Jèf Uphoff

They're calling this the most Italian thing in history

Cover to Foghat’s album “Tight Shoes.” It shows a pair of jean-clad legs from the knees down, with a pair of pigeon-toed feet in red Converse “Chuck” sneakers.

I had Foghat’s “Tight Shoes” on vinyl.

They’re tag-teaming me in mine.

Literally snort-laughed at that. :)

Oddly, that same book randomly came up in discussion somewhere else in just the past week or two.

I haven't read it, though it's been on my list for a long time.

Same!

Amusing coïncidence: my office-mate early on at the aforementioned gov't facility (NRAO) was previously office-mates with...Cliff Stoll! They were at Space Telescope together.

We had a sign on our door that Cliff had drawn for him there. :)

"It was the correct threading and length to secure the loose knob on the cabinet under my kitchen sink.

Kudos to the designers, the manufacturers, the entire supply chain, and for that matter humankind's Industrial Revolution, for converging upon this shining moment."

A screenshot of part of a Lowe's email showing a package, and asking for a review, of four #8 - 32 x 1-1/14" combination-drive machine screws. Because of course I'd care that much.

Is anyone else being driven to madness by every retail purchase generating email requests for product reviews?

(No, Lowe's, I absolutely do not want to write a review of the 4 metal screws I bought the other day.)

🤨

True story: back in the '90s, when I was admin of a gov't facility that got hacked, I briefed the FBI in.

To make a winding, "Cuckoo's Egg" style chase story[1] short, the miscreant(s) eventually went down on CSAM charges (among others).

[1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuc...

Yup. :)

Laughing huge here!

I knew Vinnie "Where's the fuckin' wine?!" Pasquantino when he was a high-school kid--he and his dad coached my son's travel-ball team in Richmond. He's louder now. 😂

Choosing violence today, I see...

Jabba the Hutt saying "Han, what if everyone who smuggled for me dropped their oil when LLoyd's of London declared the Straits high risk?"

No worries--people trust you to be annoying. ;)

Not having a plan to demine Hormuz is a ‘no winter clothes to invade Russia’ level planning error

She sent lightning after me—actual lightning!

Another on-the-fence voter, then… ;)

Bluesky: seeking friends for the end of the world, as a service.

Pave Matthews
The Fixxers
311/hour

A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”

This is from 1975.

Pre means before and post means after.

To use both together would be preposterous.

Why are the goggles always right-side-up?

Live a little!

David Billmore.

Her name is John Waters and she’s the best

Long live the new sketch.

Together they're known as the Turkish Straits.

Bosphorus (see Dardanelles).

From Guinness:

“Charles Osborne (USA, 1894-1991) started hiccoughing in 1922 while attempting to weigh a hog before slaughtering it. He was unable to find a cure, but led a normal life in which he had two wives and fathered eight children. He continued until a morning in February 1990.”

my credit card expired so they sent me a new one and now i have to update that information in a genuinely surprising number of places. i’m one failed captcha away from walking into the sea.