Mudd was imprisoned at Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas. He treated prisoners and others in the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1867, earning a pardon from President Jackson for this service in 1869.
Fort Jefferson still stands, in all it’s sublime beauty, 60 miles W of Key West.
I lived in Southern Maryland for 22 years, pretty near by the Samuel Mudd House ( which has been preserved as a historical site ), yet I never was even tempted to visit - I only know where it was because I passed the entrance to the site when I went to and fro from the people with whom I kenneled my dog, Bonnie ( while she was still alive ) when I had to travel for work.
If the Chumps had lived back then, Don, Jr. would have made a joke about going on Halloween as John Wilkes Boothe, because Donald Trump is a rapist and a pedophile.
This day is celebrated by some, not for his treatment of John Wilkes Booth, but because after being sent to the Federal prison housed at Ft. Jefferson, in the Dry Tortugas near Key West, he did heroic work saving lives during a yellow fever outbreak there in what was considered a harsh prison on an island with only rain water as a source of fresh water.
The Atari 2600 was a global phenomenon. Except nobody had though of how to lock the system and anyone could produce games for it.
So the market was flooded with terrible games until eventually in '83 sales collapsed and retailers stopped carrying "Computer Games".
(Note this was mostly a US thing, in Europe there was more system diversity and hence no crash).
One of the vestigial things from this? Its the reason the NES is called the NES. The Nintendo Entertainment System. Not a computer game! They even made accessories for multiple non-game things for the NES, as US retailers refused to carry "computer games".
All of that obviously got dropped once it was in stores and selling well.
Back in those days, nobody thought about how to lock down the system because Atari didn't think anyone _would_ make game cartridges. It wasn't like writing software and delivering it on floppy disk (or CD-ROM, or over the internet). You had to actually make a cartridge which had a circuit board, the correct memory device, and the plastic case. The Atari cartridges had mask-programmed ROM chips for cost reasons, but to make the costs reasonable you had to make a boatload of them. One-time factory-programmable ROMs (PROMs) were expensive compared to mask ROMs, and erasable PROMs with the ceramic windows even more so. If I was at Atari then, I wouldn't consider that someone was going to make compatible game cartridges.
While the system details weren't published, the processor in the 2600 was well known (the 6507) and anyone competent could reverse-engineer the simple bus interface that was the cartridge slot. All it took, then, to make game cartridges was enough money for the production run. While that would appear to be a limited pool of contenders, it turns out -- nope.
I have to go to lunch. I don't want to go to lunch. I just want to take a nap because I feel like hell, then hopefully buy all of the beer later. This has not been a fun week.
New York Times: “After a series of public humiliations delivered to her by President Trump — his yanking of her nomination to serve as U.N. ambassador; his Oval Office love fest with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, during which the president undercut her; and the coup de grâce of his refusal to endorse her in the Republican primary for governor — ██████ on Friday afternoon announced she’d had enough.”
“She was done with the governor’s race, for which she had raised more than $12 million from donors who may now be frustrated with her decision to pull out. And done with Congress altogether: She said she would not seek re-election next year.”
“Now, at war with Speaker Mike Johnson, privately livid at Mr. Trump and deeply frustrated with her job in Congress, it is not clear whether ██████ even has any interest in finishing her term, although people close to her said she planned to stay until the end of her term.”
Bigfoot, Bat Boy and the *League of Alien Baby Daddies Who Dig Earth Women* are pissed. The Epstein files so far released have already spawned no less than THREE major exposes of "Unredacted, Unfiltered, Unadulterated and Unplugged" versions in the worldwide tabloid press.
The yetis, weird hybrid children and Alien deadbeat dads have been completely pushed aside to make room for The 'unvarnished truth' to be revealed in the gutter press and scandal sheets.
*sigh*
Oh well. Back to work. I'm on a deadline with the Daily Mail for a story about how Bigfoot had a complete set of Epstein files in his mountain fortress just last week and how Bat Boy had been sent by the DOJ to retrieve the smuggled documents and things went horribly wrong when Ming the Mercilessly Horny showed up and tried to snatch the unvarnished documents tranche for himself.
The DM editor is a total prick and wants me to, somehow, tie all this up into the tragic Reiner Family Murder but I refuse to do that because it is WAY TOO SOON.
I am inserting the Charlie Kirk Murder Hoax into the story instead.
(BTW- Bat Boy himself gave me the Charlie Kirk connection idea. That little rascal simply cannot stop stirring the shit!)
The released Epstein Files has a photo of Bill Clinton with Michael Jackson and some children. This is a publicly-available photo of Bill Clinton with Michael Jackson and his children that was inserted into the files by the DOJ.
That's a crime. Tampering with evidence. That's a felony.
Now I'm in Berlin and I've been messing around with my kinda cheapy tilt lens. It's not tilt-shift, just tilt. It's 50mm f/1.4 so a fast lens and you can set some pretty keen focal plane size. Pure manual, but I can cope with that.
First up, I had to try classic tilt. I'm just shooting from the balcony of the flat here, but this is me just playing before I try it on more interesting subjects. "Make stuff look like toys"
Now I'm messing with something else you can do with it. You can point the camera about at the subject then use the tilt to give an almost horizontal focal plane. You *cannot* do this with a normal lens.
Mudd was imprisoned at Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas. He treated prisoners and others in the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1867, earning a pardon from President Jackson for this service in 1869.
Fort Jefferson still stands, in all it’s sublime beauty, 60 miles W of Key West.
If I'm not mistaken, Dr. Mudd was pardoned after services rendered at the fort on the Dry Tortugas after a virulent yellow fever outbreak.
I lived in Southern Maryland for 22 years, pretty near by the Samuel Mudd House ( which has been preserved as a historical site ), yet I never was even tempted to visit - I only know where it was because I passed the entrance to the site when I went to and fro from the people with whom I kenneled my dog, Bonnie ( while she was still alive ) when I had to travel for work.
The re-enactors at the house tell visitors a whitewashed version of Mudd’s history.
If the Chumps had lived back then, Don, Jr. would have made a joke about going on Halloween as John Wilkes Boothe, because Donald Trump is a rapist and a pedophile.
Sane person writes postcards to a total nutjob. https://theestivatinghibernian.substack.com/p/postcards-to-that-asshole-21
Ta, Robyn.
This day is celebrated by some, not for his treatment of John Wilkes Booth, but because after being sent to the Federal prison housed at Ft. Jefferson, in the Dry Tortugas near Key West, he did heroic work saving lives during a yellow fever outbreak there in what was considered a harsh prison on an island with only rain water as a source of fresh water.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/gps-cs-s/AG0ilSwpXVMKrd7GL0V69Hw_3v6IUkcfZCTWAsmPe0a6HXsIWHXqUweSNA3NXNAwlH5q8upqmfPnZIiVCYva7YHz_UrjRafpAH_wHx1MWE5lUyrJruXo7sbgTVfjpQrLNpkbVMhMnXnQ=s2560-w2560-h1360-rw
Know who else got an A+++++? Ralphie, on his What I Want for Christmas theme. That was also a fantasy.
Mudd Day, and no honors to Harcourt Fenton Mudd? Nonsense!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S9YPvvo4Sqw
Or Roger Mudd. Or Harvey Mudd.
I was going to go with this clip, because I always hear his name the way Stella says it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s0N8Mviig0
Precisely what I was thinking!
IIRC, the saying, "Your name is Mudd" is related to the story about John Wilkes Booth.
Yes.
The video game crash of '83 is great.
The Atari 2600 was a global phenomenon. Except nobody had though of how to lock the system and anyone could produce games for it.
So the market was flooded with terrible games until eventually in '83 sales collapsed and retailers stopped carrying "Computer Games".
(Note this was mostly a US thing, in Europe there was more system diversity and hence no crash).
One of the vestigial things from this? Its the reason the NES is called the NES. The Nintendo Entertainment System. Not a computer game! They even made accessories for multiple non-game things for the NES, as US retailers refused to carry "computer games".
All of that obviously got dropped once it was in stores and selling well.
Oh, and that's why the NES was closed system.
Back in those days, nobody thought about how to lock down the system because Atari didn't think anyone _would_ make game cartridges. It wasn't like writing software and delivering it on floppy disk (or CD-ROM, or over the internet). You had to actually make a cartridge which had a circuit board, the correct memory device, and the plastic case. The Atari cartridges had mask-programmed ROM chips for cost reasons, but to make the costs reasonable you had to make a boatload of them. One-time factory-programmable ROMs (PROMs) were expensive compared to mask ROMs, and erasable PROMs with the ceramic windows even more so. If I was at Atari then, I wouldn't consider that someone was going to make compatible game cartridges.
While the system details weren't published, the processor in the 2600 was well known (the 6507) and anyone competent could reverse-engineer the simple bus interface that was the cartridge slot. All it took, then, to make game cartridges was enough money for the production run. While that would appear to be a limited pool of contenders, it turns out -- nope.
I have to go to lunch. I don't want to go to lunch. I just want to take a nap because I feel like hell, then hopefully buy all of the beer later. This has not been a fun week.
Let it get better. Let it be so. I command it!...
Little dude has a mind like a steel trap
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██████ Jilted by Trump . . .
New York Times: “After a series of public humiliations delivered to her by President Trump — his yanking of her nomination to serve as U.N. ambassador; his Oval Office love fest with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, during which the president undercut her; and the coup de grâce of his refusal to endorse her in the Republican primary for governor — ██████ on Friday afternoon announced she’d had enough.”
“She was done with the governor’s race, for which she had raised more than $12 million from donors who may now be frustrated with her decision to pull out. And done with Congress altogether: She said she would not seek re-election next year.”
“Now, at war with Speaker Mike Johnson, privately livid at Mr. Trump and deeply frustrated with her job in Congress, it is not clear whether ██████ even has any interest in finishing her term, although people close to her said she planned to stay until the end of her term.”
😃 "Remember the ladies" –██████
Bigfoot, Bat Boy and the *League of Alien Baby Daddies Who Dig Earth Women* are pissed. The Epstein files so far released have already spawned no less than THREE major exposes of "Unredacted, Unfiltered, Unadulterated and Unplugged" versions in the worldwide tabloid press.
The yetis, weird hybrid children and Alien deadbeat dads have been completely pushed aside to make room for The 'unvarnished truth' to be revealed in the gutter press and scandal sheets.
*sigh*
Oh well. Back to work. I'm on a deadline with the Daily Mail for a story about how Bigfoot had a complete set of Epstein files in his mountain fortress just last week and how Bat Boy had been sent by the DOJ to retrieve the smuggled documents and things went horribly wrong when Ming the Mercilessly Horny showed up and tried to snatch the unvarnished documents tranche for himself.
The DM editor is a total prick and wants me to, somehow, tie all this up into the tragic Reiner Family Murder but I refuse to do that because it is WAY TOO SOON.
I am inserting the Charlie Kirk Murder Hoax into the story instead.
(BTW- Bat Boy himself gave me the Charlie Kirk connection idea. That little rascal simply cannot stop stirring the shit!)
The released Epstein Files has a photo of Bill Clinton with Michael Jackson and some children. This is a publicly-available photo of Bill Clinton with Michael Jackson and his children that was inserted into the files by the DOJ.
That's a crime. Tampering with evidence. That's a felony.
OT: photography and TFG is a git
So I'm in Europe. The other day I went to a castle. A real castle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeds_Castle
It was done up for crimble. This is how an actual castle fireplace looks.
Note the relative lack of gilded shit everywhere: https://substack.com/profile/155630927-fukuisanyesota/note/c-189922278?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2knplb
Now I'm in Berlin and I've been messing around with my kinda cheapy tilt lens. It's not tilt-shift, just tilt. It's 50mm f/1.4 so a fast lens and you can set some pretty keen focal plane size. Pure manual, but I can cope with that.
First up, I had to try classic tilt. I'm just shooting from the balcony of the flat here, but this is me just playing before I try it on more interesting subjects. "Make stuff look like toys"
https://substack.com/profile/155630927-fukuisanyesota/note/c-189922325?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2knplb
Now I'm messing with something else you can do with it. You can point the camera about at the subject then use the tilt to give an almost horizontal focal plane. You *cannot* do this with a normal lens.
https://substack.com/profile/155630927-fukuisanyesota/note/c-189922367?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2knplb
neat-o!
edit: one more with the horizontal focal plane - I'm trying to get the baby in focus across all distances.
https://substack.com/@fukuisanyesota/note/c-189927421?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2knplb
I have very Veruca feelings about that lens!