Friday Ephemera
Let’s call it a partial success. || Sorcery, perhaps. || Ripe and juicy. || Road manners. || Relaxing in the bosom of nature. (h/t, Tim) || For breast-fondling enthusiasts. || Our betters, being so clever, forgot to bring their own. || Suboptimal situation. || Learning curve. || Well, at least there’s lots of it. || Yes, it will be on the test. || Always respect the media. || The progressive retail experience, part 446. || Remember, this never, ever, ever happens. || Harvard student denounces “the violence of statistics.” Which ones, I wonder. || Be careful which questions you ask. || The Internet Movie Cars Database. || When you donate to Wikipedia. || The Manhattan Population Explorer. || Street vibes. || How to thread a needle. || And finally, fragrantly, the thrill of using unfamiliar towels.
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warning and warning repeatedly
The Long March and Active Measures do seem to have worked pretty well.
Or you could just write your comment in a notepad app or in Word or an email template and then paste it into the comment box when you’ve done fine-tuning it.
I do the Notepad thing when commenting from my laptop but mostly I’m on my iPad. And I have resorted to the email thing but…there are simpler solutions for everybody.
Typepad has been around for well over a dozen years now and the basic functionality should not require this much bother. This is typical of much of what I see in technology these days. So much stuff that used to work, work beautifully and seamlessly, is now a hodgepodge of crap. Configurations are in too many different places and often conflict with each other. I noticed this years ago in SW development. What used to get caught at build time due to hard coded conflicts show up way further down the line, often in production. Bah. Bright shiny object always good.
…and now ladies and gentlemen, they’re back, and they’re fabulous, Extinction Rebellion Productions Ltd.® brings you the NHS Singers and Dancers!
Extinction Rebellion Productions Ltd.® brings you the NHS Singers and Dancers!
All smart people. Very smart. Can you guess what I’m thinking that they all also have in common?
Hiwassee Dam High School is such a small school, about 300 students total…
Yes, these are small schools in small towns, paying a disproportionately high price for not being able to run their activities on a basis of broad-grained common sense, for example that of course competitive sports should be sexually segregated after puberty and of course we’re not going to waste any time making exceptions or drafting complex rules that address sex differences without mentioning sex differences.
The school board has to make a case very carefully on the basis of safety or competitive balance, and they must never ever question the principle that girls’ volleyball needs boys, or the principle that boys who need girls’ volleyball must be given access to girls’ volleyball.
From the least obfuscatory article on the subject, the board representatives are picking their words and walking a fine line: afraid of a DIE case if they don’t let their students play against the boy as a simple matter of principle or prudence, and afraid of a negligence case if they do let their students play against the boy and predictable things turn out to happen. They’re also trying to be nice to the boy and not make it about him – not that that niceness is going to be reciprocated. It seems that this boy has been playing for 3-4 years, that the safety issue has been brought up before, and that evidently the authorities have been reluctant to take action.
Wtp: Now I’m trying to remember the name of the guru who said “any program that works is better that any program that doesn’t work”
(3) How to embed a hyperlink.
If most honorable host goes ahead with the idea, most humble self (I just rewatched Charlie Chan At Treasure Island) offers what he learned the hard way:
For links to archive.org, don’t try. Typepad will barf at the correct coding of the [a href=] [/a]. It will also barf at the bare link. Use a url shortener, such as tinyurl.com.
…not after I’ve lost my htlm formatting.
I think I see your problem.
Typepad will barf at the correct coding of the…
But also be aware that if you have a relatively new device, html only recognizes the ’11’ style quotation marks but not the ’66’ nor ’99’ ones and your new device likely defaults back to 66/99 regardless of your previous preferences. This was a problem a while back that drove me a bit kookoo as subconsciously I knew I had the same profile carried forward to the new device. Now WTF devices at some point cannot do that simple conversation when necessary…well…I’ve been in similar meetings…it’s not a pretty thing. It’s even an exception to the rule of having a woman present.
Now I’m trying to remember the name of the guru who said “any program that works is better that any program that doesn’t work”
He probably got fired by a “real” engineer. One who never got anything into production but damn, his stuff was bug free and glorious. Just because no one else could understand his configuration hierarchy, well that wasn’t on him.
On a lighter note, Lost tortoise found 40 years later.
“The Turtle Moves!”
Well, this one didn’t.
The NHS singers and dancers
No masks? Don’t they even care?
Japan: Behold our mighty infantry.
Los Alamos Laboratories: Hold our beer.
NHS Dancers
Just love their enthusiasm!
Just love their enthusiasm!
I do wonder what drugs they are taking.
Catastrophe motivates Extinction rebellion and the NHS dancers and governments shutting down power plants and nuts glueing their hands to dealer room floors–but the IPCC climate reports do NOT forecast that level of catastrophe. It says ice sheets could melt in 1000 years (or 3000). It may get a little warmer. It is an excuse for mental illness to go wild.
If you eat, you are involved in agriculture
If you are in a building, you are involved in architecture.
If you smell a flower, you are involved in horticulture.
If you have a glass of wine, you are involved in oenology
C’mon, there’s got to be dozens out there.
Japan: Behold our mighty infantry.
You laugh pst314, but band geeks are the villains in “Halloween Ends”
And what about accordion players?
Accordion players are criminals, not military.
Penis music. What else could I possibly say?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11343947/Moment-transgender-singer-strips-NAKED-live-Channel-4-plays-keyboard-PENIS.html
Though I suppose I could have tied that into the comments about accordion players. Somehow…
“Nothing says ‘inspired by the public’s response’ like disabling the public’s response.”
Penis music.
Proving, again, that these “trans” folk are little more than cosplayers. Penis=male regardless of makeup, pink dresses and falsetto.
Saving the environment.
Penis music.
This will surprise no one about our piano man.
Nor will this.
Of course he is. Totes normal, dude.
This will surprise no one about our piano man.
At some point one ceases to feel pity for these damaged creatures, and other harsher emotions dominate.
At one time Forbes was respectable magazine.
Unless he is doing a long con, why anyone gives this twit the time of day is a mystery.
Of course he is. Totes normal, dude.
He’s been vetted by the tv show people. They don’t just let anyone on those shows you know…there’s hundreds/thousands who wish to appear and they picked this guy for a reason. He’s been seen and validated by millions of people. Millions more people than you ever will experience. You’re what? A medical doctor? No one cares, man. Dime a dozen.
/sarc
…and they picked this guy for a reason.
Indeed, just not a good one, not that I would expect anything else.
Meanwhile also in the land of pretend…Many such cases.
…and they picked this guy for a reason.
Indeed, just not a good one, not that I would expect anything else.
Meanwhile, also in the land of pretend, Many such cases.
Whatever Typepad thought they did maintenance on, they obviously missed – three different “errors” and timeouts on that last one and then it shows up twice.
Strong work, strong work.
This is one of these.
The lack of interest (and denial) by people like this in crime stats is telling. To take an example, car theft in Chicago is 30x that in the suburbs, including car-jackings where you stand a good chance of getting killed. I see these twits denying that crime is up in big cities. Right.
Our trans of the month mulvaney is a case in point about how….odd their behavior is. There is an old meme about a guy wrote a book about everything men understand about women. His friend opens it and the pages are blank. The behavior of these trans is so cartoonish and outlandish it does not resemble actual women in any way, illustrating that meme.
As for F to M trans, most women these days don’t even wear dresses or makeup, so what are they fighting against? Wear men’s clothes–no one cares. Butch lez paved the way a half century ago.
What happens when a taser hits a bottle of gasoline? Sweet. With luck he will be reminded of this every time he looks in a mirror for the rest of his life.
It seems my comment on “Today In Racisism™: eating, though it is unclear if eating a settler is colonial or anticolonial.” is snagged on something somewhere. No biggie if it doesn’t appear.
It seems my comment… snagged on something somewhere.
There’s nothing in the spam filter. Try again?
Unless he is doing a long con, why anyone gives this twit the time of day is a mystery.
Maybe we should ask Joe Biden.
And does anyone have a clue on why this girly Stepin Fetchit is fixated on bathroom selfies?
And does anyone have a clue on why this girly Stepin Fetchit is fixated on bathroom selfies?
That’s what girls do. Hell I’m a guy and I learned that much from social media. 😉
I’m hoping this guy is the real deal as far as his doing a long con is concerned. But with so many visible successes culminating in a sit-down with Biden, I’m getting a bit edgy awaiting the big reveal.
My 2010 Acura TSX was in the 2012 movie Trouble With The Curve.
Please tell your car I enjoyed the movie.
Have I done something to my settings or is Twitter trying to force people to sign-in or open their app? I used to be able to view the complete Twitter thread from any of the links posted in the comments. Now it locks up with a sign-in screen after scrolling through three comments on a tweet. The best is the sign-in screen encourages me to see what’s happening while literally preventing me from seeing what’s happening. Oh well.
And does anyone have a clue on why this girly Stepin Fetchit is fixated on bathroom selfies?
Not defending this useless idiot*, but something I noticed a while back is that bathroom selfies appear to be a thing for nigh all demographics (do an image search), alleged reasons being big mirrors, which almost makes sense in one’s own house/apartment, but doesn’t explain the public latrine ones.
*(who can’t even be bothered to do fake boobs with a stuffed bra – one reason to suspect a con)
Occasionally, I wonder why someone would go out of their way to do something like this.
And then I remember.
Have I done something to my settings or is Twitter trying to force people to sign-in or open their app?
Steve, it is twitter itself. My theory is they are trying to get real people to sign up because of Musk’s finding of the actual real person to bot ratio.
The way around it is when the sign up screen pops up, click the “Sign Up” link, and on the next screen just hit the X in the upper left corner. PITA work around, and it seems to pop up more often on popular sites.
At one time Forbes was respectable magazine.
Forbes Women in Business or something – ’cause a midriff-baring, plunging-neckline, cropped tank top just screams Serious Business Professional. Pardon me, said crop top is in some tweedy suit material. Ok then, carry on. /eyeroll
Like Mr. Enormous Rubber Boobs in a mechanical/carpentry shop – only these new XY “women” can get away with utterly unprofessional dress at work. XX women would be asked to wear more appropriate clothing. Although I saw an article – might have been here, about millennials wearing clubwear to work.
No standards anymore. No adults, either, just unserious spoiled children expecting everything to keep on as normal, as they chop away the foundations.
The eternal struggle.
Thanks Muldoon.
The darkness. Though TBF it takes a good number of men…’men’…to enable and perpetuate such an environment.
The eternal struggle.
Except in home bathrooms there’s a lid in addition to the seat. So parity in events is already there.
The real bathroom struggle is over how the toilet paper hangs 😉
What do you want to bet that this man’s kids are not running the streets at 3am?
What do you want to bet that this man’s kids are not running the streets at 3am?
This guy’s my hero.
The real bathroom struggle is over how the toilet paper hangs 😉
There is only one correct answer, obviously.
Though if memory serves, we touched on the topic of toilet paper orientation before, some years ago, and while the, er, scientific consensus is for the ‘over’ method, cat-owners and people whose bathrooms are prone to earthquakes say the ‘under’ method is necessary.
If unsightly and, frankly, morally offensive.
David, do you have an opinion about the qualifications and character of the new PM?
A new Typepad quirk: Must refresh twice after commenting to see the comment.
twitter: to keep the “login” screen from popping up, scroll down slowly so the next thread doesn’t show. As soon as the next thread show, “login” pops up and you are toast.
Steve E: in my experience, you can read all the comments on the first thread, as long as you are careful to not expose the previous thread.
Halloween costume of note
Halloween costume of note
Handy tip to sort out the Twitter problem:
Click “Log In” when prompted, and when the “Log In” prompt shows, click the “X” in the top left corner, and the “Log In” screen will go away, and you’re free to continue reading. It usually allows you to scroll down a decent distance before being prompted again, at which point you just repeat the previous actions. Works fine for me.
There is only one correct answer, obviously.
That other Typepad quirk: I clicked “post” only once and yet the comment appeared twice. Really, David. Really. Please put away the revolver.
you can read all the comments on the first thread, as long as you are careful to not expose the previous thread.
Fred, that’s how it used to work for me too. It’s just the past week or so that this started happening.
Click “Log In” when prompted, and when the “Log In” prompt shows, click the “X” in the top left corner, and the “Log In” screen will go away, and you’re free to continue reading.
Thanks Captain Nemo that does the trick. Muldoon’s method of clicking the sign-up button works too.
“We won’t be able to feed anyone unless we ban fertilizer”.
The dickweeds are at it again.
The dickweeds are at it again.
Once again: What’s needed is uncompromising intolerance of the people who are driving this madness: teachers, activists, etc.
Is this indeed how it’s done, David?
Duck!
There is only one correct answer, obviously.
But technical illustrations provide a view of the subject that is best for explaining its important features, not necessarily indicating the proper orientation of the device.
And if you have pets/children, the orientation shown in the patent drawing is much more prone to unrolling all over the floor.
What do you want to bet that this man’s kids are not running the streets at 3am?
Probably a good guy with well brought up kids.
But I don’t know why this speech is being presented as great blow against CRT (“Black man leaves woke school board SHAKING” – a grown man wrote this, not a 14 year old, and just to quibble – we don’t see the school board’s reaction – were they really SHAKING?).
It reinforces the premise that black academic failure is evidence of white moral failure and a just cause for white guilt, the only quibble being that Dems are the real racists (DR3).
It reinforces the premise that heartfelt outbursts by blacks are more authentic (keeping it real), authoritative, and exempt from the kind of skepticism that, for example, a white man would be treated with if he ranted about cultural Marxists, perverts, and the need to return to basics.
It reinforces the premise that whites have no right to advocate for their own interests and defend themselves from attack. They have to stand behind a black man who objects to CRT not because it’s designed to demean white children and make them ashamed of their people, but because it diverts funds from Programs for Blacks.
But I don’t know why this speech is being presented as great blow against CRT (“Black man leaves woke school board SHAKING” – a grown man wrote this, not a 14 year old, and just to quibble – we don’t see the school board’s reaction – were they really SHAKING?).
Because a lot of bloggers are clickbait-whores–individuals with all the maturity of thought and expression of financial huckster Jim Cramer.
Sales receipt of note.
All Creatures Great and Small was mentioned in a recent thread. I occasionally read a few chapters of one of the books, or watch one of the old BBC episodes, and sometimes a difference catches my attention: In the current BBC episode, Siegfried Farnon describes Tristan Farnon as a “lounge lizard”, which is not an expression that appears in the books and which I assumed was coined quite recently and thus wrongly put in Siegfried’s mouth by the screenwriter. However, the Google Books Ngram viewer said it goes back to the early 20th Century! Hard to believe, but true. For instance:
Astounding.
Sales receipt of note.
Dude, you’re still using AmEx? They as woke as PayPal.
Hairstyle of note.
Which side of this controversy believes that they are telling the truth?
Which side of this controversy believes that they are telling the truth?
Damn. Typepad did it again.
Hairstyle of note.
Relevant.
Dude, you’re still using AmEx?
I was a couple million short of cash that day so I had to put it on a card and my Diners Club was maxed out.
I was a couple million short of cash that day so I had to put it on a card and my Diners Club was maxed out.
I understand. We all been there, man. Props.
Which side of this controversy believes that they are telling the truth?
Not entirely unrelated.
Experiment in blockquoting:
From an intriguing book review by Takikat Steve Sailer
(Experimenting with the format — here goes . . . )
Yay, me!
(Experimenting with the format — here goes . . . )
[ Rolls single fluff-enhanced olive along bar. ]
[ Rolls single fluff-enhanced olive along bar. ]
Where does he get those wonderful toys!
White guys at it again, appropriating POC culture.
Unclear if black or other POC men get a pass on this vital topic.
Relevant.
Heh. Never saw that one, only the frogs.
It is an excuse for mental illness to go wild.
The driver of the phenomenon seen, for instance, here isn’t so much climatological as psychological. In much the same way that Antifa has very little to do with real-world politics or how the world actually is, but is chiefly, almost entirely, a license for sociopathy. Again, if you look at the demographics, the kinds of people attracted to these things – see Andy Ngo’s extensive catalogue of mugshots and bios – it’s quite revealing.
See also, Marxism.
Body positivity created by and for black women? This assumes that only black women are obese. In fact for years the most vocal body positive advocates I have seen were white women. It reminds me of the feminists in France who are currently suing a beauty contest for…wait for it…selecting pretty girls as winners!!! The Horror! Both of these derive from the premise that no one should ever feel bad about their choices. So it is unfair to say some women are more beautiful than others. It is unfair (and to be denied) that obesity leads to all sorts of health issues. Unfairness of the universe and life is the enemy.
[ Rolls single fluff-enhanced olive along bar. ]
[ Looks enviously at Baceseras. ]
I have to admit that as a teen I thought life was unfair. Some parents gave their sons a hotrod. Some guys were on the football team. The struggle to get ahead that I faced seemed unfair as well. I eventually figured out that you can do lots with what you have, that not all kinds of “winning” were worth the cost or really that great, and that happiness can be had without being the richest person or best looking in the world. To continue to think life if unfair as you age means you have never actually grown up. Big babies the lot of them.
Not at all sure what they are protesting, but it is hard to get more 2022 than this.
What ccscientist said.
Not at all sure what they are protesting, but it is hard to get more 2022 than this.
I’m getting a Road Warrior / zombie movie vibe.
Perfidious Albion: British want the blood of Irish people.
Perfidious squirrels.
British want the blood of Irish people
Well, it is Halloween…
Perfidious squirrels.
Hoarders and wreckers.
Americans: We can’t afford food. The White House:
This crap really torques me off. My grocery bill was insane this week, and I only bought poor people food. When the fark did rutabagas get so pricey?? Eggs are more expensive than a gallon of gas. They used to be cheap protein source when even chicken thighs were too expensive. And this asshole is sitting in front of the president going “It’s 222 days of transition. Look at MEEEEEEEEEEEE.” Who the fark cares! Ye gods we are being ruled by such unserious people. Malicious, narcissistic, unserious people. And it is malice. They hate anyone who is not like them and wish them destroyed. They are also very stupid, because if they get the purge they so desperately want, there will be no one left to keep the lights on, the garbage out of sight, and food in the stores for them to buy. Then we’ll see what the Intersectional totem pole looks like, and I can guarantee you painted blokes in frocks won’t be on top of it. It’ll be the RoPers and the various gangs fighting it out for top dog.
This crap really torques me off. My grocery bill was insane this week…And this asshole is sitting in front of the president going “It’s 222 days of transition. Look at MEEEEEEEEEEEE.”
Note that the Transportation Secretary Buttigieg is an incompetent ideologue who got his job only because he is gay. He has no accomplishments and no expertise in transportation. It’s as if the Democratic Party wants to ruin America.