Friday Ephemera
Patriarchy detected. They were “taken by surprise.” || The circle of life. || Altered stone. || I think not. || Enthusiastic newcomers. || Wine glass of note. || Where to put the baby while you use a public toilet. || Medieval trade routes. (h/t, Brian) || Important notice of note. || He spent 3 years building a pyramid of pennies. || Periscope spectacles for the height impaired. || More liveliness in London. || Tesla vs Lovecraft is a game. || Gorilla crow. || Glories of the 1980s. || Thank goodness the clever ones are in charge. || Always respect the media. || Always trust Google. || Entirely unrelated. || One and four, obviously. (h/t, Tim) || And finally, via Dicentra, things that will be found by future archaeologists.
Can you tell me how to identify professional-class laptops?
My first thought would be to visit the Dell website: You will be asked to choose “consumer” vs “small business” vs “corporate” as I recall, and if you avoid the “consumer” link you’ll see only the better models. That might be informative. (Individuals can purchase computers at the “small business” and “corporate” links; the links mostly serve to direct customers to models they are more likely to want.)
Yankees vs Rd Sox 6-6 in the bottom of the first
Whoa.
“Linux on anything but a server or embedded firmware is a non-starter, by design.”
[Looks up from a session of Elite: Dangerous under SteamPlay. Shrugs.]
[Looks up from just having installed Office and Photoshop without a virtual machine on a dual boot laptop. Shrugs]
Any laptop with a Quadro video card is almost certainly “professional”, also likely expensive.
6-6 in the bottom of the first
Hatstand, fifteen, tumble dryer.
Sorry, I thought we were just doing random words.
Hatstand, fifteen, tumble dryer.
David, you have a natural feel for the game.
Continue banging the mash with your spotted dick. 😉
6-6 in the bottom of the first
Hatstand, fifteen, tumble dryer.
Random words or lyrics to a new Beck song.
Going back to Houston
Do the hot dog dance
banging the mash
Band name.
pst314 wrote, “Even in the middle of the city (thanks to far less nighttime lights) you could look up and see Echo satellite pass overhead.”
I remember that, too.
Thanks, Computerites!
Holy shit.
Like Caesar and King Tut, Apollo 11 will be general knowledge long after WWII, the Berlin Wall, even the American revolution, have become footnotes for ancient-history nerds
‘The picture he was cleaning showed an armored figure standing in a desolate landscape. It had no weapon, but held a staff bearing a strange, stiff banner. The visor of this figure’s helmet was entirely of gold, without eye slits or ventilation; in its polished surface the deathly desert could be seen in reflection, and nothing more.
‘This warrior of a dead world affected me deeply, though I could not say why or even just what emotion it was I felt. In some obscure way, I wanted to take down the picture and carry it – not into our necropolis but into one of those mountain forests of which our necropolis was (as I understood even then) an idealized but vitiated image. It should have stood among trees, the edge of its frame resting on young grass.’
-Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer
Beware the feathered horror!
https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/jersey-terrorised-feral-chickens-cull-complaints/?fbclid=IwAR2APZU911NEnDuFofdz_qpF4WPsA5XasUVM-4I4GTNf66KPZlv4EjSz3pc
David, now that we’re into page 2, can we have a new topic?
“The picture he was cleaning showed an armored figure standing in a desolate landscape…”
A very moving scene in a hauntingly beautiful and terrible series of novels, set so far in the future that our time is essentially forgotten.
I miss Gene more than I can say.
David, now that we’re into page 2, can we have a new topic?
When we get to page 3, I know what the topic should be, given that this is a British blog. 🙂
So what should it be?
Holy shit.
Unsurprisingly, a great many of the responses are blaming Andy for what the Antifa punks did to him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_3
Holy shit.
Among other things, we need to make it social suicide to be a supporter of Antifa, just as it is to be a supporter of the KKK or the Nazi Party.
Hatstand, fifteen, tumble dryer.
Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!
Here’s an article about Darleen’s friend who got beat up:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/
I wish him a speedy recovery and a new job where he doesn’t have to go unarmed among goons.
“Crazy baseball game going on in London right now. Yankees vs Rd Sox 6-6 in the bottom of the first.”
Seriously? I got heavily into baseball for a while when they had it on network TV over here (between 1997 and around 2007/8), and I remember the disappointment when it was announced it wouldn’t be in the 2012 Olympics; the planning for hosting it at Lord’s was pretty advanced, as I recall. But I’m really out of touch now. I vaguely follow the league standings and listen to the occasional game on the internet, but I had no idea this was happening.
This is my horrified face. I’m happy around 18°C (64°F). Two degrees higher and the complaining ensues.
18 degrees is a typical winter maximum in Sydney. Beautiful sunny day today, played golf in a shirt. Spring and summer are the best seasons here, typically mid-twenties and sunny. Summer is the worst season – the humidity kicks in and even the mid-thirties can be unpleasant.
Wouldn’t swap our weather for yours (or anyone’s really).
But against that, JML, you live in Sydney.
I see why your name is Rowdy!
And, speaking as a fellow Australian, Australian summer really is the pits. I’d love a bit more snow and ice this winter though. 🙂
Holy shit.
What’s interesting about Antifa’s mob assault of the journalist Andy Ngo isn’t that an organisation premised on recreational thuggery has once again indulged in recreational thuggery. That’s why it exists. What’s interesting is that so many left-leaning journalists have been so eager to excuse or diminish that thuggery and to frame Mr Ngo either as the aggressor or as somehow deserving of assault by people with borderline personality disorders.
Previously in the not-at-all-sociopathic world of Antifa.
What’s interesting is that so many left-leaning journalists have been so eager to excuse or diminish that thuggery and to frame Mr Ngo either as the aggressor or as somehow deserving of assault by people with borderline personality disorders.
It’s also interesting that through in a ill-considered fit of tolerance, normals have no will to functionally criminalize either this behavior or the general socio-political malignancy that powers it. Weren’t wars fought to thwart tyranny?
Not entirely unrelated.
(Correction to my 11:41: “…it’s also interesting that through an ill-considered fit of tolerance…”.)
And Jeff Goldstein observes how late it is:
https://twitter.com/proteinwisdom/status/1145340730845683712
Re Andy Ngo, here’s a good point well made:
https://twitter.com/pwafork/status/1145168593702678528
What’s interesting is that so many left-leaning journalists have been so eager to excuse or diminish that thuggery and to frame Mr Ngo either as the aggressor or as somehow deserving of assault by people with borderline personality disorders.
Reading through the linked threads it’s amusing observing the dilettantes playing 20th Century Ideological Politics while living their comfortable lives. They have no idea of the true horror of those ideologies. Lives lived in the romance afforded by the rearview mirror.
…and now for something completely unexpected.
Australia FTW.
Unclear on the concept.
More random words:
So the final score in yesterday’s game was 17-13 Yankees. Today’s game (the final one in the London series) was 12-8 Yankees. To put that in perspective, the average number of runs scored per game by a single team is 4.77 the median is just a little above that at 4.81. So on average a fan can expect to see just under 10 runs scored by both teams in total. For two teams to score 30 runs and then 20 in the follow up game is quite rare.
For those English curious about baseball (over 59,000 came out for each game) you were treated to an extraordinary display of offense by two of the better teams in the game.
/baseball talk
/baseball talk
Chin piffle undercarriage.
Band name.
For those in the market for a new laptop…offered for comparison sake…I was looking as well, similarly budget oriented thanks to minimal requirements/needs. An old desktop/tower/whatevs we called them back in the Jurassic developed problems at my second home. I had been making due with bringing this crappy Lenovo back and forth with me but that was becoming impractical. I needed a simple machine mostly for internet, some email (though we mostly use iPads), word processing, and pretty much the basics that are a little to awkward to do on an iPad. There’s a recycle computer store here in Central Florida that comes in handy for simple stuff like this. Many local small business people use them as well. They take in only corporate equipment, rehab it, and sell to consumers or whomever. I picked up a (2015?) Dell Inspiron Core i3 1.7Ghz, 8GB RAM. Had them swap out the hard drive for an SDD, granted one with less storage but I really don’t need all that much relatively speaking. 90 days full warranty, though they sell longer warranties. As this machine will be out of town mostly it didn’t seem worth the bother. I’ve purchased from these guys before without an issue, but again only for secondary purposes, including that previous desktop/tower/whatever from the Jurassic that developed problems (which I may fix but don’t have time to bother with right now) after about seven years. Total, including tax and the drive swapout, was under $300. Though it does not have Office, just Libre or wth it’s called. You can of course purchase Office for whatever, but they weren’t in a position to offer a discount on that relative to what I could buy myself so I thought I’d give Libre a try and buy Office later if I need to.
BTW, whoever recommended ASUS…have you been to their site? What a beautiful yet useless PITA that is. Or at least it seemed for the five/ten minutes that I was willing to waste trying to shop on it.
Band name
Or Beck album…just doing my part to get us to page 3. Y’all do want a page 3, yes?
I’m given to understand they imported many tons of special dirt to form the infield in London Stadium.
I find that odd.
I had heard about that painting in San Fran and thought it was typical SJW nitwittery, but seeing it for the first time I can see their point. What the hell is with the dead, or dead drunk, Indian?
Though I’d get rid of it just because it’s a crap painting.
Infield dirt has become something of a specialized thing.
https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-ballfield-dirt-1441191
I remember being told as a kid that it all came from Slippry Rock area of PA, but that may have just been local boosterism.
/baseball talk
Chin piffle undercarriage.
254/5, twelve overs, 5 wickets
What’s interesting is that so many left-leaning journalists have been so eager to excuse or diminish that thuggery…
When they find themselves kneeling at the edge of a ditch because they failed some ‘progressive’ purity test, will they wonder “How did this happen?”
Infield dirt has become something of a specialized thing.
True, but not quite as specialized as the mud used to rub down the baseballs for each game. There’s only one source since the late 30s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_rubbing_mud
When they find themselves kneeling at the edge of a ditch…
Unless there are ditches running through the middle of offices in Manhattan and Atlanta, that’s not likely to happen. The leftie journalists who get behind groups like ANTIFA never set foot in the field.
Infield dirt has become something of a specialized thing.
Magic dirt? 😉
Satire or prescience?
You decide.
Satire or prescience? You decide.
Given the arc of leftist rhetoric and action that I have seen in my lifetime, it seems likely that organized murder is only a matter of time.
Obituaries for the recently cancelled
However brief the return, I’m glad McSweeney’s has come back to publishing actually funny and cutting edge satire.
We are not the first generation of cancellers. The original Spectator – edited by Addison and Steele – made a habit of declaring the ‘death’ of people they found embarrassing or awful.
I read a story recently that, in one of his satirical coups, Jonathan Swift wrote an obituary for a political enemy he found particularly ignominious, and in due course gleefully saw the person he obituarised write an outraged pamphlet declaring that he was very much alive. I’m afraid I can’t remember the details, if anyone else knows and cares to share the information I’d be much obliged.