Friday Ephemera
The scent of a woman. || Two types of pleasure face. || Change of plan. And yes, everyone survived. || Deploy. || Their drinks are fancier than yours. || Frame the dog. || That’s exactly how I would’ve done it. || This watch is thinner than yours. || Incoming. || Incoming 2. || Never mind the scenery, just watch where you step. || Today’s word is snug. || The thrill of innovation. || The thrill of grocery shopping. || Philadelphia street scenes. || Why dogs don’t rule the Earth. || “Are you? Are you? Are you?” || Somewhat related. || He loves you, so there’s that. || I have questions. || Tidying. || Two points, perhaps related. || An invitation to chat, possibly over coffee. || And finally, thrillingly, a sighting of bra and panties.
and that enlarging via your browser was too exhausting
Ctrl-+ on Firefox for a setting that applies only to that website is too exhausting? Doesn’t David have enough to do between stocking the hamster urine and cleaning out the regrooving machine?
Here is an eye test for you.
It’s the Bonfire of the (Land) Manatees.
New font is good font !
Old font is bad font !
All hail new font !
Funny how mainstream views are now counterculture.
Vote now.
If it’s either/or, go with the larger font.
I’m mostly on an iPad using Chrome and not really noticing much difference. Perhaps I’ve got a standard font override in the settings somewhere but God only knows. I found this rant as well as this and this one by Scott Adams regarding modern technology to be similar to many of my experiences lately.
Instead I can recommended various models by Skagen.
I can second that. I have two Skagens. A little thicker than my previously mentioned 80s watches but très chic.
and that enlarging via your browser was too exhausting
This, by the way, is how the blog displays for me, using Chrome on my laptop, at 100% zoom, and with Windows display scaling at the recommended default, i.e., 125%.
an eye test for you
Thank you Mr Muldoon, my eyes aren’t that bad.
Those are your choices, it seems. Vote now.
I’m a purist. My preference is for the smaller font, which I actually found easier to read.
I’m a purist. My preference is for the smaller font, which I actually found easier to read.
Thing is, without screengrabs, I have no idea how the thing actually displays on whatever device you’re using. Is what you’re seeing any different from the screengrab of what I see?
My preference is for the smaller font, which I actually found easier to read.
Exactly, just because some people buy their reading glasses at Dollar General, Canada Tire, or Pound Town is no reason to go making wholesale changes, next thing they’ll be demanding mobility scooters to read the blog.
[ Starts hiding breakables. ]
Is what you’re seeing any different from the screengrab of what I see?
Ironically, how it appears in the screengrab isn’t actually a million miles away from how it used to look on my laptop.
Ironically, how it appears in the screengrab isn’t actually a million miles away from how it used to look on my laptop.
Clearly, the solution is to throw your current laptop on the nearest fire and buy a new and excruciatingly expensive one via the Amazon link at the top right of the page.
What?
Another adventure in public transportation.
Clearly, the solution is to throw your current laptop on the nearest fire and buy a new and excruciatingly expensive one via the Amazon link at the top right of the page.
Heh. I’m actually tempted to do just that. Mine’s falling to bits, and it has become aggravating and tiresome to use. Unfortunately, the Nautilus is a capricious machine, and she requires a certain amount of maintenance. Which, these days, is rather more costly than I’d like.
let me know if it looks better, or worse, or is at least more legible.
I usually read this site on a tiny laptop screen or a tiny phone screen. The phone I just enlarge the screen until I can read it. The laptop I just squint because I am too lazy to ctrl-z, and unlike the phone I don’t like the site to be bigger than the screen. I have to say my initial reaction was the same at Cap’n Nemo’s “Gahh!” but then I started reading the posts, and it doesn’t seem so bad now. Definitely more legible. Does this mean I’m old?
it doesn’t seem so bad now. Definitely more legible.
Bear in mind that how the blog is rendered also depends on the display resolution of whatever device you’re using and the display scaling you select. If you’re using Windows, click anywhere on the desktop, then display settings, then look for ‘scale and layout’. You can also change the zoom setting of your browser. (In Chrome, click on the three vertical dots, up top, at the far right. The zoom setting is about halfway down the menu.)
Does this mean I’m old?
Well, this is awkward.
Thus, it is better to go on the offensive as quickly as possible and to take no prisoners.
One side effect of spending so much time volunteering with victims of complex PTSD is that you end up learning the correspondences between the symptoms and the etiology – to the point that it takes very little observation to identify a victim of childhood sexual abuse, and only a moderate amount of observation or interaction to make a reasonably accurate guess about the age they were abused and who did the abusing.
In an argument with a demented leftists, this is not the Nuclear Option, it’s the goddamned Death Star. It’s cruel. I’ve used it exactly once, on a female dysphoric so toxic she’d been shrieking at me for minutes, at a party, for simply remaining silent in response to one of her diatribes.
I wouldn’t do it again. Not because of the social fallout (who cares) but because ultimately these people are incredibly damaged and making it worse is not kind.
Remember when Nature was a scholarly journal, not a clown show of Marxist propaganda?
How climate change could drive an increase in gender-based violence.
In an argument with a demented leftists, this is not the Nuclear Option, it’s the goddamned Death Star. It’s cruel.
The vast majority of people who will call you a fascist or a racist are not demented people that we should pity.
I am nigh antediluvian
Count me as prodiluvian. Perhaps neo-prodiluvian? Any chance we can get The Big Guy to run that one back? I know He promised, but things change over a few millennia and I was hoping…never mind…
“winning over allies”–the thing is, in jobs like that, we need serious people and these two do NOT qualify. Dressing up pretend is not a proof of competence. Just the opposite.
Chaos: I think one of the contributing factors is people getting married so late or not at all. When you are married with kids you start wanting safety for your family, economic stability for the country, sanity. You want things to go on, not burn down.
winning over allies and striking fear in the hearts of our adversaries
It is impossible not to believe that losing is the conscious goal of some leftists, while the rest simply do not care about winning.
Soon to be a former Amazon delivery driver. But the unemployment will be blamed on “systemic inequities”.
Which should be the top priority? Removing these vermin from society? Or removing the liberals who protect them?
Unexpectedly.
Another “migrant“. Need I comment on how policies should change?
Remember when…
“Violence against women and people from gender minorities…”
So… men?
NASCAR driver murdered, stabbed while pumping gas by this guy who just happens to have a considerable number of facial tattoos…who was out on parole…for reasons undetermined (for some reason). I was once “schooled” by a somewhat well known/read philosopher named Jeremy Stangroom on The Philosopher Magazine blog about a dozen years ago. Some discussion off shoot of the now more popularized Trolley Problem where I presented a similar dilemma, more complicated but basically the choice was based on saving a normal looking person versus someone with facial tattoos, much like this guy on the other. The Great Philosopher, along with pretty much everyone else there, was aghast that I would make such a decision based on this “superficial” observation. A pity it wasn’t Jeremy who encountered this guy instead of Bobby East.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11020379/NASCAR-icon-Bobby-East-37-MURDERED-California.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline
A pity it wasn’t Jeremy who encountered this guy instead of Bobby East.
I am comfortable with that sentiment.
The Philosopher Magazine
Were the editors named Broomfondle and Majjikthise?
Bad news, everyone! If you use a dinosaur emoji you are stealing from the “trans and genderqueer”, they own them.
OWN them, damnit, you TERFs.
Cats have no time for your pronoun bullshit.
How can I be a TERF when I’m not an RF?
How can I be a TERF when I’m not an RF?
Anyone who is not an Alphabet Person is by a default a TERF or ally which is the same thing, you fascist nazi yte male supremacist. Duh.
Educate yourself, do better.
Bad news, everyone! If you use a dinosaur emoji you are stealing from the “trans and genderqueer”, they own them.
And who else loves dinosaurs? Kids. But it would be wrong, silly, even bloody stupid if we were to connect this in any way with grooming. Just like associating facial tattoos with mental instability.
eye test
I hate when they started using “curvy” and “curvier” to mean “fat” and “fatter”
Darleen wrote, “Unexpectedly”.
To logical extremity—AND BEYOND.
By the way, I’m fiddling with the text size of the main posts.
Thanks for telling us. I was blaming it on Windows or Firefox.
I vote for the old size. My normal zoom almost everywhere is 80%. Until now, that was fine here. Now it’s a bit too small. The next zoom Firefox allows 90%, and that’s a bit too large. This wouldn’t be a problem if Firefox allowed finer zoom control. 85% would probably be right.
But FWIW, having read the blog in the new smaller size for a few minutes, I seem to be adjusting to it.
OTOH, now the text in the compose box is even smaller.
a female dysphoric so toxic she’d been shrieking at me for minutes, at a party, for simply remaining silent in response to one of her diatribes.
I’m intrigued.
I seem to be adjusting to it.
OTOH, now the text in the compose box is even smaller.
I see now that my hope of pleasing everyone was doomed from the start.
I hate when they started using “curvy” and “curvier” to mean “fat” and “fatter”
I am waiting for the same lot to call anorexics “slinky”, “reedy”, or “javelinesque”, anyone who doesn’t is a gauntshaming skeletalphobe.
Anyone who is not an Alphabet Person is by default a TERF or ally which is the same thing…
It really is time to terf out the commies and other debris.
Dinosaurs.
Is it time to bring back the old schoolboy joke about the Megasorearse and the Lickalotopus?
Well of course they did.
Mnemonic of note.
Heh. Reminds me of how I learned to remember my employee id at an old job. It was x, y, y, x, x + y, y**2
Mnemonic of note.
So, is ‘lettice’ a typo, or her girlfriend’s name?
Woke posturing versus reality.
Context here.
Ladies and gentlemen, are you a TERF or a FART?
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Nosireebob, wouldn’t want that!
Seems a paltry number, but do check it out today! You could be a QUILTBAG!
*(Offer not good in Sector R after curfew.)
Another stunning and brave strike against The Patriarchy(tm).
Another stunning and brave strike against The Patriarchy(tm).
The tone was pretty much set by the unironic use, twice, of the word zeitgeist.
Nobody wants the patriarchy unless there are spiders to kill, snarling dogs, or homeless weirdos confronting you.
Woke posturing: There was a case last year where a POC teen with a knife (in the US) was a second away from stabbing another teen girl and a cop shot her. The protests were so strange: did they propose some other action? No. They just claimed that getting stabbed was no big deal. The Left wants you to die. “Mars Attacks” but without the humor.
J. R. R. Tolkien, party animal.
“Gardeners came by arrangement, and removed in wheelbarrows those that had inadvertently remained behind. Night slowly passed. The sun rose. The hobbits rose rather later. Morning went on.”
Another stunning and brave strike against The Patriarchy(tm).
It is important to follow what celebrities think, especially about the current thing.
How she feels and reality are antipodal.
Fair enough, “Avoid as if the monkeypox” is a statement.
Taken from .
Arrgh! Meant to click Preview, not Post! Try again:
The Tolkien link above is from this book
For some, armpit hair is a statement.
I do prefer to know as quickly as possible that someone should be avoided.
[ Peeks in the door. Scans the room for hamster urine spray bottle. ]
Is it safe?
Another stunning and brave strike against The Patriarchy(tm).
John & Yoko agree.
And yet we are told that John Lennon was the intellectual Beatle. [ Rolls eyes ]
“There are bullet holes in my kitchen… He tried to kill me in front of my kids!”
It seems more like the guy was crazily shooting at internal walls from within his apartment, not knowing or caring about the people on the other side. It would be nice to have a reporter clarify this (with diagrams of the sequence of events and the angle of the bullets), but news reports these days drop us in medias res with the incident shoehorned into The National Conversation.
https://sahanjournal.com/policing-justice/tekle-sundberg-minneapolis-police-killing-shooting-mental-health/
Life is difficult enough without being an Ethiopian called Sundberg.
The guy was hanging out of a third floor window swinging a gun around. Seems very much like it might be suicide by cop, which is a white man thing, which Cindy would know if she cared for her co-ethnics. If that’s what it was, it’s a sad choice of white norm for an adopted black to assimilate to.
In the adoption, death, and politicization of Tekle, the Sundbergs have enacted Auster’s first law:
Utah Man, unhappy with food order, brandishes gun at McDonalds workers.
When police arrive, he tells his 4-year-old son to shoot the police.
letting my body hair grow out is what makes me feel sexy
Only if it’s braided. Dyed blue. And has glitter on it.
“A respectable young man…with a support network.”
Cindy Sundberg, who is white, said she believes her son would still be alive if he was white like her biological children.
And the Rastafarians believe Haile Selassie was god…
Only if it’s braided. Dyed blue. And has glitter on it.
And ribbons! There must be ribbons!
And the Rastafarians believe Haile Selassie was god…
Back in the 80’s and 90’s Liberals scolded me for laughing at the Rastafarians for believing that. The only thing they persuaded me of was that liberals were less deserving of respect that Rastafarianism.
letting my body hair grow out is what makes me feel sexy
How soon will the smart people start telling us it’s sexy (and virtuous) to not bathe?
How soon will the smart people start telling us it’s sexy (and virtuous) to not bathe?
Doing something like Daniel mentioned (handicapping the gullible members of the competition)?
Remember Oswald Bates and Booked on Phonics?
Empire actor Terrence Howard says “hold my beer” and claims to have invented a new math and a new physics. Lurking somewhere in his torrent of New Age gibberish is his claim that one times one equals two. Stand aside, Richard Feynman!
I used to know a lot of silly blonde New Age imbeciles, but this takes the cake.
Empire actor Terrence Howard says “hold my beer” and claims to have invented a new math
I just got a brain cramp.
I just got a brain cramp.
Proof positive that a person of sub-normal intelligence can become a successful entertainer.
In 2001: A Space Odyssey, the apes touched the monolith and became intelligent.
In Hollywood, actors touch crystals and become morons.
I just got a brain cramp.
Take my advice: Always keep aspirin and ibuprofen in the house. A bottle of David’s gin is also effective, with the added benefit that next morning you will not remember.
In Hollywood, actors touch crystals and become morons.
It’s not fair to blame the crystals, most all actors started that way.
I rest my case, he doesn’t appear to know the difference between addition and multiplication.
It goes downhill from there…
You have to wonder how he managed to graduate from
high schoolgrade school. Oh wait, social promotion.Similarly to as what was proved nearly 3/4 of a century ago. 7 x 13 = 28. Numbsculls.
This stuff can get pretty damn funny. Yogic flying, past lives therapy (where we were all royalty, never peasants), the Harmonic Convergence, Tarot readings for pets, and so on. How about Orgone energy, Dianetics, and Scientology?
It goes downhill from there…
I don’t know which is stupider, the original tweet or the responses. Even the refutations…I’m reminded somewhat of Wolfgang Pauli’s, “Not only is it not right, it’s not even wrong!”
Yogic flying
Heh. I had forgotten about that. Years before the internet I ran across an article in a Canadian newspaper while vacationing up there that was about Yogic Flying. It was written quite seriously. It was so absurd that I cut the article out and hung it on the wall of my cube at work. When some coworkers who were TDA with us from the home office saw it, the story became something of a legend for a few years. It became a metaphor for management’s complete misunderstanding of the development process. We looked at Canadians kinda funny for years after that.
To be clear, lest someone get all persnickety…not “years before the internet” but more accurately years before the popularization of the internet.
Somehow I suspect he was looking for an excuse to use that gun.
And this mug shot suggests he has more problems than drugs and alcohol.
Reality is so constraining. Math is so rigid. It is more fun to be free to believe any crazy thing. Of course not so fun when our gov leaders believe you can switch to all electric cars when wind and solar are 4% of the power, and that they can just print money with no consequences. Magic is fun until it isn’t.
One account had the yogic masters giggling as they “flew”. Very amusing.
Ear candling. Smells like Gwyneth Paltrow candles.
But there is one superstition that I do resent for personal reasons: Healing crystals and crystal energy: They have driven up the price of pretty rocks and minerals. (Granted, that has been a boon to the rock shop owners, of course.)
I don’t know which is stupider, the original tweet or the responses.
See also this hot mess.
“Artistic”, I suppose making a connect-the-dots drawing with bullet holes could count. A typical gem in the replies:
Right.
IIRC Yuri Bezmenov specifically mentioned Maharishi as an example of a con artist who was a nobody in his own country, but who became rich and famous by selling Westerners escapist fartery wrapped in the guise of foreign wisdom.
He is beautiful and he mattered.
In the end, the only thing that mattered was that he died (thank goodness).
“He was a good boy! He din do nuffin!”
There is a subculture of crime and depravity which needs to be isolated from society. Preferably with 50-foot walls and barbed wire and gun emplacements.
escapist fartery wrapped in the guise of foreign wisdom
When I think of the vast amount of time that these New Age acquaintances wasted on bullshit when they could have been learning real science, or history and literature and philosophy…
…when they could have been learning real science, or history and literature and philosophy…
That requires effort and risk, much easier to embrace and recite woo, hang out with your like “minded” nitwits and never be challenged.
much easier to embrace and recite woo, hang out with your like “minded” nitwits…
They can be mildly entertaining for a little while, but they do become tiresome.
We looked at Canadians kinda funny for years after that.
What? Because you Muricans can’t do something it can’t be done. We Canucks are yogic flying all over the place. In fact, we have yogic cops and yogic flght towers just for safety’s sake, geesh.
I had to have an arborist in at the beginning of the season because my silver maple and my norwegian spruce were blocking the neighbourhood yogic flight path. Cost me 900 bucks.
Educate yourself.
Because we have 2 (1)’s [sic] on one side of the equation and 1 (1) on the other side of the equation.
Well then I suppose 1 – 1 = 2 and 1/1 = 2 according to this braintrust.
Barkeep, please? Double gin martini, don’t spare the olives.
It goes downhill from there…
But does it? I have 11 fingers. Starting with my left hand counting down: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, plus five on the other hand is eleven. C’mon man. It’s goverment finance backed by central bank economics. If we didn’t all agree already we wouldn’t be in our current mess.
Utah Man, unhappy with food order, brandishes gun at McDonalds workers.
When police arrive, he tells his 4-year-old son to shoot the police.
It’s easy to forget, and to want to forget, what degeneracy looks like, and how far down it goes.