Open Post of No Internet

by | May 8, 2026 | I Am Lame | 65 comments

Sorry folks, we have no internet tonight because Spectrum sucks.

Enjoy your Friday.

On the bright side, I have purchased everything to go to Honey Harvest.

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ron73440

ron73440

What I told my wife when she said my steel Baby Eagle .45 was heavy, "Heavy is good, heavy is reliable, if it doesn't work you could always hit him with it."-Boris the Blade MOLON LABE

65 Comments

  1. EvilSheldon

    Spectrum sucks Cox.

    • EvilSheldon

      I would absolutely use those coins for XP tokens in a Cypher or FATE campaign…

    • R.J.

      I like that shop in general. Eventually I will get some of those.

      • Not Adahn

        I wish I had the budget to indulge myself in their knicknacks.

  2. Fourscore

    I’ll relay the news to the bees and all others, as a matter of motivation, Ron. Kinnath is ready!

    • kinnath

      Absolutely.

      There will be mead.

  3. R.J.

    Spectrum’s failures are beyond your control, and therefore you must remain Stoic.

  4. The Late P Brooks

    What would Marcus Aurelius say?

  5. The Late P Brooks

    I’m not going to go back for a link, but millions of bees will be thrown out of work by Del Monte’s closure of a processing plant in California. Farmers will chop down their peach trees because there is no place to send the peaches.

    But don’t worry, the government will bail the farmers out.

    • Rat on a train

      How much do unemployed bees get?

      • UnCivilServant

        Nothing. Unemployed bees are dead bees.

    • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

      The bees can learn to code pollinate the almond trees instead.

      The real question is why the farmers aren’t diversified?

    • Ted S.

      Nobody likes their peaches or wants to shake their trees?

      • R.J.

        You know it.

  6. The Late P Brooks

    ODOT- a model of efficiency.

    What’s the big rush? That river will still be there tomorrow.

  7. The Bearded Hobbit

    From ded thread,

    Best of luck, cyto.

    • Evan from Evansville

      Just saw that as well. Indeed, best of luck, and try to keep your spirits up. They carry far more than their non-existent weight.

  8. The Late P Brooks

    Blow me

    Court rejects Virginia redistricting in a blow to Democrats’ counter to Trump, GOP

    The Supreme Court of Virginia on Friday struck down the congressional redistricting approved by voters in April. The ruling is a major setback for Democrats’ attempt to counter the pro-GOP reshuffling of voting maps led by President Trump.

    Commonwealth voters last month approved — by a 52% to 48% margin — a constitutional amendment to allow redistricting. But responding to a lawsuit brought by Republicans, the Virginia high court found that the Democratic-led legislature made procedural errors in how it placed the question on the ballot.

    But it was approved by the voters! Overwhelmingly!

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Commonwealth DC area voters last month approved overrode the rest of the state— by a 52% to 48% margin”

    • rhywun

      Do the “procedural errors” include the laughably transparent lie that the new map was the “fair map”…?

    • Fourscore

      “a requirement to help track a missing fugitive co-defendant.”

      Well, I’ve looked everywhere, the learing centers, the school lunch rooms, the autistic centers. No one even knows this guy.

      Can I go now, Brother Ellison?

      • Gender Traitor

        Like OJ searched for the “real killer” on all those golf courses?

  9. Not Adahn

    Today’s workplace lol:

    The processes on wafers are almost universally performed out of sight, the wafers are transported in opaque clean containers and to maintain that cleanliness very few people have access to open them. On top of that most of the managerial-ish engineers that design the process flows/transport/protocol zones and the like don’t even work in the fab. They don’t need to be there so we keep their filthy mammalian bodies out.

    Anyway, I got the wrong wafers, and I can tell they’re wrong because I can visually see them and recognize that this is not the specified surface. So I’ve got someone sending me documents that these are absolutely the right wafers, so I sent him a pic of the war surface to counter his documentation.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Reminds me of an “argument” I got in with USPS:

      “Our tracking software says we delivered it too you.”

      Zwak drives across town, knocks on door of house with almost the same address, gets package.

      “No you didn’t. But you did just lie to me.”

    • EvilSheldon

      When do we get to blow up our TV?

  10. Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

    Happy birthday to Friedrich Hayek!

    • Nephilium

      No worries, we picked over the initial story when it was published.

      • R.J.

        Hah!
        That is some amazing talent in display.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        And now we know how OMWC gets dates.

  11. JaimeRoberto feckful & gruntled

    Cal is losing. Just thought I’d update you on the score since your internet is out.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    America, World Police

    Four South Florida men were convicted on Friday of plotting to kill Haitian President Jovenel Moise in 2021 by hiring mercenaries to assassinate him at his Port-au-Prince ‌home, according to CBS News and other media.

    Prosecutors argued during the nine-week trial in a Miami ‌federal court that the men assembled two dozen former Colombian soldiers and supplied them with money, guns, ammunition and tactical vests in a ​conspiracy to kill Moise. The 53-year-old president was shot dead in July 2021 at his private residence in the hills above Port-au-Prince, a killing that left a gaping political vacuum in the Caribbean nation and emboldened powerful gangs.

    Standing trial were Arcangel Pretel Ortiz, 53, a former FBI informant, Colombian national and U.S. permanent resident; Antonio Intriago, 62, a Venezuelan ‌American owner of a security firm; James ⁠Solages, 40, a Haitian American handyman; and Walter Veintemilla, 57, an Ecuadorean American.

    Why were they on trial here and not in Haiti?

    • EvilSheldon

      Do they have actual trials in Haiti? I figure that undesirables just get raped, killed, and eaten (hopefully in that order…)

      • Not Adahn

        I think the victims might prefer a different order.

      • UnCivilServant

        Raped – Eaten – Killed?

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      I’m guessing they planned it all here.

      I want to know why 3 non-Haitians wanted to kill Haiti’s President. That’d be like me or you moving to Canada and hiring someone to kill Brazil’s President.

      • R.J.

        I remember that incident. Totally bizarre, never properly explained when it happened.

  13. Not Adahn

    Today has been a real joy in understanding things I’m supposed to be an expert in.

    I’ve been working on/with these ion chromatographs since I was fresh out of school, and for the last 20 years I’ve been working with the luxury of having them directly plumbed into ultrapure, no dissolved gas water systems. And for those 20 years I have blithely disregarded the big screaming error message that my inlet water vacuum degasser has failed because I don’t care, and that part is unnecessary. Occasionally I’ve wondered why they’ve all failed, especially when people tell me the part is trouble free and rarely needs maintenance. The fifteenth and sixteenth of these degas units failed within the first week of a new tool install back in 2024, but again, I don’t care. While talking with the applications guy for purchasing enough new ICs to get my degas units up to 24 total (soon to be) failing ones, on a completely unrelated subject I learned that they blow up if the inlet pressure is about 1 bar. We run at 3.

    It’s never too late to learn something new!

  14. CPRM

    Grok is having trouble animating a farmer milk a whale. I tell ya, AI aint taking over the world.

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