The only thing I use the Amazon Alexa can thingy for is to listen to the news on a “Flash Briefing”. (NPR, BBC, DW, and various others.) So NPR has been stuck repeating the same news summary for 5 days. This happens once in awhile but it’s annoying. I’ll out wait it.
Today’s Quote:
I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.
– Raymond Chandler
My garbage bins are out to the curb. This is small beer here in the USA, but major breaking news in the UK where they keenly track bin news. :-)
Good morning. Coffee done. 1st breakfast done.
Gavin Newsom is positioning himself for a run for president by establishing himself as somebody who stood up to Trump rather than kiss up. So some of his positioning is theater. Still he’s no friend of Trump, so points to him.
Today’s Quote:
The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.
– Raymond Chandler
Youtube seems overrun with crap AI created content. Youtube does not care, because they will show advertisements on crap videos just as easy as good videos. And the amount of advertisements has been growing. Big Tech looting and pillaging while they can.
Haircut, then drugstore for my second singles vaccine shot. Get whatever vaccines you can now before RFK, Jr. outlaws them.
That Australian TV reporter that was deliberately targeted and shot with a rubber bullet, while doing nothing wrong, was shot by a cop from either the LA Sheriff’s Dept. or LAPD but not by National Guard. Just to be clear. There is an agenda here against the press.
Good morning. Coffee done, on tea now. Breakfast was corned beef hash and eggs. Corned beef now comes in smaller 14 oz. cans. Enshitification continues.
The media is part of the problem with the LA demonstrations. They purposefully make it look worse than it is. Drama sells.
Today’s Quote:
I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
– Raymond Chandler
sigh I’ve never been remotely hip, mod or cool in my life, except for that brief moment when I bought a lava lamp.
Good morning. Coffee is done, on tea now.
Trump blustering and trying to provoke violence. Musk hiding. GOP lying as usual. Dems wringing their hands and being ineffectual.
Apple released some lackluster software plans. Whatever.
Today’s Quote:
From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.
– Raymond Chandler
Good morning. This could be a long day, so double coffee and skip the tea.
Everything Trump touches turns to chaos. Don’t trust Trump on anything.
Moscow has offered Musk asylum if he needs it. Lots of windows in Russia.
I still think Trump is working for the Russians. Trump administration redirects 20,000 anti-drone missiles meant for Ukraine, Zelensky confirms
I keep a couple of cookbooks in reserve. But all I ever really do these days is either heat stuff up or some simple frying. You can’t really call it cooking.
Today’s Quote:
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
– Raymond Chandler
Good morning. You can’t beat morning coffee.
Trump feels he has to look tough. Somehow it just makes him look weaker.
Today’s Quote:
At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.
– Paulo Coelho
I really hate it when links to articles shared online lead to paywalls and register walls. Don’t share the link if it’s walled or at least warn me.
Good morning. Coffee. I may do drive thru McDonald’s for breakfast.
Scanning the news headlines and timelines. Our society spends an awful lot of time talking about trivial stuff happening among the elites, who said what, how they feel, and very little on matters of substance.
Today I learned that biologically humans are more closely related to fungi than we are to bacteria. Fungi. This explains so much.
I’m thinking the Trump Musk slap fight is a cautionary tale about brain eating amoebas.
EVERYBODY POST IN ALL CAPS.
Today’s Quote:
Remember, US cities weren’t built for cars, they were demolished for cars.
– Paul Stout