Spencer PriceNash
@spricena.bsky.social
retired sysadmin: UNIX (FreeBSD, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris) Linux (Fedora/Debian), networking, whatever's in data centers that's not Microsoft. Likes: comics, movies, books, learning, traveling.
We here in Texas are expecting very cold weather this weekend (Jan 24). Where's Ted Cruz? Oh. California. www.fox4news.com/news/ted-cru...
Ted Cruz spotted on a plane to Laguna Beach ahead of Texas winter storm
A photo of Senator Ted Cruz on a plane to Laguna Beach as Texas braces for a winter storm is drawing a lot of attention.
www.fox4news.com
January 21, 2026 at 11:26 PM
We here in Texas are expecting very cold weather this weekend (Jan 24). Where's Ted Cruz? Oh. California. www.fox4news.com/news/ted-cru...
"[If a narrator wants to evoke interest through his narrative] he will exaggerate, use superlatives, etc. Then he usually narrates the worse, because he is not thinking so much about the story as about himself." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, _Human, All Too Human_ (1878)
January 21, 2026 at 9:44 AM
"[If a narrator wants to evoke interest through his narrative] he will exaggerate, use superlatives, etc. Then he usually narrates the worse, because he is not thinking so much about the story as about himself." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, _Human, All Too Human_ (1878)
If you are trained to complain about the printing of money, you default to accepting the existence of money.
January 18, 2026 at 7:46 PM
If you are trained to complain about the printing of money, you default to accepting the existence of money.
"You run *ahead*? Are you doing it as a shepherd? Or as an exception? A third case would be the fugitive. *First* question of conscience." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, _Twilight of the Idols_ (1888)
January 15, 2026 at 9:30 AM
"You run *ahead*? Are you doing it as a shepherd? Or as an exception? A third case would be the fugitive. *First* question of conscience." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, _Twilight of the Idols_ (1888)
Ted Cruz's last two e-mails went to my spam mailbox.
Is my corporate "free" mail service trying to tell me something?
Is my corporate "free" mail service trying to tell me something?
January 14, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Ted Cruz's last two e-mails went to my spam mailbox.
Is my corporate "free" mail service trying to tell me something?
Is my corporate "free" mail service trying to tell me something?
"Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, _Beyond Good and Evil_ (1886)
January 13, 2026 at 9:40 AM
"Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, _Beyond Good and Evil_ (1886)
Drivin' in Colorado, Sep15 2024. I encountered a number of signs like this one, saying the roads were funded, at least in part, by the bipartisan infrastructure law. It appears, based on recent posts, such funding has been canceled. How's your roads?
January 12, 2026 at 8:52 AM
Drivin' in Colorado, Sep15 2024. I encountered a number of signs like this one, saying the roads were funded, at least in part, by the bipartisan infrastructure law. It appears, based on recent posts, such funding has been canceled. How's your roads?
"Writers who do not know how to express their thoughts clearly in general, will in particular prefer to select the strongest, most exaggerated terms and superlatives: this produces an effect as of torchlights along confusing forest paths." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, _Human, All Too Human_ (1878)
January 11, 2026 at 6:48 AM
"Writers who do not know how to express their thoughts clearly in general, will in particular prefer to select the strongest, most exaggerated terms and superlatives: this produces an effect as of torchlights along confusing forest paths." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, _Human, All Too Human_ (1878)
"Scholars who become politicians are usually given the comic role of having to be the good conscience of a policy." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, _Human, All Too Human_ (1878)
January 10, 2026 at 7:13 AM
"Scholars who become politicians are usually given the comic role of having to be the good conscience of a policy." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, _Human, All Too Human_ (1878)
Having watched several films directed by Douglas Sirk, Written on the Wind (1956) is my favorite. A Scandal in Paris (1946) and
Lured (1947) follow, with Magnificent Obsession (1954) fourth.
I'd like to see more, but the library system doesn't have physical copies of what I want to see.
Lured (1947) follow, with Magnificent Obsession (1954) fourth.
I'd like to see more, but the library system doesn't have physical copies of what I want to see.
January 9, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Having watched several films directed by Douglas Sirk, Written on the Wind (1956) is my favorite. A Scandal in Paris (1946) and
Lured (1947) follow, with Magnificent Obsession (1954) fourth.
I'd like to see more, but the library system doesn't have physical copies of what I want to see.
Lured (1947) follow, with Magnificent Obsession (1954) fourth.
I'd like to see more, but the library system doesn't have physical copies of what I want to see.
"Interest in education will gain great strength only at the moment when belief in a God and his loving care is given up, just as the art of healing could blossom only when belief in miraculous cures had ceased. [...]" -- Friedrich Nietzsche, _Human, All Too Human_ (1878)
January 9, 2026 at 7:31 AM
"Interest in education will gain great strength only at the moment when belief in a God and his loving care is given up, just as the art of healing could blossom only when belief in miraculous cures had ceased. [...]" -- Friedrich Nietzsche, _Human, All Too Human_ (1878)
"It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even -- quench thirst any more?" -- Friedrich Nietzsche, _Beyond Good and Evil_ (1886)
January 8, 2026 at 7:17 AM
"It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even -- quench thirst any more?" -- Friedrich Nietzsche, _Beyond Good and Evil_ (1886)
"Born in the USA" means very little now.
January 6, 2026 at 8:52 AM
"Born in the USA" means very little now.
"Our whole attitude toward nature, the way we violate her with the aid of machines, and the heedless inventiveness of our technicians and engineers, is _hubris_ [...]" -- Friedrich Nietzsche, _Genealogy of Morals_ (1887)
January 6, 2026 at 7:59 AM
"Our whole attitude toward nature, the way we violate her with the aid of machines, and the heedless inventiveness of our technicians and engineers, is _hubris_ [...]" -- Friedrich Nietzsche, _Genealogy of Morals_ (1887)
"Workers who combine to set up a reserve fund can be freed at least for some weeks from the compulsion to sell their labor-power on a continuous basis at the given market-rate. Capitalism does not like that at all." -- Ernest Mandel, Introduction to Marx's Capital Vol. 1
January 5, 2026 at 2:24 AM
"Workers who combine to set up a reserve fund can be freed at least for some weeks from the compulsion to sell their labor-power on a continuous basis at the given market-rate. Capitalism does not like that at all." -- Ernest Mandel, Introduction to Marx's Capital Vol. 1
Another fire engine, sitting in the intersection of my little dead-end street and the connecting street.
Since condos, McMansions and gigantic duplexes were built here, this has become common.
I suspect this one's waiting for cops/ambulance. Sometimes the fire truck shows up first.
Since condos, McMansions and gigantic duplexes were built here, this has become common.
I suspect this one's waiting for cops/ambulance. Sometimes the fire truck shows up first.
January 4, 2026 at 7:26 AM
Another fire engine, sitting in the intersection of my little dead-end street and the connecting street.
Since condos, McMansions and gigantic duplexes were built here, this has become common.
I suspect this one's waiting for cops/ambulance. Sometimes the fire truck shows up first.
Since condos, McMansions and gigantic duplexes were built here, this has become common.
I suspect this one's waiting for cops/ambulance. Sometimes the fire truck shows up first.
"You couldn't hit a lake if you were standing on the bottom." -- The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
January 3, 2026 at 7:04 AM
"You couldn't hit a lake if you were standing on the bottom." -- The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
"People who want to flatter us to dull our caution in dealing with them are using a very dangerous tool, like a sleeping potion which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us only the more awake." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, _Human, All Too Human_ (1878)
January 2, 2026 at 9:49 AM
"People who want to flatter us to dull our caution in dealing with them are using a very dangerous tool, like a sleeping potion which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us only the more awake." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, _Human, All Too Human_ (1878)
"We lay no special value on the possession of a virtue until we perceive its complete absence in our opponent." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, _Human, All Too Human_ (1878)
January 1, 2026 at 10:14 AM
"We lay no special value on the possession of a virtue until we perceive its complete absence in our opponent." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, _Human, All Too Human_ (1878)
So, 47 and friends never directed anyone to rename the state between Texas and Arizona. The one south of Colorado.
Why not?
Why not?
January 1, 2026 at 9:00 AM
So, 47 and friends never directed anyone to rename the state between Texas and Arizona. The one south of Colorado.
Why not?
Why not?
Relatives tell me: do not go "home". It's weird there, strange things happen. Then I see www.freep.com/story/news/l... which happened near where I once lived, and think maybe they're right.
Police: Man dies after shooting himself, striking pedestrian in Detroit
A man driving in Detroit shot himself and struck a pedestrian, according to police.
www.freep.com
December 31, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Relatives tell me: do not go "home". It's weird there, strange things happen. Then I see www.freep.com/story/news/l... which happened near where I once lived, and think maybe they're right.