Sunday Morning Sip

 Good Sunday to all! 

 

 

Mmmm... coffee good.

 

 

 

MAR-A-LAGO!!

Thank you, Garry Trudeau! 

Yes, it was. 

 

Know your rigs! 

And speaking of rigged. 

 

Thank you, Wiley. 

 

Ah-yup. Been there, done... 

what was I saying...? 

 

 

This is a kind likeness. 

 

 

Nope. 

 

 

...For Whkattk... 

 

Amazing, with all the incendiary crap going on

in the country and around the world,

it feels like his story has gotten no traction. 

I, for one, am glad the death penalty of off the table.  

 

And speaking of no traction...

 

(I should have put this out last weekend...) 

 

 

I wanna move to Milan!

 

 

I wanna wear wings... and sandals... and dance... and I wanna listen to Mariah Carey sing in Italian, and Andrea Bocelli...  and Puccini operas  ...and watch "Umbrellas of Cherbourg"... and and and and and... 

 

 

Andrea Bocelli (follow the link) 

 

[sigh]

 

 

DVR'ed the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics.  As MM would ask - In three words...

 

STUNNING.

GORGEOUS.

INCREDIBLE! 

 

 

I need an espresso...

Onward,

Rade 

Saturday Morning Sip

First Saturday of February!  I hope it's a good one! 

...it's a serious problem...

 

 

 Thank you, Wiley!

 

 

No school like Old School! 

...pizza... 

A use for dogs. 

 

Pretty much tracks. 

Thank you, New Yorker. 

 

 

 

Not surprised.  

 

 

...then in Canada... 

 

...and post memes.  LOTS of memes. 

Spot on! 

 

 

And now a moment of fond childhood memories.

 

Finally... it's near ZERO outside this morning...

This... is appropriate on so many levels.

 

Take it away, comrades Brankov, Bibinski and Ivanov!

 

 

 

 

 

  

Morning Coffee Roundup - February 6

Found while savoring my morning sip...

Thank you, Wiley.

 

 

 

 

 

 

That, I believe. 

It's Friday! 

Onward.

Rade 

 

 

 

Your Daily Meme... and MEN!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spring is right around 

the corner!  

 

"Sure... whatever you say..." 

 

 

 

 

Anti-AI: Firefox to allow users to block all AI

Positive news:  Mozilla Firefox is rolling out a major privacy and control upgrade: starting with version 148 on February 24, 2026 

I have been a user of Firefox for decades now.  I trust the browser enough that I use it exclusively on all my devices (PC, phones and tablets).  The extensions have been a Godsend for blocking ads on YouTube and Yahoo Mail, and the Facebook container protected my PC from anything coming through the Meta channels. 

There has been a lot of speculation about Mozilla falling into the AI snare.  At the moment, there are a few tweaks you can use to keep AI out, but with the release coming out later this month, it sounds like Firefox will go full-throttle in providing the ability to block AI content.  

 

Google Gemini AI "helper" on Blogger

I'll be curious - on the Blogger editing window, there is an annoying Google Gemini AI "helper" icon (located at the arrow in the screen shot). I have disabled it; otherwise, it would follow my cursor around the screen offering to insert (crap) into whatever I was typing.  

My YouTube video suggestion screen is routinely flooded, equally, with videos about overcoming AI slop, and videos about how "...WONDERFUL Gemini will work for ME!"... if only I would turn the functions back on.  Yeah, no.  Not going to happen. 

I'll keep you folks posted! 

Rade 

 

Let's Give Women Something To Smile About

 

Thank you, Stephen Colbert!    

It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights!

"It's time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight!"

HOME RUN!  My gosh, for 30 minutes, I was 13 again!  The show hit every note, checked every box - it was exactly what I needed to watch.   

 

 

From the opening number... (video will link on YouTube)

 

 

...to Statler and Waldorf... 

 

 

To the closing sax note... 

 

The whole gang was back; Miss Piggy, Benson Honeydew and Beaker, Gonzo, Fozzy Bear, Rolf, Sam... just marvelous.  It was a GOOD nostalgia; good energy... good (and very much welcome) feelings. 

 

I hope there will be much more.

Onward.

Rade