March, 2017 archive
Jonesing the Trumpling 0
Warning: Language.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness shoots grammar in the foot (emphasis added):
An employee at the Llano County Sheriff’s Office accidentally shot their gun in an office on Friday.
The department says no one was injured in the incident. There was some damage, however, and the office will need a window replaced.
“An employee” “their”? Really?
Grammar is not an affectation. It is the rules of the road for discourse. Otherwise, said what doesn’t have you meaning.
Clearly, the author of this news story was weaving drunkenly down the road with his or her head up his or her cellphone, like the bozo who stuck me at a stoplight a couple of days ago.
Furrfu.
It’s an “Alt-Skunk” 0
Dan Casey explains.
According to my brother, who has seen a few of these and who linked me up to the picture, the scent is the same.
Afterthought:
Some years ago, when Second Son was still a little kid maybe four or five, I saw a skunk on the front stoop. I called Second Son over and said, “Look, a skunk.”
Then we went inside real quick.
When I was a young ‘un, Tiger, the best dog who ever lived, sometimes came home after tangling with a skunk. One never forgets that acrid smell.
A System in the Bug 0
And it’s called the “People’s Car”:
“The researchers estimate that 1,200 people in Europe will die early, each losing as much as a decade of their life, as a result of excess emissions generated,” said the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which took part in the study.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
May your firearm guide others to the stairway to heaven.
Cloning Your Website with XAMPP 0
As my two or three regular readers know, recently–well, for most of February–my website experienced some issues. So as to research them, I cloned the site to my local computer using XAMMP, which is available from ApacheFriends.org.
Look below the fold for more.
The Russian Sessions 0
Excerpt:
The ambassador from Russia is a Russian.
(I composed the above yesterday. Since then, there has been a development.)
Via C&L.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
One more time, when you hear or see persons glorify the “Lost Cause,” ask them to explain precisely just what exactly was the cause that was lost.
A dollar to a doughnut you won’t get a straight answer.