Girl, you’ll be a neuter soon.
The skies are both boring and unpleasant this week. The only alignment is Mars (war, aggression) – Mercury (change, news, chaos, disruption, luck) – Jupiter retrograde (misrule, sadness, tyranny). The best possible interpretation is that we’ll find out details of who/how someone screwed up a military operation. Let’s go with that one — the alternate interpretations are left as an exercise for the reader.
View of the Fluff
All of the happenings are confined to three signs. Aquarius still holds Jupiter and Saturn, both reversed, nothing new there. Libra gets an early influx of inner planets which is good news for those of you who can keep their heads while all areound are losing theirs and blaming you, but poor Virgo manages to get hte moon in addition to Mars, so though their time isn’t as great as it could be, they still have a bit of extra oomph.
Ticket to the Vet
The cards say it’s going to be an eventful week, and oddly enough not terrible.
Virgo: Temperance – Economy, moderation, frugality, management, accommodation.
Libra: 3 of Cups reversed – Expedition, dispatch, achievement, end. Excess in physical enjoyment, and the pleasures of the senses.
Scorpio: Justice – Equity, rightness, probity, executive; triumph of the deserving side in law.
Sagittarius: 10 of Wands reversed – Contrarieties, difficulties, intrigues
Capricorn: 10 of Swords – Pain, affliction, tears, sadness, desolation
Aquarius: Knight of Swords – Skill, bravery, capacity, defense, address, enmity, wrath, war, destruction, opposition, resistance, ruin
Pisces: The Hanged Man reversed – Selfishness, the crowd, body politic.
Aries: 9 of Swords reversed – Imprisonment, suspicion, doubt, reasonable fear, shame.
Taurus: The World – Assured success, recompense, voyage, route, emigration, flight, change of place.
Gemini: The Magician reversed – Physician, Magus, mental disease, disgrace, disquiet.
Cancer: Judgement – Change of position, renewal, outcome
Leo: King of Cups – Fair man, man of business, law, or divinity, responsible, equity, art and science, creative intelligence
Now that’s the Barklords
“Virgo: Temperance – Economy, moderation, frugality, management, accommodation.”
That’s what I need to do right now, so I’ll take it.
Fair man, man of business, law, or divinity, responsible, equity, art and science, creative intelligence
Hmm….. doesn’t sound right to me.
Fuck you, stars. I’m having an epically good time.
How about an epicyclic good time?
Mebbe…
“ Aries: 9 of Swords reversed – Imprisonment, suspicion, doubt, reasonable fear, shame.”
That’s the opposite of what I’m going through now. I’m FREEEEE!!
I think I’ve had one good horrorscope since you started this series. When will the stars & cards say “This is your week to win $1 million and your crush will email you”?
Are you sure you’re a woman? That’s a terrible meet-cute.
I’ll settle for a meet-ugly at this point
She’s already destroyed the cone. Good for her.
Become ungovernable
The fence guy came by yesterday, I finished attaching that to my part and now the fence is complete. Oddly enough, the yard looks bigger somehow. I need to figure out something to do with the gate to the part of my property I’m leaving wild. The one I put up has shifted just enough that I don’t trust the latch. I may just seal it with some scrap lumber and zip ties until spring and see how it looks after a freeze-that cycle.
Typo? p(l)ace? Doesn’t matter. We are, in fact, looking for a new place. Don’t know when we’re gonna bail on this accursed house.
That’s just regular every day life.
“The thing is, I’ve been living a lie. Just one? I’m living like twenty.”
LOL. Remind me to carefully scrutinize future GoFundMe requests.
Sigh… If George Costanza and Maynard G. Krebbs adopted the Feral Kid from The Road Warrior – the result would not be much different from me.
That… That, says something.
Those cards know me well.
One of my favorite Far Sides
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/ee/81/4b/ee814b9eb211b746a27a819c948e5d70.jpg
Girl, you’ll be a neuter soon.
Great. Transgenderism has reached the animal world. Can’t wait for Critical Bark Theory.
That’s a ruff joke.
A real head-scratcher.
I’m going to have to chew on it a little more.
They’re just grooming everyone to accept CRT.
Update: Miss Lily, she spayed.
Usually house Imprudent has one good option between the two of us – not so much this week.
Pisces: The Hanged Man reversed – Selfishness, the crowd, body politic.
Libertarian — selfish asshole. Checkouts.
Lolz.
Howdy, kannath
Howdy.
I think you were the only one to react to my mem last night.
I’ve seen it spread around a bit.
It was good.
I’ll know I hit the big time if it shows up in my facebook feed someday.
I taxed it and shared it last night.
Trigger warning: nerd topic incoming.
My slide rule has disappeared with one of the people who left my current employer.
I’d love to have another one, but I’d like it to be pretty too.
Do any of you lot have suggestions?
There are some vintage ones on etsy
Oooh. Good idea. Would not have thought of etsy.
BRB.
If you find a nice one, I’d love to see it!
I’ve written to the guy Scruffy linked. We shall see…
In the meantime, here’s a pic of an alternative slide rule I own.
https://imgur.com/a/gOMIQjt
SCHWEET!
Very nice!!!
https://imgur.com/a/Prbjemf
Here is a better look at it.
http://www.davidcrate.com/for-sale_.html
I’ve bought parts from him before.
My wallet hates you, Scruffy.
Yeah, I know.
Goddam! The one I lost, a Versalog No. 1460. is marked $495.
Who knew?!?
I bought a scabby one when I was in college in the 90s and brought it to my favorite professor during his office hours.
I asked him to show me how to use it. He was tickled pink and then asked where I got it. I said it was from the local antique store and he groaned.
But he enthusiastically showed me how it worked.
Dr Jack Allison. May he Rest In Peace. A wonderful mentor.he He had had a stroke that rendered his left side pretty useless so he just dragged it around with him, but there was nothing wrong with his intellect.
/pours one out/
I had two slide rules when I was in junior high (a circular and a linear). Can’t for the life of me remember the manufacturer, but they were both from the same German company. I ended up kinda preferring the circular, for various reasons which I now only vaguely remember.
Duh.
Staedtler-Mars. (Or is it Mars-Staedtler?)
Anyways. Nice rules, but I can’t seem to find the example of the circular one, so my sad memory is probably tricking me that it was a Staedtler-branded one.
Both were still cool.
I hope the new job is giving you a raise.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Sliderules/comments/nmeuv8/the_most_complex_pocket_slide_rule_made_the/
Depends. Is that a clinear slide rule or a circular slide rule?
No one will believe I don’t drink now.
Nice, not on Amazon.
Depends. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7iXw9zZrLo
“Is that a linear slide rule or a circular slide rule?
https://imgur.com/a/gOMIQjt
Cool!
Same as above: better look at it:
https://imgur.com/a/Prbjem
404?
Somehow I inherited a collection of slip-sticks. Some of them were beautiful, one with a double slide, another was log-log (-log?; can’t recall). One was someone’s pride and joy in a hard leather case with a detachable belt loop. Alas, I gave them all away except the 6″ K+E that was identical to the one that I carried in high school.
I’ve always said that a slide rule was the perfect computational device for engineering. Error accumulation is automatically accommodated for and three digit accuracy is generally sufficient for real-world applications. Being forced to keep track of where the decimal goes helps to keep from making dumb order-of-magnitude mistakes*.
* “The particle will be moving at 8×10^14 m/sec after acceleration” – actual answer that I put on an exam in physics class while using a calculator.
You invented faster-than-light travel? Call a patent attorney!
That is almost exactly, word for word, what the prof wrote on my exam.
*waggles eyebrows
Yup. Write everything out to be sure the units end up right, then 3 digits.
I feel your pain.
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Fuck you, cut spending.
I will be out of here before I owe my next car tax bill. Hooray!
I get a discount in my county for high-mileage. Definitely less than when I was in cville.
Because we’re technically remote, we have permanent plates. No renewing, no taxes.
HELL YEAH! Your recent relocation is rather inspirational. An anthem for these times – https://youtu.be/sYkatTOsfRY
You could, you know, relocate where you have a job waiting for you. ?
“Excess in physical enjoyment, and the pleasures of the senses.”
https://archive.is/yMw32
On topic.
Has anyone taken trazadone?
No, but I feel like I might need to if things keep headed where they are.
Tundra might enjoy this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QAAkUC3d5iA&t=1837s
Thank you very much!
This looks great! I’ve read about her and definitely should have hired her!
A student who removed thousands of 9/11 flags from a college memorial said it was a protest against Islamophobia and US military interventions
These are the problem people living in America.
Islamic nations have been the pain in America’s ass for almost 250 years starting with the Barbary Wars. We are not picking fights with Muslim nations and America does not fight religious wars. Being against Koran inspired violence is NOT Islamophobia. I am against Bible inspired violence too.
While ME history and politics are complex issues, America just wants peace so we can get rich off trade and travel. Blaming America for everything in the ME is bullshit. America is just one of the few countries that historically doesnt pick fights.
As for US military interventions, America has a mixed record but still we dont normally pick fights. On 9/11, America was attacked so public opinion favored going after those responsible. The public reason for invading Iraq was a lie. WWII, America was attacked by Germany and Japan and both declared war on America first.
I get protesting and I get doing something to grab headlines. I also have a problem with how civilians killed on 9/11 were treated like heroes and got massive payouts because they died. American civilians died though along with NYPD and NYFD heroes and those deaths mean something to Americans.
When you fuck with American flags, you dont have much sympathy from me. The US flag is only a symbol but that symbol had Americans carry it to the top of Mt Suribachi, while dying along the way. Its your constitutionally protected right to burn the US flag but I get to say fuck you to you too.
Fuck you Fadel Alkilani.