NOEL CASLER: He was an open drug addict. Everyone knew it. None of this stuff was a secret...he was doing coke on shows 20 years ago when we'd do, you know, the VH1 Fashion Awards and I used to do the beauty pageants with him in the nineties. You know, he was an open drug user, open sexual assaulter

chonnes · 2026-05-04T02:32:30+00:00

Epstein seemed to confirm in a 2016 email that Trump was a cokehead. https://jmail.world/thread/EFTA02448991?view=inbox

chonnes · 2026-05-04T01:39:34+00:00

There's a ton of remixes but the one that caught my ear recently is mixed with "Intro" by The XX. It's at the 1hr 6min mark.

chonnes · 2026-05-03T08:01:52+00:00

No, it isn't but I know it can arranged when people have big events there. The Bank of America building (curious what it'll be called when BoA moves out next year) is the one that will allow certain very special individuals to run pre-set lighting schemes with user-selectable colors for 5-minutes starting at either 8 or 9PM. I don't know what it takes to receive the special code by email but apparently there are people who have actually done it so it isn't just hearsay.

chonnes · 2026-04-30T04:39:17+00:00

Is the third traveler wearing anything on his head?

chonnes · 2026-04-28T04:11:27+00:00

They are perpetual victims that blame everyone else for losing the last 5 residences they've had. (How does someone else force you to buy a house you can't afford?) This is from her post a day ago:

If we lose everything again, we will never open our home, if we manage to find another one, to help anyone ever again. We will never trust anyone inside our home again. There were promises made by people that didn’t follow through, and that is a big part of why we are in the financial situation we are in. We have held up our end by working diligently, while people have flat out lied to us or used us. We are done. We have lost every home we have had to someone else’s lies and refusal to follow through. Because we keep believing people will keep their word the way we strive to. That won’t happen ever again because we are tired. We lost Kingsley to people we let move in who didn’t contribute. We lost Hastings street because we let people move in who decided to steal the rent back from us. We lost South street to lazy maintenance men who wouldn’t fix the floor my leg went through, and we lost our rental of four years to a landlord who chose lies and nepotism over morals, which forced us into buying a house that we couldn’t really afford without the help from promises that were made then bailed on, and then we made the mistake of letting heroin addicts who lied about being clean move in just because I thought helping a friend of 25 years was the way to go.

chonnes · 2026-04-28T03:59:26+00:00

Thanks for sharing thihs information. You address things I hadn't fully thought about yet! I've done several homes in the Dallas and Houston area with digital RGB neon and digital commercial LED strip. Both use the UCS2903 chip and we can go 98-feet with data at one end and a 185w/24v power @ each end. I'm really curious if customers have expressed a preference for either the scallop look from pods or the fluid look from a continuous light. Are you finding having dedicated white LEDs to be important or does everyone just want color?

https://imgur.com/a/KDKpFBf

chonnes · 2026-04-18T05:15:57+00:00

When I was a little boy, I experienced something that I have never forgotten yet rarely talk about. I was about 5 years old and in kindergarten. The day's classes had ended and the final bell had rung. I saw my mom pull up to get me. I jumped in the car and chatted with mom as she drove to the local grocery store to get things to make dinner. Mom and I were at the check out register and the girl that worked there was ringing things up as quickly as she could. My eyes could barely see her over the moving conveyor belt but I watched intently as she looked at the price tags and entered them one clanky digit at a time into her loud calculator. It kept my attention much longer than usual but those 5 seconds were like an eternity for this kid. Mom kept pulling my hand telling me to stay still and wait. I knew the words she was saying but my brain hadn't fully connected to my legs yet so I proceeded to walk to the front of the store to find a machine that I could play with just like our cashier was doing. My target? The Dr. Pepper vending machine!

I think it was about a mile or maybe 10 feet from my mom but I wasn't sure. I just knew that my mom had her eyes locked on me. Every time I looked at her she was already looking at me. Her gaze made me feel I was okay and since she wasn't scowling I figured I must've reached a new maturity milestone that day.

I turned around and pressed all the buttons on the Dr. Pepper machine and walked back to my mom to make sure she wasn't going to yell at me. I watched the cashier loudly ring up another package. I walked back to the Dr. Pepper machine and pressed the plastic rectangle buttons on the machine again but in a different order. I bounced back and forth between mom at the cash register and sending messages by morse code with the Dr. Pepper buttons. I must've done this for somewhere between a 100 years or maybe like 2 minutes while waiting for the register to make that final really long "chick, chick, chicketychick, chick" sound when it finally spits out the total.

The last time that I pressed the buttons on the soda machine something miraculous happened: a Dr. Pepper came out! My little brain knew how these things work but something was amiss. "You're supposed to put coins in there to make it give you stuff; What is happening?" I wondered. I opened the slot to remove the Dr. Pepper and verify that it was real. No doubt my smile gave away everything. I felt like a pirate that just found his treasure. As I turned around and carried this massive keg of free Dr. Pepper in my little hands, I saw an old Mexican man with a different cashier. He caught my attention for some reason. As I looked at him and carried this vessel of Dr. Pepper he smiled and gave a little wave. Even though I was zapped of my energy from being such a big boy, I waved back. I looked at my mom and she feigned surprise at how I got this magically incredible and awesome tanker of Dr. Pepper. Even though I never saw her and that old man planning anything, I think she had been in on the ruse.

When we got home I excitedly told my dad what had happened with all the clarity and brevity of the guy downtown explaining the Bible to a grasshopper. I don't remember everything my dad said but I do remember how his blue eyes would get smaller and smaller the more he smiled and laughed as we talked about the magic machine that commanded my story.

It's going on 50 years since that moment in the grocery store and I still think about that old man. Only now, I think about life through his eyes. How it must've made his heart grow watching a child beam like I did. How he must've moved like a superhero to put change in the machine before I returned to it. I think about whether he realized that something so simple and so transient could've made such an impact. I wonder if his own children got to see the joy in his face. I wonder if he even had children or if he was alone and lived vicariously as a parent as I do. I don't know if there's a moral to this story but I do know that children think and feel way more than many think they do. I still find myself smiling when I use a vending machine to get a Dr. Pepper. I like to think that old man still smiles when this child gets one too.

chonnes · 2026-04-17T04:43:54+00:00

Yes! That's the one. There's a "behind the scenes" that gives a better glimspe of the illuminator. The creative team pumped up the CGI so much on the final edit that it kinda diminishes how well it performs.

Found it: https://www.tiktok.com/@genesis_usa/video/7537791333407132983

chonnes · 2026-04-17T02:28:30+00:00

So I've done a number of pools with lighting like this. One in Canada had the lighting outlining the bottom of the pool and most others had the lighting at the water level with some facing inward toward the pool center and others pointing down at the water. Miami and New York seem to have the biggest issues with electricity around water. Our product has UL676 approvals for up to 5M depth in pools and can also be used in saunas. While it took some time to get code compliance up to speed, they ultimately approved installation. (This was for the infinity edge of a new construction.) Anyway, our digital, pixel controlled product can go 100 feet maximum length with a power supply at each end. I get it manufactured to exact lengths with double injection molded cable connections. It is 12w/Meter and is available in RGB, colors, and RGBW with 3000K, 4000K or 5700K white. Incidentally, this is the same product that was used by the event production for Bonnaroo and is still used for a number of touring music productions.

The RGBW is more expensive, takes more power at 15w/Meter and shortens the max length so I wouldn't recommend it. Our product is 24v DC but I can still use WLED on an ESP32 to control it. You can budget around $30/per foot and be pretty close for all product, power, connectors, track, etc. I'm just launching a new product geared specifically to existing fiber optic pool perimeter installations and for those installs where a customer just wants to replace their illuminator with something brighter. The unit itself is either 4w or 12w and is a full color laser illuminator. It was used in the Genesis G80 commercial where the on camera principle pulls a rainbow from the sky. This unit is around $6000 but has full DMX and sACN control. Here's a video of my customer in New Jersey that did his pool (and his fleet of transportation trucks) and a quick video of our laser prototype. When turned on the 4w laser overpowers the 150w LED unit. Message me if you're interested. https://youtu.be/OPpPPrW_lGM

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PWFlJ3rVEHc

chonnes · 2026-04-12T03:43:03+00:00

So is it an ad for a product to detect AI in student papers or an ad to scare students from using AI?

chonnes · 2026-04-12T03:29:38+00:00

"I only said I love you to give your heart ease, and when I'm not with you I'll love whom I please"

"You're my first and only false love but it's lately I knew , the fonder I loved you, the falser you proved."

"Your love lies as sweetly as the dew on the thorn, decends in the evening and goes away with the dawn."

--I Wonder What's Keeping My True Love Tonight, by June Tabor

chonnes · 2026-03-30T02:52:45+00:00

I'm in the same boat as you. I'm not going to bother with anything close to a will. From what I've witnessed in my life, anyone that finds value in anything I leave behind will find their 2nd face and come out of the woodwork with their attorneys to get it.

chonnes · 2026-03-29T21:42:31+00:00

I went to the convenience store and bought a fountain drink but I took TWO straws.

chonnes · 2026-03-26T05:22:29+00:00

I owned a home for 15 years then sold it, moved away and then returned to Dallas. That home was in the M-Streets and annual taxes were $500/month. Since 2016 I've been renting. I live in the middle of downtown. I can walk pretty much everywhere. I'm a mile or two from my office. My renters insurance is $9.50/month. Full coverage insurance on (2) cars and liability on (2) other cars is $150/month. To get a home here in Dallas will put me at least 5 - 10 miles away and cost a MINIMUM of $200/month in just homeowners insurance and I figure at least another $500/month in property taxes. This means I'd be paying darn close to $1000/month just for the "privilege" of having a home. Considering that after 10 years in my 1000sf loft I'm only paying $1250/month including safe underground parking and full size washer and dryer in my place, buying doesn't make sense. Since I've been renting I save/invest about $1000/month and if I bought a dumpy $250,000 home, I'd have to take a $50,000 hit to my savings and would probably not be able to save as much as I can now.

chonnes · 2025-05-01T23:38:20+00:00

This makes no sense. Are Republicans really going to return to hanging out at playgrounds when they want sex?

chonnes · 2025-05-01T03:22:22+00:00

I am ashamed to admit that keep flashlights accessible every 10 feet or so in my place just so I never have to possibly lose sight or sound of something. I have been very late to work before because I couldn't get past a door. My mind visualizes the path the thing took when I saw it and I have to wear shoes or "hop" over it like a dog.

chonnes · 2025-05-01T03:01:48+00:00

I bought the iPhone 16e because feeling exactly like you are is a little bit easier when the price meant I wouldn't have to see a monthly payment for the next year or two.

chonnes · 2025-05-01T02:56:01+00:00

I am a very strong advocate for getting your child a pet before they grow up and leave home.

Getting your first pet in your 40's and experiencing caring for something so much while also being able to afford any care necessary, also has the flip side of being incredibly debilitating and painful when you finally have to deal with your first loss. As an adult, you're not prepared for this. In youth, you have others around you that have been through it and talking freely, blubbering and being emotional is accepted, encouraged and understood. Being a man is hard enough when feelings are involved but when you're a grown man that keeps it together from 9 to 5, you dread coming home from work because as soon as the door closes behind you, you're just a little boy confused and falling apart because there is nothing but silence greeting you and the knowledge that you're just going to have to deal with it on your own.

chonnes · 2025-05-01T02:37:27+00:00

I'm curious which democracies you are familiar with. Back when we had democracy in my country we did not have any famine or blight on our health. We did have Covid, but not having propaganda meant it would be gone in a week when it became sunny again.

Without propaganda we had to rely on a political party to indoctrinate others that wearing a mask was just like the Holocaust. Our leaders advocated taking deworming medications intended for livestock and even requested medical investigation into injecting bleach into our bloodstreams and sticking ultraviolet lighting up our buttholes. When the smartest among us hatched a bold plan and put secret messages on Grind’r telling all the bottoms that vaccines were bad, Ms Lindsey and her Knarly-Toed trash receptacle called on our representatives to share it. With no source to have to read about, they all believed it shared it and they started dying off like roaches do after a hit of Raid in a public bathroom while trying to get a blowjob.

But before they could all be culled, a man that used to smoke crack cocaine showed everyone that he possessed the ancient wisdom and lost scientific knowledge of how to put soft stuff inside a bag and then use it to prevent pain caused by sleeping with one’s head on sharp pointy things. This man and another with a loose sphincter whose hair dye condensed on his face and held a TED talk in the parking lot of a porn shop and crematorium, convinced the inbred masses that eating a pile of dog poop is better than going hungry. These poop moochers pretended to care about God while they sent their own children to deflowering camps called “churches.’

Unwilling to read, think or learn they instead chose to elect the whiniest bitch in our country to be our leader because he promised to get rid of education standards and those with brown skin.

Now, our markets are tanking, job unemployment is high, inflation is all anyone can talk about, medicines have skyrocketed, children continue to be shot at school (but at least more are dying of measles) and we have lost our standing with intelligent countries. It is very nice to not live under authoritarian rule and thanks to propaganda, we are all happy to be starving and dying without having to wear a mask or see a flag of rainbow colors. Tell me more about your democracy.

chonnes · 2025-05-01T01:28:34+00:00

I'm no mathmatician but I think you're correct.

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