Brokedown Palace

Hi, friends. Just now I learned what Alt + PageUp and Alt + PageDn do when I'm working with a spreadsheet, and it has changed my life. (That last clause should really be in all caps.)

Bluesky is not a place where I want to have an argument. It goes no better than the Argument Sketch from Monty Python.

Dreams and fragments of memory: I had a dream where I was in a specific building of a certain name. It took me a long time to remember, after I woke up, that I once knew someone who lived there, and that I had been in the building. Decades ago.

Most people react to this as if the poll responses demonstrate stupidity or a sense of superiority. I don't think that's so. I would say, whether I want a factory job or not, if 33 percent of Americans think a factory job would be good for them, it might be good if more factory jobs existed.

If you subscribe or want to subscribe to Robert Wright's Nonzero newletter, here's a iink to the article I read today: Always Forget open.substack.com/pub/nonzero/...

Is it too late for Maine Republicans to drop Susan Collins from the ballot and replace her with Graham Platner? He seems like the kind of guy they cotton to.

I'm deleting a post where I just disparaged a public figure whom I often disagree with. The guy is too easy a target, and other than giving me a moment to vent, the post accomplished nothing positive. I don't want to leave it in anybody's face.

Trying to catch up. Has Trump called out the far-left America-haters who rigged the Iowa Republican primary against his endorsee for governor?

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Man. Wordle 1,779 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Eighty-six the dumb crap.

I know, no kings, but what if we let DJT be King of Alcatraz?

The plural of "Kennedy" is not "Kennedy's". At least, not in the English I know. "Kennedys" is commonly used, though I prefer "Kennedies", which follows a general spelling rule.

If you want more daylight in the evenings during spring and summer, start your evenings earlier. Leave the clocks alone; just shift to an earlier schedule for your daytime activities. Daylight saving time is stupid.

The happiest smug moment of my life was when I, a fifty-something guy, listened to a coworker refer to something he was old enough to remember but maybe I wasn't, and I informed him that I was older than him.

Great happy energy in that half-time show. I wish I knew Spanish.

"Any more" and "anymore" mean different things, not just spelling variations. There's "I can't take meat loaf anymore," and there's "you can't have any more cookies."

Catherine O'Hara was a joy to watch in many shows, starting with SCTV.

First, the United States should acquire the Donbas. Then, Trump can swap it to Denmark for Greenland. Then NATO can build a couple big bases in the new territory of Danish Ukraine.

The Rebooting Years

I'm maniacally flexible.

We should use Standard Time as our official commonly used time in the United States, all year round. Anyone who likes Daylight Saving Time just needs to arrange for seasonal schedule changes for daylight sensitive stuff. Trying to push everyone into an abrupt shift in their sleep cycle is not smart.

So, let's not say Trump is Hitler. But he's at least as bad as Nixon. Maybe we should call him Donald Milhous Trump.

New slogan for Donald Trump: Make America Almost as Great As China

Saw the word "post-hawk" in a quotation in an on-line story today. Reporter didn't know the phrase and didn't bother to look it up? Or used some auto-transcriber and missed this mistake?

dammit (complimentary)

A lot of people washing their hands, and plenty of others eager to get bloody. Who will stand for justice?

Rest easy!

It can be hard work just to be a nobody. Being somebody is often harder and riskier, but if you're going to have to work at it one way or the other, at least sometimes you should make yourself be somebody.

It says here that women are now breaking the glass ceiling to reach the highest level of subservience.

How long before humans are bringing coffee to the robots?

Here's the big kitchen-table issue at my house: Why is there so much crap on the kitchen table? #kitchentable

I wouldn't say you need to grab torches and pitchforks and march on any billionaires, but you might plan to get to the polls at every opportunity and vote against the billionaires' allies. (To me, that has always meant to vote for Democrats over Republicans.)

Rip Van Winkle: "So we're not supposed to talk about 'compassionate conservatism' now?"