I think I’d like to get a Doberman and name him “Gillis”.
Of course, I’d have to get him a lazy dog buddy and name him Maynard.
Staying Current. . . for What It’s Worth
I try to stay current, but sometimes local laws, ordinances, whatever, kinda scoot on by me w/o really making any impact. So, I try to look ’em up from time to time and be “read up” as much as possible.
Discovered today that nudity is prohibited in the county’s churches and schools. Who knew?
*heh*
“Very Unique”?!? *sigh*
Seriously. I have actually read and heard that nonsense combination of words–“very unique”. In fact, I seem to hear it more and more often lately. Are these folks dumber than a bag of hammers or just wagging their tongues (resulting in really icky keyboards, in the cases of those who’ve written the nonsense phrase) with no more consciousness than can be found in a rock?
“Very unique”?!? *gagamaggot*
BrokeBlog Mountain
[If this sounds just a bit queer, well it is.]
So, had a call from Bluehost saying I needed to move to a more expensive hosting service, which they very naturally had on offer, because my lil “let the voices in my head duke it out here” blog was exceeding a reasonable bandwidth usage.
WTF?
OK, now why would that be, since I have seriously scaled back on traffic by deliberately working for several years to drive idiots away (leaving the 0.01% of blog visitors as acceptable traffic *heh*)? The guy–not tech support but sales–surmised a broken plugin or some such, once I clued him in on the site’s usage.
MmmK. . . No new plugins recently, but I let him deactivate ’em all for testing.
Right. Everything except the built-in left sidebar and the blog title–*poof!*–disappeared.
Oh, joy. *sigh*
Re-enabled plugins one-by-one, checking bandwidth usage as I refreshed the site. One plugin re-enabled yielded the restoration of the right sidebar (as expected) and also–surprise, surprise!–ONE post, the most recent.
But no more.
Have now re-enabled plugins to match pre-disabled state. Still no spikes in bandwidth usage. Still only most recent post visible (we’ll see what posting this one does, eh?). I’ve tried to access the database optimization and repair tools available via cPanel at Bluehost, but no joy. Won’t let me log in with known good credentials and when the credentials are reset, still no login. :-/
I’ll cogitate on this a bit. I have my two most recent database backups (in three locations) I can use–once I can log into the database management tools–so all my head voices’ crap is still around. . . somewhere
King Putz the Petulant: the Very Model of a Modern Major General Plain-Speaking Politician
Lost File
Hmmm, I seem to have lost the rest of this little ditty, written years ago by Peter Tauber, IIRC. . .
“I think that I shall never see
A poem filed as C:\ deltree. . . “
“On a scale of 1-10. . . “
“. . . rate the disaster represented by Obamacare.”
*meh* Just a silly question I saw on FB today. Answering it precisely is difficult, but I made a stab:
Yep. Looks about right.
An Etymological Wonder
Back in the day when Britain still had an empire (and a queen with bigger balls than all but perhaps two or three living Republican politicians), some Brit, unhappy with “eggplant,” mugged a poor Frenchie for “aubergine”.
True story. No, really. Would a face like this lie to a face like that about a thing like that?
It’s Got Me Stumped. . .
It’s a puzzle. How does one cheat at Windows solitaire? I can’t seem to break a 740 score. . . 😉
At this rate, and assuming I never manage to learn how to cheat at (computer) solitaire, I have no future as a politician.
NSA’s “Lonely Hearts Club”
So the NSA is collecting folks’ “friends lists” and email contacts lists. I think they are just creepy “feddle gummint” nerds looking for love in all the wrong places. *heh*
You’re doing it wrong, guys (not that doing it wrong has stopped your attempts to spread “anti-social” diseases before. . . )