Author: Brett L

  • Thursday Afternoon Links

    So, big demo coming up a week from today. I accidentally broke a template in M$’s crappy portals app and I have no idea how to undo it. I guess I’ll just show someone else’s site if I have to. I’ll just come in hot on Thursday and wing it.

    We’re a CRISPR edit away from curing this sinister genetic defect.

    Even the Marines can’t cure Florida Man.

    Wild horses can’t be dragged away (from Dorian).  And the rarely seen “square grouper” appears to be washing ashore in Florida due to Hurricane Dorian

    Someone linked comments to the story of San Fran calling the NRA a terrorist organization wondering “where are all those good guys with guns” in Texas. Here’s one. Good on ya, ma’am. I think you need a higher capacity purse gun, but 50% hit rate ain’t bad with a snubby.

     

  • Wednesday Afternoon Links of Safety

    Well, my kids enjoyed a beautiful day off from school yesterday, courtesy of Hurricane Dorian. I mean, it rained for a couple of minutes in the afternoon, but that was the whole of it. Some hurricanes are like that. I sympathize with bureaucrats at all levels who are expected to DO SOMETHING!! five days before the storm is targeted to hit, when final track may be well outside of the Cone of Water Hoarding. For all the shit they take about it, at least in Florida, they’ve realized that it takes 2-3 days to do things like evacuate hospitals and stage relief efforts. It seems like huge overkill when the hurricane misses, but when it hits, people get saved.

    I think this is evidence of Global Climate Change, and also the coming super caldera eruption that will kill millions. So, are the watermelons rooting for or against?

    Way to conflate “radiation exposure” with medical imaging radiation exposure in calling MRI, CTs risky. How DARE! the peons want more medical imaging!

    Whoa, The Onion made a funny?

    Democrats propose Eminent Domain for AR-style rifles? I don’t know what else to call a “mandatory gun buyback”. Kelo wasn’t that big a deal, right? Takings of property are fine as long as they’re compensated.

  • Friday Afternoon Florida as Venezuela Links

    So I went out to fill up my gas tank, because I was on empty and have been gone all week, and got to wait in line for the privilege of buying premium at the third gas station that I went to. My wife went to the grocery store because she always shops on Friday and got to experience bread and water rationing. Why? Why you crazy fucking Florida people? I also engaged in a little pre-storm deforestation of my yard, but only because I hated those trees anyways and I told my boss I needed to have some flex in my schedule today to storm prep. Now I have a picture to send him. At least there was plenty of beer at the store.

    Seriously, though. Anyone on the East side who wants to come West instead of getting all the way out the state can contact me at: brett_bolt -at- yahoo

    Apologies if any of these links are repeats, I’ve been away

    I’m really enjoying the UAW talking about “a few bad apples” — by which they mean both of the most recent organizational presidents. I was in Detroit this week, so there was more news than I can find in this article. I especially liked the one with the neighbor texting his wife about there being “stacks of cash” being taken out of his garage by the Feds. Of course, this is all Trump’s fault.

    This space hotel has to be spun up under gravity, or they’ll never be able to get the sheets clean.

    Linklater is really taking this thing about filming over time too far.

    You know what the VA hospitals don’t need? Serial killers.

     

    Oh, and happy Toolstice

  • Friday Afternoon Links

    I think my kids pulled my rearview mirror off when climbing around in the car yesterday. And of course, just like in sex, I can’t get the button to pop out. Err, I mean, the little metal mounting button won’t come unattached from the mirror. Reviewing the Intarwebz shows me that Ford expects me to spend $18 on a tool they change every 5 years to solve this problem. Orrr…. I can just hold the whole fucking mirror on the window for the entire 15 minute cure time of this crap I bought so the adhesive isn’t bearing the weight. Hmm, I think I can do that while drinking a beer. Just to be sure, I’ll bring two. Jesus, Ford, when did you become a European car company?

    I didn’t even know this goober was running. Apparently, nobody else did either. Except SF.

    Florida Man turned into Captain Hook by gator. No word on whether it follows him around or has swallowed a clock.

    I’m sure we’ll talk about this horrible gun crisis right?

    This is the saddest article I’ve read in a long while. And while I’m fine, I guess, with people finding a surgeon to mutilate them at their request, I just can’t help but wonder how one comes to occupy a place where removing a part of your body that gives you greater autonomy and a broader set of abilities is seen as desirable.

     

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  • Thursday Afternoon Links

    EDITOR’S NOTE 1: SF was supposed to just put up the shell and NOT publish, but he got trigger happy. I’ll leave this here, but bump it at 4:00pm Eastern. So, so meta.

    EDITOR’s NOTE 2: I pulled this down so we wouldn’t get on the wrong side of Secret Nazi President, so I added a couple of links.

     

    A nice piece on the Hong Kong protest movement as a self-organizing (leaderless) movement.

    Prime Minister Boor-is shows Macron his balls.

     

     

     

    SugarFree’s Dem Deathwatch

    As it stands, only ten of the remaining eighteen are qualifying for the next set of debates on September 12th: Julián Castro, Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and one-trick-pony Andrew Yang.

  • Wednesday Afternoon Links

    Good afternoon, how’s everyone? I’m fine, but sat in a bunch of damn meetings.

    Hell, I thought the Florida Panthers just couldn’t walk right because they were hockey players.  I’m guessing they’ve been eating Florida Man again.

    Poor SF, the Hat & Hair have gone beyond his attempts at parody.

    I wonder how climate deniers caused this.

    I hope this gets Sean Spicier tweeting again.

     

     

  • Tuesday Afternoon Links

    Happy Tuesday, I’m tired. Long night last night. Here is one set of half-ass links for your enjoyment.

    Florida Man gets busted dealing Vitamin E in the shape of Trump’s head (and orange!)

    That moose stole my taco!

    I knew Britain was becoming a shithole, surrounded by communist Europeans, but I didn’t realize we’d need to organize an airlift.

    America’s Space Force becomes real August 29!

  • Monday Afternoon Links

    As always, my work has shifted from “hurry up and wait” to “why wasn’t this all finished yesterday?!!” So I’ll just drop these here.

    Illegal immigrant no match for Florida Boy. Good on ya, kid, but maybe have a heart-to-heart with your mamma about her taste in men.

    I think this is a measured and reasonable response.

    A feel good story about a pitbull. Dog bites shark is news, right?

    NYPD officer who choked Eric Garner to death fired. Its not justice, but its more than I expected.

     

    Here’s a little college radio throwback for you.

     

  • Friday Afternoon Links

    Hey guys, what’s up? Happy Friday. I have a growler of beer calling my name, so, mailing it in again.

    Fucking hell, Florida Man. If a giant flag at an elementary school annoys you, maybe planning to stab as many children as possible isn’t the answer.

    This Indiana guy is crazy. I love him. Because I don’t live in Indiana City.

    I mean, if it isn’t dirty

    Religious groups training paramilitary forces. Churches hosting and sponsoring… kinetic defense… drills and training.

     

  • Thursday Afternoon Links

    Well, guys, I hate to link and run, but I got a hall pass to the local beer bar tonight, and it starts at 3:00 Cis-Heterol Shitlord Time. So, please enjoy and understand, I’m mailing them in.

    I have to think that Russian pilots spend a lot of time practicing a no-engine belly landing. Still, we confer Hero of the Glibertariat upon the pilot. STEVE SMITH will be by to deliver his prize.

    Follow up on the gravity as entropic force. As I understand it, this has been used to successfully predict the visible mass of about 50 galaxies as well as being the basis of the article about dark matter free calculation of spiral gravity rotational velocity.

    Good news in the war on the White Plague.

    I’m not saying its aliens, but...

     

    Bring your own tunes!


    SugarFree’s 2020 Dem Deathwatch Update