Neanderpundit

I got the chainsaw running a couple days back but it didn’t seem to want to idle, and watching an internet video I discovered I had the throttle cable set wrong. Once I got that right I managed to get the idle and the high and low jets adjusted nicely, and it fair hums. (It’s an easy mistake, where the throttle cable goes is counterintuitive until you see a cross section of it installed properly) And then it wouldn’t cut- but I figured it was the chain. My buddy Werner showed me it was a Nerf chain, designed for people who were likely to hurt themselves. I had no idea the nanny state had gone this far, but there it is. Anyway, it turns out I had already purchased one of the non-nerf type chains (non anti kickback), and I sharpened it, put it on, and it cuts frozen hardwood like a hot knife through butter. I loves me a chainsaw.

No, not enough to get one socketed to my arm, but still.

And quotes the same Solzhenitsyn piece I did earlier this month. Alger picks up the ball from Bob Owens, all well connected to what Farmer Frank is saying here.

I had hoped we could avert this sort of situation, and I have hope still. But I am not ruling out anything.

To those without young children, or other hostages to your fortune: You are the front lines. If the shit hits the fan, you are the advance guard, and you need to hold back the tide until those of us with young children get them to relative safety.And to those with small children, have a plan to get them someplace safe, out of the country if need be.

Yes, it’s too soon to know what will happen. And it’s too soon to know- really- what to do. But it is not too soon to be prepared.

Several months back I upgraded the Intarweb to a 15 mb data pipe, from a 1.2 mb one, and the price actually went down.

Partner has just done a similar thing, and because he had little use before his price went up slightly, but now he has a smoking hot connection. Amazing how fast those yuoutube videos load, now.

Still drives me nuts that a bunch of the websites I visit take forever to download- I like pretty pictures as much as thenext guy, but you really don’t have to have the high res on your site, do links instead. I can download a whole movie from Hulu in the time it takes to load half of the websites on my sidebar.