Althouse: "I’m not the kind of squirrel who gives up just like that...."

March 14, 2026

"I’m not the kind of squirrel who gives up just like that...."

Our squirrel is Blondie.

28 comments:

bagoh20 said...: +10; 3/14/26, 5:00 PM
bagoh20 said...: It's cool to see the ice disappear so quickly. Well maybe cool is the wrong word. It's hot, like Blonde in 1981, when I had three jobs at $5/hr in L.A. that I had to ride a bicycle from one to the other as fast as I could across the ghettos where the lovely residents would throw bottle at me like they do as I passed like squirrel chasing nuts. Good times, and the song brings them back every time.; 3/14/26, 5:04 PM
mccullough said...: How many blond squirrels does it take to find an acorn?; 3/14/26, 5:13 PM
rehajm said...: …besides the gray ones we have, blondes, albinos, all blacks, and some that look like bears…; 3/14/26, 5:34 PM
Quaestor said...: "...the kind of things you do to me."

Like putting a .22LR through your tiny brain and making a hobo stew from your muscular remains?; 3/14/26, 6:11 PM
Inga said...: Trump claims he won the war, yet he has been reduced to begging other countries to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz.; 3/14/26, 6:35 PM
Jaq said...: One similar to that did $6,000 damage to my car, not only drained the brake fluid, but he chewed up the wiring, so the dashboard lit like a Christmas tree, and the wheels locked when I tried to move it. Then I found a pile of seed shells on the battery if the other car, so I trapped him and took him for a ride... But I also endorse Quaestor's idea.; 3/14/26, 6:38 PM
Inga said...: Sorry I didn’t comment on the squirrel, but color of the squirrel reminded me of Trump.; 3/14/26, 6:38 PM
MikeD said...: That's what Peanut and his buddy Fred said, look where that got them.; 3/14/26, 6:40 PM
n.n said...: Albinos? Integrated Rainbows are rare. White people are a unique minority.; 3/14/26, 6:41 PM
Jim at said...: Sorry I didn’t comment on the squirrel, but color of the squirrel reminded me of Trump. - Inga

"I don’t think about Trump if I can help it." - also Inga; 3/14/26, 6:46 PM
Aggie said...: "...Sorry I didn’t comment on the squirrel, but color of the squirrel reminded me of Trump..."

It's a big, beautiful squirrel. A perfect squirrel, a squirrel, I'm telling ya, it's a squirrel like nobody's ever seen before.; 3/14/26, 6:48 PM
Aggie said...: "...Like putting a .22LR through your tiny brain and making a hobo stew from your muscular remains? ..."

Too much gun. All you really need is a pellet gun and a little bit of practice, and that .177 caliber at lower speed does less damage. You could even use a little curare.

Just remember: Put the pellet with the poison in the squirrel with the curl, not the fence that is dense.; 3/14/26, 6:50 PM
Rory said...: No squirrel is the kind of squirrel who gives up just like that.; 3/14/26, 6:58 PM
Meade said...: “… and making a hobo stew from your muscular remains?”
In a gurglin', cracklin' cauldron in some train yard?; 3/14/26, 6:59 PM
Achilles said...: Inga said...

Sorry I didn’t comment on the squirrel, but color of the squirrel reminded me of Trump.

That is because you are a retard that doesn't know how to think for yourself.; 3/14/26, 7:03 PM
Aggie said...: Gentle on my gut.; 3/14/26, 7:06 PM
Achilles said...: I know it is hard to think about anything other than the shiny things being waved in front of you right now.

I just ran two smoke tests with 2 claude opus agents running parallel on a full project lifecycle using the autonomous_operation_protocol they helped me write.

The first test failed because my product atomization phase advanced to execution phase and the phase gate failed to check for empty leaf products that lacked capabilities, attributes, and validations.

After I updated the phase gate it called the product readiness protocol and it forced an atomized task operation call on all empty product leafs in my product tree.

The second test ran to the end and it called an escalation that required human intervention after 15 minutes. I had to go to the api services page and get OAuth client IDs and url redirects.

I am testing the mobile web app this thing just wrote for me while I was building the autonomous agent harness with token collection and a redirect to my local.

I don't know how to tell people but this is the end of the world one way or the other.; 3/14/26, 7:18 PM
n.n said...: A SoO like PoO. Diversity.; 3/14/26, 7:19 PM
rosebud said...: The real Debra Hairy; 3/14/26, 7:32 PM
Narr said...: "I don't know how to tell people but this is the end of the world one way or another."

Died of jargon.

Sad!; 3/14/26, 9:13 PM
Quaestor said...: In a gurglin', cracklin' cauldron in some train yard?; 3/14/26, 9:51 PM
Quaestor said...: 72 hours.; 3/14/26, 10:58 PM
Magilla Gorilla said...: Achilles, you might find that the Rockwell retro encabulator could solve your problem (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w).; 3/15/26, 7:35 AM
rehajm said...: The tide is high, the havahart trap sinks…; 3/15/26, 9:26 AM
Kevin said...: "I don't know how to tell people but this is the end of the world one way or another."

It's the end of the squirrel as we know it.; 3/15/26, 10:38 AM
narciso said...: You are the otter of your own fate; 3/15/26, 12:12 PM
Fred Drinkwater said...: Achilles, I retired for a reason, you know.; 3/15/26, 1:54 PM