…there was a vaudeville routine (I don't know why I remembered it today) that went like this:
1st guy says: That's tough.
2nd guy: What's tough?
1st: Life.
2nd: What's life?
1st: A magazine.
2nd: How much does it cost?
1st: A dime.
2nd: I don't have a dime.
1st: That's tough.
2nd: …
Times must have been simpler then.
(Time is also a magazine.)
At the insistence of Mr. Manchin, who comes from a major coal- and gas-producing state, the legislative package’s $369 billion in spending on energy will go to oil, gas and coal operations along with clean power.
Wait, what?
All I know is I don't know. Maybe I will give up reading about politics and pursue something more rational, like tiromancy.
Went to CVS to buy milk and a bag of potato chips (really crave salt on these hot days).
They were out of milk so I bought a second bag of chips.
Marched up to the checkout bot with my chips and my iPhone and ran through the required steps so fast the machine crashed.
Said, "You can't buy that here."
HA.
A nice lady came and punched it and it gave up.
Machine, don't mess with me (or her).
The ringing sequences of church bells dramatize a type of mathematics called group theory—and may have helped to invent it.
"I am sure that the legislation in question, the recently agreed Digital Markets Act (DMA)in Brussels and the imminent American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA), did not intend to damage our cybersecurity. However, the laws will allow the downloading of apps on all our smartphones without any security vetting, increasing the risk of cyberattacks on individuals, communities, businesses and governments."
If you’ve ever mistakenly left a note or a to-do list — or worse, a love letter — behind in a library book, and figured your personal item was tossed by the librarian, you might be wrong.
Story (click on the headline) contributed by our Pacific Rim bureau.
The web site mentioned is added to our Work Avoidance Hall of Fame.
"The first thing about the study that makes it unique is the towering scale of the declines across the hemisphere," says Joan Walsh, Mass Audubon’s chair of natural history and field ornithology. "The signals indicate decline for virtually all groups that they looked at, except for birds from freshwater wetlands. So we're getting a signal from many different habitats that there's a crisis."
Used to be a veritable concert outside my bedroom window on summer mornings. Now, not so much.
Used to get a little grumpy about the noise (yes, really); now I miss them.
Maybe some day they'll come back.
The officials say China may be confusing Pelosi's visit with an official administration visit, since she and Biden are both Democrats. Administration officials are concerned that China doesn't separate Pelosi from Biden much, if at all
Administration says there's nothing it can do.
Which sounds about right.
…is NEVER start with a question that can be answered "no."
As in, for example, this from the subject line of an Amazon email
Ever wonder if your reviews are getting noticed?In fact [Pro Tip] starting with any kind of question at all is generally a bad idea.
…I thought civilization might survive, after all.
But then Amazon tried to sell me a Hello Kitty t-shirt.
Veuillez donc excuser mon iPhone traduit.
Je sais que beaucoup de gens de votre pays visitent ce blog, alors je veux juste dire bonjour.
Et merci.
😄
The determination of whether the US is technically in a recession is usually made by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), which is a private, nonprofit research organization based in Cambridge, Mass.
Which, of course, you would expect to be…well, yes. That.
Not being an economist myself, whether or not we''re in a recession is of little concern. (But there have been several different definition exposed by economists and politicians, including those of the Democratic persuasion.)
What does concern me is that only one such definition…coincidentally, the Biden Administration's…is allowed to be discussed on such influential platforms as Facebook and Twitter. Under the Government's approving glare.
That's not good.
