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Absolutely True


Instead they hide, refuse to testify under oath, avoid subpoenas and base their whole defense on disparaging the characters of those citizens who ARE willing to testify UNDER OATH and who have honorably served the country.

Republicans other defense “strategy”—putting forth debunked conspiracy theories which by the way echo the exact talking points of Russian operatives and Putin.

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The End of the Saga

Why am I not excited about this? Why—after FORTY TWO YEARS of waiting for the final episode of the final trilogy—do I not care?

Is it because the first trilogy with JarJar and the midiclorians left such a bad taste in my mouth that I’ve dismissed out of hand everything after Return of the Jedi?

I honestly don’t know.

Will I see it? Of course. For a saga that set the spiritual theme of my entire life, I cannot not see it. Will I see it more than once? That, my friends, is unlikely unless it somehow manages to recapture the magic of the original.

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OK, Boomer

Overheard at work:

“But if we give up our land line and only use our cell phones that means my wife and I will have two different numbers where we can be reached. Right now people know to just call the home number if they need to reach either of us. How’s that gonna work?”

Ben and I haven’t had a land line for almost the entire length of time we’ve been together, and it hasn’t proven to be a barrier to anyone getting in touch with us…

 

 

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Oops!

So once again I find myself imaging and prepping a boatload of PCs for deployment. I don’t mind; it’s pretty mindless work and I can still work tickets in the background.

When I started this most recent round, after laying down our base image I ran updates and I usually do, and saw that there was a Windows 10 update available. We never see this pop up, so I went ahead and applied it. This brought us from 1809 to 1903. The most obvious change was new wallpaper, but I’m sure there was a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes. Anyway, I pointed this out to my colleagues and asked if I should go ahead and update all the machines as they come through. They said they didn’t see any problem with it, so that’s what I’ve been doing.

Late yesterday afternoon I ran through the process and it seemed to take extraordinarily long for the update to complete, and when it was finished it seemed…off. For shits and giggles, I checked the version. It was now 1909.

Okay…whatever. I did a couple more machines and updated my own work laptop.

Everything worked fine until I went to install Google Earth on the first of the machines. It wouldn’t install. In fact, it seemed there was no connectivity at all to the outside world. I checked my own laptop. Same problem. I mentioned this to one of my coworkers and he said, “Oh yeah, there was an email from enSilo that said not to upgrade to 1909 because it doesn’t work with it.”

UGH.

So as I type this I’m reimaging my work laptop and the other four machines, setting us all back to 1809, the standard that’s been pushed out for the past year.

It’s going to be a long day…

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Gratuitous James Wolk



And here we see James in a few screengrabs from HBO’s Watchmen, a show—despite my having no exposure to the source material other than the critially-panned  (which I loved, BTW) 2009 film—I’ve been enjoying the fuck out of.

I might write more about it at some point, but right now all I can say is it may have snatched my title of Most Batshit Crazy Show on Television from the hands of AMC’s Preacher.