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Ask and ye shall
Last night, thinking about the satanic “government” of Spokane, which is unfortunately the default in most cities, an odd analogy popped up. When other jobs need to solve a problem and can’t think of the solution, we Google it. More specifically we go to subject area websites like Slack or StackExchange, where people within a…
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A new feature that works!
The warm weather has opened my perception up just a bit, so I’m noticing things that faded into the background before. I was looking at the features available on AOL Mail. I’ve always used inbox, spam, trash, and saved mail, and simply blindspotted the other choices. Today I noticed ‘subscriptions’. Huh? AOL isn’t like Substack.…
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Ice cream
Nice warm evening after a long tired (but blessedly NOT very snowy) winter. The ice cream man is driving around, playing his unidentified song that sounds like Lilly Marlene. His tune has been the same for several years, but apparently less than 10. Around 2013 the ice cream man was playing the required Entertainer Rag.…
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Other way around
Vivek knows how to play the clickbait game, and Ann Coulter does too. Ann claims to agree with Vivek on many points but says that she couldn’t vote for him because he’s Indian. Good clickbait. I’d have trouble voting for Vivek because he’s TOO AMERICAN. He makes a huge point of American exceptionalism, which is…
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This is how to do it.
Pew writes another long detailed article about how people get local news and what they think of it. Turns out my tastes are typical, not unique! Many people use a local Facebook group instead of radio or TV or newspapers, and most people think weather** is the only important and valid part of local coverage.…
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Shannon info!
ZeroHedge mentions that BlackVault had tried to get an FBI file on Bezos’s grandfather, but the file was supposedly deleted. That’s not important. Here’s the important fact. I didn’t know it until now. Jeff’s grandpa was Gise, the founder of DARPA and the grandpa of the HTML internet. The conventional story says that Jeff was…
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Third Shift Workers Day (habitual reprint)
Today is Third Shift Workers Day! From the linked items I couldn’t tell for sure which day is the Official Day. They range from May 7 to May 13. This is fitting, since graveyard shift blurs the boundaries of dates. I’ve always been happiest and steadiest on graveyard shift. I worked graveyard at motels in…
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I should be unpissed
In all the discussions of the stupid ban on Tiktok, I haven’t heard anyone mention the obvious prima facie failure of the “law”. At one time there was an old novel or play or something containing the words: No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed. I don’t remember what this…
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Copyright trap or just error?
While looking through my old maps to find the right corner of Manhattan for previous item about city dumps and barrios, I noticed a really odd error on a USGS map. File creek? I remembered it as Pfeil Creek. Another USGS map got a little closer: Here’s the same Phiel, scanned from a more recent…
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Reprint on Libertarians
I wrote this in April 2020, after the lockdowns but before the waterboarding got started. Later on the point got even sharper, as the holocaust directly ruined public transit, another favorite target of the Randians. I’m proud of catching the correlation before it was blatantly obvious. Right now I’m tired of Repooflicans trying to blame…
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Not just “elections”
I’ve been hammering for years on the FACT that all “elections” are rigged, and the rig is NOT in the votes or counting. It doesn’t matter who votes or how the votes are counted. The rig happens before the ceremony of voting, when parties carefully remove all candidates and referenda that could change government behavior.…
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Natural growth
Following on previous item about Sailer contours. Our homeless camps remain camps, with uncontrolled fires and craziness. They’re strictly illegal, not allowed to settle. In countries with softer governments, poor people build casual houses in their camps, and the houses gradually become more permanent, turning into barrios or favelas and gradually acquiring infrastructure. A similar…
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Deeper dodge
Via Yahoo, Reddit has made its first revenue report after entering the stock criminal market. Before the IPO it was owned by Conde Nast publications. The report shows revenue of about 3 dollars per user, but that’s not profit. The site lost 7 dollars per user. As always VCs are seeking a tax loss gimmick,…
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Contours
Reading the constant flow of ‘reported brush fires’, really homeless campfires gone out of control, I was struck by the perfection of Sailer’s altitude rule. Height = status. The homeless occupy the floodplain and hillsides next to the river. The urban Democrat types are on the first shelf near downtown. The working class and retired…
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Modern equivalent
Popup thought. For many decades, avant garde “art” was random messes with fancy titles. A picture of a few paint splashes was called “Evening soiree among thorns”. Radio and TV and movies made fun of this tendency, which eventually disappeared from painting. Now the musical alt-subcultures are the audio equivalent. All of the noise is…
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