The holidays and taking last Friday off for my wife’s birthday have conspired to make sure I won’t work a full week in ’23 until at least the 23rd. Mrs. L turned 29 again, and we all lived happily ever after. Dinner Friday night was weird. We were in downtown Clearwater, which, I struggle to describe other than as a Potemkin village built around the former Ft. Harrison Hotel, which I believe is the global headquarters of a certain Scientishic religion. The place we ate at was nice, but I was seated next to two couples and the older guy kept naming different people as “So-and-So, local Scientologist”. Much like I guess you’d talk about Jim who goes to First Baptist. Anyhow… The Links!!!
Now if he was a banjo player, it would still be monstrous, but she’d have a case.
Do you dare click? h/t: Heroic Mulatto
Someone else discovers that “the Cloud” isn’t there to save YOU money, its there to save MS/AMZ/GOOG money.
“I was there, Jack! Riding the buses to Selma and Mississippi!” Biden lies about his involvement with civil rights movement. Quote entirely fabricated by me.
I was gonna go with Jeff Beck, but I’ll go with Howlin’ Wolf for this one. A little late for Friday the 13th, but I ain’t superstitious anyhow.
“Cognitive functions of individuals with psychiatric disorders differ from that of the general population. ”
Shocking.
Is this HM’s way of letting us know he’s crazy? NTTAWWT.
A psychology professor in Argentina has been charged with the stabbing death of her trumpet-playing husband.
Yet curiously, police assigned the investigation to the sax crimes unit.
It was to avoid facing a drumhead court.
It’s an online unit, they operate on the clarinet work.
That takes a lot of brass, sir.
If he had played trombone he might have been able to slide out of the way.
Sounds like the guy was more treble than he was worth.
All bass and no treble
It’s up to the scales of justice now.
Some might be tempted to pitch that up high; but me, I’m just going to pick a low.
She was snared by the cymbals she left at the scene of the crime?
She wanted to hire someone to help with clean up … but she couldn’t get the staff.
Hey, you got that one without missing a beat!
Could have thrown them off the track by leaving a fake suicide note.
John Coltrane hardest hit?
Heard just before the stabbing:
“No, Looo-sey, you can’t come to my performance and meet Bob Cummings!”
Really sent that marriage off the clef.
Still far and away the best Glibs bio.
Thanks for the lynx, Brett! And a happy 29th to mama!
“She was arrested and charged with the stabbing murder of Zarate.
Local media reports say Zarate had stab wounds “all over his body.”
So kind of misleading headline.
There is no cloud, it is only someone else’s computer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pllRW9wETzw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmFvK4WjeiE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEQ0KW2CeeQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz41Vbs1CSc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C-ChWdRrYQ
(Steps in for the S-brigade)
Sufficiently Bad For an S-link?
I’ve said it before here, so I’ll spare folks the rant — but first China and now “pay somebody else to manage your company’s vital data and operations completely out of your control” just mystifies me, even as I have to work on stuff in both spaces. I’ll certainly never be management and obviously I lack the mindset to be C-suite beyond that.
Few companies are completely vertically integrated. At some point you have to rely on other companies for goods and services, including ones critical to your business.
What if it is obscured?
Like with a cloth?
“Woman who had photos of serial killers on her wall allegedly stabs sleeping boyfriend 22 times, shows friend the body in a video call”
https://www.theblaze.com/news/uk-woman-serial-killer-photos
She seems nice.
She’s a sharer, not a carer.
She’s a slicer, but not nicer.
She’s a sticker, she’s a pinner, she’s an all night skinner…
A show-er, not a grow-er?
Whelp, the signs were there…I’m gonna go with victim blaming here.
*shrug*
Don’t stick it in crazy…or crazy may stick it in you.
So, when I’m screaming at my computer screen, I’m an example of Old Man Yells At Cloud?
{shrug} . . . checks out.
My current project involves EC2 — so that’s one of my go-to Slack emojis (Abe Simpson with a cloud).
My other being “Old Man yells at Old Man yelling” of course.
“Someone else discovers that “the Cloud” isn’t there to save YOU money, its there to save MS/AMZ/GOOG money.”
AWS has it’s advantages. You can get instances up and running much more quickly than building your own infrastructure. It doesn’t require a big up front investment. It scales up if you exceed your forecasts and conversely you aren’t stuck with a bunch of unused hardware when you don’t. It allows you to better match expenditures with revenue. But at some point you reach a scale where AWS becomes way more expensive than running your own. The key is to design your product in a way that makes it easy to get out off AWS, but that usually takes a back seat to adding features to the app, so companies end up stuck on AWS.
Yeah — that’s the middleware layer I could see taking off right now (I know there’s a couple variants, though I haven’t dived into them).
Something that lets you set up your own private cloud / interface with the public clouds by giving you the virtual machines / containers / Kubernetes / whatnot and the API to utilize them, then pairs that with a single pane of glass management interface for plugging physical resources into that and having it automatically (pxe boot / install / whatnot) utilize it for new virtual resources. You’d still have to pay someone to manage things in your datacenter when it breaks and the power / cooling and whatnot, but you could prototype in public cloud, bring it in-house when ready / you’re more aware of the scaling and potentially overflow back to public if your needs spike badly enough, while keeping most / all of your data in-house.
Shrug.
I don’t know; I put together and maintain some 200TB hot storage (and processing capable) servers. Our IT really really really wants to force everyone onto AWS. For fun – after telling them to fuck off – I checked into a little bit. Holy shit – that’s a lot of dough. And so much more restricted than what I can do. IT people never ever seem to understand actual work flow.
The blessing and curse of owning and managing your own infrastructure is you get to own and manage it yourself.
Also, comparing total OpEx to a one off CapEx raises a red flag to me. Is that single Dell server sufficient to replace their current cloud usage? And how much will they spend to build and operate it?
Yeah, that stuck out to me — if you’re talking about replicating functionality, you’ve got to be talking at least redundant servers since it called out that they’re paying for sufficient S3 redundancy to survive an EC2 region going down. That says to me they’re also looking at georeplication for lower latency / data colocation probably.
I still wouldn’t be at all surprised if it works out cheaper to self-own if you have DCs available and all, though… AWS isn’t working out of the goodness of their hearts, after all.
His blog entry and podcast episode transcript are worth a read:
https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47e0
We’ve been having an ongoing discussion at work about people “unclouding” and this came up a few weeks back.
Good luck finding ERP software that isn’t subscription based now. I’m lucky enough to own my licenses, but I’m still beholden to their servers if I want decent support.
“‘It is offending people’: Man wearing a Jesus Saves t-shirt at Mall of America is ordered by security guard to take it off or leave – at nation’s most famous shopping center
The man was asked on a different day to leave the mall because he was preaching. This time, however, he appears to have just walking around the mall.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11641123/Man-wearing-Jesus-Saves-t-shirt-Mall-America-ordered-leave.html
It didn’t even have a picture of Jesus playing goalie.
It didn’t even have a picture of Jesus playing goalie.
I like this:
https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/jesus-saves-hockey-player-by-artisanaa/107670964.EJUG5
Favorite bathroom graffiti – what, of course there’s such a category. From some run-down, hole in the wall, shit bar in Baton Rouge. “Jesus saves souls and redeems them for valuable prizes.”
Bigotry against Latinx community
To tie it together, Jesus is a big believer is saving to cloud storage. Of course, he’s got an in with the universal system administrator….
Jesus will save you from the /dev/null.
Some enterprising church should have their entire congregation wear them to MOA. Let’s see fat boy deal with a few hundred people.
Well, only Jesus made more saves than goalie Bernie Parent.
What I derive from that is that Anorexics are overachievers and ADHD individuals underachieve.
As I don’t read academic literature for a living I’ve no desire to read through pages and pages of jargon to see how they controlled for these supposed differences against some kind of control. I get to read different jargon filled crap for a living…
Let it be said that some of Wyoming’s brightest has decided run the ban hammer in the opposite direction.
Wyoming Politicians Call for EV Sales to End in the State after 2035
Virtue signaling knows no party.
Well, at least what Wyoming is attempting to accomplish is feasible. Win?
May be feasible, and may “own the libs,” but is still government interference in a market. Pushing back against mandates, subsidies, tax breaks, charging station requirements, etc is totally legit. Telling people “you can’t own that” is anti-liberty.
I am not endorsing idiotic bans on electric cars.
Agreed. Let the market sort it out. And remove a ton of regulations so people can buy cheap reliable local transportation.
Back in my youth, mom and dad used to pack us into the brown Ford LTD and take us to Treasure Island every summer. (After one day at Disney World of course). I had many meals in Clearwater. Sounds like things have changed a bit.
Biden seems to think that Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first black SC justice? He’s forgotten all about the high-tech lynching he conducted?
Well, he can’t be sure she’s a woman anymore so he’s just trying to simplify.
Interesting that Biden’s two heroes are Bobby Kennedy and MLK. Didn’t one of them sic the FBI on the other because he had links to communists?
Perhaps he meant Al Capone and Elliot Ness, or was it Churchill and that Austrian painter dude?
Yeah, it was just because of commie links. RFK was as pure as the driven snow and never acted on base motives.
And Joe’s heroes are whatever he thinks his audience wants to hear.
His real heroes are Boss Tweed and St Ralph the Liar.
Another guy who mixed King and Kennedys together
https://youtu.be/DXl3XG5aGtM
Whoah…slow down there buckaroo…
Ok… I laughed. Nice one.
OK, so I should’ve bolded seems.
Thonas isn’t a real negro. Duh. It is known.
He has a thuroughly good reason for this, I’m sure.
Cognitive functions of individuals with psychiatric disorders differ from that of the general population.
You don’t say.
But enough about those clowns in Washington, amIright?
“I got elected to the United States Senate when I was 29 and wasn’t old enough to take office.”
And he hasn’t done an honest day’s work since.
For some people, “I got on the gravy train as soon as was humanly possible” isn’t something to brag about.
You aren’t giving Biden enough credit. He has never had to do an honest day’s work in his life.
Lovely article.
Carole Lombard Remembered.
True, but you know there’s a least one person out there going “that bitch!”
Mom’s got fluid on her knee. Keeping her overnight for observation and IV antibiotics.
See, it was a good thing she got dolled up. She knew what was going on. 😉
Hope this is all precautionary and she’s out safe and healthy tomorrow.
Thanks. I expect they’ll aspirate her knee if the antibiotics don’t take care of it.
Hoping for a quick recovery.
Yikes. No wonder she was in pain.
Best of luck to her!
Best wishes.
Lance that thing and squeeze!
Right?!
That cop in Tennessee collected a bunch of fluid on her knees, too. I wonder if there’s something going around?
Okay, so I honestly laughed until I cried. My husband rolled his eyes so hard they rattled in his head.
Hope she gets well soon.
Texas teacher is caught on video putting his hands on student. Put on leave to be fired in due time.
Quanell X of the New Black Panthers is here to tell you how this is white supremacy at work.
CNN is there to tell you that at no point on the video is the student seen retaliating. No one bothers to ask the question of what preceded the video because that may undo the narrative.
Fox News is saying the student had to go to the emergency room for that…Family, of course, talking about suing.
He should have just sexually assaulted the kid. That seems to be A-OK in proggie world.
He could have forced the kid to watch him perform in drag. Then the kid would have gotten in trouble if he refused.
In Philly and Baltimore the kids would have shot the teacher for that.
Any chance that there’s an unedited version of this available. I have a sneaking suspicion that the video is a bit longer than that on both ends. Are we ever going to be able to see that?
Doubt it. The family likely has the video and alls you are going to get right now is an edited version that makes the student look the most innocent.
The suspect’s sister became worried when Zarate didn’t respond to phone calls for days.
When police arrived at the couple’s apartment, they allegedly discovered Zarate dead with a knife embedded in his eyeball.
The suspect’s sister said Cattaneo had “bloodstains on her hands.”
The murderer still had bloodstains days later?
Hansson revealed that the business’s single biggest cloudy line item is $907,837.83 to store over eight petabytes of data in AWS’s Simple Storage Service (S3).
Not surprising.
Howlin’ Wolf is good.
Shades of Lady MacBeth.
¡Fuera maldita mancha!
Green preening costs extra
“Cost is an incredible barrier,” Nazzari told CNBC, adding that an increase in office size and better green credentials would cause rent to go up by “at least 50%” from what she’s seen on the market so far.
“When we’re looking at buildings with this brown discount it’s hard to not go for a building like ours which is a cute old warehouse,” she said.
Even finding sustainable spaces can be a challenge.
“It’s not like you’re stumbling over these green buildings all over the place. They’re rare,” she said, estimating that fewer than a third of the buildings she’d seen would fit the bill.
That scarcity drives prices up even further. On top of that, there’s company branding to think about.
“In light of the planet burning this might not seem as relevant [but] your office building is a huge reflection of your business’ brand. A lot of new buildings are very office-y and corporate and perhaps not somewhere that we would traditionally choose,” she said.
But Nazzari is facing a lot of pressure to move, particularly from her own employees.
“Our team is really young, and the generation is very alive to the earth they’re inheriting … They’re extremely aware of the green agenda, and they bring it up all the time. It’s a pressure we feel coming up from our team,” she said.
I’m sure those young hotshots will gladly surrender some meaningful portion of their pay to work in gaia-friendly surroundings.
Those green buildings are expensive to build and expensive to maintain. Complicated systems don’t take care of themselves.
They are horseshit. For a brief time, raised floor office buildings (all the guts in the plenum) were all the rage. We even developed a product for them.
That product is long gone.
But the planet is burning. No amount of money is too much to feel good about doing nothing about it.
Finished payroll and general account reconciliations today. It’s just the credit card now.
The payroll account was enlightening.
As long as she was rendering unto Caesar…
I believe I’m in the clear. Not so sure about her.
👍🏼
Those green buildings are expensive to build and expensive to maintain. Complicated systems don’t take care of themselves.
But they’re sustainable!
In other news, my husband won a trip to Nashville to see Dan and Shay (whoever they are) in a private concert for 10 people. Two of the people who said they want to go are rabid fans of this group, so I told my husband that they would have to squee appropriately for the rest of us who have no idea who they are. I guess I’m going to spend the next 2 weeks listening to Dan and Shay.
I’ve never heard of them either must be pop “country”.
More like “pop” pop.
Ah, I saw Nashville and assumed country. I’m probably guilty of some form of bigotry.
There’s very little country music made in Nashville anymore.
I exist, there I am bigot.
No, you’re right, it’s “country,” but there’s very little C&W to it. A twanged syllable here and there.
They wear cowboy hats when they perform, that’s how you know.
Would it sound weird with a fiddle or banjo? That’s my guide to whether it’s Country or “Country”. Note – not that it needs them, just could you put it there without it sounding weird.
Thoughts and prayers, Mo.
I dig Nashville, though.
Gah…
So, white-boy R&B
It’s so wholesome!
https://images.posedionclothing.com/2022/04/official-if-you-don-t-like-hall-and-oates-then-fuck-you-shirt-Long-Sleeved.jpg
Point of order, that was Blue-Eyed Soul
Related
https://youtu.be/MJ3e9EIr3f8
(Well, not *you*)
Um … did he spell that with the terminal “e”?!
Point of order: It’s Daryl Hall and John Oates.
Ooof.
Dan and Shay-
Never heard of them.
Caught this on Reddit. Male Karen tries to get into CVS minutes before close, is denied entry. Tries to make workers “famous” and it backfires horribly.
Reminds me of the Target Tori story
https://nypost.com/2020/01/21/target-tori-receives-over-30k-in-donations-after-angry-customers-tweet-backfires/
(Tori: would)
#metoo
Ha. David Leavitt. The H&O song above is about him!
None of yer beeswax
The White House counsel’s office says there are no visitors logs that track guests who come and go at President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware.
House Republicans have been demanding that the White House turn over all information related to misplaced classified documents from Biden’s time as vice president, including any visitors logs to Biden’s private residence and who might have had access to his private office in Washington, DC, where the first batch of documents were discovered in early November.
“Like every President across decades of modern history, his personal residence is personal,” the counsel’s office said in a statement Monday morning. “But upon taking office, President Biden restored the norm and tradition of keeping White House visitors logs, including publishing them regularly, after the previous administration ended them.”
Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the US Secret Service, said the agency also does not independently maintain visitor logs for Biden’s home in Wilmington. The agency provides security for the property, and screens visitors before they arrive to Biden’s home, but does not maintain records of those visitors. Biden and his staff determine who is permitted onto the property.
I’d be okay with that personal privacy stuff he wasn’t spending about a third of his time there. Where are our Fourth Estate watchdogs? Hell, that kid tracks Musk’s plane(s) all over the world. Somebody ought to be able to track private jets flying in and out of Joe’s neck of the woods.
Yeah, but you could take the day off.
Any jets that would be going to Biden’s are in Davos right now.
“Like every President across decades of modern history, his personal residence is personal”
So, absolutely no business is conducted there? He never meets with legislators, lobbyists, kleptocrats foreign or domestic, in Wilmington?
Feh – we’re paying for his security, I think they can keep a couple logs.
I don’t give a shit about those documents. I want the bastards responsible for Russiagate and COVID to hang.
“restored the norm and tradition of keeping White House visitors logs, ”
Norm and tradition back to when? One wonders if such logs were kept by JFK??
Apparently the Secret Service did.
There’s very little country music made in Nashville anymore.
You can say that again
So, absolutely no business is conducted there? He never meets with legislators, lobbyists, kleptocrats foreign or domestic, in Wilmington?
He does, but they only talk about guns and cars and fishing.
Yeah, I bet he and Zelenskyy had a nice little chat about guns.
Get with the program, it’s Zelenskyyy now.
A bevy of busty babes with beautiful breasts on Mammary Monday.
https://archive.ph/CdBs7
link doesn’t work for me
“A YouTuber pulled a prank at an airport pretending to steal a man’s luggage and the mark wasn’t having it. Now he’s pressing charges on the man, who faces jail over the incident. Is this fair?”
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1614989139170164736
TwoRetardsFighting.jpg
FAFO. I’d drop the charges.
You mean it’s okay if you steal luggage as a prank and film it for Youtube? Sam Brinton has a sad that he didn’t think of that.
Interesting thread here:
“As a miner for 40 years I have worked in various mines around the world. Gold, platinum, copper, coal, lead, zinc, oil and salt. I’m going to tell you something, and here it is. We will destroy the earth in the name of “Green Energy” Follow along and I will explain. 🧵”
https://twitter.com/JohnLeePettim13/status/1614178348694904837
“How Dare You!”
“ChatGPT will explain how morally good and necessary “gender affirming care” for minors is but when asked to say it’s immoral and harmful, it declines and calls that discriminatory.”
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1615105750170275842
We need to bring back the gay robots from Star Wars.
Relevant
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q5O98xCpDYk
Huh, I don’t remember that from Heavy Metal.
I secretly added it when you weren’t looking.
I remember it.
” but she’d have a case.”
A banjo case?