Recent content by Gödel

🙏 for peace in the Middle East. How long have we been praying?

New Acronym - P O T D S: President of the Divided States Invade the Radical Left Coast !

I'm a big ⚾ fan. So I'm intrigued by the playoff Battle of the Americas, Toronto Blue Jays vs New York Yankee$$$. From https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/us/politics/trump-canada-blue-jays-yankees.html: Before each of the two games that the New York Yankees lost to the Blue Jays over the...

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Shut Down? Shut Up! From https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/arts/television/colbert-government-shutdown.html: The U.S. government shut down for the first time since 2018 on Wednesday. Stephen Colbert said he didn’t call this one, “but, evidently, ‘The Late Show’ has outlasted the United...

That gives new meaning to the phrase "curiosity killed the cat." ;)

What really ticks me off is that it used to work. Here's a (resized) iPhone photo I downloaded from iCloud.com on August 11, just 16 days ago:

(Sometimes I feel like I'm the one who needs the most support around here.) Anyway, I confess that my wife and I have iPhones. Recently, I started having issues connecting Firefox on my Ubuntu PCs to the iPhone web site, iCloud.com. When I try to log on, I get the message "Failed to verify...

That reminds me, back to the stone age, of my 18+-year-old PC (GB mobo, Pentium E5200 O/C'ed from 2.5 to 3.2 GHz, +28%). (I hardly ever connect to it any more, but it's still fighting cancer on the World Community Grid.) Anyway, I had the dimly brilliant idea, back in the days of rotating...

Just the fruits.

If you can find them at your grocery store, these are the best popsicles ever. I've only tried the andones. The coconut ones are really creamy, with coconut bits; the raspberry ones (and other fruits, I assume) are more like popsicles made with real fruit. I'm going to try some other ones...

Speaking of cartoons:

To celebrate my name and avatar change here, I also updated my cell phone avatar: I don't know how many of you will recognize it. ;) 🍺 (XX) It's a little humor, since I'm far from the world's most interesting man. 😴

Thanks, Handy! (I wasn't expecting rapid response on this unimportant change.) But even better, I was logged on to the new user name automatically when I opened the web site today. I was expecting to have to re-logon with the new user name. Any my old posts were re-user-named, too. I guess...

I was going to wait until I got my member name changed from Newtun to Gödel, but maybe it's better to do this now, so I can "hide" after that. (That reminds me of the Rodney Dangerfield joke: "I solved my drinking problem, I joined Alcoholics Anonymous. I'm still drinking, I just use a...