I hate this fucking timeline
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/interactive/2021/january-6-next-coup-signs/

Mystery of Florida's "ghost" candidates grows: Major energy company linked to GOP scheme | Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2021/12/11/mystery-of-floridas-ghost-candidates-grows-major-energy-company-linked-to-scheme/

Opinion | Supreme Court responds to Texas abortion ban with a weak shrug - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/11/supreme-court-texas-abortion-ban-weak-shrug/

RIP

Anne Rice, author of Interview with the Vampire, dies aged 80 - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-59627125

That can't last, i don't think

So far ding dong here has evinced zero interest in the Christmas tree we just put up.

OMG what a maroon.

Went to install my dishwasher kickplate (which I ordered special b/c I couldn't find the one that came with the dishwasher).

Found the original kickplate. Which I had (judging by the state of it) installed long ago.

It just sits way back from the door & so there's still a big dark space underneath the washer.

Oy.

"The powerpoint was presented on 4 January to a number of Republican senators and members of Congress, the source said. "

And not a one of them called the FBI.

Got the notification for this story on my phone & thought "this is an old story--ppl been tweeting about that powerpoint for days". But no--it's a different version of the ppt.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/10/trump-powerpoint-mark-meadows-capitol-attack

So what's the current thinking on using rapid covid tests. If my BIL is doing a multi-day drive to come out for christmas, do we wait until christmas morning & only get together if everybody's negative?

TBH I'm kind of tempted to just roll the dice here.

Someone Is Lying About Why It Took So Long for the National Guard to Deploy on January 6 - The Bulwark
https://www.thebulwark.com/someone-is-lying-about-why-it-took-so-long-for-the-national-guard-to-deploy-on-january-6/

American democracy is tottering. It’s not clear Americans care. - Vox
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/12/9/22824509/summit-for-democracy-biden-america

Tucker Carlson's Trajectory of Justifying Invading Ukraine
https://www.businessinsider.com/tucker-carlson-russia-ukraine-border-comments-backstory-fox-news-2021-12?amp

Apparently this is part of the `Tanium` client, which is some sort of enterprise asset management thingamabob.

So, kludgy, but not nefarious.

Apparently it's not possible to get an eggnog latte at starbucks these days, for some raisin. But my local cafe has it, so I'm good.

I'm concerned that the slow drip-drip-drip of revelations coming out of the 1/6 committee is going to inure us to the magnitude of the seditious conspiracy & we'll have another round of "well there's really nothing new here" once the report comes out, just like w/Mueller.

If I try to kill it I get 'access denied'. I am a local administrator of this machine.

I don't know what this is and it's making me nervous

coworker: ITS EASY ROY YOU JUST IMPLEMENT A RUDIMENTARY SARBANES-OXLEY-COMPLIANT WEB BROWSER USING SQL

me: damn, if they just used a real web server to host this doc instead of sharepoint, my wget call would work to programatically download it.