2019 archive
“Those Words Don’t Mean What You Think They Mean” 0
Werner Herzog’s Bear decodes de code.
Geeking Out 0
The KDE Plasma desktop environment on Debian 9 with the GkrellM system monitor and Firefox with the Quick Dial speed dial plugin running on a Zareason Mediabox computer.
Aside:
Quick Dial will sync as part of a normal Firefox sync. You don’t have to create an account at somewebsite.com the provenance of which you know nothing.
It allows you to choose a background image from your own image library, but the backgrounds will not sync; they must be selected locally on each machine.
Quick Dial also gives you more options for configuring the appearance of the individual dials than I have encountered with any other speed dial plugin. For example, you can change the labels of the individual dials, as well as the color of their font and background. This is useful when the default title is “All the News You Can Use | Some City’s Newspaper”; that can be edited down to “Some City’s Newspaper.”
I like it so much that I kicked in a small donation to the maintainer and you can too.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Expose your children to politeness at an early age.
A 3-year-old in Wayne County is recovering after being shot in the head.
According to a GoFundMe, Jaxson Price is alert and able to participate physical therapy.
Price was found with a gunshot wound to the head at his home on Saturday.
It appears that he accidentally shot himself while in his parents’ room.
The Bullied’s Pulpit 0
Jim Wright is somewhat taken aback that Howard Schultz, the Man Who Ruined Coffee, is now complaining of being bullied because some persons had the unmitigated gall, the unutterable cheek, to ask him questions which were not of a fawning and obsequious nature. Here’s a nugget:
And that’s it, right there.
That’s the thing.
That is what makes Howard Schultz, and his ilk, ultimately unqualified to lead this nation.
It is not just that he doesn’t know how to handle that scrutiny, it’s that he doesn’t think he should have to handle it at all.
Do read the rest.
The Art of the Con, Trickle-On Economics Dept. 0
Thom explains to a caller:
The Art of the Foxconn 0
Scott Bauer delves into how Scott Walker and Wisconsin got Foxconned. A snippet:
Much more at the link.
(Broken link fixed.)
Real Big Men . . . . 0
. . . react to a person whom they perceived as a threat to their phallic personality enhancers.
No News Is No News 0
I know it’s really really cold in parts of the country and I am in no way wishing to minimize that–in face, I’m glad that we’re not in the path of the blast–but this item is, as Zandar is fond of saying, StupidiNews.
Remember, I worked for the railroad for 25 years.
There’s nothing new about railroads’ putting hotpots next to switches to keep switches from icing up. As I write this, it’s -19 Fahrenheits in Chicago. The hotpots would likely be there were it +19 Fahrenheits, if icing were a threat.
The AP should be ashamed of itself.
