Old Jon in Milwaukee
@oldjoninmke.bsky.social
My definition of civilization has long been being able to walk to the public library.
Retired. Milwaukee. Math. Choral music. Bears fan in Wisconsin. Started programming in 1971 and haven't stopped yet. Life-long liberal. 135 books/year.
Retired. Milwaukee. Math. Choral music. Bears fan in Wisconsin. Started programming in 1971 and haven't stopped yet. Life-long liberal. 135 books/year.
They could have each had a ball and I do believe he could have blocked them both.
November 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
They could have each had a ball and I do believe he could have blocked them both.
Nah. All my kids are leftists. 😂
November 14, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Nah. All my kids are leftists. 😂
Settle for avatar. God-like in conception, comfortably removed in action. 🤣
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Settle for avatar. God-like in conception, comfortably removed in action. 🤣
I've been known to order such things as "neat."
November 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I've been known to order such things as "neat."
Dare I say "joined the pantheon as both God of local women AND God of oatmeal"?
November 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Dare I say "joined the pantheon as both God of local women AND God of oatmeal"?
Accidentally or "accidentally"?
November 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Accidentally or "accidentally"?
I didn't. Thanks!
November 12, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I didn't. Thanks!
Woody Allen as Jimmy Bond
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Woody Allen as Jimmy Bond
Sunday morning haiku:
Of my effing God!
Metabolic approach to
Schizophrenia???
Of my effing God!
Metabolic approach to
Schizophrenia???
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Sunday morning haiku:
Of my effing God!
Metabolic approach to
Schizophrenia???
Of my effing God!
Metabolic approach to
Schizophrenia???
Maybe the Dutch can replace them and add a third panel explaining this action, too.
November 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Maybe the Dutch can replace them and add a third panel explaining this action, too.
The US representative from CA-54 always has his finger on the pulse of the nation.
(That account is one of the few I miss from the other place.)
(That account is one of the few I miss from the other place.)
November 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The US representative from CA-54 always has his finger on the pulse of the nation.
(That account is one of the few I miss from the other place.)
(That account is one of the few I miss from the other place.)
At the other end of the spectrum are trailers that not only tell you what it's about, but reveal so many key plot points that there is no longer any purpose in going and seeing them. 😂
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
At the other end of the spectrum are trailers that not only tell you what it's about, but reveal so many key plot points that there is no longer any purpose in going and seeing them. 😂
that the seersucker suit was given to him when he was working in a Displaced Persons camp, that one of the fountain pens came from Passaic, New Jersey, and that those facts can be related directly to his death.”
November 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
that the seersucker suit was given to him when he was working in a Displaced Persons camp, that one of the fountain pens came from Passaic, New Jersey, and that those facts can be related directly to his death.”
Off topic: A fabulous bit from early in Eric Amber's "Judgment on Deltchev," a classic cold war spy novel from 1951.
“I know a lot about Pashik now. I know, for instance, that the black dispatch case that he carried so importantly rarely contained anything but a stale meat sandwich and a revolver,
“I know a lot about Pashik now. I know, for instance, that the black dispatch case that he carried so importantly rarely contained anything but a stale meat sandwich and a revolver,
November 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Off topic: A fabulous bit from early in Eric Amber's "Judgment on Deltchev," a classic cold war spy novel from 1951.
“I know a lot about Pashik now. I know, for instance, that the black dispatch case that he carried so importantly rarely contained anything but a stale meat sandwich and a revolver,
“I know a lot about Pashik now. I know, for instance, that the black dispatch case that he carried so importantly rarely contained anything but a stale meat sandwich and a revolver,
(Short episodes, about 10 minutes. He does that about once a year, a on people who deserve way more time than they get in the main feed. So folks like Eleanor of A, William Marshall, John Hawkwood, MC, and friends.)
November 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
(Short episodes, about 10 minutes. He does that about once a year, a on people who deserve way more time than they get in the main feed. So folks like Eleanor of A, William Marshall, John Hawkwood, MC, and friends.)
David Crowther, over at the History of England podcast finished a 14-ish episode biographical series on Margaret Cavandish over the last year or so on his members feed.
November 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
David Crowther, over at the History of England podcast finished a 14-ish episode biographical series on Margaret Cavandish over the last year or so on his members feed.
Is it easier to put them in, or take them out of the leftover candy? Also: remember to do that.
November 1, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Is it easier to put them in, or take them out of the leftover candy? Also: remember to do that.
How many people don't know that with a few changes, this could have been an editorial opposing JFK in 1960 as the first Catholic president?
October 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
How many people don't know that with a few changes, this could have been an editorial opposing JFK in 1960 as the first Catholic president?
You could have kept that to yourself!
October 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
You could have kept that to yourself!
O Lordy: I had a vision of of next year's state fairs. And all af them included donkeys, lambs, custom fittings, RACING!
October 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
O Lordy: I had a vision of of next year's state fairs. And all af them included donkeys, lambs, custom fittings, RACING!
Thus perfectly fulfilling Aristotle's unity of action accomplished through the pun.
(The true answer is, of course, pizza. Only because it's the best after, well, anything. Puns notwithstanding.)
(The true answer is, of course, pizza. Only because it's the best after, well, anything. Puns notwithstanding.)
October 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Thus perfectly fulfilling Aristotle's unity of action accomplished through the pun.
(The true answer is, of course, pizza. Only because it's the best after, well, anything. Puns notwithstanding.)
(The true answer is, of course, pizza. Only because it's the best after, well, anything. Puns notwithstanding.)
Right? It doesn't matter how good the per diem is if the expenses process isn't functional.
October 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Right? It doesn't matter how good the per diem is if the expenses process isn't functional.