death by seafood

 Clam, oyster, they taste the same to me, "Death on the Beach"-flavor.
Vulnificus (the roman emperor, or star of a superhero movie?)
Yeah but you could self righteously claim that Vegetables (in salad) can make you real sick, as well.

When I can afford lettuce, I buy romaine.
IDK 

Cooking shows push seafood, I don't know why.
Maybe it's lots less popular now. 
Plus they cook the stuff.
(whatever. Ew)

"Iceberg vs romaine" coming up. 
(Lettuce is outrageously expensive anyway; I need a new food to fixate on)

Poor choice of words, "Fixate".
https://www.boredpanda.com/eating-habits-possible-early-sign-dementia-suffered-by-bruce-willis/

Dairy-free, Onion-Garlic-soy free soup? (a guy can dream)

Lard, fine (I've got a pill for lard) Meat, great (Love meat) 
So don't hand me your pretentious upper-crust soup, you with the wire-rims and the snarky attitude 
"Save the whales! Buy our $7 soup"

...Nothing?

It's another month of salads.
I don't mind so much, except mayonnaise is made by snarky millionaires 

Eat oysters, die.
Eat Bananas and milk, die (eventually, and get reported on)

Eexcuuse me all to hell for not buying steak smothered in EVOO.

"carbs" make a tummy happy.

Arugula and liver, don't. (real simple)

Leave my doughnuts alone!
And my KFC.

(Reality-check, there are no decent doughnuts, and KFC sort of avoids this town, like we had measles)

Bring back Lard!! (for doughnuts, tortillas, chicken!!)

wire-rim bespectacled vegans ruined doughnuts.

Well anyway, Google claims there are shops using lard, but none are near here.

Consider soy, the silent deadly killer:

Hydrogenated anti-foam, don't you feel healthy now??

Mutant outcasts pay zillions more for soy-free food... but that's a different manifesto...

Somewhere (I don't remember where) there's this little machine in a fast-food-chain making fries from powder. https://www.google.com/search?q=fries+made+from+powder&oq=fries+made+from+powder
(Warning: Google AI can change its answers in seconds.)
Gone are the hollow, sad fries-comments.
It brightened up and tried to tell me it had many interesting ingredients.
I'm of the opinion that, after reading about them, fried in Soy as they are, they're nearly as bad for you as raw oysters.

Anyway, stop eating so much soy, see what happens!

I would not want to cast aspersions on a local family-restaurant.
Neighbors work there.

Fine, but we (my wife and I) had to leave pretty quick while she tried in vain to hide her little brown stain.
Something in their very bland family food shocked her system.
(She never ate much of anything)

The guy advertising on Fox News' site  not to eat Blueberries, doesn't say why (until the ad gets clicked, I guess)
But Google seems to think they're healthy, unless you eat massive quantities, and then you might get the runs.

My new game (old F* game)

 vs the radio station I haven't tuned into yet, "Galaxy news" something,
Enclave is bombastic (garrulous?) and cannot be avoided, it's everywhere.
My little transistorized tv/radio could tune into it, and a couple others
 (I think there is a radio for aliens)

M-5, Landru, and a few AI-others I forget the names of.
John Henry Eden is Landru except he talks a lot better.

Player pretends to be Captain Kirk and points out that the 
computer needs to destroy itself.
Yeahbutt this being a game, it goes on and on past the nice ending.
Should only US Americans get water, and should we poison the aliens?
The failed experiments to build stronger armies?
Colonel Autumn, a real asshole. Unless you believe Reddit, he was a real stand-up kinda guy.

Authoritarian-nationalist, prioritizing power over freedom
(walk, talk, quack, ergo est)

Modifications to this game are called "mods," and that's great, 

but mods that depend upon other mods and a special-installer, 

are a pain in the butt and not worth the hassle.

A guy might get lucky with the standalone mod 

of a powerful gun or with standalone indestructible armor, 

but *usually* it's high effort for little reward, 

and the game already does that.

     "fawkes" is a guy talking like a mental hospital escapee.
His massive meds have distorted his lips into a permanent grimace.

He was so damn popular, they made an action-figure of him.
(He's so damn ugly, the action figure is pretty cheap)

          I'm the "Lone Wanderer", and war never changes, how depressing.

But

It saves $50 or so on a new game, which is sort of the point.

Once the world is destroyed, the permanently pissed-off (and dogs) try to take over what's left.
O, I switched to a newer game. "Fallout 4" (instead of "three") and everyone is even more pissed.

There are no good guys, except maybe some of the robots.
My favorite line that I'll remember for a while, is a supermutant yelling,

"Time for Humans is OVER!" (He's yelling.)
some are rich, some are really well organized, but they hate each other and want them to die.
So Player (me) gets bored fulfilling the bloodthirsty wishes of the different factions.

you want bread?

            Fight gangsters mutants and evil dogs to get to the bakery

                        and kill the giant rats

                                    to get the bread, if you'll only

                                                get milk for the baker (repeat gangsters mutants etc)
                                                        They ran out of milk, find a cow

                                                            (for the baker-for-the-bread-for-the (where was I?)

I still get "Don't try anything, Stranger" (setstage mq206 1000)

For the record:

Talk to detective

    annihilate Kellogg

       Talk to Dr. Amari (from detective)

            Go see doctor in really bad neighborhood

                (see disparaging railroad club) MQ206 1000
                        Get proselytized (keep saying "I don't know")

                            (why is Dr. Li so mean? shades of Mother-in-law)
                              Find the Doctor's magical serum

                                Return it to the doctor

and...

    Find "Vault 81"

And... join no group, cult, association, just keep planting those trees and installing the generators.

Fallout 4 is all about the habitats for humanity. Spreading light with generators,

Planting trees.
It gets old real fast, but it's a worthwhile (virtual) goal.

A girl who thought AI could help with the noble goal of bettering mankind, misspoke
And robots figured that the best way to help humans is to kill them all.
One really annoying guy does all gangsters, and another does loudmouthed supermutants.

All organized-crime people talk like they're from Jersey? (I don't follow accents)

It's this big morality-play (whatever that is, I'll go look)

  The logical conclusions are terrible so you turn into a helper of nice people and a killer of the mean (the persecutors of the nice) OR you could join up, be a tool, get to blow shit up, "War never changes" yada.

Curie seems principled and very naive at the same time, kind of like on that TV show "Bones." 
I miss my old cheats, from several years ago. She'd dote on me and I'd build her a nice house on perfectly beautiful land.
I wouldn't have any idea how to do that now.
I'm not drifting, (ok just a little)....I was comparing her to today's Curie.
A disappointed pacifist. If she went with me on any more missions, she'd be disgusted and leave.
Google says that she'd be disillusioned in the institute.

I'm pretty sure the "Brotherhood of steel" wants to blow them up (with a nuke) so I don't think curie would like that at all.
She's better off picking plants. She seriously needs more initiative. But yeah, 

I'll send her to the sunshine-Tidings co-op and move on (until I find a nice mod)

A company whose job it is to get you to buy clothes,

https://www.gentlemansgazette.com/what-men-really-wore-in-the-1940s/

Anyway the answer is not forthcoming. What did the tobacco-road people wear?
Down-and-out, supermarket employees, street cleaners?
I'm totally guessing "Uniform" of the particular job you had, 

But if it's 85-degrees in Central park, what are you wearing in 1939-1946?

Bottom line (because you'll make shit up if I don't drive this home)

In "Fallout," many wore suits. That rotting corpse of a henchman, for example.
In REAL life, did they or didn't they wear suits?
Dammit, quit making shit up and telling everyone everywhere what you made up.

"Ahhhh, your father wore suspenders" (I'll edit this)

You prolly would NOT go to the bronx with your gargantuan camera to photograph the fauna,

You would wait til Sunday.

But, 

Wi-Fi went t... (it died)

Please click on each picture to see them...

 

And here I was ready to blame Tariffs.

It isn't available on Amazon anymore (otg) so I wanted to try this.
Unfortunately there is no data anywhere blaming this on static electricity or how long this fix works.

The enormous amount of Useless generic info on google could fill a large book (probably does) but whatever the reason, it worked (for now)

I don't know if this is related, but I'm bringing it up anyway.
I found the latest bluetooth driver and installed it here. 

I still needed a way to test it, and I decided to play it on my phone.

BIGgie mistake. I had to sell my soul to satan and turn on internet access (access to what???)

And I still don't know if bluetooth really works; They'd rather use internet.
I spent a few annoying minutes connecting/disconnecting/connecting again.
Do you all go through this?
I swear I've got some moldy headphones around that use bluetooth, I just can't remember where.

               

                Stuff worked, but using the internet is cheating and an invasion of privacy. They just can't stand you doing anything "offline"

I'm writing this still wondering if Bluetooth works correctly 

(what is with all the "Connect-disconnects?")

I noticed that the headphones didn't require any special tricks and connected instantly.
A really nice person has a free equalizer for them too! "Peter Verbeek," it says.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/peace-equalizer-apo-extension/

If I want a picture from my phone, I plug in a USB cable and copy it over, 

not give permission to make calls and read contacts and send it out over the internet...
Something is way wrong with their logic.
But then again, for the convenience of not using that usb cable, I should also be able to copy files using bluetooth (I've given up on streaming sound to a phone.)

I am pretty sure the bluetooth-part of my phone is willing, but people say I need an "App" which seems wasteful.
If the app needs wifi as well, and internet access, it seems pointless.

WUT?? No!

F*ck, something so simple, made complicated.

 

"999 refurbished," those inflations and Tariffs

https://georgielabs.net/ maybe.

multi(something)

 I remember this really mean guy.
And I remember that we're not supposed to like the UN, (I'm not sure what happened there).
One-worldism, "US out of UN," etc

So the mean guy was made a UN ambassador, (snarky dig?)

canonized to be Fox News commentator
(He's not WOke, no no no)

But that was so yesterday.

Different guy, nevermind

"Trump wants a peace prize" 

---

I'd need more context.
Like, OK, we read sometimes, that the stock market went up /down because some rich guy said something ominous, as if ALL stockholders make their decisions based on the summary in news articles?
Anyway, I figured it was related; maybe not.

(link)

---

I've fired the word "prorogue."

Eliminated a link to polls.
And something else, 
I forgot (half the reason I write stuff down is to remember it better)
"Bombastic / garrulous."
The Plague (Dark Ages) https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5BH8y7Pmq-g
"https://www.songofthesouth.net/"
"https://www.reddit.com/r/PropagandaPosters/comments/1ia3u66/godemperor_trump_aka_the_master_drone_a_20_metre/"
A TOT
https://fleursdumal.org/poem/126

My new watch (This damn editor)

the editor has gone nuts, filling in words randomly.

I've maybe pissed it off, being too bombastic or something.

(Using 'Chrome' for now)
Is my watch (a "Orient F6G4") *really*
an RK-Aw0003S (like the barcode on the box says) or is it the much more
Common "RE-yada-whatever?
I had many pictures, and histories of the world,
https://orphanrocks.blogspot.com/2022/05/history-of-world-stuff.html
And then this editor went insane.
Most of the original (e.g., "Shinola watches")  doesn't matter much anymore. (The editor just ate "Shinola" but I put it back.

Generic sales photo
"私を愛して絶望しろ！"

The hands are rather black in photos, but iridescent-dark-blue in real life.
I'm glad I'm not in some forum trying to prove that...

The same watch with an antique-toilet patina

Anyway, "Ebay" has tons of RK and RE watches, 3s and 4s, so ...maybe it really is an "RK"

https://bethcollier.substack.com/p/why-are-watches-in-ads-set-at-1010



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There's this photo I took of the back, when the wrapper was still on the back of the watch.
So it doesn't look clear and that is why.

There's a jewel in there somewhere, I swear.
But this was shrunk and optimized to death.
(Hope yer happy now)

I'm reading a vague statement that says Orient watches are really Epson watches.

Yeah, I know, but then what's the deal with all the movements?

Did craftsmen sweat late-nights creating the perfect movement, only to be conquered assimilated by Epson, and-or is this the "Wonder bread" version (cheap, generic) of what Orient used to be?
(see the blurb above, see the official statement below, I don't know)

https://calibercorner.com/orient-caliber-f6922/ has way more specific info on the subject.

Also a revealing statement that a watch-movement can cost $50.
(yeah but who's going to install the movement?)

"Akita Epson" is the name of the owner and the manufacturer of all Orient movements.

In Yuzawa, Akita, Japan. Or they were when the article was written.

"Tissot" say the voices, is popular. But it's quartz, Battery-powered, 

at least in my price-range or below it.

Hold on, I was totally wrong on the pecking order of Orient watches.

Orient,

Orient Star,

Orient Star Royal,

Royal Orient (right this exact second)

(Link)

It's like classifying salt or Olives, geez

A totally unrelated but much more sensible link:

https://www.brilliance.com/article/vs2-vs-vs1-clarity-diamonds

 A really unrelated link (on culture wars) has a cute untitled picture:

Watch

Also, there's a missing segment in my companion blog entry, "Russian Watches"

and the apparent interest in them.
They're about as pricey as "Shinola" watches, and look the same. 
I don't plan on adding them soon, plus "reddit" already talks tons about them.

My auto-winding magical-Lever upper-crusty "star" is nice.

"But *time* will tell"

---

So you want a car....

 Deceptive title but I'm about to talk about something 

soo technical that even armchair-bombasts falter.

Car analogy: you've decided, for whatever reason, to stick to gas-powered engines.
If I went into when they were made,

the history of pistons and cylinders, 

and some math thrown in, (to look impressive,) calculating power ratios,

Would you know which model you needed?

You'd still wonder which car was fastest or most economical.

Well, switch over to the extreme minutia surrounding wifi routers.
One is more expensive, because it has more features.

I wanna turn it off. "Mesh", "MLO", whatever.
Actually I don't care; some routers have to play little games,
Let this one play theirs.
But the hidden/ghost channel is just creepy.
A hidden channel broadcast by the router,
with a MAC address exactly one-away from the real channel.
(Explaining it is tiring)
This wasn't a problem before the firmware update.
Let other routers have their imaginary-friend channels, Mine was above that.
Until now.

Pointless

Insectoid invading Living room (You can name the room the bug is in I'm guessing, 

if you had many rooms and many bugs.
I go to prepare a room for you (he said, holding a can of RAID behind him) 

Digging myself a deeper grave.
"Big Brother" channel is still there, nothing to do but fritter
until THE END comes.

The bombast will reassure (and dig many minutia holes)

Maybe on Your router but not mine..

---

I don't want a "virtual private network" (I don't think), I don't want to add real life problems to theoretical benefits.
I DO (for the next 10 seconds) want a RADIUS validating server.
Maybe.
I mean, you have to trust the server and hope the hackers close by can't see you entering the agreed-upon password (which the server knows, and possibly gossips to anyone interested, nevermind!!)

back on topic:

No nodes here.

No recognized ones, anyway.

No (zero) nodes (it says) so WHY the hidden channel??

Messing around with my settings on a sweltering night ("sultry?") 
killed my keyboard and loses wifi every setting.
So anything I say I'll disclaim, tomorrow

"sultry," "Hot," whatever