Kfc to infinity

 I don't remember 

how many of my blogs mention KFC

and this entry gets distracted,

By bearded wrestlers eating

"Everything on the menu".

I get so hungry for KFC!

But with taxes delivery charges and a tip

It could be as much as $45.....

Is that reasonable, prudent, far-sighted?

No.

Tuesday, huh? And what hoops do I have to jump over come Tuesday?

Print a coupon, remember a code, and not available in your state, on cloudy days, right?

25 and tax, and my greasy lips are smearing my shabby clothes!

Better than I remember.

I want a laptop now!!!

Decent laptops are more than I can afford!

Some pricey laptops have little storage, small memories.

"Best of" sites are too expensive.

They get commissions, Own stores, IDK,

But nothing should be that high!

I will update this.

Wifi 7 or 6e.

32 gigs ram

A 1tb or 2tb nvme.

"DC16251" is no-touch, windows-home pc, nothing fancy, and yet it costs tons.

It has no name , nothing to set it apart, but I like it, online (in theory)

How many times have I read some preachy guy tell a newbie to check his video card, and the new guy has some supercharged card?

But the preachy guy preaches on anyway.

*My* laptop , underpowered as it is. Will still play mahjongg and solitaire.

It might not have "6e" (see pic)

Now I have to go check, having chosen the cheeeepest one using that vague model number.

6e is acceptable

Ax(e) ok

AC showing its age

AN hoary

G

B

A

R.i.p

In fact, they add doohickey-letters about every year now, and have planned frequencies for the future.

First they toss off an excuse why wifi 7 hasn't appeared, then it does and no one cares. 6e does almost  the same as 7. But they scared me when they just said "6" (no "e")

But I won't know for a while.

Tight little summary (I hope)

It won't have all the fixin's, the extras,

But it also won't get too hot and melt the case and die.

We hope.

Fallout-something

 You really have to read reddit to get the fallout reference.

My insipid writing doesn't compare to their pithy posts,

ignoring the newshour-length bombasts.

Anyway the official news link

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/30/nx-s1-5590818/trump-nuclear-testing

At reddit, They aren't of one mind, either.

"Testing is not using"

To which someone remarked that radiation is radiation.

"No, deep hole tests"

Says who?

Whatever new tech they discover will quickly be leaked to everyone everywhere 

"What could go wrong?" Someone wrote. 

They didn't have a ready answer.

"We'll be shooting blanks" said someone else. But this isn't plane or missile testing, it's nuclear. Did project 2025 call?

I severely do not know how to blog on phones!  Every time I reach for the spacebar, the browser closes! It took me five minutes to write that bit about the spacebar!!!

Everyone writes with these damn things and no one likes the actual keyboard?

Insane Maia (Make america in...takes too long to write ✍️.

Testing.

I see exactly one or two lines of text, and my memory cannot hold the previous

Paragraph. Sloo where is the delete key on android keyboard?

Hold delete key then drag, what crap 

By the time you can drag, the sentence disappears! Definitely not!

Dragging (like they say) chooses words to the left .

Testing

3AM TOT: weight-bearing wheels

 I start writing an intro for this and I'm stopped by all the math and engineering.
If you're so good at math, why do you put teeny wheels on enormously tall very heavy equipment?
The designer of a parking lot wasn't thinking about carts when he designed that gentle slope.

Well anyway, the cart with the theoretical large wheels, and the expensive bearings, would roll away too easily, hit something and fall over ruining Thousands of dollars and your job, and you might even get a spot on youtube from an unhelpful cameraman.

My patent-pending design with the large wheels, needs bearings, sure, but it also needs variable brakes.

Dead-man brakes (Handles you push to progressively ease the cart into motion.) let go, it stops.
Push,*slowly*, and it eases forward.

Buuut no, you'll keep putting those miniature metal wheels that make a person use a ton of effort to move a couple feet, and if it should hit an extension cord,

it falls over!
Small wheels in factories are better, I just don't know why.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskScienceDiscussion/comments/1ge586o/larger_diameter_or_smaller_diameter_wheels_to/

Rant mode:

You're a pedigreed engineer, you know this stuff, but you do it anyway

And don't ask "Reddit,"

They'll get all snarky.

Panic-buying fat people at 2pm vs yogurt-shoppers at 6AM, I an NOT talking "Shopping carts", bless their hearts for coming up with general-purpose transportation. 

Or, moving a couch down a steep hill, once every ten years...

No, *factories* should have decent equipment you could use, unless it's a gargantuan factory with hoarders requiring a chit (an MRO)

wut? (I am not a bot nor an agency)

 I wanted to change some settings in my blog, maybe get more readers (I think Bing knows me, but not google?)

I saw a google measurement ID.
Wut?
So I looked.
I can analyze you coming to read this, maybe taking note of what you read.
Is that creepy or what?

Hungry zombies shouting "Cookies, cookies!!!" and if you reject them all, the site goes all blurry.
Talk mostly to myself, or be a cog in the corporate machinery.

This is a WIP and might or might not be continued.

But, why are my comments broken?
If they worked, would you have much to say, or just advertise me to death??

Number 2 is in greek.
and 4-5, *I* have a "data stream"?
What the hell is a "data stream" (and don't say "a stream of data")

"For your business"
All our ships must sail in the same direction

The internet is a business, mostly, meant to attract customers.
I don't sell anything.

Trenchant makes tools for hacking, and then one of their hackers was hacked,

according to some front-page filler.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/apple-alerts-exploit-developer-that-his-iphone-was-targeted-with-government-spyware/

I don't know enough about this spin to spin it any other way....except a hacker who works for the government is renamed an "Exploit developer"

What is our world coming to, when a hacker can't hack in peace??

And all the shills spout, "IOS cannot be hacked"...they built a whole *company* on the vulnerabilities..

Random video Click

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                                   switch

                                     to make iPhone safer, less gossipy (you hope)

but I'm no spinner of tales.
BTW those thingies that block pages from being read until you click on them, look innocent enough, and maybe they are.
Maybe.

"It's just a building"

And my apartment is just an apartment.
And all my stuff is just stuff.

And the Liberty bell is just a giant hunk of metal.

Random video where some guy drips symbology (symbolism? Parables!)

Bye bye American Pie

 That song makes little sense to me, and high-schoolers older than me pretended to know the code.
Well here's another code (metaphor, parable, whatever)

National review's fans all agree

and anyway they have their arsenal of talking points (read the comments)

Baltimore-something....

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/10/21/trump-white-house-demolition-east-wing-ballroom/86817272007/

Cleverly written to make Google's front page

I wonder how long it will take for a future someone to turn it into a biggie library, a museum, or a hostel for homeless immigrants (just to piss you off)

But half the country (See "national review") are orgasmic about the whole thing, "a ballroom."

My John Bircher-uncle would have been so pleased.

I don't follow construction costs, like sewer-lines and paneling, and, well, I was just *wondering*

where the hundreds of millions of dollars are going to.
A contractor who shares the profits with the Trump dynasty?

The phraseology changes but the meaning looks the same

Thus Trump garners yet another headline, and if they gave awards for Newsmakers, he would certainly deserve an award, He's been on Google's top front page for years.

(Anyway, I'm promoting this link)


This next bit has nothing to do with anything; I just like the link.

https://www.tiktok.com/@leatham36/video/7241181748313279786?lang=en

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I DON'T like this link but that's like an actor saying he doesn't like the script,  "propaganda for middle-aged kids"



This HTML editor will kill me, with all the nested "DIV's" it adds, and I am slashing through a thick jungle of them right now.

I had a train of thought going on and sort of lost it, after "Politico" quoted "The CEO of X strategies" which is a guy and his friends, but you'd think it was a gargantuan consulting firm.
I don't like Politico, I just can't really say why.
They sort of mask campaigning behind off-the-cuff remarks and trendy posts (not "Politico," the posts and the remarks) which then get picked up by biggie publications (like Politico).
And if Trump utters a few words, it's plastered worldwide on headline news, you see where I'm going? (maybe not, nevermind)

The bunker is below it

an AECOM project

"underneath the East Wing" Currently being demolished

The white-house-military office (run by some high-up guy, and I spent long minutes looking)

is the one overseeing the bunker-renovation, or so says the press.
I'm guessing Hegseth will want a biggie part. 
Let's hope whoever the guy really is, knows about construction and ergonomics, hmm

Google is being exceedingly vague as to who
and what he looks like

The one in the suit on the right (maybe)

No one anywhere is mentioning the bunker much, they keep harping about "Ballrooms"

and I'm not speaking clearly-enough when I say 200/250/300-million is a lot of money for dancing,

unless you include the bunker.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/10/23/2350035/-Do-you-know-what-s-under-the-East-Wing

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5571632-trump-white-house-east-wing/

Train of thought: (Don't read between my lines!) https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/04/politics/white-house-bunker-history

I wonder (being so incredibly bad at math) what "90,000 square feet" is.
A baseball field, a soccer field?
Anyway when you add in the bunker it makes more sense.

"Big box store"
You mean a "Mall", right?
A typical "Best Buy" is 30,000 square feet,
according to you (Google AI)
The biggiest ballroom would be swallowed up.
But a *bunker*, ok.
With the stargate and the extra alien stuff,
the apartments for the president and his closest friends,
the press, ok.
(But why don't they just say that?)

They won't divulge square footage, I'll keep looking

Right this exact second, I can edit these things but NOT read the published blog, because it says I'm not 18.
Ahhh, to be 17 again.

I might have to remove the "Sensitive content" thingy.
I'd reaaaally rather not.
Geez are you kidding?

Too many militant moms out there.
They'd rather have their kids die of measles than to have someone tell them they need a vaccine.

From Fallout 4
"Herd Immunity,"
From my own train of thought

I agree (kind of) on "Mandates" but you can't remove mandates, or if you can they won't.
(I'm getting off topic)

How in hell do I read my own front page without warping your fragile-little-minded spawn?

I want to at least ostensibly keep my content from kids, I cuss too freely for them.

"Ostensibly" meaning they know more about account hacking than adults, and they get away with it cuz they're "kids", the little darlings, grrrrr

Well, it's gone, I hope you're happy.

I'll put it back very soon.

I could have used a credit card.

But wait, how would you know I wasn't a kid using a credit card?
I could have used my state-ID.
(But wait, how would you know yada blah?)

OK FINE, now someone has my mugshot.

Massively huge face-recognition software like on cop shows, or random evaluator (I wasn't wearing any teeth)??

Now we await the news that evaluator.com (whoever) has been severely hacked and the massive database was downloaded, it's unclear by whom (NSA? A kid? Korea?)

My "Opinions" blog is buried under a pile of folderol, and I want to link it here 

Ble?
(Gas and Oil??)
Blame the ad, blame obama
(but it's oil, and water, right?)

My back arrow

 https://gizmodo.com/sam-altman-lord-forgive-me-its-time-to-go-back-to-the-old-chatgpt-2000672231

Terms: "AMA" ("ask me Anything")

Topics: People get sued for, uh, damn near anything (I'll get back to this one)

People (mentally healthy ones) liked ChatGPT 4 beeeeecause, it was personable and less expensive?
5 is too cold and unfeeling, they feel forlorn bereft and unsatisfied.

My 2c: the only people profiting off of chat-yada would be advertising, they could let machines try to win your heart with catchy phrases, little jingles, and hot AI women, but that's just my 2c.

Lonely people romancing bots is more of a sideline no one would talk about.

Here, a picture.

Oh, listen: The article has nested links that link to more links. ALL the links (in the article) used one single tab.
Thank you, back arrow.

Gizmodo had another article, something about the future of Doctor Who, which I feel that I know even less about.
I wrote (didn't I?) that you pick your show, and the streaming service broadcasting that show,

and the ISP letting you stream,

aaand..I wrote it's too expensive, and gave up. Fiber is tied up with little introductory deals and purported temporary discounts that kick in after three months, but end eventually (they don't say when or how.)
In other words, slowish fiber looks cheap, but there is too much fine print to worry about.
And I'm not eligible anyway (They don't like apartment complexes?)

53+37+tax and fees, let's guess $99

It must've taken an AI computer to come up with the convoluted rate-structure.

Why did they need "Speedtest"? Don't they control their own speed, or does it change on cloudy days or when the president visits?

I'm not convinced.

$142, optimistically AI

For $99 (before discounts) 2gig would be attractive...

And I already have a phone. 

There are other companies, just as restrictive and with weird rules.
Who could possibly afford competing streaming services (two or three) on top of the transmission rate (eg, $99) to watch their favorite shows? we're talking maybe the better part of $200 a month.

People pay tons I know, slavishly signing contracts for discounts...
I don't have a contract nor any discounts. I pay $105 a month (NO streaming)

add, o, maybe, 20+20+20 for streaming...and fees and tax...169? Or is that wishful thinking (premium-movie fees, live event fees) nevermind.

That's nice (Who is she again?)
Surfeit-facade of "MAGA" with a plot I didn't watch (the summary-video was too long)
https://www.google.com/search?q=wandavision+gop+propaganda&oq=wandavision+gop+propaganda

Save $12, watch "Bewitched"

Speaking of stuff I know less than nothing about,

I've had bluetooth for years, and never use it.
Someone somewhere has a bluetooth 65" TV that shows up.
That's just creepy, and the reason I don't use a bluetooth keyboard, but that's digressing....

Um, OK it says "connect" and it does, and four seconds later it disconnects, from my pixel phone.

Both devices ask me if I want to connect, and here is my code, do I want to connect?
Yes!

It connects!

Then disconnects.

On a hunch, I sent a file from the PC to the phone.

Do I want the file?
Yes, I want the file!

Transferring...

I'm guessing that a person needs a streaming app.

Right? 
IDK.

This is just silly. Bloviated BS.
(I mean, I transferred the file yesterday (no flies on me)
But this newfangled-whippersnapper audio app 
proclaimed superiority. Big fail.
It transfers a file, and then I play it, wtf is that?
What if my phone had some podcast going, or an FM radio?

Bleh-bleh-bla,-bla,
(It should be built in to windows or what the hell is windows for anyway, besides updates)

"No proven link"

"I need to see your contacts, and your call-history, OK? "

I'm always imagining that Bluetooth is the hot girl on the subway with a few friends she wants to share songs with.
With *my* setup, all she could do is transmit files and let the receivers use their players to play it.

Doubtless you've all figured this out since 2004 when you were 8, but I don't know how to "stream" anything.

I can send and receive files, that's it.

Edit:
A $5 program added a doohickey that lets my PC receive audio. I'm a little short on details..

"Alternative A2DP License," is That what I want?
OMG,wut?
You done HAD to bring that up,
now I'll be riddled with recriminations and self-doubt

So, (as in ages past) I look for a player that uses bluetooth, lose interest and ten years go by.

They've been saying that since I was eight and too naive to know that you never bring this up in conversation; let it lie encrusted in ancient tomes.
I Don't know (since I was eight)

They make these IQ tests, and no one really knows what they measure except that they seem to like math.

They do not split up the tests from math and verbal skills.

and, they reeely want to know how old you are, and if you're a guy or a girl.

My SAT and ACT both said "good luck fishing for shrimp" on math,

(Link)

but my verbal was impressive (so they stuck me in a damn class full of upper-crusties where I failed on "Term paper."

Term papers are my brick wall, my waterloo. (Do blogs count?)

Anyway I finally found an IQ test online that said my IQ was exactly the same as 40 years ago.
No alzheimer's here! I'll die happy.