Hopefully they are all out of it, or at least had the
fight taken out of them by time the ladies get there.
The Grand Poofty? Jeez… These people don’t have
or want a clue! “Oh it’s just a female, no one will
get upset about it.” You ass-clowns might want to
read up the Empire and it’s rules, you will bring
hell-fire down upon your most royal a-holes!
“Respond as if you had killed them” Yeah, not smart.
President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
A grand mufti can be compared to a bishop.
Without the celibate of course.
The secular ruler or monarch would be called
chalifa or calif.
A calif often has religious power too but
not necessarily.
With a sufi order a chalifa is just the
head of that order so as an abbot.
Has me wondering if England is incorporated into the
European Caliphate. What with the British slang term
poofta and all. Which I’m sure is part of the leg pulling.
The reward in form of virgins in heaven might be a translation error.
Some say the koran is not 100% original but was tried to put in a
certain high arabic when one calif collected and standardized the koran texts.
The muslim have some stories how it was guaranteed that all is authentic but
i think that was made up.
Anyway, some say the original stories were by app 30% in a dialect mix of
arabic and aramaic and some was not understood by the people who compiled
the koran texts from oral tradition.
The part with the virgins when considered an aramaic text as origin might talk
about sweet grapes. A very common picture in early christian communities.
There was a lot of influence to Mohammed from jews and also from christians
but from the strictly anti-trinitarian syrian church.
True, many of the current beliefs are heavily distorted
by the modern-day leaders to suit their agendas.
Anyone that tries to point that out is “silenced…”
President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violence Extremist SuperStraight
interpretation not translation…
the Nobel Ouran was never meant to be translated.!
Nobel Quran = original text.. Quran = modern text.
koran = translated.
yes… the NQ never ‘says’ 72 virgins,.
it hints at ‘up to 72 “Houri” for the “Most Faithful.”
That some how interpretated into – martyrs get 72 virgins…
Houri = celestial being, of a most pleasing form…
which is interpretated into a young
voluptuous, chaste, loyal female… (permanent virgin)
Ok, I’m sorry but I’d LOVE to see a three panel comic where the dragon
-flys pop in saying, “Hi!” the bad guys look surprised, they drop the
grenades, spoons flying loose saying “Bye!”, bad guys looking shocked,
last panel, bad guys looking hat grenades on the grenades, one of them
saying ” Oh Shi…” And, hey, maybe a bonus panel! All red, With zoom
lines going out from the middle, with “boom” written in yellow letters.
Simple, direct, and to the point!
President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
The remaining baddies can’t have been
bunched that close together if it took two
grenades to neutralize them.
IIRC (Basic Training was over 40 years ago)
a grenade has a blast radius of 7 meters
(18-20 feet?). Feel free to correct my memory.
M67 fragmentation = 15 foot killing (5 meters)
50 foot injury (15 meters)
so,, by D&D spacing rules, 3 foot per person,.
that would get 13 in one blast..
edit: went an looked..
the Vietnam era, M-26 , M-61 could get up to
7 meters,, but had so many problems, that they
revised the design over 8 times. finally replacing
with the M-33/M-67..
After this, I’m done with the Muslims for a while.
I don’t want to be a one-trick pony.
But it’s not over yet.
I have several fun-ner stories in my head.
Like where Miral got that Katana…
The true story of Jonathan, Miko, and Niko.
(His older daughters – remember them?)
A taste of some stolen valor…
And more. I want to just have fun for a while,
and be entertaining.
I pretty much figured that the android Teresa swapped with the real one
in the super deep mud hole. It’s the old swapping out in plain sight idea.
If you have to swap for a body double, the less people who know, the better.
Swapping in the mud pit would definitely fit the bill. The android would likely
be using a retreat her to keep her temperature down in the pit, while not
using up the oxygen in the pack, the fuss made by the other Teresa would
distract observers from the pit, where someone else would fall into the pit,
likely two or three people, so when more people than fell in, climb out, that
could easily be written off as an observation mistake, because of all the
mud. Essentially, using an old magicians trick. Keep people looking at one
hand while hiding what the other one is doing…
I don’t blame you, Muslim are one of the least enlightened
of the religious groups, they are far from the only ones.
Nor the most arrogant… Not all are like that,
just the extremists.
Happy 4th all. Going to our daughter’s (last year we drove
out to New Mexico with our son) for hot dogs, baked beans,
potato salad and ice cream cake. I don’t know how many
more of these we’ll have. No fireworks, though just family.
President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
I had a chance to go visit family this year, but my wife still
can’t travel and my father didn’t want to, so my youngest
is spending the weekend with us so we’re not just the
three of us. If it EVER stops raining here, I’m setting up
the grill and doing hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill
with potato salad etc.
Yeah I don’t doubt it, it started about the same time out here,
so much for the quiet boon-docks huh. about 80% of the noise
is coming from that new sub down the road from us.
Some more fun facts about Islam and bible.
Muslims refer to the bible as the jews and christian but
see Jesus as one of the prophets only and not the last one.
The current sect of fundamentalist muslims goes back to
Mr Abd el-Wahhabs from the 18th century in today Saudi Arabia.
That is until today the main place where to find Wahhabits
and Salafists.
Others got converted by missionaries so as Afghanistan but
they follow another one of the four schools of law in islam.
The word Al-lah has the same origin as the word El-ohim in
the old testament.
It is going back to the ugarit god El, the highest god in their
pantheon.
Baal f.e. was a weather god that had to obey El.
Els wife was Athirat or Ashera who is mentioned few times in
the bible as wife of Elohim.
The other word for god in the bible JHWH has its origin
north east of the red sea with the Shasu people.
The bible merged stories from both areas.
Took some time to transform from the mesopotamian pantheon to
one god only.
Thats why there are prophets rage against worshipping Ashera,
Baal and such.
Before that David called one son Adonija (My lord is JHWH)
and another one Beeljada (Baal recognized).
There are other opinions to some of the things i mentioned.
Jasmine (our rescued cat) has healed up enough and my son and I
found her escape holes and sealed them. She’s ran to each and
every one, tried to get out, them begs me to help her get out! She’s
been couped up to let her heal and to learn she can trust us. She’s
a stray, it’s very hard to convert a stray to an indoor cat. I’m hoping
exploring the rest of the house will help, but sooner or later she’s
going to get out again. I just need to convince her this is her home
too, and to want in when she’s ready to relax.
Yeah, my cat got out after the tornado hit Claremore and it took most
of June to get her to trust me enough to pick her up and bring her back
into the house. Last night she was all over me, and seems super happy
to be back inside. (She’s a one eyed, long haired, black cat, and I suspect
The 100 degree temps and thunderstorms kinda disagreed with her.)
As near as I can figure, she was dumped as a kitten. Trust has
been a hard battle with her, I have the bite/scratch marks to
prove it. She’s been in our bedroom since last February, I got
her fixed not 2 months ago. She’s ready to join the rest of the
house-hold, she’s just scared of it for now. it took her almost
a month to let me pet her, another to sleep with us in bed.
Yeah, PK, (short for Pirate Kitty) must have been pretty spooked.
Took me over two weeks to get her to trust me enough to pick her
up and bring her into the house.
Funny thing, I held her like a baby on her back, and she localized
her displeasure, but didn’t struggle at all, and no claws at all.
Lying on my side while I type this up on my Kindle, my cat is
snuggled up against my chest, like she’s trying to make sure that
I’m not going to leave her.
She’s also become very vocal, ‘talking’ to me frequently.
Yeah, I am VERY familiar with how loud Siamese cats can be!
No, she’s a little black cat who WAS a feral kitty, but allowed
herself to become a housecat. Took a LOT of patience, and
time, but she seems quite happy now…
Same with ours, but she’s scared of my father, she hadn’t seen
much of him over the time, so now that she has the run of the
house she’s afraid to go much past our door, now that it’s open
to her. I ordered a “cat tunnel” in hopes it can be a hiddy-hole
for her and we can start closing our door at night. I also
bought her a “floppy fish” motorized toy and it terrifies her.
It’s a slow process…
” But she’s scared ”
time to buy a new keyboard that
I can still read the letters on the
keys while I’m typing… (Hey, you
try typing with 8 fingers after being
a touch-typer most of your whole life)
Hey. I’m just now catching up again.
I was out for over a week in the hospital and rehab for a fractured
Clavicle and ribs. My bike decides it wanted to try to skid out from
under me then flip when i dared to try to prevent that.
the result was the bike flipped over sideways slamming my shoulder
onto the ground. now i can’t move left arm or breath very well.
The good news is I’m still alive and the bike ain’t too damaged
(even though her show bike days are now done)
Lots of assuming there.
Nobody ever tried to talk to the Grand Mufti yet,
they just assume things and kill people on that assumption.
No try by the Grand Mufti to communicate either.
Not very convincing these people. None of them.
Uh, wrong. Standard imperial policy. Kill kidnappers.
He admitted the plan was to kidnap Teresa.
The people he was communicating with are equally as guilty.
Nothing was said about going after the Grand Puufti.
You know, those grav drive missiles that they have could
work quite nicely for ‘removing’ certain obstacles.
Only problem, going in at high enough velocity for a sure
‘removal’ would create a lot of collateral ‘removal’…
The European Caliphate has been attacking the Imperial kingdoms since they
took over Western Europe. Border raids against the kingdoms of Poland,
Romania, and the rest of the European Empire, kidnappings rape and torture..
They’ve made their feelings and intentions quite clear. Murder, rape, mass
destruction, the usual Islamic priorities.
What would you have the Imperials do? Sit back and let them continue in
a one-sided orgy of violence?
“Despite what we see every day, we know that Islam is a religion of peace,
it’s only a few radicals, so we’ll ignore the attacks, take the high ground, and
do nothing in response”.
Really? Where are all of the “peaceful majority” of Muslims? Sure, a very, very
few speak out against the violence, but then, the Quran commands all Muslims
to lie to deceive their enemies. And in their eyes we’re ALL their enemies.
The Empire has enough reasons to fight the Caliphate. And the Grand Puufti
has already made all of the communication that was needed.
The single event that convinced me of the general corrupting
influence of Islam was Cat Stevens’ endorsement of the fatwa
on Salmon Rushdie. Yeah, definitely a passenger on The Peace Train.
I don’t know what to say to you all.
Creating the Wolf World is one of the pleasures in my life, it will continue.
Promise. Just not today. Monday, though. There are too many stories in my head
that need out.
But yeah, sorry.
I hate dealing with people face-to-face. Especially the slimy little con amateurs who
think they can steal from you and you have no choice but to take it.
Ever since that ignorant tech fucked me over, I’ve been doing my own work. Gotten
pretty good at it. Seems that no one builds creator computers.
“Gaming! Gaming! Gaming!” That’s all you hear about.
I swear, if I hear one more little punk say, “If you’re not gaming, you don’t even need
a video card!” I’m going to choke the little bastard with a USB cable.
It’s like the blind guys describing an elephant. People are only aware of what’s in their
very narrow field of view.
I just spent all day dealing with a woman who’d ordered a custom computer for her
son, the “artist”.
She’d paid for most of the parts before I ordered them.
All premium, all would be outdated by the time his skill level got high enough to
really use them. If he didn’t get bored first.
When you meet a customer for the final payment and delivery and they say,
“I’ve been thinking…” you know you’ve got a problem.
She told me that the computer wasn’t really worth what I was
charging her.
“So I took the liberty of writing the check for X dollars.”
Total would have been less than the parts cost. Never mind labor. If she’d
paid the full asking price, I would have made less than minimum wage for
my time.
“Ma’am, we agreed on a price, you signed a contract, you have sixty days
to pay the full balance owed. In sixty-one days it goes on Craigslist.”
The stories I could tell…
Most people are good, honest folk who cause no problems.
But the ones who aren’t punch way above their weight class.
She’ll pay. Because if she doesn’t, I’ll sell the damned thing, deduct
my expenses, (Including my time spent trying to deliver it) and mail
her a check for whatever’s left. Which won’t be much, as it’s a very
specialized, custom-built-for-her-son computer. Way overkill and over
priced for “Gaming”, so few people will want to pay even what the parts
cost. This is the last time I build anything that I have to charge more
than three figures for.
The comic will continue on Monday. It’s too important to me. Thanks for your patience.
Some people have no ethics. There – I kept my words family oriented.
If she pays within sixty days, well and good. You’ve gone beyond
reasonable giving her that extra time. If not, selling it to recoup
the balance due is, well, not all you can do, but is a reasonable,
restrained remedy to her lack of integrity. Interest on the balance
due might be very reasonably charged, unless the contract already
stipulated the sixty days upon completion.
I have a friend who is a collector of firearms. As our friendship
developed, he offered to sell me a firearm I really, really wanted,
at what he paid for it, if he had a spare. The one caveat is that
if I decide I don’t want it anymore, I sell it back to him at the
original price. Seemed fair to me. He’s offered that same deal to
two or three other people in the last few years, and they’ve each
screwed him and sold it for way more elsewhere. One in less than
a month of getting it (Colt Python). I don’t know how some people
can sleep with themselves at night.
Hang in there PC, and remember: Illigitimi non carborundum
(and yes, I know it’s not “real” latin).
lorem ipsum,. it is real latin,, just not used in
the syntax of the time.! IE: the language we speak
now, would not work in the 1700’s because of the
syntax…
modern “good day to you.” old english “good day thee.”
I stuck my head in last night about 1930 and saw it hadn’t updated. My only
concern was your health. I was worried you were ill. I’m just relieved it wasn’t
that. No sweat, PC, we’ll keep.
As for that “If you’re not gaming, you don’t even need a video card!” bravo
sierra … I don’t do gaming but if I was still into flight sim I would definitely
need a decent video card. Doing 3D modelling means I need some fairly
serious graphics capability whenever I reorient the model I’m working on
or when I’m in Photoshop Elements (can’t afford/don’t need the full PS) it
can really bog down when I’m working on textures and have 10 layers open
in a .pse graphic and I’m working at just above the pixel level. People who
spout generalized nonsense like that are assholes and beneath contempt.
There are many other uses for a computer than gaming which require higher
end graphics support!
Even with the 1080ti I can have up to 10 min wait for any model I’m
slicing and even then it can fail and have to be restarted. I can guess
how long it can take with your level of rendering PC. Laymen/women
haven’t a clue as to what it takes to create any kind of artwork on
a computer, it’s more demanding that any game out there. I shudder
at attempting any kind of 3D CGI animation would be like.
Adding insult to injury.
Hopefully they are all out of it, or at least had the
fight taken out of them by time the ladies get there.
The Grand Poofty? Jeez… These people don’t have
or want a clue! “Oh it’s just a female, no one will
get upset about it.” You ass-clowns might want to
read up the Empire and it’s rules, you will bring
hell-fire down upon your most royal a-holes!
“Respond as if you had killed them” Yeah, not smart.
Grand Puufti? Never heard of that title.
I thought historically it was the Grand Mufti.
(unless PC is pulling our legs. Le’me check…..)
A grand mufti can be compared to a bishop.
Without the celibate of course.
The secular ruler or monarch would be called
chalifa or calif.
A calif often has religious power too but
not necessarily.
With a sufi order a chalifa is just the
head of that order so as an abbot.
So…
Is your leg still there or did I pull too hard?
My leg is still there. Just a little longer.
Now I’m walking in circles. LOL!
Give me a little time and I’ll pull the other
one so you’ll be able to walk a straight line.
Probably for the first time in your life…
Hang on, hang on, I got one here somewhere……..
(egg cracking, loud sizzling)
Ah good, you burned him at the perfect temp!
🙂 😛
Oh, I’m straight.
Just ask my wife.
(rimshot)
Has me wondering if England is incorporated into the
European Caliphate. What with the British slang term
poofta and all. Which I’m sure is part of the leg pulling.
Heh, pigs do as pigs do, this guy is never going to see
Allah, much less get his “reward”
The reward in form of virgins in heaven might be a translation error.
Some say the koran is not 100% original but was tried to put in a
certain high arabic when one calif collected and standardized the koran texts.
The muslim have some stories how it was guaranteed that all is authentic but
i think that was made up.
Anyway, some say the original stories were by app 30% in a dialect mix of
arabic and aramaic and some was not understood by the people who compiled
the koran texts from oral tradition.
The part with the virgins when considered an aramaic text as origin might talk
about sweet grapes. A very common picture in early christian communities.
There was a lot of influence to Mohammed from jews and also from christians
but from the strictly anti-trinitarian syrian church.
True, many of the current beliefs are heavily distorted
by the modern-day leaders to suit their agendas.
Anyone that tries to point that out is “silenced…”
“SILENCE! I KEEL YOU!”
interpretation not translation…
the Nobel Ouran was never meant to be translated.!
Nobel Quran = original text.. Quran = modern text.
koran = translated.
yes… the NQ never ‘says’ 72 virgins,.
it hints at ‘up to 72 “Houri” for the “Most Faithful.”
That some how interpretated into – martyrs get 72 virgins…
Houri = celestial being, of a most pleasing form…
which is interpretated into a young
voluptuous, chaste, loyal female… (permanent virgin)
Ok, I’m sorry but I’d LOVE to see a three panel comic where the dragon
-flys pop in saying, “Hi!” the bad guys look surprised, they drop the
grenades, spoons flying loose saying “Bye!”, bad guys looking shocked,
last panel, bad guys looking hat grenades on the grenades, one of them
saying ” Oh Shi…” And, hey, maybe a bonus panel! All red, With zoom
lines going out from the middle, with “boom” written in yellow letters.
Simple, direct, and to the point!
The remaining baddies can’t have been
bunched that close together if it took two
grenades to neutralize them.
IIRC (Basic Training was over 40 years ago)
a grenade has a blast radius of 7 meters
(18-20 feet?). Feel free to correct my memory.
M67 fragmentation = 15 foot killing (5 meters)
50 foot injury (15 meters)
so,, by D&D spacing rules, 3 foot per person,.
that would get 13 in one blast..
edit: went an looked..
the Vietnam era, M-26 , M-61 could get up to
7 meters,, but had so many problems, that they
revised the design over 8 times. finally replacing
with the M-33/M-67..
There were two groups of five. Miral was dealing with one set
on her side of the road, Mavia with the other set on her side.
I’m sure if there are any survivors, the ladies can deal
with them using their “cutting wit” 😉
As Miral is preparing to do.
That’s why I said dragonflys, plural.
Stupid autocorrect boned me again…
After this, I’m done with the Muslims for a while.
I don’t want to be a one-trick pony.
But it’s not over yet.
I have several fun-ner stories in my head.
Like where Miral got that Katana…
The true story of Jonathan, Miko, and Niko.
(His older daughters – remember them?)
A taste of some stolen valor…
And more. I want to just have fun for a while,
and be entertaining.
Or, like PETDRS…….. (I ain’t typing all that out)
suggested, a follow up to the civilian android story.
After all, Teresa does have a double.
I pretty much figured that the android Teresa swapped with the real one
in the super deep mud hole. It’s the old swapping out in plain sight idea.
If you have to swap for a body double, the less people who know, the better.
Swapping in the mud pit would definitely fit the bill. The android would likely
be using a retreat her to keep her temperature down in the pit, while not
using up the oxygen in the pack, the fuss made by the other Teresa would
distract observers from the pit, where someone else would fall into the pit,
likely two or three people, so when more people than fell in, climb out, that
could easily be written off as an observation mistake, because of all the
mud. Essentially, using an old magicians trick. Keep people looking at one
hand while hiding what the other one is doing…
Just call him “Woodman”.
At Muir’s place he used to sign in simply as “B Woodman”.
That’s still there in the middle of the other stuff.
I don’t blame you, Muslim are one of the least enlightened
of the religious groups, they are far from the only ones.
Nor the most arrogant… Not all are like that,
just the extremists.
Did you ever sketch out the end of the Stilyagi Beginnings story?
I’d certainly like to see that completed.
No,I have a couple of panels done for it. Thanks for the reminder, I’ll
add it to the list.
Along with more character sheets…
I got a great laugh out of that arc. Thank You
Happy 4th all. Going to our daughter’s (last year we drove
out to New Mexico with our son) for hot dogs, baked beans,
potato salad and ice cream cake. I don’t know how many
more of these we’ll have. No fireworks, though just family.
“….just family.”
And that’s enough.
I had a chance to go visit family this year, but my wife still
can’t travel and my father didn’t want to, so my youngest
is spending the weekend with us so we’re not just the
three of us. If it EVER stops raining here, I’m setting up
the grill and doing hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill
with potato salad etc.
Just remember, the cheese goes on the patty after it’s cooked!
WHAT?!? After it’s cooked???????
(j/k – I knew that. No, really, I knew that.)
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!! Y’all
Yep, put on just long enough to melt into each and every
crevice of the burgers, becoming one with the meat…
(drooling)
Explosions outside started before 1600. I jumped with the first one.
I’m ready to step outside with my LER-scoped Mosin-Nagant…
Yeah I don’t doubt it, it started about the same time out here,
so much for the quiet boon-docks huh. about 80% of the noise
is coming from that new sub down the road from us.
WHAT?
You have commie-gun shooting 7.62x54R rounds?
Bah!, Phooey!!
(Just funning with you PC. Spent quite awhile
earlier today reading a thread dedicated to the
Winchester 1894 in .30-30. Quite interesting.)
Some more fun facts about Islam and bible.
Muslims refer to the bible as the jews and christian but
see Jesus as one of the prophets only and not the last one.
The current sect of fundamentalist muslims goes back to
Mr Abd el-Wahhabs from the 18th century in today Saudi Arabia.
That is until today the main place where to find Wahhabits
and Salafists.
Others got converted by missionaries so as Afghanistan but
they follow another one of the four schools of law in islam.
The word Al-lah has the same origin as the word El-ohim in
the old testament.
It is going back to the ugarit god El, the highest god in their
pantheon.
Baal f.e. was a weather god that had to obey El.
Els wife was Athirat or Ashera who is mentioned few times in
the bible as wife of Elohim.
The other word for god in the bible JHWH has its origin
north east of the red sea with the Shasu people.
The bible merged stories from both areas.
Took some time to transform from the mesopotamian pantheon to
one god only.
Thats why there are prophets rage against worshipping Ashera,
Baal and such.
Before that David called one son Adonija (My lord is JHWH)
and another one Beeljada (Baal recognized).
There are other opinions to some of the things i mentioned.
Jasmine (our rescued cat) has healed up enough and my son and I
found her escape holes and sealed them. She’s ran to each and
every one, tried to get out, them begs me to help her get out! She’s
been couped up to let her heal and to learn she can trust us. She’s
a stray, it’s very hard to convert a stray to an indoor cat. I’m hoping
exploring the rest of the house will help, but sooner or later she’s
going to get out again. I just need to convince her this is her home
too, and to want in when she’s ready to relax.
Besides, I’m tied of getting woke up at 4 AM because she wants rubbin’s…
Yeah, my cat got out after the tornado hit Claremore and it took most
of June to get her to trust me enough to pick her up and bring her back
into the house. Last night she was all over me, and seems super happy
to be back inside. (She’s a one eyed, long haired, black cat, and I suspect
The 100 degree temps and thunderstorms kinda disagreed with her.)
As near as I can figure, she was dumped as a kitten. Trust has
been a hard battle with her, I have the bite/scratch marks to
prove it. She’s been in our bedroom since last February, I got
her fixed not 2 months ago. She’s ready to join the rest of the
house-hold, she’s just scared of it for now. it took her almost
a month to let me pet her, another to sleep with us in bed.
Yeah, PK, (short for Pirate Kitty) must have been pretty spooked.
Took me over two weeks to get her to trust me enough to pick her
up and bring her into the house.
Funny thing, I held her like a baby on her back, and she localized
her displeasure, but didn’t struggle at all, and no claws at all.
Lying on my side while I type this up on my Kindle, my cat is
snuggled up against my chest, like she’s trying to make sure that
I’m not going to leave her.
She’s also become very vocal, ‘talking’ to me frequently.
Be grateful she’s not a Siamese.
They don’t talk, they yell.
Yeah, I am VERY familiar with how loud Siamese cats can be!
No, she’s a little black cat who WAS a feral kitty, but allowed
herself to become a housecat. Took a LOT of patience, and
time, but she seems quite happy now…
Same with ours, but she’s scared of my father, she hadn’t seen
much of him over the time, so now that she has the run of the
house she’s afraid to go much past our door, now that it’s open
to her. I ordered a “cat tunnel” in hopes it can be a hiddy-hole
for her and we can start closing our door at night. I also
bought her a “floppy fish” motorized toy and it terrifies her.
It’s a slow process…
” But she’s scared ”
time to buy a new keyboard that
I can still read the letters on the
keys while I’m typing… (Hey, you
try typing with 8 fingers after being
a touch-typer most of your whole life)
Hey. I’m just now catching up again.
I was out for over a week in the hospital and rehab for a fractured
Clavicle and ribs. My bike decides it wanted to try to skid out from
under me then flip when i dared to try to prevent that.
the result was the bike flipped over sideways slamming my shoulder
onto the ground. now i can’t move left arm or breath very well.
The good news is I’m still alive and the bike ain’t too damaged
(even though her show bike days are now done)
What type of bike?
1997 Kawasaki Vulcan 1500
Heh, just means it has character now! You should have
seen how beat up my first one was by time I moved on.
Happy Independence day to all Friends, Family and Framily!
July 4. The day both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died.
and James Monroe, Paul J. Revere (grandson).
Huh. I wonder if it was a day they strove to survive until,
like Christmas is for so many people.
Lots of assuming there.
Nobody ever tried to talk to the Grand Mufti yet,
they just assume things and kill people on that assumption.
No try by the Grand Mufti to communicate either.
Not very convincing these people. None of them.
Uh, wrong. Standard imperial policy. Kill kidnappers.
He admitted the plan was to kidnap Teresa.
The people he was communicating with are equally as guilty.
Nothing was said about going after the Grand Puufti.
The Cat sayeth nothing.
You know, those grav drive missiles that they have could
work quite nicely for ‘removing’ certain obstacles.
Only problem, going in at high enough velocity for a sure
‘removal’ would create a lot of collateral ‘removal’…
The European Caliphate has been attacking the Imperial kingdoms since they
took over Western Europe. Border raids against the kingdoms of Poland,
Romania, and the rest of the European Empire, kidnappings rape and torture..
They’ve made their feelings and intentions quite clear. Murder, rape, mass
destruction, the usual Islamic priorities.
What would you have the Imperials do? Sit back and let them continue in
a one-sided orgy of violence?
“Despite what we see every day, we know that Islam is a religion of peace,
it’s only a few radicals, so we’ll ignore the attacks, take the high ground, and
do nothing in response”.
Really? Where are all of the “peaceful majority” of Muslims? Sure, a very, very
few speak out against the violence, but then, the Quran commands all Muslims
to lie to deceive their enemies. And in their eyes we’re ALL their enemies.
The Empire has enough reasons to fight the Caliphate. And the Grand Puufti
has already made all of the communication that was needed.
Ah, well. That changes things.
Big rocks, from a high orbit.
Repeat as necessary.
The single event that convinced me of the general corrupting
influence of Islam was Cat Stevens’ endorsement of the fatwa
on Salmon Rushdie. Yeah, definitely a passenger on The Peace Train.
I don’t know what to say to you all.
Creating the Wolf World is one of the pleasures in my life, it will continue.
Promise. Just not today. Monday, though. There are too many stories in my head
that need out.
But yeah, sorry.
I hate dealing with people face-to-face. Especially the slimy little con amateurs who
think they can steal from you and you have no choice but to take it.
Ever since that ignorant tech fucked me over, I’ve been doing my own work. Gotten
pretty good at it. Seems that no one builds creator computers.
“Gaming! Gaming! Gaming!” That’s all you hear about.
I swear, if I hear one more little punk say, “If you’re not gaming, you don’t even need
a video card!” I’m going to choke the little bastard with a USB cable.
It’s like the blind guys describing an elephant. People are only aware of what’s in their
very narrow field of view.
I just spent all day dealing with a woman who’d ordered a custom computer for her
son, the “artist”.
She’d paid for most of the parts before I ordered them.
All premium, all would be outdated by the time his skill level got high enough to
really use them. If he didn’t get bored first.
When you meet a customer for the final payment and delivery and they say,
“I’ve been thinking…” you know you’ve got a problem.
She told me that the computer wasn’t really worth what I was
charging her.
“So I took the liberty of writing the check for X dollars.”
Total would have been less than the parts cost. Never mind labor. If she’d
paid the full asking price, I would have made less than minimum wage for
my time.
“Ma’am, we agreed on a price, you signed a contract, you have sixty days
to pay the full balance owed. In sixty-one days it goes on Craigslist.”
The stories I could tell…
Most people are good, honest folk who cause no problems.
But the ones who aren’t punch way above their weight class.
She’ll pay. Because if she doesn’t, I’ll sell the damned thing, deduct
my expenses, (Including my time spent trying to deliver it) and mail
her a check for whatever’s left. Which won’t be much, as it’s a very
specialized, custom-built-for-her-son computer. Way overkill and over
priced for “Gaming”, so few people will want to pay even what the parts
cost. This is the last time I build anything that I have to charge more
than three figures for.
The comic will continue on Monday. It’s too important to me. Thanks for your patience.
Some people have no ethics. There – I kept my words family oriented.
If she pays within sixty days, well and good. You’ve gone beyond
reasonable giving her that extra time. If not, selling it to recoup
the balance due is, well, not all you can do, but is a reasonable,
restrained remedy to her lack of integrity. Interest on the balance
due might be very reasonably charged, unless the contract already
stipulated the sixty days upon completion.
I have a friend who is a collector of firearms. As our friendship
developed, he offered to sell me a firearm I really, really wanted,
at what he paid for it, if he had a spare. The one caveat is that
if I decide I don’t want it anymore, I sell it back to him at the
original price. Seemed fair to me. He’s offered that same deal to
two or three other people in the last few years, and they’ve each
screwed him and sold it for way more elsewhere. One in less than
a month of getting it (Colt Python). I don’t know how some people
can sleep with themselves at night.
Hang in there PC, and remember: Illigitimi non carborundum
(and yes, I know it’s not “real” latin).
lorem ipsum,. it is real latin,, just not used in
the syntax of the time.! IE: the language we speak
now, would not work in the 1700’s because of the
syntax…
modern “good day to you.” old english “good day thee.”
No worries pal, we’ve all been there at some point.
Rest and relax, we’ll be here.
I stuck my head in last night about 1930 and saw it hadn’t updated. My only
concern was your health. I was worried you were ill. I’m just relieved it wasn’t
that. No sweat, PC, we’ll keep.
As for that “If you’re not gaming, you don’t even need a video card!” bravo
sierra … I don’t do gaming but if I was still into flight sim I would definitely
need a decent video card. Doing 3D modelling means I need some fairly
serious graphics capability whenever I reorient the model I’m working on
or when I’m in Photoshop Elements (can’t afford/don’t need the full PS) it
can really bog down when I’m working on textures and have 10 layers open
in a .pse graphic and I’m working at just above the pixel level. People who
spout generalized nonsense like that are assholes and beneath contempt.
There are many other uses for a computer than gaming which require higher
end graphics support!
Even with the 1080ti I can have up to 10 min wait for any model I’m
slicing and even then it can fail and have to be restarted. I can guess
how long it can take with your level of rendering PC. Laymen/women
haven’t a clue as to what it takes to create any kind of artwork on
a computer, it’s more demanding that any game out there. I shudder
at attempting any kind of 3D CGI animation would be like.
Best choice for the USB cable to use is Anker.
Six foot length should do.
I’m thinking military seven strand 550 cord.
Should be strong enough to do the job.
I’ll mail ya some if ya need.