It’s a standard issue March here in Manly Time. Cool nights, days are starting to warm, everything is coming into bloom, and my face is killing me from pollen. As beautiful is spring is here, it’s physically painful. Zyrtec is a wonder drug.
Links?
Oh hey, look who’s at the top of the list.
If you have ever seen two male hummingbirds go at it, you already knew this.
I’m guessing it’s already been shipped to Japan.
Okay, that’s it for me. Gotta prune the roses. Peace out, Glibbies.
Meanwhile in the valley of sickness that produces the majority of grass seed…
But the Willamatte drainage is pretty.
EXTREME WEATHER!
Stay safe. 😰
As we all know, the king of Limeyland is one of the good ones. He believes in global warming.
Or more likely she was just making shit up. If it was “real” evidence it would absolutely be used to invalidate the law.
Japanese name for Kit-Kats: kitto kato (キットカット). This name closely resembles the phrase kitto katsutoo (きっと勝つとぉ), meaning ‘you shall surely win’.
Ive been using Nord for a VPN. Its time to renew.
Before I give them money, any thoughts on a more superior VPN or if Nord is adequate/inadequate ?
I’ve generally not felt the need to bother. Another one to consider would be ProtonVPN.
I use Proton. It was good enough for SP, so it’s good enough to me.
second for proton. I have used them for several years. They were (still are for the moment?) headquartered in Switzerland, but the Swiss – DAMN YOU SERVATOR! – passed intrusive anti privacy rules. So Proton up and moved their base of operations to avoid it and maintain their privacy/anonymity principles; That to me is worth using them over other VPNs.
They do not have a warrant canary because Swiss law requires that users be notified of requests and be able to contest them, so it’s not necessary. Whether that holds as they
move their core servers, I don’t know and haven’t heard any update.
3rd for Proton. I’ve had only a half a dozen issues (couldn’t find a connection) in the last 5 years.
I’m finding more and more sites that refuse to work with my VPN. Both my credit card websites and my Health Saving Account. Don’t you tkink those sites should care the most about online security?
MLB on Fox…
Because… why? Make baseball American again.
I heard in the “Agricultural Minute” radio propaganda that there were only 22,000 acres of canola planted in the U.S. in 2024.
80% of it must be planted in Latah and NezPerce county.
Crap is poison. My wife gets blisters on her eyes from the crap. And it’s before it flowers. Whatever hormone it releases when it bolts slays her, and two of my neighbors.
STEVE SMITH FAVORITE PLANT CANOLA. STEVE SMITH COUSIN IN CANUKISTAN CALL IT BY REAL NAME.
The land of rape and honey.
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In the mid 1990’s I was at work playing a Ministry cassette, when they were popular. One of my interns said “you know they’re heroin addicts, right?”
Turns out he was right.
Why are you hitting pollens with your face? Stop that this instant.
City of Nampa has decided to shorten irrigation season on the front end, early May is go time. A month late. They also increased the fee by twenty dollars to ~$150. Bless their hearts.
Showing my east coast bias I’d never heard of Nampa despite the large population.
It’s also Japanese and here is why I did a double take when I read it:
noun
1. seducer, smooth talker, ladies’ man, playboy, playgirl
noun, suru verb
2. picking up women, hitting on women (usually written in kana, colloquial) (usu. written as ナンパ) (see also: 逆ナン)
I had grandparents there. Or Caldwell. I forget which.
Total easterner but I did toddle in Boise a bit.
Sensei, now that’s funny. My late grandmother, former treasurer for the local WCTU, would be scandalized.
My Grandma on my Mom’s side would like a drink or two, but emphasized moderation. I can still hear her say, “Now I dont belong to the WCTU or anything, but…..”
(Grandpa liked to get on a whiskey bender at times it seemed. She didnt care for men drinking spirits, but beer was OK)
That’s actually not a bad idea.
The jokes write themselves….
Once Upon A Time, The Catholic Church Decided That Beavers Were Fish
https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/capybara-venezuela
During Lent in Venezuela, the world’s largest rodent becomes a “fish.”
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Wise ones at peace with nature and each other.
🙄
Ohio pizza finally gets some respect!
The mainly cited/quoted chain is my favorite! 😋👍🍕 (no emoji for proper square-cut ‘za 😞)
Jesus wept.
Not the Christ on a cracker I was expecting.
Axe me about Cassano’s….
Citation
I think that’s the St. Louis-style, which even the native I know doesn’t recommend.
I doubt you DoorDash, but currently Donato’s has a large “serious meat” for $12.99. I don’t know if you can get that in store.
When I’m home Ive been all over that.
Also Kroger has Screamin’ Sicilian frozen pizza BOGO. Which isnt bad for a frozen.
That is one of the better frozen pizzas.
I got no problem with square or rectangular cur pizza but, fucks sake, start with a square or a rectangular pizza. Also, Donato’s peperoni sucks, maybe it’s just my local store but they are nothing but grease filled flavorless semi-meat-like-textured little cups of nastiness.
Any other analogies or metaphors you’d like to throw in?
Seems like you’re writing for TripAdvisor
So, what’s the deal with “patriotic” car commercials now? Jeep, Chevy, Ram…
Trump effect?
Pandering to the blue collar base.
Some nerd in Palo Alto isnt buying a RAM 2500 with a Cummins.
Have they ever not been patriotic?
The committee found the Florida Democrat used her family’s businesses to channel $5 million in emergency COVID-19 funds into her 2021 special election campaign to replace the late former Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings.
Considering that her predecessor was so crooked that he was impeached as a federal judge and convicted by the Senate (before being elected to Congress in a “designated darkie district” so gerrymandered that it was just two pockets of black neighborhoods in south Florida), I’d say she was just carrying on the local tradition.
Let’s take a look at her wiki:
Cherfilus-McCormick was born in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City, to parents from Haiti and raised in the borough of Queens.
In January 2025, the state of Florida filed a $5 million lawsuit against Cherfilus-McCormick’s South Florida-based Trinity Health Care Services business for knowingly accepting overpayments of invoices for work that was not actually performed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
That explains it. She’s not smart enough to even be a decent grifter.
Sounds like the No Kings protests were very successful. The Trump team is now on notice that old people, furries, transgender BDSM’ers and brain damaged commies don’t like them. It’s the dawn of a new era.