October 20, 2013
— Maetenloch
Dear ONT,
By the time you read this I will already be out of the country and on my way to Germany. I will try and keep up the ONTs but I will be on the move with spotty internet connectivity so no guarantees.
Once my friend and I are able to make contact with the underground we will follow their instructions and start on the rat line. If all goes as planned, we will make our way into the Principality of Lichtenstein and seek asylum there. Or at least T-shirts if we are unable to swing the ‘political expedite’ fees. Oh and the east wind is rising - I repeat the east wind is rising.
Coraje my friends!
Maetenloch
And in keeping with the traditions of a smart military blog, tonight will be a movie night with a feature presentation of the 1981 German epic of submarine warfare, Das Boot.
It’s a classic movie that’s long but worth the investment of watching. The book the movie is based on by Lothar-Günther Buchheim is a good read as well. And it fills in a lot of the details and motivations of the crew such as why the Captain was so disdainful of the ardent Nazi lieutenant as well as the significance of some of the events shown in the movie. It also makes clear that while the Captain and Chief Engineer were referred to as the ‘old men’ by the crew, in real life they were all of 30 and 27 years old.
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Posted by: DAve at October 20, 2013 06:47 PM (b7yum)
Posted by: sven10077 at October 20, 2013 06:47 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 20, 2013 06:48 PM (aDwsi)
Dear Maet,
Send post-card of big-hootered German chicks carrying beer in dirndls.
Sincerely,
Cicero Kid
Posted by: Cicero Kid at October 20, 2013 06:48 PM (DHQv9)
I will not be near 4 figures next week....
Enjoy the Fatherland Maet
Posted by: sven10077 at October 20, 2013 06:48 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: Sally at the NSA at October 20, 2013 06:49 PM (sb9Hq)
Hammer he is seeking asylum under the influence of a Mickey...and I don't mean Spillane..
Posted by: sven10077 at October 20, 2013 06:50 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: EC at October 20, 2013 06:51 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: hooter diversity specialist at October 20, 2013 06:51 PM (sb9Hq)
Posted by: Kalneva at October 20, 2013 06:51 PM (XyrkB)
Finally, the ONT so I can post my practically worthless observation. Was re-watching Gilmore Girls episodes this weekend and in season 7 Rory gets asked about her tenure at the Yale Daily news. She mentions the opportunity to interview "Barack Obama" and is asked about whether he is planning to run in 2008.
It made me wonder how many years before the run up to the 2008 election they were sliding Barack Obama into the national consciousness.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 20, 2013 06:52 PM (RZ8pf)
I wonder how my crockpot Texas style chili is doing?.... Then Netflix for this evening.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 20, 2013 06:52 PM (wNF3N)
Posted by: Chris at October 20, 2013 06:53 PM (aBOfW)
Posted by: those porn remake guys at October 20, 2013 06:53 PM (sb9Hq)
Posted by: lindafell at October 20, 2013 06:53 PM (PGO8C)
I am jealous.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ is too sober for this at October 20, 2013 06:53 PM (hO8IJ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 20, 2013 06:53 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 20, 2013 06:53 PM (DmNpO)
And Maet, whilst traversing and traipsing about der Vaterland, check out the U-Boat museum in Cuxhaven.
Followed by visiting the U-2450.
http://uboat.net/boats/u2540.htm
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 20, 2013 06:54 PM (kH//i)
It's best viewed as a "Most Wanted by NSA" poster....
but thanks.
Posted by: sven10077 at October 20, 2013 06:54 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: nerdygirl at October 20, 2013 06:54 PM (TBLif)
Oh, we got prepped all right, PGiS -- Pants around the ankles style.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 20, 2013 06:55 PM (wNF3N)
Posted by: The Political Hat at October 20, 2013 06:55 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Mercenary Soul at October 20, 2013 06:55 PM (+bV5b)
Seldom...
the shutdown getting sold out kept me up for 3 days...
I really am gonna try to be more scarce... I find out next week if I need to get my hand rebroke and some metal added.
If I can talk them out of surgery I am gonna go to work for a Van company.
Posted by: sven10077 at October 20, 2013 06:56 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: Waterhouse at October 20, 2013 06:56 PM (W70V5)
Posted by: CarolT at October 20, 2013 06:56 PM (z4WKX)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 20, 2013 06:56 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: those porn remake guys at October 20, 2013 06:56 PM (sb9Hq)
Posted by: blaster at October 20, 2013 06:57 PM (4+AaH)
Heh she's reading this from work maybe...
she's pulling CQ third time this month...
I do need to sleep.
Posted by: sven10077 at October 20, 2013 06:57 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: Cicero Kid at October 20, 2013 06:58 PM (DHQv9)
Posted by: The Hickster at October 20, 2013 06:58 PM (okL9f)
Posted by: The Lichtensteinian Hat at October 20, 2013 06:58 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: DAve at October 20, 2013 06:59 PM (b7yum)
William Shatner in Incubus. All the dialog is in Esperanto.
http://youtu.be/AW7AuyIwN2A
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 20, 2013 06:59 PM (kH//i)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 20, 2013 07:00 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Country Singer at October 20, 2013 07:00 PM (T7XIT)
Posted by: nerdygirl at October 20, 2013 07:00 PM (TBLif)
and I'll be mistaken for John Holmes before Ogabe is ever asked...
"so uh Bam why did you emulate that from Romneycare?"
Posted by: sven10077 at October 20, 2013 07:00 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: Voice No. 87 in the Political Hat's head at October 20, 2013 07:00 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: CarolT at October 20, 2013 07:00 PM (z4WKX)
http://tinyurl.com/qfehp4v
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 20, 2013 07:01 PM (wNF3N)
Wanna race?
Posted by: sven10077 at October 20, 2013 07:01 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: Thrawn at October 20, 2013 07:01 PM (ZyqBH)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at October 20, 2013 07:01 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: Waterhouse at October 20, 2013 07:01 PM (W70V5)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ is too sober for this at October 20, 2013 07:02 PM (hO8IJ)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 20, 2013 07:02 PM (DmNpO)
20 pros could fix it. 200 are just a mob that burns up all its time coordinating with itself
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 20, 2013 07:02 PM (l5zzX)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 20, 2013 07:02 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Voice No. 87 in the Political Hat's pink slip at October 20, 2013 07:02 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: DAve at October 20, 2013 07:02 PM (b7yum)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 20, 2013 07:02 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 20, 2013 07:03 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 20, 2013 07:04 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 20, 2013 07:04 PM (kH//i)
Posted by: nerdygirl at October 20, 2013 07:04 PM (TBLif)
Posted by: Die Unterwasserhut at October 20, 2013 07:04 PM (Vk2pI)
He cracks a Das Boot joke in Beerfest, too.
I think I need to watch that again.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ is too sober for this at October 20, 2013 07:04 PM (hO8IJ)
sounds worse than it is...
I broke the hand a few years back maybe uh 6...
decided I didn't want to miss work when I got back to Louisiana so I taped the hand and the left pinky knuckle/sheath healed wrong...
I was working on a steel building and all.
Moral of the story?
Even if you try to pretend you're tough go to the doc within 6 months.
Posted by: sven10077 at October 20, 2013 07:04 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: Ktgreat: at October 20, 2013 07:05 PM (Bl4dy)
Posted by: cm9000 at October 20, 2013 07:05 PM (3qZbZ)
Oh I'm pretty sure there's a line hammer...
I *get to charge* it's so long...
Posted by: sven10077 at October 20, 2013 07:05 PM (9jfyN)
Did anyone else here watch Gilmore Girls? Because I would like to find people who agree with me that Lorelei should have stuck with Christopher, he was way more fun then the stick in the mud Luke. And Rory should have ended up with Logan, a woman can have both a career and a husband for fuck's sake.
OK, sorry, sorry, I know stupid pop culture girl stuff. But, it bugged me all over again when I re-watched the episodes.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 20, 2013 07:05 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Friedensrichter Bart at October 20, 2013 07:06 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Lauren at October 20, 2013 07:06 PM (ELdpj)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 20, 2013 07:06 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 20, 2013 07:06 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 20, 2013 10:52 PM (RZ8pf)
Obama's Campaign was organizing college campuses as early as late 2005 early 2006 (which could have be before audacity of hope released, ground work for the book tour/campaign). He was given the keynote slot in 2004 at the convention.
Posted by: rich@gmu at October 20, 2013 07:06 PM (3yFC4)
Posted by: captslaq at October 20, 2013 07:06 PM (lVSJW)
Posted by: Ma Bell at October 20, 2013 07:06 PM (RLdcX)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 20, 2013 07:07 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 20, 2013 07:07 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 20, 2013 07:08 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: CarolT at October 20, 2013 07:08 PM (z4WKX)
Posted by: The Hat of Face Eating Rats at October 20, 2013 07:08 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 20, 2013 07:09 PM (RZ8pf)
eat and get your rest Carol...
prayers for you both and Captain Whitebread I am happy about your daughter...
all the best to you and yours horde...
Posted by: sven10077 at October 20, 2013 07:09 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: Thrawn at October 20, 2013 07:09 PM (ZyqBH)
Posted by: Adriane ... at October 20, 2013 07:10 PM (KoFMU)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 20, 2013 07:10 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Ma Bell at October 20, 2013 07:10 PM (RLdcX)
Posted by: Thrawn at October 20, 2013 07:11 PM (ZyqBH)
Posted by: The Political Hat at October 20, 2013 07:11 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: The Dude at October 20, 2013 07:12 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: AltonJackson (who has a movie question) at October 20, 2013 07:12 PM (JMmQ9)
Get some sleep!!! That's an order!!!
Posted by: lindafell at October 20, 2013 07:12 PM (PGO8C)
Posted by: Gingy at October 20, 2013 07:13 PM (jt8G9)
They Shot for the bulk of the voters that the Public school system generated in that generation.
Posted by: The Hickster at October 20, 2013 07:14 PM (okL9f)
NDH, yeah the witty banter could go too far on Gilmore Girls, and then they started inserting all these weird plot points and the sub characters started getting more screen time. Now re-watching I can fast forward through a lot of the stuff I couldn't stand before.
I haven't made up my mind yet about Betrayal.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 20, 2013 07:15 PM (RZ8pf)
Bait Deer? The season is soon upon us.
Posted by: The Hickster at October 20, 2013 07:15 PM (okL9f)
Posted by: Adriane ... at October 20, 2013 07:16 PM (KoFMU)
Posted by: Ma Bell at October 20, 2013 11:10 PM (RLdcX)
That hurts.
Posted by: Bill Ayers at October 20, 2013 07:16 PM (3qZbZ)
12 pounds of apples makes a nice base for apple jack...
night-o all
Posted by: sven10077 at October 20, 2013 07:16 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: nerdygirl at October 20, 2013 07:17 PM (TBLif)
An Italian submarine taken over by the Germans when Italy surrendered. Then the Germans turned it over to the Japanese who sailed it.
http://uboat.net/boats/foreign_uit24.htm
That has to be some odd sort of record.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 20, 2013 07:17 PM (kH//i)
Posted by: The Dude at October 20, 2013 07:17 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 20, 2013 07:18 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 20, 2013 07:19 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Waterhouse at October 20, 2013 07:20 PM (W70V5)
Posted by: Ma Bell at October 20, 2013 11:10 PM (RLdcX)
passed around as campaign literature for both the campaign and the 527s created in 06 and 07. I recall a concert one of those groups threw at UF. I suppose the old frontline episode "The Merchants of Cool" would be a good guidebook for unraveling the marketing campaign.
Posted by: rich@gmu at October 20, 2013 07:21 PM (3yFC4)
Posted by: nerdygirl at October 20, 2013 07:21 PM (TBLif)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ is too sober for this at October 20, 2013 07:21 PM (hO8IJ)
Posted by: nerdygirl at October 20, 2013 07:22 PM (TBLif)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 20, 2013 07:22 PM (DmNpO)
http://tinyurl.com/o6a62tn
Afghan special forces commander defects with guns to insurgents
Bring the troops home. Obama lost Afghanistan not that we were doing swell in a long time. I am tired of him losing more people than Bush to this end.
I'm old enough I remember when the Code Pinkos were newsworthy.
Posted by: sven10077 at October 20, 2013 07:22 PM (9jfyN)
I wonder if the manuals got translated from Italian to German and then to Japanese.
Japanese whispers!>>
Since all three were axis powers . Was crew all taken off or just given different leaders/orders?
Posted by: The Hickster at October 20, 2013 07:23 PM (okL9f)
Posted by: Gingy at October 20, 2013 07:26 PM (jt8G9)
Posted by: Mindy is back from the land of pickup trucks at October 20, 2013 07:26 PM (ZrNcx)
Mammals all urinate for about 21 seconds. Why?>>
Because most predators can't traverse a 100 yards in the field of view they have in that 21 seconds.
Posted by: The Hickster at October 20, 2013 07:26 PM (okL9f)
Posted by: Severe Conservative riding Orca at October 20, 2013 07:27 PM (v6hyJ)
Posted by: lindafell at October 20, 2013 07:27 PM (PGO8C)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 20, 2013 07:27 PM (kH//i)
Posted by: nerdygirl at October 20, 2013 07:27 PM (TBLif)
Posted by: The Dude at October 20, 2013 07:28 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 20, 2013 07:28 PM (DmNpO)
http://youtu.be/oT4B_e40pWo
Though would kick a lot of the LIV out on the street to fight for jobs with all the amnestied illegals.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 20, 2013 07:28 PM (kH//i)
Sweat status -- Yes.
Since its my first chili attempt, I'm happy.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 20, 2013 07:29 PM (wNF3N)
Posted by: Ho Lee Fuc don't do that at October 20, 2013 07:30 PM (txvt7)
Posted by: nerdygirl at October 20, 2013 07:31 PM (TBLif)
played a ship commander (Captain?) in that God-awful movie "Wing
Commander".
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ is too sober for this at October 20, 2013 11:04 PM (hO8IJ)
You are taking life a bit too seriously, it seems. Wing Commander was a fun movie with pretty darned good special effects, and perhaps the most accurate depiction of what the inside of a starship would actually look like in all of movie history. P.S. Jürgen Prochnow played the exec, not the Captain (that was David Suchet).
Posted by: HTL at October 20, 2013 07:31 PM (nWypX)
29 guys dead in AFG between Oct 1 and 13. Saw it on the news
GUESS WHICH ONE OF THOSE STATEMENTS IS TRUE
Posted by: DAve at October 20, 2013 07:31 PM (b7yum)
Posted by: Ma Bell at October 20, 2013 07:32 PM (RLdcX)
Posted by: Severe Conservative riding Orca at October 20, 2013 07:33 PM (v6hyJ)
Yes they picked a side under duress probably.
But One guy teaching what this knob does and what this dial says probably would have got enough info across to a experienced submarine crew needed to run a oddly labeled sub.
Posted by: The Hickster at October 20, 2013 07:33 PM (okL9f)
Posted by: The littl shyning man at October 20, 2013 07:34 PM (tmFlQ)
He lost more than Bush by election day IIRC...hey Bam you got reelected "Mission Accomplished" you showed how big your dick is...bring the troops home m'kay?
Posted by: sven10077 at October 20, 2013 07:34 PM (9jfyN)
Posted by: Adriane ... at October 20, 2013 07:34 PM (KoFMU)
Posted by: AltonJackson (who has a movie question) at October 20, 2013 07:34 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 20, 2013 07:35 PM (kH//i)
Yeah, I know, as I subscribe to all the DoD press announcements.
But, have we reached another "Grim Milestone"?
Not on Obamas watch...
Fuckers.
Posted by: ChrisP at October 20, 2013 07:35 PM (BpTC0)
Posted by: t-bird at October 20, 2013 07:36 PM (FcR7P)
Sven gets the Major Award. Hope it fits in your window
Posted by: kbdabear at October 20, 2013 07:36 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 20, 2013 07:36 PM (kH//i)
Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at October 20, 2013 07:36 PM (R+XDI)
Posted by: cm9000 at October 20, 2013 07:36 PM (3qZbZ)
You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, apple-kabobs, apple creole, apple gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple 'n' apple, lemon 'n' apple, coconut 'n' apple, pepper 'n' apple, shrimp apple, apple stew, apple salad, apple and potatoes, apple burger, apple sandwich.
That- that's about it.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ is too sober for this at October 20, 2013 07:36 PM (hO8IJ)
Posted by: Ma Bell at October 20, 2013 07:37 PM (RLdcX)
Posted by: ChrisP at October 20, 2013 07:37 PM (BpTC0)
Posted by: nerdygirl at October 20, 2013 07:37 PM (TBLif)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 20, 2013 07:38 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Her Yip at October 20, 2013 07:38 PM (/jHWN)
Posted by: Severe Conservative riding Orca at October 20, 2013 07:38 PM (v6hyJ)
Posted by: qixlqatl at October 20, 2013 07:38 PM (kLx/F)
Posted by: The Dude at October 20, 2013 07:39 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: Judge_Roy_bean at October 20, 2013 07:39 PM (xwPSX)
Posted by: Ma Bell at October 20, 2013 07:39 PM (RLdcX)
Posted by: RWC at October 20, 2013 07:39 PM (LpbKr)
Posted by: Adriane ... at October 20, 2013 07:40 PM (KoFMU)
Maybe you should start them off with Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Posted by: Country Singer at October 20, 2013 07:40 PM (T7XIT)
Posted by: Ma Bell at October 20, 2013 07:40 PM (RLdcX)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 20, 2013 07:40 PM (DmNpO)
Somebody excerpted a passage from the book without revealing the author but giving hints
Lefties fapped themselves silly with the "STOOPID PALIN LOLZ" cracks. They had to be told which page to go to because they couldn't believe that The Smartest Man Ever to Walk the Earth wrote them
Posted by: kbdabear at October 20, 2013 07:41 PM (aTXUx)
I have seen both versions of Excalibur and truthfully save a few a bloody bits of gibbet could not really tell them apart. So what has the kid already seen, like all the Chucky films?
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 20, 2013 07:41 PM (kH//i)
Posted by: kbdabear at October 20, 2013 07:42 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: Severe Conservative riding Orca at October 20, 2013 07:43 PM (v6hyJ)
Posted by: qixlqatl at October 20, 2013 07:43 PM (kLx/F)
Posted by: kbdabear at October 20, 2013 07:43 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: RovingCopyEditor at October 20, 2013 07:44 PM (/S5ss)
Posted by: RWC at October 20, 2013 07:44 PM (LpbKr)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 20, 2013 07:44 PM (kH//i)
See, our advice to ask her to turn over worked!
Posted by: kbdabear at October 20, 2013 07:45 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: Severe Conservative riding Orca at October 20, 2013 07:45 PM (v6hyJ)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 20, 2013 07:46 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: nerdygirl at October 20, 2013 07:46 PM (TBLif)
Posted by: Gingy at October 20, 2013 07:47 PM (jt8G9)
Posted by: Cameo Appearance at October 20, 2013 07:47 PM (R8yKQ)
Posted by: The Political Hat at October 20, 2013 07:47 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 20, 2013 07:47 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Gingy at October 20, 2013 07:48 PM (jt8G9)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 20, 2013 07:49 PM (N8z9m)
Posted by: RovingCopyEditor at October 20, 2013 07:49 PM (/S5ss)
Posted by: Waterhouse at October 20, 2013 07:50 PM (W70V5)
So we spent $600+ million for the Worst and Dumbest?
I think the time to bring in those teams was 6 months BEFORE rollout
I think if anyone is truly the best they'll tell Horseface and TFG; "Sorry, I can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit"
Posted by: kbdabear at October 20, 2013 07:50 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: RovingCopyEditor at October 20, 2013 11:44 PM (/S5ss)
Like that Strother Martin movie.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 20, 2013 07:50 PM (WLywR)
Posted by: qixlqatl at October 20, 2013 07:50 PM (kLx/F)
Posted by: AltonJackson (who has a movie question) at October 20, 2013 07:51 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Adriane ... at October 20, 2013 07:51 PM (KoFMU)
This scene is so stupid that words cannot do it justice. I couldn't find this particular scene on YouTube, so my meager description will have to suffice.
Posted by: Thrawn at October 20, 2013 11:01 PM (ZyqBH)
Here's a link to the relevant portion of Spoony's "Wing Commander" review:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/ot2lwxo
Thankfully, I've never actually seen the movie. I'm like Noah in that I played and greatly enjoyed the Wing Commander games back in the day and I wouldn't want to see them so bastardized.
Posted by: Sandra Fluke's solid gold diaphragm at October 20, 2013 07:52 PM (U1RqT)
Posted by: Gingy at October 20, 2013 07:52 PM (jt8G9)
Posted by: Kermit Gosnell at October 20, 2013 07:52 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Boko Haram at October 20, 2013 07:53 PM (604CD)
My dad had a patient who paid us in apples. Like, bushels. We cooked them down into apple sauce (freezer), apple butter (canned), and froze them sliced up for pies.
Mmmm. Pie.
Congrats, Crank.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ is too sober for this at October 20, 2013 07:53 PM (hO8IJ)
Posted by: nerdygirl at October 20, 2013 07:54 PM (TBLif)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at October 20, 2013 07:58 PM (BXLPR)
To defeat the Patriots, to see them driven before you, to hear the lamentations of their fans
Posted by: kbdabear at October 20, 2013 07:58 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at October 20, 2013 07:58 PM (Ipj15)
Posted by: Adriane ... at October 20, 2013 07:59 PM (KoFMU)
Posted by: qixlqatl at October 20, 2013 11:50 PM
John Boehner's balls?
Posted by: kbdabear at October 20, 2013 08:00 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: RWC at October 20, 2013 08:00 PM (LpbKr)
Posted by: Gingy at October 20, 2013 08:01 PM (jt8G9)
Posted by: The Political Hat at October 20, 2013 08:01 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at October 20, 2013 08:02 PM (QwtSi)
Posted by: RINO & MSM at October 20, 2013 08:02 PM (LpbKr)
Posted by: lindafell at October 20, 2013 08:03 PM (PGO8C)
Posted by: Adriane ... at October 20, 2013 08:04 PM (KoFMU)
Posted by: Mags at October 20, 2013 08:04 PM (LpbKr)
Posted by: The Hickster at October 20, 2013 08:04 PM (okL9f)
Posted by: qixlqatl at October 20, 2013 08:04 PM (kLx/F)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at October 20, 2013 08:05 PM (Ipj15)
Posted by: Ma Bell at October 20, 2013 08:05 PM (RLdcX)
Posted by: Adriane ... at October 20, 2013 08:07 PM (KoFMU)
Posted by: Ma Bell at October 20, 2013 08:07 PM (RLdcX)
Posted by: RWC at October 20, 2013 08:07 PM (LpbKr)
Teacher looked at my ticket stub suspiciously.
She always was a hardass -- we called her Die Eisen Frau. (I know, that's grammatically incorrect, but this was HS.)>>
The fact you thought seeing a movie deserved extra credit is the suspicious part of that story.
Working the system is a viable excuse though.
Posted by: The Hickster at October 20, 2013 08:07 PM (okL9f)
Posted by: Boko Haram at October 20, 2013 08:07 PM (604CD)
I watched it with late father and he said... "that's the way it was."
He was a machinist-mate on a Type VII-C; the model my brother and I built for him is still on the mantel in the living room.
Posted by: CPT. Charles at October 20, 2013 08:08 PM (kfSXj)
Posted by: Gingy at October 20, 2013 08:08 PM (jt8G9)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at October 20, 2013 08:08 PM (5J54Q)
The one with the Black family out trick-or-treating as things from Star Wars... father is Jabba with baby girl strapped to him like Leia (hilarious acutally)... kids and dog are whatever, but the mom is, wait for it, a Wookie.
Obviously bigoted dog whistle. So disgusting.
//
Posted by: non-essential commenter #27791629 at October 20, 2013 08:08 PM (/C6Mj)
Posted by: Ma Bell at October 20, 2013 08:09 PM (RLdcX)
Posted by: Boko Haram at October 20, 2013 08:10 PM (604CD)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ is too sober for this at October 20, 2013 08:10 PM (hO8IJ)
Posted by: Peter North [/i] [/b] at October 20, 2013 08:12 PM (Ipj15)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 20, 2013 08:12 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 20, 2013 08:12 PM (kH//i)
Posted by: kbdabear at October 20, 2013 08:13 PM (aTXUx)
How much have you got, infidel? And what is it worth to you for strong Islamic king Barack Obama not to have your head cut off?
Posted by: Boko Haram at October 20, 2013 08:15 PM (604CD)
Posted by: The Dude at October 20, 2013 08:15 PM (vJdyz)
An Italian submarine taken over by the Germans when Italy surrendered. Then the Germans turned it over to the Japanese who sailed it.
http://uboat.net/boats/foreign_uit24.htm
That has to be some odd sort of record.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 20, 2013 11:17 PM
There was a US sub that was given to the royal navy, that was then handed to the Polish navy. It was attacked by friendly fire and had to be scuttled, in '42, I think. So, similar, but... not nearly as impressive as that Italian/kriegsmarine/IJN sub. That appears to have seen active service for all 3, whereas the other one only saw combat with Poland, from what I recall.
Posted by: otho at October 20, 2013 08:15 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: Severe Conservative riding Orca at October 20, 2013 08:16 PM (v6hyJ)
Posted by: non-essential commenter #27791629 at October 21, 2013 12:14 AM (/C6Mj)
o.O
Posted by: The Dude at October 20, 2013 08:16 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: Severe Conservative riding Orca at October 20, 2013 08:17 PM (v6hyJ)
Posted by: Ma Bell at October 20, 2013 08:17 PM (RLdcX)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at October 20, 2013 08:17 PM (BXLPR)
Posted by: Republic of Texas 2: Electric Boogaloo at October 20, 2013 08:18 PM (Gk2GE)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at October 21, 2013 12:17 AM (BXLPR)
that costs extra so no.
Did he have a mullet?
Posted by: The Dude at October 20, 2013 08:18 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: Ma Bell at October 20, 2013 08:19 PM (RLdcX)
Posted by: kbdabear at October 20, 2013 08:19 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: t-bird at October 20, 2013 08:21 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: The Political Hat at October 20, 2013 08:21 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 20, 2013 08:21 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Ma Bell at October 20, 2013 08:22 PM (RLdcX)
Not to worry, ncj disappears like Jimmy Hoffa when da Bears lose
Posted by: kbdabear at October 20, 2013 08:22 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: qixlqatl at October 20, 2013 08:22 PM (kLx/F)
Posted by: kbdabear at October 20, 2013 08:24 PM (aTXUx)
Are you parting ways because of her beliefs or how she treats you for yours? If the former you kinda may suck. If the latter what are you sorry for?
Posted by: The Hickster at October 20, 2013 08:25 PM (okL9f)
I'm talking about Cooper, playing Madden.
What you thought I meant Eli? Definitely not.
Posted by: non-essential commenter #27791629 at October 20, 2013 08:25 PM (/C6Mj)
Posted by: Adriane ... at October 20, 2013 08:26 PM (KoFMU)
I believe Pancakes are a post coital necessity in the AoSHQ handbook so No.
Posted by: The Hickster at October 20, 2013 08:27 PM (okL9f)
Posted by: Waterhouse at October 20, 2013 08:28 PM (W70V5)
Posted by: Ma Bell at October 20, 2013 08:29 PM (RLdcX)
Posted by: qixlqatl at October 20, 2013 08:30 PM (kLx/F)
Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at October 20, 2013 11:36 PM (R+XDI)
Mazel tov!!!!
Posted by: cthulhu at October 20, 2013 08:30 PM (T1005)
Posted by: DAve at October 20, 2013 08:30 PM (b7yum)
Posted by: The Hickster at October 20, 2013 08:31 PM (okL9f)
Posted by: The Hickster at October 21, 2013 12:27 AM (okL9f)
I always thought it was the "over easy eggs"
Posted by: Ma Bell at October 21, 2013 12:29 AM (RLdcX)<<<
Figured it'd be a nice big bowl of Kaboom?
Posted by: non-essential commenter #27791629 at October 20, 2013 08:31 PM (/C6Mj)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at October 20, 2013 08:32 PM (BXLPR)
Posted by: Voice No. 9 in the Political Hat's head at October 20, 2013 08:32 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 20, 2013 08:33 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: DAve at October 21, 2013 12:30 AM (b7yum)
oh how I wish I could post this gif that I have
Posted by: The Dude at October 20, 2013 08:33 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: Null at October 20, 2013 08:34 PM (xjpRj)
Posted by: Tony253 at October 20, 2013 08:35 PM (3yMFT)
No, the bitch was too chickenshit to badmouth you to your face.
Be happy she's out of your life
Posted by: kbdabear at October 20, 2013 08:35 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: kbdabear at October 20, 2013 08:37 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at October 20, 2013 08:38 PM (BXLPR)
did you guys know ferrets eat prairie dogs? Just read an article about them releasing ferrets back into the wild in Arizona near prairie dog burrows. It always puzzles me how we humans mess with predator/prey interactions.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 20, 2013 08:38 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: t-bird at October 20, 2013 08:39 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at October 20, 2013 08:42 PM (BXLPR)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at October 20, 2013 08:43 PM (5J54Q)
The rat terrier was bred for a reason and Jack Russel's are good at getting rats too. Terrier means of the earth or some such so they were bred for burrowing prey.
Posted by: The Hickster at October 20, 2013 08:43 PM (okL9f)
Posted by: Republic of Texas 2: Electric Boogaloo at October 20, 2013 08:44 PM (Gk2GE)
Posted by: RovingCopyEditor at October 20, 2013 08:46 PM (/S5ss)
Posted by: Republic of Texas 2: Electric Boogaloo at October 20, 2013 08:47 PM (Gk2GE)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at October 20, 2013 08:47 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: gracepmc at October 20, 2013 08:47 PM (rznx3)
from her vitriol, because she seemed to vehemently hate people that
shared the majority of my core beliefs.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 21, 2013 12:33 AM
No, the bitch was too chickenshit to badmouth you to your face.
Be happy she's out of your life
Posted by: kbdabear at October 21, 2013 12:35 AM (aTXUx)
This.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Div at October 20, 2013 08:48 PM (FMbng)
Fox News @FoxNews 2m
New Jersey becomes 14th state to recognize same-sex marriages
http://fxn.ws/1fP28E5
Posted by: kbdabear at October 20, 2013 08:49 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at October 20, 2013 08:49 PM (Ipj15)
Been a good night, but that's it for me. Work tomorrow... G'night, hordePosted by: qixlqatl at October 20, 2013 08:51 PM (kLx/F)
Or more importantly where logic was the referee for all arguments.
Posted by: The Hickster at October 20, 2013 08:51 PM (okL9f)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at October 20, 2013 08:52 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: kbdabear at October 21, 2013 12:37 AM (aTXUx)
I did enjoy Downfall (translated title for the English-speaking audience). However, the most brilliant sendup of the bunker breakdown scene I have seen was in Iron Sky, where the President's advertising/campaign director (Vivian Wagner, played by Peta Sergeant) mimics the scene, gesture-for-gesture, rant-for-rant, terrified subordinat-for-terrified subordinate.
Posted by: HTL at October 20, 2013 08:53 PM (nWypX)
1. they are anti everything this country was based on.
2. they would have sided with the crown.
No use for scumbags like that in my life.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Div at October 20, 2013 08:55 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 20, 2013 08:55 PM (oFCZn)
Once you have a steady group of clients, it starts doing incremental backups and keeping prior info -- so, for instance, it'll say "as of 10/1, it was like this -- and since then, it's changed on 10/6 and 10/9 by this and this."
All of which is really keen and all, but I've recently been working on the next step -- backing up the server, and especially backing up the server for stuff that is native to the server.
You might think that you could go -- "take all that stuff on the internal HD and back it up on the first backup drive hanging off a USB; then take all the stuff on the first active USB drive and back it up on the second backup drive hanging off a USB." -- and, rumor has it, you can.....but you have to delve deeply into Microsoft spaghetti-code hell in order to make it work. Registry edits, command-line interfaces, undocumented helper programs....and you have to sacrifice a white chicken during the right phase of the moon about halfway through, or it just won't work.
If anyone has done this (doubtful), please let me know how it went and if you EVER got it to work. Otherwise, that's one of the fun things I'm doing this week.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 20, 2013 08:56 PM (T1005)
Posted by: eman at October 20, 2013 08:58 PM (AO9UG)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at October 20, 2013 08:58 PM (Ipj15)
MSNBC Host Acknowledges No One ‘Likes’ Him
http://tinyurl.com/lgxgthy
Posted by: kbdabear at October 20, 2013 08:59 PM (aTXUx)
hnnnngggg
Posted by: The Dude at October 21, 2013 12:54 AM (vJdyz)
Wow, check out the paunch on the blonde.....
Posted by: cthulhu at October 20, 2013 09:00 PM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at October 21, 2013 01:00 AM (T1005)
I was checking out the forehead next her 
Posted by: The Dude at October 20, 2013 09:01 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: eman at October 20, 2013 09:02 PM (AO9UG)
Orionid meteor shower this week: See if you can catch a fireball
http://tinyurl.com/n8o6scv
Posted by: kbdabear at October 20, 2013 09:03 PM (aTXUx)
did you guys know ferrets eat prairie dogs? Just read an article about them releasing ferrets back into the wild in Arizona near prairie dog burrows. It always puzzles me how we humans mess with predator/prey interactions.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 21, 2013 12:38 AM (RZ8pf)
Mongoose were intentionally introduced to Hawaii to control the rats which were accidentally introduced on sailing ships stopping for trade. The mongoose quickly realized that hunting Hawaiian birds was a lot easier than hunting rats.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 20, 2013 09:03 PM (MBqvE)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at October 20, 2013 09:03 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: cthulhu at October 21, 2013 12:56 AM (T1005)
The key is you have to mount the USB drives as actual Drives... so they are recognized by drive letter vice 'backup drive' as the backup program defaults to...
Then you tell it to back up to the drive letter as separate backup tasks... ensuring that one has time to finish before the 'server' backup starts...
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 20, 2013 09:03 PM (lZBBB)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at October 20, 2013 09:04 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: eman at October 20, 2013 09:07 PM (AO9UG)
Wow, check out the paunch on the blonde.....
Posted by: cthulhu at October 21, 2013 01:00 AM (T1005)
That just means she likes her beer.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 20, 2013 09:08 PM (MBqvE)
Posted by: eman at October 20, 2013 09:09 PM (AO9UG)
Posted by: eman at October 21, 2013 01:09 AM (AO9UG)
jizz is protein
Posted by: The Dude at October 20, 2013 09:11 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: eman at October 20, 2013 09:11 PM (AO9UG)
NBC News @NBCNews 1h
75 percent of breast milk bought online is contaminated, analysis shows http://nbcnews.to/H9C8Ff
Posted by: kbdabear at October 20, 2013 09:11 PM (aTXUx)
That still makes me laugh.
Posted by: Dancing Queen at October 20, 2013 09:12 PM (FDGeg)
Posted by: Jean at October 20, 2013 09:13 PM (CMlD4)
The key is you have to mount the USB drives as actual Drives... so they are recognized by drive letter vice 'backup drive' as the backup program defaults to...
Then you tell it to back up to the drive letter as separate backup tasks... ensuring that one has time to finish before the 'server' backup starts...
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2013 01:03 AM (lZBBB)
OK, let's try that communication thing a bit slower, so that old folks like me can get it.
I have four 2T drives on the server -- let's call them Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta. Alpha's internal (SATA), the rest are external USB 3.0 -- Beta on channel 1 and the others on channel 2. Alpha and Beta are meant to be used as active drives, Gamma and Delta are meant to be used as backups. Alpha and Beta have drive letters -- Gamma and Delta are designated backup drives. Client backups live on Alpha. Beta is "server native" content.
Right now, it seems that the system is configured to back up Alpha+Beta to Gamma, with overflow to Delta. The system is giving me "Gamma is almost full" messages on every backup (2x per day). If I could configure "Alpha backs up to Gamma; Beta backs up to Delta", this shouldn't be a problem.
How does one configure separate backup tasks?
Posted by: cthulhu at October 20, 2013 09:13 PM (T1005)
"It always puzzles me how we humans
mess with predator/prey interactions."
And we experience amazingly bad outcomes from our attempts.
Tune in next week when we stick a half-assed thermostat on the planet and control it's temperature!
Posted by: Meremortal at October 20, 2013 09:14 PM (1Y+hH)
They had it mapped out well in advance. And they're STILL shilling for Obama.
A bunch of Hollyweird types who are rich enough that they'll never themselves be anywhere near an Obamacare insurance "exchange" have volunteered to tell America's low information voters how Obamacare is the greatest thing in the history of the universe.
As I keep saying, Obama will never quit demanding tax hikes. The House GOP need to put a nice fat package of tax hikes on the table so that they can claim to have been responsive to the request. Tax hikes that hit favored Democratic constituencies. To include returning to those thrilling days of yesteryear when Hollyweird were slapped with painfully large excise taxes. Dare him to veto it.
By the way, it is going to be very interesting in 2016. Conservatives tend to figure that the Democratic Party is monolithic, which is is not. It just looks that way. There are major internal schisms that are papered over for public consumption and the good of the Party. The left are better at the papering-over part than the right are.
Consider the Arkansas bloc of the Clintons (though interested observers will note that it's been several geologic epochs since Bill, Hill or Chelsea have been anywhere near the state of Arkansas). Now consider the Chicago bloc that gave us Obama. It is by no means certain that the Chicago bloc will meekly allow Hillary to grab the nomination in 2016. They may well run their own person. (My guess? Obama crony Deval Patrick.)
Both of these blocs have specific Hollyweird affiliates and allies. It will be informative to watch how that shakes out as the drop-dead-dates approach for the 2016 Democratic primaries. I recall an old book title: _Armageddon in Prime Time_. Something like that.
Posted by: torquewrench at October 20, 2013 09:15 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: The Dude at October 20, 2013 09:16 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: eman at October 20, 2013 09:18 PM (AO9UG)
Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix, 63, a former leader of the Tijuana Cartel, was shot in the head late on Friday at a family gathering in the southern tip of the state of Baja California Sur, a spokesman for state prosecutors said.
“A person dressed as a clown took his life,” he said.
Posted by: Bozo at October 20, 2013 09:19 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: The Dude at October 20, 2013 09:21 PM (vJdyz)
Huh. Kinda ironic.
We don't kill 'em. We arm 'em.
Posted by: Hussein Clown Posse at October 20, 2013 09:21 PM (/C6Mj)
Do you need to keep everything up while backing up, or can you bring the box down and image the server OS periodically and then send the data off to backup incrementally.
Posted by: Jean at October 20, 2013 09:25 PM (CMlD4)
I saw a clown drive-by shooting.
A tiny little car rolled up.
A bunch of flags came out that said "BANG!"
The car took off, but it crashed at the head of the block.
Two dozen clowns piled out of it and took off in all directions.
They didn't run very fast. Those huge shoes just don't work for that.
But they did get away. Goddamned clowns.
Posted by: torquewrench at October 20, 2013 09:27 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: thunderb at October 20, 2013 09:29 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Agent 47 at October 20, 2013 09:30 PM (ZyqBH)
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 20, 2013 09:31 PM (wNF3N)
There are a ton on schisms in Demoland. You are very right to identify Chicago as a hotbed -- and it has been forever. May Day, with the obligatory military parades in Red Square, originally commemorated the Chicago Haymarket Riots of 1886 -- predating the glorious October Revolution in Russia by 31 years.
FDR came from the NY branch of progressive utopianism [and was born in Hyde Park, NY....BHO got his political start in Hyde Park, Chicago, in Ayres' living room -- just what is it about "Hyde Park"?]. JFK from the slightly-more pragmatic MA school. Note that all the aforementioned group (with the exception of BHO, himself) are whiter than Wonder Bread.
Race-based Dem power centers are, obviously, of more recent vintage than Bull Connor. It was always quite striking to see Robert Byrd and Jesse Jackson attached at the hip and bowing toward MLK without acknowledging MLK as a Republican.
Your observations regarding stress on the fracture lines are very much on-point. It's too bad the dipshit RINO contingent of the GOP will never exploit them.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 20, 2013 09:32 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Napoleon's last desperate command, June 18, 1815 at October 20, 2013 09:33 PM (9UhPw)
Posted by: Jean at October 20, 2013 09:33 PM (CMlD4)
Posted by: Napoleon, musing upon a near-run thing at October 20, 2013 09:37 PM (9UhPw)
Posted by: RovingCopyEditor at October 20, 2013 09:37 PM (vRdWg)
Do you need to keep everything up while backing up, or can you bring the box down and image the server OS periodically and then send the data off to backup incrementally.
Posted by: Jean at October 21, 2013 01:25 AM (CMlD4)
I'm not sure I got more than every third word of that. There's only me and the BH, and a flock of computers that get used for specific things. "Traveler" is a compact little laptop that goes with us on trips so that we can read emails. I keep my financial stuff on "Lenovo7" and I'm typing this on "HP7". "Laptop17" is what I use for stuff with a lot onscreen, and "Laptop15" is what I use for client visits. The Windows Home Server thing has been earning its keep by watching over the flock and making sure everything gets booted and backed-up regularly, even if it normally lives in a closet.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 20, 2013 09:37 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Navycopjoe at October 20, 2013 09:40 PM (j8JLb)
Oh, you don't have any on you...
*blam*
*blam*
*blam*
Posted by: Dr. Rockso at October 20, 2013 09:41 PM (/C6Mj)
Fucking bears are made of glass
And people can't drive for shit in hawaii
Posted by: Navycopjoe at October 21, 2013 01:40 AM (j8JLb)
They got so worried about giving licenses to illegal aliens that they spaced out about the "evaluating basic competence to drive" thing.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 20, 2013 09:42 PM (T1005)
Posted by: NHTSA at October 20, 2013 09:43 PM (9UhPw)
Posted by: Navycopjoe at October 21, 2013 01:40 AM (j8JLb)
but Josh McCown is a savior
At least they have next week off till they get fucked in the ass by the Packers
Posted by: The Dude at October 20, 2013 09:43 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: David Attenborough at October 20, 2013 09:46 PM (9UhPw)
So, assuming you dont want to spend any money. Configure Alpha to backup to Gamma - full - then incrementally. I wouldn't mix drives without good software, raid controllers, etc.
Then periodically (before every Windows Update!!11!!) back up Beta by shutting down the server box, booting to a USB Key and image Beta as an ISO to a DVD (or a drive). If your server OS ever goes tits up, just re-image beta. That way you keep all your configuration settings, etc.
So try not to do Alpha + Beta, this = mess if the server goes down
Do Alpha to Gamma
Do Beta to Image (on Delta or on DVD)
Reserve Delta for unmounted porn or periodic static images of Beta
Posted by: Jean at October 20, 2013 09:51 PM (CMlD4)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at October 20, 2013 09:52 PM (BXLPR)
Posted by: DAve at October 20, 2013 09:54 PM (b7yum)
USB was only available in 12 Mb form at the time. By the time USB 2.0 made external drives over USB useful it was too late for SyQuest and the similar Iomega products. Regular hard drive gained capacity so rapidly that it didn't make sense to use anything else for external storage. Plus writable optical media got into the multi-GB range with DVD to offer a far cheaper solution for transport.
Posted by: Epobirs at October 20, 2013 09:55 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: buzzion at October 20, 2013 09:56 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: RovingCopyEditor at October 20, 2013 10:04 PM (vRdWg)
So, assuming you dont want to spend any money. Configure Alpha to backup to Gamma - full - then incrementally. I wouldn't mix drives without good software, raid controllers, etc.
Then periodically (before every Windows Update!!11!!) back up Beta by shutting down the server box, booting to a USB Key and image Beta as an ISO to a DVD (or a drive). If your server OS ever goes tits up, just re___ beta. That way you keep all your configuration settings, etc.
So try not to do Alpha + Beta, this = mess if the server goes down
Do Alpha to Gamma
Do Beta to Image (on Delta or on DVD)
Reserve Delta for unmounted porn or periodic static images of Beta
Posted by: Jean at October 21, 2013 01:51 AM (CMlD4)
I think you missed a couple of things -- server/settings/client backups are all on Alpha. I'm sort of ok on Alpha backing up to Gamma.....and even doing overflow on Delta -- disks aren't that expensive. And it's certainly true that I don't need to be putting Alpha + Beta on Gamma. The fly in the ointment is backing up Beta. I could easily back Beta to Epsilon (new disk), but I need to disconnect it from the previous dealio and somehow cron it to happen automagically. I gather that this involves wbadmin and task scheduler -- http://tinyurl.com/ms326rc -- and, of course, the aforementioned chicken sacrifice.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 20, 2013 10:05 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Epobirs at October 21, 2013 02:03 AM (kcfmt)
Do you know where I can find some sailors?
Posted by: Ryo Hazuki at October 20, 2013 10:05 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: Hooker at Roanoke IHOP at October 20, 2013 10:06 PM (BXLPR)
Posted by: Ryo Hazuki at October 21, 2013 02:05 AM (vJdyz)
Probably in obama's chamber. There may be one dressed as a fireman and cop too.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Div at October 20, 2013 10:07 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: mindful webworker - arglebargled at October 20, 2013 10:11 PM (ndxIr)
Posted by: DAve at October 21, 2013 01:54 AM (b7yum)
Yes, it is.
I'm doing an extended farewell tour to California. I won't start a business here, I feel like I'm standing on the tracks with an out-of-control locomotive cresting the hill behind me all the time, I pay so goddamned much and get nothing but nannyism 24/7/365. It's too bad that it's got the nicest climate, greatest natural resources, most beautiful scenery, and loveliest constructions of anywhere in the US....but it's riddled with graft, corruption, institutionalized stupidity, and petty small-minded vitriol and is in a race to see whether the bubble will pop before or after the calamitous earthquake/wildfire/tsunami/riots.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 20, 2013 10:11 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 20, 2013 10:21 PM (l5zzX)
373 Tragically, every word you say is God's truth. But goddammit it feels like being kicked out of your home by the worst of human filth to leave. Sadly, I'll probably be here until the hordes completely overrun me and my quality of life is minus zero or worse. Fuck this place but it's my home.
Loyal to the end to a tramp who doesn't love me in the least.
Posted by: DAve at October 20, 2013 10:24 PM (b7yum)
Posted by: Purp at October 21, 2013 02:21 AM (l5zzX)
It breaks my heart, but I've got to GTFO of here. I had such dreams to have a comfortable, low-key future with seashore and trees -- but what isn't raiders, bandits, thieves, and thugs is two-faced, graft-ridden, lying scumsuckers. The government here is not going to safeguard my life, liberty, and property from assorted miscreants.....in fact, they're more interested in scheming to swoop in beforehand.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 20, 2013 10:28 PM (T1005)
374 My mother and father, grandparents and both sets of great-grandparents are buried in Taft.
Will my generation be the one to retreat from this land watered with the sweat of four generations?
Posted by: DAve at October 20, 2013 10:31 PM (b7yum)
373 Tragically, every word you say is God's truth. But goddammit it feels like being kicked out of your home by the worst of human filth to leave. Sadly, I'll probably be here until the hordes completely overrun me and my quality of life is minus zero or worse. Fuck this place but it's my home.
Loyal to the end to a tramp who doesn't love me in the least.
Posted by: DAve at October 21, 2013 02:24 AM (b7yum)
The reason it feels that way is because that's a pretty apt summary.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 20, 2013 10:31 PM (T1005)
Posted by: DAve at October 20, 2013 10:33 PM (b7yum)
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 20, 2013 10:36 PM (l5zzX)
Posted by: DAve at October 20, 2013 10:36 PM (b7yum)
Posted by: Arbalest at October 20, 2013 10:43 PM (FlRtG)
Cold winters though once you get north of Palm Beach county.
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 20, 2013 10:43 PM (l5zzX)
374 My mother and father, grandparents and both sets of great-grandparents are buried in Taft.
Will my generation be the one to retreat from this land watered with the sweat offour generations?
Posted by: DAve at October 21, 2013 02:31 AM (b7yum)
Five out of the 12 largest hydrocarbon deposits in the US lie under California. At one time, it could have been the world's 7th largest economy if it weren't being counted as part of the largest. Its agriculture used to provide 1/7 of the fresh fruits and vegetables of the entire country. Its ports were the gateway to the East, its schools among the best in the nation.
And now it has the nation's highest income taxes and sales taxes, and property tax (based on the inflated value of real estate) is similarly outlandish. It spends more on trains to nowhere than other states spend for their entire state budget. Schools and ports have both fallen victim to unions, and tree-huggers have cut off energy and agriculture in the name of schemes that inevitably lead to intensely damaging wildfire conflagrations.
I had hope. I thought that the spirit that stood up to the system and bound them with Prop 13 could beat back the rot. Now I just want to get out while I still have something left. I want to find a safe place for the BH and I so that I can build comfort within that safety. I want to work in a place where the results of my efforts won't be wrested from me and used by criminals to pay off whores.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 20, 2013 10:46 PM (T1005)
cthulhu:
It sounds like you've settled on a location. Congratulations, and I think you're choosing wisely. I'm eyeing a few places, as I see no reason to go through another real estate crash. Remember, I owe you a dinner.
Posted by: Arbalest at October 21, 2013 02:43 AM (FlRtG)
I settled on potential locations long ago....the problem is the BH. We're walking along the railroad tracks, and I'm saying -- "isn't it nice over there?" or "we can take a little detour and see that" -- while thinking, "I hear the singing in the rails, and where we are is about to be obliterated." But she keeps wanting to walk along the railroad ties.
The only thing that keeps me here is that I'm not leaving without her.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 20, 2013 10:52 PM (T1005)
Posted by: DAve at October 20, 2013 10:53 PM (b7yum)
Posted by: DAve at October 21, 2013 02:53 AM (b7yum)
Nay! Pipe a lively air, jc, that we can throw off our slump and rejoin the dance!
Posted by: cthulhu at October 20, 2013 10:55 PM (T1005)
Like most of the nice coastal parts of Commiefornia, Santa Barbara is a marvelous place to live if you're either incredibly rich or dirt poor. Scamming the system via corporate welfare in the case of the rich, or via individual welfare in the case of the poor.
If you're an ordinary middle class Joe or Jane working for a living, playing by the incredibly thick rulebook, receiving no special economic treatment, and paying the taxes which the poor ignore and the rich evade, it's not such a great deal.
Posted by: torquewrench at October 20, 2013 10:55 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: Navycopjoe at October 20, 2013 10:55 PM (wPCF5)
389 Yep me too- I'm 17 years to STRS retirement and just hoping it holds together til that point at least.
Speaking of which, have you all gotten your colonoscopies lately?
Posted by: DAve at October 20, 2013 10:56 PM (b7yum)
Posted by: Mr. Dave at October 20, 2013 10:56 PM (ac4fh)
Well, the bears broke but the cabby thing is great today!!
Which is good cause the brat is still asking for a Porsche for her bday Friday
She'll be 12
Posted by: Navycopjoe at October 21, 2013 02:55 AM (wPCF5)
No problemo -- http://tinyurl.com/ktkoebe -- it's not like she needs to drive one.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 20, 2013 10:58 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 20, 2013 10:58 PM (l5zzX)
Posted by: Navycopjoe at October 20, 2013 10:59 PM (wPCF5)
Just what I heard from his son Alex in a message he sent to a bunch of people.
Jerry made a lot of progress recently cleaning stuff out of the upstairs office area that was once filled with boxes of recently arrived tech to examine. He has finally accepted that it really isn't a suitable use of his more limited attention these days to play technology journalist. Better to focus on fiction and anything that comes up in non-fiction opportunities. A lot of it is just being 80 years old but the tumor they blasted out of his head a few years ago took a lot out of him and he didn't get it all back. It forced him to feel his age when he had been pretty spry before.
He has said he wanted to get the upstairs sufficiently roomy to host gatherings. Tea parties is how he put it but not necessarily the political sort, though I dare say he still has much to offer in conveying how and why this country is supposed to work.
Alex is concerned that the house may be becoming too much for them to manage, even with the cleaning lady who comes in. I suspect he also worries about the stairs and Jerry's balance. On top of this, Sable the Husky has bone cancer and her days are numbered. She has already lasted a surprisingly long time and still greets me enthusiastically when I visit. But at some point in the near future her front right leg bones are going to fail and they'll have to face the dreaded moment. I worry that losing Sable will cost them more than a dog, that she helps sustain Jerry. I can't imagine them getting another puppy at this point but not having a dog in the house would be a big gaping hole.
Posted by: Epobirs at October 20, 2013 10:59 PM (kcfmt)
392 That's the impression i was getting- they're advertising for an auto teacher position at Ventura C.C. but who can really say with any certainty what the future would hold???
This utter uncertainty and unpredictability about the modern political and economic climate is likewise very much a reason why the economy is now and will remain stalled on the tracks
Posted by: DAve at October 20, 2013 11:01 PM (b7yum)
Posted by: Mad Max at October 20, 2013 11:02 PM (Vk2pI)
389 Yep me too- I'm 17 years to STRS retirement and just hoping it holds together til that point at least.
Speaking of which, have you all gotten your colonoscopies lately?
Posted by: DAve at October 21, 2013 02:56 AM (b7yum)
I don't see CalPERS or CalSTRS lasting much longer -- they've been using "normal" returns of 7% for a number of years when actual returns were <3% -- so there's a lot of air in the assets and a lot of undercounting in the liabilities.
As far as colonoscopies are concerned, I had mine done (nipped 5 polyps) last year, before Obamacare could mess things up too badly. That means that healthcare has until 2022 to get that part of things straightened out.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 20, 2013 11:03 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 20, 2013 11:03 PM (l5zzX)
"HHS shipping in experts to fix website. Nothing says fixing an IT problem than bringing a bunch of IT people from different companies and organizations. Let the chaos continue."
That's one way to speed up the project: add more programmers!
Posted by: Zombie Frederick Brooks at October 20, 2013 11:04 PM (a5bF3)
Note that in Commiefornia, these often overlap.
I talked to a PG&E lineman who was out to our house to deal with a storm-damaged utility drop. He apologized for being late. He had been previously called out to a highly affluent neighborhood nearby. One of the teenaged scions of privilege had parked his shiny new Porsche right behind the guy's truck and then taken off with friends, leaving the truck immobilized.
He said, "You know what gets me? You know what Lifeline is?"
Sure, I said, it's the subsidized gas and electricity for low-income households.
He said, "Yeah, and this neighborhood has people earning four hundred grand a year, and half the houses are on fucking Lifeline."
I said, you're kidding. Surely you flag those accounts for attention?
He spat and said, "Used to. When I was new. Back when I figured it would do any good. It doesn't do any good. No one cares. No one enforces the rules. Nothing ever happens."
That's Commiefornia in a nutshell right there.
Posted by: torquewrench at October 20, 2013 11:04 PM (gqT4g)
403 If what you say about STRS is true (and it undeniably is) then I'm just wasting my life giving mouth-to-mouth to a cadaver
I'm so glad for you that you've got the clarity required to jump off the ship before it pulls you under
Posted by: DAve at October 20, 2013 11:06 PM (b7yum)
Posted by: Mr. Dave at October 20, 2013 11:06 PM (ac4fh)
406 Good thing the busses aren't running this late or that story would inspire me to walk in front of one.
Hey I just thought of an actual use for high-speed rail!!!
Posted by: DAve at October 20, 2013 11:10 PM (b7yum)
Thanks for the update!
Posted by: RovingCopyEditor at October 20, 2013 11:11 PM (vRdWg)
Yea, watched that happen at IBM with that ill fated OS/2 on the PowerPC project. That got flooded with people rolling off OS.2 2.X with predictable results.
That one was doomed, but all you needed to do to figure that out was look at who the 3rd line and 2nd line managers were. The code was fuck too of course, but even if it wasn't, that one had FAIL written all over it due to management that put their careers ahead of the product.
Office politics doesn't produce product. Never has, never will.
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 20, 2013 11:12 PM (l5zzX)
Posted by: DAve at October 20, 2013 11:12 PM (b7yum)
What always makes the news? The shitholes, the communist infested democrat controlled sewers, and the fucking douchetools living in them, thats what makes the news. The whole fucking state is red and we got a few blue cancerous growths that are strangling it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Div at October 20, 2013 11:15 PM (FMbng)
Just what I heard from his son Alex in a message he sent to a bunch of people.
Jerry made a lot of progress recently cleaning stuff out of the upstairs office area that was once filled with boxes of recently arrived tech to examine. He has finally accepted that it really isn't a suitable use of his more limited attention these days to play technology journalist. Better to focus on fiction and anything that comes up in non-fiction opportunities. A lot of it is just being 80 years old but the tumor they blasted out of his head a few years ago took a lot out of him and he didn't get it all back. It forced him to feel his age when he had been pretty spry before.
He has said he wanted to get the upstairs sufficiently roomy to host gatherings. Tea parties is how he put it but not necessarily the political sort, though I dare say he still has much to offer in conveying how and why this country is supposed to work.
Alex is concerned that the house may be becoming too much for them to manage, even with the cleaning lady who comes in. I suspect he also worries about the stairs and Jerry's balance. On top of this, Sable the Husky has bone cancer and her days are numbered. She has already lasted a surprisingly long time and still greets me enthusiastically when I visit. But at some point in the near future her front right leg bones are going to fail and they'll have to face the dreaded moment. I worry that losing Sable will cost them more than a dog, that she helps sustain Jerry. I can't imagine them getting another puppy at this point but not having a dog in the house would be a big gaping hole.
Posted by: Epobirs at October 21, 2013 02:59 AM (kcfmt)
Bittersweet news, indeed. I only met Jerry once (in Santa Barbara [IIRC at a "Footfall" book signing]), but I certainly wish him well. It may be helpful to remind him of Kurzweil's "bridges" outlook [ http://tinyurl.com/n3l8jtt -- you don't have to live long enough to get the treatment that allows you to live forever, you just need to live long enough to get the treatment that lets you live long enough for others to develop the treatment that allows you to live forever].
IIRC, there's a Known Space character that gets to the future the same way -- ends up in a wheelchair and somewhat decrepit, but stays in the game by using last week's cutting-edge technology to make it to next week's innovation.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 20, 2013 11:17 PM (T1005)
The ocean is way more impressive at night, when you're the only one on the beach for miles and miles.
Traffic that time of day was zilch too.
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 20, 2013 11:18 PM (l5zzX)
Heading west out of Newark through Parsippany and further west off into the Poconos. I did an extended gig at Prudential in Parsippany some years ago. My weekend escape route always headed west.
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 20, 2013 11:22 PM (l5zzX)
Posted by: DAve at October 20, 2013 11:23 PM (b7yum)
http://www.itar-tass.com/en/c140/909207.html
"The all-new A23 chip clocks in at 1.5GHz and delivers unparalleled low power consumption. Figures from early platform releases show Antutu benchmark scores up to 15,000. Devices with mainstream batteries can last up to 10 hours during video playback and over 100 hours during screen-off music playback. In addition, Allwinner's newly designed ultra-standby mode enables over 60 days of device standby time and an advanced Talking Standby mode for low power voice talk."
Seems to me you could make a pretty bitching laptop or super-low power desktop or blade server out of that too
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 20, 2013 11:25 PM (l5zzX)
Posted by: Purp at October 21, 2013 03:22 AM (l5zzX)
Yeah good old newark. If jersey was gonna get an enema thats where they put it. The north east area is a wash if you ask me. We call it West NY.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Div at October 20, 2013 11:27 PM (FMbng)
We have an apple tree and a pear tree in the yard, and both bore heavily this year. So, from our experience, two suggestions:
* Apple pies. It's a pain to peel, core, and slice the apples, but made with lots of cinnamon and brown sugar, and hot out of the oven, they are terrific. By the way, try mixing a couple tablespoons of brandy with the apples. Use the good stuff. The flavor is out of this world! Serve the pie warm, not hot, with good vanilla ice-cream. Our favorite is Blue Bunny, an Iowa brand; but regardless, get the good stuff.
* Apple sauce. This is particularly good if the apples are bruised, or even a little overripe. Just quarter the apples, simmer them with a little water in a heavy pot over a low flame until they're all mushy, then sieve through a Foley mill to filter out the skin, seeds, and whatnot. Add sugar and cinnamon to taste. The fresh stuff is *so* much better than what you get in the store. Try it with pork chops, or mixed into oatmeal for breakfast: I guarantee you'll love it.
Posted by: Brown Line at October 20, 2013 11:28 PM (a5bF3)
I could go on-and-on-and-on with superlatives and resources.....and progressive socialist utopianism has turned it all to shit.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 20, 2013 11:31 PM (T1005)
Posted by: DAve at October 20, 2013 11:31 PM (b7yum)
Posted by: DAve at October 20, 2013 11:34 PM (b7yum)
Overall, yes. Most of the bad crazy is along the coasts and in Palm Beach/Broward/Dade. Dade being the worst.
Go inland 15-20 miles and you weed out 90% of the bad shit. If you can find a place more than a few miles from an interstate, crime goes down quite a bit. Perps seem to want that easy-on/easy-off access to victims.
Temperature wise, there's about 10 or so distinct bands in the state. Miami, which is only about 65mi to the south of me is frequently 5-10 degrees hotter in the summer. Its about 10mi north from my crib to PBI, but those 10mi put you in a different temperature zone that becomes very apparent in the winter months.
20mi north up around Jupiter a freeze is not uncommon. Where I am, there's been maybe a handful of freezing nights in 20 years.
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 20, 2013 11:36 PM (l5zzX)
Posted by: Adriane ... at October 20, 2013 11:43 PM (KoFMU)
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 20, 2013 11:44 PM (l5zzX)
Jerry has a regimen of stuff he swallows every day, based largely on the theories of life extension gurus Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw. They used to make the rounds of the talks shows a lot in the 70s and many regarded him as a bit wacky but he has a pretty impressive resume:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durk_Pearson
I don't know if the stuff helps or not. Jerry likes to repeat the anecdote of a friend who once remarked while watching him down his daily set of doses, "Do you also eat food?"
The Niven character you're probably thinking of is Lucas Garner. He was one of the major characters in Larry first novel, 'World of Ptavvs' and was also Gil Hamilton's boss in the ARM. Larry never explicitly said so in any book but I always got the impression that Lucas Garner was born on the same day as him, 4-30-1938. This gave him a way to have a character present who knew the era of the author and reader in a way most of the characters could not.
Posted by: Epobirs at October 20, 2013 11:49 PM (kcfmt)
415 Are you happy then with your move to Fla.???
Overall, yes. Most of the bad crazy is along the coasts and in Palm Beach/Broward/Dade. Dade being the worst.
Go inland 15-20 miles and you weed out 90% of the bad shit. If you can find a place more than a few miles from an interstate, crime goes down quite a bit. Perps seem to want that easy-on/easy-off access to victims.
Temperature wise, there's about 10 or so distinct bands in the state. Miami, which is only about 65mi to the south of me is frequently 5-10 degrees hotter in the summer. Its about 10mi north from my crib to PBI, but those 10mi put you in a different temperature zone that becomes very apparent in the winter months.
20mi north up around Jupiter a freeze is not uncommon. Where I am, there's been maybe a handful of freezing nights in 20 years.
Posted by: Purp at October 21, 2013 03:36 AM (l5zzX)
I got the Southern Living Garden Book when I started looking into moving. It was a shock. I was used to the Sunset Western Garden Book -- and, indeed, the plant descriptions and general layout are exactly the same.....but the zones in the SLGB are based on peak cold and peak hot, where the SWGB focuses on microclimates.
There are tons of things that I've seen for 50 years (e.g. agapanthus, citrus) that don't readily grow in the south, except in limited bands. It feels off-kilter, like the land and air are off-kilter.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 20, 2013 11:51 PM (T1005)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaDo9PyCeLQ
For it is the doom of men that they forget.
Posted by: Epobirs at October 20, 2013 11:52 PM (kcfmt)
Jerry has a regimen of stuff he swallows every day, based largely on the theories of life extension gurus Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw. They used to make the rounds of the talks shows a lot in the 70s and many regarded him as a bit wacky but he has a pretty impressive resume:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durk_Pearson
I don't know if the stuff helps or not. Jerry likes to repeat the anecdote of a friend who once remarked while watching him down his daily set of doses, "Do you also eat food?"
The Niven character you're probably thinking of is Lucas Garner. He was one of the major characters in Larry first novel, 'World of Ptavvs' and was also Gil Hamilton's boss in the ARM. Larry never explicitly said so in any book but I always got the impression that Lucas Garner was born on the same day as him, 4-30-1938. This gave him a way to have a character present who knew the era of the author and reader in a way most of the characters could not.
Posted by: Epobirs at October 21, 2013 03:49 AM (kcfmt)
Yeah, I think that was the character. When I saw the Kurzweil story and [ http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57608218/dick-cheney-calls-his-current-health-a-miracle/ ] on Cheney, I couldn't help but think that Niven had nailed it way-back-when.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 21, 2013 12:02 AM (T1005)
Being a peninsula, about the bottom 2/3 of FL are not affected much by continental weather patterns. That stuff kinda drops off south of the Cape.
There's still a coastal/central difference that can be quite dramatic. ex. I did some work at 15 square mile South Florida water management filter marsh facility maybe 20 miles south of lake Okeechobee (which if you drew a line across the state lined up pretty close with my house)
I'd be up at 5am to drive out there and the temp in Palm Beach would be maybe 70, but by the time I got out around the US Sugar plant in Belle Glade an hour later, the temp out in the cane fields was in the mid 50's. In the summer, the highs out in the cane fields would be higher than the coastal areas.
Prevailing wind patterns change seasonally too. Summer months in Palm Beach prevailing winds are almost always out of the east, during winter its often out of the west.
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 21, 2013 12:13 AM (l5zzX)
Posted by: The Political Hat at October 21, 2013 12:18 AM (Vk2pI)
Is it in good taste to take your hooker to a late Sunday lunch at IHOP?
I am in Pattaya, Thailand. You oughta see what's walking around here.
Posted by: Mr. Dave at October 21, 2013 01:12 AM (Tc+EM)
Posted by: ChicagoRefugee at October 21, 2013 01:25 AM (1tL8B)
Posted by: Mr. Dave at October 21, 2013 01:35 AM (Tc+EM)
Given the Head Ewok's proclivity for "accidental" links maybe I should go look for a Midget Thai Lady Boy. He's been a little grouchy lately, cheer him up a bit.
BBL
Posted by: Mr. Dave at October 21, 2013 01:43 AM (Tc+EM)
Posted by: Purp at October 20, 2013 11:02 PM (l5zzX)
Yup - from the Tao of Programming:
A manager went to the master programmer and showed him the requirements document for a new application. The manager asked the master: ``How long will it take to design this system if I assign five programmers to it?''
``It will take one year,'' said the master promptly.
``But we need this system immediately or even sooner! How long will it take if I assign ten programmers to it?''
The master programmer frowned. ``In that case, it will take two years.''
``And what if I assign a hundred programmers to it?''
The master programmer shrugged. ``Then the design will never be completed,'' he said.
Posted by: lymond at October 21, 2013 02:13 AM (fzxq4)
heh...holding fucking retards who make mid five figures and above accountable for empowering folks like Bam and Lieawatha to address "income inequality" despite being uh millionaires?
yeah...not a bad plan imho
"apolitical" my ass
Posted by: sven10077 at October 21, 2013 02:29 AM (9jfyN)
yeah...you know not wanting to assosciate with La Raza b/c of their beliefs means I am the problem...now if La Raza doesn't want to hang with me they are the problem....
it's time for choosing.
Posted by: sven10077 at October 21, 2013 02:37 AM (9jfyN)
@434 Mr. Dave
"I am in Pattaya, Thailand. You oughta see what's walking around here."
The Horde demands pics as tribute!
Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at October 21, 2013 02:47 AM (Xisao)
I'm getting old.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 21, 2013 02:57 AM (OuGy9)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 21, 2013 02:57 AM (OuGy9)
Morons, we have been abandoned. The time must be nigh for the camps. The squirrel on my back porch also gave a sign of a hard winter (he was carrying a sign saying "Hard Winter, look at my fur!!," which must be a sign).
Prepare! I have a new request other than the corner bunk near the A/C: one shelf for my stuff (cosmetics, perfume, jewelry,personal TP, and books). Maybe two or three shelves...oh, and a screen around bunk, but no more than that!
Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Redneck Queen of Tea Party, Eleventy District at October 21, 2013 05:14 AM (baL2B)
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