neonvincent

No Sunday entertainment feature today
Still no Sunday entertainment feature

At least I'm back now.

I wish Science Magazine had uploaded this in time for 'Can a twice-a-year shot help end the HIV/AIDS epidemic' — Science Magazine's 2024 Breakthrough of the year, but it came out in time for 'How cheap renewable energy is finally flattening emissions' is Science Magazine's 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. Darn.

I've had three posts removed from the Crazy Eddie's Motie News Facebook page this month for "spamming."   I'm not doing anything different at that page since I created that page years ago.  Instead, I think a new follower is reporting me for potentially (too) popular political content.  It's likely a U.S. conservative, but Marcy "Emptywheel" Wheeler reported that Russia has compiled a list of over 1,900 “anti-influencers” and I'm wondering if I got on that list.  If so, yay, the right enemies, but boo, they might be causing me trouble with Facebook.  Either way, it's annoying. Let's hope this stops after the election.

While most of this video was off-topic for Local news coverage of marching bands in the 2023 Macy's Parade for Thanksgiving, the subject line and preview image would have worked.

My Twitter follower count passed 500 three weeks ago and reached 507 the day before Elon Musk took over.  I now have 495 followers and am 2 below where I was 28 days ago.  Looks like people are deactivating or deleting their accounts and leaving the service.  So, anyone know anything about Mastodon?

After I came home last night, the hot water pipe thawed out.  My wife and I kept the water flowing all night long to avoid a repeat.  We'll do it again tonight, despite it keeping my wife up last night.

I wrote only one comment that I saved, my comment on 'Murder hornets' return to Washington state on World Honey Bee Day.

"Welcome, all of you coming to me from Infidel753's blog and thanks, Infidel! Please read my followup to this post, First 'murder hornet' nest of 2021 eliminated in Washington state."

I didn't write comments on anyone else's blog last month. I credit/blame that on returning to in-person teaching, which has sucked up a lot of my time and energy.

I wasn't very chatty last month, leaving only two comments worth recording, both at ecosophia .

My comment on Dreamwidth Links.

Here's the link to my Dreamwidth journal: https://neonvincent.dreamwidth.org/. To see my interests, click on my profile. I've had the journal for 10 years and post nearly every day. I mostly use it as my blogging attic, posting monthly statistics updates, videos and images that I decided not to use along with links to the blog posts that they were considered for, and ideas for future blogging at my main blog, Crazy Eddie's Motie News. I also post my saved comments on other blogs, posts I share at the Coffee Party USA blog, and my current tweets and Facebook statuses. If you want to rummage through my blogging attic, subscribe to my journal. You might find something interesting there.

My comment on The Bodhisattva in Orange.

"All I want for Christmas is a ten foot Trump" — I'd have to check if the Chinese factory selling giant inflatable Donald Trump roosters in 2017 for the Year of the Rooster still has them in stock: "A factory in eastern China has been doing a brisk business selling giant inflatable roosters, some as tall as 16 feet, based on a design widely perceived to resemble President-elect Donald Trump." One of those is probably close to ten feet tall, which is closer than a twenty-foot-tall blimp of Trump as a baby, which people on the Left might actually like.

I summed up my attitude last month with a note to myself after reading another entry: "I decided against leaving a comment after reading the first set of other readers' comments. I felt it would be like throwing truffles in front of swine; the readers would eat them and turn them into poop." Let's see if I feel more like commenting this month.

Two months ago, I posted that I was able to log on to Star Wars: The Old Republic for the first time in a month.  Three weeks ago, I started having problems with the game again, as it would crash my computer after being on for ten minutes.  That's the kind of problem I had in July that made me turn down all my graphics settings so I could continue playing.  It also made my wife and I buy a new CPU that has been sitting behind me waiting for me to copy down my logins and passwords so I could set it up.  Well, today, the computer crashed during a Zoom call for work.  That does it.  I will be setting up the computer this weekend.

I have been unable to play SW:TOR for more than a month because the update that I downloaded on Election Day causes the game to crash as soon as I click "play."  That's the bad news.  The good news is that I've used the past month to catch up on my work, which I mostly have.  However, I do miss the game, which is why I've been looking forward to the next update, which came out today.  I know it includes the Life Day overlay for the game.  What I'm hoping for is that it fixes the glitch that kicked me out of the game for the past month.  I'm not optimistic, as I've experienced this before in 2013, when I had to replace a CPU for a very similar reason.  I'll download it while I'm at the office and see if I can get on when I return home.  Wish me luck!