I think she didn't get along with the principal. Also she has a habit of not getting to work on time, and that may have played a role in the kerfuffle. Glad it isn't my concern anymore. 🤷
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I think she didn't get along with the principal. Also she has a habit of not getting to work on time, and that may have played a role in the kerfuffle. Glad it isn't my concern anymore. 🤷
She's filing her nails while they're dragging the lake.
It's "Labor Day." Down here in the States we steal the "u" -- that's how we can spell 'Murica. (Seriously -- hope you're having a splendid weekend. I fired up the Harley yesterday. Cheers!)
Wait, really? I thought we were at waning crescent. (Maybe I should leave my garage and go look...) also, cheers!
Also, JDubs -- this was the first time I was on the radio ball. a) I didn't work at C.O's unless they were having a staff party and b) Scott apparently doesn't know I'm an *actual* alcoholic. Oops. @jillinois.bsky.social
Hey, know how FB often offers up random stuff? It let me know you made a "new" friend last week. I literally laughed out loud. (Apparently she quit Edison and is going to Urbana CUSD. Em fills me in even though I really don't care. Anyway, just funny... 🤣🤣🤣)
A kid named Scott Struber who was on WPGU and was also the head DJ at C.O. Daniel's is a sub DJ on DC101, a modern rock -ish station that I listen to on the Alexa ball in the garage. I leave him voice messages in their app just to give him a hard time.
OMG I was just on the radio in DC. Hilarious to hear my own voice as I'm smoking in the garage.
I think MMA is idiotic. Letting chickens fight is illegal. How is battery between people legal, whether they are willing participants or not?
I hate the song "Boys of Summer" and the re-make is even worse.
I have something I need to admit. I have had a man-crush on Kirk Herbstreit for many years. And his dogs.
It does. Have to input TV provider.
It's on USA network. 0-0 21:45.
Read a book called "Fatherland" back in the day where the backdrop was Hitler having won the war. Again, yikes.
Shorter drive at least? 🤣
Fascism.
Springfield? ;) What a wonderful day for it! Enjoy!
Look at all those brave folks riding their bikes -- do they know they're in a war zone? (Seriously though -- I love it! Hope you have a great day Maralyn!)
It looks horrible. Why would anyone visit or live there?
I have never understood the fascination people have with the "band" Oasis. Two whiny songs, drama, "we're bigger that the Beatles," yada yada yada. Fucking childish entitled pricks.
So fucking annoyed right now. "I have friends all across the political spectrum." Your friends on the right are fascists. Trump is a fascist. We are losing our republic to fascism. It's idiotic.
Happy 4:20!
Ohio State's quarterback is named Julian Sayin. His parents would have been funnier if they had named him Justin. I mean, just sayin'...
Illini winners 52-3! 🧡💙
Reminder that computer consoles don't ever just have constant shit scrolling by at high speed like they do on TV.
Aww. American Science and Surplus is closing up shop. That sucks. Sciplus.com
I posted a photo to Facebook years ago of a tree line behind a recently-picked cornfield with the caption "wily coyote." There was no coyote in the photo. I'm mean, but really, I'm also quite hilarious.
Looks like John Street will be open again soon.
We're excited too, Chancellor Isbell! Welcome to campus! 🧡💙 #Illinois www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWTI...
"There was a palpability in the air." Wait, wut? Sportscasters are the best.
You want to make things right with Native Americans? GIVE THEM THEIR FUCKING LAND BACK. Not willing to do that? Shut the fuck up then.
Heh. Bait taken. And now JayRoe has threatened to sue me too. Folks need to realize that far left-wing assholes can be just as dangerous as far-right assholes.
Yay! Asshole Jay Rosenstein took the bait and of course threatened to sue me. He is such a prick.
Cheers! I'm making bad decisions this weekend. Hope the flower works! Also, dog butt.
Happy Friday 4:20! 🚬 What a fucking week... 🍺🍺
Damn, JayRoe didn't take the bait. I went w/the bathroom thing -- maybe should have gone w/the Gaza thing? My brilliant liberal hippie daughter often says that the political spectrum is a circle. Rosenstein is one of those people that has gone SO far left that he's closer to a nazi than a socialist.
Same! Recently I discovered "ubuntu-drivers list" which shows which driver is recommended, and that seems to be the way.
Come on, #Ubuntu overlords. Bless me with a working GPU system in the next few hours. Please? #Linux
Boy it sure is refreshing, isn't it!
zOMG Jay Rosenstein absolutely teed up a slow fastball for me this morning, and I'm going to blast it out of the park. Do I go with the "you're a Zionist who supports the genocide in Gaza" or the standard "you're the one that followed a Native American STUDENT into a public bathroom while FILMING."
Funny, I'm an old white hippie and I could still beat that guy's ass.
My grandson is at the zoo in St. Louis today, and the kids keep sending photos of him and OMG this super duper "thinks he's a tough guy" grandfather is absolutely melting. 🧡💙
With all this baloney "A.I." (it's definitely artificial and is definitely NOT "intelligence") why the hell can't Google return results in order by date and relevance? If I search for "University of Illinois Quad Day" why on Earth would I get any results about "Quad Day 2021!" near the top?
100%, and what's the point of going backwards?
I'm assuming the City of Champaign will use day two of campus move-in to re-stripe Green Street (our main campustown thoroughfare).
I mean, *last* Monday would have been better. Or the Monday before that, or ....
Standing in the datacenter, freezing my butt off, watching an Ubuntu 22 install roll down a screen and literally had an epiphany that instead of watching, I could go stand across the street and have a smoke. Brilliant! #Ubuntu #Linux
I mean, how stupid to be doing this TODAY.
"Illini-Alert Emergency. There is a chemical spill in the Boneyard Creek near the 1100 block of W. Green street. Avoid area." A city name would be helpful. 1100 W. Green* in Urbana is by Loomis Laboratory and 1100 W. Green in Champaign is like two miles west off campus. (*I'm sure it's this one....)
So today is the start of official student move-in at the University of Illinois. It's an absolute clusterfuck around campus. Somebody, however, thought today -- TODAY -- would be a great day to repaint the road stripes on Wright Street between Springfield and the Main Library. Today. Seriously?
But, Illinois. Trump is scared of JB. Good. ;)
I just punch them in the face.
I hope. I truly hope. Uphold the Constitution when the time comes. Please. It comes first, not the President. Signed, "Worried in Urbana (IL, US)"
Lodged corn that bad just from the wind? Not questioning -- just asking. When Western Corn Rootworm are bad, a breeze can lodge corn. (Yes, I know I'm not that kind of scientist but I worked for some field crop entomologists....) 😉
100 fucking percent. Slava Ukraine!
One of my college buddies is on the air (he's a sub) on a major radio station in D.C. right now. It's so hard for me not to fuck with him. Imma use the iHeartRadio talk back thing to request "Smoke Two Joints." Wish me luck. 🚬
There is no Santa Claus. Or other. 🤷
Eh, meatball subs are too tasty. I'd throw a tuna sandwich. With extra mayo. Maybe as messy of a result as the meatball, but instead of smelling like delicious meatballs the rest of the day, the fascist instead smells of fish. Mmm, meatball sandwiches.... 😉😉🥪
I got my "so you have cancer..." packet in the mail Friday. Mine is small potatoes compared to yours.
He's a real Neville Chamberlain, ain't he?
He sings the songs that remind him of the good times, I think.
🤣🤣🤣
Best of luck with your treatment. #FuckCancer
I think I'm going to wear Chief Illiniwek stuff to work everyday in support of the native Palestinians being murdered on the daily by Israel.
"Funky Cold Medina" is inliterally one of the top ten dumbest songs ever.
Jay Rosenstein, a professor at the University of Illinois, followed a Native American student into a bathroom with his camera recording video. Arrested. No charges. Kids protesting Gaza? Arrested and prosecuted. Wake up, friends.
Meanwhile Gaza. Jay Roe supports that bullshit. He's an asshole Zionist. Fuck your fucking bullshit made up religion.
Uh oh. Made a bad decision this afternoon. And my powder keg is about to blow. Julia Rietz needs to lose her job. And the *fucking hypocrisy* of my fellow local liberals. Fuck Israel and Jay Roe. I may start wearing Chief Illiniwek stuff to work. Your bullshit helped ZERO Native Americans.
I love playing Angry Birds 2. And other phone games. Have never spent a penny on $5 boosters and shit. This in-game advertisement made me say "whoa." A hundred dollars? For phone game stuff? Yikes.
They catch that naked old guy yet? Heard he was up near your childhood stomping grounds...
Did you see the video of a tow truck driver sneaking up and nabbing an ICE vehicle while the "agents" were doing their fascism? Pretty sweet. #resist
If you mean temperature, yes, I'm ready for two feet of snow.
I mean the Illinois football team is ranked #12 in preseason polls. I know because our local media down here won't shut up about it. 🧡💙
Can't block the sidewalk, man. 🤷
When I was a kid I had to share a landline phone that involved an avocado-green device on the wall with a dial and a stretched out cord with my mother and two sisters (diagram that, Mrs. Marcotte!). Right now I'm looking at my phone and live-tracking my grocery delivery. What a world, eh?
Put this back up. One of the cool things I still own. A signed and numbered Robert Addison lithograph of Paradise Theater in Chicago. Wore out my Styx album of the same name when I was a kid. #Chicago #Styx cc: @maralynmaralyn.bsky.social
Neat article. I have a lithograph of Paradise Theater that I should hang back up. Took it down when I thought I was losing the house in the divorce.
Awww.... 🧡💙
It's not the heat, it's the humidity. Are we about finished with this awfulness? (Gorgeous photo, of course!)
I don't mean to be a dick, but have you seen how much a sandwich costs these days??? 😉 I mean if I had to choose I might throw my phone and keep the sammy. Also: that dude is a goddamn hero. (LOL no pun intended!) Cheers!
Ooh, ooh, I bet I figured this episode out. The kid didn't kill the dad -- that neighbor whose daughter died of the drug overdose? HE went to kill the kid that gave his daughter the drugs, & Marine dad intervened, and got killed by the neighbor guy. That's why the kid can't say anything! Boom! #NCIS
Abby on NCIS yesterday referred to "millions of computers" collectively working on a problem as "distributive" computing. Ooh, the writers were *so* close. Distributed.net #dnetc #GolombRulers #rc572 #rc564 #rc656 Moo.
I don't normally troubleshoot end-user computers (I'm a Linux server guy) but I today I got a message from someone and my response was to ask them if they have rebooted their computer. I'm not kidding. (And there's a good chance it will fix their problem -- Windows/SMB/AD auth.). That's funny.
70-year old white naked guy still on the run in rural Central Illinois town. 4 days now? #RunGrampsRun
Just saw a propaganda post on FB from the Department of Homeland Security. I clicked to make it go away (I don't follow their account) and then oops, maybe clicked "report post" and of all their silly choices I choose "promotes terrorism." Hope ICE doesn't come get me. 🖕
At least it is already 90° with 100% humidity. Sorry -- I forgot cheeto math. 1500% humidity.
Mowed the front yard early this morning. Still was way, way too hot and muggy. Almost all weeds. Blech. This sucks.
70-year it's naked guy still on the lam, for anyone keeping track.
Aahhh. For the Saint-Tropez tan!
Yesterday I mentioned that our campus anti-virus client nailed my newly-updated Debian 13 server within minutes of the dist-upgrade, but I think I misspoke. I think it nailed it inliterally while it was in the process of moving and writing updated SSH packages. Damn, Lorenzo Lamas is ON DA BALL.
70-year old man shoots and injures two cops, burns down two houses, flees the scene butt-ass-naked, and runs into a cornfield. That was two days ago. They still can't find him. Only in central Illinois...
NVM. I should have googled first.
I thought he was MAGA.
Everyone else is aware that the only ironic part of Alanis' song is that nothing she talks about in the song is irony, right? (Yes it's on the radio right now...)
Updated my office test server this afternoon to #Debian #Trixie and the campus FalconCrest server has already flagged it. (I'm referring to CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor. I also refer to it as "Lorenzo Lamas.")
I wouldn't visit here even if I were white. I'm white, and have lived here my entire 55 years, and I don't want to be here.
Getting ready to go all Justin Hammer. "We'll generate you some keypairs -- can we get him some keypairs please?"
I'm ready for 2 feet of snow myself. It is gross outside right now. #CentralILWeather
Jesus fucking christ. "Cartels." Because that's what is going on. How did we get here and how the hell are we still headed in the direction we're heading?
