Guess what I'm making.
[#]SilentMacaroniSaladSaturday
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Well I got round to doing my January monthly shop on Feb. 1. It was 73/23C today, CAVU, low humidity. The old car ran great. My route took me by the site of the old Sears store north of the Houston Heights. It's completely gone now but for the sign, razed to the slab, and a chain link fence around the property. Sears was good in the '70s, good but not great, before it went septic and devoured itself. I don't think it's universally reviled like Wal Mart is.
The store was OOS of my bog standard cheddar cheese, so I did a search for alternatives, and I was horrified that "raw milk cheddar cheese" turned up in the results; multiple products! People have lost their damn minds.
I used to love Publix when I lived in Florida, and they turned out to be evil. I hope HEB isn't / doesn't become evil.
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Long video: The Synths Behind "Don't You Want Me." YouTube showed me this amazing video of these folks recreating The Human League's 1981 hit using the original synthesizers. It's really long but really good, absolutely mind-blowing, their passion and dedication. Only way it could have been more perfect is if he exclaimed, "It's alive! It's alive!" at the end.
(Music synths, not Fallout synths.)
https://youtu.be/JR4WCPY4mBY
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My second-favorite bumper sticker, I saw somewhere online, and I wish I could get one for my car:
MANUAL TRANSMISSION
IF I ROLL BACK AND HIT YOU
YOU ARE TOO CLOSE
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The four years (?) of the snake.
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I can't believe we have a Russian agent as president and a punk for vice president.
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Coming soon to Project Gutenberg:
Cat and Bird stories from the "Spectator":
to which are added
Sundry anecdotes of horses, donkeys, cows,
apes, bears, and other animals, as well
as of insects and reptiles (1896)
https://archive.org/details/catbirdstoriesfr00straiala/page/n8/mode/1up
[#]cats #books #PublicDomain #caturday
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9:45 a.m. Tuesday: 2-1/8" snow, nice powder, not too wet. Not snowing atm. 28 outside, 47 inside. Waiting for it to get above freezing outside. Going around the house checking the cold taps. My core is warm, but my hands get cold quickly. Thankful we haven't lost power yet.
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Blizzard warning on the Gulf Coast from Beaumont, Tex. to Lafayette, La. until noon today. Blizzard warning. Unreal.
Of course the chuckleheads on YouTube are making comments about global warming. Wish I could reach through my phone and dope slap them.
[#]TXwx #LAwx
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The fireside sphinx (1901) is available online at Wikisource and the Internet Archive.
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_fireside_sphinx
[#]cats #books #PublicDomain
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Coming soon to Project Gutenberg:
The Cat: being a record of the endearments and invectives lavished by many writers upon an animal much loved and much abhorred.
by Agnes Repplier, author of "The fireside sphinx"
New York: Sturgis & Walton 1912.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t8qc04p5b&seq=9
[#]cats #books #PublicDomain
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A pardon requires 1. a [confession or finding of guilt], and 2. a conviction. I would say that without these conditions precedent, the regent-executive has no standing to issue a pardon. Obviously no one agrees with me, and is instead in favor of a broad pardon power, one that short-circuits the entire judicial process of fact-finding, trial by jury in open court, and the rule of law.
The other thing I want to say is that pardoning the man who said, "You don't need a mask," and, "Some will fall by the wayside," is a diabolical act of pure evil.
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January 20, 2025. Welcome to the Sofa Kingdom of Deploria. It feels like society is unravelling. Lately I have seen a lot of casual and not-so-casual racism, sexism, and ableism. Microaggressions and macroaggressions. The adults in the room are acting like bratty, spoiled, demon-possessed little children. Is there anyone with a three-point plan that will save our people, restore freedom to the galaxy, and fix everything?
Sorry, I have no easy answers. Be kind, everyone is bearing a great burden. Confusion to our enemies!
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The calm before the storm. 48 inside, 31 outside. Pipes and electrical power made it through the night. I have capilene and blankets. I don't have to worry about my graphics card overheating. Might make pizza dough for later, or bake cookies, or roast vegetables on a sheet pan. Those things require executive function though. It's hard to describe: I can do them, but it's not natural or reflexive like it used to be, it's like feeling my way in the dark, with traps for the unwary. Maybe they should call it brain darkness instead of brain fog. That would be more descriptive.
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On PBS tonight: ACG&S2 (2020), S5E1, To All Our Boys (2025). Reports of Frisk's demise were greatly exaggerated. Poor Frisk!
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Pets, pipes, plants, and partners. If you're cold they're cold. 🙂
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"A potentially historic winter storm will impact southeast Texas beginning Monday night and continuing on Tuesday producing widespread snow and ice and hazardous or impossible driving conditions around Houston--perhaps for multiple days." (emphasis omitted)
https://youtu.be/QeQQebo-t0A
edit: Greater Houston chance of snow > 1 inch, 84%; > 2", 73%; > 4", 54%; > 6", 31%.
[#]Houston #wx #TXwx
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I'd never seen the word forgat before. Archaic past tense of forgot. From a book published in 1828. Strange how people collectively decided, this word we've been using all along? Yeah we're not gonna use it anymore.
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[#]SundayNightNoir on Weigel's "Movies!" channel:
followed by
Tonight's rerun of The Fugitive on Weigel's MeTV is called Flight from the final demon (1964). Guest stars include Carroll O'Connor.
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Long, but good, video by a DFW lawyer about "How to stop cops from covering [or tampering with] your porch camera." General 4th amend. discussion, curtilage, knock & talk, plain view doctrine. He has a ton of videos; this one consolidates information from several others.
Good point about when a knock & talk becomes a detention and how to assert/exercise your rights in that situation.
Jardines (Florida v. Jardines, 569 U.S. 1 (2013)) is the primary case relied on.
Also talks about French v. Merrill, 15 F.4th 116 (1st Cir. 2021) (reversing, in part, district court's grant of qualified immunity). So rare for a court to deny qualified immunity. Haven't checked what happened on remand though.
https://youtu.be/8nno8ejpi7g
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