The Hat and The Hair Animated: Rerun Ep 86

by | Feb 11, 2026 | Hat and Hair | 20 comments

The conclusion of Tha Hat and Space Hat B-plot

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20 Comments

  1. dbleagle

    Texas or Florida it’s all the same. Space Hat will still be here after being exposed to leaking hydrogen.

  2. Fourscore

    Woe is me! Never see Space Hat again.

    At least he wasn’t leaving on one of those fast boats headed back to Columbia.

  3. rhywun

    UNCIVILSERVANT ON FEBRUARY 11, 2026 AT 08:41 PM [+]
    It’s New York State – You’re lucky it’s computerized and not hand processed by unionized civil serants.

    Into the early aughts I used to process DMV insurance coverage for Florida motorists and we had to hire some dudes out of retirement in order to put the data onto reel-to-reel tapes because nobody else knew how to do it.

    In the later aughts we paid a third-party to combine the data for all the states we had to report to and the technology had advanced to modems – I had one on my desk specifically for that purpose.

    • UnCivilServant

      We still had all the accessories for reel to reel tape, removable platter harddrive, and punch card processing when I started.

      I support faxing and batch processing. Neither is the “glamorous” side of IT, but we’re still handing 200k faxes per month, and somewhere around 10k daily unique batch tasks (repeat tasks are only counted once per day).

      • rhywun

        The “glamorous” side of IT is a pain in the ass I’m happy to leave behind and to the kids. All customer-facing real time & phone calls at 3 in the morning. No thanks, done with that.

        These days nothing is so pressing it can’t wait for the next morning to fix. It’s all back-end data – the business types want to play with it but it’s not real time thank goodness.

      • UnCivilServant

        The downside of batch processing is that it’s after hours so if it goes down, I get called.

        Thankfully it’s so stable that is a rare event.

      • rhywun

        My team processes tons of files 24 hours a day but when it breaks it can wait til the next day 🙂

      • UnCivilServant

        Yeah, but our work needs to get done before the regular staff start in the morning.

      • UnCivilServant

        Bad phrasing. I hope it made sense.

  4. rhywun

    *snork* A bunch of AWFLs don’t want a homeless shelter in their neighborhood.

    To be fair, I’ve had a lot of medical treatment in that area the last couple years and it’s a really nice neighborhood by NYC standards. Or was, lol.

    • Chafed

      What did they think the warmth of collectivism meant? Slogans?

      • Threedoor

        Burning piles of corpses.

  5. Chafed

    I’m watching Star Trek TOS. Every so often Looking past the often silly costumes and makeup, the women guest stars on that show were incredibly hot.

    Thank you for your attention to this matter.

    • rhywun

      It was the sixties. Hot was more important than acting ability, plot, etc.

      • Chafed

        I hope that wasn’t a swipe at the show. It’s still terrific. And the casting director gets an A+.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, I snark. It was very good. It’s not my favorite Trek series but it gets bonus points for being there first.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      mmm Yeoman Rand.

      although she’s more of a recurring character than guest star, but still.

    • rhywun

      I keep hearing Tucker has gone off the deep end. I saw a lot of it with his obsession with UFOs and aliens and shit on Fox but supposedly he’s gotten more nuts? I dunno, I don’t do podcasts or Youtube. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      • trshmnstr

        Frankly, I’ve found him quite square on as of late. He is often a bit credulous even when interviewing weirdos, but he’s no Candace.

        He’s going hard against the neocons of late, thus the character assassination.

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