This is the way the month ends.
We’re all familiar with parasocial relationships in terms of social media and/or influencers. Something similar exists in the shooting community. I’ve been working Nationals Matches since before Covid, and there is a core of people that are at most of them. I’ve watched juniors grow into adults and national champions (in this last case specifically Austin Hull) and it’s wild that I somehow feel a kinship to/pride for these people that in reality I’ve spent a few hours with, mostly non-interacting. With Austin, it was particularly dramatic, since not only did he win Limited division, he was awarded his US Army Marksmanship Unit jersey which just emphasized how he’s changed from your stereotypical skinny kid into an androphile’s wet dream.
Skies are not terrible. Tomorrow is good for love and Friday begins a few days of particularly-good-for-married-couples. Virgo keeps enjoying particularly good luck and Leo should have stable lives for a while.
Virgo: 10 of cups reversed – Repose of the false heart, indignation, violence.
Libra: The Moon – Hidden enemies, danger, calumny, darkness, terror, deception, occult forces, error.
Scorpio: Judgement – Change of position, renewal, outcome, total loss though lawsuit.
Sagittarius: 10 of Wands – Oppression, labor beyond one’s abilities, false-seeming, disguise, perfidy.
Capricorn: Knight of Coins reversed – Inertia, idleness, stagnation, placidity, discouragement, carelessness.
Aquarius: Strength – Power, energy, action, courage, magnanimity, complete success, honors.
Pisces: 10 of Swords – Abandonment, pain, affliction, tears, sadness, desolation.
Aries: The Lovers – Attraction, love, beauty, trials overcome.
Taurus: Ace of Cups – House of the true heart, joy, content, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility.
Gemini: Page of Coins – Application, study, scholarship, reflection, proper service.
Cancer: King of Coins – Valor, realizing intelligence, business and normal intellectual aptitude, sometimes mathematical gifts and attainments.
Leo: Temperance – Economy, moderation, frugality, management, accommodation. Good but boring.
When the title track isn’t radio-appropriate:
Solo voice + organ isn’t something really possible until the 20thC. But damn, she makes it work.
Haven’t watched the Buc-ee’s video yet, but the suit against “Beaver’s Mini-Mart” has been featured prominently in the local news lately and has generated a lot of sympathy for the defendant (and animosity toward the plaintiff,) as the c-store in question is in the Dayton suburb of Beavercreek. They can’t really say they didn’t come by the name honest.
Buc-ee’s have to defend their trademark against everybody or else somebody will find a case where Buc-ee’s knowingly failed to defend it and use that against them. And spare me the “Those guys have a lot of money, therefore they shouldn’t have legal protections” bullshit.
Ladies and gentlemen, may I present the Beavercreek High School Beaverettes.
I hope to use the word ‘beaverette’ at least twice this week.
Trademarking things like a cartoon beaver is the least defensible form of IP for me. I get protecting an invention, or a book, song, film etc. I even get trademark protection for your name or company logo, as long as it is unique. The thing is every even remotely cute animal, and many that are not cute at all, has been used for names, logos, mascots, totems, and every form of art since we had any of those things, so it takes quite a bit of specificity to convince me that Buc-ee’s should have enforceable rights to the beaver in the convenience store space.
Their beaver logo I’d dopy looking.
The first time I heard of the chain and looked it up I thought the beaver looked like he had an extra chromosome.
Their law suits reminded my of the time Seattle was courting the Olympics and the Olympic committee went after every business in the area with Olympic in their name. Full retard.
way late to the discussion . . . but here it goes
A trademark is a recognizable sign, design, phrase, or symbol used to identify and distinguish a specific brand’s products or services from those of competitors. It serves as a legal identifier of brand ownership, ensuring that consumers can recognize the source of goods and preventing others from using confusingly similar marks.
So, yes a cartoon beaver is a legitimate for a trademark. The more distinctive the caricature, the easier it is to defend.
And trademarks are use it or lose it.
It doesn’t do you any good to have a “similar” name, phrase, or symbol that is derived from local history, characters, placenames, or whatever. If it too similar to a registered tradename, then it infringes.
“ Cancer: King of Coins – Valor, realizing intelligence, business and normal intellectual aptitude, sometimes mathematical gifts and attainments.”
Someone is going to be calling out their spanking hits.
Taurus: Ace of Cups – House of the true heart, joy, content, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility.
Lies!
Economy, moderation, frugality, management, accommodation. Good but boring.
Not sufficiently shitty. Especially since yesterday while shooting a No. 4, I found 1985 dated PPU .303 British mixed in a bandolier of Greek HXP. Whoever sold it to me mixed that PPU shit in. Urgh.
(See below. My PPU comment was to reply to this.)
It’s a Serbian ammunition manufacturer. Przi Partizan.
Przi Partizan Unsheathing, eh? Well, empty casings. I was right in the ballpark.
AHA! that solves your problem, I hope.
I ordered various tiki stuff, suppose I should stop and be frugal.
Attraction, love, beauty, trials overcome.
Exceptionally not shitty. Might even be downright good.
Now just wait a… oh, hey. I’ll take it.
Taurus: Ace of Cups – House of the true heart, joy, content, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility.
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This perhaps bodes well for my interview tomorrow with Cox Automotive for the Document Agent position. Let’s say pay is proportional to the ‘amount’ or ‘difficulty’ of work performed. (Just go with me, here.) If $22.50/hy as an Escrow Processor was too much, which it really wasn’t because they didn’t spend ‘any’ time training me, I’m in pretty good shape. A ‘reasonable’ guess before the interview is $19-$21 for the new gig, assisted by having a degree and plenty of on-paper (and real) experience with heavy workloads with much document trails.
If the work is ~$2 less ‘difficult’ per hour, I’d be in wonderful shape. $18 is a necessary threshold, but more = better. If I kept that up for ~6mo, it’d be time to go apt hunting and get my own abode in these United States, which would unlock much joy and be a tremendously big step upward.
If this comes to pass, naturally, as a result, an abundance of fertile women would flock to me for (satiating) nourishment.
However, first thing’s first, I’ll spend today going over notes and interview questions.
I know Pat knows a dude vaguely in this biz, from back in the day. A couple others mentioned something, perhaps Sean. If anyone has any insight or tips, I’m eager to hear ’em. Forgive me, I’ll likely ask this in most posts today. Big Things ahead, and at the very least, it’s a very Big At-Bat in my employment game.
*looks at life* Yeah, it’s rather strange. (Exciting, though. In many ways. Just not currently, one might say.)
Sagittarius: 10 of Wands – Oppression, labor beyond one’s abilities, false-seeming, disguise, perfidy.
Yes this is my truck; no I won’t help you move.
Persistent penile unsheathing? Purchased some backside affection and they keep slipping it off and sinking it in, eh? That’s rough. Sorry you’re gettin’ the raw dog up your chute?
Or gettin’ frisky in the car, goin’ fast before the crash? That degloving PPU would smart, but a good story if she can swallow it.
(I bet UCS has degloving gloves.)
You may like this.
https://www.scribd.com/document/127836837/P-J-O-Rourke-How-to-Drive-Fast-on-Drugs-While-Getting-Your-Wing-Wang-Squeezed-and-Not-Spill-Your-Drink
Indignation Violence.
I’ll have to get my wife to move my lawn chair to the front porch so I can get a better line of sight on my new asshole neighbors.
Decided to pick o six pack of Leinenkugel’s Oktoberfest for shits and giggles…color me disappointed. It tastes like they threw an IPA in the wrong bottle…and I hate IPAs.
“so I can get a better line of
sightfire on my new asshole neighbors.”I’m really waiting for their chicken coop and random piece of roofing material to blow into the next two neighbors fields and want to see it happen.
Took the gf to the coyote movie this afternoon. I didn’t hate it.
Reclining power, heated seats are a very welcome upgrade to the movie watching experience. 👍
Well, Mom brought up Lindsey Clancy when just the two of us were driving. She didn’t excuse her, though didn’t condemn her at all, and pushed the ‘women’s mental health’ aspect. I noted she’d been given meds but apparently hadn’t taken them, also asking ‘what help could she have gotten that she didn’t already have?’ Trying to keep it relatively benign.
She kept pushing it, and just the two of us, and she rarely has chance to Talk talk, with her full acumen and an audience who understand, cares, or who’s interested. (Sorry, not you, Dad.) She got to Feminism, and I said the modern version is actively anti-Woman and why I’m baffled by its popularity, also making sure to mention, which she disbelieves, that we live in HANDS-DOWN, the least sexist, racist, anything-ist nation, culture, and People in the history of our species. (She doesn’t buy this. Really, she doesn’t want to go down that hole of thought.)
I did bring up Floyd later, but I questioned the ‘rally’ around Clancy and WhyTF people would choose HER to champion, regardless if they’re pushing for more women’s mental health or ANYTHING, why HER?! (See also: Floyd.)
The conversation didn’t go anywhere, and it wasn’t supposed to, but she met my open thoughts with .. well. Disbelief. It would take a BIG Conversation for me to go into my thoughts of how/why the DNC is an actively malignant organization, legit *evil,* but I rubbed my fingers around the edge of that overarching theme. (“Almost sexual, isn’t it, Smithers?”)
She’s more open to hearing such, methinks, but she’s also my mom and kinda doesn’t count for that. I’m not sure how an actual conversation with Colin would go, but I’m pretty sure he’d continue to not allow one to possibly occur. (Does make sense, frankly.) No way an ‘intelligent’ conversation could happen with SiL. Not possible, that Patriarchy(!!) NPC. She’s lovely and we’re remarkably similar, but not in thought.
People in this country are wound too fucking tight.
I had a fun interaction with sassy checkout lady yesterday at my new supermarket as I was bringing multiple paid bottles of liquor into my bags (you have to pay for them separately in this state). She was like, I wanna go where you’re partying.
I like it when people aren’t wound up so tight.
I mistakenly bought some white corn tortillas the other day. It’s like eating a damp cereal box. They’re headed for the trash.
That’s one way to relieve your load.
Yup. Gross.
A couple weeks ago a tree fell across the driveway. I cut it up in campfire length and piled it beside the driveway. So far no one has stolen it. Today I cut up a much bigger tree and put it with the first pile. I see a number of trees that have broken off and need to be taken down. If no one claims the wood in a couple moths I’ll drag it back to the house and burn it myself.
Minnesotans are too honest or too lazy .
My brain hurts.
Just cleaned out my site, cleaned up my css and php (why, yes, I DO, in fact, have 6 style sheets). Replaced 4 plugins that enshittified themselves with my own code. Added a mobile-switcher plugin but that’s ugly so I have to style it. Dropped the corpses of all those plugins from my SQL. Rebuilt my bookstore with Linklok instead of Easy Digital Downloads (one of the aforementioned plugins). Bookstore has live buy links so it’s a good thing I don’t anticipate any sales until I can properly sandbox that fucker.
My brain hurts.
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The Unwatched Missed Schedule
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If only there were someone around who could get it posted! 😟
Behold. Also, nice Alan Parsons call-back on the feature image. I believe that’s from The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Feather.
Thank you! 😁