The only conceivable way that electoral college hijinks could prevent a Trump Presidency (however brief it turns out to be), from happening is if Texas electors come to believe that there is a conspiracy among Florida electors in cahoots with Republican electors from several other states to vote for Jeb Bush, and in retaliation, the Texas electors ( Read more... )

Sometimes advice takes a very bad form. People get "stuck" on certain things, and these things spiral out of control. An analogy would be how in society, a police state can form out of bad or misinformation. All problems lead to the same answer: More police. Crime is up! More police! Crime is down! The police are working, MORE POLICE! Crime is flat ( Read more... )

I managed to uninstall the realtime kernel and zotz all the old kernels. This morning... New kernel in the update queue! It looked like it was going to reinstall a realtime kernel. I did it just to see. And the update figured out that I don't want a realtime kernel!

$ uname -r
3.13.0-105-genericSee? Things worked out. Now I have to redo the whole ( Read more... )

Does anyone else have a "todo" list that turns into a rolling failure pile? Because a "todo" list is eventually going to accumulate certain types of items. These items are complex, multi-stepped, ambiguous, difficult, and their success or failure have lots of implications. Let's look at a concrete example. I have had, on my todo list, a rolling ( Read more... )

Is there a method for measuring or monitoring currency flow within an exchange system ( Read more... )

We watch The Walking Dead and last week's episode had a narrative trope that I think is a little annoying. First of all, I can't remember who any of these people are. The episode begins with "The Lesbian" and "The Braids Guy" in a camper. We are supposed to like them, I think. The show has gotten a lot of criticism for killing the black guy... ( Read more... )

They are playing "nice" now. And on January 21st they are going to toss out the filibuster and push 20 years of the most insane bullshit through so fast we won't even know what to put on our newly illegal protest signs. New "dissent" laws. New police powers... You name it. And they'll finally put the ridiculous laws they already have into place... ( Read more... )

Two things that there needs to be words for ( Read more... )

We have been looking for a microwave with a mute button for a decade. Seems like a simple thing. But it is impossible to find. They are out there. It is often listed as a feature on ridiculously overpriced microwaves. We want a sort of basic model with a mute. I will be using this as a specific example of an abstract interaction for which there ( Read more... )

We have a "yard" of sorts, and we also have a couple of Likely-Trump-Voter neighbors across the street, and we also have a "flipper" trying to flip the house across the street. Someone has called the city and told them our yard is "full of weeds" and we have to "get rid of the weeds." That's fine. Our yard is... atrocious. I hate this sort of shit ( Read more... )