Let the Dewalt-Milwaukee religious wars begin.

If you want to know what people are really like, notice how they treat people who can't do anything for them.

Plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery.

Blue 2001 Ford E-450 Shuttle Bus

Has the same engine and transmission as a truck I own which currently has a bad transmission.

In Noyes Lab or CLSL Bldg. A?

;)

Now I have to reinflate the tires tomorrow to move it more.

Pro tip: Do not try to tow a salvage shuttle bus through a tight spot on your property when you're tired and it's getting dark.

After getting it stuck under a branch (of a tree I don't like anyway) letting air out of the tires wasn't enough to get clearance. A chainsaw was.

Tired Hartree.

Jacket: A piece of clothing worn by a child when its mother is cold.

I wonder who all knew to short stocks in anticipation of this.

My condolences.

It took a bit to parse that. Most mentions of orange assholes here on BlueSky this weekend aren't about cats.

Not the first primate to fling poo when upset.

It took a long time, but that was when we developed the ability to keep records.
Think about when you were a baby before you gained the ability to remember.

I also use open shell which makes it much more like Windows 7, or at least somewhat less bonkers.

Live long and shoot first.

It's noteworthy how many Chinese politicians who have been prosecuted for corruption under Xi are not strongly aligned with Xi or have had a falling out with him.
It's also noteworthy how few strong Xi allies have been prosecuted.

Who's your favorite Jedi? (Wrong answers only)

Latest Hammer Horror film: The Bride of Tik-Tok

Feh.

My oxygen regulator doesn't. No brazing today. (Yes, I keep a fire extinguisher at the ready.)

Saw your comments in the chat box.

Celebrating Crim Mip Memorial Service Celebrating Crim Mip Memorial Service

Sorry for the short notice, but I just received this:

The online memorial service for Karl Meyer (Crim Mip) on Second Life will be livestreamed at: www.youtube.com/live/aTMyOYw...

I believe this is California time so this will be 4 PM Central today.

I still want someone to invent the furry teleporter.

It's just a little far for a movie night. ;)

Dave was pretty good. Too bad he no longer writes his column.

A side order of claws?

I've got the soap gene but can somewhat ignore the taste.
Still, Mexican restaurants are usually a last choice for me because of it.

For every drug that works, there are thousands of "good ideas" that are worth testing but nearly all don't work out.

Politicians like Trump, need to hold their tongues and let the researchers work to find out which "good ideas" work out and which are failures.

See my post above. (I work at a university that does medical research including on covid during the early pandemic). There was an idea behind why it might work. Early lab studies showed some effect. But the body is complicated and when used in a human, like most proposed drugs, it didn't work out.

In the end, it didn't work in the body because it never reached the concentration needed to do that in the lung cells which were the front line of the infection.
As most proposed drugs, it didn't work out, and people wasted their time with it during the illness instead of getting to the doctor.