Kosh's Shadow 11/29/2025 6:54:53 PM

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I used an early Black Friday deal to get my wife a new work computer, and also got a new external drive. (She has well over 3TB work data, so it is all on an external drive)

Spent some overnights copying the data. Tonight - old drive is getting errors up the wazoo. Got her a new drive just in time.

(Not that data would be lost - backed up to at least one other computer and a RAID1 NAS) but it would be a lot to get her running again.

Spent Saturday night making sure the new drive was ready.

Occasional Reader 11/30/2025 6:35:05 AM

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Yesterday’s news, but:

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and Stoppard are dead

RIP to an utterly brilliant playwright.  I remember seeing “Arcadia” in NYC in 1993 or ‘94, and being gobsmacked.

JCM 11/30/2025 8:25:55 AM

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Good morning.

Sunset from our last night out on the coast.

JCM 11/30/2025 8:48:12 AM

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Hong Kong fire death toll rises to 146 as thousands pay respects

At least 146 people are now known to have died in the devastating fire that tore through high-rise buildings in Hong Kong on Wednesday.

Police announced the new death toll on Sunday, cautioning that they "cannot rule out the possibility of further fatalities". There still 150 people missing, and the blaze left 79 injured.

Seven of eight tower blocks at the Wang Fuk Court housing complex in the northerly Tai Po district rapidly went up in flames. Accusations that the fire was spread by flammable construction materials have sparked widespread anger.

JCM 11/30/2025 8:49:10 AM

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How Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele evaded capture in Latin America, revealed in declassified files

Documents revealing how infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, known as the "Angel of Death," led an open post-war life in Argentina were found among a massive trove of evidence released and declassified earlier this year by President Javier Milei.

Kosh's Shadow 11/30/2025 9:09:01 AM

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Reply to JCM in 5:

Quite interesting how under Milei, Argentina has become one of the most pro-Israel states in South America, if not the most.

Occasional Reader 11/30/2025 9:31:43 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 6:

Contrast to Kirchner et al, under whose non-watchful eye Hizballah/Iran planned bomb attacks.

Kosh's Shadow 11/30/2025 9:33:14 AM

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In #7 Occasional Reader said: Contrast to Kirchner et al, under whose non-watchful eye Hizballah/Iran planned bomb attacks.

And executed the attacks - and the investigator tying them to Iran.