temporary recovery

[Måns Nilsson]

Today I came home and after a whirlpool of chores, putting
kids to bed etc, I noticed that the hot season is not.
Started shuddering and felt really miserable, so had to
invent a fix:

1: https://www.woolpower.se/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/PROD_7236_BLACK_MEN_LPIC.gif
(actually, I've got the original, which carries a
swedish MOD stock number. They commissioned it
in the early seventies, from a factory that used
to knit nylon stockings. The factory is still
there, has not been moved to a sweatshop in Asia,
and the garments are like wearing a teddy bear.
Only better.)
2: http://www.cheese.com/brillat-savarin/
(Get a baguette, slice it, apply generous amounts
of cheese on the slices. If it suits you, a glass
of red Rhône wine will be a perfect beverage.
If you do not drink wine, cloudy apple juice is
nice.)

Wear #1, and eat #2. Do not get this wrong.

--
Måns Nilsson primary/secondary/besserwisser/machina
MN-1334-RIPE +46 705 989668
I'm also against BODY-SURFING!!

[Wojciech Derechowski]

On Mon, 18 May 2015 20:13:29 +0000, Måns Nilsson wrote:
> 1: https://www.woolpower.se/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/PROD_7236_BLACK_MEN_LPIC.gif
[...]

> and the garments are like wearing a teddy bear.
> Only better.
>

Right. But the color is in fact much better than the usual teddy bear's
shade of poo.

> If you do not drink wine, cloudy apple juice is
> nice.
>

Come on, Måns, cheese and apple juice?

--
WD

[Måns Nilsson]

Den 2015-05-18 skrev Roger Bell_West <roger+a...@nospam.firedrake.org>:

> On 2015-05-18, Måns Nilsson wrote:
>
>> and the garments are like wearing a teddy bear.
>> Only better.)
>

> Well, yeah. You don't have to kill and gut it first.

The only teddy bear I've ever wanted to kill and gut is the one that
my kids have with a hug-activated music player inside. The others I
can ignore. The Värmetröja 90 M7321-230000-1 I simply wear.

> I assume. One can never tell in Scandiwegia.

Having recently seen Las Vegas for the first time[0], I'm firmly
convinced that instances of "one can never tell" are quite well
distributed over the world. I'm not keen on going back there again.

--
Måns Nilsson primary/secondary/besserwisser/machina
MN-1334-RIPE +46 705 989668

I have a TINY BOWL in my HEAD

[0] ANO Fubj. Getting there is worthy of a rant itself. Mostly about
the moronic race to the bottom that is domestic connections at O'Hare.
I ended up being 18hrs late and flew ARN-ORD-IAH-DFW-LAS, thanks to
a short spell of tornado and thunderstorms.

[Måns Nilsson]

Den 2015-05-18 skrev Wojciech Derechowski <wdd...@um5000.mystora.com>:
> On Mon, 18 May 2015 20:13:29 +0000, Måns Nilsson wrote:
>
> Right. But the color is in fact much better than the usual teddy bear's
> shade of poo.

Yep. Olive drab is quite nice.

>> If you do not drink wine, cloudy apple juice is
>> nice.
>
> Come on, Måns, cheese and apple juice?

If it is good enough. I'm not talking about low-end industrial filtered
crap which mostly is made from apple syrup imported by the vat from .cn,
but the artisanal stuff.

Besides, the Brillat-Savarin is not like other cheese.

--
Måns Nilsson primary/secondary/besserwisser/machina
MN-1334-RIPE +46 705 989668

I have a very good DENTAL PLAN. Thank you.

[Julian Macassey]

On Mon, 18 May 2015 23:04:43 +0000 (UTC), Måns Nilsson
<mans...@besserwisser.org> wrote:
>
> Having recently seen Las Vegas for the first time[0], I'm firmly
> convinced that instances of "one can never tell" are quite well
> distributed over the world. I'm not keen on going back there again.

I can only describe Las Vegas as the Mafia's idea of
oppulence. It truly is a monument to bad taste and faux everything.

I have spent far too much time in Las Vegas, either at the
Comsumer Electronics Show, or the National Association of
Broadcasters show. Each visit ten days of my life wasted.

Yes, they really have hotel rooms with mirrors over the
beds in Las Vegas. I once woke at five in the morning is a panic as
it seemed a naked sky diver was about to fall on me.


--
"When I was little, I didn't know I was going to grow up in the Soviet
Union. But here we are." April Daniels, April 2105

[Måns Nilsson]

Den 2015-05-18 skrev Julian Macassey <jul...@tele.com>:
>
> I can only describe Las Vegas as the Mafia's idea of
> oppulence. It truly is a monument to bad taste and faux everything.

Not a bad description. I found "Travels in Hyperreality", by Umberto Eco,
1975, to be a very useful guide. Like many reasonably well travelled
rightpondians, I have seen and felt Venezia, Italy before the Venetian,
and the Tour Eiffel before the Paris. It can safely be assumed --
I think -- that Eco had the same experience order. My first reaction
was: Hey, that is soo cheap. Second: And why are they proud of this
Потёмкин scenery?

--
Måns Nilsson primary/secondary/besserwisser/machina
MN-1334-RIPE +46 705 989668

Yow! Now we can become alcoholics!

[mrob...@att.net]

Julian Macassey <jul...@tele.com> wrote:
> I can only describe Las Vegas as the Mafia's idea of oppulence. It
> truly is a monument to bad taste and faux everything.

I've never been. I'd like to at least visit sometime, just to see the
spectacle. Don't know how long I would stay, though.

> Yes, they really have hotel rooms with mirrors over the beds in Las
> Vegas. I once woke at five in the morning is a panic as it seemed a
> naked sky diver was about to fall on me.

Why were you wearing a parachute to bed?

Also, in Vegas, you probably *can* get naked skydivers to jump on you;
you just have to call the right place.

Matt Roberds

[Julian Macassey]

On Tue, 19 May 2015 19:11:20 +0000 (UTC), mrob...@att.net
<mrob...@att.net> wrote:

> Julian Macassey <jul...@tele.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, they really have hotel rooms with mirrors over the beds in Las
>> Vegas. I once woke at five in the morning is a panic as it seemed a
>> naked sky diver was about to fall on me.
>
> Why were you wearing a parachute to bed?

No, but it might have improved things.

>
> Also, in Vegas, you probably *can* get naked skydivers to jump on you;
> you just have to call the right place.

There used to be, and no doubt still is a vertical wind
tunnel where you can float in the updraft, I'm sure they will let
you do it naked.


--
Germany is known as 'the land where Israelis learned their manners'.
- P. J. O'Rourke

[Dan Bissonnette]

In article <mjg1sm$uf0$1...@dont-email.me>, mrob...@att.net says...

> Also, in Vegas, you probably *can* get naked skydivers to jump on you;
> you just have to call the right place.

It's called, "Room Service," IIRC.

--
"You're having an internal argument with somebody named
DragonQueen42 - you're never going to win that argument."
- David Benioff, 'Game of Thrones' Producer

[Julian Macassey]

On Tue, 19 May 2015 21:02:03 +0000 (UTC), Roger Bell_West
<roger+a...@nospam.firedrake.org> wrote:

> On 2015-05-19, mrob...@att.net wrote:
>>Also, in Vegas, you probably *can* get naked skydivers to jump on you;
>>you just have to call the right place.
>

> Just as long as you get married first.

The dilemma is, should the marriage be offiated by the fat
Elvis impersonator, or the thin Elvis impersonator?



--
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- George Orwell

[Joe Zeff]

On Tue, 19 May 2015 19:11:20 +0000, mroberds wrote:

> Also, in Vegas, you probably *can* get naked skydivers to jump on you;
> you just have to call the right place.

Vegas is also the only place I know of that you need a license to be an
Elvis impersonator.

--
Joe Zeff -- The Guy With The Sideburns:
http://www.zeff.us http://www.lasfsinc.info
The problem with being a good sport is that you have to lose to prove it.

[Wojciech Derechowski]

On Thu, 21 May 2015 03:15:19 +0000, AdB wrote:
> Roger Bell_West posted thus:

>>On 2015-05-19, Julian Macassey wrote:
>>> The dilemma is, should the marriage be offiated by the fat
>>>Elvis impersonator, or the thin Elvis impersonator?
>>

>>Wedding by the thin one, divorce by the fat one. I don't know, don't
>>they teach them _anything_ these days?
>
> [...]
>
> --
> AdB | panic("esp: what could it be... I wonder...");
> | -- /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/NCR53C9x.c

default:
/* Don't panic: reset. */
printf("%s: invalid state: %d\n",
sc->sc_dev.dv_xname,
sc->sc_state);
ncr53c9x_scsi_reset(sc);
goto out;
break;

--
WD

Who is Entscheidungs and what is his problem?

[Maarten Wiltink]

<mrob...@att.net> wrote in message news:mjg1sm$uf0$1...@dont-email.me...
[...]

> Also, in Vegas, you probably *can* get naked skydivers to jump on you;
> you just have to call the right place.

The right place being any dropzone. There should be no problem finding
one to dive onto you (or anyone) naked anywhere as long as you agree to
them publishing the video.

Tebrgwrf,
Maarten Wiltink

[Julian Macassey]

On Wed, 20 May 2015 23:15:19 -0400, AdB <ab...@leftmind.net> wrote:
>
> Resort marriage has long been a thing, but customarily divorce has to be
> done in your home jurisdiction because of property division issues and
> child custody and alimony and such.

In the 1950s in the US, divorce was hard to impossible in
many States. But, could easily be done in Nevada, after IIRC
three weeks of residency. Mexico was also a popular spot, often
done via "Proxy" - Pay a lawyer by mail.

The 1961 movie "The Misfits", explains Nevada divorces.

I believe the Clark County (Las Vegas) courthouse is open
24 hours a day to issue marriage licences.


--
Hipsters have ruined everything. - Tim May April 5 2014

[Julian Macassey]

On Thu, 21 May 2015 14:01:57 +0000 (UTC), Roger Bell_West
<roger+a...@nospam.firedrake.org> wrote:

> On 2015-05-21, Julian Macassey wrote:
>> I believe the Clark County (Las Vegas) courthouse is open
>>24 hours a day to issue marriage licences.
>

> Heaven forbid you have to wait until Monday. You might sober up.
>
There was the famous Britney Spears Las Vegas wedding
thatwas annuled 55 hours later.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/britney-spears-shotgun-wedding-turns-10-remember-55-magical-hours-20140103

Yes, Las Vegas is a weird place.

[Peter H. Coffin]

On Thu, 21 May 2015 12:56:08 +0000 (UTC), Julian Macassey wrote:
> On Wed, 20 May 2015 23:15:19 -0400, AdB <ab...@leftmind.net> wrote:
>>
>> Resort marriage has long been a thing, but customarily divorce has to be
>> done in your home jurisdiction because of property division issues and
>> child custody and alimony and such.
>
> In the 1950s in the US, divorce was hard to impossible in
> many States. But, could easily be done in Nevada, after IIRC
> three weeks of residency. Mexico was also a popular spot, often
> done via "Proxy" - Pay a lawyer by mail.

Six weeks, but yeah. A long holiday and there were no small number of
resort ranches willing to cater to that trade, with inexpensive lodging,
token lessons in riding, and plenty of handsome cowboys around.

Then in the 1970s, the rest of the country picked up the concept of
"no-fault divorce" and that whole thing vanished into history, except in
New York, where the clung to it until at least the 2000s, and may still
for all I know. No divorces there without an injured party. I think it
was entirely supported by the media and union private investigators.

--
66. My security keypad will actually be a fingerprint scanner. Anyone
who watches someone press a sequence of buttons or dusts the pad
for fingerprints then subsequently tries to enter by repeating that
sequence will trigger the alarm system. --Evil Overlord List

[Maarten Wiltink]

"Peter H. Coffin" <hel...@ninehells.com> wrote in message
news:slrnmlsf9d....@nibelheim.ninehells.com...

> [...] No divorces <in New York> without an injured party. ...

That seems only fair, since most of them have (at least) two.

Tebrgwrf,
Maarten Wiltink

[Peter H. Coffin]

On Fri, 22 May 2015 15:46:21 +0200, Maarten Wiltink wrote:
> "Peter H. Coffin" <hel...@ninehells.com> wrote in message
> news:slrnmlsf9d....@nibelheim.ninehells.com...
>
>> [...] No divorces <in New York> without an injured party. ...
>
> That seems only fair, since most of them have (at least) two.

It does make things complicated sometimes. Can't just agreeably decide
"You know, maybe this wasn't a good idea" and split the property.
Someone's got to prove that they're being abused or cheated on to even
start the process. And since the abuser/cheater is risking his/her share
of the marital assets, the incentive to be the victim instead of the
perpetrator is a little higher than the other way around.

--
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|/)

[The Horny Goat]

On Wed, 20 May 2015 23:15:19 -0400, ab...@leftmind.net (AdB) wrote:

>(Actually, I _should_ remember whether it was Canada or Ontario or city
>hall that issued our marriage license, but it's been almost 25 years
>now...)

It's been 31 years in our case but I would stake some fairly important
objects in my life that ours said "Government of Ontario" and not
"Government of Canada" or "Burlington City Council" - she relocated
to join me (I was a recent McMaster grad and had proposed about two
months after graduation) in Winnipeg and had to use it regularly in
the first 3 months of marriage to re-establish herself for her new
Government ID which was complicated by the fact that it was a new
province and a change of name.

It's sat in our safe deposit box for years with the last time it was
taken out being for her passport application.

She told me early on that she was happy to take my name since hers was
long, Polish and both un-spellable and un-pronounceable by English
standards. (Mine's not unpronounceable but commonly mispelled as she
quickly found out!)

[Måns Nilsson]

Den 2015-05-22 skrev The Horny Goat <lcr...@home.ca>:
> On Wed, 20 May 2015 23:15:19 -0400, ab...@leftmind.net (AdB) wrote:
>
>>(Actually, I _should_ remember whether it was Canada or Ontario or city
>>hall that issued our marriage license, but it's been almost 25 years
>>now...)
>
> It's been 31 years in our case but I would stake some fairly important
> objects in my life that ours said "Government of Ontario" and not
> "Government of Canada" or "Burlington City Council"

SWMBO and I have, IIRC, "County of" on our license. But it is the Tax
Authority who keep the records, since the Church was shed from the State
some 15 years ago. We kept our last names; I'm not switching and I'm
not forcing anyone else to switch either.

OTOH, I don't think we've ever had to use the license after the
marriage. The Government Knows, since we live in well ordered parts of
rightpondia, where data is shared between different bodies of government
to facilitate efficiency. Mostly, it works. Mostly, it is good for people,
not only for the Government.

The bureucratic system is so functional that when it fucks up, people in
power stare at it in disdelief and refuse to believe it. There is a
drawback, after all.

I suppose the aggregate of credit card companies or $SOCIAL_WEBSITE have
similar amounts of linked and ordered data in Leftpondia. But with less
accountability.

--
Måns Nilsson primary/secondary/besserwisser/machina
MN-1334-RIPE +46 705 989668

Kids, the seven basic food groups are GUM, PUFF PASTRY, PIZZA,
PESTICIDES, ANTIBIOTICS, NUTRA-SWEET and MILK DUDS!!

[Joe Zeff]

On Fri, 22 May 2015 17:09:32 +0000, Måns Nilsson wrote:

> Kids, the seven basic food groups are GUM, PUFF PASTRY, PIZZA,
> PESTICIDES, ANTIBIOTICS, NUTRA-SWEET and MILK DUDS!!

You left out DIRT and CRAYONS.

--
Joe Zeff -- The Guy With The Sideburns:
http://www.zeff.us http://www.lasfsinc.info

Never Underestimate The Bandwidth Of A Bunch Of Programmers Running Away
Screaming.

[Richard Bos]

Roger Bell_West <roger+a...@nospam.firedrake.org> wrote:

> On 2015-05-19, Måns Nilsson wrote:
> >My first reaction was: Hey, that is soo cheap. Second: And why are
> >they proud of this Потёмкин scenery?
>

> Because you don't need to get a passport or talk Foreign in order to
> visit it?

Or eat real foreign food. I bet the spaghetti marinara there is
chock-full of tomato sauce, and not a clam in sight.

Richard

[Richard Bos]

Julian Macassey <jul...@tele.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 21 May 2015 14:01:57 +0000 (UTC), Roger Bell_West

> > On 2015-05-21, Julian Macassey wrote:
> >> I believe the Clark County (Las Vegas) courthouse is open
> >>24 hours a day to issue marriage licences.
> >
> > Heaven forbid you have to wait until Monday. You might sober up.
> >
> There was the famous Britney Spears Las Vegas wedding
> thatwas annuled 55 hours later.
> http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/britney-spears-shotgun-wedding-turns-10-remember-55-magical-hours-20140103

Mind, annulment is different from divorce.

Richard

[mrob...@att.net]

Maarten Wiltink <maa...@kittensandcats.net> wrote:
> <mrob...@att.net> wrote in message news:mjg1sm$uf0$1...@dont-email.me...
>

>> Also, in Vegas, you probably *can* get naked skydivers to jump on
>> you; you just have to call the right place.
>
> The right place being any dropzone.

I never saw a naked jump with my own two eyes. I did see a young lady
getting on the Cessna, while wearing a minimal amount of lingerie and a
parachute.

> There should be no problem finding one to dive onto you (or anyone)
> naked anywhere as long as you agree to them publishing the video.

Pics or it didn't happen!

Matt Roberds