This will of necessity be brief- I have to get to Walmart and stock up with salt for the coming ice storm. And the only reasonable time to go to Walmart this close to Goyishe Chanukkah is at 4am, when it’s only me, a couple of drunks, and a few meth-heads wandering the aisles. The huge groups of Mexican families blocking all of the aisles while their kids intermingle won’t start until 7 or 8.
Motivational speech or a signal that Trump is going to try to match Obama’s miserable record of starting wars? I think the former and I hope I’m right. If it’s the latter, we might as well have had Hillary.
DHS touts its failures as a need to do moar. And this is actually close to Amish country, just in case you want to snark. In perspective, this is any given hour in downtown Chicago, and if DHS just went away, we’d all be better off. Especially the TSA part.
Want to take an instant hatred to someone? Someone unbearably smug, insular, and intolerant? Here ya go!
When someone goes postal, it’s a yawner. I mean, how many times do we read the same old story? Well, this one has a twist- he got naked first.
OMG OMG OMG, EXPLOSIVE REPORTING!!!!!! PRESIDENT MENTAL LINT ACCUSED OF SAYING STUFF!!! That’s it, we’ve got the Roadrunner this time!
Old Guy music, in case you thought you’d get away without it today. The greatest band that no-one seems to know.
“If it’s the latter, we might as well have had Hillary.”
No, no one was more of a hawk than HRC.
No matter what else happens, we still dodged a huge bullet by not having Her Imperial Majesty in the White House.
Agreed. I’m definitely not thrilled at Trump’s newfound warboner, but if Hilldawg were in there we’d already be in at least 3 conflicts.
And the left would find it completely justifiable.
Principals over principles.
Trump talks big about everything. He’s a big talker. He’s also a business man, who was huge on marketing his image, huge. It was such a big image, you wouldn’t believe it. So much image. I don’t think it’s that he has a warboner. Do you think he has a warboner? I don’t think that. He just wants the other countries to know, he can go up to any country and just grab them by the pussy. Any country, and they’ll let him. It’s just locker room talk.
Yep, he’s been talking a big game but he’s been surprisingly restrained in his actions so far. Hopefully that doesn’t change.
Well, the good news is that Congress has to declare wars, so there’s no worries that an out of control executive branch will take any kind of illegal action.
Right?
Just another change to thank Trump for, jeez.
*knocks on wood*
I hope you’re right. Bannon and Gorka, for all their faults, were at core non-interventionists. Not the type of principled non-interventionists as libertarians, but the nationalist types that would at least think twice before engaging in foreign conflict because it might be bad for the homeland. Once he dumped them, I worried that he’d start neo-conning it up.
May Rand Paul’s influence be longer lasting.
You must know a different Bannon, I listen to him on Sirius, and that man wants war with China,
“No, no one was more of a hawk than HRC.”
Lindsey Graham begs to differ.
We might as well quit fiddling around, and go to war with a worthy opponent.
Eastasia?
Khan Noonien Singh?
You know, I am rather enjoying my time in the RETIRED Reserve…
You know who else was retired from the army but was once again called back to serve his country…
Macarthur?
Cincinnatus?
Rambo, John J?
John Rambo?
Juuuuust a bit outside!
Great, warped minds think alike!
Mitchell Gant?
Lee Harvey Oswald?
He was a Marine!
Jack Ruby then!
Oh shit. USAF.
Korben Dallas?
Nice
Steve Rogers?
Hitler?
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick?
“She could differentiate farm animals better than I, a native New Yorker dropped from the clouds onto Texas soil. I had agreed to leave the Northeast and move to Dallas for my husband’s advertising career, an enterprise that was more profitable than my writing — alas, the greater good. The view out the rear window was identical to the one ahead. Were we coming or going, it was hard to tell.”
I’m not the least bit surprised his advertising career was more profitable, because that is terrible writing.
How would SugarFree rework it?
“When you’re in the middle of a Wobbly H, the view toward the front is the same as the view behind.”
If I had to guess, SugarFree wouldn’t have anything to do with it. He has a consistent style and use of metaphor. Unlike this rhetorical migraine:
“The plane lifted up, and Dallas felt like forever ago. For some time after landing, I felt that I was moving through fog, or whipped cream, something that slows you down, fuzzes up your view. My kids seemed a planet away, and I didn’t feel that I was, in fact, home. For months, both places seemed alien; I felt suspended between the two. Girl without a ZIP code.”
SF would like the part about the whipped cream.
Two paragraphs in and I was thinking I’d divorce that bitch too.
Same here. Allow me:
“Christ, what an asshole.”
Yup
Maybe it wasn’t the distance honey. Maybe they didn’t visit because you are a miserable cunt.
She made a stupid decision with regard to her marriage, and so everything associated with that time is unpleasant in her mind. I don’t blame her for not liking Texas; it is a different place culturally, socially, and politically; almost a different nation, in a way. Having to deal with the consequences of bad decisions without one’s regular support group is difficult.
I dragged my wife and children around the country, for work purposes, but, being Christians, we’ve been able to relatively quickly build support groups through the churches we have attended. Also, my wife is awesome.
I was expecting to be highly annoyed at this lady, but I wound up feeling sorry for her.
She lived in Dallas for fourteen years. If she didn’t build a circle of friends, it’s because she didn’t want to do so. From my experience, Dallas/Fort Worth is relentlessly friendly. You have to try to be anti-social there.
You make a fair point.
That sounds awfully like a challenge to me
::checks air miles and figures cost of one-way ticket to Love Field::
This reads as though the ex-husband’s last bit revenge was to help her get this published.
[golf claps]
I’m sitting here in a mixture of dread and impatience waiting for the wind to start. It’s coming, and there’s no reason to pretend it isn’t, so we might as well get on with it. There’s close to a foot and a half of light, fluffy new snow out there. Let the driftpocalypse begin!
We had a cold rain yesterday. Depressing. Supposedly we’re getting snow overnight.
Last night I drank a beer that might have been going bad. I survived. I am a bit hungover though.
And this is actually close to Amish country, just in case you want to snark
Back in my day, when the Amish went on Rumspringa, they just felt each other up under tables in bars.
DEG has a sad that he didn’t get felt up.
Not really. Not all Amish women look like her.
Might want to skip the link above. Kaspersky intercepts the URL and suspects a trojan.
Avast went nuts too – “threat detected”
Yikes… sorry. What’d they flag?
*might* be a false positive. But I find it hard to imagine that a ‘hot amish’ is gonna outshine some of Q’s links.
Ahh., thanks. I have been a little lazy about virus protection since I run Linux. Time to go get clamav.
Great. I should have read down thread before clicking.
As a consolation prize, here’s a different hot Amish girl.
Ohhh ya.
Here you go.
I’d like to get Kelly’s 2D:4D ratio, because I bet it’s damn close to 0.93
Pretty woman but what is with the cone shaped bra.
TURN IT OFF! TURN IT OFF!
Deck the tits with lots of whipped cream falalalala-lalalala!
Lick it off to make her smile beam falalalala-lalalala!
http://archive.is/XUdSd
1, 2, 3, 13, 29
#8 is Kate Upton. I almost excluded #22 from the orgy on account of reference Occupy Wall Street, but I think Occupy Boobs is a worthwhile endeavor. I think #31 has proper trigger finger discipline. It would be easier to tell if the ammunition wasn’t in the way.
Orgy.
Good morning, Q!
13 for the smile and style. A winner.
Morning Tundra, woke up to 3 inches of snow (finally!) but unfortunately I have to travel :(. Boobs may be sporadic for the next few days while I’m visiting family.
Yeah, what the hell happened to the snow this year?
Safe travels! I hope you enjoy your family time.
Fuck snow. Figuratively, not literally. I don’t want frostbite on my cock.
More snow predicted here for tomorrow. Yesterdays storm moved out and probably dropped more ice than snow. Everything is still a mess this morning.
Safe travels!
My eyes flew over the pages. Bob had filed a motion for divorce; fault grounds were not required.
As soon as I started reading the “I was forced to raise my kids in Texas” story, I was waiting to see this.
Yep. Who could stay married to that person?
Definitely not me.
Remember that gun auction I posted about last week? I made a low bid. There are too many problems with it to get aggressive with bidding, but it is good enough that I’m interested. I was immediately outbid, then a few other bidders jumped in. Bidding is now up to $1525. The auction ends the evening of the 27th. I still think it will go for close to $2000, but I’m not going to spend that much on that rifle.
whoa whoa. What? That was an enfield wasn’t it? Less than a year ago I saw SMLEs in a local pawn shop for 150 bucks.
The last time I was involved in an online auction for a gun it was for a Winchester ’94 in 444 Marlin. I really, really want one. I have been trying to get one for more than ten years. There weren’t that many made and it is the only caliber I dont have in my Winchester collection. It didn’t take me long to figure out that the guy bidding against me was the seller. He tried to push me over 2K but that was already more than I was willing to pay. I bailed.
You need to look elsewhere. You can get get good Enfields a lot cheaper than that. Ammo? Not so much. Oh, that reminds me, I have a set of 303 reloading dies but no rifle. Let me know if you are interested. I would probably send them to you for the price of shipping.
Uh, are you sure about that Winchester? The ’94 was never made in .444 Marlin.
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/730439779
They made a few but not many. A few years ago I found some 444 ammo at a ridiculous low price and bought 500 rounds. I used to have a Marlin in that chamber but it was one of the micro rifled guns. I sold it because that gun wont shoot cast bullets worth a damned. I want the Winchester with Ballard rifling.
Well, I’ll be damned. I have never seen one of those. I’ve seen some in .450 Marlin but never .444.
A buddy of mine was looking for a 94 Marlin in .41 Mag, as he’s a fan of that caliber, but they only made a few of those and they are selling for 5k or so apiece. That’s too damn much.
5K? Good Grief. I’m a big fan of .41 mag but not that big. If you want a pistol caliber in a carbine then .44 is the way to go.
I have the .450 Marlin…or as it should be known 458 Winchester short. It’s a real asskicker. You can jack it up to 500 grains at 1700fps.
I really really want the 444. Inside of 300 yards it shoots like a 30-06 and hits like a freight train.
Planning on going sasquatch hunting, Suthen?
SMLEs are relatively cheap and plentiful. MLEs are not. The auction is for a MLE.
Nice gun but way overpriced.
MLEs come up so rarely it’s tough get to pricing data for them. I don’t have a subscription to the Blue Book of Gun Values, so my price data is from scouring the Internet auction sites. I’ve seen MLEs go for more.
Go make the pawn shop rounds. You’d be amazed at the things that show up there for peanuts.
Oh… the reloading dies. Maybe. I don’t reload, but given I recently picked up a Lee-Metford and I have a Schmidt-Rubin M1889, I might need to learn.
Yes you do. You can shoot centerfire for not much more than the price of 22 rimfire.
If I ever get around to having this Arisaka checked over by a gunsmith, I might have to start reloading just to feed it.
The problem then will be that I’ll have every excuse to go out and buy other long guns in uncommon calibers.
Bob had filed a motion for divorce; fault grounds were not required.
Temporary insanity – on his part. The permanent insanity was hers.
Somehow this seems… ill advised.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qbx5n7/the-men-who-use-antidepressants-to-last-longer-in-bed
“Basically, I was thinking about my penis all fucking day.”
So, a regular dude.
Who wants to last longer? Get in, get out, get a sandwich.
Depends. Who’s makin the sammich?
ENB.
My eyes flew over the pages. Bob had filed a motion for divorce; fault grounds were not required.
Incessant bitching is a legitimate reason.
I felt dizzy and nauseated and went into the yard. Wooden planks fenced in the lawn, a gated door locked with a bolt. The air heaved with August heat, and ripples rose up from the stone. I walked the perimeter, turning the corners like a wind-up soldier, the sun burning me up. Texas was a flaming hell right then.
Gripping. I was on the edge of my seat. Then I arose…
… and yet, you persisted.
RE: The Texas story.
While I imagine it would suck to be forced to stay somewhere you don’t want to, the husband’s response at the bottom of the article seems the most sane. It *is* designed to protect the children, y’know, those lives you opted to create and which are totally dependent on you. If you didn’t want that responsibility, you shouldn’t have had kids in the first place. Or you should have worked harder to keep your marriage together. Why do these NYC journos work so hard at proving the stereotype of the smug, provincial and insular doosh true?
She could leave anytime; she would just have her visitation/custody curtailed. The law was passed to prevent people from taking the kids to another jurisdiction and relitigating the divorce there.
From the article:
I’m guessing she really didn’t pick up the culture of the south.
I noticed that too.
“fucking idiot” the Texans said.
Good God.
Bless your heart = Fuck you
How’d she miss that?
NYC journos work so hard at proving the stereotype of the smug, provincial and insular doosh true
Because they don’t have to work at it at all?
Yep, that pretty much sums it up.
http://hotpenguin.net/history-of-humanity/
Why is there always someone in a comments thread who repeats the alleged story Egyptians were black?
I read somewhere a few years back this wasn’t the case.
Cleopatra was Greek. Also, very high-maintenance.
Which one? Oh nevermind they all married their brothers anyway, so it isn’t as if new blood got into that family.
Claudette Colbert.
She spent fourteen years raising her daughters in Egypt, because of divorce laws, and hated it.
Mary Lefkowitz pretty much did to that notion what James Randi did to Uri Geller.
I can’t speak for most Egyptians, but Ramesses II was a redhead.
The Afrocentrists I’ve heard on this basically say:
1. Egypt is in Africa.
2. People in Africa are black.
3. Ergo, Egyptians are black.
By the way, don’t ever tell an Ethiopian they are black, or you’ll have one angry Ethiopian. They typically believe they are their own race, superior to blacks and Arabs.
Whoa, stop the presses – I thought only wypipo held racist beliefs??
my antivirus decided “hotpenguin” was a security threat.
i hope i didn’t miss any titties
Paging MLW
In today’s hair-trigger, hyperreactive social media landscape, where a tweet can set off a cascade of outrage and prompt calls for a book’s cancellation, children’s book authors and publishers are taking precautions to identify potential pitfalls in a novel’s premise or execution. Many are turning to sensitivity readers, who provide feedback on issues like race, religion, gender, sexuality, chronic illness and physical disabilities. The role that readers play in shaping children’s books has become a flash point in a fractious debate about diversity, cultural appropriation and representation, with some arguing that the reliance on sensitivity readers amounts to censorship.
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Behind the scenes, these readers are having a profound impact on children’s literature, reshaping stories in big and small ways before they reach impressionable young audiences. Like fact checkers or copy editors, sensitivity readers can provide a quality-control backstop to avoid embarrassing mistakes, but they specialize in the more fraught and subjective realm of guarding against potentially offensive portrayals of minority groups, in everything from picture books to science fiction and fantasy novels.
“There is a newfound fervor in children’s publishing to be authentic and get the story right,” said David Levithan, vice president and publisher of Scholastic Press, which regularly seeks advice from sensitivity readers. “When any author is writing outside their own experience, we want to make sure they’ve done their homework.”
Yes, yes, of course. We’re merely concerned with “authenticity”. The ruthless eradication of ungoodthink is merely a happy coincidence.
If you didn’t want that responsibility, you shouldn’t have had kids in the first place.
*raises hands triumphantly over head*
In children’s publishing, where there’s a huge demand for diverse books, sensitivity readers have practically become a routine part of the editing process.
That word, there… I don’t think you’re using it properly.
I’d like to see some actual data on that “huge demand”.
My favorite part of the Texas Bitch story:
Whatever, mom.
That would be the NY Bitch story, I believe.
she claimed to originate in boston i think. bitches are bitches, please don’t attribute them all to a brief residence in manhattan.
Seems like rip on nyc day here.
Well all I have to say is I wish all of these cow tipping, cousin fucking hicks would go back to where they came from so I can enjoy the city in peace. Why do millions of hillbilly redneck bumpkins invade Manhattan this time of year if it’s such a horrible place full of people who should, at best, be put down?
One hour till Christmas here. Wife and daughter fast asleep in the beds. Me? Thoughts of Q’s list drifting in my head. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas, straffin!
Back at ya, Tundra.
Merry Christmas!
?
Merry Christmas ya filthy animals!!
Hey, I bathed a while back.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas.
Let’s thank (((them))) for Jesus.
???????
Cheers to you all.
Nora [nursing a headache]: What hit me?
Nick: The sixth martini.
— Myrna Loy and William Powell, The Thin Man, 1934
Those were great stories, and movies.
SP and I are just like Nick and Nora, if they were broke, much less good looking, and wore jeans and t shirts.
Christmas party with the in-laws today. It will be interesting given the recent funeral. And I’ve sober as a judge for the past two weeks.
*hopes for a useful gift card*
Don’t worry, I’ve had your share, too. We have the family of one of the Glibertariat coming today, apparently with cocktail fixins in hand. None of us are Christmas celebrants, so the occasion is, “Fuck it, let’s just drink.”
*clutches 2 bottles of glogg for OMWC and SP*
And I am stuck hitting the highway tonight, to see parents.
You celebrate Labor day Yet No one Works around here, Fuck it , Drink!
Merry Christmas!
Breaking open the aged egg nog tomorrow with a group of friends. We even have a teetotaler on board to be the emergency skipper if we need one.
I am sure that we will live up to the motto that the liver is evil and must be punished.
And I’ve sober as a judge for the past two weeks.
My condolences.
Have a fun day. Tell lots of stories about the old man – especially inappropriate ones. The first Christmas after my FIL died was tough, but the stories really helped everyone focus on what a cool dude he was, not that he wasn’t there.
My wife-o is on a new medication where drinking is not recommended. I’ve joined her in solidarity. Now I don’t have a garbage bin of tonic bottles. And the local liquor store clerk doesn’t get to see my face every other day.
You’ll get buff, too. I am about to commence Operation Spin-dry to get ready for the beach in March.
Beach in March? In Minnesoda? No. You’re going to the Caribbean right?
I’ve already lost some 14 pounds in the past three months. Of course of that is muscle and protein reduction.
Also my forward looking doctor has me on a new diet that I call “low carb” vegetarian with only 4-5ozs of meat a day. All in an attempt to reduce my blood sugar levels below pre-diabetic levels. I attribute that to stress and gluconeogenesis.
If my damn doctor wasn’t so cute I wouldn’t be listening to her.
Low carb vegetarian. That sounds depressing.
Well, only eating 4-5ozs a day will make that vegetarian meat last longer.
Seconded.
When my grandfather died, remembering that he had a long and good life helped ease the fact that he wasn’t around.
Happy X-Mas straffinrun. Happy X-Mas everyone.
Merry Christmas, Straffin. May your stocking be stuffed full with riceballs. And may the fish head soup be extra seaweedy today.
Merry Christmas straff! May all your wishes be under the tree in the morning.
I’m still shaking off yesterday’s exertions in front of the TV set. And the drinking will restart shortly.
Question for the javascript/jQuery gurus. I’m working on improving the dynamic comment loading algorithm in Monocle. Rather than just replacing the entire comment list using the AJAX .load() method, I’m attempting to load the updated comments into a hidden div, pick out the new comments, and individually insert them into the real comment list based on the id of the parent comment using the callback function of load(). Nothing appears to happen. Is the callback running too early in the process to successfully do this??
Wut?
I would hardly call myself a guru, but this bit has me flummoxed:
Is this supposed to be a URL or a CSS selector or something else?
Perhaps this might help me understand, which load function are you calling? The AJAX one (to fetch data from the server) or the deprecated event-handling one (to be fired on load event)?
It’s calling the AJAX one You can combine a URL with a selector to only load a page fragment (this portion of the code is pulled from the current version of Monocle and is working as expected). I can go into the DOM and see the updated comments that have been loaded in the hidden div.
The problem is accessing the retrieved elements in the callback function. It acts as though the updated comments aren’t there yet. I really need to do some logging, but logging is a PITA in user scripts.
Ah, nifty. I see that in the docs now (it does say “If a “complete” callback is provided, it is executed after post-processing and HTML insertion has been performed.”) But I don’t see anywhere that a single-argument form of the callback is document, which I guess means it’s equivalent to the 3-argument form with the last 2 arguments left undefined, and thus
is I guess interpreting the response text as HTML in some kind of orphaned DOM tree but maybe it’s in the document because that’s how the load function says it works, and already I’m encountering everything I hate about JavaScript in the browser and know I’m not being of any help whatsoever.
Sorry
That stood out to me as well. It is interesting because besides not accomplishing whatever affect may have been desired with the selectors, it may cause inconsistent behavior depending on the URL of the page and jQuery’s implementation of the XHR.
If you are at “https://glibertarians.com/2017/12/sunday-morning-victory-dance-links/”, you will end up with a request URL of “https://glibertarians.com/2017/12/sunday-morning-victory-dance-links/.commentlist > *”, which will 404.
If you are at “https://glibertarians.com/2017/12/sunday-morning-victory-dance-links/#comments”, you will end up with a request URL of “https://glibertarians.com/2017/12/sunday-morning-victory-dance-links/#comments.commentlist > *”. The user agent is not supposed to send the fragment identifier (the part after #) to the server, so that should not 404, unless jQuery URL-encodes it before doing the native XHR.
Per your comment above, evidently jQuery does do some fragment identifier magic. Ah well.
“Although our divorce was finalized in 2003, for a stretch of years after that, there were additional lawsuits over custody and visitation rights, one after another.
Oh, grow up already.
“…Spooky men ambushed me on the front lawn. They flapped yellow envelopes overhead, taunting me and yelling that constables would handcuff me or take our house away if I didn’t accept the papers in my hand. I picked up speed and covered my face, feeling my heart explode and fingers tremble and body sweat. I came to anticipate the men and lived for years waking in the dark, screaming out and swatting, thinking that they were hovering on my bedroom ceiling, throwing down the yellow envelopes and swooping toward my head, cackling.”
She makes it sound like Texas is a conveyor belt of freaks.
“When I lived in Texas, I hated Texas, and I said it out loud, even to my kids, who didn’t know of a different home. I shouldn’t have done that.”
Very mature of her.
“…I looked at my sleeping kids and realized that the place, with its cows and cornbread, its disappointments and its strife, had a hand in nurturing my girls, and doing it well…”
You know, I was a total immature drama Queen but this place ain’t so bad.
“….from where I continue to write..”
You call this writing? What color was the crayon you scribbled this with? Did you stick your tongue out while thinking? And how do you hold your crayon?
“I’m now 57 and in the two years since that first visit, I’ve thought a lot about my daughters’ childhoods and what could have gone wrong. But they are remarkable people, something I knew from the start and fought to preserve. I am proud of the fight.”
To me, the last sentence encapsulates her mind set perfectly. It was all a fight to her; still is.
Which is why she’s still single probably and the ex-husband moved on. He probably read this and doesn’t regret a single thing.
One can only hope the girls are well-adjusted enough to spot there mother’s drama. Is there any doubt she votes Democrat and is a prog?
The daughters are cute. It must be noted.
Is there any doubt she votes Democrat and is a prog?
No, especially when you look at her other articles on the NYPost. She’s a Sandersista.
I’d like to thank her ex for taking a bullet for the rest of the men on earth.
I feel bad for her kids having to see that shit plastered all over the interweb.
I think they already know she’s crazy
So that makes it OK for a few million more people to see it?
I came to anticipate the men and lived for years waking in the dark, screaming out and swatting, thinking that they were hovering on my bedroom ceiling, throwing down the yellow envelopes and swooping toward my head, cackling.
I get that some people don’t take divorce well. It hit my mom especially hard. However, this is literal insanity, even if it’s rampant hyperbole. Congrats NYPost, you’ve given a paranoid schizophrenic a sounding board for her delusions.
By the way, aside from the heat (mainly the effects on the foundations and on my vegetable garden) and the overcrowding (mostly from ungrateful Cali and NY leftists like this loon), Texas is one of my favorite places in the country. If Dallas were 250 miles further north, I’d move back there in an instant.
Congrats NYPost, you’ve given a paranoid schizophrenic a sounding board for her delusions.
Actually, I’d put my money on Borderline Personality Disorder. She sounds just like one.
Okay, I am not,creating my own thread for this. All I am going to say, is this lady needs for society to become accepting of suicide. She would make an enterprising individual fairly wealthy by setting up repurposed phonebooths in convenient locations.
I know it doesn’t necessarily mean anything, but I thought it interesting that the girls went to college in Missouri and Arkansas. This knowing full well that mother would split for New York the second the younger one left.
The part that caught my attention was:
“We did what young families do anywhere. I tried to embrace my whereabouts, tapping the explorer’s spirit, attending rodeos, overlooking the politics.”
This was combined with making a big deal out of going to the museum when her daughters visited her in New York.
Ummm, lady (using the term loosely). Dallas has museums too. Dallas has a symphony, too. Fort Worth has a terrific opera house. Culture does exist outside of 20 square blocks on an island in the northeast. What a provincial slimebag. If her daughters are actually normal, I think they have their father to thank.
Oh well, as us southerners say: Bless your heart (translation: fuck off, bi-otch)
New York Museums are not that great.
Not bland enough?
Small, lacking in informative content, and with uninteresting materials on display.
American Museum of Natural History? MoMA? Now you’re just trolling.
There are only a handful like that.
There are scores of museums. The average quality is, meh.
AMNH is – to my European eyes – disappointing, but then the Natural History Museum in the UK is a tough act to follow.
The Met is a very good museum by almost any standard, and while I’m not that much of a fan of the stuff MoMA peddles, it’s a good museum.
The Guggenheim – I’ll grant you that – is overhyped.
The New York Hall of Science in Queens was goddamn awful, but they’ve done a renovation in the last few years that I’d say brings it up to ‘notable’. It’s also nice that it’s the centerpiece of what was the original New York World’s Fair, which isn’t uninteresting in its own right.
New York Planetariam is interesting, but not as extensive as you might be led to believe, but it has a narrow focus that is pretty well covered.
I’ve never been, but just from pictures/clips on TV I’ve seen, this seems highly unlikely.
It’s UCS so…
AMNH is one of the best museums ANYWHERE.
You see, herein lies the problem. When people think of New York Museums, they think only of a tiny handful of renown. They ignore the dozens to hundreds of other museums that litter the landscape.
Gotcha. I get what you’re saying now.
“UCS Discovers Sturgeon’s Rule”
I love weird little museums. Not necessarily for the exhibits, but because I am fascinated that someone went to the trouble to not only collect the stuff, but to turn it into a museum.
The nation’s most interesting museums are in Caspar, Wyoming and Ogden, Utah.
What are they?
Here’s one in Cody, WY, only about three or four hours away. I was there when I was a kid. My one set of grandparents took me out West in their RV. It’s a pretty neat museum.
I’ve not managed to make it out Wyoming way yet. I’m still filling in east of the mississippi, later on I’ll work on visiting further west.
I would beg to differ.
Cody, dammit. Not Caspar.
Don’t forget the Frazier Museum in Louisville, Kentucky.
Guns, cannons, swords, suits of armor… What’s not to like? Plus, there are tons of whiskey distilleries just south of Louisville, so you could make a whole weekend of it.
The real issue is the number of irrelevant ones.
The very notable ones are great, but the ones that are basically run as vanity projects are typically mediocre – as you’d expect.
For a while, I spent a lot of time learning about Eastern Orthodox iconography and inevitably discovered Nicholas Roerich (there’s an H.P. Lovecraft connection there which I found fascinating), and I ended up one rainy Thursday afternoon at the Nicholas Roerich Museum in NYC, which is one of those exceptions that proves the rule. The foundation behind the Roerich museum and the whole “Pax Cultura” thing that Roerich launched is utter bollocks, but it’s a fine museum if you like that kind of thing.
So this lady lived in Highland Park, one of Dallas’ nicest, & frankly, friendliest neighborhoods. If it was a “bad, lonely place”, it’s because she made it so.
Please learn from my mistake & *don’t* seek out her personal website. It’s full of the kind of dread only boobies can rescue one from (thanks Q).
Heh. I had images of her living up near Irving Mall or somewhere like that.
A YOUTUBE CAROL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C01cAZLSVJI
Why do I have to go to YouTube to watch it? I paid good money to not have to put up with Google’s garbage and they only post it there?
And finally, I want to wish Ken Schultz a Merry Christmas.
https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/944628296200880131
OH YEAH! Now that is funny, I don’t care who you are.
Yeah, I ALOL’d at that one.
Wut. Tha. Fuck? What Government?
Maybe we shoulda just put up a statue of Gaddhafi?
“I’m now 57 and in the two years since that first visit, I’ve thought a lot about my daughters’ childhoods and what could have gone wrong. But they are remarkable people, something I knew from the start and fought to preserve. I am proud of the fight.”
“Despite my unceasing efforts, the children are not as crazy and useless as I am. I’m a failure.”
“A deafening media silence on the Obama-Hezbollah scandal
Politico published a jaw-dropping, meticulously sourced investigative piece this week detailing how the Obama administration had secretly undermined US law enforcement agency efforts to shut down an international drug-trafficking ring run by the terror group Hezbollah. The effort was part of a wider push by the administration to placate Iran and ensure the signing of the nuclear deal.
Now swap out “Trump” for “Obama” and “Russia” for “Iran” and imagine the eruption these revelations would generate. Because, by any conceivable journalistic standard, this scandal should’ve triggered widespread coverage and been plastered on front pages across the country. By any historic standard, the scandal should elicit outrage regarding the corrosion of governing norms from pundits and editorial boards.
Yet, as it turns out, there’s an exceptionally good chance most of your neighbors and colleagues haven’t heard anything about it.”
https://nypost.com/2017/12/21/a-deafening-media-silence-on-the-obama-hezbollah-scandal/
And this, as much if not more than anything actually about Trump, has me very seriously contemplating both early retirement and ex-patriation.
Where would you ex-patriate to? Honest question. I have dreams of floating around on the worlds oceans and drinking rum all day. Also, the Obama administration would go down in history as one of the most corrupt administration our nation has ever seen if there was just a wee bit of honesty left in the main stream media.
Chile is a strong contender, though I’ve been reading about the benefits of retirement in Portugal and even France (the south of course). No tropics, even if financially very attractive (I have some friends in Panama and Belize).
Portugal becomes vastly more interesting if the EU falls apart, although it’s not without its problems.
I have heard great things about Chile from friends who have worked there. I think it is too far South on the latitude scale for me. If I live long enough to retire, I hope to be bobbing around close to the equator where god intended people to live. In a far in the distance previous life I had a crew job on a boat headed from FT Lauderdale to the S of France. Being the fool that I am, I got off the boat in St Thomas, flew home and married the girlfriend. I am a moron. I did get a cool kid out of the deal though, so it is all good. I have never spent any time in France. My France experiences have all been Charles De Gaulle and trying to get out as fast as possible.
I spent a lot of time in Chile. It reminded me a lot of what California was before it became… California. Great place, one of my favorites to visit.
And Carmenere is fantastic wine, sort of like Merlot if Merlot were interesting.
Great to visit – but what about to emigrate to – in your failing years when access to excellent medical facilities would be a boon?
Being a native of California, that is much of what makes Chile very attractive. As #6’s point – Chile is actually rated fairly highly for medical services/facilities, as is France; both rate above, per retirement analysis, the U.S.
A buddy of mine showed me pics of trout streams he fished with big Browns in them winding through grassy parks on the edge of the Mtns. It did look like it could have been the edge of the Sierra Nevadas. Very nice.
Chile has excellent medical care which is even affordable (fewer lawyers). It’s more expensive than some of the other SA countries, but cheap compared to the US. I’m looking at Ecuador, especially if they don;t have extradition when my ex comes looking for the alimony payments that might suddenly dry up.
You’re really looking for that “Fugitive from the Law” jacket, ain’tcha’?
As for France, it is a fairly simple rule – the further from Paris the better.
With the proviso that you stay a little distance from Marseilles. That place is awful.
Even before the Amish got there, amirite?
It’s always been pretty nasty, but yeah, those Amish. Whaddyagonna do, eh?
You know who else fled to South America?
Carmen Sandiego?
Kreigsmarine Kapitän zur See Hans Wilhelm Langsdorff
“No disrespect to Christmas, but I notice nobody ever had to write a pop song to sell the idea that mid-August is a happy time of year.”
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/944703837033639938
First reply:
True, but I still like snowboarding to this song anyhow. It’s good all year round.
Boy, that Joe Sakihachi can really play guitar!
/inside joke from college 25 years ago
As refutation I give you Kenny Chesney and “Summertime”
The best pop song of 2016 in my opinion.
The Monkees: You Bring The Summer https://youtu.be/mbf6HbKZSMk
To everyone above, he said mid-August time. Not summertime. August isn’t in the summer for everyone you know! Or have you forgotten about a whole hemisphere of the planet?
Those backwards landmasses south of the equator don’t count.
Or have you forgotten about a whole hemisphere of the planet?
You mean the one that is like 90% water and the other 10% is populated with drop bears?
seen at powerline – Zardoz cookies
Wow.
*themed
actually Zed (not to be pedantic)
I am disappointed now.
No faith in trans-substantiation?
I was expecting cookies shaped like ZARDOZ
Cheesecake then.
That is on my baking list for today.
seen yesterday….. but cookies!
El-Mofty is suspected of leading a string of shootings throughout the city that started with shots fired into a Capitol Police vehicle.
No one killed, minor injuries presumably from flying glass.
Are they sure he wasn’t an Imperial Stormtrooper?
Ultimately, I represented myself in court
So, not only smug and intolerant, but a complete dumbshit. Miserable bitch deserved to be miserable.
Or she really didn’t want her kids, but went through the motions?
There are much less idiotic ways of accomplishing that.
Caught up with a couple of old friends last night in my buddies man cave last night, much reefer was smoked and fine ales drank, good vibes all around.
Which means I missed HM’s yokelservatism Post last night. Nice work sir, and the commentary was a good mine as always.
Have a merry Christmas everyone.
Good Lord I used the same phrase three times for no good reason. Stupid conversational typing habit and failure to edit …. must have been all that weed.
“At Vice, Cutting-Edge Media and Allegations of Old-School Sexual Harassment
One woman said she was riding a Ferris wheel at Coney Island after a company event when a co-worker suddenly took her hand and put it on his crotch. Another said she felt pressured into a sexual relationship with an executive and was fired after she rejected him.
A third said that a co-worker grabbed her face and tried to kiss her, and she used her umbrella to fend him off.
These women did not work among older men at a hidebound company. They worked at Vice, an insurgent force in news and entertainment known for edgy content that aims for millennial audiences on HBO and its own TV network.
But as Vice Media has built itself from a fringe Canadian magazine into a nearly $6 billion global media company, its boundary-pushing culture created a workplace that was degrading and uncomfortable for women, current and former employees say.
An investigation by The New York Times has found four settlements involving allegations of sexual harassment or defamation against Vice employees, including its current president.
In addition, more than two dozen other women, most in their 20s and early 30s, said they had experienced or witnessed sexual misconduct at the company — unwanted kisses, groping, lewd remarks and propositions for sex.
The settlements and the many episodes of harassment the women described depict a top-down ethos of male entitlement at Vice, where women said they felt like just another party favor at an organization where partying often was an extension of the job.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/23/business/media/vice-sexual-harassment.html
“Uber driver accused of raping and murdering British diplomat in Beirut told cops he killed her for ‘wearing a short skirt’
A sick video on suspect Tarek Hawchieh’s Facebook page shows him performing a sex act with a fish”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/uber-driver-arrested-over-murder-11747877
We should be grateful for small mercies regarding accurate reporting, but it’s entirely possible that he’s holding a fully-automatic AK-47.
…What?
HE SAID: SHOWS HIM PERFORMING A SEX ON A FISH!
Fish are broadcast spawners…
OK, so we need cleanup on aisle 9 then.
What they do on TV is their own business.
Beirut, the Amish Country of the middle east.
::tries to construct a ‘Nick Gillespie of‘ comment and fails utterly::
Suspicious package addressed to Treasury Secretary Mnuchin.
Warning: auto-play video
A Los Angeles Department bomb squad responded to a Bel-Air neighborhood Saturday night due to a suspicious package addressed to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
Someone in the neighborhood reportedly received a suspicious package addressed to Mnuchin, according to the LAPD. The package — which contained horse manure — was dropped off at a neighbor’s house. It was cleared by investigators around 8 p.m.
What a thoughtful Xmas gift!
Pop that in the window boxes and the petunias will come up lovely in spring.
The Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff are getting into shenanigans again to prepare for the inevitable reboot.
Bless your heart = Fuck you
How’d she miss that?
Maybe because her head is jammed so far up her ass she couldn’t hear clearly?
“Now You Can Literally Get Fucked by the Price of Bitcoin
A connected sex toy syncs with every ebb and flow of the cryptocurrency market.”
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gywqem/now-you-can-literally-get-fucked-by-the-price-of-bitcoin
Well, I’ve said that a ^VIX-type index for Bitcoin would be interesting, but I hadn’t anticipated THAT.
Alrighty then. I had no idea I led such a sheltered life. They have virtual panty sniffing too. Who knew. Put that one on your shopping list for Valentines.
I’m one of those boring people who just want a hot sex robot.
They need to get out of the uncanny valley.
I don’t remember where I heard it, but I heard someone in one of the YouTube videos I was watching suggest that sexbots be made to look like anime girls to get around that. I think that would probably be a sensible way to go about it, since I’m not sure they’ll ever be able to fix the uncanny valley problem.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRyIPOyV4AAAa9H.jpg:large
LOL
Lul.
“I figured it out: Feminists see predators everywhere because male feminists are rapists.”
https://twitter.com/CheekiScrump/status/944685925480718336
Sounds legit.
A goodly number of feminists I’ve encountered hate women, so I imagine that applies to the male variety, too.
On the surface, it’s surprising how many of these SJW groups attract misanthropes. Then, as you read more about progressivism and the philosophical underpinnings of the modern SJW left, you realize that these groups are designed to be lightning rods for those sorts of people.
If you’re a misanthrope and aren’t capable of owning it, then there’s something wrong with everyone else.
But you’re lonely, so you decide to suck it up and reluctantly conclude that you’re going to try and go the extra mile and actively court other people by living in their world. Of course, this makes you misanthropic and resentful when you find that you still hate people.
So you take a “Rainbow Fish” strategy and start giving parts of your emotional self to the people you are now invested in, but it doesn’t work, because you’re now a misanthrope, resentful and you feel like a fool for ‘trusting those people’ because you just don’t feel any better about yourself, or the relationships you’re in (or wish you were in).
This ^^
If you hate people, but feel like that means there’s something wrong with you, then you’ll probably be attracted to the SJW-type stuff. You know, to atone for whatever is makes you feel guilty about thinking people suck.
You you think people suck and don’t feel guilty about it, you’ll probably be a libertarian.
I first read that as,
“You you think people suck and don’t feel guilty about it, you’ll probably be a librarian“.
Seems to work either way.
“You you think people suck and don’t feel guilty about it, you’ll probably work at the DMV or TSA“.
That’s a common theme in many of the stories blogger David Thompson blogs about.
And stay for the Friday Ephemera posts. A recent edition included this short story about cats.
I certainly believe male feminists are raging mysogynists.
STEVE SMITH KNOW PREDATORS EVERYWHERE
That in turn means those folks will not have to pore through the tax code looking for write-offs, will not have to fill out extra tax forms, and will not have to keep track of items such as how much interest they pay in a given year on their mortgages.
Pete Sepp, president of the National Taxpayers Union (NTU), estimated all those hours added up will produce a savings of about $13 billion. Tax preparation companies might take a hit, but Sepp said it would still be an overall gain for the economy.
I saw Adrian Belew in Columbus back in the early 80’s. Small venue. Great show.
He was playing mostly from his Lone Rhino album which was just released.
Those postal killings were in my neck of the woods, Dublin/Hilliard is my stomping grounds and a pretty nice area, shootings are not common at all. Of course it is the US Postal Service so…
That’s a nice area. I had a friend in undergrad who was from Dublin. My mom’s side of the family lives on the NE side of c-bus, and my impression is that Dublin/Hilliard is at least on par with the NE suburbs (New Albany and the like).
Yeah, I actually prefer the NW to the NE because if you actually want to go do anything on the NE your going to have to come in closer to town and hobnob with the hoodbuggers. Inside the outerbelt, NW is your safest bet.
My Mom and her brothers grew up in Bexley and then her parents moved to Westerville as empty nesters. Both grandparents were admins at OSU for the longest time. I spent many childhood summers tromping through the woods around Hoover reservoir. Now my grandparents spend most of their time up in Knox county at their “farmhouse” hanging out with the Amish and enjoying their twilight years.
We’ve been meaning to get up there to visit, but the prospects of a 5+ hour car trip with an infant has prevented us from doing so. We may spend a day or two in Columbus next May on the way to Indy for the 500.
Yeah, I’m a few years away from getting out of the city myself. I’m probably looking south or southwest where it’s not so flat and there are plenty of trees. Wayne National Forest/Hocking Hills area provided I can find some reasonably priced acreage. Eastern Tennessee is another option.. Columbus population is getting ridiculous. I love being near everything but the traffic gets worse every year.
Columbus population is getting ridiculous
it’s getting that way everywhere. The population flight from the East and West Coast metropolises to all the flyover cities is absolutely destroying what made living in those cities great. We ended up leaving Dallas because we went from being right on the edge of civilization to being in the middle of landlocked suburbia within 2 years. I was scratching potential jobs off the list because the travel time to downtown was too hard to predict. Sitting in traffic for anywhere between 1 and 2 hours each direction was a non-starter. Even working just one suburb over was starting to take 45 minutes or more each direction.
It’s not much better here in DC. We’re 30+ miles out from the district, and there’s no direction I can travel without hitting townhomes within a couple miles. The only thing keeping my immediate area from being bulldozed and turned into tenement living is the fact that we’re surrounded by a bunch of horse farms, gravel mines, and other higher value land. At least here we live far enough out that rush hour traffic only affects the main conduits, and I work far enough out that my commute is fairly predictable. I can choose whether I want to be to work in 25 minutes or sit in traffic for 45 minutes, based on when I leave the house.
WNF area is beautiful! I’d move there in an instant if I could swing it with my job.
One of the few benefits of living in an area people want to leave is that the traffic is not bad at all.
@ Ted S.
Spot on. I live in an Ohio town of about 25,000 people, and my drive to work is four minutes. I absolutely HATED when I worked in a major city nearby and had to spend 25 minutes on the highway, which could easily turn into an hour if somebody got into a fender-bender and caused a massive backup.
I tried reading the words, but all i heard was “me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me”
even the way she talked about her kids was petty and passive-aggressive. “(sigh) fine! sheep, not goats! WHATS THE DIFFERENCE, UGH” She mainly seems interested in babysitting her own psychosis.
#NotAllNY’rs
Yeah, self-absorbed bitch. She should have left instead of trying to make her kids as miserable as she was. I’m guessing new mom would have to be better than that.
Merry Christmas Glib world…and whatever gets your fancy. I’m a lot of Irish coffees in and Q males my day. So bah humbug
*makes
Q males my day
I’d hope that Q females your day, unless there are a bunch of moobs mixed in with his pics.
Whatever gets the engine to turn
Yesssssssssss!
Why would you post that? Why?!
There goes the sopressata and rosemary ciabatta I had for lunch …. urk.
David Brooks’ friend is *triggered*
Not clicking nope.
The URL says it all.
There is a woman in Texas that I’m sure shares your snobbish distain. Maybe you can hook up and be miserable together.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/23/opinions/trump-gaudy-challenge-coin-design-obeidallah-opinion/index.html
Before I go feed the goats & hit another rodeo (my 4th or 5th of the week, at least), a quick word on our “draconian” custody laws here in Texas…
My ex-wife divorced me back in March & should’ve. I was a terrible husband. A terrible father (to 3 oddly cool teenagers), I was not, however. Were it not for our (woman-hating, I guess) state legislature, my 3 kids would be living in my ex’s native Georgia & not 2 miles from a dad that still loves & cares for them as much as ever.
This twit writer doesn’t have the slightest awareness of, or appreciation for, the weaponization of children in the context of divorce proceedings. Had the ex picked up & moved em to Atlanta like she wanted to, it would’ve been an act borne out of spite & retribution hurting everyone involved but, you guessed it, her. Fuck this writer & anyone who thinks one parent should be able to wield that kind of power over another.
OK, these goats, cows & chickens here on my North Dallas ranch ain’t gonna feed themselves. Later.
This twit writer doesn’t have the slightest awareness of, or appreciation for, the weaponization of children in the context of divorce proceedings. Had the ex picked up & moved em to Atlanta like she wanted to, it would’ve been an act borne out of spite & retribution hurting everyone involved but, you guessed it, her. Fuck this writer & anyone who thinks one parent should be able to wield that kind of power over another.
I’ll not write about it now, but my Mom tried to take us across state borders as a preemptive strike before filing for divorce on the idiotic legal advice of her idiot brother’s now-ex-wife. The court came down quite heavily on her for that stunt. Thankfully, some states are more concerned with the true best interest of the children rather than the infantile family law bias of “mommy good, daddy bad.”
About half my law practice is family law. I have a friend who does all divorce, and won’t do post-judgment actions, because they are (and he’s right) messier than divorce.
The thing about divorce is that you are getting people out of a tangled, bad situation. Post-judgment custody/ visitation/ etc actions are almost all (broad brush here) re-litigating the same issues from the divorce, and stakes are almost higher than the original divorce, because the “wronged” parent wants to prove the other parent wrong. At least with divorce cases you have a “finish line.”
I stupidly agreed to pay her spousal support & am considering post-judgment actions to try & recover some of it. The messiness you mention has me thinking long & hard about wether I really want to go through with it, though. Apparently the divorce decree her attorney crafted is the legal equivalent of Swiss cheese. Holes all through it leading my attorney (I was pro se when I signed the decree) to believe at least some of the 66% of my salary she’s receiving each month is recoverable. Oh, & the 100% of my 401k I signed over to her.
Kids, get an attorney if/when your spouse files for divorce. Worthwhile investment I wish I’d made.
Kids, get an attorney if/when your spouse files for divorce. Worthwhile investment I wish I’d made.
This. Doubly especially so when they have a lawyer. A divorce is a business transaction, and treating it as anything but a business transaction is very risky.
Saw this at the mall today. It was pretty dead (for the season) there – like average Saturday afternoon level of shoppers.
STEVE SMITH NOT EAT LUNCH OFTEN, BUT WHEN HE DOES, EAT FROM ONE OF THOSE.
I didn’t know they still made those metal lunchboxes like I had as a kid, I thought they were all plastic now.
I can still remember the smell of that metal lunchbox, it always smelled like bologna no matter what was in it.
OK, since we’re OT anyway, I’d like some opinions on web applications. Apologies to the utterly disinterested.
I’m building out a multi-tenant/multi-apartment SaaS product for financial firms, the kernel of which is a specialized postgres database. The current plan is to build the whole thing out with a REST interface, which delivers about 80-90% of the functionality my customers will need, and will be integratable with SalesForce and other SaaS products. For those who want a more isolated solution, there will be a web interface available which will address the database via the same REST interface. This web interface will do double-duty as a management interface for administrators and integration people.
Which comes the question. At present, I’m considering a PHP-based framework (phalcon) and the buildout using PHP 7.x. Two reasons, I know PHP can do it, and I know PHP. These of course are two of the worst justifications for picking a particular technology, but I recognize that once I launch the product and I have clients prepared to pay for additional functionality to be added, maintaining and extending the codebase using PHP is going to be more painful than most other languages I could choose. Some of the customization would be ETL logic, to feed existing objects for integration purposes, but some could easily be whole new pieces of business logic and workflow, that might be best accomplished by non-web scripting/execution.
So, if not PHP, then what? My current research leads me along the path toward Python, which I understand well enough to know it will do what I want on the back-end, but I’ve never seen under the hood of a python-based website to know just how dirty and nasty it is down there. And more importantly, if anyone out there knows both languages well, what would be the ‘gotchas’ implicit in using python.
Just in context, wherever possible, business logic is expressed and implemented in the database itself, even down to calculations of Modern Portfolio Theory stats. That shit will be tested, audited and ain’t nobody having customized versions of those metrics.
boh-ring!
Says the man on a low carb, vegetarian diet.
Sounds like you got a pretty good handle. Run with it. Merry Christmas!
I’ve been working with pythons Django/Django REST framework for a backend for a mobile app. It’s been very easy to use, and fairly modular so if you don’t like how it processes views, you can just use it as an ORM. Django Also has a lot of support for Postgres, which is nice.
Gotchas with Python:
– asynchronous processing is fairly new (as a standard library/feature) to the language, which means packages that implement it are still hard to come by.
– Python 3 is fairly standard now (and the only continuously developed version), but there are still some heathens who use Python 2. They are generally incompatible.
Well, yeah, on the versions that is a potential issue because AFAIK, Postgres embedded language extension for Python is still Py2. Doesn’t mean I can’t interface to it via Py3, but then it doesn’t look as ‘clean’.
Regarding async processing, I don’t think that would be a problem. The ETL processing is being designed around a message queue service so the users will batch up a load and then be able to monitor the loads as they are executed in the pipeline.
How ‘fat’ is Django? I’m not averse to learning new frameworks, but after playing with things like Symfony and Laravel, I’m a little disappointed with the tradeoffs in size/performance vs programming effort.
Granted that I already new Python, leaning the basics of the ORM isn’t super difficult (2-3 nights watching some YouTube tutorials), but there are of course more advanced features, that can take some time to understand.
I just looked at the Postgres docs and it supports both Python 2 and Python 3 as procedural languages, though I’ll admit I’ve never done that.
Well – sure, it says it supports Py3, but you have to hand-configure the server to support it and I’m looking to have easy-to-maintain server configurations so I can spin up new cloud instances easily.
Py2 runs straight out of the box. They have a transitional configuration that they allege will work when they finally get Py3 working, but I’m a skeptic at heart. Py2 would do what I need to do *inside* the database if the standard plpgsql is inadequate.
On the issue of later enhancements, I’m going to need to do stats and some moderately intensive numerical processing (some of which might be heavily recursive) which is why I really want to have an option other than PHP. Py2 would be fine for that, so I’m not awfully upset at the prospect of coding to that, if I had to. It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve written code for an obsolete-but-basically-stable language.
As for implementing all the calculations in SQL, it’s not entirely too difficult, within Django or if you want to use plain old Python.
“Two reasons, I know PHP can do it, and I know PHP. These of course are two of the worst justifications for picking a particular technology”
Au contraire, they are excellent reasons. Software that works is infinitely better than the most technically advanced vaporware.
The problem is that I can anticipate future enhancements that will be non-trivial in PHP, and I’d like not to spend my twilight years fighting fires or rebuilding the whole edifice in something more maintainable.
I’m certainly not jonesin’ to use bleeding-edge or vaporware technology. Ain’t nobody got time fer dat.
Yep.
I don’t know PHP, but I know some Python. I’ve used Python enough that I wonder about people that use it for big systems. Since most of your logic is in the DB, It’s possible your upper layers will be simple enough that you can use Python.
it will do what I want on the back-end
Does this have something to do with the price of bitcoin?
Oddly enough, it does incorporate a blockchain.
And more importantly, if anyone out there knows both languages well, what would be the ‘gotchas’ implicit in using python.
I don’t know PHP super well, and since I’m not in the field anymore, my python knowledge is old and rusty. I also never used any python web framework, so my experience is primarily limited to using python as a scripting/automated testing tool. I wouldn’t say there are any “gotchas”, but python is designed to be a jack of all trades. Sometimes that means that you’re going to have to dive into the guts of the API to make sure that it’s doing what you want it to do behind the scenes. I vaguely remember having some issue with python’s hash arrays for some project and having to essentially recode portions of their implementation to do it my way. Usually they make it easy enough to do something like that, or even to tweak their implementation by passing arguments.
The best part about python (IMO) is that it’s super readable. Once you buy into the “python way,” everything “clicks.”
+ on readability
Python drives me up a wall with its weak typing. “Oops… I passed a string into something that doesn’t expect a string.” Ugh.
Threading in some Python implementations has problems, look up the “global interpreter lock”. Python wants you to use processes for parallelism. I see their arguments for using processes instead of threads, but sometimes communicating between threads makes things simpler than communicating between processes.
Full disclosure: Most of work is with Java.
“Most of my work is with Java”
It’s strongly typed, but dynamic.
Thanks for the feedback guys. I have a few days out of the city so I can noodle all I’ve learned and do some additional research.
“At the time”. Very telling. Along with her ex is still in TX, makes me think he cut his travel to the NE and stuck closer to his family, probably for his family’s sake.
Oh, 3 full time jobs in 14 fourteen years! That’s nothing. Let give her a little secret- if you’re a valuable employee, you can do things like taking off early from work or rearranging your schedule for your kids. Do a mediocre or worse job where it’s easier to replace you, not so much.
The set up here is that CBS asked three families from three different states to send in last year’s taxes. The network then had a CPA redo them under the new rules contained in the newly signed tax law.
The Democratic Party really has done an amazing job of demagoguing the tax bill. Polling for it is pretty poor despite the fact that 95% of Americans are going to see a tax cut. As you can see in this clip, lots of people are convinced this is going to be bad news for them when in fact, it’s not.
You know who won’t see a tax cut?
The millions who don’t pay taxes.
The injustice!
Something, something FICA…
You have to work* to pay FICA.
*and get paid above the table
I wish it went into effect for this year’s taxes.
It’ll be interesting for me if I *do* get laid off in February with a severance package for 17 years’ service.
Continuing today’s theme of bitter women, here’s a diatribe from a female psychiatrist just published in an online medical journal. I like the part about women doctors all being “equal or superior in intellect” compared to male doctors. Some people, like this doc, are just not happy with how amazingly much women have advanced in just the last forty years, and obviously will continue to do so — no, she can’t wait until the whole thing is blown up, seemingly looking forward to a day where women have all the power and men do janitorial work. C’mon, social psychologists! Lead the way and set up new social structures for us. What could possibly go wrong?:
The recent widespread recognition, followed by disapproval, of sexual harassment across many work places, signals a paradigm shift in social attitude towards the egregious acts.
The male-dominated hierarchies that have driven quid pro quo harassment will now face consequences for such behavior. Quid pro quo attempts to maneuver a woman who has legitimate aspirations to succeed through merit to the level of prostituting herself in order to compete. Rather than seeing her as a an equal or superior intellect, men can then rationalize that she “slept her way up” or has no integrity compared to women who “stay in a woman’s place at home with the kids”, or who never speak up to confront aggressors.
Public censure and loss of a job for the harasser, or withdrawal of Title 9 Funds from an educational system complicit with blatant gender discrimination, may discourage such conduct. Only the negative reinforcement against outrageous expectations and entitlement of powerful men to any female body will end what has been years of suffering, not to mention abrogation of civil rights of women. A major example was portrayed in the televised hearing in 1991 of Attorney Anita Hill’s sexual harassment by (later Justice) Clarence Thomas, who then was confirmed anyway, promoting ongoing injustice against women. This happened in spite of a law passed by the Supreme Court in 1986 stating that a woman only need show that a work environment is hostile rather than giving evidence of a verbal proposition to make her case.
Movies and TV do celebrate casual sex, but that fantasy world should not be seen as a model that this is a universal blueprint for a mentally healthy lifestyle. In the workplace, civil decorum and respect between the sexes needs to replace a thinly hidden locker room mentality or old boy network.
Doctors, as patient advocates, have a responsibility to expedite this change, not only in consulting rooms, but in public forums. After all, empathy and avoidance of boundary violations are implicit in patient care.
As a psychiatrist, I have treated many cases of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in women who have been sexually harassed. Such women feel that they are not valued for what their brains and creativity can contribute to society, but are defined in the mind of the narcissistic harasser as only important for their gender/genitals. Their dreams of reaching their full career potential are diminished. They cannot take pride in their accomplishments. Up to this point, their only alternative has been to leave the field of endeavor, thus depriving society of their talents. These women are angry, and feel alienated and disenfranchised.
Sexual harassment cannot be ascribed “only” to domination, but to a hatred of women, termed misogyny. This is illustrated in the case of a patient who had a successful career in a government paramilitary organization. She was sexually harassed, then threatened during target practice, and finally relieved of her gun, badge, and job on a trumped up charge of conduct unbecoming an officer. She is now retired on disability.
Retaliation for refusal to submit ranges from overt to subtle. Simply not acknowledging a woman’s achievements in terms of excellence or productivity is an effective put-down.
Thus, I urge doctors of both genders to speak out, and support women who have been harassed. Counteract complicity: Join in banning harassers from being able to continue.
As an aside, I have also treated many male patients for PTSD, both related to the military, or related to personal bullying in a hostile work environment. But, sad as these cases also are, they do not involve the deeply humiliating intention or act of forced sex.
Perhaps the social psychologists could step up to the plate, and initiate new social structures, which do not involve hierarchies and pecking orders, or in which women have their own organizations within the companies to provide checks and balances.
Electronically Signed By:
Gillian (Jill) Karatinos, M.D.
Diplomate American Board of Psychiatry
But, sad as these cases also are, they do not involve the deeply humiliating intention or act of forced sex.
There’s a huge fucking difference between “wanna meet in the copyroom, sweetcheeks?” and rape. The fact that these feminists blur the lines between these two things does a massive disservice to those who were actually raped.
Haven’t made it to the third paragraph. This sentence seems to scream at me to not bother finishing:
This woman is supposed to be some sort of intellectual?
Haven’t made it = Made it
Because ‘upheld’ sounds like a brassiere, which is what a member of the patriarchy would suggest.
Very good point. You are so woke.
I assume you wrote the part in italics while the woman doctor wrote the stuff in normal text?
Correct. I probably should have done hers in italics and me in normal face, sorry.
Considering what I know about Leftist rape/harassment stories, there’s probably more to that situation than the doctor lets on.
Doesn’t the military try to get everybody on disability when they’re discharged, to get the servicemen some of those sweet sweet VA bennies?
The military doesn’t do shit and the Green Weenie Machine could care less once the DD214 is printed. Individual service members often do, and are encouraged to do so by their peers.
I feel sorry for anyone “treated” by that quack.
LIKE TOTALLY
Whenever there’s a moral-panic, everyone literally starts climbing over each other in desperation to be on the side of the Scolders rather than the Scolded. And everyone claims its a new day and Evil will finally be purged through our New Enlightenment.
Meanwhile, we literally have erased any and all distinctions between ‘accidentally touching a woman’s back’ and ‘questionable behavior when drunk’ and ‘serial abuse and rape’. All of these things are the same crime to the shame-mobs, who are more interested in collecting scalps than adjudicating strict lines of social conduct.
she can’t wait until the whole thing is blown up, seemingly looking forward to a day where women have all the power and men do janitorial work.
There is a Dilbert comic strip,for every occasion.
Question:
If that tax bill repeals the individual mandate, am I still going to get penaltaxed for going without insurance for the entire month of September 2017?
The repeal doesn’t kick in until 2019, unfortunately. I don’t know if this means that people will be penalized for not having insurance in 2018 or not.
Trump has already issued a directive to the IRS not to try and collect the fines.
Perhaps the social psychologists could step up to the plate, and initiate new social structures, which do not involve hierarchies and pecking orders
Of course they should. What’s holding them back?