Spent today putting a new i7 motherboard in The Boy’s gaming PC.  The old one (below) wasn’t just dusty, it was old and slow.  First mobo was d.o.a., though it could have been my fault.  A quick trip to Fry’s and we were back in business.

Much thanks to my generous neighbor who got us tickets to the Longhorns home opener.  The rain held off and the Horns actually won.  Beat the traffic one the way in and out.

With all the news this week on the Supreme Court nomination, I keep thinking back to an article from just after Justice Scalia died:

Billy Murphy, other attorneys comment on the Scalia legacy

The quote I remembered best was:

“He was a bigoted and arrogant man of overblown intellect who first decided the result he wanted and then came up with a rationale based on his strong political and social views instead of on a neutral legal analysis,” said William H. “Billy” Murphy, a former Baltimore judge and veteran attorney whose most recent clients include the family of Freddie Gray. “Time after time, Justice Scalia voted against the vital interests of working people, labor unions, blacks, women and gays, who largely despised him, and in favor of big corporations, wealthy individuals and Republicans, who almost universally loved him.”

Not kind words for the departed, but this is mostly what it is all about, as far as I can tell.  So here comes another nominee closely groomed for years (decades?) To help Big Money do, well, pretty much whatever it wants.  All the rest, the “social issues” and pointed questions are a sideshow, a distraction from the only real important question to most Americans, which neither side will ask.  Think this isn’t the case? Several articles similar to this one, again from just after Scalia’s death give the game away.

Scalia’s Death Prompts Dow to Settle Suits for $835 Million

Been busy with work these days.  Put some artwork on the walls.  Saw a rainbow on the stairs.

Didn’t see this in the news.  From TechCrunch:

Millions of Texas voter records exposed online

Over 14 million detailed voter records were found on an unprotected server

THE UNTOLD STORY OF NOTPETYA, THE MOST DEVASTATING CYBERATTACK IN HISTORY

Crippled ports. Paralyzed corporations. Frozen government agencies. How a single piece of code crashed the world.

Had a tub leak and the plumber had to cut a hole in the ceiling to fix it.  Never really done sheetrock (drywall), but going to give myself a “B+”, for effort.  Also found a scorpion in my cup.