Since we had great content by contributors, today, I decided to not enact your labor for you and make links. But I didn’t want to hear Rainman-style screeching when the afternoon links didn’t run on time, so here you are… talk and link amongst yourselves.
But hey, I got paid today.
I’m stuck in documentation hell. After I finish the design overview, I can start mapping data fields. Or I can go on hunt to figure out where all my reference hyperlinks should go. Oh, and then I can do a what-if analysis on technical risk for the PM. I already checked, none of my appendages will fit into the shredder, but I think the fan is sturdy enough to hold this noose I fashioned from old network cable… One thing I like to do is give the systems Laundry Files style codenames in my original draft so that it looks like “CORROSION RED MONDAY will feature a bi-directional, multi-entity integration with HOLYSTONE UMBER BORON mediated by AZURE LOGIC APPS”. Just… don’t forget to run find and replace before you circulate it. Trust me.
Cancel exercise ROMERO ORANGE ZULU, Patient Zero has been located.
Subject POLLUTANT GREEN CLEARCUT is under attack again. Will there even BE an environment to protect by the time he’s destroyed?
Case RAILROAD BROWN TIDE appears to be stuck. That stinks.
Too good to check: Operation PURPLE HEAD HYPOCRITE it a go. We’ll see “live boy/dead girl” is still the stay/go standard for pols.
50 years ago today this came out– I’m low on ideas.
The boy child is home sick watching Fireman Sam, which, in the pantheon of annoying kids shows is closer to Daniel Tiger than Caillou. Although the mythical town of Ponti Pandi appears to have one of each type of Anglophone, including “Southern bachelor” — you know, like Ray Gillette from Archer, but a bit more — queenish. Plus the Aussie and the Canukistani dudes hang out exclusively with each other. That has nothing to do with the links or the afternoon. Just what was at the front of my mind. In SPORTZBALL stuff, the Astros really need more practice winning stuff, as their World Series banner unveiling went… poorly. Thank goodness for men with lawn equipment and a purpose.
Well if Carter, Clinton, and GWB are for it, I’m agin it! Or let’s just say I am the cynic who both agrees that vote fraud is likely a problem in some elections (mostly local) and disagrees that photo IDs to vote will fix the problem.
I might be a fan of Spotify now, as they appear to have made a killing screwing the traditional banksters out of their 35% share of the IPO. The high-level view is instead of the listing banks buying some huge amount of the stock at the reference price and selling at market (almost always higher), Spotify sold directly to the market.
The US Federal Reserve picks most hawkish dove for Presidency. At least this guy is willing to argue that interest rates should go up until inflation materializes. SLD, there shouldn’t be a Fed, but if there is, it would be nice if the leadership would acknowledge that interest rates should be increasing in a period of prosperity, lest they have another easy money collapse and no tools to affect the economy with. Better still if they acknowledged that they don’t actually steer the boat, but hey. Baby steps.
The Zombie (Raccoon) Apocalypse hits Ohio.
I never realized how much this song just straight up rips off “Start Me Up.” The 80s are like a different planet, now.
I heard a lot of complaining this morning that Winter won’t leave. I feel it, too. Why, we were out on the beach yesterday and it was really too cold for anyone except the little kids, the Canadians, and people with at least 4 inches of blubber around their body to stay in the water. And now both my kids say their ears hurt. This damn winter, man. It has gone on too long.
I haven’t been following the budgets of Oklahoma or Kentucky very closely, but the truism of state budgets are that there are only 3 cost centers: schools, hospitals, and prisons. In many states, that middle one has been sucking all the air out of the room for about a decade. But those inbred, redneck (oilneck) hillbilly fucks might also just hate larnin’ in general.
Those cookies were so fucking addicting they must have been laced…. Or not!
Costa Rica elects former PM to presidency in… surprise upset? So the guy ran on desperately needed fiscal reforms in a country that has received 4 credit downgrades and his gay marriage position made a difference? Skeptical Brett L (who worked in CR for about a year once) is skeptical.
The propellantless EM drive (now re-monikered as MEGA) gets a big phase II funding thumbs up. I really hope this isn’t bunk science, but the effects measured are too small for me to feel excited about this technology — even though much work was put into verifying the result, put me in the camp that says they really need a strong showing in this 2nd phase.
But if the thruster works, we’ll be ready for Ballrooms of Mars.
And I hope it has been a good Friday afternoon. I am honoring the religion of my fathers by pretending to work. That’s like resting, right?
I’m not saying that you can judge an artist by his art, but I wouldn’t have let my teenage daughter carry on with the guy who wrote Mr. Horse and the Shaving Cream Yak. That was a great show, but also majorly weird. However, the Swedish government seems to be okay with it as long as you marry the girl.
I am skeptical of this.
EPA says “no way” to Obama CAFE. Scott Pruitt may go down as the one libertarian bright spot in this administration
And Noor Salman, wife of the piece of shit who shot up the Pulse nightclub in Orlando was found to have done nothing to knowingly help her husband carry out his plan. Too bad the FBI can’t say the same.
Let’s relax to 90’s stoner-folk-pop.
Alright, alright, alright. Let’s see if we get Firstros or Lastros today. George Springer starts with a dinger, as did the Cubs leadoff hitter. Bombs away, just like last year. The supposed to be contender Cubs are pulling away from the fire-sale Marlins. John Lester having given up four runs before getting the hook in the mid-4th. Meanwhile, all systems are crap for the Rays — with a smoky grease fire that is no threat to anyone being about what I expect out of them.
World leader puts foot in mouth, forcing press corps to spin furiously … Vatican edition. “Is the Pope Catholic” to be removed from list of rhetorical questions
McDonalds will now give up to $3000/year in tuition assistance thanks to tax law changes. See, work at McDonalds for 40 years and you can afford that Oberlin MFA in Puppetry, too
More proof that Ohio is just the Florida of the Midwest. Ohio woman wants to replace law-maker she was sexting with. We know he’s all about constituent service, what does she bring to the table?
Blockchain stocks falter as first round of suckers get wise. I think the blockchain in its current form scales terribly. Having to do exponentially more work on a regular basis to keep the distributed trust fresh was a cool idea — especially for an alternative store of value to fiat currency — but there are emerging, competing, less computationally intense ways of establishing distributed trust networks.
A little Eagles of Death Metal, since the gliberati seemed to like the lead singer’s statements on mass shootings.
Hooray for working from home this week. My pessimism regarding FSU finally paid off after a lackluster showing Saturday night. I have links for you all today and how the hell is your Monday? Give up on pretending to work and come play in the links!
When America needed to test a supersonic ejection pod, we stuffed a goddam BEAR in there and tried it out. But as this is an American story and not a Russian one, the bear survived.
While collusion between the Trumps and Russia continues to lack evidence, the FBI continues their reputation for colluding criminals who murder people rather than arrest them.
Kim III makes a run to China. My favorite part of the article: “Nobody answered the telephone at the North Korean embassy in Beijing on Monday evening.” Probably too busy not being the first one to stop applauding at Dear Leader’s speech.
In keeping with the traditions of British Socialism, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is accused of anti-semitism in open letter. He responded by blaming the Rothschilds for Brexit*
*That last sentence is completely fabricated and untrue, but would be funny
Hey look, new Monster Magnet. They’re still fun.
Good morning everyone. First, I’d like to start with an apology. Beloved Commenter The Hyperbole let us know in an excellently glibertarian way (drunk and ranty) last night that some of you have been submitting articles and not hearing back from us.
Okay I didn’t wanna be a whiney bitch but fuckk it IO’m drunk. I’m not even gonna correct the tpos that are redlined, thats how little of a shit I give. anyway if you are gonna ask for sbmissions and request pitches and say ‘we’ll get back to you’, then you should get back to people. ‘Hey, thanks for the submission but you’re proposal sucks ass’ is much better than nothing. I’d assume maybe shit gotl,ost in the ,ail but it’s been like three times now. I can take it , if my bllshit ain;t yo bag, groovey, but fuck sakes tell me to piss off the silen treatment just leave fuckers in the lurch nd nobody nees hat. fcks sake.
We give that an 11 out of 10 on the glibness scale. We are not ignoring you or out spending your donations on old hookers and young meth. It appears the email filter has been a bit — zealous — in keeping the submission email box clean. We’re sorry. If this has happened to you, or happens to you in the future please go to the link at the top of the main page that says Leads/Submissions and fill out the form there to tell us submit@glibertarians.com is being a bad robot. That one goes to about 5 real email addresses, and not as a redirect. Thank you, and again, we’re sorry. We fucked up.
In the Tourney Pick ‘Em — JamesG, Banjos, Ed Mavis, and Paul are tied for first. I’m not there because Miami lost. I suspect they may have been distracted. And now… the links!
For those of you who were rooting for Apprentice: White House, it looks like your ship has come in.
Also, it looks like Fredo Trump may be headed for the big D.
Charlie Stross was both early and late on this trend. Rule 34 came out in 2011, but I believe was set in 2019. Anyhow, child sex robots are creepy but better than actual sex with children by night and day.
Stupid pilot, save that drugging and raping for the cabin crew, not other pilots.
Sorry, this has been in my head and needs to come out. Sometimes you just need to ding a ding dang your dangalong ling long
The Ides of March they are upon you/All the live long day. If you belong to a certain college fandom, that will be rattling around in your head if it wasn’t already. Otherwise, it’s just a Thursday that feels like Friday to me because holy hell does it take a lot of energy to pretend to have things to do. I am in the waiting stage of a project, and a little like a smart dog left at home too long. I’m about to start tearing shit up out of boredom. That’s not great. Also, some sportzball thing is happening — sorry Sooners fans. Missed it by that much. So onto the links
More collusion between the Trump administration and Russia. This time the administration is attempting to throw the Gnostics off the truth by apply sanctions! Don’t fall for it, Sheeple!
I hope he was eye-blinking SOS through this whole interview. H/T SF
Conclusive video footage of that brave SRO standing around attempting to draw fire by not seeking better cover. “Investigators revealed Peterson’s focus was on getting nearby streets and the high school shut down and keeping deputies away from the building.” Were a crowd to descend on his home and burn it down with him inside it, I’d have a hard time convicting them of anything worse than burning trash without a permit.
Cue Dennis Hopper speech from True Romance: “Your great-great-great-grandmother f’d a Denisovan. In fact, Denisovans did so much f’ing with Mongolian women that they changed the whole bloodline.”
Holy shit, this is horrific. A footbridge installed last weekend collapsed in Miami. It looks flat and there are people under there.
This has nothing to do with anything, but the song came up earlier offline and I feel like sharing some guitar.
My family and I had a wonderful time meeting SP and Webdominatrix last night. My wife and I drank a lot of wine. A lot. Enough that I was avoiding teachers at the daycare drop-off after showering and brushing my teeth because I was worried it was coming out my pores. They also brought a Romanian wine recommended by Pie in the Sky in one of his articles. It did not disappoint. So, all that said, I’m moving a little bit slowly. But last night really brought home that there’s a community a’building here, and I’m grateful for it.
Beloved commentor P Brooks thought this should be in the links today, so gets it. This young survivor of the Parkland shooting is having a hard time getting the same attention as his classmates, two guesses why.
Tesla stopped their Model 3 production to increase productivity. Like Jayne Cobb says, “ten percent of nothin’, carry the nothin’, we got nothin’!”
Amazon can start drone delivering things? Time to start my AI pilot bot project and get my kids certified to fly them.
3D Printed houses — I’m guessing there are some doubts about structural integrity over time if they’re shipping the first batch to El Salvador after showing them off at SXSW. I liked it better 20 years ago when you could stay in town for spring break and see a shitton of cool music acts.
And speaking of Austin, it looks like someone is trying their Unibomber schtick. I hope he drops the next one on his lap and blows his junk off.
I didn’t even think Duane Allman and Aretha could fix this song.