As most of you have no doubt heard by now, or beloved Hayeksplosives departed this realm a couple of weeks ago. I had the pleasure of meeting her on the weekend Zoom, then in person during GlibsCruise I. We’d kept up via text since then. This is the last message I received from her:
I thought I would set the tone with a song, but not Barbers “Adagio for Strings” or anything similarly depressing. No, I think this is much more appropriate.
I also realized that I’m not getting any younger, and that once in a while some honest reflection is in order.
Sometimes on days like this
When the mirror seems so unkind
I remember the kid just playing in the Florida sun
His nose in a mystery book
Playing “pilot” in a live oak tree
Shooting down those enemy fighter planes one by one
Just pretending to be Henry Aaron
Hitting rocks in a field down the road
Or Napoleon Solo living the life of a spy
I wanted to sail a boat to Bermuda
Find a girl, and learn how to fly
Racing out of control down some open road
Always dreaming and living till the day I die
I remember one Easter Sunday
Waking up in a strange hotel
The whole night’s a blank, and I don’t know where I am
In a diner crowded with families
All dressed in their Sunday best
Some kid points me out and asks “Dad, what’s wrong with that man?”
Sometimes life taps you on the shoulder
To remind you it’s a one-way street
You need to do the post mortem on the life that’s just passed you by
I wanted to sail a boat to Hawaii
Write and learn how to fly
Racing with some control down an open road
Always dreaming and living till the day I die
Here’s hoping that the end comes quickly
When I’m a nimble seventy-five
Cut down by some young woman’s husband who found where I hid
I don’t want to be trapped in a deathbed
Surrounded by all those machines
With time to recall all those things that I never did
You’ve got to jump into the arena
Roll the dice, take some shots to the chin
You may lose sometime but, hell, you know you’ve just got to try
I want to sail a boat to Tahiti
Sing and continue to fly
Racing under control down that open road
Always dreaming, and living till the day I die
I had not heard before now, and that is very sad news.
always appreciated her professional arc: the seasoned engineer trying to manage, hire, train…all while fighting walls of unhelpful paperwork
So sad.
RIP
I am sure she’ll live on in our memories. She was an extraordinary person.
Good selection of music as well. Hopefully we all get a chance to sail to our own Tahiti as well.
For her, and eventually all of us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHo1fNnXFVU&list=RDMHo1fNnXFVU&start_radio=1
I’m still planning on doing it one day, but right now it’s ketch as ketch can.
I’ll let yawl know if that changes.
Better schooner than later.
Or just narrow your gaze horizontally and junk it.
I’ll ask Sloop for advice.
Get your puns in before Swissy drops the boom.
You guys always have to scuttle yourselves.
Swiss won’t even have clew.
The Swiss are helpless to thwart this punmanship by and large for they are landlocked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Marine_of_Switzerland
Fact checking puns calls for keel hauling!
Keel hauling isn’t enough. Put him in irons.
I got all the way down here and still haven’t found mention of either rum or buggery. Unless I sailed right over it.
Keel hauling? Next will you make him “walk the plank” and shiver your timbers?
I had heard mention in some comments but didn’t know the details. So sorry we all lost a good one.
The title put me in mind of this sad goodbye song.
https://youtu.be/HnzzNfb5npY
A person is not truly dead and gone until the ripples they have left in the world are stilled. GNU Juleigh (iykyk)
I’m always reminded of a Satchel Paige quote
“Don’t look back, something might be gaining on you”
Juleigh would not want us looking back.
Bon voyage
Brought a tear to my eyes.
I just want to live long enough to get to know my unborn grandchildren.
I’ve gotten to meet my great-grandson.
That’s got to be awesome.
Yes. My father got to meet his great-great-grandson.
You must have started early.
My dad just became a great-grandfather back in January a few days before his 88th birthday.
I wish I had started twenty years earlier than I did.
If my kids are like me I’ll have to make it past 80 to see grandchildren.
I read an article a while back that seriously was arguing that people having kids later in life was damaging their children’s development and growth opportunities. Older parents are far more fearful of what can happen to their kids.
He was arguing that it’s best to be young and stupid when you start having kids. They kids get way more freedom to explore and learn from experiences because the parents don’t fully understand how dangerous the world is to children.
I won’t say that I used that argument to justify after the fact that I was young when I started my family. But it does resonate with me.
We basically had 4 consecutive generation 20ish years apart. It pretty much wipes out the lives of young parents, but at least the kids are gone by the time you reach middle age.
I see the positives of being an older dad.
Our lives are settled. We had 13 years married, house long since paid off before our first. Some financial stability.
Downsides. I’m broken and can’t do the things I want to with my kids like hike, hunt, ride dirt bikes, and we’re not going to be able to have a third unless an actual mirical happens.
We had all of ours young when we were poor, but I think it was better that way.
I don’t think I have the energy now to play with a couple 10 year olds like we used to.
I do wonder where we went wrong with them, my daughter is happily married but has no desire for kids and our 2 sons are both bachelors with no plans to date seriously.
The boy is eight and I can’t keep up With him anymore.
Next time we go for a hike I’m not taking a ruck.
I mentioned the other day she was one of the most intelligent persons I ever got to speak with.
From other things I have read, like the post on LinkedIn, it appears others experienced the same with her.
Vivacious, intelligent and always a hoot on the zooms
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/stuart-fails-to-save-the-universe-big-bang-theory-images-1236577626/
Another spin off?
🙄
Start with 12 seasons worth of scripts. Feed them into AI. Tell it to generate random story lines. You’re all set to go.
I thought they were already doing that.
Who watches this slop?
No one needs to watch it. Studies show most people turn the tv on for background noise while they are doing other stuff.
The tv just needs to be turned on so that ads can play, and then the sponsor pays for the half percent of people that are actually watching the show.
I tried to watch that show after I heard people in class raving about it.
They are doctors and biologists now.
I’m still a welder.
Couldn’t make it through the second episode.
I tried watching twice. I made it about 45 seconds the first time and 30 seconds the second time.
The people I work with are far more funny than the characters in the show.
When I watch an episode of a Chuck Lorre show I can’t help but notice that no matter what their character bios are they all basically talk like the same room full of writers.
Looks him up… jeebus what a long string of crap.
Nothing decent since Roseanne.
My handle here at Glibs is a BBT reference.
I hated that fucking show.
Good grief why?
I watched some of the original when I was unemployed and bored but it’s terrible and I doubt this will be any better.
Yeah. The origional was crap. Crap and more crap. All in less than two episodes.
My mother likes Young Sheldon. Hey, no laugh track.
It’s gratifying to know I’m not the only person who never found that show unironically amusing.
Delete that ‘never’ part.
I enjoyed BBT. It’s not as funny 10 years later though.
I didn’t know her well, but always enjoyed our interactions here.
51 is way too young.
RIP
We found experts who gladly told us what we wanted to hear
Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, founder of the Bourse & Bazaar Foundation, a think tank focused on economic diplomacy, and an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, agreed with other experts that Iran could absorb more economic pain than the U.S. He suggested the Trump administration was applying “very old ideas” to “a new problem.” “I think this is reflective of the low quality of policymaking,” Batmanghelidj told MS NOW. “And the mismanagement of this war.”
The U.S. blockade will eventually cut off Iran’s oil revenues, said Barbara Leaf, a former career foreign service officer who served as the Biden administration’s top State Department official for the Middle East. But decades of sanctions — including sweeping ones imposed by Trump in 2018 — have made parts of Iran’s economy far less dependent on foreign trade and more resilient to external shocks.
The more pressing concern, Leaf argued, is a “ticking clock” on the American side: If the Strait of Hormuz remains closed past the end of April, she said, shortages of gasoline, other refined products and fertilizer already spreading through Asia and other parts of the world will begin arriving in the U.S. as significant price shocks.
Trump doesn’t stand a chance against those tough brilliant mullahs.
“Iran could absorb more economic pain than the U.S.” In the sense that the Iranian government doesn’t really care what it’s people think and is willing to shoot a lot of them, that might be true. That would also indicate that maybe Trump isn’t the tyrant his detractors claim he is.
I don’t know what “could” has to do with it.
Iran has already absorbed is going to absorb a lot more economic pain than we ever will.
The blockade on 95+ percent of Iran’s oil exports is “eventually” going to cut off their oil revenue? How about, those revenues are already cut off, and Iran’s oil industry is on the brink of permanent damage to its oil fields as they run out of storage and stop pumping?
Those tankers aren’t twiddling their thumbs until the blockade ends, either. They are coming to the US. I don’t think the price “shocks” are coming, I think they’re already priced in, and US oil companies are reaping big profits.
America can survive $4.00 gas a lot longer than Iran can survive no export revenue and accumulating damage to their major (by a lot) source of trade.
No doubt, we’re a larger and richer nation that’s not being blockaded. On the other hand, enjoy the midterms.
This.
Iran needs its oil money to survive. You can’t just lose 80% of your economic base and be okay.
The problem right now, it seems to me, is that perhaps we killed too many people at the top. No one, including those in Iran, knows who’s in charge anymore. It will become more clear the more their economy collapses.
To be fair, the Dems were always going to win the midterms so there is that.
Can’t put my finger on it right now, but I read somewhere in last few days that the Iran War was a complete failure, that U.S. had spent hundreds of billions and achieved, get this, “causing some minor economic inconvenience” to Iran.
I get being critical but the left half of America actively rooting as one for Iran seems a bit off to me.
“Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, founder of the Bourse & Bazaar Foundation”
Batman, huh? Batman, founder of Bizarre Booze Bazaar! Would shop at. (Well. Look-shop. Not w Batman. Waiting ’round the changing rooms with him? Gotta wait for Bruce, always the two face, a penguin of a pickle.
(Sigh. Back to work.)
I say we elevate Hayeksplosives to Lou Reed status, at least we’ll always have Hayeksplosives!
You might have to check with this guy to see if he wants to share his Glibs emeritas status.
(Just kidding. Hayek is probably knocking one back with him and SP right now.)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/28/politics/justice-department-indicts-ex-fbi-director-james-comey-again
Exclusive: Justice Department indicts former FBI Director James Comey for a second time
Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted Tuesday over a photo of seashells officials said threatened President Donald Trump, marking the administration’s second attempt to prosecute one of his largest political opponents, three sources first told CNN.
Last May, Comey posted a photo on social media of shells on a beach writing out the numbers “86 47,” which critics said referred to taking out or killing Trump.
A waste of time. But the process is the punishment.
I’m kind of ok with this. How many people’s lives did that asshole ruin?
I want him in prison for actual crimes.
That’s the problem – political knavery isn’t a crime.
Justice for political knavery can by achieved by any political process that leaves him destitute.
one of his largest political opponents,
In what world does he even fall into the top 50?
Last May, Comey posted a photo on social media of shells on a beach writing out the numbers “86 47,” which critics said referred to taking out or killing Trump.
Stochastic terrorism, straight up.
He might as well have offered a bounty.
Maybe it was a bounty of oysters.
Super dumb to charge him for what is clearly protected free speech.
Politicians don’t get to have free speech.
I know you are but what am I?
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday called White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt a “stone-cold liar” after she blamed Democrats for the Saturday shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
“I think that what’s interesting to me, as you pointed out, is that the so-called White House press secretary, who’s a disgrace, she’s a stone-cold liar,” Jeffries said during a House press conference.
“She had the nerve to stand up there and read talking points being critical of statements all taken out of context that Democrats have made and didn’t have a word to say about anything that MAGA extremists have said or done, including providing aid and comfort to violent insurrectionists here at this capital on Jan. 6th who brutally beat police officers,” he added.
Heavily armed right wing commandos carrying out a paramilitary coup which only failed because it never happened.
Temu Obama is Temu.
No one does calm, reasoned argumentation like Spartacus.
https://x.com/Morse_Research/status/2049099595481841957
Ohio wants some of that fraud too!
Do well by doing good!
OMG that pic lol 🤯
(Disclaimer: This article was partially AI-generated by Grok using official USAspending.gov and ORR arrival data.)
This just rolled around
Appropriate for this post, maybe.
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/2049153991959802166?
Tryna campaign
High on cocaine.
Andy Dezelan better watch his speed.
Trouble ahead, trouble behind
And you know that notion just crossed his mind.
He’ll win.
https://www.rt.com/news/639204-diver-nude-nord-stream/
LOL, WUT?
Bild, of course.
Speaking of historical events we will never get the truth about….
I guess I’ll add the millennial version of Amazing Grace to the other tribute songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwnoNVOj1Fs
It’s something unpredictable, but in the end is right. I hope you had the time of your life.
RIP Jules
On the dying broke post, I like that scene about fuck you money from The Gambler:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XamC7-Pt8N0
Of course, step one is being up $2.5 million. I’m not sure that’s necessary.
The other steps are: buy a reliable used car, house with a sturdy roof, and put the rest in a mutual fund.
Blocked by the corporate firewall. I can’t watch the video until I get home.
You’re not missing much. A gambler goes to rich guy for a loan and then gets a short lecture about the benefits of having “fuck you” money.
I have redneck levels of “fuck you” money. In the past 5 years, I’ve been employed for less than a year and a half in 9 jobs.
That’s easy to do with no kids, ex-wife, car payment, or student loans.
Pimpin’ ain’t easy. I hope job #23 turns out better.
On 2014 2.5 would have been enough.