It’s the official Move-In Day at our local university, which means tired parents, scantily clad coeds, and lines of people ordering complex sugary coffee drinks. “Can I have a double caramel blueberry latte with pumpkin spice, three shots of banana, oat milk, and extra honey?” Great, honey, you enjoy that, I’ll get some Chardonnay poured for your mom. Prime is coming down here tonight to witness the spectacle and see if people are really as retarded as I tell her they are. (Narrator: They’re even worse)
One thing I did not tell the parents: I discovered a plot of psilocybe mushrooms growing (appropriately) behind the university’s administration building. This explains a lot.
Birthdays today include a guy who wasn’t one of the Wright Brothers; the great-great-grandpa of Instant Pot; the greatest cartoonist EVER and don’t even bother fighting me, it’s objectively true; a woman doing campaign commercials for the Democratic Socialists; my historical celebrity crush; a guy who was a real blast on Valentine’s Day; a writer who, let’s admit it, was very uneven; a guy who created an inordinate number of my favorite TV shows; a TV cook with two things going for her; a guy who made the Raven say “nevermore”; and a fun general named after a zit.
Speaking of which, let’s squeeze out some Links.
Free trade, free markets, small government… oh wait, Team Red has other ideas.
They’re still butt-hurt over the collapse of the Ottomans and their loss of empire.
You have to wonder whom she pissed off to get nailed for penny ante graft.
I’m shocked that Europeans hate Jews. Shocked, I am.
Normal humans get annoyed with mental cases latching on.
Really no different than all those young women obsessed with me.
No expectation of privacy in public. So don’t be picking your nose or scratching your ass.
No expectation of privacy in public. So don’t be playing pocket pull or saying Badthink.
At our little café, we have been sorely tempted…
Pro tip: if you don’t want nude photos ending up in the wrong places, don’t send nude photos.
Prime wheedled me into binge-watching The Bear. I have to admit it’s a good show, but I was especially impressed with the way they used music. And specifically music from Chicago bands, like this one.
“ scantily clad coeds “
Go on…
Pics or it didn’t happen.
Meta glasses will solve that
Seconded.
Anyone caught using meta glasses to see other people naked should be sentenced to always wear the glasses and see all people naked at all times.
I just moved my daughter into her dorm room. I assure you it happened.
Be careful what you wish for. They could be Tres-sorthy and brightly colored while still qualifying.
What has Canada ever done for us?
My grandmother?
Beer? Hockey? Comedians?
Beer?
That was never true outside of light lagers. Even now, the US craft beer scene dwarfs the Canadian craft beer scene.
Unibroue. Dieu de Ciel.
There are some other good ones (like Gahan House) that don’t get exported. You need to go to Canada to get them.
Barley pop is a perfectly crumulent beverage to spend your 18 drinking hours a day partaking.
Poutine.
Rush!
That’s done To us.
…and my personal hero(ine?) (along with local icon Erma Bombeck.) That said, based on what I’ve heard from recorded radio appearances, her speaking voice was…not her strong suit. (One good reason to remain a writer.)
Oh – and good morning all!
I like a martini,
Two at the most,
three I am under the table
four, under my host
-DP
You can lead a whore to culture, but you cannot make her think.
-DP
two of my favorites by her.
Favorite (apocryphal?) anecdote:
I always liked “If you can’t say something nice about someone,, come sit here by me.” Possibly apocryphal, possibly paraphrased (slightly).
Also, I believe she said (about Lillian Hellman?) “Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.”
That was Mary McCarthy, sister of Kevin from Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
That is, McCarthy said it about Hellman.
Thanks Ted S.
Hellman was Dashiell Hammett’s long term girlfriend, so she gets a pass on taste alone.
With Canada I’m reminded of a child threatening to hold his breath until it gets his way.
Mind you, the U.S. is being dumb here too, but in different ways.
The pain is far greater on Canada.
I’m struggling to think how much demand there is for Canadian spirits here in the US. Canadian “whisk(e)y” has been derided and garbage for as long as I can remember. I mean Unibroue and Dieu du Ciel are both solid breweries, but I’ve got access to better.
Crown and coke was a common drink of classy rednecks back in my bar tending days. The bags were useful.
EXCUSE ME, IT’S
MA’AMTÜRKİYE!The Bear had its moments but pacing was odd in one season where they could have sprinkled the story throughout the previous seasons
My guess is the commies are angling for another easy seat.
It amazes me cause 100% of my government travel is audited and if I spent $5.00 more than my estimated expenses, I am grilled.
Would auditors know if you were also getting reimbursed from another source?
I discovered a new YouTube channel. It’s recent, but with a good number of views. At first my AI detector went off, but it seems too accurate and doesn’t have the telltale repetition.
This is an excellent summary of the Yen intervention and why. It’s 14 minutes. I also had no fucking idea Bessent wrote it on his “to do” list. Literally.
https://youtu.be/OC1yu0L7jT4?si=ASVqPhlsUV3kDtm8
How were they?
“Discovered”
Discovered that the spores he had seeded actually took, he means.
The American people are irreparably broken, too.
The only dumber shit I’ve seen are the children suing oil companies for… harming Gaia? The fuck knows.
Oh no!
Yeah, horny straight men have been surreptitiously photographing women at the beach since the camera was invented.
–Source
Truth
*falls off chair*
Good for them.
I wonder what the male equivalent to TERF will be?
In this particular case, TECH? (Trans-exclusionary conservative homosexuals?)
GT, for the WIN!
I like it.
But Big TECH loves trannies!
Indeed. This is long overdue. Not a huge fan of the GOP, but LCR is the largest conservative LGB organization and they have the inertia and resources that smaller startups like Gays against Groomers lack.
Yeah, the GOP sucks but Realpolitik and all.
When i was in school, our LGB advocacy group had barely voted to add the B. The T was being used, but the organization had strong pushback. The Ls and the Gs barely tolerated each other, and they both hated the Bs.
One summer I lived in a suite where the other 6 guys were Gs of the T variety. They could ve a hoot, but they were all dangerously insane too.
All that goes to support my conclusion that I am surprised that the alliance has lasted this long.
It is just an alliance of convenience. It is also my experience that most of the letters barely tolerate each other.
As for the T’s, it has been documented somewhere (I think Christoper Rufo wrote a long article about it) that Marxist cuntes back in the 50s or 60s deliberately pushed to make it happen and not out of the goodness of their hearts but to “smash the system”.
It goes back to the twenties or thirties in Germany. That whole Weimar thing was rife with this stuff.
Giada Pamela De Laurentiis is probably the only Food Network personality that didn’t bang Bobby Flay
So, she got spatchcocked as opposed to Flayed?
Not really “boneless, skinless” now is it?
Coming this fall to The Food Network.
I am not a robot, I’m Pimpbot 5000.
No expectation of privacy in public.
I’ve been pondering this one lately. Thing is, this isn’t a moral absolute, derived directly from some sort of foundational principles. It is a legal framework put forth under a certain set of circumstances/conditions.
In an era where every move and detail can be accurately recorded and stored indefinitely and mined and combined with other data sets, I’m not sure it should hold as a legal principle (that’s all it is really, not a foundational moral judgement).
Do I ‘know’ that? Am I convinced that we should discard it? No. But I’m also not sure that simply repeating it as an inviolate bedrock of a legal system is correct either.
The forefront of the legal battle may come from an unexpected place.
The first time I heard the word FLOCK was from the guy with the monkey that had 2 Georgia police departments conspire against him, falsely accusing him of “following too closely” a couple of years ago.
In the aftermath, as he was fighting the charges and suing the departments for their violations of his rights, he learns that those departments and another Georgia PD have been tracking his movements in Florida using FLOCK.
So he initiates another lawsuit.
During the discovery phase of that lawsuit, he gets some head-scratching decisions from the judge. Further investigation shows that this judge was acting as the city attorney for the town he is suing when they implemented the FLOCK cameras.
You cant make this stuff up.
So the judge has been forcibly recused, but his decision (apparently on his own motion) that spying on someone out of state over which you have no jurisdiction is not a search for 4th amendment purposes is now on appeal.
The kid is still handling all of his legal matters himself.
He shared his appeal – and it very closely follows the current controversy that is working through the legal sytem… that there has never been a determination of the line between a few photos of passing license plates and a persistent and pervasive surveillance across time and space.
He researched all the prior cases, makes all the right arguments and paid his thousand dollars in court fees to file his appeal.
Yeah, that is a thing. If you get a bad ruling from a judge, you have to pay the court to hear your appeal. About $650 in his case. Plus another $300 filing fee for each breif that is docketted.
Kinda wild.
So our fate on the legal status of the panopticon could rely on a little gay dude with a monkey and plenty of time on his hands who got pushed by Barney Fife and decided he wasnt gonna take it.
The only thing I am sure of in this debate is that we won’t like what ends up being the law. Places where rights bump into each other are hard.
If you require the subject’s consent to photograph them in public it will kill journalism as we know it.
Then we create the true credentialed/governmental Press class! Give them immunity like other protected classes, etc.
It’s perfect!
I coincidentally watched a video last night about this topic. Posted here under the description “bootlicker does bootlicker things”.
That constitutional right to film what you can see in public? Not recognized at the supreme court level yet. At least 1 circuit still thinks recording police is only a 1st amendment issue if “something is happening”. Otherwise, they are free to arrest you for failing to answer questions about your purpose for photographing stuff.
https://youtu.be/YsjoVeDBDVM
it will kill journalism as we know it.
(Unzips) Go on…
But that’s sort of the point, to the degree I’ve carefully thought through it. The LEGAL doctrine of “no expectation of privacy in public” was formulated/formalized when the extent of losing privacy in a public place was an recording of a single slice of time or a human observation. It was not formulated with near constant recording, ‘permanent’ storage, and linking across multiple databases in real time was the norm.
Do we need a new formalism? I don’t know. But I hesitate to get locked into – “we’ve always done it this so we have to continue doing it this way.” especially when it’s not derived from what I consider bedrock moral principles – e.g. “though shalt not murder”, “thou shalt not suffer Tony Fauci to live”, to invoke the Christian formulation; the barrier to reconsideration is much, much lower when it’s, to my mind, simple a legal framework of convenience/balance of interests.
Tonio is right, the knock-on effects are every bit as bad. What the direction things like this should take is a very strict level of gov’t being forced to not be allowed to use things like this, no matter the reason. No crossing jurisdicional boundaries, no holding on to records past legal requirements, and so on. And watchdog groups need to hold them accountable.
I know, I know, I should take my act on the road, get an agent and a Netflix special.
For anyone curious about whether you need the subject’s consent to record them, here is a handy state-by-state guide. Please note that “one party consent” means that only one party (ie, the person doing the recording) needs to consent.
The thing is, “no expectation of privacy in public” is sort of bedrock common sense, as stated.
How you have any kind of principled and workable exclusion from that for being photographed in public, I don’t know. As Tonio points out, requiring consent from every single person who shows up in a photo will kill journalism, and really any and all photography in public.
The real issue seems to be the data mining part.
I think it was a Heinlein novel that had the concept of private and public “spheres”. Where it was a huge taboo to bring something from a private sphere into the public, but it was a cultural things. So not really a workable solution.
I think it was a Heinlein novel that had the concept of private and public “spheres”
“For Us, The Living” had it.
I have a vague memory of others having it.
is sort of bedrock common sense, as stated.
Yes, that’s how the legal framework came to be. It’s common sense that other humans will observe you a ‘public’ setting. Oh they can draw/paint the scene with you in it – OK. Oh, they can now rearrange silver atoms on a substrate to record a moment of time. Oh, now they can release electrons on a silicon substrate and record 0s and 1s in a digital medium. Oh, now they can string together multiple of those. Oh, now they can do that continuously, store it indefinitely, link it to other databases of the same from across the world, along with databases of biometric data in real time. Oh, and now it’s the government(s) doing this.
Does the common sense idea that other humans can observe you in a public space extend to those situations? I’m not convinced it does, especially when it comes to the state doing the observing, recording, mining.
One step at a time, closer to the Butlerian Jihad.
At some point, the linking together becomes warrantless surveillance and/or stalking.
FLOCK cameras are where the public starts (has already started) making their wishes known, e.g., https://deflock.org/ exists. Nobody is saying “don’t damage property that’s not yours.” Nobody at all. Nope. Never.
I’m mostly surprised that the NYT calls the place “Turkey” instead of “Turkiyay”.
Occupied Asia Minor.
Copy editor was off for the weekend.
I read a headline about a stepfather having nudes photos of his stepdaughter, I make an assumption that we are talking about a teen victim.
Not a 41 year old woman and her 60+ years old “stepfather”
Don’t kink shame!
“A bill by Councilman Harvey Epstein (D-Manhattan) would prohibit city government from buying eggs that aren’t organic or free-range.”
https://nypost.com/2026/08/21/us-news/the-wacky-and-dangerous-nyc-bills-that-could-soon-be-law/
Because that’s important?
Why is the city buying eggs anyway
Why, to sell in Mamdani’s grocery stores, of course.
So they can sell them at a loss thereby undercutting the existing stores and setting the stage for some real fun when the city gives up it’s idiot grocery store idea after driving all the stores out of business. It’s going to be epic living somewhere I can still buy popcorn!
Someone read Catch 22 and figured they could make a profit.
Even more stupidly, social media from a small producer of chicken products has informed me (humorously) what those words actually mean. “Free range” does not mean running around in a field. It means “has access to a small area outside”. The animals do not use it because their natural fear of predators makes them avoid it.
But they charge a huge premium for that little patio the birds dont use.
Example
https://youtube.com/shorts/4xN70dl7nZU
More funny
https://youtube.com/shorts/1U_BRfcqgyo
Look, they could solve real problem or posture. Which is easier?
See – CA replacement tire mileage requirements.
Bingo
Every one of those is calculated to make life more miserable and/or expensive.
It’s almost like they are all a bunch of ignorant nepo babies.
Could you idiots keep your daddy issues out of my life, please?
Thanks
Yup. The deck is absurdly stacked in favor of plaintiffs. The incentives all run one way.
The deep pockets of corporations who force trials on cases they should settle don’t help.
Related.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/if-you-get-in-a-car-crash-the-risk-is-growing-your-insurance-wont-pay-1522236c?st=fWPQXd&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I say this as somebody with an insurance background who has also seen many, many bogus plaintiffs.
She probably played the flute at bandcamp
Nothing says apple pie like wearing a thousand-dollar designer “Tax the Rich” dress.
I think the american as apple pie part is the young-and-crazy as irrationally attractive part.
If your friend was dating her, everyone would be telling you to say something. But the DNC just cant bring itself to speak up.
I was trying to be upbeat. It’s taken me ten days to get down to 275 again. Though this time it’s 275 on the dot (last time it was 275.6 but I doubt the precision of the scale to really give me tenths of a pound)
It’s been 169 days since I first dropped below 300. But I can’t get dispirited. Otherwise I’ll be over 300 again in no time.
Keep on keeping on.
My cancer medication gave me an extra 50+lbs that dont seem to move at all, regardless of what I eat.
I spent the first 45 years of my life struggling to gain weight and muscle mass. Finally at a comfortable 180, my 50s took me up another 15 without asking.
I thought that was trouble. Yeah, no. Been sitting at 250 basically since I started treatment.
When I got to 190, I went to 1 meal a day, a grilled chicken breast and some steamed broccoli. I was back at a very lean 170 within a couple of weeks.
This nonsense? A month of very little beyond broccoli had me down 3 lbs. But I fluctuate more than that across the day.
Long story short… I feel your pain.
The body fights back when you try to move it off of its set point. Keep in the fight!
🥺👍
You “Keep on keeping on”!
Out of curiosity, do cancer docs make nutritional recommendations these days? Personally, I’d do everything in my power to minimize blood sugar since cancers really like it, to the degree of generating local vasculature to deliver more of it to themselves. “Starve the Beast” so to speak.
Hope you are doing well.
Yes, it comes with a free nutritionist and a free massage if you want it. (I was firmly in “dont touch me” land)
The nutritionist was fantastic if you are a rube who doesnt know anything about nutritionist.
But if, like most of us, you already know a good diet from a bad one, …. well….. I didnt find it all that useful.
Oh, also bonus….
One of the side effects of the cancer medications (in addition to the weight) is… wait for it…. diabetes.
So…. yeah. Kinda circular.
Gaining wait while on chemo is a great practical joke.
I was probably a good 15-20 lbs overweight when we started, so I literally joked out loud “well, at least I will lose the weight”
Hahahaha… funny. Here’s 50 lbs for you. Oh, but dont worry, you will lose a bunch of muscle mass.
Fuckin’ A. I have the dumbest cancer ever.
I’d expect that a graph of weight loss, besides naturally having fluctuations, would tend to go downward more slowly as you lose more weight. [Disclaimer: not by any stretch a mathematician, statistician, or dietitian.] You can do it! (Also, it’s bound to help if you find a form of exercise you enjoy doing regularly.)
Endeavor to persevere.
He should declare war on the Union?
Congrats for hitting a new milestone.
Thank you.
I ran some errands which is why I didn’t respond to other comments for a bit. Had a piece of Jarlsburg for brunch. The thing about eating less is that I can lower my price sensitivity on ingredients a bit.
@Sensei – I stopped by the Asian Supermarket and looked at the Mochi (though I did not buy since the single serving pieces were 60g carb which is more than my daily allowance) They were Made in Japan. So there is a cheap export market Mochi from there. I know the discussion was a few weeks back, but I was in there anyway, so I looked.
Related – How did I end up with a brand of fish sauce? I only rarely buy a bottle, and there’s always a multitude of options, but for some reason I always end up buying Red Boat. I don’t know how it compares to the other brands, but for whatever reason I stare at the shelf and grab that one.
Who knew!
“‘RHOA’ alum Kim Zolciak’s 15-year-old son, KJ Biermann, arrested for aggravated sodomy and sexual battery
The girl claims she did not tell anyone about the alleged assault, the docs also state, before going to school the next day, where she “ran into KJ’s girlfriend.”
The alleged victim — who was 15 at the time of the alleged assault and described herself as “KJ’s girlfriend’s best friend” — subsequently left school for a Starbucks, the court docs state, and contacted her family after experiencing a panic attack.
She was ultimately examined at the North Fulton hospital in Georgia. The April 24 examination, per the police report, showed no evidence of male DNA in her mouth or vagina.”
https://pagesix.com/2026/08/21/celebrity-news/kim-zolciaks-15-year-old-son-kj-biermann-arrested-for-sodomy-and-sexual-battery/
So even though they are both underage, he is the son of a D-list celebrity.
“Celebrity” news 🙄
“Hailey Bieber’s sister Alaia Baldwin Aronow reportedly will not be serving time behind bars for her 2024 assault arrest.
The 33-year-old wellness advocate was taken into custody in February 2024 after allegedly becoming unruly at Club Elan in Savannah, Georgia, where she was accused of striking a victim ‘in the genitals,’ pulling hair from another, and throwing a used tampon at a bartender.”
https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-16071221/hailey-bieber-sister-alaia-baldwin-jail-assault-tampon.html
Classy.
Uh….. part of me wants to know exactly how one comes to have a used tampon at hand during an altercation at the bar.
The rest of me tells that part to shut the hell up.
She didn’t care about the wellness of the people she assaulted.
“It’s a rarity for a trial like this, but there are some basic facts that the prosecution and defense have agreed upon. In January 2023, Clancy strangled her three children, a 5-year-old, a 3-year-old, and an 8-month-old, using exercise bands in the basement of their home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, an affluent suburb of Boston. She then tried to kill herself by cutting her wrists and throat, then jumping from the second floor of the house. She killed her three children and paralyzed herself from the waist down, leaving behind a scene for her husband, Patrick Clancy, to find when he came home that night…..
On TikTok, you’ll now find countless amateur sleuths, along with some delusional conspiracy theorists, offering not only their versions of how the murders might have happened, but sometimes arguments for why Clancy might not have committed the crimes at all….
What they have in common, however, is a united fury against a healthcare system that barely listens to women at all, never mind new mothers, and Western, heteronormative family structures that leave women to handle the bulk of the child-rearing….
Meanwhile, she was prescribed 13 psychiatric medications in the months leading up to the murders. Some of the drugs on her list, medications prescribed by Jennifer Tufts—who had finished her residency in psychiatry in 2022, months before the killings—appear to be contraindicated, if she was indeed taking them at the same time. (Notably, despite taking all these meds, she still wasn’t sleeping. Extreme sleep deprivation can cause psychosis.) Clancy had never even met Tufts until the trial; all their sessions occurred over Zoom, even while she was being prescribed benzodiazepines and antipsychotic drugs.”
https://slate.com/life/2026/08/lindsay-clancy-trial-patrick-tiktok-witness-conspiracy-theories.html
Sounds like all the drugs just made things worse.
drugs just made things worse.
No, no it was:
Western, heteronormative family structures
Looks up thread: Another mark in the “I’m not sure I care if we destroy journalism as we know it” column.
all their sessions occurred over Zoom
Hm, wonder why that was. 2022 Oh, never mind.
Herpity derpity doo from Slate. It must be a day ending in “y”.
“a united fury against a healthcare system”
Interesting choice of words, there.
Never mind that health care and insurance is almost entirely run by women at the operational level. Luigi really had to try to find a male executive to kill.
A free press is a wonderful thing. The propaganda outlets for barbarism we have instead deserve crucifixion.
“Ariana Grande Melts Down After Trump Team Uses Her Song to Troll Trans Nonsense”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/ariana-grande-melts-down-after-trump-team-uses/
Please send sandwiches.
Eeek!
You can say that again. 😳
*slaps face*
She’s remarkably cute. Would adore a cuddlefest with her. I guess I hope she’s on a bunch of blow, cuz that’s at least fun, but I wish folk ’round her, and her herself realize, that skin draped over bones isn’t the look ‘we’ are attracted to. To make clear to all, though I’m a small, fit ~130lbs and have a preference for girls smaller than me, even *I* want to stuff her with dozens of sandwiches on first sight.
(‘Sandwiches’ here is not a euphemism, until she eats a few dozen before lunch. Then? Well. Well-fed, which I’ve never seen her be, my hoagie and her grinder can begin euphem-tasia with my hot, ‘Italian’ meat in her condiment-ed food slot.)
Thats a pretty tame “melt-down”, never change GP
“A mother from Mandan, North Dakota, has been charged with the murder and attempted murder of her three children, two of whom were killed and one of whom was stabbed but is expected to make a full recovery.
Shocking details were revealed in an affidavit that Kailey Erhart, 22, was seen on video while armed with a pistol telling her husband, “Say goodbye to your kids,” according to Valley News Live. She faces two counts of murder, attempted murder, two counts of terrorizing with a dangerous weapon, and others in connection to the deaths of two of her children and the serious injury of another that took place on August 6….
The father also reported Erhart previously to mental health services and said the mother had threatened to harm herself and the children. Erhart had also been committed to a mental hospital recently but was on medication. She was cleared to be with her children at the time of the killings.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/copycat-clancy-north-dakota-mom-told-husband-say-goodbye-to-your-kids-before-killing-3-year-old-5-month-old-leaving-1-year-old-in-critical-condition-police
OFFS!
I understand the father’s fear.
What I don’t understand is all these white women getting more violent. Or at least it seems that way.
@Common Tater,
They always were. It’s just we have more information faster now and things make headlines because TO US, they seem extraordinary. They are insofar as it actually happens, but it is not in terms of history, which, no, I can’t produce references, but hey, I listen to true crime so that makes me pretty much an expert.
I’m thinking that if Lizzy Borden’s were common, she wouldn’t be infamous.
I didn’t say it was common. I said it happens and there are probably no MORE incidents as a percentage NOW than there have been throughout history.
I suspect it was Lizzie’s alleged method that made her notorious. As Mojeaux has pointed out before, historically women’s MO/weapon of choice has been poison. Or get a guy to do the dirty work for her (***(cough, cough) Lady Macbeth (cough, cough)***)
Obligatory
suffocation (SIDS, “my back was only turned for a second!”)
exposure (abduction, “my back was only turned for a second!”)
drowning (“my back was only turned for a second!”)
Easy peasy.
Yes, I wouldn’t call poisoning “violent”. At least not compared to axe murder.
It could just be the media. Although I suspect these SSRI’s and other psych drugs might be causing an increase.
If I was on that jury, I’d vote for the firing squad.
I wouldn’t disagree. Especially for the 1yo who lived. I suppose I guess it’s best if the kid forgets, but, uh? ‘Yeah, ya know that woman who brought you and your siblings into this world? Yeah. She killed the other two and you were lucky. This world really fucking hates you and you’ll never have a mother you can love and trust.’
Hopefully, all memories of ‘mom’ are erased, cuz, uh? That’s create-a-supervillain fucked, and not the fun kind.
All right. I need a gold star on my forehead.
A. I got a job-job. It’s at the same place I was contracting transcription work with, but they had an opening I was uniquely qualified for, it pays more than I’ve ever made in my life, I’m 58 and need future security I don’t have being self-employed, and the benefits are better than my husband’s with a lot less money (although I’ve gotten used to living without any benefits and paying for some things out of pocket and you know what? I don’t mind). They sent me a laptop when I first started contracting with them last year, so I have their box, which I pretty much hate because (and I cannot tell you how many times I’ve gotten in trouble for sending myself shit back and forth from my own computer and what I can’t have access to on their box [e.g., Dropbox] and the software requests that have been denied and the limited mod options so ugh) its mod options are limited, meaning I have to learn new apps that aren’t as good as the ones I’ve been using for years.
B. I have my trusty gaming laptop ALSO, which is my baby.
But, you know, I’m an IC going along doing my thing with a simple KVM switch.
ANYWAY. So this new job necessitated (not required) that I get a second monitor, which I have been resisting since forever, but finally just said, no, my ALT and TAB keys are going to wear out.
Do you know that two boxes and two monitors are Not A Thing? They are not. I mean, not in any demand as to make a difference. Anyway. I had to lay out a shit ton of money for a KVM switch that would accommodate two boxes and two monitors and I fucking did it (thanks, ChatGPT!).
Please ignore the cable management. I haven’t gotten that far yet.
https://ibb.co/C5bybMrj
https://ibb.co/Mk3LQ94p
Ma’am, your cable management is far superior to the gordian knot I have on my desk.
I set this up Tuesday night (when I still had work to get done urgently) and finished the setting up about midnight. I haven’t had a chance to straight it all out, but this is intolerable.
Also, I hand-write a lot of stuff, so I shove my monitor(s) back and forward. I’m going to move my laptops and put the and the switch on a board I can slide back and forward as a unit. That is today’s task.
Cable management is overrated! Except when you have to add, change, clean, repair, relocate, find the thing that rolled behind the monitor, have a cat who likes it behind the monitor, reset the modem, or… ok, I should probably do some cable management.
Also, I have some odd peripherals. Footpedal*, natch, headphones that I had rejigger. Those are shared. Then for mine I have a 7-port hub, an external hard drive, and an external DVD drive so that all had to be mapped out.
I tag all my cables/devices/ports/plugs. I do not bundle/bind them. That way lies madness.
I can appreciate good cable management. There is little more elegant than a properly managed datacenter’s endless cascade of cables.
For a home setup, it might be overkill to go as far as they do in a professionally managed datacenter.
“I got a job-job.” *fist bump.. expands wiggling fingers upward HAND EXPLOSION*
Well done! I hope to join you soon. I’m glad I’ve got enough out there the last few days to patiently wait the weekend out. I may stop into their offices next week to check in. Again lucky, both these car title places are in my ZIP code. *excited face, tempered by patience, loss*
Eek that sets off my OCD and I don’t even have OCD.
I am flying around the house half-unpacked trying to tackle a dozen different mini-projects at the same time and it’s wearing me out. I finally got the shower curtain up so it might be time to take a shower.
I have to return to work Monday and I have no idea where I’m going to shoehorn my work desk yet.
Did you move??!?!?
I don’t care about your cables, but ergonomically those displays need to be sitting a lot higher, the top third of the display should be eye level. Unless you’re a munchkin, in which case, carry on.
You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
The 6yo will be here soon and he’s staying the night. Storm went through last night, taking the heat off — and it may storm again — but he’s still keen on doing the Lemonade Stand again. He made some bank last time, $60 over two days, I’m told. (Much creative accounting by customers not wanting change.) After that, I believe we’re going to a very fun indoor playground, with foam pits and much climbing and bouncing.
Applied to two more solid leads, last night. Two complementary Title Specialist gigs at one firm, and for Title Specialist and Document Agent at another. (Docu… AGENT MAN! Docu… AGENT MAN!) All should pay $20-$22 or so, and I’m rather interested in this work. It’s apparently the same as escrow processing but much much much more simple. That’s good, tho only getting *maybe* seven days to ‘learn’ the last gig, in slipshod fashion, was assuredly my problem at the last gig.
I rather hope one (or both!) of those places rings me up fairly soon. It would be really nice to have a steady, normal schedule and with that money, even the lower end, that’d be enough to get me ‘out’ of here in six months or so.
We shall see! Have fun with you and yours, today.