This week’s videos were shot at dusk. The phone brightened things up considerably, at the expense of image quality. Gertie’s owner puts a lighted collar on her so he can find her in the dark.
I know, it’s a lot to justify, but hear me out.
The weeks starts off kind of benevolently, with the moon and Venus helping mellow out things at home. Then we have the New Moon on Wednesday with is your stereotypical renewal/rebirth/growth thingy. On Thursday, thing get a bit ominous as Mercury lines up with Jupiter Retrograde. This is the astrological equivalent of the tank rupturing in a BLEVE. The deflagration happens next.
On Friday, Mercury goes RETROGRADE. While maintaining that alignment of the sign of despotism and misrule. But that’s not all, because also aligning with MERCURY RETROGRADE is the moon, the other major sign of disorder and entropy, and to top all of this off, the moon and MERCURY RETROGRADE are both in Capricorn, for what we in the biz call “maximum stupidity.”
Notice how Milo (the GSD) doesn’t get too involved? Lily has taught him a lesson before.
Sagittarius: 10 of Swords – Pain, affliction, tears, sadness, desolation. It is not especially a card of violent death.
Capricorn: 4 of Cups reversed – Novelty, presage, new instruction, new relations.
Aquarius: Queen of Wands – A dark woman, countrywoman, friendly, chaste, loving, honorable. Also, love of money, or a certain success in business. Lesbian.
Pisces: Knight of Coins reversed – Inertia, idleness, repose of that kind, stagnation; also placidity, discouragement, carelessness.
Aries: The Tower – Misery, distress, indigence, adversity, calamity, disgrace, deception, ruin. Unforeseen catastrophe. Security destroyed.
Taurus: Page of Coins – Application, study, scholarship, reflection, news, messages and the bringer thereof; also rule, management.
Gemini: 10 of Wands – Oppression; fortune, gain, any kind of success, and then it is the oppression of these things. False-seeming, disguise, perfidy. Unsustainable responsibilities
Cancer: 8 of Wands – Activity in undertakings, the path of such activity, swiftness, great haste, great hope.
Leo: Ace of Swords – Extreme effort leading to disaster.
Virgo: The Sun reversed – Material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment.
Libra: 4 of Wands – Country life, haven of refuge, a species of domestic harvest-home, repose, concord, harmony, prosperity, peace.
Scorpio: 2 of Wands reversed – Surprise, wonder, enchantment, emotion, trouble, fear.
The first time I saw twerking (then called P-popping) was at a Big Freeda performance at Gay By Gay Gay (like SXSW, only gayer).
Gemini: 10 of Wands – Oppression; fortune, gain, any kind of success, and then it is the oppression of these things. False-seeming, disguise, perfidy
some people are saying that I’m the bravest guy ever – DJT45
Leo: Ace of Swords – …………disaster
not my best week! – Norman Lear
Aries: The Tower – Misery, distress, indigence, adversity, calamity, disgrace, deception, ruin. Unforeseen catastrophe. Security destroyed.
cya: gone horse-riding with Ron – Sandra Day O’Connor
I cannot stand the man. But I may wind up voting for him if Biden is the only other option.
JFC
inorite?
We’re all getting fired from er jerbs!!
+ Coach Z
Sufficiently neutral.
Material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment.
Sounds about right
Cheers!
HEY YUFUS!
Sagittarius: 10 of Swords – Pain, affliction, tears, sadness, desolation. It is not especially a card of violent death.
A good time was had by all.
” . . . not especially . . . ”
Sheesh.
“Cancer: 8 of Wands – Activity in undertakings, the path of such activity, swiftness, great haste, great hope.”
I have no idea what that even means.
I have no idea what that even means.
It’s the perfect horoscope, then.
Misery, distress, indigence, adversity, calamity, disgrace, deception, ruin. Unforeseen catastrophe. Security destroyed.
OK so that’s Friday, right? How’s the rest of the week?
Look, I got married on Friday the 13th. I’m not gonna say our family hasn’t seen some shit, but my husband-picker was right on.
“husband picker”
It was an arranged marriage?
Nah, bruh. Met on the internet. Seemed like a righteous dude in all the ways that matter, said, “Fuck it, I’mma get on this ride and see where it goes.”
Seems to have done you good, no?
Oh yes, absolutely.
the tank rupturing in a BLEVE
For the non-fire savvy: Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion. This one I knew. The one I learned today was from the Warby piece in the ded-thred: Honestiores and humiliores.
BLEVE always seemed weird to me: that the gas came from a liquid doesn’t seem interesting any more than if the gas were compressed but nothing in the tank was liquid. Why go to the trouble to distinguish those? Okay, a sub-cooled liquid turns into a gas when the tank ruptures and the contents are exposed to STP: seems kinda redundant to say it that way out loud. The propane tank blew up: well okay then, the propane tank blew up.
Dust explosions are much more interesting. The “little” KA you hear at first is the ignition of the primary fuel, eg: the dusting above a transfer point, say, sugar falling into a hopper; windows pop and walls shake. The big BOOM you hear a fraction of a second later is the sound of the all the years and years of dust build-up that the first KA wave shook off the purlins and joists and now the flame has found: walls pop, buildings a hundred feet away are leveled: the real fun, no bodies were recovered level explosion.
I think the distinguishing factor is that upon rupture of a tank of compressed gas the gas merely expands after it squirts out of the container through the rupture.
If the contents are liquid reducing the pressure inside the tank reduces the liquid’s boiling point and the expansion occurs inside the tank. Do I have that right?
If the contents are liquid reducing the pressure inside the tank reduces the liquid’s boiling point and the expansion occurs inside the tank.
Not at first: if some of the the contents are liquid, then the pressure AND temperature are constant until all the liquid vaporizes inside the tank; after that, continued leaking leads to reduced pressures. Look at any p-h diagram and you’ll see pressure and temperature are married below the dome: this is classic liquid-gas two-phase vessel behavior; you’ll see temperature on one vertical axis and density on the other because they are a tied flat line inside the dome. The liquid is always “boiling” until the liquid is gone: that’s why I don’t find the BLEVE description interesting.
It’s not as if the pressure in the tank is going up on its own due to some miracle: that’s impossible unless something is adding energy to the control volume, eg: a small fire under the tank adds heat to the tank. So, again, BLEVE seems like a distinction not worth making. Wreck gives onto rupture…. ** shrug ** wreck causes rupture ** shrug **
If the rupture event seems interesting, I must ask why. The only way the vessel is leaking is through a crack. Okay, the crack increases or the tank becomes more brittle as the gas escapes: the release of the saturated vapor phase to atmospheric (boiling) takes energy away from the vessel; viz, escaping gas takes away exactly the heat of vaporization as it leaves….boils. Okay, but what is interesting about that that makes a BLEVE something special? The tank’s getting colder, so the metal is becoming more brittle, and the (constant) pressure of the tank on the existing crack (that came from some impact) helps whatever stress concentration propagate the crack until catastrophic failure. Okay, someone wrecked a tank and it blew up: again, what’s so special about that that it needs its own acronym?
The liquid does what it does. The tank reacts to whatever was done to it. Vapors escape and maybe are ignited: it done blowed up is all there is to it.
Now, the contamination process is very interesting!
Ok. That makes sense. It appears that you understand it much better than you understand linking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqw3I3OF2YU
I’m not a detail guy: been botching them all day
Speaking of which, back in the ’50s sometime there was an explosion at a fertilizer plant in east Texas. Lufkin? I think that was it.
My grandfather was standing on his front porch in Pineville, La at the time.
He heard it plainly and said he felt a very slight pressure wave.
Google maps says 136 miles. HOLY SHIT.
Ugh. I wanted to say 1957 but no, it was ’47. It wasn’t a plant, it was a ship. It wasn’t Lufkin, it was Texas City.
My memory is turning to shit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster
Texas City is the benchmark.
There’s a monument on the capital grounds at Austin to the firefighters who died in that one.
The amount of kerblooie juice in a container is greater (for any given volume of container) if the contents are liquid rather than compressed gas.
Therefore BLEVE > Gas cylinder asploding.
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 12/10:
*22/22 words (+1 bonus word)
🎯 In the top 14% by accuracy
I played https://squaredle.com 12/10:
56/56 words (+10 bonus words)
🎯 In the top 3% by accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 138
Mind was on work stuff so I just took the hints to finish up. C’est la vie.
Sometimes you just want to finish.
There’s a little blue pill to help you with that…
The hints aren’t even helping. My head is kind of fuzzy with napping, though.
‘Repot’? GTFO.
I played https://squaredle.com 12/10:
56/56 words (+13 bonus words)
🎯 In the top 13% by accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 101
I’m working on this one:
I played https://squaredle.com/?puzzle=10×10:
698/890 words (+478 bonus words)
I think I took a quick look and said, “Fuck this.”
I played https://squaredle.com/?puzzle=10×10:
2/890 words
More recently… I can’t make any more progress in this one and it’s pissing me off.
I played https://squaredle.com/?puzzle=otherworldly:
384/499 words (+128 bonus words)
That video is a whole new level of hell…. but glad you enjoy it if you do.
I think it gave me ear cancer.
My momma always said… aw fuck it, that was heinous.
What part of “worst Friday ever” was unclear?
Re Rebecca Black. I think what her mother and she did with that video was fabulous. Went out, hired a songwriter and producer, went straight to YouTube, and she blew up. Maybe not in the greatest way for her mental health (especially with her being so young), but they took her fame fate in their own hands and did something.
As a self-published author, I think it was awesome.
Nice dog videos
Extreme effort leading to disaster.
Sufficiently shitty.
I tapped out of the music video.
My bunk….you know the rest.
How Fat Pride became the new battleground in America’s culture wars: One in six US deaths linked to obesity but liberal states are banning fatphobia with discrimination laws
Wall-E was fiction, people.
So was 1984, Fahrenheit 451,and Brave New World. What’s your point?
*kicks pebble*
Yeah, I don’t think governments have thought through the process of “banning” a *fear.*
Well, flying was nice. OK, it hasn’t been “nice” in decades but at least it existed.
I assume the people enforcing these laws will die of strokes or be crippled by diabetes.
Sold for $11,600
That’s a whole lot more than I would pay for a BMW 2002 with an automatic transmission. It was $5,000 bucks an hour or so ago. That would almost be worth it, after a five speed swap.
I literally saw one driving around yesterday. It didn’t look that nice.
How do you fail upward?
Honestly asking, I’m wondering if I can try that approach, since knowing what I’m doing hasn’t worked.
There is a lot of that going around.
What is the number again? 10% do 90% of the work? Something like that. Personally I think those numbers are a bit optimistic.
Ability to B.S., schmooze, and kiss ass with the right people is 100% required for this.
Those are not skills I have… 🙁
well, that’s too bad
Try spending more time on your knees/practice your tongue work.
If people knew, I suspect more would do it.
*Points to CommaLa*
You can’t pay me enough to do that.
You have to work for an organization that is incredibly hard to fire someone from, and piss off you boss enough to have them handwave you out of their jurisdiction.
So, work for a state gov’t, do nothing but force people to do what your boss hates, and ask their help in getting promoted.
Do what Kamala Harris did.
At the Krusty Krab again (Golden Corral) for XY’S 18th bday lunch. He loves the variety and quantity. Their fish isn’t bad, either.
Good choice, what teenager doesn’t like all you can eat plus dessert.
MMMMM
Fish requires a nice lemon butter sauce. The more lemony the better. A dash of sweet basil never hurts.
Try it with lemon basil, too. You’ll likely have to grow it yourself, but it’s easy.
If they have steak fries, put cheese and bacon on them.
Had a roomie back in Bible college who’d been training for the Mr. Manitoba bodybuilding competition for some time before I met him; he was 18 years old and could go to most buffets and eat so much that the manager would tear up his bill and tell him never to return. Didn’t hurt that he was also mildly hyperactive. Mind you, even l’il ol’ me could go to McDo’s just before closing and eat four Big Macs “just for a snack.”
Eating for three. Man, those were the days, hmmmm?
Puddin Cup departs LAX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uon9uRivQeU
So I finally watched Joker today.
That was a dark movie.
Excellent movie. Very dark.
I have found, since menopause, I’m having less and less tolerance for dark, gore, and sessy, which makes me grieve. I swear this gets worse every year.
I have less tolerance for crap, which grows algebraically every year.
Some of the dark, gory, sessy stuff is not crap (e.g., Boardwalk Empire), but I don’t think I could stomach, say, The Sopranos or The Wire now.
I was thoroughly entertained and charmed by squeaky clean Candy Cane Lane (Eddie Murphy). That’s where I am right now.
*sighs
Don’t listen, RJ. Stay strong.
If Lily had her own green collar, lighted of course, she wouldn’t have to try to steal Gertie’s. Women, any how, always need the latest fashion.
lol I thought it was adorable how hard Lily was locked on to that thing.
Last year’s lit collar had a selector switch to change color/flashing mode. Lily had an uncanny ability to manipulate it.
Pretty much.
Man, us Geminis are gettin’ boned by the stars ‘n planets these days.
And not in a good way.
So, Lena Dunham is fucking you?
Scorpio: 2 of Wands reversed – Surprise, wonder, enchantment, emotion, trouble, fear.
Sound like my next date will be named Lola.
Blech. They are doing Xmas house decoration tours in my neighborhood. I am not part of this, thank god, but they could at least tell me it is coming. Shit loads of normies wandering around, drinking cheap cider, gawking…
I wonder how they are dealing with the white trash house a couple blocks over?
Sons o’ bitches! BUMPUSES!
Zwak too fancy for the normies, huh?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VKH9ECC_Qa4
Work place wanking.
😂😂
Tell him I’m not interested, but if he wears a tie I’ll think about it.
CNN
Hey Don – was it you that had this and then lost the link?
From the comments:
So… when do they start admitting that the democrats are racist against whites? :/
I took some great photos of the cats in their tiny sweaters at the ugly sweater party last night. Will share on Zoom next week.
*Checks R.J.’s Glibs contract*
Nope. You must share them here as well.
O can’t figure that out. BUT, I can write a post.
Upload photos to the media area of the site. Embed photos in your article.
If you only want to show one photo, you can still upload to the media area and then post a link from the comments.
Like this:
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Broen-left-and-Siobhan-right-Mar-21-scaled.jpg
wow beautiful dogs!
thanks
They are three now.
Test cat:
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IMG_6894-scaled.jpeg
Adorable!
How many stitches did you have to get?
None. They both enjoyed it for a while. Wore them for hours and hung out.
Cat #2
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IMG_6887-scaled.jpeg
very nice
“I’ll get you, human.”
He has resting bitch face, like me. That’s his normal look.
Cat #1 wants to go outside, in her sweater.
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IMG_6885-scaled.jpeg
Your cats will kill you in your sleep.
Yesterday got a great bday present. Got to see my wife after a couple months, a great babbling video message from my grand niece and some good food.
Now prepared and packed for the drive in which we set out tomorrow morning at 4am
Mrs OBE in 3 hours unpacked the boxes I lived with for those 2 months like there was no tomorrow.
I was just reminiscing about some of my most wonderful experiences in this life.
Sounds like you are having one of your own. Treasure it.
Was the present seeing your wife or the couple of months in between?
Yes.
Merry Christmas,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/HCFGRLcYaLEd2saz8
Merry Christmas Charlie Brown!
::See Vince Guaraldi link in previous thread::
Merry Christmas Charlie Brown.
Oops, need to refresh more often.
Someone at work has one of these. It makes me smile.
Loo loo loo, loo loo loo LOO loo… 🎵
https://youtu.be/-1s1P5ZZWfY
https://www.sgammo.com/product/223-556mm-ammo/480-round-case-556mm-62-grain-green-tip-fmj-m855-imi-ammo-made-israel-militar
Don’t be anit-semitic, shoot Israeli ammo!
480 rounds case? “Ugh, and the portions sizes are so small!…”
Lol
I was today years old when I found out clarified butter has a higher smoke point than peanut and canola oils.
Next time butter goes on sale (or if I can find a good deal on ghee), I may try a deep-fry experiment.
Ghee is the shit.
Avocado oil.
Server errors again…WTF.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/12/comparing-javier-milieis-inaugural-speech-to-fdrs/
I can only get so erect.
Yeah. If Milei keeps going I may pass out from lack of blood to the brain.
Stupid errors won’t let me post quotes.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/key-phrases-from-javier-mileis-first-speech-as-president.phtml
‘Like Roosevelt, he aims to wage war on poverty. Unlike FDR, his battle plan is more freedom, not more government.’
So it might actually work instead of impoverishing the nation?
‘shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis — broad Executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe.’
…and we’ve been in a ‘temporary emergency’ for the 90 years hence.
“Nancy Pelosi once responded to an accusation that Democrats had run out of ideas with just three words: “Franklin Delano Roosevelt.”
Genius.
I woke up on Sunday forgetting that it was my birthday. Sagittarius looks fucked up. Lucky for me there were some Grand-daughters to sing the birthday song.
🎵 Festus, it’s your birthday! Happy birthday, Festus!
Happy birthday Festus!
Happy belated birthday 🎂🎈🎉
Good to see you around Fest.
Hope today is awesome for you.
Happy Belated Birthday, Fes! 🥳🎉🎊💃👯♀️🎂
Happy birthday!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX_YWchKea4
You get your own personalized birthday greeting!
Good morning all!
How about some moderately obscure prog to start the week?
Here’s Triumvirate with Old Loves Die Hard.
Also, the final, and title track, from Spartacus.
Share and enjoy!
‘Morning bud.
Mornin’
Good morning, Beau, Lack, and Sean!
Hey Glibs! Time to kick some ass. 😉🌄☕
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h9ZGN_eAEbA
🎶🎶
Well, good morning, Br’er Fox! And a good morning to the rest of you reprobates!.
Speaking of ominous signs, the Jets scored three offensive touchdowns yesterday. End ties are near.
Good morning, ‘patzie!
Morning
Good morning, U! How are you today?
I overslept, but connected to work on time.
Also there was a water main break that shut down the office, but if I hadn’t already had a remote day today I’d have been there…
Glad you didn’t drive all the way there, then have to turn around and come back home.
Me too.
Mornin’, U! What’s shakin’?
Office location is closed, but still have to work.
Success!
Office location. What a quaint concept.
Four call outs. FOUR.
Fucking A, people. Take some vitamins or something.
I need to hire more help. @#$@#%$@#@!!
😷🤕🤧
I’m only up now cause the wife is having a medical procedure, and I’m sitting in the waiting area.
I hope everything is OK, JI.