Friday Ephemera (829)
Scenes. || Some optimistic ladies. || A mercifully brief history of dial-up modem handshakes. || Today’s words are job satisfaction. || On the thrill of bollards. || Sudden-onset sidewaysness. || All things considered, it was not a great date. || In case there were any doubt as to the kind of creature she is. || Whatever is to hand. || Xerox Hell, in which you ruin photos. || Now is not the best time. || Bear maintenance. || Moon suit, 1960. || Nostrils of Aquachap. || Nuff cuffs. || Incoming. || Incoming 2. || Question asked. || The situation did not improve. || On imitating pigs for fun and profit. || The progressive retail experience, parts 751, 752, 753 and 754. || Proles at home, 1962. || Unsuccessful product, 1982. || Astronaut training. || African snow. || Fearsome beast. || Oh, and meanwhile, in the woods.
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This rickety barge is kept afloat by the tip-jar buttons below.
I’ve made no changes. Why, what are you seeing?
Martha Lincoln “teaches” at San Francisco state. Well. Now, there’s a surprise.
Actually, her remark is very very restrained for SF state. Notably, nothing about Palestine, which I had come to believe was a mere interjection, like “uhm”, and in effect, mandatory for both faculty and students. Nothing new, they’ve been like that for several decades at least.
I’ve made no changes. Why, what are you seeing?
Random font changes to page header and sidebar headers. It must be my browser then – something must have gone wrong in page loading. The post and content fonts are the same as they’ve always been.
Thompson,blog at top and the links there are now small caps in times new roman looks like, and search, recent comments and others sidebar item headers now also in small caps but different look – like arial or something.
I tried to paste a screenshot into the chat box but it doesn’t work like that.
I’ve previously mentioned an evening in 1996 spent downloading the trailer for Star Trek: First Contact. It was the size of a postcard and took 45 minutes.
We were, I should add, enormously impressed.
And for those who missed it, a YouTube video about an attempt to browse YouTube videos using a dial-up connection.
You can just click the add image icon in the comment toolbar, on the right.
You don’t get this kind of service over at Worstall’s place, you know.
David, sometime roughly around then I berated a website designer for including a 15KB image in the front page. Made the site effectively impenetrable.
Also I’m not seeing any font changes, using Silk on a Kindle.
Please tell me this is fake.
Can you say ‘lemon party‘?
Not clicking that one.
The progressive walking to the bank experience
The progressive painting a mural experience
No refunds; credit note only.
You don’t get motile bar snacks over at Worstall’s place either.
I’m sorry Dave …
It’s safer than you think.
I think we should all take a moment to fully appreciate what an awesome host I am.
A minute’s silence. Bowed heads.
[ Awaits awe. ]
Louisiana mom is not happy after watching a video of her dindu child being hit by a car while riding his bicycle.
It is wise to keep a close eye on the bar snacks.
Here, click this one about two cups and a girl then.
Or some kind of containment dome.
[ Opens Public Enemies notebook. Writes “PiperPaul”. ]
Nor am I now, either, using Brave on a Windows machine, since I came back to the page after an incredibly long meeting (there was lunch provided though, and it was not motile, thankfully. Although I may regret the bit of salad…).
Yours is the only blog I have ever contributed my meager pennies to, for what that’s worth.
Everything tech is now shit. The number of times I, or more often my wife, use something it doesn’t work, I look at it 5 minutes later and viola!
Things, configurations, layers of frameworks, etc. were hard enough to manage years ago but now with poorly reviewed, if even possible to understand, AI code there is no telling what you are dealing with. Pretty much everything is its own unique configuration. I quipped 50 years ago that no one really knows what goes on inside a computer, it’s all theory and conjecture. I was (slightly) kidding at the time. I cannot imagine how configuration management is itself configured today but I guarantee you that those implementing it will swear up and down that they know what, and what versions of what, is in their products. I also guarantee you that for any application bigger than Breadbox v. 26.07.567, they are lying.
“Video has been removed by the uploader”. AAAAARGGGHHH! NOOOOOO!
I won my copy as a school prize* when I was 12. Never got along with LotR, mind you.
*The peak of my career. It’s been downhill ever since.
The progressive law enforcement experience: Black DA dropping charges against black men who brutally beat white man, in spite of video evidence.
We need millions more Paul Kerseys.
That escalated fast…
Of course the family is blaming the “…campaign of sustained abuse for the more than three years since he accepted the role of professor at Cambridge University by those who would leave no stone unturned in their quest to undermine him.”
No mention of him setting the cops on the reporter who was looking into his claims.
True crime.
To hell with this “violence interrupter” bullshit. I want “violent interruption of criminality”.
A good metaphor for much of what liberals do: eventually their delusions and lies collide disastrously with reality. Unfortunately it’s not only liberals who end up dying.
Not unusual for a con man after his con unravels.
His charmed life was over, and there was no building a new con now that everyone knew who he was.
Given that he was never going to support himself like a normal person, he reckoned he had nowhere else to go.
Enabling mythomania, or mentally illness generally, via the medium of ludicrous, high-profile fraud, doesn’t seem wise.
I mean, if progressive ideologues like Professor Cremin, our champion of “equity” and “inner and outer peace,” seen here, actively enable a fraud that’s so ludicrous and insulting, so full-throatedly public and therefore difficult to ignore, scrutiny will follow. The contradictions will be heightened.
When I tried it the “video ha[d] been removed by the uploader” which is the only way that it could have been mercifully brief enough.
“Nelson Mandela never had a rabbit in his ear.” is a rallying cry I could see myself using in battle.
[ Rummages under bar for three-hour playlist of electronic screeching. ]
Beep-beep-boop-beep
brrrEEEEEEp
weeeoooweeeWAHWAHWAH
KKKKKSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
*OOF*
Well, quite.
Very droll, sir.
Many thanks!
So of course by now everyone will have heard the news of the tragic passing of former Cambridge Professor Jason Arday yesterday (Friday 14 August).
And no doubt also you will have seen, as I have, hundreds of messages to the effect that he ended his own life and did so specifically as a result of harassment from the right wing press, white supremacists, a culture of systemic antiblack racism and so on.
And this despite the fact that there has as yet been no confirmation that Arday ended his own life – nor can can there be until the coroner has completed a formal investigation.
(Admittedly, ending his own life would appear to be more likely than other causes as he was young and as far as I know fit and healthy. But alcohol or narcotics, not related to an attempt to end his own life, could have been involved (e.g. passing out and hitting his head, choking on his vomit), and some pre-existing health condition can’t be ruled out either).
But what the people saying things such as this:
Or this:
seem to have forgotten – or if not forgotten then at least vigorously brushed under thick carpet of virtuous-sounding fury – is that, as reported on Monday of this week (bold added):
Speculation is hazardous, but it seems to me that a Professor of Sociology of Education whose work focussed on racial inequalities amongst other things might well have expected to face accusations of fraud and deception from the political right.
What he might quite reasonably not have expected was to be abandoned so quickly by former allies – not only the NEU, Kebede, Alleyne, Baron-Cohen, and Sabates Aysa, but also The Guardian and others who had previously championed him.
The point is not about apportioning blame or claiming that the NEU are responsible.
The point is those pointing their fingers, very noisily I might add, should be a lot more cautious in which direction they are pointing.
Heh.
IS NOTHING SACRED ANYMORE?!?!
Regarding associate professor Martha Lincoln, mentioned upthread, a reply of possible interest.
Rumors are afoot that the benighted Mr. Roberts has escaped the clutches of AOC.
We get behind on watching Gutfeld so it was only last night that we were watching Wednesday’s show, but when they were questioning where Arday can go from there, Greg suggested he had one huge hand to play. He could have flipped the script on them and exposed what suckers all these academics were who believed his BS. Pity no one suggested that idea to him.
Holy Cow!
Needs to be worked into a rock/rap song. Like THE DRUMMER FOR DEF LEPPARD’S ONLY GOT ONE ARM.