Bed?

 This never comes up....
It's a silly thing anyway. 
People throw away stuff when they move, that's how I got my enormously huge gargantuan behemoth,
and you don't remember my wife, and the bed got bigger when she died anyway.
(I say "anyway" too much)
My ultrasound for my stomach was nightmarish because their bed was too small, and I was deathly afraid of rolling off onto the floor. 
I threw my arms around for balance, which really pissed off the ultrasound lady.
NOW I look at beds in my mind, wouldn't it be nice to have a teeny W I D E bed?
No rolling off.
Reality is, people like Tall beds, narrow or wide.
Waste of space.

My width is fine, it's my length that is wasted. 
My laundry and my discarded items have built a little sanctuary under the bridge of my TV.
Couldn't I just (fill your suggestion here)? No, it would only make stuff worse.

"Crib" looks nice but it's too narrow. 
"Small Single"? too Narrow.
Up until "Full" which is too tall.
The old bug-bitten behemoth will have to do.
Or maybe, a really nice couch??

The RTG (Richer than GOD) bed would be a hospital bed, but they add mattresses after the bed (or something, at least at the hospital I was at)
And they used air mattresses shaped like egg cartons...
the mattresses breathed loudly.

IDK...

But generally speaking, they have rails and height adjustments, so cool.
Banal and boring vs very specific TMI. I choose the boring.

(Link)

Front page news trivia

https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-tells-users-to-alert-the-media-that-it-is-trying-to-break-people-report-2000615600

Poor satellites, they're too shiny and reflect light on the poor people just trying to get a peek at the sky.

Vantablack! Our hero.

The Vantablack Car

is a one-of-a-kind BMW.
I wonder who ends up with it,
after whipping up public-interest and congressional support for some Biggie Vantablack contract??
The normally $76,000 model (At its most basic) could be worth $300,000, but that's guessing, only BMW would know.

Flat-black from spray cans wouldn't make enough money.

You can't just go around willy-nilly painting satellites black, it isn't done.

My take:

Science lives on grants and donations, and publicity.
Black absorbs light (and heat)
Um, How do they keep satellites from getting too hot?
(shush, adults are speaking) Yeah OK nevermind

How much global oil does Iran give, anyway?
Shush!!

war, covid, supply chains, the weather.....Biden, Obama.
Please ignore the instantaneous price change at gas stations, we are in control.
We control the vertical and the horizontal
Sit back and relax

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/11/headlines/as_tanks_arrive_in_dc_trump_says_very_heavy_force_will_be_used_on_protesters_at_military_parade

(Missing Link: Tiananmen square)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_in_the_Schoolhouse_Door

Sub comment to my missing rant:
The articles on the front page vs the comments to the articles on the ... o nvm

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14795055/trump-army-birthday-dc-military-parade-cost-millions.html

factless empty boring

 Fact-filled fun post this is not.
And anyway the know-it-alls on Reddit tick me off, but they know stuff if you filter out the rants.

"Freevee" is dying/dead, I'm told, because the company owning freevee and amazon prime decided to stick everything under amazon prime.
I don't care, but their menu scares me off.
A shopping bag, a free trial, or a biggie white arrow.
I think I own the white arrows.

HBO and CNN are getting a divorce (whut?)
It Seems that CNN loses money, not enough wingnuts to watch, but streaming makes money.
They married a few years ago and now they're divorcing.
I like CNN, sort of.
The sad part about splitting up is, CNN might not stream anymore and you'd have to buy cable to see it.
This might not be true at all, I just read it that way.

There's an option in the "snipping tool" to draw very straight lines, but I never found it, and it only actually worked once.
(Link)

yay!!

CNN should join HSN which is on regular TV.
You know, "The shopping network"?
Anyone anywhere can broadcast free stuff, why not CNN?
"Fox" already does that.

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So looking like real assholes is a plus

I found a blog yesterday I need (want) to quote from,

Saying about Hitler and his state-news. The Völkischer Beobachter,
and I think they compared it to Fox News.
One more reason to breathe life back into CNN

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Cute picture from Starfield

The editor here royally screwed with this so it might look wonky.
I'm attempting repairs:
A note:
The other day, Google or some other site commemorated "Anne Frank,"
So I googled why.
1. Her Birthday is tomorrow (June 12)
2. No evidence exists her nosy gossipy neighbors turned her family in.
https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/go-in-depth/was-anne-frank-betrayed/
The people running the investigatory agency ("SD"? which stands for something unpronounceable)
Reeeeally looked, according to the fifties movie.
I think it's implied in the movie (which is where I heard it)
That someone in town turned her in, but the site I pointed to goes to great lengths to disprove that,
IDK. There's more going on than anyone says.

Someone shouts that they saw a stray light coming from the wall, and that's how they were found.
I guess that could be true, I wouldn't contradict it, except like I said they (especially one guy) were reaaally looking. I gotta wait til 3AM to want to research it though.

"In the 1959 film, "The Diary of Anne Frank," Anne Frank and the others in the Secret Annex are arrested by the Gestapo after being betrayed by an unknown informer. The film depicts the raid on the Secret Annex and the arrest of Anne, her family, and the others hiding with them." (from Google AI)

One more boring factless:
CBS News is supposedly gutted or at least in trouble from Paramount for being too newsy.
I still like them.
Here, read this headline
(CBS vs CNBC, e.g.)

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 I really wish I could blather on about fonts.
The font you're reading right this second should be "Times new Roman," 

although it's been a while since I checked.
Years ago when the world was young, I was fascinated that printers would come with their own fonts and escape characters.... Nowadays printing is best left to professionals using programs that cost way more than I'd care to spend.

WHY is this here?
I got a windows update yesterday, and an update to the update today.

The exact reasons are unclear to me, but someone mentioned 

that Microsoft uses "Noto"-fonts now.

Whut?

Looking at "Fonts" (the setting) said little or nothing about Noto.

Also I discovered, "Webdings" exist today, the precursor to emojis.
If I bombast a webding/Wingding and You don't have them installed,

It comes out looking like numbers or blobs.

Wait, I can bombast as good as the next guy, lemme try to insert a webding:

Ú (no, it's supposed to be a rainy cloud)

Wait, I know this one (maybe)....
Font face="yada_whatever" size="Large"...something like that.
But specifying a face doesn't help stubborn reactionary PC's or Apples, they just stick in their own font and misquote me.

The world is more conservative nowadays

Why the HELL should I learn CSS?
The "Deprecators," that's why.
They took everything good and simple in HTML ("Big," "Font Face") and crammed it into CSS for more control.
The snotty bastards wanna make it difficult(er) and more upper-crusty.

FOAD,FURIO, (Cram THAT into your CSS)
I want my rainy-cloud, I want it now.

127783

U+1F327

Those are the codes, according to https://www.alanwood.net/demos/webdings.html

Ten minutes from now I'll be able to press a fancy-ass key plus "1f327" and make rainy clouds!!

Wait, you said "4-character" and 1f327 is FIVE characters.
🌧(This editor tried to screw it up, but *I* will fix this, (eventually)
Whoa!! Can you SEE that? I made it Rain!!
Or I'm [crapping] little blobs, IDK🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧
This should be noted:https://www.codenewbie.org/blogs/what-emojis-tell-us-about-encoding Is it an emoji or a web/wing ding? Only your HTML designer knows for sure.
Seriously though, this subject is WAY more convoluted, more machievellian, more political, than I care about.
It started out as a train of thought about not using any emojis but apparently they've been assimilated into the emoji-collective.

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This just in: a photo with subtext, that *I* am labeling, "Hello?"

Or more bombastically, "Wait? Don't go! We were just getting started!"

You might think that the photo is a random click-bait photo, and it is,
But it's repeated all over the net.

I need to edit this in HTML from now on,
so this might look a little funny for a while.
Anyway, In the game "Starfield",
A middle-aged man with a chunk of his long hair missing,
Who looks almost exactly like some dentist from many years ago,
has collected "rare artifacts", mostly historically significant ones.
But where did the game writers get the notion to include these particular artifacts?
Did they thumb through some books?

I feel like I should look at them, to be familiar with them, or be lumped in with ignorant philistines who don't know their value.
I don't know their value, and that depresses me.
Maybe one day I'll meet a bombastic starfield page explaining them.

Some guy on the internet says it's Zeus aiming his lightning bolt.
Google AI isn't sure (could it be "Poseidon"?)Anyway if it contributes one ounce to my cultured self, It's nice to know about.
And I figure, fashionable greeks ALL looked that way (short hair, a beard.)
The in-game lore About the antiquities is disappointing, https://www.reddit.com/r/Starfield/comments/1g861n7/the_greek_statues_at_emporium_neon_and_on_the/

clooney and stuff

 Ten minutes after losing the CNN livestream Feed once they switched to audience questions, 
(I think it's back up?? the commercials are anyway)

(Paywalled...I think)

I began to wonder lots of stuff and wondered why I did not catch every nuance of the play,
"Good night and Good Luck," which I watched.
Remember the moon Launch? 
The Twin Towers falling?
This felt like one of those momentous moments, although I'm missing a sentence or two explaining why.
First off, the universal streaming sans cable or streaming service made it seem like the good old days when large groups of people hung around the set in the living room to watch something.
Ah, nevermind, I didn't start this to reminisce.
You might go into the subtext one way or another, and I'm sure you all will soon.
Me breaking away to do this-or-that wasn't helpful, since every single line of the play was supposed to be important, and I missed tons, like who "Don Hollenbeck" was and why he committed suicide.
The way I piece it together is,
A man jokes that his ex-wife read some communist newspapers, and then we hear he died, while a woman sings.
OK I lost a lot. He didn't just "Die" and he wasn't sick.

Way later they tried getting reporters to comment on the play but they kept interrupting each other and had their own opinions. So OK we live in silos now, I sort of get that, and we pick and choose our news sources. Those reporters (some of them) claimed Murrow was an advocacy journalist,
And anyone assembling facts together might advocate one viewpoint or another.
I kept thinking of the motto on the top of this page, 
Whose actual meaning is, you can fool yourself into an opinion and back your opinion up with tons of culled facts and viewpoints from people talking better than yourself.

When those opinions become official opinions and judgements from organizations and government officials, do you: reinforce those opinions with sets of facts or try to at least see the other points of view using different facts?
People doing that in Murrow's time got in trouble.

https://www.aol.com/national-guard-deploy-clashes-la-014508478.html

Bottom line, I hope it ends up on Youtube. 
Also does every play on Broadway have to have music? It seemed so unnecessary, even if it was beautiful.

Topical train (sort of)

 This defies explanation, since I do not watch the latest Bond films unless they're on Freebie TV.

Wut?

But a headline in the top-news news said

(? doesn't say a lot)

What did UK divulge, give up, trade over?

"M" or what passes for the head of MI-something.

Was there a biggie merger, was there an election they messed with, 
Did they want some satellite intelligence?

Well, hell, IDK, it was a train of thought I might add to, if I don't erase.

My train (a day later) concerns musk vs Trump.
If musk was losing money because DOGE, He's smart/rich enough to cook up a plan that eventually will make Trump and Musk best friends again and make stockholders happy.
It's convoluted, like placing tariffs, removing them, placing them,
But it makes sense, in a High-finance way.

Oh.
Nevermind.

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The secret goings on of high finance are a mystery novel I don't really read.

(Wut?)

I'm here writing this but I could be at a bus stop soon hugging my little phone.....

It depends upon how nice the overlords are.

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Reaaaallly rich people don't muck around with "Credit", leveraging their assets, o no.
They get "Debentures" issued by their fellow tycoons...
And no, I have no idea of what I am saying, but here, read this before you cast stones.
https://www.google.com/search?q=high+finance+debentures+meaning&oq=high+finance+debentures

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Anyway, I wondered if I'd ever have to explain why Abigail Johnson is on the windows-directory, along with my budget.

If SHE were my overlord, she'd forgive the few hundred I still owe....

There is another woman, much richer, who looks exactly like the bad guy in a "Columbo" episode, if you still remember who that is, 

and I fear my stuff would wither beneath her gaze and my new home at the bus stop would be an inevitability.

Anyway...
What do THESE women think of Trump's tariffs, if they think about them at all?

They don't know yet. Maybe, maybe not.

Investment counselors know who Stephen Miran is, and what section 899 of the budget bill is,

and I don't and wouldn't even try to bombast.

 https://www.google.com/search?q=maralago+accord&oq=maralago+accord

People in movies and such (I'm thinking) transfer funds via computer to banks in the Cayman Islands, or invest in Crypto.

If Trump could Ruin the normal economy forcing people to switch to crypto, I'd think that would make him happy.
https://www.google.com/search?q=are+investors+moving+away+from+US&oq=are+investors+moving+away+from+US

Weak currency=higher prices (right?)
I don't get it.

Businesses profiting off (the list is long) war, covid, supply chains, and tariffs, and gas prices, and taxes, and research, The future.

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/04/trump-tariffs-prices is credit for the picture I didn't read much of...

I just think they stay topical to blame something or somebody to raise prices.
The weather. Unemployment.

The best jobs out there are in sales.
You could sell a burned-out, empty lot for a million dollars!! I really need links.
Anyway yeah. 
Be a salesman

https://www.christianpost.com/news/natl-televangelist-tells-viewers-to-obey-god-send-him-273-recovery-seed-donation.html

Whatever you believe or can conceive of, someone else believes it too and wrote about it first.
Eggs are cheaper under Trump, this headline says.
But are they cheap? 

hmm

The largest price drop since 1984!!
(But are they cheap?)

https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/egg-prices-adjusted-for-inflation/

$2.61 was very high in 2015.
NOW there'd be a riot to get them before they ran out at that price.

I wanted to add a current supermarket price to prove my point, but it's redundant.
Believe whatever the hell you want, the internet will back you up.

https://elpasomatters.org/2025/02/12/ted-cruz-utep-grants-national-science-foundation/

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/13/nx-s1-5295043/sen-ted-cruzs-list-of-woke-science-includes-self-driving-cars-solar-eclipses

Whatever you believe (It's on the top of this page)

This was done three days ago, but newer interesting stuff keeps popping up.

This section should be read with tongue firmly in cheek, a winking eye, several Margaritas (with large grains of salt on the glass) and whatever else you need to put down that phone (lol):

Consider that the rich and powerful will become more so, and the worse stuff gets, the more they profit.
Well that's my 3AM-train, anyway.

figure (on my own with no help) that global warming = air conditioners, water pumps (for flooding) and sky-high housing (biggie towers).
Polluted air = more air cans to sell to people wishing for freshness. 
Riots = powerful robots
gridlock? Helicopters, jets.

It's the good life for anyone billionaire-ish.

Watch "Original Star trek", they'll tell you

We still need really fast trains and cheap labor to lay tracks for them and scientists to figure out "Mag Lev" but the current sentiment is, only commuters use trains, the rich would rather go to mars, and jet everywhere else. Wikipedia wrote a very optimistic article but it's dated. 

California (I'd have to look it up and I won't) has been talking about a rail-line since the mid-eighties, and I think they have a website now.

between Pixley + Bugtussle

Google itself is relying on "Quora" for answers, and apparently Quora thinks it's dead.

My two-cents: Our trains will prolly die off, they're too marxist.