Weird. Surreal. From the Nevernever and Post Modern Jukebox.
Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles (Queen / Freddie Mercury Style Cover) ft. Cunio
Must watch.
Comcast I shouldn’t have to login to check for internet outages in my area an address or zip code should do it.
Okay all you typewriter collectors, here it is: The Lego Typewriter. (Line forms on the right.)
Polish sausage and sauerkraut in the slow cooker.
Rumor: Russia is calling up 60,000 reservists.
Reading Twitter comments about a video of a fire fight in Ukraine: so many people don’t know what tracer ammunition is or what it looks like. They think it looks fake. I think it must be a generation gap.
My long time USPS and UPS delivery drivers have retired. :-(
News Site: “You have ad blocker. Please turn off.”
Me: “I don’t mind you showing ads. I do mind your ad network tracking eveything I do and reporting it to Google. Hence the ad blocker.”
News Site: “Turn off blocker.”
Me: “No.”
Estonia has the right idea. You have to mobilize the entire population.
People keep saying the USA should send M-1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine. The M-1 tank weighs almost 20 tons more than the Russian T-72 tank. At almost 70 tons for the M-1 Abrams, Ukraine would have to replace most of it’s bridges first.
Today is National Burrito Day per Twitter, so it must be true. Burritos are an all time favorite food group so this is a sacred holiday for me. Mexican food for supper tonight!
The Internet of Things is mostly horsepucky. My dishwasher, refrigerator, vaccum cleaner and crock-pot DO NOT need to connect to the Internet for any reason. Ever.
The toaster does though because it contains the launch codes.
The media expends a lot of time and ink about Putin’s daughters and whether he’s married or not. Gotta say, I don’t care. Is this what we and the news media have become, a bunch of flighty gibbering tabloid gossips?
My idea of a high tech doorbell button is one where the button is backlit.
That’s it. For my everyday tea I’ve settled on Red Rose Original tea. @RedRoseTeaUS I tried loads of others but I keep coming back to Red Rose. It has a slight tannin taste which I really like. #blacktea
This is a good summary of the military situation in Ukraine. Worth reading.
Overshadowing all other news today: Aldi had those chocolate mini-donuts and Cosmic Crisp apples in stock.
Interesting article.
The Art of War: How the Surrealists Helped Upend Camouflage and Redefine Modern Battle
My Linux laptop has arrived. It’s a Galago Pro from System76 running Ubuntu. I got Vivaldi installed and everything is running well. The speakers are okay but nothing great. The build feels more solid than my Windows machine
Russia’s largest search engine, Yandex, warns it might not be able to pay it’s debts. Yandex is one of the few search engines remaining that have it’s own index.
Russian Diplomacy: “When the only tool one has is a hammer, one tends to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
3 GOP US Representatives left off burning Golden Books just long enough to vote against a non-binding resolution in support of Ukraine. IMHO there is a Fifth column within the GOP working for Russia.
Putin has cornered himself.
Russia expected the Ukraine invasion to be a cake walk. All they have succeded in doing is exposing just how weak their forces really are to the world and particularly China.
Looking at news portals to get an overview of the Russian invasion of Ukraine: Yahoo! News is significantly better than MSN news. BBC News Live Coverage is very very good.