MikeasaService
@ilk.org
Bats right, politics left.
Likes a bewildering variety of music.
Played Zork on a system running RT-11.
Never expected to end up in technical sales, but been doing it for over 30 years.
Upstate NY guy, Red Sox fan, grew up in Western North Carolina.
Likes a bewildering variety of music.
Played Zork on a system running RT-11.
Never expected to end up in technical sales, but been doing it for over 30 years.
Upstate NY guy, Red Sox fan, grew up in Western North Carolina.
I had a tough year for this, but it's an easy call:
November 17, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I had a tough year for this, but it's an easy call:
Of course, he doesn’t need the House to do anything. He could just order Patel and Bondi to release everything they have.
November 17, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Of course, he doesn’t need the House to do anything. He could just order Patel and Bondi to release everything they have.
Can we get a link to the video? Posting a link to the skeet doesn't work well in all other environments.
November 16, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Can we get a link to the video? Posting a link to the skeet doesn't work well in all other environments.
5) Minnie Riperton - Lovin' You
6) Barry White - My Everything
7) Patsy Cline - Crazy
8) Al Green - Let's Stay Together
3/3
6) Barry White - My Everything
7) Patsy Cline - Crazy
8) Al Green - Let's Stay Together
3/3
November 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
5) Minnie Riperton - Lovin' You
6) Barry White - My Everything
7) Patsy Cline - Crazy
8) Al Green - Let's Stay Together
3/3
6) Barry White - My Everything
7) Patsy Cline - Crazy
8) Al Green - Let's Stay Together
3/3
So I started making a list of songs for it. Things that aren't necessarily *obviously* fiendishly difficult to sing until you get into them.
1) Hall and Oates - Sara Smile
2) REM - It's the End of the World as We Know It
3) Boston - More than a Feeling
4) A-ha - Take on Me
2/
1) Hall and Oates - Sara Smile
2) REM - It's the End of the World as We Know It
3) Boston - More than a Feeling
4) A-ha - Take on Me
2/
November 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
So I started making a list of songs for it. Things that aren't necessarily *obviously* fiendishly difficult to sing until you get into them.
1) Hall and Oates - Sara Smile
2) REM - It's the End of the World as We Know It
3) Boston - More than a Feeling
4) A-ha - Take on Me
2/
1) Hall and Oates - Sara Smile
2) REM - It's the End of the World as We Know It
3) Boston - More than a Feeling
4) A-ha - Take on Me
2/
Let us not forget that the whole "welfare queen" bit was an explicitly racist appeal from Ronald Reagan, and it remains so today.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Let us not forget that the whole "welfare queen" bit was an explicitly racist appeal from Ronald Reagan, and it remains so today.
Ability to find outrage is even the slightest effect is highly valued among the pundit class, particularly (but not exclusively) on the right.
November 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Ability to find outrage is even the slightest effect is highly valued among the pundit class, particularly (but not exclusively) on the right.
"Americans can't think critically without the Fairness Doctrine" is possibly the wildest claim I've ever seen about it.
November 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
"Americans can't think critically without the Fairness Doctrine" is possibly the wildest claim I've ever seen about it.
Rik Elswit is on Quora, writes a lot of *terrific* answers on music and seems like a really nice guy, and I'm absolutely not going to tell him how terrible I think some of the songs he played on are.
#AT40
#AT40
November 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Rik Elswit is on Quora, writes a lot of *terrific* answers on music and seems like a really nice guy, and I'm absolutely not going to tell him how terrible I think some of the songs he played on are.
#AT40
#AT40
This was a great album all the way through, but this was the only cut with any chance of making it on the charts.
They did a followup in 1995 called "No Resemblance Whatever".
#AT40
They did a followup in 1995 called "No Resemblance Whatever".
#AT40
November 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This was a great album all the way through, but this was the only cut with any chance of making it on the charts.
They did a followup in 1995 called "No Resemblance Whatever".
#AT40
They did a followup in 1995 called "No Resemblance Whatever".
#AT40
Ah, I was coming down the home stretch of my first semester at RPI, having moved from Western North Carolina to upstate NY. It was an enormous change of life in more ways than one, and the campus radio station (WRPI) had already started having an effect on my grades. #AT40
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Ah, I was coming down the home stretch of my first semester at RPI, having moved from Western North Carolina to upstate NY. It was an enormous change of life in more ways than one, and the campus radio station (WRPI) had already started having an effect on my grades. #AT40
Going back to at least Bush's level of support after the Iraq war and 2008 crash, it seems like there's 30% of the country that will support anything that's sufficiently bad.
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Going back to at least Bush's level of support after the Iraq war and 2008 crash, it seems like there's 30% of the country that will support anything that's sufficiently bad.
Looking at some of her other content...no, she hasn't and won't consider that.
Neither of our kids cried a lot as toddlers because we took it seriously when they did and addressed the cause, which does *not* mean "handing them stuff until they stop".
Neither of our kids cried a lot as toddlers because we took it seriously when they did and addressed the cause, which does *not* mean "handing them stuff until they stop".
November 15, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Looking at some of her other content...no, she hasn't and won't consider that.
Neither of our kids cried a lot as toddlers because we took it seriously when they did and addressed the cause, which does *not* mean "handing them stuff until they stop".
Neither of our kids cried a lot as toddlers because we took it seriously when they did and addressed the cause, which does *not* mean "handing them stuff until they stop".