Two More Unrelated Things

*heh* Well, unrelated except in the most passing, glancing relationship…

First, yes I did have 38 tabs open in Opera in the session shown in the screenshot below. So? Wanna make something of it? *heh*

Second, what went wrong? I mean, after the start I had under the first (and arguably, at least one of the very best, as another former student of his while he was at Florida State attested to me 30 years later) director of the band noted in the screenshot below, how in the world have I ended up with a “houseful” (well less-than-full in recent years) of musical instruments… that I no longer play?

Oh, well.

*hmph* We only toured a few hundred miles into the interior of Mexico “back in [my] day”. Still “won” everything in sight in competitions, though, during the first four years the high school was. A high school, that is.


(OK, one of the 38 tabs noted in the screenshot above contains the question someone asked me that spurred me to look up the info noted. That’s the second-order relationship between the 38 tabs and the content of the screenshot. A more distant, ethereal connection exists, though. :-))

And more… (Sounds/looks like a Capshaw designed and rehearsed this program; don’t ask how. Not so sure about the treatment of Holst).

Sadly (or perhaps not? ;-)), none of the old black and white film from the performances 45(?!?) years ago has made it onto YouTube. *heh*


More unrelated (except in the twisted back alleys of my mind)? OK. Linux Turns 20.

Even if you don’t run Linux on your desktop or notebook, you probably use devices that depend on it, and you absolutely certainly *heh* use it daily as you access material on the web that depends on Linux servers and devices with embedded Linux systems.

Like third world county.

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If You’re a Windows Geek…

…(“geek” for Windows values of geekiness *heh*) this might interest you: Windows8 Developer Preview available for download.

I’ve not had a look at the different builds yet, but I may install a couple of VMs and see what they look like. Chris Pirillo says,

“Windows 8 may be the first version of Windows that would compel a hardcore Mac user to either switch hit or switch outright.”

That might mean that it will be a tad off-putting to me… *heh*


OK, it will install in a VirtualBox VM. I’ll see what I think as things go on, but for now, here’s some M$ propaganda:

Fortunately, the default interface, designed for tablets and other touch devices, can be ditched.

They Just Won’t Give Up

Reuters, full time publicity flacks for leftwing wackos, just won’t slack in its due diligence to the Hivemind’s narrative:

Yep. To the Mass MEdia Podpeople Hivemind, Algore was once President. He had to be. After all, didn’t the Hivemind vote en masse for him?

Chill

Since temps only reached about 95ยฐF at the high school reporting station (a little cooler in the bottoms by the area creeks and rivers, of course), it felt almost like Fall today. *heh* So, July and August were hot this Summer. I wonder why? (Hint: it’s called “Summer”.) It looks like it’ll be even cooler the rest ofthe week, so… spare time = outdoor chores! ๐Ÿ™‚ Looking forward to that. ๐Ÿ˜‰ Deck cleanup and rehab, some chainsaw work, and with luck some prep for next Spring’s garden.

Sounds like fun.

Of course, “spare time” might not be a lot, what with gigs and some family projects*, but a guy’s gotta have goals, right?

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Remembering 9/11

Kipling told us how best to deal with Muslim savages:

The Grave of the Hundred Heads

There’s a widow in sleepy Chester
Who weeps for her only son;
There’s a grave on the Pabeng River,
A grave that the Burmans shun,
And there’s Subadar Prag Tewarri
Who tells how the work was done.

A Snider squibbed in the jungle,
Somebody laughed and fled,
And the men of the First Shikaris
Picked up their Subaltern dead,
With a big blue mark in his forehead
And the back blown out of his head.

Subadar Prag Tewarri,
Jemadar Hira Lal,
Took command of the party,
Twenty rifles in all,
Marched them down to the river
As the day was beginning to fall.

They buried the boy by the river,
A blanket over his face —
They wept for their dead Lieutenant,
The men of an alien race —
They made a samadh in his honor,
A mark for his resting-place.

For they swore by the Holy Water,
They swore by the salt they ate,
That the soul of Lieutenant Eshmitt Sahib
Should go to his God in state;
With fifty file of Burman
To open him Heaven’s gate.

The men of the First Shikaris
Marched till the break of day,
Till they came to the rebel village,
The village of Pabengmay —
A jingal covered the clearing,
Calthrops hampered the way.

Subadar Prag Tewarri,
Bidding them load with ball,
Halted a dozen rifles
Under the village wall;
Sent out a flanking-party
With Jemadar Hira Lal.

The men of the First Shikaris
Shouted and smote and slew,
Turning the grinning jingal
On to the howling crew.
The Jemadar’s flanking-party
Butchered the folk who flew.

Long was the morn of slaughter,
Long was the list of slain,
Five score heads were taken,
Five score heads and twain;
And the men of the First Shikaris
Went back to their grave again,

Each man bearing a basket
Red as his palms that day,
Red as the blazing village —
The village of Pabengmay,
And the “drip-drip-drip” from the baskets
Reddened the grass by the way.

They made a pile of their trophies
High as a tall man’s chin,
Head upon head distorted,
Set in a sightless grin,
Anger and pain and terror
Stamped on the smoke-scorched skin.

Subadar Prag Tewarri
Put the head of the Boh
On the top of the mound of triumph,
The head of his son below,
With the sword and the peacock-banner
That the world might behold and know.

Thus the samadh was perfect,
Thus was the lesson plain
Of the wrath of the First Shikaris —
The price of a white man slain;
And the men of the First Shikaris
Went back into camp again.

Then a silence came to the river,
A hush fell over the shore,
And Bohs that were brave departed,
And Sniders squibbed no more;
For he Burmans said
That a kullah’s head
Must be paid for with heads five score.

There’s a widow in sleepy Chester
Who weeps for her only son;
There’s a grave on the Pabeng River,
A grave that the Burmans shun,
And there’s Subadar Prag Tewarri
Who tells how the work was done.

Idiots who refuse to learn the lessons of history will quail at Kipling’s prescription, but realists know that Islam = hate cult and the only EFFECTIVE argument against Muslim savages is genuine, RATIONAL fear of reprisals more brutal than their own savagery. Ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times the numbers of deaths of Islamic savages for every non-combatant they kill. Escalate the body count until they give up or cease to exist.

Period.

It’s only right. They started it*; we ought to finish it.


Yep. They started it with the first massacre of non-combatants, meeting under a truce, performed by Mohamed and his band of thugs. Policy set (kill “unbelievers” who refuse to submit, whenever and wherever possible; enslave and rape their women and children; pillage their goods). And so it has been from the beginning to this day: genuine Muslims are savage thugs, liars, cheats, rapists, slavers and thieves. Mohamed commanded them to be so. The world would be better off were the US to borrow and spend The Zero’s new “stimulus” (jack off) money sending out SOG teams to gather heads of jihadis. Now, that’s a “stimulus package” I could get behind!

Lil Things–Again

Break time from a bad computer* (“Bad, bad computer!” *heh*)

Until I get around to purchasing and installing the stainless steel sheets I intend to be the backsplash for the stove (and, incidentally, a new stove), some SS tool racks and some sparingly-used paint will do. Just.

Yeh, yeh, the stove’s probably original with the house (40+ years old or so), and you can see I’ve removed the clock mechanism that had failed (actually, shorted out and caused a breaker to fail). I have a “treatment” for all that area coming up that will make its appearance, at least, less jarring.

I did get the storage tray under the oven to be less jarring against the nearby stainless exterior of our fridge (old model electric stove/oven: broiler element in the main oven and pan storage, etc., underneath):

Yes, that’s a paint with stainless steel particles in the paint. Not entirely bad, and does complement the fridge fairly well.

Unlike the replacement of the junk (to begin with) dishwasher and the old (original with the house? Could have been… it really was old) refrigerator, the stove, though old, works well. I never used the timer/clock, even when it was working. So, I’m not in a big hurry to replace the stove. Oh, the oven runs a wee tad hot, but that’s what my own oven thermometer is for anyway. Other things will come first. (Like, completely rewiring the house–correctly! The 220 outlet for the stove, for example, doesn’t even have a proper box installed!!! *sigh*)

Next up in the kitchen, as time allows, is finishing the counter tops and doing some “wall work”–including building a NEW “coffee shrine” and other lil stuff. Somethings to keep me busy whenever things slack off a tad.

And yeh, yeh, I know I need to wipe down the stove–particularly the storage drawer–and do some other lil cleanup things. I’ll get A Round Toit.

BTW, the stainless steel spoon with the black handle? That’s the third paint job on that wooden handle that I know of. Re-riveted the bowl to the handle once. Spoon’s older than I am. Some of my fav childhood memories include using that spoon to scoop things out of mixing bowls while helping Mother in the kitchen. I’m not sure where she got it, but it may not have been new when she did. The rest of the stuff’s new. Heck, the cheapo plastic pasta spoon is relatively new but still about to be replaced with a stainless steel version.

SO I like to cook. Wanna make something of it? ๐Ÿ˜‰

Update: I did go ahead and get the “treatment” started on the controls area of the stove. Took a break to cook dinner, but all that’s left are some labels for the burner controls (printed on clear address labels, cut out and applied then clear-coated) and a decorative stencil for the blank area on the right. I’m thinking a pots ‘n’ pans stencil in black.


*bad computer: someone who bought an old HP Pavilion zt1000 notebook for $5 at a garage sale wants me to make it usable. *sigh* Later on today, I’m tearing it down–again–and re-soldering the power connection. Yep. PITA. *profound sigh*

Micro-Mini Health Tip

First, a couple of disclaimers: This is just a single data point (me), and I’m not all that certain how really important some of the factors are, anyway. I mean, after all, health professionals can’t keep straight what they think is healthy from one decade to the next, anyway, so take this all with a grain of salt*.

At my checkup this year (yes, in the last four years I’ve actually had annual checkups, something very new in my life *heh*), the Dr was shocked (yes, shocked, I say) to see that I’d lost 25#. So? It’d been a year. Moving on. Continue reading “Micro-Mini Health Tip”

Inside Browsing

If I had said “Inside Baseball” non baseball fans might not have–might have, but maybe not–gotten it.

Lil thing that just adds to my appreciation of the browser I use most, Opera: the recent DigiNotar flap. Within a few days, Chrome and Internet Exploder had removed DigiNotar certificate authorization with a push patch. Some complained that Opera had not yet done so. Ignorant boobs.

Referring to the issue in answer to these ignorant critics, Opera Software noted,

“…Opera does not require a fix for this issue. Opera always verifies that certificates are not revoked, and unlike other browsers Opera does not display sites as secure if access to revocation servers has been blocked by an attacker.”

That’s right. Google Mozilla and Microsoft had to push notification to their browsers. [N.B. I had that wrong earlier; Google imitates what Opera’s done for years with certificates.] Opera Browser users were automatically protected by Opera’s normal mode of operation. I checked, and even those Opera installs I have which haven’t had the September 1, 2011 10.51 update yet have removed DigiNotar, just as a matter of normal operation.

Just one more lil elegant way Opera deals with things that other browsers kludge through.