I is the one weekend out of the year where everyone on the site phones it in and runs with open posts. I’m not going to do that.
This is my review of Catalyst Crafted Ales Ultimo Hombre:
No seriously I’m phoning it in. I just didn’t want to do a real open post, or a least say I posted an open post of higher quality.
Here’s something to talk about….Radioactive Wasps Found at a Nuclear Facility in the US.
To what extent am I really phoning it in? I’m going to buy some and bring it to the gulch as penance. Hopefully TSA doesn’t confiscate it because otherwise I’ll be the only one that showed up without bringing a dish. If it arrives, let me know if my rating system is completely insane. Catalyst Crafted Ales Ultimo Hombre: 3.1/5
That beer is so dark it could marry a Kardashian.
https://youtu.be/73gVsgkYPQ8?si=MQgfqyKZAT2vH-D5
Their website describes it only as a Mexican amber lager.
Darkest amber lager I’ve ever seen.
Looks a bit dark, but based on the lighting, that may be a dark amber [think SRM 20-30], with no light coming from behind.
So Mex is somewhere between Glibs Gulch and Arizona?
I think you might be a little late to the party
This post was supposed to go up last Saturday but was accidentally (I assume) scheduled for midnight EDT instead of noon, so it was postponed until today.
This is my review of Catalyst Crafted Ales Ultimo Hombre:
That looks a bit dark for an Amber.
I’m more interested in what’s going on with the onion, vinegar, and coriander (?) seeds. Pickled onions?
I’ve found recently that it’s kind of fun to eat and drink in a more seasonal way. After I get all my strenuous tasks done today, I’m going to have some ice cold red wine with some fresh peach slices dropped in. They flavor the wine a bit, and you can eat some wine-soaked peaches afterwards. It’s basically like eating a fruit salad, so it’s healthy.
Wine and peaches is popular with Italians. Although the wine is room temperature.
Haha, I’m a bit of a philistine when it comes to wine. I like it ice cold. And I don’t go as low as Boone’s Farm, but I usually find the cardboard carton stuff (Bota or Vendange) to be good enough. I bought a $50 bottle one time and didn’t find it significantly better, so I don’t bother finding the very best wine (like I do with beer, to a point).
Ive gotten most of my outside stuff done, but theres still more.
I think a trip to Meijer for some Pacifico is in order.
My experience as someone who has a glass of wine at dinner every night is that there are serviceable box wines out there, although I tend to prefer the drier grapes that aren’t the ones commonly grown everywhere in the New World. My local liquor store carries a couple of Portuguese red blends that do the job, as well as an Austrian GrĂĽner Veltliner.
The next tier up, wines in the $12-$15 range that are either varietals or get the equivalent of the AOC label, tend to be more than good enough for my palate. Although, as I said, that’s probably in part because I’m generally not drinking the wine grapes that tend to come to the top of Americans’ minds. I’m always disappointed to see how much the Italian wine section at the local liquor store is dominated by Pinot Grigios.
The last time I bought a mix-and-match case of such next tier wines, I think I bought two bottles each of a Cortese di Gavi, a French Muscadet, a South African Chenin Blanc, and a white from Portugal’s Douro valley; there were two reds, a Spanish Monastrell, and a French Grenache/Syrah blend from the CĂ´tes-du-RhĂ´ne.
It’s also been my experience that any of the $12-$15 Spanish Garnachas are great with red meat.
get the equivalent of the AOC label
I’m not drinking wine promoted by some socialist bimbo!
Kidding aside, maybe I’ll check out the local wine store sometime and see if they have any of those. I went in there about 10 years ago and the guy was acting really weird. He just asked, “Can I help you?” in an odd condescending tone, like I was a homeless person or something (I was in “business casual” clothes since I just came from work, for reference).
We have an interesting “local” winery – it is a PA license/label but is actually produced in Bordeaux. I was there for their introductory tasting and was reasonably impressed.
My wine discernment pretty much starts and ends at “red” and “white”. Boxed is perfectly fine by me, and it doesn’t have to be “dry”.
I learned to say red/white and beer in Spanish/French/German.
That was all I needed to know. Got me through 8 years in Europe.
Scurrilous lies
Professor Nathaniel Frank, a cultural historian and researcher at Cornell University who studies the history of LGBTQ+ people in the military, told ABC News that decades of research dispute the administration’s arguments that transgender individuals are not fit to serve.
“There’s never been any evidence found that gay or transgender service members present any problems to unit cohesion or readiness, and that the evidence finds the opposite, that the prohibitions against trans people are what harm readiness and cohesion because they undermine trust,” Frank said.
So there. Shut up, he explained.
Click through to marvel at the photo of Cmdr “Emily” Schilling. You’d never suspect for an instant.
“There’s never been any evidence found that gay or transgender service members present any problems to unit cohesion or readiness”
Does “no evidence” in this case mean,
A) Rigorous examinations with large sample sizes have found no difference in performance between units with transgender members and those without
B) There’s a minuscule amount of data on it due to the tiny number of transgender people in the military, so we’re just assuming that everything is fine
I’m leaning towards B for some reason.
I’d put good money on B.
C) Taking note of differences in attitude, aptitude, behavior, cohesion, or any metric whatsoever that calls into question the narrative that Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or non-binary service members are equal to, except when superior to, the best of Cis-Hetero Male service members is nasty, cruel, hateful, bigoted and flat out naughtybadillegal, and therefore any evidence is immediately disregarded as coming from the moral equivalent of a
child molestersorry, they cannot be used in a negative comparison, let’s use nazi.decades of research
For something that’s been a thing for all of 10-15 years?
Yeah, credibility left the bust that point.
Bust, building, whatever
There it is.
Those goalposts, they are mobile.
And right there I know this person has nothing to say that is worth listening to.
The mischief this deliberate confusion has caused is off the charts.
I remember when it was transvestites, and calling them gay (or calling gays trans) was a way to insult both groups.
This post was supposed to go up last Saturday but was accidentally (I assume) scheduled for midnight EDT instead of noon, so it was postponed until today.
Does that mean MS is still missing and unaccounted for?
He’s passed out in OMWC’s van.
Better in than under?
“touching buttocks over clothing” ? I expect more from the man.
Actor Gary Busey pleads guilty to sex offense at NJ horror convention
Sex with someone that age *would* be horrifying.
Not to worry, there wouldn’t be sex, as we know it.
Simulation and stimulation are two different things.
Sex with Gary Busey at *any* age would be horrifying.
Was he so coked up he thought he was in a courtroom?
The 81-year-old “Buddy Holly” star’s manager, Ron Sampson, said in an email Friday that the actor admitted to touching a woman’s buttocks “over clothing during an 8-10 second photo op.”
He was just trying to get her to smile.
Back in the day, an ass pat wasn’t unusual nor was the female response – “fresh” followed by a slap to the face. Or that’s what Hollywood movies portrayed.
When I was 18 and started work at this factory, these perverted old ladies would pinch or smack mine and other young mens’ butts whenever they felt like it. Then they’d all giggle about it and joke that I should get up on that assembly table and strip for them. That’s how I learned that little old ladies are perhaps the biggest fucking perverts in the world.
Side note: I didn’t really care about this, but sometimes men/boys do get handled like that by women and they don’t like it and want it to stop, and it’s really fucked up because it’s usually assumed that men always enjoy it.
Never happened to me…
My takeaway:
Akira has a cute ass.
Preach it, brother Akira.
Further crimes against humanity
“The Trump administration and EPA’s unlawful and authoritarian move to unilaterally strip EPA workers of their collective bargaining agreement and workplace rights is nothing short of an assault on our democracy, the rule of law, and the lives of working people in America,” said Chen. “When you strip the rights of EPA workers, you weaken the EPA’s ability to do its job and ensure Americans can drink clean water and breathe clean air — and that’s exactly what Trump, [EPA Administration Lee] Zeldin, and their billionaire supporters want.”
People will die.
“an assault on our democracy, the rule of law, and the lives of working people in America,”
Accuse your opponents, blah blah what you’re doing, mumble mumble…
It’s a good first step. No government employees should be unionized. Or rather, they can form whatever type of voluntary union they want in their off-hours, but that union should not be recognized or “bargained” with about terms of employment. No workplace time or property should be used for activities of that union, and only employees should be allowed on the property for work duties, not union personnel who are not otherwise employees. If the workers strike on orders of their union, it should just be treated as no-call no-show and handled under normal disciplinary procedures. And if the union is orchestrating violence against replacement workers or those who just want to work without paying the union their money, that should be investigated as a violent criminal organization (I think RICO charges are brought in for a lot of other situations like that).
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Barbarian! Don’t you realize that you’re on the side of FDR?
Between FDR and Biden, Biden was far more harmless.
These fucking ingrates need to remember who is paying their goddamn salary.
And it’s not Donald.
People will die.
If only that was a promise.
Oh heaven forfend! Fetch the fainting couch!
HALP!
I am trying to rip a few thousand records from a JSON file into SQL to do something useful with them. The big hurdle is that they’re nested several layers into the structure, and the Database tutorials don’t like talking about files. I have gotten to a query where the “byDay” sub-JSON is a valid element showing that it contains a JSON data structure, but the structures under it repeat 365 times. What I want in the end is a table that has rows that are three fields: $taskDetails.byDay.collectionDate, $taskDetails.byDay.byDepartment.department, $taskDetails.byDay.byDepartment.taskCount.
I don’t know how to get there from here. Right now I’ve got this start, which shows a “NULL” under the collectionDate, byPlatform, and byDepartment fields. ( I hope the nbsps work)
And I think I see my mistake. Let me check. This may be a “thanks for listening to me”
I was wrong.
HALP.
🤦‍♂️
worked
Okay, I’ve gotten all the JSONs I care about expanded, but there’s a bunch of garbage columns I don’t care about… how do I cull those and dump the rest into my table?
🥳
JSONB? Postgres, cockroach, and a bunch of other SQL databases support JSONB.
Otherwise if I was parsing a JSON file into a SQL database I’d go the route of writing a Python script to take the JSON data into a Python dict then use Python SQL libraries to push the data into the database.
The platform in use is MS SQL Server, not my choice, but this is a problem that lodged in my brain from work.
I am weak on Python, and am trying to learn SQL at the moment. I’m pretty sure the rest of my group knows even less python than I do.
Que?
I’m trying to get rid of a tedious manual process by making the computer do it.
Computers are more efficient when you speak their language instead of trying to cram a large language module in the way and lust accept the incorrect andswers that come out the other end.
Scientific precision
The impact has been profound. Studies estimate Covid vaccination saved millions of lives worldwide, with estimates ranging from 2.5 million to 14.4 million. In the United States alone, the Commonwealth Fund found the vaccination program prevented 3.2 million deaths.
They’ve got the numbers totally nailed down. These people know their stuff.
My customer with the wife that has recently had several debilitating strokes involving unusually large clots will be relieved to hear this.
She won’t die from/with COVID!!!! [which should require the person saying that to punch themselves in the face, very, very hard]
Most of my old friends are gone.
Most of them got the vaccine.
Coincidence? Me and Missus skipped the vaccine and annual flu shots and somehow survived without so much as a cold.
Unfortunately even that didn’t protect me from a serious injury.
Eh, my dad got the jab and broke his hip.
Mine is on the right side so I walk in clockwise circles
In hindsight, I rationalize that I traded physical risk/damage for money when I got vaccinated to keep my job. A lot of men do that, but not when they have office jobs.
In my defense, it was a fair amount of money.
That was their juice, tho. Make it a policy that either you conform, or you’re digging into that 401(k) much earlier than expected while looking for work.
Beepht looby blooput zumoomoo cloumit zeet.
One gibberish is like another gibberish.
Aw fuck. MSNBC.
Let’s try that link again
‘…saved millions of lives…”
Point those individuals out please and tell me exactly how you know who they are.
Vaccines aren’t some niche drug. We’re talking about medicines that apply to literally every human being on the planet. We should have learned from the Covid pandemic that everyone is potentially susceptible to pandemic threats. The scientific consensus is clear: mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives and could save millions more in future emergencies.
The “pandemic” actually affected a small subset of the population. But don’t let that stop you from doing your Chicken Little dance.
You could make the argument they were a large subset for certain use of the term ‘large’.
JFC everything in that is wrong. Not even wrong.
This is how you can tell it’s bullshit.
It is a pretty big tell. What is amazing about it is that they seem completely unaware of that.
And the fact that the left feels the need to repeat it endlessly for years.
I am trying to rip a few thousand records from a JSON file into SQL to do something useful with them.
This sounds like a job for artificial intelligence. The autonomous sentient kind, like the lady in the computers on the Starship Enterprise.
“Computer, get me these files.”
Holly from Red Dwarf
Unfortunately, the
AIsLLMs are more like Bad Janet.This sort of thing is actually one of the few things that AI is getting pretty good at. Because someone has already solved this problem and it will go out and find the answer for you.
The lazy ass computer would have stopped without addressing the nested nested nested JSON.
No, it does not.
LLMs don’t logic well.
On the butt touching thing: I have had many women pinch, grab, slap and touch me on the job accompanied with pretty explicit suggestions. Lots of giggling and joking around. I didnt care, didnt bother me one bit. I just gave it right back. On the other hand at one job there was a guy with a serious stick up his ass about it. He came to me and asked me what he should do. I gave him this advice in these exact words: “Grow the fuck up.”
I would qualify with this: The girls were not a threat to me in anyway and my job was never on the line. There was never anything serious about it.
I realize that is not always the case. There is a line.
A while back, a local brewery was closing a location (their production facility, they had a new one built). It was only a couple of miles from the house, so the girlfriend and I had biked up there and done trivia nights quite a bit. So we went up for the closing party. They had special glassware for sale, and a poster for everyone to sign (which is still hanging in the new production facility). As I bent over to sign the poster, a women old enough to be my mother said, “I like the looks of that” and grabbed full ass, both cheeks, one hand on each cheek. I stood back up, her child (and their spouse) apologized profusely, all while the girlfriend was nearly peeing herself laughing at the situation.
I felt both confused and flattered.
When women point out the power difference as a factor it might be useful to point out the money difference. Men with money seem to be really bad about this sort of thing while poor men keep their hands to themselves. Funny that.
“We’re going home, Mom. You’re drunk again.”
People watching at Walmart is people watching on an elevated plane. My two of the day, and the first is this people watcher getting people watched! I don’t want my foes to be constantly vigilant. Only if they think I’m cute. (If they are.) Or I’m funny. Well…
I was on a pick and was doin’ a bit in my head about why purple candy is bad, as if I were explaining to the nephews. “Because purple is our enemy.” (I did have a part about why purple Spree is ok cuz only its core is important. (Truth.)) So I’m chuckling and an older lady politely called me out on it. I told her what was up and she said it was so surprising to see. (I never wear headphones there.) She told me she was happy to see it, because “No one does that!” I didn’t tell her I was quite stoned, cuz why, but I was having a fun moment to pass the time. (Why in the shit would I *not* be stoned for this gig?)
There wasn’t as much talent out as yesterday, for I reckon, good cause. Girls go out on Friday night, but many work/etc in the day, no time to get re-dressed up for the eve, so they’ve come with their game outfits on. This is not true for women at 6am on a Saturday. (Things do get more positive after breakfast.)
Best bit: Sexy Phone-Plan Gal wasn’t there. She was replaced by a 300lb+ black man. No, this did not enthuse me. What did, however, was witnessing his complete lack of success when calling out to every single passer-by other than Walmart folk. (That’s legit part of their job description.) No one talked to this poor young man. He was trying. She, and whomever she’s paired with, naturally draws folk in. Near tractor beam. *wrrrrrrrr*
Whodda thought tits and an attractive face would sell? (Felt bad for the dude. But he was working it and good on him! I do know they get paid hourly and not commission, etc.)
Back in the day, some local Jack Chick evangelicals had figured out the right way to preach at guys leaving bars. It was two guys, and one drop dead gorgeous tall blonde. The blonde came up to me and a friend as we left the pub one night, and we of course stopped to chat with her. Then the Jesus talk starts, and the other two guys walk up.
Little did they know they had a devote Catholic and an agnostic who had read and researched a lot more than them. It was a fun way to end the evening.
Moonie girls at airports in days gone by. Give a little paper poppy and expecting a donation. I created a scene at the old Dallas airport, accusing the girl of assaulting me. Several people stopped to watch as I threw her poppy on the floor.
Glad to see the Moonies are gone.
Check out the map and laugh or weep as you like. It’s the story of another ridiculous climate grift, tiny in the grand scheme of all the other grifting, but still enraging.
300MM for that….I put in better beds than that for a bit less.
The whole ;thing is a grift. I had to listen to locals yammer on about ‘carbon capture’ here in Louisiana with no hint whatsoever about how absurd the whole idea is. All they talked about was the money. I thought Trump was going to kill that bullshit.
No… even he can’t stop state-level boondoggles.
Perhaps you will join us ~9:30-10pm? I will be having at least one Aviation, since I’m lousy with Creme de Violette (one bottle courtesy of Neph hisself!)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09#success
I was pleasantly surprised by a violette lemon cocktail I had recently. They used a house made creme de violette, but if I had to guess the recipe, it would be:
1 part (0.5 oz) creme de violette
2 part (1 oz) lemon juice
4 part (2 oz) vodka/gin
Depending on your tastes, another part (0.5 oz) simple syrup may be called for (although I would lean toward a honey syrup).
Speaking on phoning it in. “What Are We Reading” got fuckered, I last-minute-submitted the last episode and then it got schedule for late in the month and now I don’t know where we are “schedule-wise”. Anyway if the usual suspects (or anyone else) sees this and want to send in their recent reading achievements by all means do It ,once I get a handful of submissions I’ll throw it together and submit a mid summer edition. Thank you and god bless.
whatarewereading25@proton.me
That “.me” I presume is @proton.hyperbole.”
I’ve been wrong before, and I’ll be wrong again.