The Burlington (MA) Mall was the first mall I ever visited, as a lad of thirteen, after my family moved from Connecticut.
The marketing director used “tactical” when she meant “tactile,” but I suppose successful Black Friday shopping calls for some tactics. Other footage in the video was taken around Boston.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is a smug, self-righteous SOB. He is completely lacking in empathy for anyone not conforming to his view of how people should live their lives. This is a good commentary on the New York Times article I read last Saturday.
The unfettered and lucrative sucking up, lobbying, and currying of favor—and the attendant rewards—are all recast as harmless socializing.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/11/alito-leak-hobby-lobby-real-problem.html
These religious hardliners aren’t Christians. Their viewpoints are based entirely on cherry-picked selections taken from the Old Testament.
The Beatles channel on SiriusXM is running a Thanksgiving special, going through every studio recording in order.
Vlad has impaled me.
Looks like I’ll be giving up beer for a year to pay for a month’s worth of home heating oil.
GoComics is back online, along with Dilbert.com. So whatever it was that happened, it seemed to affect both sites.
The GoComics service continues to be down. They posted this announcement on Facebook.
“Cybersecurity issues.” Hmm…
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/11/21/gocomics-down-due-to-cybersecurity-issues/
There has been speculation that it’s actually an attack against Dilbert.com, but as Scott Adams explained today, he has a Domain Name issue. GoComics.com resolves to its IP address, but it doesn’t reply to a ping request. That doesn’t mean there isn’t a nefarious entity out to get Adams and is behind both outages.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>nslookup dilbert.com Server: Fios_Quantum_Gateway.fios-router.home Address: 192.168.1.1 *** Fios_Quantum_Gateway.fios-router.home can't find dilbert.com: Server failed C:\WINDOWS\system32>nslookup gocomics.com Server: Fios_Quantum_Gateway.fios-router.home Address: 192.168.1.1 Non-authoritative answer: Name: gocomics.com Address: 66.6.101.183 C:\WINDOWS\system32>ping 66.6.101.183 Pinging 66.6.101.183 with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Ping statistics for 66.6.101.183: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss)
Update: Comics Kingdom says they also had trouble staying online, but they’ve been okay most of the day.
