And OBTW, yesterday was highest ever in April. last winter seemed fairly normal – for a change(?). It’s whiplash one extreme to the other around here.
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Musings of a minor megalomaniac
They want to play the royalty game, being every man’s everything or famous entertainers with millions of fans, and regret rags like The Mail hounding them.
I can’t fathom how Randall’s mind works, but it’s pretty damn funny sometimes. This one caught my attention because it perfectly explains how I characterize my car. It just defies comprehension how it’s so middle-of-the-road in virtually every respect. It’s an innocuous, small grey sedan with an aftermarket exhaust that is louder, but not much. Tooling around in normal ops, the accelerator pedal could be confused with the floor pedal on a sewing machine, just based on the auditory and tactile feedback.
OTOH, if it had an industrial grade needle-and-thread mechanism belted-in somewhere under the hood, it would be the world’s largest, most powerful sewing machine on four wheels. 😜
Wanna bet Dorsey was getting advice from some South African emerald industry spawn? It went something like…” ya man, it’s like money on the Internet.” Then the fuckwit went on to tell him a bunch of Paypalâ„¢ stories, except the part about how he almost bankrupted it before departure. Wonder how “risk averse” the mutherfuckers are now?
“March 24 (Reuters) – Shares of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s Block Inc (SQ.N) fell 3% in afternoon trading on Friday, a day after the payments firm’s Cash App business became the latest target of U.S. short seller Hindenburg Research.”
Yeah, I get that legacy recording formats are making a comeback, but why? I have a little collection of vinyl music recordings that were played only once for the purpose of cassette transfer. There’s also a bookcase full of CDs in the collection, none of which can be expected to last. Timelines differ, significantly in some respects, but depending on things like storage environment and playing time, they’re little more than historical curiosities at this point. Practically speaking from a music storage and reproduction standpoint, CDs are just fragile little plastic discs, vulnerable to use and abuse. I saved a brand new cartridge for the turntable, assuming I won’t be able to get one when the time comes. The weird part is using it would just inflict damage on the records.
And the hardcore enthusiasts will argue digital isn’t real enough.
We’ll finish out the week with something really off-the-wall and mundane at the same time. It started out as my Pandemic Thing, during the 2019-2021 period of avoiding all human contact. Then Dusty Hill died, and here we are today. ZZ Top has been one of my all-time favorite bands since I started listening to music. They were at their heyday peak on the Fandango tour when I graduated high school in 1977.
I’ve tried probably a dozen of these products in the past three years, settling on this batch for various reasons. I imagine they have somewhat different effects on beard and skin health, so using several different products is really just a diversity factor.
Looks like 2023 is off to a good start, just the way we like it around here in Denver this time of year.
Title of the article: Sharing Things That Rich People Have “Ruined” For Everyone Else.
“Burning Man. When Mark Zuckerberg is helicoptering in to stay in a billionaire camp with air-conditioned mobile homes, Burning Man has officially lost whatever counterculture standing it ever had.”
Colorado got mentioned a couple times in this article.
Cleaning the garage. It took all summer. It’s been due for almost 4 years, but alot of the higher activity-type Stuff around here had to be postponed or scaled back due to health issues recently. These pics show only the final stage of the project, where a buttload of car and truck parts, accessories and supplies got properly sorted and stored.
The floor was getting swept from time-to-time, but things eventually got to the point of piling up going unattended for too long. I actually forgot what all was stashed around that engine and shelving in the NE corner. The other side where Michelle parks was similarly gone through, and all the tools were re-organized with new, bigger toolboxes.
Getting the speaker, shelves, engine and toolbox to fit around that corner was a challenge. Pretty sure I tried every possible positioning combination all morning one day, before finding the one that fit – only just. At least the car goes up and down off the lift without having to double-check everything is moved out of the way first. I still have alot of work to do on the Chrysler, but it’s gonna need to be broken down into many smaller projects.
That 440 was running great with around 90k miles on it when pulled IIRC. It’s gonna get rebuilt into an old-school Mopar torque monster someday.
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I wonder if the logo gets updated? This thing’s probably got more backdoors than a high-traffic honkey-tonk by now.
“Nov 18 (Reuters) – Hundreds of Twitter Inc employees are estimated to have decided to quit the beleaguered social media company following a Thursday deadline from new owner Elon Musk that staffers sign up for “long hours at high intensity,” or leave.”
Whoever was in the Kingcobra fucked that all the way up.