Either that or you wire the brain incorrectly and you sink into easier acceptance of mediocrity.

having big enough hands is absolutely my only piano skill. Please don’t take that away from me…

Link to video Is Beatrice a robot? Does Beatrice have a robot double? Signs point to No (that's a bridge too far) but she is certainly a strange person. Don't come at me with She has a medical condition. I don't care. She's very strange. Talk is she and her sister will be stripped of their titles. The sooner the better. They're grifters like their mother. Eugenie is the one who set up Harry with Meghan. She's got no judgement whatsoever. She's extremely stupid.

France has accused Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of being behind cyber-attacks that raised the temperatures of supermarket fridges and freezers. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said the attack was "unprecedented in both its scale and its level of aggression", adding those who were responsible would be hit with sanctions "at the European level". https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmg474vk6dyqo

Inside the White House it's apparently dog eat dog. https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/06/politics/stephen-miller-trump-susie-wiles

Thats hilarious.

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Over there

Crazy and sad.

Yeah it was really the rise of populist pressure from talk radio and cable news that changed the incentive structure for individual congressmen. And some of the earmark reforms of the 90s hurt too, whatever merits those reforms might have otherwise had. Now add social media and it’s hopeless. Too many people view their congressional seat as something that can serve their career rather than viewing service in the institution an end in itself. It gives them a national platform to preen. You find it on both sides.

Happy Diwali! We used to love going to the lunch buffet at our favorite Indian restaurant on Diwali. The buffet was always expanded to include even more items, and the restaurant was always super busy. Fun times!

@Axtremus A Blue Tsunami. Better yet, don't build it or tear it down if it's built.

Victorian manor houses weren't well insulated either. Apparently people had to congregate in the warm areas.

@ShiroKuro said: What a great trip!! What were some of the highlights? Public transportation: apparently Lisbon now uses the same model of public busses and fare collection system as San Francisco. Electronic passport control systems: every country implements some sort of electronic passport control system these days. Singapore's is the only one I have seen working quickly and perfectly. Everywhere else, I saw visitors needing to rescan their passports or needing some sort of human agent assistance to get through. Not Singapore -- a big plane load of visitors all got through passport control in a matter of minutes without human agent intervention. Ice cream: I continue to find that, more likely than not, European ice cream is less creamy but more flavorful than American ice cream. Japanese ice cream vendors often offer a “just milk” option, while the plainest you can get in the USA is “vanilla.” Seafood and day drinking: never had so much octopus as my days in Lisbon; wine was served at every lunch. Culture and tech for personal hygiene: I had the chance to experience, many days in a row, first the Japanese-style electronic bidets then also a European-style non-electronic bidet, from which I concluded rather confidently that the Japanese-style electronic bidets are functionally superior and vastly more user friendly.

I suddenly have the urge to go onto LinkedIn to look for posts/pictures with Jensen and post comments like: "So how do you feel about Jensen now?" Like, for examples, these folks: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ieee-has-named-jensen-huang-founder-and-ugcPost-7473024846868750336-LE2x/

I made a Wal-Mart "List" on the app for the first time. It had over 30 items (if the item is Count +2 or +4, each one counts as1 item). It took me 2 days. You have to choose each item, organize groups of items (optional), and products can go out of stock in real time,... meaning your List can change every time you look at it. I completed my task but strange to say it draining after 2 sessions working with it over 2 days.

We studied Roland Barthes extensively in school (anyone who majored in a social sciences). As far as being grumpy, I was famous in my family, to a person, as having been a grumpy child and an exceptionally serious one. I was born this way. What can I say.