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“They’re buying everything. Wine. Beer. Even water.”
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Hurricane News

The Times is providing free access to coverage of the hurricane on nytimes.com and its mobile apps.

Water Spinach

Somebody brought home a big bunch o' water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica), a morning glory for the drowning lands. It's being consumed even as I type.

I haz another coat o' paint on the front steps. They now look like tan shite instead o' faded, peeled, chocolate shite. It's amazing how colors fade in my mind under the lights at the paint store (Menards).

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Hook my baby asus

Up to the Samsung via hdmi and it thinks its gotta speaker. Bad netbook. Bad! Bad! Bad!

Computer Woes

Last Thursday or so, my desktop threw a memory error after I started it up for the day. Then it threw the same error again., so I went into the BIOS and randomly checked and unchecked things as I'm wont to do, and found a trigger for automatic overclocking, and had the brilliant idea of engaging that from the BIOS rather than the usual software application that I use. So up comes Windows, up comes the memory error, and down goes the motherboard.On, off, on, off, on, off, no motherboard boot sequence. Being late for work as usual at that point, I just fired up the netbook, hooked up the big monitor to it, and carried on. Friday came and went on the Netbook. Ditto for Saturday when I noticed my main email account was overflowing with SPAM. After clearing that up, and waiting until noon on Sunday, I gave in, took off the side panel on the desktop, punched the memory button which is supposed to tune the motherboard for almost every flavor of memory out there that fits in the slots, and off it booted. I didn't have to doodle with the three other motherboard troubleshooting switches. WooT!

Gingerbread?

Ma phone sez it's turning into gingerbread so I can't use it until it's done. I wonder if I gotta put it in the oven? How do you tell when it's done? I don't think I can stick a toothpick in it.

Republicans Against Science

By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: August 28, 2011

Jon Huntsman Jr., a former Utah governor and ambassador to China, isn’t a serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination. And that’s too bad, because Mr. Hunstman has been willing to say the unsayable about the G.O.P. — namely, that it is becoming the “anti-science party.” This is an enormously important development. And it should terrify us. More