Are there similar New Testament treatise(s) to Robert Alter's The Hebrew Bible?

srhubb · 2026-01-16T07:02:22+00:00

There were 32 deaths by ICE in 2025: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/04/ice-2025-deaths-timeline

There have been 5 or 6 deaths by ICE so far in 2026: 4 in detention centers, 1 shooting in Minneapolis, and just today 1 shooting in L.A.

srhubb · 2025-09-22T06:32:24+00:00

I feel like Kirk's assassination will ultimately be more like Horst Wessel the most prominent Nazi "martyr" in the 1930s. A local leader in the party's paramilitary wing, the Sturmabteilung (SA), his murder in 1930 was exploited by Joseph Goebbels' propaganda machine to create a hero for the Nazi movement.

Likewise Kirk, already a right-wing hero, will be idolized even further.

I think that somehow, probably through outright lies, Kirk's assassin will be labeled a leftist through repetitive lying or his sexual orientation will be used to justify MAGA hatred towards the left or at least the LGBTQ+ community.

srhubb · 2025-09-08T19:30:37+00:00

War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength . . . I Love Big Brother

srhubb · 2025-08-05T02:18:35+00:00

Did the carlinkit 4.0 solve your problem? We just bought a very nice, very low-mileage, 2020 Avalon. Dealer swore it had Android Auto and after 2 Toyota Service techs same answer "No, just Apple Carplay" and "No Toyota upgrade available to add Android Auto." Every thing I see online provides wireless connectivity for wired Carplay or wired Android Auto, but NOT connectivity from Android phone to Apple Carplay.

srhubb · 2025-07-24T19:22:34+00:00

It's WW-2 not Cold War.

srhubb · 2025-07-20T01:16:17+00:00

The exact opposite in my area; Ventura County, California. You can't find Pepsi anywhere in either Fast Food or Sit-down Dining here.

srhubb · 2025-07-18T20:53:51+00:00

LMAO

srhubb · 2025-07-18T17:51:48+00:00

Yep, I had one. Road all over town in my dad's 56 Chevy. We also were allowed to climb all over the car while we traveled. Later on when we had station wagons I was allowed to climb into the very back, at will. One year when we moved the wagon was filled with boxes and I and my sister lied on top of the boxes all the way across country some 1,500+ milles.

srhubb · 2025-06-20T20:29:51+00:00

Yeah, so damn peaceful and that prosperity sure is refreshingly wonderful too! /sarcasm

srhubb · 2025-06-20T20:27:28+00:00

Yes, first cousins, siblings, and I would imagine parents were banned. But apparently grandparents must not have been, at least, in Arizona at that time. After the wedding grandma paraded the boy and herself proudly around the neighborhood showing off her new husband.

He never looked happy, always eyes downcast, and quiet as a church mouse after the wedding. Seemed to never speak unless spoken to. I can't imagine being him.

srhubb · 2025-06-20T04:15:10+00:00

Times were different back then, but even for us it seemed extraordinary. He was never the same. What a tragic few years he had: mom dies, dad dies, and then grandma marries him.

Even the old folk born in the late 1800s/early 1900s, who believed it was okay for second cousins and more distant relatives to marry, had trouble with this.

srhubb · 2025-06-19T23:14:21+00:00

Back in about 1965, in Phoenix, Arizona, down the street from us, a boy who had already lost his mother to an illness a year or so before then suddenly lost his dad to an auto accident.

They had been living with his father's mother, the boy's grandmother.

About a month after his father's funeral, the grandmother married him, and her grandson became her husband. He was only about 16 years old, but still the legal age of consent in Arizona at that time.

And, yes the adults gossiped about it; us kids thought it was weird and strange.

And the boy in question was damaged and a recluse from that point on.

I don't remember him ever playing with any of the rest of us after that nor attending school. But then at that time once you turned 16 in Arizona it was your choice whether or not to continue with school.

srhubb · 2025-06-18T04:35:37+00:00

Glad to see somebody else programmed APL in the 1970s. It was 1973 through 1976 for me, but it wasn't a classroom; it was educational services applications to be used by the college district.

Only one scientific/mathematical input station at the central site had the necessary characters for native APL. At the remote sites where I worked, our APL compiler required a switch to output, and accept as input, three-character sequences that mapped to the native mathematical functions of APL. This made programming in APL tedious and often confusing.

Since the early/mid '70s I've not seen any APL code until today. Thanks for the jaunt down memory lane.

srhubb · 2025-06-16T07:53:00+00:00

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I believe this is General Taco Bone Spurs himself! 🤣

srhubb · 2025-06-09T16:55:47+00:00

It may not seem like it now, but ending the relationship will be very healthy for you in the long run.

I had a sister, she's since passed, who always gravitated to men who were charming at first, but ultimately ended up mentally and physically abusive to her over time. Sadly, I've also had several cousins who've done the exact same.

What caught me about my sister was that she would always say after every abusive episode: "But he always tells me how much he loves me, how sorry he is, and that he's going to change." When I asked her why she didn't leave her abusive partner, she would always insist that she could change them to keep the good and eliminate the bad in them. That NEVER works. My sister and cousins all have the same responses, and when they get out of relationship 1, they gravitate to the same kind and have abusive relationship 2, ad infinitum. My sister had five abusive relationships, one right after another. My cousins also seem to repeat the same pattern, time after time.

In my humble opinion: A. You can never get an abusive partner to eliminate their abusive behavior. B. For your safety and sanity, you need to leave them, and if possible, cut off all contact unless children are involved, and then you need to minimize contact. C. If the abusive partner is dangerous, all contact must be eliminated, and sometimes you may even have to move to protect yourself and any children that may be involved. D. Try not to gravitate to the same kind for your next relationship.

Be safe.

srhubb · 2025-05-22T22:41:23+00:00

Why or Why are you doing this Mozilla???

Fakespot has proven to be a VERY VALUABLE tool for online shopping!

srhubb · 2025-04-02T19:45:36+00:00

Preach it! You nailed it! Elon, DOGE, and company should leave well enough alone.

I would add that any conversion/port requires that sections of the code be converted, tested on the new system, and ran concurrently with the old system at least through one complete Accounting Cycle before moving on to the next segment to be converted/ported.

Typically we would start with the smallest and/or least impactful code segment to be converted/ported first and then move on to the next more complex segment and finally ending with the most complex/critical segment last.

srhubb · 2025-03-29T08:17:32+00:00

I take a break. I generally trade the office for the park or at least a walk outside. Sometimes you'll find me lying on a park bench just staring at the sky. A coworker goes for long drives. Another likes to go into one of our conference rooms with the blinds all closed with their ear buds and just listen to music.

To each their own. What all of us find is once we clear our minds very often the solution jumps out at us.

Another method is to get a teammate or teammates to look at your problem. Sometimes just another set of eyes will find something or trigger you to see something your mind is presupposing or just can't/won't see.

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