I couldn't image living in the upper MW climate. The weather seems like it would be brutal. Weather here is mild, maybe a little warmer than I expected. That could change in only another week. We're getting 10- 12 constant winds. The humidity is low. Late fall is great weather here. Hurricane season done. I'd like to say 2nd consecutive year in FL with no hurricanes but one did hit the panhandle. We got lucky again.

Well, you have now. Lol.

Thanks, Mark!

So true. BTW, Isaac Saul's Tangle had a piece about how crazy the polls are right now. I don't think it's behind a paywall. https://www.readtangle.com/2026-midterm-polls-blue-wave/

Me too

WTF? BTW, it sucks when it's the middle of the night and you have G but no T. Ask me how I know.

Living on a cruise ship is great if your idea of fun is getting infected with a serious disease and effectively quarantined or alternatively if your idea of fun is falling into the ocean and being left for dead.

The Bermuda Triangle phenomenon continues...last Friday the car wouldn't start. I thought I had noticed beginning a month or so ago that the battery didn't have as much "oomph" when I started the car, but shrugged it off. It was installed last December. I jumped it with the little portable jumper (those things are cool) and took it over to the mechanic. He checked it out and said it was fine, and that we need to take it out for longer drives occasionally to charge it up. He charged the battery, but didn't charge us. These independent guys are the best. And this morning, our vintage Melitta electric drip coffee maker that we got from Gevalia in 1990 (remember those deals?) gave up the ghost. You can still buy these units NIB on ebay. People must have gotten tons of them and stashed them away. Thing is, they last forever so they sat unused in someone's basement and now they are getting rid of them. The weird thing is that earlier this week I commented to Mr wtg that the Melitta electric was pretty amazing, but that I was going to keep one of the three Chemex pots that we have, just in case the Melitta crapped out. Prescient, I am.

Real investigative journalists FTW. Btw- interesting fact- you need no educational credentials to be a journalist. You don't need any to be an architect either. As it should be. But yes, come on, CBS is circling the drain. It was bought by a Zionist billionaire on behalf of the interests of the state of Israel. That's just a fact. How can it produce remotely objective journalism now? It can't. It's been one problem after another with CBS. I say CBS because it's "CBS" but it has nothing to do with the CBS we remember.

Good lord. And those are just sound bites. Their whole belief system is wacko.

Link to video

Interesting. I've never even been to Liverpool.

Maybe Apple and Android both suck. The problem is it doesn't end. There's always one more new thing you have to do to try to protect your privacy (and many people don't find this stuff easy to do in the first place). I was just thinking should I care that the police can watch you and everyone else in your home through the wall from 100 yards away with a piece of equipment that shows holographic images in real time by connecting to your router that is basically video taping you as you move through your WIFI signal waves? There's apparently a way you can stop this too. Who has time for all this? And like I said these situations never stop. I decided yes. It's worth caring about it only because it's creepy. But I'm not going to be able to stop a router from doing this even assuming it can be done. I decided I won't have WIFI. I want to replace my Moto Edge 2024. The screen is small. The battery is dying. I need something close to 7". I want OLED not AMOLED. I'm open to Apple (although much less after reading this), I'm interested in Magic OS. I don't what to buy. I'm not living without a "smart" phone. I'll probably just buy what I want in early '07, not worry about the $ (I haven't owned a flagship phone and that will change), and not worry all that much about privacy, because at the end of the day, there is none.

I remember my sister and her friend getting up really early to watch Diana’s wedding.

The quintessential American sport.

When the last one passes I will watch my very first episode of Star Trek in homage. Or maybe not.

According to wiki, Nevada and Connecticut still maintain the service. As does the UK.

@Mik said: @Mark said: I see a growing threat and actual actions taken by a group of religious wack jobs tearing down the separation of "church" and state and flat out ignoring the constitution to be more of a threat to modern civilization then any of the made up "threats" created by the far right. I wholly agree. +100