Always good to follow the adventures of the Hat & Hair, today with special guest star. I think winter is breaking down here. Supposed to get to 75 tomorrow. I enjoyed both weeks of winter this year. Lots of New York plates on the road. Hopefully, packing up to go home. I like New Yorkers. I just like them better in New York.
Larry Summers, survivor of #MeToo, falls to the Epstein Files. I am shocked. No wait, there’s nothing shocking about that.
“Sir, this isn’t a Waffle House, but we’ll do our best.”
FBI searches home of LA School District superintendant. Hopefully, the start of a long and prosperous investigation.
LOL. Everyone knows turn signals are sign of weakness. Especially in Miami.
“FBI searches home of LA School District superintendant.”
Let’s see how good of a journalism I am! My proposed headlines:
a) Trump Continues to Persecute His Political Enemies
b) Trump’s War on Education Continues
Gotta include the percentage of illegals and other minorities in the district.
You can never go wrong with “minorities hardest hit”.
Trump, Named In Epstein Files Thousands Of Times, Wages War On Mostly Minority School District
Majority minority/children of illegals no doubt.
Do you realize that most of those affected students are children?
Trump hates children!
Don’t forget the gay frogs. Have to fit that in somewhere.
“Trump’s attack comes at a time when Los Angeles has seen a notable increase in the number of gay frogs due to heavy rainfall caused by climate change.”
c) Trump, who is Putin’s puppet bought and payed for, is genociding activists and allies of Ukraine to steal rare earth metals and put them in his secret bank account in Israel.
I should have been more clear, I’m not planning on writing for ZeroHedge.
Guarded by Space! Lasers!
::sensible chuckle::
Wow, it seems I need to go to a Journaversity. I have much too lear.
I love how promptly companies respond to data breeches.
“In January 2025 our system suffered a data breech” – arrives today.
Hrmm… the shortage of comments makes me think the links dropped late and I should have waited on that.
Nope. Slow afternoon.
Wow! That took even longer than the notice I got a couple of weeks ago about the breach at a local hospital system that happened last spring… which was all over the news for weeks.
Local hospitals billing is like that too.
Bill shows up 8-10 months later.
“Breach” not “breech.”
“Once more into the breach…”
What happens if you have multiple data breeches? Do you end up with legal briefs?
Data breeches are AI designed underwear.
Not only does UCS have special gloves to handle data, he also has special pants!
I spel gud
You are supposed to blame autocorrect!
I don’t use autocorrect.
I just mix up homophones sometimes.
I just mix up homophones…
NTTAWWT.
“Homophones”
No need for name calling UnCiv.
In January 2026 our legal team completed the buffering of responsibility and prepared this disclosure statement.
Across dozens of threads, Summers sought Epstein’s advice on personal matters, including his pursuit of a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee.
“I like having her work under me. Can I fly her to your island and have your girls teach her about butt stuff?”
C’mon, that’s a letter to Penthouse, right?
New feature: Letters to Epstein.
LOL. Dear Jeff, you’ll never believe what happened to me.
Early 1990s, the program manager walks into my office to tell me something. I ask why he didn’t just write an email. He replied: “Never put anything in an email any message you wouldn’t want to see on the front page of the NY Times.” Once you hit the send button, you have no control over it.
I vaguely remember Unsend in Pine.
Is that a real memory or something I dreamt?
Threedoor:
Unsend is a feature in some e-mail clients, but is useless unless you are sending inside the same domain, and the message stays internal. Long story short, once the e-mail makes it to a public hop, it’s out in public. E-mail is not a secure communication method.
He’s Libertarian?
I wanted to read about the LA School Superintendent but no. I think there’s a country song there
“Stuck behind a paywall”
Stuck behind a paywall
It’s a stupid ghey wall
Nobody’s gonna pay for that
$6.99, are you outta yer mind
I would rather eat my hat!
*sung to twangy guitar
I listened to a band last week and one of the song’s was titled “Music is free”. It was most definitely not free, I had to pay a cover charge to get in.
Larry Summers, Democrat, is experiencing unfortunate consequences of affiliating with Jeffrey Epstein, Democrat, unlike Bill or Hillary Clinton, Democrat, or John F.ing Kerry, Democrat.
This journolisming stuff is hard. To continue:
Donald J. Orange Man Bad Trump has irrevocable ties to Jeffrey Epstein which are totally different than the poor victims mentioned above, therefore the entire party is guilty.
Where’s my Pewlitzer?
If they had anything on Trump they would have used it already. They sat on these files because they knew they were chock full of THEM.
Heh.
https://vimeo.com/16717619
Are turn signals optional on Miami roads? Now that you’re done laughing, we have some answers.
It’s not just Miami.
You have two choices, either ‘never on’ or ‘always on’.
It’s a factory setting.
They moved from NJ.
Ooops
The next time you’re on the road, you might notice something different about the license plate of the car ahead of you, and it’s a change that’s causing some confusion.
11 Investigates has learned that license plate recognition cameras, including some on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, are having trouble with two specific numbers. Pennsylvania’s new license plate design is causing identification errors for drivers and enforcement cameras that are mistaking the state’s new slashed zero for the number eight.
The redesign was originally implemented to help distinguish the number zero from the letter “O,” but technical issues with license plate recognition cameras have led to incorrect toll invoices and parking disputes.
Relevant
I don’t understand how that would be hard to forge once you see the whole alphabet.
We need some ‘fälschungserschwerend’ in our government programs.
They obviously gave it short shrift.
I didn’t realize they changed.
https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dmv/vehicle-services/registration-plates/standard-issue-registration-plate
They are better than the prior, but not what I would call “attractive”.
The new one for America 250 has an almost invisible Liberty Bell. Stayed with my old ones “LZ FAIR” and “NO TAXS.”
[Back when vanity plates in PA could only have six letters instead of today’s seven.]
Liz Phair fan?
HWC
I want “370HSSV” plates put I’m too cheap to give the state any more money than I have too.
“FSTIVUS”
That’s what I saw today. Took a pic of it as it sat ahead of me at a stoplight. (Kinda a hobby. (No, not sitting at stoplights.))
Flipping through recent pics, a young girl, clearly unenthused with being there, was protesting with a couple dozen AWFL protesters. Her sign has “HOOSIERS *heart* THY NEIGHBOR.” Next to her is one with Indiana’s outline, inside:
“NO HOOSIER CONCENTRATION CAMP” <– Cool. Thanks.
Obligatory…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOiZP8FS5Ww&list=RDJOiZP8FS5Ww&start_radio=1
I went to the mall for the first time in years to pick up the Mac Mini Today. I do not like the Touchscreen Directory having replaced a static map. The main issue is that it cycles through ads rather than showing the directory most of the time and isn’t terribly sensistive for the touch screen. I had to knock on it, almost punching the thing to get it to tell me where the Apple Store was relative to my current location.
I get it, it has to stand up to the general public, but I didn’t realize it was an interactive screen the first few times or even after I tried to see if it was touch-capable because it didn’t react to my first attempt to get it to wake up, so I assumed it was just an ad kiosk.
Did you try taking off your gloves?
At this point I have trouble finding gloves that aren’t capacitive so that people can text with them.
Problem is they insulate for shit.
His data breeches were blocking the capacitive touch screen signal.
RJ, unlike some glibs I shal not name – I do not attempt to copulate with kiosks.
NH Border Patrol shooting update
The suspect who shot at a border agent over the weekend has been identified as Cullan Zeke Daly, 26, a Manchester man who uses the feminine identity Blu Zeke Daly.
Daly faces up to 40 years in prison on charges of attempted murder of a federal officer and assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon. He is currently under armed guard at a New Hampshire hospital receiving treatment for a gunshot wound suffered during the incident, according to U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan’s office.
Later in the article:
According to the complaint, the agent encountered Daly driving alone in Stewartstown, near the Canadian border, shortly before midnight Saturday. During their conversation, the agent asked Daly whether he had used any other names. Daly then drove away.
The agent followed Daly as he drove approximately 10 miles to the Pittsburg Port of Entry on the U.S.-Canada border. By that time, it was past midnight, the crossing was closed, and the gate was locked.
The part of Stewartstown near the Canadian border is 30 miles from the Pittsburg border crossing.
Blu Zeke Daly
Band name, album or exotic dancer?
“Blu Zeke” is feminine in NH?
Sounds like something you would treat cattle for.
Or with.
I’m beginning to think that there’s a large contingent of transes who are mentally unwell and inclined toward violence.
And maybe doling out cross-sex hormones to them is not helping.
Blu Zeke Daly.
I, too, would be blue if I blew *Zeke* every day.
Hey be nice guys. It’s cause he ain’t got nobody to listen.
Da-ba-dee, da-ba-di!
“The suspect who shot at a border agent….” I got that far and thought ‘It’s another tranny’ then finished the sentence “….a Manchester man who uses the feminine identity Blu Zeke Daly.”
“Wait honey! It’s not what it looks like!”
Band name, album or exotic dancer?
Skin rash cream.
Skin rash cream
Do not take Blu Zeke Daly if you are allergic to Blu Zeke Daly. May cause internal hemorrhaging. Stop taking Blu Zeke Daly and contact your physician immediately if you experience skin blemishes or a severely distended scrotum.
Valtrex. VALTREX. That shit *kills* shingles, also known as ‘being awake and aware for every moment of a shark chomping on your ribs’ disorder.
Shingrix continues to be only for older folk. I had *best* be immune to that shit now, though it can strike twice. Strongly disapprove. Chicken pox, shingles and herpes are in the same ‘family.’ I’ve (perhaps?) conquered the first two, so I naturally assume I’m absolutely, totally immune to that last one. *pinky promises* Duh.
I need a new webhost. I’ve been with the one I’ve got since 2007 when they were small, and they are just getting more and more expensive and less and less helpful.
What will the market bear?
The companies that have raised prices in response to tariffs are finding out whether consumers were willing to pay more for stuff all along. The tariffs have essentially been “a broad set of experiments, which will reveal to suppliers if their previous prices were profit maximizing or too low,” marketing professor emeritus at Harvard Business School Robert Dolan told NPR last year. Suppliers may keep prices high if people keep paying, tariffs or not.
They’re kicking themselves for not raising prices sooner.
Don’t fret; customers who had price increases are already calling their suppliers to ask for price rollbacks. Big customers will be accommodated if they have another vendor they can switch to.
Well, full-time, extra-time in Italy. Somewhere Rufus is in mourning.
*swoons* I wish I could go back. Fun German dude (Willhelm) came into the shop yesterday and we chatted for a bit. Shoulda gotten his number. (NTTAWWT, but for similar-‘mindset’ people searching.)
Three friends and I flew to Rome, rented a van, and drove to Siena, Florence, and Bologna before our flight back to Germany through Milan. There’s no way I’d go back, these days. Not until things ‘calm down’ over there.
Bro is taking the Boys to England in May, IIRC. Yikes. Again, Pro Tip: Don’t have children (for Big Adventures).
Not in Bergamo, because Dortmund fucked up royally.
Yeah, I was surprised by that one.
I haven’t watched a match of that tournament since it went $treaming.
Help – MacOS has this feature where clicking on the desktop throws all the windows off the screen leaving only a tiny sliver along the edge until I find one and click them back.
How do I turn this off, it throws me off when I just want to deselect the windows.
Exposé, I think. Somewhere in Settings. You can just click the desktop and they’ll come back, IIRC.
Also an exposé
https://www.idownloadblog.com/2023/06/26/how-to-stop-open-mac-apps-from-hiding-on-clicking-desktop/
Does this help?
This is the correct answer. Or just click anywhere on the Desktop again.
I like to hide my desktop icons – they pop back when you click on the Desktop with this feature.
I don’t know how or if you can turn it off, but for me just clicking on the empty desktop brings all the windows back.
Thank you
On Chrome, cuz fuck it. When I right-click on shit to open in new tab/window… the first listed choice is:
“Summarize with help me Read” <– Damn, that's fucking condescending. (I worked at "I Can Read" in Singapore!) Running joke in the family, that was beautifully executed by me when being questioned on some psych questionnaire. Chick already knew my school history, my teaching and running the Peru Tribune, but she had to ask questions for her little form.
"Can you read?"
*semi-long pause* Yes.
"..Can you write?"
*Insert actual 'long' pause and whatever comical face I must have been making, but reserved, nothing negative added*
"Yes. I am literate."
The questions people have to ask and the things people on Customer Service etc *have* to ask and say if remarkably aggravating. And LLMs get all their data. So AI thinks this is how people talk, cuz damn! So many people keep saying and repeating these things!
At one point during my desperate work career, I applied in the state of California for a government job. We were halfway through the phone interview, and it seemed to be going well, but I was having second thoughts. The interviewer asked me:
“Do you speak English?”
I I thought about it for a minute. Do I really want to work for anybody who asks that in a phone interview?”
“No, I’m sorry I do not.”
“ Well that’s unfortunate, I’m afraid we can only hire people who can speak English,” the interviewer said.
“That is terrible news!” I said with a straight face “ I suppose I did not get the job then?”
“No, I am sorry, sir.”
I I hung up the phone and felt like I had dodged a bullet. Now, I am here, with you all. Where I belong.