I love me a chicken omelette. Or a hamburger dipped in milk.
Cheesbugga cheesebugga cheesebugga
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No Coke. Peepsi.
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No fries, cheeps
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/rant on
I read this article about an ISP threatening to mess with peopleâs IoT thermostats and itâs pissing me off. The article writes like the ISP is going to log in and shut off your heat if you donât stop pirating but if you read the notice, itâs your standard âWeâre going to throttle your speedâ threat. Thatâs fine. I have an IoT thermostat among other things. If I lost my internet all thatâs going to happen is I will have to be in my house to change the temp. Oh no, Iâll have to leave the thermostat at a fairly constant temp all day long (studies have found this is better than wildly varying degrees as it costs more to drastically change the air temp in a house). What ever will I do? Itâs because of crappy click-bait articles like this that I get phone calls from panicked relatives wondering how they will ever live if the internet goes down. You know what if it scares you that much, turn the internet off, stop buying IoT stuff and go back to living like your parents used to. It didnât kill them so youâll probably be fine. And probably happier in the long run too.
/rant off
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For the record, while I could adjust the AC a degree or two during the day if we had a fancy thermostat, we wouldnât for three reasons:
- We work weird schedules. I have weeks where one or both of us donât start work until 1:00 PM, or $Wife is off a day mid-week and has to work Saturday for coverage.
- Add-on to the above, but I am probably doing a lot of Work From Home as I need to cover work in other time zones the next few months.
- I donât want the dog to freeze/roast (depending on the time of year). Or the fish.
On-topic-ish: Where did the snails in the fish tank come from? We havenât added plants or fish for months, and the Loaches (now single) used to take care of the problem with a surprising amount of noise. Now weâre seeing tons of small snails and what we presume are egg clusters.
All it takes is one. Snails are asexual, so they reproduce no matter what. If you ever had one snail, you will have them for life. On the plus side, they do make extra snacking for your fish, and they help keep the algae growing on the glass under control.
If an internet-connected thermostat needs a âstrong and reliable connectionâ which is more than a 10Kb/sec burst for 10 seconds every 5 minutes, Iâd be shocked. Itâd work fine on a dial-up connection.
Total fear mongering.
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Sorry. That was me.
Weâre just amazed as we havenât added anything to the tank for months other than water (treated) food (flakes and freeze-dried worms) and we have not seen snails for a couple years. The loach will eat them, but heâs fat and lazy.
Cursing happens so often that it has lost its edge. Cursing used to be much more interesting.
In order for it to become relevant again, it has to bring the shock value back. Iâm trying to think of ways to do this and hit on something that we can all play with.
Jesus H. Christ
Why H? Iâve been trying out different middle names and initials to see what works best.
Jesus RR Christ
Jesus Elizabeth Christ
Jesus Millhouse Christ
Jesus Tiberius Christ
Today I had an incident where I blurted out âOw Motherf?*(er gaw!!â Is that creative enough for you? 
I like to occasionally swear in foreign languages. For starters it meant I could get away with stuff in senior school I should have been expelled for saying, and for seconds sometimes it sounds delightfully fancy as youâre telling someone to forcefully insert a whole baby sheep in their rectum.
The one time this backfired was when I was with a school trip to Italy; the coach stopped in a service station in Switzerland on the way there, and while I was in the Stop Shop I dropped some salsa and the jar exploded⌠and I yelled Scheisse as you do when youâre surprised, and then had to endure five minutes of being totally ripped to shreds by a German-speaking customer who had a child with her!
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Hehe. Iâve been known to swear in Spanish (things like pendejo, mierda, puta madre, and of course Jesucristo. Not very covert when you live 30-40 minutes from the Mexican border though. 
Iâve been known to say âMerde,â followed by âPardon my FrenchââŚ
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Merde is just French for mierda.
Yes. Yes, it is. 
If you work with me, itâs late holiday free glassware day.
The two-month timeline, aka, what effect did the initial allegation have?
- Harvey Weinstein: 82 women have made accusations, and two directors have said that they unknowingly contributed to the blacklisting of two of the actresses because they accepted statements from the Weinstein company that those two were difficult to work with.
- Kevin Spacey: approximately 35 people
- Louis C.K.: somewhere between five and a dozen people
- Brett Ratner: ten people
- James Toback: almost 400 people
- Charlie Rose: eight people
- Mark Halperin: âat least a dozenâ people
- Matt Lauer: approximately a dozen people
- Mario Batali: a dozen people
- John Besh: 25 people, with those accusations directed at him and his company
And Garrison Keillor? In the 1.5 months since it happened, there has been just the one initial accusation with no details have been released (to protect the privacy of the other person as the official reason). All further statements by MPR have been vague and boil down to âwe have our reasonsâ.
If what he had done was so bad that he needed to be treated the same as Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey or any of the others listed above, why havenât other people stepped forward to make further accusations as quickly as what happened with Weinstein and the rest? If he is enough of a monster that MPR had to completely wash their hands of a four decade friendship and business relationship, which several articles have said is the main reason MPR grew as popular as it did, where are those other examples of how he is a monster? Wouldnât there be plentiful and detailed incidents to justify trying to make Garrison an âunpersonâ by removing all references to him on the MPR website?
So far, there isnât, and the only new news is that Garrison and his lawyers are talking with MPRâs lawyers about the situation. I didnât know about that last part before I decided to write a blog about what had happened to him. If youâre interested, you can read âA good man goes to warâ on the Prairie Home Companion Wiki.