Author Archives: Joel

It’s a sad day when you find yourself cursing a mercifully warm winter… …but I have to move my woodshed, which should by all rights be nearly empty. Instead I used about 3/10s of the contents. Don’t seem right. I … Continue reading →

He should pick on his fellow mutants more often.

…but there were no cars, because there was no fuel. Venezuela has a bread shortage. The government has decided bakers are the problem. In a press release, the National Superintendent for the Defense of Socioeconomic Rights[*] said it had charged … Continue reading →

I have just received a communique by carrier pigeon that five gelsocks arrived today, and that the maildrop might well tip over and capsize under sheer reader awesomeness, the way poor Guam did under the weight of 8000 marines and … Continue reading →

Okay, as far as I know she didn’t actually say that. But you just know that’s what she’s thinking. From the deepest depth of the U.S. Senate, I bring you…the sort of woman who is the reason men are occasionally … Continue reading →

That’s encouraging. I got a text from a person at my maildrop, informing me of seven packages “that appear to be stump socks.” I asked the person to open the packages and ascertain the contents, which turned out to be … Continue reading →

And in the interest of full disclosure it’s still not stable at 14.3 but it clearly will be pretty quick. That’s with the ‘pooter left on all morning and a high haze in the sky. With all the advantages, the … Continue reading →

or, “just in case you thought republicans were your friends…” You could soon have to share your genetic screen results with your boss A bill that would strip genetic privacy protections from workplace “wellness” programs, allowing companies to require employees … Continue reading →

…is a very happy day around the Secret Lair. 🙂

I contemplated ways to put a serious evening-long load on my new/old battery bank, and found myself instead re-writing the lyrics to Junkfood Junky to the new title Lightswitch Nazi. (In the day I spend like a sailor, just as … Continue reading →

Which pretty much sums up where I am, blog-wise, the past couple of days. I took a little vaca from the Internet yesterday and went rock-wandering. I still have a pile of junk in my yard, stuff that probably isn’t … Continue reading →

Every morning I come down the ladder, deal with LB’s insecurity issues, then take a hightech composition book down off the shelf and record certain bits of data, including indicated battery voltage. This morning’s voltage reading was…anomalous… Not a surprise, … Continue reading →

You might recall that back in December a neighbor invited me to haul off these four oldish 6-volt batteries. I was certain they were no good, and only picked them up to be neighborly. I figured sometime I’d find some … Continue reading →

Well then, don’t forget to…whatever you’re supposed to do. I could never keep it straight, myself.

I got caught with my pants down. Hate when that happens. Stumbling along up the hill on my beaten path with the morning sun in my eyes, the coffee tank only half full, I heard the drumming of hooves. Cattle, … Continue reading →

Then: Now: The American people and Members have a right to know the full impact of this legislation before any vote in Committee or by the whole House. Apparently self-awareness is also on its deathbed.

Because I still make boneheaded mistakes, and keep making the same mistakes for months. Couldn’t figure out why my bread kept falling. Turned out I was just overproofing it, using up the little yeast beasts before the loaves even went … Continue reading →

How to Tell if the CIA is Hacking Your Smart TV Reality is making life very difficult for parodists, I would imagine… h/t

We need a serious discussion about who’s been birthing the other half.

If only to convince yourself it can still be done.