Knuckledragger

Taken on the South Shoah: “Supremist” indeed.

No fuckin' way. It's snowing here.

The theme song from a 10/10 movie with an 11/10 soundtrack.

Damn, dude.

Long form, but a fantastic watch for anyone who had a modem in the late 80s or early 90s.

. o O I still have four NS-1000s, from the late 80s. They are in rough cosmetic shape, but otherwise work just fine. I have been in "discussion" with my sainted octogenarian mother as to why I need to bring ALL FOUR of them to the Vineyard when I move. It's a completely rational decision, I assure you.

Yikes, not good. I hope Tim and Apple un-fuck this shortly. I'm scrounging up cash (returning bottles and then knocking over the liquor store) to buy an M1 Macintop shortly.

Okay, I like this one.

Frankie and his hi-fi: I'm guessing it's a hybrid stereo/mono system vs "Dolby 3 channel." That a Mac pre, clearly. This article goes over some of the other kit. The, ahem, bowl of cigarette packs is a nice touch.

Neat. I still prefer the original because it has Lemmy playing poker with Pinhead.

Today in "Knuckles Should Not Be Trusted With Electricity:" In 2006 I bought an APC UPS after my craptastic power company destroyed a bunch of electronics. It was a decently high end model for the time. I've replaced the batteries on it a number of times over the years. I mentioned in Mindless that I bought a new set last week. The arrived a couple nights ago. I attempted to install them and realized they were too fat. Just a couple mm out of spec, but still enough that two of them would not fit side by side in the enclosure. I only grasped the extent of this problem when I had them most of the way in. Undaunted and dunderheaded, I attempted to attach the wiring harness. Third party batteries don't come with the two part APC wiring that's necessary, so I've kept the same pair since 06. As I futzed with the larger section of the harness a HUGE SPARK went off, making a loud crack and scaring the bejesus out of me. As a certain trio of car British idiots are fond of saying "the poo came out" (metaphorically speaking, of course.) I did have the foresight to attempt the battery replacement with the unit unplugged. While I readily confess I am "paste eating stupid" I am not quite at the "needs help getting the top of the paste jar" level. I extracted the oversize batteries and noted that not only were they a bit too fat, the terminal polarities were reversed from spec. It's a miracle these batteries haven't caused a house fire. I also noted that one end of the wiring harness was now blackened like a Metallica song. Amperage is no joke, even at 12v. Dejected and distraught, I put down the UPS and all four batteries and left them alone for the rest of the night. This afternoon I finally picked up the project, all but sure I'd be administering last rites to my trusted APC. I felt genuine sadness. A UPS is not exactly a device one grows emotional attachment to, but the truth is modern APC products are not nearly as good as their mid 00s ones and my experience with CyberPower has been mixed as well. Also buying a decent new UPS is an expensive endeavor. I figure $400 minimum. That's ahem about 1/10 of the budget for a new Macintop. Well, I am pleased to report that after cleaning off the singed terminal to the best of my meager ability and re-installing the old batteries (which are past life, but at least the right size and polarity) the APC kicked on with its usual chirp and appeared to be as good as ever. I am now going to buy name brand APC batteries ($100, come with a new harness) and leave an excoriating review of the third party ones I bought on Amazon.

For the last couple years, there's been a recurrent meme on YouTube. Artists are taking the opening lyrics (and I use that term loosely) to the 2007 smash hit "Low" by the rapper Flo Rida. The lines in question are performed by T-Pain and the army of autotune plugins he uses. I cannot stand Low. I NEVER liked it. That said, the "Apple Bottom Jeans" meme is one of the most amazing things I've seen on YouTube in years. The conceit of the meme is to perform Low in the style of a different artist, often from a specific time in their career. The whole thing works for two reasons: first, Low is merely the blank slate for the artists to work on and the bar of entry is so high. In that second regard, Apple Bottom Jeans is similar to the Hitler/Downfall meme. Advice animals this ain't. I know, I know. "Free Bird!"

Spent the better part of an hour monkeying with the Apple store website. A $2500 "starter model" sixteen incher turns into a $4000 laptop real fuckin' quick.

(Think about it.) HBD!

The internet is a strange and magical place.

Furthermore, https://great-characters.fandom.com/wiki/President_Merkin_Muffley

Someone needs to tell Tim Apple that brostep hasn't been trendy since he got his current job.

Last week I realized Steve Jobs had been gone for 10 years. Crazy to think that Tim Apple has been at the helm of AAPL for a decade. He's done a bang up job keeping the company in the black, but I miss the vision (warts and all) of Jobs. A joke we told in the late 1990s:

I hope Tim Apple gets this one right.