Watch a bird playing with a basketball:

https://twitter.com/ThatHeckinRobin/status/1279556498650169344

Don't mess with the pretty lady:

https://twitter.com/Holbornlolz/status/1280055540450766849

When you're swimmin' in the creek and an eel bites your cheek, that's a moray.

6 Jul 20 Edition—

Did Ghislaine wake up this morning?

☒ Yes

☐ No

Does Chislaine have Covid-19, the oft-fatal infectious disease?

☐ Yes

☐ No

☒ Maybe

(Note: According to the CDC, the incubation period for Covid-19, aka "Wuhan," is fourteen days. Ms. Maxwell was arrested on 2 July 2020. Therefore, if symptoms don't appear by Friday, 17 July 2020, the illness would be much yes useful as an excuse for an untimely death.)

(Not that anything like that ever stopped these fuckers… I mean, stay with me here in the real world.)

Who knew Farrakhan was an anti-vaxer?

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dont-let-them-vaccinate-you-farrakhan-warns-africans-dr-fauci-trying-kill-them

I'm so old that I remember when "anti-vaxer" meant you didn't purchase DEC mini computers with VAX installed.

A child in a Nike sweatshop stitching SJW slogans into a single-use shirt worn by a millionaire is the epitome of American activism

https://twitter.com/AlexRDell/status/1277099806616215553

I suspect I'll have to wait a long time before we see a FREE TIBET or FREE HONG KONG on those jerseys.

The first nine grafs of this piece have finally explained what "Pizzagate" is.

So what's "Gamergate"? Is that the same thing?

I thought the line itself was called VAX, not that VAX was software.

I used to hack into one at a gi-mondo midwestern university and read the term papers of undergrads. They were shitty.

So what's "Gamergate"? Is that the same thing?

Gamergate is about the incestuous relationship between game journalists and game producers, and the sometime rocky relationship with gamers. Tho there is sex involved, between the producers and journalists.

If the game or producers were woke, and the gamers didn't like the product, the journalists stood with the producers and accused the gamers of all the usual ISMs and phobias. You can see that with the recent release of The Last of Us 2.

It's a subset of my complaint about tech journalism: they're not journalists but rather scribes cribbing notes from corporate press releases. And saying nice things about the current game if they wish to continue getting advance copies of future games.

I thought the line itself was called VAX, not that VAX was software.

True. I'm so old that I forgot that the software stack was VMS. Tho I understand one could get them with unix instead. Wikipedia mentions ULTRIX as the DEC unix, but various BSD and SystemV unixes could run on that hardware.

As my grandfather used to say when presented with one of my freshly-unwrapped Christmas toys, "Well, looky here...."

> my complaint about tech journalism:
> they're not journalists but rather
> scribes cribbing notes from corporate
> press releases.

That's almost the petty stuff. You should be following Balaji Srinivasan: He's in a handsome tempest with an NYT writer name Taylor Something or Something Taylor. (It's an outgrowth of the threats NYT made to the Star Slate Codex blogger.) She, like everyone else in (crumbling) East Coast major media, has been harshing everyone in Silicon Valley with shamelessness and ineptitude. Her dishonest and intrusion (if not actual wiretapping) is naked an inexcusable. But she's not doing it for games, she's doing it because social media is collapsing the reputations and value of the older media institutions which pay for her smartphone.

“The grandma came and told me yesterday after the police left that the mamma accidentally left her baby in the car and it died,” Bell said. The temperature outside at the time was 92 degrees and the heat index had reached 100, according to the 4Warn Storm Team. “They’re good people, they are. She was a good mamma,” Bell said.

Damn! Hate to see what a bad one looks like!

RIP Ennio Morricone.

I just re-watched Il Buono, Il Brutto, i El Cattivo yesterday. Incredible score. That music will last forever.

When you really, really want your heart broken — hard, fast and evermore — look to an Italian. Women, composers, vintners, sculptors, mechanics… whatever.

Darthy— Hope you're watching Balaji this afternoon, because boyfriend is spanking ass.

I never liked Swisher… Even though you're supposed to because she's lesbionic. (She was always obviously out of her depth interviewing the most competent — and rapacious — business minds of our time.)

Also, I never liked Xeni Jardin, because she was always a vapid, self-aggrandizing nimbus without a shred of insight, technical or otherwise. (Needy people aren't made interesting by an unusual name with shitty haircut.

Missed the heart! 'Tis but a scratch!

> That music will last forever.

YouTubes—

This is also the music for golf in the rain… Actor Henry Wilcoxon, the Bishop, was also in Ten Commandments. It's remarkable that the Caddyshack kids, Ramis and Kenney, convinced the studio to license it with nakedly satiric intent... And that the tune is nonetheless beautiful. I never saw TC.

And I haven't seen a Bond film in many years, but this recent theme is a straightforward, and brilliant, reworking of the chord changes from Goldfinger. I think the new tune is a really gorgeous passage, and reminiscent of the power of those soundtracks when I was a kid. Probably 0.7% of the 2015 ticket buyers heard the allusion. Again, it's a surprise that the producer$ went to the trouble.

When you really, really want your heart broken — hard, fast and evermore — look to an Italian. Women, composers, vintners, sculptors, mechanics… whatever. ~ Crid at July 6, 2020 5:11 PM

Carmakers, too. Ferraris and Maseratis are nice cars, but they'll bankrupt you in maintenance. So will Fiats. but for different reasons.