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Another cowardly, criminal gang-related murder today in Minneapolis. 🔫 :cry: 🪦 The victim: an ICU nurse at a Veterans' hospital, armed with a dangerous cell phone, possibly to record the evil gang's crimes.

The Emperor's New Clothes:

Excerpts from this article – Trump Made Over $1.4 Billion Through Graft and Corruption: One year ago, Donald Trump took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he has focused on using the presidency to enrich himself. President Trump has never been a man to ask what he can do for his...

Greenland of the Free

Buy Greenland? Take It? Why? An Old Pact Already Gives Trump a Free Hand. Analysts say the Cold War agreement allows the president to increase the American military presence almost at will. — This NY Times Article

Breaking News: a dangerous criminal terrorist was arrested yesterday in Minneapolis, armed with a viciously threatening giraffe costume, subdued by numerous masked, heavily armed gang-member thugs Homeland Security officers: The suspect will be charged under Donald Trump's newly-declared...

A little levity from The (Left-Wing Commie) New York Times late-night-TV column: “ . . . ‘Acting President of Venezuela.’ Wow. Not many people can say they were the worst president in the history of two countries.” — SETH MEYERS “Doesn’t your oath of office to America have a noncompete?” - Jon...

Copying and pasting from an Email thread I sent to some of my fellow travelers: (Jan 3): The NY Times had a little tale about how the Romans' original calendar only had 10 months, beginning in March. The first two dark months were nameless, useless to agriculture and their military. But: For...

Yeah, I admit that my "51ˢᵗ state" comment was a bad joke. But not as bad a joke as the President of the Divided States of America.

Venezuela, Canada, and Greenland will be competing for the title of the 51ˢᵗ state. 😜 I'm guessing that His Royal Highness will find it easier to invade Greenland than Canada. I hope he can get those annexations accomplished before his next State of the Disunion speech.

I was very sorry to hear this, Merc. I, as I'm sure all of our members do, ❤️ , hope and pray, in our way, for you to find the strength to persevere through your troubled times.

Happy New Year (EST) (UTC-5) 🥂🕛‼️

Nice rig, Mubs; we might be the only two non-gamers on StoFo. ;) But I assume you joined the Republic Of Gamers because that mobo is significantly higher quality. (y)

Reporting here from the "cheap seats" (but expensive in loquacity ;) ): First, for laptops, I upgraded my old Toshiba Satelite L305 from Windows Vista to Ubuntu, as my wife's sole PC on her desk. It's fine for her needs. (I upgraded it from on-board WiFi to a USB dongle, to achieve more than...

I hope this is sufficiently random 😜; I have a bash script on my main PC to check that my pihole VM is pinging OK. So every 15 minutes, it checks, and xmessages if the ping fails. Then it waits for the ping to succeed again, then xmessages that. So here are those messages: (Juvenile senile...

Happy Festivus, all! Speaking of random, here's a new cocktail recipe: mix 4 random liquids together, and name it with 3 random words.

Or support your local brewery. They seem to have started falling on hard times, because the weird cocktail craze is taking over. 🍹

That sounds like something from a wacky TV show like The Big Bang Theory. 😜

That link don't hunt. ;) Long link. Black Friday Deal $449.99 with 44 percent savings; "List Price": $799.99

I hear you, Florida Man. My wife and I met over an abandoned kitten in a Berkeley dorm basement in the '70s, and we had ❤️🐱s throughout our various stages of marriage. But when we lost the last of them a few years ago, we decided we wouldn't get any more cats, because we're now in our 70's...

I'm sorry to hear that. I know the pain of losing a pet, and the love and comfort they can provide.

Breaking News: Trump loses election, declares martial law. 👑👮‍♂️😜

As Sheldon might say, there is insufficient randomness here and now: Move it Body & Soul Sunday Morning

I signed up for the 1-year Win 10 security-update extension. I'll be interested to see if MS has squashed Flyby11 by the time I try to install it next year.

I keep seeing reports of major layoffs in various U. S. businesses, and about big-business bubbles bursting. How long will it be until we get The Truth anti-Social from Donnie Downer: This is The Greatest Depression Ever. Nobody has ever created anything like it. Since I've laid off the...

More Breaking News: His Royal Highness, Donnie Trumper, has announced that he is renaming it to The White Palace. (He's literally breaking the White House.)

Breaking News: Inspector Clouseau has solved the mystery of Sunday's Louvre theft of the French Crown Jewels. King Donald of Trump arranged it to create a fitting crown for his royal selfness. And it's got to be big to fit his swollen dome. 👑

For the Aussies (or ex-pats): (I don't know if it's really Australian Humor, though.)

But The Supreme Emperor Donnie has decreed it, so therefore, it must be. His will be done. 😜

🙏 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...

And now, for something completely random. I found how to do that change. https://storageforum.net/forum/account/account-details. Unfortunately, "If you decide to change your username now you will not be able to again until Aug 2, 2025." I hope that doesn't mean I can't post until Aug 2...

I'd seen that, and I was going to try to change my member name as well as my avatar. I thought I'd seen that as a possibility, but I can't find how to do it. Oh, well.

Thanks, Merc. My main usage would be for audio; I only have a few dozen video files, and those are mostly relatively short music videos. (This is the longest [but in a little shorter variation], about the brilliant gospel performer Sister Rosetta Tharp, "The Godmother of Rock & Roll".) One...

I recently signed up for the free Plex service on my smart TV. (Aside: being free, it's pretty limited. I joined because I wanted to watch the classic Fellini film La Dolce Vita, and that was the only source I found. But there were too many ill-timed commercials, the closed-captioning sucked...

Zen to One ;)