Aloha, Suz…!

Suz!

Yo (doing my raven imitation)!

Oops.

Gap in health care law’s protection for children: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jYnajhWrPEXihcCrpRNfUKN7rN-AD9EKO82G2

dood! (Suz imitation)

LOL!

hang on.. lost is almost over.. OMG it is intense.. i’ll be here in just a few..

LOST was great!! All things explained…NOT!!

Hi Suz CT Newt Sunny from the CA Central Coast (Los Osos)where $300.00 a month sewer is getting closer and gentrification is on the way if some have their way.

oh gawd
teevee…

Evening all.

What’s on my mind? I can pretty much guarantee you that Kid Rock is not.

aloha ct — how’s paradise tonight?

newt! how goes dood?

(Suz: How’s Denver tonight Kelly?)

Glad you asked Suz – it’s forking SNOWING LIKE HELL!

(heh. /snark)

To coin a phrase? LOST!

*runsaroundinternetlookingforgoodiestoplacateSuz*

Now V

yo sunny — whazzup?

hey jmorgan — welcome to late late nite — off topic is the topic here so no oops :)

cheesecake

kelly dood! how’s denver?

Snowing, yikes.
I know people in NM who are wondering if spring is ever going to come!

dood they are all dead!!! in a parallel universe.

(laughing) how ya doing?

Denver is full of smooches for you!

*andcheesecakeifnecessary – thanksnewt*

hey bb — that is so fucking wrong .. geez

hey openhope — how are ya this fine spring evening?

hey joeyess — how about sheryl crow? (laughing)

how ya doing?

fuck — am i that predictable?

is this gonna fuck up your mission tomorrow dood?

go look at my place for help finding ideas

Whats Raven been doing I have not seen him here much?

good and you Suz?
Tucker says woof woof to Token…(when ya coming ta visiting again?)

hey margot — is it spring in ohio?

Just watched a cruise ship set sail while a glorious sunset was happening as it sank behind a cloudless Mauna Kea…! ;-)

Btw, starting Tomorrow nite, I’ll be spending every other night, for the next two weeks, up there…! 8~)

No, the Mission Stands.

Like any good pinko-commie, I shall take the socialist BUS to this naughty Senator’s office, where we shall place this commie pinko socialist PETITION in his office, and then I shall take the socialist SUPERTRAIN to my corporatist workplace.

A normal day. (laughs!)

Yeah, I couldn’t click. Not into Kid Rock.
But, I couldn’t click anyway because my spouse is watching the new” Wire In The Blood”. It’s very dark. I’m kind of tired of being emotionally disturbed. And yet, I’m addicted to the “Oz” [Oswald Penitentiary] series right now.

ya forgot the hippie in your commie pinko :)
an honest days work unlike what our congresscritters do — they just sell themselves to the highest bidder — repeatedly

Snow never stuck once to the ground in Seattle this year Cherry blossoms bloomed last month. Global Warming is not regular and even across the board.

brrrrrr snow and longjohns in paradise

hey things — i had no snow on the beach this year either. the daffs are starting to fade and trees are leaving out

OZ rules!

Yes, it’s spring in Ohio and the teabaggers are beginning to stir again. My mailman is ranting on about the damn gummint gonna take money for other people’s health care. He gets real mad when I say the post office is run by the gov’t. “Is not!” lol

Looks like I might get a renter in my place then I’m off to Portland have you seen Hawthorne street where the Hippies hangout yet?

Our ornamental NanKing cherry was just budding. She’s getting socked, and probably won’t have a whole lot of bloom. :(

No snow, but, it does sound brisk… Tonite’s forecast…

Summit temperatues will be near 0 C this evening and -1 C tomorrow morning.Winds will be from the WSW at 10-20 mph for the night

dood they are all dead!!! in a parallel universe.

Did they check to see if Bobby Ewing was in the shower?

i’m gonna need more tin foil

not been into pdx — just driven through it. i’m not much into city life and avoid it whenever i can.

Just watched a cruise ship set sail while a glorious sunset was happening

Do the cruise ships go out of Hilo only? [I should know these things . . . ]

hey mauimom — i’m thinking there are parallels (laughing)

how’s your island tonight?

Hey Suz

two more phone screens by hiring managers. Today’s said she’d call me next week about coming to Portland to interview with her team. Still searching for other opportunities, but I’m feeling pretty good about chances.

Daffs pushing up under oak leaves that finally fell off trees in January! Spring please! We had a mother of all lightning and thunder storms last night that may have set a church on fire. What a storm!

hey wmd — dood i got fingers and toes crossed — you are overdue for a run of good luck for a change and i’m thinking a job is a good start

Baghdad theater, it’s a brew pub and cinema, out east Hawthorne/Morrison.

No doubt. And it’s going to happen soon.

hey ce — yikes! everyone around here is saying spring was 6 weeks early here. things were blooming in forking feb — but there is no such thing as climate change yanno (/s)

Hey, I’m totally the Spirit of Spring !! Got snap peas planted, lots of Walla Walla onion starts, a few early potatoes. And my Cornish Cross meat chicks are coming next week. Guess I’m going to find out if I can “walk the walk” on eating chicken.
What’s not to love here in the Pacific Northwest?!

Good lard, there used to be this most fabulous gay bar in that neighborhood in the ’80s called “The Family Zoo.” Haven’t thought of it in years.

Hey wmd1961, is the Virginia Cafe still operating downtown on/around Stark Street? I used to LOVE that place.

i was checking the pots on the deck today — did some major cleaning up. my peony is about to bloom. the chives and lemon thyme survived the winter. been thinking of what the replacements are gonna be for those plants the freeze got.

Well! Spring was here last week, and it was wonderful. I pitched the down coat to storage, and froze my ass off this morning. Ever hopeful, Chris

the damn gummint gonna take money for other people’s health care.

Sounds like my old hometown take people’s money to help someone else Noooo!!!! Tell him its a GOP stealth play tell him McCain would have won the election if Truman gave people healthcare after all old White Men were McCain’s strongest demographic.
If Truman had given us healthcare enough White Males might be alive today to get McCain elected ask yourself this who benefits the most from Healthcare older people alive now or young Moms having kids who won’t vote for 18 years
Answer the GOP so do not expect them to repeal healthcare.

I’m addicted to that god-awful violent Spartacus. Good story. A little heavy on the gratuitous debauchery, but I just can’t stop watching it.

hee hee…..

I used to live there:)

You can’t board any of the multitude of cruise ships that arrive in Hilo… Nor, for that matter ,any other Hawaiian port, except Honolulu…! Seriously…! If you wanted to cruise around the Isles, you have to fly to Oahu first…! ;-)

Where does one find “wire in the blood”? ahhh…….. the google machine! what a wonder! BBC. I may give that a whirl.
thanks.

I don’t know. I was in PDX in ’96-’97, have only visited since. I do remember enjoying good beer and movies at the Baghdad.

Adios you charming folks. Must go – have a good night!

Spring is early. We live in Tulip country and the color is already on the buds. It’s going to be another disaster Tulip Festival when the tourists come out in mid April and the crops have already been beheaded to keep the colors pure. For bulb sales.
Glad I don’t really give a shit about tourists.

It’s nice.

My husband’s on the Mainland, so it’s kinda lonesome: just me & the four dogs.

OMG, tonight’s The Daily Show is a repeat of Jon Stewart’s imitation of Glen Beck that I think i saw last week. it is hysterical.

oh crap.. that was supposed to be in reply to openhope

g’nite kelly

Weather patterns get weird heat is energy energy changes to wind but when faster winds hit the North Pole Things get Colder at least until the Poles melt then Global Warming will get real bad.

i was up in skagit land 5 or 6 years ago. march and the tups were well on their way to buds. bet that year the fest was forked too.

Thats about when I was there and my brother Pablo was there for sure.

Oh man, I didn’t hear about that. Come down here this summer, can you? Write me.

Netflix. It’s a twisted British series. Used to be that Blockbuster carried it but they’re tanking.

Hm, I never thought of it like that. But really, you think they’ll let it go without a fight? Never!

It’s possible our paths have crossed IRL then. I suspect I’ll be flying into Portland next week to try and land a job.

Hawthorne still a hip(pie) place in SE, but Belmont is more authentic, if you want that. Hawthorne has gone chi-chi.

Oh, and evenin’ everyone. Looks like we are recovering from Sunday’s hit.

here is some kid-rock-free sheryl crow — doing one of my favs

hey starbuck — how’s your side of the coast range?

well time to trundle off…
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nite pups Hope all ya dreams are good ones..
Tucker says .. WOOF WOOF..

Yeah, I’m thinking I’m going to have another kick ass garden this year. We’re just finishing up the produce I stored from last year.
Which means the Tulip Tourists are going to be looking at dirt and green leaves if they go by the Festival schedule.
Oh,well.

g’nite nahant – token says snore snore (he’s under the stove again)

They will fight but like abortion despite getting Reagan, Bush, and Bush 2 elected all running against abortion the GOP has never seal the deal.
Angry Frustrated GOPers go to the polls, not happy contented ones its amazing that after 20 years of GOP Presidents they still can’t get abortion outlawed.
Its even more amazing the GOP base has not caught on yet that they are being Played.

Beautiful day today.

Slight chance for being at the beach this weekend, but the forecast doesn’t look good

I might be there next week if Things Go Right.

Hawthorne has gone chi-chi.

Nooo! whats chi-chi?

just watching the forecast — nope… weather dood says a cold air mass coming in this weekend.. brrr

Nite good seeing you again.

My wifi is extremely sporadic tonite…! 8-(

Which will be soon rectified by my next little toy…! ;-)

Remembering an adventure – brought to mind by Lisa’s moonshine thread:

Years ago, I was sent *for some sensible reason* to look at a piece of land in the hills. Was in an estate administered by a bank.

Trust officer drew a map and circled an intersection of two unpaved country roads. Said to stop in the intersection, walk around my car and then proceed folks like to see who is around. Just do it, you’ll be fine. I did. Trip was uneventful *g*

Glad I don’t really give a shit about tourists.

LOL

oh crap and ooooooo

ohmystars. when i was a kid and we would visit the grandparents in ky, we would *always* be pointed to the small hollar down the road and told to stay outta there cause they ran moonshine and were not friendly.

i was sufficiently scared that i never did go down there

Chi-chi…upper crust. Maybe I am spelling it wrong. Doesn’t show up that way in Google.

Whoa! I think spring storms are the worst because it’s so easy to think Winter’s Over just by the calender. It ain’t over ’til it’s over. If we get an April freeze, which happens, we’re going to lose alot of fruit.

Upper Crust, Yuppies Noooo!

Gentrified. Yuppies displacing hippies.

Bingo!

congrats on snagging the 100 wmd

Damn! Missed it!

guess you are just gonna have to try for the 200 dood

Hawthorne will never be as chi-chi as the Lake Oswego.

My finger was poised, and I hit enter and not Submit!

Grrrr!

Kid Rock Can Sing?!?!?!?!

Who knew?!?!?!?!

Nice pick, once again, Madama Suz!!!

*G*

My luck is changing!

Time to sleep soon.

hey larue — how’s sac?

Why can’t they displace Sarah voters:(

i think its the start of something good.. maybe??? hope so g’nite dood

Or the Pearl. Or Dunthorpe.

I lived in Lake Oswego in 1961. Them’s were my salad days! 6 Months in Field Training, per Diem covered, swimming pool…
Sigh!

oh lardy, i’ve heard about oswego and the pearl being all yuppified.

hi, y’all – sunny and upper 60′s in So. Texas, but rain coming.

Showing my age maybe: This is what I expected when I clicked on Suzanne’s 111:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gru4wmRVV7I&feature=related

Congrats on the income, CT!!

WHOOPPPEEEEE!!!!! $$$$$$

Oh,yeah. Yuppies replacing hippies is what’s happening in our corner of the world. Old yuppies. Retired yuppies who never sacrificed salary to raise their families in a unique,beautiful yet island lifestyle. They bought investment properties cheap and returned to retire into a house that went from $60,000 to $985,000. So they’re smug, but they can’t sell in this market. The other new influence are the people who bought at $950,000 because they could.
Man, do THOSE people suck in terms of community tradition awareness.

The Pearl is on it’s way down at the moment. Stores are being abandoned, and same for downtown. Saks is pulling out of downtown.

In that era, jacked up cars were so cool.. Had no idea it was connected to running ‘shine.

sheryl and emmylou

Good to be on a roll *g*

hey tejan — i don’t wanna be predictable yanno — how ya doing?

Thanks Suz.

I’ve had a couple of former colleagues pulling for me for this job – a principal engineer and the director of the corp research labs. Reading everything I can find on technology I’d be working with too.

I’m doing everything I can to make my own luck.

this is the best song and video re running shine

Night all. Just took an Ambien for insomnia in total desperation. I’ve been warned that a person on Ambien should walk away from the keyboard. :>

What kind of engineer are you?

Comrade!! Well Done!!!

Na Zdorovyeh, depending on what spelling ya wanna use.

With the high end triple distilled vodka, use 3 parts vodka, two parts cointreau, and one part roses lime juice (I hate the acids of fresh lime juice).

Pour over ice, shake not stirred, and strain into frozen martooney glass.

Repeat often.

And Bless Ya, ya phookin mook, for all you do for the progs, the masses, and yourself.

Kudos to ya.

Nite Openhope cool name by the way:)

File this one under “the final lame-ass excuse for not passing a public option.” Per Sam Stein at HuffPo:

[...]

“Democrats in the Senate are very unified that this is not going back to the House,” Sen. Wyden (D-Ore.) told the Huffington Post on Tuesday, minutes before the Coburn amendment was introduced.

Just how unified? If Republicans, in a bit of legislative trickery, offer an amendment to the Senate reconciliation bill that allows for the establishment of a public option for insurance coverage, Democrats — despite longing for the proposal for more than a year — won’t even take the bait.

In other words, after insisting that the House pass the Senate’s piece of shit bill on faith, the Senate now insists that they can’t trust the House to ratify the addition of a public option. And people report this White House bullshit with a straight face.

g’nite openhope

hey wigwam — i’m sad to say i’m not surprised how low they will go to avoid doing what we want

how ya doing tonight?

I was expecting Laura Love’s version.

i have been looking for laura love’s let your freak flag fly on the utubes for ages

In other words, after insisting that the House pass the Senate’s piece of shit bill on faith, the Senate now insists that they can’t trust the House to ratify the addition of a public option. And people report this White House bullshit with a straight face.

The Senate needs to be Drug Tested.

I’m a mathematician and computer scientist. So software engineering… primarily high performance and supercomputing. This job is supporting some new parallelization software.

I’m good – keep trying to shut down the laptop and go to bed…but as you see, I haven’t yet.
No paying work this week, so I’ve been reading, and today following links to good literary/book sites and blogs.
So, I’m still up.

???

oh crap. i’m sorry about the no pay week — but my inner pollyanna is saying that on the positive side, we get to see ya here on the dark side of the lake.

How does this trying to shut down and go to bed work? I’ve been trying since before my 100.

nice.

Exact SAME thing jumped into my mind . . . Suz phooled us!! ;-)

I like your pick BTW . . . didn’t like HIM, much, but that song moved me . . *G*

Laura Love is an Americana/folk singer, she does a nice version of “Start of something good”

its got it all, souped up cars, planting seeds, hiding from the dea…. glenn frey did an 80′s smugglers blues that i still love

Phreakin wow!

Two voices, way up high.

One the master, the other the student come into her own.

Wow, that’s a saver for honey, she’s gonna LOVE this tomorrow!!

Nice pick, Suz . . . *G*

thanks larue — stumbled across it and knew it was a keeper — too bad it is embedding disabled

Yeah, I’m with ya on this one, I’m a BIG Earle fan!! *G*

Yer on The A Game, Gal!!!!

Gotta go Pups, thanks for the chat, thanks for the music and hostessing, Suz, premiere, as always!!

*G*

*poof*

g’nite larue

Lol – well, I’m not so good at it.

I did just come back from changing into pj’s and washing my face….so all I have to do…is…click…Start…(windows, of course), then, shut down…then wait….and wait….

Well, I’m still here.
Yeah, Suze, when I have paying work I don’t get to stay up late. There are benefits to unemployment, and I’m not one to ignore them. *g*

Going to bed myself finally. Good night all.

Oh. Thx!

no alarm clock in the morning is my fav thing about being retired. the pay sucks but that no alarm clock is worth it :)

g’nite wmd

Intel, perhaps? As the core count increases, such explorations have to go forward. They just announced a 6 core i7 with 12 threads. The people I worked with there said the average thread count that is currently handled is between 2 and 3. Of course, that was 9 months ago!

Funny about you being a mathematician, I am re-reading for the umpteenth time, Roger Penrose book, “Shadows of the Mind”

ooops. G’nite wmd.

laura love

Very Cool! What do people use them for these days?

I’ve been warned that a person on Ambien should walk away from the keyboard.

I heard you might not remember sex you had, fights you got into or banks you robbed.

I hope someone’s in your neck of the woods taking notes, and will report to us tomorrow night.

I hear ya there. I have to have two to three alarms set – and at least one must be across the room, in order to make it out of bed at a set time.

i used to keep one in the bathroom — the echoing off the tile is particularly irritating and helped break through the haze — and i had to get up and walk in their to turn the forker off. by then i was up so…. as long as i could resist crawling back into bed i was good.

wasn’t that what kennedy (joe? pat?) was on when he got in that crash a few years back?

It’s true – honest, my ex took it for awhile a couple of years ago: he’s very big on low-carb to no-carb eating, doesn’t keep cookies, crackers, etc., even bread in the house.

At least twice, he apparently drove (!!!) to the grocery store and bought packages of cookies and other junk food; woke up in the morning to empty or near empty packages on the kitchen counter, of food he didn’t have when he went to bed.
Scared him pretty good.

I hope at least one is battery powered…! Ya just nevah know…! ;-)

I dunno. I just like listening to the disclaimers accompanying the tv ads. i particularly love the one [I think it's Boniva or some anti-osteoporosis drug] that says one of the possible side effects is contracting tuberculosis. Really!!

the echoing off the tile is particularly irritating and helped break through the haze —

Oh, my stars, Suzanne – we must be related! I really must try that – I’ve set one in the living room at times, but never thought about the bathroom.

So glad to know I’m not the only person alive with so much trouble getting up.

I’m waiting to hear about the sex, fights and robberies.

OTOH, maybe those cookies were the product of a hold-up of a 7-11 .

There’s a town a few miles down the road called New Straitsville, the Moonshine Capital of the US during Prohibition.

i wish we could do away with big pharma being able to directly advertise. that money should be used for research instead. i wonder how much of my med costs are due to ad costs.

how ya doing tonight?

Pretty well, but I’m sure disgusted with the reporting on the healthcare stuff. People still believe that Obama and the healthcare-industrial complex are on opposite sides, and that Jane and the Teabaggers are on the same side.

IMHO, Jane deserves a Pulitzer prize for her reporting on this fiasco. She nailed exactly what was going on back in August, and even after the NYT confirmed it last week, nobody in the MSM gets it. Well, almost nobody; the video of Joe Scarborough and Chris Hayes embedded here is very refreshing.

I need only one…my pee alarm. That gets me up!

G’nite all!

my first ex claimed it would take a big ole fire dept bell hanging over the bed blanging away to wake me up.

i do not like getting outta a warm bed on cold mornings either. hell, to be honest, i don’t like getting outta bed until i decide i wanna.

Y’know, right now they’re both (2 alarms on each clock) plugged-in—it’s hard to find a regular old-fashioned wind-up or even battery-powered one these days.

I had one a couple years ago, but, ummm, somehow, it got broken…..and I couldn’t find another one at the time.

I know I really need to get myself one of these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qaqqxq9E9p8

g’nite starbuck — this getting old crap sure does suck dood (laughing)

i wanted a george jetson system

We’ll never know. ; )

But, we actually did believe Patrick Kennedy – at least, we’re willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. It is possible. Poor Patrik, nobody else did.

jane is awesome. i don’t know how she does it but she is right on so many things way ahead of everyone else

Obfuscation by politicos is the rule. So empty promises are the bait. Reconcilliation that all the Obama supporters are touting to get public option and remove mandates by IRS enforcement is still AWOL.

You are truly a kindred soul, Suzanne.

And, looking at the clock, I see I’ve done it again, and I’d better toddle off to bed.
G’nite, everybody!

g’nite tejan

I agree and extend sympathy to Patrick as well.

It’s only 9pm here, but I’m off to bed.

if there are any East Coasters here — you’re insane.

g’nite mauimom

That song (Pale Blue Eyes) by Emmylou and Cheryl is beautiful.

For reasons I can’t explain, this, by Leon Jackson, reached out and grabbed me while I was waiting in line at a local Starbucks.

oh that’s grabbing hold of me too… he does a good job

I just found myself agreeing with Morning Joe? Ok I’m done Nite all:)

this is the misty blue i remember

even a broken clock is right twice a day things

g’nite

gracias

another emmylou/sheryl

Very nice. That sounds like the original version.

Misty Blue is incredibly durable music; I don’t think I’ve ever a bad version of it.

nite all…. maybe I am insane :-)

g’nite sunny

i’m thinking that’s the original but i could certainly be wrong. a good cover song can go back quite a ways…

ha — misty blue has its own wiki — was written for brenda lee but she turned it down

so close to 200 — but the thread is fading fast. wonder if we are gonna make it…

I don’t think it would be a very good song for Brenda Lee. Dorothy Moore, however, does a brilliant job with it.

I’m good for a few more minutes.

is it down to just us?

That’s how it’s looking.

bueller bueller bueller

Well, now it’s time for me to turn in.

G’nite, Suzanne and whoever else is still here.

congrats on snagging the 200 wigwam — and g’nite

guess i should head out myself.

g’nite all — thank you for letting me spend a wee bit of time with ya tonight

*turning lights down low*

I’ve got so much on my mind that I’m trying to put the world and its problems aside, although it can’t be ignored completely. This HCR bill is a fiasco, imho.

I don’t know what else to say, but I’ve got other stuff to look forward to, thank god.

Hipparchia, if you’re listening, I can’t say that I like the way that you caused a legitimate post of mine to be closed the way you did, though. I have seen what German Shepards can do, and it’s not as horrific as the damage that pitbulls can do.

Hipparchia, if you’re listening, you’re a bigger A-hole than the late Louise Day Hicks (remember her, anyone?) and all her supporters down in Southie and Charlestown who rioted against mandatory school busing in the mid-1970′s. Glad I had the opportunity to tell you what I thought of you.

Perhaps… I’m refraining from stating company names until I’ve got an offer, don’t want to tip off others looking for similar work. :-)

And yes as core counts go up parallelization needs to be made easier. MPP style parallelization is fine for people working on bleeding edge Grand Challenge kind of problems. For most developers of serially executed code it isn’t an easy switch. OpenMP also requires learning more about data parallelism and some difficult syntax.

Historically massively parallel machines have been used for big engineering problems – how a car will crumple on impact, how a nuclear warhead will function as materials age, how air flows over an air plane or car, how a protein molecule will fold, how shockwaves travel in an oil reservoir, etc.

Simulating the physics of these requires numerical solution of pdes at on the order of a million points, passing results from one time step to update surrounding points, then iterating. Literally quadrillions of calculations are required… or more.

As Starbuck said, multi core cpus are the current wave of increasing performance. So the techniques used for these bleeding edge problems will be needed to get some of the performance new generation processors offer.

Laura Love’s manager here. You want Freak Flag on YouTube? Let me look around, I might have a clip. If I find one I’ll post it on my channel, along with other LL clips: http://www.youtube.com/marymcfaul. Thanks for the request.

Right on!

What song am I thinking of with “this could be the start of something good?” I did a search for an mp3 to buy and didn’t come up with the title.

Suz, more news on job front – 4 hours of face to face scheduled for a week from Thursday. Manager will be in bay area so I won’t have 4 hours of travel beforehand.

I suspect I’ll be having face to face on the other phone screen in the next week as well.

woohoo thank you funststuff!!!

i’m a big laura fan with a big ole smile now

thank you

fingers and toes crossed for ya dood — am sending ‘hire this one’ thoughts for ya

thanks for keeping me updated wmd