Hotel parlor tricks.
"You have a water leak in the bathroom of room 410" says I to the person at the front desk.
"You're in room 410?" says they.
"No. We're in 310 appreciating the modern art show that's evolving on our bathroom ceiling."
A photo of the artwork. Artist: unkown
I'm shocked that they're shocked.
"A shocking 92 percent of US adults are not going to the doctor because it’s too expensive"
It's an easy choice when it's between a checkup or keeping the lights on and food on the table. *
* Also, totally not going to be a choice that comes back to bite us all in the ass.
When healthcare become a luxury item, I think it's safe to say we're failing as a country.
src: https://www.independent.co.uk/us/money/us-medical-costs-doctors-health-insurance-b3026479.html
What's next? Cameras to watch the cameras?
"All the Flock Cameras In This Town Got Sawed Down in One Weekend, and the Whole Town Is Playing Dumb"
Law enforcement and city councils don't seem to be hearing what people are trying to tell them.
Also: Who watches the watchers?
src: https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/flock-cameras-town-got-sawed-112531412.html
"We have met the enemy and he is us."
--Walt Kelly, "Pogo"
Our HOA just sent out an email telling homeowners that we're using too much damn water (my words) watering our lawns. The pond we draw the water from is "alarmingly low", they say.
This is the same psuedo-government that _MANDATES_ homeowner's landscapes be not less than 80% GRASS.
We're idiots and deserve dehydration.
I have no time for quitters.
My favorite eyebrow hair launched off my face and directly down the drain this morning as I was making ready to face the 90+ degree morning and mow my lawn.
Now Mrs Miasma is wondering who she should call because I'm standing over the bathroom sink yelling "coward!" down the drain.
I saw a program tonight that prompted me to make this poll. Two musicians were talking and wanted to know whether they were music or lyric focused on the songs they like to listen to.
Mrs Miasma cares almost nothing for the lyrics of a song she likes (maybe 10%) whereas I feel like 95% of the reason I like a song is the poetry in the lyrics.
How about you? Also, I'd love to know your favorite genre of music.
“It is not something that we want to ever have to experience again.”
--Erin Lamb, administrative and public affairs coordinator for the BOPU
How bad do you have to be to get your "sewer privileges" permanently revoked?
I understand the water district intends on making the data center pay for the cost of the clean up but my question is: what are they going to do with the contaminated water the facility will (I assume) continue to generate?
These are America's ten worst states to live in for 2026 according to a recent CNBC article.
10. Arkansas (103)
9. Oklahoma (103)
8. Alabama (99)
7. Missouri (98)
6. Utah (95)
5. Georgia (89)
4. Louisiana (89)
3. Indiana (82)
2. Texas (78)
⭐ Tennessee (64)
I did a bit of light digging and every single state on this list has a Republican governor and a Republican majority in their state legislatures.
Crazy, right?
src: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/11/worst-states-to-live-in-america-2026.html
A god for me but not for thee.
Homo neanderthalensis, homo heidelbergensis and Denisova hominins all lived during the same time as early homo sapiens. Apparently, as cousins sometimes do, they even interbred with us. (Not sure how I feel about that "cousin" allegory now that I've written it. Ick.)
Now I'm wondering why God seemed to love them a little less than he supposedly loves us.
He didn't even give them an associate producer credit in the bible.
A comparative travel quote I found this morning:
"Seriously, in America, if you travel for ten hours in a car, you might still be in the same state. If you travel by car for ten hours in Europe, everyone's talking funny and the cheese is different."
--KaimeiJay
How I would flunk out of the Texas public education system in 2030.
"Texas makes Bible passages required reading for millions of public school students"
Yeah, that'd do it.
src: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/26/texas-bible-required-reading-public-school
So they're building a wrassling cage on the White House lawn.
I'd be embarrassed for us if I had any shame left to feel.
Oh, oh! Guess what I found in the used Science Fiction section of worlds largest independent bookstore (Powell's in Portland, Oregon)?
Also, I can state with a reasonable (for me) degree of confidence that there is no such thing as a comfortable hotel bed.
Sample size: 5
Margin of error: ridiculously large
Road trip trivia.
Duration: 11 days
Total drive time: 32 hours
Total distance: 2,142 miles/3,344 km
Gas (Petrol) consumed: 93 US gallons or 352.5 liters
States visited: 5
License plates observed:
- 42 of the 50 US state license plates (including Alaska and Hawaii)
- 3 Canadian Provinces
- 1 Costa Rica
- 1 EU
We're all some road-traveling fools here in 2026.
We only saw two other Wyoming license plates outside of Wyoming. I guess they only let us out of the state four at a time.
I don't know why historical researchers or people who have to be accurate in their work output don't want to work with AI...
Jonathan Winters spent 2 1/2 years in the United States Marine Corps fighting in the Pacific Theater during World War II. At the time of his discharge, he was a Corporal (a non-commissioned officer rank). He was never in the Navy, never a commissioned officer, never a SEAL, never a rear admiral and never commanded special operations units.
Wrong on all counts.
I think I have a new marketing slogan:
AI - the tool to use when you want to remove ALL the safeties we tried to install to protect you from you.
DROP DATABASE
This should _not_ make me laugh but schadenfreude is real.
9 seconds is damned impressive. I couldn't manage that on my best day as a SysAdmin.
"Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue"
*Edited link.