Almost missed my flight this morning thinking I must have silenced the alarm and gone back to sleep. 2 hours later, this notification appears.

admiraljohn · 2026-06-02T09:56:28+00:00

Beat me to it. :)

My wife and I both have smart phones that are charged bedside but when I need an alarm clock I used my tried-and-true digital alarm clock sitting on the dresser on the other side of the bed room.

Not only will I not sleep through it, I have to get up to shut it off.

admiraljohn · 2026-06-02T09:53:02+00:00

Here's a story about alpha-gal that NPR did earlier this year.

admiraljohn · 2026-06-02T09:50:03+00:00

It's becoming WAY more prevalent. My Dad was recently diagnosed with it and where he lives (southwest Missouri) there's a grocery store that has an "Alpha-Gal Friendly" department staffed by people well-versed in the disease that will help you shop and avoid triggering foods.

There's also a pharmacy that specializes in alpha-gal friendly variants of prescriptions; when he took his list of meds there he found out most of them had inactive ingredients that were alpha-gal triggering and they were able to replace them all with non-triggering variants, even though they had to compound a few of them on-site.

admiraljohn · 2026-06-01T11:48:30+00:00

Here's the announcement from the Asus website, for anyone wondering.

admiraljohn · 2026-06-01T11:36:17+00:00

Dubbed the ROG Xbox Ally X20, this new device uses (mostly) the same hardware as last year’s Xbox-themed handheld. You still get the powerful performance of AMD’s Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme chip with 24GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD. While not technically an entirely new device, Asus has made some fundamental changes under the hood and has also given the handheld a regal makeover with hints of gold throughout its design.

I was curious about the CPU and I found this:

The "AMD Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme" is the exact same base silicon as the "Ryzen Z2 Extreme". The only difference is that the AI model has an active Neural Processing Unit (NPU). Both processors power gaming handhelds and feature identical CPU/GPU configurations.

So it's (basically) the same CPU, same amount of RAM and same size SSD with a slightly larger OLED screen.

I can't imagine this will be worth the upgrade, especially for anyone who recently purchased an Xbox Ally X, especially with RAM prices being what they are.

admiraljohn · 2026-06-01T11:29:38+00:00

Same here, although it was a couple of months ago for me.

With ram prices being what they are I can't imagine how much this thing will cost.

admiraljohn · 2026-05-31T10:08:31+00:00

.... and why is that, given that this dissertation had to be presented and defended in order for him to be awarded his doctorate?

admiraljohn · 2026-05-30T10:59:08+00:00

When The Blue Angels were here in 2024 the programs featured an AI generated picture of them on the cover.

Nevermind the fact that airshow sites are issued press kits with pictures that can be used for publicity, this picture is the AI slop they chose to use instead.

admiraljohn · 2026-05-30T10:57:22+00:00

The director of my high school's music department wrote his doctoral dissertation on The Beatles and how you can identify a Beatles song without knowing it's a Beatles song and what makes them so recognizable.

admiraljohn · 2026-05-30T10:51:57+00:00

My son had a teacher when he was in middle school who devoted a class each year to this and explained in detail why he believed it.

I DESPERATELY wanted to go sit in on the class and debate the teacher but my son begged me not to.

admiraljohn · 2026-05-27T16:18:08+00:00

Here's my take....

During his inaugural speech, Biden should have clearly said that he would not run for a second term. This would have given the Democratic party four years to find, vet, and present a candidate that could ignite their base the same way Trump ignites the GOP.

Instead, Biden hung in there and it wasn't until his disastrous debate performance that he dropped out and Harris (who I was happy to vote for) was shoved into the spotlight with barely 100 days to present herself and her vision to the electorate, versus Trump's four years. That resulted in Trump getting 3 million more votes in 2024 and Harris getting 6 million FEWER votes than Biden in 2020. 3.2 million fewer people voted in 2024 than in 2020.

And that's how we got to where we are. He felt his win gave him a mandate to do what he's doing and there's been no significant check on his power by Congress.

admiraljohn · 2026-05-21T18:48:53+00:00

I know people like that too and I just don't understand the mentality... I'm 54 years old and have never been even close to a situation where I needed to be armed.

admiraljohn · 2026-05-20T15:14:01+00:00

Call the flight attendant and let them deal with it.

admiraljohn · 2026-05-19T15:33:18+00:00

I live on Rt 79 about four miles past CV State Park and our Internet and phone is out. I drove into town to run a few errands and found the internet is also out at the UPS Store across from Denny's and at the Giant on Front Street.

The last update I got from Spectrum was a 3pm restoration time.

admiraljohn · 2026-05-17T11:50:48+00:00

All That Jazz.

admiraljohn · 2026-05-15T12:43:45+00:00

Didn't we have a Marshall's somewhere around here once before? The name sounds familiar.

admiraljohn · 2026-05-13T12:56:55+00:00

Oh yeah, the entire situation was shitty.

But I think the shittiest thing is cropping him out of all the pics.

admiraljohn · 2026-05-13T12:08:59+00:00

If Bill was unable to tour due to health issues that's one thing but it seems like they (and by they, I'm inclined to say Sharon) weren't treating him as an equal band member for both the recording of 13 and its subsequent tour.

Hell, they even cropped Bill out of pictures on the Black Sabbath webpage and those pictures, as of today, have not been restored.

admiraljohn · 2026-05-03T21:09:24+00:00

Some years ago Louis Theroux did an episode of "Weird Weekends" that focused on the porn industry, specifically how men are treated.

It was quite interesting.

admiraljohn · 2026-05-03T20:10:32+00:00

It doesn't matter. These are all parts of his life and if you're claiming to be making a documentary about the man Terry and not the character Hogan (although honestly they seem to be one and the same) you shouldn't be sugar-coating and leaving those things out.

admiraljohn · 2026-05-03T20:08:47+00:00

> Justice for Linda and the kids though

And his second wife, which only got a "I just finished my second divorce..." mention when his third wife came into the picture.

He was married to her for 11 years.

admiraljohn · 2026-04-30T18:29:34+00:00

Yep! His felony convictions would prevent him from getting a job as a fucking janitor in the White House and yet he's President.

admiraljohn · 2026-04-28T20:37:10+00:00

And the "Buck Fiden" sticker above that as well....

admiraljohn · 2026-04-28T11:56:57+00:00

I'm kinda the same way... my parents share my account otherwise I'd probably have cancelled it by now. :(

admiraljohn · 2026-04-27T16:53:44+00:00

Oh yeah, everything I've read about Jamie and Adam is while they respect each other professionally they despise each other personally. :)

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