The right side of my face is numb from today’s dental work. When I got home, that discomfort didn’t stop me from isolating the culprit that tripped the circuit breaker.
It was an old surge protector that burned out, doing its job one last time. I salute you, good and faithful Tripp-Lite Isotel Ultra!
… “let’s swap all the tires until we find the flat one.” With “tires” being an expression for whatever the not obvious cause was of a technical problem.
That’s the situation I’m in right now. The power company sent a notice yesterday, warning of possible outages, due to high wind. So, I wasn’t surprised this morning to see there had been two of them. But then I saw that the router was offline.
Power was off, not only in the office, but throughout the finished half of the basement. Checking the power panels in the unfinished half, it was easy to see that one of the circuit breakers had popped. Resetting it once, twice, three times, didn’t work. So, something must have shorted out due to a power surge.
The first thing to do was see if Internet service could be restored. With a very long extension cord, I connected the office gear to a test outlet next to the panel. Success! That put me back online. Would the circuit breaker still refuse to reset?
Yes, it did. So, where’s the problem? I disconnected everything else, and tested the breaker again. It held! Yay!
Now the question is, what shorted out? I’ll test each outlet and, assuming they’re all good, reconnect everything one by one, to see what pops the breaker. But not right now, because I have a dentist appointment to fix this damn broken tooth.
This looks easy. I’m going to try it, but only if it qualifies as a life hack. “It’s genius!” There. Now it’s qualified.
Goodbye and good riddance to Dick Cheney, who called the foreign policy shots in the George W. Bush administration.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/04/politics/dick-cheney-death-obit
Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld got Bush to go along with their dream of finishing the job Bush’s dad refused to do — regime change in Iraq. We continue to live with the consequences of that disaster.
With that said, Cheney wasn’t wrong about Trump.
A New York City street renamed in honor of Jack Kirby?
Joe Sinnott said Stan Lee struggled with the introduction of Black Panther in Fantastic Four #52. Was it because of the potential controversy resulting from having a black leading character in Marvel Comics? Nope, it was simply that Stan kept changing his mind about the character’s costume. Full face mask like Spider-Man, or a half-mask like Captain America? Short cape or no cape?
There is little to go on, regarding the influence that Jack’s stint at the Fleischer animation studio in New York had on his later work. But I can infer something from the fact that, besides Kirby, Carl Barks, Walt Kelly and Hank Ketcham all had animation studio experience.
https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/in-his-own-words-jack-kirby-at-fleischers/
