Balki enjoys "Green Acres".

This print from @tomgauld.bsky.social is on our Christmas list. Seriously ... all three of us.

A bit of a hyperbolic description ... but I know I'll be singing the chorus later today.

When I am in a management job, Captain Gotoh is one of my role models.

More inspirational material for @dmariewms.bsky.social

Unlike my real-life vocabulary, I doubt that @profanity.accountant will find much of anything to count in my online presence.

Well, @npr.org , I think I've found your new theme song.

There's only one play that I can quote large sections of by heart: Tom Stoppard's "Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are Dead". You could probably even blame him for my lifelong fondness for cover versions and reworkings. RIP, Mr Stoppard.

Always interesting to compare the "economic impact" articles about TSMC vs. the list of jobs available in TSMC's ZIP code. azbigmedia.com/business/how...

Always an exciting day when the water comes

Hard mode on: Introduce yourself with five animals that have walked onto your patio: 1) Gila Monster 2) Bobcat 3) Mule Deer 4) Roadrunner 5) Western Whiptail

And still, there are those who say that Americans can’t do irony.

Can't help but wonder how these copyrights would hold up in court.

"You will be visited by three spirits"

Safety first!

I, on the other hand, shelled out good money for the four-volume hardcover "Drive" set. Well worth it.

Sliding rebar across

Daisy Mountain as viewed from my roof deck.

Deck support progress

Foam supports continue to grow

Those that know me know that I listen to a *lot* of ska and rocksteady. Not many still have me randomly bursting into song the next day.

There's a historical reason for this slur, but I can't imagine what was going in in 1943 that made Maggie use "condensed form of an atom" as a slur in a comic strip.

Balki is an avid television viewer

You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before

A movie that takes place where you're from For better or worse

Occasionally, someone nails it.

559.

Once I got to the mountain top, tell you what I could see Prairie full of lost souls running from the priests of iniquity Where the hell was Elijah What do you do when the prophecy game was through We gotta take the walls of Jericho Put your lips together and blow

I've always admired Brian Eno for his attempt at designing music that stayed far enough in the background that one could listen to it all day, every day, without psychic pain.

Getting 30' pieces of rebar onto the roof form

My morning included this image of Maureen O'Hara from Jim Silke. She always reminds me of my last conversation with my father. He had been adamant that he was not to be intubated, but grudgingly agreed for what he had been promised would be a short time for one procedure.

One of my periodic reminders that Trump isn't really an aberration: he's a natural product of the past.

Why yes, it's obvious that we should give small children unsupervised access to AI Chatbots. Nothing could go wrong with that.

#3157 A helpful tutorial

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

Naw.

A heart-warming precedent.

The storm has passed

Accomplishment of the day ... my ancient copy of Google Sketchup 8 is now running on my Ubuntu machine, albeit in a Windows VM. Now that I am done with that, I believe I know how to get it to run natively.

While not this particular version, "White Wedding" was playing on the radio when @dmariewms.bsky.social called me some forty years ago to tell me she was getting married. It wasn't a bad omen, apparently.

Reduced to an infographic.

“there is a point on the graph where things get Worse, and there you will find Ronald Reagan” stays undefeated

In case this helps anyone: both mine and a friend's computer (me:Ubuntu, him:Windows 10) started to hang whenever they encountered a Captcha or any other Cloudflare service. In both cases, manually installing Firefox 145 cleared it. Firefox 143 was refusing to offer 145 as an automatic upgrade.

The Times of India calls the list of tariff reductions a TACO list ... timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/mas...

I've had this argument many a time. I believe that my Riley Elf is one of the safest cars on the road because I'm unlikely to cause much damage in a collision.

Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.

Given the innumerable times that I've had cashiers respond to me giving them a couple of pennies to make the change even with "You can't do that! I already rang it up!", I won't be surprised if rounding leads to societal collapse.

I confess that I use Google translate sometimes ... but I think the way I keep it set up should earn me some difficulty points.

Another trademark war gone insane.