Althouse: From a walk in the rain at 5:43 in the evening.

October 4, 2021

From a walk in the rain at 5:43 in the evening.

Talk about anything you want in the comments.

29 comments:

Iman said...: I made the mistake of watching Two thumbs down 👎🏼 👎🏼 for "The Many Saints of Newark - The Castratos"... whadda stinker...

Worst case, billed as a really good, long episode of the Sopranos, it missed the mark. Acting by youngsters playing characters was terrible, more like spoofs/send-ups. Weak storyline, you name it.; 10/4/21, 7:23 PM
Narr said...: So, wife and I have been struggling with the simple and easy installation of our new cable box and remote off and on for two days.

She has reached several promising screens by different routes, but there's always some crucial failure to advance beyond those points. My wife has more patience with gadgetry than I do; if I can't make something work after a few tries I'm happy to pay an expert to fix it-- I lack the tinkering gene almost entirely.

Between the loss of our normal cable fare, and the social media troubles that affect her but not me, we're having a forced hiatus.

Fortunately Althouse's all-night windmill still turns.; 10/4/21, 8:00 PM
Iman said...: Also saw Squeeze - with opening act The (English) Beat - last night and it was good for one’s soul. So good to see people together and having a great time.

A serious dose of early ‘80s rock & ska and it was glorious!!; 10/4/21, 9:03 PM
Narr said...: NPR just reported that Bubba Wallace has been declared the winner at Talladega. They helpfully reminded the national public that a noose was discovered in Bubba Wallace's garage last year.

No, they really said that. Correct me if I'm wrong, but no noose was ever found--only a door pull.

But hey, narratives gotta narrative, amirite?; 10/4/21, 9:08 PM
Big Mike said...: The harassment of Senator Kirsten Sinema strikes me as going well beyond what is decent and proper. No one, Senator or otherwise, should be screamed at while they are in a stall in a restroom. You’d think Joe Biden would understand that, but noooo. From Twitchy:

“One journo mentioned videos showing people on kayaks paddling to Sen. Joe Manchin’s houseboat and activists who followed Sen. Kyrsten Gillibrand into a bathroom and asked Biden if those were appropriate tactics. Biden’s answer? It’s not appropriate but hey, it’s ‘part of the process’”; 10/4/21, 9:54 PM
LA_Bob said...: Speaking of gray clouds and a walk in the rain, we had a thunderstorm tonight in the LA area. Hard rain for a few minutes. Nice.; 10/4/21, 10:01 PM
Big Mike said...: I see that Fauci had backed down from his statement last week that that it was “too soon to tell” whether people should avoid Christmas gatherings. Today he claimed that he would himself be getting together with family for Christmas, and that he was “quoted out of context.”

Ah, Tony, let me explain about this new-fangled thing called video …; 10/4/21, 10:01 PM
Sarthurk said...: We just did the first BBQ of steaks from the half 'O' beef we brought home Saturday.
So good . . .
Our Rain tomorrow . . . Central OR coast.

Sarthurk; 10/4/21, 10:29 PM
n said...: There is no bad weather; only bad gear.; 10/4/21, 11:01 PM
n said...: There is no bad weather, only bad gear.; 10/4/21, 11:01 PM
Mutaman said...: "Make America Great Again Again"

Just when I think that their stupidity has reached its ceiling, they pull me back in.

"National Finance Chair Kimberly Guilfoyle"; 10/5/21, 12:59 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: For a long time Norm refused to bend the knee to the powers that be. So when comedians now pay tribute to Norm, I question how genuine that is. For the most part the overwhelming majority of them cowers in fear and the craft, the art suffers and we suffer.; 10/5/21, 1:44 AM
Big Mike said...: Ron DeSantis’ wife has been diagnosed with breast cancer. I assume that the people of Madison are joining the rest of the Democrat Party in hoping she dies of it.; 10/5/21, 3:14 AM
Humperdink said...: Throughout the dempanic, Ivermectin has been banished as a treatment in the US. India is having great success with it. It's cheap and effective. Now Merck has come out with a wonder drug that apparently works, but will be very expensive. Can anyone hazard a guess as to who makes Ivermectin? (Hint: M***k); 10/5/21, 4:45 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: There's this...
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/China-PCR-test-orders-soared-before-first-confirmed-COVID-case
Some xenophobic crazy closed the border on them.
WWJD What Would Joe Do?; 10/5/21, 5:48 AM
Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of New York said...: Oh gee. Seinfeld is on Netflix, the whole 9 seasons. Crap, how am I going to get anything done in the next couple of days. I just want to move back to the '90s. Big telephones that could substitute as murder weapons, no social media. Movies were creative and original.; 10/5/21, 6:07 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Rain you say? Here's to another coverup
https://www.newsmax.com/us/hurricane-ida-louisiana-third-world-conditions/2021/10/05/id/1039159/
Harold Geneen once said Be grateful you don't get all the government you pay for".
FEMA sees to that!; 10/5/21, 6:18 AM
Tank said...: MICHELLE GOLDBERG

What’s Wrong With Kyrsten Sinema?

There’s a difference between being a maverick and being a narcissist.

This made me LOL. See, for example: John McCain.

I admit I did not read the article.; 10/5/21, 7:14 AM
wendybar said...: Iman said...I made the mistake of watching Two thumbs down 👎🏼 👎🏼 for "The Many Saints of Newark - The Castratos"... whadda stinker...

I taped the first season of The Sopranos last week as I have NEVER seen it. I watched the pilot...which I thought was boring as hell....and then watched the second episode hoping it would get better. What a boring show. I deleted the whole thing. No thanks. Better stuff to do with my time.; 10/5/21, 7:26 AM
tim maguire said...: Narr said...if I can't make something work after a few tries I'm happy to pay an expert to fix it-- I lack the tinkering gene almost entirely.

Too bad that you don't get any satisfaction out of it. You might be amazed at how much stuff you can figure out by pushing buttons and paying attention. I'm raising my daughter to be comfortable with the idea, "try it and see what happens."; 10/5/21, 7:33 AM
Fernandinande said...: They helpfully reminded the national public that a noose was discovered in Bubba Wallace's garage last year.

Besides their lock-step false claims about the garage door pull, the MSM also falsely claims that Wallace is black.; 10/5/21, 7:48 AM
Big Mike said...: @BUMBLE BEE, thanks for the link. Remarkably even-handed reporting for Reuters. How did I know that Trump’s response to the hurricanes during his tenure, as President like Irma, Harvey, Maria, and Dorian, was outstanding? There was essentially no media coverage of his recovery efforts. The exception was the hurricane that hit Puerto Rico, and even that was only covered until it became clear that the Democrats in charge of the island were ripping off the supplies.

And how do I know that Biden’s administration has been a disaster piled atop a disaster? Same lack of news media coverage!; 10/5/21, 8:29 AM
Joe Smith said...: Were you laughing and walking hand-in-hand?; 10/5/21, 8:41 AM
Original Mike said...: "I'm raising my daughter to be comfortable with the idea, "try it and see what happens.""

Having worked around high voltage and experimental x-ray machines my whole career, I just never have never been comfortable with that approach.; 10/5/21, 9:55 AM
Narr said...: I don't want to figure out how things work, I want them to work.

When we moved into our state-of-the-art library building in 1994, one of the great features for my rare books and mss collections was climate control. Two big units, one for each stack area, to regulate the temps and humidity.

They never worked to spec. Neither our building manager nor the physical plant guys could make them behave for more than a few weeks at a time, and it got so that the warning beepers were just ambient noise.

My student worker at the time of the move had been a nuke in a submarine--he looked at the manual once, about 60 pages, and we did push a few buttons as recommended, but to no effect that we could see.

When I visit now, I still hear the beeping from the mechanical rooms.; 10/5/21, 11:13 AM
Original Mike said...: I hate the "push it and see what happens" approach. On top of the time spent getting the result I want, I find myself spending lots of additional time cleaning up the resulting mess. I was flabbergasted when the tech world stopped producing manuals for their products, but people accepted it and now they're off the hook.

I find myself just avoiding tech I don't really need.; 10/5/21, 11:48 AM
TheOne Who Is Not Obeyed said...: Having been a parachute rigger and a cartographer, I both read manuals and ask directions. I HATE not knowing where I am or how something is supposed to work. I suspect this makes me less masculine in the eyes of some. But my wife greatly appreciates these behaviors.; 10/5/21, 2:04 PM
Narr said...: Don't get me wrong, we've tried to understand the sometimes conflicting and seldom clear instructions that came with the new equipment, with the inadequately illustrated little booklet and with the online help--automated hell.

ITOFTS.; 10/5/21, 2:07 PM
Narr said...: Does the egg suit my facial skin tone?

Our son came by after work. He did everything we had done, and more, and was about to give up when he asked, "Have you tried restarting the router?"

The router, which is in the office with the PC and not the living room with the TV. Out of sight, out of consideration.

Now we only lack some of the channels that are supposed to be in the plan, but not our favorites.; 10/5/21, 6:25 PM