Thinking about going back to the #Marvel and #DC well for this trip. Got any recommendations for good story arcs?
I just finished House/Powers of X and enjoyed it.
Any #comic nerds out there who can lend a hand? I've got a vacation coming up and I'd love recommendations for stuff to read. I normally take a few trade paperbacks to pass the time. I've been on the independents the last few trips (Something's Killing the Children, Manifest Destiny, etc.)
Today is going to be a good day. I can feel it. Better than that: I can feel it for you, too.
Chung Wah
Owner by my classmate Steven Chung's family. It's still there, even if I'm not in the area anymore.
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There's been so many since that time, but that one holds a special place in my heart... And stomach.
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
I don't often get a chance to break out this meme, but it feels apropos.
This is one of the dudes that did background checks, right?
And anarchic views are ok when it comes to the bad apples. It causes us to rethink our framing and evolve our perspectives.
Your wife was right. You shouldn't have said anything. She can take pride in the fact that she tried.
There are ways to make a private server only accessible to you & anyone you designate to view your doorbell camera.
Also… you should probably get rid of that voice AI in your kitchen or living room, and just turn on the radio or a podcast / music streamer.
It's going to be one of those days:
• Solar ☀️ installation and the pups don't like people outside our house without them
• Repair crews are shutting down the water 💦 because of a possible leak on the main
• Rec Council ⚽🏈⚾ meeting tonight
• New work data 🧾 for analysis
• SOOO much barking... 🐕🐕
I've got two little dogs and there's some major rolls construction today. Despite the cold, they are in and out watching the progress.
My hypothesis is that any dog under 20 lbs is a human aged 5-7 years when it comes to construction vehicles.
Note: I have eminent respect for lawyers and those who are passionate about the law. My disdain for lawyers comes from the "ambulance chasers," "purely-for-profit," and "phone-it-in" lawyers.
I'm including "I used ChatGPT in my brief" in the "phone-it-in" grouping.
Glad to add levity in these dark times. If I can also poke light fun at the legal field, that's an added bonus.
My last thing is blanking the encryption keys within TPM since the hard drive will be Windows 10 with no Bitlocker.
Then I get to *really* start the work. These off-the-retail-shelf computers really load themselves up with unnecessary crap.
* Turns out my NMVe drive is flagged as "old" (too many IOs over its life.)
* Falling back to 2.5" SSD.
So far, I've used:
• dd for Windows
• GParted in Hyper-V
• qemu-img in Ubuntu WSL
• PowerShell w/ Hyper-V module
• gzip in Ubuntu WSL to squash the raw file for posterity.
Currently copying.
10 positiveOpinion = true
20 if ( -not ( -positiveOpinion) ) { GOTO 10 }
30 positiveOpinion = false
Ranch is blasphemy.
The only acceptable French dressing is the red "Catalina" one.
Thousand Island is only for Reubens.
Vinegar + oil > vinaigrette
If it has more sugar than a cookie, it's not dressing: it's dessert masquerading as a vegetable.
* bad sectors detected during GParted (surprise, surprise, surprise)
> Welcome to being the family "IT Guy"
* convert the 'raw' to VHD via qemu-img
* convert the 'vhd' to VHDX w/ dynamic flag via #PowerShell
* see if I can shrink partitions down for conversion to fit a 250GB NVMe (spare) via GParted boot disk in #Hyper-V
* 'dd' the drive to a raw image (8-hour dump job)
* flag the 'raw' as read-only
* make emergency panic copy to NAS for safekeeping
* 'dd' the 'raw' file to 1TB SSD (spare)
Helping family with old computers: A tragedy in N+1 parts
* remove 1TB hard drive from existing PC to save all the things
* Original manufacture date: 2011-10-11 (🥹)
* realize I threw away my SATA USB dock because "I'll never need that thing again" (😠)
* attach the drive directly to my desktop
That's not what it meant when I heard it described in high school, but I wasn't very politically motivated at the time.
I wonder why it was disparaged so in the nineties. I'm not a lawyer, and never will be.
That feels accurate for judges in that part of the south. Good thing they can bring the complaint again because it wasn't an actual court case, right?
Find those people, for they are the enemies of all that is good and right in our (or any other) world.
Being good is a choice. Not everyone makes the choice for good for every decision. Those of us who strive to be good, wrestle with ourselves after we make the wrong call.
That's not these people. They are making the wrong choice daily, crowing about it, and then patting each other on the back
In my law firm days, I used to hear lawyers say to pass the Florida bar all you needed was a number 2 pencil. The bar down there was literally that low.
Ghost Rider on his motorcycle dragging one ICE agent along the ground and forcing his head to the pavement while he holds a second ICE agent by the neck. Text reads: FUCK ICE
Ghost Rider on his motorcycle dragging one ICE agent along the ground and forcing his head to the pavement while he holds a second ICE agent by the neck. Text reads: “THE RIDER APPEARED FLYING DOWN THE STREET AT 90 MPH, GRABBING THE AGENT BY THE NECK. THE SOUND OF HIS SPINE SNAPPING COULD BE HEARD DOWN THE BLOCK. OLIC THE SECOND GUY... THE RIDER PRESSED HIS HEAD INTO THE STREET, GRINDING IT DOWN LIKE A BELT SANDER. THEY FOUND HIM A MILE DOWN THE ROAD, JUST HALF THE HELMET LEFT, AND WHAT WAS INSIDE WASN'T PRETTY. THE RIDER MAY HAVE BEEN A DEMON FROM HELL, BUT THAT NIGHT HE WAS A VENGEFUL ANGEL."
Wolverine stabbing an ICE agent through the skull and another ICE agent through the chest.
FCKICE
