Moe Lane

It’s a short story that has been sent to existing Patrons of my Patreon account; it should also be available who sign up now. I should also note that if I hit $60/month at Patreon I’ll be putting up a short story a month here (Patrons will get the story first, mind you). In case that’s an incentive.

Yes, it’s that time again. Basically, I’m putting together existing funds, hopefully coming-in funds from freelance writing, and whatever else I can scrape up here for a replacement computer that possibly doesn’t wheeze all day whenever I ask it to do more than 15 fps.  I figure that $750 or so should more or less do it, but I certainly wouldn’t mind more bells and whistles.

As the below chart shows, I have already made a start to this,

…but what the heck: time to rattle the tip jar.

There’s also an update on my Patreon account: short version is, I put up an original short-short story for Patrons only. That notification will probably get its own post, but you gotta flood the zone on this stuff.

Got turned on to this the other day. It’s funkalicious with a side order of groove.

Uptown Funk, Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars

Hey! Don’t diss the funk.  DO NOT DISS THE FUNK.

Just something that I threw together.  For practice, like.

Read the whole thing (H/T: Instapundit), but basically: if Barack Obama wants this community college thing so badly, then he can call for a surtax on college endowments above a certain level per student ($1 million was Power Line’s suggestion). Or maybe just lower the deduction on donations to college endowments, again above a certain level. Power Line also suggests – just in case it wasn’t obvious yet that the goal here is to watch the President start chain-smoking again in an affronted fury – that maybe the GOP should just pass the community college proposal… while mandating “that all community college credits be fully transferrable to any four-year college that accepts any federal funding.”

Yes, yes, of course there’s not any chance of the President signing off on any of that. That’s not the point.  The point is to make it clear to whom President Obama feels the most loyalty: which is to say, not students or parents of students. Besides, even the mere threat of any of this would produce all sorts of useful footage of Academics Behaving Badly…

Amazing.

Firefighters were battling a stubborn seven-alarm inferno that ripped through a Brooklyn waterfront warehouse Saturday afternoon, fueled by mountains of records from city agencies..

[The facility] also stores records for the Administration for Children’s Services and for New York State courts.

…Oh, I know. It probably really is a coincidence that this is happening right after a key arrest is made that might end up getting half of New York’s state government arrested. In real life people either aren’t this dumb, or are too smart to get caught doing it. But if a) Law & Order was still on and b) didn’t suck so bad as it was sucking by the ending then we’d have our script right there, huh?

Via

Oy yoy yoy: 4 million tons of records stored at Williamsburg fire warehouse, including from courts. http://t.co/fZLoMcooPT

— Alyssa Katz (@alykatzz) January 31, 2015

OK, that last post was scraping the barrel. Here, have some Sean Rowe and call me in the morning.

Wet, Sean Rowe

I know that sounds crazy, but look at the eyes, man.

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip, married since 1947 pic.twitter.com/CwmlJFszGY

— History In Pictures (@HistoryInPix) January 31, 2015

Those of the eyes of somebody who can go Most of my ancestors were vicious bastards, and we kept all their notes and journals. I dunno. She just gives me a vibe that tells me that I shouldn’t throw a chair at her in a bar fight… what? Look, just because I’ve never been in a bar fight doesn’t mean I didn’t inherit the genes for it, thank you very much…

Kung Fu Fighting, Carl Douglas

So.  How many different drugs are there on that stage in that video, do you think?  I’m going to say at least five, although that includes at least one drug that has since been lost and become legend, to the point where not even scholars remember its name.

Couldn’t get Poetweet to work earlier – but apparently I needed to tell it to turn my Tweets into indrisos, whatever those are. Behold:

I can see how it’s not actual poetry, but it’s cleverly done.

Embarrassing, this: I used to have the skills to figure out what computer I’d need to buy – and that’s buy. I’m not building one. I’m not going to spend a month setting it up to get somebody else to build me one, either. I just want to order it and have it sent to me – that met these standards.  Or even approximate them:

Recommended System Requirements
Intel CPU Core i7 3770 3,4 GHz
AMD CPU AMD FX-8350 4 GHz
Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 770
AMD GPU Radeon R9 290
RAM 8GB
OS 64-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1)
DirectX 11
HDD Space 40 GB

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Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes, Paul Simon

Time for warm music.