Frowning, Not Smiling
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Frowning, Not Smiling
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Random coder. Some for fun. Some for $$. C#, Java, Rust, JavaScript, Smalltalk/Squeak, etc. - whatever looks interesting. Now exploring React. Occasional fan ficcer. And I have IDEAS! About things! (OMG! Another old guy with opinions. On the Internet! )
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Oh look! It's the Monday after we switched to #DST in the US. I wonder how productive today will be?

That's a rhetorical question. We all know the answer, right?

😱
Haven’t been a NYer (state) in decades so I’m going to refrain from giving my opinion about who should be elected mayor of NYC.

Out-of-state pundits and yahoos should do the same. It’s not your city is it.

But damn! Cuomo running? Really? The mind it boggles. And not in a good way.

#nyc #mayor
Watched an ISROn (India) rocket launch this morning. Not a huge rocket but the excitement was. All the local schools must have taken 5e day off to go watch.

Nice to see there are still non-rocket nerds being excited about rocket launches.

SpaceX has made rockets boringly common.

#isro #rocket
Bummer!

Wanted to see what Trump would have said when the Blue Jays won the World Series. I bet the anti-Canada rant would have been off the wall.

I guess there’s always next year. Maybe the Blue Jays can get to the World Series again?

#trump #bluejays
Will not be surprised if DJT attempts to pardon his buddy former-Prince Andrew for “Epstein related activities” and adding more UK tariffs when he discovers he doesn’t have the power to do that.

Seems like a Mad King Trump kind of thing to do.
If the Dodgers win the World Series, will Trump invite them to the White House? He does love a winner, but it’s LA.

If the Blue Jays win… another tariff on Canada? Or claim it was a rigged game?

Because he’s unlikely to invite THEM to the White House. Unless he gets a large ballroom “donation” !!
A couple websites are trying to replace the challenge tracking web app. And make money. Somehow. No thanks.

Spreadsheet to track progress for me, I think. Simple. No frills. No participant monetization.

#november #novel #challenge
It's Not-the-NaNoWriMo Challenge month.

NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) died in 2024. It had a good run. The website finally died this past summer.

But that doesn't mean people can't attempt to write a short novel (50K words, or more) for November.

But how will you know if you've "won"?
Noted snowflake DJT fires US Fine Arts Commission. They aren’t white trash enough for him.

They must have told him how ugly his Epstein Ballroom is going to be and to not use so much gold leaf.

#gaudy #ballroom
House Speaker says “Let them starve!”

Add another victim of the GOP House refusal to release the Epstein files - SNAP!

Letting millions of Americans starve? A GOP negotiation tactic to force an end to the shutdown.

Jesus would be livid! But those pseudo GOP Christians say “Starve peasants!”
So, some Trump flunky is giving Trump credit for someone else winning the Nobel Prize in Physics because that actual scientist worked at a government lab?

Can Trump even spell or define Quantum?

That’s not how it works.

What’s the academic equivalent of “stolen valor”?
Halloween! Tomorrow!

I didn't buy much Halloween candy this year. Just a token amount just in case I get ANY trick-or-treaters (Last year? None!)

It's gotten too expensive! I end up eating it all myself, which I shouldn't. For reasons!

#halloween #candy
Netflix is next. I re-subscribed to watch a specific show. Once I manage to watch that I'll cut that off also.

I don't watch much TV/streaming. Rather read!

Just keeping PBS & AppleTV for now. Plenty there to watch. And much cheaper.

#appletv #pbs #netflix #books
Bye Disney+

Just canceled Disney+ (My sub was renewing in November. Not worth the increase for what little I watch it. Just have a couple things to watch before Thanksgiving that I've been procrastinating on.

Been planning to do this for months. Hate all the Hulu slop crowding the app.

#disney
Reminder: It's only 'States Rights' if it benefits the GOP and the grifters currently occupying the White House.

Otherwise it's 'Bow down and lick Trump's feet!' and the oligarchs he rode in on.

#norights #grift #gop
That's a lazy Coup!

So, am I understanding it correctly? The Speaker of the House has decided to put the House on semi-permanent recess, until January?

Just to stop a vote on something? Is he hoping for a miracle to stop it? Like maybe martial law?

Why is he allowed to do that?

#coup #johnson
"You not responded the discount"

Some telemarketer left that on my voicemail. Not sure what the discount was for since this is the first message I got from them.

Hopefully it wasn't for a course in writing phone messages/spam with ChatGPT.
My car has run-flats. And NO official spare. Thanks BMW!
(I did buy an aftermarket spare for long trips - just in case 😅).

I know many people don't like run-flats but I think they're okay. Even if it's an odd size and had to be ordered.

Tire Roadside Warranty FTW! Paid for itself!

#bmw #e92
Bleh! Getting 2 new front tires on my car. Hit a pothole sometime in the spring and it had a slow leak that has been getting worse.

Tire place (Discount Tire - where I got the tires 12,600 miles ago) said ... damaged sidewall... can't be fixed. 😱

But! Warranty coverage on the bad tire!

#tires
Robo-Trump is loose!

Looks like the remote control they installed in Trump's brain during his last visit to Walter Reed is faulty.

During his visit to Japan he wandered off right in the middle of "viewing the troops" with the Japanese Prime Minister. Oops!

#robotrump #nocontrol
Epstein files? Hello! Is there anybody out there?

Apparently, preventing the release of the Epstein files is more important than Congress (House of Representatives) doing its job!

How does the Speaker of the House get fired? He's got to go!

#epstein #gop #house #obstruction
Or maybe one of the companies donating part of the $300 million cost/bribe to build it can name it? All the CEOs can arm wrestle for the privilege and Trump cut the ribbon.

The “Oracle White House Ballroom” seems appropriate.
Name the Ballroom contest!

Since the White House supposedly belongs to “We, the People”, not POTUS, I think there should be a national contest to name it. The winner can cut the ribbon when it opens.

I vote for ‘The Epstein Ballroom’

#ballroom #contest #nameit
2025 World Series? First game is tonight? Huh.

I don’t have cable anymore or the right streaming service so I guess I’m not watching?

I don’t think I watched it last year either. Only baseball I’ve watched this year was on AppleTV, because I already pay for that.

#worldseries #sportsball
Wait! When did 'Life of a Showgirl' come out? It feels like that was forever ago.

I was just listening to it today, in my car. It's decent "car music" - pop - not distracting & mostly pleasant to listen to.

But 'Father Figure' ? With her voice? Too smooth. Needs some growl.

#tswift #carmusic