His Nuptials Were Impending

. . . vim > emacs. . .
Oh, and I have seen emacs in passing, from what I have read, I’ll grant that apparently it is indeed a rather interesting operating system, where if it only had a text editor as well, one wouldn’t be using vi for assorted file editing . . . .

Can we run this thread past 300 comments before David posts another blog entry?
Oh.
Here y’are.

Also, all curly brackets go on their own line, dammit.
Also, all curly brackets go on their own line, dammit.
I’m too busy scanning for
{
followed by
}
where I just don’t feel like having to look at the back end of some function call or so and think I’m seeing a semicolon that isn’t supposed to be there.

And while we’re at it — is Shakespeare no longer taught in San Francisco’s schools? How is it that these nincompoops don’t understand that changing the label on the jar does not change its contents:
“Someone get this bloke a six foot two ‘b four!”
. . . . let me share my deep, deep disappointment that the Board of Supervisors did not suggest “People of Conviction” as their alternative label.
In SF, one of the aspects of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake was the assorted damage to the Marina district. Some number of days after the earthquake, one of the local papers reported the suggestion that assorted people shouldn’t be considered “earthquake victims”, but instead they should be called “people living with earthquake”.

if they were there just for decoration, you should have said so.
My dear late grandmother’s antique vases!

Dr Frederick Chilton was the director of the Baltimore State hospital for the Criminally Insane who went missing while on vacation after Dr Lecter’s escape.
. . . . .
“That bug belonged to the late Dr Chilton.”
“Late? How do you know he’s the late Dr Chilton?”
“Well, he’s seven years late anyway,” Barney said. “I’m not expecting him anytime soon.
—Thomas Harris, Hannibal

‘San Francisco has implemented new rules demanding that a “convicted felon or an offender released from custody” must now be known as a “formerly incarcerated person” or a “justice-involved person” or simply a “returning resident.” Likewise, repeat offenders will be called “addicts.” But, actual drug addicts must now be called “a person with a history of substance use.”‘
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2019/08/23/san-francisco-criminals-must-now-be-called-justiceinvolved-persons-and-more-odd-changes-n2552105?fbclid=IwAR0ctybKm5QmvX5XQq_ZI1B75j2nG8KScIvdPHNTCVBdZNmURH9FyHprCfY
Honk honk.

Also, all curly brackets go on their own line, dammit.
Yes! My idiot colleagues put the starting brace at the end of the preceding line — sometimes a very long line — so in trying to sort out why their code doesn’t work, I have to scroll up and down and back and forth trying to find where the block starts.
They use two-space indent too, to make it extra hard.

If we are going to denigrate the blood sausage in a traditional English breakfast we should remember that the Germans are also fond of such offal. (See The Wicked Traveler phrasebook for apt mockery.)

Would that be the typewriter that figured in Dan Rather’s George W Bush/TANG (Texas Air National Guard) fraudulent documents?
No. The reason the fake memo was exposed so quickly is that the fake did have proportional type – indeed, open MS Word to default settings and type it out and, voila, you got the exact memo. Proportional type was something rarely seen in typewriters in 1973.
The model I used I believe is this.

When new, this machine cost about $700, which in 2018 US dollar equivalent is about $ 5,000! This was a top of the line machine.

In 1976 I was an executive secretary in a Savings & Loan and that model was the only one of its kind in my department. Beyond doubtful one of these babies was in the typing pool of the Texas Air National Guard.

…get Hal banging on about something nonsense or other

Hal | August 24, 2019 at 18:57

QED.

QED.

And in parallel, there are all the instances where one Cleopatra or another has noted supporting citations and utterly underlined all of them as completely accurate by merely and uselessly screaming denial!!! denial!!! denial!!! denial!!!

Nice barge you’ve got there, I guess.
Thank you playing, at least . . . . !

As if the yellow jackets weren’t enough, now the most popular county park in the South SF bay area is closed while staff attempts to lure a mama mountain lion and three cubs up into the parts of the park away from the hiking trails.
(I couldn’t help notice that there was no discussion of the daddy lion. But this is Silly Valley after all)
There’s a model farm about a klick into the park, with the usual goats and sheep and cows. Nice place, actually. Lion larder.
Apparently there’s video of the lions on the trails, getting used to humans.
Interestingly, and not as rare as you might think for this area, there’s a rifle range about 2 klicks south. The sounds are clearly audible from the South parts of the park (Rancho San Antonio).
In my own neighborhood, there are plenty of deer and coyote. Last year I found a half-deer in the road about two hundred yards away. Lion’s work for sure.
Darn coyotes aren’t doing anything to keep my rabbit population down. What good are they, then?

(I couldn’t help notice that there was no discussion of the daddy lion. But this is Silly Valley after all)
Um . . . dunno ’bout the train of thought of those doing assorted reporting, but the overall situation did ring a bell, and yes;

Like almost all cats, the cougar is a mostly solitary animal. Only mothers and kittens live in groups, with adults meeting rarely.

Darn coyotes aren’t doing anything to keep my rabbit population down. What good are they, then?
Make the coyotes stop ordering from Acme and see if that helps.

The coyotes DO have access to some tech, I believe. Two years ago, when there were only three of four, they had howling time each night from 11:45 to midnight. Exactly. SNCF-quality timing. Now there are pups in the group, bedtime is much more erratic, and the howling sounds more like an argument.

Dear fellow white people
A wonderful example of Kafkatrapping and self-loathing being run in a major paper telling white people how they should act since raaaaacism is just part of their dna.

Take a deep breath and pause after being called racist. You will probably feel attacked and defensive. Check those emotions and avoid argument.
Instead, apologize and consider asking someone — either the person who called you racist, or a trusted friend who understands racism and can chat with you about the situation — for help understanding what went wrong.
You can use language like this: “I didn’t realize that remark was racist. I am so sorry. Would you be willing to help me understand where I went wrong? I really want to learn and would be grateful.”
Important note: If possible, ask a white person to explain this to you. It isn’t the job of people of color to educate white people, and you are not owed a direct explanation, as much as you might like one. Don’t be entitled. Respect those boundaries. They’re healthy. Instead, explain what happened to a third party — one you trust will be insightful and honest. Taking ownership of the problem, ask for that person’s help in identifying and unpacking what you did wrong.

Be a paler version of Stepin Fetchit, it’s the only way.

Heh. As I have been saying for years now, STEM is not immune to this idiocy and will soon be subsumed by it. Ducking and hiding until the fight is over will not save you. But buildings will fall down, bridges will fail, airplanes will crash you say. Yes they will. And yes they did (and still do to some degree) in Russia and China, etc. But those failures will not be attributed to the tofu and kale fuel idea conceived by the philosophers and such. They won’t be taking the blame. It will be YOU, you STEM sucker. YOU failed to implement the plan properly.
There’s a lot of ruin in a country. Even more in a broader civilization.

what are they then doing at Stanford to begin with
They are pets to be paraded for the Diversity points. I feel sorry for the kids who actually DID earn their way and earn their diploma because, like Clarence Thomas with his Yale degree – they are tainted as “not as good as” the Asians and people of pallor with a Stanford degree.

“The left favors violence only under certain circumstances: When it’s out of power and feels frustrated, and when it’s in power and feels unstoppable”
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/340009/

Epic recipe is epic.
https://mobile.twitter.com/yashar/status/1165370248377393152?s=19

Not to change the subject, but isn’t there a method you hosers up north of the Maple-Dixon line can impeach a prime minister ?

Why do I get the feeling that this was a response to a dare?
A dare ? Put those bad boys on a stick and you’d make a mint at any county fair in a civilized state. I’d fire those up in an instant except the only thing I can deep fry in right now is the turkey fryer, and that is a bit of overkill.

“the only way to get rid of him without an election”
Canadian election in October.

I thought it was PM Zoolander…
The Chinese call him Little Potato.
Liberals thought it was a term of affection…until it wasn’t.

The M/Y Shemara, if I’m not mistaken, and what a lovely thing it is too.
Beautiful indeed.
But the most important question is…is the cabin boy named Tommy?

For a bunch of clowns who think 9 year old drag queens are the bee’s knees, that there are 57,382 genders, and it is perfectly comulent to copulate with anything animal, vegetable, or mineral, of any age, anywhere, anytime, anyhow, our coastal elites and self professed betters are certainly puritanical.
Renoir’s Problem Nudes.

Who doesn’t have a problem with Pierre-Auguste Renoir? A tremendously engaging show that centers on the painter’s prodigious output of female nudes, “Renoir: The Body, the Senses,” at the Clark Art Institute, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, sparks a sense of crisis. The reputation of the once exalted, still unshakably canonical, Impressionist has fallen on difficult days. Never mind the affront to latter-day educated tastes of a painting style so sugary that it imperils your mind’s incisors; there’s a more burning issue. The art historian Martha Lucy, writing in the show’s gorgeous catalogue, notes that, “in contemporary discourse,” the name Renoir has “come to stand for ‘sexist male artist.’ ”

A crisis, I tells ya, a burning issue crisis at that, no doubt. RTWT, it has everything, misogyny, class self confliction, latent homoeroticism, the whole shebang of genuine frontier SJW gibberish…

At the show, part of me felt as though I were writhing on a pin: again and again the carnal tapioca, the vacant gazes, the fatuous frolic. Arriving at a cool Corot nude in a darkling landscape or a crisp Picasso nude combing her hair was like gulping fresh air in a miasma.

Did someone say fatuous frolic ?

So much more stylish than the floating tower block that is the modern superyacht.
She is easy on the eye, unlike pretty much everything designed after about 1955.
Farnsworth:
… and as the HMS Shemara…
Pedant alert: it’s ‘HMS Shemara’ or ‘the Shemara’, never ‘the HMS Shemara’.

Sh0eOnHead fisking a pedo apologist;”:
https://youtu.be/uEUX3Q1a1GQ
prepare yourself, the pedo has the most annoying voice in the history of ever.

She is easy on the eye, unlike pretty much everything designed after about 1955.
I’d say about 1970 personally. The Northwind II was built in the mid 1960s, and I think that’s rather easy on the eye. As is the stylish interior, courtesy of the French design firm Maison Jansen, which manages to be fun and frivolous without being vulgar. (There was an Architectural Digest piece on the restoration of her interior a few years ago). And the last aesthetically pleasing ocean liner, the SS France, was completed in 1962. There are a few other ships made about the same time which look decent. Otherwise, I agree. Modern vessels are undeniably hideous for the most part. The Queen Mary 2 is, in my view, not particularly pretty, but it gets points for being something which does at least attempt to resemble a ship.

The easiest route to success for an aspiring New York Intellectual is to engage in some iconoclasm directed at the Western Canon. It does not require much intelligence or knowledge or scholarship (just turn the crank of the Marxist bullshit generator) and it will be warmly received by editors.
This is pretty much what’s ruined comic books over the last twenty years or so, and it’s even more ridiculous because it’s comic books. Deconstructing comic books is like putting a Veritech VF-1 Valkyrie in a wind tunnel to see if it’ll fly.

pst314:
Now that the 80×120 foot wind tunnel at NASA Ames has been upgraded to 80×120 feet, that might be testable. (Remember, la Pennie AND her ego must both fit in the test chamber.)
Alas, the maximum airspeed in the large test section is only something like 100 MPH, so any test might be a waste of time.

re yachts,
All you heathens are way off base. Comely as HMS Shemara is, she is not a Nat Herreshoff design.

Now that the 80×120 foot wind tunnel at NASA Ames has been upgraded…
Time for a gratuitous reference to heavy lift vehicles?

pst314,
Well…Ames did once have a Caribou. It did fly, but low and slow.

Ames did once have a Caribou. It did fly, but low and slow.
Could be worse, could be a C-23 Sherpa, the only plane that gets bird strikes on the trailing edges.

He was a F4 driver in Korea. got shot down by an evil-minded North Korean…
Good flying, then. Welcome home belatedly, sheepdog and patriot.

Many congratulations 🙂
Thanks.

It’s about hallelujah time.
I’m still at the ‘admiring-the-jewellery’ phase.
I know, I’m adorable.