November 11th Miscellany

• For Veteran's Day, Sean M. Smith's book Rank Absurdity: An Irreverent Military Memoir is on sale.


• It's the hundredth birthday of the U.S. highway system.


• The Great Blue Norther of 1911 saw many midwestern cities set record highs and lows on the same day.

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"Sir, this is a Wendy's."

Online ragebait merchant Jake Lang stormed into the lobby of the Sea-Meow convention in Seattle like Carrie Nation into a Kansas saloon. Hilarity ensued.

"You guys are indoctrinating the youth with homosexual and transsexual ideas. This furry stuff is not for children," said Lang, gesturing at attendees and a pair of greeters who happened to be wearing full-body cat costumes. "These people are sexualizing children! They're inviting children in. Look at this. This is sexualization of children ... what are you guys doing here? These people here, they dress up in these outfits, and they have sex with each other in these orgies every single weekend. Now they're inviting the children to come to their furry convention!"

"This is a convention for cats," said one of the staff.

Golf clap.

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Hump Day Meme Dump!

Lesser-Known Holidays

Happy Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day to all who celebrate!

Happy Birthday USMC!

On this day in 1775, the first guy to make his X on the paper at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia turned and looked at the guy behind him in line and said "Things were different in the Old Corps."

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Meme Dump!

Tab Clearing...

• Huang honeypotted by hottie?


• The Fridge-Hacking Spree is an Internet-of-Things Wakeup Call.


• The Confessions of an AI Fraud Kingpin

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"Is It Monday Again, Already?" Memes!

Meme Dump!

Noped Out.

I was gonna go photograph the Monumental Marathon this morning but it was 34℉ out when I should have been leaving the house and it was eighty degrees just the other day.

I am not yet seasonally acclimated. At any rate, the Drumstick Dash is in just a few weeks, so I punted. By then I'll be a little more cold-tolerant.

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Automotif DCXLII...

An eye-catching 911 Carrera droptop snapped with a Nikon D4 and a 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6G VR zoom lens. Click to greatly embiggenate.

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Meme Dump!

Weekend Eve Meme Dump!

Tab Clearing...

• Tesla to wind down production of the Cybertruck, aka the Incel Camino or the Electric Edsel.


• Radio waves from your wifi router can be used to identify where you are in your home, as well as mapping you well enough for an AI to identify who you are.


• Rep. Thomas Massie [R-KY] to force a vote to impeach Pete Hegseth when Congress reconvenes next week.

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Finally

Feeling almost all the way back to normal after whatever sort of illness had floored me. Probably the flu. I usually put off a flu shot until later in the season but this was apparently not a good year to do that.

Ah, well.

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Meme Dump!