It’s an interesting situation with Lula. apparently the corruption he was convicted of consisted of his wife getting a bit better apartment - while he was out of office. Of course, that’s from an interview with Lula’s lawyer, but I’ve just got to wonder: how can you ‘abuse power’ when you don’t have any (as in ‘are…

Unfortunately, the bags all have padded separators, so I can’t put one inside the other.

Bags are hung on ‘shaker’ chair-pegs around my office. Lenses, cameras, flashes are in slide-out clip-top boxes under my printer table. Tripods... well, yeah, tripods are underfoot. I do primarily landscapes, so no backdrops to store. My wife’s pretty happy with the freezer space we got back when I switched to digital…

I have a friend who has a major collection of guitars and mandolins - also a recording studio. Go figure!

In the photography world, we have something called “Gear Acquisition Syndrome” or GAS. Ask any photographer: “How many camera bags do you own?”

It’d be nice if G and F kicked in some $$ for original journalism.

I have “Thoughts and Prayers” for Republicans this coming election - I guess I could extend some to conservative web sites as well...

Sounds like not. The hospital was having problems with the liquid nitrogen ‘autofill’ system, so they were filling manually. There was an alarm system that didn’t function - and that part may have been done by the Rus, but it was more probably incompetence (William of Occam’s razor: don’t ascribe to Russians something…

If you have a fairly complex network, many servers, the only way to know that there wasn’t a backdoor left behind after you paid the ransom is to restore everything from ‘bare metal’.

They certainly are. I got to ‘test’ this with a broomstick about 30 years ago. Yep, bit clean through. If I’d tried with a finger, well, that finger would be gone.

They certainly are. I got to ‘test’ this with a broomstick about 30 years ago. Yep, bit clean through. If I’d tried with a finger, well, that finger would be gone.

It’s actually pretty hard to find in NZ restaurants. I guess that’s because it’s considered so common there. I find it a bit bland, prefer hogget (sheep older than lamb, younger than mutton).

I learned to love Mussels in France in the early 70s. When I came back to the US, they were an unknown - to the point of not needing a license to gather them or any daily limit. I kind of took advantage.

My wife’s Prius Gen 1 made it to 320K miles. Final failure was rust, not battery or engine.

Two potential issues

... and if you’re in France and get to a charcuterie (and you should) don’t miss the charcute. It’s been ages since I’ve had any, but just thinking about it has me salivating.

I couldn’t find the kind of weapon the shooter used. Given the injury count, and the fact that the school resource officer was able to knock him down. I’d be willing to bet that it was a handgun.

When I was in college, I lived in a ‘sports frat’. At 6'1" 185 lbs I was about the smallest guy there. At one of our keg parties, I asked a mate’s GF how they, um... got it on. He was around 6'4" or maybe 5, she was 5'1” max. Her answer: “we use an adapter!”.

In somewhat related news, McCabe has been offered employment by at least two congressional offices (Mark Pocan D-Wis, Seth Moulton D-Ma). He just needs to get a bit more time logged as a Federal employee to get those retirement benefits...

True enough.