March 25, 2025
family cecil-entenman memories
I have this Doughboy statue of my father’s.

I don’t really know why he had it because I don’t think he really served in the military.
He told me that he had worked on the Manhattan Project but not developing atomic weapons. His work was on the biological effects of radiation. We often had radioactive samples in heavy little lead containers in his basement lab, but I think they were usually isotopes used to trace chemicals through the bodies of rats, dogs, etc.
March 24, 2025
blot
Examining my first successful Blot macro
I had to iterate the creation process several times, and I don’t remember the exact steps, but this is how it looks now and that should help when I create the next macro.
Step-00-Open-QA-Settings-and-click-Manage-Macros
Before this I had to create the New Blot Folder Macro macro. I think I typed in the title, selected Capture and clicked Add Choice. There may have been more. I don’t remember.
[[blot/screenshots-of-blot-post-qa-macro-actions/_assets/Step-00-Open-QA-Settings-and-click-Manage-Macros.png|700]]
This was easy
. [[blot/screenshots-of-blot-post-qa-macro-actions/_assets/Step-01-in-Macro-Manager-click-Configure.png|700]]
Just click the settings gear. Leave the other stuff alone, I think. [[blot/screenshots-of-blot-post-qa-macro-actions/_assets/Step-02-in-Configure-click-the-gear.png|700]]
Step-03-double-check-the-settings
I named these settings with a prompt after using it a few times. I had no idea that the title here would become a prompt for the name of the note I’m creating. [[blot/screenshots-of-blot-post-qa-macro-actions/_assets/Step-03-double-check-the-settings.png|700]] [[blot/screenshots-of-blot-post-qa-macro-actions/_assets/quickadd-macro-docs-01.png|700]]
The macro will finally ask for the VALUE
I don’t see any actual instructions or settings for this, nor do I see any way to modify the prompt, althought I think I did affect it at some point.
[[blot/screenshots-of-blot-post-qa-macro-actions/_assets/quickadd-macro-docs-02.png|700]]
Paste in any images
Pasting them in the new note will create an *_assets* subfolder to hold the images and copy them there. Magic!
Finally copy the whole folder to Blot
Put it somewhere under Posts. I might also wish to add a date to the folder name.
Uh Oh! Wikilinks don’t work.
Let’s try changing the format. I’ll need to automate this later.
![[blot/screenshots-of-blot-post-qa-macro-actions/_assets/quickadd-macro-docs-02.png|700]]
I changed that to:

And it works fine:

March 7, 2025
Design a personal dump truck
Now that I’ve sold Grizzly, my pickup truck, to the kid next door, I’ve been dreaming of another macho vehicle. I mean I swear every other American male seems to have a pickup truck, many of which are crazy oversized and Republican.
I think it’s time for us liberal men to outdo these bozos with our own PERSONAL DUMP TRUCKS.
I’ve been playing with DALL-E this morning, taking inspiration from my Mexican brothers. DALL-E doesn’t follow my instructions perfectly, I’m afraid, but this is pretty close to what I want.

January 8, 2025
religion ai
I think Gawd speaks through AI

November 5, 2024
Election Day Canvassers - Reminders and Updates
Resources for me to use
After training, get assignment and list from Captain’s Room
Get MiniVan help and answer Legal Questions at the Help Desk Zoom
NC Election Day Canvasser Manual
How to Call the Help Desk
305-224-1968
Meeting ID: 833 6443 2479
followed by
* Press 1
* Press *6
Curable vs Incurable absentee ballots
Incurable mail-in ballots
Voter has to submit additional docs to BOE, but they have th. Goes throu the 14th.
Incurable mail-in ballots
I will probably not know why they are incurable, but who cares? The voters probably did their best to vote absentee correctly.
These ballots cannot be cured so the person needs to go vote TODAY.
How to help them vote
- locate their polling place
- Find rides to the polls
- Confirm voting hours
- Anything they need to do to GO VOTE!
Keep Canvassing manual open on phone
Canvassing manual
How to check if the person has voted
MiniVan
Even if MiniVan says they’ve voted, believe our list.
NC BOE
But I can trust this:
NC Records
And (I think) this 1-833-VOTE4NC/1-833-868-3462.
January 7, 2024
Vocabulary lesson
Y a un tas de mots que je ne comprends pas quand je lis Proust. Je me déspère un peu en pensant que je ne parlerai jamais le français comme un vrai français.
Mais, quand j’ai vu cette liste de mots in anglais aujourd’hui sur Facebook, j’imaginai les personnes qui ne parelent pas l’anglais dés leur enfance lorsqu’ils lisent les mots ci-dessous. Je comprends tous sauf deux.
- Balderdash
- Baloney
- Bamboozled
- Bejeebers
- Berserk
- Bodacious
- Bogus
- Britches
- Brouhaha
- Camaraderie
- Caterwauling
- Cattywumpus
- Codger
- Concoction
- Confuzzled
- Decrepid
- Discombobulated
- Doohicky
- Egads
- Fiddle-dee-dee
- Fiddle-faddle
- Fiddlesticks
- Flabbergasted
- Flibberty-jibbit
- Flim-flam
- Flummoxed-Pumpernickle
- Fuddy-duddy
- Gallivant
- Gobsmacked
- Hoodwink
- Hullabaloo
- Humbug
- Jalopy
- Kerfuffle
- Kibosh
- Lambasted
- Lollygag
- Malarkey
- Nincompoop
- Nucklehead
- Numb-skull
- Periwinkle
- Persnickety
- Poppycock
- Ragamuffin
- Rigmarole
- Shenanigans
- Skedaddle
- Skewwiff
- Skullduggery
- Thingamebob
- Thingamyjig
- Thunderation
- Tomfoolery
- Whatchamacallit
- Whatsit
- Whosemegadget
- Willy-nilly
- Wishywashy
Les mots que je ne comprends pas? Les voici: