening yesterday...Thing is, I watched the news this morning, and I channel surfed because Hannity started talking.. I've seen almost no coverage of this (aside from very brief mentions) until blundering into Lowther's post.After that a quick search turned up LOTS of stories on it from various news outlets, it's just not getting the national coverage that it seems to deserve.
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Van Vexations
Last night I started to go to a friends when my headlights refused to come on. Both lights going out at once is unlikely so I figured I'd blown a fuse.
Several fuses and 2 halogen bulbs later, I am still without headlights.
I thought it might be the switch, but the switch activates the running lights and dome lights fine.
I've been pondering the wiring diagram I got from the auto-parts store, but my volt-meter's not working and in any event its dark now.
I go to work at 3AM Monday. This could be an issue.
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Chiron and Pholus are Very Interested in an Answer
So...this happened.
I can't embed Twitter threads, so go here.
"Gracious! I wonder if it's someone I know."
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July 26, 2018
Not Everything I Saw At Moe Lane's Blog This Morning Caused Me to Fear For Humanity...
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Things Not to Do at Reddit
Having an eclectic girlfriend seems to be right out.
So...Moe Lane posted this screencap and opined on it a bit.
From what incomplete data is available, I tentatively agree with Mr. Lane that this fellow is weirded out by the weirdest things...and that's when things got weird.
You see, I was curious as to what other cool hobbies this young lady had ( 'cause this fellow seemed genuinely weirded out) so I did a search and looked up the reddit thread.
Lo and behold, they've pulled the guy's initial post as a violation of standards and practices or something. From the scraps of the thread that remain however, I was able to deduce that amongst the things that really freaked this incredibly sheltered young man out was the fact that the girl is into taxidermy and has a HUGE, GINORMOUS, and indeed OVERSIZED...um...bed.
These are...PROBLEMS?
What the hell?
Everything about this is weird.
Why did Reddit ban the post?
What the hell is this poindexter's problem?
Where is this utopia where the biggest problem in your life is that you're quirky girlfriend has a big bed?
('cause I.Want.To.Go.To.There.)
Why have I wasted 17 minutes of my life on this?
What is wrong with people today?
Discuss...
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July 22, 2018
WAT
Regarding the big political story of the weekend, I'd heard it was "heavily redacted".
No.
This is just trolling us.
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I'm Not Getting an Enthusiastic Vibe
Now that things have settled down a bit, I'm getting caught up on my "to watch list" and looking for something current to watch...aside from MHA, the new season has nothing that really jumps out at me. So I went a-looking and I'm not seeing a lot of enthusiasm....
Pete over at アニ・ノートhas a long list of shows that he's dropped.
Then there's this...
I followed the manga, and perhaps I was poisonedWhich made me laugh, though it may not be entirely in context.
Medieval Otaku has related thoughts with a post titled "Skip the Summer Season".
I can’t think of a better opportunity for catching up with one’s backlog.
He does have a kind word for Stein's Gate 0 though.
Don over at Zoopraxiscope is similarly unimpressed.
I almost quit Asobi Asobase – workshop of fun – in five minutes, but I stuck it out and watched the entire first episode. I should have trusted my initial reaction.
He did have kind things to say about the educational show Cells At Work which Wonderduck also liked
...our main character is a red blood cell. That wears jean shorts and a cabbie hat. What's not to love?
For my own part, I'm still watching My Hero Academia, and am starting the original Stein's Gate, so as to be able to watch the new one, and am catching up on Yona of the Dawn.
I'm not watching much else in the way of fiction since The Expanse went off the air. OTOH since I'm not in college for the next month and a half, I can actually do some reading(!).
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July 20, 2018
49 Years
Over 300 thousand years after people first gazed up at our planets companion, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin strode across its surface. by 1973, 12 men from Earth had walked on the moon.
For 300 thousand years no one alive had been to the moon.
We are very close to that being true again,.
This would be a rather shameful and worrisome regression to the mean.
This worry is more profound than mere disappointment at opportunities lost. This, if it is indeed permanent marks the first time that western civilization has turned its back upon a frontier.
Ours is a civilization that has, over the last 300 odd years, been a most remarkable and generally hopeful deviation from the squalid norms of those 300 millennia.
A regression to the mean of human history is something to be truly dreaded, and if this ignoring of a new frontier is a leading indicator, then the future promises to be grim indeed.
Let's hope that the lunatics (hah!) that continue to dream big can provide the impetus for our society to continue its deviation from the previous cycles of human history...or at least provide a lifeline for some to escape its return to the norm.
Art by the late Roy Scarfo who understood that if, for some bizarre, illogical, reason, skirts.(especially miniskirts) were ever to become a thing in space, they would be closely associated with tights.
Because physics.
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