George Jones? When I was in Bible "college" in Scottsbluff, Nebraska,
Tom T.
Hall and Jeannie C. Riley came to the Western Nebraska Community College
to put on a show. Hall was so drunk that when it came to his turn to
sing,
he sloshed through a couple songs and Riley had to come back out and
finish the show.
On 2026-03-17 12:00 p.m., DFS wrote:
On 3/17/2026 11:34 AM, Joel W. Crump wrote:
On 3/17/2026 9:27 AM, pothead wrote:
So fuck Ron, may his house
burn down.
LOL.
Typical unhinged leftist lunatic projecting again.
<plonk> Fucking unhinged retard cracker. Kill yourself.
May you have a delusional break with reality and suffer a lifetime of
schizoid beliefs and substance addictions... oh wait...
The homosexual leprechaun Joel Crump wants someone to kill themselves
again. How very leftist of him.
I went to the Six Flags near DC (very near, same area as the Commanders
stadium in Maryland) long before it was a Six Flags, it was "Wild
World", and later they changed the name to Adventure World, before Six
Flags took it over. Kind of a fun park, at the time at least. Then
again, amusement parks are overrated.
Was that the one where someone was killed on a faulty ride? What I find fascinating about the Six Flags franchise is they can plunk one down
anywhere and dig up history to show the area had been under 6 flags.
On 3/17/2026 2:11 PM, CrudeSausage wrote:
On 2026-03-17 12:00 p.m., DFS wrote:
On 3/17/2026 11:34 AM, Joel W. Crump wrote:
On 3/17/2026 9:27 AM, pothead wrote:
So fuck Ron, may his house
burn down.
LOL.
Typical unhinged leftist lunatic projecting again.
<plonk> Fucking unhinged retard cracker. Kill yourself.
May you have a delusional break with reality and suffer a lifetime of
schizoid beliefs and substance addictions... oh wait...
The homosexual leprechaun Joel Crump wants someone to kill themselves
again. How very leftist of him.
"kill yourself <Windows user>" used to be a fairly frequent refrain from
the crazy Linux advocates here on cola.
On 2026-03-17 9:46 p.m., rbowman wrote:
On Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:48:05 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
I wouldn't know what it used to be like, but the way it is currently
is no better than the local amusement park in Montreal minus the
Disney branding everywhere. Our amusement park also doesn't have as
many shops filled with overpriced items and more restaurants.
Is that on the Expo 68 site? I thought Disney had moved one of the
World's Fair '64 pavilions to Orlando but I don't see it on the list.
I imagine that Epcot would be the World's Fair pavillion. We didn't
bother to go there.
On 2026-03-18, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:12:13 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
I have no idea what MCU, MPU means. (I'll have to look it up.)
MCU -- microcontroller. In the RaspberryPi world, that would be the
Pico MPU -- mocroprocessor The Raspberry Pi itself, sort of
https://www.voragotech.com/technology/mcu-vs-mpu-gui
I say sort of for the Pi because it is a Cortex-A76 MPU but has GPIOs.
A cleaner example is the new Arduino Q. It has a DragonWing Cortex-A53
MPU and a STM32 Cortex-M33 MCU on the other side of the board.
I haven't played with the Q and the setup sounds a little weird, sort
of like if you hung a Pico off a Pi and used it for the i/o.
I should have figured this out just by the terms. Thanks for the link.
My brother likes to mess with MCUs.
You know a lot more about the guts of computers than I do. I can just
replace parts, load Linux, and use them. I do remember the EEPCs though.
When did they come out in the 90s or early 2000s? (I've got a good
memory,
but it's short.)
I always wanted to see that part of the country. New England and the mountains in New York, especially in the fall. Never made it up there. Maryland had true seasons and rolling hills but no real mountains. (At
least not in Riesterstown, which I guess is just a Baltimore suburb by
now.) Kind of makes me sick thinking about that.
Alan wrote:
RonB wrote:
Homosexuality is a real thing. Why? I have no idea. But pretending a
man can "become" a woman and carry a baby (for example) is
delusional BS. And what we're supposed to "accept" this stupidity.
No one I have ever seen has actually claimed that.
So no, you're claiming your being asked to "accept" that which is not >>being claimed.
But we are asked to accept that a man can become a woman. Which is
false. Hell, we are asked to accept that any man who simply *claims*
to be a woman is a woman! The word "ridiculous" does not suffice!
On 2026-03-18 8:09 a.m., chrisv wrote:
Alan wrote:
RonB wrote:
Homosexuality is a real thing. Why? I have no idea. But pretending a
man can "become" a woman and carry a baby (for example) is
delusional BS. And what we're supposed to "accept" this stupidity.
No one I have ever seen has actually claimed that.
So no, you're claiming your being asked to "accept" that which is not
being claimed.
But we are asked to accept that a man can become a woman. Which is
false. Hell, we are asked to accept that any man who simply *claims*
to be a woman is a woman! The word "ridiculous" does not suffice!
They were planning on fining them for each installlation wich doesn't
verify the age. How they would enforce that is beyond me, especially
since they never seem to know how many installs there are and who is
using them.
On Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:20:04 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
George Jones? When I was in Bible "college" in Scottsbluff, Nebraska,
Tom T.
Hall and Jeannie C. Riley came to the Western Nebraska Community College
to put on a show. Hall was so drunk that when it came to his turn to
sing,
he sloshed through a couple songs and Riley had to come back out and
finish the show.
Yeah, The Possum didn't have the greatest track record. That was another case where I didn't know he was even scheduled. I only wanted to see 'the world's largest honky tonk' even though my honky tonking days were over.
I have an interview with Mostek but on the final approach to DFW I knew
that wasn't going to work. Texas doesn't get interesting until you're
almost in New Mexico.
On Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:00:58 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
On 2026-03-18, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:12:13 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
I have no idea what MCU, MPU means. (I'll have to look it up.)
MCU -- microcontroller. In the RaspberryPi world, that would be the
Pico MPU -- mocroprocessor The Raspberry Pi itself, sort of
https://www.voragotech.com/technology/mcu-vs-mpu-gui
I say sort of for the Pi because it is a Cortex-A76 MPU but has GPIOs.
A cleaner example is the new Arduino Q. It has a DragonWing Cortex-A53
MPU and a STM32 Cortex-M33 MCU on the other side of the board.
I haven't played with the Q and the setup sounds a little weird, sort
of like if you hung a Pico off a Pi and used it for the i/o.
I should have figured this out just by the terms. Thanks for the link.
My brother likes to mess with MCUs.
My entry into programming via industrial control systems was embedded
stuff. The last 25 years were computer aided dispatch systems, mostly electrons on a screen. I like getting back to my roots with little processors that interact with the real world. There a lot more
sophisticated now than the MCS8048s or even Z80s.
On Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:31:07 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
You know a lot more about the guts of computers than I do. I can just
replace parts, load Linux, and use them. I do remember the EEPCs though.
When did they come out in the 90s or early 2000s? (I've got a good
memory,
but it's short.)
2007.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus_Eee_PC
I wanted something I could toss into a motorcycle saddle bag and not be
out much if it was stolen or destroyed. The original Xandros Linux was
okay but it didn't support WPA2.
Even antiX just about fills the 4 GB internal drive. It does have a SD
slot that shows up as sdb. It had a 4 GB actual SD but I had a 64 GB
microSD I got for the Raspberry Pi. I put it in an adapter and now I have
to see if I can move the OS to it or reinstall.
The 4 GB of RAM is okay with antiX. The RAM is socketed but it won't recognize more than 4 $B.
On Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:27:28 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
I always wanted to see that part of the country. New England and the
mountains in New York, especially in the fall. Never made it up there.
Maryland had true seasons and rolling hills but no real mountains. (At
least not in Riesterstown, which I guess is just a Baltimore suburb by
now.) Kind of makes me sick thinking about that.
I grew up in upstate NY but have lived in MA, VT, NH, and ME. I hiked
quite a bit in the Adirondacks, Greens in VT, Whites in NH, and some of
the lower ranges like the Berkshires. I took a 3 month contract at GE Fort Wayne that lasted over a year. I don't do well in flatland and was happy
to get back to NH.
I do miss the hardwoods. Except for the city where they planted maples and oaks most of the landscape is ponderosa pines, western larch, and douglas fir with cottonwood along the river. The larch get sort of a golden color
in the fall but that's about it.
On 2026-03-18, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
Alan wrote:
RonB wrote:
Homosexuality is a real thing. Why? I have no idea. But pretending a
man can "become" a woman and carry a baby (for example) is
delusional BS. And what we're supposed to "accept" this stupidity.
No one I have ever seen has actually claimed that.
So no, you're claiming your being asked to "accept" that which is not
being claimed.
But we are asked to accept that a man can become a woman. Which is
false. Hell, we are asked to accept that any man who simply *claims*
to be a woman is a woman! The word "ridiculous" does not suffice!
It's delusional insanity. Only extremely gullible idiots would fall for this lying crap. Reality wins out every time.
On 2026-03-18, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
On 2026-03-18 8:09 a.m., chrisv wrote:
Alan wrote:
RonB wrote:
Homosexuality is a real thing. Why? I have no idea. But pretending a >>>>> man can "become" a woman and carry a baby (for example) is
delusional BS. And what we're supposed to "accept" this stupidity.
No one I have ever seen has actually claimed that.
So no, you're claiming your being asked to "accept" that which is not
being claimed.
But we are asked to accept that a man can become a woman. Which is
false. Hell, we are asked to accept that any man who simply *claims*
to be a woman is a woman! The word "ridiculous" does not suffice!
They were planning on fining them for each installlation wich doesn't
verify the age. How they would enforce that is beyond me, especially
since they never seem to know how many installs there are and who is
using them.
I think they want to force the Linux distributions to include an age verification API (?) in the installation process.
Zilog's headquarters used to be just down the freeway from where I live. About fifteen years ago the Zilog sign went down. The Z80s were in
everything for awhile.
I never actually had an eePC. I would probably look into one but I've
already got way too many computers that I need to get rid of.
I think they want to force the Linux distributions to include an age verification API (?) in the installation process.
I didn't realize George Jones wasn't reliable. There were only a few of
his songs I liked. I guess he was mostly before my time.
I have an interview with Mostek but on the final approach to DFW I knew
that wasn't going to work. Texas doesn't get interesting until you're
almost in New Mexico.
You don't like flat, humid swamp land?
On Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:06:53 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
Zilog's headquarters used to be just down the freeway from where I live.
About fifteen years ago the Zilog sign went down. The Z80s were in
everything for awhile.
I have a Captain Zilog t-shirt from a Zilog seminar promoting the Z8000. I had hopes for the processor but it was not to be. The scuttlebutt was IBM was in a pissing contest with Exxon, who owned Zilog, so it wasn't even considered.
https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/captain-zilog-crushed-the-story-of--
On Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:09:22 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
I never actually had an eePC. I would probably look into one but I've
already got way too many computers that I need to get rid of.
You didn't miss much although I think the later 900s were better. Arguably it was the first 'netbook'. I've got a 2011 Acer netbook with Mint that is
a more pleasant experience, bigger display and better keyboard. 800x600 is limited.
Tablets ended the netbook era but we've come full circle with low cost laptops, even the Neo. In 2007 laptops were still pricey. iirc the Asus
was around $600. Even without considering inflation $600 buys you a lot more now.
On Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:04:18 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
I didn't realize George Jones wasn't reliable. There were only a few of
his songs I liked. I guess he was mostly before my time.
He had a booze problem with no June Carter Cash to keep him on the
straight and narrow.
I have an interview with Mostek but on the final approach to DFW I knew
that wasn't going to work. Texas doesn't get interesting until you're
almost in New Mexico.
You don't like flat, humid swamp land?
Dallas isn't swampy; that's east Texas. You need gills to live in
Houston.
Maybe not a swamp, but it was built along a river that flooded the
lowland on a regular basis. Close enough to a swamp for me, though
Houston and San Antonio are much worse.
On Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:58:16 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
Maybe not a swamp, but it was built along a river that flooded the
lowland on a regular basis. Close enough to a swamp for me, though
Houston and San Antonio are much worse.
Sprague started moving their operations south, ultimately to Mexico, but
San Antonio was the intermediate location. One of the techs was eager to relocate; he wanted a palm tree in the yard.
I passed through there but it wasn't bad. The Alamo was a little disconcerting. All the photos I'd ever seen were cropped, giving the impression it wasn't in the middle of a city. The River Walk was pleasant.
I think they have the river tamed.
I've got to admit, however, that the one time I stayed in Houston
(actually Galveston) was in the spring. We rented one of those houses on stilts by the beach for a couple days (extended family thing). We got
lucky, low humidity and nice temperatures and not many people.
On Sat, 21 Mar 2026 01:02:08 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
I've got to admit, however, that the one time I stayed in Houston
(actually Galveston) was in the spring. We rented one of those houses on
stilts by the beach for a couple days (extended family thing). We got
lucky, low humidity and nice temperatures and not many people.
After hearing 'Galveston' on the radio endlessly I had to go there. It was the end of the 4th of July holiday. Rather than backtracking I took the ferry to Bolivar Peninsula. Smooth sailing going east but I felt sorry for the poor bastards going west. There had to be a better way than waiting hours for the ferry.
I'd been to Laredo/Nuevo Laredo and came up through what Part of the King Ranch. There was a smell, not a bad smell but the land baking in the sun, and Conway Twitty's 'Lost in the Feeling' was getting a lot of airplay. I sometimes still smell that smell when the song plays. Those were the days when you could go to Mexico without an armed escort.
On Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:58:16 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
Maybe not a swamp, but it was built along a river that flooded the
lowland on a regular basis. Close enough to a swamp for me, though
Houston and San Antonio are much worse.
Sprague started moving their operations south, ultimately to Mexico, but
San Antonio was the intermediate location. One of the techs was eager to relocate; he wanted a palm tree in the yard.
I passed through there but it wasn't bad. The Alamo was a little disconcerting. All the photos I'd ever seen were cropped, giving the impression it wasn't in the middle of a city.
The River Walk was pleasant.
I think they have the river tamed.
rbowman wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS:
On Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:58:16 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
Maybe not a swamp, but it was built along a river that flooded the
lowland on a regular basis. Close enough to a swamp for me, though
Houston and San Antonio are much worse.
Sprague started moving their operations south, ultimately to Mexico, but
San Antonio was the intermediate location. One of the techs was eager to
relocate; he wanted a palm tree in the yard.
I passed through there but it wasn't bad. The Alamo was a little
disconcerting. All the photos I'd ever seen were cropped, giving the
impression it wasn't in the middle of a city.
I remember the same kind of thing when visiting the La Brea Tar
Pits for the first time.
Btw, that tar pits are featured in a scene in Philip Jose Farmer's
"Behind the Walls of Terra".
The River Walk was pleasant.
I think they have the river tamed.
You want a tamed river? Go to L.A. The concrete river is featured
in the second "Terminator" movie, as I recall.
On 3/21/26 06:13, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
rbowman wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS:
On Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:58:16 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
Maybe not a swamp, but it was built along a river that flooded the
lowland on a regular basis. Close enough to a swamp for me, though
Houston and San Antonio are much worse.
Sprague started moving their operations south, ultimately to Mexico, but >>> San Antonio was the intermediate location. One of the techs was eager to >>> relocate; he wanted a palm tree in the yard.
I passed through there but it wasn't bad. The Alamo was a little
disconcerting. All the photos I'd ever seen were cropped, giving the
impression it wasn't in the middle of a city.
I remember the same kind of thing when visiting the La Brea Tar
Pits for the first time.
Btw, that tar pits are featured in a scene in Philip Jose Farmer's
"Behind the Walls of Terra".
The River Walk was pleasant.
I think they have the river tamed.
You want a tamed river? Go to L.A. The concrete river is featured
in the second "Terminator" movie, as I recall.
Oh, that basin's been in plenty of other productions too, such as in the 1978 production of 'Grease' (John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John): car
drag race scene.
You want a tamed river? Go to L.A. The concrete river is featured in the second "Terminator" movie, as I recall.
I remember the same kind of thing when visiting the La Brea Tar
Pits for the first time.
Btw, that tar pits are featured in a scene in Philip Jose Farmer's
"Behind the Walls of Terra".
The River Walk was pleasant.
I think they have the river tamed.
You want a tamed river? Go to L.A. The concrete river is featured
in the second "Terminator" movie, as I recall.
Oh, that basin's been in plenty of other productions too, such as in
the 1978 production of 'Grease' (John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John):
car drag race scene.
I don't think I ever watched the entirety of Grease (I have testicles),
but it made for an amazing action scene in Terminator 2. That movie
stills holds up 35 years later.
On 2026-03-21 05:48, CrudeSausage wrote:
I remember the same kind of thing when visiting the La Brea Tar
Pits for the first time.
Btw, that tar pits are featured in a scene in Philip Jose Farmer's
"Behind the Walls of Terra".
The River Walk was pleasant.
I think they have the river tamed.
You want a tamed river? Go to L.A. The concrete river is featured
in the second "Terminator" movie, as I recall.
Oh, that basin's been in plenty of other productions too, such as in
the 1978 production of 'Grease' (John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John):
car drag race scene.
I don't think I ever watched the entirety of Grease (I have testicles),
but it made for an amazing action scene in Terminator 2. That movie
stills holds up 35 years later.
Wow.
Are you ever NOT an asshole?
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