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USB jokes
Just for fun, looked at USB jokes. Most were variations on the coffin, which was definitely funny the first and second times but not the third. This one struck a perfect note: A fitted sheet was the original USB plug. You put it on and it’s wrong. You turn it once and it’s still wrong.…
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Parliament works.
Trudeau resigns. Remind me again why we abandoned an effective and ADAPTIVE system in 1776? Oh, yes, now I remember. We switched to a frozen rigid dead government because we were founded by monsters who didn’t want to give anyone the power to remove them.
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Same thing two ways
This morning I noticed two ways of saying the same thing, showing opposite ways of looking at the world and looking at business. First, Conde’s book on Hudson tells the story of the company’s founding in great detail. I summarized it before. The group who founded Hudson started out working at Olds, then split in…
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More Hudson trivia
Bought a Hudson picture book by John Conde, who was the Nash/AMC official historian as well as a PR agent. I first read a Conde book in 1960. When my parents bought a new Rambler, the dealer gave them Conde’s AMC Family Album, and I treasured it and read it for years. It helped to…
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Who’s the obstacle?
Lee Fang was praising Bernie for pushing a futile “law” to restrict the H1B treason. Fang said Bernie will “expose fissures in the Republicans”. HOW IS THAT GOING TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM? The Repooflicans are solidly united and incapable of disobeying TrumpGod and ElonGod. They won’t quake in fear when you expose fissures, they’ll just…
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Nobody gives a fuck about this.
Spokane News facebook page just published: = = = = = We reached out to the Medical Examiner and asked how many Fatal Drug Overdoses happened in 2024. Here is the response: Confirmed Fatal Drug Overdoses of 2024: 336 This number will likely rise once pending toxicology results are received back to our office. =…
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New form of address?
I was thinking about Spokane’s unusual ‘chiral’ street address system. Most places decide even/odd in a static cartesian way. For instance, Enid has even on the north side of all horizontal streets and the west side of all vertical streets. The Spokane rule is more dynamic and polar, same for horizontal and vertical and diagonal.…
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How stock criminals think
Quoted without comment: Today’s (big) report with video: one of the earth-shattering events of 2025 could be the collapse of Great Britain. It could be for history books, but it’s also creating a very tradable crisis.
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The corner store
Got thinking about why some cities grow and some don’t. Atchinson was supposed to be the gateway to the west, but KC dominated quickly because it’s the junction of the Kansas and Missouri. Downstream, St Louis is the corner of the Missouri and Mississippi and New Orleans is the corner of Mississippi and Gulf. Upstream…
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Y no Gates?
Picking up WWV for New Year pulled me back into shortwave, at least for a while. (I have real work to do right now, and I don’t have enough spare gumption to delve into another sideline.) I’m reminded again of the fact that shortwave is a vacant resource. Broadcasters and commercial communication services have moved…
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Related to previous…
Closely related to previous item about Y2K. A couple days ago I received an email about a class-action settlement for authors who have royalty arrangements with the NYC publisher I was using during the relevant years. Not the same as my publisher in 2000, and not the same as my current publisher, though I’m still…
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Happy 25th, Y2K!
Somebody mentioned the 25th anniversary of the Y2K mess. The problem was genuine but somewhat limited. Media panicators and provocateurs turned it into a full nuclear catastrophe. Provocateurs on the fake opposite side insisted it was much ado over nothing. The reality was a LOT of hard work by real programmers to avoid a serious…
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Happy WWV New Year!
Since the 1960s I’ve always tried to mark the new year by catching the actual time on WWV. Shortwave reception in Spokane is poor, so I’ve failed to hear WWV in recent years. Tonight it came in loud and clear on 10 MC! I’ll call this a sign for a BETTER year with BETTER reception…
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Bernie says it all.
Bernie describes the current 4th-world condition of this country precisely and objectively, with very little partisan gaming. He does mention the word ‘democracy’, but he hits both parties equally. He uses ‘democracy’ to mean equal representation by class. We never had it, but before 1980 we were a lot closer to proportionality in income, wealth…
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