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The latest out on tRump? His aides played show tunes to calm him down.

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Let's run this down:

He admires 'masculine' men...

He wears make up...

He listens to show tunes...

He throws hissy fits if he doesn't get his way...

Put on a crown sweetie... you may be straight but you're a f*cking queen.

-m

We won't talk about when he was paling around with Rudy when Rudy was in drag...

“We need better parenting, greater parental involvement. We need to restore God in our communities. If we do that, we will be able to reduce crime in this region.” – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott

Why heck, I'm an agnostic and I haven't committed a crime in ... oh... several hours?

Having abandoned reason, logic and evidence based science he has no where to go except to Invisible Sky Daddy.

Seriously, he sounds like the Taliban with less Allah.

Too all those unvaccinated now suffering from COVID, you should get off the ventilators and be treated with Thoughts and Prayers.

-m

Completely not COVID related.

And possible TMI.










I was chatting with an internet friend who remarked that her boy friend's father stated that men *wiping their own butts* after leaving a dump can turn them gay.

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I don't know about you folks but I think that attitude is *really queer*.

Fear the butthole? Seriously? What, you get someone else... a woman of course, to wipe if for you?

Disgusting. Need mommy to change your diaper? Double disgusting.

Guys, if you really believe that wiping your own butt after dropping your morning foot-long will turn you homosexual, you're just one Broadway musical away from the Gay Bar.

-m

Locally, people living on a certain street will hold a street wide garage sale. Not everyone who lives on the street will host it, but they tolerated it.

So it a couple of blocks you can hit a couple of dozen garage sales.

I can't resist.

Sometimes I score big. Not this year. 20 inch Dell flat screen monitor? I'll take that for 25 dollars. It was a little pricey but I could tell the owner was having a bad day. Attach cables and power up. Score!

24 inch LG flat screen TV? Antenna and HDMI input? No remote? I'll take that for 5 dollars. I know with some of these TVs you don't need a remote just to turn it on. Plug it in... no action. Hmmm. Check the power adapter... seems flaky. Check it in another outlet... and the TV comes to life! It *talks* to me!

A female voice says, "No signal." Well, yeah... I didn't attach an antenna.

Spooky.

Feeling around the sides and bottom I notice a tiny switch. Push it in... I get a menu! Wiggle the switch around and I get options! I turn down the spooky voice and change the input to HDMI. I attach my Blue Ray player and it works! Score!

I'll probably invest the 10-20 dollars on a 'universal' remote control for it but in the meantime I'm going to haul that puppy into work and attach it to my new Mac Air. I've got the Air attached to a 20 inch Dell monitor (they seem to be real common around here) via a HDMI to DVI adapter. We'll see how that works.

-m

10 AM

Engineer #2: "Hey... you wouldn't happen to know where the Blahblah server is? It's not in TV Master Control, not that I can see."

Me: "Have you tried the old server room?"

Engineer #2: "I hadn't thought of that."

So we go to the old server room and find servers and computers... mostly powered down... for things that were discontinued a decade ago. There's a big computer switch with lights still blinking, so something is that room is still working... maybe? But of the boxes still on we can't identify as the Blahblah server.


12:30 PM

Engineer #1: "Hey, you wouldn't happen to know where the Blahblah server is?"

Me: "Have you tried the old server room? Engineer #2 and I looked in there but couldn't identify which box it might be."

Engineer #1: "Old server room? Where's that? I didn't know we had an old server room."

He's been there for about a year and a half.

We go look again but we can't identify what might be the Blahblah server. We did poke around a bit and find Iomega backup drives. I find a Macbook Pro with a dead battery and can identify some Windows XP boxes... but no Blahblah server. Some of the boxes are labelled with gibberish... but no Blahblah server.


2:30 PM

Radio person: "Hey, you wouldn't happen to know where the Blahblah server is?"

Me: "Look, I know where *some* of the bodies are buried but not that one. It's probably in TV Master."

We go poking around and I eliminate one of the suspects. Eventually Engineer #2 finds some of the paperwork and actually identifies the missing server.


3:30 PM

I email my boss regaling her with the search for the long lost Blahblah server.

She emails back, "Oh, it's in this rack right behind the console... about half way up."

Yep. That's where Engineer #2 found it.

It's destined for removal and possible replacement Real Soon - which is a good thing because the spare drive is in error.

-m

I'll admit he did a good job handling the COVID crisis... but years of mishandling people he should have been keeping his hands off of and generally harassing people sort of pushes the balance towards him being an asshole.

Now he's left the building and apparently he's trying to dump his dog Captain on somebody. I understand the Malamute mix is a bit high strung and bitey... which means he needs more physical activity and more training. Something Andrew needs too.

I hope Captain finds a good home soon. A loving home. He's obviously coming from an abusive one.

-m

Actually, anytime is a good time to slag Jeff Bezos.

I have to admit his little rocket is cute and it performs well... it just doesn't reach orbit. And for all those newscasters who snickered over it's phallic shape, where have you guys been the past few years? He's been launching that puppy for a while now. It maybe penis shaped but it doesn't... reach altitude.

Now Jeffy's having a tantrum because NASA - with it's limited budget - picked SpaceX over Blue Origin to go to the moon. He's sending his lawyers to do battle with the organization he wants to suck money... er, work with to send people back to the moon.

Honey, you don't need the money. You just bought a yacht to ferry your skinny butt to your super yacht. If you wanted the moon so badly you should have bought more rocket things and fewer boats. I mean, why else would you have employees so busy they're pissing into bottles if you weren't serious about this rocket stuff?

For all of Elon Musk's goofiness (Boring Company? Hyperloop? Starship to Earth? Come on.) his rockets *fly to orbit*. He delivers *tons* to orbit. He's deliver *people* to the ISS. With limited bucks why would NASA bet on someone who *can't deliver* - no matter how cute your er... rocket is.

You want the moon so badly? Sell your yachts, fire your lawyers, tighten your belt and go build rockets. No bucks, no Buck Rogers. Elon was willing to go broke for it. Are you?

-m

I'm not a really big meat eater but right now, I want a burger.

Not McDonalds. Not Burger King. A sit down meal. A quarter pound of prime hamburger done to a light char over a grill. With a nice bun. With a slice of gooey cheese and crisp lettuce. Ketchup with fries or chips on the side. Denny's is acceptable. But we're just turned into a highly contagious area. Just a week ago we weren't. So an indoor dining experience ain't likely to be happening.

I'm tired of the maskless and the vaccine avoiders whining about their freedom to be Typhoid Karens and Chads. I'm done with them. If everyone took a *little* care we won't be having this surge. I could go dine out and enjoy my burger. But no. They spread their disinformation and their disease and more people are going to die.

I'm lost for words.

-m

The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and super-spreader event is happening again! Get your local ER stocked up and your EMTs well rested because sure as gasoline makes motorcycles run they bikers will be bringing home Delta brand COVID home with them.

Fun times, is it not?

( Yeah, it's not. )

Also... lots of yard work leaves me with aching arms, shoulder and elbows.

-m

Look, I'm a child of the 60's when the Space Race was HOT. I grew up watching the Gemini missions fold into the Apollo missions, moon landings and Skylab. I can't help but keep on eye on the three rocket men; Branson, Bezos and Musk. The recent flights of the first two billionaires has left me... disappointed.

Branson's space plane is innovative and looks as handsome as he is... but does his system _scale_? I mean, it would be great to hop aboard a larger version of Virgin Galactic and fly to the space station a la "2001 a Space Oddessy" but I can't see his system scaling much beyond his little hopper plane.

As for Bezos - his cute little rocket seems to work well but again... does it _scale_? He preaches about sending all our heavily polluting industries up into space but this isn't a new idea - it's been around since the 1970s. So where are the workers going to stay? I'm sure working in one of his orbiting factories will be as enjoyable as working at an Amazon warehouse. And I'm sure the delivery from space will be quite exciting especially if you like your items flaming.

As for putting giant solar collectors into orbit... won't it be easier and cheaper just to deploy them closer to the places where power is needed? You know... ON THE GROUND?

And finally we come to Elon. I have to hand it to him... Musk puts on a good show. Moving fast and breaking things in rocketry leads to big explosions which are entertaining as long as no one gets hurt. And I have to admit that (unlike most of his other business adventures) he has delivered. His rockets has sent both satellites and people _in orbit_. Not sub-orbital - but fully into space. If you want to go to space you have to send _tonnage_ and lots of it. But putting 10s of thousands of satellites up in low earth orbit to deliver Internet? And have the satellites burn up and need replacing every 5 years? I don't think you need to do much math to realize that fiber optic lines that need installed once will be a better and cheaper system in the long run.

As for living in space or on Mars... we still don't have enough data on our long term survival in either. Building an L5 station would be a safer option to work out *how* to survive in deep space. Mars is a long ways away. Our tinker toy probes are doing okay there but they are expendable. They don't need food and water and oxygen to survive - people do. These items are a little sparse on the red planet.

You want to save planet Earth? Great! Stop running away from it! Maybe we can leave this planet at some future date and there's nothing wrong with planning and doing the research that will make that possible and safe... but seriously, most of the solutions to our problems are ground based - not space based.

-m