Sean McCune @sean@geekstream.org

Santa Cruise cursing out his reindeer...

https://notthebee.com/article/someone-put-tom-cruises-insane-rant-into-rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer-and-the-result-is-santa-cursing-out-his-elves-and-reindeer

I'm... uh... Carl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk1c59WlJzI

I AM (Carl) THE GUARDIAN OF FOREVER...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z_UxXGnptI

Quick Take of the Day #2: I have Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy running on a 2011 Macbook Air with 4 Gb of RAM. The performance improvements of the last 2 years have been amazing. It actually runs pretty well on this ancient, limited machine. Next up is a 2015 Macbook.

Quick Take of the Day #1: So Star Trek's "Guardian of Forever" character is named Carl? "Hi, I'm Carl, the Guardian of Forever."

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/12/16/preelection_suppression_of_hunter_biden_story_breaks_beltway_journalism_144866.html

The PR message is: "We're not crazy over here." 😏

https://notthebee.com/article/this-christian-college-is-leveraging-the-fact-that-they-know-the-difference-between-boys-and-girls-to-recruit-students

Christmas tree in the WI capitol denied? Because of COVID? WTF. They put one up anyway. Defy the government... a joyous holiday tradition!

https://notthebee.com/article/wisconsins-lefty-governor-didnt-want-a-christmas-tree-in-the-capitol-republicans-put-one-up-anyways

Comedian J. P. Sears leave Facebook after Facebook threatens to ban him for "violating community standards", the new euphemism for corporate censorship.

Their "standards" have made them not a community I want to be part of.

https://notthebee.com/article/facebook-is-threatening-to-ban-popular-youtube-comedian-jp-sears-for-violating-community-standards

https://dvorak.substack.com/p/trump-after-2020

I just got a "Public Safety Alert" on my iPhone warning me about rising COVID rates in PA and hospitals filling up and that I should be staying home and masking up!

I have never found an alert setting in my phone and turned it off so fast. No more of that BS.

Apparently Apple doesn't mind slave labor too much...

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/11/21/apple-looks-to-soften-bill-that-fights-forced-labor-in-china-n1165981

Ending the lockdowns...

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2020/11/22/watch-buffalo-business-owners-revolt-against-health-department-and-sheriffs-get-out-we-will-not-comply-n1166267

These are hysterical, especially the one from Phillip Michaels: "This Senate hearing looks like the tale of a marooned lighthouse keeper and the robot butler he built to stave off loneliness."

https://notthebee.com/article/the-zuckerberg--dorsey-congressional-hearing-memes-are-here-and-theyre-glorious