I am referring all calls to my colleague, MR. SMITH.
Nothing like coming off a 4 day weekend into 6 hours of calls and meetings. Then I have to get to work on everything else. I am seeing if I can get STEVE SMITH as a temp, to clear the calendar as it were. But I not sure how much we have left in the budget for cryptids.
Links are still in the schedule – on budget, on time!
- Where is a cloud of pepper gas when you need it? Someone get me the Seoul Police Department on the line.
- I guess France is going to provide these? Good luck.
- I wonder what his Glibs screen name is?
- Well, I never! Unheard of.
Music – let us have a little Christmas music.
The comments are all yours.
He attempted the record at the Famous Idaho Potato Half Marathon, but had to call it off when he reached 114 T-shirts and started to lose circulation in his neck.
Should’ve used less starch.
Eye see what you did there.
That pun was so cheesy it was Uhg, Rotten.
Wonder if he is a YouTuber
Where was Spud?
I thought the WSJ had the better title on the latest fallout from Credit Suisse. I’m figuring Hunter Biden got paid somehow here too.
UBS Charged in Switzerland Over Credit Suisse ‘Tuna Bonds’ Scandal
https://www.wsj.com/finance/ubs-charged-in-switzerland-over-credit-suisse-tuna-bonds-scandal-aa7ff133?st=juwRDc&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
So you can tuna bond, but you still can’t tuna fish.
Okay, I’ll goby by myself for a while.
While I didn’t have 6 hours of calls and meetings, I did have my all-too-frequent 3 hours or so working with a barely competent contractor in India (so I got to start at 6:30 AM). I so wish our CTO would get the message I’ve been pounding out for months that we need to can this contractor and get someone competent.
But think of the money you are saving by babysitting this contractor!
Wait until you have ten offshore contractors! You will save SO MUCH MONEY!!!
ODOT, insurance, freight organizing and arrangement, other paperwork today.
I just want to work on my truck.
Paperwork sucks.
It produces nothing but more paperwork.
Accused Ivy League assassin Luigi Mangione appeared in Manhattan court Monday looking preppy — with his trademark bushy brows carefully manicured as he smirked and furiously scribbled notes — for a key pretrial evidence hearing in his murder case.
Five years from now when he’s wearing his orange jumpsuit and serving his life sentence at Leavenworth or Atlanta, will the press still swoon over how glamorous he is?
Yes. They will.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumia_Abu-Jamal
Yes, just like that. It will be a repeat of exactly that.
And it will be coming from the same people.
That is dapper? My, men’s fashion has fallen.
Agreed OBE. I was not expecting the bare minimum.
A collared shirt and off the rack suit do not qualify as “dapper”.
Now this guy: https://cdn.imagearchive.com/customonesixth/data/attach/291/291860-A6D0CC28-0D57-4695-A094-682901273485.jpeg
I don’t get it with him. I understand the dissatisfaction with the insurance companies, even the hatred of them in some circumstances, but ultimately he’s just an asshole who shot a guy in the back.
He has caught the imagination of the commie ratfucker set for some unfathomable reason. I don’t think it has anything to do with insurance companies.
“for some unfathomable reason”
He did what they were too chicken shit to do themselves. They agree with him and his actions.
Correct both of you, but add a left-wing media frenzy and there you have it. He’s a handsome hero, soon to be a legend.
It’s the same reason the commie got elected mayor of NYC.
His core support comes from women who want to fuck him.
I was trying to be delicate about it.
Slowest day in a dogs’ year. Also I don’t want to do Jack Squat.
Does Jack Squat know how you feel about him?
No. Keeping it to myself, except for you Tulpas.
Same here. It’s that holiday time of year. I had 4 days off and got a taste of the good life.
“I wonder what his Glibs screen name is?” It will be the person posting Confessions of a Middle Age Man in Many T-Shirts.
“I am seeing if I can get STEVE SMITH as a temp, to clear the calendar as it were.”
STEVE SMITH CLEAR COLONS NOT CALENDARS!
“Ex-Credit Suisse employee charged with money laundering”
This weekend I found $4 loose in the dryer. I told my wife not to let the FBI know we were laundering money. She did not appreciate my humor.
Open a Chinese restaurant next time with it.
Don’t worry, Your phone will inform on you.
Well that settles it. Leon Panetta has spoken. That man of great integrity and truth.
STEVE SMITH PROMINENT FOREST LAWYER.
HIM NOT JUST SUE ASS OFF.
HIM GIVE YOU BAR EXAM.
GIVE EMPLOYEES SHAFT.
AND BY SHAFT, MEAN RAPE.
Weird Al is a good choice.
I blame Global Warming https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/bay-area-temperature-record-california-21217304.php
ahem, Climate Change.
Freezes my ass, its 70 here evry day unless it rains, then 60.
Poor San fran
So there we were, sailing through October and November suffering through perpetual summer. I live in a place with seasons for a REASON. No, do not give me 70 degrees outside the week before Thanksgiving. November is supposed to be all about rain and rotting red leaves all over the lawn.
Thanksgiving hits and BAM. 35F. Mmmm, acceptable, but still sunshiny and bright. That is not. Temp keeps going down. I’m snuggled in my house-hoodie and 4 layers of socks. The fireplace gets turned on late in the evening.
But today. TODAY. Oh, TODAY!!! AT LEAST 6 inches of snow.
Too bad I’m out of pine-scented wax.
I finally hauled my propane tank up to the catio to test my new tabletop fireplace. It works great, now I wait for sunset,
Current catio, new plants and my beautiful spider plant. The fireplace is blue glass, we’ll see how it works.https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/20251201_150138-scaled.jpg
My shop is too small and full of stuff and tools for me to bring the work truck into. It snowed tonight. No bueno.
After a four day weekend I come into work. My German teammate (6 hours ahead in his workday) is complaining; has a case of the Mondays. So he merges his own PR, which is breaking half the quality checks from failing tests, etc., hoses two other PRs queued up (one is mine) and goes home for the day. I’m supposed to start my Christmas vacation day after tomorrow since I haven’t taken any days off for 8 months. Use them or lose ’em they say. So I’m going to look like a schmuck and leave an entire API implementation sitting in a PR while I’m out unless this goober starts doing his job.
Perhaps he should manage his public relations better.
PR?
It’s part of the joy of this place.
I assume “pull request”, but I don’t program. I’m also not an attorney, but I know what “estoppel” means. 😉
Excuse me, stewardess, I speak
jivegeek…Yes, Sensei is correct.
https://github.blog/developer-skills/github/beginners-guide-to-github-creating-a-pull-request/
Although it sounds like something is broken with the process if it could be merged while failing the tests.
Enjoy your vacation and let them contemplate their process failures on the Tree Of Woe.
Cooking dinner and making a casserole. Halfway through cooking a massive rack of chicken breasts I ran out of propane and had to move inside. I am cooking half of it at a time now on the giant stamped steel skillet.
And it’s only Monday!
I was so happy when I put a natural gas line outside for a grill instead of using propane.
Current catio, new plants and my beautiful spider plant. The fireplace is blue glass, we’ll see how it works.https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/20251201_150138-scaled.jpg
A double post!
Good call on the nat gas conversion
Ive been putting that off.
Granted it would be a propane line from the kitchen to the deck.
I visited a friend today, he gave me a package of calf liver, frozen but the critter was butchered just a few days ago. Life is good.
IMO I think the prez needs some cognitive testing. His behavior is erratic at times, for a businessman he seems not to understand economics.
60 should be the cutoff for all politicians, let some younger people that have some skin in the game have an opportunity to screw things up.
From my perspective the 40s kids are trouble but the 30s kids are the direct opposite, very open to glib ideas and they all pack heat. A lot of ex military.
I may have enough cash to run by the time I’m sixty. Def not now.
Crip guts, stomas, and the violence of ‘returning to normal’: a feminist queer crip approach to the gut
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-06091-1
tldr, as far as I can tell: Person had to have their colon removed and get a colostomy bag, then got offended by doctors and nurses saying they’ll be back to ‘normal’ soon, can live a ‘normal’ life with a bag, or suggesting further surgery to get rid of the bag and get back to ‘normal’ because normal people suck, I guess?. Also her gut problems were because of the legacy of British colonialism in Ireland or something.
Keep those crip guts out of a blood and guts neighborhood if they don’t want trouble.
I had one for three of the worst months in my life in 2020.
That person can stuff xer performative gibberish up xer ass.
We need to be releasing Timber Wolves into urban settings, not the forests.
They seem to do OK in urban settings, if the schedule is not too tough
After my four-day weekend, I came back to Day One of Hell Month Lite at my job. (January is Hell Month Proper.) Survived, getting done the most urgent gotta-do’s, but per the boss’s instructions had to pack up my work laptop in case we get Snowmageddon tomorrow and I have to work from home. (I’ve only logged on to our network remotely once, as big chunks of my job can’t be done anywhere but the office.)