Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I just hope that when the Dems get back in and don't immediately lower prices, that the idiot public doesn't vote the damn GOP back in. 000
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Chaos is more profitable if you're not above doing a little insider trading. (Or a lot.) 010
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026My wife calls it my superpower - such things usually click with me, like this one. I've seen much harder to believe cases. 121
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Heathkit H11. (CRT came later, started with a teletype.) 010
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 31/08/2026About 10 years ago I built a WWVB time server for our office, because corporate IT wouldn't open an NTP port for us. (Glad to be out of the loop now.) 010
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Yes, but it's much more "natural" for the unfit to get sick. 😞 000
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 07/08/2026'just bugs me when Audible gets a six month exclusive before the other formats are released. 000
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I really think he is playing at war just to ride the market volatility. 000
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 26/07/2026To paraphrase a Star Trek episode... That Cybertruck shouldn't be hauling garbage...It should be hauled away *as* garbage. 081
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 21/07/2026At lunch, Eliza jumped into my lap, tore off part of my napkin, then set about producing this work of abstract art by my chair. Or maybe it's a message in Japanese. 010
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Thanks Amie for hooking us up with the Universal Cat Delivery System. These two from the same litter make me think we've been doin' it wrong all these years. 020
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 10/06/2026The contribution cap should always have been a percentage of income rather than an absolute amount. Otherwise it should have been raised every year to adjust for cost of living. 020
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 30/05/2026After seeing the collection of stuff, I was thinking I ought to just sell tickets to my front room. 000
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 27/05/2026That's about like the selection I'd make. Are those all for you, or does someone fancy blueberry cake donuts? 000
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 19/05/2026I've always felt that an author should do something very early-on to hook the reader, rather than doing the slow build through 6 chapters before anything happens. Apparently some authors find such writing somehow vulgar. (Not you Rob.) 110
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 11/05/2026God I hate autocorrect. That's suckers and losers. 000
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 08/05/2026To them, "fair" is for suckered and lowers, just like integrity, trust, morals, etc. 110
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 08/05/2026*Sigh* Julie just ran across this undeveloped roll of 8mm Kodachrome movie film. I wanted to get it developed, but just found out the last color Kodachrome developing ended in 2010. (Paul Simon has something to say about that.) I guess I'll never know what's on it. 021
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 24/04/2026They'd have to have a teletype and acoustic modem. 010
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 23/04/2026But then how can we profit from the market volatility that war brings? :-( So many oligarchs with a short-term vested interest against renewable energy. 000
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 22/04/2026How many of them actually believe it, vs. trolling and LOLs. 000
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 22/04/2026I did cobble in an external keyboard to mine, on a DB-25 connector though. 120
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Hmm. DB-9 was such overwhelmingly common usage, I think it swamps out the original designation here. 020
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Why the F did they ever have them in the first place? 070
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 13/04/2026New version of "Time Enough At Last" with post-apolictic Scalzi discovering a vast warehouse of Honeycomb and churros, but then suddenly developing Celiac disease and can't eat carbs. 030
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 10/04/2026It means that (aside from the oligarchs and people in the E.Files) 69M are gullible enough to believe all the right-wing spin. 000
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Please tell me Kamala isn't running again. I voted for her last time (duh)but she basically handed it to Drumph, because too many of our idiot voters couldn't bring themselves to vote for a "black" woman. Yes, I said that out loud. This MUST be about winning, not about who's your dream candidate. 110
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 10/04/2026There's a chunk of them who've been brainwashed to believe the exact opposite, despite what they should be able to see with their own eyes. 010
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 19/03/2026For a couple of decades I've wondered what kind of crap has been preached in "churches". Is that what's winding these idiots up, or just right-wing media, social and otherwise. But I have no desire whatsoever to go undercover to find out. 000
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 12/03/2026These days i would trust CBC over the BBC. Good suggestion - I'll look them up. 000
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 05/03/2026It's amazing how much breaking news I hear first from you - thanks! :-) 010
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Where are they gonna put it? The border runs right down the middle of the Rio Grande. 050
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Just had my 2nd radiation treatment. Found out the MRI machine has a freakin' linear accelerator built into it to generate the radiation. I SO want my superpower by now. Hulk, Spiderman, whatever.media.tenor.coma close up of a man 's face with blue eyes and a shadow on his face .Alt: Bill Bixby, turning into Hulk for the 1st time. 020
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 22/02/2026We'd need to kick out all the jerks who make a living by spinning people up and fear-mongering for profit. 010
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 15/02/2026I'd love for her to be president. But there are so many morons out there, I think we'd need to get the non-voting third of the public off their asses to stand a chance. But this administration seems to be going out of their way to do just that. 000
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 06/02/2026I am in no way defending the scumbags, but Define "Referenced" 100
Paul Barrett @pwbarrett.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Let the victims do what redactions they want then release it all 021
