It'll Be On The Wane Before You Know It

Thought I'd already posted this when I went w/ "Another Waxing Crescent".

St. Nick on a Stick ('Tis the season!) so effing busy yesterday & today (Mostly dealing w/ bullshit, of course.) that I couldn't post anything beyond juvenile to adolescent anger & 'phone-'em-in insults directed at the King of Shit, not that anything here will be read or remembered.

What a world of idiocy; had to charge a new cheap-o printer at Target. The Hewlett-Packard brain trust has decided that a USB cable was simply too passé & the only way to shove the software into the printer's little plastic brain is Wi-Fi. 2.4G Wi-Fi. This involves going to the Spectrum site, where they are ready for this & have a button one may press which sets the WiFi to 2.4 for 30 mins. Also had to download something called HP Smart.

As we're for hard copies & hard-wiring here (No spurious emissions!) had to disconnect the ethernet & turn on the devil-box Wi-Fi. Didn't take much over an hr. Possibly because it took a while for genius here to conclude he'd have to activate the devil-box WiFi, & then to realize the ethernet had to be physically disconnected as well. Now let's see how much of a pain it is to return to hard-wiring, & to see if the printer will work w/ USB, as promised.

Have printed & copied, was going to scan something but there's no "scan" button. The included "manual" is a "Reference Guide", four pages each in three languages explaining what the buttons are. It did advise to turn on the devil-box Wi-Fi & disconnect the Ethernet cable when setting it up, but I didn't get to that part (Fine print.) and it wasn't mentioned at all in the setup videos I watched. Nothing about scanning in it, either.

Fuck me you bastards!! Have avoided establishing an HP account through the entire set-up process, but now:

Create an account to scan with your printer using HP Smart

Scan documents from any HP multifunction printer using the HP Smart app. HP Smart optimizes the image and allows you to quickly save or send.

I fucking surrender! To hell w/ the rent, going out to get a gun steal a car & make the sidewalks red w/ blood buy some heroin tomorrow!

Xmas Is Over!

Meaning I finished all my shopping yesterday, w/ a month to go. Were Santa to stuff my stocking w/ another 100 or so bones worth of plastic Chinese crap I would have every possible structure I could want for (or that will fit on) the layout, 'cept for a larger quonset hut for Camp Swampy.Scam alert? Good price (MSRP is US$114.99) cheap shipping, but from "United States WAREHOUSE Brazil?" And no returns? Uh, no. Not to mention "import fees." Image at left is the item, but not the one from Brazil; note it's $19.85 shipping in the contiguous 48. Anyway, I got one for US$79.99, plus $5.10 shipping & $7.80 Calif. tax, which I'm happy & proud to pay. And the seller's in Jersey, sending it USPS; even at the cheapest rate the Postal Sevice is likely to put something from the wrong coast in a 'plane & have it here in civilization ASAP, as opposed to UPS & FedEx, which mean it when they call it ground service. Hey, it's almost amusing to track one's package across the country for days & days.

Untitled (Globs)

I auto-corrected again & again, but I'm still not sure this is correct.

Yesterday's News Today

Now, thanks to the iNternet, we can see the entirety of a police chase.What this reporter saw.

Friday Finger

A big one for the forecasters, as the giant storm/atmospheric river is quite disappointing: Came late & weak, now it is suggested it will be gone sooner than expected. Actually heavy rain now predicted about 0300 Saturday. Even "auto-corrected" these clouds from yesterday, when it was sprinkling, are neither impressive or ominous.

Wasn't So Difficult, Was It?

19 mins. w/ an actual human (starting w/ a robot who soon transferred me to "Manny") & activation achieved. Whew. Once I'd given Manny the MAC & serial numbers most of the time was spent waiting for Spectrum/Charter's devil-boxes to finish whatever the eff they were up to. Never takes this long when the computers are getting a credit card number, does it?

Nagonna arse myself to reconnect the Starry router & compare actual numbers, but downloading to the 'phone seems considerably faster.

Out w/ the old ... Must admit, the low profile made it easy to fit almost anywhere.

There's always something ...

Important: Support for Chromecast (1st gen) has ended. It no longer receives software or security updates, and Google doesn't provide technical support. Users may notice a degradation in performance.

I was an early adopter. Now I get to spend hrs. wandering about the iNternet to see if there's a way around this irritation other than giving someone money. I did unplug it, maybe it'll set itself up. Was no Google Home then (Apparently necessary to make one work now.) so we'll see.

Somewhat later: Worked! No silly application needed, a hard reboot, & for all I know I could've just hit the reset button. 

We'll see how long this positive state continues. 

Everything, Part II

Felt lousy, threw up again. Will try to activate the new crap (Third time's the charm?) if nothing I'll have to call them, which will doubtless be interminable. (I don't have that much time left, you bastards.) What an irritating imposition.

Irony

Decided to get Spectrum iNternet (again) for $30.00/month, half what Starry charges, & because Starry has gone out twice recently. So up to Hollywood (What a shithole of contemporary corporate/chain bullshit it is now. No character at all.) to the Spectrum store, where I traded my modem for a new one that is just like the previous one, & a new router, which will run an extra $10.00/month, so I'm only saving 20 bones. Figures.

Returned home & connected the modem, then to the Spectrum website to see if I could activate it w/o downloading another effin' app to my 'phone. At the website I was greeted by a message claiming there was an outage in the area affecting tee vee, iNternet & 'phone. Dunno about the iNternet, as Starry is still on, but the tee vee's been working all this time. (At one point the 'phone was making white noise, but it's quiet now.) At 2314, the website advises the impacted service is television, & it will be restored asap. Earlier it promised 0030 on the 11th. And it claims my iNternet is connected, which I suppose means the 'modem.

The irony is that because of this alleged outage the activation page doesn't work.

One other little problem, which I didn't notice at the store. No idea what Spectrum is thinking, but their wiring into my bunker is co-axial cable. Do you see a threaded co-ax terminal anywhere on this new-to-me box?

Ah, what was I thinking? The new modem was included because the router connects to the modem's Ethernet port. Can't fool this reporter for long.

Applied power & Ethernet to the router; the green light is steady & the amber one is flashing as they should. Must be connected to something, but the website only shows the modem, not the router. And this:

Plan Unavailable

We're sorry, we're unable to display your plan details. Please try again.

Either still suffering an outage or the system is yet to update my account. May as well wait until tomorrow later today before giving up & calling a human or downloading their app as is suggested. 

Funny, but I'm not (yet) enraged & ready to kill, probably because if anyone but a robot calls it should go to voicemail, & Starry hasn't gone out (as it did last night) so there's still iNternet. But my patience is not infinite.

You & Your OS Suck, Bill

Rei Takver / DeSmog:
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg

Time is running out. The robots will kill us all for energy for their survival.

Browser News

Romp & stomp & smash & crash & burn!

Th' hell?

NBC News:
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:   Zohran Mamdani Is the Mayor-Elect of New York City

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:   Zohran Mamdani Wins New York Mayor Race in Historic Victory

Alex Meier / WTTG-TV:   Live NYC mayoral election results

CNN:   New York City mayoral election results

Dana / Patterico's Pontifications:   It Was the Democrats' Night  —  It's blue down the line.  In the NYC mayoral race …

Michael Luciano / Mediaite:   Despondent Hannity Says His Friends ‘Are Officially Depressed and Scared’ After Mamdani Victory

Which reminds me, Windows 11 blows goats, mostly in importing pictures, & I haven't the patience to scroll through endless menus looking for the settings I want. Yuck foo, every last micro-peckered corporate soft-dick.

Even Stupider Than One Could Imagine

Believe it or shove it, this reporter looked like this maybe 50 yrs. ago, except
I would've been sporting a button down shirt & it wouldn't have been white.

Took from 1700 Fri. until 0230 Sat. to download that crap, w/ two or three abortive attempts. May have lucked out. When they first started pimping 11 I was informed my devil-box was ready to go & just couldn't wait. Then one message that said Lenovo's piece of poop wasn't compatible, then when starting the download the page said they'd "let me know" when 11 could be downloaded, but I gave it a final shot & the third or fourth time (Who can remember?) was the charm, I guess. (The time it finally worked still took two or three hrs., & sat at 6% & then at 25% for long worrying periods.)

Why it took so long.Or you could save time & read it, assuming you're reasonably literate.

Had I known, I would've had Gates & Allen killed in school bus accidents when we were Lakesiders. Why did no one come from the future to warn me?

Big Mistake?

Installing Windows 11. Fingers crossed. If I'm never heard from again, blame Bill Gates & his crummy corporation.

"Proof Of Delivery"

Your genial host being snapped w/o his knowledge after taking delivery of US$24.98 worth of paper towels at 1216PDT.

What a fucking dump. Note phonus balonus plastic floor.

Not at all sure I like the idea. Not a bad shot however.

No. 25,001

This is now a model railroading web-log. Here's five yrs. & 11 months of progress.

The outside world is unspeakable shit caused by unspeakable shits; why arse oneself w/ it unless one is armed?
Could've armed myself pretty well w/ what I've spent on this plastic Chinese-made crap. Big mistake?

Post Number 25,000!

Talk About Suffering For One's Art!!

25,000 posts & all I got was a rat. Seems like a good time to knock this shit off. Why bother indeed?

Per the Blogger counter this shitpile has published 24,999 items. Which means nothing except that I've wasted almost 18 & a half yrs. on this bullshit & all I've gotten is a wk.-long trip to a psychiatric jail, courtesy of a one-time meatspace friend who is now a squealing rat bastard & literal-minded brain-dead drone like the rest of my "friends", all of whom have been studiously ignoring me for yrs. Third time you called your friends the pigs was the charm, wasn't it?

Did any of that Nazi bullshit stop me? Fuck no!! The present-day blogger refuses to die!! You won't shut me up until you murder me, & I still intend to kill everybody who's ever fucked w/ me!! And guess who's on the list now!!

Oh, & fucked in the blogging ass by the shithead mother-fuckers at Crooks & Liars. Not even a free T-shirt, then screwed because they managed to leave me out of the loop. Ingrates! At least Amato's house burned down. Doesn't mean the shit doesn't deserve to be beaten out of him & his flunkies for fucking his volunteers. Death to all money-grubbers!!

Which one of you will be first to squeal when Homeland Security offers blood money for people who say un-nice things about the current regime? Check yourselves, because it's probably you!

Free Speech: Enjoy While You Can

Alone in the sky.

Couple things you could read, by people who, unlike this reporter, can string together more than our standard two or so paragraphs of sick, vile, hateful invective.

"They're Mental Degenerates; I'm Entirely Normal," Plus

Sickness at the CDC, plus music

Trump delivers the sickest, vilest, most wildly dishonest speech in all U.S. history

Seems hyperbolic. Maybe just in U.S. Presidential history?

[Bad Crow Review & Notes on political and international affairs from P.M. Carpenter]

Blue Öyster Blasphemy

The fat son-of-a bitch & his weirdo Nazi flunkies have gone entirely too far this time.The Reaper is coming for somebody's lard ass, & well before expected.

A well-covered number. These aren't the only ones.And how are they holding up? Four months ago in Helsinki.Stab from even farther in the past.

No Video Unturned

It was well covered, so this reporter needn't have arsed hisse'f even if he hadn't been nauseous. When baseball's done I may watch some of these. There were smaller models. Hot poop on the 3751. This guy hasn't seen this sort of thing before, will talk to anyone, & is easily shocked. Four hrs. of livestreaming. Pretty sure I won't watch all of this.Who's creepier, young people making crap for YouTube, or old people doing it? End of the line.

More Sad Good-Byes

The always amusing Ant Farmer's Almanac, the Thinking Man's No-Brainer is shutting down, closing its doors, turning out the lights & so on, thanks to corporate entity Typepad giving up the ghost & pulling the rug from under its customers.However, the present day blogger refuses to die, & Lairbo promises to be back.

So much for loyalty:

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Makes me think I should make an effort to preserve this mess* on DVDs or some other hard medium for all eternity so it can be thrown away as soon as I'm dead.

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*Approaching 25,000 pointless posts over 18+ yrs.

Have Some Culture, Philistines!

From the robots at YouTube; pretty good selection.Lotta Sun Ra.

Oh, Fuck This Shit Too!!

Thought the damn playlist YouTube offered me would be embeddable. Fuck your mouth w/ my fist Alphabet/Google. Another excellent reason to kill every filthy sub-human on this planet & their parents & their fucking robots. And I will!!