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Geeking Out 0
Ubuntu MATE with the default MATE desktop.
Aside:
MATE is pronounced “mah-tay.” It refers to a tea served in South America.
It’s fork of Gnome 2 for persons (and I’m one) who loathe Gnome 3.
Stray Thought, Biden and Busing Dept. 0
(Slightly edited for precision.)
It’s all about the bus route, folks.
When I was going to high school, I was bused right past one high school (the black high school) to one three miles farther away (the white high school), because of my race.
And at the time everyone old white men thought that was just okay.
I like Joe and I voted for him when I lived in Delaware, but on this issue he was flat-out wrong.
Make TWUUG Your LUG 0
Learn about the wonderful world of free and open source. Use computers to do what you want, not what someone else wants you to do. Learn how to use GNU/Linux and its plethora of free and open source software to get stuff done with computers.
It’s not hard; it’s just different.
When: Regular meetings are monthly TWUUG meeting at 7:30 p. m. on the first Thursday of the month.
Because of the Fourth of July holiday, this month’s meeting will be on a Wednesday, July 3, 2019.
Pre-meeting dinner at Chicago Uno, JANAF shopping center, 6:00 p. m. (map)
Who: Everyone in TideWater/Hampton Roads with interest in any/all flavors of Unix/Linux. There are no dues or signup requirements. All are welcome.
Where: Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital in Norfolk Training Room (map). (Wireless and wired internet connection available.) Turn right upon entering, then left at the last corridor and look for the open meeting room.
Deep Dive 0
Shaun Mullen jumps into the pool.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Conduct yourself politely whilst at the dining establishment.
Officers were called around 12:30 to the China Wok restaurant in Stanton.
Police say a man had a handgun that was not holstered.
They say at some point the man had either reached in his pocket or touched the gun, which caused the gun to fire.
Concentration Camps for Kiddies 0
At The Sacramento Bee, Gil Duran remembers a holocaust survivor who recently passed away and then turns his attention to Donald Trump’s concentration camps for kiddies. Please do give it a read.
An excerpt:
“The dangers of fascist politics come from the particular way in which it dehumanizes segments of the population,” writes Yale Professor Jason Stanley in “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them.” “By excluding these groups, it limits the capacity for empathy among other citizens, leading to the justification of inhumane treatment, from repression of freedom, mass imprisonment, and expulsion to, in extreme cases, mass extermination.”
QOTD 0
S. S. van Dine (Willard Huntingdon Wright) in the voice of Philo Vance:
. . . there’s very little that is reasonable in this fantastic and ironical world, Sergeant.
van Dine, S. S., The Scarab Murder Case in a double volume with
The Kennel Murder Case (London: Leonaur.Ltd., 2010), p. 216.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Aside:
The notion that someone walking about hospital grounds with his doctor’s permission with an IV stand and an active IV inserted into his body is attempting to “steal medical equipment” is prima facie farcical.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Toast the politeness.
The investigation revealed that two subjects were intoxicated and playing with a firearm, when one of them fired the gun, striking the victim.
The Rich Are Different from You and Me 0
They have all the money.
Campaign Cash(ing In) 0
It may seem that the 2020 Presidential campaign already has gone on forever, even though no party yet has an official nominee.
That ain’t nothing.
At the Orlando Sentinel, Scott Maxwell has rounded up an astonishing list of never-ending sorties.
