We purchased our house many years ago and although I am mostly satisfied with it, there are a few things about it that I’ve come to hate. Probably the number one problem on my list is that while half the house has a cellar, the other half sits on top of a crawl space. This limits how much storage space we have available (exacerbated by the lack of an attic) but even worse since a lot of the plumbing is in the crawlspace, when something goes wrong it is a disaster to deal with. Over the weekend I went down in the cellar to check some mouse traps I had put down during the week and while I was down …
I think I’ll stick with the Coco Mint flavor.
Just an example on how crazy the current state of tech censorship is. I’m in a Facebook astronomy group and someone replied to a post I did suggesting I use a specific filter when attempting an image of the Andromeda galaxy. I wanted some additional clarification and attempted to post the following comment: “Since I use a black and white camera would I use this in series with the color filters?” It refused to go through. Every time I attempted to post it it was rejected. I thought about it and rephrased it as follows: “Since I use a monochrome camera would I use this in series with the color filters?” It posted without a problem. Apparently the words black …
McDonald’s has had a whole bunch of great slogans over the years. Classics like “Look for the Golden Arches”, “You Deserve a Break Today”, “Two All-Beef Patties” and “I’m Lovin’ It.” Might I suggest a new one for them… “We no longer give a s#*t!” Really. Has there ever been a corporation that puts in less effort than McDonald’s? The menu rarely changes and when it does it’s usually just a minor tweak of an existing product. The few times that they’ve come out with something mildly interesting they get rid of it after a few months. Their burgers are small and lack flavor, unlike a lot of the competition, and their fries have steadily declined in quality over the …
A guy going by the name of Bob posted this in response to an article over on Instapundit. I thought he hit it right on the nose and lays out the whole story for anyone that cares to be informed about how bad things are in the Federal government. Whether you’re liberal or conservative, this should concern you. Watergate x 1000: Hillary ran a pay-for-play scheme at State, to line her pockets in exchange for access to State. The FBI covered this up. The Bengazi investigation discovered Hillary’s secret email system, used to facilitate the pay-for-play. When her emails were subpoenad Hillary and Mills and Abedin deleted over 30,000 emails using “Bleach Bit.” When questioned about her secret harddrives being …
On the left is Felicity Jones playing the part of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the movie ‘On the Basis of Sex’. On the right is the real Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It’s simply amazing the resemblance! Not! Let’s contrast that to Christian Bale playing the part of Dick Cheney in the movie ‘Vice.’ Bale is on the left, while Cheney’s on the right. Outside of the evil smirk on Bale’s face, they are amazingly similar. It just shows what a good job they can do recreating the likeness of a character when they want to. But the two movies have very different goals. One is meant to build up a woman while the other is meant to take down a man. …
I was looking for a logger to use in some of my C++ projects and came across Easylogging++. It’s pretty easy to use and has a decent feature set, but like so many open source projects it’s a bit lacking in the documentation area. I wanted to set it up to do log rotation when the log file exceeded a given size but how to do this was not really clear. I played around with it this morning and finally figured out how accomplish what I wanted to do, so I’m sharing the code here in case anyone else is trying to solve the same problem. First the setup process: Download EasyLogging++ from the repository on GitHub at https://github.com/zuhd-org/easyloggingpp#configuration Unzip …
This crazy lady thinks we should eliminate library fines because they are a hardship for our ‘most vulnerable’ citizens. Once again, more liberal insanity. Why should anyone listen to advice from a librarian that admits to having paid $500 in fines over the last few years. The woman is so irresponsible that she can’t even make sure that she returns the books that she’s borrowed on time, yet want’s us to believe she’s so intelligent that she knows better than the rest of us. Why should anyone listen to advice from a librarian that admits to having paid $500 in fines over the last few years. The woman is so irresponsible that she can’t even make sure that she returns …
Once again an example of critics injecting their politics into movies. Peppermint isn’t high art by any means but it’s a solid vengeance flick that should be judged with that in mind. The movie is well constructed, entertaining and well acted, yet it only gets an 11% average review by the critics on Rotten Tomatoes, while the audience rates it at 74%. Here’s a few examples of what the critics had to say: Alternate-reality Trumpian racial panic where MS13-inspired street gangs are a global threat somewhere on the scale of HYDRA. The shambling end result plays like a Lifetime movie conceived by Steve Bannon. – Bob Chipman – Geek Peppermint is jaw-droppingly ugly, horrendously violent, implicitly racist and routinely handled. …
A clip from a speech Obama gave in Kogelo Keyna on July 16, 2018. Did the truth just slip out?