Apparently so, with it being one of many variations off the Bladder Fiddle. Depending on configuration, the BF can play drone or some notes, while the Boomba is more a percussion instrument. Not much sillier than the plywood box a musician sits on and plays as a drum.
The aardvark suspects that they escaped to the minion pool. Or possibly the flamingo ponds — the ones off by the horizon, where the plastic flamingoes fly after they come to life?
Never could get my Roomba to connect to my home network, but it retains the network name I wanted to give it – Roombat.
I do like it; it happily goes under my bed and makes roomba-noises, and I don’t have to get out the manual vacuum and crawl around myself, but it does get stuck under the edges of the furniture – not high enough to let it cruise freely, not low enough to keep it out, just right for mindless persistence to force its way into trouble.
My model does no room-mapping, just bumbles into stuff and kind of follows the right wall, unless it gets a notion to roam off at some unpredictable angle.
There are some people trying to say that Iryna Zarutskas could have been saved by the other passengers on the train. Or that they could have stopped her killer. Thing is, no one was watching each other, the seats on the train didn’t face each other, and everyone had their nose buried in their phone or were listening to their music. The killer took less than 3 seconds to pull the knife, move, and begin stabbing her, and the attack was over 2 seconds after that. I could have been there, armed, and looking at the killer and not had time to realize he was attacking, draw, and shoot him before he attacked. As for first aid, it’s questionable whether even someone with a combat trauma pack could have saved her. Impossible to apply pressure to the wound to stop the internal bleeding. And even if you had a turkey baster to shoot anti-coagulant powder all the way down the wound channels, it wouldn’t have saved her to get to an ER.
We really do need to bring back lock down insane asylums, and stop being easy on crime.
Yes, like so many other crimes in crowded places: people record it, but take no protective action. Consider a recent case in Boston where some deranged women (carrying a baby, no less) shoved an elderly person off the bus, dumping her face first onto the pavement. It was recorded inside the bus, and a couple of people were sitting right next to where she was. One of them was the bus driver, in fact. None did anything about it.
That evening or the day after, the head of the MBTA (transit authority) had the chutzpah to assert that “we do not tolerate violence on the MBTA”. Baloney. They certainly do, we have it on video that they do. Stop lying to us, you worthless chairwarmer.
despicable…. but thank G-d he did. Otherwise no one would ever know.
between her and Kirk, a pair of murders may have actually triggered the preference cascade. The Author is hard on His tools, but he never breaks them unnecessarily.
The Alice Smith quote (Wealth Redistribution vs Wealth Creation) makes me think of two things.
First, the quote from Robert Lucas, who won the the Nobel Prize for Economics back when it was actually worth something: “Once you start thinking about growth, it’s hard to think about anything else.” Economic growth lifts all boats.
Second…and longer…I think now that Ronald Reagan’s foremost accomplishment was the creation of the 401(k). A vehicle that allowed people to easily invest and hold for the future. Yes, winning the Cold War was huge. In the aftermath we find that Russia is a rough place no matter who is in charge, the Chinese Communist Party isn’t interested in relinquishing power no matter how good the Coastal Cities once looked as a vanguard for a middle class leading to democracy, and that the Long March through our institutions continued unabated.
With the 401(k) a vast number of people quietly invested their way into at least comfortable retirements and in many cases, generational wealth. My own path has had many ups and downs, but my retirement is made easier by funds I saved literally 30+ years ago, growing ever since.
The journalists think Kubrick is dead, and he declined to participate.
It was a block chain deepfake misinformation theater.
related: Ptolomy’s almagest was faked using stop motion, and the sonic transition in powered flight uses marionettes.
The illusion that there could be anything wrong with Democrat criminal enforcement policies, or with Democrat speech around their political opponents, was a manhatten project of cineamatography. Most of which will never be screened in public, sadly, considering how excellent it is.
It is like the other twelve Kennedy assasinations. Fred, George, Henry, Steven, Cleveland, Burbank, Larry, Jon, Vil, Nemeniah, Trevor, and Patrick Moses Kennedy, and their ‘tragic murders that shook American hearts’, were masterpieces of stage craft, but somebody(4) lost the wallet with the quantum cryptocurrency that was paying for the Cold War, and so we had to call a halt to things.
Seed oils in chem trails are real, but that is not in RFK’s portfolio.
(4) sources conflict over whether it was Harry Potter, Pepe the frog, Pipkin Pippa, or Peregrin Took. Depending on whether you consult the German text, the Sumerian text, or the Korean text, it was sold for three beans to a mysterious peddler, eaten by a tiger or a bear, or washed away by a flood and buried by mud.
It was late enough at night that I thought the Almagest reference was an obvious tell of a connection to flat earth conspiracy theory. Despite that I learned about the almagest this year.
A bare ‘actually, it was the atlantic, not the new york times’, would have been funnier.
(And the Bee’s ‘seed oil in chem trails’ joke from a month or two back was extra hilarious, given bio-diesel. It is literally true that the federal government has funded research into putting seed oils into, eventually, combustion exhaust trails. At least, I’m fairly sure I saw that research being funded somewhere.)
According To Hoyt 
SFBS!
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Lucy – okay, first thought was “That’s what happens when you don’t get the good stuff from your local pusher!”
“fat-left Massachusetts town” deserves a Sarah award for unintentionally appropriate typo.
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C4C
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c4c2
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Hmmm… Maybe we should start calling traffic circles ‘Fuckarounds’? 😄
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The Reader asks what ‘find out’ means in the context of a traffic circle?
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“Wait! That was my exit! Now I gotta go all the way around again!” 😲
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Or, as I found out in Ireland, some lanes are ‘exit only’ and what do you mean I have to get on the freeway going back to Dublin!!?
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Are those who ignore right-of-way for roundabouts… circle jerks?
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Dear BOB. Carp inbound
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I approve.
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Roomba plus land mine is a Boomba.
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There is (an alleged?) musical instrument called a Boomba.
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Apparently so, with it being one of many variations off the Bladder Fiddle. Depending on configuration, the BF can play drone or some notes, while the Boomba is more a percussion instrument. Not much sillier than the plywood box a musician sits on and plays as a drum.
According to Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bladder_fiddle
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LOL
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If you use an antitank mine, that would be a Big Badda Boomba.
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Also:
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WHERE did all the carp go?
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Judging by the comments, most are in ballistic trajectories.
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NORAD:
“General, we are having a very bad day”
“Look at all those tracks!”
“Hundreds!”
“Getting really odd radar returns….”
…
“Oh carp…. they finally did it…”
“FLUSH THE BOMBERS! SPIN UP THE SILOS! GET ME THE PRESIDENT!”
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The aardvark suspects that they escaped to the minion pool. Or possibly the flamingo ponds — the ones off by the horizon, where the plastic flamingoes fly after they come to life?
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Never could get my Roomba to connect to my home network, but it retains the network name I wanted to give it – Roombat.
I do like it; it happily goes under my bed and makes roomba-noises, and I don’t have to get out the manual vacuum and crawl around myself, but it does get stuck under the edges of the furniture – not high enough to let it cruise freely, not low enough to keep it out, just right for mindless persistence to force its way into trouble.
My model does no room-mapping, just bumbles into stuff and kind of follows the right wall, unless it gets a notion to roam off at some unpredictable angle.
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So… it’s a drunk grunt sneaking back into barracks after the pass expired.
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I thought he was an Italian skier, 30-ish years ago.
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There are some people trying to say that Iryna Zarutskas could have been saved by the other passengers on the train. Or that they could have stopped her killer. Thing is, no one was watching each other, the seats on the train didn’t face each other, and everyone had their nose buried in their phone or were listening to their music. The killer took less than 3 seconds to pull the knife, move, and begin stabbing her, and the attack was over 2 seconds after that. I could have been there, armed, and looking at the killer and not had time to realize he was attacking, draw, and shoot him before he attacked. As for first aid, it’s questionable whether even someone with a combat trauma pack could have saved her. Impossible to apply pressure to the wound to stop the internal bleeding. And even if you had a turkey baster to shoot anti-coagulant powder all the way down the wound channels, it wouldn’t have saved her to get to an ER.
We really do need to bring back lock down insane asylums, and stop being easy on crime.
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Death penalty works too and is more reliable.
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But one person had the presence of mind to record a video of her bleeding out and dying on his phone 🤬
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Yes, like so many other crimes in crowded places: people record it, but take no protective action. Consider a recent case in Boston where some deranged women (carrying a baby, no less) shoved an elderly person off the bus, dumping her face first onto the pavement. It was recorded inside the bus, and a couple of people were sitting right next to where she was. One of them was the bus driver, in fact. None did anything about it.
That evening or the day after, the head of the MBTA (transit authority) had the chutzpah to assert that “we do not tolerate violence on the MBTA”. Baloney. They certainly do, we have it on video that they do. Stop lying to us, you worthless chairwarmer.
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By the “violence” that they do not tolerate, they mean “defense of self and others.”
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despicable…. but thank G-d he did. Otherwise no one would ever know.
between her and Kirk, a pair of murders may have actually triggered the preference cascade. The Author is hard on His tools, but he never breaks them unnecessarily.
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Double checking definition of perfidy ( cause I forgot); yep.
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The Alice Smith quote (Wealth Redistribution vs Wealth Creation) makes me think of two things.
First, the quote from Robert Lucas, who won the the Nobel Prize for Economics back when it was actually worth something: “Once you start thinking about growth, it’s hard to think about anything else.” Economic growth lifts all boats.
Second…and longer…I think now that Ronald Reagan’s foremost accomplishment was the creation of the 401(k). A vehicle that allowed people to easily invest and hold for the future. Yes, winning the Cold War was huge. In the aftermath we find that Russia is a rough place no matter who is in charge, the Chinese Communist Party isn’t interested in relinquishing power no matter how good the Coastal Cities once looked as a vanguard for a middle class leading to democracy, and that the Long March through our institutions continued unabated.
With the 401(k) a vast number of people quietly invested their way into at least comfortable retirements and in many cases, generational wealth. My own path has had many ups and downs, but my retirement is made easier by funds I saved literally 30+ years ago, growing ever since.
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And occasionally word slips out about congresscritters quietly discussing how they will confiscate it.
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Reagan perfected the Proletariat owning the Means of Production via the 401k.
He beat the Mike Foxtrot Commies at their own game.
pwned!
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Burge has it wrong.
The journalists think Kubrick is dead, and he declined to participate.
It was a block chain deepfake misinformation theater.
related: Ptolomy’s almagest was faked using stop motion, and the sonic transition in powered flight uses marionettes.
The illusion that there could be anything wrong with Democrat criminal enforcement policies, or with Democrat speech around their political opponents, was a manhatten project of cineamatography. Most of which will never be screened in public, sadly, considering how excellent it is.
It is like the other twelve Kennedy assasinations. Fred, George, Henry, Steven, Cleveland, Burbank, Larry, Jon, Vil, Nemeniah, Trevor, and Patrick Moses Kennedy, and their ‘tragic murders that shook American hearts’, were masterpieces of stage craft, but somebody(4) lost the wallet with the quantum cryptocurrency that was paying for the Cold War, and so we had to call a halt to things.
Seed oils in chem trails are real, but that is not in RFK’s portfolio.
(4) sources conflict over whether it was Harry Potter, Pepe the frog, Pipkin Pippa, or Peregrin Took. Depending on whether you consult the German text, the Sumerian text, or the Korean text, it was sold for three beans to a mysterious peddler, eaten by a tiger or a bear, or washed away by a flood and buried by mud.
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did you watch Sneakers over the weekend Bob?
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Dude. Never buy weed from strangers.
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It was late enough at night that I thought the Almagest reference was an obvious tell of a connection to flat earth conspiracy theory. Despite that I learned about the almagest this year.
A bare ‘actually, it was the atlantic, not the new york times’, would have been funnier.
(And the Bee’s ‘seed oil in chem trails’ joke from a month or two back was extra hilarious, given bio-diesel. It is literally true that the federal government has funded research into putting seed oils into, eventually, combustion exhaust trails. At least, I’m fairly sure I saw that research being funded somewhere.)
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Tried some new premium/healthy cat food for Miz Kitty. She rates it “yum”.
Side effect: GodzillaFarts.
“Mrrrrrowk.” (ruffles back fur, lifts tail)
(10 feet away) AAAAUUUUGH! What died?
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