It’s a good day to burn a few hours at the CC.
enjoy this open
This is 17 at Sawgrass TPC. These guys are professional golfers.
Best game in the history of man.
FORE!!! Open
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
havent swung a club in months…here we go!
A reporter on Steve Bannon who is in Panama is saying this is an existential destabelising event, it’s ruining Central America, they are ravaged by CCP and there will be no state in the U.S. that is NOT a border state.
White House video feed for Biden’s Spitch shows a whopping 15K views. Of those who decided to “rate” it, 93% gave it a “Thumbs Down.”
MOST POPULAR PRESIDENT EVER.
Well, I have just consumed alcohol for the first time in six days and I am relaxed and happy and listening to music.
Nightwish of course, also Metallica (Nothing else matters) and other melodic classics.
Now when listening to music I kind of play piano or drums with my hands on any available surface. Currently available surfaces are cats. And they keep biting me! But they like the attention.
LOL this may sound stupid but, I was wearing headphones so cats obviously couldn’t hear music. Once I switched to speakers the biting stopped!
Also the cats disappeared.
Tranquility…….
Actually I am slowly getting my shit together. I have a few stuffed animals that kind of move on their own when you squeeze their paws or poke their belly.
Project is stuff an Arduino Nano up their asses and use MIDI to control them and sync them to music.
RGB LEDs for eyes…
So how do you make stuffed animals with replacement eyes actually look like they are participating in a musical creation?
You stuff an Arduino up their ass and configure them as a musical instrument.
Then control them via MIDI.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-WdgZwRS4
Other people did the hard work.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yup.
Watched ALL of those balls getting wet last night. I can only imagine what the average hacker would do. Everyone would need at least 3 packets of balls just to get one into the hole
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
The CCP’s Unlimited War knows no bounds. The last thing Xi wants is for the US to launch a full nuke strike that obliterates China.Why would he? He’s winning the fight on half a dozen fronts already and Biden is too complacent to care.
OH NO!!!!!
J Lo and ARod broke up.
https://pagesix.com/2021/03/12/jennifer-lopez-alex-rodriguez-split-over-madison-lecroy-scandal/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxE-NE_yZn4
All of the America’s Cup racing Day #2 for your viewing pleasure .
I do hope that they pick a course today that is NOT so compromised by the wind-shadow off Mototapu Island .
Yesterday’s racing was spoiled because whoever got the Port side start could just cover the trailing boat and push foul air onto its sails. One of the more Northerly courses today (hopefully) will make for more aggressive racing.
Another azure blue day here in paradise with little wind and flat seas in the Hauraki Gulf. A little bit of a Northerly forecast later in the afternoon for the 1600 start for race #5. Conditions with light fluky winds sure do NOT help Team NZ who have a smaller foil and are configured for middling to strong winds where they can show their superior downwind ‘legs;’ (50-60 knots) 45 – 50 MPH.
🙂
When the wind finally arrives it’ll be exciting to watch Team NZ flying downwind right on the edge of pitch-polling over their bow. These things are dangerous in strong winds.
eaglesoars wrote:
That should read CCP VIRUS. sheesh.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I don’t think that’s even on the table. As long as Biden is in charge, they can invade Taiwan w/no worries.
The race video you linked to is not available to U.S. viewers. dang it.
Walked 27 at the CC. Up and down as it is an old natural course in WPA. Took a little to grooved. Tore up the last 9…even on that.
I’ve mostly recovered from the physical pain of the cancer surgery.
I’ll be in the running for the club championship this year
coldwarrior wrote:
W00T!
@ eaglesoars:
felt great. im shocked at the physical improvement over last year.
coldwarrior wrote:
Good lord! Has it been that long? How time flies when your dotage impends.
@ coldwarrior:
Looked like one of those hacks (j/k) also hit 2 into the water from the drop zone.
@ darkwords:
the carnage was worse, one took an 11…on a par 3.
@ eaglesoars:
a year or so since surgery, rad ended in early july. chemo…well…
id rather not remember that.
@ coldwarrior:
Just about for try #2 to fix my Left shoulder. Rotator Cuff injury. The anaesthetist is a happy camper again and I did all of the cardio stuff with Auckland Heart Group and Prof. Bob. Echo ECG and Stress ECG. Got Beta Blockers and discussed options instead of thinners. All good.
Should be on the table over the next week or so just as soon as they can fit me in.That’ll the Left one done and dusted. I’ll wait for a bit, to time the Right shoulder rotator cuff with a ultra-sound and MRI prelim first. Should be all done by late May once the Left sling comes off and some physio kicks off.
All of this to save my daughter $400 breaking concrete, and doing it myself. Still I wouldn’t have discovered the AF and I always want to KNOW than not know!
🙂
Will try to find a URL that works in the US to watch the America’s Cup coverage.
🙂
@ darkwords:
17 at sawgrass is not a hard hole. UNTIL
UNTIL you have to get it near the pin to make the cut. (and the pin is places at the back, which it always is early in the week)
UNTIL your payday depends on getting it close to the pin.
it’s an easy hole if you are willing to take par. or can afford to take par.
its an approach 150-170 yd to a flat green, easy peasy, all day…. 😆
@ Aussie Infidel:
rotator is a miserable, awful recovery.
LISTEN TO YOUR PHYSIOS!!!!!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
that was a 400 in the good. afib will stroke your ass and wreck your life
Aussie Infidel wrote:
yesterday my shoulder was making noises, i could feel the tendon grabbing in the joint…sounded horrible.
toady, nothing.
i wont be fast bowling for the kiwis anytime soon tho, good thing they dont need me.
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
Try one of these URL and see if they will work in the States.
🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KM3nG1mKms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gb1JWWh0aM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpZzkuIVXs4
coldwarrior wrote:
I know
I have an excellent PhysiAs far as stroke risk is concerned blood thinners are off the table for me so they offer the old catheter into the femoral artary and some work inside the upper chamber to prevent clots forming.
Right now the Prof isn’t too worried about clots during this anaesthetic that’s coming up. Plumbing looks good. This is mostly an electrical problem.
@ coldwarrior:
CW– I’m done playing around in the Admin Office so you can lock up now. Sidebar is cleaned up a bit, and I did a couple other things that you’ll never notice.
coldwarrior wrote:
I can refresh your memory. 😀
@ Bunk X:
it does look better
and whats up with bidens black eyes?
we being ruled by demons now?
@ Bunk X:
HEY!!!!
nice
thank you!
rain of lead wrote:
we’re still a dive bar.
😉
…and now i have to drive out to methtoona….
2 more weeks….
talk at yinz later.
thanks, bunk!
@ rain of lead:
@ coldwarrior:
De nada.
I got tired of looking at you-know-who’s FkBook and Twit feeds. The hotbuttons should work on the Banner.
Oh crap. I forgot Possum’s cats. Maybe tomorrow…
rain of lead wrote:
It was too obvious when he had only the one lens/teleprompter so they gave him a matching lens. Creepy.
He’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
only the 2nd is banned the other 2 are good, thanks
eaglesoars wrote:
Oh my! How will life as we know it continue?
Who are they? /s
rain of lead wrote:
After seeing the look from that FBI dude’s testimony before congress several years ago and the “Spirit Cooking” video with the Panetta’s as well as the art from their favorite artist, I would have to answer in the affirmative.
coldwarrior wrote:
Just a higher class dive bar. It cleaned up good.
Hey, CW, when you get a chance, can you check out the following and provide a rational response? I’ve gotten into a bit of a dustup with some leftie on the Dilbert blog and this is the response that supposedly “proves” that masks are effective against Covid:
https://disq.us/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pnas.org%2Fcontent%2F117%2F51%2F32293%3AoKGE-MLKF53gxV_weZYDSJwRhIU&cuid=3319913
https://disq.us/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thelancet.com%2Fjournals%2Flandig%2Farticle%2FPIIS2589-7500%2820%2930293-4%2Ffulltext%3A8RfAH7CO7lij8WTH6yY5WALqK8w&cuid=3319913
https://disq.us/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pnas.org%2Fcontent%2F118%2F4%2Fe2014564118%3AV4nf9PYANFgtqPvw7daSuu7w8KA&cuid=3319913
I know these have to be flawed because the physics of masking don’t support the idea that they would be effective preventing the spread of viral infections. But I’m not savvy enough on medical studies to identify the errors
AZfederalist wrote:
Tell him to put on his ‘Rona mask, then tell him to open up a jar of peanut butter. If he can smell it, the mask is worthless against viruses.
@ AZfederalist:
Here are the authors’ backgrounds from the 1st link:
Department of Business and Economics, University of Southern Denmark;
Institute of Economics, Universität Kassel, Germany;
Department of Law and Economics, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany;
Gutenberg School of Management and Economics, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany;
IZA Institute of Labor Economics, D-53113 Bonn, Germany.
Lotta chaff in the .pdf. Couldn’t find the sampling size.
@ AZfederalist:
1, small N study and confounding variables
2, qualitative data dressed up to go out halloweening as quantitative.
3, a review of literature??? puhleeze. “This is a narrative review of mask use by the public as source control for COVID-19.” not a real study
horse shit.
have all these shitheads ask a real surgeon about ‘masks’
they will get an earful
@ AZfederalist:
@ Bunk X:
indeed about the peanutbutter.
why are surgeons forbidden from going anywhere near an OR when they are sick< hint: the mask aint gonna protect the patient if the surgeon is sick. the point of the mask is to keep spit and such out of the wound because the surgeon is talking / giving direction. these people are pinheads and prove their real ignorance about real, provable science every day
anecdotal, but interesting
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/03/12/restriction-heavy-new-york-reports-more-cases-coronavirus-last-7-days-florida/
@ coldwarrior:
I thought it was the other way around, to keep bodily fluids out of the mouth of the surgeon. The patient is already pumped up with antibiotics.
Tx
@ coldwarrior:
The folks at my doctors’ offices & clinics wear the masks because of the image, not for practicality. My mask *ahem* often slips to my chin, and no one says a thing about it; however, if I’m in view of other patients I’ll keep covered so nobody gets jumpy and jivey.
Hell, one year ago I had a dog in my hospital recovery room (and no, she wasn’t wearing a mask).
Whoa.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yous till fail to understand what is happening here mate. The masks themselves are irrelevant. This about social CONTROL pure and simple. Well for the vast majority anyway, with a wee dollop of preening virtue signalling by the comrades. You could replace the masks with yellow ‘Star of David’ symbols or rainbow shoulder tabs or Anarchist A in a circle. Identification is the name of this game here, as is signalling the identity of a group that is under some form of control.
The best way of objecting is through humour. Use a mask with ‘LARGE scale grid like paintball masks’. Show the ‘Karens’ that you look on them as fools.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
LOL. That’s exactly what I did in January. The front door screeners at the clinic asked me why I was wearing it. I told them that it’ll stop a BB at 800 fps and no virus travels that fast.
They were not amused.
@ coldwarrior:
All tied up 3 to 3 in the America’s Cup.
More fluky winds forecast for the next few days.
Restart manoeuvres predicate the winner.
Race #5 Prada got the jump on Team NZ because BOTH boats were in the start box with seconds to go with hulls in the water. Prada had anger foils and got up sooner and then just defended for the rest of the time and stopped Team NZ from getting past. 7 second delta at the end.
Second race Team NZ with the faster boat crossed the line foiling and looking sharp. By the time Prada got to the line Team NZ was 300 metres ahead already. With nobody dumping dirty air on you and defending the Kiwis just sailed away with it. Won by 1400 metres. Not even close.
Tomorrow looks like another calm day unfortunately. We need a 20 knot day to test these boats at 60 knots!
🙂
@ Bunk X:
https://www.amazon.com/IDOGEAR-Adjustable-Military-Tactical-Paintball/dp/B07GKWHKD5/ref=sr_1_4
Bunk X wrote:
If they object ask them what the pore size of the material that the mask is made out of. Then ask them the size of the viruses as well as the fine particular matter. Then tell them that it doesn’t matter in the least what you wear.
Finally tell them that they are full of shit!
🙂
You may not get into the venus but it’s a hell of a good time to be had goading them.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Nah, I don’t get belligerent. They’re stuck enforcing rules that even they don’t agree with.
Karens are a different story. I don’t mind dragging them through the mud.
Capitol riot prosecutors ask for delay, citing “most complex” probe in U.S history
https://www.axios.com/capitol-riot-investigation-complex-7200484d-1943-41cd-be28-7102ab730ab5.html
Translation: they got nuthin’
@ eaglesoars:
I don’t think they can charge anyone without their defense attorneys bringing up the fact that they were essentially and intentionally escorted in, which opens up a politically dangerous situation for some influential parties.
This is actually a much better strategy that allows them to continue to fire ad hoc accusations of “insurrection” into the news cycle as a political bludgeon without having to prove anything.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
and legal. Revolver News has been doing some investigative reporting that suggests the FBI may have played and instigating part
@ coldwarrior:
Thanks! As I said, the physics and engineering don’t support the idea that something with a lower limit of 3 microns can be effective in preventing the spread of particles 25 times smaller but the flaws in the “studies” were where I needed more input. The lack of a control group seemed to be a glaring omission.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
No doubt about that. My objective it to try to spread some logic to the Karens and Karls of the world hoping that they might start seeing this fact. So far, I’ve had little success. Science and logic bounce off of them like bullets off of Superman. At least the joker I was corresponding with on that other blog at least tried to provide some studies “proving” his point. Ironically, he pointed to my studies that I posted showing masks don’t stop viral infections as having “small sample size” and only proving they don’t stop household spread of the disease. Oh, and since they were for influenza, they weren’t valid for Covid.
I’m done with that one; he is convinced in his servitude and submission
eaglesoars wrote:
Seriously? “Most complex probe in history?” Good grief!
@ AZfederalist:
Well, it becomes exponentially more complex when fabrication of evidence is part and parcel of the investigation.
See the March 4 insurrection.
eaglesoars wrote:
We really are in the days of the Politburo and Commisars, aren’t we?
Still just a zephyr of wind on the Waitamata. They need 6.5 knots for a minimum of 2 minutes to get the racing underway.
It’s almost 6PM under a medium overcast and that makes even a SW change coming in remote.
Looks like a day of bobbing about on the briny and little else.
Hopefully tomorrow will bring a good 15 knots. Something to get your teeth into.
Though I doubt it given the isobar spacing over the Tasman Sea.
🙁
Looks like they’re starting to open the live music venues in Florida:
@ lobo91:
Todd Rundgren is in his 70s and is doing a “virtual tour” of cities. $35 to watch.
This song reminds me of early Samantha Fish:
Did I break this thing?
@ Bunk X:
I have access. Just a nice Sinday here in this part of the world.
Busy with meat world stuff
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Sunday. Not Sinday.
Trying hard, anyway…
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Had me worried. Way too quiet here.
hey y’all
Gelmerbahn decent 720p
the view is amazing (10 min)
also, slowest rollercoaster I have ever seen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_VlWIVUqzg
LOL
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9355601/White-non-black-people-told-NOT-share-Oprah-memes-digital-blackface.html
Bunk X wrote:
no, it’s just that I got nuthin’.
It’s not that there isn’t a lot going on, it’s just that all of it is the expected disasters from the Biden admin, so no point posting what everybody is aware of to begin with.
The only thing I see is – and this is weird, I don’t know how much weight to give it – is that apparently cryptocurrency mining is using up a ginormous amount of electricity. Globally. As in, everything is gonna melt. (‘Mining’ is the process that validates a crypto transaction. I’m not clear on how it works, but apparently it is quite computer resource intensive).
And that’s it. Boring.
@ eaglesoars:
Funny you mention that. I’ve been working on an Industrial Power Dostribution final project and had to research how, say 2000amps are handled coming into a building.
In my internet research, almost every DIYer on electrician forums looking at how to deal with that level of power (and getting their hands on the requisite equipment – switchboard, switchgear and the like) were ppl looking to mine crypto with a huge…processor farm? I guess.
Heat management came up a lot.
https://www.dayton.com/what-to-know/a-century-of-sliders-white-castle-turns-100-and-will-celebrate-the-milestone-with-new-menu-items-and-more/NQX64B7BB5GRHGLI65Y24UARGI/
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
oh right, I’d forgotten that. Which requires A/C which requires..electricity
Electricity always ends up as heat in everyday life. There are a few uses of electricity that do not completely turn the electrical energy to heat but they are rare.
Bunk X wrote:
Oh for goodness sake. Now that makes me want to go out and do it. This has gone beyond absurd. … and seems very racist and discriminatory.
@ AZfederalist:
I am getting tired of this racial shit. This last month or so in the UK I have seen posts and articles saying black people are under represented on TV shows.
@ Possum:
however over one third of murders are committed by black males.
@ Possum:
CIA Factbook https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/united-kingdom/
Ethnic groups
White 87.2%, Black/African/Caribbean/black British 3%, Asian/Asian British: Indian 2.3%, Asian/Asian British: Pakistani 1.9%, mixed 2%, other 3.7% (2011 est.)
@ Possum:
Apparently there are not enough black snow skiers in Britain. Pressing issue for the BBC.
I always think a little bit of racism should be ok. Save the woke anger for the serious pro racist.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
Users for all of the power from the Cluther dam and power station in the deep south of the southern alps came up. Currently used to power aluminium pot lines for Alcoa at The Bluff but the contract runs out in 5 years. What to do???
Electrify the vehicle fleet in NZ was touted, as was electrify the whole rail network.
Them someone came up with the idea of establishing a massive data and encryption centre based in the Alps close to the dam.
Brilliant !
🙂
It’s the same in the US. People on the LGBTXYZ spectrum account for something like .2% (in reality, not the skewed numbers they put out due to people “experimenting” and such.) Yet on television they are pushing it higher and higher all the time telling us they are underrepresented. They are actually using television to push a false reality. If they portrayed reality as it is people would be shocked as to how white and straight it is. Diversity is fine and I don’t have a problem with it, just quit portraying it as something it isn’t.
They also ignore the fact the diversity that makes this country great isn’t pointing out the differences in our skin colors but the enjoying differences in our individual cultures across the country. Because, I hate to inform the race-baiters, you don’t have to have a different skin color to have a different culture. There is no monolothic “white” culture. I have virtually nothing in common with people from many different parts of this country with the exact same skin color I have. Same goes for every other skin color. It has far more to do with where you are from and how you are raised.
Possum wrote:
… and here in the US, nearly every commercial has a minority as their principal character. I’ve gotten the message that these advertisers are not after my business. I will not be influenced by their commercials, not that they made much difference to me anyway, but now they mean even less.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Bingo! A lot of this is driven by the woke corporate culture that now wants their board rooms and C-suites to “look like America” (whatever the @#$% that is supposed to mean). Thing is, their criteria is melanin content and plumbing, not background. They are going to discriminate based on color and gender but are filling those positions with people who went to the same Ivy league schools, were educated by the same biased professors, and were mentored by the same corporate culture. They are going to look different, but think the same. That’s not diversity, that’s window dressing and will provide an opportunity for smaller companies who truly have diverse leadership to run circles around them as long as those smaller companies can overcome the government bias in favor of the larger companies.
AZfederalist wrote:
That’s the whole point. Look at the dem party. All diversity is encouraged and celebrated. Except for that of thought, that must be punished.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Great point
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
@ AZfederalist:
I think one of the fundamental errors on ‘our side’ is that we want to ‘win the argument’.
That is an own goal if I ever saw one.
We need to focus on defeating the enemy.
How do we do that? As odd as this sounds, do not engage on the logic or the morals. If either of those pertained, they would be on our side. They have the logical foundation of jello and the moral acuity of fog.
What I am finding out (this is a work in progress) is challenging them in the form of “No. I will do what I want. What do you intend to do about it? I can find quite a few white people to create memes just to show you that you have no power. Bring it. You have nothing.”
We get defeated if we allow it. Do not comply. This is not about persuasion. This is about absolute non compliance. Do not obey. Get in their face that you do not obey. Humiliate them. Ridicule them.
eaglesoars wrote:
I think that is the correct approach. Logic bounces off of these people like bullets off of Superman. Ridicule and non-compliance hurts their little feelings and actually has an effect.
@ eaglesoars:
The missing element in my post is ‘cancel culture’. It’s not so clear cut when you have children you have to feed and bills to pay. The tactic I and others can use on blogs are ridiculous when you apply it to breadwinners in environments they cannot change.
And I, the spouse of a Trump supporting lobbyist, wiped out all her social media stuff because of the Trump Accountability Project.
But Trump is gone. For now. He may be back, but this is not a cult. I still think standing up and saying NO every chance we get is not just the right thing to do, it’s the right strategy.
eaglesoars wrote:
tactic.
God, I’m hopeless.
meant to drop this.
I’d not heard of Joan Osborne before.
What becomes of the broken hearted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA0GcXV2njY
Heatwave
nite
@ eaglesoars:
oops
Heatwave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTKFR3ra2ts
eaglesoars wrote:
Exactly. They want you to lower yourself to their level. By denying reality and refusing to accept logic they frustrate and anger people. They want you to feel rage.
By just refusing to comply with their crap and moving on you remove the power from them.
AZfederalist wrote:
The Streisand Effect!
oh jeez. I wonder what The Fat Guy will do to commemorate this anniversary?
The 18th anniversary of St.Pancake.
18 yrs ago today, #RachelCorrie’s interview, two days before she was murdered by the israeli Beast Forces. She was bulldozed only Bcoz she wanted to stop them demolishing a #Palestinian home!
https://twitter.com/irfarzan/status/1371192281085120513
the replies are glorious
eaglesoars wrote:
Passive non-compliance works, unless you’re the only one doing it.
eaglesoars wrote:
Holy crap. Someone’s gonna have to remind him.
https://twitter.com/Obamasflag/status/1371342685831798786
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
Hopefully one of these URLs will work for you guys in the US. Race #7 & #8 will destroy
your nerves. There hasn’t been this situation in America’s Cup racing in 30 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm98bpsqBow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBwvQ6m-k8Q
Day #5 (After race #4 & #5 are cancelled due to no wind) Race #7… at last someone changes the lead and it’s not just the boring first boat out of the Start Box wins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0Vn2DL79p4
Day #5 Race #8 the most crazy America’s Cup race EVER. Disaster for Team NZ and then Prada falls off their foils as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY2notM68ZE
Enjoy
🙂
THIS is a work of art.
https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath/status/1371139531676737537