From Pine View Farm

April, 2021 archive

Geeking Out 0

Updating a VirtualBox VM of Bohdi Linux on Ubuntu MATE under the Fluxbox window manager. The wallpapers on both are from my collection.

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Aside:

Updating a Linux install is nowhere nearly so annoying as updating Windows. Linux updates are much quicker, and reboots are necessary only when the kernel has been updated, so as to start utilizing the new kernel. And you can reboot at your convenience.

Almost all Linux distros have a GUI application for managing software installs and updates. I prefer the command line because I learned very early in my DOS 3.2 days that the command line is always faster (provided, of course, that you know the commands).

Windows requires a reboot after every update so as to update the Windows registry, which is a kludge of unimaginable proportions.

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Freedom of Screech 0

Josh Hawley says,

Via Juanita Jean.

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History Matters 0

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Tony Norman marvels at (yet more) Republicans who believe in a fairy-tale American past.

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Maskless Marauders 0

Frames One and Two:  Uncle Sam says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Deliverance 0

Man and woman climbing the stairway to heaven see a sign reading,

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Vaccine Nation 0

The person in question has defended himself by claiming that he was trying to educate his constituents. I tend to agree with Emma Vigeland’s point that “some questions are so illegitimate” that they don’t deserve to be asked, let along answered.

We are a society of stupid.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Operate your automotive conveyance with politeness.

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“Bait and Switch” 0

The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini follows the money.

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QOTD 0

Hal Abelson:

Anything which uses science as part of its name isn’t: political science, creation science, computer science.

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Foxconned 0

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Dis Coarse Discourse 0

David dissects the stupid.

Warning: Short commercial at the end.

Aside:

Our media misses Trump.

The cavalcade of stupid boosts ratings. The dullness of competence does not.

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Vaccine Nation 0

Cartoon lampooning U. S. COVID anti-vaxxers.

Via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.

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Doordash, Interrupted . . . 0

The interruptor.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

George Santayana’s famous saying has never seemed more apt: Those who do not remember the past (or, in this case, those who would pretend the past never happened) are condemned to repeat it.

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Vaccine Nation 0

At the Des Moines Register, Tim Johnson asks the nay-sayers why they are saying nay to COVID vaccintations. A snippet:

If it’s a religious objection you have, I ask you, if a preacher or missionary is doing God’s work, why can’t an epidemiologist? Or a geneticist or a lab technician? They all have the same goal to help humankind. The lab people are not preaching, but their work is saving souls. Saving them by keeping us alive.

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Twits on Twitter 0

No self-awareness twit.

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QOTD 0

Albert Camus:

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

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Some Flowers 0

A few more pictures from our recent visit to Norfolk’s Gardens by the Sea.

rhododendron

Rhododendron

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Gutting Out the Vote 0

One person’s story.

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Death Watch 0

Two aliens in flying saucer look at Earth.  One says,

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