Recent content by Gödel

RIP, Sonny Rollins. . . . . . . . . . 🎶 Blue 7 from

Maybe tariffs / protectionism are playing a role? Keep out / price out foreign RAM/SSDs, as if that will magically create American manufacturing capability.

A week later, it's still running OK. It even survived a Patch-Tuesday "quality update" and forced reboot. It's been running World Community Grid cancer research tasks 24×7×4 cores×100%, as usual. Those tasks take about 1½ hours each, so there have been hundreds of work-unit downloads and...

Thanks very much, Merc and Sed, for your responses. I'm writing this on that WinPC, still going strong (?) after another half-day. And the Magician and CrystalDiskInfo both say the disk is OK. (I did a full scan with Magician.) Because I don't really use it much, I think I'll just let it...

Yo, I'm donimating:

So Saturday, about 11 months later, I woke up to find that PC had locked up. I tried a few restarts, and it would boot and run OK for a few minutes, then freeze up again. I pulled off the cover to see if it was something obvious, like the CPU cooler fan not running, but I found nothing...

More pickin' (and bowin' and slidin') (and fun): [1947 - seminal to rock & roll]

🎸🎶 (good vibes and pickin'):

Waddya, all off on Spring Break? 🥳 😜

The Empire has been declining for a long time (Big Brother 🔍👂 is at least 20 years old 😜): "The Whistleblower Who Uncovered the NSA’s ‘Big Brother Machine’" On January 20, 2006, the front doorbell rang at the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s offices . . . in the Mission District of San...

From this free NY Times article: Trump Seeks to Abolish Iran’s Atomic Stockpile, a Problem He Helped Create President Trump withdrew from the Obama-era nuclear accord in 2018, saying it was the worst deal ever. But Iran responded with an enrichment spree that haunts the negotiations to this day...

No, she's not. She's much too big to fit on my screen. It took much scrolling to see that she's in a bathroom. ;)

Yes, Merc, it looks like your world had gotten more perfecter. How big is your place, that you have room for all those people and computers (and cats old and new)?

Golden Delicious Apple oldie: fun article

From yesterday's Saturday Night Live, "quoting" tRump: “You might remember me from such campaign promises as lower gas prices and no more wars.” “Psych‼️ We love to make promises because a promise is just a lie that hasn’t happened yet.” 😜