Well, some days, its easy to be the hero at work. Today, two lines of javascript, taken almost verbatim from Teh Googles. Once upon a time programmers needed to actually know things. Now we have a global exo-brain that only requires that you know how search for things. Strangely, demand remains high. Oh well. Also, my kids have been home for six days and we have five more to go. So this is the one week each year I wish I had an office to commute to.
Someone in Bal’mer got $500 for turning in a metal tube at a gun buyback. (TW: Zerohedge)
KDW continues to deny he loves libertarian/anarchism, even though he’s agin’ the same things they’re agin’.
Instagram “accidentally” rolled out a horizontal scroll and it was the end of the world! I mean, not for me because I’m not a user.
This is one bad-ass man. Not only is he the first to solo cross Antarctica, but he skied the last 80 miles in one 32 hour push. What were his plans after completing this feat of bad-assery? Oh, he’s just gonna hang around Antarctica alone for couple more days until the other guy who is making a solo crossing shows up. No mention of how much it costs for the special suit to keep his huge brass balls warm.
I’ve always loved the guitar sounds on this.
“I’ve always loved the guitar sounds on this.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zLfCnGVeL4
For what it’s worth, he jokingly refers to himself as an Eisenhower anarchist.
Anyone else enjoying No Internet Thursday courtesy of CenturyLink?
I shouldn’t complain, maybe. I get adequate if not exemplary service 350 days out of the year. What peeves me more than a simple outage, even a day-long outage like this, is that there’s never any public admission that there’s even a problem, or an attempt to estimate when it will be addressed. A simple banner alert on their website, for example: “We are currently experiencing service interruptions in the following areas.” What is the point of having a Twitter account that only vaguely addresses problems customers have with submitting support tickets? Your support system is rather less integral to the service you’re supposed to provide than the service you’re supposed to provide. Getting tickets flowing again isn’t going to address internet problems currently affecting great swathes of the country. My modem isn’t at issue when I’m sitting in a big sea of outages.
Yes.
It caused an outage at a call center I supported, which was exciting.
Did you find out what the problem was?
We had issues for about 5 days on FIOS. One of their router cards got fried and they had to fly in a new one. About 120,000 angry customers, and they wasted time on the phone with a lot of them. You’d think that they’d let the call center know so that they don’t waste time on thousands of phone calls.
It’s much much worse than that.
https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages-discussion/2018-December/001571.html
This is not entirely accurate, nor is it entirely wrong.
The linked reddit thread has live case notes.
That’s exceptionally bad for a number of reasons.
Good to see that Michael Bolton is still getting work.
I celebrate his entire catalog.
Gustave’s is the only lead I’ve seen. Someone brought of DWDM in response to one CenturyLink’s posts on Twitter, but someone else said probably not. It far outstrips my knowledge on the subject in either case. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Service came back up about an hour ago, but tediously slow. 144p videos are buffering every several seconds. Can’t complain, at least I’m not running down my data plan now.
The fiber is probably fine. Their engineers fucked something up so badly that they can’t even use basic tools to diagnose the problem.
I thought he was still pretty pro-foreign adventurism, pro-cop, and anti-serious entitlement reform.
In other words, a standard-issue Republican.
Not that I can think of, on any count. I don’t know that he “does” foreign policy, for one. It doesn’t seem to be his beat, and I seem to remember him admitting as much in a podcast at some point. I can’t recall him ever explicitly championing cops, not even the way Heather Mac Donald does. Just last month, he condemned the abuse of power inherent in simply pulling over motorists for cop-friendly PR stunts: they “should be fired — and probably charged with crimes.” I suppose there’s an implicit cop-friendly bias in the theological motif of his politics: man is fallen and imperfect, and perfection is denied us this side of Eden, and so we must have a system of laws and law enforcement. But that’s not so much pro-cop as an admission of reality. And the thing about him that really chapped John’s ass back in the day is when he said po’ white folk need to pack up and leave their welfare-trap communities. That makes him a hidebound elitist, apparently, despite conservatives—for decades—telling inner-city blacks the same thing about their welfare ghettos. If he’s anti-serious reform, it’s more a condemnation of the putative seriousness with which any reforms will ever, and can ever, be undertaken.
Ugh. Just imagine I closed tag.
Instagram “accidentally” rolled out a horizontal scroll and it was the end of the world! I mean, not for me because I’m not a user.
I have 3 Insta accounts, but I stopped using them a few months back. It really messes with your mind after a while. Now all I have is a LinkedIn that I check once a month for jobs.
How so? I find it impenetrable.
That was to accommodate the wider instagram models out there.
At least it’s Summer down there
Which means the UV is brutal.
“As for what’s next for O’Brady, who also has summited Mount Everest”
Wow.
K2 is wow, or Nanga Parbat
Because climbing Mount Everest is easy?
If he just did the Southeast Ridge it is fairly easy from a technical aspect. The altitude and weather are considerations but once you pass the Khumbu Icefall at the start of the route it is straightforward. Plus the SE Ridge sees almost all the traffic on the mountain and is fixed almost to the summit. That is not to say that it is as easy as walking up a nearby him and does require a great deal of tenacity since trying to live and climb at high altitude is hard work.
Yusef is correct. Among the world’s 14 peaks above 8000m there are much harder climbs. Even on Everest there are harder routes that are rarely attempted.
The Sherpas do most of the work.
I still get angry when I hear the name Sandy Pittman.
Well yeah, any climb is hard when you have League of Shadows assassins after you.
“As of today we removed over 1800 guns and 1 rocket launcher from the streets of #Baltimore. And yet the @NRA thinks somehow rocket launchers are good for Baltimore. Perhaps a name change is in order: The National Rocket Association. @Everytown
— Mayor Catherine Pugh (@MayorPugh50) December 22, 2018”
Christ, what an asshole.
“Authorities offered $25 for magazines, $100 for revolvers and pump action weapons, $200 for semi-automatic guns and $500 for automatic weapons (and, apparently, rocket launchers).”
So it’s a fencing operation for gun thieves.
How many of those guns came from the guy with the slower draw?
I get email notifications from our state 2A organization about any gun buybacks in the state. They encourage anyone to stand in front of the buyback location and offer slightly more (and in cash) than the city offers. People have gotten some awesome deals. And it really pisses the city off.
I’ve thought about that as well.
Picking off the antiques and the bargains that come in from uneducated sellers.
$500 for automatic weapons
what was the operating theory behind this one ?
Cash register continues to cycle until the trigger is released.
Gun stores in Indiana celebrate.
Bolt and lever action rifles haz a sad
Because rocket launchers are just so easy to buy legally.
I get mine from Harbor Freight
Good quality for the price.
Contractor’s pack is even cheaper.
25% off coupon on Type81 . . . from China with love
Yeah, but it only lasts through 1 war, 2 if you’re lucky.
Wait for the 20% off coupon.
Is that the “Beyond” part of Bed, Bath and Beyond? Who knew?
My mom deals in black market BB&B coupons.
I think they are. As far as I know, only the rockets are destructive devices under the NFA, not the launcher.
I dunno about that, but grenade launchers are legal. Even in NY.
“I shit on my oath of office and the Constitution!”
/Pugh
It’s Baltimore, the Sudan of the mid-Atlantic.
“Those who turn in their guns will be enslaved by those who didn’t.”
Except those that turned in a metal tube….now they can go buy gun
I think the quote is “Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who did not.”
I think you are supposed to tell me “fuck off pedant” now.
Depends, have you hammered your guns into plows? If not, my response is “yes, sir”
Oh, but I’m sure crime will drop after this. /sarc
Oh grow up. That’s utter bullshit and you know it.
The fact that they don’t support your right to a rocket launcher is the basis for most criticism against the NRA from the Right
PolitiFact should be along shortly to rate it “almost 100% true-ish from a certain point of view”.
Well, if you really think about it…..
Boy, did the cops get screwed. $500.00 for an item that sells for $29.95 at Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Science-Experiments-Activities-Children-Educational/dp/B074CHJMPG/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1545946749&sr=8-10&keywords=rocket+launcher+kit
I now deeply regret finally throwing away a bunch of empty LAW tubes. I KNEW they would be useful for something!
I wonder what they’d pay for the spent casing of 40mm TP rounds? Get those grenades off the streets!
“And yet the @NRA thinks somehow rocket launchers are good for Baltimore.”
Rocket launchers would be very good for Balmer if we used them to tear it down and bury the remains in mounds of rubble.
In my vision of America, rocket launchers would be perfectly legal. As would heavy machine guns, miniguns, tanks, artillery, vulcan cannons, howitzers, full auto anything, tanks, etc.
Apparently I said tanks twice… always wanted a nice T34 to drive to work.
As of today we removed over 1800 guns and 1 rocket launcher from the streets of #Baltimore. And yet the @NRA thinks somehow rocket launchers are good for Baltimore.
Something something have one and not need it…
I wonder if the mayor has a cite for that claim.
“I wonder if the mayor has a cite for that claim.”
The mayor is a blithering moron, there’s nothing else to know.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/real-reason-trump-hates-fed-193435519.html
Someone posted this in the last article. Besides the conclusion being profoundly dumb (Trump loves low interest rates, because it’s good for his business!), it’s amazing how Trump has gotten progressives to now love a tighter money supply.
Just four years ago they were floating the idea of the billion dollar coin and now all of a sudden they love rising interest rates. Trump should start talking about how much he loves the Fed.
Also, are progressives completely ignorant of Occam’s razor? Maybe Trump doesn’t like low interest rates, because he’s as bad at economics as Paul Krugman?
meh, the Fed is trapped in a problem of their own making. If they increase rates, they kill all the commercial paper out there, if they don’t the bubble gets bigger. Trump is probably right for the wrong reasons. The Fed needs to increase rates but do it much more slowly and with lots of notice. Raising them too quickly will pop the bubble they made.
“Today, two lines of javascript, taken almost verbatim from Teh Googles. Once upon a time programmers needed to actually know things. Now we have a global exo-brain that only requires that you know how search for things. Strangely, demand remains high.”
Shhhh I’m trying to keep up the charade.
Karma bit me after I wrote that. I spent an hour and a half trying to figure out how to get a time-zone offset to work on a server that saves things in UTC. I mean I could have just kludged up something that works in 10 minutes, but instead I played with the SDK for that time to get something I wouldn’t be completely embarrassed showing someone else. And, honestly, six test runs at 4 minutes per took 1/3rd of the time. Still have to come in after 7:00pm tonight and test it.
And of course, you fucked up the music link, Mr. 1337.
Fuck it; make everyone use UTC.
I build my own rocket launchers. Metal tubes from TubingDirect.com, rocket motors from Hobby Lobby, a few bits and bobs from the hardware store, and it’s goodbye, roadrunner.
And this is why you’re The LATE P Brooks.
He’s running late because he has to scroll all the way down to reply.
You really need to start ordering from ACME – fast delivery, saves you cost on shipping from multiple sources, and they offer bulk discounts.
“rocket motors from Hobby Lobby”
Double triggered
“Metal tubes from TubingDirect.com, rocket motors from Hobby Lobby”
TubingDirect and HobbyLobby stuff are the seconds from Acme
Who else has been playing Big Chungus for the PS4 non-stop since Christmas?
No link? I am disappointed, sounds so promising.
I’m not sure people would appreciate spoilers.
This should answer all your questions.
*confused face*
Just watch out for the cheap Chinese knock-off
Say, Mayor – could you explain how that expended tube could work as a “rocket launcher”? I’ll wait.
you could stick a big bottle rocket into it
“Corporate Gun Control: The NYT Outlines the Dangerous Next Development
Here’s what I mean: Unless you are abnormally wealthy, virtually every gun sale is going to be an “unusual” and expensive purchase. Sometimes (depending on the weapon), the spike on your credit card will be truly noticeable. For example, if I purchase a nice AR-style rifle, optics for the rifle, a decent amount of ammunition, and a quality rifle case, then I’m spending a considerable amount of money.
Given that I’ve likely saved up for the rifle, you might see a long gap between any gun-related purchases before I suddenly drop, say, $4,000 all at once at a gun shop. And it’s not just the hated AR-15 that’s expensive. Have you bought a good handgun lately? I spent more than $1,000 on a pistol, holster, and ammunition the last time I bought a weapon. And that was my first gun purchase in several years.
A bank alert, by contrast, labels as “troubling” and may refer to authorities a financial transaction that is entirely legal. But it’s worse than that. It stigmatizes the exercise of a constitutional right — deeming the exercise of the right itself as worthy of sanction or notification to law enforcement. The purchase of a firearm does not communicate any distinct form of intent in the way that, say, an Instagram threat communicates the existence of a disturbed mind. In fact, in the overwhelming majority of cases, the purchase of a firearm is a marker of benign or virtuous intent — the desire to hunt, to participate in shooting sports, or to protect the ones you love.
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Yet don’t think it’s far-fetched to believe that the progressive gun-control movement can enlist elite corporations into this new cause. As Sorkin notes in his article, his previous reporting triggered dramatic corporate action in the recent past:
Never forget, American corporations often have progressive monocultures, and their elite ranks are often populated by individuals who want to use their considerable power to advance social justice. So while a number of credit-card companies admirably pushed back against Sorkin when he interviewed them for his article, will they show the same resolve the next time a spree killer buys his weapons and magazines with their credit cards?”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/gun-control-banks-credit-cards-monitoring-purchases-big-brother/
I get this same feeling when I buy a hunting license. A flag goes up and the state has all the pertinent info, re: gun owner
Cash. That is all.
The next handgun I buy will probably be more expensive than the first AR I pick up.
As mentioned a few days ago, I do the bulk of my transactions in cash.
Not things like the cable or electric bills, etc., but pretty much everything else. Make one wonder why some push for a cashless society.
$600 for an AR and a couple of mags
Yep. It’s not the gun purchase that’s the red flag.
It’s manic spending on pretty much everything else because they know they aren’t going to have to pay it back. It’s suicide by cop or jail.
@Spud, was your mention of Day 3 in the earlier thread about the s-i-l? And I assume it’s the one I think it is?
Yeah. Some amazing booze fueled fireworks last night. I finally just went to bed. Everything this morning is just hunky dory. Women are insane.
That one in particular.
The interesting part is that it was REDACTED that initiated the mushroom cloud at the SIL.
Re: the Antarctic guy; it interesting how our times have changed. 100 years ago, people that did these feats were hailed in front page articles around the world. Now they are e-footnotes.
Need more space for coverage about Trump.
And they’re doing it with North Face gear.
No more rendering seal fat to waterproof the boots.
Someone posted this in the last article. Besides the conclusion being profoundly dumb (Trump loves low interest rates, because it’s good for his business!), it’s amazing how Trump has gotten progressives to now love a tighter money supply.
*raises hand*
I’m too lazy to look, but I suspect there are plenty of quotes from Larry Summers out there about how the last thing we need is the Fed cutting off the money spigot to prevent totally nonexistent inflation.
Apologies if this has been linked already – dollar stores are the devil’s tool, according to our newly priesthood.
It never occurs to these assholes that if they want a different option for rural areas, they should start their own grocery chain and make it work.
“I didn’t want to shop there, but the devil Dollar General MADE me do it!” *sobbing*
I am sure that grocery stores want to forswear profits on selling higher end items in the “food desserts” because of racism. I am frequently turned back from the good cheese and wine areas because I can’t prove my whiteness. On the plus side I can only buy sourdough in the bakery because whites won’t eat it.
On the plus side I can only buy sourdough in the bakery because whites won’t eat it.
The people in your area don’t know what they’re missing. Sourdough is delicious.
I love sourdough but there are misguided souls which do not appreciate it.
A few years back I was making multiple trips to Thailand for my job. For the Bangkok portions we always stayed in the same hotel and one night I was finishing my evening with a drink in their bar. I fell into chatting with another gent who was the night baker for the hotel and promised to bake me whatever breakfast item I wanted. I asked for brochen made with sourdough. He just grimaced and told me that he was prohibited from sourdough because the Chinese and Japanese clientele wouldn’t touch it. He was from San Francisco and it broke his heart, but sorry.
I told him I understood and he could make me pan de chocolat with triple chocolate.
They were yummy.
No, they want to force “better” stores to operate there at a loss.
Tanvi Misra- doesn’t ze know that there’s children starving in India?
I dont know how to respond to that much stupidity. Perhaps a good old fashioned ‘go fuck yourself’ would suffice?
It takes a certain kind of overeducated idiot to declare that selling poor people stuff they need for less money, thus leaving them with more money, makes them poorer.
How out of touch with reality does one have to be to write that, or read it and believe it?
Dollar stores serve poor rural communities that no one else wants to serve and hating on them is the height of snobby jackassery. They’re a dime a dozen in my area and they’re almost always pretty busy.
^Exactly. One of the best articles I’ve ever read in the WSJ was an interview with the CEO of Dollar General. They target areas that Walmart decided would be unprofitable to open a store or eve had a store and then closed it. Their selling point is smaller sizes of everything at cheaper prices.
The reporter asked him if they feared Amazon delivery and other e-commerce. He said an Amazon customer was not their target demographic. Someone who orders ketchup from Amazon is likely planning ahead and is covering the delivery fee built into the price. He said the targeted Dollar General customer is a single mother who scrapes out the last drop of ketchup for her kids’ fish sticks the night before and then stops by the next morning on the way to work to buy another bottle for that night’s dinner.
We have one nearby that is convenient to run to if we run out of milk (yes ironic with 3 dairy cows and 2 dairy goats). It’s always busy with locals buying groceries, cigs, and alcohol whenever we go.
I should have added that the point of the CEO’s story was frequent trips of small purchase items. The main customers buy things that they need on the spot as they come into money. The average transaction amount and number of items is quite small, but it makes up for that in number of trips.
I shop at Dollar General because their stuff tends to be cheaper than the grocery store. From canned soup to potato chips to toilet paper to toothpaste, they tend to be the cheapest around. I can afford to shop elsewhere for those items but why would I?
I was more describing their business strategy and how the company thrives where Walmart has failed. I find it really interesting that they’re able to do so and while being quite profitable. Their entire strategy is geared around that hypothetical customer.
There’s definitely other types of customers. One of my wife’s coworkers does her family’s grocery shopping there once a week for the same reason. I’m not convinced it’s actually less expensive though for a family. If you look at the per ounce cost, I’ve found Dollar General is actually more than Walmart or Kroger for many items that appear cheaper.
Stupid rubes.
1995? Kroger closes grocery in unprofitable neighborhood. Memphis howls and Kroger essentially gives the building to a minority-owned chain; big bucks in freebies, set-asides, abatements and whatever; everyone pats everyone else on the back, nice job. Store closes again within a year.
2018: Don drives past store, still empty, still in a dead neighborhood.
It is amazing how many people reach adulthood without internalizing the idea that money doesn’t grow on trees.
What kind of moron thinks money grows on trees? It’s created by the government, duh.
Maybe if their spokesperson wasn’t Hip-Hop Charlatan DOLLA G?
“School Pays Male Student $47,000 After It Punished Him Based On Nothing More Than An Accusation.
The case arises from an incident involving John Doe and Jane Roe, as they are referred to in court documents reviewed by The Daily Wire, that occurred on September 6, 2015. The two UC students met on the dating app Tinder and sent messages back-and-forth for a little over two weeks before meeting in person.
The two talked and flirted for a little bit in John’s room in his apartment off campus before they began to kiss and make out. The encounter “escalated fairly quickly,” according to John’s lawsuit. The two removed their clothing. John took out a condom. Jane, according to the lawsuit, asked John to “hold on” before the evening escalated to intercourse. John obliged, and the two talked a little longer before engaging in sexual intercourse.
After the two had sex, they continued to spend time together in John’s room. Jane, according to the lawsuit, told him she didn’t want their encounter to be a “one-night stand.” John, however, did not call her again and couldn’t contact her through Tinder anymore.
A month later, Jane accused John of sexual assault.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/39722/school-pays-male-student-47000-after-it-punished-ashe-schow
Regret is the worst kind of rape.
STEVE SMITH BEG TO DIFFER.
BY BEG MEAN…
Sometimes, even STEVE SMITH has to beg for it.
/hangs head in shame
Jane, according to the lawsuit, told him she didn’t want their encounter to be a “one-night stand.”
“Man leaves barn open to keep horse penned, shocked to find horse left.”
“Striking deposition from @Mizzou TIX official–male student asking female student for a date (which she didn’t want) violated TIX policy b/c male student in position of “power and authority” since he was physically larger.”
https://twitter.com/kcjohnson9/status/1078310288653500418
OMWC is so screwed.
Instead of deciding to attend Mizzou one could just stab themselves in the eye with a rusty fork. It is cheaper and less painful.
But men and women are totes equal in every way.
Let me guess. Even if the woman was larger and an athlete the male would still be in a position of “power and authority” because, reasons.
https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1078001068712386560
JOOOOOOOOOOOOOZZZZ!!!
“China: 0”
And that about sums up the usefulness and moral clarity at the UN. They literally run re-education camps against Muslim minorities, among their numerous other crimes
Why are those shitbags still on our shores?
It once gave us an opportunity to spy on and meet with and spy on their officals.
to f up the parking on the lower east?
from Neuer’s pinned text: Counting down The Top Ten Worst UN Moments of 2018 . . . gotcher popcorn?
They really are the worst.
“In fact let me park these tweets next to each other. “Corporations can get involved in social issues.” says Mastercard. http://archive.is/pvF4t “unfortunately Mastercard required us to remove your account.” says Patreon. http://archive.is/c6Pym ”
https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1078397471141842945
Manhunt Underway in California After Illegal Alien Shoots and Kills Police Officer During Traffic Stop
I was assured that this never ever happens.
Poc on poc violence. Nothing to see here.
They don’t have this sort of manhunt when normal people get killed.
Whaddya mean normal, shitlord?
I wasn’t going to put the word “normal” in my comment.
Hopefully the Governor will pardon the poor guy before he gets deported.
Duke declared national champion !
too soon? they’re leading Temple by 30 with four minutes to go, a team that UCF beat by 12
Why is Duke playing a D2 team?
I just like trolling UCF. At their very best, they might be the ninth best in the nation (quite honorable and in this: a year my alma mater has nothing to say), but the idea that going lossless against nobodies puts you in the final bracket is just side-splitting.
/unrepentant SEC asshole
I can’t forgive your SEC affiliation, but I agree with the sentiment.
Of course, the SEC is notorious for scheduling patsies in the non-con.
*insert Kermit sipping tea pic here*
In seriousness, I think playing a D2 (FCS) team should count as a loss for playoff eligibility. I’m pissed the B1G rolled back their no-D2 on the schedule policy.
non-com
stipulated
When your alma mater has played Bama 79 times, Auburn 54, Georgia 50, and LSU 40 let me know; that might be enough. When one looks at the all-time top twelve programs, there’s a couple of reasons the SEC is five of them; when one considers the midwestern press bias, it’s amazing the SEC is up there at all.
As for me, I strongly recommend we continue to allow epicly (perfectly cromulent) low SAT scores.
We’re adding one more Auburn notch to our belt tomorrow, so we’re working on it.
Regular dates with Ohio State, Michigan, Minnesota (7 national titles), Nebraska, and Notre Dame (at least until they unofficially joined the ACC) ain’t a cakewalk either.
What’s the N on a Cornhusker’s helmet stand for? Nowledge
Of all the reamings, those STEVE SMITHINGS served up by Nebraska stung the longest.
I was somewhat surprised when we acquired Nebraska. Not exactly the first name I’d expect when talking about a conference built around academics before athletics.
However, they’re still much better of a fit than Buttgers.
Now we have a global exo-brain that only requires that you know how search for things. Strangely, demand remains high.
Not strange at all. I’m always astounded that there are people out there who cannot cobble together the simplest search terms for anything of interest to them. Being able to effectively use a search engine has become, in itself, practically a marketable skill.
I’ve often thought about this. Many, many times I’ve had friends, or more frustratingly, co-workers, say they can’t find “it” on the internet. I then proceed to spend 5 minutes tops to give them multiple examples of what they need. At work I’ve literally saved us thousands of dollars in time and resources by finding what we need instead of trying to make it ourselves. And I’m talking graduates of engineering school millennials, here…the people who I would think would be schooling me on the internet.
Many, many times I’ve had friends, or more frustratingly, co-workers, say they can’t find “it” on the internet.
Yep. Continues to blow my mind.
Make sure and click the top result!
/idiots
Ditto. I’ve seen this many times.
a marketable skill
absolutely: or you could google “how to use google” (is that meta?)
I recommend:
1/ drink three beers to dumb yourself down to the average dood
2/ write your google search terms in bullshit millennial terms (eg: stop them from enjoying property rights = #resist #gentrification !!!11!z
3/ scan through results and eliminate articles written by someone who jibberjabbers as if he was recently on Springer
4/ read the one article left over; ignore all the advice, especially the ones that suggest updating your carburetor to the latest BIOS; try the cheap solutions first
Anybody here good with Gimp? No, I mean the software, you sick bastards.
I’m trying to change an image to black and white. And I mean just black and white…no gray. I’ve done it in the past, but it’s been a long time and I am having trouble remembering how to do it.
My experience is with photoshop from way back. Black and white, increase the contrast.
Start by stripping the colour info out, and then (like Suthen says) jack the contrast. There are other ways, of course. Many other ways.
Look through the filters? Probably one of those.
Lasso what you want Black, select and fill.
Deselect and select the remaining area and fill with White, maybe….
PS guy
You can also use “posterization” (one of the built-in PS filters). I’m pretty sure the GIMP would have something like this. Just for S’s&G’s, I converted a JPG to grayscale and then cranked the contrast. You might have to run it through contrast heightening several times. The results are a bit more controllable than posterization, at least the way PS does it.
you could google “how to use google”
this useful?
interesting: First, use just about any technique to change the image to grayscale.
Yeah, the biggest problem with modern image manipulation programs is that there’s an absolute embarrassment of riches in terms of toolsets to do almost anything. I’ve been using PS for over two decades and it always pleasantly surprises me to pick up a book on the latest release and still learn something new.
I run an old version of PS that does things I still haven’t learned
I know nothing about this . . . was just being a jackass and googling around
*grits teeth*
Yes, Don. I know that isn’t the method I used in the past, but it certainly works. Thank you for the link.
promise I wasn’t serious . . . was just being a jackass
I really don’t know anything about this. Now, if I wanted to get mechanical on it, I’d maybe expand the image, print it out, trim out the parts I want black with scissors, scan those into a file, fill that space ala Yusef (or maybe just just crayola the damned thing. . . no idea)
swear to doG: just fucking around because it’s too wet for golf and NewWife is out of town
* drinks more, types less *
Haha. I know you were Don. And you owed me anyway for a comment I made to you back a while ago. No worries.
*Raises glass of rye to the southeast*
Prost!
P.S. +5F and 85% humidity…and a fucking blizzard. I’m so sad you couldn’t golf today. 😉
you owed me
I never think that way; this place is recess for me, and if I come in from the monkey bars with a busted lip that’s just half the fun.
monkey bars
Andrew Gillum is ***triggered***.
Monkey Bars are a meritocracy: all are welcome, but no affirmative action.
And there’s that hawt gril – on – gril action
I’ll lay it all out in case someone has some good ideas that will jump-start my brain. I used to do this quite a lot, but it’s been years now and I’m just real muddy on how I used to do all this:
The ultimate goal is to take a raster image (JPG sports logo in this case) and convert it to a vector file (first SVG, but ultimately DXF) to cut with a laser. The majority of this I do in Inkscape. However , there was some prep work I always did in Gimp first. Like changing the image to monochrome and sharpening the image in order to have nice clean edges. Then remove any noise floating around in the white fields. (Anti-aliassing IIRC) Maybe I even used Gimp to recognize the edges…will have to play with this a bit.
Anyway, I’ll get it, but if anyone has done something similar, I’m all ears for pro-tips.
I’d help but it sounds like what you are doing is possible copyright infringement, can you prove that you have the rights to the logo?
Seriously If you are importing a JPEG into Inkscape you should be able to filter it to black and white and sharpen edges right in Inkscape.
I was just wondering why I was inserting Gimp into the process back then. Not sure if it was my ignorance of both programs, or if it was truly necessary due to constraints with Inkscape. I’ll look more into just skipping Gimp now that it looks I’ll be doing more of this again. And I’m sure Inkscape has seen many improvements since I was in it last.
And you said a word I don’t recognize; copyright. Is that like copy/paste?
Colors – levels (I think… otherwise it’s another colors menu tool)
I’m on my phone or I’d screenshot it for you.
There are white, black and gray sliders. Move the gray slider all the way to one side (I forget which) adjust the black and white sliders until you get it as you like.
Thanks everyone. Messing with the colors/levels options has gotten me a black and white image. I appreciate all the help. Once I re-figure it all out again, I’ll have to keep playing with it this time to make sure I don’t regress again.
Messing with this stuff reminds me that I actually had fun doing it back then. The really fun part is holding your design in your hand after it’s been cut out.
hmmm…
*surreptitiously eyes Glibs logo*
Women with bodies.
http://archive.is/5LJUH
All I will say about #6 is nice tits.
The ones with booties are esp nice.
Another SJW movie that will gross 40 million less than than it cost.
Her struggles for equal rights? GTFO. Unless she’s actually 98 years old.
At least in the past the liberals made good movies that played on people’s emotions. Entertain me you puppets!!!
The title got me excited. That excitement immediately evaporated when I read the subject of the film.
Sick burn
brosis.And she’s been operating under that principle ever since.
Nor does the word ‘freedom,’ Your Honor.
Just try to tell that to
kidsSJWs today, and they don’t believe you.Will the masses demand instant deification of RBG upon her passing? Who am I kidding? They will demand that she be put on the quarter and the $5 note before she is even in the ground.
DT on the other hand will have Nancy Pelosi and Moobs Schumer demanding a “damnatio memoriae” immediately after leaving office, if not before.
She’ll have her two miracles done before the first day.
And unlike the penumbra and emanations of a lot of things, she’s never tried to find it in there since.
Are they going to add a scene after the credits where she gambles that the first woman president will appoint her successor only to have Donnie Two Scoops do it?
What I would give to have been a fly on the wall watching her on election night. There was probably a squad of paramedics standing by to jump start her heart with a shock.
I will provide DT one bit of advice on who to replace RBG with. Find the most Glibertarian-like, young woman and appoint her. Unfortunately Hayek, Tulip and Elispeth are probably too old and SP too young. But that unicorn must be out there.
MLW?
Gotta be Ms. Splosives for the cheesecake pics.
The cult surrounding her is quite creepy.
And BTW, the first woman on SCOTUS was an icky Deplorable.
And BTW, the first woman on SCOTUS was an icky Deplorable.
I’m hoping the first woman to be elected president is a Republican, just so the Democrats will have to live with the nagging fact that they’ve lost the trifecta of female firsts (since they were already beaten to Congress and SCOTUS).
The Democrats will always have the first black president though.
Black…ish.
“This is one bad-ass man.”
He looks like your avg Portlandian to me. IOW, easy explanation, he doesn’t know any better. ‘Hey dudes, like, I’m gonna walk across Antarctica. You know, once I walked all the way from Portland to Salem. And I met bigfoot and we sat down and smoked a doobie. He said his name was Smith. And after that, the rest of the walk, my ass was sore. Must have been that weed’. But then I figured, I can walk across Antarctica and maybe smoke a doob with Yeti.’
When I was a jr./sr. in high school, there was this crazy hippy dude who roamed the neighborhood. Someone said he did some bad acid and was never the same. Anyway, he slept outside at this gravel pit all of the time, in the winter, it was below zero, no blankets, heavy clothes, nothing. And it didn’t hurt him. How in the fuck, no one knows. I guess it’s like walking across Antarctica, if you don’t know any better, nothing can hurt you.
Lol. I tend to look at these guys in the same way. I guess it all comes down to ‘why’ they do it.
It can go bad especially if someone has to risk their life to come rescue you.
Dave Barry has released his 2018 Year In Review .
Barry is hilarious and libertarian. For all you Shel Richman haters, Shel was a pal of Barry’s back in their small town newspaper reporter days and is probably the guy who turned him on to libertarianism.
Yeah? To Richman: heal thyself.
Word
Anybody here good with Gimp? No, I mean the software, you sick bastards.
I’m trying to change an image to black and white.
If the boundary of what you want is clearly defined, the “paint bucket” is your friend.
That’s part of the issue. It’s a little fuzzy. And I ultimately need very crisp lines.
Got a place you can drop it online? I could try to give it a go . . .
I’m trying to get it into my OneDrive right now…it’s going very slowly
If there’s already a decent contrast between the areas you want black and white, use the fuzzy select tool and adjust its sensitivity (might be called something else) until it selects all of what you want, then just paint in the selection area using a large brush/pencil. Then invert select and paint the other area the other color.
Thanks, I’m going to look at that tool and play with it and see what I can do.
OK…now that jogged my memory. I now remember using that just as you described. Thanks for that!
. . . use the fuzzy select tool and adjust its sensitivity . . .
It’s “tolerance” in PS. Dunno ’bout GIMP.
It’s Fuzzy Select in Gimp.
Here is a link to it. It’s been scaled up from the original, let me know if you want the smaller one.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AptaqtPtIhHhhqoBZvhv-PPnAhxKfQ
Try this one. I didn’t vectorize it, I figured you’d have that part down pat and I wouldn’t know which vector format you wanted anyways.
Sorry I’m slow — was working on dinner (and gotta go back to doing that again).
Slow? It only took you a half hour while also fixing dinner!
Thanks man, I will bring that into Inkscape and work my magic in there. That part of the process I’ve seemed to retain better.
I appreciate the help.
Oh, don’t thank me yet — my favorite vectorizing tool is actually Xara Xtreme Pro, and if it was me, I’d do it point-to-point by hand. I’m kinda a glutton for punishment and have mild perfectionist complex to boot.
That’s me when it comes to this type of thing. I got a DXF of this logo that had jagged and crooked lines from a quick and dirty free online converter. I told the guy “no, give me some time to do better than this”. I couldn’t bring myself to accept that mess as the finished product. And it would have looked like shit in hand.
This is basically my warm-up project. If not for the promise of more of this type of fun projects in the future, I normally would have brought something this simple into my laser CAD software and “traced” over the top of it with beautiful, straight, symmetric lines.
You can Image Trace stuff in Illustrator and that will make it vector. Of course, you should get the contrast high enough to remove gray.
I’m not “good” with gimp, (or photoshop) but I can make silkscreen images.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Nor does the word ‘freedom,’ Your Honor.
What about my freedom to never be subjected to icky people who say things I disagree with?
It’s a little fuzzy. And I ultimately need very crisp lines.
I’d try making a copy and then dumping bright colors into the parts of the image you want, and see if the edges resolve themselves.I think that has worked for me in the past. I have no idea how much time and effort you want to invest.
Also- if you get little patches which don’t take your new color, you can go back and fill them in.
That might get you close enough that tuning up your edges isn’t a huge ordeal.
That’s another option that rings a bell now that you mention it. Thanks, Brooks. I’ll add that to my newly-learned/remembered bag of tricks.
Someone left an in the fridge: not bad by itself but lacks acidity to pair with pizza or burgers.
Old Fezziwig Ale
Amber An?
https://youtu.be/ACTGGln3SG0
I was told that Japan is not having sex
Taiwanese.
My bad, but I wasn’t paying attention: I bought into (was blasted into) the video’s regression trope instead of checking out her features . . . which I might well have gotten wrong anyway (because she doesn’t look like anyone I know).
Why banning bump stocks makes zero sense (and is illegal)
No work tomorrow, house to myself tonight, and a blizzard on the way… feels like a good night for mulled wine.
I could use a good blizzard, or two.
It’s a few inches of snow and some wind, but around here that’s what we call a blizzard.
Same here. It makes people stay indoors and mind their own business for a couple of days. Also very useful for excuse to do the same.
Lucy fucker. I’ve got to pull an obscene amount of overtime before the New Year.
Don’t talk about Lucy.
Oh dear, I meant “lucky” of course.
I don’t think she’s very lucky to have you talking about her like that.
Similar situation but the blizzard is going on right now.
Prost!
Does anyone know why eggnog is special? My wife wanted some and so I went to 5 different stores to buy it. They were all out. And they all matter of fact splained to me that ‘te season is over’ with the requisite shrug and hands gesture.
Where did eggnog get this mystical status and importance? I mean, I just said fuck it and bought 6 bottles of the same shit with different names and kinds of alcohol. Bailey’s, Amarula, some creamy liquor with vodka, some with scotch, all of it 17% alcohol and pretty much the exact same shit. Wife says ‘that’s not eggnog’. Sigh… When eggnog was upon this earth, I was driving you and your family units around to places that I have no idea why on earth there is any advantage at all of going to. But I don’t complain. I just hang out, find the bar, drink, eat food, in general don’t give a fuck and then don’t care if there is eggnog, or not. I have 2 unopened bottles of cachaca. Fuck eggnog.
It’s eggy, creamy, sweet and boozy. Chixdiggit.
Bah! Humbug! That’s all I got.
” I mean, I just said fuck it and bought 6 bottles of the same shit…”
/husband response
/works for me
Been there, brother
Learn to make your own.
You meant that comment to go under Count Potato’s subthread just below, didn’t you?
There is recipe for it on the Glib recipe page. It is easy to make and real nog leaves store bought in the dust.
I actually got that suggestion tonight, then I got it into my head… um, let’s see, non-alcohol eggnog, add equal amount of 40% alcohol rum to the mix?
I add vodka, because I’m cheap.
Egg nog sans alcohol, 1 serving
See, now, I don’t understand it as being anything other than an alcohol delivery vehicle.
I am a teetotaler, so…
Also, sprinkle nutmeg on top.
I bet the base for dbleagle’s would be very good sans alcohol. I know it’s very good with alcohol, so…
Eggnog without bourbon is faux eggnog and to be avoided at all costs.
Mormons can’t eat nutmeg?
I forgot to put that on the recipe.
Sprinkle nutmeg on the top of all that frothy goodness.
OK 🙂 I wasn’t sure because nutmeg is a drug. Which is why ground nutmeg in the U.S. is denatured. It’s also crap. Freshly ground whole nutmeg is so much better, the difference is like night and day.
I did not know that! Thanks!
Well, yes, it is a drug, but the amount you’d need for psychoactive properties to be noticeable is somewhere above 1kg. Something tells me that much nutmeg might be a little gritty. 😉
From what I’ve read, it’s about 10 – 20 grams.
So is common salvia flowers. So, apparently, is coleus leaves. It’s just that no one uses them.
SP is obsessed with it. I can’t stand the stuff.
The internet:
https://twitter.com/JustinWhang/status/1076666687372619780
OMG. You’re sick, dude, you’re sick!
Sicker than HM?
After the above game reference, HM’s degree of sick has been seriously downgraded.
Thats some impressive volume, if it’s what it purports to be.
How to steal a house in Texas if you’re a bureaucrat.
FWIW, the worst shouting match with a cop I ever got into was in Bastrop as well.
Wow. That was in Texas. I can just imagine what abuse is happening in blue states.
“Bubba” Snowden: Beware of southerners nicknamed Bubba, it’s almost always a con.
The bottom 10% in a state are no reflection on the norms, though.
This guy is an asshole regardless of his affiliation; for that matter, even if he is a Republican, he hasn’t changed in any other regard since he was a Democrat (if he is a typical Texan over 50); same guy, same garbage, new label.
And he’s probably been a front-row Baptist the whole time as well.
That someone isn’t woodchippered for this is amazing to me. I recently got fucked out of 50$ on an internet purchase and I’m half tempted to drive 8 hours and kick some ass just on principle. Someone steals my house and lives in the same zip code?
Holee shiite…
If the father and daughter ended up dead, I’d consider it self defense.
Holy shit. Such blatant corruption. Wow.
Fucking Texas. How many taxing entities are there? County. Constable. School Board. City. More, I dont know who they all are and neither does anyone else. What property owners in Tx dont know is that they aren’t property owners. Every property in Tx has been sold for back taxes by one entity or another and no one can keep up with it all.
Never buy property in Tx. There aint a clear title in the state.
it’s very late, but, anyway:
Legalization throughout The Great White North hasn’t exactly gone to plan either. The Turd and his minions gave his fanbois and gurls what they wanted, and how — government, good and hard. I think there are actually less pot shops throughout the Lower Rainland now than before legalization.
People really have a hard time grokking that government’s natural tendency is to turn everything to shit, and then regulate it.
Iowahawk:
Can you not buy basil in big bunches anymore? Maybe I’m living in one of them food deserts.
You can buy a basil plant in a pot at the local Walmart. I’m sure they sell bunches of basil too. I’d assume the same is true for the nicer grocers.