Stephen Michael Kellat

Hilarity Ensues

2016-11-09T04:37:10Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers

This video from some wacky folks explains the Schadenfreude about the matter referenced in the screenshot: https://youtu.be/zIH-J3uLN3E

Ashtabula County Totals

2016-11-09T04:31:14Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers

I cannot quite remember who Richard Duncan happened to be on the ballot. The caveat from the Ohio Secretary of State is very important to remember: "Results reported here are UNOFFICIAL. ALL official results will be posted following their certification. The county boards of elections must complete their official canvass no later than November 29, 2016." (emphasis added)

       SUMMARY REPORT        ASHTABULA COUNTY, OH             UNOFFICIAL RESULTS
       RUN DATE:11/08/16     2016 GENERAL ELECTION
       RUN TIME:10:10 PM     NOVEMBER 8, 2016

                                                   VOTES PERCENT

       PRECINCTS COUNTED (OF 104).  .  .  .  .       104  100.00
       REGISTERED VOTERS - TOTAL .  .  .  .  .    60,620
       BALLOTS CAST - TOTAL.  .  .  .  .  .  .    40,772
       VOTER TURNOUT - TOTAL  .  .  .  .  .  .             67.26

      President and Vice President
      Vote for not more than  1
       Hillary Clinton (DEM)  .  .  .  .  .  .    15,191   37.82
       Richard Duncan.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .       265     .66
       Gary Johnson  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .     1,181    2.94
       Jill Stein (GRE) .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .       417    1.04
       Donald J. Trump (REP)  .  .  .  .  .  .    22,755   56.65
       WRITE-IN.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .       362     .90
               Total .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .    40,171

I wandered off...

2016-11-09T04:21:07Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers

Somehow this happened: https://quitter.se/alpacaherder

I don't know what I'll do with it.

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I've been ignoring the results for hours

2016-11-09T03:53:26Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers

I honestly have no clue what is going on. The police and fire sirens have been going on and on for a while now. I don't have a triple-trunking scanner so I cannot listen to MARCS to hear what is happening.

I've been watching Milo Murphy's Law via season pass on Apple TV, caught up on Designated Survivor via TWC/Spectrum On-Demand, watched some NASA TV via their Apple TV app as TWC/Spectrum puts the NASA TV channel in a ridiculously weird tier that I'm not paying that much extra to get for just one channel, muted most devices that had notifications about politics, and am enjoying it.

So The Autolander Caught It From Unstable...

2016-11-08T04:25:05Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers

backportpackage -s zesty -d yakkety -d xenial -d trusty -y -u ppa:skellat/tests -k 4B488114 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pumpa/pumpa_0.9.3-1.dsc

I'll see some results in the morning from Launchpad. Please remember that using any of my PPAs may result in the need for lots of apt-pinning. There are tests going on. Weird software can show up there too that causes unexpected upgrades if you're not careful or ready for it.

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New x11r5 Podcast Episode?

2016-11-08T04:15:59Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers

Download it fresh here: http://www.x11r5.com/radio/world-news/cybersauce-world-news_2016-11-07.mp3

Subscribe via this RSS feed: http://www.x11r5.com/radio/world-news/rss.xml

At This Point

2016-11-07T04:56:13Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers

I'm more worried about the park levy issue put forward by city council (new ad valorem property tax levy on houses) rather than how the presidential election will turn out. Our parks in Ashtabula City aren't in the best of shape. If we don't find a way to maintain them ourselves, we really need to push ourselves to considering shared services through the Ashtabula County Metroparks Board. My fear is that we're too parochial to consider that.

Playing Beanball

2016-11-04T16:46:57Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers

The madness may be coming if there is a tie. Evan McMullin may force things to the House. Everybody will be brushing up on the 12th Amendement to the US Constitution soon, perhaps. See: https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/248264/

2016-11-04T01:42:37Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers

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Grumbling with Firefox

2016-11-03T23:33:26Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers

After fiddling in about:config I found extensions.pocket.enabled. I flipped that to false. Firefox works far better now as all that crap related to Pocket is gone. I use Zotero, darn it!

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Better as in ... faster?

Nathan Willis at 2016-11-04T07:59:14Z

Giving the change a whirl myself.

Doug Whitfield at 2016-11-04T18:54:39Z

That's one of the first things I do with a Firefox install. I don't use Pocket (or any of its competitors), so I naturally do not want it active in my browser.

[email protected] at 2016-11-06T19:39:51Z

It merely took 10 innings

2016-11-03T04:51:59Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers

The Chicago Cubs won the World Series after 108 years. As to Cleveland...it came down to 1 stinking run. The final score was 8-7 Cubs.

At least it wasn't a blowout. Perennial losers provided a good show and showed GOOD baseball.

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...at the corner of Carnegie and Ontario...

2016-11-03T03:59:16Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers

Something very odd is going on as the Cubs and the Indians are tied in the game currently. We are rolling into a 10th inning for the last game of the 2016 World Series.

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I Need Your Help In Backporting

2016-11-03T03:21:08Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers

To measure interest in backporting Dianara as far back as Trusty, I need your help. If you visit http://pad.lv/1634324 you'll get to the bug shown above. You're looking for where it asks if the bug affects you. Please click on that and say yes to it if you want the latest Dianara available in Debian Testing/Ubuntu 16.10 backported to 16.04 & 14.04. That will not only help me get numbers but it also helps the backports team determine if there is interest.

Please DO NOT leave comments of any sort on the bug as I have to sort through that and it ticks off the Backports team while also making things slide downward on their priority list. Only mark in that particular tool whether or not a backport affects you. If you want a backport, then yes the bug affects you.

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Thanks for taking such good care of this =)

For the record, v1.3.5 can be built with Qt 4, and that will also be the case for 1.3.6. But Debian will build it with Qt 5, which I assume is what Ubuntu cares about in this case :D

JanKusanagi at 2016-11-03T14:52:56Z

Not good news to start with...

2016-10-31T19:17:44Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers

Goodin, D. (2016, October 28). iPhone hack that threatened emergency 911 system lands teen in jail. Retrieved October 31, 2016, from http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2016/10/teen-arrested-for-iphone-hack-that-threatened-emergency-911-system/

Licea, M. (2016, October 30). Professor who tweeted against PC culture is out at NYU. Retrieved from http://nypost.com/2016/10/30/nyu-professor-who-opposed-pc-culture-gets-booted-from-classroom/

Teen hacker “accidentally” causes 911 attack. (2016, October 31). BBC News. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37821862

Prowling The Internet's Bowels

2016-10-31T02:56:28Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers

As seen from elsewhere:

From: [email protected]
Subject: [SDF] Jack Chick 1924 - 2016 discussion!
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 19:14:03 GMT

Jack Chick is DEAD!

Coming up at 0200 UTC (Monday October 31st, 2016) will be an open discussion, POST CHICK: the fans that rarely agreed with him on anonradio.net openvoip. You can listen to the stream live on anonradio.net and you can participate by dialing 1088 from your SDF VoIP account or 206-299-2120 ext 1088.

I guess I'm going to have to visit http://anonradio.net/archives/ to download the archive of the episode to listen to it as I'm a bit late to it.

Looking at them

Well, this is cheerful

2016-10-29T03:14:22Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers

Here's a set of qualifications that are unique:

“QUALIFICATIONS:

A high school diploma and a minimum of two (2) years secretarial experience (legal experience preferred) -or- an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. An individual who poses a direct threat to the health and safety of himself/herself or others in the work place will be deemed not qualified for this position. ”

Where on earth did that last provision come from? I could use a job more local to home but I guess working for the local court system is extremely dangerous...

That should make you wonder who had the job before.

[email protected] at 2016-11-04T00:50:09Z

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