The Department of Environmental Protection, which is mulling new regulations for boiler permits, said in a rule proposal unveiled in December that electric boilers would cost between 4.2% and 4.9% more to operate than their gas counterparts. But a correction issued by the agency Tuesday said running electric boilers would cost between 4.2 and 4.9 times more than their fossil fuel equivalents.
— Magnitude of Orders, New Jersey editionCheesecake: wedding dress
It’s clear that Gelbooru users currently have Rem ranked Number One Waifu, but I had to lead off with some classics. A lot of the pictures in this category should really be tagged wedding_night, but we’ll save those for later…
After Black Friday comes...
Cigar Saturday!
Celebrate by firing up a hand-rolled stogie made in a free country, and toast the future with a glass of marxist tears.
In other news, Trump just made the left shit itself again by not following the ISO-666 standard on Publicly Praising The Evil Dead.
Cheesecake: american flag
Not to be confused with American Flagg!, drawn by “Wholesome” Howie Chaykin (as Stan Lee used to call him…), American flags are quite popular in anime and Japanese cheesecake photography. Given the history between the two countries, this can seem a bit odd, but for 16-year-old anime fans and 18-year-old bikini models, that was generations ago.
The category is currently dominated by Kantai Collection and Touhou, but if you page back a bit, there are other options. Red half-rims below the fold, and one loli crept in because she was paired with Kurumu-chan.
Dear Apple,
It seems like just days ago that Adobe had to fix yet another critical security hole caused by their years of tarting up Acrobat (you remember, the “document reader”) with all sorts of unrelated, and generally unwanted, interactive features. Oh, wait, that was last month; it’s Flash that had critical security holes fixed two weeks ago.
Good thing you’re a security-focused company who would never do something stupid like introduce brand-new malware vectors into all of your products. Oh, wait, you’re automatically, silently processing calendar invites and photo-sharing email, no matter who they come from, encouraging spammers to inject data into your system. This not only creates annoying pop-up notifications, but adds new ways to get people to click on malware-infested URLs.
Then again, you still ship every Mac with a browser that will auto-open “safe” file formats when you download them (including… wait for it… PDF files), so maybe the real story is that you were never security-focused to begin with.
[Update: just got one of these, on my almost-never-used icloud account (so, truly random spamming attempt), and had to follow the 6-step process on icloud.com to get rid of this terrible default setting. Nitwits.]
Cheesecake: rubber duck
[warning! gelbooru.com is currently serving up malware in their ad rotation; view their site with shields at maximum and Javascript disabled. Nothing there actually requires Javascript anyway, so it’s no loss.]
It will come as no surprise to You Know Who that the rubber_duck tag is a target-rich environment for cheesecake. Or that something legendary for making bath-time lots of fun would lead to water, soap suds, and lots of bare skin. And, because Japan, lots of lolis, tagged and untagged, sigh.
I rejected many quite pleasant pictures for being horizontal, so I may do a roundup at some point with the images sized differently. I also rejected censorducks and strategically-placed steam, so maybe that one will also be more NSFW.
Testing: looped mp4 instead of animated gif
I hacked Gifify to generate MP4 files instead of animated GIFs. Let’s see how this embeds:
This is 256 KB. 5.5 MB GIF version, created with the exact same parameters, below the fold.
Dear Penzeys,
I buy your spices, not your politics, so I’ve unsubscribed from your ‘newsletter’. Keep your reflexive bigotry to yourselves, m’kay?
"Please stop pretending to be customer support"
So, the ISP who hosts jgreely.com has been sending email since February announcing an upcoming transition to a new platform.
On November 2nd, they sent one that said “we may not get to your domain before our November 28th deadline, so if you don’t want it to be shut off, you might want to run our migration tool yourself and do your own testing.”
On November 15th, they sent a friendly reminder.
On November 16th, they said the migration had been completed successfully, and I should now update my registrar with their new name servers.
Not being an idiot, I queried the new servers, and found: no MX record, no A records, and only one lonely little CNAME pointing ftp.jgreely.com to (nonexistent) www.jgreely.com. The new IP address, available only from their web console, did not listen for SMTP, POP, or IMAP, but a manual connection to port 80 showed that my trivial home page was there. The control panel also showed that my mail config had been modified, but that no data had been copied over from the old server (someone clearly doesn’t understand how IMAP works…).
There is no published support email address. Their online chat never connects. I spent 72 minutes on hold waiting for someone to pick up, and ten minutes explaining the problem to an arrogant moron. I demanded he escalate the call, and he put me on hold for another 20 minutes. I explained the problem again, in detail, and this guy understood, and said they’d regenerate the zone file and it would be fine in a little while.
And, oh-by-the-way, since the transition of my domain was marked complete in their system, the old server could be shut down at any time. But if I noticed it and called, they’d be happy to turn it back on for a little while.
Two hours later, dig still shows no MX, no A, and one pointless CNAME.
Oh, and the “obsolete platform” had shell access; the shiny new one does not. It does, however, have a lot of overpriced add-on services, like “backup/restore” (!), SEO optimization, blahblahblah. And while on hold for over an hour, they kept telling me how paid audio and video services would “keep customers on my site longer”, and other bullshit.
If they don’t get their shit together Real Soon Now, I’ll name and shame them. And, of course, move the account elsewhere. Maybe I’ll just host it on Amazon and run it myself.
[Update: DNS and old email finally showed up. I haven’t switched yet, since it takes a while for name server changes to propagate, and I still don’t really trust these clowns. First, I’m going to backup my mail archives, then switch the IMAP config to point to the old IP address, then create a brand new account that points to the new IP addresses, so I don’t lose days of incoming mail.]
