My brother made the unexpected but welcome suggestion to just wait on the IRS refund... Mother has a bee in her bonnet about the most efficient routes (I'm fine when driving by myself)... Time for some near beer...

Keeping in mind I lost money on the Pope... kalshi.com/category/pol...

🔥 Too damn early for this shit… Early fires in Montana, South Dakota, Wyoming and a half-million acre fire in western Nebraska Pics from the 7k acre fire near Mt Rushmore look like July fire behavior. And no seasonal fire fighters on staff right now. It’s mid-march We’re next… #IdahoFire

Chicagoans! Are green THC edibles customary too?

TIL that phi is 3.67% of pi. I don't make the rules.

Assume the US holds Kharg Island as a bargaining chip. What’s the bargain?

Kharg Island, bleagh... ~350 km from the Strait of Hormuz via shipping lanes. Not that they'll be many ships.

FMH. www.forbes.com/sites/kellyp...

This state is so backwards. They finally processed my tax return yesterday, and have begun the "refund process", which'll take... four weeks... Meanwhile, the IRS doesn't like sending checks anymore. There's a reason why I like having a check in my hot little hands: cute bank tellers.

LLM Lojban Wormhole in the Big Apple. Mischevious FBI. Cicéle Is Dead. lo canlu kevna bu'u lo barda plise .la fenki fei.bi.ai .la .ciceles. cu morsi the space-hollow spatially coincident with the big apple The one named Fenki, F.B.I. The one named Ciceles is dead.

I’ve long considered graphic design a species of white magic. Parceling these out that I may ruminate.

Mentioned to our bagger at Costco that she looked a lot like Kat Abughazaleh. She didn’t know whom I was talking about. Not plugged into illinois politics.

We're all experts in maritime shipping now. kalshi.com/markets/kxho...

More fun that the conclave. kalshi.com/markets/kxwt...

If the last four digits of the your Social Security number and your ZIP+4 are identical, the monkey's paw just curled.

Just blocked certain words, there being no handy ai app to obliterate their gurning faces... Usual zombie shoppers and morbidly obese at Costco... Now that I'm hyper-alert about my driving nobody else know how to drive...

@straightofhormuz.bsky.social If you were a betting strait... kalshi.com/markets/kxho...

I liked it best when most of you hadn’t heard of me.

'Swounds! If Mother can belabor a moot point, she shall.

LLM Lojban: Roses are prickly. Violets pretentious. Today is Friday the 13th. Trump is mendacious. le rozgu cu se jesni .le vi'ola cu xanri lo ka banli .lo cabdei cu mumdei gi'e pa ci moi be lo cabmasti .la .trump. cu tcica

Current snowpack. It’s better than I thought, but so much worse than I would like.

Went back to the 3.00 minute default, which the default for good reason. It's the sweet spot, balancing the thermal cycle with good ergonomics. I go to the head or whatever –these are the intervals in which to hunt prime numbers.

Also, I really must figure out which dongle goes with which mouse, maintain good USB port management as well, and keep all my tchotchke on on side of my desk. I think they breed.

I'm so dumb. I've just now figured out what "'In use' means keyboard or mouse input in X.XX minutes" means ~after~ XX.X minutes. So I reset it from 3.00, which doesn't mean it starts up after 3.00 minutes of inactivity, to 0.25, i.e. after 15 seconds of ACTIVITY the CPU calms now. Ga-aah...!

Who is Yakub? Wrong answers only.

No, it’s in Iowa.

Theseus 2 to cranking out prime numbers again... Chatted briefly with the new owner of the house kitty-corner from English Garden. Nice frizzy-haired lady with a large standard poodle... Has Inspector Maigret ever been parodied?

Ouija vs. LLM. A match made in Hell.

Took Theseus 4 back to the shop. Improve it, degrade it, use a Ouija board just so long as it works.

The West Coast, i.e. California, Oregon, and Washington, is on par with the southern coast of Iran. It's not just the Strait of Hormuz.

Since Feb. 28, at least 16 merchant vessels have been attacked in the Strait of Hormuz and its adjoining waters (Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman), killing 8 seafarers, with one still missing. w/ @BlackiLi and Lazaro Gamio. nytimes.com/interactive/...

My understanding is that the USN can't provide escorts through the Strait of Hormuz right now (a choke point which has been the subject of extensive war games) because its too busy.

TIL I don't have enough VGA cables.

Trucks need gas you silly! Now get yourself about a billion dromedaries and we're in business!

Installing the Linux driver on the LAN chip was an exercise in futility. Can’t do this, can’t do the other thing, the secret key had been refused. Better luck tomorrow.

Are we great yet?

Look I’m not saying we’re gonna ration gasoline, I’m just saying make sure you get yours before you discuss the situation with your neighbors

Gasoline futures above $3/gallon

Attempting to install arcane Linux drivers. As per usual, what I’m seeing doesn’t match the instructions. Exporting my bookmarks might be easier. All learning curves are steep.

The only way gas will go lower is if “9/10s” is removed from the signs.

Timeline cleanse.

For those of you who named yourself "Sky" in your halcyon days... You have options. (I'm particularly fond of the Kámám line, a liminal space is ever there was one. Oh, and LEO too.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...

The 3 genders

I'd left Theseus 4 off overnight and returned with a refreshed mind and refreshed curses, mostly Anglo-Saxon. Dug into the ifconfig, modeled its Ethernet configuration on Theseus 2's, and lo! the hamster's still dead.

I remember waiting for gas & the odd/even license plate days. At 20, I waited in Santa Cruz in the summer. Super long lines. The thermostat stuck. A dirtbike repair shop helped me.😁 He removed it. My bff & I were in my stepdad’s 66 Camero, 3 on the tree. Memories;)

Who’s the short woman who’s always standing on Speaker Johnson’s right side as he blithers into a microphone?

The Navy says NOPE www.reuters.com/world/middle...

🇨🇳🌍 : China just announced zero tariffs on products from all 53 African countries with diplomatic ties. Not loans. Not conditions. Not military bases. Zero tariffs. Africa can export freely. Compete fairly. Grow independently. While the West offers aid with strings, China offers trade

An expensive lesson. I’d bought the Ryzen 7 at a discount, sans box and documentation. Flip-pin and my own tunnel vision did the rest.

James, my computer guy, tells me that [Thesesus 4] throws up an error message and boots into console, behavior with which I am familar. It’s not because of the new MB as he hypothesizes... Not that I know why its doing what its doing either.