The urban ghillie suit. Stylin’ for the “free range ‘organic’ vegan” hunter:
Who Really Needs Weather Reports?
Well, a cold front is moving in, probably rain as well. I have a “report” from a source that’s been pretty reliable for the past five++ decades, the same “source” that taught me The First Lesson of Horsemanship”
“Always watch (be aware of) your feet. . . and the horse’s.”
Yep, my left foot, the “record keeper for The First Lesson,” has submitted multiple “pain reports” today, as in “with every step.” *heh*
Spies or. . . Undercover Operatives?
I guess it may depend on how seriously one takes the problem of The Biden Crime Family, eh? 😉
“Secret Service agents assigned to the security details for President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are involved in a bizarre bribery and infiltration scheme operated by a pair of phony federal agents, according to a new report.”
It Never Fails
Amid my gaggle of computing devices, I have a couple of Win10 computers, and I use them fairly regularly (right now, for example). One thing that annoys and amuses me in almost equal measure is the behavior of Windows Defender in labeling software of which I approve as “potentially unwanted software” and modifications I make to system elements (like the hosts file) as “dangerous,” when all those programs and mods do is limit Me$$y$oft’s privacy intrusions, tracking, etc.
I do go ahead and rescan those “dangerous” (to Me$$y$oft’s nefarious intentions) applications labeled as “PUPs” with trusted third party antimalware even though I scanned them with multiple trusted third party antimalware applications before I installed them, and invariably the third party software calls ’em good (because the only “malicious” behavior they have is limiting bad behavior by Me$$y$oft, of course).
So, far, the rule is invariable: safe, effective blocking of Me$$y$oft spyware is gonna be labeled as malware by Me$$y$oft. Of course.
Better Than One Note?
Well, for me it is. YMMV, of course, but ANY time I can get a third party app that works as well or, preferably, better than a Me$$y$oft app, I snap it right up.
Zim Desktop Wiki. I installed it as a portable on a flash drive. Handy for me. Available in flavors for various OSes. Also handy.
Just More Typical Me$$y$oft Woes
ACK. I hate Win10, sometimes. Usually it is. . . juuuust usable. But, when an installation needs repair, quite often I have found that a wipe/complete reinstall is needed. Refresh option? “Automagical” Me$$y$oft “repair”? Sucks dead bunnies through a straw. *meh* _Sometimes_ works. And yeh, there are other options, but usually they SDBTAS as well (Oh, you’ve made a .wim and expect to recover from that? You are so cute. . . ). If there is no usable THIRD PARTY full system backup, things get sticky. WinPE and a refresh/repair installation sometimes works. But sometimes, a fresh hard drive and full reinstallation of OS and all apps is just the only way to go. . . Resurrecting data files not found in a recent backup isn’t all that hard (especially if they’ve been mirrored to a NAS as well), but seriously, Me$$y$oft, why is Win10 so fragile and why do the built-in “repair” tools SDBTAS? Oh, right. Because you can do it and still expect users to continue to lap up the sludge. . .
If I did not need Windows for ONE app, I’d be gone on all my personal comps. (ONE app that WINE does not work well to use under ‘nix OSes *sigh*)
(Yeh, I resurrected a lil lappy a couple months ago w/a HD replacement/clone op, but this is different sitch.)
A Day Without Learning. . .
. . .is a day wasted.
Kinda late in the day already to be learning something new (to me), but after a few search-fu moves of great artistry, I now know enough about the lost city of Tolente to be, well, not dangerous, exactly, but annoying.
There’s your search prompt. Do with it what you will. Or won’t. 🙂
A Different “Tact”
Yeh, I’m not going to be tactful here. People who make homophonic mistakes in writing are illiterate. I DGARA whether some “edumacationist” somewhere may call them “functionally literate.” “Edumacationists” are a disease and should be erradicated.
Misused words in writing due to homophonic conflation is simply due to poor literacy. Period. Using sounds or letter combinations that aren’t even words, due to mishearing (and never, apparently, READING) words is an even surer sign, if that’s possible. FarceBook is a particularly “rich” source of both of these sorts of homophonic errors. Most recent (as in, just a couple of minutes ago) example: “intack” (not EVEN a word) for “intact.”
Oh, the post title? I cannot (well, will not) even try to count the number of times I have typed (or thought) “gagamaggot” when I read or heard, “. . .taking a different tact” when “tack” expresses the meaning and “tact” does not.
Progress
So, with “bad” knee out –again– for the past month or so, and five pretty massive trees we need removed, I’m glad the tree guys were available to take ’em out today. Some remaining effluvia I had yet to reduce (either w/chainsaw mill or burning to make charcoal out of harder wood) is going as well. This will give me a chance to put the north fence back up and make some better lumber, as soon as knee’s back in good enough shape.
What is a “Gin-Saké”?
A cocktail for the brain damaged and morally-vapid WH press secretary: the Gin-Saké Martini.
Someone ought to start bringing her a barrel of the stuff for her press conferences. It would improve them a great deal.