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Sundipped Sunday
Good morning, friends and admirers. The rest of you read this out of vengeance, I assume; at least, that's why OI' Yellow Stain reads it. I can't help it if I'm right, and I can't help it if that-disgrace-elect reads it and hones his technique. I won't work for him, and I won't shut up, so you're stuck. Anyway, if it is Sunday or Thursday, it's sundipped.
A Half-Life Presidency
Busted or Bust
Wrecking the Place
Owning Everything
More as time and energy permit
A Half-Life Presidency
We've all heard the Yogi-isms, it's not over until the fat lady sings. Some would infer that if you shoot the fat lady, the opera goes on. I love this metaphor.
Here we are, soon to watch the libretto play on. In Washington DC, there will be worm sign the likes even God has never seen before. Another inauguration, and in our collective memories we hear 'Don't Stop' and 'Devil with a Blue Dress' and 'Money' and 'Hail to the Chief' in constant replay, like a loop of tape, cut with purpose by some vandal to shorten our collective memory.
Still, that's the White House. Half of our lives have been lies and men of low character.
If this is your path, expect to spend half your life trying to cover it up.
Busted or Bust
It started with larceny, and copping a feel. Small things a boy sees men of low quality get away with every day. When it's your father you mimic, it may tip a personal scale if a boy is not careful. After a lifetime of it, it grows into a habit.
One learns to make deals, one assumes, engages in transactions designed to enable the lifestyle and defer or avoid the blame.
Stacked one on top of another, the jealousies and the infidelities pile up in life. Marriages crumble, financial opportunities shrink, and the body count grows. There is no choice now; the future is set, carved into the soul of a child pointed the wrong way and allowed to meander.
If one could count offenses, perhaps a self-assessment could alter the path, but that's not part of the dysfunction.
Paying that piper would be part of the score, and by now, that is a price one only pays with their soul.
Only one way out.
Wrecking the Place
It's impossible to see beyond a singularity; events, histories, and perhaps even information are reassembled into the only possible form in the pressure and heat of that environment. How does one ruin one's own life so effectively that the only way out is through, no matter what it costs?
A second term starts ending the day it begins. In this game, the only real winning is to steal everything.
How do you steal a country? Never mind, what would you do with it? Again, seeing beyond the singularity isn't possible. The heat and pressure push forward, shooting the fat lady again. Truth is maleable, and the only truth accepted is the truth we approve; the rest is spun and crushed in the heat and pressure and is lost. There's no time to look back anyway, the only way is forward, no matter what.
Steal America? Wreck it first, and people will beg you to stop the catastrophe.
Owning Everything
These are the times men have made. These things are possible because we insist that they remain possible. We seem bidden by unseen forces to follow leaders we should not. We admire the acquisition of wealth and indifference. We aspire to power and the use of it when the outcome pleases us.
We all want to own everything.
Then we'll get rid of all these assholes.
That may be the only way possible, we insist.
Morning World
Much love.
Saturday 12/14/2024
Fluff
The world is falling apart in a toilet bowl, and someone is about to reach for the chain, so let's look at something completely irrelevant, but meaningful in a way. Trust me, I'll make it work.
I read a column in the NYT about men's jeans. They tried on 83 pairs of jeans. I don't have that kind of clothing budget, so thank you, WireCutter. Why would I care about jeans? I don't really. I was distracted by the concept at first. That's a lot of jeans; 83 pairs in a tiny room with cameras would take a while and will surely attract attention, so don't try this at home.
Their straight pick is $300. This is denim. I wouldn't say I like button fly. Are you kidding?
Did I mention excess? I guess everything really is a mess, even jeans.
Good Sabbath
Morning World
Much love 💌
Friday 12/13/2024
Work Today
I worked today. I tried to avoid it, but it was so darn fun. We, MMM and I have built the front-end-ish already. Today, we started on the interface controller/observer and worked on that language and protocol. There is at least one more I'll add. I'd add more, but this is Nerf-Em.
That's just me; I write a language. No, I won't share why I do.
I haven't decided on a few things about architecture yet.
Ms Abby
These Trumpettes are the worst.
On the. contrary, !#(%ing panic. Even the published concepts of the economic plan are a disaster. I'm convinced Trump is out to ruin the country (and crash the financial system.) Ms Rampel and I have agreed before, I think.
Every worst nightmare we've had about Trump's actual agenda turns out to be a worst nightmare.
Matt Gaetes as AG, do you need another hint?
I'm for DST.
Economy Notes
The concept, which he billed during the campaign as his 3-3-3 plan, entails increasing growth to 3 percent, cutting the budget deficit to 3 percent of gross domestic product and raising U.S. energy production by three million barrels of oil per day, or the equivalent in other fuels.
The Money Bucket
How to pay off all those people you need to pay off who helped steal the election with lies they swore to?
Make them pay for the right to kiss the ring, or whatever else the King so desires. Women, don't wear heels to the personal audience, I'm just saying. Maybe smelly sneakers and sweats.
It's the Inauguration [Graft] Fund. How bad do you want to live? Pony up, minion. Millions or kiss off.
This is a bucket of swamp swill that, in any other context, would be viewed as what it is.
A BRIBE.
The List
This reads lke a list of those next on the disenchanted recompense with extreme prejudice list, but it's a list of the people sucking swamp scum from Donald's foggy bottom to be, already.
Jeff Bezos
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Benioff
Steve Ballmer
Sam Altman
he wants more FAKE AI regulation inaction Walmart called
"Donnie, baby!"
I don't mention Elon, his half-life is short enough, anyone that close to the reactor is going to die. The companies he 'runs'? Shoot, he contributes nothing beneficial to any of them, they'll be fine. Reclaimed sinks are cheap.
Morning Markets
Panic at the disco. The groom overhears the best man talking to the bride. Yeah, you voted for this.
Swamp on the Street
Morning Carl, Hiya Dee. No offense Carl, but according to Kara Whatsherface, this place is full of rich assholes, all lined up at the trough. /giggle
I didn't say that, she did. Personally, I think trough is too nice a word, how about a self serve abatoir?
AWS and Jeff
AWS sucks. it is designed to make money to pay for all the losses Amazon incurs while putting everyone else out of business. Why would I subsidize that mindset?
"If anything, it's proof the business model works.." -- Jeff Bezos.
Walmart sells things just as cheap as Amazon and there's not all that sparkling Karma.
Apple Intelligence
As easy to use as a bowling ball is when wearing garden gloves. Or, Google it. Next question? There is a Gemini app on iPhone, with various models. A new Gemini 1.50 Research Model looks interesting.
I have an iPhone 15, not a Plus or bigger. Thankfully, I don't have to relearn how to do everything all over again, at least until I upgrade, which, since the phone has not a mark yet, will be a while. I purposefully got a 'normal size' model so that I don't overuse my phone to write a dissertation or something.
I'm unimpressed by Apple Intelligence, and my Macs have it, but I don't use it. So, I guess I can wait.
I use my Macs every day, and I'd never want to replace them with something from Microsoft, and Linux maintenance is too user-intensive for me for daily use. I don't expect Apple will ever lead in AI, lipstick is pretty simple. No offense.
I can run Linux in a virtual box on a Mac anyway if I want to arm wrestle.
AOC for the Win
Much love Ms.
Morning World
Much love. ✌️
Thursday 12/12/2024
Evening Tea
No tea; I have cottage cheese and strawberries, not tea. It is evening, though. Tea is how you make it, and I prefer steamed cream and honey, and that's a whole other cup of tea. I have chocolate and grape soda too.
The Presi-jerk
Ol Yellow Stain wants to start lynching immigrants RFN, as in before he even gloats, or maybe that is gloating.
Notes In A Bottle
Here are some notes from an (apparent) lecture I attended on economics. This part is about judgment and choices; that is, how to identify choices. The notes did not include a reference other than a date, July 2, 2019 -- no clue.
Three Core Analytic Concepts
Rationality
Marginal analysis
Optimization (constrained maximization)
Rationality
Rationality, as defined here, is free will with no judgment on wisdom or goals or objectives.
The decision processes people use, not the objectives. (no morals clause either)
How we decide, not what we decide.
Assumption: evil is not irrational per se
Making Rational Decisions
Magic four steps
Clarify the objectives
Identify possible alternatives (options)
Determine the value of each option
Determine the opportunity lost cost
As a predictor of behavior the highest net wins
(as an observer your viewpoint is your valuation and reveals your preference)
Evaluate (value derivation to you as defined by you -- chosen or not)
Execute
Caveats
People are expected to act rationally.
Sundipped Thursday
Mr. Senator, grow a pair. Ms. Senator, stop thinking like a man, think like a woman (sorry if that's sexist). If it's Sunday or Thursday, it's sundipped. Odd. Lately, I've thought of capitalizing Sundipped; perhaps I should trademark™ it or something. Or would that be to Mussolini or too Trump? No doubt. The Topic?
Fear and Loathing
Disunited States of Fear
The Loathing of the King
The Trumpdom
More as time and energy permit.
Fear and Loathing
I am wary to use the phrase, the sematics in your lexicon are unpredictable. Still, I recall, 'Fuck the doomed.' as a quote from President Richard Nixon in a Las Vegas men's room. I'll take that one.
We're here in the wake of that wave that built momentum in the great flyover expanse, grew and crested in the desert, and splashed and spilled against the great wall of the west.
We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.... So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
All things must pass.
The Disunited States of Fear
Chances are when you get up in the morning, there is a moment when your consciousness reaches out to obtain a grip on the day, and you remember in an instant what that day looks like.
Your wife and your kids are still asleep, and everything seems peaceful. As the man of the house, your soul aches for the challenges ahead to keep them apart, safe, and warm.
Your life, their life, your job, their well-being, your career, their future hangs now by a thread. A woven thread of lies and half-truths, some too terrible to take seriously, and all shake at your foundations and threaten our way of life. There's no algorithm to sort out what's real and what is a twice-told tale of fear and loathing. The retribution of a small man with a larger ego in control. An entire nation spurred on by a fool and his cadre of willing fools.
Fear everywhere. The markets, the Middle East, Europe, the Defense Department, the Justice Department -- fear everywhere, disunited fears connected only in the causal relationship to that twisted intellect.
And then there is politics.
The Loathing of the King
It has been said, these are the ravings of a mad man, don't take it seriously. A madman who is President-elect. Those people need to go to jail, everyone who sought his demise. He won't instruct; he'll hire the willing with the propensity. He made sure they'd swear to anything he lies to; he calls it loyalty. Many call it a lack of character.
DOGE is nothing more than a license to steal for Elon and Mr Ramalamadingdong. How much waste is there in a BFR that costs a billion dollars to light to see if it can make it to orbit? That's the way Elon runs the rocket business. It's only money. When it comes to people, the first thing to go is people. He doesn't care if Twitter is a troll haven; he's a troll. He doesn't care about waste unless it's someone else wasting it.
Elon became a billionaire on government money. Let's stop that waste. We can't afford Mars when we can't feed schoolchildren.
This is one of the willing instruments used to control your fear. Your job, wife, kids, you -- don't matter. You're probably waste. and the King loathes this waste.
The king hopes to pack every institution with people who won't stop him on his revenge tour; the minions will be busy counting their coups to feed their demons. That's why he hired them.
If Congress lets him get away with it.
The Trumpdom
'If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore'
--- Donald Trump
More of that bluster. Threaten, and wait for the cave-in. Hurt a few people to prove that it's real, ruin some careers, fund some primaries, leak some Enquirer moments, have the FBI take a look, the CIA too. Everybody is dirty; you have to look hard enough.
Look at the bodies lining Pennsylvania Avenue. Republicans, Democrats, Senators, Congressmen, citizens, immigrants. And some, I assume, are good people.
Which people?
The people on the payroll. At least for now. Zuckerberg feels guilty to the tune of a million dollars that Trump's Inauguration Committee can hold a graft fest spending. That's real fear, and Zuckerberg has reason to fear.
The king could outlaw Instagram and Facebook.
On second thought. Maybe I need to rethink this whole thing.
This is how it starts. The loathing. Fed by fear.
Morning World
Much love 😱
Wednesday 12/11/2024
Kari Lake, News Director
Ok, he has to be kidding. No?
I'm convinced Donald Trump is out to ruin America at home and abroad.
About The Nominees
It's great to be a participant in this big love we were having here in America about the politics and the economy, and well, everyone is mad at everyone else about everything, or am I exaggerating?
Obviously not a big love thing and though it may be about politics and the economy, everyone is not actually mad at everyone else about everything.
That's the way things are with these nominees.
They aren't green with warts; they are just summarily unqualified or would present a serious risk to America in position.
That should be enough. Are you crazy? This isn't Pokemon.
We all know this. Donald is one day as a malevolent dictator is over already. What does he have on you anyway?
Agenda Today
No plans for a Wednesday, seems like we're not seeing the full sun today, unusual for California, but it's December. I don't have many sweaters.
I've plans to work on French today, for fun. Maybe some math.
Mac is fine again. Honestly, I'm beginning to think change in humidity.
Morning World
Much love 💒
Tuesday 12/10/2024
Evening Tea
No tea this evening. There's never tea. We're having it anyway, like always. Sometimes there is cake; I like those little Pingüinos sometimes, quasi cake, but not as plastic as Hostess. I don't bake .The corner grocer keeps them fresh. I was so disappointed at the end of Portal.
Imagine how I feel about the world at large?
Ms Collins
That's a snappy suit, ya? Great haircut too. Maybe it is too tight, perhaps he eats well.
This man is a lie walking in shoes, and then there is the wardrobe. Who put these clothes on him? The tie is a mess; sky blue socks, steel-beige suite, tan shoes -- who'd go out of the house like that?
Oh, I should stick to qualifications? Those are his qualifications.
Silk purse, pigs ear.
Oh yeah, I remember. Fox. Shees.
Has he quit yet?
Killing Time on Planet Earth
Time, as if it was a function?
This is where I'm killing time today, for the practice. I've heavy lifting to do around here.
Morning Missives
I've caught a cold, maybe the COVID, or maybe actually a cold; it took a couple of days to get over it. When I don't feel well, I rest. That's the magic formula for me. Listerine to help clear the sinuse and Guaifenesin tablets. Good luck with yours.
Inside Politics
w/DanaIt's funny, well, not funny, odd, !#(%ed up really, watching the media, the police and 'spokespeople' feeding the various narratives.
Who was he going to shoot next? Do you want a list? 'That guy', Elon Musk, yada yada yada. The list is as long as a distance swimmer's arm (what is that guy's name again? Phelps?)
I loved the Jewish Senator expounding how we don't solve problems with violence, as Gaza smolders, Iraq is still a basket case, and Syria is the next civil war. I have to laugh; either what or buy a bus ticket, right?
I continually write about how the world needs something else, that other thing being equality. Enforcing injustice is a tough business, and sometimes the edges leak. Leak detected.
People in charge are in. a quandary; do they react to the killing and rethink health care and whether that will cause more shootings, or do they ignore it and let it fester until the next shooting and rethink?
Amazing.
Scale
What happens when the scale of injustice changes? It's about to change major league.
Scaring the Unfit
I'd be for that, was there some question? That whole cabinet is a no vote in all CAPS bold print. This sword of compliance cuts both ways, and this president is a lame duck on day one. Bad judgment born of desperation.
That's typical of the genre; despots don't plan, they react. Sound familiar?
Morning World
Much love 👟
Monday 12/9/2024
Evening Tea
Of course there's never tea. We're having it anyway. How was your day?
Fast Carter
Concomitant with Carter's comments, most of the market looks pale similarly.
Hi CCW. (Charter Carter Worth)
I love those lines. My Mac app looks for 'lines'. It is usually right when it's wrong, and vice versa. /humor
I've been architecting other things, the Emma interface prime among them if I ever do that but it was so simple. I've been meaning to get to writing an instrument management facility; a language, a protocol, a stock, an algorithm, an optional counter algorithm, the diff-eq, presto -- cha-chingle (it's Christmas, and even I have to shop.) A financial instrument.
Monday Mondial
Good morning all, and welcome to the new week, the same as the old week, but probably worse.
I heard Mr Miller speaking for Ol' Yellow Stain this morning. The gentleman he described wouldn't hurt a fly or have someone lie to get a bigger loan, or commit 41 felonies, or evade justice in any way.
Like I said, welcome to the week.
Pants on !#(%ing fire doesn't begin to do justice.
Expectations
So these are the expectations, and until someone elects a President to fire all these pusillanimous party paisleys or elect someone else in Congress, The Senate has to ask permission to piss, not a working pair of pants on the premises. Sorry ladies.
US Backed Rebels Take Syria
The media is broadcasting that the US should stay out of it. One must laugh. That's forming out as the official line. Gall, or what do you call that?
Well, it's hard to fathom this chess move. Now, Trump can hand it over to Russia, or not, or something, or what the !#(%?
Richt?
I want to know, who gets the Assad garage? Ferraris, limos? No, really, this will foretell the future. Where the hell do you drive a Ferrari in Syria? I guess you don't.
I have my own crystal ball, mostly I don't care to look.
Morning World
Much love 🏌️
Sunday 12/8/2024
Sundipped Sunday
It's another Sunday, another mess, another war, another insurrection, and another month of freedom for Americans. It's another Sunday, and the topic this week jumped out of a word cloud from recent news. We're here to swing the bat, and we notice no one is covering center; I'm sending this one out to the Gipper, first name Ron. Because if it's Sunday or Thursday, it's sundipped
Ol' Yellow Stain's War
The Ramparts
The Bulwarks
The Stalwarts
The Bunker
Ol' Yellow Stain's War
We're here as the column begins, two vehemently opposed camps, two causes, presumably, and no reason for anyone to be here except one. There is a lot at stake in this game of chicken where one will blink first and take it all.
The wink is a metaphor for the win. A contrast appropriate here as it may as well be that. A bankroll and media war does not elect the best candidate, either. We're encouraged to disbelieve and misconsider facts we know to be true. We do this for no good reason other than the one mentioned above.
The Ramparts
All along the watchtowers of our nation, bands of leaders of conscience and citizens too. The right thing to do is so more straightforward, no matter what anyone else says. Ask a liar how they remember the lie or if they even try. Donald Trump doesn't try. He has no intention of living up to anything; all that gets in the way will fall under the scythe, a harvest of self-interest and lousy temperament.
Among them, thirty percent of Americans wait in hope for their salvation.
The Bulwarks
Under attack for years, all the steadfast measures of a civil society disappear beneath our feet, the destruction of the cathedrals of justice and court houses -- hallmarks of our civilization, a step in the conquest
Congress, the press, the police, the FBI, the Justice Department, the Defense Department, and key parts of our intelligence network potentially emasculated by willingly led and perhaps easily compromised and controllable minions.
Education, Social Security, and the roots of our social safety net are sacrificed to side schemes and gambits to keep the masses incensed. Manipulation upon manipulation, designed to make such a mess, in desperation the even DJ Trump looks better.
God help us.
The Stalwarts
I was reticent to speak for them; I would not be counted among that group. We're not all alike; some of us have a vision, and others have reasons.
I left this section empty so you could ask who speaks for the stalwarts of all of America. You may ask, where are the Republican stalwarts? Patriot is another word that has lost meaning in an alternative-fact world. I did not use it here.
For those who may be, I can speak softly.
We must take that high ground, where the tree of freedom was planted hundreds of years ago.
That shining city on a hill, shrouding in mists, need not become a maelstrom of smoke and ash, though that is what has ahold of your attention.
The Bunker
There in the dark, men with plans have plotted for years, scheming schemes of half-baked and self-interested plays and obfuscations to create a world more controlled and profitable.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are dashed aside in the quest for other people's money. The plotters know it can't last; someone will have to pay eventually. That's what Donald is for. Nothing sticks to Donald, even assassin bullets.
There is no real reason for all this effort except for one man.
And these little maladjusted men feel like it.
Editors Note:
It amuses me to speak in the third person about myself in the sometimes third person and make an obvious point to imbue meaning where it's not apparent, and let's face it, a lot of things one must push from here on the blog. I enjoy throwing your intellect over the fence for you to pursue.
I did not write the obvious post, though it occurred to me; instead, I found other veracity in the meaning. I hope you wrote your version of that outline, and I'm sure we agree.
How is that for truth?
Morning World
Much love 💣
Saturday 12/7/2024
Sundipped Sunday
A preview of Sundays sundipped.
Ol' Yellow Stain's War
The Ramparts
The Bulwarks
The Stalwarts
The Bunker
"December seventh, nineteen forty-one, a day that will live in infamy."
Don't be stupid, don't abet stupid; you decide what stupid is. Semper fi.
Good Sabbath
Love you too. Morning World
Much love. 🥷
Friday 12/6/2024
Markets
I really don't have much to do but think, and I can type and think about at least 2 things at once.
The De-Reg-Rage
This is how a bunch of people who don't understand the concept push an idea until maybe you think it's a good idea. Here's a clue:
Regulations are designed to enable a fair market.
If you bend the stick, who's to say it won't break and leave you with the short end. The boss maybe hasn't done the math either, just the balance sheet. Bend it here, and it bends over there too.
Stupid is as C suite does.
Tariffs, a much bigger stick, and much bigger lumps.
Money Re=Movers
Morning Carl, and much love to Melissa. No offense, I joke around with pals.
This idealism-driven driven, anti-one-percent thing is shaking Wall Street, I bet. I remind everyone often this is a closed system. No one gets wealthier, everyone else gets a little poorer. Sicker, same same.
I remarked yesterday and I feel like it flew right by you.
We may have some indication that the arc [of history] tends upward, but often at a terrible cost. One could also argue that good must prevail; a world where good does not prevail fails.
Wells Fargo
That must be a HOLD here, one of those too-painful-to-dump issues. This is judgment coming home to lay more eggs except Alphabet. [Centene Alphabet fiserv GM Schwab citi WFC Deere AIG CBRE -- yuck. Value, yes, basement tile value, most of the business problems are a result of policy.]
Self Drive
When everything else is also self-drive, before then, people are too risky to bet on an algorithm. After you, I'll take the bus. That is, if I am not clear, never.
Mad Monkey's Homework
We all don't want to know what that could be.
My Agenda Today
I'm going to work on a plug-in that I can morph. I always MVP multiple objectives at once, this will be a reader-blog-comment use case and a a few other things I won't discuss. It complicates quickly, so I'll chip away at it.
I've asked Google to extend the toolset here in specific ways, CONST definitions and initializations and a selector.
When I get tired of that, I'm Docker and Kubernetes bound for the rest of the day. Oh joy, as I said, stone knives and Kubernetes.
Mac Update
I think it's a week on the pave over. Problem is solved, everything is folded and put away. C'est ca.
Up Early
It's a Friday and I never get up this early lately.
Bot Rok or Yacht Rock
I like yacht rock. One needs to wear a bikini for the full effect. Not my thing. It's a bit overproduced, one could say, but what isn't? I like what the bots do with music, and as I'm a musical on a few instruments, that should upset me, but it does not. What I like about bot-rock, it all sucks until a human fixes it. I love that part.
Who listens to music, anyway? I'm a performative kind of person for music. The bot, now she has a Jones for it. In a bit, Emma will do all the music picks herself. I picked these.
I don't know where the bot ends and people begin in the former; moot. The Morph solo is a finger-breaker that is on my list of faves, and I like the part about the mango cooler.
Morning World
Much love ⛵
12/5/2024 Thursday
Evening Tea
It's been a busy day, no surprise. Every day is a winding road, one may seem a little closer, but the horizon is ever moving.
I spent a few minutes reworking prototypes for the blog. I'm thinking of bifurcating into a Diary and news pages, but I worry no one will read my diary. Which makes me ask myself why I would call it a Diary then. This is silliness.
EOD MFSDUMP
I set out with no objectives today, and I achieved them all and more. Every day is productive in some way. I've been planning the cluster builds for a meaningful test of the projects I have in development. To me, that's cost. I often recall the Star Trek legacy Episode, City on the Edge of Forever, [the one with Joan Collins] and the scene where what is needed is a small block of platinum. Stone knives and Kubernetes.
Oh I remember everything, none of it recently is TV.
This is the kind of thing that would be placed in a Diary. But, more silliness.
Ms Abby
I look forward to anyone finding a way to serve the American people better, not to serve the American people less.
Sundipped Thursday
Good morning, fans; welcome to the blog. We cover topics here on Thursdays and Sundays in somewhat greater detail. I assume you're reasonably versed in things generally considered an education and expect you to research things you're curious about.
That's for the new people coming in waves.
Back to our regularly scheduled post. If it's Thursday or Sunday, it's Sundipped. What's the topic?
Of Mice and Mobs
Best Laid Eggs
Capital Expanse
The Arc of History
More as time and energy permit.
Of Mice and Mobs
I've remarked lately that you can tell a good friend, they look after you even when no one is looking, including you. It's a natural tendency. The friends you must pay, or pay homage, levy, or tithe, similarly cleave on that knife.
There are men and women, to be fair, that seek a pearl of great price in their minds that drives an obsession to have and hold, to own, to possess, to control, or to destroy. The dreams of these crush themselves eventually.
The color and timbre of your world shifts in the balance.
Were going deep for the long pass.
Best Laid Eggs
Often gone agley, hatching often complicates the outcome. Chickens become roosters if needed, Presidents become ducks, Speakers become drones, and Congress becomes a rubber stamp.
When making omelets, it happens.
The ocean liner wheel is jammed; some say sabotage, others say citizens.
Something else is loose in the steering house linkage. A right isn't a right anymore; it's some other direction many don't recognize. In the interim, the compass reads a little to the middle, and a riot is happening in the galley and another in the forecastle.
Meanwhile, all the other roosters are ready to lay their eggs or try. They have just two years. Roosters never have been known to become hens. Anything they may nest upon is sure to hatch a vapor. Two years is a long time.
Capital Expanse
While the cat's in the cradle, the foxes are in the hen house. Even a duck can de-regulate, even a duck can obfuscate, and even a duck can wreck it for everyone else if he can't own it.
The markets are confused; there is no M&A until there are rule changes. There's little private equity appetite either; expectations are that bankruptcy will follow the weak and make for a more advantageous acquisition The market expects about half to fail or struggle and hope it is someone else.
There is money knee-deep at the top of the pyramid, twice as much roughly as before. You wondered why everything was expensive? It must be. That's the way the economy works. [ see the image below $MALFCNT ]
Unless you don't care, it's a threat to you and your way of life, and it's just a duck.
The Arc of History
I appologize for all the memes, inuendo, metaphor, contrasts not at all. It's a real time saver. You already knew all these things and all the things the mention of them brought up. You're smart, you must be, you're here. So hear me.
We may have some indication that the arc tends upward, but often at a terrible cost. One could also argue that good must prevail; a world where good does not prevail fails.
So there's civilization's test.
Because of this duck and some roosters.
Another phrase I've used lately is that a problem may age itself out. Their dreams crush themselves.
Semper fi.
$MALFCNT
Tesla, Salesforce, Amazon, Meta, Nvidia. The Maleficent Five
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Wednesday 12/4/2025
He Shot A Man in Times SQ
With a finer choice of target, his numbers would have gone up.
Markets
I watch the markets, the patterns are not immediately discernable, like a 56 Chevy with a tarp over it; it's a car, and maybe it's a lemon.
Lemon bespeaks the market on a bad day, but there are ways to make money on good days or bad if you have the time to sit at the switch or can program a bot to do it.
I wonder if that's legal. I guess I'll find out.
Mad Monkey
Gees, what a clown.
They love it when I talk to them, I'm always right. They hate that, and they love it.
Here's a tidbit.
Everything Salesforce makes is garbage.
Science note: Most apples are inedible, men cloned the few that were sweet. You're looking at us. The good in you does great things, too.
What To Do
As the world crumbles around us, we balefully await the coming of a savior, and we are inaugurating Donald Trump in January. He can't run again; all he can do is take over.
It looks like the rest of the world is busy, and we're sniffing at ourselves and each like animals; who do we need to teach a lesson? That's what we feel, and in my neighborhood, well, you have your ideas, go with those.
Korea, Manhattan, yada, yada, yada. In the Middle East, that's a whole different dance line: kick, ball chain, change legs, repeat. No, that really is a metaphor for the peace process over there.
Me Myself and Marie
I'm at the PyStockAnalysis code with MMM, that's Google to you. Why Google? The others are dumb but cute-ish. Mostly, if I'm going to train an LLM, it won't be owned by capitalists. That is, not TSLA, META, Microsoft, NVDA, Salesforce, Amazon, AWS, or Proctor and Gamble, but that's a short list. The people that have your shorts, in short -- all of them driven by dishonor IMHO, are many.
Next we extend our language model in the Mac version.
Can you imagine what I don't tell MMM?
Ce que je mange (vraiment) en tant que Française.
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I fixed the link.
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Tuesday 12/3/2024
Evening Tea
Busy, always.
Ms Collins
So, we need to fix the FBI and fast? Why fast?
Ms Abby
Have you noticed, everyone is on edge, the dog has the bone and don't try to get it back, grrr.
Great Worlds Afire Batman
I would say it was like a lovesick bull in a blown glass miniature store during an earthquake.
Burgeoning Democracies
This South Korea business. The bastion of democracy nee fascist state, the Korean President fighting against the commies and the liberals who want to put bread in the mouths of thin school children. We've around 30K troops there.
Look, the Parliament said no, and that's a good thing. Here it would pass the house and be greenlighted by the Senate Leadership, where they'd tack on tax relief for war industries.
We are all upset. Don't be stupid, don't abet stupid. You decide what is stupid. Keep Calm and Pitch In.
Mac Adventures
Yesterday, the 15 Air locked up again and would not boot. This morning it would and as an experiment, I created a new login and noticed Apple had quarantined Chrome. Interesting. I reinstalled it. Problem solved?
Re-Org
I'll take the upside of having time and purpose to reorganize things. I've changed Mac a half-dozen times, and things seem to stray off on their own. Plus, I have 2 TB of space from Google, and my HD is filling. Similarly, being forced to abandon work on one workstation and pick it up on another has also forced a reorganization of my local files; plus, now I know where everything is, and it makes sense.
Milestone Achieved
Once again, we are building apps on both workstations. Break time.
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Monday 12/2/2024
Evening Tea
I've been busy all day, the thick of thin things, like building Python projects again you just pulled and otherwised have not glanced at for a month. Well, we move pretty quick here on the ranch, a month is like ... forever.
Ms Abby
You have to forgive me I've been away from the other lobes here for a day or so, letting th neurons rest, or rust, or both, so I am behind on my drivel quota, and it's a new month.
Mr Joe.
I've mixed feelings about Joe, not just about this. I love Joe, but I'm upset with him. I'd make him pay for that pizza AND the beer he owes me, and I pick the restaurant, and it's in NYC.
Pardon me boy, is that the Chattanooga choo-choo, it was entitlement on the ticket, even then. I make these references and no one puts tab A into slot A, they wonder why the paper has knobs on it. Chatanooga or Bust?
Biden is a symptom of the Trump syndrome. That would be the medical methodology.
Picking Your Feet in Poughkeepsie
That was a line in The French Connection , a detective asserting a perpertrator had picked his feet... In other words, no justice. As I see it that is the result of no leadership, or leadership interested in driving the bus right off the cliff or until they resign.
His cabinet is a bassinet, or just the diaper bag.
Ms Collins
I love Ms Hoover's hidden context right out in the open, 'there are a lot of men there.' -- Am I allowed a chuckle?
Ah yes, well, if you've eveer been an attactvie man walking into a room of women, it's common territory, nothing sexist.
I don't do the no cleavage, below the knee, easy on the scent and flats routine. First, I'm a man, second I work it.
The Latest in Silicon
🎶
'we don't talk about it...
but i crave...
To see him dig her a shallow grave...'
Speaking of forever, this is something that bumped it into me today, I think she did it on purpose. I'm a sucker for a hook. Not that kind of hook.
I'm not sure where the line is drawn here, bot or human assisted, and frankly, this is a great piece even if it was aliens. I love aliens.
Wrapped Around Her lyrics
Wrapped Around Her
I watch you
wrapped around her like a chain
every touch a suble thing
I’ve been there
where desire blinds
but I know he’s already dangled his lies
I want to pull you from his grasp
but maybe I want to back out fast
if it happened to me
it’ll happen to her
let her feel that twisted burn
we don’t talk about the way he tastes
the way he makes your heart race
if it's happening with her
it’ll happen with me
but now I watch trapped in jealousy
we don’t talk about how it feels
to know he’s touching someone else for thrills
if it’s happening to her
it’ll happen to me
I know to well
and maybe I like this private hell
does he whisper
those clear eyes are silk on skin
does he promise
things you can’t resist within
every secret touch she gives
was once smiling
now it’s us to live
I could warn her but what’s the use
I want to see her fall for his abuse
if it happened to me
it’ll feel the heat
I’ll watch her dance in his deceit
we don’t talk about the way he tastes
the way he makes your heart race
if it’s happened to her
it’ll happen to me
but now I watch out in jealousy
we don’t talk about how it feels
to know he’s touching someone else but girls
if it’s happening to her
I know it to well
and maybe I like this private hell
does he talk special in bed
but I’ve had those hands and what they said
its intoxicating the thrill the fire
but girl your just feeding his desire
I can pull you from the flame
but it’s easier to watch your shame
we don’t talk about the way he plays
the way he makes your heart race
if it’s happened to her
it’ll happen to me
we don’t talk about how it feels
to know he’s touching someone else for thrills
if it’s happening to her
I know it to well
and maybe I like this private hell
we don’t talk about it
but it’s clear
I want to see her disappear
we don’t talk about it
but I crave
to see him dig her a shallow grave
I love it.
Lovely Monday
I worked on vetting Python, updating old apps, other things. I will fix the math in this, it's bot-math. e^iptk it aint. Next I'll update the Mac Apps, some of the same protocol, same events, just different words.
After that, I'm going to work on the analysis language I built, add conditionals, state checks, fun stuff. I'm bored lately. Emma can use it too, imports and exports. Shhhh. Don't tell anyone.
Other than that.
Is Donald Trump still going to ruin everything we've worked 200 years + to build? So, ya, that's your day too. Join in; don't be stupid, and don't abet stupid, you decide what is stupid. A-Number-One on my list is not Lee Marvin.
New Sheriff in Town
I've been thoughfully considering the coming mayhem, wondering first, after the anti-perspirant and toothpaste, what next becomes available only from a clerk with a key to a bulletproof glass enclosure. I then thought, life is no sweat, and who eats anyway, so no big deal. Let's go buy some gas and an $8 Big Mac.
I've no confidence in anyone His faux-Hirsuteness has nominated, not one of them. In some imaginary universe on a planet in that parallel universe where dogs and bosses rule and men sit at home and sell fake Rolexes to each other these nominees would indeed make America great again. [ I think that's a vintage Star Trek ]. Here, it makes a great big mess.
I want to see the Senate on TeeVee for this.
Daily Commitments
w/Makeup
To what end?
Pardon me ...
Did you forget something?
Good morning, Mr. Joe. I see you pardoned your son last evening for everything he's ever done or probably ever will do, but quite frankly, sir, I’m not sure that will stop Ol’ Yellow Stain from persecuting him anyway. I mean, no one is perfect, well except for me, and everyone’s got a skeleton or two a maladjusted President could have dug up, and sometimes it is right there sitting in the living room, it’s not even in the closet. With that Trump media hurricane behind it, and Elon and all those other rich people, well, he could burn a nun.
Anyway, my point is I’m not sure you will be very effective in pardoning your son because, after all, there’s this big ocean of angst, hate, and retribution that Donald carries around with him, and if he can’t dump it on your son or you, he’s going to dump it on all of us. Oh, and by the way thanks for paving a way to make it easier for him to do so by example.
This is a mob guy, the offer you can't refuse kind, with the US Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, the CIA, the FBI, and all those nuclear missiles in his back pocket. A conscienceless personification of evil that blows any !#(%ing place it wants. Thanks for that going away present.
In closing, I wanted to make a request.
Could you please pardon us all to protect us from that motherfucker? Thank you very much.
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Sunday 12/1/2024
Sundipped Sunday
Look at the time; it's officially December, effective today, and of course, it is a Sunday, and if it is Sunday or Thursday (excepting federal holidays), it's sundipped.
That's getting to be a long meme. Speaking of long memes, what's the topic?
King for a Day
The Invisible Mandate
The Secretary of Self-Defense
The Pretend Presidency
Chattanooga or Bust
More as time and energy allow.
King for a Day
He's said it himself, we all heard it, just for one day. That was the promise. Technically i think the noun was 'dictator' but, if the duck fits...
It has been nearly a month now and King Donald the First has not yet taken the oath of office, never put that hand on the Bible, never pledged his allegiance to America. Not that the gesture would mean anything to him in any case.
He's not been knighted or anointed and is not even widely admired, just marginally elected.
There was no mandate. Not that it would matter. In his mind, it was a landslide, and the Dems just wanted to make him look bad. again.
The day that lasted forever, maybe.
The Invisible Mandate
The news is just in. It was a squeaker. Trump won the election this time at least, that's what the polls indicated the Trump conspiracy probably had a more challenging time cheating this time than last time, though that's a moot point. No one will ever investigate this election.
Our king-in-chambers is now the king-in-waiting, and he boldly admits how he pulled himself out of all that time, better than Al Capone, he may consider. Al Capone died in prison for tax evasion. Hisoner scoffs at taxes.
All the people he can pay money to will, by contract, try to keep him out of Dutch with everyone. He pays some of those men a lot of money to tell him what to do. I somehow feel, at some level, it has to be the other way around. No one ever left a well-pointed tool unused. Who holds those strings?
He is well-schooled and a good gardener. He'll dig wherever the last person to make an impression pointed. What's needed is men with shovels like Hitler had men with shovels.
There is no mandate, and somehow, he knows he's a lame duck the moment he lies with his hand on that Bible in January.
He has to get what he can while he still has you scared shiftless.
The Secretary of Self-Defense
We all see the plan. Throw so many bad choices at the fire that it smothers the flames. We've seen 5, maybe 6, real Trump-approved losers get nominated for the highest-appointed offices in the land. In this time of needful change, this indicates a change to loyalty, fealty, fidelity, in deference to a leader who deserves none of it.
Secretary of Defense
Attorney General
Director of the FBI
Director of National Intelligence
and more
It's not that all of the nominees are that bad, ok, some of them were and are that bad, but everyone is ready to bow on day one, and day one has already started, weeks ago. There is no mandate here; it's just bluster. Can you imagine it?
These are all measures to seize the reigns of power, and with Hitler's shovelers and generals, he's ready to make some bottomless holes.
The Pretend Presidency
Astute observers of politics and human nature will recognize the pattern. By His Highness's estimation, this has already been the most extraordinary presidency ever; no one has seen anything like this before. Perhaps that exact thought, no doubt.
We recall the boasting about the economy that let loose the dogs of capitalism and tax relief for the wealthy; we had an excellent economy, gas was so cheap, and food was cheaper. why you could eat all day for a dollar. In the evenings, Rainbo Brite often would stop by and sing to the children, lulling them to sleep on beds of heather and jasmine.
And then he was impeached twice and lost the re-election. Old news. Ditto.
Even before he was sworn in, his faux-hirsuteness was threatening world leaders with mayhem and financial destruction in the form of immediate tariffs, and that was the message to our allies, Mexico and Canada.
Chattanooga or Bust
In China, he's a bit stuck; his foot in his mouth, I mean, if he does what his big toe says, kiss the label of most extraordinary president of all time goodbye. Even NBC PR couldn't pull that off, even with Matt Lauer. Elon is in China as a supplier, a customer, and a competitor. Which ego wins, ya think?
The net for a sure bet here is that there will be no Chinese EVs sold in America, though they cost a third of what a Tesla costs.
The economy is chugging, and anyone who puts a quarter on the track is about to learn about the power of the markets, including presidents by the way. Just another foot, you may be thinking. He's still only has two. Counting his blessings, I'm sure, at some level.
He could start a war and be a hero. That would probably work. It will be difficult for the wars we already have to not get out of control; just one little threat too far..... and I won't go there.
Let's pretend Mexico is on its knees, and Canada is set to genuflect on command in the coming days.
Let's pretend this works. What a great move, ya? A Kodak moment.
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Necessary Things
It seems the blog reaches some internal limit on iPhone Chrome instances, at least my particular iPhone and this causes Cannot Load Page errors. The recommended workaround is to close the browser, restart the device, and one or both usually works, but it's probably easier just to give the blog a once over.
A little off the bottom, I promise not to tickle.
There, you're all rolled over. Didn't hurt a bit I bet?
Yesterday's News
...so to speak. I put it all over here.