Oh my God. I'm the tin dog.

4:08pm: stuff
We found two gray kittens under a bush in the back yard. They were about two weeks old.

They are now five weeks old. Valerie feeds them KMR. I am seldom able to get upstairs due to edema from meds, so Valerie is now a mommy— right after getting a rad hys.

The gods do not have a subtle sense of humor.

4:44pm: VALERIE IS OKAY!
It's been a month since her surgery. They got everything they were looking for, and she's even off the post-surgery oxycodone.

2:01am: Xmas
Valerie has taken a train to go see her relatives.
That's her present.

I haven't.
That's mine.

8:00am: help
Valerie, my best friend and boon companion of 36 years, told me yesterday that her doctor had found a malignant tumor in the lining of her uterus.

After Christmas they're going in to take it out, along with uterus, Fallopian tubes, and ovaries.

Please pray for her on Christmas.

4:58pm: I STILL ATEN'T DEAD
But you pretty much have to follow @PrezHarrington on Twitter to hear from me.

Rapid feedback has spoiled me rotten.

5:14pm: I ATEN'T DEAD.
#JSYK.

3:40pm: 1314
WRITE THIS DOWN.

Bacon is a FOOD.

Cheese is a CONDIMENT.



Post this conspicuously in your kitchen, add it to your shopping list, and use glass etching fluid to put it on the window of every goddamn restaurant you can reach before you run out or the cheese apologists get you.

7:41am: Cry for help
This is embarrassing to relate, but next year I plan to go to my first WorldCon ever, and I don't have enough money for a hotel room.

I need over a thousand dollars.

My PayPal is shandalimas@earthlink.net, if you can throw me something.

Think of it as a Christmas miracle.

3:40pm: 1313
It occurs to me I've never published this idea, and I think it's the only explanation.

Dreams do not occur at unthinkably high speed. Dream images occur all over the brain. All the images in a dream occur at the same time, generated by different parts of your cortex. The brain is so made as to require some kind of order, and it assigns times to the images.

I realized this when I learned that you keep having the same dream over and over as you sleep. The dream you have just as you're waking, however, is a lot saner than the one you had shortly after you fell asleep. If you wake with a dream of being in a bubble bath, the dream you had initially was more like swimming in an Olympic-sized pool full of Fizzies.

This is also why the sequence of a waking dream is just about exactly as logical as an episode of Monty Python. The BBC insisted that there be some kind of connection between one segment and the next, so they came up with links that may politely be described as arbitrary. (Or, impolitely, aberrant.) This is what your brain does.

As you have the same dream over and over, your brain keeps fine-tuning the images and connections between them, seeking to render them at least linear, if not altogether rational.

The reason I was able to figure this out has to do with something peculiar about me.

I can do this as an act of will.

That is, I have edit and rewind functions in my dreams. If I don't like content or a sequence I can get a do-over.

What disturbs me about this is that it means that at some level I am always conscious.

I think this is why I can't be hypnotized either.

4:18pm: 1312
This morning I dropped my roomie Valerie off at the train station, to visit her family for Thanksgiving. The train was nine minutes late.

IF HILLARY HAD WON THE ELECTION THE TRAINS WOULD RUN ON TIME!

(Of course, people who voted against her would ride in boxcars....)

12:51pm: 1311
In 1987 a supernova 170k LY away spiked neutrino detectors all over.
Had speed varied by one foot per sec., they would have been spread over 80 min.; and they arrived before the light.
They were massless; physics since has been a paid sham.
#ClimateCreationScience
#Harrington2024

8:23pm: 1310
I'm collaborating with Larry Niven again!

This time it's a story he gave up on fifty years ago because he couldn't get it to work. One good thing came out of it: the aliens he designed later became the Pierson's puppeteers.

We're using different aliens for this.

I designed them, including their evolution.

He thinks they're great.

Think who's saying that, now.

11:48am: 1309
Q ) How do we know the Joker used to be a biker?
A ) He still rides a Harley.

2:12pm: 1308
We really should do something nice for the mole for the Republicans who talked Frederica Wilson into wearing those asinine hats.

:)

3:25pm: 1307
Buy a hearse.
Get it a good wash and wax.
Put on formal black clothes.
Drive the hearse to a movie theater, park, and conspicuously check your watch while breathlessly asking the ticket seller, "What do you have that's over by six?"

12:03pm: The Elephant In The Room...
...is a jackass.
Specifically the Party that owns the MSM, which is suppressing the fact that the Las Vegas Massacre was carried out by a man who had converted to Islam before buying his illegal weapons.

3:27pm: Hugh Hefner, age 91, is dead.
The scene is a child's bedroom, many years ago. His mother walks in and says, "Stop staring out the window and get dressed!"
The boy says, "Why?"
His mother says, "To go to school."
He says, "Why?"
Exasperated, she says, "So you can get a job!"
And he says, "Why?"
And she says, "So you can make money! Nobody ever got rich sitting around in his pajamas and watching girls go by all day!"
And it was then that little Hugh Hefner swore a mighty oath, that SOMEDAY...
RIP Hef, and thanks.




I really did read the articles too.

1:22pm: 1306
TODAY BE TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY!

It be Doc Pournelle what told me that such a thing be.

Arr.

1:12pm: followup to last post


I was finally able to weep.

5:07pm: 1933-2017
Dr. Jerry Pournelle died yesterday.

He won the Cold War.

12:54am: 1305
Healthy people should not be allowed into medical school.
If you're in pain you need to be treated by Greg House.

12:01am: 1304
During Presidential press conferences I will have a bushel basket of water balloons close at hand at all times.
#Harrington2024

12:01am: 1303
Does anyone care that the kid in STAR TREK's A Piece Of The Action either got cheated or ended up as planetary dictator?

#Harrington2024

12:01am: 1302
I just saw somebody fall under a millstone.
He'll be fine.









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12:01am: 1301
I have an unusually dirty brain for a Democrat.

Never been washed.