No Post Today Or not Until Late

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Yesterday was a very weird day, complicated by not sleeping more than about 2h the night before. So I was doing the strangest things. Today I need to get some stuff done. But if I can I’ll write a post this afternoon.

119 thoughts on “No Post Today Or not Until Late”

        1. I driving down the the road and I am mooing with disaster
          got the pedal to the floor and I can’t moo much faster

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            1. I was free associating, mostly due to Joanna Wang’s Midnight Cinema album where she covered songs used in movies. Alas, there is no English set of lyrics to the song I wanted to use. (It’s the theme song to John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow and has a title that doesn’t easily translate. Two variants are “Love from Once Upon A Time” and “In The Sentimental Past”.)

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        1. That brings back a memory.

          Years ago, father was a reference librarian and a woman called in. She wanted to know what the lyrics were for Pennsylvania 6-5000

          She refused to believe the answer: “Pennsylvania 6-5000”. It took fifteen minutes to get her off the phone.

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          2. Although, in fairness, it was pretty standard in that time frame to take melodies that were just melodies first, and slap lyrics onto them. Happened to “Take the A Train”, “In The Mood”, and others. So maybe she was thinking that had happened to this song, too.

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  6. Well. Given the week its been, I am going to look at motorcycles today instead of working/writing/puttering in the barn. The distaff side of Chez Phantom declared it. Because we’re not getting younger, and life is short, etc.

    When the going gets tough, the tough do something. I’m not sure what they do, but I go look at bikes. ~:D

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      1. Isn’t that a pretty little thing? So nice.

        Its the only bike I’ll see today, I spent 2 1/2 hours in the car and only got halfway there. ~:(

        Try again another day.

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      1. Somebody was at the mini-club store with one. It’s the first time I’ve experienced mootercycle lust in months. (The small Honda was cute, but not at my weight. Or age. When my weight in pounds is 4X my age in years, I’m either too fat or too young.)

        But that Ural. Hmm. Whereinhell would I garage it? Aye, that’s the moo.

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  10. Yeah; I hear ya’. I was late getting to bed Monday (doing paperwork). Carried offspring back to uni after work Tuesday (got home little before eleven); then I was up getting a dead dear off the road at 1 am last night. (At least I didn’t hit it, but didn’t want to leave it in the middle of the road.)

    Got up; got dressed; took meds; ate breakfast. Felt it. Sent boss an email that I’d be late. Got to work past noon.

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  13. I shall incur the carp,

    Was that a Wiley Post?

    If it hard a card on it would that make it a Post Card?”

    Snidely Whip-post?

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  14. This was not a bad post, it was no post, so there should not have been a post. Because there was a bad post posted, it now was no longer no post, but a paradoxical post that is both no post and bad post at the same time. In the same paradoxic way that the electron is both wave and particle at the same time. So this is as orphangeorge says:”Schrodinger’s post.”

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  15. Off topic (assuming that “on topic” is even possible on a non-post like this):

    PJMedia’s Megan Fox continues to demonstrate how incredibly midwit she is.

    The psychological disorder that child abuse doctors love to wield against problem moms called Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSBP) only affects women.

    By this “logic”, she would mock Jordan Peterson for talking about “devouring mothers” because that only applies to women. Women are in fact psychologically different from men, an assertion this midwit would agree with in most other contexts, but somehow cannot abide in this case.

    Much like the “hysteria” diagnoses of women many years ago when doctors would order women to have sex with “young and strong men” to “cure them” from their hysteric malady, MSBP is a similarly laughable “disorder” for which there is no test or diagnostic tool.

    Midwits who want people to think they are smart are always ready to resort to the logical fallacy of false analogy.

    As people come to understand MSBP to be a controversial psychological fiction fraught with fraud, the medical community prefers to use terms like “factitious disorder” or “medical child abuse” to describe the same thing.

    It’s cute how she argues that MSBP is not a real thing, yet concedes that the medical community has other terms for it, because it is a real thing. She seems to be hoping that her sneering disdain will carry readers past this admission.

    The most glaring part of her lack of brilliance is that she is four-square against the transgender social contagion, but apparently ignorant of how closely it tracks with the kinds of women who really are guilty of MSBP, it’s just not getting paired with that because it is currently fashionable.

    Is MSBP an easy thing to abuse? Certainly. Does that mean it does not exist? If you have ever known a mother who was willing to put one or more of her children through hell in order to get attention, beginning with but hardly restricted to stage mothers, you know how laughable Fox’s position is.

    It would, of course, be better to have an objective means of testing or diagnosing, but that presumes that people are moist robots who are always easy to pigeonhole and categorize and mark off with a checklist.

    While Megan Fox has occasionally done some good work, most of the time when I notice her it’s because she’s displaying this kind of scolding midwittery, acting like a leftist activist but with less grace and subtlety. Her first “claim to fame” was an “exposé” of how her local library dared to allow people to browse naughty websites on their own laptops. She did this by the very dignified method of going to that library and snooping on what everybody there was doing. She has always viewed herself as a conservative hero, but in truth she’s just a busybody desperate to make herself seem important.

    On the plus side, at least she’s never tried to use her kids to do so. So she’s got that going for her.

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            1. A funny side story on moose, when my kids were little they were the ones who saved cereal box tops and soup labels, 1990’s. They sent in for the stuff, still have a couple of soup mugs and bowls, not cheap crap either. One time they sent in for a Bullwinkle T-Shirt for me. Of course I had to wear it, so there at work the next day was a six foot plus 280 lb guy in a Bullwinkle t-shirt. If my kids went to that much trouble I wore the shirt, could’ve been pink, I’d still wear it. Wore that shirt out. So ya, moose.

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  16. I am afraid I am lost in the land of, look a squirrel, today, now need to find moose.
    “If your happy and ya know it shake your meds,
    if you are happy and you know it shake your meds
    if your happy and you know it and not afraid to show it
    if your happy and you know it shake your meds”

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  17. Since it’s an open post, I’ll toss a little something of substance in it. Trying to put into words some of what I picked up in my Senior NCO Academy lessons many years ago.

    It has come to my attention that there are people who are screaming about the Israeli Defense Force committing atrocities by bombing schools, hospitals, and religious buildings in Gaza. In particular, the killing of innocent Palestinian children. While it is true that some, or many, children and other civilian Palestinians are being killed by Israeli weapons; they are not the targets of the IDF, and in fact, the IDF is trying desperately not to rack up a collateral death toll.

    Lawful military forces operate under internationally agreed upon laws of war. One of which designates what targets can lawfully be attacked, and which ones are off limits. Hospitals, religious buildings, schools are on the list of targets that may not be attacked. Structures or vehicles with a Red Cross or Red Crescent prominently displayed on them are also not lawful targets. However, there is an exception to that rule. Those buildings or vehicles may not be used to store war supplies, launch attacks from them, or be used for military command, control, and communications purposes. Any such buildings or vehicles known to being used this way ARE lawful targets. And those using them are committing war crimes when they do so.

    Hamas is recognized by the United States, and many other nations around the world, as a terrorist organization, precisely because they do violate the laws of armed conflict, and do launch attacks and use schools, hospitals, and mosques for military purposes.
    We already know Hamas took hundreds of civilians from Israel hostage. Not just Israelis, but people from many nationalities. What many people crying about Palestinian deaths don’t comprehend is that that Hamas is holding the Palestinian population of Gaza as hostages also. Understand please, that Hamas, like many Islamic organizations, has no respect for other people’s lives. To them, people are mere bargaining chips. Moreover, since suicide bombing is one of their preferred tactics, if they could induce a dozen Israeli soldiers into a school in an attempt to rescue the children, those Hamas agents have no compunctions against blowing themselves and a thousand children up to kill those dozen Israelis. Unlike Hamas, Israel values the lives of their military, and won’t waste them. But Hamas is a deadly infection that can not be allowed to escape and spread. Like a doctor cutting out cancer, they have to take healthy tissue too in order to ensure they get all of it. Hamas will not allow Palestinians to flee from a hostage situation like that, they’ll gladly shoot down their own people who try to escape.

    Better to have the IDF blow up a building to get the bad guys and then try to rescue those caught in the destruction, than to let the bad guys continue their reign of terror for everyone.

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    1. Just another example of what you reward, you get more of. Reward taking hostages, get more taken. The Soviet response to their guy being taken. Make it painful. No more hostages. They are all dead.

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      1. Time to invoke the Korben Dallas negotiation technique:

        “We’re sending in a negotiator.”

        BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!

        “Anybody else wanna negotiate?”

        Alternatively:

        “Surrender and release the hostages unharmed or we will kill you. This concludes the negotiations.”

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  18. I will attempt to enjoy my cup of Postum while recording my day on Post-It Notes and not enjoying a non-post, yet glad the non-action is not posthumous.

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  19. Heh.

    Apparently Illinois has a relatively new gun control law that bans “assault weapons” and standard capacity magazines. And if you already have one or the other, you’re required to register it. Registration started the first of the month, and will run through the end of the year.

    Apparently the registration numbers are so low that if the number of people registering stays at the current rate, registration will probably be less than 1% of people who are supposed to register when the period closes.

    :D

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    1. Sure. Because anyone with two brain cells to rub together that live in Illinois who should register will do exactly that. As it is, there is now an indication of how many in Illinois who have one brain cell, or less (ones who have registered), that own firearms. Given who generally is creating havoc with guns against the public, can speculate, these are the liberals (redundant) idiots.

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    3. Apparently, the majority of legislators and the Governor of Illinois aren’t literate, as their reading comprehension levels are demonstrably lower then the majority of Americans. Most people can tell you what, “Shall not be infringed” means.

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      1. Giv. Pritzker of Ill. is a particularly troublesome lefty. His family owns a big conglomerate (that bears the family’s name), and funds a lot of lefty causes. They’re particularly focused on pushing transgenderism.

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  22. Bad Horse
    Bad Horse
    Bad Horse
    Bad Horse

    He rides across the nation
    The thoroughbred of sin
    He got the application
    That you just sent in

    It needs evaluation
    So let the games begin
    A heinous crime, a show of force
    A murder would be nice of course

    Bad Horse
    Bad Horse
    Bad Horse
    He’s Bad

    The Evil League of Evil
    Is watching so beware
    The grade that you receive
    Will be your last we swear

    So make the Bad Horse gleeful
    Or he’ll make you his mare…

    You’re saddled up
    There’s no recourse
    It’s Hi-Ho Silver
    Signed, Bad Horse

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  23. Proof is required, possible, not probable. Coelacanth not withstanding.
    There also was a time that gorillas were thought to be myth. Meh

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        1. Fairy Fritters
          Chupacabra Chorizo
          Rosehip salad with vampire vinegarette
          Troll Tortillas
          Goblin Gumbo
          Kentucky Fried Kapa
          Frankenfurters
          Beans and Balrogs
          Orc Ouzo
          Salamander Steak
          Boggart burgers
          Leprechaun Lentil Soup
          Zombie ichor Zombies

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    3. There was also a time that gorillas were thought to be myth.

      And that time was before there were cameras everywhere, night vision cameras, and heat tracking was possible. And the notion they were a myth was dropped once, you know, someone produced a body.

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  24. This no-post wins today’s no-prize.

    Something I didn’t know — (per Wikipedia):
    “Since other comic companies had given out prizes for pointing out oversights and continuity errors in their books, Lee began awarding No-Prizes in such situations only “to the fan who could explain a seemingly unexplainable situation.” The reader who inspired this version of the No-Prize was a teenage George R. R. Martin, later a successful novelist.”

    in Fantastic Four #33 (Dec. 1964)

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